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1864223685Shanghai.: Presbyterian Mission Press. 1864. viii 279 pp. contemporary half roan rubbed 23.3 x 16.5cm marbled boards spine gilt lettered a little light rubbing to the boards last two leaves archivally strengthened at the hinge small tidemark to the inner corner of the title-page age-toning and some offsetting to the text inked signature of an early owner Dec. 1870 Fred. P. Napier lettering on spine a little worn a good complete copy. The second work published by the remarkable sinologue missionary and linguist Joseph Edkins 1823-1905. This second edition is noted for its deeper inquiry into the Peking dialect specifically its "laws of tones and accent" <br>The book is divided into three primary parts designed to move a student from basic sounds to complex communication: <br>Part I: On Sound: Detailed exploration of pronunciation the tonal system and phonetics. <br>Part II: Parts of Speech: A categorical breakdown of Mandarin vocabulary and functional grammar. <br>Part III: Syntax: Guidance on sentence structure and verbal interaction. <br>Appendices: Includes discussions on southern Mandarin dialects Mandarin literature and contemporary Chinese philology <br> <br>Lowendahl 1811 Supplement. . Presbyterian Mission Press. hardcover
1937120361AB1937. Africa and the UK Various 1937 - 2012. 21 cm x 26 cm - 24.5 cm x 31 cm. Circa 2500 pages. Numerous monochrome and colour photographs throughout the collection. Includes Hardcover book with dustjacket softcover book reprints of academic journal articles in paper wrappers and a variety of loose material in cellophane files. The archive running from 1937 to 2012 is contained in two green 24.5 cm x 31 cm x 10.5 cm boxes four additional folders 32 cm x 24 cm and two hardcover volumes 21.5 cm x 26cm. Very good condition. Includes for example the following: Sylvia K. Sikes Lake Chad London: Eyre Methuen 1972 / Sylvia K. Sikes Lake Chad Versus the Sahara Desert Newbury: Mirage 2003 / Sylvia K. Sikes Habitat and Cardiovascular Disease: Observations made on Elephants Loxodonta Africana and Other Free-Living Animals in East Africa' Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 1969 32: 1-104 / Sylvia K. Sikes's hand-written notebook Records of Beetles of Interest 1937-1942 / Dr. Sylvia K. Sikes 'A Spotted Hyaena Crocuta Crocuta Erxl. as a Pet.' The Nigerian Field - The Journal of the Nigerian Field Society Vol.XXXIII No.2 April 1968 p.66-72 / Sylvia K. Sikes The Natural History of the Elephant London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1971 / Sylvia K. Sikes 'How to Tell the Age of an African Elephant' African Wild Life September 1967 Vol.21 No.3 p.191-202 / Dr Sylvia K. Sikes 'The Disturbed Habitat with Its Effect on the Health of Animal Populations with Special Reference to Cardiovascular Disease in Elephants' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine February 1968 Vol.61 No.2 p.160-61 / Sylvia K. Sikes A typed 13-page account tipped-in on A4 of a 1951 safari / Sylvia K. Sikes printed copy of a letter from Sikes to Unknown for private circulation dated from 21.1.57. Sikes's newsletter from Nigerian College of Technology in Zaria in Northern Nigeria describing her missionary life and her evangelism / 'Report of a Workshop 'An International Centre for Manatee Research' 7-13 February 1974 Georgetown Guyana: The NATIONAL Science Research Council 1974 / Sylvia K. Sikes 'Cardiovascular Disease in Freeliving Wild Animals with Particular Reference to the African Elephant Loxodonta Africana' Thesis for Ph.D. University of London 1967 and etc. Sylvia K. Sikes 1925-2012 was a British Kenyan-born zoologist who wrote the first authoritative guide to the African elephant and established wildlife conservation programmes in Nigeria. A world-leading expert on the African elephant Sikes specialised in elephant heart health. She also authored two studies on the worsening ecological conditions in and around Lake Chad as its waters disappeared. Also trained as an educator Sikes taught in missionary schools in a number of African countries and helped set up and organise Evangelical Christian fellowship groups among students in Nigeria and Kenya. Due to political turmoil in Nigeria Sikes returned to the UK to farming and retirement. A detailed inventory of archival material of Sylvia Sikes is available as a Word document upon request. Please contact Inanna Rare Books for further information related to this collection. paperback
188622219New York: Great American Tea Company 1886. Near fine. Original chromolithograph advertising poster 22 x 32 inches. A stunning print with exceptionally rich color archivally backed. Professional restoration to edges and a few small spots on the printed area. Near fine. