Autographs and documents illustrative chiefly of English history and literature. Exhibited in the Manuscript Saloon. Pp. 100(last colophon, blank), 20 plates; printed papered boards, edges and spine browned, the spine slightly chipped, and split vertically at a couple of points; a little light foxing; The Trustees, London, 1928. *From the..... More

Illustrating the history of printing, music-printing and bookbinding. Pp. viii+164(last blank), frontispiece plus 15 plates, text illustrations (some full page); printed papered boards, corners slightly rubbed; a little light foxing and pencilling; The Trustees, British Museum, 1939. *From the library of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label..... More

A loan exhibition, 23 September-31 October 1965. Pp. xx+78, coloured frontispiece plus 139 black & white plates at end, index; light brown art. leather, lettered and decorated in gilt; hinge tender at a couple of points, outer leaves and edges a trifle foxed; The Trustees, London, 1965. *From the library..... More

Seven miniature broadsides printed in red & black or blue & black; each 7 x 5 cm.; loosely contained in a pocket on the lower pastedown of a marbled papered portfolio with ribbon tie to fore-edge and full size horizontal title label on verso of upper board; Tabula Rasa Press..... More

[Facsimile edition]. Pp. xiv+940, appendix; Maurizio Martino Publisher, Staten Island,New York, n.d.[1997]. Edition limited to 150 copies. *Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910, as Volume 55 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections series. 'The interest of the Smithsonian Institution in aeronautics dates almost from the beginning of its work..... More

Pp. 108, appendices; brown cloth, upper board lettered and decorated in black, edges slightly rubbed, the fore-corners a trifle bruised; bookplate of Australian author Ina Watson on the upper pastedown, and her pencilled ownership inscription at head of half-title page, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Bread &..... More

Pp. xii+152, indices; narrow cr. 4to; gilt lettered navy buckram; t.e.g.;Ian Hodgkins, London, 1978. First U.K. edition. More

Pp. 72, appendices; printed papered boards, slightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; National Book Council, London, 1942. First edition. *'Democracy, defending itself against the new barbarism, has turned increasingly to books, the repository and vehicle of civilization. The vital part which books..... More

Part Two: West to East, l786-l930. Describing first editions of American authors whose books were published in England before their publication in America. Pp. xxxii+132, l6 plates, index; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, joints cracking, edges and spine rubbed; uncut; inked inscription on upper free endpaper..... More

Britain, France and Germany 1820-1860. Pp. 320, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, appendices, select bibliography, indices; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2005. First edition. More

The first type cutter and caster in English America. A review ... of Abel Buell of Connecticut. Pp. [24]; med. 16mo; cloth backed patterned papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; uncut, partly unopened; privately printed, William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, 1930. One of forty copies, printed by William..... More

Pp. [viii]+x+96(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip faintly faded; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1992. More

Pp. xii+104(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, lightly soiled; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1986. More