English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants ... Volume IV
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More
[No Place, No Publisher, late 1800s]. Contemporary ownership inscription; 'Versailles, 28/29 October '73'. More
Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, [1819]. Attractive woodcut illustrations of 104 trades and professions of the day, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text: pharmacist, cooper, pastry-cook, turner, carpenter, organ-builder, vinegar-maker, butcher, glazier, hatmaker, huntsman, tinsmith ... and that's just the first dozen. Johannes Andreas Christian Lohr (1764-1823) was a German..... More
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in..... More
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. This would appear to be all twelve unnumbered and undated issues of the cumulative edition of Volume 1 of the magazine. The editor's 'Farewell Address' (see pages 359-363) indicates there will be no more: 'as regards the success of my project, it is..... More
London, George Baxter, 1844. 'A scene connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society and the Maories [sic]. Mr Waterhouse, general superintendent of that Society's Missions in Australia and Polynesia, is seen introducing to the natives Mr Creed (their new missionary) and his wife. The detail is wonderful and the colouring beautiful..... More
Melbourne, James J. Blundell & Co., 1855. The front flyleaf is signed in pencil 'R. Campbell / Septer 15th 1855'; Robert Campbell is one of the 132 subscribers whose names and addresses are printed in the volume. Becker's article, although short and prosaically titled, is most entertaining because of his..... More
London, Virtue & Co., City Road and Ivy Lane, [circa 1855]/ 1840. More
Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1859 (fourth edition, corrected and enlarged)/ 1855. Glaucus is a genus of small brightly coloured sea slugs; if nothing else, they make for attractive chromolithographs. Provenance: 'Francis Hayter, HMS "Liffey" Nov 1867' is written on an early binder's blank. Francis Hayter (1843-1891) was a Commander in..... More
London, Arthur Miall, 1868. 'The characteristic excellencies of Raphael's Bible, being those of composition and expression, can be conveyed through the medium of engraving. Early impressions of plates, printed at Rome in 1674, have therefore been secured.... The Photographs may be fairly left to speak for themselves'. The publisher's advertisements..... More
London, Gall and Inglis, [c.1873]. More
Salem, Sebastian C. Clark (lithographed by Strobridge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio), 1876 ('Second Edition and seventh thousand carefully, and critically revised and brought down to 1876'; also described as the 'Centinnial [sic] Edition')/ 1871. 'The author is fully aware of the difficulties and uncertainties of any system of Chronology extant..... More
London, The Author, 1880. Tasmanian-born William Vincent Legge (1841-1918), soldier and scientist, was stationed in Ceylon from 1868 to 1877, when the material for this important work was gathered. After his return to Tasmania in 1883, he retained a strong interest in natural history, being a founder and president of..... More
London, Sampson Low ... 1886. More
London, Religious Tract Society, (circa 1890). More
Melbourne, Charles Stuart and Co., 1890 and 1891. The plate count per volume is, respectively, 52, 58, 48, 48, 50 and 47. Although it is complete, this set is sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. More
[Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., circa 1890s]. A scarce souvenir of rural Victoria at the end of the nineteenth century. The chromolithographs include 'Natives spearing Kangaroo', 'Alluvial Diggers', 'A Stampede', 'Yarding Cattle', 'Old Man Kangaroo at Bay', and 'A Buck Jumper'. The last one is curious - and inaccurate -..... More
[Adelaide], E.S. Wigg, [1890]. Ferguson 9924e (but we have seen any number of bindings identical to ours, and none as described by Ferguson). He also states that 'The Mitchell Library copy has a pencil note: 200 printed, in George Robertson's hand-writing'. In spite of this comment, and the 181 subscribers'..... More
London, Seeley, 1894. With the ownership signature of Nora Kyffin Thomas. More
Adelaide, School of Design Art Club, 1894. 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..... More
London, Methuen & Co., 1895. With illustrations (many full-page) by Tristram Ellis. More
Brisbane, Queensland Printing and Publishing Co. (Hodgson and Paton), 1897. The artist James Swinton Diston (1857-1940) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia in 1886. 'Mr Diston is an artist of long-established reputation, a Member of the Council of the Art Society of New South Wales, his pictures having..... More
Sydney, Wm Brooks, Circa 1898. More
Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1899. 'With 76 Coloured Plates and 6 Engravings'. More
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More
London, The Art Journal Office, 1900. More
London, The Studio, 1900. Not least, 'The Work of Pietro Fraciacomo' (with 9 illustrations, 2 coloured; Fraciacomo 'drew mainly seascapes and cityscapes of Venice, often at night, a thematic also pursued by Mario de Maria. By the turn of the century, his style had acquired Symbolist overtones devoid of a...... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1904. This issue also contains numerous articles by Bragg, Howchin, Tepper, Verco, Woolnough, and others. More
London, Fisher Unwin, 1906. With the bookplate of Sir Richard Baker (1841-1911). 'Barrister, pastoralist and politician ... [Baker was] the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature ... [and] one of the founding fathers of Federation' (ADBonline). More
London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906. Volume 12 in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. More
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. George Morland (1763-1804) 'stood alone as a painter of (English) peasant and humble life'. More
London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907. Volume 13 in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. More
Melbourne, Thomas C. Lothian, 1907 and 1908. A rare Australian poetry magazine, with each number limited to 500 numbered copies. The first one is out of series; the other three, with individual titles ('The Book of the Opal'; 'The Shadow on the Hill'; and 'Fire o' the Flame') are numbers..... More
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, 1841-1911; barrister, pastoralist and influential South Australian politician. Baker was one of the founding fathers of Federation and the first President of the Senate in the first Commonwealth Parliament. One of the Spanish Series..... More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1908. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 (fifth edition)/ 1906. More
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1909. Loosely inserted is this handwritten, charming gift inscription; 'With every good wish for Xmas and A very Happy New Year from a grateful patient'. More
Paris, printed by Draeger for High-Life Tailor, [1909]. The story is a tale purportedly from the 'Thousand and One Nights' entitled 'Histoire du Tailleur de Bagdad et du Secret Merveilleux'. The preliminary drawings prefigure the published version, but vary in many ways from the final product. A copy of the..... More
Adelaide, George Robertson, 1910. Literary contributors include Mary Gilmore, Hugh McCrae, E.J. Brady and Bernard O'Dowd; artists include D.H. Souter, John Shirlow and Oswald Pryor. The editor states that the Club "was formed by a number of students who had studied in the Life Class at the School of Design..... More
Melbourne, George Robertson and Company (Printed in Scotland), [1910]. The cover title is 'Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop. Words by Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop'. Dorothy Frances McCrae (1879-1937) was a daughter of George Gordon McCrae, 'poet and man of letters', and sister of the poet Hugh..... More
London, The Studio, 1911. More
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911. Both volumes bear the ownership signature of James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty. More
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. The front cover plate is not repeated in the book. More
London, The Studio, 1912. Not least, J.M.W. 'Turner at Farnley Hall' by Alexander J. Finberg, and 'Eugene Boudin: A Painter of the Sea' by Henri Frantz. Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors; 'expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and..... More
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. The plate on the front cover is not reproduced in the book. More
Dusseldorf, Ernst Ohle, 1913. Coloured illustrations by Von Wilhelm Heinse. Text in German. More
London, The Studio, 1913. Not least, 'Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture' (with 26 illustrations, including a colour plate); 'Public Art Galleries of Australia' by William Moore; and 'Chinese Hard Carving', by L.W.C. Lorden. More