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An excellent example of this world atlas by Hashimoto Gyokuransai (1807-c1878) aka Utagawa Sadahide and Gountei Sadahide containing all ten maps as issued. Sadahide was one of ten Japanese artists who exhibited works at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris. This atlas was first published in the Ansei Era (around 1856) and this is a new edition from 1866. Very scarce in such nice condition and with its original paper sleeve. Tokyo. Kobunkaku. Keio 2 (1866). 18.9 x 12.6cm. Very good to fine. Very minor wear to top and bottom of covers. Sleeve with expected age wear and minor darkening. Hou

Vysheslavtsev, A.V. Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860 godakh [i.e. Sketches in Pen and Pencil from the Circumnavigation in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860]. St. Petersburg-Moscow: M.O. Wolf, 1867.

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

Early work with hand drawn and coloured illustrations Place unknown. Author unknown. Dated Genroku 12 (1699) at rear. 9 leaves. 14.2 x 20.6cm. Very good. Expected age wear and some minor marks. In recent, custom-made, folding case.

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.

[Clark, John Heaviside] FIELD SPORTS, &c. &c. Of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; with ten plates, by the Author. Pp. [20](including index to Foreign Field Sports), plus 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Edward Orme, London, 1813[1814?]. First edition. *'The first Australian coloured plate book properly so-called [and] . . . the first separate account of the Aborigines' [Wantrup page 282]. This is the New South Wales supplement to Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes &c. &c., also issued as a separate 18 page publication, in wrappers. $7000.00

Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. First trade edition. *Although the original manuscript was written in French, the American edition preceded both the French and English editions. $5,000.00

Paris: Internationale Situationniste, 1958-1969. First Edition. Twelve stapled softcovers : metallic paper covers in different colors : C.&c. : two supplements to no. 10 and one to no. 11. Covers vary from very good (no. 8) to fine (nos. 1 & 4). Complete collection, first edition EXCEPT, as usual, for No. 2 which is a second edition (1962). The original no. 2 (1958) was produced in a very limited run hence the 1962 reprint which is notorious for the "peeling" of the silver metallic cover. (14959)

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

3. BONWICK, JAMES. The Last of the Tasmanians; Or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land. With numerous illustrations and colour engraving. London, Sampson Low, 1870. 8vo; pp. viii, 400 + 16 (book catalogue); colour frontispiece, 2 other f/p. colour plates, 15 b/w. f/p. plates, a folding map of Tasmania; original green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt. Some light foxing to prelims, (including to the tissue-guard to the frontispiece), an otherwise excellent bright copy. First edition of one of Bonwick's most important works.

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, offsetting on endpapers, but very good in original eucalypt grey cloth with plain blue dustwrapper (bit sunned) with printed title label. First edition ‒ scarce cloth issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. (The trade edition was issued in uniform blue wrappers, selling for 3/6.)

Albumen stereoview photograph. C1870. 82mm by 174mm (card). Early stereoview photograph on yellow card of the gold mines at Ballarat. 'LU' blindstamped top right corner of the card. Titled inscribed in ink on the reverse.