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" was the well-known cry of railroad conductors across the United States before dining cars became common on trains. Hungry and thirsty passengers would rush off the train and into the depot where they scrambled to order and then bolt down their lunch under the watchful eye of conductor determined to keep the train on schedule. In this advertising print for the Great American Tea Company the conductor stands in the doorway with pocket watch in hand calming observing the chaos as customers all white men served by Black waiters frantically consume their food and beverages some leaving smashed crockery in their wake as they rush to re-board the train. Coffee is dispensed from urns advertising the company's Sultana Coffee and its baking powder and a giant sign on the wall reads "The Teas & Coffee used in this establishment are from the Great American Tea Co." Founded in New York City in 1859 the Great American Tea Company made its name using a direct-to-consumer sales approach that enabled them to offer quality tea at lower prices than found in retail shops. After a period of success selling mail-order to clubs they began opening their own storefronts which were sumptuously decorated in a Chinese-inspired style. In 1870 the company was renamed The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company better known today as A&P in honor of the newly completed transcontinental railroad but retained the Great American Tea Company name on its products thus the appearance of the older name in this 1886 print. The company was a major force in American advertising in the late 19th century using periodicals circulars trade cards and premiums to spread their name. This scarce poster is one of the finest examples of their effective and popular campaigns. Great American Tea Company unknown
1829005638London: Henry Colburn 1829. 478pp/maps. Engraved folding map frontis of Arabia. BM- notes two editions of this work in 1829; single volume quarto and a two volume octavo. This is the rare single volume edition. John Lewis Burckhardt 1784 - 1817 the son of a Swiss Colonel undertook the journey to Mekkah in 1814 disguised as an Arab; he had long since used the name Sheikh Ibrahim in his travels which he began in 1809 under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks and the African Association. Burckhardt's description of the Hedjaz was the first accurate one to reach Europe. Burckhardt transmitted to the Association the most accurate and complete account of the Hedjaz including the cities of Mekka and Medina which has ever been received in Europe." The folding plans include Mekkah Medina Wady Muna and Arafat. Some light foxing to maps. Minimal library markings. Beautiful tight complete scarce book with great maps. First Edition. Library Binding. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Henry Colburn
1586046648Paris: Nicolas Bonfons 1586. Early Edition. Two parts bound as one dated 1586 and 1588 in modern ca. late 19th c. full red morocco gilt rules spine decorated in gilt in compartments gilt turn ins edges gilt; faint dulling to spine bookplate of E. Delicourt - a lovely binding in a matching leather trimmed slipcase. Fifth Bonfons edition first appearance of the second book with the woodcuts by Rabel. 16 212; 4 119 3 leaves. 56 woodcuts of tombs in the second part. Lightly washed faint occasional foxing neatly trimmed when rebound. Adams C 2695 Brunet II 307 Graesse II 276 Mortimer 156 Nicolas Bonfons hardcover
1728BOOKS00671225144 contents and errata2 pages with 2 folding maps lacks frontispiece. Small Quarto 10" x 7 3/4". Rebacked in the 19th century leather retaining the original spine with raised bands and gilt decorative stamping and lettering to spine. Translated from the original Portuguese manuscripts by Jackim le Grande. First edition.<br /><br />Born in Lisbon he entered the Order of Jesus at the age of sixteen. In 1621 he was ordered as a missionary to India and in 1622 he arrived at Goa. With the intention of proceeding to Abyssinia whose Negus emperor Segued had been converted to Roman Catholicism by Pedro Páez he left India in 1624. He disembarked on the coast of Mombasa and attempted to reach his destination through the Galla country but was forced to return. In 1625 he set out again accompanied by Mendez the patriarch of Ethiopia and eight missionaries. The party landed on the coast of the Red Sea and Lobo settled in Abyssinia as superintendent of the missions in Tigre. He remained there until death deprived the Catholics of their protector the emperor Segued. Forced by persecution to leave the kingdom in 1634 Lobo and his companions fell into the hands of the Turks at Massawa who sent him to India to procure a ransom for his imprisoned fellow-missionaries. In this he was successful but could not induce the Portuguese viceroy to send an armament against Abyssinia. Intent upon accomplishing this cherished project he embarked for Portugal and after he had been shipwrecked on the coast of Natal and captured by pirates arrived at Lisbon. Neither at this city however nor at Madrid and Rome was any countenance given to Lobo's plan. He accordingly returned to India in 1640 and was elected rector and afterwards provincial of the Jesuits at Goa. After some years he returned to his native city and died there January 29 1678.