{"title":"Rare Books Christmas Catalogue 2026","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"balinese-character-signed-deluxe-second-edition","title":"Balinese Character (Deluxe Second Edition, Association Copy)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare association copy dedicated to anthropologist and photographer Charles P. Mountford from co-author Margaret Mead on front free end paper, with signature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA foundational text in asserting visual anthropology as a distinct discipline. Margaret Mead (1901–1978) and her husband Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) conducted fieldwork in the Balinese highland village of Bayung Gede between 1936 and 1938, using photography as their primary-source material to generate their anthropological data. In analysing posture, gesture, facial expression, child rearing, and the physical choreography of ritual, the authors created a study of culture with rigour akin to traditional methods, such as field notes. These methods were radical at the time, and came to influence the development of ethnographic film and photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeluxe second edition. Limited to 2,000 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by Margaret Mead to the front free endpaper: to Charles P. Mountford, with signature. \u003c\/strong\u003eQuarto. Original cream publisher's cloth. Balinese-motif illustration blocked to cover in black. Lettering to spine in black. xvi, 277 pp. Over one hundred full-page photographic plates, drawn from a field archive of more than 700 images, each accompanied by extensive analytical and interpretive text. Bindings sound, square, and tight. Some age markings and foxing present on covers and spine; one dark blemish to front cover. Contents very good, very slight age toning throughout, some minor foxing near upper edge. Images and plates retain their original quality. A very good copy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Pearcy Mountford OBE (1890-1976) was an Australian anthropologist and photographer. He is known for his pioneering work on Indigenous Australians and his depictions and descriptions of their art. Particularly, his works such as \u003cem\u003eBrown Men, Red Sand, \u003c\/em\u003eplayed an integral role in advancing knowledge of Indigenous Australian culture both within and beyond the Anthropological fields. Mountford gained renown for the empathetic and respectful manner in which he and his work treated Indigenous Australians. He also led the famous 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA host of Mountford's works and photography remain on display at the State Library of South Australia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp lang=\"EN-GB\" class=\"Paragraph SCXW121823999 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW121823999 BCX0\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW121823999 BCX0\"\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp lang=\"EN-GB\" class=\"Paragraph SCXW121823999 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW121823999 BCX0\"\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000055\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gregory Bateson \u0026 Margaret Mead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064144838899,"sku":"1110002831799","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_7fa5ab08-4a07-4fc3-86b5-e8c1f7e23fe4.png?v=1792035337"},{"product_id":"woodblock-painting-of-cressida-campbell-first-edition","title":"The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA handsome and much sought-after work on one of Australia’s most collected living artists, published fourteen years before her National Gallery of Australia retrospective.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eCressida Campbell was born in Sydney on 8 July 1960. She studied painting and drawing at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) and held her first solo show in 1979. In 1985 she spent several weeks at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo, learning woodblock printing. Her favourite among the ukiyo-e masters is Utamaro, though the National Gallery’s curator notes that her technique was already established by then. She paints in watercolour on an incised woodblock, which is then printed by hand, and her subjects are resolutely domestic: a kitchen shelf, a bowl of fruit, the view from her studio window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis monograph, published in 2008, surveys her woodblocks from 1984 to 2008. It was edited by Peter Crayford, her husband from 1991 until his death in 2011. It has an introduction by John McDonald, art critic of the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e, a foreword by Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and a catalogue of works compiled by Brett Stone. It remained the principal publication on Campbell until the Gallery’s own catalogue appeared in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eHer standing has risen sharply. In 2022 one of her woodblocks sold for $515,455, the highest price for any work by a living Australian woman artist. The National Gallery of Australia’s survey exhibition ran from 24 September 2022 to 19 February 2023. It was the first time the Gallery had programmed a living Australian artist as its summer blockbuster, and it became the most visited exhibition by a living artist in Australian history. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for significant service to the visual arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. \u003c\/strong\u003eLarge quarto. 360pp. Nearly 300 colour illustrations throughout, some on gate-folds, with photographs by Ingvar Kenne and Greg Weight. Original cloth boards. Original unclipped dust jacket. The copy is clean, fresh and bright, with very minor rubbing to the jacket extremities and very minor foxing at some points of the text block edges. Otherwise it presents wonderfully. A fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cb\u003eLeichhardt \u003c\/b\u003estore. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000063\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Crayford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076880089331,"sku":"1110002834820","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/01_cover_8f405673-6c20-4476-9726-3eb2c54c0c81.jpg?v=1751423350"},{"product_id":"the-well-signed-first-edition","title":"The Well (First Edition, Presentation Copy, Signed)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA wonderful and personal copy of Jolley's Franklin Award-winning novel. This copy carries an extraordinary and genuinely charming chain of association. A previous owner has inscribed the front free endpaper: \u003cem\u003e\"For Basil Porch, from Alma. 1 August 1986. love from Dotty and Edge. Oops! — wrong Bark — Please, ignore any future signatures. A. Thorne,\"\u003c\/em\u003e with a further note beneath reading \u003cem\u003e\"This is really from me, signed Rennett.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Beneath this playful confusion of names and false starts, Jolley herself has inscribed the title page directly to her friend Frank Davidson: \u003cem\u003e\"For Frank Davidson, with affection and respect. Elizabeth Jolley. 1 August 1986. I wonder if I could get my name once more on this page — Elizabeth Jolley,\"\u003c\/em\u003e apparently amused by the tangle of names already present on the endpaper preceding it. The volume is further accompanied by a personal letter from Jolley to Davidson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. Winner of the 1986 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for Book of the Year. \u003c\/strong\u003eOctavo. [vi], 176 pp. Original quarter red cloth and black boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Original unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped, colours bright, free from rubbing and wear. Some mild foxing on front and rear fold-ins. Binding tight though slightly cocked. Endpapers and text block in near-fine condition. Minor foxing along edges. Otherwise, contents fresh and bright. A wonderful presentation copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePenrith\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Jolley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47203248898291,"sku":"1110002831997","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_3eba37f4-7cfb-4875-aadf-c81f924a8f65.png?v=1788760794"},{"product_id":"the-three-voyages-of-captain-cook-round-the-world-second-edition","title":"The Three Voyages of Captain Cook, Round the World (Victorian Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCook’s three voyages for the Victorian library, in the Admiralty’s own words, with John Tallis’s decorative maps of the Australian colonies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe book gathers the three official accounts of Cook’s Pacific voyages. On the first (1768–71) Cook charted the coast of New Zealand and the eastern seaboard of Australia, landing at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770 and claiming the coast for George III on Possession Island in August. The second (1772–75) took the \u003cem\u003eResolution\u003c\/em\u003e below the Antarctic Circle, and the third (1776–80) sought the Northwest Passage from the Pacific and ended with Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay in 1779. Popular digests like this one made the official narratives available to a much wider domestic audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe work was first issued by John Tallis \u0026amp; Company about 1852, in two quarto volumes with maps by John Rapkin, vignetted with scenes by various artists. This later issue carries the imprint of the London Printing \u0026amp; Publishing Company of London and New York, which had bought the rights to many of Tallis’s maps in 1850 and left the Tallis imprint on them. John Tallis (1817–1876) published the \u003cem\u003eIllustrated Atlas of the World\u003c\/em\u003e in parts from 1849 to 1851, to coincide with the Great Exhibition, and it is regarded as among the last great decorative atlases produced in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe maps also record a moment in colonial history. They show the Australian colonies before Queensland’s separation from New South Wales in 1859, with Australia Felix as a separate region. They also show Van Diemen’s Land, which became Tasmania in 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1860s Victorian edition. \u003c\/strong\u003eTwo volumes, quarto. Vol. I: engraved frontispiece, title, xx, [xxxii], 596pp; Vol. II: frontispiece, xi, [xxvi], 556pp. Illustrated with numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, steel-engraved plates and portraits of Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, and thirteen maps, including a suite of Tallis atlas maps of Australia and the Australian colonies, many bearing the Company’s own imprint, together with an additional 1842 map of Australia by W. Hughes. Both volumes bound in later half tan calf and marbled paper boards. Marbled edges. Bindings well preserved, tight. Contents near fine, with only mild age toning towards the edges. Engravings, maps and illustrations clear and well preserved throughout; colours bright. A near fine set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a large and heavy two-volume set. