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A group of seven modern Australian bookplates

by [Australian Bookplates]

The plates, in uniformly fine condition, are by: Blake Twigden for Pat Corrigan (Peake 1150); Marie-Claire Ralph for Glen Ralph's Wilmar Library (Peake 4416); Derek Riley for Edwin Jewell (Peake 2796); the same artist for 'Mildura' (perhaps a winery? - not in Peake); Peter Chapman for James Hardie Library (not in Peake); 'Cornish' for Rajiax Glass Decorators (not in Peake); and an unidentified artist for Sara Georgine Fife Angas (Peake 93). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller,... Read more about this item

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£52.93

C. 1870 PRODUCTION, RENDITION OF PAUL REVERE'S ENGRAVED BOOK PLATE

by Smith, Sidney Lawton (engraver)

small 12mo bookplate. Bookplates. 3.25" x 4.75" small 12mo bookplate. Isaiah Thomas altered to "Isaac Rand Thomas" as indicated on the plate itself. Faint notation below 'TUS" in NEC-ELATUS reads, "S.L.S after P.R." Printed on early watermarked laid paper. Exceptional eye appeal and workmanship. The printer was Sidney Lawton Smith (1845-1929). Smith was an American designer, etcher, engraver, illustrator, and bookplate artist. This bookplate for Isaiah Thomas was first engraved by Paul Revere and... Read more about this item

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£565.67

Ex-libris chinois. Hommes tibétains

by Yang, Zhong Yi

1998 Gravure exécutée à la pointe sèche. Numéroté et signé 23/100. Format 10 x 17cm. Signé par l'auteur. Limited Edition. No Binding. Neuf.

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£56.91

Composite Book-Plates, 1897-8

by E. Bengough Ricketts; Theodore Spicer Simson; Frank Bramley

London: Edward Arnold, 1898. Good. London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; ca. 110pp.; chiefly illus. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and minor fraying at spine ends, dampstain to rear cover not bleeding into textblock, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Good or better, internally clean and sound. An example of the armorial bookplate of British businessman Sir J. Blundell Maple... Read more about this item

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£61.67

A bookplate for Sydney Stansell Blake

by WALLIS, Clive Raymond

External dimensions 143 × 115 mm; artist's name in pencil on the verso; in fine condition. Peake 524. Clive Raymond Wallis (1909-83), 'Etcher, produced prints in the 1930s and '40s solely for private circulation. Most were erotic and either German expressionist or American "Ash Can" in style' (Design & Art Australia Online). Sydney Stansell Blake was a Sydney accountant. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent.

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£26.46

PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN BOOKPLATES, A STUDY

by Borneman, Henry S

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania German Society, 1953. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. Bookplates. 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. (xii), vi, 169 pages. First edition. With 25 Pennsylvania German bookplates reproduced in full color. Covers, for the most part, the period 1790 to 1840. Well preserved copy.

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£17.27

Ex-libris Québec. Bibliothèque de Montréal

Québec Ex-libris Bibliothèque de la ville de Montréal. Workman. Format 11.5 x 8cm. Pas de couverture. Très bon.

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£2.40

BOOKPLATE JOURNAL.|THE

(Walton-on-Thames, England: The Bookplate Society), 1983. stiff paper wrappers. Bookplates. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Price per item. Loose issues of the Journal. Includes 6:1 (March 1988), 6:2 (September 1988), 7:1 (March 1989), 7:2 (September 1989), 8:1 (March 1990), 8:2 (September 1990). Black and white illustrations in text. Some covers sunned at edges.

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£15.62

[From the library of James Hector McNeal of Easton, Maryland:] Sketches of the Life and Travels of Rev. Thomas Ware, who has been an itinerant Methodist preacher for more than fifty years. Written by himself

by [Thomas Ware]

New York: Published by T. Mason and G. Lane, 1839. Twelvemo. 264pp. Full sheep; binding worn, joints rubbed and cracked; textblock sound, but foxed and dampstained; front and rear free endpapers and blanks excised; good only. This particular book is notable for having the bookplate of James Hector McNeal, Jr. (1846-1915) of Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, the son of James Hector McNeal, Sr. (1807-1868) who was a state Senator. McNeal, Jr. worked for the Shannahan and Wrightson Hardware Company of... Read more about this item

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£82.22

Histoire de Pierre Terrail, dit Le Chevalier Bayard, Sans Peur & sans Reproche. [Bayard Bookplate]

by De Berville, G[uyard]., M[onsieur]. (1697-1770)