<br /><br />Lobo wrote an account of his travels in Portuguese which appears never to have been printed but is deposited in the monastery of St. Roque Lisbon. Balthazar Telles made large use of the information therein in his Historia geral da Ethiopia a Alta Coimbra 1660 often erroneously attributed to Lobo see Machado's Bibliotheca Lusitana. Lobo's own narrative was translated from a manuscript copy into French in 1728 by the Abbe Joachim le Grand under the title of Voyage historique d'Abissinie. In 1669 a translation by Sir Peter Wyche of several passages from a manuscript account of Lobo's travels was published by the Royal Society translated in Melchisédech Thévenot<i>Relation des voyages</i> in 1673. An English abridgment of Le Grand's edition by Dr. Johnson was published in 1735 reprinted 1789. In a <i>Mémoire justificatif en réhabilitation des pères. Pierre Paëz et Jérôme Lobo</i> Dr. C. T. Beke maintains against Bruce the accuracy of Lobo's statements as to the source of the Abai branch of the Nile. See A. de Backer <i>Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus</i> edited by C. Sommervogel iv. 1893.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Old stamp and inscription on title page first folding map conspicuously restored second map tear restored else a very good copy notes to front end paper in period pen else about very good. La Veuve d'Antoine-Urbain Co hardcover
1840007645London: George Virtue. First edition. 2 volumes bound in extra gilt-ornamental red full leather with panels raised bands all edge gilting gilt edge decorations colored endpapers ribbon markers. Bookplate of former U.S. Senator and Congressman William L. Scott Virginia Republican on pastedown in each volume. Published London: George Virtue 1840. Large 4to. 8 3/4" x 11" 140pp.map66 engravingsengraved title; state A of volume 2 with contents page numbered 106pp.53 engravingsengraved title. Magnificent views of the Eastern United States before industrialization altered the landscape. Bartlett was a skilled landscape artist with a keen eye. He traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Internally fine with no toning or foxing plates nearly immaculate under tissue guards. Joints and corners rubbed front joint of one volume starting. Very good near fine internally . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1840. George Virtue unknown
1812006922London: James Carpenter et al. Complete text in 5 volumes. First editions. Published London: James Carpenter et al. 1812 - 1815. 4to's 8 3/4" x 11" xx574; 597; 512; 636; xl4621105pp. illustrated with tables one folding. Bound in embossed glazed half leather over marbled boards with gilt stamped morocco spine labels all edges specked. Armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Radcliffe in each volume. First edition in English. First published in Madrid as "Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América: es á saber: de los reynos del Perú Nueva España Tierra Firme Chile y Nuevo reyno de Granada" in five volumes 1786 - 1789. Sabin 368. Some wear at the tips and along edges rubbing to the leather glazing light occasional foxing else very good plus attractive set pages bright sturdily bound. . Very Good. Half-Leather. 1st. 1812. James Carpenter et al hardcover
1810008080London: Printed for R. Scholey . Vernor Hood and Sharpe . B. Crosby & Co. . London ; and J. Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh 1810. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1810-1811. Printer named in colophon ; v. 1-2 5-6 printed by Ballantyne v. 3-4 by Thomas Davison London. V. 3-4 have different titlepage including the information "from Thurston's designs."Worldcat. Scholey's large-type edition large paper Russia extra with engravings on copper and wood. A RARE edition finely bound in contemporary diced calf the backs with two ornate gilt cross decorations and two polished calf labels gilt the covers with double gilt rules bordering blindtooled arabesques that bordering intricate gilt stamped floral decorations and four blindtooled floral decorations in corners marbled end papers and edges. Overall Near Fine small rubs at corners and spine tips some toning associated mainly with plates and at end pages the interiors lovely and clean. A quite readable set delightfully bound. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. Printed for R. Scholey ... Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ... B. Crosby & Co. ... London ; and J. Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh Hardcover
155470Paris Goupil & Cie Editeurs no date 1868 This course taught Vincent van Gogh how to draw human figures. Loose-leaf plates on grey paper with the original white/grey paper backing. Dimensions: 44 x 59 cm. All plates are numbered. The following plates from the first series Première partie are on offer here: 1 2 5 7 9-12 15-17 19-22 24-26 28-29 32 36 40 42 46 49 52-53 56. Details: All plates have a small printed colophon in a frame with the general title the part number and title the plate number and the publishers name. In fine print at the bottom of the sheets the name of the printer Lemercier in Paris is mentioned on most plates. 