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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Friend Of Ruskin and William Morris and Director Of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
by Wilfrid Blunt
Glossary Of Library Information Communication and Technological Terms and Acronyms
by Singh Srivastava
Cap Xcv an Act To Empower His Majesty To Erect South Australia Into a British Province or Provinces, and To Provide For the Colonization and Government Thereof
by Parliament Of Great Britain
Libraries Books & Ephemera
Catalgoue of the Gleave Brontë Collection at the Moss Side Free Library, Manchester
by GREEN, John Albert
Moss Side: Public Library, 1907. Booklet. Ex library - Good. 32 p. 23 cm. B&w frontispiece. Grey card covers. Some residue and an ink signature at top front. Holes in spine. Ink stamps on p. 26 and 32. Catalogue contains bibliography, works pertaining to Rev. Patrick, Charlotte, Emily, Anne, biography and criticism, magazine articles, etc. Index.
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SGD 34.47
Legal and Ethical Issues in Acquisitions
by STRAUCH, Katina and Bruce Strauch
MNew y.: Haworth Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 146pp. Ex-library with the usual markings. Still a very good copy in the publisher's textured boards. Scarce in commerce.
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SGD 62.04
POPULAR CULTURE IN LIBRARIES
(New York): Haworth Press Inc, 1993. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 163, (14) pages. Volume 1, Number 1. Essays on popular culture and librarianship. Some creasing to spine. Mailing label on back wrapper.
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SGD 42.74
Enchiridion Historiae Naturalis inserviens, quo termini et delineationes ad Avium, Piscium, Insectorum et Plantarum adumbrationes intelligendas et concinnandas, secundum Methodum Systematis Linnaeani continentur..
by FORSTER, Johann Reinhold
Halle: Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1788. Octavo, old stamp on title, minor paper flaw on one leaf; a very good copy in contemporary buff glazed boards, spine lettered in gilt at head. An attractive copy of this very scarce publication, not recorded by the Cook bibliographers Beddie or Holmes, and very important for the natural history of Australia and the southern hemisphere. Forster's manual on biological classification is based on the new species and genera seen by him and his son while naturalists on...
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SGD 8,109.90
EX LIBRIS JEAN GARRIGUE
N.P.: Skidmore College Library, 1975. stiff paper wrappers. Garrigue, Jean. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Limited to 800 copies. A pamphlet of essays and poems, published by the Lucy Scribner Library of Skidmore College, to commemorate the acquisition by bequest of the personal library of the poet Jean Garrigue.
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SGD 26.20
NEUE ORGANISATIONSFORMEN IM DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDEL, INSBESONDERE DIE LEI HBÜCHEREI
by Gross, Helmut
N.P.: n.d.. paper wrappers. 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. A discussion of new kinds of organization in the German book trade, particularly lending libraries.
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SGD 30.33
Letter to Henry Jellicoe Esq at Macquarie River, Hobart Town..
by [JELLICOE, Henry]
Hobart Town: 24 December, 1824. ALS single sheet, folded to letter size with early "Hobart Town, VDL" oval handstamp. Short letter penned on Christmas Eve from a Hobart Town merchant enclosing an account (not present) to Henry Jellicoe of Campbell Town in Van Diemen's Land. Jellicoe served as a Justice of the Peace in the Campbell Town district from 1824-1836. He was a prominent (and grandiose) landowner and in the 1830s his property improvements included the addition of a 30 foot ballroom. He left the...
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SGD 788.46
CAREERING ALONG WITH BOOKS. STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF BRITISH PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANSHIP IN HONOUR OF THE 85TH BIRTHDAY OF DR. WM. A. MUNFORD
by Manley, K. A. (Editor)
London: Library History Group of the Library Assoc. (Lib. Hist. Vol. 12), 1996. stiff laminated paper wrappers. Munford, William A.. 8vo. stiff laminated paper wrappers. 276 pages. First edition. Review material loosely inserted.
