Books & Bookplates
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# 16584
STITZ, Charles (editor)
Australian Book Collectors. Volumes IV & V.
Volume IV. Third Series Part I. [Melbourne] : Books of Kells, 2016. Quarto, boards in dust-jacket, pp. xxi, 291, illustrated. Volume V. Third Series Part II. [Melbourne] : Books of Kells, 2016. Quarto, boards in dust-jacket, pp. xi, 292 – 562, illustrated. The final two volumes of this encyclopaedic reference on notable book collectors and collections …
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# 16371
APPLEYARD, David
Ethiopian manuscripts
London : Jed Press, 1993. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 142, extensively illustrated. A landmark reference on early illustrated Christian manuscripts in Ethiopia. Scarce, a fine copy.
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# 16076
John Pascoe Fawkner’s Library. Facsimile of the sale catalogue of 1868.
Melbourne : Book Collectors Society of Australia, 1985. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, glassine wrapper, pp. 32, essay by Wallace Kirsop, facsimile of the original sale catalogue. Limited to 500 copies.
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# 15974
URSINUS, Zacharias (1534 - 1583)
A scarce VOC ship’s binding from the Chamber of Middelburg
Schat-Boeck der Verklaringen over den Nederlandtschen Catechismus, Uyt de Latijnsche Lessen van Dr. Zacharias Ursinus, Op-gemaeckt van Dr. David Pareus, Vertaelt, ende met Tafelen, &c. verlicht, door Dr. Festus Hommius. Nu van nieuws oversien, ende nevens het stellen der Schriftuer-plaetsen na de Publijcke Oversettinge, verrijckt met Toe-eygeninge, Item met Schriftmatige Harmonie der Nederlandtsche Geloofs-Formulieren, als …
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# 15877
A nineteenth century French textbook bound in a fragment of fifteenth century manuscript
Abrege de geometrie pratique … Paris, 1837. Octavo, pp. 180, engraved plates. A common French mathematical textbook bound in vellum, being a fragment of liturgical manuscript, probably fifteenth century, with rubrication in red and blue. The practice of reusing older manuscripts for binder’s vellum was common in the Renaissance, however this is a relatively late …
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# 16089
[CAXTON, William] HIGDEN, Ranulph
A leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon printed in 1482
Westminster : William Caxton, 1482. Single leaf, 274 x 206 mm, rubricated in red with marginalia, further marginalia in black ink, light soiling, else fine. Framed. A specimen leaf from England’s first printer, William Caxton. Born in Kent some time between 1415 and 1424, Caxton moved to London in the mid-1430s and was apprenticed to …
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# 15842
[WILMOT, Frank Leslie, 1881–1942 ("FURNLEY MAURICE")]
[“FURNLEY MAURICE”] All about books for Australian and New Zealand readers
Vol. VII no. 2, February 11, 1935. Melbourne : D.W. Thorpe, 1937. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with portrait of Australian poet, bookseller and publisher “Furnley Maurice” (pseudonym of Frank Wilmot) to front, pp 18-32; a very good copy of this issue.
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# 15841
[MURDOCH, Madoline (Nina), 1890–1976]
[NINA MURDOCH] All about books for Australian and New Zealand readers
Vol. IX no. 9, September 13, 1937. Melbourne : D.W. Thorpe, 1937. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with portrait of Australian writer Madoline (Nina) Murdoch to front, pp 134-148; a very good copy of this issue.
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# 12351
STITZ, Charles (editor)
Australian Book Collectors. Volumes I, II, III
Volume I. Bendigo : Bread Street Press in association with The Australian Book Auction Records, 2010. Quarto, boards in dust-jacket, pp. 322, illustrated. Volume II. Second Series Part I. [Melbourne] : Books of Kells (Green Olive Press), 2013. Quarto, boards in dust-jacket, pp. 409, illustrated. Volume III. Second Series Part II. [Melbourne] : Books of Kells …
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# 15540
[DENNYS, John]
The secrets of angling: teaching the choicest tools, baits, and seasons, for the taking of any fish in pond or river
Edinburgh : Privately printed, 1885. Three books in two volumes. Octavo, printed parchment wrappers (occasional rubbing, minor chipping to spine), uncut and mostly unopened, pp 44, 64. A private press edition limited to 350 copies, this being a copy of the 275 small paper examples. Initially this poem was attributed to John Davours; its author …
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# 15600
MARSTON, R.B.
