Books & Bookplates
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# 46932
BARNETT, P. Neville
Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir
Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.
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# 46753
RETANA, W. E. (Wenceslao Emiliano)
Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)
Edición de treinta ejemplares. Madrid : Imprenta de la viuda de M. Minuesa De Los Rios, 1893. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original leather-backed marbled papered boards (a trifle scuffed), spine with raised bands and red morocco title label lettered in gilt; original marbled endpapers; the limitation page records the names of institutional and private …
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# 46567
HOUFE, Simon
The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 – 1914
London: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978 (revised edition 1981). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 520, illustrated. A comprehensive reference.
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# 46197
THE AUSTRALIAN BOOKPLATE CLUB.
News-letter of the Australian Bookplate Club. May 1944. Number 2.
Melbourne : The Australian Bookplate Club [printed at the Hawthorn Press], 1944. Octavo, printed wrappers, [8] pp, a very good copy. Includes notices regarding the publication of Checklist of the bookplates of Eirene Mort and the donation to the Club by P. Neville Barnett of a deluxe copy of his The Bookplate in Australia, plus a list …
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# 46276
ABERDEEN AND COMMONWEALTH LINE
[BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line … one class to England.
[Melbourne?] : Dalgety & Coy. Limited and Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, [between 1928 and 1933]. Bookmark, 132 x 57 mm, offset printed on thin card, recto with colour illustration of one the company’s “Bay” liners, verso with information about the service to London via Suez, inviting prospective travellers to contact the Dalgety & Co. or Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line …
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# 46154
VISONTAY, Michael
[GUTENBERG BIBLE]. Noble Fragments : the maverick who broke up the world’s greatest book (signed copy)
Melbourne : Scribe Publications, 2024. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 304. New copy, signed by the author. ‘One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world’s greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian …
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# 46143
Douglas Stewart Fine Books
DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS – Cotton canvas tote bag
Exclusive to Douglas Stewart Fine Books, this high quality canvas tote bag is the perfect accessory for any book lover. Custom designed for our bookshop with heavy, thick cotton, extra reinforced stitching and wide, comfortable canvas handles, the DSFB Tote is a quality product designed to be reused. Measurements : 39 x 35 cms, with …
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# 45899
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some of which are original graphics tipped-in; a fine copy of this magnificent showcase of Australian bookplates. Artists include Norman Lindsay, Adrian Feint, Alan Jordan, …
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# 45671
EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)
Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest reliably datable printed text
Japan : Nara period [764 – 770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese Cypress), with original white gesso wash, separate turned katsura wood finial (small edge chips to the rings), overall height 220 mm; the cavity of the pagoda containing the original printed dhāraṇī (55 x 458 mm) with 31 lines of …
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# 45758
BARKER, Nicolas
Hortus Eystettensis. The Bishop’s Garden and Besler’s magnificent book.
London : The British Library, 1995 (reprint). Folio, boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. viii; 80; 80 plates, a fine copy. Documents Besler’s magnificent illustrated plate book documenting the plants found in the gardens of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstaff.
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# 40345
SMOLLETT, Thomas
[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. The history of England, from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George the Second.
London : Christie & Son, et al., 1918. Volume 1 (only). Duodecimo, full straight-grained red Morocco, gilded borders and emblem, spine in compartments with gilt-lettering and ornaments (a little scuffed and rubbed), all edges gilt, owner’s label of Rollo Hammett to front pastedown, pp. x; 419, with a fore-edge painting of a lake scene with …
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# 44849
ROSTENBERG, Leona and STERN, Madeleine B.
Bookends
New York : Free Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, pp. x; 246, illustrated. Biblio-memoir by the pair of American women booksellers.
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# 44592
WHITE, Eric
Editio princeps : A History of the Gutenberg Bible
Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 465, over 100 colour illustrations. New copy. The first complete history of all the Gutenberg Bibles. Winner of the 2018 DeLong Book History Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) The Gutenberg Bible is widely recognized …
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# 44800
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Bookplate for Margaret Coen
Process block after a pen and ink drawing by Norman Lindsay, initialled N.L. lower right, Measures 118 x 78 mm. Created 1940.
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# 44398
[THE BUSH BOOK CLUB]
[SYDNEY] Dame Margaret Davidson, President of the Bush Book Club, and the Committee, invite you to … the Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be held at Government House, Sydney on Thursday 3rd May 1923, at 3.30 pm.
R.S.V.P. to The Secretary, The Bush Book Club, 161 Castlereagh St., Sydney. Sydney, NSW : The Bush Book Club, 1923. Invitation card, 105 x 125 mm, printed recto only; very good condition; verso blank. The Bush Book Club was established in Sydney in 1909, and continued as an entity up into the 1950s. It was a …
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# 44256
RIALL, Richard
A new bibliography of Arthur Rackham
Bath : Ross Press, 1994. Folio, gilt-decorated cloth, pp. xx; 252, illustrated. Bibliography of Rackham.