27 plates also have a small blind stamp of the firm Goupil in the lower margin. See for this stamp the French database 'marquesdecollections' stamp no. L.1090. Condition: Mosts lithos are in rather good condition. The plates have evidently been used a few have tiny pinholes. Some of them have been folded showing creases. Most of the plates are frayed and worn at the edges with a few small tears and dog-ears. Several plates are foxed or spotted. Four plates are in lesser condition: plate 2 has large folds the lower corners are damaged and there is foxing; plate 26 has two long creases and a large tear; plate 36 has a crease a damaged corner and a tear of six cm.; plate 56 is almost torn through the middle. NOTE: The beautiful plates of the famous Drawing Course Cours de dessin by Bargue and Gérome were made for beginning students of drawing schools and art academies to copy. In this way they could become familiar with the principles of contour light and shade and at the same time develop an appreciation for 'good taste' by looking at examples of great art. The drawings of the first part of the course were made after plaster casts of famous classical and renaissance statues. The series starts with simple forms of isolated body-parts and then offers images of gradually increasing complexity. To help the student to manage the essential forms of a head or torso many plates are divided into two parts. A schematic outline with straight lines and angles stands beside the finished drawing. § The plates of the drawing course are now hard to find. Of the original publication of 197 loose-leaf lithography plates divided into three parts there are only a few complete sets known. Our collection is a part of the first volume: 'Modèles d'après la bosse' Models after casts which consisted of 70 plates. It was published in 1868. The second series completed in 1870 was: 'Modèles d'après les Maîtres de toutes les époques et de toutes les écoles' Models after masters of all periods and all schools. The third series completed in 1873 was: 'Exercices au fusain pour préparer à l'étude de l'académie d'après nature' Charcoal exercises in preparation for drawing the academic nude. The first two sections were meant for schools for design and decorative arts. The third section with live models was used only in art academies. There were no instructions published with the plates that was left to the teachers in the schools. It was common practice in the schools to start with copying prints and drawing from plaster casts of classical statues. As a second stage students copied old masters. In the art academies they then went on to live models. This training was part of the tradition of 19th century neoclassicsm. The imitation of nature was the only goal for artists. Objects and human bodies should be drawn and painted meticulously. Works of art were both realistic and idealistic following the concept of 'good taste'. In France this resulted in smooth and finished works influenced by the standards of the French 'Académie des Beaux-Arts'. This so-called 'Academic Art' came under criticism at the end of the 19th century when the concept of art changed radically. The Drawing Course is the last great document of the 19th century tradition of art education. It was widely used in France and England. § Vincent van Gogh writes about it in his letters he has worked through the whole course at least once. Van Gogh worked very hard on this course because he hoped to gain some income with the sale of his drawings. In a sketchbook owned by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam there are several pencil drawings made after Bargue's plates. Nowadays the didactic and artistic quality of the course is greatly admired by both amateur and professional artists. § The firm Goupil & Cie was an important publisher of original prints and art reproductions in Paris. They hired skilled engravers and lithographers and used the latest techniques. The firm also developed into a renowned art dealer. The 'Cours de dessin' sold very well for Goupil and loose plates were still sold until the firm was dissolved around 1920. Charles Bargue 1826-1883 was a French draughtsman lithographer and painter who has left a small number of paintings. Jean-Léon Gérome 1824-1904 was a French painter and sculptor an esteemed representative of academic art. The main source for information on the course is: G.M. Ackerman. Charles Bargue with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme Drawing Course. Paris ACR 2017 first edition 2003. A copy of this book is added. unknown
1926TS221Edinburgh: John Grant 1926. Original Grant Edition . Hardback. Fine. 4to. Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners Customs and Conditions Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America 1832-1839.Two volume set complete. 298pp; 303pp. 320 illustrations on 180 plates in colour engraved from the original paintings. 3 maps inc. one folding. 26cms. Illustrated covers and spines in matching gilt and black decorations depicting two native Americans on horseback. A superb set in complete and fine condition. No wear fading inscriptions marks or bookplates. A trifle foxing to the front end-paper of volume one. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. <br/> <br/> John Grant hardcover
