George Deas Brown (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine hardcover. No d/j. 90pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hobart, The Law Council of Australia/ Melanie Publications, 1981. Quarto, 90 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper maps. Cloth; a fine copy. 'A souvenir of the 21st Australian Legal Convention held in Hobart, Tasmania 4-11 July, 1981'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hobart, The Law Council of Australia/ Melanie Publications, 1981. Quarto, 90 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper maps. Cloth; an excellent copy. 'A souvenir of the 21st Australian Legal Convention held in Hobart, Tasmania 4-11 July, 1981'.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine PP 89, frontis endpaper maps illustrations.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good ++ PP 89, frontis endpaper maps illustrations.

Facsimile ed. Hardback small square quarto, no jacket as issued, very good plus condition, half leather binding (leather binding along spine and cover corners, raised bands & gilt decoration spine), marbled boards, full-page colour drawings (plates), blue-coloured paper, large foldout colour drawing at rear, tiny bookshop sticker bottom corner front pastedown. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 117 pp. Mrs A. Prinsep describes her sea voyage from Calcutta to Hobart Town in 1829 via various ships and Batavia, and her residence in Hobart Town. A private press (Melanie Press) facsimile of a book originally published in 1833 (Smith, Elder & Co., London). From original letters selected by Mrs Prinsep from Augustus Princep's journal. With biographical details of Augustus and Elizabeth Prinsep, plus index, by George Deas Brown. The original sketches were drawn during the years 1829 and 1830. The illustrations for this facsimile edition were produced by Jim Borham of Craftsman Press, Melbourne, from colour transparencies filmed by the Tasmanian Film Corporation. (Large colour foldout panoramic view of Hobart Town. Eleven colour plates. Morocco leather binding: no slipcase as this is the standard edition, rather than the additional deluxe edition of 25 copies. The text paper is Glastonbury Antique Blue. The endpapers are Lineweave Colonial Bass Strait blue. No. 51 of a limited edition of 300 copies, 1981. No. 3 in the 'Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions' series from Melanie Publications, a private press.).…

184pp. 4to. Original cloth with gilt lettering in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. This beautifully produced title includes 35 paintings reproduced in full colour with an additional 70 illustrations in b/w. Limited to 1500 copies. Signed by the Author.