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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

Brown, Robertus. Normibergae: Leonardi Schrag, 1827 second edition. Octavo, Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few light spots, very scarce. The Prodromus is considered a masterpiece of botanical literature and "has a two-fold importance in the history of systematic botany. Its primary purpose was to record succinctly the plants of Australia collected by Robert Brown himself in 1802 and 1805 when naturalist on Flinders' voyage together with plants collected earlier by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Cook's first voyage (1768-71.)

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

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’.

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]

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.

by Utagawa Kuniteru II Superb woodblock printed triptych showing the first Western-style hotel in Tokyo, the Tsukiji Hotel, built in 1868, but sadly destroyed by fire in 1872. Titled in Japanese and English, 'Plan of Hotel at Yedo, T'Skege [Tsukiji] 1868'. [Tokyo]. Publisher unknown. 1868. Each panel approx. 37 x 25cm. In very good condition. Minor age wear. Centre panel has one small hole at upper left. Left panel has two very small holes at upper right. Otherwise very good. Unbacked with nice bleedthrough.

A very attractive map of Guangdong province, the European concessions of Hong Kong and Macau, as well as the Paracel Islands and South China Sea - included ostensibly to affirm the Kuomintang Government's claims to the territories.

London, Edward Stanford, 1879. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, very good in bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, lemon china clay endpapers, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown. 'Third Edition', preceded by a paper in the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria's 1878 annual report and reprinted by Sands & McDougall, as THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON, in the same year. Author’s presentation copy.

Sreet Photo Random Tokyo 1975-1979. The 1980 first edition. Rare and important book of Street Photography. A good copy, fore-edge marked and spine creased. Lacks obi and acetate cover.

First Printing [Doubleday, New York, 1998]; xxii, 250 pages; black papered boards over cloth spine, titling in white to spine, photographic images for endpapers, a fine copy; in like illustrated dustjacket. Signed in full by Patti Smith in Philadelphia under image of typewriter.

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