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Mercer, F. W., calligrapher: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. 26 calligraphic manuscript leaves with tissue guards, comprising an illuminated title page and 24 text leaves, all text beneath illuminated upper border; handsomely bound in full green morocco. 1923. *With the calligrapher's signed presentation inscription to Vyvyan Holland on blank preliminary leaf, dated Christmas 1923. Holland was the son of Oscar Wilde. $5000.00

A complete set of the foundational fetish magazine of the 20th century that has its artistic roots in Australia.

A bifolium fragment (1075-1125 CE, Southern Germany) from one of the most important documentary collections to have survived from the Middle Ages - Pope Gregory the First’s collection of letters. Comprehensive research notes and a full translation of the Latin included with the document.

An unusually fine example of a late Qing Dynasty cheats' handkerchief or sheet; an aid for passing the civil service exam under the [科舉] keju system in imperial China.

From: "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Oceanie" Atlas zoologique, Oiseaux, plate 24 and 25. 1842 STIPPLE ENGRAVINGS JEAN-CHARLES WERNER (painted by) (Paris 1798-1856) After LOUIS LE BRETON (Douarnenez 1818-1866) Superb and very detailed pair of stipple engravings from Dumont d’Urville's "Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie": An exquisite image of a brown Kiwi with two detail sketches of a feather, and his Skeleton depiction with two detail sketches of the crane and beak. Two superb images of New Zealand's national bird. Very attractive contemporary hand colouring. Sold as a pair.

81st Thousand [Macmillan, London, 1886]; two-thirds leather over decorative cloth boards, five raised bands, ornate gold decorations & titling on spine, leather a trifle rubbed at extremities, all edges gilt, decorative textured endpapers, very occasional light spotting, an excellent copy.

Very rare and important c.18th map of Australia based on Cook’s first voyage observations and one of only a handful of maps to be solely devoted to the Australia continent.

HUXLEY, Henriette Ann. Poems of Henrietta A. Huxley : with three of Thomas Henry Huxley A Presentation and Association Copy. London: Duckworth, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [vi] ix [x] 158 [2 blank] : linen covered boards with blind stamped vignette to lower board : green spine : top edge gilt : a donation by Henrietta Litchfield (nee Darwin) to the Working Men's College with their bookplate : inscribed by the author to Henrietta Litchfield dated 1913 : Working Men's College library regulations sticker to front endpaper and their stamp to top board. (14781)

A fascinating Japanese work based on the I Ching, showing how to tell fortunes by throwing sticks and reading the resulting hexagram.

London, Edward Stanford, 1879. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, very good in bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, lemon china clay endpapers, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown. 'Third Edition', preceded by a paper in the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria's 1878 annual report and reprinted by Sands & McDougall, as THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON, in the same year. Author’s presentation copy.

Cartographer: Captain G.H. RICHARDS Publisher: BRITISH ADMIRALTY 1865 [1901] Engraving [engraved by J. & C. WALKER] Very interesting and detailed large plan of Melbourne and Hobson Bay. All pertinent nautical information as ports, docks, sea depths, sand bars, wrecks, as well as building, streets, parks etc are accurately named and tracked. As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare

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.