Books & Bookplates
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# 13582
Pardo de Tavera, T.H.
Biblioteca filipina
: ó sea, Catálogo razonado de todos los impresos, tanto insulares como extranjeros, relativos á la historia, la etnografía, la lingüística, la botánica, la fauna, la flora, la geología, la hidrografía, la geografía, la legislación, etc., de las islas Filipinas, de Joló y Marianas. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition. Quarto, ex-library copy …
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# 20952
HANKS, Elizabeth
Australian art and artists to 1950 : a bibliography based on the holdings of the State Library of Victoria
Melbourne : Library Council of Victoria, 1982. Quarto, printed wrappers, cloth spine, bookplate inside front wrapper, pp. xx; 397. A useful reference
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# 21178
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961)
Bookplate for R. H. Croll
Etching, 90 x 54 mm (plate); signed in the image; created 1942 (posthumous impression).
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# 20893
SHEPARD, Leslie
The history of the horn book. A bibliographical essay
[Cambridge] : Printed by the Rampant Lions Press for the Broadsheet King, 1977. Duodecimo, printed wrappers, pp. [12], illustrations.
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# 20791
EDWARDS, Francis
Australasia : books, maps, original water colour drawings, oil paintings and coloured plates relating to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific Ocean including a fine series of original water colour drawings of Sydney and its harbour by Conrad Martens.
Cover title : Australasia old and new. London : Francis Edwards, 1928. Catalogue 505. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, tape repair to spine, fore edge foxed, catalogue of 1537 works, with prices.
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# 21155
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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# 20890
An exhibition in honour of Sir John Ferguson
Arranged by the National Library of Australia for the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Library Association of Australia. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1965. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (reproducing Ferguson’s bookplate), pp. 24 plus colour plates. An exhibition catalogue in tribute to the great Australian bibliographer.
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# 20872
PESCOTT, Edward Edgar.
James Bonwick : A writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings.
Melbourne: H. A. Evans, 1939. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards (edges rubbed), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 signed copies. From the library of noted collector F. G. Coles, his bookplate on front pastedown.
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# 20679
McLEAN, Ruari
Victorian publishers’ book-bindings in paper
London : Gordon Fraser, 1983. Quarto, papered boards in glassine dustjacket, pp. 112, illustrated in colour and black and white.
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# 20678
McLEAN, Ruari
Victorian publishers’ book-bindings in cloth and leather.
London : Gordon Fraser, 1974. Quarto, cloth in price-clipped dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated in colour and black and white.
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# 20571
MARTIN-SCHERRER, Frédérique; HEREL, Petr (1943 - ) (artist); JACKSON, Philip
Thierry Bouchard & Petr Herel : the shared book
Translated from French by Margot Jones. [Melbourne and Canberra] : Disquiet Press, 2018. Edition of 100 copies, each with an original signed and numbered frottage (73 x 52 mm) by Petr Herel tipped-in on the half title. Octavo, printed blue wrappers, pp 1-38 (history of the Labyrinth Press by Martin-Scherrer), [39-56] (colour illustrations), 57-59 (notes), …
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# 20607
MARTIN-SCHERRER, Frédérique; HEREL, Petr (1943 - ) (artist); JACKSON, Philip
Thierry Bouchard & Petr Herel : the shared book
Translated from French by Margot Jones. [Melbourne and Canberra] : Disquiet Press, 2018. Edition of 100 copies, each with an original signed and numbered frottage (73 x 52 mm) by Petr Herel tipped-in on the half title. Octavo, printed blue wrappers, pp 1-38 (history of the Labyrinth Press by Martin-Scherrer), [39-56] (colour illustrations), 57-59 (notes), …
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# 20544
CRAIG, Clifford
The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land
Launceston : Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 103). Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, x, 172 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, a very good copy.
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# 19665
CHRISTIE'S
The Trafalgar Bicentenary. The age of Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon
London : Christie’s 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 373, extensively illustrated. Landmark auction catalogue of the Napoleonic era.
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# 19726
OPPEN, Monica et al
Text and texture : contemporary design bindings of the novels of Patrick White
Sydney : Ant Press, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue of the Design Bookbinding Exhibition held at the State Library of NSW Bookshop 13th August to 29th October 2012. “This exhibition, Text and texture, of Australian contemporary designer bindings was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition The life of Patrick White…”–page [22] …
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# 19908
TURNER & HENDERSON
Decorative letterhead of Turner & Henderson, booksellers, stationers, printers, lithographers, heraldic embossers, &c. Hunter Street, Sydney, 1886.
Lithographed letterhead, 205 x 165 mm; with a handwritten memorandum dated March 29th 1886, to a customer, W. Walker Esq. of Windsor, informing him that his payment has been received and that ‘We have sent by this post Lucretius … Greville’s Year Book of Australia is expected out in a few days. Gordon & Gotch …