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Birmingham, Smith and Davis, Limited, 1939. Large octavo, [x], [5]-153 pages (divided into eight sections with cut-out leading edge index tabs) with hundreds of illustrations plus the 'Conditions of Sale' printed on the verso of the front free endpaper. Printed card covers; hole punched in the top left corner, complete with the knotted loop of cord (as issued); covers slightly marked and rubbed; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. The catalogue offers a wide range of 'Plumberalities and Gas Fittings, Builders' Hardware, Horticultural Brassware, Domestic and General Brassware, Cabinet Fittings, Picture and Mirror Fittings, Carpet Fittings, [and] Window Fittings'. The first page is headed 'Exp[or]t./39 Please Destroy Earlier Editions in order to avoid confusion . January 1st, 1939'. Offered together with 'Abridged Export Price List in Alphabetical Order' (large octavo, 47 pages with numerous illustrations; printed card covers lightly marked, stained and creased, with some small light marginal stains to the text; a very good copy). It is undated, but appears to be contemporaneous with the main catalogue. [2 items].
London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913 [deluxe illustrated edition]/ 1893. Quarto, xvi, 526 pages plus a portrait frontispiece and 32 pages of halftone plates (many from photographs). Gilt-blocked brown buckram; leading and bottom edges uncut; covers slightly marked, rubbed and flecked; slight wear to the bottom corner of the front cover; some slight signs of use and age internally; a very good copy. This edition was advertised as an 'edition de luxe' in November and December 1913. The new preface by the author, dated June 1913, is notable for his observations on the Aboriginal characters featured in the novel, their tribes and material culture. 'Nearly all the coloured characters portrayed were drawn from life. The originals were members of some of the finest tribes of all Australia. The tribes of the Tatiara, the Murray and Darling rivers, are peculiarly interesting because they perhaps, of all their race, made the most determined resistance to the European aggressor'.
London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913 [deluxe illustrated edition]/ 1893. Quarto, xvi, 526 pages plus a portrait frontispiece and 32 pages of halftone plates (many from photographs). Gilt-blocked green buckram; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers a little sunned on the spine and very slightly marked, rubbed and flecked; some slight signs of use and age internally; a very good copy. This edition was advertised as an 'edition de luxe' in November and December 1913. The new preface by the author, dated June 1913, is notable for his observations on the Aboriginal characters featured in the novel, their tribes and material culture. 'Nearly all the coloured characters portrayed were drawn from life. The originals were members of some of the finest tribes of all Australia. The tribes of the Tatiara, the Murray and Darling rivers, are peculiarly interesting because they perhaps, of all their race, made the most determined resistance to the European aggressor'.
Prospect, The Author, 1994 (revised edition, 'reprinted with additions and changes')/ 1988. Quarto, xvi, 400, [1] pages with 2 maps and over 1000 line illustrations of wildflowers by the author plus a colour map on the front free endpaper, a colour plant identification guide on the verso of the front cover, and biographical details of the author on the recto of the rear cover. Colour-pictorial card covers a little sunned, and lightly rubbed and scored, with a crease down the spine; a very good copy (internally fine). Page 400 and the unnumbered last page (in fact, the recto of the rear free endpaper) contain 'Changes to Plant Names since First Edition (1988)'. At the end of the index, at the foot of page 399, there is a list of 14 new species.