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188120285Paris: Marpon & Flammarion 1881. Fine. Marpon & Flammarion Paris 1881 11 x 17 cm broché First edition published anonymously and printed on laid paper. Work illustrated with a frontispiece drawing by the author. Some minor marginal worming without gravity. Marpon & Flammarion unknown
1894POLYNESI008491The Religious Tract Society London. 1894. First edition. Octavo. 383 pages. Frontispiece. Publishers' adverts on rear endpapers.Endpapers a bit spotted. Very good. The Religious Tract Society, London. unknown
1884040176London: The Religious Tract Society 1884. 288pp publishers catalogue at rear; bw engravings. Or pictorial brown cloth. Presentation space filled in. States Special Presentation Volume on title page and London Missionary Society Presentation Copy at top of front cover. An excellent copy. Special Presentation Volume. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Religious Tract Society Hardcover
18901806250002J.T. Gill 1890-01-01. 5th ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good cover. Gutters slightly weakened. Clean unmarked pages. 5th ed. Contents:pt. I. Iced confections. --pt. II. Compotes jellies and preserves including glacé and caramelled fruits. --pt. III. Canning and bottling of fruits etc. --pt. IV. Syrups aerated and other beverages. --pt. V. Machinery and materials used in the manufacture of candy. --pt. VI. Sugar boiling and the manufacture of candy. --pt. VII. Sugar spinning and fancy confectionery. --pt. VIII. Fruits and nuts. --Appendix. J.T. Gill hardcover
18192402010039Printed by William W. Woodward south-west corner of Chesnut and Second streets. Philadelphia: 1819. Hardcover. Acceptable. v. 6. Quarto. Spine detached. Contemporary leather binding. Binding poor. 830 p. Sold with all faults. Printed by William W. Woodward, south-west corner of Chesnut and Second streets., Philadelphia: hardcover
19005481Edinburgh: HMSO 1900. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii 576 pages. Gilt stamps of the General Assembly Library New Zealand on front cover and spine a few institutional stamps inside. HMSO Hardcover
18948601London: The Religious Tract Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Plastic protective jacket attached with adhesive tape to endpapers and margins of boards. ; 383 pages advertisements on rear endpapers. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 182mm x 120mm. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper "To Brydon Speedy with the warm regards of C R H Taylor 17/7/56." Selected contents: Summary Revenge; With Song; A Dress Of Feathers; The Giant Moke; The Twin Kites 'Song Of The Kites'; Two Memorable Ovens; With Fragment Of Song; Adventure Of The Survivor Of The Aitu Tribe; A Boy's Vengeance. War-Dirge Continued. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . The Religious Tract Society hardcover
1880011566London: Yates and Alexander 1880. 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG- for age. 15 Cm x 17.5 Cm. 'Printed for Private Circulation' on t.p. f/piece portrait with tissue-guard316 plate with tissue-guardof his memorial in Rectory Place Chapel Woolwich facing p.314; major fault is excision of nearly all front endpaper leaving 2 cm. strip along gutter otherwise clean aside from occ. small faint tanning spots to t.p. and last leaf quite unmarked and tight with good end-gutters top edge has some ingrained dustiness; bevelled edge covers excellent being bright and clean with no significant wear blind-stamped top and bottom edge borders. Islands visited included Raratonga Samoa Eromanga New Hebrides and Maniiki. Loss of front endpaper regrettable but remains VG- in my view due to age and general condition otherwise. <br/> <br/> Yates and Alexander hardcover
184513211845. Steel-engraving. 95mm by 165mm image only. Steel-engraving from John Edward Eyre's 'Journals of. Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the years 1840-1.'. unknown
187072197Longman's Green Reader and Dyer 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket if issued. A scarce title. Octavo 8 3/4" tall 120 pages blind-stamped maroon cloth. A good copy overall internally clean sturdy original hard cover with minor shelf wear BUT color fading to the cloth caused by exterior foxing with light foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers binding solid text paper clean lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket. Longman's Green, Reader and Dyer hardcover
189797426London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1897. Hardcover. 199p. frontis-portrait with tissue guard rubricated title page preface address on "Class Making" essay by J. A. Symonds very light foxing to endpaper edges otherwise a very good first edition in bright blue cloth boards gilt titles and top edge untrimmed fore edge and bottom edge. Uranian poet see d'Arch Smith "Love in Earnest". John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover
