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Click here to subscribeAustralia. The Australian Handbook (Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) Shippers and Importers' Directory & Business Guide for 1886, pub. Gordon & Gotch, 1886, folding litho maps, numerous trade ads. with b & w illusts., first & last lleaves detached, orig. printed wrappers, detached and spine very worn, thick 8vo, contained in modern book box with gilt dec. leather spine (1)
Douglass (Frederick). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by himself, Dublin, Webb and Chapman, 1845, front endpaper excised, xvi + 125 pp., plus single leaf of Critical Notices at end, some foxing, and occn. marks, orig. blindstamped cloth, rubbed and soiled and faded to spine and edges, small 8vo First published in Boston in the Summer of 1845, this Dublin edition was published to coincide with the anti-slavery tour of Great Britain and Ireland by Frederick Douglass. A note by the Committee of the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society is printed to title verso. See Sabin 20711 for the first edition. (1)
Ellis (William). Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands, 4 vols., 2nd ed., enlarged and improved, Select Library, 1831, addn. eng. vign. title to each, folding map, five eng. plts. and one folding chart, one gathering loose in first volume, orig. cloth with labels to spine, sl. rubbed, small 8vo (4)
A mixed lot of three Wrist Watches, the first a silver cased Wrist Watch, the Swiss gilt movement (A/F), to a white enamel Arabic dial with blued steel hands, in a circular hinged case with applied wire lugs; Together with a 9ct gold Ladies Dress Watch, with brick link bracelet and folding clasp and a Smith's Nurses Watch, (3)
Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, introduction by Herbert Read, first edition 1944, London L.. Humphries & Company Limited, Will Grohmann The Art of Henry Moore, first edition, 1960, signed by Henry Moore, signature for Newman with affection from Henry Moore, May 1963, also three books on sculpture (5)
Kelly, Sophia. The Anchoret of Montserrat, 3 volumes, first edition, original blue cloth, slightly soiled, 8vo, 1861; The Life of Mrs Sherwood, title loose, green morocco, upper hinge broken, 1857; Ainsworth, W.H. Jack Sheppard. A Romance, 3 volumes, etched plates by George Cruikshank, slight spotting, contemporary half calf, 8vo, R. Bentley, 1839 (7)
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of the Crusaders, 4 vol., 1825; Quentin Durward, 3 vol., 1823; St. Ronan's Well, 3 vol., 1824, contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt, slightly rubbed; Redgauntlet, 3 vol., original boards, uncut, rebacked with cloth, rubbed, 1824, first editions, 8vo, Edinburgh (13)
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim, 1901; Stalky and Co., 1899; Traffics and Discoveries, 1904; A Fleet in Being, cloth soiled, 1898; From Sea to Sea, 2 volumes, 1900; The Five Nations, 1903, original cloth; and France at War, 1915; The Fringes of the Fleet, 1915, both original wrappers, slightly soiled; first editions; and seven others by Kipling (16)
Scott, Sir Walter. Peveril of the Peak, 4 vol., half-titles, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, spines slightly soiled, 1822; Woodstock, 3 vol., half-titles, some spotting, nineteenth-century cloth, uncut, rubbed, 1826; The Fortunes of Nigel, 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, 1822, first editions, 8vo, Edinburgh, A. Constable (10)
Thackeray, W.M. The Virginians, 2 vol., etched titles and plates, spotted, half calf, 1858; The Newcomes, 2 vol., etched titles and plates, damp-stained, original cloth, hinges weak, 1855; The History of Pendinnis, 2 vol., etched titles and plates, some spotting and offsetting, half morocco, slightly rubbed, 1849-50, first editions in book form; Ainsworth, W.H. Ovingdean Grange, first edition, plates, slight spotting, half morocco, corners rubbed, 1860; Warren, S. Passages from the Diary of a late Physician, 2 vol., half morocco, rubbed, Paris, Baudry, 1838, 8vo (8)
Yeats, W.B. Poems, original cloth, London, 1899; The Celtic Twilight, first edition, original cloth, London, 1893; Samhain, spotted and slightly creased, original wrappers, frayed, 1901; Hyde, D. Beside the Fire, original cloth, 1890; Farmer, J.S. Musa Pedestris, original boards, soiled, Privately Printed, 1896; The Shadowy Waters, second edition, original cloth, London, 1901; and 1 other (7)
Morris, William. A Dream of John Ball, first edition, etching by Edward Burne-Jones, original cloth, 1888; The Sundering Flood, first edition, original cloth, 1898; Poems by the Way, first edition, original cloth, 1891; The Wood beyond the World, first edition, original cloth, 1895; A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, first edition, original cloth, 1889; and 8 others by Morris, 14 by George Meredith and 5 by Walter Pater, 8vo (32)
Hazlitt, W. Lectures on the English Comic Writers, first edition, original boards, worn, 8vo, 1819; Hunt, L. Wit and Humour, second edition, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, 1848; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, original vellum, slightly soiled, 1897; Walton, I. The Complete Angler, original cloth-backed boards, 1876, 8vo (4)
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 39 colour plates and some black and white illustration within text, spine binding loose; and T W Rolleston, The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the drama of Richard Wagner, presented by Willy Pogany, monochrome and colour illustration, good edition, both first editions (2)
Dresseri (Matthaei), Isagoges historicae complectens acta praecipuas maximeque memorabilia in Ecclesia and Politijs, per millenarios mundi quartuor, part one, second corrected edition, with additional appendices, Leipzig 1598, engraved woodcut on title page, bound in vellum This is an introductory history of the Church and State for the first four millennia of the world.
A First World War Pair, comprising War and Victory Medal, awarded to Sapper 186563 Unit Palestine (L of C), with three cap badges and with thank you certificate on him leaving the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (Australian?), all contained in a glazed frame; a Memorial Plaque to Robert Sabourn Pearson (2)
A First World War Trio, awarded to 1559 Pte C Ambler Yorkshire R, comprising British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914/15 Star; two First World War medals awarded to TS69938 A.CPL.G Brown ASC, comprising 1914/15 Star and Victory Medal; a Victory Medal awarded to 45221 Pte H Brown Yorkshire R; a Queen Mary Brass Christmas tin with card and photograph; a Second World War spoon initialed DR
A First World War Gallantry Group, awarded to 39373 Pte.J M McInnes RAMC, comprising Military Medal, 1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, with miniatures and a framed General Citation listing Military Medal recipients and certificate signed by General Rawlinson commander of the Fourth Army; two Royal Northumberland Fusilier cap badges; two small cotton Union Jacks and a Booklet on the Battle of Britain
A First World War Mercantile Marine Medal, awarded to William Waddle, Master of SS Westmoor; together with a collection of letters sent by the above from SS Westmoor to the owners from various ports circa 1908-1912, contained in a black japanned metal letter press; a volume of War Instructions for British Merchant Ships,1917; a small collection of postcards, cigarette cards, silk embroidered Malta panel.
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