[Paul Baret]

Mademoiselle Javotte, ouvrage peu moral, ecrit par elle-meme, et publie par une de ses amies

A Bicetre, [Paris], 1788. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 17cm x 10cm. 87 pages, 2 plates. Half leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering and decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Text is in French. Mademoiselle Javotte, a work of little morality, written by herself, and published by one of her friends. An anonymous tale (often attributed to Paul Baret / Paul Barrett) in which the heroine engages in sex work to escape poverty. A racy reworking of a closely titled 1757 moral work, whereas this one has little. This copy illustrated with 2 erotic etchings. Minor rubbing to leather. Shipped Weight: .15 kilos.

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[William Henry Traill]

A Queenly Colony: Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses

Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, Brisbane, 1901. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 32cm x 26cm. [x], 142 pages, 2 maps. Original cloth, gilt lettering to upper board, blind lettering to lower board. Photographs of early Queensland collected from various government departments depicting the state in the late 19th century with accompanying descriptive text by William Henry Traill. Depicts farming, industry, Brisbane, regional townships and farmlands, and notable individuals. An excellent copy in the original cloth. Very minor wear to cloth. Free endpapers tanned with a minor ink note and very small clip to front free endpaper. Very minor foxing to edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 500 grams-1 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Countries::Australia::Queensland; History; Photography. Inventory No: 0019942.

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South Australian Government Photolithographic Department

Photographs. Presentation from the People of Australia to H.M.S. Commonwealth

South Australian Government Photolithographic Department, [Adelaide], No date. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 29cm x 38cm. 5 boards, 4 photographs. Full leather, gilt lettering and decoration. 4 photographs mounted in a full leather presentation album showing a silver challenge shield and silver plate table piece of a model of Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour, which was gifted from The People of Australia to HMS Commonwealth, a King Edward VII-class battleship of the British Royal Navy at a naval review in 1911. The album contains the bookplate of lawyer, politician, and Federalist, Sir Josiah Henry Symon (1846-1934). Symon represented the Commonwealth Government at the review and made the presentation of the shield and table piece. Photographs by the S. A. Govt. Photolithographic Dept, A. Vaughan, Govt. Photolithographer. From the collection of J. B. Hawkins. Minor marks and rubbing to leather. Tissue guards removed. Minor soil to first photograph. Minor surface wear to photographs.. Shipped Weight: 1.5 kilos.

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Book number: 0034634

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Price Fletcher

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Queensland: Its Resources and Institutions

William Clowes and Sons, London, 1886. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 21cm x 14.5cm. vii, 20, 12, 26, 23, 18, 18, 10, 12, 44, 14, 107, 15, 32, 8, 6 pages, black and white illustrations, 1 folding map. Rebacked half leather, gilt lettering. Essays; prepared by the authority of the executive commissioners in Queensland for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1866, being 1. Queensland: An Introductory Essay by A. J. Boyd; 2. Education in Queensland by the Rev. William Poole; 3. The Commerce and Industries of Queensland by Horace Earle; 4. The Mineral Industries of Queensland by K. T. Staiger; 5. Agriculture in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 6. The Sugar Industry in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 7. The Pastoral Industry by P. R. Gordon; 8. Horticulture by Theodore Wright; 9. Hints to Immigrants: A Practical Essay upon Bush Life in Queensland by Price Fletcher; 10. The Flora of Queensland by Fredk. Manson Bailey; 11. The Geology of Queensland by Robert L. Jack; 12. A Contribution to Pharmacy from Queensland by Joseph Bancroft; 13. A Popular Sketch of the Natural History of Queensland by Price Fletcher; 14. Emigration to Queensland: or, How to Get to that Colony; 15. How to Settle on the Land in the Colony of Queensland. Edited by Price Fletcher, with a frontispiece map of Queensland. This copy bearing the bookplate of the John M. Chapman Collection and with Compliments card of Sir James Garick, Executive Commissioner for Queensland, tipped in, and Royal Society of Edinburgh stamps. Minor foxing, mostly to edges. Very small closed tear to map at hinge crown. Shipped Weight: .45 kilos.

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Frederic H. Forshall

Westminster School: Past and Present

Wyman & Sons, London, 1884. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition. 22cm x 15cm. xiv, [2], 607 pages, 8 plates (4 folding). Original brown cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. A history of the Westminster School in London, though also a recording of its past customs and a lengthy biographical recording of headmasters and numerous distinguished students, and personal reminiscences. Frederic H. Forshall was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left after a year, moving to Sydney. He was part of the first cohort at The University of Sydney in 1852, and while still a student was appointed the University Librarian. In 1853 he was the first prizewinner for Greek verse composition which are printed here (pp. 358-360). Plates illustrating various interiors, Westminster beating Eton at rowing in 1845, and others. Ex-Cambridge Union Society, labels removed, some stamps. Rebacked. Moderate general wear. The first folding plate repaired on verso. Second folding plate with 3cm closed tear to fore-edge. Shipped Weight: 1.32 kilos.

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Book number: 0026693

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Keywords: BZDB407 Antiquarian & Rare; Countries::United Kingdom & Ireland::England; England; Genealogy & Local History. Unbranded Frederic H. Forshall Westminster School: Past and Present Countries::United Kingdom & Ireland::England Genealogy & Local History

Kilmarnock Mirror

The Kilmarnock Mirror and Literary Gleaner (Vol. 1)

Kilmarnoch Press, by Mathie and Lochore, Kilmarnock, 1819. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 18cm x 11cm. iv, 330 pages. Rebacked half brown leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, all edges green. Consisting of Essays, Moral Tales, Poetry, and a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, Adapted for Instruction and Amusement. This is the first volume of the scarce Scottish periodical containing number one, dated 1818, through to number eight, dated 1819. Recently rebacked preserving the somewhat rubbed contemporary boards and endpapers. Minor foxing and soiling to edges and endpapers. Shipped Weight: .30 kilos.

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Book number: 0026007

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Vincent Wing

Geodaetes Practicus: or, the Art of Surveying

Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, London, 1664. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition. 16.5cm x 10.5cm. [xvi], 325 pages, black and white illustrations, 2 plates (1 folding). Rebacked quarter brown leather, papered boards, gilt lettering. The first edition of this practical land surveying handbook intended to be of use to architects, engineers, carpenters, bricklayers, and other craftsmen by English surveyor Vincent Wing (1619-1668). "..probably the first work on surveying to be written for use as a handbook" (Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, pg. 122) Provides a comprehensive manual of the principles and practice of land and quantity surveying, using some of Vincent Wing's own commissions as case studies. "Surveyed and laid out in a more Accurate, Plain and Expeditious Plat, then hath hitherto been performed." WING W2991. This copy with various owner names of the Chorley family, one Alexander Chorley dated 1773, also John and Sarah, as well as James McDonald, and with their marginalia throughout. Rebacked without the final blank leaf (Y4). Boards rubbed and worn. Minor foxing and soiling. Short, some partial cropping of headlines and catchwords, loss to the last line of page 108 (verso of H6), and the extremities of a few of the tables: fore-edge of page 163, tail of pp. 311, 316-320, and to some of the marginalia. Folding plate worn at fore-edge and with a small closed tear to the fold repaired with paper tape on verso. A few minor (<2cm) closed tears to edges: fore-edge of A3, tail of C4 and C5. 2.5cm open tear to top corner of P8 with some loss text of page 223. Shipped Weight: .27 kilos.

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