19271201Paris: Lecram Press 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 6 1/4" high. iv 112 pages. Professionally rebacked with plain cloth spine. Minor extremity wear to boards with a few old scattered stains. Binding sound. Black and white photos cartoons by Wynn. An important and scarce cocktail mixing guide by one of the 20th century's most influential bartenders Harry McElhone. Harry had tended bar at the Plaza in New York and Ciro's in London before opening his own place in Paris. "Harry's New-York Bar" as it was called was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway and other American ex-pats. <br /> <br /> Harry is often credited with inventing several cocktails including the Bloody Mary the sidecar and the boulevardier. Illustrated throughout with delightful drawings by Wynn Holcomb. Great period ads for liquor. There are also two black and white photos of scenes inside Harry's bar.<br /> <br /> There is an inscription dated Paris Dec. 6 1927 on front free endpaper along with two prior owner names. The last is dated Paris July 1928. <br /> <br /> A nice copy of this historic mixing guide from 1920s Paris. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates just 3 copies. Lecram Press hardcover
20022083002115801120Ehime Prefecture Assembly 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 Ehime Prefecture Assembly paperback
19912091502135309589Not Available 1991. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 30 Not Available paperback
1877144575Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. Octavo vi 60 pages plus advertising on the outside rear cover. Original flush-cut yellow cloth with the full title page details repeated on the front cover with the addition of a vignette illustration and ruled border; first and last page tanned; later ownership details on the front pastedown with the name repeated on the dedication page; a near-fine copy. 'First Year of Publication' and rare especially in this condition. A second volume 'The South Australian Cricketers' Guide and Footballers' Companion. Season 1877-78' appeared the following year; a third and final volume 'The South Australian Cricketers' Guide. Season 1884-85' was published in 1885. <p>Padwick 3375. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1849119606London: T. and W. Boone 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. London T. and W. Boone 1849 first edition slightly later issue. Octavo two volumes x iv 5-416 8 publisher's advertisements pages with 12 illustrations plus 8 plates 2 tinted 2 hand-coloured a folding map with rivers and Sturt's tracks in three colours and an advertising slip for Stokes tipped in after page x; and vi 308 92 4 prospectus for Siborne 8 publisher's advertisements pages with 6 illustrations plus 8 plates 2 hand-coloured and an advertising slip for Leichhardt tipped in on page 1. The woodcut illustrations on page 158 in the first volume and on pages 195 and 195 in the second volume are not noted in the plate list; the hand-coloured plates three of birds and one of Mus conditor 'The Building Rat' are from original artwork by John Gould and Henry Richter. Original blind-stamped green ribbed cloth the primary binding rebacked not professionally but more than adequately retaining the original backstrips and endpapers; cloth a little worn at the extremities stained and sunned on the spines with minor loss at the foot of the second one; the first volume has the front inner hinge reinforced the bottom corner of the free endpaper torn away slight loss near the foot of the front hinge the rear free endpaper removed and the rear pastedown stained; the second volume has slight loss to the restored front inner hinge and a few light stains to both endpapers; tidemarks to some plates not the hand-coloured ones and minor in all cases except the first frontispiece; brown stain to the bottom corner tips of some leaves in each volume most of them from pages 71-100 including a plate in the first volume and from pages 141-164 in the second volume but touching the text on one leaf only and rarely larger than a thumbnail elsewhere; short sealed tears to the leading margin of pages 27-52 in the appendix to the second volume; minimal signs of age and use including a partially erased word on one page and some words offset onto the last page of advertising in the first volume; overall a very decent set. Provenance: George Woodroofe Goyder with the pastedown of each volume inscribed in his hand 'Hill Side Cottage Medindie April 1858'. George Woodroofe Goyder 1826-1898 South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty-three years is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's Line 'the line of demarcation between that portion of the country where the rainfall has extended and that where the drought prevails' a line of reliable rainfall that separates agricultural from pastoral lands. 'Goyder joined the Department of Lands as chief clerk in January 1853. In quick stages he rose from second assistant to assistant surveyor-general in January 1857. In April he took charge of an exploration to report on country north of pastoral settlement. He was amazed to find Lake Torrens full of fresh water and its flourishing eastern surroundings very different from the desert described by Edward Eyre in 1839. His exuberant report persuaded the surveyor-general Captain Sir Arthur Freeling to examine the area in September. No more rain had fallen but hot winds had killed the vegetation and turned the lake into a bed of mud. Freeling returned to criticize Goyder for mistaking flood for permanent water being misled by mirage and misconceiving the value of the northern country. Although Goyder had proved that Eyre's horseshoe of salt lakes was penetrable and thereby opened the way to further exploration he was too conscientious to ignore his blunder