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Catlin (George) NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839. In two volumes. With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. John Grant, Edinburgh, 1926. First edition thus. *George Catlin (1796-1872) spent several years studying the languages and customs of native Americans, making copious notes and studies for his paintings. $3,500.00

Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55. Single folio leaf. 371 x 300 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letters rubricated in red. “[The Gutenberg Bible] has never been surpassed. Of all the arts, printing at its birth reached perfection more nearly than any other.”

A rare Chinese Communist anti-American propaganda poster printed double sided in red and black.

One of the great milestones of Armenian language cartography, being the first Armenian school atlas and the second ever Armenian world atlas. It also contains one of the earliest maps to depict a proposed independent state of ‘Armenia’ cleaved out of the Ottoman Empire, a politically incendiary notion and powerful rhetorical device of the ‘Armenian National Awakening’.

The text includes a section of a sermon by Maximus of Turin. Pristine condition. Archivally mounted.

Lindsay, Norman: McCrae (Hugh) IDYLLIA. 5 full page tipped-in plates with lettered tissue guards, the pictorial title page and 15 decorative initials printed in gilt & black; Sydney, 1922. Edition limited to 133 copies (100 for sale), numbered and signed by the author. *The plates are all original etchings, numbered and signed in pencil by Norman Lindsay. $25,000.00

A nice set, published by Pierre Didot, Paris 1803, 3 Vols. 32mo. Buff leather spine, with Pink insert title and green volume with gilt letters, and various gilt decorations, boards marbled, endpapers marbled, edges yellow, owners ex libris Viet Valentin. Good-very good condition, silk bookmarks intact. Tom 1- II, 245pp lightly foxed, Tom III-IV 262pp edges lightly worn, interior bright with minimal marks, Tom V-VI 336pp light wear, inside bright.

A pioneering work on Shanghai by Carlos Augusto Montalto de Jesus.

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

First edition, first printing, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Cleonike Damianakes (1895-1979), renowned for her classical-style designs favoured by the Lost Generation writers. The first printing is distinguished by the lack of the legal disclaimer which appeared on p. x in the second and third printings.

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)