English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants .. Volume IV
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More
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Vues de Versailles. Le Chateau le Parc, Le Petit and le Grand, Trianon
[No Place, No Publisher, late 1800s]. Contemporary ownership inscription; 'Versailles, 28/29 October '73'. More
Die Kunste und Gewerbe des Menschen. Zum Behuf nutzlicher Kenntnisse in 104 Abbildungen [The Arts and Crafts of Man .. in 104 Illustrations]
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
Sicilian Scenery from Drawings by P. De Wint. The Original Sketches of Major Light
London, Rodwell & Martin, 1823. William Light (1786-1839), soldier and surveyor, was born in Malaya and spent his childhood in Penang. He served with distinction (and was unharmed) in the Peninsular war. He missed Waterloo, but was severely wounded in a minor Spanish revolution in 1823. In the years before..... More
The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations designed and engraved by John Martin
London, Septimus Prowett, 1827. 'Martin's illustrations to John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" represent a turning point in his career. The vast majority of Martin's most famous works were based upon either Miltonic or Biblical subject matter. The "Paradise Lost" series are of particular importance both as one of his..... More
Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France, with beautifully finished Engravings, from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. [Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1834 (spine title)]
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
The Artist and Amateur's Magazine. A Work devoted to the Interests of the Arts of Design and the Cultivation of Taste
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
A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses with a Descriptive Catalogue of 450 'rubbings' in the possession of the Oxford Architectural Society .
Oxford, The Oxford Architectural Society, 1848. With the binder's ticket of H. Patterson & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne. More
Meteorological Observations at Bendigo. [Contained in] Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria .. 1855. Volume 1. [The society was renamed the Royal Society of Victoria from Volume 5, 1860]
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
Expositions of Raphael's Bible
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
William Blake. A Critical Essay
London, John Camden Hotten, 1868 (second issue, with the title leaf, a cancel, bearing the legend 'Going to and fro in the Earth' beneath the vignette). The plates are hand-coloured facsimiles reproducing pages from Blake's 'Jerusalem', 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell', and 'The Book of Thel'. With the small name-plate..... More
Tin-Bearing Country, New England. (Report of Mr Licensed Surveyor Wilkinson on)
Sydney, Government Printer, 1873. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper Number 181 of 1873. The attractive plates (two full-page and four half-page) are well-executed views of operational mining scenes or interesting landscape features ('granite outcrops and alluvial workings', as Trove succinctly puts it); artists identified are Wilkinson himself and R.L. Murray..... More
Waihoura, or the New Zealand Girl
London, Gall and Inglis, [c.1873]. More
A History of the Birds of Ceylon
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
The Forest Flora of South Australia
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1882 to 1890. The following information from the entry on the South Australian botanical artist Rosa Catherine Fiveash (1854-1938) in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' is a potted history of the project: 'In 1882 Rosa was invited to illustrate "The Forest Flora of South Australia" by John..... More
Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career
London, Sampson Low ... 1886. More
Welsh Pictures drawn with Pen and Pencil
London, Religious Tract Society, (circa 1890). More
Birds of Australia. Comprising Three Hundred Full-Page Illustrations, with a Descriptive Account of the Life and Characteristic Habits of over Seven Hundred Species
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
Early Victorian Life
[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
14 Views of Old Adelaide from Sketches in 1840-1849 by S.T. Gill, F.R. Nixon, S. Calvert and O. Korn
[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
Sir Joshua Reynolds
London, Seeley, 1894. With the ownership signature of Nora Kyffin Thomas. More
The Straight and Devious Paths of Studentship. A Lecture delivered at the School of Design, Adelaide, on Friday, 9th February, 1894
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
Evolution in Art as illustrated by the Life-Histories of Designs
London, Walter Scott Limited, 1895. One of the Contemporary Science Series. Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940) first went to the Torres Strait in 1888, where he performed the pioneering anthropological work which informs this book. The first portion is 'The Decorative Art of British New Guinea, as an Example of the..... More
The Australian Art Union .. Collection of Oil & Water Color Paintings (Valued at £409 10s), By the well-known Artist, Mr J. Swinton Diston. List of Prizes .. To be drawn publicly in Brisbane, September 30, 1897 .
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
English History Stories for Fourth Class. Brooks's New Australian School Series. The New Standard Histories, No. 3
Sydney, Wm Brooks, Circa 1898. More
Peg Woffington
London, George Allen, 1899. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. More
Atlas of the External Diseases of the Eye, including a Brief Treatise on the Pathology and Treatment. Edited by G.E. de Schweinitz
Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1899. 'With 76 Coloured Plates and 6 Engravings'. More
Poems by Matthew Arnold
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More
Egyptian Ceramic Art. Typical Examples of the Art of the Egyptian Potter portrayed in Colour Plates with Text Illustrations drawn and described by Henry Wallis
[London, The Author], 1900. The edition was limited to 200 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and presumably out of series. More
The Paris Exhibition 1900. An Illustrated Record of its Art, Architecture and Industries. Section 1
London, The Art Journal Office, 1900. More
The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. Volume Eighteen [18]
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
The Camp at Wandinong
London, Ward, Lock and Co, [c.1900]. 20 plates by Frances Swan and others. More
The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages
London, W. and R. Chambers, 1902 (first edition). With numerous illustrations plus 20 colour plates by Gordon Browne. More
Anthropological Notes made on the South Australian Government North-West Prospecting Expedition, 1903. [Contained in] Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 28, 1904
Adelaide, RSSA, 1904. This issue also contains numerous articles by Bragg, Howchin, Tepper, Verco, Woolnough, and others. More
Répertoire de Couleurs pour aider à la Détermination des Couleurs des Fleurs, des Feuillages et des Fruits
Médaille, Société Nationale d'Horticulture de France, 1905. More
Lysistrata. Ein Lustspiel in Fünf Akten. Mit neun Zeichnungen von Aubrey Beardsley
[Germany, privately printed, circa 1905]. Number 26 from a privately-printed edition of only 200 copies on Zanders laid paper; the translation is by Johannes Minckwitz. More
Romantic Cities of Provence
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
Penrose's Pictorial Annual. The Process Year Book for 1906-7 [Volume 12]
London, Penrose, 1906. More
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Anthropological Notes on the Western Coastal Tribes of the Northern Territory. [Contained in] Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 31, 1907
Adelaide, RSSA, 1907. This issue also contains numerous other articles, including four by Professor W.H. Bragg (totalling 28 pages), four by Douglas Mawson (totalling 20 pages) and three by Dr J.C. Verco (totalling 41 pages). More
George Morland. His Life and Works
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. George Morland (1763-1804) 'stood alone as a painter of (English) peasant and humble life'. More
Velazquez. An Account of his Life and Works
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
The Franco-British Exhibition Illustrated Review, 1908. Edited by F.G. Dumas
London, Chatto and Windus, 1908. More
A Summer Tour in Finland
London, Methuen, 1908. With the ownership signature of local businessman Arnold Edwin Davey (dated 7 May 1913) and a few characteristic pencilled emphases. Laid down to the rear blanks are a three-page contemporary article on Finland ('Where Women have the Vote') and the August 1913 'Bulletin International des Douanes... Number..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 (fifth edition). More
From Sketch-Book and Diary
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
The original preliminary artwork for a lavish promotional publication for the Parisian fashion boutique High-Life Tailor
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