and in 1859 at his own request led survey parties to triangulate the country between Lakes Torrens and Eyre and to sink wells. When Freeling resigned Goyder was recalled from the north to become surveyor-general on 19 January 1861' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Goyder married in 1851; by 1856 the family with four children moved from rented accommodation in North Adelaide 'a short distance across the parklands to Medindie . into a "neat cottage" with six rooms a garden and a vineyard . Named Hillside the cottage was located on a private road now Hawkers Road close to Robe Terrace overlooking the parklands' Janis Sheldrick: 'Nature's Line. George Goyder - Surveyor Environmentalist Visionary' 2013. It is intriguing to discover that Goyder acquired a set of Sturt's account of his 1844-46 Central Australian expedition in search of an inland sea in April 1858 the year after his own expedition to Lake Torrens. 'The expedition started by following the Murray and Darling both to settle any doubt about the confluence of the two rivers and to avoid the "horseshoe" of Lake Torrens which had halted Eyre's progress a few years before' Wantrup and confounded Goyder himself in 1857. Wantrup 119 noting the point that distinguishes the first issue an inserted advertisement for Melville immediately following the text in the first volume: 'this leaf was suppressed shortly after publication of Sturt's book'. 2 items. T. and W. Boone hardcover
1967138977Melbourne: Newcraft Publicity 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Newcraft Publicity 1967 to 1969. Seventeen portfolios in various formats see below each containing a page or two of text and 5 colour serigraphs printed on card unless otherwise stated and interleaved with tissue-guards. Thick card covers with cloth spines; minor blemishes to some covers; minor damage to a bottom corner of portfolio B Volume 4 see below with loss of the corner-tip to the last three plates; overall the contents are in excellent condition. Two volumes are bound in portrait format; the others are presented in landscape format albeit with the spine along the top edge. The National Library of Australia catalogue states that this material was 'Available only in set of 24 portfolios at $310.00 . "Authentic reproductions ready for framing". Edition limited to 200 numbered copies' we have not traced the original source of this information. However we have incorporated below a number of pertinent details gleaned from Trove; in particular we found the relevant catalogue records provided by the State Library of Victoria to be the most informative. <p>A Magnificent Decorative Designs. Melville Island Abstract - Map Central Aust. - Pintubi Churingas - Victorian Possum Skin Rug - Far N. West Coast Phallocrypt 375 × 505 mm; #13/116. <p>B Australian Aboriginal Art. Primitive Traditional Decorative four volumes each 403 × 550 mm and all numbered #095; together with three larger-format volumes each approximately 550 × 795 mm respectively #1/086 #2/090 and unnumbered. The third volume without the subtitle 'Primitive Traditional Decorative' contains seven plates reproducing ones that appear in the smaller-format volumes; six are printed on paper the seventh is printed on the inside rear card cover. <p>C Cave Paintings of Arnhemland Volumes 1 2 3 and 5; each approximately 385 × 500 mm; all #126. The title of the fifth volume is 'Ceremonial Cave Paintings of Arnhemland "Amazing Anthropomorphic Figures"'. <p>D Central Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Brilliant Abstract Designs of the Pitjantjatjara two volumes bound portrait-format each 750 × 550 mm respectively #66 and #2/100. The first volume has a brown cover decorated in ochre and lettered in black; the second volume has a blue cover decorated in white and lettered in black. Both volumes contain seven plates. <p>E Magnificent Bark Paintings of Arnhemland and the Islands Volumes 1 2 and 4; each approximately 380 × 500 mm; respectively #1/126 #2/116 and #101. The title of the fourth volume is 'Magnificent Bark Paintings of Arnhemland'. <p>Offered together with three plates mounted as issued on thick card; these also appear in the volume of duplicated plates noted in B above. Also included are two copies of another Newcraft Publicity item 'Central Australian Aboriginal Paintings' by Winifred Hilliard wrappers oblong quarto with 7 colour plates; the second copy is numbered 153. Although the lengthy subtitles are different 'The Pitjantjatjara Abstracts. Designs in Vibrant Colours from Ancient Mythological and Totemic Motifs by Aboriginal Artists at Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges' and 'Ancient Mythological and Totemic Motifs in Vibrant Colors by Finke River Aboriginal Artists' the contents are the same albeit in a different order and with minor variation to the introductory text. To complicate matters even more the same contents appear in the first very much larger-format volume in D above. <p>We have identified five portfolios not present in this run cross-referenced with the descriptions above: A Magnificent Decorative Designs. Volume 1 Churinga Patterns Ground and Rock Paintings; <p>C Cave Paintings of Arnhemland. Volume 4; E Magnificent Bark Paintings of Arnhemland. Volume 3: Oenpelli Portfolio; Australian Aboriginal Art: Bark Paintings - Angurugu Groote Eylandt Gulf of Carpentaria; and Australian Aboriginal Art: Decorated Shields of North Queensland. The SLV also identifies one related item we do not have: 'Australian Aboriginal Art' Melbourne Newcraft Publicity 1969. It is described as being a single volume 750 mm tall containing 'Colour prints on paper of items of aboriginal art miniaturised from the series of authentic reproductions of bark and cave paintings in the Newcraft collection of 23 portfolios'. 22 items. Newcraft Publicity paperback
