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Two fascinating broadsheets for Paul Bernabo's travelling zoo
by BERNABO, Paul
Germany, 1851. First Edition. Two fine German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the many fascinating animals listed for exhibition, the Australian dingo makes a surprising inclusion. The 1840s and 1850s saw a distinct rise in the popularity of travelling menageries throughout the world; one thinks of the Beaumont-Waller exhibits held in Hyde Park in Sydney in 1847. A staple of such exhibits was a wide variety of animals from the far-flung reaches of the globe, with the exotic and the...
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A$2,450.00
AN INTRODUCTION TO A HISTORY OF THE WOODCUT With a Detailed Survey of Work Done in the Fifteenth Century. 2 Volume Set.
by Hind, Arthur M
London: Constable & Company Ltd.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 838 pages; Red cloth bindings with light rubbing and wear. Name and address on front free endpapers of both volumes. .
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A$172.57
69.
by Schatz, Otto R
1927.. Woodcut. Signed Otto R. Schatz and dated in pencil. 100 x 110 mm on wide margined paper measuring 300 x 230 mm. May not be the artist's signature.
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A$431.42
DOVE AT THE WINDOWS: LAST LETTERS OF FOUR QUAKER MARTYRS
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall quarto (8" x 11-3/4") in original cloth. Foreword by George Selleck. Illustrated with five woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. One of 24 copies of a total edition of 224 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. This copy is marked "MM" at the colophon and belonged to the publisher and illustrator, Michael McCurdy.
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A$294.15
Female Nude, Standing, from Behind. From Twenty-Five (25) Nudes.
by Gill, Eric
1938.. Wood-engraving. Printer's proof 6-5/8 x 4 inches on wide margined paper measuring 12 x 9 inches. Evan Gill, no. 38. (Large format is Physick, no. 940.) Initial, title and date in pencil in the margin. This version is possibly a copy by Earl M. Washington.
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A$392.20
Woodcut Initials. O, P, T, M, D.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
Female Nude, Lying. From Twenty-Five (25) Nudes.
by Gill, Eric
1938.. Wood-engraving. Printer's proof 3-6/7 x 6-1/4 inches on wide margined paper measuring 12 x 9 inches. Evan Gill, no. 38. (Large format is Physick, no. 954.) Initial, title and date in pencil in the margin. This version is possibly a copy by Earl M. Washington.
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A$392.20
Thoughts of a Hangman: Woodcuts by Billy Hamper Aka Billy Childish
by HAMPER, BILL
2006. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. SMALL QUARTO. - Illustrated board covers lightly marked w/ spine ends bumped and several small dents to bottom edges - Edges of text block lightly toned and marked w/ top edge foxed - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright - 218 pages
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A$155.67
Woodcut Initials. T, V, L, P, Q.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
Woodcut Initials. O, P, Q.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
Ten Fables with Twenty One Illustrations by Rachel Russell.
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Ten Fables with Twenty One Illustrations by Rachel Russell. London: The Swan Press, Chelsea : MCMXXVIII [1928]. With a memorial bookplate, "In Memory of Michael Hariot Huth Walters for his Friend" with the name Betty Menzies written in ink. Elizabeth G.C. Menzies was the rare woman staff photographer at Princeton University, whose images decorated the front cover of the Princeton Alumni Weekly for many years and a friend of Michael Heriot Huth Walters. Walters died suddenly. His...
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A$862.84
The Picture Alphabet
by BISHOP & CO
Houndsditch: Bishop & Co, 1830. First Edition. A delightful woodcut alphabet. Here are many favourites - the Fox, the Goose, and the Lamb - but where necessary, the publisher's evidently felt capable of stretching their young audience. Significantly, it includes a 'K' for Kangaroo, revealing how wide-spread and how quickly the appetite for exotic natural history from Australia and the South Pacific had grown. There are also more unusual inclusions such as 'I' for Ibex, and even 'M' for Mermaid. Sadly,...
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A$825.00
The First Ten
by Peich, Michael; Michael McCurdy
Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust...
