Sydney: Office of Thomas Marshall, Solicitor. 1896. Ten handwritten leaves (last leaf blank) detailing the title of estate passing from Michael Fitzgerald to his siblings upon his death and then to his son William on gaining his maturity. The leaves are lightly ruled with a wide 8cm margin and the..... More
Edinburgh: P. Neill, 1824. Hardcover 4to (30.5 x 24.5cm), pp. vii, [1, blank], 86, [2, blank]; tan leather, contrasting dark brown panel on the spine, lettering and borders in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. 5mm vertical chip out of the head of the spine, 10mm vertical chip out of the tail;..... More
Perth: J. Burridge, 1982? Facsimile edition of ca. 1919 edition published in Perth by Palmer and Ashworth. Cloth. Folio, 31 x 25 cm, 266 pp., index. Green cloth with gold blocked title on front and spine. Internally fine in slightly faded binding with rubbing to edges and spine. Address label..... More
Melbourne: Collective Effort, 1989. Chapbook, 62pp., stapled card covers. In March 2018 Archives Fine Books acquired the better portion of the personal library of Queensland-based poet and artist Billy Jones (1935 – 2012). Upward of 400 (mostly) poetry volumes, many of the books are heavily underlined and bear notes at..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover (31 x 22cm), pp. [22] + 364 + [1], richly illustrated with colour and black and white images, text in English and Chinese; midnight blue ribbed cloth covered boards lettered in gilt and red on top board and spine, bright..... More
London: Phaidon, 2008. Hardcover. Quarto (300 x 220 x 62 mm.), 528 pp., ill., glossary, glossy paper covered boards in dustjacket with 134 mm advertising wraparound. Near fine in very good, slightly soiled dustjacket. Advertising wraparound has 2cm tear and creasing at lower front edge. Signed by Ferran Adria on..... More
Salt Lake City, Utah: Truth Publishing Company, n.d. Staplebound wraps. Staplebound booklet (19 x 13.5cm), 130pp (132), textured paper wraps lettered in black on upper wrap. Wraps tanned at spine, lightly soiled and a spray of fox marks on upper wrap, lightly soiled on lower wrap with creased lower corner and..... More
London: Sandle Brothers Ltd., n.d. First Edition. Oblong hardcover (20 x 27.3cm); 3 unpaginated boards; two double page pop-ups; illustrated covers, red cloth backstrip. Corners a little bruised; both pop-ups working. More
Hinged wooden box with two latches and a tin handle containing a Collection of Papers pertaining to Frederick Waymouth Gibbs,C.B., Q.C. and tutor to the Prince of Wales for six years (1852-1858). The Papers include six leaves removed from Gibbs’s Diary for the years 1857 and 1858, recording mostly his activities..... More
Paris: 1642. Folio: Three blanks, the third with what appears to be a Strasburg lily watermark, Engraved title by Claude Mellan, verso blank. Text, not divided into verses but with verse numbers in the text, 422pp; Variae Lectiones, pp 423-453, 1p. bearing ornament [1 f. blank]. Twenty engraved headpieces and..... More
New York: American Colortype Company, ca. 1911. Original wraps. Octavo (297 x 190 mm.), [52 pp.], ill., card wrappers stapled then tied through three holes with fine cord. Very good, internally clean and bright, spotting to edges, 2 cm strip cut from boottom of tp, 7cm piece missing from upper..... More
Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Foundation, 2014. White paper covered boards with typographical design. Quarto, 33 x 25.5 cm, 561 pp., ill., plan. “The inaugural exhibition of MMCA, Seoul, which was specifically prepared for its opening, consists of Connecting_Unfolding, an exhibition featuring the collaborative efforts of an..... More
Northern France: [c.1500]. A leaf from a Book of Hours illuminated in Northern France and dating c. 1500. This miniature shows Joachim and Anne meeting outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, against a background of soft blues and greens, and the whole is within an arch in liquid gold and..... More
London: 1865. (weekly issues from July-December 1865). Imperial octavo, 28.5 x 22.5 cm, Preface, dated December 30 1865, followed by issues from second half of 1865 in date order, beginning July 8, 1865 (pp. 1-262, ending December 30, including Index), followed by 11 pages titled “Punch’s Almanack for 1866”), full..... More
Bristol: W.D. & H.O. Wills Ltd., 1897. Stiff boards. White boards, oblong format, 14 x 19cm, gilt bordered boards, with gilt titles, 10 richly coloured chromolithograph plates, two of them folding. The white covers show just a hint of toning, top board has a 2mm pen mark near the top border..... More
London: S.Virtue, 1889. Revised Edition. Full leather. Octavo (253 x 195 mm.), xi, 388 pp., ill., blue leather with 5 raised bands, title in gold in second compartment, all other compartments with blind embossed decoration, double blind rule around edges of boards, school crest in gold on front board, marbled..... More
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London: Air Ministry, April 1945 - March 1946. First Edition. Twelve consecutive staple-bound paper covered pamphlets in the Tee Emm series, 316pp in all. No. 1: pp. 1 - 32; No. 2: pp. 33 – 56; No. 3: pp. 57 – 80; No. 4: pp. 81 – 104; No. 5..... More
n.d. Recently rebound in full calf and with new linen joins, this charming album has seventeen thick card leaves, each with a window for a photograph. Original endpapers and brass hinge have been preserved, and eight of the leaves have delightful borders of flowers and butterflies. Minor scattered foxing and..... More
Uppsala and Stockholm: 1858-1910. Soft cover Quarto; pp.155 + 77 + folding map tipped in at back; text in French. A good copy. Some chips to edges; moderately foxed; vertical tear to map at foot of centre fold (map not affected) unopened. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Special edition. No 36 of 50. Signed by the author. Octavo, 320pp, top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Blonde leather, gilt title on green leather label to spine. Leather has minor marks and is aged to a pale yellow. Top of the label and bottom right..... More
Los Angeles: The Press in the Gatehouse, 1973. Minature book (7 x 5.4cm or 2 3/4 x 2 1/16 inches); unpaginated (12pp comprising; 2 blanks, title page with etching of a laughing green frog, blank, 4pp text, 4 blanks) ; soft green wraps bound with white string. Near fine, the..... More
Santa Cruz: The Good Book Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Miniature Book (7.5 x 6.7cm or 3 x 2 5/8 inches); Unpaginated [4, blank] [10pp] [2, blank]; two linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas; printed on paper made by Peter; Hand-made paper over boards; lettered in black on spine; black device on..... More
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. Second Edition. Hardcover octavo (21.5 x 13.8cm); pp. x, 413. [3, blank] + frontis; sympathetically rebacked, chestnut leather spine with gilt embellishments and raised bands, contrasting green and gold headband silk; original tan leather boards with blind and gilt detailing to borders..... More
London: Rivingtons, 1871 and 1874. mixed editions. Complete in four uniformly bound volumes; octavo; three quarters black morroco over navy pebbled boards; marbled endpapers with small square bookseller sticker on the front paste down of each; all edges marbled. Pp. viii, 924; viii, 723, [3]; viii, 435, [3]; vi, 750; [2]..... More
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2005. Art Gallery Catalogue, saddle stitched, 24pp, Illustrated dust wrapper. Loosely inserted: invitation to the Launch of the Barry Pearce monograph ‘Jeffrey Smart’ and Opening of the exhibition JEFFREY SMART by Edmond Capon, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales AND “Additional Works” (one page folded..... More