Books & Bookplates
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# 21334
SIBLEY, Andrew (1933 - 2015)
Bookplate for Douglas Stewart
Giclee colour print, titled ‘Ex Libris Douglas Stewart’, 195 x 125 mm. Created 2014. Bookplate for bookseller Douglas Stewart by noted Australian artist Andrew Sibley.
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# 21258
Anon.
[RACISM; ABORIGINES] The First Australian Editor
[Title from caption in image]. [s.l. : s.n., probably between 1910 and 1920]. Lithographically printed satirical cartoon, 165 x 110 mm, printed recto only in green on buff card; a few light marks to the margins, else very good.
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# 21184
FOXCROFT, Albert Broadbent
Catalogue of fifteenth century books and fragments in the Public Library of Victoria
Melbourne : Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1936. Quarto, quarter cloth over printed papered boards (corners slightly bumped), pp. xii; 164. Catalogue of several hundred incunabula.
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# 21044
TAYLOR, Tom
Written in a tropical glow : books, prints, and manuscripts describing the biological exploration of the New World tropics
Dallas : DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 2018. Quarto, bound in two contrasting green Japanese fabrics, folding frontispiece, pp. 166 plus 32 pages of colour plates, printed letterpress. Limited to 390 copies (40 copies in a deluxe binding were also issued). A magnificent illustrated monograph being the catalogue for an exhibition of rare travel books …
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# 21041
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, first two volumes 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 …
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# 20225
LINDSAY, Francis ; GRIFFITHS, John ; MORONEY, Davitt
L’Oiseau-Lyre : the work of Louise Hanson-Dyer and the Lyrebird Press
[Melbourne: The University Gallery, 1985]. Quarto, wrappers, pp. 32, some illustrations and photos. Essay by Jim Davidson.
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# 21702
SHIELL, Annette; STONE, Mick
Bonzer : Australian comics 1900-1990s
Redhill South, Vic. : Elgua Media, [1998]. Quarto, laminated card covers, xi, 188 pp, illustrations throughout (nearly all colour), an as new copy.
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# 21215
METHODIST BOOK CONCERN
The making of a book
New York : The Methodist Book Concern, Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, photographically illustrated, a fine copy. Illustrated guide to book production from ‘the oldest publishing house in the United States’.
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# 21083
QUARITCH, Bernard, Limited
A catalogue of rare and valuable books
Including works on Bibles, bibliography, classics, European history and literature, fine arts, genealogy and heraldry, Ireland, naval and military matters, numismata, occult sciences, Oriental history and literature, palaeography, periodicals and translations of learned societies, political economy (including a number of civil war tracts), Scotland, sports, topography, Wales and a selection of important new books. London …
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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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# 21197
CATALANO, Gary
The bandaged image : a study of Australian artists’ books
Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, 1983. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 88 (slightly foxed), illustrated. Includes a chapter on Robert Jacks and discussion of the artists books of Tim Johnson, Imants Tillers, Micky Allan, Ti Parks, Ian Howard, Mike Parr, Richard Larter, Peter Lyssiotis et alia.
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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 …