Books & Bookplates

  • The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.

    # 49569

    SATOW, Ernest Mason

    The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.

    [s.l.] : Privately printed, 1888. Quarto, original printed card wrappers (lightly marked, spine sunned); pp. [8], 54, errata slip tipped in after p. [8]; illustrated with 13 plates of facsimiles; front free-endpaper with previous owner’s red seal stamp, a few pages with scholarly annotations in fountain pen; a fine copy, housed in a quarter morocco …

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  • 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.

    # 50030

    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 general …

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  • The blighted eye. Original comic art from the Glenn Bray collection (signed and inscribed copy)

    # 50297

    BRAY, Glenn (1948 - )

    The blighted eye. Original comic art from the Glenn Bray collection (signed and inscribed copy)

    Seattle : Fantagraphic Books, 2014. Quarto, illustrated cloth in dustjacket, pp. 410, extensively illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Glenn Bray to the title page in gold marker. ‘The Blighted Eye showcases Glenn Bray’s extensive collection of original comic art by cartoonists such as R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Charles Addams, Charles Schulz, Dan Clowes, Chris Ware …

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  • The bird man of Brisbane : Silvester Diggles and his ornithology of Australia

    # 50008

    PIGOTT, Louis J.

    The bird man of Brisbane : Silvester Diggles and his ornithology of Australia

    Brisbane. : Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 214, illustrated. ‘When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs. …

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  • Higher Trades printing students, Sydney Technical College present their sixth annual dinner : with which is incorporated celebrations of the five hundredth anniversary of printing, Pfahlert's Hotel, Wednesday, 13th December 1939.

    # 27135

    SYDNEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

    Higher Trades printing students, Sydney Technical College present their sixth annual dinner : with which is incorporated celebrations of the five hundredth anniversary of printing, Pfahlert’s Hotel, Wednesday, 13th December 1939.

    Presented in portfolio with cover title: Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of printing. [Sydney] : Students of the Presswork Classes, Sydney Technical College, 1939. Quarto, pale blue thick paper covers with embossed portrait silhouette to front, original silk ties, printed on Strathmore watermarked paper, title page with device in red, [10], 28, [1] …

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  • [HAWTHORN PRESS] Internationalism in typography

    # 23410

    FRYER, Benjamin N.

    [HAWTHORN PRESS] Internationalism in typography

    Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1936. Edition limited to 70 copies. Duodecimo, textured paper wrappers (sunned along spine), stitched, [5] pp, some offsetting to first page, a few spots of foxing, but as good a copy as one could hope to find of a delicate and rare publication, the very first imprint of The Hawthorn …

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  • The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith (in a fine Sutherland binding by Bagguley)

    # 49407

    GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728 – 1774)

    The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith (in a fine Sutherland binding by Bagguley)

    The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith : with a notice of his life and genius, by E. F. Blanchard, Esq. and many illustrations, by John Basildon, Birket Poster, James Godwin, and Harrison Weir. Complete edition. London : W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), 1859. Octavo, finely bound by bookseller, librarian and binder G. T. …

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  • An Albion in the Antarctic (facsimile edition)

    # 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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  • [ROYAL BINDING] L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, Latin et François, a l'usage de Rome et de Paris.

    # 48808

    [CATHOLIC CHURCH]

    [ROYAL BINDING] L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, Latin et François, a l’usage de Rome et de Paris.

    Avec l’explication des Cérémonies de l’Eglise, et quelques Prieres tirées de l’Ecriture, pour la Confession & la Communion, & sur les mystères que l’on célèbre durant ce saint temps. Paris : chez Gregoire Dupuis, rue Saint Jacques, à la Couronne d’or, 1731. “Nouvelle edition”. Octavo, original royal binding of full red calf (rubbed and lightly marked), …

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  • Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificio Maximi Jesse editum, et urbani VIII.

    # 47284

    [BALLEONI, Paul]

    Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificio Maximi Jesse editum, et urbani VIII.

    Venice : Balleoni, 1754. Octavo, magnificent contemporary à la cire binding of interlaced coloured calf with elaborate foliated gilt tooling, the interlacing infilled with dark brown wax paint; spine in compartments with raised bands, extensively tooled in gilt, two working metal clasps; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers, engraved title-page, pp. xxiv, 456; copperplate engraved illustrations; a fine …

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  • Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)

    # 36305

    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. 2). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt lettered title label (rubbed) to upper board, 172 pp, illustrated throughout with bookplates; a very good copy. A worldwide survey …

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  • The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.

    # 49564

    SATOW, Ernest Mason

    The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.

    [s.l.] : Privately printed, 1888. Quarto, old tan cloth (rubbed and lightly marked), spine lettered in gilt; later endpapers; pp. [8], 54, errata slip tipped in after p. [8]; illustrated with 13 plates of facsimiles; a very good copy, bound without the original card wrappers. A valuable reference work by Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929), …

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  • Armorial book-plates (deluxe edition)

    # 49469

    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. 80). Small quarto, patterned cloth with gilt lettered title label (rubbed) to upper board, 172 pp, illustrated throughout with bookplates; a fine copy, housed in a custom slipcase. …

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  • John Gould : the bird man. A chronology and bibliography

    # 49543

    SAUER, Gordon C.

    John Gould : the bird man. A chronology and bibliography

    Melbourne : Lansdowne Editions, 1982. Octavo, buckram in dustjacket, pp. xxiv; 416, illustrated with colour plates.

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  • The bookplates of William Hunter

    # 49474

    GARTNER, John

    The bookplates of William Hunter

    Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Large octavo, buckram with insert label, essay and checklist of bookplates, five original signed etched bookplates tipped-in, faint foxing to preliminaries. Limited to 50 copies (this is copy 41). The bookplates are for John Gartner, Victor Singer, Bread and Cheese Club, William Hunter and “Bible Joe”.

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  • Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    # 49318

    O'CONOR, Juliet

    Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, corners slightly bumped; gift inscription in biro to front endpaper, pp. 262, thoroughly illustrated. An extensive insight into the history of children’s books in Australia, with detailed sections on great artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, May Gibbs, Harold Gaze, Pixie …

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