187820942London: John Murray 1878. Hardcover. Very good condition. Additional articles include: Features of the Transvaal; Journeys in Gaza; Interior of South Africa between Barkly and Gubuluwayo. Fold out maps of Western China and Eastern Tibet Central Asia Route from Barkly to Gubuluwayo South Africa Tenimber Islands. 8vo original blue boards. Slt dusty spine slt ruffle at head and foot o/w vgc. John Murray hardcover
18814140892The Royal Astronomical Society 1881. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large 8vo with blue cloth. Gilt lettering on backstrip. General wearing on exterior. Tape in the creases between end papers. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN: The Royal Astronomical Society hardcover
18995072Genéve: S.A.D.A.G. 1899. A lovely French advertising programme for plays showing in February 1899. Probably for a Paris theatre. The sheet intended to be folded in half has on the one side a full page advert for "Un chapeau de Paille d'Italie" a comedie by Labiche. This is illustrated by Edmond Filliard. Black and white. To the other side of the sheet are two pieces. One is an advert for "Le Beau Léandre" by Banville illustrated by Gill. The other is a poem showing a poster man putting up an advert to a wall. This is also by Filliard and has the only flash of colour to the sheet. A small text in red to the presumably rear panel shows that the phototype was produced by S.A.D.A.G. of Geneva. Société Anonyme des Arts Graphiques Genève. 41.5cm x 25.5cm. Single sheet. We cannot find copies of this ephemeral object. . Joli programme publicitaire français pour des pièces de théâtre jouées en février 1899. La feuille destinée à être pliée en deux comporte au recto une pleine page de publicité pour "Un chapeau de Paille d'Italie" une comédie de Labiche. Celle-ci est illustrée par Edmond Filliard. Noir et blanc. De l'autre côté de la feuille se trouvent deux pièces. L'une est une publicité pour "Le Beau Léandre" de Banville illustré par Gill. L'autre est un poème montrant un colleur d'affiches en train de coller une publicité sur un mur. Il s'agit également d'un poème de Filliard qui présente le seul éclat de couleur de la feuille. Un petit texte en rouge sur le panneau arrière probablement indique que le phototype a été produit par la S.A.D.A.G. de Genève. Société Anonyme des Arts Graphiques Genève. 415cm x 255cm. Une seule feuille. Nous n'avons pas trouvé de copies de cet objet éphémère. S.A.D.A.G. unknown
1878B0032CZNJ6John Murray Publishers. Used; Good. John Murray 1878 reprint edition. This book has a library binding from Stepney Public Library of London. It has library markings but text is clean and unmarked. Spine is starting to separate between pages 144 and 145. Book Condition; Good . 1878. HARDCOVER. John Murray Publishers hardcover
1887119417Wentworth Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1887. Hardcover. ; pages . Wentworth Press hardcover
1880143838Wellington: George Didsbury: Government Printer 1880. Hardcover. Near fine. First Edition. viii 232 pp. Octavo. Original green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine and cover. Orange endpapers. Text block in good condition. Light foxing to the extremities. Former owner's signature on the title page. Reverend William Wyatt Gill 1828 – 1896 was an English missionary who worked in Australia and the South Pacific region. In this volume Gill recorded indigenous myths and songs. He noted that while myth and history must be carefully distinguished when hostile groups agreed on a specific narrative he believed that it had significance. There are also chapters exploring "female treachery" sin and punishment. 1880 George Didsbury: Government Printer hardcover
1894109597Adelaide: School of Design Art Club 1894. Very Good. Adelaide School of Design Art Club 1894. Octavo 43 pages with a full-page illustration the author's monogram. Flush-cut card lettered in gilt on the front cover a little foxed and nicked with a chip to the foot of the spine; a very good copy. Harry Pelling Gill 1855-1916 art curator and teacher at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting Gill assumed control of all the board's art teaching activities. His growing authority in art matters his self-confidence and abrasive manner and his attitude toward other art schools led to criticism. Critics found Gill a vain man who controlled lucrative and influential art offices and who disdained the democratic brotherhood of art. His supporters admitted that he could be uncompliant and disagreeable but said that he had worked hard was a good judge of the monetary value of pictures saved the board expense and was a courageous and incorruptible curator. He supported and reorganized the South Australian Society of Arts and was its first president elected from the fellows 1909-11' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; this entry contains one of the few errors we have noted in the ADB - the title of this book is given as 'The Straight and Crooked Paths of Studentship'. School of Design Art Club unknown
