Books & Bookplates
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![[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. The history of England, from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George the Second.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_DSFB_5677-300x300.jpg)
# 40345
SMOLLETT, Thomas
[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. The history of England, from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George the Second.
London : Christie & Son, et al., 1918. Volume 1 (only). Duodecimo, full straight-grained red Morocco, gilded borders and emblem, spine in compartments with gilt-lettering and ornaments (a little scuffed and rubbed), all edges gilt, owner’s label of Rollo Hammett to front pastedown, pp. x; 419, with a fore-edge painting of a lake scene with …
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# 44849
ROSTENBERG, Leona and STERN, Madeleine B.
Bookends
New York : Free Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, pp. x; 246, illustrated. Biblio-memoir by the pair of American women booksellers.
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# 44592
WHITE, Eric
Editio princeps : A History of the Gutenberg Bible
Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 465, over 100 colour illustrations. New copy. The first complete history of all the Gutenberg Bibles. Winner of the 2018 DeLong Book History Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) The Gutenberg Bible is widely recognized …
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# 44800
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Bookplate for Margaret Coen
Process block after a pen and ink drawing by Norman Lindsay, initialled N.L. lower right, Measures 118 x 78 mm. Created 1940.
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![[SYDNEY] Dame Margaret Davidson, President of the Bush Book Club, and the Committee, invite you to ... the Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be held at Government House, Sydney on Thursday 3rd May 1923, at 3.30 pm.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_DSFB_4066-300x300.jpg)
# 44398
[THE BUSH BOOK CLUB]
[SYDNEY] Dame Margaret Davidson, President of the Bush Book Club, and the Committee, invite you to … the Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be held at Government House, Sydney on Thursday 3rd May 1923, at 3.30 pm.
R.S.V.P. to The Secretary, The Bush Book Club, 161 Castlereagh St., Sydney. Sydney, NSW : The Bush Book Club, 1923. Invitation card, 105 x 125 mm, printed recto only; very good condition; verso blank. The Bush Book Club was established in Sydney in 1909, and continued as an entity up into the 1950s. It was a …
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# 44256
RIALL, Richard
A new bibliography of Arthur Rackham
Bath : Ross Press, 1994. Folio, gilt-decorated cloth, pp. xx; 252, illustrated. Bibliography of Rackham.
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# 44283
HOWES, Wright
U.S. iana (1650 – 1950) : a selective bibliography in which are described 11,620 uncommon and significant books relating to the continental portion of the United States
New York : R. R. Bowker for the Newberry Library, 1962 (1978 reprint). Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, lettered cloth, pp. 652, bibliography. Book label to front free endpaper with bleed through. A classic bibliography of Americana with Pacific references.
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# 44282
WOLF, Edwin, 2nd; and John F. Fleming
Rosenbach : a biography
Cleveland and New York : The World Publishing Company, 1960. Octavo, lettered cloth (rubbed), previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 618, photographic illustrations.
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# 44280
ABBEY, Ron et al.
The Golden age of booksellers : fifty years in the trade
Sydney : Abbey Press, 1981. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (wear to corners), old tape marks to endpapers and owner’s name to half-title, limited to 1000 numbered copies, pp. xviii; 224, illustrated. Interviews and biographies of Australian booksellers, including many second hand and antiquarian, who have been in the trade for fifty years or more.
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# 44275
STILWELL, Jeffrey D.
The voyager’s companion; or shell collector’s pilot. The world’s first shell collecting guide by John Mawe.
Perth : Western Australian Museum, 2003. Quarto, paperback, pp. 80, illustrated in colour. Illustrated facsimile of John Mawe’s first shell collecting guide of 1804, together with his complete edition of 1821, The voyager’s companion; or shell collector’s pilot, with early references to Australian specimens.
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# 44291
JOHNSON, Robert Flynn
Artists’ books in the modern era 1870-2000 : the Reva and David Logan Collection of illustrated books
London : Thames & Hudson [in association with the] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2001. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 303, extensively illustrated. Printed and bound in Italy. Very light handling wear, a fine copy of a sumptuous book.
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# 44127
ORCUTT, William Dana
The magic of the book
More reminiscences and adventures of a bookman. Boston : Little, Brown & Company, 1930. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges lightly rubbed), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. xii; 314; [ii], illustrated.
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# 44263
MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert
The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 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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# 44223
STOCKS, Bronwyn et al.
The medieval imagination : illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
Edited by Bronwyn Stocks and Nigel Morgan. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Pub., 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 286, illustrated. ‘Celebrates the exhibition in Australia, at the State Library of Victoria, of more than 40 spectacular and precious Cambridge manuscripts dated from the 8th to the 16th centuries. They are accompanied by an equal number …
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![[BINDING] Paraphrasis in psalmos omnes Davidicos, cum argumentis et annotationibus:](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_2771-300x300.jpg)
# 43813
JANSEN, Cornelius, the Elder (1510-1576)
[BINDING] Paraphrasis in psalmos omnes Davidicos, cum argumentis et annotationibus:
Lyon : P[ierre]. Landry, 1597. Two volumes in one, folio (360 x 230 mm), contemporary panelled calf over oak boards with two brass clasps (still working), expertly and sympathetically rebacked in period style; the beautiful inner boards left exposed, each with a stub of vellum manuscript waste (taken from a rubricated music ms.); later endpapers; …
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# 43659
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). Quarto, papered boards in quarter imitation parchment (slightly worn), printed dustjacket (edges worn, light foxing), acetate jacket, a couple of chips, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some …