Highlights

Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1909. The account of Birtles' ambitious bicycle journey around Australia, in which he covered 8300 miles over thirteen months, with illustrations from his photographs

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.

An unpublished manuscript with accompanying typescript by French author Michel Vaucaire c. mid 20th C

A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”.

Limited edition, number 22 of 50 copies printed on japon for the Guild of Women Binders and finely bound in their workshop. The bookseller Frank Karslake established the bindery in 1898 as "a way of publicising and promoting the sale of books bound by women" (Tidcombe, p. 27).

Liste des Grands Vins Fins. A set of thirty-seven extravagantly produced annual fine wine commercial catalogues issued by the Parisian wine merchant Établissements Nicolas Maison between 1929 and 1973, together with associated tariff cards, advertising cards and ephemera, and Carte Fines Bouteilles commercial catalogues issued for the years 1993-1997.

Part of a collection of Caldecott Prize winner's including rare and first editions.

Watercolour and gouache 31 x 42.5 cm Signed R. H. Shaw and dated indistinctly Provenance: Private collection until 2005 A later version of this painting titled South Australian Blacks in Full War Dress 1891 is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia Shaw arrived in Australia from England c1858 and settled in Adelaide. He was the son of Captain George Reynolds Shaw. He was a watercolour and scene-painter, produced watercolour landscapes and sketches of Aborigines in South Australia.

William Dampier’s voyages, four volumes bound into three.

Rare early c.19th watercolours by two artists; Jose S. Castillo and Joseph Pio Dominguez dated from 1836-1837 Santa Marta.

An important portrait miniature of Lord Hobart by Henry Bone.

HUXLEY, Henriette Ann. Poems of Henrietta A. Huxley : with three of Thomas Henry Huxley A Presentation and Association Copy. London: Duckworth, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [vi] ix [x] 158 [2 blank] : linen covered boards with blind stamped vignette to lower board : green spine : top edge gilt : a donation by Henrietta Litchfield (nee Darwin) to the Working Men's College with their bookplate : inscribed by the author to Henrietta Litchfield dated 1913 : Working Men's College library regulations sticker to front endpaper and their stamp to top board. (14781)