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cb\u003eLeichhardt \u003c\/b\u003estore. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000059\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Cook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47258202079475,"sku":"1110002834752","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8b3f24ac-d448-4ac7-8481-17c9f0a14ba2.png?v=1791859232"},{"product_id":"charles-conder-his-life-and-works-first-edition","title":"Charles Conder: His Life and Works (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe standard early monograph on the Heidelberg School painter Charles Conder, with Campbell Dodgson’s catalogue of his lithographs and etchings, and still the source cited in the literature of his paintings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCharles Edward Conder (1868–1909) was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer who emigrated to Australia in 1884. In Sydney he worked as an illustrator for the \u003cem\u003eIllustrated Sydney News\u003c\/em\u003e and in 1888 painted \u003cem\u003eDeparture of the Orient, Circular Quay\u003c\/em\u003e, bought that year by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He moved that October to Melbourne, where with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton he painted at the artists’ camps at Box Hill and Heidelberg, and he is counted among the core members of the Heidelberg School. He left Australia in 1890 and spent the rest of his life in Europe. He died at Virginia Water, Surrey, in February 1909, aged forty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFrank Gibson’s study appeared five years after Conder’s death, and he had already written the artist’s entry in the 1912 supplement of the \u003cem\u003eDictionary of National Biography\u003c\/em\u003e. It remains the principal early account of the life and work, and later catalogues of Conder’s paintings cite it by page, among them Sotheby’s and Menzies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. \u003c\/strong\u003eLarge quarto. 118pp. Frontispiece portrait and 121 illustrations, among them lithographic plates in colour [please confirm the count and the number in colour]. Original cream buckram, decorated on the cover with a floral design and stamped in gilt and colour to the cover and spine, with the title and spine lettering in gilt. Upper edge gilt. Good. The boards are in good condition, with mild soiling to the cloth along the spine and lower edge and some foxing to the covers. The contents are in good condition, with age toning to the endpapers and foxing and age toning throughout the text block. The upper edge remains bright, and the lithographic plates are in excellent condition, their colours bright and relatively free of markings and age toning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000057\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank Gibson \u0026 Campbell Dodgson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47286995878131,"sku":"1110002831843","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/34c6e4c9-679f-4de2-8d2d-140f9cd21125.jpg?v=1751522004"},{"product_id":"two-years-in-the-antarctic-first-edition","title":"Two Years in the Antarctic (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe second-in-command’s own account of Scott’s\u003c\/em\u003e Discovery \u003cem\u003eExpedition, in print before Scott’s, and one of the scarcest narratives of the heroic age.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAlbert Borlase Armitage (1864–1943) was a merchant navy officer who went on to be commodore of the P\u0026amp;O line. He was second-in-command of the Jackson–Harmsworth expedition to Franz Josef Land and was involved in the 1895 rescue of Fridtjof Nansen and his companions. Scott chose him as navigator and second-in-command of the \u003cem\u003eDiscovery\u003c\/em\u003e Expedition of 1901–04. On it he became the first person to walk on the polar plateau.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHis narrative gives an insider’s view of the daily life of the expedition and a detailed account of the sledging journeys he led, as well as of the surveying and mapping. The text is illustrated with drawings by Edward Wilson, and includes some taken from the expedition’s short-lived magazine, \u003cem\u003eThe Blizzard\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt is said that Armitage annoyed Scott by publishing before Smith, Elder issued Scott’s own \u003cem\u003eVoyage of the Discovery\u003c\/em\u003e. Rosove calls it one of the scarcest books on the British Antarctic Expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. \u003c\/strong\u003eLarge octavo. xix, 315pp., with 16pp of publisher’s advertisements at the rear. Photographic frontispiece and plates, with drawings in the text by Edward Wilson and a folding colour map. The map has a small tear at the gutter join, stabilised with archival tape. Original green pictorial cloth, stamped in white and gilt, with the front cover titled in white in an “icy” decorative font and illustrated in black, and the spine lettered in gilt. Text block edges uncut. Minor wear to the spine edges and corners. The binding is separating slightly between some signatures. Mark from a previously removed bookplate on the front free endpaper, with mild toning across the endpapers. The contents have some foxing throughout, heavier at the preliminaries and towards the rear, and minor creasing to the page edges here and there. The photographic plates are clear and bright. A very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRosove 17.A1, Spence 67, Taurus 43, Renard 50.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFull title: \u003c\/strong\u003eTwo Years in the Antarctic: being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom the library of Warwick H. Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note:\u003c\/strong\u003e This item is large and\/or heavy. It may require additional postage costs to be paid. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington \u003c\/strong\u003estore. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Albert B. Armitage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602951454963,"sku":"1110002868801","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/2_7fc228c2-e48a-4fc4-827f-ddcfc99978e9.png?v=1792026721"},{"product_id":"scotts-last-expedition-first-edition","title":"Scott's Last Expedition (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWidely regarded to be the greatest work on Antarctic exploration ever produced.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn 1 November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) set out from his winter quarters at Cape Evans on the Ross Sea coast of Antarctica, at the head of a party attempting to become the first men to stand at the geographic South Pole. His Terra Nova Expedition had already survived a near-catastrophic storm on the voyage south, and would go on to endure conditions of a severity that remain almost unimaginable to a contemporary reader. Scott's party reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find the tent and flag left there by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition, which had arrived thirty-three days earlier. Scott recorded his devastation in his diary that night: \"Great God! this is an awful place.\" On the return march, all five men of the polar party, being Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates, and Edgar Evans, perished, worn down by exhaustion, malnutrition, extreme cold, and, in Oates's case, a deliberate act of self-sacrifice intended to save his companions that has become one of the most famous stories of courage in the English-speaking world. Scott's body, along with those of Wilson and Bowers, was found in their tent by a search party eight months later, together with his diaries, his final letters, and the geological specimens the party had continued to carry even as their own survival became impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScott's Last Expedition\u003c\/em\u003e, published the following year, presents Scott's own journal exactly as he had kept it, up to the entry of 29 March 1912 alongside a second volume assembling the scientific reports and journey accounts prepared by Dr. Edward Wilson and the expedition's surviving members, arranged for publication by Leonard Huxley, with a preface by Sir Clements Markham, the geographer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society who had championed British Antarctic exploration for decades. The work is illustrated throughout with the photographs of Herbert Ponting, the expedition's official photographer, whose images of the Terra Nova and the expedition's daily life at Cape Evans constitute one of the foundational visual records of polar exploration, alongside watercolours and sketches by Wilson himself, whose work is reproduced here in colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe book's reception on publication, and in the century since, has been extraordinary. News of Scott's death had reached Britain in February 1913, provoking a wave of national mourning that transformed the expedition's scientific and exploratory purpose into something closer to a story of national martyrdom and sacrifice. \u003cem\u003eScott's Last Expedition\u003c\/em\u003e became one of instant legend, a work that has never been out of print since 1913, has been reissued in innumerable subsequent editions, and remains, by the consistent assessment of the antiquarian trade, the most widely known single publication in the entire literature of Antarctic exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScott's Last Expedition. Volume I: Being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott. Volume II: Being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition.\u003c\/em\u003e Illustrations by Herbert G. 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Binding of both volumes square and tight. Some markings on gilt top edge of both volumes. Both volumes show mild age toning on endpapers, as well as mild foxing and toning here and there throughout contents. Sans original dust jackets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003efrom the library of Warwick H. Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This is a two-volume set and is heavy. Additional postage costs may apply. 