Highlights

William Dampier’s voyages, four volumes bound into three.

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.

Greenham & Evans (fl. ca. 1895-1900); King, Henry (1855-1923); Caire, Nicholas John (1837-1918); Sargeant, Albert & Others. Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gippsland Lakes, Hobart, Strahan (Tasmania), Cape Raoul, Fren Tree Bower, Portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Gold Miners, Tree Loggers, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 34x40,5 cm or 13 ¼ x 16 in). 24 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted original gelatin silver and albumen photos

MORRILL, James. Sketch of a Residence among the Aboriginals of Northern Queensland for Seventeen Years. Being a narrative of my life, shipwreck, landing on the coast, residence among the Aboriginals, with an account of their manners and customs, and mode of living. Brisbane, Courier General Printing Office, 1863. 8vo.24pp. Recent quarter-morocco over cloth boards, a very good copy. First edition, Rare. Ferguson 13022.

Collection of Thirteen Original Photos of New South Wales, Including Views of Sydney Harbour, Bondi Beach, Hacking River, Shoalhaven River, and Three Interesting Images of the Parramatta River Taken on the Day of the Scull Boat Race between George Towns and Jim Stanbury in 1905 or 1906. Ca. 1900s.

Gregory, Alfred. The Picture of Everest. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1954. First US. 4to. original cream boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. unpaginated, with numerous colour photos. A very good copy. [Neate G62]. Flatsigned on title page by the author, 'Alfred Gregory', first ascensionist 'Ed Hillary', and his son, 'Peter Hillary', also a notable mountaineer. Alf Gregory (Greg)(1913-2010) was an accomplished mountaineer and keen amateur photographer who took on the role of stills camera as part of his climbing duties on the successful 1953 Everest expedition.

A very good hardback copy of the artwork that inspired the designs of the Final Fantasy games.

“..the best Japanese male nude photography book of that time”, which remains one of the high points of homoerotic photography books to this day. Dedicated to Yukio Mishima, the models could easily be characters from his novels, and Mishima himself posing as a Samurai.

Cayley, Neville W. Watercolour, 30 cm by 20 cm, signed "N. W. Cayley" lower left, mounted and framed.The accompanying plate to Chisholm, A. H. Australia's lorilet puzzle. The Emu, volume 29, 1929. Pp. 80-85. This painting by Neville Cayley junior is one of the earliest ever of Fig Parrots and historically interesting because Coxen's Fig Parrot, the southernmost subspecies of the three Australian Fig Parrots, is now almost certainly extinct."

First Printing [Faber & Faber, London, 1989]; black boards, white titling to spine, v. light foxing to block, a near-fine copy; in the excellent unclipped [£10.99 net], illustrated dustjacket, slight curling at top, pale stain mark rear foldover. Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize.

Oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm Signed Painted at the start of the 2019/2020 Currowan State Forest, Black Summer bushfires

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.