Books & Bookplates

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

    # 30620

    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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  • Art available : the Australian art book and print market quarterly.

    # 30255

    GRIFFIN, Richard

    Art available : the Australian art book and print market quarterly.

    Issue 1 – issue 2 (all published). Sydney : Richard Griffin, 1984-1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48; 72, illustrated. Two issues (all published) of publisher Richard Griffin’s short-lived journal on books arts in Australia. Includes articles on Lionel Lindsay, Tim Storrier, John Perceval, Irena Sibley, Donald Friend, Lloyd Rees, Brett Whiteley etc.

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  • [BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line ... one class to England.

    # 30100

    ABERDEEN AND COMMONWEALTH LINE

    [BOOKMARK] Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line … one class to England.

    [Melbourne?] : Dalgety & Coy. Limited and Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, [between 1928 and 1933]. Bookmark, 132 x 57 mm, offset printed on thin card, recto with colour illustration of one the company’s “Bay” liners, verso with information about the service to London via Suez, inviting prospective travellers to contact the Dalgety & Co. or Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line …

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  • Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe

    # 30086

    KRATZMANN, Gregory (editor)

    Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe

    Papers of a Conference Held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 28 March – 15 June 2008. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter cloth over laminated pictorial boards, pp. 256, extensively illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. With extensive illustrated essays by Jeffrey Hamburger and Margaret Manion, …

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  • Thomas and William Boone’s library of Australian travels

    # 29574

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Thomas and William Boone’s library of Australian travels

    Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2019. Quarto, gilt-lettered green buckram, pp. 194, illustrated. Limited to 135 copies signed by the author. New copy. “Thomas and William Boone, prominent booksellers of new, secondhand, and antiquarian books and manuscripts in mid- nineteenth-century London, were responsible for publishing the first-hand accounts of all the major figures from the …

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  • Australian Bookplate Club : constitution and list of founding members

    # 29329

    AUSTRALIAN BOOKPLATE CLUB

    Australian Bookplate Club : constitution and list of founding members

    Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1942. Octavo, printed wrappers, [8] pp. Limited to 150 copies, a fine copy. The first publication of The Australian Bookplate Club. THP 10

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  • Catalogue of the late Mr. W. Champion Hackett's library of valuable books including Rare Australiana .... ...

    # 28559

    THEODORE BRUCE & CO. (ADELAIDE)

    Catalogue of the late Mr. W. Champion Hackett’s library of valuable books including Rare Australiana …. …

    Adelaide : Theodore Bruce & Co., Fine Art Auctioneers, [1938]. Octavo (213 mm), printed brown wrappers (light central vertical fold), staple bound, 72 pp, with brief decsriptions of over 3250 lots; a good copy.

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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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  • Fourth decade. 40 years of a private press.

    # 25790

    DUENSING, Paul Hayden

    Fourth decade. 40 years of a private press.

    Vicksburg, Michigan : Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1991 Quarto, cloth bound boards, printed label to front, pp. [32], printed letterpress. Limited to 100 copies, this one of 50 copies bound in boards. A biblio-memoir with highlights of the Press including a bibliography of Duensing imprints (1976-1990). This is the last Duensing book with …

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  • Photographic portrait of businessman Edward Neale Wigg, eldest son of Adelaide bookseller E. S. Wigg. December, 1868.

    # 24738

    DURYEA, Townsend

    Photographic portrait of businessman Edward Neale Wigg, eldest son of Adelaide bookseller E. S. Wigg. December, 1868.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), recto with a contemporary caption in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Edw. N. Wigg’ and dated December 27 1868; verso with the illustrated back mark of Adelaide’s most prestigious photographer, Townsend Duryea, and contemporary note in pencil ‘Son of E. S. Wigg’; both the print …

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  • Women in parliament (prospectus)

    # 24334

    LINDSAY, Jack.

    Women in parliament (prospectus)

    London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. Octavo, folded sheet, pp. 4, stained, two illustrations after Norman Lindsay. Arnold P28

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  • Souvenir of Armorial book-plates

    # 24574

    BARNETT, P. Nevile

    Souvenir of Armorial book-plates

    Sydney : Beacon Press, 1932. Octavo, original textured and decorated stiff wrappers (slightly flecked), tipped-in bookplate of P. Neville Barnett by Eric Thake.  Limited edition of 150 copies, signed by the author. A very good copy.

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  • Bookplate for Keith Wingrove

    # 24199

    LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961)

    Bookplate for Keith Wingrove

    Woodcut engraving, 80 x 55 mm; created 1958. Signed in the image.

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  • Bookplate for Keith Wingrove

    # 24198

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Keith Wingrove

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 100 x 66mm. Created circa 1930

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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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  • Bibliography of the Hawthorn Press.

    # 22601

    KEAIN, Maurice B.

    Bibliography of the Hawthorn Press.

    Norton Summit, South Australia : Marble Hill Press, 1996. First edition, limited to 82 copies, 75 being for sale and numbered and signed by the compiler (this is copy no. 82). Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, frontispiece, pp xiv, 146; a pristine copy. A listing of the items, …

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