Books & Bookplates
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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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# 44202
NEVILLE, Richard (curator)
Lewin : wild art
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 12, catalogue of 159 works, no illustrations.
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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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# 42014
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, 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 O’Harris, Graeme Base etc. An essential reference book.
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# 41244
BARNETT, P. Neville et alia
The Australian Ex Libris Society. Journal No. 1
Sydney: the Society, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 48, illustrated with eight bookplates reproduced by Norman Lindsay, and others. Limited to 300 copies (this is copy 253). Bookplate for Jean and Jeff Bidgood to inside of front wrapper. A valuable collection of miniature artworks by Australian artists of the interwar period.