17344They are drawn mainly on Adelaide banks and business houses in the 1860s and 1870s with payees generally in the Clare region including Clare Mintaro Spalding Yatina Watervale Auburn Rhynie Broughton and Bungaree. All are bank-stamped. Recognisable payees' signatures written on both sides of the notes include Benno Seppelt Albion Tolley George Wood and Philip Santo. Local well-known businesses represented include Simpson James Martin Faulding Wills William Morgan Fowler Harris Scarfe and Duncan Fraser. Offered together with 50 or more similar but lesser items from mainly the 1910s. Over 200 items. unknown
1862140416Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1862 first edition. Foolscap folio drop-title 56 pages plus 4 large folding maps respective maximum sheet sizes and printed surface areas are 754 × 545 mm and 739 × 521 mm; 757 × 545 mm and 724 × 520 mm; 756 × 542 mm and 730 × 517 mm; and 758 × 556 mm and 724 × 525 mm. Recent cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; maps lightly foxed in a few spots with a few tiny tears expertly sealed and a few tiny chips to some top and leading edges; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 12 of 1862. The earliest printing of McKinlay's journal of his Burke and Wills Relief Expedition and a rarity. 'The South Australian House of Assembly chose John McKinlay to lead the South Australian relief expedition in August 1861. Setting out from Kapunda with a well-equipped party he reached Cooper's Creek in October. From his depot at Lake Buchanan he made numerous excursions into the surrounding country and found what he believed to be the grave of one of the Burke party. Coming to the conclusion that all of Burke's men had died he sent back for instructions. When his instructions arrived he learned that Howitt had already discovered King and that Burke Wills and Gray were indeed dead. <p>McKinlay proceeded to examine the land to the north of Lake Eyre discovering much useful pastoral and grazing land. In December he set out for the Gulf of Carpentaria to rendezvous with the Northern Relief Expedition under Commander Norman. His crossing was made difficult by diminished stores and his position was critical in May 1862 when he arrived with his men at the Albert River where he expected to find relief only to discover that the "Victoria" had already sailed. Sensibly he decided to make for the Queensland coastal settlement at Port Denison 500 miles to the east. After a difficult trip of over three months McKinlay brought all his men into Port Denison by the end of August. <p>When he reached Adelaide in October 1862 McKinlay handed his journal to the South Australian Government. It was printed soon afterwards in the South Australian parliamentary papers. The text of his journal was later published for general distribution in the colonies by two Melbourne publishers' Wantrup. <p>Only the first public account published by Baillière in 1863 contained maps 'three large folding maps loose in a back endpocket' but it is 'virtually unprocurable in fine clean condition owing to the poor quality of the paper used' Wantrup. This first edition large-format parliamentary paper is far superior in every respect. McLaren 12963; Wantrup 2023 pages 317-18. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover
1942140203Adelaide: The Author 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide The Author 1942. Quarto 63 pages. Saddle-stapled grey card covers lettered in black very slightly creased and marked with one trifling snag at the foot of the spine; edges slightly thumbed; a near-fine copy. Two typographical errors have been corrected in pencil by the author: on the dedication page it is now 'juvenilia' not 'juvenalia' at the end of the first line; and on page 55 'spoilation' is now 'spoliation'. However we note in passing that 'daguerrotype' in the line above got through unnoticed. Number 138 of an undated limited edition with the upper limit not stated numbered and signed by Hal Porter. This is a presentation copy of his first stand-alone work additionally inscribed and signed in ink at the head of the title page 'To dear Lucy Lockett with love and gratitude from Hal. 14 xii 1944'. The recipient Lucy Lockett Ayers 1886-1971 was a granddaughter of Sir Henry Ayers. <p>The revised edition of Porter's biography by Mary Lord 'Hal Porter - Man of Many Parts' 1993 states '"Short Stories" came out late in 1942 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Most if not all were numbered and signed then distributed randomly and recklessly by the author. The volume contained fourteen stories none of which had been published and one of which was the prize-winning "And from Madame's sic"' page 28. The precise details of the publication remain unclear. Lord's checklist indicates that the book was printed by the Adelaide 'Advertiser' and gives a date of '1942' but the very few perfunctory press notices relating to the book appear in April and May 1943 perhaps suggesting a later date of publication. Although copies are undoubtedly now extremely scarce whatever the truth of the matter this presentation inscription demonstrates that Porter still had copies to hand in December 1944. <p>The stories contained in this collection are 'The Room' 'And from Madame's .' 