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In June 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine had disappeared into cloud on the mountain’s northeast ridge, last seen by Noel Odell “going strong for the top”. No British party had returned in the nine years since. Hugh Ruttledge (1884–1961), of the Indian Civil Service, led the party that did, a strong team including Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, Percy Wyn Harris, Lawrence Wager and Jack Longland, under the Mount Everest Committee of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club. The expedition was funded in part by Ruttledge’s book contract with Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton, a newspaper deal with the \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e and a gift of £100 from King George V.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn 30 May 1933 Wyn Harris and Wager found an ice axe on the north face, below the First Step, an object generally attributed to Irvine and the first physical clue to the fate of the two climbers. The American Alpine Club’s reviewer noted that their explorations ruled out the route by the ridge and over the Second Step, and found instead a way along the slabs of the north face to a couloir. Wager, Wyn Harris and, separately, Smythe reached about 28,150 feet (8,580 metres), a height that stood as the record for climbing without supplementary oxygen until Messner and Habeler in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRuttledge’s official narrative appeared the following year. He wrote most of it himself, with a chapter by Smythe and a large final section of specialist observations by the doctor, the geologist and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Royal octavo. Original blue publisher's cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Cover margins in blind. Original unclipped dust jacket. xv, 389 pp. Photographic frontispiece and 58 sepia photographic plates throughout; 3 in-text diagrams; 4 maps, including 3 large folding. Index.  Several contemporary newspaper clippings covering the expedition loosely inserted at front. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped, spine browned with some cracking and chipping. Previous repair made to inside lower spine. Cover boards have some bumping to corners and very mild darkening to spine. Contents in excellent condition. Some foxing present on preliminaries and along edges. Pages generally clean, fresh, and bright. Folding maps in fine condition, free from markings and tearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e from the library of Warwick H. 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It was a long meditation on mortality, grief and the consolations of faith, composed in the wake of the deaths of his stepdaughter, her husband and his wife, and it was one of the most widely read poems of the eighteenth century. Its influence on the Romantic movement was substantial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 1795 the publisher Richard Edwards commissioned William Blake to illustrate a lavish new edition. Blake produced 537 watercolours, designed to encircle the cut-out text of the poem on each page, and he planned to engrave about two hundred of them. Edwards published only the first volume in 1797, with 43 engravings for the first four Nights. It was a commercial failure and the venture was abandoned. The watercolours remained unpublished, and are now in the British Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Folio Society’s facsimile of 2005 reproduces the complete series in colour for the first time, from the unique copy in the British Museum. Oxford’s scholarly edition of 1980 reproduced all the watercolours, but only 78 of its illustrations in colour. A reviewer in \u003cem\u003eBlake Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e called the Folio facsimile the most beautiful and aesthetically satisfying new book on Blake in many years, and noted that it weighed 25 pounds. The commentary volume by Robin Hamlyn, a curator at Tate Britain, gives a brief analysis of each of the 537 designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYOUNG, Edward\u003c\/strong\u003e (illus. William Blake). \u003cem\u003eNight Thoughts: The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, \u0026amp; Immortality.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition. First and only complete publication of Blake's watercolour illustrations for \u003cem\u003eNight Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this being number 484. \u003c\/strong\u003eThick elephant folio. Vol. I \u0026amp; II: 548 pp. across two volumes; companion volume: [vi], xx, 362 pp. Two main volumes bound in quarter goatskin and illustrated cloth. Spines lettered in gilt. Cover illustration by Neil Gower. Contents printed on Natural Evolution paper by Castelli Bolis. Accompanied by envelope containing three loose prints. Companion commentary volume by Robyn Hamlyn. Housed in purple buckram solander case lettered in gilt. Some very mild foxing to the cloth of Vol. II. Otherwise fine throughout. A near fine set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis item is very large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. For international shipping please contact us for a quote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000154.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edward Young \u0026 William Blake (illus.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887370584307,"sku":"1110002900907","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/DSC06582-Edited.png?v=1761611159"},{"product_id":"salar-the-salmon-first-edition","title":"Salar the Salmon (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraised as \"the finest Salmon novel in English\". A journey through the life of a salmon. A naturalist as well as a writer, Williamson spent a long period studying the water near his home at Shallowford, watching the fish and studying their behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. \u003c\/strong\u003eOriginal brown publisher's linen cloth in original price-clipped dust jacket. 319pp. Dust jacket price-clipped, some minor rubbing and creasing along edges. Binding excellent, mild rubbing at corners. Foxing to foredge, and sporadically through contents. Otherwise, contents very good. Bookplate of John Gibson to rear of FFEP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePenrith \u003c\/strong\u003estore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Williamson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901643669747,"sku":"1110002901331","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/DSC06852.jpg?v=1760681124"},{"product_id":"the-fat-man-in-history-first-edition","title":"The Fat Man in History (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first work by one of Australia’s most awarded and beloved authors. A collection of some of Carey’s earliest short stories. Bizarre, funny, and chilling, allegorical and fantastic. The stories follow an alter-reality in which a small town of “fat men” become ostracised by the government and plot to overthrow it. This hardcover first edition had an exceptionally small print run and has become extremely scarce. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing.\u003c\/strong\u003e Contains twelve short stories, including \"Peeling,\" \"Report on the Shadow Industry,\" \"American Dreams,\" and the title story. Small octavo. 141 pp. Original black publisher's cloth in original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, cover art titled \u003cem\u003eCahill Expressway\u003c\/em\u003e by Jeffrey Smart. Spine lettered in white and orange. One small tear to jacket upper edge near spine head. Contents very good, some foxing along upper edge of text block and some mild toning throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003eLeichhardt\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000253\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Carey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195351118067,"sku":"1110002927942","price":750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/Untitleddesign_10_882c1d57-34a1-49d7-add3-49bd5df8a2e4.png?v=1764741265"},{"product_id":"workers-first-edition-signed","title":"Workers (First Edition, Signed)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalgado’s epic photographic elegy to manual labour across the world, in the first edition, signed by the photographer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorkers\u003c\/em\u003e is the monumental account of manual labour that Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) made after \u003cem\u003eAn Uncertain Grace\u003c\/em\u003e. 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There is some light foxing to the inner covers, but the jacket is pristine and the volume fine, with the binding tight and the contents clean, fresh and bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note:\u003c\/strong\u003e This item is large and\/or heavy. It may require additional postage costs to be paid. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000266\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sebastiâo Salgado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48609689305331,"sku":"1110002928079","price":350.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/Untitleddesign_14_d54febfe-0c73-41a6-b696-d90c244f7eb4.png?v=1773032663"},{"product_id":"the-thorn-birds-first-edition-author-inscribed","title":"The Thorn Birds (First Edition, Author Inscribed)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInscribed by McCullough to first page: \"To Jean, with best wishes. 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Binding is very well done but lacks binders markings. Some faint markings to cover boards. Contents show some even age toning (likely due to paper quality) and a spot or two along the edges. 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Original unclipped dust jacket.  Bears the verification stamp of Pea Green Boat Books confirming this as a true signed first edition. Meticulously preserved. Dust jacket unclipped, showing only very light and uncommon signs of handling. 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The novel is set in Georgetown, where a young girl, Regan MacNeil, lives with her mother, the actress Chris MacNeil, who is in the district filming a movie. Regan’s possession leads to a long exorcism that tests the priests, physically and spiritually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe story rests on a real case. Blatty heard in 1949, as a student in Georgetown’s class of 1950, of a supposed possession and exorcism, and later journalistic research points to a boy from Cottage City, Maryland, known by the pseudonyms Roland Doe and Robbie Mannheim. Blatty had long thought of writing it up, but his agent talked him out of it while he was a success as a comic novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHarper \u0026amp; Row published the novel in 1971. William Friedkin’s film of 1973, with Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow and Jason Miller, brought Blatty an Oscar for his screenplay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the true first printing. The copyright page states “First Edition”, the number line on the last page begins with 1, and the jacket is the first issue, priced $6.95 and features Blatty to the rear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition stated on the copyright page, with the full number line, ending in 1, on the final page. \u003c\/strong\u003eOctavo. 