Rare Books
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# 22493
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ART GALLERY.
Aboriginal art : The Western Australian Art Gallery Collection.
Perth : The Western Australian Art Gallery Board, 1969. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (designed by Frank Norton), pp. 15, 109 works described and illustrated, chiefly from Western Australia and Arnhem Land; a very good copy. Scarce catalogue.
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# 22215
NEWTON FAMILY
[COOK]. Newton & Berry’s new terrestrial globe 1831
[London] : Newton & Berry, 1831. Terrestrial pocket globe, 1.5 inches (3.9 cm) in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent shellac applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in the original turned mahogany case with fitted lid. A very fine …
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# 22355
Anon.
An illustrated Chinese medical manuscript in a Japanese binding of the late Edo period.
[First half of the 19th century]. Manuscript in a Japanese kari toji (temporary) binding with plain wrappers, 260 x 185 mm, [40] leaves, with 70 full page hand painted illustrations depicting both Chinese and westerners suffering from a wide range of medical conditions, including smallpox, carcinomas and tumors, gangrene, renal disease, and haemoptysis, with accompanying …
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# 22305
JUVENAL (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis)
[BYRON] The Satires, Translated and illustrated by Francis Hodgson.
London : T. Bensley, 1807. Quarto, in a handsome contemporary russia binding with heavy sides for subscriber Thomas Wildman, boards with ornate blind tooling ruled in gilt, the upper board with the coat-of-arms of Newstead Abbey (Byron’s ancestral home) stamped in gilt, spine gilt with double raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers, armorial bookplate of …
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# 22216
JAMES II, King of England, 1633-1701; [MACCLESFIELD, Charles Gerard, Earl of, 1618?-1694]
By the King, a Proclamation. James R. Whereas upon Information We have received against Charles Earl of Macclesfeild (sic), We have thought fit to Direct Our Warrant for Apprehending the said Earl for High Treason, who is since fled from Iustice, and does now lie concealed … Given at Our Court at Windsor the Seventh day of September 1685. In the First Year of Our Reign. God save the King.
London : Printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas’d, and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb …, 1685. Broadside, folio (355 x 280 mm), printed recto only on wove paper, royal blazon at the head, historiated initial; a fine disbound example with manuscript foliation 24 at top right. A rare proclamation broadside issued by King James …
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# 22321
ZIEGLER, Hieronymus; BIRCK, Sixt; CROCUS, Cornelius; ZOVITIUS, Jacobus
[BINDING] Dramata sacra : comoediae atque tragoediae aliquot e Veteri Testamento desumptae, quibus praecipuae ipsius historiae ita eleganter in scenam producuntur, ut vix quicquam in hoc argumenti genere juventuti Christianae proponi utilius possit : magna parte nunc primum in lucem editae : earum vero catalogum statim a praefatione invenies.
Basileae : [Ex officina Joannis Oporini], [1547]. Duodecimo (163 x 98 mm), contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, both covers with floral decoration at centre within rectangular panel with triple fillet border, framed by a sequence of figural elements depicting Biblical scenes separated by narrow spaces with blind tooled lettering; the front cover has …
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# 22311
JUVENAL (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis); PERSIUS (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
[BINDING] Satyrae. Interpretatione ac notis illustravit Ludovicus Prateus. Jussu Christianissimi regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.
London : for R. Clavel, J. Sprint, & J. Nicholson, 1699. Octavo (195 x 120 mm), contemporary panelled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with contrasting morocco label lettered in gilt; red sprinkled edges; front pastedown with bookplate of Lancashire bibliophile Robert J. Hayhurst, title printed in red and black, with ownership inscription ‘Adam Ottley …
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# 22302
RAYMOND OF SABUNDE (c.1385-1436)
Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo. :[et] de his qu[a] sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendu[m] seip[su]m [et] Deu[m] [et] om[n]e debitu[m] ad q[uo]d ho[mo] tenet[ur] et obligatur tam Deo q[uam] p[ro]ximo.
