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Cat 393, Item 14 FRIEND, Donald (Illustrator) ENNIS, Henry. REMARKS ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP TAMAR IN A VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO PORT PRAIA, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE - NEW SOUTH WALES, And from thence along the Coast of Australia, to Port Essington in the Cobourg Peninsula..... Melb. Richard Griffin Publisher. 1983. Full calf. Dj with gilt blocked design. 6,34pp. uncut. Frontispiece & ornate title page by Donald Friend. Fine Special Edition limited to 10 numbered copies signed by Donald Friend, from the total edition of 160. First edition in book form. 1st ed. thus. Scarce. |
Cat 393, Item 1 AHEARN, Brian. THE BIOGRAPHY OF MURTY. Irish rebel who survived salutary terror. n.p. The Author. 2020. Or.Col.ill.bds. 620pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. The hardcover colour edition limited to 150 numbered copies of which this is number 49, inscribed by the author. |
Cat 393, Item 27 (5v) ORWELL, George. REPORTAGE. Five volumes in the slip-case. "Homage to Catalonia", "The Road to Wigan Peir", "Funny but not Vulgar", "Down and Out in Paris and London", "My Country Right or Left". Lond. Folio Society. 1998. Each volume bound in pictorial boards. Various pagination. b/w plates. A fine set. Scarce. |
Cat 393, Item 31 PONTING, Herbert G. IN LOTUS-LAND JAPAN. With 8 illustrations in colour and 96 in monochrome from photographs by the author. Lond. Macmillan & Co. 1922. (New & revised edition) Or.pictorial cloth showing Mt.Fuji and a Geisha in gold on the front board. 395pp. Many interesting photographic plates. Very good copy. Scarce. |
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