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A$75.30
Trade Catalogue of Japan's Products 1938
by [The Yokohama Chamber of Commerce and Industry]
Yokohama: The Yokohama Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1938. Rare prewar exhibition catalogue of Japanese export goods from the Yokohama Commercial & Industrial Museum. Includes a vast range of Japanese products: raw materials sourced from the ever-increasing Manchurian territories through to highly finished commodities of Japanese manufacture. Large octavo, 4 colour plates including colour woodcuts tipped-in, slight creases to front pages otherwise a very good copy bound in original decorated cloth...
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A$750.00
Woodcut Initials. V, L.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
Hasen
by Bercovitch, Reuben
New York: Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket woodcut from Rockwell Kent Legacies, cover design by Lidia Ferrera.. This First Edition title translates to "Hare", a story of two young boys surviving in the wild near a concentration camp, and the day everything changes. "As simply and beguilingly told as a fairy tale, this is a novel whose terror belongs to reality-a novel that evokes with extraordinary power the essence, the beauty, of loyalty and commitment tested to the utmost." (from...
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A$42.36
Woodcut Initials. Q, L, S, N, I.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
DreamTigers
by Borges, Jorge Luis
London: Souvenir Press, 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Cover image by Mike Hasted.. Stated First UK edition. First published in Spanish as El Hacedor (The Maker) as the 9th vol. in his Obras Completas. While a visiting professor at Univ. of Texas, he was persuaded by staff and students to publish it in English, followed by this publication by Souvenir Press. Mildred Boyer translated Part 1, Harold Moreland Part II. Several of Frasconi's woodcuts grace this edition, with...
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A$420.44
![Hair Combing. [Portrarit of Petra, the artist's daughter].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/038/580/138580038.0.b.jpg)
Hair Combing. [Portrarit of Petra, the artist's daughter].
by Gill, Eric
1929.. Wood-engraving. Reduced format printer's proof. 5.25 x 3.5 inches on wide-margined paper measuring 12 x 9 inches. Physick, no. 208. Initial, title and date in pencil in the margin. This version is possibly a copy by Earl M. Washington.
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A$392.20
Woodcut Initials. P, C, L, D, Q.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
The Lake and the Woods: Or Nature's Calendar
by Prishvin, Mikhail
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Brian Hope-Taylor. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that has been price-clipped. Miniature studies of bird and animal life with lovely wood engravings by Brian Hope-Taylor. Translated from the Russian by W.L. Goodman. Clean copy. Record # 373269
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A$31.38
Female Nude, Standing. From Twenty-Five (25) Nudes.
by Gill, Eric
1938.. Wood-engraving. Printer's proof. 7 x 3-7/8 inches on wide margined paper measuring 12 x 9 inches. Evan Gill, no. 38. (Large format is Physick, no. 962.) Initial, title and date in pencil in the margin. This version is possibly a copy by Earl M. Washington.
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A$392.20
Gefilde der Liebe. Holzschnitte zu 'Daphnis und Chloe'. Mit einem Vorwort von Godo Remszhardt/Fields of Love. Woodcuts for "Daphnis and Chloe". With a foreword by Godo Remszhardt
by Aristide Maillol
Feldafing Obb., Buchheim Verlag, Regensburg, Germany, 1954. First Thus. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Aristide Maillol. Printed in brown ink, 44 full-page woodcut illustrations for the classical Greek tale of 'Daphnis and Chloe' by the French sculptor & artist Aristide Maillol, with a 5 page introduction (in German text) by Godo Remszhardt. These delightful drawings reflect the artist's love of the female form. Size: 12mo - over...
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A$38.92
Woodcut Initials. A, C, D, E.
by [17th Century Italian Engraver]
[Roma: ca. 1650?]. Woodcuts on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5.5 cm. Very Good. From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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A$78.44
A SUITE OF EIGHT WOODCUTS TO ILLUSTRATE STEPPENWOLF BY HERMANN HESSE
by [HESSE, Hermann] ACKERMANN, Helmut
New York: The Print Club [Limited Editions Club], 1979. First Edition. Prints in a folder. Fine in a Fine folder. Helmut Ackermann. Folio (12-3/4" x 18") consisting of loose sheets laid into a printed folder, the whole enclosed in a folding cloth portfolio with ribbon ties. Copy #58 of 200 suites of 8 original woodcuts, each printed directly from the block in two colors, per the artist's intentions, and SIGNED and numbered by Ackermann in pencil. The woodcuts were originally printed in one color,...
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A$686.35
