Europe
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# 30086
KRATZMANN, Gregory (editor)
Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe
Papers of a Conference Held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 28 March – 15 June 2008. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter cloth over laminated pictorial boards, pp. 256, extensively illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. With extensive illustrated essays by Jeffrey Hamburger and Margaret Manion, …
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# 29859
ANDERSON, Jaynie
Tiepolo’s Cleopatra (signed copy)
Melbourne : Macmillan Publishing. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. As new copy, signed by Jaynie Anderson. Professor Jaynie Anderson is an internationally recognised scholar, renowned for her research and publications on the Italian masters. On this occasion she has concentrated on one painting, the National Gallery of Victoria’s famous Banquet of Antony and …
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# 28061
MOFFATT-PENDER, Iain Macalastair (1894-1961)
Moffat-Pender’s own corrected draft of his English translation of Kenneth Macleod’s essay “Duatharachd na mara”.
“Duatharachd na mara.” (The Romance – or the Mystery of the Sea) / by Kenneth Macleod “The Minister of the Songs” translated by Iain Macalastair Moffatt-Pender. [In red ink above title: NOT FOR PUBLICATION]. [n.d., but 1927, or earlier]. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), typescript, still bound with the original loop of fine wire at top …
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# 28232
PISTOLETTO, Michelangelo (1933 - )
The dining table of cultures
Mantua, Italy : Edizioni Corraini, 2005. Small quarto (250 x 180 mm), pp. 32 printed on diecut aluminium leaves, spiral bound, in publisher’s original cardboard slipcase. Limited to 700 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Text in English and Italian. An as new copy, very fine. A striking artist’s book / private press production, printed …
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# 26901
Anon.
Plan of the city of Mantua, Italy, published in Tbilisi, Georgia
Lithographed map, 195 x 260 mm (image), folds as issued, dates circa 1900. Text in Georgian. A cartographic curiosity.
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# 24084
A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.
London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the English armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
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# 22973
BORODIN, M.M. (editor-in-chief)
Moscow News : weekly edition of Moscow Daily News. September 19, 1935.
Moscow : “The United Magazines and Newspapers”, 1935. “Fifth year, no. 38”. Folio newspaper, pp 12, illustrated; original folds, some mild toning, a very good copy. Text in English. English-language newspaper published by the Soviet propaganda machine in the year prior to the commencement of The Great Terror, presenting a picture of a socialist utopia.
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# 21871
NOBUKAZU, Yosai (1872 - 1944)
[SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]
Tokyo : Tsunashima Kamekichi, Meiji 23 (1890). Woodblock printed in colour, 712 x 698 mm, lined with Japanese tissue, old folds as issued, a clean and bright example. A board game of a voyage around the world, starting in Yokohama and with illustrated vignette scenes of the destinations visited, including Vanvouver, San Francisco, Niagara Falls, New …
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# 21062
NOYES LEWIS, J.
Old Mother Hubbard
Drawn by J. Noyes Lewis. London : Dean & Son Quarto, illustrated cards (edges rubbed, upper wrapper nearly detached), pp. [12], chromolithographed plates with text to the nursery rhyme, a charming publication. Dean’s Sunshine Series, Nondestructibly mounted, No. 4. Scarce.
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# 21063
DEAN & SON
Three little kittens
London : Dean & Son, [n.d.]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, pp. [12], 4 chromolithographed plates, a very good copy. Dean’s Giant Penny Popular Series No. 23.
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# 20789
HAMERTON, P. G.
The unknown river. An etcher’s voyage of discovery
With eight illustrations. London : Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1874. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, all edges gilt, 134; eight original etchings, a fine copy. Etchings created while travelling along the Arroux, a tributary of the Loire.
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# 19487
BUTLER, Samuel
Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars,
By Samuel Butler, Esq., with large annotations and a preface. By Zachary Gray, Ll. D. London : Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe et al, 1806. Two volumes, octavo, full diced calf, ruled in gilt with fleurons, spines lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt dentelles, book label to pastedowns, portrait frontispiece, pp. lii; (4); 56 …
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# 20385
DÁVILA GARIBI, J. Ignacio
Dos ilustres prelados de la Iglesia de Guadalajara
: Datos biograficos de los ilmos. y rmos. Sres. lic. D. Francisco Gómez de Mendiola y dr. D. Juan de Santiago y de Leon Garabito. Guadalajara, Spain : Escuela Tip. Salesiana, 1912. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (chipped and torn along spine), staple bound, pp 28, internally very clean, a good copy. A scarce Guadalajara …
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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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# 18659
[BALIEFF, Nikita]
Théatre Fémina : Spectacles de la Chauve-Souris de Nikita Balieff, Saison 1923.
Paris : Théatre Fémina Editeur, 1923. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [28] pp, text by Joseph Kessel, with black-and-white photographic illustrations plus 6 colour plates of set designs by Nikolai Remisoff and Sergei Soudeïkine; a superb copy. Programme for the 1923 Paris season of impresario Nikita Balieff’s touring theatre revue La Chauve-Souris (The …
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# 18219
Photographers unknown. [CLOUGH, Anne Jemima, 1820-1892]; [LINDT, John William, 1845-1926]
[WOMEN’S EDUCATION] Photograph album of the University of Cambridge, compiled by a graduate of Newnham College. Bound in Melbourne, early 1890s.
Photograph album by J.W. Lindt, Melbourne, early 1890s. Oblong quarto, padded leather with gilt blind-tooling stamped ‘From J.W. Lindt’s Studio, Melbourne’, lining papers with floral decoration in gold, all edges gilt, containing [12] leaves of thick card with 20 albumen silver photographs (photographer unidentified) of the University of Cambridge, in uniform format 150 x 205 …