Highlights

Clergue, Lucien. Maïs. Arles: Le Marais D'Arles, 1960. First Edition. 4to. original paper wraps, hand-written throughout; pp. [24 (last blank)], with 10 original black/white gelatine photographic prints (9 measure 7.2" x 5.1" , while one measures 9.5"x 6.2"). No. 37 of a limited edition of 150 copies, handmade and signed by the photographer, Lucien Clergue. A very good copy of a scarce early work by this French photographer, featuring various high contrast images of corn from his native Arles region.

Adelaide, South Australia: Adelaide University Union, 1935-1939, 1935. First Edition. Softcover : 1935 pp. [iv] 78; 1936 pp. vi, 94; 1937 pp. [vi] 54; 1938 80pp.; 1939 79pp. : all black paper wraps with yapped edges lettered in red (1937 is illustrated to top cover) : all 19.4cm tall except 1939 which is 22cm. Fine. Soft cover. A complete run of the early issues of this annual in original decorated wrappers. (Bookseller Inventory #5661)

An excellent example of England's mapmaker Emanuel Bowen's fine engraving skills. Bound in full suede and comprising 273 full-page engraved maps with the armorial crest of the various boroughs and towns. The complete first edition of Ogilby's famous atlas.

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

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.

One of the most important Australian ornithological publications of the nineteenth century.

This first edition of “French Provincial Cooking” by Elizabeth David, published by Michael Joseph in 1960, is a renowned culinary classic. It features a hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on a red background, and a pictorial design on the front board. The book includes a rare first impression English dust jacket, now protected by an archival cover. The text is clean with slight age-toning and minor stains on the fore-edge.

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

Limited Edition [St James Park Press, London, 2022]; [vi], 124pp + limitation page; folded plain grey, textured card covers glued to string bound page block, illustrated card dustjacket; in perspex slipcase. Ten colour plates with spectacular linocut illustrations by Hugh Ribbans. Limited to only 140 copies [this being #124]

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.

The Wright-Molyneux Map is the first English map on Mercator’s projection, it is the first map to name Lake Ontario, and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia”. Richard Hakluyt’s ‘Principall Navigations’ is first collection of English voyages, published at the height of Elizabethan maritime prestige and “the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period”.

Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND of Master William Caxton done anew. In three volumes. Kelmscott Press, London, 1892. Edition limited to 500 copies. *The Golden Legend was originally intended as the first production of the Kelmscott Press, but due to production difficulties it became the seventh. In July 1890, William Morris had purchased a copy of one of Wynkyn de Worde's reprints of the Caxton translation. Originally compiled by the Archbishop of Milan, Jacobus a Voragine or de Varagine (c. 1230-1298), the book is a repository of the lives and miracles of saints and martyrs. $20,000.00