The first substantial study and printing of Fra Mauro's famous medieval Mappa Mundi. Fra Mauro's map is considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography and was produced between 1457 and 1459. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment, oriented to the south, and mounted on a wooden stretcher frame around 2m in diameter.  It includes Asia, the Indian Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Atlantic, and it took several years to complete.

Oronce Fine's famous double cordiform map of the world is acknowledged as being one of the most striking and influential world maps published in the c.16th. The present example is state 4 of the map identified by the inclusion of the date M.D. XL (1540) in Roman numerals within the lower panel. In all there are 6 states of the map, dated 1532, 1536, 1540, 1541 and 1555. All states are rare and as noted by Shirley, most examples are trimmed, making this example especially desirable.

Stunning c.16th world map by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) issued in Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first true modern atlas which is of fundamental importance in the history of cartography. Ortelius' important world map is based on Mercator's large wall map which was published 1569. He has removed the legends, textual panels and decorative features and added formations of clouds around the map and a quotation by Cicero, the Roman writer. South America retains the unusual bulge to the south-west coast drawn by Mercator. A large predominant 'Terra Australis Nondum Cognita' occupies....

Very rare comical AFL lithograph. From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.

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.

A very good set of the first edition of the Nicholas Baudin voyage of the exploration of Australia, written by Francois Peron (1775-1810). First edition, 2 volumes of text and atlas, 2 engraved titles and an engraved portrait of Peron, 2 folding tables, 40 engraved plates including, a large folding plate of Sydney, 23 hand coloured engravings and 14 maps. Minor spotting in places as usual, slight browning to text in places. The folding maps with the usual splits. Bound in contemporary half-calf , spines gilt, lightly rubbed. .....

Massive c.20th French colour lithograph poster by Norman Rockwell published by M.B. Conhaim, 1943 June 10th, laid onto archival linen 1340mm x 905mm.

Very rare and important c.19th hand coloured lithographic portrait of Kawakawa (Bay of Islands) chief Rangituke, with his wife and son by Augustus Earle.