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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
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
Giphantie.
Babylone (Paris): n.p., 1760. Octavo, with four engraved plates by Cochin after Desfriches illustrating the second work "Mon Odyssée ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge"; contemporary mottled calf,spine gilt with red label. First edition: a marvellous utopian community in Africa, prefiguring the uses of photography, television and the.....
Price (AUD):
$7,250.00
Ref: #3006485
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1855.
Uniform binding by Bayntun of bath
Three volumes, octavo, with 18 illustrations, in matching half red morocco with marbled boards, raised spines decorated in gilt. A very good mixed set of the first three series of this beautifully produced edition, in uniform Bayntun binding. Ingoldsby's Legends.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3805647
The Works of Washington Irving.
London: Henry Bohn, 1850-1854.
Includes biographies of Columbus and the prophet Mohammed
Ten volumes, octavo, finely bound by in green half calf with elaborate gilt spines. Sterling example of early twentieth century English bookbinding from the workshop of Sangorski & Sutcliff. Although best known for his short stories, particularly the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #2205439
The Trial of Mrs. Leigh Perrot…
Boston: The Stinehour Press for the Club of Odd Volumes, 1980. Octavo; fine in original papered boards, with paper spine label. Sidney Ives' lively work on the mysterious affair of the trial of Jane Austen's aunt, Mrs Leigh Perrot, for shoplifting in 1800. The work includes part of a letter.....
Price (AUD):
$125.00
Ref: #3606562
Voyage Philosophique au Japon, ou Conférences Anglo-Franco-Bataves.
"Pressure" (Paris?): Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi, 1788.
A visit to Japan
Octavo, half-title, woodcut vignette of a ship setting sail at start of text; neat modern quarter calf. First edition: a very scarce anonymous imaginary voyage and a satirical commentary on French politics and society which has decadent.....
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #3005361
Revd Richard Johnson, B.A. Chaplain to the Settlement in New South Wales…
Paternoster Row, London: Goff & Co., February 8th. 1787.
Rev. Richard Johnson; Chaplain of the first Christian service in Australia on February 3rd. 1788.
Engraving, 17 x 11 cms. title inscribed around oval half length portrait; vignette below depicting a redemption scene by a harbour with sailing ships, captioned with.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4504878
Political tracts. Containing, The False Alarm…
London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776. Octavo; early repair to front hinge and spine, in contemporary sheep. First collected edition of these political pamphlets, published anonymously. Probably the most famous of the four is the last, 'Taxation no Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American.....
Price (AUD):
$1,550.00
Ref: #2408240
Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher.
London: Stockdale, 1811.
Bards of the Mermaid tavern
Four volumes, small quarto, with an engraved frontispiece of each playwright by Audinet;, full diced Russia, gilt spines with raised bands. Beautifully bound set of the works of master playwright Ben Jonson, for many years the equal to Shakespeare on the English.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #1802059
A Modern System of Natural History…
London: F. Newberry, 1775.
First children's book to include the kangaroo
Twelve duodecimo volumes, with 117 engraved plates (of 118, lacking single plate); preliminaries thumbed, title of one volume perforated and another significantly browned, one leaf of text ink-stained, general foxing and offsetting; worn contemporary sheep, scuffed with split hinges;.....
Price (AUD):
$3,800.00
Ref: #4402888
An account of the Pelew Islands…
Basel: printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1789.
The wreck of the Antelope; Lee Boo travels to England
Octavo; in a finely preserved contemporary binding of speckled polished sheep, red label. Scarce continental edition of one of the most popular eighteenth-century books on the Pacific, first published in London the previous year.....
Price (AUD):
$725.00
Ref: #3107937
Two years ago.
Cambridge: Macmillan, 1857. Three volumes, octavo; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume I, publisher's catalogue dated January 1857 at end of volume II and volume III; original blind-stamped blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, First edition. Continuing Kingsley's urgent belief in the necessity for religion and politics to.....
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #2408251
Ravenshoe.
Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Three volumes, octavo; uncut in the original morocco-grain blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Rare: first edition of Kingsley's second novel, written on his return to England. 'The romantic story of an old English family, affected by mixed marriages and consequent social and ecclesiastical problems… Some Australian.....
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #2408250