Books & Bookplates

# 49386

A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

[Catalonia, c.1345-1420]. Wooden coffret (or casket), 80 x 200 x 175 mm, covered with moulded and incised leather, metal mounts decorated with rosette details, three clasps, drop handles at either side, three hinges; lined with original tawed leather, stained pink; some portions of the leather with minor losses revealing the wooden structure beneath. This is …

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# 49624

JANET, Pierre Claude Louis (1788 - 1840)

[REVERSE-GLASS BINDING]. Hommage aux dames.

Paris : Louis Janet, 1830. Duodecimo (121 x 78 mm), in a rare contemporary binding consisting of a hand-coloured engraved title image, tortoiseshell-pattern border and lower panel, the upper and lower panels presented under glass; gilt and gauffred cartonnage edging, gilt spine with floral pattern; green endpapers; pp. [28], [14 – including a folding calendar …

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# 50175

[NEBEL, Wilhelm M.]

[GERMAN BEADWORK BINDING] Die Glocke der Andacht. Ein Erbauungsbuch für gebildete Katholiken.

Mit Approbation des Bischöfl. Ordinariats Augsburg. Fünfte verbesserte Auflage. Mit. K. Wirtembergischen Privilegium gegen Nachdruck. Augsburg : Matth. Rieger’sche Buchhandlung, 1836. Fifth edition. Small octavo (170 x 102 mm), early binding of full calf, the boards with highly intricate embroidered beadwork panels affixed, each design a mosaic composed from thousands of miniature cut-glass beads within …

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# 50747

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 (lightly marked), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 copies signed by Pescott.

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# 50454

THEVET, André (1516-1590):

Portrait of Sappho of Lesbos

“Sapho Lesbienne Poetrice” (caption). Copperplate engraving measuring 170 x 140 mm (image); 370 x 230 mm (sheet), letterpress in French surrounding the image, extracted from André Thevet’s Les Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens (Paris, 1584). A fine example of Thevet’s iconic representation of the classical Greek poet Sappho ( …

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# 50603

CURREY, John (editor)

David Collins. General Orders. Issued at Sullivan Bay Port Phillip. October 16 1803 – January 27 1804. With an Account of the First Printing Press in Victoria.

Melbourne : The Banks Society, 2025. Foolscap folio, quarter leather over marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting title label lettered in gilt, pp. 142; colophon (with corrections slip); illustrations, folding plates, three facsimile orders (suitable for framing) loosely inserted in endpocket. Edition limited to 16 numbered copies. Includes facsimiles of all the …

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# 50629

MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert

The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (light sunning to spine), 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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# 48734

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 (this is copy no. 58). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt-lettered title label to upper board (title label with a small chip at bottom edge, lower board slightly cockled at top corner); …

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# 48733

Barnett, P. Neville

Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1931. Quarto, presentation binding (most likely by Wal Taylor) of half crushed morocco over silk, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt lettering, silk endpapers, book label of Gregory Cumming ti front pastedown, 144pp., light foxing to preliminaries, with numerous original and reproduced bookplates by notable Australian artists including Sydney …

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# 48728

Barnett, P. Neville

Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (in a presentation binding by Wal Taylor)

Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1931. Octavo, presentation binding by Wal Taylor of full crushed morocco, ruled in gilt, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt with presentation name J. F. T. Mitchell at foot, silk endpapers, 144pp., with numerous original and reproduced bookplates by notable Australian artists including Sydney Long (original etching), Sydney Ure Smith, Adrian …

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# 50230

BARNETT, P. Neville

Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia (Special edition)

Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The Special edition, limited to 85 copies signed by the author (a standard issue of 200 copies was also published), this is copy 77. Quarto, papered boards in quarter imitation parchment (slightly worn), printed dustjacket (edges worn, light foxing), acetate jacket, a couple of chips, 280 pp, extensively …

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# 48736

BARNETT, P. Neville, 1881-1953

Fun with book-plates.

A souvenir of ‘Australian book-plates’ issued to the author’s guests on the occasion of its first public appearance, May, 1951. Sydney : privately printed [at The Beacon Press], 1951. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, original bookplate for P. Neville Barnett frontispiece (offsetting from glue), pp. 32, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 100 signed and numbered …

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# 48737

BARNETT, P. Neville

Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir (presentation copy)

Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers (a little marked), 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. This copy with …

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# 48723

BARNETT, P. Nevile

Souvenir of Armorial book-plates (presentation copy)

Sydney : Beacon Press, 1932. Limited edition of 150 copies; no. 29, signed by the author (this copy was actually number 15, but Barnett has corrected this and installed the correction). Octavo, original textured and decorated stiff wrappers, glassine wrapper, tipped-in bookplate of P. Neville Barnett by Eric Thake, presentation inscription from Barnett to endpaper. …

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# 48735

[BARNETT, P. Neville]

P. Neville Barnett and his books (presentation copy)

Sydney : the author, 1952. Quarto, lettered wrappers, string bound, bookplate for P. Neville Barnett inside upper wrapper, presentation inscription from P. Neville Barnett to first blank, a loose sheet of notepaper inscribed ‘with grateful thanks’ and ‘with best wishes Xmas ’51’ signed by P. Neville Barnett loosely enclosed, pp. [24], illustrated. Unnumbered edition, there …

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# 48747

BARNETT, P. Neville

Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia (standard edition)

Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the author, this is copy 141. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket, acetate 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 …

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