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Printed for Hanna Barret and Richard Whittaker, and are to be sold at the Kings Head in Pauls Church-yard: London, 1625. 12mo. [ii] (title, verso blank), 308pp (last blank). The title within a narrow double-ruled border, text within a wider double-ruled border, leaving a blank marginal column (for notes?). Contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked with the unlettered spine laid down. Hinges strengthened with Japanese tissue. Lacks a preliminary blank leaf? Title-page is slightly off-centre and a little rubbed along its head edge. The text somewhat offset on a few late pages.

Very rare comical AFL lithograph. From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.

London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Pablo Picasso. First English Language Edition. Original cloth. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xi, 43 [1] : frontis by Picasso : photo of Cocteau as Heurtebise : printed on Basingwerk paper : SIGNED by both Cocteau and Picasso at colophon (p.iv), Cocteau has added his signature star : fore-edge untrimmed : black cloth boards lettered in gilt on top board : custom clamshell box in black cloth littered in gilt. Cloth is chipped to all edges and split 9cm from crown of top joint; some light foxing. Item #3927 No. 23 of 100.

The Clarendon Press, 1923. Lrg Ed. Limited 1000 copies, 950 of which were for sale. 1923/1932. 7 vols. 8vo. contemporary full green morocco gilt, raised bands, uncut, marbled endpapers; pp. The Novels (1923) Vol. I Sense and Sensibility, xii, [ii], 427pp; Vol. II Pride and Prejudice, xiii, [i], 415pp; Vol. III Mansfield Park, Lover's Vows, xii, [ii], 567pp; Vol. IV Emma, xi, [iii], 521pp ; Vol V Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, xiii, [i], 252pp, 1-310pp. The Letters (1932). Vol I.1796-1809. xlvi, 1-266, [34]; xxx, 267-510, [122]. Coloured frontispieces, illustrations and maps, throughout.

London: Faber and Gwyer, 1928. First Edition, limited issue. Hardcover : pp. xxxii, 184 : numbered & SIGNED at colophon (p.ii) : wove e.p.s : t.e.g., other edges untrimmed : grey paper boards : gilt lettered white vellum spine [GALLUP A30b] Vellum repaired at tail of spine; corners slightly bumped; lacks original glassine jacket; exceptionally clean throughout. Near fine. Item #3926 No. 77 of 100 copies.

Printed on mould-made rag paper which remains uncut. With accompanying Scottish, bone-handled paper knife mounted on the slipcase. Limited to 1000 copies.

London: Edward Arnold, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. original cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 304, with 26 plates & 2 folding maps. A superb copy in an excellent example of the scarce dustwrapper, about fine. Although there were few major peaks in the Japanese Alps not been scaled before Western alpine pioneers, climbing as a leisure activity was a novel idea to the Japanese. In this context, the mountaineering achievements of Walter Weston and those that followed, H. E. Daunt and Murray Walton, are an enduring legacy of pre-war Anglo-Japanese relations.

Unknown man in the robes of a learned scholar, this painting shows a gentleman with an enquiring gaze with a beautiful collar and gold embroidered over jacket. On his head is a small cap and he has long flowing locks and a goatee beard. His had is delicately rendered and is typical of the period.

Manuscript on vellum, with seal. 320x460mm, folded. In very good clean condition. *** For Gregson, a volatile political figure in VDL, one of the 'Patriotic Six' and (very briefly) Tasmania's second Premier, see ADB 1. The land was near Jericho, on the Jordan River, and the grant included the services of three transported convicts. Gregson was alleged to have bribed the surveyor G.W. Evans, with a piano, to swear that there was insufficient land adjacent to his first grant for an additional location, thus allowing him to take later grants in a more favourable location (this being one of them?)

A leaf from Holinshed's "Historie of Scotland", published in 1577, including a woodcut of King Alexander the Fierce watching the beheading of a thief. Text in English. Holinshed was Shakespeare's favourite and most trusted source and he used it for more than a third of his plays including Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline and the English history plays. Fair antiquarian condition only, but the text is complete and legible and the woodcut sharply printed.

Copper-line engraving by Carlo Gregori after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. 1741. 255mm by 180mm (platemark) 420mm by 270mm (sheet). Illustration of an Ancient Roman marble bust from 'Musei Capitolini', a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.