Walton and the earlier fishing writers
London : Elliot Stock, 1903. “The Book-Lover’s Library series, popular edition”. Octavo, cloth backed papered boards (minor corner wear), front hinge split, pp xxviii-264; clean throughout. From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, his collection label to front pastedown and pencil signature on endpaper.
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# 15731
[PASTORALIST'S REVIEW]
Archive of correspondence to the editor of the Pastoralist’s Review, 1901 – 1913
Ledger book (wrappers defective) containing 75 hand written and typed letters to Richard Twopenny, Editor of the Pastoralist’s Review (formerly the Australian Pastorialist’s Review, and later the Pastoral Review), dated between 1901 and 1913. The letters are from subscribers across Australia and New Zealand (and even from as far afield as Scotland and Nevada), largely renewals …
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# 15811
DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888); "W.S.E."
Carte de visite with an acrostic laudatory poem to Tasmanian newspaper publisher and editor John Campbell Macdougall
Albumen print photograph of a lithographed poem titled ‘An Acrostic’, dated and initialled in the image ‘Hobart Town, 9th August 1848 / W.S.E.’, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Artist & Photographer, by Appointment, 66 & 68 King William St., Adelaide / Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’; both the …
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# 15395
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, liimited to 200 copies signed by the author. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket (a little chipped at corners and head and tail of spine), pastedown and front endpaper with bookplates of two previous owners, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some of which are …
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# 15573
MORRIS, William, 1834-1896
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted.
A fine copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, recognised as the finest book printed since the Gutenberg Bible. Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, 1896. Folio, bound in full rich tan morocco, with raised beveled panels to front and rear boards, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern, borders and dentelles also stamped in blind, leather inlay gilt-lettered with “Chaucer’s Works”, spine with five …
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# 15774
BINSKI, Paul and PANATOYOVA, Stella.
The Cambridge illuminations. Ten centuries of book production in the medieval West
London : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005 (reprint). Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slightly creased), pp. 415, extensively illustrated. Catalogue for a stunning exhibition of medieval manuscripts.
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# 15623
CHARLES, Harold
[PROSPECTUS]. Something new … Australian Nursery Rhymes
By Harold Charles . Illustrated by Esther and Betty Paterson. Melbourne : Australian Nursery Rhymes, 1945. Printed sheet, folded, pp. 4, illustrated. Advertising prospectus with order form.
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# 15776
ENGBERG, Siri
Edward Ruscha Editions 1959-1999. Catalogue raisonné.
Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, 1999. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, lettered paperd boards, pp. 127; 156, extensively illustrated, housed in a lettered cloth slipcase. The substantial reference for Ruscha’s books and prints.
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# 15397
YORKE, Philip
[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOK] The royal tribes of Wales
Wrexham : John Painter, 1799. First edition. Quarto, full calf by J. Gill of Penhryn, elaborately tooled in blind and gilt, contrasting morocco title label, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for John Hughes (1810-1871) to front pastedown, pp 192, the twelve engraved plates replaced by twelve magnificent original paintings heightened with gold of the royal arms …
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# 15374
The William F. Charters South Sea Collection at Butler University
A selected, annotated catalogue. With an introduction by George W. Geib. Indianapolis : Butler University, 1994. Quarto, printed wrappers, pp. 66, illustrated. A detailed catalogue of this lesser-known Pacific collection in Indiana. Unrecorded in Australian collections.
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# 15392
BARNETT, P. Neville
The bookplate in Australia : its inspiration and development
Sydney : Tyrrrell’s Galleries : 1930. ‘Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, Washington D.C.’ (colophon). Octavo, quarter-cloth over papered boards (a little flecked), title label, bookplate to front pastedown, frontispiece tipped-in reproduction of a bookplate by Adrian Feint for John Lane Mullins, 30 pp, head- and …
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# 14906
THE TIMES BOOK CLUB
Special sale. A list of prominent books on Travel, Topography, Sport, Natural History and Art,
Biographical and Historical Works, Essays, Fiction, etc. London : The Times Book Club, [1923]. Octavo pamphlet, staple bound, 16 pp; a very good copy.
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# 15773
WARDELL, Michael
Recycled library. Altered books.
