Highlights

Istanbul : Matbaa-I Amire, 1307-1309 [i.e. 1891-1893]. The first lithographed folio atlas printed in the Islamic world, with 42 maps drawn by the father of modern Ottoman cartography, Ali Şeref Paşa.

Magnificent large unrecorded etching by John Barclay Godson of the Hippocratic Oath.

Rare German translation of Governor Arthur Phillip’s, Voyage to Botany Bay, printed in Hamburg 1791.

The only known manuscript example of any part of Robert Dudley’s magnum opus, ‘Dell’arcano del mare’ held in private hands. An astonishing survival: a working manuscript, seemingly specifically assembled for the eyes and instruction of the officers of the Tuscan Navy, the Knights of St. Stefano, rather than for a public audience. This suggestion is borne out by the wording of the first title for the work that Dudley has crossed out: ‘Compendio del Direttorio Marittimo: Il pr[im]o Tomo e intilato , Supplemento della Navigare. Nel pr[im]o libro si discorre dell ‘arte, piu Curiosa di Navigare.

First edition, first printing, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Cleonike Damianakes (1895-1979), renowned for her classical-style designs favoured by the Lost Generation writers. The first printing is distinguished by the lack of the legal disclaimer which appeared on p. x in the second and third printings.

August Pollak (1838-1903) A wonderful painting of an "Oriental Woman”, in the guise of Cleopatra wearing the goddess Neckhbet (Vulture) head-dress with a suggestion of a cobra at the brow.  Fine gold earrings and a beautiful necklace adorn her, with the sensuous somewhat fragile beauty of the imagined Cleopatra. Pollack was an Austrian artist, many of his paintings are of still lives, sensuous women or whimsical studies of children with cats, he is known for his oriental subjects. His paintings have about them a Fusilian mystery. The painting could be a study for a larger work.

A symbolic figure in Finnish design. We will be bringing a range of books on Modernist furniture.

Tinted lithograph by Eugene Von Guerard (1812-1901). 1867. 315mm by 475mm (image) 460mm by 630mm(sheet). Blind stamp of Hamel and Ferguson to bottom of the sheet. From Von Guerard's 'Australian Landscapes, A Series of 24 Tinted Lithographs', published in Melbourne in 1867.

Toronto: Wallrich Books, 1974. First Edition. Three serigraph works (38 x 28cm) screen printed on 90lb Kent paper by Coriander Studio, London for the publisher : an edition of 100 numbered copies and thirty copies Hors Commerce : each print signed in pencil by the author/artist, this being 36/100.

The leaf includes the entire psalm136 and one line of liturgical chant music. Despite its appearance, this leaf is almost certainly from a Breviary, not a Book of Hours. The beloved Psalm 136 (KJV 137) "By the rivers of Babylon" is part of the liturgy for Sunday in the 5th week of Easter. Neither the psalm nor the antiphon that follows it on this leaf appear in the usual Uses of Books of Hours. Excellent condition.

(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.

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, offsetting on endpapers, but very good in original eucalypt grey cloth with plain blue dustwrapper (bit sunned) with printed title label. First edition ‒ scarce cloth issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. (The trade edition was issued in uniform blue wrappers, selling for 3/6.)