Paris: Chez Pierre-Laurent Giffart, Librairie, MDCCLX [1760]. First Edition. 12mo. xxxii, 524pp., papered boards; printed paper spine label; modestly tooled spine decorations; speckled edges. Pictorial wove paper bookplate with legend "Bayard," engraved by "J. G. Z." Binding scuffed; sewing opened between title leaf and subsequent leaf; text quite clean; an unsophisticated good copy in an early, if not contemporary, binding. Biography of celebrated French Renaissance soldier, Pierre Terrail (1476-1524),... Read more about this item

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£102.78

Ex-Libris France. R.G.M. Fournier

1949 Ex-Libris R.G.M. Fournier. Format 11.5 x 8 cm.. Pas de couverture. Comme neuf.

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£8.99

PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK

by Pearson, David

New Castle, DE and Oxford, England: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 6.14 x 9.2 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 448 pages. "Anyone interested in the provenance of books would be well advised to obtain a copy of the new edition, even if they own the previous one... what has changed the most are the increased awareness of its importance as a field of study, and the research tools available, especially online ones. The breadth of the early chapters is complemented by... Read more about this item

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£70.71

Ex-libris Armand Paul

by Leslie Victor Smith

1949 Ex-libris 1949- Eau-Forte. Provenance Québec. 15 x 10 cm. Pas de couverture. Très bon.

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£116.82

A bookplate for Mark Ferson

by [FERSON, Mark] BROMLEY, David

External dimensions 111 × 75 mm; the artist is identified on the verso in pencil; in fine condition. Peake 1685 (giving the date 1985). Offered together with a linocut bookplate designed by Mark Ferson for his 'Kookaburriana'. External dimensions 117 × 91 mm; in fine condition. Peake 1687 (identifying the artist). Mark Ferson (1956-) is 'A medical practitioner of Sydney, employed as a public health physician. He is interested in collecting and creating bookplates, largely using linocut and... Read more about this item

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£52.93

Ex-Libris France

1969 Carte postal de l'Association Française des Collectionneurs d'Ex-libris, signé de la Trésorière. Gravure sur bois de M. Jamar. Format 15.5 x 10.5cm. Pas de couverture. Très bon.

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£20.97

MILITAERE BOGEJERMAERKER EXLIBRIS

by Hedegaard, E.O.A

Elsinore: Poul A. Andersen, 1966. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in, leather spine label. Bookplates. small 8vo. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in, leather spine label. 208 pages. First edition, limited to an edition of 400 copies. An account of the history of bookplates with military themes in Denmark and abroad. The author traces the general history of bookplates and then discusses the specific genre of military ex-libris. Illustrated in black-and-white with... Read more about this item

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£51.80

Ex-libris Québec. Réjane Fréchette

by Louis Fréchette

Québec Ex-libris Québec. Réjane Fréchette. Blanc. Format 9 x 7cm. Pas de couverture. Très bon.

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£2.40

A bookplate designed by Astra Lacis for the pioneering bibliographer of Australian children's books

by [MUIR, Marcie]

External dimensions 90 × 75 mm; in fine condition. Peake 3891. Provenance: Marcie Muir (1919-2007); by descent.

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£26.46

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOK-PLATE LITERATURE.|A

by Prescott, Winward

N.P.: The American Bookplate Society, 1914. paper-covered boards. Bookplates. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 70 pages. Limited to only 250 copies. (Fuller p. 86). An early bibliography of bookplate literature.

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£25.49

COM OS CUMPRIMENTOS DO TESOUREIRO

by Tesoureiro

Lisboa: Congresso Internacional De Ex-Libris, 1976. self paper wrappers. Bookplates. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (8) folded pages. Small folder containing four tipped-in bookplates of Jorge Mealha, Aulo-Gelio and Rui Fernandes designed for Eugenio MealhaCosta. On the occasion of the XVI Congresso De Ex-Libris in Lisbon, Spain in 1976.

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£14.80

BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY

by Littlewood, Robert C

Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. Bookplates. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies bound thus. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an exclusive 90 minute interview with Pat Corrigan on DVD. Finely bound by hand in gilt-illustrated... Read more about this item

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£462.90

Ex-libris China. Femme au visage appuyé sur les mains

by ? à venir

1989 Xylographie signé et numéroté 8/20. Format 10 x 8cm.. Signé par l'auteur. Limited Edition. No Binding. Neuf.

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£29.96

WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE COLLECTION BOOKPLATE

Single sheet. Bookplates. 4" x 2 7/8" Single sheet. Finely printed bookplate for the William W. Weinstone Collection at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library. Interesting engraving depicts hammer-and-sickle device above an anvil. Printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press.