446 BEETON’S, MRS Book of Needlework consisting of descriptions and instructions... New revised edition, Ln: Ward, Lock and Co nd [circa 1880]. vi, 616p, adverts at end, many illustrations and 7 fldg patterns. 21cms, bound in green cloth with elaborate black and gilt decoration and gilt titles, front board and spine. Spine faded and some browning, all edges gilt. VG. 2. John Ingram - Flora Symbolica or the Language and Sentiment of Flowers. Ln: Frederick Warne nd [circa 1880]. viii, 368p, colour plates. 19.5cms, bound in blue cloth with elaborate gilt, silver and black decoration and titles, two owners inscriptions verso frontis, and lacking fron free endpaper. Silk bookmark, spine faded and some spotting. G+. $60 - $80 447 BLANDEN, JOHN B. Historic Racing Cars in Australia John B. Blanden 1976 1st edition. 288p, illustrated, wear to one or two pages at fore edge front and back pages, owners inscription of title page. 27.5cms, original illustrated card covers, creases and light browning. A rare publication. $200 - $300 448 CASSELL’S Cassell’s Book of Indoor Amusements. Card Games and Fireside Fun. Cassell and Co, fourth edition. 223p, frontis and illus, 21 cms, bound in red and green cloth pictorial cloth with gilt and black. Light wear, and spine faded. $40 - $60 449 COOKERY 5 Cookery Books 1. The Diner’s Digest. Compiled by The Auckland Travel Club 1950. 175p, adverts. illus papered boards. 2. The New Zealand Women’s Household Guide. Womens Division of the NZ Farmer’s Union.6th ed.304p. Paper covers. 3. Whitcombes Everyday Cookery with Pressure Cooking. 1956. 4. H.D. Cotton - Relax Your Way to Health. 5. Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book. Ln & Melb: Ward Lock and Co. Colour frontis and B/W plates. DJ. $30 - $60 450 DARWIN, CHARLES The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to sex. Ln: John Murray 1899, second edition revised and augmented. xvi, 693p, illustrated. Endpapers browned and light spots, 19.5cms, original, dark green cloth , gilt titles, light mottling at margins, VG. $100 451 FEATHER, ADRIAN M. The Aston Martin 1948 - 1959 A Collection of Contemporary Road Tests... Published by author, No 372 of 1000 copies. 80p, illustrated, 29cms, DJ near fine. $100 - $200 452 GODEY’S Ladies Book and Magazine From January to June 1872. Philadelphia: Louis & Godey [1872] 586p, includes folding frontis of fashion plates [damage], patterns, engravings, hand coloured fashion plates, stories, recipes etc. HC binding worn. $50 453 HIGGINS, W MULLINGAR The House Painter; or Decorator’s Companion: being a complete treatise on the origin of colour, the laws of harmonious colouring the manufacture of pigments, oils and varnishes; and the art of House Painting, Graining and Marbling. Ln: Thomas Kelly 1841. 233p, 30 watercolour and varnish plates a few with marks and one where tissue guard has adhered. Complete, but front endpaper and title page detached and inside front hinge cracked. 28cms in original maroon cloth [faded] with morocco title label. $300 - $500 454 HUNTER, INMAN Aston Martin 1914-1940 A Pictorial Review. Ln: Transport, Bookman Publications 1976. 192p, illus,21.5cms, DJ, in protective cover, fine.
455 LE BRUN, CHARLES A Series of Lithographic Drawings Illustrative of the Relation between the Human Physiognomy and that of The Brute Creation... Elephant folio, London: ptd for L. P. Blanquet and published by James Carpenter 1827. Frontis [port] and 37 plates, page 1, and plate 37 loose and frayed at edges. In original HC binding with gilt tites, light soiling and leather worn. $400 - $600 456 MULLER, PHILIPP Miracula Chymica et Misteria Medica. Libris quinque enucleta, quorum summam pagina versa exhibet. Published by Lauerns Seuberlich for Clemens Berger [Wittenberg] 1611. [24], 189pp, 12 woodcuts of 19 chemical instruments and retorts in the text, title page in red and black. Text has light brown tide mark throughout, two front free endpapers are frayed with a contemporary owners signature and one later dated 1959. 13cms, bound in what appear te be the original limp vellum binding. This is the very rare second edition of this chemical and medical work by Philipp Muller [1585-1659], who was professor in Mathematics at Leipzig university and who published several books on mathematics and astronomy. $3000 - $4000 457 SUTCLIFFE, G. LISTER The Modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet-Maker Ln: Gresham Publishing Co 1902, complete in 8 volumes. Illustrated throughout, sprinkle of foxing mostly from and back pages, in original dark green cloth with arts and crafts design and gilt spine titles, wear at spine ends and light marks, overall G+. $100 458 TAYLOR, REV ED. S The History of Playing cards with anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune Telling and CardSharping. London: John Camden Hotten 1865. xiiip, colour frontis and title page vignette, plates throughout one by George Cruikshank. 18ms, sewing loose on some sections, bound in original green cloth with gilt card illustration and gilt titles, small rubber stamp [? library mark] on title page, wear spine ends and hinges, small hole in cloth of spine. $100 - $150 459 THE YOUNG LADIES, JOURNAL [2 copies] Complete Guide to the Work-Table. Containing instructions in Berlin Work, Crotchet, Drawn-thread work.... Ln: E. Harrison 1886, 3rd edition. 136p, illus throughout, adverts. 22.5cms, original pink cloth blind stamped and gilt titles, front inside hinge loose and binding faded, VG. 2. Also the Ninth edition. Illustrated and with 4 colour supplements. Binding as above but faded and worn corner cut from front free endpaper. $50 - $100
Bibliography 460 BIBLIOGRAPHY Beltane Book Bulletins [plus] An interrupted run of 28 issues from Vol.1. No.1. September 1947 to Vol. 3. No. 10. Jan Feb 1954. 2. Ex Libris [2 issues] No. 1. September 1959 and No. 2. December 1960. Loosely enclosed a letter to A.T. Pycroft from the secretary of Ex Libris. 461 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ex Libris [ Plus] 1. The NZ Ex Libris Society Brochure No.3. [1936]. Contains NZ book plates. 2. Annals of NZ Literature. Authors’ Week 1936. Being a preliminary List of NZ authors and their works with introductory essays and verses. Contains NZ book plates 3. Auckland Student College Carnival Programmed 1913. 4. Canterbury College School of Art 1882-1932. Colour and b/w plates.