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SGD 42.74
!['Über einen neuen Flederhund, Pteropus scapulatus, aus Neuholland' [in] Monatsbericht der Königlichen Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Berlin](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/917/509/802509917.0.b.jpg)
'Über einen neuen Flederhund, Pteropus scapulatus, aus Neuholland' [in] Monatsbericht der Königlichen Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Berlin
by [LITTLE RED FLYING FOX] PETERS, H.W
Berlin: Buchdruckerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, August, 1862. Octavo, 2 plates, pp. numbered 545-577; an excellent copy in the original printed buff paper wrappers. Uncommon copy of the "monthly journal" of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin for August 1862, with the first notice of the Australian Little Red Flying Fox (Pteropus scapulatus Peters). The Academy was founded in 1700 but was revolutionised by Frederick the Great, who helped establish it as one of the great centres...
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SGD 765.94
Les Avantures de Monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchene
by LE SAGE, Alain René
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la ..., 1733. Slight waterstaining affecting only the margins, head of spine restored.. Two volumes in one, duodecimo, five plates, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes; occasional ms. marginalia in a neat early hand, a good copy in later half red morocco. An attractive copy of the second French edition of this important imaginary voyage and Canadian adventure based on the exploits of Robert Chevalier Beauchêne. Le Sage (1668-1747) was a successful...
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SGD 991.21
The Great Globe Quadrilles on Airs Characteristic of All Nations
by GLOVER, Stephen
London: Robert Cocks & Co, 1900. Good. Sheet musical score, illustrated cover and 6 pages. Front cover features a coloured world map of Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia. .
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SGD 450.55
The Works of Francis Bacon... in Ten Volumes
by BACON, Francis
London: J. Johnson et al., 1803. Ten volumes, octavo, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding table, prize-plate & bookplate, later gift inscription from Buxton to his son; early diced calf with the insignia of Trinity College Dublin to the boards. A fine and most attractive set in original calf, presented as a school prize in 1806 to Thomas Fowell Buxton, the social reformer (and with his own engraved bookplate and later presentation inscription). The set has a school prize plate from its original...
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SGD 2,568.14
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers; Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792
by HUNTER, John
London: John Stockdale, 1793. Some age marks throughout.. Quarto, with 17 engraved plates and charts; with the list of subscribers; a fine and large copy, completely uncut, in later quarter vellum and plain boards; slipcase. A splendid copy of the first edition of Hunter's important Journal of the first years of settlement at Sydney. This memoir by the second governor was published by Stockdale, who had earlier prepared Phillip's journal for publication. In many ways it is a continuation to Phillip's...
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SGD 8,109.90
LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY."|
by Bill, Geoffrey
(Oxford: The Oxford University Press), 1966. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 192-206. Article in "The Library", Fifth Series, Volume XXI, Number 3, September 1966.
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SGD 26.20
Carte d'une Partie de la Cote de la Nle. Galles Meridle. depuis le Cap Tribulation jusqu'au Detroit de L'Endeavour, par le Lieut. J.Cook
by [COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] BENARD, Robert after James COOK
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774. In fine condition, with good margins.. Engraved map, 295 x 335 mm.; original folds. French edition of Cook's chart, based on the original engraved chart in Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. This was the earliest charting of the coast of Queensland; it details the tracks and anchorages of the Endeavour as the expedition sailed north along the coastline in 1770, and commemorates one of the most memorable passages of Cook's first voyage. Far North...
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SGD 1,261.54
FÜNFUNDZWANZIG JAHRE DEUTSCHE BÜCHEREI
by Uhlendahl, Heinrich
(Leipzig): Deutschen Bücherei, 1938. paper-covered boards. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 38, (2) pages. Festvortrag zur Feier des 25 jährigen Bestehens 15. Mai 1938. Written in German. A copy of the lecture given by Dr. Heinrich Uhlendahl for the 25th year anniversary celebration of the German (National) Library. Laid-in is a pamphlet with a poem by Friedrich von Logau on the cover, and inside is a message from Uhlendahl wishing his friends and acquaintances a good year 1939. With a bookplate indicating...
