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Bromide photograph by Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976). 1953. 490mm by 345mm (photograph), 600mm by 480mm (sheet). Laid onto board. Signed by the Queen below the photograph, dated 1953. Dorothy Wilding was the first female Royal photographer. CONDITION : The ink signature has faded to a sepia.

1970 (First Edition, Second Printing) This edition is a valuable piece for collectors due to its historical context, author’s inscription, and well-preserved condition. It remains an eloquent and fully documented account of the Native Americans’ plight during the 19th century, making it a significant addition to any collection.

First edition of one of the landmark works of the English language.

A Collection of Four Original Watercolours of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Botany Bay, Murrumbidgee River and Wollundry Lagoon in Wagga-Wagga and Tamar River in Tasmania; With a Watercolour Plant Sketch, Titled "Homeward Bound". Ca. 1890s.

ATKINSON, E.J. [Evelyn John] Rupert. A blank-verse tragedy in one act. Melbourne: Edward A. Vidler , 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover : [iv] [5] 6-55 [56] [2] : tan paper covers with french flaps, lettered in brown to top cover between parallel double ruled borders in brown : ALS from Jack Lindsay (reviewing the work) and an AN from Hugh McCrae (to whom the book is dedicated) regarding a humorous episode of attempted book theft tipped in at the first two blanks. Half the paper spine missing; edgewear to covers.

A pocket globe after Herman Moll. Herman Moll (?1654-1732) moved to London from Germany or the Low Countries, sometime before 1678. His career in London would span some 60 years and see him move from a jobbing engraver to a successful publisher of maps and atlases. He was part of the intellectual circle that gathered at Jonathan’s Coffee House, counting Robert Hooke, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift amongst his acquaintance. Moll even provided a map for Defoe’s work ‘Robinson Crusoe’ showing the track of Crusoe’s supposed voyage, and is mentioned by Lemuel Gulliver in ‘Gulliver’s Travels'.

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

Shackleton, Sir Ernest. South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920. 4to. original blue cloth with pictorial design & lettering in silver; pp. xxii (last blank), 376, index, with numerous illustrations & a folding map. A very good copy, uncommon in such clean and bright condition. The fourth impression published in March 1920, three months after the first issue, and printed on superior quality paper stock. A small collection of newspaper articles regarding Shackleton are loosely enclosed.

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.

Spectacular very large wall size format Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau vintage poster made for the ‘8th Sokol Festival Prague.

Docharty, William McKnight. A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops [with] The Supplement to A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops and A Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 Feet. Edinburgh: The Darien Press Ltd. for W.M.Docharty, esq., 1954/1962. First Edition. 3 vols. 4to. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 124; 1-208; 209-260 (last blank), illustrated with numerous photographs and panoramas. No. 36 of a limited edition (allegedly 260 sets), each volume hand inscribed by the author, Willie Docharty, to David and Winifred Horn. A very good set.

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.