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Vols. 1 and 2: Soldiers and sailors. Vols. 3 and 4: Statesmen and sages. Vols. 5 and 6: Workmen and heroes. Vols 7 and 8 (missing): Artists and authors. Illustrations for each person, one full-page and often other smaller drawings.Note: This set is heavy 9kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery. Some minor scuffing and wear on corners and spine. Interiors bound tight.

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia in three volumes. Note: This set is heavy, 10kg+. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery. This set does not contain the 2 unbound Railway, Postal and Telegraph maps of Australia maps at rear Volume One, 2 of 3 unbound at the rear of Volume Two (Qld is there), and 1 of 2 unbound Railway, Postal and Telegraph maps of New Zealand at the rear of Volume Three (North Island is there). All other maps and engravings are present.Corners of covers bumped with some preventative work to secure the covers and spine. Some pages are lightly foxed at the edges, but remain tightly bound. The content is clean.

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1874. 620 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout, with 25 of 26 supplements. Content includes 33 double and many more single page engravings. Subject matter includes (along with many others..) The Tichborne Trial, Black Watch Forest Ashanti war, Portrait engravings of Gladstone and Disraeli, Royal Marriage - Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh, Fine Art Supplement 1874.2 copies available:Good to V.Good, spine rubbed but binding intact, pages clean with some light foxing, previously missing pages 123, 619, Nursery Tales (supplement) have been replaced with bound-in copies. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback.Fair, missing pages replaced with digitally reproduced copies bound in place.Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Hard cover Folio (15 x 12 in). Original gilt tooled full brown morocco, edges gilt marbled endpapers. Pages complete xxiv + 180, with 250 full-page black and white engravings on card with captioned tissue-guards.Containing two hundred and fifty beautiful engravings selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine with critical essays by Edmund Ollier.Page edges lightly scuffed and rubbed with some small scratches to cover boards - some remedial work done to secure the cover boards and spine, but otherwise good. Card plates bright but some foxing to the outer edges. Some foxing to the later text pages.The plate index is a little tricky to use, but all plates are present with the following corrections:Plate 75 misplaced to p130, plate 91 misplaced to p95.Note: This volume is heavy (38x31x10cm, approx 10kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Two copies available, as follows:
Item 1: A$580
Good to V.Good condition. Pages complete and clean with some light foxing. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Two of four double page colour supplements bound in place. Spine rubbed but binding intact. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Cover scuffed and faded but bound intact. Pages and print good, some foxing, mostly on outer edges with some discolouration.
Item 2: A$250
Fair Condition. Original covers and spine cracked, bumped and marked but attached and bound intact. One-penny postage paid stamped on weekly leading pages. Previously removed (106) pages have been replaced by digitally reproduced pages, existing page condition fair.
Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1864. 684 numbered pages with illustrations and advertisements from 1864.
Some examples of the items contained in this bound volume are:
American Civil War
War in New Zealand
Kerbstone… Read More

Two copies available, as follows:
Item 1: A$580
Good to V.Good condition. Pages complete and clean with some light foxing. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Two of four double page colour supplements bound in place. Spine rubbed but binding intact. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Cover scuffed and faded but bound intact. Pages and print good, some foxing, mostly on outer edges with some discolouration.
Item 2: A$250
Fair Condition. Original covers and spine cracked, bumped and marked but attached and bound intact. One-penny postage paid stamped on weekly leading pages. Previously removed pages have been replaced by digitally reproduced pages, existing page condition fair.
Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1881. 601 numbered pages with illustrations and advertisements from 1864.
Some examples of the items contained in this bound volume are:Transvaal War in South AfricaDakotah Territory, Far west of… Read More

