Queensland Poets
London, George Harrap, 1930. With the amorial bookplate and signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
Bookplates
Ten Decades. The Australian Centenary Story of the London Missionary Society
London, London Missionary Society, [circa 1895]. Warmly inscribed to fellow missionary Walter Hutley, and dated (19 March 1898) and signed by the author on page 5 (the Preface). With the later Rose Lowcay-designed bookplate of her husband, collector Harold Sheard mounted on the front pastedown. More
British Birds
London, Nelson, 1953 [eighth impression]/ 1938 [revised edition]/ 1930. With the bookplate of [Dr] J. Mark Bonnin. '200 plates in full colours from drawings by leading bird artists. Concise descriptions of appearance, range, habitats, nests, eggs, food, song, etc.'. More
Reader, Lover of Books, Lover of Heaven. A catalogue based on an exhibition of the book arts in Ontario... Two Volumes
Willowdale, North York Public Library, 1978 [and] 1981. With the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer. Canadiana Collection Publication Numbers 1 and 2. More
A Discourse delivered in the Scots Church, in the Evening of Sabbath, the 3rd of April, 1859, on the Occasion of the Death of the Honourable Robert Campbell, Esq., MP, Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales
Sydney, Mason, 1859. With the Bounty bookplate of Dr George Mackaness on the pastedown. 'In 1931 he published The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, for which he was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Melbourne in 1932' (ADB). More
The Hypothalamus. Morphological, Functional, Clinical and Surgical Aspects
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd for the William Ramsay Henderson Trust, 1938. With the ink gift inscription to, and with the bookplates (one pictorial, one armorial) of, Walter Russell Brain, First Baron Brain of Eynsham (1895-1966); physician, medical statesman, essayist, public servant, medical scientist, neurologist and poet (who wrote one of..... More
Australian Parrots in Field and Aviary
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1983/ 1979 (revised edition)/ 1973. 'The comprehensive revised edition of Cayley's standard work'. One of the Australian Natural Science Library series; with the bookplate of ornithologist J. Mark Bonnin. More
Exiles and Migrants in Oceania
Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1977. With the tropical bookplate of British anthropologist Dr Henry Evans Maude (1906 - 2006), who specialised in Pacific studies. ASAO Monograph Number 5. More
The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1944. Number 107 of only 375 copies of the fourth publication of the Harry Muir's original Wakefield Press - oversubscribed at the time and scarce to this day. More
The Romance of a Favourite
London, Constable, 1915/ 1912. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker. More
Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales. Journals of his Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1810-1822
Sydney, Public Library of New South Wales, 1956 [first edition]. From the notable Australiana library of F.G. Coles, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. The first edition, from the original manuscripts in the Mitchell Library. More
A Princess of Strategy. The Life of Anne Louise Benedicte de Bourbon-Conde, Duchesse du Maine. Translated from the French of General de Piepape
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker (1841-1911), barrister, pastoralist and politician. Baker was 'the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature, being elected at the head of the poll for Barossa in the House of Assembly ... [and] became..... More
Landscape in Watercolour
Sydney, The Legend Press, [1950, first edition]. With the F. Millward Gray-designed bookplate of Douglas Avon Dunstan (book designer and sometime manager of the Advertiser Printing Office and The Griffin Press) on the pastedown. Australian Artist Editions series. More
De Nederlandsche Vlag op de Wereldzeeen. Ontdekkingsreizen Onzer Voorouders. [And] De Vlag in Sjouw. Schipbreuk, Muiterij en Zeeroof
Amsterdam, Schelterns and Giltay, (n.d.). Dutch text. More
The Letters of Thomas Moore. Volume II: 1818-1847
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. More
Brown Men and Red Sand. Wanderings through Wild Australia
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1952 ('School Edition, Adapted')/ 1950. This school edition is adapted from the original 'Brown Men and Red Sand. Journeys in Wild Australia'. The title page is signed and dated (1956) by the author. The pictorial bookplate of Cec Holloway (of the Bread and Cheese Club) is..... More
A Checklist of Ex Libris Literature published in Australia
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1942. Number 170 of 250 copies signed by the author (and the first publication of his Wakefield Press). With the ownership signature of Edward Edgar Pescott. More
The Collected Poems ...
London, Heinemann, 1926/ 1923. With the bookplate and ownership signature of Harry Muir. More
The Story of San Michele
London, John Murray, 1930 (thirteenth impression)/ 1929. With the Helen Bakewell-designed bookplate of George Fowler. More
Colonization, particularly in Southern Australia. With Some Remarks on Small Farms and Over-population
London, T. & W. Boone, 1835. The front flyleaf is inscribed in ink 'To The Honble Mrs Byng from her old and very sincere friend The Author. Portsmouth 19 June 1835'. A Byng family armorial bookplate ('Tuebor', I Will Defend) is mounted on the pastedown (offsetting a little onto the..... More
Poles in Australia and Oceania, 1790-1940
Sydney, Australian National University Press, 1987. Provenance: Pat Cmielewski, with her colour bookplate (her own design). More
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An Imaginary Portrait [The Child in the House]
Oxford, H. Daniel, 1894 [first thus]. The first separate edition; the story was first published in 1878 in Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 38. Number 174 of only 250 copies, hand-set and hand-printed on laid paper at the Daniel Press. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with..... More
Chambers's Biographical Dictionary. The Great of all Times and Nations
London, W & R Chambers, 1897. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling. More
The Western Invasions of the Pacific and its Continents. A Study of Moving Frontiers and Changing Landscapes, 1513-1958
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963. Signed by the author on the title page. Also with the armorial bookplate and ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed ('Thomas Adelaide'), sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
The Life and Work of Friedrich and Johannes Britze
Frederikshavn, Exlibristen, 1980. Number 165 of only 190 copies. Loosely inserted is the bookplate of the author, designed by Friedrich Britze; laid down on the verso of the front cover is the bookplate of Ann and Geoffrey Long (designed by Pixie O'Harris). More