340, [ii] pp. Original publisher’s cloth in the original unclipped dust jacket, priced $6.95. Very good in a good dust jacket. The jacket shows some rubbing and chipping along the edges and at the crease ends, with two very small tape repairs to the head and foot of the spine. Binding sound, a trifle cocked where the front hinge has loosened a little. Mild rubbing to the corners of the boards. 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Of the 1,450 numbered and signed copies, Heinemann reserved 200 specifically for the Australian market — a relatively large allocation that reflects both the vigour of the colonial book trade and the already substantial reputation Rackham had established in the antipodean market before the First World War. \u003cstrong\u003eThe limitation page is signed by Rackham in black ink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. Signed limited deluxe edition. Limited to 1,450 numbered and signed copies, of which 1,000 were for Great Britain and Ireland, 250 for the United States of America, and 200 for Australia; this being copy 266. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe famous Rackham-illustrated edition. Translations by V. S. Vernon Jones; indroduction by G. K. Chesterton. Quarto (29.5 cm). Original publisher's white buckram cloth. Gilt-stamped vignettes and titling to upper board and spine. 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It is generally understood that the vast majority of Geneva Bibles dated 1599 are in fact later Amsterdam or Dordrecht copies printed during the 1620s-1640s with falsified London imprints. These Continental editions were produced to circumvent Archbishop Laud's import bans of the 1630s, which sought to suppress the Geneva Bible in favour of the King James Version. Despite their false imprints, these Amsterdam editions are historically significant as material evidence of the religious controversies of the period and the continued demand for the Geneva Bible's Calvinist commentary among Presbyterian and Puritan communities. They were also made to a higher standard, with better materials, than their earlier British counterparts and have thus weathered the ensuing centuries much better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy of the Geneva Bible contains many points consistent with its identification as an early Amsterdam copy. 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Based on Francis Rous's 1641 translation and refined with meticulous attention to the Hebrew text, it became the sole authorized psalter for Scottish Presbyterian worship and has remained in continuous use for over 375 years. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous woodcut engravings present, with a wonderful map of the 'Holy Land' and another showing an approximate geographical location of the Garden of Eden. The title pages of the New and Old testaments are profusely illustrated with 24 compartments: 12 depicting the tribes of Israel and 12 of the Apostles, as well as four depictions of the Evangelists framing the titling text. The volumes have, unfortunately been trimmed down aggressively with the rebinding. Particularly to the the Psalms of David in Meeter portion, with the head and tail texts impacted on numerous pages. Both volumes are bound in full contemporary polished calf in matching style, modestly decorated in blind along the edges. The spines feature six raised bands with compartments like decorated in blind. The modest decorations to the calf are in keeping with the style and intent of the Geneva bible as a working bible, and match wonderfully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis two-volume set provides a remarkable window into Scottish Presbyterian devotional practice in the critical period following the Solemn League and Covenant (1643). The combination of the Geneva Bible—with its Reformed theological commentary—and the newly authorized Scottish Metrical Psalter represents the complete liturgical library of a Scottish Presbyterian household. The division into two volumes is practical, separating the unwieldy Old Testament from the New Testament and Psalter, the latter being the texts most frequently used in worship and family devotions. 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He was, depending on who was asked, a brilliant man wronged by his enemies, or the most dangerous person ever to hold high office in the United States. Hamilton held the second view; Jefferson, who despised Hamilton, held a version of the first; history has generally followed Hamilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eVidal's novel holds neither view and both. The outer narrative is supplied by Charlie Schuyler, a young journalist in New York in 1833 who becomes Burr's law clerk and, at Burr's direction, begins secretly transcribing the old man's recollections of his life. What Burr recalls is rendered with Vidal's characteristic combination of exhaustive historical research and gleeful irreverence. The Founding Fathers as Burr remembers them are vain, scheming, sexually complicated, financially precarious men who happened to be present at the creation of something larger than themselves. The irony is never merely satirical: Vidal's Burr genuinely loved his country and was destroyed by it, and the novel's comedy and its melancholy are inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurr\u003c\/em\u003e is the first volume of the \u003cem\u003eNarratives of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e series, which continues with \u003cem\u003e1876\u003c\/em\u003e (1976), \u003cem\u003eLincoln\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), \u003cem\u003eEmpire\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eHollywood\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), \u003cem\u003eWashington D.C.\u003c\/em\u003e (1967), and \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/em\u003e (2000). 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Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 318pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: HarperCollins, 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAnn Patchett (b. 1963) grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and published her first novel in 1992. \u003cem\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/em\u003e, her fourth, was the book that brought her to the widest possible audience: it won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN\/Faulkner Award in 2002, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was included in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century. Patchett is also, since 2011, the co-founder and co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, one of the most celebrated independent bookshops in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel was inspired by the Japanese embassy hostage crisis of 1996–97, in which members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement took seventy-two hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, during a holiday party. The crisis lasted 126 days and ended with a military assault. Patchett transposed the events to an unnamed country and transformed their meaning entirely: what she was interested in was not the politics or the violence but the strange suspended world created when captors and captives are forced to inhabit the same space for months at a time and the expected roles begin to dissolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel opens on the birthday party of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese industrialist, at the home of a South American vice president. The entertainment is provided by Roxanne Coss, the world's greatest living soprano, whose presence Hosokawa has insisted upon. The evening is perfect until a band of young guerrillas takes the entire gathering hostage. What follows, over the months of captivity, is a gradual transformation in which the certainties that structure ordinary life — nationality, class, the distinction between captor and captive — give way to something more human and more contingent. People who cannot speak each other's languages learn to communicate; people who have no reason to love each other fall in love; the music that Roxanne Coss continues to sing becomes the medium through which the enclosed community discovers what it actually values. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000517\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ann Patchett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070467645683,"sku":"1110002990427","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_f695b092-1f63-47e3-a2b6-f8a25a81ebbc.png?v=1779071822"},{"product_id":"survivor-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Survivor (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003erb_PALAHNIUK, Chuck.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSurvivor.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 289 pp., paginated in reverse order. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company, 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eChuck Palahniuk (b. 1962) grew up in Burbank, Washington, worked for years as a truck mechanic and a journalist, and published \u003cem\u003eFight Club\u003c\/em\u003e in 1996 after it had been rejected by several publishers on the grounds that no one would buy a novel so relentlessly dark. Its subsequent cult success — accelerated by David Fincher's 1999 film adaptation — made Palahniuk one of the most widely read American novelists of his generation, and established the mode in which he has worked ever since: first-person confessional narration, deadpan black comedy, formal experimentation, and a consistent fascination with the mechanisms by which contemporary consumer culture destroys the selves it claims to liberate. \u003cem\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/em\u003e, published the same year as the \u003cem\u003eFight Club\u003c\/em\u003e film, was his second novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTender Branson is, as the novel opens, the last known surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult, a religious sect whose adult members have obeyed a divine instruction to kill themselves, leaving only Tender alive. He is dictating his life story into the black box recorder of a Boeing 747 that he has hijacked and that is, he knows, about to crash. The novel is his confession — of his childhood within the cult, his sale into domestic servitude, his accidental discovery that the outside world will pay attention to a man who has suffered impressively, his transformation at the hands of agents and publicists into a celebrity \"survivor,\" his relationship with a woman named Fertility Hollis who can predict the future, and the chain of events that has brought him to an empty plane heading for the Australian desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe formal device that gives the novel its most immediately striking quality is its pagination: the pages are numbered in reverse, from 289 down to 1, so that each chapter brings the reader closer to the crash and the manuscript shorter as the plane descends. It is Palahniuk at his most structurally deliberate, using the mechanics of the book as an analogue for the content of the narrative — the sense that everything is counting down, that time is running out, that what we are reading is already in the past by the time we read it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/em\u003e is a savage satire of celebrity culture, of the American appetite for redemption narratives, and of the way in which authenticity — even the authenticity of genuine suffering — is immediately colonised and commodified by the media machinery that claims to honour it. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000519\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chuck Palahniuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070490648819,"sku":"1110002990441","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_f1141cbc-7fa4-4f04-ab08-81f16661801e.png?v=1779072238"},{"product_id":"schindlers-list-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Schindler's List (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThomas Keneally’s Booker Prize-winning account of Oskar Schindler, under the title by which the world knows it, signed by the author in Easton Press’s full leather Collector’s Edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThomas Keneally was born in Sydney on 7 October 1935. He studied for the Catholic priesthood, abandoned that vocation in 1960, and published his first novel in 1964. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, in 1972 for \u003cem\u003eThe Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1975 for \u003cem\u003eGossip from the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e and in 1979 for \u003cem\u003eConfederates\u003c\/em\u003e, before winning it in 1982 with \u003cem\u003eSchindler’s Ark\u003c\/em\u003e, the first novel by an Australian to do so. The book also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 1983. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1983 for his service to literature, and is an Australian Living Treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchindler’s Ark\u003c\/em\u003e was published in London by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton in 1982 and in the United States as \u003cem\u003eSchindler’s List\u003c\/em\u003e, the title used for this Easton Press edition and for Steven Spielberg’s film. The book began by chance. In October 1980 Keneally walked into a luggage shop in Beverly Hills to ask the price of briefcases. The owner, Leopold “Poldek” Pfefferberg, was a survivor of Schindler’s factories, and on learning that Keneally was a novelist he showed him his files on Schindler, including the original list. Pfefferberg went on to accompany Keneally to Poland. Keneally interviewed survivors over several years and drew on their testimony, adding scenes and dialogue where the documentary record was silent. He has said that what drew him to Schindler was that one could not say where opportunism ended and altruism began.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOskar Schindler (1908–1974) was an industrialist and a member of the Nazi party who used Jewish forced labour in his Kraków enamelware factory. Over the war he spent his fortune on bribery, deception and false records to keep some 1,200 of his workers from the camps. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000553\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Keneally","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49089452114163,"sku":"1110002990786","price":160.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_877f1796-6f94-4fb3-a0fe-b8b3ab085893.png?v=1779247856"},{"product_id":"times-arrow-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Time's Arrow (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAMIS, Martin.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTime's Arrow; or, The Nature of the Offence.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full black leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 168 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, Collector's Notes, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMartin Amis (1949–2023) was born in Oxford, the son of Kingsley Amis, and established himself across a career of forty years as one of the central figures in postwar British fiction — a novelist of formidable technical invention, satirical range, and stylistic ambition whose influence on the generation that followed him is difficult to overstate. \u003cem\u003eMoney\u003c\/em\u003e (1984) and \u003cem\u003eLondon Fields\u003c\/em\u003e (1989) are the novels on which his popular reputation rests; \u003cem\u003eTime's Arrow\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1991 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is the one that best demonstrates what his intelligence could do when given a subject of commensurate magnitude. The Times named him one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. He died in May 2023; signed copies of his work carry the significance of a posthumous signature from one of the most important British novelists of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is 168 pages long. Its subject is the Holocaust. Its formal conceit is that the entire narrative runs backwards — from death to birth, from post-war suburban America back to the death camps of occupied Poland — and is narrated by a consciousness that has no agency, only perception, riding inside the body of a Nazi doctor called Tod T. Friendly as his life reverses toward its origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe effect of the reversed narrative on the reader's experience of the Holocaust material is the novel's central and most disturbing achievement. A life experienced backwards is a life in which consequences precede causes, in which food emerges from mouths and returns to plates, in which injuries heal as the doctor approaches rather than withdraws. Within this logic, Auschwitz becomes, as experienced by the narrator moving backwards through it, a place of miraculous creation: the dead are restored to life, families are reunited, the smoke and ash of the crematoria reconstitute themselves into living human beings. The horror of this inversion — the recognition that the formal beauty of the reversal enacts an annihilation of meaning, that what it depicts as creation was in reality destruction — is the \"nature of the offence\" of the subtitle. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000563\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Amis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49091371106547,"sku":"1110002990885","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_fcf2bc29-b696-460e-a7a5-d4adb8503b1f.png?v=1779244952"},{"product_id":"soul-mountain-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Soul Mountain (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGAO, Xingjian\u003c\/strong\u003e (trans. 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First English translation by Mabel Lee, Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGao Xingjian (b. 1940) is a novelist, playwright, and painter who was born in Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province and educated in Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution he was sent to a re-education camp for six years and spent time burning his own manuscripts to avoid persecution. He emerged as one of the leading playwrights of the post-Mao liberalisation and achieved international recognition with his play \u003cem\u003eBus Stop\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) — which was subsequently banned as \"spiritual pollution\" by Chinese authorities — before a combination of political pressure and a misdiagnosis of lung cancer prompted him to flee Beijing in 1983 for a five-month journey through remote regions of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. The journey provided the material for \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e. Gao left China permanently in 1987, settled in Paris, and became a French citizen in 1998. After the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, his works were banned in China. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature — the first Chinese author to receive it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, written during the decade following Gao's journey and first published in Taiwan in 1990, is the novel the Nobel Committee had in mind. It defies straightforward description, which is part of the point. The narrator — a writer who has also been misdiagnosed with lung cancer and has also fled Beijing into the wilderness — travels through the remote mountains and forests of southwestern China in search of a place called Lingshan, Soul Mountain, whose existence he cannot verify and whose location no one can agree on. The journey is simultaneously physical and metaphysical, a traversal of China's pre-revolutionary folk traditions, shamanism, Taoism, and Buddhism alongside its landscapes. The novel's narrative is distributed across shifting pronouns — sections addressed to \"you\" alternate with \"I\" and \"he\/she\" — enacting the fragmentation of identity that is both the novel's subject and its formal method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe first English translation was produced by Mabel Lee, an Australian scholar of Chinese literature at the University of Sydney, whose championing of the novel brought it to HarperCollins Australia — making Sydney the site of the work's first appearance in English in 2000, weeks before Gao's Nobel Prize transformed it into an international phenomenon. 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He wrote the book between 1879 and 1884 and went on revising it until it appeared, a decade after he had left Arabia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTravels in Arabia Deserta\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Cambridge University Press in 1888 in an edition limited to 500 copies, priced at three guineas. It found its champion in T. E. Lawrence, who used it as a guide on his own journeys across Arabia and was instrumental in the second English edition of 1921. That edition, again of 500 copies, was published by the Medici Society and Jonathan Cape, whose first book it was. Lawrence’s introduction first appeared there, and it is reprinted here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Folio Society published this edition in 2013. It follows the text of Cape’s “new and definitive” edition of 1936 and adds a new preface by Rory Stewart. 