Mackay : Artspace Mackay, 2009. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated. Catalogue for an exhibition of avant garde artists’ books. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. Essays by Alex Selenitsch and Michael Wardell. “Recycled Library: Altered books is an Artspace Mackay exhibition that traces a history of altered books in Australia through the work of …
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# 15943
GARTNER, John
The craftsmen’s emblem : being the story of the 1457 device
Melbourne : Printing Industry Craftsmen of Australia [printed by The Hawthorn Press], 1941. Edition limited to 250 copies. Octavo, printed card covers (front lightly marked), string bound, [14] pp, includes a plate of the colophon of the Psalter printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1457, a near fine copy. THP 711.
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# 15399
LEAR, Edward
The duck and the kangaroo
A facsimile of an original manuscript with pen drawings. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University, 1956. Oblong octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [8]; line illustrations, essay by Philip Hofer. Limited to 500 copies. Unrecorded in Australian collections.
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# 14460
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.
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# 14159
GARVEY, Nathan
The Celebrated George Barrington: A Spurious Author; the Book Trade, and Botany Bay…
Octavo, cloth bound boards in dustjacket, pp. 327, illustrated. “This book traces the genesis of the Barrington books in rich and evocative detail, offering a compelling account of publishing history in England and on the continent, and displaying the subtle machinations of the book trade in a world without copyright laws. Throughout, The Celebrated George …
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# 14107
FORBES, David W.
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 (complete four volume set)
Volume I: 1780-1830. Volume II: 1831-1850. Volume III: 1851-1880. Volume IV: 1881- 1900. Sydney : Hordern House and Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1999-2003. Quarto (250 x 205 mm.), four volumes, printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth. The complete set, as new condition. “The long-awaited bibliography of Hawaiiana, many years in …
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# 14096
MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert
The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned), 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia's and Britain's most loved children's authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.
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# 14069
BEDDIE, M.K.
Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator
/ The Library of New South Wales ; editor: M. K. Beddie. Sydney : [Council of the Library of New South Wales], 1970. Large octavo, blue cloth boards in dustjacket (a little worn), xvi, 894 pp, a good copy of the standard bibliography of Cook.
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# 13970
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (facsimile edition limited to 100 copies, 1899)
Reproduced by authority of the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1899. Angus & Robertson, 1899. Folio, half-crushed morocco over cloth (a few marks), lettered in gilt to the spine, bookplate from the W. R. Griffiths collection to front pastedown, unpaginated, foxing to edges, photo-lithographed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons of …
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# 13691
ARMSTRONG, Edmund La Touche; BOYS, Robert Douglass
The book of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1906 – 1931
Melbourne : Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1932. Octavo, printed wrappers (light crease), bookplate from the Chapman collection inside front wrapper, pp.137, illustrations. John Shirlow's copy, signed by him on front wrapper.
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# 13658
MORGAN, Charles
The house of Macmillan (1843 – 1943) [Brian Stonier’s copy]
London : Macmillan & Co., 1944. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt, bookplate from the Ingleton collection to front pastedown, Ingleton catalogue number 8628 inscribed on rear endpaper, clippings from dustjacket laid in at rear endpapers, pp. 248. From the library of Brian Stonier, inscribed in pencil to front free endpaper 'K. B. Stonier (private …
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# 13503
DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS
Bibliotheca Peruana (catalogue)
Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2016. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 252, extensively illustrated. Catalogue by Jonathan Dickson, photography by Tira Lewis. The illustrated printed catalogue documenting the remarkable private collection of early Peruvian books 'Bibliotheca Peruana'. The catalogue includes a number of great rarities and imprints previously unrecorded. Printed in a small edition of …
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# 13455
BARNETT, P. Neville
Armorial Book-plates
Their romantic origin and artistic development. Sydney: privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1932. Octavo, patterned cloth, 172 pp., illustrated throughout with bookplates. A worldwide survey of armorial bookplates including a chapter on Australian armorials. Limited to 300 copies signed by the author. Standard edition.
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# 13188
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Bookplate for Freda Johnson
Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 94 x 78 mm. Created 1937
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# 13105
[PETHERICK, Edward Augustus].
Catalogue of books relating to Australasia, Malaysia, Polynesia, the Pacific Coast of America
and the South Seas. Edwards's Australasian Catalogue. London : Francis Edwards, 1899. Octavo, gilt-lettered quarter crushed morocco over cloth (rubbed), top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pp. 220; xxviii, a clean copy. From the library of Jeffrey Prentice, his bookplate to front pastedown. Petherick's three thousand item catalogue of Australiana prepared for Francis Edwards in …
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# 13070
COEN, Margaret
Bookplate for Joseph Coen
Ex libris bookplate reproducing a drawing by Margaret Coen for her cousin Joseph Coen.
