Highlights

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.

An excellent copy of this great rarity, seldom found in any condition—let alone as pleasing as this.

Chromolithograph by Robert Wendel after Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917). 1892. 670mm by 940mm (frame). 'Reproduction of the First Prize in The Australian Natives’ Association National Fete, January 26th 1892’. Printed by Troedel & Co, Melbourne. Period timber frame, with slip and original old glass. CONDITION : Some foxing spots in the margins.

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

Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. I. The 42nd Parallel II. Nineteen Nineteen III. The Big Money [The Modern Library 'Giant' G44]. New York: The Modern Library, 1939. First Thus. 8vo. original grey cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. idiosyncratic pagination thus, xi, 2-416 (last blank), iii-viii, 3-474 (last blank), iii-viii, 3-562. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf '' Mr Edward Smith, cordially, John Dos Passos'. A very good copy. First omnibus appearance of the USA Trilogy, uncommon as a presentation copy. A small collection of later newspaper articles regarding the author, are loosely enclosed.

Very rare and unrecorded proof before letters, Chine-collé lithograph on India paper, of the [Sea Mouth of the Murray] by George French Angas.

Signed and numbered illustrated edition, specially produced by Chinthurst Fine books to celebrate the 85th birthday of Nelson Mandela on the 18th of July, 2003. Bound in full brown morocco by monastically trained bookbinders at Abbey Bookbindery in Surrey, England, with a matching clamshell presentation case containing a drawer of 4 signed lithographed photographic prints on art paper by South African photographer Grant Warren.

Distinctive lettre bâtarde script & line fillers. According to legend, the Te Deum was improvised antiphonally by St. Ambrose and St. Augustine at the latter’s baptism in Milan in 387 CE. It has more plausibly been attributed to Nicetas, bishop of Remesiana in the early 5th century. The Te Deum concluded the matins in every kind of Hours of the Virgin in medieval books of hours. It has been set to music by Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Bruckner, Byrd, Dvorak and Handel, to name a few.

LIONEL ARTHUR LINDSAY (Creswick 17-10-1874/Hornsby 22-5-1961) Australian school ”GOAT AND RHODODENDRON" c.1933 WOOD ENGRAVING A profile of a goat in bust, looking toward left between rhododendron flowers. One of Lionel Lindsay's most well-known and sought after wood engravings. This is considered to be one of Lindsay’s most renowned wood engravings for technical execution. Last of Lindsay's goat subjects and most highly stylised. NOTE: Signed in pencil lower left. Numbered 100 lower right (edition of 100). Mendelssohn p.154.

One of the great milestones of Armenian language cartography, being the first Armenian school atlas and the second ever Armenian world atlas. It also contains one of the earliest maps to depict a proposed independent state of ‘Armenia’ cleaved out of the Ottoman Empire, a politically incendiary notion and powerful rhetorical device of the ‘Armenian National Awakening’.

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.

An important portrait miniature of Lord Hobart by Henry Bone.