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  • Pride and Prejudice.

    # 46394

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)

    Pride and Prejudice.

    With a Preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London : George Allen, 1894. First edition thus. Octavo, elaborately gilt-illustrated cloth by illustrator Hugh Thomson (very slightest impressions to head and foot of spine, barely visible marks to lower board, the gilt to the cover and spine uniformly crisp and bright, all edges …

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  • [EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

    # 47085

    [EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

    som er alle troe Christne deris rette Hofffarffve, huor nyttelig oc fructbarlig det er, oc huorledis en huer skal sig der udi skicke og forholde…. Oc nu paa ny igjen offverseet, oc med nogle Capitteler formeeret, oc ført udi rictig Ordning … Kiøbenhaffn : Georg Lamprecht, 1652. Duodecimo (150 x 95 mm), contemporary embroidered binding, the …

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  • Night fall in the ti-tree

    # 47128

    TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine

    Night fall in the ti-tree

    Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …

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  • A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    # 46516

    Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]

    A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …

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  • An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

    # 42885

    JOHNSON, Rev. Richard, Chaplain to the Colonies.

    An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Written in the year 1792.

    London : Printed for the author : and sold by Mathews, Strand; Deighton, Holborn; Trap, Paternoster-Row; and Goff and Amey, No. 8, Ivy-Lane, 1794. Duodecimo (170 x 100 mm), original paper wrappers, inside upper wrapper with ownership inscription of ‘Margaret Amey, No 8 Ivy Lane, May 23d 1808’, upper wrapper with ownership inscription of Rev. …

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  • [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.

    # 46765

    STANLEY, Henry Morton [ROWLANDS, John]

    [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.

    Albumen print photograph (a copy print made in 1872 from a print made by an unidentified American studio in 1864-65), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘J. Laing, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. Castle Street, Shrewsbury’, and with an inscription in ink by the original …

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  • Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

    # 41535

    SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)

    Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

    Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II  reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …

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  • A Meiji-era album of original kimono designs.

    # 43440

    A Meiji-era album of original kimono designs.

    Japan (probably Kyoto) : circa 1900. Silk-bound folding album measuring 485 x 335 x 60 mm, containing 68 original watercolours on card of exquisite kimono designs; numbering in Japanese; housed in a modern Japanese box, plain manuscript label to spine Hinagata (=Designs). A stunning collection of original kimono designs in vivid colour and with fine …

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (fourth edition)

    # 46544

    DARWIN, Charles

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (fourth edition)

    London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1866. Fourth edition, second state (eighth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (light bumping to corners, very minor stains), green endpapers (previous owner’s name to front pastedown), pp. xxi; [blank], 593; [blank], folding lithographic plate by William West after …

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (third edition)

    # 41593

    DARWIN, Charles

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (third edition)

    London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners rubbed, a few light marks, small splits to head and foot of spine), hinges unobtrusively strengthened, binding variant A, with full point (period) after “MURRAY” in spine imprint, tan endpapers …

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  • [INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

    # 45670

    GUTENBERG, Johannes (ca. 1398-1468) (printer)

    [INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

    [Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf. 390 x 286 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letter rubricated in red; light foxing, ox head watermark clearly visible at the centre of the leaf, neat paper reinforcement along margin (probably from when …

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  • Translations from the Manchu, with the original texts, prefaced by an Essay on the Language.

    # 38353

    MEADOWS, Thomas Taylor (1815-1868)

    Translations from the Manchu, with the original texts, prefaced by an Essay on the Language.

    Canton : S. Wells Williams, 1849. Octavo (220 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp viii, 54, [48 texts in Manchu (Mongolian) script, block printed in the Chinese style]; facing title page, a title page in Chinese and Manchu printed on yellow paper (chipped at corners); leaves with browning and …

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  • A monograph of the coraciidæ, or the family of the rollers.

    # 15789

    DRESSER, H. E., 1838-1915; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912

    A monograph of the coraciidæ, or the family of the rollers.

    Scarce privately printed ornithological work, illustrated by J.G. Keulemans. Farnborough, Kent : published by the author at Topclyffe Grange, 1893. Printed in an edition of 250 copies. Folio, full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine in compartments, lettered in gilt; bookplate for Nowell Peach to front pastedown, marbled endpapers, title page cut and remargined along the …

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  • To the South Polar Regions. Expedition of 1898 - 1900

    # 47127

    BERNACCHI, Louis (1876 - 1942)

    To the South Polar Regions. Expedition of 1898 – 1900

    London : Hurst and Blackett, 1901. First edition, first issue. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels, …

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  • Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai : pass book belonging to T. Rorison, 1914-17.

    # 46809

    HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

    Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai : pass book belonging to T. Rorison, 1914-17.

    [Shanghai : Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, c.1914]. Account holder’s pass book, 155 x 110 mm, original blue linen over stiff card with flap at rear; front with label inscribed with the owner’s name in ms. ‘T. Rorison, [M?]. E. Institute’; front pastedown with printed bank regulations including ‘Accounts will be kept either in Mexican …

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  • [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

    # 45929

    [ZETLAND LODGE]

    [FREEMASONRY; HONG KONG] By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, of Free and Accepted Masons, holding warrant under the United Grand Lodge of England.

    Revised and passed 1st November, A.L. 5866, A.D. 1866. Cover title: By-laws of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, Hongkong. Hongkong : Printed by A. Shortrede & Co., 1866. Small octavo (172 x 118 mm), original sewn yellow wrappers, pp. [4], 41; a very fine example.

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