Impressus Nurembergae : Per Anthoniu[m] koberger [sic] inibi co[n]cluem, 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep over wooden boards (lacking clasps), elabotrate blind-tooling to both boards, upper board including a panel containing abbreviated title, below it a remnant contemporary paper label with manuscript in red and black; A-Q8 R6; title with early (unidentified) ownership …
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# 20078
DUREL, John (editor) [Queen's Binder B]
[FINE BINDING]. Liturgia, seu liber precum communium, et administrationis sacramentorum,
aliorumque rituum atque ceremoniarum ecclesiae, juxta usum ecclesiae Anglicanae una cum Psalterio seu Psalmis Davidis, ea functatione distinctis, qua cantari aut Recitari debent in Ecclesiis. London : excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam in Vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britain, 1670. Octavo, fine English ‘drawer-handle’ binding of elaborate …
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# 22306
MIRANDULA, Octavianus (FIORAVANTI, Ottavio)
[BINDING] Illustrium poetarum flores.
Argentorati [i.e. Strasbourg] : in Aedibus Vuendelini Rihelij [Wendelin Rihel], 1549. Duodecimo (175 x 100 mm), fine contemporary German calf blind-tooled by the Meister NP (initialed and dated 1549 in roll), boards framed by a roll featuring portrait busts of Old Testament figures Joshua and Solomon, and goddesses from Classical mythology Diana and Persephone; central panels with …
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# 18467
BRY, Johann Theodor de; Johann ISRAEL (illustrator)
Indiae orientalis (Small Voyages), Parts IV-XI.
The first Latin editions of Parts IV-XI (eight parts in two volumes) of one of the most important collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery, primarily devoted to the exploration of the East Indies and containing 140 engraved plates and maps illustrating voyages to the Spice Islands, India, Africa and North America. The …
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# 15201
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista
Primo volume et quarta edizione. Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio et con molti vaghi
discorsi da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato et illustrato … … Venetia : nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, 1588. [TOGETHER WITH] Secondo volume Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio … Venetia : Appresso i Giunti, 1583. [TOGETHER WITH] Terzo volume Delle Navigationi et viaggi raccolto da m. Gio. Batt. Ramusio … Venetia : nella Stamperia de’ Giunti, …
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# 21294
MAGRA, James Maria (attributed)
A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty’s Ship Endeavour, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771;
Undertaken in Pursuit of Natural Knowledge, at the Desire of the Royal Society: containing All the various Occurrences of the Voyage, with Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; and Accounts of their Soil and Productions; and of many Singularities in the Structure, Apparel, Customs, Manners, Policy, Manufactures, &c. of their Inhabitants. …
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# 21622
SMITH, Edward H. & SMITH, Grace T.
Ing Hok : the valley of everlasting happiness. 1907.
Compliments of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Smith, Ing-Hok, China. [Drop title]. Ing-hok, China : s.n., 1907. Octavo, original printed wrappers (light vertical fold, some mild silverfishing and toning), stitched, pp 31, one full page lithographed illustration; internally very clean, a good example. American Protestant missionary work at Ing Hok, situated between Foochow (Fuzhou) and …
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# 19428
MORRISON, John Robert (1814-1843)
A Chinese commercial guide consisting of a collection of details respecting foreign trade in China.
Canton : Printed at the Albion Press, and sold at the Canton Register Office, No. 4 Danish Hong, 1834. First edition. Octavo, recent gilt-ruled half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; marbled edges, pp xii, 116, the last five leaves with folding tables, large folding ‘Table of Logarithms to Accompany Stansbury’s Tonnage …
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# 20215
DE BALINGHEM, Antonius (1571-1630); BELLERE, Balthazar (1564-1639), printer
Histoire de l’estat de la chrestienté au Iapon, et du glorieux martyre de plusieurs chrestiens en la grande persecution de l’an 1612, 1613, & 1614.
Le tout tiré des lettres enuoyées à Rome par les Peres de la Compagnie de Iesus au Iapon, & tourné d’Italien en François par vn Pere de la mesme compagnie. A Dovay [i.e. Douai] : De l’Imprimerie de Baltazar Bellere, au Compas d’or, L’an 1618. Duodecimo, contemporary stiff vellum (stained), spine with early manuscript title Histoire du Japon, …