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# 41560
BALZAC, Honoré de (1799 - 1850); CONDER, Charles (1868 - 1909)
[CONDER]. La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
By Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Ernest Dowson. With six illustrations engraved on wood by Charles Conder. London : Leonard Smithers, 1896. Octavo, purple lettered yellow cloth (a few stains), title page in red and black, pp. vii; 107, six illustrations after Conder engravings; a very good copy. With a sweet gift inscription with arrow-pierced heart …
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# 30235
MAITLAND, A. (Andrew) Gibb
Bibliography of the geology of Western Australia,
/ by A. Gibb Maitland, Government Geologist (Formerly of the Geological Survey of Queensland). Issued under the Authority of the Hon. E. H. Wittenoom, M.L.C., Minister for Mines. At head of title: 1898. Western Australia. Geological Survey. Perth, WA : Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1898. Series: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Bulletin no. 1. Octavo, original printed wrappers, …
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# 37411
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
London : John Murray, 1898. Second edition, third impression. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. xvii; [blank]; 507; viii; 528; text illustrations, contemporary owner’s name, a few minor pencil underlines, a very good set. A very good copy of the second edition of Darwin’s important work on natural selection.
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# 32714
RUSKIN, John (1819-1900); DATILLO RUBBO, Antonio (1870 - 1955)
Sesame and lilies. (Antonio Dattilo Rubbo’s copy with self-portrait)
London : George Allen, 1901. Complete edition (fifty-second thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges rubbed), pp. xxxviii; 228, lacking the front free endpaper. Preliminary blank with large pencil signature ‘A Datillo Rubbo) with a small pencil sketch being a self-portrait of the artist folding an artist’s case. Sesame and lilies is comprised of two lectures …
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# 31673
PEDLEY, Ethel C. (1859 - 1898)
Dot and the Kangaroo. (First Australian edition)
With six illustrations by Frank P. Mahoney. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1906. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth (edges lightly rubbed), small booksellers labels to pastedowns, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, frontispiece illustration and five black and white plates by Frank Mahoney, pp. [vi]; 204; (2); (32 – publisher’s advertisements dated June 1906), occasional …
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# 35385
Jubilee of Wollongong Municipality 1909
[Wollongong : s.n.], 1909. Oblong octavo, 14 x 23 cm, gilt-lettered blue wrappers, marks to spine, pp. [28], photographically illustrated with views of the Town Hall, Brighton Beach, Wollongong District School, the Golf Links, Crown Street, Wollongong Lighthouse, the Ladies’ Baths, Mt. Keira, Wollongong Railway Station, Surf Bathing Sheds and others, with text on the …
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# 31721
TURNER, Ethel (1870 - 1958)
Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)
Arranged by L.T.T. With foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered crushed green morocco, edges lightly rubbed, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, presentation inscription dated November 1910 to preliminary blank, portrait frontispiece, pp. [190], calendar with quotes from Ethel Turner’s published works, a few spaces filled in …
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# 17322
PARKER, Bessie; PARKER Nancy (illustrator)
The history of the Hoppers
London : W.R. Chambers, [c.1912]. Quarto, pictorial papered boards (overall very good, the upper board with a vertical wrinkle at left side with a couple of tiny sections of paper loss, some mild ink spotting across lower edge, top corner with small amount of paper loss, other corners bumped; lower board with a mild scratch …
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# 38424
GIBBS, May
Little Ragged Blossom and more about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, n.d. [c. 1920]. Quarto, illustrated boards, dust jacket with short splits and minor chipping, cloth spine, illustrated endpapers, pp. 98, illustrated in colour and black and white, fine condition. Muir 2752. First edition.
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# 41656
[COOK, Captain James]
Catalogue of very important manuscripts by or relating to Captain James Cook, explorer : the property of H.W.F. Bolckow Esq., M.P. deceased
… which will be sold by auction by Messers. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge … on Wednesday, the 21st of March, 1923. London : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1923. Quarto, lettered green wrappers, pp. 16, black and white plate, light foxing and handling marks, a very good copy. The original catalogue of the extraordinarily important manuscripts …
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# 24450
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Bib and Bub : their adventures.
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …
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# 25753
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The cautious amorist
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Octavo, illustrated orange cloth in illustrated dustjacket (chipped to head and foot of spine, a few stains), pp. 300, black and white illustrations by Lindsay. The first edition was published by Farrar & Rinehart the same year, it appears this edition was issued …
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# 41665
FRANKLIN, Miles (1879 - 1954)
Bring the monkey
Sydney : Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, black lettered red cloth, dustjacket with illustration by Norman Lindsay (chipped with loosening to head and foot of spine and corners of dustjacket), pp. 246, line illustrations, a good copy in the rare dustjacket.
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# 39382
STONE, Louis (1871-1935)
Jonah
Sydney : The Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, edges lightly rubbed, in the rare Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (chips, edge tears and general wear), upper hinge misaligned, Douglas Annand designed bookplate for Fred Smith to front pastedown, pp. 296, a good copy of a rarity.
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# 17333
BOYD, Martin (1893-1972)
The painted princess
A fairy story by Martin Boyd. Illustrated by Jocelyn Crowe. London : Constable & Co., 1936. Quarto, blue cloth (sunned at ead and foot of spine) in illustrated dus tjacket (a few short tears and loss to head and foot of spine), blind stamp to title page, pp. 71, illustrated in colour; a very good …
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# 17724
TURNER, Robert
Real Australian jungle stories : legends of the Aborigines
Sydney : Northwood Press, 1936. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp 64. Cover depicts Oolamunga, the rainmaker of Lake Nash.