fawkner john pascoe (7 Ergebnisse)

18+14pp. 8vo. Original cloth in glassine dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece. A near fine copy. One of a limited edition of 500 copies.

12pp. 8vo. Original cloth, with some slight insect damage to extremities. Otherwise a very good copy. Signed by Ian McLaren and John Gartner. Limited to 250 copies.

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original cream boards gilt in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked, some creasing to upper flap); pp. xx (last blank), 108, with a map & facsimiles. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Second Edition. 8vo. original navy cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed); pp. [vi (last blank)], 14 (last blank), [4 (colophon, limitation page, last blank)]. A near fine copy. A limited edition of 250 copies signed by the publisher, Ian F. McLaren, and printer, John Gartner. Signed by Publishers.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, vi, [2],196 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Brown spine with gilt lettering. Boards have been rebound, have light bumping to spine head/tail and front head fore corner, and a small dent along the front fore edge. Textblock has foxing and light soiling throughout, and moderate age toning to edges. The half-title page appears to be tipped in when the book was rebound. Features two inscriptions from economic historian and Oxford scholar Max Hartwell to John Hughes, dated '1963', on the front and rear free endpapers (the latter inverted). Additionally, signed by John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), founder of Melbourne, Australia, on page [1]. Shelved in Case 5. 1399220. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hard Cover. Zustand: G+. First UK. 12mo. original blindstamped brown cloth gilt (ex-Gisborne Mechanics Institute Library with labels to spine and upper board, occ. RSM and blindstamp to outer leaves; cloth rubbed & frayed at extremities, some marks and spots, but generally clean); pp. [iv (last blank)], 468 (last blank). Ex-libris John Pascoe Fawkner, founding father of Melbourne and one-time resident of the failed Sullivan Bay convict settlement at Sorrento as a boy of 10. Fawkner has signed (as initials 'J.P.F.') to the first text page upon his original acqusition of the book on Aug. 1st 1853, with a later presentation inscription 'Presented to the Gisborne Mechanics Institute October the 21st 1861 by John Pascoe Fawkner, M.L.G.'. Fawkner has additionally signed on the title page, with another presentation inscription, possibly in a different hand, to the verso FFE. A good copy with a significant association in Victorian history.

Written for and published by Jn. P. Fawkner. Monday, January the 8th. 1838. Melbourne. Vol. 1, No. 2.[Melbourne : s. n., circa 1860]. Foolscap folio, pp. [4], photolithographic facsimile, edges chipped, old folds and tape stains to a tear, edges chipped and brittle. Early facsimile of Melbourne's first newspaper, originally circulated in manuscript form only. As noted by Ferguson, a number of photolithographic facsimiles were produced in the nineteenth century, of which this is an example without imprint. Ferguson, 2547.