188664090Adelaide: Government Printer 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1886. Octavo ii pictorial lithographic title page signed 'Leo' 118 pages. Original orange cloth with black lettering and a decorative border; flyleaves offset; a fine copy. Prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886; with a presentation inscription from the author to J.G.O. Tepper. 'It is to be regretted that some legislation was not passed in the early days of the colony enforcing the lodgment in the South Australian Institute of a copy of every colonial publication' from the author's preface. An eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory plus extra material in the appendix is included. With the later pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. J.G.O. Tepper 1841-1923 born in Prussia arrived in South Australia in 1847: school teacher natural history collector and entomologist. Government Printer hardcover
185237101852. Lithograph with later hand-colouring. 205mm by 160mm sheet. From 'Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are'. Melbourne: Macartney & Galbraith 1852. ST Gill 1818-1880 was one of the most important colonial painters and chroniclers of life during the gold rush. Represented in all major art gallery collections. CONDITION : Very faint crease top left corner of sheet. unknown
186419508Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson 1864. Very good overall. A wonderful large size Gill lilthograph. Printed on thick wove paper and depicting a moonlit scene with the bier of an Aborigine supported on rough cut poles as dingoes in the grass below stare up at it. From Gill's scarce work "The Australian Sketchbook". Ferguson 9924f; Wantrup 251. Light foxing mostly at margins. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4" Hamel & Ferguson unknown
1885318318London: The Religous Tract Society 1885. First edition. With 16 illus. 248pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled modern caklaf and marbled boards leather label. Fine. First edition. With 16 illus. 248pp. 8vo. The Religous Tract Society unknown
1888616137Chicago and New York: Belford Clarke & Co 1888. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint possible gift edition. Small quarto. 446pp. Illustrated. All edges gilt. Decorative brown cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black. Anthology off American literature including work from Amos Bronson Alcott; Louisa May Alcott; William Cullen Bryant; William Ellery Channing; Edward Eggleston; George Cary Eggleston; John William De Forest; William Fearing Gill; Gail Hamilton; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Helen Hunt Jackson; Charles Kingsley; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; William Mathews; Louise Chandler Moulton; John Boyle O'Reilly; John Paul; Nora Perry; Margaret Junkin Preston; Edward Sprague Rand; Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford; Richard Henry Stoddard; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Bayard Taylor; Tom Taylor; Alfred Tennyson Tennyson Baron; J T Trowbridge; Frederic H Viaux; Charles Dudley Warner; Edwin Percy Whipple; Sarah Helen Whitman; John Greenleaf Whittier; William Winter. A beautiful bright example of this nice American decorated cloth binding. Belford, Clarke & Co hardcover
1879021532New York: R. Worthington. Red cloth cover with gilt and black title and decoration. Chipping to the board corners top third of the spine cloth is missing. Hinges are weakened. Gift inscription on the fly leaf. Pages are clean. F . Fair. Cloth. 1879. R. Worthington hardcover
184674662London & Carlisle: Longman & Co. James Steel 1846. Brown blind stamped decorated boards with gilt lettering to front and spine with small gilt illustration of the Citadel and English Gate to front board corners and spine ends lightly bumped spine edges worn uncut closed edges yellow endpapers stained and dimpled closed tear to head of fep light spotting and water stain to head of title page internal hinge cracked black/white photograph of Prince Charles Edward Stuart enclosed to front of book map to front of book with two closed tears 8.5 cms and 9.5 cms lightly spotted 270pp clean text clear to read chip to reading edge of page 91/92 with some loss two letters enclosed to rear of book binding sound. Hard. Good. 8vo. Longman & Co. James Steel Hardcover