Rare Books

  • A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    # 46688

    CONNOR, Peter and JACKSON, Heather

    A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2000. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, extensively illustrated.  A fine copy. The catalogue of the University of Melbourne’s superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers. This richly illustrated book is …

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  • No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    # 46687

    CULLEN, Jenny

    No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …

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  • Minute of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society on the present state and future prospects of China

    # 46646

    CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Minute of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society on the present state and future prospects of China

    [London] : Church Missionary Society, 1853. T. C. Johns, Printer. Octavo, pamphlet, self-wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 15; [blank]. An appeal for additional resources (funds and missionaries) to extend the work of the Church Missionary Society into the interior of China, with greater access now granted to the missionaries. It notes ‘We have never had more …

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  • J. J. Hilder and contemporaries

    # 46615

    HILDER, J. J. et al.

    J. J. Hilder and contemporaries

    Watercolours from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. [20, illustrated. Works by J. J. Hilder, Sydney Long, Hans Heysen, Blamire Young and Norman Lindsay.

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  • William Morris textiles

    # 46562

    PARRY, Linda

    William Morris textiles

    London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling wear, pp. 192, illustrated.

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  • Art nouveau architecture

    # 46566

    RUSSELL, Frank (editor)

    Art nouveau architecture

    London : Bibliophile Books, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 332, illustrated.

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  • Morris & Company. Pre-raphaelites and the Arts & Crafts movement in South Australia

    # 46564

    MENZ, Christopher

    Morris & Company. Pre-raphaelites and the Arts & Crafts movement in South Australia

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated.

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  • The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 - 1914

    # 46567

    HOUFE, Simon

    The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 – 1914

    London: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978 (revised edition 1981). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 520, illustrated. A comprehensive reference.

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  • The Novels of Jane Austen (in ten volumes)

    # 46379

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    The Novels of Jane Austen (in ten volumes)

    Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. London : J. M. Dent, 1893. Third edition (of this collected set of Austen’s novels). Ten volumes, octavo, attractively bound in the publisher’s original pale green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, photogravure frontispieces, ornamental decorated title pages, pagination various, some light and minimal handling …

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  • [WW1; ARTIST'S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l'humanité [à la] Marne

    # 45890

    POZZI, Michel

    [WW1; ARTIST’S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l’humanité [à la] Marne

    Paris : M. Pozzi, 1917. The first of 12 examples made by the artist; as far as we can ascertain, the only one extant. Folio (380 x 285 mm), artist’s original binding of full vellum, the upper board with artist’s manuscript calligraphic title, along with his monogram, name ‘M. Pozzi’ and ‘Paris 1917’ in red ink, …

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  • Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman's destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

    # 45923

    VOGEL, Julius, Sir (1835-1899)

    Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman’s destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

    / by Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G. London : Hutchinson and Co., 1889. “Colonial edition”. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered pictorial grey cloth (boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners bumped; spine sunned and marked, frayed at ends); frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. viii, [1]-331, [4 publisher’s advertisements]; newspaper cutting to verso of front endpaper …

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  • Mission to Western Australia, commonly called the Swan River settlement.

    # 42856

    WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Mission to Western Australia, commonly called the Swan River settlement.

    [London : s.n., 1835]. Quarto (250 x 200 mm), [3] pp; printed on letterpress; fourth side docketed ‘Mission to Western Australia’, and with Webster Collection stamp with number 2621 in ms.; original vertical and horizontal folds, some toning, else very well preserved. The foundation document for the Western Australian Missionary Society, recording the resolution for …

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  • Dychweliad Morgan Bach o Australia : a’i fam (Gwen o’r Gyrnos) yn methu ei adnabod.

    # 46289

    THOMAS, Isaac (of Aberdare)

    Dychweliad Morgan Bach o Australia : a’i fam (Gwen o’r Gyrnos) yn methu ei adnabod.

    [=The return of Morgan Bach from Australia, unrecognisable to his mother (Gwen o’r Gyrnos)]. [Drop title]. [s.l.] : [s.n.], [between 1850 and 1860]. Chapbook ballad. Disbound duodecimo bifolium (155 x 90 mm), printed on all four sides with woodcut vignette of a paddle-steamer at the head of the first side; at the foot of the …

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  • General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis

    # 46489

    BROWN, Robert (1773 - 1858)

    General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis

    [Appendix to Matthew Flinders A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803]. London : [s.n.], [Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.] : [1814 – reissued circa 1840]. First separate issue, originally published as an Appendix to Flinders’ …

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  • [OCCULT] Applied magic

    # 46410

    FORTUNE, Dion (pseud. of Violet Mary FIRTH)

    [OCCULT] Applied magic

    London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine copy. A posthumous collection of …

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  • Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

    # 45779

    LAS CASAS, Bartholomé de (1484-1566)

    Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

    Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke wreede feyten der Spangiaerden : met t’samen de beschrijvinge der selver Landen, Volckeren aert ende natuere … … [BOUND WITH] Tweede Deel van de Spieghel der Spaense Tyrannye, gheschiet in Nederlant. Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke ende wreede handelinghen der Spaengiaerden … … Amsterdam : Jan Everts. …

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