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In Praise of Scribes (De laude scriptorum)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohannes Trithemius (John of Trittenheim); Elizabeth Bryson Bongie
Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1977.A discourse in praise of scribes by the German Benedictinee abbot and polymath. Translated by Elizabeth Bryson Bongie. Edited and with an introduction by Michael S. Batts. Commenced by Cobblestone Press in 1975 and completed by members of the Alcuin Society in 1977 in an edition of 485 numbered copies, of which this is number 86.
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Access Denied: A Bibliography of Suppressed Australian Literature
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Cains
Sydney: Longueville Media, 2021.“Book collector and scholar Dr Geoffrey Cains wrote this groundbreaking bibliography of suppressed Australian books after frequently reading in rare book catalogues that certain books were ‘suppressed’. This word raised several questions: What lay behind the suppression? Who instigated it? And who benefitted from it? Over a period of thirty years, he sought out these books, delving into the circumstances of their suppression and collecting 184 that had a credible and interesting back story. Until Access Denied, there has not been a bibliography or even a listing of these works. They do not have catalogue entries in any of the state libraries in Australia. Indeed, there appears to be no international database of suppressed books in existence. Certainly, censored books are listed and have bibliographies devoted to them, but censorship is a state–based and politically driven action that, when modified by changing community standards and mores, may be relaxed over time. In contrast, suppression seeks to permanently remove a book from access by the average reader. Access Denied is the story of these near-invisible books.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): His Life, His Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Jackson Kerr
: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2022.“This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts. The contents cover Shoults’s early years at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, his work in some of the poorer ritualistic parishes of London, his association with the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837-1908), the controversial, enthusiastic, revivalist known as ‘Father Ignatius’, his work on Latin hymns, his marriage, and his travel overseas, which included visiting the Vatican Library. After Shoults’s death at 48, his collection was gifted to Selwyn College, Dunedin, arriving in New Zealand in 1893. The survival of this collection is remarkable and it exists as a fine example of what a nineteenth-century curate could collect.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Collation, Reference Notation & Statement of Signing: A Workbook
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarlo Dumontet
Canberra: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2024.“This workbook discusses the various techniques which can be employed in book collation writing in order to provide readers with the capacity to construct collations and to interpret published ones. W.W. Greg’s and Fredson Bowers’s approach is discussed in depth, together with Thomas Tanselle’s view on how to handle inserted leaves. Upon this Greg-Bowers-Tanselle bedrock other possible solutions are also discussed. The exposition relies on a large number of examples and also on some exercises in order to render this workbook as practical a tool as possible. This workbook will be an invaluable guide for students of bibliography, early printed books cataloguers, and booksellers, but it is hoped that all those engaged in collation-writing may find it a useful reference tool.” (publisher’s blurb)
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MykoLibri: Die Bibliothek der Pilzbucher (with Addenda, 2 Volumes)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristian Volbracht
Hamburg: Christian Volbracht, 2006-2017.Detailed bibliography of mushroom books with thousands of bibliographic records of mycological literature from the 15th to the 20th century. One of the 750 standard edition, signed and numbered with Coprinus ink after the recipe by Pierre Bulliard. Includes the supplementary volume published in 2017 and the 8 page English translation of the introduction, glossary, and advice to the reader.
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French Book of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVirginia Reinburg
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. -
Kookaburras and Satyrs: Some Recollections of the Fanfrolico Press
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. R. Stephensen
Sydney: Talkarra Press, 1954.Limited to 225 numbered copies.
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Bird Books and Bird Art
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Anker
The Hague: Dr. W. Junk B. V., Publishers, 1973. -
The British Librarian: Exhibiting a Compendious Review or Abstract Of our most Scrace, Useful, and Valuable Books in all Sciences, as well in Manuscript as in Print:
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Oldys
London: T. Osborne, 1738.With many Characters, Historical and Critical of the Authors, their Antagonists, &c. In a Manner never before attempted, And Useful to all Readers. With a Complete Index to the Volume. The collected volume of the 18th century bibliographic periodical with an added index by William Oldys. This copy with a portrait and biography from The European Magazine, and London Review; for November 1796 bound in at front.
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Woodcut Book-Plates
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Neville Barnett
Sydney: Privately Printed [at The Becon Press], 1934.A comprehensive history of the woodcut ex libris with over 100 tipped in examples and more reproduced. The frontispiece being the tipped in plate of Edward, Prince of Wales signed by the artist, Adrian Feint. The other signed plates are by G. D. Perrottet, W. F. Hopson, Bruno da Osimo (x3), V. Vavra (x2), Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (x3), L. Roy Davies, George Collingridge, and another by Feint. Foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Limited to 210 signed and numbered copies of the standard edition. A deluxe edition of 65 copies was also produced.
