BOOK ARTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanac
Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac. The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George.....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4107206
The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall.
London: Cresset Press, 1928.
Cresset Press limited edition
Large quarto; vellum, uncut and limited to 250 copies. Number 7 of an edition of 250: with the bookplate of Vyvyan Edwards. A beautiful copy of Bacon's Essayes, printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, with titles and initials designed by Joscelyne Gaskin.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #1700585
An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales.
London: Jones, 1810.
Second edition with fine handcoloured plates
Octavo, portrait frontispiece and nine handcoloured plates, folding map (laid down); contemporary half calf. The second edition (first published 1803) of this substantial account of the voyage to New South Wales via the Cape of Good Hope, with incidents partly derived.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #2302019
Illuminated presentation address from the German Association of Victoria to Prince Otto von Bismarck.
Melbourne: 1885.
The German Association of Victoria salutes the Iron Chancellor
Large folio-sized presentation album framing lithographed and hand-painted illuminated manuscript address, 435 x 315 mm, ink and watercolour, two large initials gilt with red and blue foliate decoration, and initials alternating red and blue, with moiré. This handsome illuminated.....
Price (AUD):
$5,750.00
Ref: #4504774
James Bonwick. A Writer of School Books and Histories…
Melbourne: Evans & Son. 1939. Quarto, portrait frontispiece of Bonwick; original boards. Number 162 of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author.
Price (AUD):
$200.00
Ref: #2304063
Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope.
London: W.Bulmer and Co., 1796.
From the library of Frances Mary Currer
Folio, stipple engraved frontispiece and engravings in text; a charming copy in half dark green morocco, marbled boards, armorial bookplates for Frances Mary Richardson Currer and Mathew Wilson, contemporary ink ownership signature of 'M R Currer' on half.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4102406
John Boydell, Esq.
London: Cadell & Davies, 21 June, 1814. Soft ground etching, plate size 380 x 325 mm. on a larger sheet; ex-library stamp to verso, together with the relevant letterpress. A fine portrait of the great publisher John Boydell (1720-1804), the most important print publisher of his day, and together with.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4109664
The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë.
London: J. M. Dent, 1922.
Colour plates by Edmund Dulac
Six volumes, octavo, with a total of 60 colour plates (including frontispieces), otherwise a most attractive set in uniform half polished navy calf by Bayntun with ornate gilt spine ornament and crimson labels. Collected edition of the Brontë novels, here.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3804616
Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres…
Paris: chez Brunet, 1814.
The bibliographer's grail
Four volumes, octavo; contemporary half calf, flat spines gilt with black leather labels. Second edition, greatly expanded from the first of the most famous rare book bibliographies. 'Brunet's annotations… are often still unsurpassed. There is hardly any other bibliography in which the wide.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3402063
Voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Important early voyage to Hawaii
Quarto, with 14 charts and aquatint plates, some folding; overall a good copy in modern calf with label from an earlier binding. First edition of a famous voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s.....
Price (AUD):
$4,000.00
Ref: #2205003
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands…
London: John Murray, 1826.
Returning the Royal deceased to Hawaii
Quarto, with a folding chart and 13 other charts and plates (one folding); modern half calf. First edition of a famous Pacific voyage account, and an important and extensive illustrated description of Hawaii in the mid-1820s. Kamehameha II of Hawaii.....
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #2203378
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine…
Brisbane: J.W. Buxton, 1867. Octavo, photographic portrait frontispiece, single lithographic plate and a large folding map at the rear; in original cloth inscribed 'presented by the author January 1870'. Rare narrative of an important inland expedition across far north Queensland and Cape York, with an original mounted sepia frontispiece photograph.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #3905171
The Poems of Catullus.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1875. Small octavo; in a handsome vellum binding, boards with black morocco onlays, decorated ornately with gilt Greek key motif, morocco label and tailpiece, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. A beautifully bound copy of the second edition, revised and corrected, of this attractive nineteenth-century version of the poems.....
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #3804598
The Caroline Islands. Travel in the sea of the little lands.
London: Methuen & Co., 1899.
The journal of a searcher in a "sea of small islands"
Octavo, frontispiece and numerous photo-plates throughout, three plans and two folding maps; publisher's decorated green cloth with gilt spine lettering;. The author was Robert Louis Stevenson's neighbour in Samoa between 1890 and 1893 whilst.....
Price (AUD):
$395.00
Ref: #3602289
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
The anonymous work of John Lewin?
Quarto, pp. with 110 hand coloured aquatints (including the New South Wales plates), a good copy in ornate contemporary gilt decorated deep green morocco with all edges gilt. An attractive copy of one of the outstanding aquatint books of.....
Price (AUD):
$8,000.00
Ref: #3911447
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, 1814.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
Quarto, 160 pages letterpress without pagination, 100 handcoloured aquatints with the 1813 New South Wales supplement bound at rear (this comprising separate title-page, dedication leaf, 10 handcoloured aquatints and 14 letterpress pages); a fine copy.....
Price (AUD):
$17,500.00
Ref: #4205932
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales…
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 & 1802.
The complete First Fleet account of David Collins, thick paper issue, in an unrecorded state with extra foldout engravings
Two volumes, quarto, [1798]: 2 charts, 18 plates and four textual vignettes, the vignettes most unusually repeated on additional folding plates.....
Price (AUD):
$32,750.00
Ref: #4503961
A Journal of a Voyage round the World…
London: Becket and De Hondt, 1771.
First account of the Endeavour voyage
Quarto; a good copy in modern quarter calf and marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. First edition of the earliest published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific: the rare first issue, with the leaf of dedication.....
Price (AUD):
$48,500.00
Ref: #3010828
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol... and T. Cadell, 1784.
The superb official narrative of Cook's third voyage
Three volumes, quarto, and an atlas, folio, with altogether 87 engraved plates and maps, of which 63 appear in the atlas; contemporary diced russia leather, flat spines gilt.....
Price (AUD):
$18,500.00
Ref: #4401862
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), some loss to a few pages (seemingly original defects in the paper, and not affecting text); half calf, a little rubbed, bumped at corners, a handsome copy. A wonderful children's Atlas, with delightful depictions.....
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #3702899
The Works of William Cowper…
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-, 1837. 15 volumes, small octavo, each volume with engraved title and frontispiece, 11 portrait engravings,, in matching contemporary full polished calf, spines with raised bands, decorated in gilt, black and red morocco labels. A first edition set of William Cowper's (1731-1800) complete works edited by.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3804618
Queen Elizabeth…
London: Boussod Valadon & Cie. 1896. Folio, coloured frontispiece & 39 full page engraved plates with captioned tissue guards, full red morocco, gilt spine, tooled. Limited edition 146/200; book plate of William Montague Hay. Deluxe edition, with the plates supplied in two states, of a richly illustrated history of the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4504734
Sir Courtly Nice: or, It cannot be. A comedy as it is acted by Her Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Crown.
London: B. Tooke and G. Strahan, 1703. Quarto; title page thumbed; polished half calf by Sangorski and Sutcliff. Early edition of John Crown's best play. Based on the Spanish play No Puedesser, and written at the command of Charles II, Sir Courtly Nice was first performed (and published) in 1685.....
Price (AUD):
$350.00
Ref: #2408107
Two Years before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1930. Large octavo, colour illustrations; original gilt-decorated cloth. An attractive copy of Dana's masterpiece of reportage. Dana, a Harvard man, spent two years voyaging by sea between 1834 and 1836, visiting many ports in the Americas. His work is vivid and important, particularly regarding California and rounding.....
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #2004159