Important c.17th hand coloured engraved world map on Mercator’s projection by Willem Blaeu, one of the finest and most beautiful examples of cartography produced during the Golden Age of Dutch mapmaking.

Association copy of Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia by Phillip Parker King. Both volumes bear identical ink presentation inscriptions to the front free endpaper: “John Lethbridge King / from his affect[ionate] father / Phillip Gidley King / 1892.” John Lethbridge King was the son of Philip Gidley King (1817–1904), grandson of Phillip Parker King (1791–1856), and great-grandson of Captain Philip Gidley King (1758–1808), Governor of New South Wales.

The final edition (1601) of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum printed at the Plantin press, complete with the Parergon and the Nomenclator, in rich contemporary hand colour.

“The most comprehensive account of Tasman’s life and achievement; ” (Schilder, Australia unveiled, p.157) of which only 200 copies were printed.

Rare, seminal c.18th map of Australia and one of only a handful of maps solely devoted to the Australian continent published between 1663 to 1800.

An impressive rotating star-finder planisphere for latitude 35°S, the standard reference latitude making it particularly suitable for use in Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa, published by George Philip & Son.

Very rare and important early map based on Cook’s first voyage discoveries on the east coast of Australia and only the third map to include those discoveries on a map solely devoted to the Australia continent.

Rare and important, early c.19th hand coloured engraved chart of Bass Strait and the Victorian Coast by Lieutenant James Grant who was given command of the Lady Nelson with the instructions to sail her to Sydney

Impressive 21 inch collapsible terrestrial globe made by Betts in the 1870s.

The second edition, and the preferred, of The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, being one of the most important and detailed accounts of Australian colonial settlement.