Search Results: Titles starting with R from Sky Duthie Rare Books

Potts Point, NSW: Hordern House., 2001. Limited edition, one of 300 copies printed. Thick quarto. Publisher's original light-green cloth with printed paper title label to the upper board and titles blocked in dark green to the spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, twenty maps and illustrations, and eight colour plates. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a very minor mark to the spine and a couple of faint marks to the top edge of the lower board. The contents remain clean and crisp throughout. The only edition in English of Freycinet's comprehensive examination of early New South Wales, one of the most important historical texts to deal with Australian settlement, and especially with the city of Sydney. The original text appeared as chapters 29 to 40 of the 'Historique' section of Freycinet's 'Voyage autour du Monde' (1824-1844), and is here translated from the French by Thomas Cullity, with an additional introduction and notes.

[Original manuscript]., [c.1825-1830].. 23.5 x 19.5cm. Handsomely bound in contemporary half dark green morocco over green cloth boards, the spine with four raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. The book composed of varying plain and coloured pages (including yellow, pink, green, blue, and purple), 52 of which contain various black and white engravings (19 pages, one page embellished with classical cameos), botanical watercolours (2), manuscript verse (30, including "Byron's latest verses, 1824"), and a rather splendid coloured engraving of a cat (the remainder blank, c.240pp.). A little sparse but nevertheless most attractive. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper; "Marie Antonie Harknell / to Mary Ann Turner". Additional pencil inscription to the front free endpaper: "Wilson Harknell / 1831". Condition is very good, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the spine ends, board edges and corners and some marking to the boards. The spine remains… Read More

Hobart, Tasmania: Melanie Publications., 1982. Facsimile edition, limited to 250 copies - this copy one of 25 copies in full golden kangaroo hide by Peter Marsh, Dove Bindery, Melbourne. Presentation copy, inscribed as such in blue ink on the limitation page and further inscribed by the editor P. Benson Walker on the front endpaper: "To Dot - / with my best wishes / P. Benson Walker / 21 July '83". Octavo. The boards ruled in gilt with embossed map of Tasmania to the upper board; the spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Marbled endpapers by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Cambridge. The text, printed on high-quality laid paper, comprising a full facsimile of the illustrated London edition of 1856, including the original 8 tinted plates, map and in-text wood-engraved illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a very minor scuff to one of the spine bands. The contents with the odd minor mark to the edges of the textblock and a tiny nick to the margin of one of the front… Read More