Books & Bookplates
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# 22631
PARR, Phil
History of hobby printing in Australasia.
Titahi Bay, N.Z. : Aspect Press for Association of Handcraft Printers, N.Z., 1980. Limited edition of 200 copies (no. 13), presentation copy for Phil Cade, signed by the author. Octavo, printed card wrappers, bibliography pp [6] – [10], illustrated; with leaflet laid in, an offset copy of Amateur journalism / by Leon Stone. Sydney : …
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# 22702
HEINEMANN, H. E.
Varia Orientalia. An interesting choice of books on the Far East.
Shanghai : Western Arts Gallery (H. E. Heinemann), 1948. Catalogue No. 4. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 32, catalogue of 441 works. Prices in U.S. dollars. ‘For foreign circulation only’. Scarce German bookseller’s catalogue based in Shanghai of works on Asia.
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# 22584
FARMER, Geoffrey
Private presses and Australia
Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1972. Limited edition of 450 copies. Octavo, decorative cloth in matching dustjacket, 68 pp, ex-library copy with label to front pastedown and part of the dustjacket flap cut away. A working reference copy. THP 133.
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# 22115
GILL, Thomas
Bibliography of South Australia
Adelaide : E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. Octavo, lithographed green wrappers signed in the image LEO (lower wrapper lost), lithographed title page, pp. 118, internally fine. Prepared for distribution at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition of 1886 in London. The wrapper features charming vignettes of Australian wildlife, indigenous people, and a steam train.
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# 20872
PESCOTT, Edward Edgar.
James Bonwick : A writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings.
Melbourne: H. A. Evans, 1939. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards (edges rubbed), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 signed copies. From the library of noted collector F. G. Coles, his bookplate on front pastedown.
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# 20679
McLEAN, Ruari
Victorian publishers’ book-bindings in paper
London : Gordon Fraser, 1983. Quarto, papered boards in glassine dustjacket, pp. 112, illustrated in colour and black and white.
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# 19726
OPPEN, Monica et al
Text and texture : contemporary design bindings of the novels of Patrick White
Sydney : Ant Press, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue of the Design Bookbinding Exhibition held at the State Library of NSW Bookshop 13th August to 29th October 2012. “This exhibition, Text and texture, of Australian contemporary designer bindings was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition The life of Patrick White…”–page [22] …
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# 19791
LOWRY, Martin
Venetian printing : Nicolas Jenson and the rise of the Roman letterform
Herning : Poul Kristensen, 1989. Folio, publisher’s stiff wrappers with gilt lettering, gilt to spine (slight wear), 104, [8] pp., with 8 coloured plates; three light water marks to front free endpaper, otherwise internally very clean, a good copy. One of 850 copies. Text in English and Danish. The two essays, from slightly differing viewpoints, both …
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# 19786
BRINKS, John Dieter
The book as a work of art : the Cranch Press of Count Harry Kessler
Laubach, Berlin, Williamstown : Triton Verlag, Laubach and Berlin & Williams College, 2005. Second English edition. Quarto, publisher’s gilt decorated red cloth over boards in black paper-covered slipcase, 453 pp., fully illustrated in colour; internally pristine, a fine copy. The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of …
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# 19024
H.P. KRAUS RARE BOOKS
A group of 90 H.P. Kraus rare book catalogues, 1940s-2000s
The legendary Austrian-born New York antiquarian book seller Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988) has been described by William Reese as ‘without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century’. His catalogues, filled with a breathtaking array of mediaeval illuminated manuscripts, incunables (books printed before 1501), and rare …
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# 13455
BARNETT, P. Neville
Armorial book-plates
Their romantic origin and artistic development. Sydney: privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1932. Octavo, patterned cloth, 172 pp., illustrated throughout with bookplates. A worldwide survey of armorial bookplates including a chapter on Australian armorials. Limited to 300 copies signed by the author. Standard edition.
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# 18742
AYSCOUGH, Florence
Friendly books on far Cathay
(being a bibliography for the student) and a synopsis of Chinese history. Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1921. Octavo, printed wrappers (soiled), pp. pp. [iv]; 58. Scarce Shanghai imprint.
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# 18510
LINDSAY, Lionel
Bookplate for K. Brian Stonier
Etching, 10 x 7.4 cm, created 1951. Signed in the image. A later impression
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# 18025
The House of Jade … offer exclusively rare books on China and the Chinese
[cover title]. New York : The House of Jade, 1947. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 16, illustrated. Rare Book List No. 183. Catalogue of rare books and photographs on China.
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# 17868
TOMLINSON, H. M. (1873 - 1958)
An illustrated catalogue of rare books on the East Indies and a letter to a friend by H. M. Tomlinson (presentation copy)
London : The Java Head Bookshop, 1932. Octavo, papered boards, cloth spine, pp. 42, illustrated. Limited to 165 copies, this is copy number 2. The deluxe edition of the first catalogue of the Java Head Bookshop (a softcover on cheaper paper was also issued). Signed on the front free endpaper by H. M. Tomlinson and …
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# 18079
FOWLERS AND WELLS
A list of books.
Fowlers and Wells, Publishers, No. 308 Broadway, New York. 1854. Foolscap sheet (36 cm tall), folds as issued, wholesale order form for medical publications available for order, in the fields of phrenology, hydrotherapy, physiology, mesmerism and psychology, phonography and miscellaneous. Scarce American publishing ephemera.