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# 12883
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Bookplate for Margaret Coen
Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 118 x 78 mm. Created 1940.
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# 12549
[CAMPBELL, Jean, 1901-1984]
[JEAN CAMPBELL] All about books for Australian and New Zealand readers.
Vol. VII no. 4, April 12, 1935. Melbourne : D.W. Thorpe, 1935. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with portrait of Melbourne writer “Miss Jean Campbell, A Successful Australian Author” to front, pp 57-72; a fine copy of this issue.
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# 7063
[HINCE, Kenneth]; BROOKES, Mabel Balcombe, 1890-1975.
Australiana from the library of Dame Mabel Brookes
… arranged for sale by Kenneth Hince. Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1968. Special issue on hand-made paper in deluxe binding. Large octavo, fine blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece portrait, pp [vi], 69, b/w plates, uncut, mostly unopened, a pristine copy.
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# 12382
The Bookfellow. The second number. 18th February, 1899.
“A Monthly Magazinelet for Book-Buyers and Book-Readers”. Sydney : The Bulletin, 1899. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers designed by A.J. Fischer (detached and foxed), 24 pp, illustrated; pale foxing to outer leaves, otherwise contents clean and sound; a fair copy. Scarce.
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# 12381
The Bookfellow. The fourth number. 29th April, 1899.
“A Monthly Magazinelet for Book-Buyers and Book-Readers”. Sydney : The Bulletin, 1899. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers designed by A.J. Fischer (detached, chipped and lightly foxed), 48 pp, illustrated; some mild scatted foxing; a fair copy. Scarce.
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# 12269
AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY
Report of the Australian Ex Libris Society (1924)
Sydney : Australian Ex Libris Society, 1924. Edition limited to 200 copies (this is copy no. 39). Square duodecimo, original printed buff wrappers (upper wrapper lightly foxed and marked), staple bound, ownership signature to first blank, 29 pp, illustrated with 10 black and white photographic plates, including bookplates by Adrian Feint (2), D.H. Souter, Gordon …
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# 12100
KERR, J.M.
[MELBOURNE] Catalogue of the loan exhibition of old, rare, and curious books, manuscripts, autographs, examples
of binding, etc., held in the McArthur Gallery / under the direction of the Trustees of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria. At head of title: Intercolonial Library Conference, Melbourne. 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th April, 1896. Melbourne : R.S. Brain, Government Printer, 1896. Octavo, stapled wrappers (a little sunned, upper fore-edge with a …
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# 11879
[LINDSAY]. LANE, F.C.V.
The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay
Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1944. Octavo, printed wrappers, 32pp. (label inside front wrapper) illustrated with tipped-in bookplates and a checklist of works completed. Limited to 400 copies.
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# 11459
HIDES, J.G. / NIAU, J.H.
Papuan wonderland / The phantom paradise (order form)
[Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1936]. Single sheet, 255 x 150 mm, printed on both sides in sepia, with photographic illustrations; recto with synopsis and review of J.G. Hides' Papuan wonderland; verso with synopsis and review of J.H. Niau's The phantom paradise : the story of the expeditions of the Marquis de Rays, 1879-81; both …
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# 10931
HOLMES, Sir Maurice
Captain James Cook : a bibliographical excursion
New York : Burt Franklin, 1952 (1968 reprint). Octavo, cloth, pp. 103, illustrated.
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# 10777
BARNETT, P. Neville
Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)
Their romantic origin and artistic development. Sydney: privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1932. Deluxe edition, limited to 120 numbered and signed copies (no. 53). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt lettered title label (chipped) to upper board, 172 pp, illustrated throughout with bookplates; a very good copy. A worldwide survey of armorial bookplates including …
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# 10802
[MORT, Eirene]; Australian Bookplate Club
Checklist of the bookplates of Eirene Mort
Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Octavo, lettered blue wrappers (spine and edges sunned, as usual) over stiff card, first blank with bookplate of Ella Dwyer, [xvi], 7 tipped-in bookplates, a fine copy. A checklist of 75 bookplates. The third publication of the Australian Bookplate Club, printed in an edition of 150 copies. THP 12. …
