Antiquarian And Rare Books from Gotcha By The Books

London: The De Walden Library, 1904. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in fair boards/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Two Tudor Books of Arms: A Tudor Book of Arms tricked by Robert Cooke being Harleian Manuscript No. 2169 blasoned by Joseph Foster, and A Tudor Book of Arms being Harleian Manuscript No. 6163 blasoned by Joseph Foster; copiously illustrated with nine hundred… Read more about this item

London, 1803. leather. Fair-Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. Volume I (Quadrupeds) of Rev Bingley's three volume Animal Biography, with chapters on Primates, Bats, Cats, Weesels (Weasels), Beavers, and including an account of The Duck-Billed Platypus ""not long ago discovered in New Holland""; bound in full calf, spine professionally restored and with new hinges; significant dampstain to first 20 odd pages, occasional lighter… Read more about this item

London, 1783. leather. Good (rebacked)/no dustwrapper. 12mo. Volume I of two volumes of the letters of Junius, published in 1783; no publisher mentioned, nor translator - the 'Advertisement' showing the printed intiails 'M. de' - 50 letters in all; full calf with original boards, spine re-backed in new leather with gilt titling; 2 x former owner's inscriptions to front pastedown,… Read more about this item

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1880. hardbound. Good in fair boards/no dustwrapper. 12mo . Early (or first?) edition 1880 of this guide for pupil teachers and for students in training colleges, covering elementary instruction for teaching the basic subjects (history, geography, arithmetic, reading/writing etc), the lessons being formatted in systemic arrangement (tabular form) to provide a plan or outline of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute and Wilkie and Robinson, 1810. 3rd Edition Enlarged. leather. Good (pages heavily foxed and tanned); spine restored/no dustwrapper. 8vo. geometric examples 3rd Edition, enlarged, of Playfair's Euclid; contains the Six Books of Euclid, with a supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids; to which are added Elements of Plane and Spherical… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations H Halliday Sparling's history of the Kelmscott Press, and tribute to his mentor William Morris; Sparling was a long-time associate of Morris, and worked with him at The Kelmscott; details Morris' printing apprenticeship, preparation, his work as a master-printer, and also includes a chapter on books… Read more about this item

Melbourne: The Author, 1962. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. colour graphs Analysis of the relative economic value of printing machines, based on data obtained from graphs, designed to assist the Estimator to decide the best (and cheapest) way of producing work; includes 129 graphs, with explanatory index etc; Signed by the author; includes a note by the… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1944. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Good in rubbed/stained boards/no dustwrapper. 4to. Berenice C. Eklund Scarce Signed 1st Edition of this classic Australian children's book, being a collection of poems by Maureen Meadows, with the drawings of Berenice Eklund; Muir 4915; flat-signed by Meadows to title page; this copy has some light foxing and fingermarks through… Read more about this item

London: Virtue Brothers, 1864. 7th Edition. leather. Good/no dustwrapper. 16mo. b&w illustrations 7th Edition (1864) of Heather's Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, including chapters on Drawing Instruments, Optical, Surveying, Astronomical, and with a section on Goniometers; b&w text engravings and illustrations; this copy bound in three-quarter leather with cloth sides, the pages being rather crudely cut along the top edges of… Read more about this item

London: W. Barnes, no date (1900?). paperback. Good. landscape 16mo. sepia photo illustrations Souvenir post card book containing 12 post cards each with a different view of The Houses of Parliament in printed wraps; post cards perforated at edges; 3 cards detached (but present), two cards with worn patches, o.w. Good.

London: Macmillan, 1897. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in lightly rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Illustrated edition of de la Motte Fouque's Undine, telling the tale of a water sprite who marries a knight in order to gain a soul; illustrations by Rosie MM Pitman, including full-page b&w frontispiece plate with tissue-guard; full-page b&w illustrations throughout and… Read more about this item

London: Elliot Stock, 1910. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w illustrations Concise history of The Comacines, chapters include 'The Origins of Freemasonry and the Temple Builders', 'The Roman College and the Quatuor Coronati', Isola Comacini', 'The Comacine Lodges'; includes b&w photo illustrations; 2 x former owner's names to prelims, heavy foxing/toning to endpapers, prelims and text block,… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Very Good in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 12mo. Collection of eighteen sermons on Jewish life, thought, and theology by Abrahams and Montefiore; Friendship, Angels, The Love of God, Religious Liberty, Religion and Morality, and more; medium foxing to endpapers, lighter to prelims, mild toning to edges of pages, o.w. Very Good… Read more about this item

no date (1880's?). hardbound. Fair/no dustwrapper. 8vo. colour illustrations Delamotte's Primer of Illumination, with text and colour plate illustrations; text references history and characteristics of illumination, reference to specimens at the British Museum, practical directions, colours; 20 full-page colour plates; this copy re-bound in blue buckram with section of original gilt design and titling to front, new endpapers;… Read more about this item

Murdoch: Murdoch University Library, 1976. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good. 8vo. Bibliography of John Boyle O'Reilly, referencing books and other printed material both by and about O'Reilly, and including entries relating to The Catalpa Incident (the rescue of 6 Fenian prisoners from a British penal colony in W.A.); No. 2 in The Murdoch Bibliographies from Murdoch University Library;… Read more about this item

Sydney: Oz Publications , 1965. 1st Edition. paperback. Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Issue No. 16 January 1965 of Oz Magazine (Sydney), edited by Richard Neville and Richard Walsh, with art (and art direction) by Martin Sharp, and with other artists listed in editorial section including Garry Shead, Peter Kingston and Mike Glasheen; reverse side of rear cover features… Read more about this item

London: Cradock and Co., 1847. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good - rebacked and with new endpapers/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w engravings The scarce 1st Edition (later published in the US as ""The Hog?."" 1850's) of Youatt's treatise on the pig, referencing zoological definitions, early history, wild boar, swine in America, Scotland etc, anatomy, diseases, feeding, piggeries, and including notes on… Read more about this item

Quebec: Baribeau & Fils, no date (c1930). hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. tall 8vo. Scarce sampler of Ampollina dyes for artificial silk (rayon), being a cloth-bound triptych, each panel showing numerous small segments of rayon, dyed in a variety of colours (bleu, tabac, tangerine, chartreuse, graphite, etc), behind clear plastic sheets held in stitched blue cloth borders; the reverse side… Read more about this item

Brisbane: David Hinchliffe, 1975. 1st Edition. paperback. Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations Very Scarce piece of 'Dismissal' memorabilia, being an illustrated satire of the lead-up to the December 13 1975 Australian federal election, significant as following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor Government, after which Malcolm Fraser was installed as caretaker PM; Fraser would eventually win the biggest… Read more about this item

London: Kosmos Press Bureau etc, 1938/1952. Good. b&w photos 11 original official press photos of the historic visit to Paris of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in July 1938; all photos eventive; all with descriptive text typewritten on butter-paper (3 on thin brown paper) tags adhered to rear, stamps of relevant press bureau (Kosmos Press, Sport… Read more about this item