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Nouveau Jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel…
Paris: Chromol de Engelmann et Graf, circa 1860. Loto Game, consisting of 18 pictorial game cards, each illustrated with five lithographic scenes, one small cloth bag containing glass counters, one large cloth bag containing 90 numbered circular timber tokens, folio rule sheet printed on yellow paper; all contained in the.....
Price (AUD):
$6,250.00
Ref: #3112137
Rythms from my Scrap Book…
Launceston: Cornwall Chronicle, 1855.
Poems for the Crimean War
Small octavo, 114 pp., single page "In Memoriam" bound in, early newspaper report of Gardner's death pasted to a blank, some significant toning; a charming copy in full pebble-grained green morocco, gilt. Very scarce: a Launceston-published anthology of poetry by William.....
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4107025
The Merry Piper or the Magical Trip of the Sugar Bowl Ship.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1925. Octavo, colour plates; original cloth. A fine copy of the first American edition, rare in dustjacket.
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #3006552
Little Obelia: Further Adventures of Ragged Blossom…
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1933.
An ephemeral reprint
Octavo, 77 pp., with a frontispiece and illustrations throughout, with two instances of juvenile handcolouring (but minor); original wrappers. The popularity of Gibbs' "gumnut" series ensured that many subsequent editions would enter the market in different formats: this sequel to Little Ragged.....
Price (AUD):
$125.00
Ref: #2707997
Suzanne et le Pacifique… avec des illustrations sur cuivre en coleurs par Daragnés.
Lyon: Cercle Lyonnais du livre, 1928.
Prepared for a select society of bibliophiles
Portfolio, with unbound letterpress sheets printed in folio and 32 handcoloured plates loosely inserted (and final colophon leaf signed by Daragnès); a fine example in original folding case with leather ties, housed within the publisher's slipcase. An.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4307519
Tales About America and Australia By Peter Parley.
London: Darton & Clark, n.d., 1840. Small octavo, with frontispiece maps of Australia and America and numerous illustrations; in original striped black and red cloth. Very rare: a history of America and Australia for children by American author Goodrich, under his more famous pen name "Peter Parley", with a charming.....
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #2704828
Tales About America and Australia by Peter Parley.
London: Darton & Clark, n.d., but, 1840. Small octavo, with frontispiece maps of Australia and America and numerous illustrations; in original red cloth. Very rare: a history of America and Australia for children by American author Goodrich, under his more famous pen name "Peter Parley". Surprisingly detailed account of New.....
Price (AUD):
$585.00
Ref: #3103083
Poems by Mr. Gray.
London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Octavo, with the rare half-title; contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, in contemporary calf, preserved in a folding cloth case. First edition, second issue with the contents at page 121. This is the first London edition and includes the famous 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard'.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #2408188
Curiosities of Savage Life.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1863.
With illustrations by the Fly artist, Harden S. Melville
Octavo, with a chromolithograph frontispiece and one other plate, woodcuts throughout, 8-pp. advertisements bound in at rear; good in the original highly gilt pictorial cloth. First edition of this extraordinary compendium, illustrated by Harden S. Melville, artist.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3611693
A History of Greece…
London: John Murray, 1872.
A monument of industrious Victorian scholarship
Ten volumes, octavo, folding maps and illustrations; a fine set in contemporary polished half calf, marbled sides and edges, spines decorated in gilt in compartments. 'Although as biased as Macaulay's History of England and less scholarly than Mommsen's Roman History.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #3511201
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia, during a Residence of Eight Years in the Interior.
London: John Murray, 1848.
Somewhere on the Monaro
Duodecimo, 162 pp. in modern crushed green morocco, gilt device to front board, banded spine with double red labels. Uncommon: a good pre-goldrush account of life in New South Wales, of note for the author's love of anecdote and his keen eye.....
Price (AUD):
$400.00
Ref: #4108016
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1910. Octavo; original pictorial wrappers. American edition of one of the most notable early Australian bloods.