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1864.
628 numbered pages with illustrations and advertisements from 1864. Two of two colour supplements included in item 1 only. Examples of the features contained in this bound volume are:
American Civil War.
Canada Gold Find.
Floods in Melbourne.
Cricket in Melbourne.
Refer to the index pages in the gallery image for a complete listing of the content.
Two copies available:
1. Good to V.Good, Covers and original spine and binding intact with some marks, bumps and small tears, page areas mostly clean with some foxing and gilt edges. Rubbed half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Contains two original colour supplements. Price AUD580.
2. Fair, Original covers and spine cracked, bumped and marked but attached, Most pages clean, 102 missing original pages replaced with quality-reproduced copies and bound in place. One-penny postage paid stamped on weekly leading pages. Price AUD250.
Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm,… Read More

Settlement and history of NSW, Victoria, SA, Queensland, WA, Tasmania and NZ, with some account of Fiji and New Guinea. Leather embossed cover and spine in red, gilt title on edge and Advance Australia coat of arms on face. 711 pages complete with 24 illustrations, of which eight are coloured maps.Page edges lightly scuffed and rubbed with some small scratches to boards - otherwise good, plates bright but some foxing, bound well but beginning to work loose..Note: This book is heavy, 2.9kg, Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Complete with 18 A3 sized photogravure image plates in six volumes illustrated by Frederick Barnard, and numerous woodblock engravings by other artists. Descriptive content written by the Author Thomas Archer. Originally supplied to subscribers only.
Quote from the back cover:
"The characters which Charles Dickens has created are living, moving personalities in the minds and imaginations of the large majority of English men and women. To portray these characters in a manner which shall satisfy the aspirations of the countless multitudes of the author's admirers is a success of which any artist may feel justly proud."
Pages mostly clean with some light foxing to outer areas of the plates. Bound well with boards and cloth binding, some fading, marks and bumping to external covers.
Weight 0.76kg x 6 volumes

An historical account comprising two volumes of the evolution of the Colony of Victoria and its surrounds.
Note: This set is heavy at 7kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.
Front covers and spine marked and slightly damaged. Some internal pages have water staining and some foxing, but most are clean and tightly bound. Some page edges are bumped near the beginning and end of the books.

A complete survey of the animal kingdom. Many colour plates.
Front covers marked and bumped. Internal pages are slightly discoloured with age, but content is clean and tightly bound.
Note: This volume is heavy, approx 7kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

A general dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, Biography and History. New Issue Revised contains the 1891 Census Returns of Britain and the 1890 Returns for the United States.
Front covers marked and bumped. Internal pages are slightly discoloured with age, but content is clean and tightly bound.
Note: This volume is heavy approx 15kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Illustrated on steel engravings from pictures by C.W. Cope, R.A.; W.P. Frith, R.A.; and others.
188 page biography on Shakespeare by Charles Knight
Note: The two volumes are heavy, approximately 12kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.
Spine ends bumped and split. Pages are discoloured with ageing, some pages marked and foxed, but content is mostly clean, some foxing to endpapers and page edges.
Volume 1 – 27 steel engraved plates
Volume 2 – 17 steel engraved plates

34 chromolithograph plates including 2 chromolithograph title pages, with numerous woodblock engravings. Volume I covers English life through the reign of Richard III and volume 2 from the accession of Henry VII through the nineteenth century.Pages are discoloured with age and worn in the margins with some water staining at the edges, content is mostly undamaged.
Occasional marking, bumps and small tears to covers and spine. Rubbing to edges. Contents otherwise clean and bindings tight.
Volume 1 contains 4 books, as follows:
Book 1: Before the Conquest
Book 2: From the Norman Conquest to the death of King John 1066 - 1216
Book 3: Henry III to Richard II 1216 - 1399
Book 4: Henry IV to Richard III 1399 - 1484
Volume 2 contains 4 books, as follows:
Book 5: Henry VII to Elizabeth I 1485 - 1603
Book 6: James I to End of the Stuarts 1603 - 1688
Book 7: Revolution & Civil War to George II 1688 - 1760
Book 8: The Last 100 years
Note:This set is heavy, 6kg, Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost… Read More

A ten volume history dealing with every phase of the Second World War on land, sea, and in the air, including the events which led up to the outbreak of hostilities.
Numerous b/w photos and maps.
Note: This set of 10 volumes is heavy (42x32x50cm, approx 10kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.