Highlights

A good paperback copy of vol 4 no1 February 1953 of furniture forum handbook of contemporary design.

Gould, John. London: Author, 1837-1838. Large octavo, 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould, with accompanying letterpress. A single leaf printed prospectus for this work and a single leaf printed prospectus for the 'Birds of Europe' at the front of part one. 8pp. appendix 'Description of New Species of Australian Birds' at end of part four. Original green cloth-backed printed paper covered boards, some wear to the boards (mainly part one), the bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher and John Eliot Thayer.

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.

The ‘Arcano de Mare’ is one the “greatest atlases of the world” (Wardington). This sumptuous atlas, first published in 1646 when its author, Robert Dudley, was 73, was not only the first sea atlas of the world, but also the first to use Mercator’s projection; the earliest to show magnetic deviation; the first to show currents and prevailing winds; the first to expound the advantages of ‘Great Circle Sailing’ – the shortest distance between two points on a globe; and “perhaps less importantly the first sea-atlas to be compiled by an Englishman, all be it abroad in Italy” (Wardington).

STREHLOW, T.G.H. Songs of Central Australia. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1971. 4to, liv+776 pp. Colour frontispiece, musical notations, large folding colour map in rear pocket. Original boards in dustwrapper (minimally rubbed at head of backstrip). A near fine copy. One of only 500 copies printed, "The Author has set out on a task never before attempted...the analysis of Aboriginal songs as a fully-developed oral literature".

Chromolithograph 42.3 x 69.7 cm "AN AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PICTURE" A copy of this chromolithograph is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial and the State Library of New South Wales Item #6292

A symbolic figure in Finnish design. We will be bringing a range of books on Modernist furniture.

The scarce and beautifully hand-coloured issue of the expanded second edition, Du Rietz noting that it was "apparently issued in less than 400 copies". The first of 1773 was not issued in a coloured version, nor did it include the double-hemisphere map showing the routes of Cook's three voyages. We trace only seven copies of this coloured issue in commerce in the last 40 years.

From: "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Oceanie" Atlas zoologique, Oiseaux, plate 24 and 25. 1842 STIPPLE ENGRAVINGS JEAN-CHARLES WERNER (painted by) (Paris 1798-1856) After LOUIS LE BRETON (Douarnenez 1818-1866) Superb and very detailed pair of stipple engravings from Dumont d’Urville's "Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie": An exquisite image of a brown Kiwi with two detail sketches of a feather, and his Skeleton depiction with two detail sketches of the crane and beak. Two superb images of New Zealand's national bird. Very attractive contemporary hand colouring. Sold as a pair.

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.

3. BONWICK, JAMES. The Last of the Tasmanians; Or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land. With numerous illustrations and colour engraving. London, Sampson Low, 1870. 8vo; pp. viii, 400 + 16 (book catalogue); colour frontispiece, 2 other f/p. colour plates, 15 b/w. f/p. plates, a folding map of Tasmania; original green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt. Some light foxing to prelims, (including to the tissue-guard to the frontispiece), an otherwise excellent bright copy. First edition of one of Bonwick's most important works.

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.