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Vol. I: lii, 610 pp; Vol. II: xvi, 644 pp. Both text volumes half-bound in Indian goatskin by Lachenmaier, Reutlingen, Germany, with marbled paper sides by Jemma Lewis. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Light brown endpapers. Text printed on wove paper. Approximately 200 integrated illustrations throughout; 52 pages of duotone plates printed on art silk paper, mainly after photographs by Félix Bonfils and others. Map volume: large folding coloured map of Doughty's route, mounted in panels on linen and case-bound in Arbelave library buckram; limitation statement on front pastedown. Dark brown buckram slipcase with gilt-lettered morocco title-label to spine. Mild foxing along edges of volumes; all contents present, bright, and clear throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis item is a large and very heavy three-component set. 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He sailed for Egypt on 31 August 1838 and spent eleven months in Egypt, Nubia, Sinai, the Holy Land, Syria and Lebanon, reaching Jerusalem at Easter 1839. He returned with 272 sketches, a panorama of Cairo and three full sketchbooks. He travelled up the Nile to the Second Cataract, saw Abu Simbel, and moved through Petra, Jerusalem, Baalbek, Beirut and Damascus. What he recorded was a world already changing, and many of the monuments he drew have since been altered, moved or lost, some of the Nubian sites beneath Lake Nasser. His record has acquired a documentary importance beside its artistic one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 1840 the publisher Francis Graham Moon paid Roberts £3,000 for the copyright of the sketches and for his supervision of the lithographs, which were made by the Tournai-born Louis Haghe (1806–1885), one of Britain’s foremost lithographers. 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Six original volumes bound in three; irregular pagination, with 250 colour lithographic plates numbered continuously. Vol. I: \u003cem\u003eJerusalem \u0026amp; Galilee. Jordan \u0026amp; Bethlehem\u003c\/em\u003e, plates 1–87. Vol. II: \u003cem\u003eIdumea \u0026amp; Petra. Egypt \u0026amp; Nubia\u003c\/em\u003e, plates 88–168. Vol. III: \u003cem\u003eEgypt \u0026amp; Nubia\u003c\/em\u003e, plates 169–250. All three volumes bound in full royal blue leather, with raised bands to the spines and elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to boards and spines. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Satin ribbon page markers. Some very mild foxing to the flyleaf of Volume I and some spots of rubbing to the cover gilt. Otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a large three-volume set and is very heavy. Additional postage costs will apply. 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Benedikt Taschen himself surveyed Shulman's 260,000-strong archive over two years to find the hidden gems and shining moments of Shulman's illustrious career, and sensitively whittled the selection down to 1,008 pages split into three volumes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing. \u003c\/strong\u003eAlongside essays by Shulman, also includes essays by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Owen Edwards, Philip J. Ethington, Peter Loughrey, Wim de Wit \u0026amp; Benedikt Taschen. Large Folio (38 × 30 cm). All three volumes and slipcase bound in cream cloth with colour pictorial covers. Spines with colour embossed titling — each volume in a distinct colour corresponding to the volume's cover design and endpapers. 1,008 pp total. Vol. I: 1939–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1964; Vol. III: 1964–1981. Over 1,500 colour and duotone photographs throughout. Text in English, French, and German. Some foxing to cloth of slipcase and sporadically to volume covers. Internally all three volumes generally fine: clean and bright. Some minor markings to front-most pages of first volume due to pages sticking slightly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a very large and very heavy three-volume set. Additional postage costs will apply. 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It was, by Dickens's own insistent reckoning, his best novel: \"I think Chuzzlewit,\" he wrote to a contemporary, \"in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories\", a judgment from which he never wavered despite the commercial disappointment of its original reception. His biographer Peter Ackroyd identifies the novel as marking \"a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics. For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful principle of a 'humour', but ones who are seen to change with the changing world, to live and grow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFinely bound by Morrell Binders of London in full polished calf and gilt tooling. Covers triple-ruled and spine compartments elaborately detailed in gilt. Lettering to spine in gilt on red and black Morocco panels. Intricate gilt inner dentelles and all edges gilt. Morrell bindings in this style on first editions of Dickens are independently collectible and consistently sought after. The binder's stamp to the front flyleaf provides the attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in book form. First issue points present: \"100£\" on sign-post of vignette title page; vignette signed \"Phiz fecit\" with seven studs in the trunk lid; 14-line errata leaf; preface dated \"twenty-fifth June, 1844\"; plates facing pp. 386 and 387 transposed. Subsequently and finely bound by Morrell Binders of London. \u003c\/strong\u003eIllustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (\"Phiz\"). Octavo (220 × 139 mm). Full tan polished calf. Spine with five raised bands, triple-ruled in gilt; titling to spine on red and black Morocco panels; compartments elaborately gilt-decorated. Covers margined in gilt. Elaborate gilt dentelles to turn-ins. All edges gilt. Arches hand-laid paper endpapers. Binder's stamp of Morrell, London, to upper corner of front flyleaf. xiv, [errata leaf with 14 lines, verso blank], 624 pp. 40 etched plates throughout including frontispiece and title-page vignette. Binding in beautiful condition: leather supple and strong, gilt bold and bright throughout. Contents show some light toning and sporadic spotting to preliminaries and to the rear of a few plate pages. These are a characteristic condition issue of this edition, attributable to the chemical interaction between the plate paper and the adjacent text leaves. Otherwise, contents clear and bright throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eSmith 7; Hatton \u0026amp; Cleaver 183–212; Sadleir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003eLeichhardt\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000631\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49295324512499,"sku":"1110002998690","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_774156e2-cbc5-4a53-b6ca-bd2dec337415.png?v=1782360274"},{"product_id":"essays-of-montaigne-de-luxe-edition-first-copy-printed","title":"Essays of Montaigne (De Luxe Edition, First Copy Printed)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber 1 of 150 copies: The first copy off the press. 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The claim is simultaneously modest and vast: the self as the proper subject of inquiry, subjective experience as the only honest starting point for any knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe influence of the Essais has been extraordinary and continuous. Francis Bacon acknowledged them as the model for his own essays. Shakespeare drew on them directly for The Tempest. Descartes, Pascal, and Voltaire engaged with them seriously. William Hazlitt, the grandfather of this volume's editor, wrote about them with enthusiasm. Virginia Woolf considered Montaigne the first modern writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis translation, by Charles Cotton (1630–1687), was first published in 1685 and has been the standard English version of the Essais ever since. The edition was revised and edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1834–1913).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Navarre Society's 1923 large paper edition is one of the finest sets of the complete writings of Montaigne ever produced. The type was set by hand at The Riverside Press in Edinburgh from a specially cast fount, and printed on Arnold's British hand-made paper made and watermarked exclusively for this edition. The full vellum bindings with gilt fleur-de-lys vignettes, gilt spines, and marbled endpapers are marvellously executed and provide a luxury befitting the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Paper Edition De Luxe. Limited to 150 numbered sets, this being number 1. Signed by The Navarre Society and The Riverside Press Limited on the limitation page. \u003c\/strong\u003eTranslations by Charled Cotton; edited by William Carew Hazlitt. Large 8vo (265 × 205 mm). All five volumes bound in original full vellum over stiff boards. Covers ruled and margined in gilt with gilt fleur-de-lys vignette to front boards. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt; others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Vol. I: 242 pp; Vol. II: 361 pp; Vol. III: 364 pp; Vol. IV: 338 pp; Vol. V: 347 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne in each volume, reproduced from original engravings in the British Museum. Vol. I with two-leaf folding facsimile letter. Type handset at The Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh from a specially cast fount; printed on Arnold's British hand-made paper specially made and watermarked for The Navarre Society. Covers show a few markings here and there, some gentle bowing to some volume covers. Otherwise, in excellent order throughout. Contents generally fine: albeit for some imperfections to uncut edges, contents are clean, bright, and largely free from marks. A marvellously preserved set that presents beautifully. Bookplate of W.J. Rogers present to the FFEP of each volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a five-volume set and is heavy. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003eLeichhardt\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000632\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michel de Montaigne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49295347056883,"sku":"1110002998706","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1.1.png?v=1782368301"},{"product_id":"neo-rauch-limited-edition","title":"Neo Rauch (Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003ePublished by Taschen in 2012 to coincide with Rauch's Fiftieth birthday, and the retrospective exhibitions being hosted to celebrate it. 