Library Antiquarian

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Beebe, William.

Folio, four volumes, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a very good set with a few light blemishes and a small worm hole to the first few leaves of volume one, the bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne.


Stock ID: 33245 Add to Cart
Brenchley, Julius L.

Octavo, 487 pp. 50 lithographed plates, folding coloured map. Publisher's green gilt pictorial cloth, some slight wear, a few spots otherwsie a very good copy.


Stock ID: 12566 Add to Cart
Broinowski, Gracius J.

Folio, six volumes [bound in three] 303 chromolithographs. Contemporary full calf with elaborate gilt design, some wear and one volume with spine crudely rebound. All volumes with substantial wear, however internally a clean and a sound set.


Stock ID: 15565 Add to Cart
Ching, Raymond.

Small folio, 260 pp. colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, some marks to box otherwise a fine copy.


Stock ID: 8962 Add to Cart
Elliot, Daniel Giraud.

Folio, 31 hand-colored lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot and P.L. Oudart. Six parts in the original printed tan card covers and half red roan, some light wear; a fine well coloured set.


Stock ID: 32964 Add to Cart
$1,500.00 AU

Australian parrots.

Forshaw, Joseph M. and William T. Cooper.

Folio, two volumes colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist. Fine set in solander box.


Stock ID: 1794 Add to Cart
Forshaw, Joseph M. and William T. Cooper.

Folio, 26 colour plates. This edition limited to 1000 copies signed by the author and artist.


Stock ID: 1804 Add to Cart
Godman, F. du Cane.

Quarto, 106 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary full morocco (five parts in a single volume), upper cover with gilt albatross, spine in five compartments with raised bands, original publisher's printed wrappers retained. Limited to 225 numbered copies of which this is a copy number 96, a few very minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy free of foxing.


Stock ID: 23869 Add to Cart
Lear, Edward.

Folio, 42 coloured plates and accompanying text. Publisher's red half morocco, "An essay ..." by Brian Reade tipped in, a very good copy.


Stock ID: 12934 Add to Cart
Low, Rosemary.

Folio, 180 pp. 25 tipped-in plates by Elizabeth Butterworth. Full red silk, all contained in a handsome black Solander box, limited to 515 numbered copies and signed by author and artist, with an additional handcoloured lithograph in a mount signed by the artist and limited to 70 copies; a fine copy.


Stock ID: 7110 Add to Cart
Meinertzhagen, R.

Quarto, 624 pp. tipped in plates, folding map. Full green morocco with inlaid leather falcon design on upper board, silk endpapers, all edges gilt. The special issue of ten copies lettered A-K, this copy is "I".


Stock ID: 7337 Add to Cart
National Library of Australia.

Quarto, dustwrapper, 128 pp. colour photographs, illustrations.


Stock ID: 32742 Add to Cart
Spencer, Baldwin, editor.

Octavo, four volumes, 1055 pp. text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a very good copy.


Stock ID: 16794 Add to Cart
[Lankester, E. Ray, editor].

Octavo, 344 pp. 33 lithographed plates, including nine coloured by H. Gronvold. Publisher's cloth, rear hinge split, the library stamp of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, a bright crisp copy.


Stock ID: 18648 Add to Cart
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