Books & Bookplates
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# 45657
FREEMANTLE, James
An Albion in the Antarctic (facsimile edition)
[London] : St James Park Press, 2019 (2022). Quarto (320 x 245 mm), quarter cloth over papered boards (reproducing the emblem of The Sign of the Penguin, the imprint of Aurora Australis), title label to spine, endpapers referencing the stamped boards of Aurora Australis, pp. [64], illustrated. Limited to 92 numbered copies. The facsimile edition …
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# 45646
VISONTAY, Michael
[GUTENBERG BIBLE]. Noble Fragments : the maverick who broke up the world’s greatest book
Melbourne : Scribe Publications, 2024. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 304. New copy. ‘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 man’s hunt for those …
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# 45758
BARKER, Nicholas
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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# 45480
STONE, Walter (editor)
A McCrae miscellany : Georgiana Huntly McCrae, George Gordon McCrae and Hugh Raymond McCrae : their books, manuscripts, letters and drawings in the Library of Harry F. Chaplin. (Chaplin’s copy)
Surry Hills, NSW : The Wentworth Press, [1967]. Series: Studies in Australian Bibliography – No. 16. Small quarto (260 x 210 mm), specially bound in royal blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine, pastedown with bibliophile Harry Chaplin’s bookplate designed by Norman Lindsay; front free-endpaper with a tipped-in unpublished poem in manuscript in ink by Hugh McCrae, …
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# 44848
ROSTENBERG, Leona and STERN, Madeleine B.
Between boards : new thoughts on old books
Montclair, New Jersey : Annalheld and Schram, and London : George Prior, 1978. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket (small marks and edge wear), pp. [viii]; 209. Biblio-memoir by the pair of American women booksellers.
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# 44274
ROSENBACH, A. S. W.
A book hunter’s holiday : adventures with books and manuscripts
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Octavo, lettered cloth (foxed) in original dustjacket (edges worn and slightly chipped, some marks), pp. xiv; [ii]; 259, occasional foxing, illustrated. Biblio-memoir of one of the great booksellers of the twentieth century.
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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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# 45012
DAVIDSON, Rodney; WANTRUP, Jonathan
The Davidson collection: Australian and Pacific voyages from the library of Mr Rodney D. Davidson (deluxe limited edition)
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2005 – 2007. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered blue cloth with pictorial inlays, unpaginated, 621 lots illustrated and expertly catalogued, each volume in plastic jackets as issued, a fine set. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 copies, each volume signed by Rodney Davidson and Jonathan Wantrup (the third volume with facsimile …
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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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# 44626
McKENDRICK, Scot and DOYLE, Kathleen
The Art of the Bible : Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World
New York and London : Thames & Hudson in association with the British Library, 2016 (2023 compact edition). Quarto, illustrated papered boards, pp. 336, illustrated. New copy. Illuminated manuscripts of the Bible are some of the finest, most beautiful but least-known works of art to survive from the Middle Ages. This exquisitely illustrated book presents 45 …
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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.
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# 44254
SHARF, Frederick Alan
Takejiro Hasegawa : Meiji Japan’s preeminent publisher of wood-block-illustrated crepe-paper books
Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 77, illustrated, checklist of books. Scarce.
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# 44315
REED, Marcia; DEMATTE, Paolo (editors)
China on paper : European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century
Los Angeles, Ca. : Getty Research Institute, 2011. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, 235 pp, illustrated, a new copy. ‘The striking illustrated books, maps, and prints featured in China on Paper are some of the most notable among the printed works produced at the dawn of the era of global trade to present China to Europe and …