Price (AUD):
$345.00
Ref: #3006549
Exposé Général des Lois de l'Univers…
Paris: chez Breaute, 1861. 12mo., uncut, in the original pink printed wrappers. First edition and very scarce: through natural aptitude and indefatigable perseverance Mlle. Hertha discovers the truths of the universe. This work is an abstract from Hertha's longer text Égalité-Liberté, and is presented to her public in the hope.....
Price (AUD):
$425.00
Ref: #3006512
The Poetical Sketch-Book…
London: Edward Bull, 1829.
Flinders & Baudin both get a poet
Duodecimo, with a steel-engraved decorative title-page, in contemporary green morocco, all edges gilt, bound without half-title or final leaf of advertisements. A collection of romantic poems by Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799-1859) including "Australia", a lengthy idyllic poem inspired by.....
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #2302518
Remarks on the Arabian Night's Entertainments…
London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1797. Octavo, uncut, single leaf errata; in period style half red morocco. Influential study of the tales of Sindbad and their relation to the imaginary voyage. The poet and antiquary Hole (1746-1803) was a founding member of the Exeter Literary Society, to which he.....
Price (AUD):
$1,550.00
Ref: #3103060
Queen Victoria…
London: Boussod Valadon & CO., 1897. Folio, coloured frontispiece & b/w engravings, red leather presentation binding, inset with letter of presentation; gilt spine; gilt tooling green silk endpapers with inner gilt dentelles. Presented to Thomas Ryland, a prominent member of the Birmingham community. Ornate and decorative binding typical of the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4504739
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs…
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847.
Original version of the scene in Kealekakua
Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume and 38 black & white plates in the text; in contemporary quarter morocco. A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children, including La Pérouse and the third voyage.....
Price (AUD):
$2,150.00
Ref: #3605470
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs…
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847. Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume plus 38 plates in the text; in original blue cloth, with elaborate gilt decorations. A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children including La Pérouse, Dumont d'Urville and the third voyage of James Cook with.....
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2711285
Opera…
London: Payne and Edwards, 1792-, 1793.
The London Horace
Two volumes, quarto, with a portrait frontispiece; in contemporary tree calf, flat spines with gilt panelling, red and green morocco labels. Fine and scholarly printing of Horace: 'a very magnificent and valuable edition; the text of which is formed chiefly on.....
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #4211244
Delectus Sententiarum Graecarum, usum tironum accommodatus…
London: Valpy, 1824.
Early Australian schoolbook
Duodecimo, owner's inscription on title-page and front free endpaper; in original plain roan binding. A charming relic of early Australian education. This classical Greek textbook in its seventh edition, is in its original colonial binding and was originally owned by William Howe, member of.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #4401807
Epistolae Ho-Elianae familiar letters.. upon emergent occasions.
London: R. Ware, 1754. Octavo; original boards. Eleventh edition. Copy of David Dundas with bookplate. Historiographer royal to Charles II, and author of many historical works, it is nonetheless this work upon which his 'enduring title to literary fame rests' (CHEL). Written during his imprisonment in the 'Fleet' in the.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #2408210
Epistolae Ho-Elianae familiar letters… upon emergent occasions.
London: J. Darby, 1726. Octavo, engraved frontispiece; contemporary calf, Ninth edition. Howell, historiographer royal to the court of Charles II, wrote this collection of often fictional letters in 1645. Witty, lucid and readable they are the work on which Howell's 'enduring title to literary fame rests' (CHEL); they include one.....
Price (AUD):
$240.00
Ref: #2408211
Santa Claus and the Shadow.
Sydney: S.T. Leigh & Co., circa 1892. Small quarto, tinted title page; original decorated boards. An unusually fine copy of a collection of short stories for children. Published in Sydney this charming book is most beautifully designed and illustrated with original lithographs. Some stories are set in Tasmania, and all.....
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3210602
A Picture History of Great Discoveries.
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. Small folio, illustrated throughout in colour on every page; original illustrated linen-backed boards. First edition of this charming autolithographed children's book, one of several done by Hutton including A Picture History of Britain / France / Canada / Italy / Australia / America / Russia.....
Price (AUD):
$185.00
Ref: #3408269