Literature
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
London: Printed for T. Longman et al. 1792. Three volumes, small octavo, with four engraved plates; in attractive contemporary half roan, flat spines lettered in gilt. A very attractive set of a "new edition" of this great novel, first published in 1749, from the library of the Marquess Conyngham at...
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00
Ref: #3409281
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
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
France: Paris or Rouen, circa 1475-1500.
Late medieval manuscript leaf.
Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with an illuminated panel border on each side of the leaf, one 2-line initial, ten 1-line initial and eight line-fillers, 18 lines of gothic bookhand; mounted. A beautifully illuminated leaf from a luxurious fifteenth-century...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909770
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Paris or Rouen: circa 1475-1500. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with a panel border on both sides of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves on shaped grounds of liquid gold, three 2-line initials in pink with white tracery, naturalistic branch line fillers...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3504685
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Paris or Rouen: circa 1495. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 152 mm., with a panel border on both sides of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus leaves and coloured flowers and leaves on diagonal grounds of liquid gold, illuminated initials in white tracery on pink grounds, and numerous 1-line...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #2909699
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
France: circa 1480. Illuminated leaf, 182 x 118 mm., with a panel border of liquid gold on one side and red ground on the other, nine 1-line and two 2-line initials in red and blue and gold, eighteen lines of text;. A well-illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours...
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #2909716
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Northern France (probably Paris): circa 1475-1500. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with an illuminated panel border on each side of the leaf, one 2-line initial, eleven 1-line initial and nine line-fillers, 18 lines of neat gothic bookhand. A beautifully illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours with all...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909769
Welfare Economics in English Utopias…
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1952. Quarto, unopened, in blue boards; blind embossed printer's device on front board. First edition: an elegant monograph on utopia. This thesis on the development of economics in the English Utopia gives priority to key works such as Bacon's New Atlantis, but also includes chapters on...
Price (AUD):
$225.00
Ref: #3005340
Bifolium missal leaf.
Germany: circa 1400-1500. Bifolium on vellum, 458 x 318 mm. (each leaf), each leaf written in double columns of 32 lines, ruled with ink, dark brown ink with rubrics and brown ink initials, two with decorative penwork, capitals touched with red, full margins. original sewn repairs in lower margin, a....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #3010830
Leaf on vellum from Graecismus of Evrard de Bethune.
Germany: 1386. Manuscript leaf, 215 x 170 mm., fine calligraphic initial at top of each page, on recto enclosing sketched head of a man, capitals touched in red, 26 lines in gothic hand. The initial D which begins the text contains a sketched head of a man. This decoration is...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #2909742
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: John Murray, 1887.
Featuring a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Eight volumes, octavo, single portrait frontispiece, 14 maps (12 folding and 5 coloured); understated half brown morocco, gilt spine with raised bands. A most attractive set of Gibbon's opus, first published in 1776 and here re-issued with notes by...
Price (AUD):
$2,650.00
Ref: #3805637
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
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
Equality.
West Brookfield: O.S. Cooke & Co., 1849. Octavo, in original printed wrappers. Rare first edition of a radical American utopian tract. Greene (1818-1878) was a prominent American theorist and Unitarian minister, who published prolifically on the question of government and banking, as well as producing more esoteric works on the...
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #3005411
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...
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$2,500.00
Ref: #3511201
The Adventurer.
London: J. Payne, 1752-, 1754.
An important publication by Cook's editor
140 original numbers bound into two volumes, small folio; library bookplates with release stamps, small stamps on title-pages; in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments between raised bands with ornate double labels;. Cook's editor's influential literary periodical: the...
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #4106632
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
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
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