Books & Bookplates

# 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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# 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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# 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 …

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# 42528

[RIORDAN, Captain A. W.)

A collection of 14 engraved bookseller’s and art gallery receipts, 1930s

The receipts made out to Captain A. W. Riordan of Caulfield, Melbourne, for the purchase of rare books, paintings and etchings from H. A. Evans & son (four receipts), Dymock’s Book Arcade (one receipt), Robertson & Mullens (two receipts), N. H. Seward (one receipt), Henry Sotheran of London (two receipts) and The Sedan Galleries (four …

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# 42918

HOLDEN, Robert

Cover up: the art of magazine covers in Australia

Sydney : Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, a little edge wear, illustrated throughout with plates of magazine covers by famous Australian artists including iconic publications such as The Home, The Lone Hand and The Sydney Mail. A good copy.

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# 40169

Anon.

Miniature calendar for the year 1810

[France : s.n.], 1810. Miniature book (45 x 80 mm, full straight-grained morocco with gilt border, housed in matching morocco slipcase with the word Souvenir lettered in gilt (lower edge with short split), text block neatly detached, folding letterpress calendar on two sheets for the year 1810, the leaves comprising stiff erasable cards lettered with …

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