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This copy numbered \"0000\" and stamped \"Not for Sale\" — a publisher's display or specimen copy, produced outside the regular numbered sequence of the signed edition of 1,000. Unsigned. \u003c\/strong\u003eFolio. Full printed cloth. Housed in red cloth solander case. 476 pp. Over 250 large-scale colour reproductions of Rauch's paintings throughout. Essays by Wolfgang Büscher, Harald Kunde, and Gary Tinterow. Some wear at spine ends and cover corners. Some mild foxing internally at front and rear; otherwise generally clean throughout. Binding tight and sound. Cover gilt bright and bold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000635\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BÜSCHER, Wolfgang; Harald Kunde \u0026 Gary Tinterow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49331690438899,"sku":"1110002998737","price":450.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_d14c7608-2855-4d24-9d22-3344896ab56e.png?v=1782967101"},{"product_id":"the-sketchbooks-folio-society-limited-edition","title":"The Sketchbooks (Folio Society Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe four surviving Van Gogh sketchbooks reproduced as physical objects, in a replica of the van Gogh Museum’s own display box.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOf the many sketchbooks Vincent van Gogh must have kept, only four survive intact, and all are in the Van Gogh Museum. They contain sketches in pencil, pen, ink and chalk, with personal notes, addresses and lines of poetry. The first dates from Nuenen and the fourth from his last days at Auvers-sur-Oise, while the other two hold work and notes from his years in Nuenen, Antwerp and Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Folio Society published this facsimile in collaboration with the museum on 1 May 2013, to coincide with the “Van Gogh at Work” exhibition, in an edition of 1,000 copies. The museum describes it as the first facsimile of all four sketchbooks. Each book is bound as the original was, and the folder reproduces loose leaves that became detached from their sketchbooks. The commentary is by Marije Vellekoop, the museum’s Head of Collections, Research and Presentation, and the researcher Renske Suijver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFacsimile limited edition, number 93 of 1,000 numbered copies. \u003c\/strong\u003eQuarto. Housed in a mid-brown cloth Solander box with a paper cover, a letterpress-printed title label and gilt spine titling, lined with hand-marbled paper by Jemma Lewis. The box is itself a facsimile of the display box used by Van Gogh Museum curators in 1970. It contains Sketchbook One, bound in light brown vegetable parchment with ink-splattered page edges, 96pp. Sketchbook Two is quarter-bound in black cloth with raised corners and black paper covers, 42pp. Sketchbooks Three and Four follow, the latter the largest, with about half its pages unused and the blank and torn pages faithfully reproduced. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000663\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vincent van Gogh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49335979442419,"sku":"1110003000675","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_5ff1de09-913b-4b23-9940-22709b47284e.png?v=1783391718"},{"product_id":"froissarts-chronicles-easton-press-deluxe-limited-edition","title":"Froissart's Chronicles (Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFroissart’s eyewitness chronicle of the Hundred Years’ War in Johnes’s classic English translation, in hand-marbled full red leather: number 15 of only 500.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eJean Froissart’s \u003cem\u003eChronicles\u003c\/em\u003e are a key primary source for eyewitness accounts of the Hundred Years’ War, which shaped England and France for generations. They run from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV, and Easton Press calls them the most important document of the ideals of chivalry and its revival in the fourteenth century. The text survives in more than 150 manuscripts, many of them richly illuminated, and it was first printed in Paris about 1498.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe English text is that of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, whose translation first appeared in 1803–05 and long remained the standard version. Easton Press announced this Deluxe Edition in December 2014 at US$596, and the edition has since sold out. The covers are hand-marbled, the spines are inlaid with 22-carat gold, and the sewn leaves have satin ribbon markers. The set is notably heavy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited Deluxe Edition. 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Folding maps otherwise in wonderful condition, complete and without tears. Armorial bookplate of William Strickland of Boynton to front pastedown; bookplate of Milton Whitmont to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFerguson 24; Holmes 66. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000678\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Eden [Erroneous]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49839373779187,"sku":"1110003000828","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_f67f2294-622d-4ced-991f-4249e8f8e7d0.png?v=1783399653"},{"product_id":"the-log-of-h-m-s-providence-1791-1793-limited-deluxe-edition","title":"The Log of H.M.S. 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Within two and a half years he returned to the Pacific to complete the mission the \u003cem\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e had failed to accomplish: the transport of breadfruit saplings from Tahiti to the West Indies, where it was hoped the fast-growing, calorie-dense fruit would provide cheap food for enslaved plantation workers. He sailed on 3 August 1791 in HMS \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e, accompanied by the brig \u003cem\u003eAssistant\u003c\/em\u003e under Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock, with Matthew Flinders among the midshipmen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor Australian readers the route matters. The ships called at Adventure Bay on Bruny Island, Tasmania, in February 1792, where Bligh planted fruit trees and his third lieutenant, George Tobin, made the first European drawing of an echidna. After three months at Matavai Bay, Tahiti, they carried 2,126 breadfruit plants west through Torres Strait, where Bligh charted the passage now called Bligh Channel and fought off an attack by islanders’ canoes. They reached St Vincent in January 1793 and Jamaica in February, and returned to Deptford in August. Of the breadfruit plants, only a fraction survived the voyage, but they established the fruit in the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe log has a second interest. In Tahiti, and along the way, Bligh pursued the fate of Fletcher Christian and the \u003cem\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e mutineers, learning there of Captain Edwards’s voyage in HMS \u003cem\u003ePandora\u003c\/em\u003e to arrest them. It is at once the record of a largely successful transport mission and a document of his continuing reckoning with the mutiny that had defined his reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGenesis Publications was founded in 1974 by Brian Roylance and made its name with facsimiles of historical nautical journals, among them \u003cem\u003eThe Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787–1789\u003c\/em\u003e. This volume, reproduced from Bligh’s manuscript at Kew, followed in 1976 in an edition of 500 copies. Its apparatus includes a preface by Lord Mountbatten, introductory essays by Stephen Walters, a recognised authority on Bligh, and D. G. C. Allan, the facsimile of Ellis’s treatise on the breadfruit, and David Bellamy’s botanical notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis copy bears the bookplate of Milton Whitmont. The Whitmont family are documented among Australian collectors and have been the subject of scholarly study, and their library of exploration and Pacific history is well known to be among the finest in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLIGH, William.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Log of H.M.S. Providence 1791–1793.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eFacsimile of the original manuscript log in the National Archives, Kew. Preface by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma; introductory essays by Stephen Walters and D. G. C. Allan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being number 483.\u003c\/strong\u003e Thick folio. 951pp. Colour collotype frontispiece with tissue guard. Five folding maps. Numerous black-and-white illustrations and facsimiles throughout, with a complete reproduction of John Ellis’s \u003cem\u003eA Description of the Mangostan and the Breadfruit\u003c\/em\u003e (1775) and notes on the breadfruit plant by David Bellamy OBE. Half brown polished calf and green buckram cloth. Front cover with a gilt vignette of the breadfruit plant. Spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, titled in gilt on a dark brown morocco panel. Green speckled edges. Marbled endpapers. In the original slipcase. Some very faint markings along the edges of the text block. Binding fine and well preserved; the slipcase shows only mild shelf wear. Bookplate of Milton Whitmont to the front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage costs may apply. 