London: G. Routledge and Co., 1851, 1852. Volume bound in ¼ brown leather, binding tight, leather corners, lozenge pattern on spine with gilt rules and raised bands, gilt on black leather titles, marbled (combed) paper boards slightly abraded, a little fraying at edges, faded marbled edges of text pages, 616... More
London: Elder, Smith and co., 1851. Second Edition. Three quarter calf. Duodecimo (19 x 11cm), pp. vii, 267. Recased in three quarter gilt tooled tan leather over tan boards with recent eps. Slight spotting on the eps, very slight tanning to the edges if the leaves, one or two small stains... More
[Place of publication not identified]: Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party, 1965. Staplebound wraps. Stapled paper wraps, 175pp, tables, illustrations. A clean copy that has had a paper repair to the foot of the spine. The front free endpaper has torn a little at the two staple points as a result of... More
[N. P.]: The William Blake Trust, 2009. William Blake. Folio, 95pp. Original quarter-maroon calf with black moiré silk-covered boards, with gilt lettered maroon-morocco label to top board, the spine is likewise stamped in gilt; portfolio in full maroon calf containing 19 watercolours reproduced in facsimile, mounted within framing lines on... More
Manchester Etching Workshop, 1983. 2 vols., large and smaller 4to, the larger bound in full red morocco, the smaller loose in wrappers as issued, both enclosed in brown cloth folding boxes, new as issued. With an additional folder containing one facsimile plate and the Viscomi text. Some of the corner... More
London: Trianon Press, 1959. Folio, 11 plates, 7 pp. text, plus the extra materials. Full orange morocco, slipcase, some foxing internally and to the edges. Limited to 426 copies of which this is the de luxe issue being copy II of XX copies with a suite of progressive states of... More
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London: Trianon Press, 1958. 4to, 27 plates, 5pp text, plus the extra materials. Full red morocco, slipcase, spine very slightly faded. Limited to 526 copies of which this is copy XV of XX copies with a suite of progressive states of one plate, an original guide-sheet and stencil etc. The stencil... More
Sydney: The Shepherd Press, 1948. Quarto, gilt-lettered imitation leather, 144pp., with 23 black and white drawings and 5 colour plates by Norman Lindsay. Signed by author and artist. Minor lean, some rubbing to head of spine, leaves slightly toned, occasional small fox mark. Lacks original glassine wrapper. Deluxe edition, no. 29 of 100. More
Glasgow: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society:, 1967. Thick octavo, ccxxiv, 718pp, 17 maps, 64 illustrations. Half-title gives III as number within set. Admiralty instructions and the journal of the Third Voyage, with supplementary extracts from journals or logs by James King, Charles Clerke, James Burney, Richard Gilbert, Thomas... More
Perth: Paragon Printing and Publishing, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. Title page, List of Committee members, 252pp, 37 plates. Bottom right corner of front cover is marked (see photo). Bookplate pasted onto front ep pastedown reads Ex Libris Forward Athol Marsden Douglas. Three quarter red leather. All edges speckled red. Original... More
1936. Assorted collection of 13 photographs (12 x black and white, 1 x colour. 8 are 15 x 16 cm and 5 are smaller in various formats). Of the large format photographs, seven are of Colson’s 1936 Simpson Desert crossing and one is of his homestead at Blood Creek at... More
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, St Paul’s Church Yard by Law and Gilbert, St John’s-Square, Clerkenwell; sold also by J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1808. Cardboard covers. A New Edition. In 8 octavo volumes, each 23.5 x 15 cm, following the first collected edition of 1792. Deckled edges to all... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1963. First American Edition. Quarto, with more than 1,250 illustrations including 53 tipped-in full-page colour Plates, 30 x 22 x 6.6 cm, 775 pages, weight 3.32 kg, hard cover, colour dust jacket with image of At Cock’s Crow 1944 on front and full-page b/w photograph... More
Sydney: Hordern House, 2007. Australian Maritime Museum Series No.6. One of 1000 copies bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled papered boards. Small quarto, frontispiece plate, pp 276; includes an introductory essay by Nigel Erskine, facsimile of original German Book followed by English translation. The German naturalist and philosopher Georg... More
Adelaide: South Australian Library Board, 1967. London: Richard Bentley, 1834). Hardcover, gold lettered spines, boards bound in blue vinyl. Vol. I: xv 441 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents , 21 Chapters, b&w diagrams in text, Note. Vol. II: viii 428 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents... More
London: 1791. Three quarter calf. Quarto. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, pp 87. The boards are in good condition, a little bumped at the the corners, and the front board is completely detached. The name "Charlotte Georgina Bastard, November 15th, 1877", is inscribed on the front ep paste-down. Minor... More
London: Lund Humphries, 1971. First English Language Edition. Translated by Janet Seligman, both volumes thick quarto, 26 x 21.8 cm, hard cover with colour & b/w photographic dust jackets, black cloth with gilt titles on spines. A little narrow discolouration of top edges of both jackets. Vol. 1: ix 473 pages... More
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2002. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, extensively illustrated, foreword by Edmund Capon. In a clamshell box lettered with design on the front panel, containing a similarly designed paper folio housing an original Fransella etching, Head, signed and limited to 100 copies. The deluxe edition limited to... More
London: T. Fisher and Unwin, 1924. Cloth. The Atlantic Edition. Complete in 28 Volumes. Signed, limited edition. Fair covers with Very Good to Almost Fine interiors. Uniformly bound in red buckram with the letters HGW embossed within a circle on the front cover and gilt titles to the spines. Most... More
London: Printed by W. Smith & Co. for John Scott & Thomas Ostell, 1803. Etched by D. Deuchar, F.A.S. Quarto, 21 x 16cm, pp [4] 47, 46 original copperplates (plus portrait of Holbein, title page and vignette); full vellum, gilt dentelles and title, all edges gilt. Slight age-toning, occasional fox mark... More
Woodbridge: Boydell Press Hordern House, 1999. Edited From the Original Manuscripts. Three volumes in four; folio portfolio, 58 charts and views. The Hakluyt authorised reprints. Blue buckram with gilt blocked portrait of Cook on top panels, gilt titling on spines. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771, cclxxxiv, 696pp.... More
London & Paris: Fisher, Son & Co, 1836. Full leather. Numerous engravings by W.H. Bartlett and Thomas Allom, etc. Large Quarto, approx. 27cm x 21 cm. Published in 3 volumes, each with its own Vignette Title page, maps & plates. Rebacked. Full black leather with gilt border to upper and lower... More
1812. In original slipcase. Folding map, original colour, dissected and laid on linen; 13 vignette views of London Buildings along top border and 11 along bottom border with explanation of symbols. Borders marked in half miles and map divided into lettered squares. EXTENT: Pentonville – Stratford – Vauxhall – Kensington... More
London: Gale & Polden, 1915. 1/2 cloth. Revised and englarged edition. Small 12.5 x 9cm, [2 blank], x, 180pp, fold out diagrams. Recased, half red buckram with decorative paper boards, with disbound original boards loosely inserted. Minor lean to spine, a shade off sharp corners, some soiling to edges of text... More
London: John Murray, 1813-14. Octavo (22.5 x 14.2 cm) 108 pages, all edges gilt, the year 1813 printed at base of spine, gilt panel decorations between raised bands, blind tooled cover dentelles, gilt border patterns on front and back covers, inside gilt dentelles, rose endpapers, bookplate with arms of James... More