Highlights

HORTICULTURAL CATALOGUE & PRINTER’S SAMPLE Attractive dummy catalogue from horticultural printers, George Bishop, issued as promotional material to develop new custom. This is an actual horticultural catalogue with detailed botanical information with the lithographed wrappers, a sample to show to prospective customers the fine quality of their printing and the high style of their design work. Large octavo, 25cm, bound in highly decorative illustrated paper wrappers printed in colour, 41 pages, engraved illustrations throughout. A lovely copy of a scarce item.

Illustrated Birds of Australian Gardens, Rigby Publishers, 1980, page 54, De-accessioned from the National Bank Collection in 2022

Churchill, Winston S.: EPHEMERA FROM THE STATE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER-CHURCHILL . . . 30th January 1965. Five items, comprising: 1. The Order of Service for the Funeral. 2. Ceremonial to be observed at the Funeral. 3. Invitation to the Funeral, issued by the Earl Marshal on Command from The Queen, to the Rt. Hon. Enoch Powell. 4. Seating ticket for Enoch Powell. 5. General Instructions. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1965. $7500

J. B. Millet Company. Boston and Tokyo. 1904.

Joan Didion's debut novel published by Jonathan Cape, 1964.

Unknown man in the robes of a court cleric, with a fabulous ruffled colour and a simple white gown and a touch of scarlet in his robes. On his head a black cap lined in which. This man has a full clipped beard and is most beautifully painted. All three paintings are of the most exceptional quality and I am proud to offer them at this fair.

With colour illustrations reproduced from the original watercolour drawings by G.D. Armour. Subscribers edition, limited to 150 numbered copies.

Impressive framed, rare c.19th panorama of Ballarat by Eugene von Guerard. There are two versions of this engraved panorama commissioned by the Ballarat Star for which the original drawings are in the Ballarat Art Gallery and in the Dixon Library Sydney.

Three volumes, octavo, uncut in original cloth-backed boards with paper spine labels, neat owner's inscription dated 1849 on the endpapers, a very good set with expected signs of use and age (some insect damage to the cloth on the spines, labels slightly chipped, endpapers foxed and with paste residue from old protective cloth sleeves since removed, some non-disturbing damp marks at the back of two volumes). London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. First edition of a rare and important three-decker novel. Ferguson, 5061; Miller, p. 597; not in Sadleir; Wantrup, 492.

Coloured initials added by hand. So called because the size conformed to that of many 13thC manuscript bibles, making it convenient to carry and easily affordable. Printed in a clear gothic font in 7-point size. Size of leaf:150x105 mm. Book of Leviticus.

Potter, Beatrix, & others: CHANGING PICTURES: A Book of Transformation Pictures. Ernest Nister, London and E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, n.d.[1893]. First edition. One of three coloured illustrations on the upper board is an early (unattributed) picture by Beatrix Potter, of a rabbit opening a door to discover a Christmas basket of carrots and other vegetables. $1500