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W. G. Boswell-Stone and H. R. D. Anders, in their landmark studies \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Holinshed\u003c\/em\u003e (1896) and subsequent scholarship, demonstrated conclusively that this second edition of 1587 was the text Shakespeare had directly before him as he wrote. He drew on it, in whole or in significant part, for at least ten plays: \u003cem\u003eRichard II\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e, both parts of \u003cem\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHenry V\u003c\/em\u003e, all three parts of \u003cem\u003eHenry VI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHenry VIII\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/em\u003e, together with portions of \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e. The complete narrative of Macbeth's rise and fall, rendered by Holinshed with a moral ambivalence Shakespeare would sharpen into tragedy, is found entire within these pages; Holinshed's own description of Macbeth as \"a valiant gentleman\" who might, \"if he had not beene somewhat cruell of nature,\" have been reckoned fit to govern a realm, anticipates the psychological complexity Shakespeare would build his play upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eChronicles\u003c\/em\u003e began under the London printer Reyner Wolfe, whose ambition was originally a universal history of the world; on his death in 1573 the project passed to a syndicate of the Stationers' Company, who narrowed its scope to the British Isles and engaged Raphael Holinshed (d. c.1580) to compile and edit the resulting work, assisted by William Harrison, Richard Stanyhurst, and others. The first edition appeared in 1577, itself subject to a degree of censorship concerning Stanyhurst's contribution on Ireland. For this second, greatly enlarged edition of 1587, John Hooker (alias Vowell) undertook the continuation of the narrative to 1586, assisted by Francis Thynne on the Scottish material and by Thynne, Abraham Fleming, and John Stow on the remainder: the resulting text nearly half again the length of its predecessor, at some 3.5 million words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe circumstances of this edition's publication are themselves part of English constitutional and literary history. Almost immediately upon completion in January 1587, the freedom with which Hooker and his collaborators had treated recent and contemporary political events came to the attention of the Privy Council, and thence to Queen Elizabeth herself. The offending material concerned three principal subjects: England's covert intervention in Scottish factional politics and the delicate matter of Anglo-Scottish relations generally (rendered acutely sensitive by the fact that Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed at Fotheringhay in February 1587), the very month the recall order was issued; the Babington Plot of 1586, the conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth that had precipitated Mary's trial; and the conduct of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whose command of the English expeditionary force in the Low Countries had proven both militarily disappointing and constitutionally awkward, Leicester having accepted the governorship of the United Provinces without royal sanction. The Archbishop of Canterbury was instructed to recall and reform the book; the printer Henry Denham's shop then went through existing stock, physically excising the offending leaves before continuing sale of the reformed text. The result is one of the most bibliographically complex situations in the entire STC period: because the work of alteration was, as commonly told, \"rather haphazardly carried out,\" the precise state of censorship varies from copy to copy, and no two surviving examples of this edition are guaranteed to be textually identical. Fully uncensored copies, escaping the recall entirely, are exceptionally rare. Between 1723 and 1728, three separate sets of facsimile reprints of the cancelled leaves were produced to allow collectors to \"complete\" their expurgated copies. These reprints are themselves now a recognised and collected feature of later copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis particular copy, upon comparison against the fully collated example held in the Boston Public Library, shows to be lacking the leaves affected by the 1587 excisions almost completely. This is an outcome consistent with the haphazard manner in which Denham's shop carried out the Crown's order, and one shared by a good proportion of surviving copies of this edition. The text is otherwise complete in its three constituent parts: the \u003cem\u003eDescription and Historie of England\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eDescription and Historie of Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e (incorporating John Hooker's own translation of Giraldus Cambrensis), and the \u003cem\u003eDescription and Historie of Scotland\u003c\/em\u003e (incorporating Hector Boece's history in John Bellenden's Scots translation). This edition is also bound, as was common practice for this edition, with the first two volumes together and the third separate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHOLINSHED, Raphael; HARRISON, William; HOOKER, John [Vowell]; FLEMING, Abraham; THYNNE, Francis; STOW, John; STANYHURST, Richard; \u003cem\u003eet al.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1. The Description and Historie of England, 2. The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3. 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Black letter, double column throughout. Seven general and part titles within engraved woodcut borders. Numerous ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, woodcut printer's device to colophon leaves. This copy is lacking many of the leaves affected by the 1587 censorship (see below); text otherwise complete in three parts as issued. Binding sound in both volumes, remains tight and square. Numerous points of age present: rubbing to covers at edges and creases. More prevalent to volume one. Volume two has been rebacked and had newer leather inserted at the cover corners, professionally done with excellent work. The contents are generally very well preserved, with the biggest issue being heavy water staining at the front section of volume two. There is also toning present to some sections here and there. As mentioned, this copy has sections missing due to censorship. Interestingly, there are a few leaves of censored material present in volume one. Volume 2 has the largest portions of contents missing [in book 3, as called for]. Internally very good, overall. Paper remains in good order: flexible and without major defects. Some water markings present here and there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTC 13569\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a large, heavy, and historically significant set. 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Moiré silk endpapers. Gold satin ribbon page markers. All volumes present well. Some very minor loss to cover gilt. Contents fine. Some mild spotting along gilt edges of volumes. Originally published London: HarperCollins, 1997 (\u003cem\u003eTiger\u003c\/em\u003e), 1998 (\u003cem\u003eTriumph\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFortress\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a three-volume set. Additional postage costs may apply. 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Pristine condition throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000359\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520407507187,"sku":"1110002940408","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_491a10db-0ed4-494b-8a5b-b5d8c093f134.png?v=1787551756"},{"product_id":"global-architecture-ga-towns-and-villages-full-run-of-10-issues","title":"Global Architecture (GA): Towns and Villages (Full Run of 10 Issues)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYukio Futagawa (1932–2013) was, across a sixty-year career, one of the most significant architectural photographers and publishers of the twentieth century. Trained at Waseda University in Tokyo and profoundly influenced early in his career by Yoshio Watanabe's photographs of traditional Japanese architecture, Futagawa established the Edita Tokyo publishing company in 1970 and, through it, the \u003cem\u003eGlobal Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e (GA) series, a sustained, decades-long publishing project that would eventually encompass \u003cem\u003eGA\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGA Houses\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGA Document\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGA Architect\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Profusely illustrated throughout with photography by Futagawa, together with architectural drawings, plans, and maps. Text in Japanese. Shelf wear to slipcases with some wear to edges and corners of a few. Volumes internally fine. Spines a touch marked here and there. Covers bright and glossy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a substantial set. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000712\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yukio Futagawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50535922532595,"sku":"1110003011855","price":750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_2ad367d9-a016-438d-8218-be5e4ada6343.png?v=1787717125"},{"product_id":"ivanhoe-easton-press-deluxe-limited-edition","title":"Ivanhoe (Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(44, 92, 79);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eA luxurious, leatherbound, slip cased, and illustrated edition of Scott’s Medieval tale of ad-venture and romance, considered among the greatest tales in the genre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis Easton Press facsimile reproduces the luxuriously illustrated 1879 edition in full, with all illustrations by M. 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Mitchell (1913–2002) wrote the book for her own daughter, Indi, who had grown frustrated with the lack of distinctly Australian content in the correspondence-school reading material available to children growing up on Towong Hill, the family's remote grazing property near Corryong. What began as a short story told at the typewriter grew, at Indi's insistence, into a full novel, and then into a series that would run for more than two decades, be commended for the Children's Book of the Year Award, and eventually form the basis of a 1993 feature film starring Russell Crowe. The book remains in print today, and Mitchell's own typewriter is held by the National Museum of Australia as a significant artefact of Australian literary and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003eThis copy carries a presentation inscription from Mitchell to Douglas Stewart (1913–1985). 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He wrote, in a passage that captures the whole spirit of the work, that it was \"more difficult to know Germany than any other country,\" since unlike France, where the manners of the capital set the tone for the whole nation, Germany was \"divided into [a] numberless variety of large and small states, differing from each other in religion, government, opinions, and which have no bond of union whatever, except their common language.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe book's satirical edge and its author's initial anonymity made it an almost instant sensation on the Continent, and its rapid translation into English brought Riesbeck's caustic, observant account of the fractured German-speaking world to an English readership eager for informed, entertaining, and pointedly critical travel writing on a Europe still arranged along its old dynastic and territorial lines, in the years immediately preceding the upheavals of the French Revolution. 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