Search Results: Titles starting with E from Sky Duthie Rare Books

Brisbane: W. R. Smith & Paterson Pty. Ltd., 1939; 1941; 1942; 1945; 1946. First editions, three of the titles limited editions (each one of 500 copies printed, numbered and signed by the author). Six volumes. Octavo. Publisher's original brown pebble-grained cloth with titles in gilt to the upper boards and spines. Illustrated with occasional black and white photographs and maps. A near fine set, the bindings square and firm with minor bumping to the extremities and a little fading to the spine of the final volume. The contents with the occasional spot of light foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An uncommon set of Collinson's works concerning the history of Cairns, Queensland, Australia and its surrounding area.

[Original manuscript]., [c.1810-1890].. Manuscript recipe book. Quarto. Contemporary full vellum with attractive manuscript ink titles to the upper board - "Receipt Book / 1810". The contents comprising 157pp. of ink manuscript text in several different hands (completely full), beginning in a late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century hand (43pp., plus another 16pp. in the same hand at the rear providing medicinal and household recipes), with the remainder (98pp.) largely in a mid nineteenth-century hand, although including a few later nineteenth-century entries. The binding with significant cracking to the front hinge (although still holding), loss to the foot of the spine and some bowing to the boards. The contents with one page at the rear detached and with chipping, another rear page coming a little loose, some minor chipping to the edges of the preliminary pages and some scattered toning and marking, as expected, are otherwise in good order. Due to Britain's expanding empire in Asia, by the late… Read More

Gothenburg: ll'Editions., 2017. Three volumes, plus appendix booklet, in slipcase. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, this being number 71. Signed in pencil by the artist on the limitation page of the third volume. Octavo. The three volumes bound in the publisher's original full black leather with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Contrasting yellow, blue, and red endpapers with silk ribbon page-marker to each volume. The contents reproducing the sketchbooks of EKTA in full colour. The accompanying text booklet in card wrappers, contained within a pocket at the rear of the third volume. The set contained within the publisher's original grey cloth slipcase, with individual black paint decoration to one panel. A fine set, the bindings square and tight; the contents clean and bright throughout - appears unread. The slipcase with a touch of shelf wear is otherwise in very good condition. A meticulous facsimile reproduction of three sketchbooks by the Swedish artist, animator, sculptor and… Read More

London: M. A. Nattali., 1846.. Third edition[?]. Two volumes bound as one. Contemporary green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds (their ticket to the rear pastedown) with embossed decoration to the boards and decorative gilt titles to the spine. All edges gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text black and white line drawings. [5], 249pp. + [3], 271pp. Contemporary ink prize inscription to the front free endpaper. Small previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. A good copy, the binding square and firm with a little cracking to the rear hinge; the spine expertly relaid, with a little wear to the tips and a minor split to the cloth covering the middle of the upper joint. The contents with the occasional spot of toning are otherwise in very good order throughout. An attractive edition of this detailed, well-illustrated account of the Parthenon Marbles, first published in 1833, by the English antiquarian and long-serving principal librarian at the British Museum Sir Henry Ellis… Read More

London: Printed for T. Hughes., 1824. Early edition. 32mo. (14 x 9cm). Contemporary purple-brown cloth with green morocco title label lettered in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. 107pp. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing and marking to the boards and minor wear to the corners of the boards and tips of the spine. The contents are in very good order throughout. An attractive edition of this popular tale, first published in 1806. This was Cottin's final and most famous work, telling the story of a young woman who travels from Siberia to St. Petersburg to secure a pardon for her exiled father.

London: Dean and Munday., 1815. 12mo. Publisher's original boards with printed titles in black to the upper board and spine. Page edges untrimmed. Additional engraved pictorial title page and frontispiece. A very good, unsophisticated copy, the binding secure although with cracking to the joints (the boards held by the cords only, albeit firmly), chipping and loss to the spine and wear to the corners and extremities. The contents with toning, the occasional minor mark, a small hole to pp.201-202 (affecting a couple of words, but with no loss of meaning), and the odd small tear or chip to page margins where pages have been roughly opened, are otherwise in very good order. A scarce edition of Longueville's imaginary shipwreck narrative - "an enormously popular work, rivalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, of which it is possibly the best imitation" (Howgego, 'Encyclopaedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel'). The English Hermit "tells the story of one Philip Quarll, shipwrecked on… Read More

London: Callow and Wilson., 1829. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the translator. 12mo. Contemporary half plum calf over marbled boards; the spine with four raised bands, compartments richly decorated in gilt, and with morocco title label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Marbling to page edges. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the boards and extremities. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A handsome copy. Signed and inscribed by Edward Rigby in black ink to the half title page: "Mr Thomas Salt, a prize at / the weekly Examination of the / Midwifery Class at St Bartholomew's / Hospital, from the Translator / June 1. 1844". The first English translation of one of the key works on obstetrics by the renowned German obstetrician Franz Karl Naegele (1778-1851). A nice association copy, presented by the translator, the leading obstetrician, medical writer, and… Read More

London: Printed by Burks and Kinnebrook, Norwich, for Hunter, 72, St. Paul's Church-yard., 1822. Sixth edition. Signed and inscribed by the author's son, Edward Rigby (Jr.). Octavo. Contemporary half black calf over marbled boards; the spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated in gilt, and with red morocco title label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Marbling to page edges. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and tight with a little rubbing to the boards and extremities. The contents with some occasional light scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A handsome copy. Signed and inscribed by the author's son, Edward Rigby, in black ink to the front endpaper: "Mr Thomas Salt / a prize at the weekly Examination of / the Midwifery Class at St. Bartholomew's / from Edwd. Rigby MD / June 1844". The key work on obstetrics by the English physician and writer Edward Rigby (1747-1821), all editions of which are relatively scarce in commerce. This… Read More

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia., 1965. Facsimile edition. Large quarto. Publisher's original red rexine boards with titles in gilt to the spine. Museum of Sydney price label to the lower board. Small contemporary bookseller's label to the front pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the spine ends and corners. The contents with the occasional spot of very faint foxing and a small chip to the top corner of the front free endpaper are otherwise in very good order. A facsimile of the 1791 edition. 'Australiana Facsimilie Editions No. 15'.