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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]

An excellent example of this world atlas by Hashimoto Gyokuransai (1807-c1878) aka Utagawa Sadahide and Gountei Sadahide containing all ten maps as issued. Sadahide was one of ten Japanese artists who exhibited works at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris. This atlas was first published in the Ansei Era (around 1856) and this is a new edition from 1866. Very scarce in such nice condition and with its original paper sleeve. Tokyo. Kobunkaku. Keio 2 (1866). 18.9 x 12.6cm. Very good to fine. Very minor wear to top and bottom of covers. Sleeve with expected age wear and minor darkening. Hou

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.

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.

One of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization.

Mushrooms: History, description, culture, uses of edible, poisonous, suspicious species used in the arts, industry, home economics, medicine.

“..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.

First edition, one of 1,000 copies of the standard issue text volumes, of "the most outstanding book on the coastal exploration of Australia... Such is the historical importance of this monumental work that no general collection of Australian books can be considered complete without it" (Wantrup).

Cartographer: Captain G.H. RICHARDS Publisher: BRITISH ADMIRALTY 1865 [1901] Engraving [engraved by J. & C. WALKER] Very interesting and detailed large plan of Melbourne and Hobson Bay. All pertinent nautical information as ports, docks, sea depths, sand bars, wrecks, as well as building, streets, parks etc are accurately named and tracked. As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare

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.

An important portrait miniature of Lord Hobart by Henry Bone.

London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')