Miniature Books
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# 42781
LETTS, SON & CO.
[NEW ZEALAND] Letts’s Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.
Being the forty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accession June 20, 1837). London : Letts, Son & Co. Limited, [1884]. “Pocket series, no. 25”. Narrow octavo (180 x 90 mm), original green pebbled cloth with wallet-style flap, publisher’s gilt-stamped crest to front; title page with original owner’s name D. S. McKelne, Perth …
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# 33626
SANDS & McDOUGALL
Sands & McDougall’s Monthly Diary. Giving departure of Mails, Sunrise and Sunset, Phases of Moon, Railway Time Tables, &c. July, 1880.
Melbourne : Victoria Stationery Warehouse, 46 Collins Street West, 1880. Quadragesimo-octavo (100 x 70 mm), publisher’s printed yellow stiff wrappers, stitched, pp 73; a very good, clean example, most diary pages with the original owner’s short neat ink entries recording over the course of the month a multitude of Melbourne surnames (possibly legal or business …
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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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# 40228
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments … … [and] Proper Lessons to be read at Morning & Evening Prayer … … [with] The New Testament.
Oxford : Printed at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1834. Two volumes, 48mo (90 x 55 mm), publisher’s limp black morocco with gilt-lettered spines (fine and unmarked); all edges gilt; original owner’s inscription in ink to each front endpaper: ‘Mary Ann Plummer August 28th 1835’; Proper Lessons is bound with The New …
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# 33458
[ROCK BROTHERS & PAYNE]
[The Rose Almanack. Souvenir for 1860]
[London : Rock Brothers & Payne (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler), 1859]. Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, die-cut in the shape of a rose; diameter when opened 240 mm, folding to 120 x 70 mm; the two end panels of the almanac have discreet old tape repairs where the edges had previously separated …
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# 23295
BRAHAM, D.E. (illustrator)
Mistress Mole
London : Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]. Duodecimo (117 x 82 mm), staple bound within the original grey card wallet, colour pictorial onlay to front with decorative printed gold border, colour frontispiece plate, title page with line-drawn illustration, [10] pages, vignette line-drawn illustrations, printed in green on white paper; a pristine copy; [TOGETHER …
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# 23292
BARRIE, J.M. (James Matthew) (1860-1937)
George Meredith 1909
London : Constable and Co. Limited (printed by Chiswick Press), 1909. First Edition. Duodecimo (135 x 90 mm), original gilt-blocked cloth over boards (very lightly marked), pp 15, [1], full-page wood-engraved illustration; early ownership inscription to front pastedown, rear endpapers and pastedown foxed, else a very good copy. A homage to poet and novelist George …
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# 20065
The young sailor, or the sea-life of Tom Bowline.
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, n.d. [c. 1856]. Duodecimo, printed salmon wrappers with woodcut vignette, 16 pp., illustrated with wood-engravings including a title vignette, 1 text & 5 full-page illustrations. “Third Series–No. 8” on the front wrapper. A crisp copy. Chapbook tale of young Tom, who is drawn to the sea, and sails on the ship …
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# 19303
SCHÜTZE, Dr. St. (editor)
Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1824. Der Liebe und Freundschaft gewidmet.
Frankfurt am Main Verlag : Friedrich Wilmans, [1823]. Duodecimo (180 x 120 mm), original pictorial papered boards (spine with pale foxing and short paper tear at tail, otherwise very good), all edges gilt, title page, pp 20, 314, illustrated with 14 copperplate engravings; contains numerous short fictional pieces and poetry; text in German in Gothic …
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# 16003
AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
[CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth
Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [c.1850]. Duodecimo (110 x 70 mm), woodcut illustration to upper wrapper; 16 pp, woodcut illustration at head of text; lower wrapper with ‘A Hymn’; wrappers foxed and re-stitched; contents with scattered foxing.
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# 6022
[RUFUS MERRILL]
[TAHITI] People of the Old World
[Cover title]. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1854]. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, paper loss around edges of the rear wrapper, water stain to lower right corner of front wrapper and all leaves), stitched, title page printed 'Part IV People of the Old World', 16 pp (some water staining to edges, particularly fore-edge of …