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1 AFANADOR, Ruven. Torero. with an Introduction by Hector Abad Faciolince 1 AFANADOR, Ruven. Torero. With an introduction by Hector Abad Faciolince. Poems by Gloria Maria Pardo Vargas. (Thalwil/Zurich and New York): Edition Stemmle, (2001). Large 4to. Orig. boards. Dustjacket. Unpaginated. Copiously illustrated with full-page b/w photographic images, and text-illusts. Title-page printed in orange and black ink. Fine. $150 2 AMIS, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. London: Cape, (1965). 8vo. Orig. black cloth with blind-stamped stylised “007” on front cover. Spine gilt. Dustjacket designed by Jan Pienkowski, based on Richard Chopping’s famous trompe l’oeil Bond dustjackets. (160pp.). 1st ed. Tabular reference guide to the Bond novels at end. Some light foxing to endpapers, otherwise fine. $125 3 ANDERSON, D.G. Australia’s Contribution to the Development of International Civil Aviation. (Being) the Second Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Memorial Lecture delivered to the Adelaide Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society - Australian Division. (Adelaide April 1960). 4to. Orig. printed wrapper. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Text printed in double-column. Ex-library copy. $50 4 ANGAS, George French. Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand: Being an Artist’s impressions of Countries and People at the Antipodes. 2 vols. London 1847. (Facs. Adelaide 1969). 8vo. Orig.cloth. With col. frontispiece, title-vignettes, 12 full-page plates, and text-illusts. (Aust. Facsimile Editions, No. 184). Fine. The original prospectus loosely inserted. $100 5 ARNOLD, Matthew. The Scholar Gipsy & Thyrsis. London: Phillip Lee Warner, 1910. Large 4to. Orig. full gilt-illust. vellum with bevelled boards. Spine gilt titled. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (x, 68pp.). Illustrated by W. Russell Flint with 10 tipped-in coloured plates each with its protective tissue-guard. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies on Japanese Vellum, fully signed by the artist. Fine crisp copy. Title-page printed in blue/black ink. $400 6 ASHTON, J. and H. James and Helen 1864-1939. By Chris Ashton for their Descendants. Sydney: John Dixon and Co, 1985. 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt title to front cover. (ii, 174pp.). With 16 full-page illusts. NOTE: James Ashton (1864-1939) was a newspaperman, businessman, and a politician in the New South Wales Parliament. In 1899 he married Helen Willis (1869-1939). $45 7 ASHTON, J. The Julian Ashton Book. Sydney: Art in Australia, 1920. Sm. 4to. Orig. boards. In slightly rubbed dustjacket. (30pp.text). With a title-vign., portrait of the artist, and 28 full-page plates of which 12 are tipped-in and col. Lim. ed. of 600 copies. Rare. $40 8 ASHWIN, A.C. From South Australia to Port Darwin with sheep and horses in 1870-71. By Arthur C. Ashwin, Yelma Station, Darlot, W.A. ... (pp.47-93). TOGETHER WITH: Explorations in Central Australia. By H.V. Barclay. (pp. 94-108). (Adelaide 1932). 8vo. Wrappers. (From Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. of A/asia,. Sth. Aust. Branch, Vol. 32). $65 9 ASSOCIATED PULP AND PAPER MILLS LTD: Australian Printmaking. A limited edition folio of reproductions from major original Australian Prints. Each of the six selected represents a significant period in the development of Australian printmaking, from the early 1 nineteenth century to the present. ... (Melbourne n.d. circa 1975). 45 x 36 cm. Orig. portfolio with the 6 prints loosely inserted. Issued from the Collection of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. The titles are: Throwing the Spear (J. H. Clark), Castle Rock, Cape Schank (Eugene von Guerard), Siesta (Norman Lindsay), The Black Cloak (Napier Waller), The Rose (Thea Proctor), A Vision For Builders (Jan Sandbergs). Fine complete set preserved in its orig. captioned envelope. $115 10 AUSTRAL AMATEUR, THE. Official Journal of the Golden Hours’ Correspondence Club. A collection of 10 issues from March 1896 to April 1899. (From July 1898 the journal became the Official Organ of the Australian Amateur Press Association, edited by Herberd Round). Melbourne: March 1896 - April 1899. 8vo. In the orig. wrappers as isued. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. $55 11 AUSTRAL GEMS Views of Queensland. Published by Edwards Dunlop & Co. in Brisbane (circa 1903). Printed in sepia by Osboldstone & Atkins in Melbourne. Oblong 12mo. In folding orig. wrapper, sewn as issued. Comprising 22 captioned photographic views. $40 12 AUSTRALIAN BLUE BOOK, THE. A National Reference book containing information on matters Australian from authoritative sources for all members of the community. The Second (1946-48) Edition. Ed. by W. J. Beckett. (Sydney 1946). 4to. Orig. cloth (slightly worn). (xxxii, 808pp.). With num. portraits, and illusts. $50 13 AUSTRALIAN OUTLINE, THE: Books, Authors, Music, Art, Stories & The Theatre. Nos. 1 & 2 (complete and all published). (Sydney): Dec. 1933 & February - Early March 1934. 