wantrup jonathan (9 Ergebnisse)

Original publisher's gray paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick large 8vo: illustrated endpapers, coloured frontispiece tipped-in, x, [ij], 468pp., ca. 60 plates & illustrations, introductory chapters, checklist of 265 titles discussed [with notes & references], glossary, general index, index of artists and engravers. Very fine copy.,

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. The standard reference on collecting Australian rare books. 8vo, 468pp, plates, charts, in text illustrations, maps at end papers. Gray gilt cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Immaculate.

first edition).Octavo,468 pp.text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. An essential reference for the serious collector of Australian books.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Very slight dust-dulling on page corners. . Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: x,468 pages : illustrations(some color), maps,facsimiles ; 26 cm. Notes: Maps on lining papers. Bibliography : p343-428 . - Includes index. Subjects: 18th-19th centuries. Early printed books Australia Bibliography. Rare books Australia Bibliography. Book collecting Australia. Rare books Collectors and collecting AustraliaRare Books. Book collecting. Early printed books. Rare books. Australia Imprints ; Bibliography. Australia Bibliography. Australia Imprints. Australia. Books with Australian imprints 1788-1900 Bibliographies. Books with Australian imprints 1788-1900. Bibliography Australia 1788. 3 Kg.

64pp. Large 8vo. Original stiffened wrappers in dustwrapper. A very good copy. Westenhall copy. Signed and inscribed.

Two volumes. x+468pp. Large 8vo. Original two-tone cloth boards in slipcase, pictorial endpapers, tipped in colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations.A fine set. Limited edition of 125 sets. This set 111 of 125 signed in each volume.

Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2019. Quarto, gilt-lettered green buckram, pp. 194, illustrated. Limited to 135 copies signed by the author. New copy. "Thomas and William Boone, prominent booksellers of new, secondhand, and antiquarian books and manuscripts in mid- nineteenth-century London, were responsible for publishing the first-hand accounts of all the major figures from the epic age of Australian exploration ? Mitchell, Grey, Eyre, Hodgkinson, Stokes, Jukes, Leichhardt, Sturt and Macgillivray ? as well as other rare and important Australian publications, such as George Grey?s A Vocabulary of the Dialects of South Western Australia and John Elphinstone Erskine?s Short Account of the late Discoveries of Gold in Australia; with notes of a Visit to the Gold District, the earliest account of an Australian gold field. These books formed what the Boones came to call their ?Library of Australian Travels? Collectors have long known that these valuable books are to be found in a number of variant bindings but until now there has been no comprehensive survey of these publications. The result of over thirty years study, Jonathan Wantrup?s book describes the numerous variant issues and bindings of these seminal texts, establishing their order of issue. Published in a restricted edition of 135 copies, signed by the author, Thomas and William Boone?s Library of Australian Travels is extensively illustrated by 45 full-page colour photographic plates and 13 black & white text illustrations. The book includes an account of the firm in relation to their activities as booksellers and publishers; this is the first such account of the firm. Included are eight appendices: detailing all the advertisements found in books from Boone?s Australian ?Library? (advertisement slips, single-leaf advertisements, and advertisement catalogues); a chronological table of advertisements; a full list of plates in Boone?s Library, with variants noted; a full list of maps and charts, with variants noted; precisedates of publication of each book; and tables of comparative scarcity." - the publisher.

Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2025. Large octavo, 255 x 180 mm, 470 pages, 103 illustrations (17 in colour), twelve chapters, and two Checklists. Set in Adobe Garamond 11 / 13. Printed and bound in Australia on 100 gsm Sovereign Offset and bound in dark green buckram blocked in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrapper. New copy, printed in a small edition of 220 copies. The long-awaited prequel of Jonathan Wantrup's definitive reference Australian Rare Books 1788 - 1900. Forming a prequel to his earlier two-volume Australian Rare Books 1788-1900, the author here examines the printed works telling the story of the discovery of Australia, as the Dutch and English mariners first identified parts of New Holland?s outline, and then completed the map of the entire continent. Wantrup provides detailed descriptions of these books, which should prove invaluable to collectors, curators, cataloguers, and booksellers. It is also the story of two centuries of geo-political and trade forces that drove the search for Terra Australis Incognita and the uncovering of the Pacific, analysed in light of the publications of the Spanish, Dutch, French, and English exploring nations from the time they first venture into the Pacific around Cape Horn. Wantrup analyses both official and unofficial accounts of voyages, while also providing a lively statement of the achievements of the scientists and mariners responsible for them. Wantrup?s own career in the rare book trade, his role in guiding and advising collectors, his knowledge of bibliography, and his achievements as an author, mark this book as another unique contribution to the history of Australian discovery and its literature.

Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on 100gsm Sovereign Offset. New copy, printed in a small edition of 400 copies. The long-awaited revised edition of Jonathan Wantrup's definitive reference Australian Rare Books 1788 - 1900. 'The 1987 first edition of Wantrup?s Australian Rare Books 1788-1900 quickly became the internationally recognised definitive work on collecting rare Australian books of the Colonial Period. Offering a distinctive approach to Australian history and a unique perspective on the development of Australian society, in his eminently readable book Wantrup demonstrates a rare facility for making complicated things seem simple. This revised and enlarged second edition comprises the eight chapters of the first edition and five new chapters: a survey of beautiful Australian colourplate natural history books (two chapters); a detailed account of the French grands voyages to the south-west Pacific; books of the Australian gold rush; and, finally, an unconventional overview of the literature of colonial Australia. The work is completed by an extensive bibliographical Checklist describing over 600 books discussed in the text.' - the publisher.