1808. First Quarto Edition. Single sheet (35.4 x 29cm) : plate impression 36.2 x 27.8cm : text and image after the design by William Blake. Light toning to edges; minor foxing to rhs; trimmed by 4mm to tail, no loss of image or text. Near fine. Item #14438 Title page of the First Quarto edition of Robert Blair's meditation on death and resurrection. Remembered today for having some of William Blake's most memorable designs. These were executed by Italian engraver Luigi Schiavonetti who was awarded the commission for executing the plates despite Blake having been asked to create the design.

Chromolithograph 42.3 x 69.7 cm "AN AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PICTURE" A copy of this chromolithograph is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial and the State Library of New South Wales Item #6292

(Shinpan) Ryōri kondate shū (zen) or 料理献立抄 [trans. Collection of Cooking Menus, New Edition, complete] No publishing details in the text: circa 1686. [Kyoto : Nagata Hanbei, Jokyo 3, 1686]¹ In Japanese, early Edo period calligraphic script. two double-page woodcut illustrations, two smaller partial-page woodcut illustrations.

The 'New Naturalist' series has been continuously published since the first volume in 1945. Subjects are primarily British and most of the contributing authors are the leaders in their specialised fields. Apart from high quality texts, New Naturalists are distinguished by the original dustwrapper designs of Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, with the style being continued by other artists such as Robert Gilmour. Print runs are usually small and many volumes are highly collectable. New Naturalists can be best described as the 'modern firsts' of natural history book collecting.