A circa 1880 , children's octagonal shape book , 32 pp, bound in the centre , Dollie's Dinner Party , with chromolithograph wrappers,illustrated in colour, in the August acquisitions of Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne , is priced at $150.
Included in the offering, at $5500, is a photographic portrait by Greg Weight of the late renowned Northern Territory artist , Emily Kame Kngwarreye . born at Utopia Downs , 1910, who worked as a stockhand , became a leading figure in women's business, produced a vast number of paintings , described as a great abstract artist of the 20th century .
Another listing , at $40,000, is a Sammelband of early Hong Kong and Indian newspapers . It consists of 54 issues , covering a period 1845-1854, of the Overland Register, Price Current , the Hong Kong Register and two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and l853-the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce . a daily, and the Bengal Hurkaru, with an overland summary of news , published semi monthly in Calcutta .
