Highlights

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Octavo, original cloth lettered in red and black, a fine copy in near fine red dustwrapper. First American edition. In the four days after Donald Trump's Counselor used the phrase 'alternative facts' to justify her (false) claim that the 2017 inauguration had been watched by the largest audience ever, sales of this Orwell novel surged by 10,000 copies- making it a No. 1 bestseller. Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell and his Big Brother, Thought Police, and Ministry of Truth are just as vital.

Breton Par M. Precede d’un Précis Historique. (Uses, Costumes and Monuments of the Egyptians, Arabs and Syrians. Preceded by a historical summary.) 1814, Published by A Nerve. Paris. 8vo, brown boards with leather spines, with gilt decorations, red morocco in titles and volumes, gilt titles. Gilt edges, very bright, marbled pink endpaper, 6 Volumes (only 5 shown in photo). A most extraordinary set and worthy of a place in your collection.

The text includes a section of a sermon by Maximus of Turin. Pristine condition. Archivally mounted.

A nice set, published by Pierre Didot, Paris 1803, 3 Vols. 32mo. Buff leather spine, with Pink insert title and green volume with gilt letters, and various gilt decorations, boards marbled, endpapers marbled, edges yellow, owners ex libris Viet Valentin. Good-very good condition, silk bookmarks intact. Tom 1- II, 245pp lightly foxed, Tom III-IV 262pp edges lightly worn, interior bright with minimal marks, Tom V-VI 336pp light wear, inside bright.

Posters produced by the National Safety Council of Australia. Approx 60cm x 50cm. Part of a collection of unusual ephemera.

The scarce and beautifully hand-coloured issue of the expanded second edition, Du Rietz noting that it was "apparently issued in less than 400 copies". The first of 1773 was not issued in a coloured version, nor did it include the double-hemisphere map showing the routes of Cook's three voyages. We trace only seven copies of this coloured issue in commerce in the last 40 years.

A vibrant panoramic map of the island of Itsukushima (also known as Miyajima) off the coast of Hiroshima, with a tourist guide to the island on the reverse.

Part of a collection of Caldecott Prize winner's including rare and first editions.

Florence, G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, two pages roughly opened, original white boards with original spine paper label lettered in orange, Lawrence's phoenix motif to front cover in orange, edges untrimmed, in decorated dustwrapper: a fine copy. First edition: limited to 810 numbered copies on hand-made paper.

Complete set of six lithographic views of colonial South Australia, by Edward Castle who came to South Australia in 1839 on board the Moffatt and took up land in the colony.

First edition, Faber and Faber 1952, A very good copy in like dust jacket. David Jones second book.