'The Two Bachelors' 'At Aunt Sophia's' 'No-one Knows!' 'Miss Rodda' 'Carnival Piece' 'Cafe Samovar' 'Scene: The Bend of a River' 'Otto Ruff' 'Gone Away' 'The White Rabbit' 'Miss Brockel' and '- And Nothing More'. <p>Loosely inserted is a typescript of a contemporary review of the book 1 page quarto with two of the six paragraphs struck out with pencil. We have been unable to determine whether or not it was published or if Lucy Lockett Ayers is the reviewer. 2 items. The Author paperback
1908217946London Durban Perth Colombo Singapore Hongkong Shanghai Bangkok Batavia and Cairo.: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd. 1908. Maps numerous black and white photographic illustrations 848pp; full pebble-grained morocco gilt decorated spine gilt-lettered and ruled between raised compartments edges fully gilt 31 x 24cms modern marbled endpapers and hinges neatly strengthened worming to the boards and mainly affecting the preliminary leaves and the final fifty leaves the boards with a little edgewear a few gatherings a little proud but otherwise a good sound clean and complete copy of a work uncommon on the market. A good copy of a now remarkably scarce work profusely illustrated with remarkable black and white photographic portraits and panoramas and detailed chapters on everything from history geography culture and specific industries like shipping manufacturing agriculture and trade. Whilst earlier works in the series focussed exclusively on British colonial interests Western Australia Natal Ceylon and British Malaya the editor notes that: <br>"More than one half the imports and exports of China passes through the various Treaty Ports and it would have been a negation of one of the avowed objects of these publications if no attempt had been to show the present-day tendency of this trade and how the proportion borne by the British Empire compares with that of its competitors". The series served as a handsome soft power testament to British colonial might and aspiration. . Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd. hardcover
1921063039<p>Unpublished 1921. Book. Illus. by Weissenborn Helmuth. Very Good. Hardcover. Manuscript. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This comprises four manuscript sketchbooks in a slipcase containing several hundred sketches and designsmost in pencil some in water colour. The sketchbooks are in contemporary cloth backed marble boards. Includes architectural and engineering studies as well as a number of ironwork and domestic and agricultural implements. These date from the earlier part of Weissenborn's life in Germany. He spent the first half of his life in Leipzig the second half in London. Later in life he had published a fine range of wood-engravings by the Whittington Press as well as undertaking painting and other art works. He had a notable career as artist printmaker teacher and publisher. A superb archive of sketches. All contained with a stout cloth covered slipcase.</p> Unpublished hardcover
19902110502151001369Toyo Keizai Shimposha 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 20 Toyo Keizai Shimposha paperback
1893542535London: Edward Stanford 1893. A first edition very scarce hard cover in very good condition. The original publisher's cloth binding is in fine condition with gilt title and author detail to front board and title author map details and publisher to spine. Light shelf and handling wear including minor scores bump creasing to spine head and foot and light wear and bumping to corners. Pageblock is tanned leading into page edges. Foxing is present to endpapers map and page edges. Worshipful Company of Clothworkers' bookplate to front paste down. All four folding maps are present in the rear pocket. Occasional small closed tears noted to map edges colours true. All folding maps and plates are present throughout and in very good order. Gutter break noted at pages 32-33 however pages are securely bound and content is clear and bright. More photographs are available upon request. CN. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Cawston Arthur. Used. Edward Stanford Hardcover
1748GT719London: M. Coooper 1748. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 12mo. 316pp pp 253-316 contains The Journal of George Jams i His Pilgrimage amongst the Inland Natives of the Countires Adjoyning to South Carolina Field No 1618 Indian Bibliography. Original full calf with the original red morocco label. Original owners name George Basson to the inside front endpapercrossed out. Title-page dated MDCCXLVII .The spine calf has a lengthways crack affecting the original label. All original state. A RARE ITEM. No copy appears to have been at auction since 1955. Sabin 100991 27x10cms <br/> <br/> M. Coooper hardcover
