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Nieuwe Reize na het Zuid-Land… door Jaques Sadeur.
Amsterdam: Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek, Jan Lamsvelt, 1701.
The "Vlamingh edition"
Small quarto, in an attractive period-style binding of full calf, spine banded, red morocco label. Rare: the "Vlamingh edition" of Foigny's famous imaginary voyage to Australia. This edition was one of a trio of separate "Southern.....
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #3907223
Oeuvres de Fontenelle…
Paris: Jean-Francois Bastien, 1790.
A fantastic galactic utopia
Eight volumes, octavo, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and a folding plate in vol. 2; a fine set in contemporary French polished marbled calf; flat spines ornately gilt with double red labels. A very attractive set of Fontenelle's works, including his.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3002018
Le Monde a Vol d'Oiseau: Jeu de Societe Instructif.
Berlin: A.Sala, circa 1910. Game consisting of 4 pp. instructions, six colour printed boards of the continents, 120 colour printed pictorial playing cards; contained within the original box (330 x 390 x 25 mm.), with colour printed pictorial label on upper lid. A question and answer game of geography for.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
Ref: #3202174
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
Faust; A Dramatic Poem by Goethe Translated by Theodore Martin.
Edinburgh: Williamn Blackwood, 1866. Octavo; a fine copy; full tan calf, the spine gilt with raised bands, edges gilt.
Price (AUD):
$220.00
Ref: #4504668
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith.
London: 1832.
Quaint original Sydney Town colonial binding
Six volumes duodecimo, bound in uniform contemporary polished sheep with gilt spines. Choice example of colonial Sydney bookbinding, with each volume bearing the ticket of stationer William Moffitt of Pitt Street (most often remembered as printer and distributor of the New South.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #2408657
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 of Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Oxford University Press, 1913. Octavo, portrait frontispiece, very good; in three quarter green crushed morocco, top edge gilt, An attractive single-volume edition of the poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon in a Bayntun binding. Gordon (1833-1870), a well known horseman, became one of our most loved and acclaimed poets. Born at.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #3804599
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. 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, some flecking. First edition of this extraordinary compendium, illustrated by Harden S. Melville, artist on the Fly expedition in the Great Barrier.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
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