Highlights

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.

Hugh McCrae. The Du Poissey Anecdotes An inscribed presentation copy to his father with pages of manuscript

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.

The first three editions of Hamilton Hume's account of his famous expedition with Captain William Hilton Hovell, which established an overland route between Sydney and Port Phillip. Outraged at what he considered to be a public lack of acknowledgement of his role in the expedition, Hume was impelled to publish this account 30 years later, in 1855.

Album with Nine Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Australian Bush, Homestead and a Creek near “Langiwilli,” Sutherland Dock on the Cockatoo Island (Sydney Harbour), and Cotton Shipping in Galveston, TX. Ca. late 1890s - early 1900s.

A vibrant panoramic map of the island of Itsukushima (also known as Miyajima) off the coast of Hiroshima, with a tourist guide to the island on the reverse.

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.

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. original black boards in dustwrapper; pp. xii, 224. A fine copy. In July 2017, the book was listed as the most influential science book of all time in a poll to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Royal Society science book prize, ahead of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of SpeciesIsaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica.

Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. The first edition of Sparrman’s account of Cook’s second voyage, a very rare complete set printed over a span of 35 years, including two samples of tapa cloth collected on the voyage in Tahiti and the Friendly Islands (Tonga).

A seminal work describing India's geography and people.

Collected Works of Winston Churchill (34 Volumes) including Essays (4 Volumes) bound in velum with gilt lettering to spine. Limited to 5000 copies of which a significant but unknown portion were never produced leaving the final print run an unknown quantity. The slipcases have been removed but are available.

(Shinpan) Ryōri kondate shū (zen) or 料理献立抄 [trans. Collection of Cooking Menus, New Edition, complete] No publishing details in the text: circa 1686. [Kyoto : Nagata Hanbei, Jokyo 3, 1686]¹ In Japanese, early Edo period calligraphic script. two double-page woodcut illustrations, two smaller partial-page woodcut illustrations.