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Gregory’s Street Directory, Gold Coast
Gregory’s Publishing Company
Brisbane: Gregory’s Publishing Company, 1988.Collector’s First Edition.
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A Quair of Sonnets and Ballads
John Pride
Liverpool: John Pride, 1928.Written and etched by artist and engraver John Foster Disney Pride (1877-1941). One half of ‘Pride and Dowling’ Engravers and Brass Plate Makers, John withdrew from the partnership to study at The Liverpool School of Art. He exhibited oil and watercolours, and was commissioned to sketch old buildings in Liverpool, prior to their demolition. This copy includes a 1932 Evening Express article laid in, which states that John Pride approached the Lord Mayor requesting the Duke of York should accept his book. His Lordship was delighted with the gift. A nice association copy inscribed to the artist’s cousin, and signed “The sixty-second copy hand pulled. John Pride.”
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The Magic Crystal 3: Aurelys’s Secret
Jean Moebius Giraud; Marc Bati
New York: Comcat Comics, 1990. -
Les Enfants De Jean Bart: Carnaval, Chansons et Parler Dunkerquois
Jean Denise
Dunkirk: Westhoeck-Editions, 1978.Musical score by composer Jean Denise. Includes introduction by Christian Bommel and contributions by Serge Blanckaert, Jean Chatroussat, Michal Heyden, Roch Vandromme, Jean Wispelaere, and David Riefenstahl.
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A Place to Paint
Patricia Prentice
[Brisbane]: Patricia Prentice, 1989. -
Geodaetes Practicus: or, the Art of Surveying
Vincent Wing
London: Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, 1664.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.
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Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age
John Freely; Augusto Romano Burelli; Ara Guler
London: Thames & Hudson, 1992. -
On the Nature and Property of Soils: Their Connection with the Geological Formation on Which They Rest
John Morton
London: James Ridgway, 1840.The Best Means of Permanently Increasing Their Productiveness, and on the Rent and Profits of Agriculture.
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Australian Bushcraft: A Guide to Survival and Camping
Richard Graves
Sydney: Child & Associates, 1989. -
Joe’s Book: Facts and Theories on the Bunya Mountains
Joe Walker
[Dalby]: Joe Walker, 1978. -
Hypnosis 1979
Graham D. Burrows; David R. Collison; Lorraine Dennerstein
Amsterdam: Elsevier / North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1979.Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, 1979.
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Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance
Trevor Boffone; Teresa Marrero; Chantal Rodriguez
London: Methuen, 2022. -
The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque
Annette Richards
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. -
Cassirer and Langer on Myth: an Introduction
William Schultz
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.A detailed overview of the significance of myth in the context of civilization and cultures, conducted by way of two leading twentieth century philosophers on myth, Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer.
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Ninja: Men of Iga
Kano Shinichi
Thousand Oaks: Dragon Books, 1989. -
Orwell’s Politics
John Newsinger
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999.A study of George Orwell’s political beliefs from his time as a police officer through to the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Gestalt Psychology in German Culture 1890-1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity
Mitchell G. Ash
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. -
The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research
Pamela Burnard; Elizabeth Mackinlay; Kimberly Powell
London: Routledge, 2016. -
Life’s an Adventure: The First Twenty-Five Years
Ken Duncan
Wamberal: Panographs Publishing, 2008. -
Time
S. T. Butler; H. Messel
Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press, 1965.Selected Lectures on Time and Relativity, the Arrow of Time, and the Relation of Geological and Biological Time and on Men of Science. A course of lectures contributed in the Nuclear Research Foundation Summer Science School for fourth-year high school students at the University of Sydney, January 4015, 1965.