Books & Bookplates

  • Lewin : wild art

    # 47141

    NEVILLE, Richard (curator)

    Lewin : wild art

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 12, catalogue of 159 works, no illustrations.

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  • [EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

    # 47085

    [EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

    som er alle troe Christne deris rette Hofffarffve, huor nyttelig oc fructbarlig det er, oc huorledis en huer skal sig der udi skicke og forholde…. Oc nu paa ny igjen offverseet, oc med nogle Capitteler formeeret, oc ført udi rictig Ordning … Kiøbenhaffn : Georg Lamprecht, 1652. Duodecimo (150 x 95 mm), contemporary embroidered binding, the …

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  • Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

    # 47124

    CRAMER, Patrick

    Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

    Preface by Rosa Maria Malet. Geneva : Patrick Cramer, 1989. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 676, extensively illustrated with over a thousand images. A fine copy. The invaluable catalogue raisonné of all of Miro’s illustrated books. An indispensable reference.

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  • Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir

    # 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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  • Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)

    # 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 …

    $2,200.00 AUD Read more
  • The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 - 1914

    # 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.

    $100.00 AUD Read more
  • News-letter of the Australian Bookplate Club. May 1944. Number 2.

    # 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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  • [BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line ... one class to England.

    # 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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  • DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS - Cotton canvas tote bag

    # 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 …

    $25.00 AUD Read more
  • Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia

    # 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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  • Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest reliably datable printed text

    # 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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  • Hortus Eystettensis. The Bishop's Garden and Besler's magnificent book.

    # 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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  • [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. The history of England, from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George the Second.

    # 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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  • Bookends

    # 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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  • Editio princeps : A History of the Gutenberg Bible

    # 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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  • Bookplate for Margaret Coen

    # 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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