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Tokyo. Okawa Jokichi. 1895. 56pp. 21.3 x 12.1cm. Good to very good. Covers a bit worn. Some darkening to edges. A few pages with slightly more darkening and one page with some staining. A couple of pages with minor separation at fold but only a couple of cm.

Bromide photograph by Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976). 1953. 490mm by 345mm (photograph), 600mm by 480mm (sheet). Laid onto board. Signed by the Queen below the photograph, dated 1953. Dorothy Wilding was the first female Royal photographer. CONDITION : The ink signature has faded to a sepia.

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.

Cayley, Neville W. Watercolour, 30 cm by 20 cm, signed "N. W. Cayley" lower left, mounted and framed.The accompanying plate to Chisholm, A. H. Australia's lorilet puzzle. The Emu, volume 29, 1929. Pp. 80-85. This painting by Neville Cayley junior is one of the earliest ever of Fig Parrots and historically interesting because Coxen's Fig Parrot, the southernmost subspecies of the three Australian Fig Parrots, is now almost certainly extinct."

Watercolour 36 x 42 cm Signed; inscribed on reverse Waratahs and Flannel Flowers, Australia Provenance: Private collection UK until 2021 This watercolour was probably No. 186, Wild Flowers, N.S.W., £18.18.0, Spring Exhibition, Art Society of NSW, 1897. It was also exhibited and sold, at the Exhibition of Australian Art, May, 1898, Grafton Galleries, London. No. 134, Some Wild Flowers, £18.18.0 Margaret Flockton (1861-1953) was Australia’s first and most celebrated professional botanical artist. We have limited copies of the excellent biography on the artist for sale Margaret Fl

Turner, G.R. [George Reginald]. Young Man of Talent. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1959. First Edition. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper priced 16/- net; pp. x, 290. A very good copy. The noted SF author's scarce first novel, based on his wartime experiences in New Guinea.

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.

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)

A Collection of Four Original Watercolours of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Botany Bay, Murrumbidgee River and Wollundry Lagoon in Wagga-Wagga and Tamar River in Tasmania; With a Watercolour Plant Sketch, Titled "Homeward Bound". Ca. 1890s.

Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, 1914. Octavo, 80 pp., illustrations, original pictorial wrappers (slightly rubbed). Scarce in part form.

One of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization.

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’.