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Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched. Loosely inserted is an ALs, dated 24 September 1932, from Eric Gill to the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, whose wife's signature is on the upper free endpaper of Volume I. $25,000.00

A seminal work describing India's geography and people.

A pocket globe after Herman Moll. Herman Moll (?1654-1732) moved to London from Germany or the Low Countries, sometime before 1678. His career in London would span some 60 years and see him move from a jobbing engraver to a successful publisher of maps and atlases. He was part of the intellectual circle that gathered at Jonathan’s Coffee House, counting Robert Hooke, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift amongst his acquaintance. Moll even provided a map for Defoe’s work ‘Robinson Crusoe’ showing the track of Crusoe’s supposed voyage, and is mentioned by Lemuel Gulliver in ‘Gulliver’s Travels'.

Numbers 33, 34, 46, 57, 74, and 84, printed at General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, between June and October 1915

LOUIS LE BRETON [after] (Douarnenez 1818 - Paris 1866) French marine painter Title: “HOBART-TOWN” (Île Van Diemen) Era: 1842 Technique: Lithography Description: Superb and detailed view of Hobart with ships anchoring in the Harbour. Taken after nature by Louis Le Breton (1818-1866) during the famous South Pole and Oceania expedition executed by Jules Dumont d'Urville. Superb impression in sepia tones printed on wove paper. In excellent condition, full editorial margins.

Istanbul : Matbaa-I Amire, 1307-1309 [i.e. 1891-1893]. The first lithographed folio atlas printed in the Islamic world, with 42 maps drawn by the father of modern Ottoman cartography, Ali Şeref Paşa.

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

First Edition [The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005]; 256 pages; red cloth, gold titling to front board & spine, slight lean, faint stain at base of front board, a very good copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, scratches on rear, a little bumped at extremities, v. slight sunfading. Perhaps the most comprehensive volume on the life & art of one of Australia's finest artists. With signed inscriptions from Lou Klepac, Barry Pearce & Jeffrey Smart [for my darling Pammers…] to Pam Cleland.

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.

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

“NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE; PORT-JACKSON: FAMILLE DE SAUVAGES EN VOYAGE.” 1824 Artists: SEBASTIAN LEROY [drawn by] & BOISSEAU & FORGET [engraved by] TECHNIQUE: Stipple engraving printed in colour [finished by hand-watercolour] Early and interesting depiction of natives Australians in Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, N.S.W. An Aboriginal family in the foreground, walking past a camp in the background where another indigenous family is cooking an animal on an open fire.Without number 102; From first edition of: “Voyage autour du Monde" by Louis Freycinet.

A map of the colony of New South Wales. The various inset maps show ports and harbours around the territory: Port Philip and Western Port, Botany Bay, Jervis Bay, Port Hunter, Broken Bay, Port Macquarie, Twofold Bay, Port Stephens, Morton Bay and Brisbane River, Port Jackson, and one larger map of the whole continent.