Bibliography
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
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
Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens.
London: Frank Kerslake, 1879.
Dickens Bibliography
Octavo; original wrappers bound in, half morocco. First edition of this early bibliography. A brief bibliography had been published in Forster's Life (1873), but this work is expressly designed to supersede it. It proposes, Cook writes, 'to give the Bibliophilist or Collector a thorough...
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #1500328
Hawaiian National Bibliography. Volume I: 1780-1830.
Sydney: Hordern House in association with the University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
Limited to fifty special signed copies
Quarto (250 x 205mm), 548 pages with 30 illustrations; printed in black and red and bound in crimson half morocco. Deluxe issue: one of 50 numbered copies, signed by the author. This...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #404103
Hawaiian National Bibliography. Volume II: 1831-1850.
Sydney: Hordern House in association with the University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.
Limited to fifty special signed copies
Quarto (250 x 205mm), 304 pages, illustrated; printed in black and red and bound in crimson half morocco. Deluxe limited edition. The second volume covers the period during which the Hawaiian monarchical...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4504290
Bibliography of South Australia.
Adelaide: E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. Octavo, 118 pp., lithographic title-page and wrappers, navy quarter calf bookform box with gilt lettering. Scarce bibliography bearing the bookplate of Sir Henry Ayers, the successful colonial entrepreneur and longstanding premier of South Australia after whom Ayer's Rock was named. The bibliography was prepared...
Price (AUD):
$825.00
Ref: #4301310
Introduction to the Study of Bibliography.
London: T.Cadell and W.Davies, 1814.
Valuable work on Bibliography
Two volumes, octavo, half calf, marbled edges and endpapers; illustrated with engravings. First edition, a valuable work that covers history and techniques of printing, paper, bookbinding, the nature of rarity, classification systems, bibliographies, catalogues and reference books, etc. Horne relied largely.....
Price (AUD):
$460.00
Ref: #1500574
In somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.
Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1483.
First appearance of the Macrobian world map
Small folio (302 x 198mm), 191 leaves (initial blank leaf discarded), with seven diagrams and a world map within the text; capital spaces blank; a fine, large copy in handsome Regency russia leather, sides richly tooled in gilt...
Price (AUD):
$215,000.00
Ref: #4504803
In somnium Scipionis Libri duo: et septem eiusdem libri Saturnaliorum.
Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1521.
Early Macrobius with a refigured world map
Folio, title within an ornate woodcut border; fine woodcut map of the world and several woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials; nineteenth-century continental binding of half calf, flat spine gilt in compartments. An important early edition of Macrobius, the first to...
Price (AUD):
$10,500.00
Ref: #4104513
Opera… editio novissima…
London: T. Dring & C. Harper, 1694.
First appearance of Macrobius in England
Octavo, with an additional engraved allegorical title, letterpress title printed in red & black, complete with the often missing imprimatur leaf at start; with a map and other figures in the text;; early eighteenth-century calf with contemporary...
Price (AUD):
$3,700.00
Ref: #3208546
A New and General Biographical Dictionary…
London: T. Osborne et al. 1766.
From Moses to contemporary men of fashion
Eleven volumes, octavo; a most handsome set in contemporary speckled calf. This grave and ambitious work sets out to list the most famous and infamous individuals encountered in the histories and legends of all nations. Volume one...
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #2610442
Commonwealth of Australia. Catalogue…
Melbourne: J. Kemp, Government Printer, 1912. Octavo, contemporary roan. As well as a preface by Arthur Wadsworth, the Librarian, this catalogue of a major Australian library contains the rules of the library and an explanation of the classification system. From the library of Henry White, with the Belltrees bookplate.
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #3402053
Viage al estrecho de Magallanes… en los años de 1579 y 1580…
Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1768.
A Mendaña veteran maps the Straits of Magellan
Small quarto, with three folding plates; a fine large copy, with ample margins, probably one of the large copies, printed on thicker paper, as noted by Sabin; contemporary vellum, with original ties and the title.....
Price (AUD):
$17,750.00
Ref: #3810917
A Guide to the Collector of Historical Documents…
London: S.J. Davey, 1891. Octavo, finely bound in morocco by Riviere, all edges gilt. A very fine copy, from the library of Reginald Huth. Includes an appendix illustrating early English watermarks 1363-1611.
Price (AUD):
$540.00
Ref: #2400178
Great Flower Books 1700-1900…
London: Collins, 1956. Folio, with numerous illustrations; publisher's half green cloth with papered boards, with dustjacket. One of the standard bibliographies of botanical books.
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3203277
Fine Bird Books 1700-1900.
London: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. Folio, with many illustrations; original half cloth. One of 2000 copies of this attractive book, a standard reference for ornithological collectors.
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3203278
A Bibliography of Selected Early Books and Pamphlets Relating to Australia 1610-1880
London: Holborn Press. 1952. Quarto; wrappers, limited to 525 copies. A fine copy of a rare reference book to Australiana.
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #2303118
A New and General Biographical Dictionary…
London: G.G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, and others, 1798.
Prodigious universal biography
Fifteen volumes, octavo, a lovely set in contemporary full calf, red spine label; front board of each volume blind stamped with family crest, previous owners name 'J. N. Webb' inscribed on endpaper of each volume. A new...
Price (AUD):
$4,800.00
Ref: #4106631
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland...
London: John Scott, 1806.
Horace to the rescue
Five volumes, octavo; with 149 engraved portrait plates; contemporary binding of dark green straight grain morocco, ornately gilt; armorial bookplates. A very attractive set of this major literary work by Walpole: although his literary reputation rests principally upon his voluminous correspondence, he...
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #3409289
Australian Rare Books 1788-1900.
Sydney: 1987. Two volumes, octavo, original cloth, slipcase. One of 25 copies of the special edition reserved for presentation.
Price (AUD):
$575.00
Ref: #2302531