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
Conquista de las Islas Malucas.
Madrid: Alonso Martin, 1609.
The "Spanish Hakluyt" Herrera's annotated copy of Argensola's classic work on the western Pacific
Small folio, pp. [12], 407 [i.e. 411]; eighteenth-century stiff parchment. A remarkable and very important association copy of this great book, by a figure whose circle of literary colleagues included both Cervantes.....
Price (AUD):
$155,000.00
Ref: #4504611
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
Banks' Florilegium.
London: Editions Alecto, in association with the British Museum, 1980-1990.
A supreme example of eighteenth-century European civilisation
743 engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander. Printed in colours à la poupée from the original 18th century copper plates with five supplementary plates engraved between 1986.....
Price (AUD):
$94,500.00
Ref: #4505102
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
De rampspoedige scheepvaart der Franschen naar Oostindien…
Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz and Pieter Arentsz, 1669.
French incursions in the East Indies
Quarto, with eight engraved plates; bound in later period-style full calf, spine gilt with raised bands, ex libris of Saint Charles de Bourbon seminary on title;. First Dutch edition, and rare. This is the only separate appearance.....
Price (AUD):
$6,850.00
Ref: #3602388
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
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions…
London: Printed for John Bill, 1614.
"The Inhabitants of that South continent, are Idolaters"
Small quarto, bound with another work in contemporary limp vellum; boxed. First edition: Brerewood, professor of astronomy and scholar in many fields, discusses the tongues in which the liturgy is celebrated, and identifies the parts of.....
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #3907227
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
Britannia…
London: John Nichols, for T. Payne and Son... and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789.
"The British Strabo": a splendid copy in a superb period binding
Three volumes, tall folio (452 x 283 mm); with altogether 155 engraved plates and maps comprising frontispiece portrait, 53 double-page or folding engraved maps and.....
Price (AUD):
$8,400.00
Ref: #4505176
De Monarchia Hispanica…
Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1653.
Build a wall "lest the English should break in and bring heresy."
24mo., engraved title, all edges gilt; in nineteenth-century full red morocco, gilt arms of Henry J.B. Clements on front cover, spine banded and gilt. Attractive small Elzevir edition of this utopian work by the.....
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #3806730
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
Antiquitates Apostolicae or, the History of the Holy Apostles…
London: R. Royston, 1676.
The dreaded 'cauldron of boyling oyl'
Folio, with a frontispiece and double page 'Tree of Faith' plate, several other cuts in the text; contemporary gilt-ruled polished crimson calf, spine with gilt decorated panels between raised bands. A beautifully printed history of the early church, illustrated with.....
Price (AUD):
$2,700.00
Ref: #4401855
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
Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant Omnia ex MSS. codicibus emendata…
Lyon: Vander Aa, 1692.
Handsome uniform panelled calf binding
Eleven volumes, duodecimo, the first with four engraved folding plates, and all eleven volumes embellished with charming ornamental title-pages; a handsome set in mid eighteenth-century panelled calf with original labels. Attractively bound set of Cicero in eleven volumes, noted as 'respectable.....
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3306804
Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes…
London: Edward Orme, circa 1823.
Famous colourplate book including a section on the Aborigines of NSW
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. This is a later issue of.....
Price (AUD):
$5,250.00
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):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4205932