Leipzig, Gedrukt durch Nickel Wolrab, 1543 (new edition). A scarce early edition of Luther's translation of the Bible (the first complete edition of which appeared in 1534), with over 100 woodcut illustrations, many after Lucas Cranach the Younger. Nicolaus Wolrab, a printer of Catholic materials before the conversion of Saxony... More
A menu card for dinner for dinner on Friday, 9 June 1916 (115 × 137 mm, printed recto only); a little marked, with two horizontal creases, possibly lacking a portion across the top, but nonetheless in good condition. On this day, HMT 'Ivernia', formerly SS 'Ivernia' (a British ocean liner... More
'In the Savoy' [London], printed for D. Browne, J. Walthoe (and numerous others), 1717 (third edition, first issue)/ 1670. Blount's Law Dictionary was first published in 1670 under the title 'Nomo-Lexicon'. '[This] work quickly superseded its predecessors. In addition to providing the explanation of common law terms, Blount was the... More
London, Society of Antiquaries, 1980. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London Number XXXIX. More
Berkeley, Judah L. Magnes Museum/ Gefen Publishing, 1994. More
[Yokohama, Yokohama Nursery Company, 1892]. An attractive and rare Japanese nursery catalogue produced for the export market. The plates comprise 37 of lilies and 100 of irises (each numbered in pencil and illustrating a single flower), and 6 leaves containing 38 illustrations of different varieties of maple leaves. The outlines... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]. More
Oxford, Phaidon, 1976. The Wrightsman Lectures delivered under the auspices of the New York University Insitute of Fine Arts. More
Secaucus, Wellfleet Press, 1983. 52 illustrations in colour. More
Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1981. The catalogue comprises 132 prints, all of which (and more) are illustrated. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1979. The first book on the Papunya painting movement, by the man responsible for its development. It presents 'twenty-four of the best paintings by twenty artists who are recognised leaders'. More
Launceston, Foot & Playsted, 1984. Number 569 of 1000 numbered copies. An essential companion volume to 'The Engravers of Van Dieman's Land' and 'Old Tasmanian Prints': it contains 36 pages of corrections and additions to them. More
Sydney, Hordern House, 1987. With an extensive bibliographical checklist detailing the 260 major printed sources discussed in the text; a mine of information and an essential reference book for any serious collector. More
[Warsaw], Interpress, [1989]. More
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum/ Craig Potton, 2003/ 2002. Exhibition catalogue. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1972. More
North Blackburn, Collins Dove, 1991. Essentially the catalogue to an exhibition curated by Rosemary Crumlin and Anthony Knight. More
Sydney, Australian National University Press/ Pergamon Press, 1987. With the hand-made colour bookplate of artist Pat Cmielewski. More
London, Collins, 1951. The author's first book. Geraldine Halls (1919-1996) won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1954 for 'Beat not the Bones'. More
South Yarra, Gryphon Books, 1983. The foreword is by Germaine Greer. More
Roseville East, Craftsman House, 1995 (first edition). More
London, Allen and Unwin, 1925. Purchased new from the Adelaide booksellers Preece & Sons, with their small paper label at the foot of the front pastedown. More
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and solicitor. "He was a friend of Ivor Gurney and the composer Herbert Howells. In the 5th battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; after being commissioned as an officer he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2007 [first thus]. Number 49 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of only 400 copies). The 30-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition, a most interesting compilation which has as its linchpin... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2007 [first thus]. Number 49 of 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of only 400 copies). The 30-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition, a most interesting compilation which has as its linchpin 'Howitt's... More