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SGD 12.41
Les Amazones Révoltées. Roman moderne en Forme de Parodie sur l'Histoire Universelle, & la Fable. Avec des Notes Politiques sur les Travaux d'Hercule, la Chevalerie-Militaire, et la Découverte du Nouveau-Monde, &c. &c. &c
by LE MAINGRE DE BOUCIQUAULT, Louis
Rotterdam: Don Luis le Maingre ..., 1730. An excellent copy.. Duodecimo, with both errata leaves; contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, crimson morocco label. First edition, a very attractive copy of this early imaginary voyage through the Pillars of Hercules - the Strait of Gibraltar - to the "new world." A wild farce, with everything from courtiers to pirates, a Turkish eunuch and a substantial dissertation on knight errantry, the book also has an...
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SGD 887.58
LIBRARY SCENE.|THE
Boston, MA: The Library Binding Institute, 1979. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Volume 8, Number 4, December 1979. Articles on preservation and restoration of library materials. Black and white illustrations.
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SGD 17.92
Conservation Environment Guidelines For Libraries and Archives
by LULL, William P.; BANKS, Paul N
Ottawa: Canadian Council of Archives, 1995. Softcover. Fine. 102 p. 28 cm. B&w illustrations. Spiral binding.
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SGD 34.47
FRANCESCO PETRARCA: CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1974. stiff paper wrappers. Library of Congress. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Program of a conference commemorating the 600th anniversary of the death of Petrarca (Petrarch). Acknowledgments, list of sponsors, list of organizers, committee members. Covers lightly sunned.
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SGD 26.20
Le Jardin des Plantes. Compositions et dessins par A. Adam. Texte par Jules Rostaing
by ROSTAING, Jules
Paris: Ducrocq, 1873. Some ageing throughout. Oblong folio, 24 colour-printed plates and 41 pp. text; original red cloth, embossed in gilt. A lovely edition of this work, designed as a series of three "promenades" through the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Although it is of interest for many of the exotic animals on public show (including kangaroos and a platypus), the real significance of the work is the series of views by Adam that show the wider public touring the zoo and which provide an insight into...
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SGD 2,793.41
WRITINGS OF COLONEL WILLIAM BYRD OF WESTOVER IN VIRGINIA ESQR.|THE
by Bassett, John Spencer
New York, NY: Burt Franklin, 1970. cloth. Byrd, William. 8vo. cloth. xxxviii, 461+(1) pages. Reprint of 1901 first edition. No. 418 in the publisher's "Research & Source Books Works Series." No. 134 in the "American Classics in History and Social Science" series. Preface, table of contents, two appendices, index. Frontispiece. An official in colonial Virginia best known for his survey of the Virginia-North Carolina boundary. One appendix contains a listing of Byrd's extensive library.
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SGD 52.39
The First Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales held at the Garden Palace... Catalogue
by [ART SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES]
Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1880. In remarkable original condition.. Duodecimo, pp. 22, [ii]; original wrappers, preserved in a folding cloth box. The rare catalogue of the Society's inaugural exhibition held at the Garden Palace which had been purpose-built for the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. An impressive two hundred and twenty oils, watercolours and drawings were hung: Mrs. Alfred Williams' painting Ophelia, the most expensive at £75, was highly praised by the Bulletin art critic at...
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SGD 2,568.14
TREAURES OF THE STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, THE AUSTRALIANA COLLECTIONS
by Robertson, Anne
(Sydney): Collins Publishers in association with The State Library of New South Wales, 1988. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xiv), 194 pages. First edition. Foreword by Robert Hughes. Includes a section on David Scott Mitchell whose collection formed the basis of this library. Many illustrations including a number in color. Signed by the author on the title page. With the pencil siganture of Gavin Bridson.
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SGD 60.66
WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION.|THE
by Thompson, Neville, Bert Denker, et al
Winterthur and New Castle DE: Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. hardcover, dust jacket. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 100 pages. First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images. With essays...
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SGD 62.04