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The Parsons Collection: Rare Pacific Voyage Books from the Collection of David Parsons (Part II: La Perouse to Wilkes)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern House
Sydney: Hordern House, 2006.Sealed in the original shrinkwrap
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Captain James Cook: The Great Discoverer (The Robert and Mary Anne Parks Collection)
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHordern House
Sydney: Hordern House, 2008.This copy in the original shrinkwrap.
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One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGrolier Club
New York: The Grolier Club, 1947.Catalogue and Addresses: Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April Eighteenth – June Sixteenth, MCMXLVI.
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (6 Volumes)
AU$750.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.Complete set of Dian Hanson’s history of 20th century men’s magazines,
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 6): 1970s Under the Counter
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“In 1965, the first issue of Private magazine was published. Inside were full-color photos of pretty women blatantly displaying their genitals. [The publisher] Milton also included his opinions, which mainly covered the absurdity of sex photos being outlawed when the naked brutality of the Vietnam War was shown daily on TV and in the print media. With its frank attitudes and imagery, Private became the starting point of Swedish hardcore–though the hardcore was still to come. It is not far-fetched to say Private changed the entire face of international pornography.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 5): 1970s at the Newsstand
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“1967 was the year men’s magazines became pornography. Prior, there were pinup magazines and adventure magazines, art-photo magazines, nudist magazines, girlie titles and risque titles, over-the-counter and under-the-counter, top shelf and bottom shelf, spicy, saucy, sparkling and seedy titles. But the day Berth Milton Sr. walked into a session of Swedish Parliament with photos of actual sexual intercourse and announced he was going to publish them in his magazine Private, pornography was born.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 4): 1960s Under the Counter
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“The new publishing companies started in Hollywood then expanded into the San Fernando Valley, the first settlers in what would become the world capitol of porn production. American Art Agency, commonly called Parliament, was the leader, but Art Enterprises, Comet, Dominion, Marquis, Marst, Orbit, Pendulum, Press Arts, Rilgac, Sari, Spice, Tri-S, Tower, Utopia and many others contributed memorable magazines. The East Coast got into the game late with Sampson and Delilah Publishing, Health Knowledge, and Lenny Burtman’s Selbee Associates out of New York, and the distinctive Tudor House/Central Sales from Baltimore, but overall, California ruled.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 3): 1960s at the Newsstand
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“Around 1960 Hugh Hefner began exporting Playboy. It was an immediate success overseas and by mid-decade most of Europe had adopted the Playboy blueprint for its own men’s magazines. From France came Lui, from Italy Playmen. England made King, Germany Eden. The only serious challenge to Playboy’s dominance came when Penthouse from newly hip London in 1965, taking the grittier stance of the Rolling Stones to Playboy’s Beatles. From 1966 on Penthouse was copied regularly as Playboy, resulting in English Mayfair and Men Only and Italian Excelsior, Men, 10 and numerous others. Italy was especially taken with the Penthouse model, since publisher Bob Guccione was a paisano himself, but even Germany’s most venerable men’s magazine, Er, eventually restyled in Penthouse hipster mode. Soon these “lifestyle” men’s magazines, those that covered fashion, food, travel and entertainment as well as sex, were the only titles available on European newsstands. Playboy’s overseas influence was a stunning victory for Hefner, but it came at the expense of the more culturally distinctive magazines made in France, Germany and England prior to 1960.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 2): Post-War to 1959
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“Sex publishing has always been a battleground. On the one hand there were men, mentally and physically hardwired to respond to erotic images. On the other hand, other men, determined to deprive the first group of what they naturally desired. The first two volumes tracing the history of men’s magazines are about the struggle between lust and taboo, beginning with the first bare French breasts in 1880 and ending with bare American breasts in 1958.” (from author’s introduction to Volume 1)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 1): 1900 to Post-WWII
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“Sex publishing has always been a battleground. On the one hand there were men, mentally and physically hardwired to respond to erotic images. On the other hand, other men, determined to deprive the first group of what they naturally desired. The first two volumes tracing the history of men’s magazines are about the struggle between lust and taboo, beginning with the first bare French breasts in 1880 and ending with bare American breasts in 1958.” (from author’s introduction)