Rare books from ebygum

Vols. 1 and 2: Soldiers and sailors. Vols. 3 and 4: Statesmen and sages. Vols. 5 and 6: Workmen and heroes. Vols 7 and 8 (missing): Artists and authors. Illustrations for each person, one full-page and often other smaller drawings.Note: This set is heavy 9kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery. Some minor scuffing and wear on corners and spine. Interiors bound tight.

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia in three volumes. Note: This set is heavy, 10kg+. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery. This set does not contain the 2 unbound Railway, Postal and Telegraph maps of Australia maps at rear Volume One, 2 of 3 unbound at the rear of Volume Two (Qld is there), and 1 of 2 unbound Railway, Postal and Telegraph maps of New Zealand at the rear of Volume Three (North Island is there). All other maps and engravings are present.Corners of covers bumped with some preventative work to secure the covers and spine. Some pages are lightly foxed at the edges, but remain tightly bound. The content is clean.

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1874. 620 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout, with 25 of 26 supplements. Content includes 33 double and many more single page engravings. Subject matter includes (along with many others..) The Tichborne Trial, Black Watch Forest Ashanti war, Portrait engravings of Gladstone and Disraeli, Royal Marriage - Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh, Fine Art Supplement 1874.2 copies available:Good to V.Good, spine rubbed but binding intact, pages clean with some light foxing, previously missing pages 123, 619, Nursery Tales (supplement) have been replaced with bound-in copies. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback.Fair, missing pages replaced with digitally reproduced copies bound in place.Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Hard cover Folio (15 x 12 in). Original gilt tooled full brown morocco, edges gilt marbled endpapers. Pages complete xxiv + 180, with 250 full-page black and white engravings on card with captioned tissue-guards.Containing two hundred and fifty beautiful engravings selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine with critical essays by Edmund Ollier.Page edges lightly scuffed and rubbed with some small scratches to cover boards - some remedial work done to secure the cover boards and spine, but otherwise good. Card plates bright but some foxing to the outer edges. Some foxing to the later text pages.The plate index is a little tricky to use, but all plates are present with the following corrections:Plate 75 misplaced to p130, plate 91 misplaced to p95.Note: This volume is heavy (38x31x10cm, approx 10kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

All volumes illustrated with colour plates, photographs, drawings and maps. Bright gilt motif of battleship on front covers. An attractive set of books detailing the events of the First World War. Note: This collection is heavy (27x19.5x36cm, approx 18.2 kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.Good, all slightly faded, outer spines discoloured, else all bindings tight and firm. All volumes are very good throughout other than a little rubbing to corners, pages are clean and bright throughout.

Two copies available, as follows:
Item 1: A$580
Good to V.Good condition. Pages complete and clean with some light foxing. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Two of four double page colour supplements bound in place. Spine rubbed but binding intact. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Cover scuffed and faded but bound intact. Pages and print good, some foxing, mostly on outer edges with some discolouration.
Item 2: A$250
Fair Condition. Original covers and spine cracked, bumped and marked but attached and bound intact. One-penny postage paid stamped on weekly leading pages. Previously removed pages have been replaced by digitally reproduced pages, existing page condition fair.
Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1881. 601 numbered pages with illustrations and advertisements from 1864.
Some examples of the items contained in this bound volume are:Transvaal War in South AfricaDakotah Territory, Far west of… Read More

The Amalgamated Press, London, 1936. Good. First Edition Set of the original 55 parts. 1764 pages including an index with original colour pictorial covers, each of a different ship. Engraved portrait of Queen Mary is missing from issue 1. Numerous colour plates and illustrations. Paper covers with yellow and white lettering, '7d weekly' on front. Final issue contains the index.Note: This collection is heavy at 5kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery. Issue 1 marked by tape, slight scuffed and torn covers. Some marking and slight tears to the edges of some pages, with slight occasional rubbing to corners, otherwise bright, contents clean and tight.

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1864.
628 numbered pages with illustrations and advertisements from 1864. Two of two colour supplements included in item 1 only. Examples of the features contained in this bound volume are:
American Civil War.
Canada Gold Find.
Floods in Melbourne.
Cricket in Melbourne.
Refer to the index pages in the gallery image for a complete listing of the content.
Two copies available:
1. Good to V.Good, Covers and original spine and binding intact with some marks, bumps and small tears, page areas mostly clean with some foxing and gilt edges. Rubbed half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback. Contains two original colour supplements. Price AUD580.
2. Fair, Original covers and spine cracked, bumped and marked but attached, Most pages clean, 102 missing original pages replaced with quality-reproduced copies and bound in place. One-penny postage paid stamped on weekly leading pages. Price AUD250.
Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm,… Read More

An interesting collection of accounts of significant events in the evolution of Australia between 1788 and 1988 over 14 volumes (complete).Like many multi-volume sets, the information contained within is probably all online, but never as ephemeral and in multiple locations!Note: This volume is heavy (28x21x2cm x 14 wide), approx 12.6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Complete with 18 A3 sized photogravure image plates in six volumes illustrated by Frederick Barnard, and numerous woodblock engravings by other artists. Descriptive content written by the Author Thomas Archer. Originally supplied to subscribers only.
Quote from the back cover:
"The characters which Charles Dickens has created are living, moving personalities in the minds and imaginations of the large majority of English men and women. To portray these characters in a manner which shall satisfy the aspirations of the countless multitudes of the author's admirers is a success of which any artist may feel justly proud."
Pages mostly clean with some light foxing to outer areas of the plates. Bound well with boards and cloth binding, some fading, marks and bumping to external covers.
Weight 0.76kg x 6 volumes

An historical account comprising two volumes of the evolution of the Colony of Victoria and its surrounds.
Note: This set is heavy at 7kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.
Front covers and spine marked and slightly damaged. Some internal pages have water staining and some foxing, but most are clean and tightly bound. Some page edges are bumped near the beginning and end of the books.

A complete survey of the animal kingdom. Many colour plates.
Front covers marked and bumped. Internal pages are slightly discoloured with age, but content is clean and tightly bound.
Note: This volume is heavy, approx 7kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

A general dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, Biography and History. New Issue Revised contains the 1891 Census Returns of Britain and the 1890 Returns for the United States.
Front covers marked and bumped. Internal pages are slightly discoloured with age, but content is clean and tightly bound.
Note: This volume is heavy approx 15kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Alphabetically sorted cyclopedia of knowledge.
Numerous coloured maps and 5000 engravings.
Front covers slightly marked and bumped. Internal pages are slightly discoloured with age, but content is clean and tightly bound. Page edges lightly marked and foxed.

Illustrated on steel engravings from pictures by C.W. Cope, R.A.; W.P. Frith, R.A.; and others.
188 page biography on Shakespeare by Charles Knight
Note: The two volumes are heavy, approximately 12kg. Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.
Spine ends bumped and split. Pages are discoloured with ageing, some pages marked and foxed, but content is mostly clean, some foxing to endpapers and page edges.
Volume 1 – 27 steel engraved plates
Volume 2 – 17 steel engraved plates