4to. Stapled as issued. Illustrated. Printed in triple-column. NOTE: Intended as a monthly, but not sustained, presumably edited by Frank C. Johnson but not so stated. It was to carry on where “Vision” left off. Norman Lindsay contributed an article entitled “Boswell’s Fools”, and also illustrated in characteristic fashion a poem by R.D. FitzGerald (“At Africa”). $100 14 AVEDON, Richard. Performance. Words by John Lahr, Mike Nichols, Andre Gregory, Mitsuko Uchida and Twyla Tharp. New York: Abrams, (2008). 4to. Orig. cloth with illusts. mounted on front and rear covers. (304pp.). With copious colour and b/w photographic portraits. Fine. $100 15 BAEDEKER, K. Paris et ses Environs. Manuel du Voyageur. ... Leipzig 1894. Small 8vo. Orig. limp red cloth binding. Gilt. Marbled edges. (xxxii, 362pp.). With 12 maps and 27 plans, many in col. and some of which are fold. $70 16 BANKES, Thomas. The Christian’s New and Compleat Family Bible: or, Universal Library of Divine Knowledge, containing the Whole of the Sacred Text of the Holy Bible, as contained in the Old and New Testaments, ... London: Printed for J. Cooke, n.d. (circa 1750). Thick folio (40 x 26 cm.). Full mottled calf with blind-stamped panels on both covers. Spine with raised bands and morocco titling-label. Printed in double-column, and embellished with num. full-page copper-engraved plates. Some paper restoration at beginning of text mostly confined to the edges of the text. Otherwise an impressive handsomely bound early edition. $1,500 2 17 BANKS, J. The Florilegium of Captain Cook’s First Voyage to Australia 1768-1771. Compl. by H. Ebes. (Melbourne 1988). 4to. Orig. illust. limp boards. (200pp.). With num. illusts. most of which are col. depictions of botanical specimens, and maps. 1st ed. $65 18 BARNARD, M. Macquarie’s World. Sydney: The Australian Limited Editions Society, 1941. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. morocco over beige cloth boards (slightly rubbed). Gilt. (viii, 218pp.). With col. frontisp., 11 full-page col. plates, and illust. endpapers by F. Medworth. Title-page printed in pink/black ink. Edition lim. to 350 numbered copies, fully signed “Marjorie Barnard” the author, and “Frank Medworth” the artist. A lovely and lengthy contemp. inscription on verso of frontispiece. $90 19 BARRETT, C. Parrots of Australasia. With an introduction by C.E. Bryant. Melbourne: N. H. Seward, (1949). Sm. 4to. Later half calf with gilt title along spine. (10, vi, 112pp.). With col. frontisp., 11 full- page col. plates, and 47 b/w illusts. of which some full-page. Fine. $75 20 BARRINGTON, George. A Voyage to Botany Bay. ... Together with his life and trial and the sequel to his voyage. A facsimile edition. London: The Brummell Press, 1969. 8vo. Orig. full morocco. Gilt. Spine gilt with raised bands. With plates, and folding map. Ed. lim. to 350 numbered copies. Fine in slipcase. $150 21 BARTON, G.B. Literature in New South Wales. Sydney 1866. 8vo. Cloth with gilt title on spine. (iv, 198pp.). Fine uncut copy. $350 22 BAUDIN, Nicholas. The Journal of Post Captain Nicholas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste ... Transl. from the French by C. Cornell. With a foreword by J.-P. Faivre. Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. 4to. Orig. cloth. (xx, 610pp.). With frontispiece, and 2 maps. Fine copy. $100 23 BEAN, C.E.W. et al. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918. 12 vols. (complete and all published). Sydney 1921-1942. Thick 8vo. Uniformly bound in full presentation calf. Spines gilt-panelled and with raised bands. With numerous full-page plates, maps many double- or full-page, text-illusts., and diagrams. A particularly handsome set with all volumes being 1st Editions. As such, extremely rare. NOTE: The complete official history of Australia’s role in W.W.I, including The Story of Anzac, The A.I.F. in France, The Photographic Record of the War with magnificent pictures taken by the official photographers (Frank Hurley, a.o.), etc. etc. It was Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968), Australia’s official war historian, who more than any other was responsible for shaping the Anzac Legend. $6,000 24 BECKER, L. Ludwig Becker: Artist and Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition. Edited and with an introduction by M. Tipping. (Melbourne U.P., 1979). 4to. Original cloth. Dustjacket. In original glassine slipcase. (xiv, 224pp.). With 71 full-page plates most of which are col. 1st edition. Fine. The original illustrated prospectus and newspaper clippings loosely inserted. NOTE: Ludwig Phillipp Heinrich Becker (1808-1861) was a German painter who came to Australia in 1851 and perished with the Burke and Wills expedition. $150 3 25 BECKETT, Edmund (Sir). A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, and Watches, and Bells. ... London: Crosby Lockwood, 1883. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (rebacked). (xiv, 400, 16, 16 pp.). With fold. frontisp. (repaired), and numerous. text-illusts. $250 26 BEETON, Mrs Isabella. The Book of Household Management, comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Parlour-Maid, Housemaid, ... With a History of the Origin, Properties and Uses of all Things connected with Home Life and Comfort.
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