Highlights

J.W.N.B. [Bull, John William Newell] Sea Noises. By J.W.N.B. and Choir Printed by C.P.O. H. L. Boyd in H.M.A.S. Canberra in Australian Waters, 1933. First Edition. From Ingleton's collection with his bookplate. Numbered and limited edition of 240 copies. [Miller/Macartney, p.252; Ingleton 2091]."This volume was illustrated and produced by Lieut. G. C. Ingleton and was printed by C.P.O. H. L. Boyd in HMAS Canberra in Australian Waters." (colophon).

[ROBERTS, Mark and AITKEN, Adam; Editors]. P76 Number 2 Autumn 1984. Rochford Street Press, June 1984. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [iii] 81 [6] : Gestetner magazine with distinctive silk screen cover design by Gina Ghioni.

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.

First edition of this important and ambitious work inscribed by the editor Upton Sinclair to the author of the introduction Jack London. With further association to Jack London's wife Charmian (including a signed note and her calling card), and London's signature tipped in at the end of his contribution. Sinclair and London were friends and fellow socialists who were both engaged in social justice.

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.

London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Eight volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, a clean, vibrant set in a firm and solid binding, an exceptional work with 681 full-page hand-coloured lithographs. The finest of all Australian colour plate books, and Gould’s ‘greatest achievement’ (Wantrup).

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.

[Victor Mace Fine Art Galler] Five Sydney Women - Jean Appleton, Enid Cambridge, Alison Rehfisch, Grace Cossington Smith, Dorothy Thornhill; 30 July-19 August, 1978. Bowen Hills: Victor Mace. Stapled cream card catalogue : 8pp. : invitation to a private viewing loosely inserted. Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery was established in 1975 by Victor Mace who studied antiques with Beatrice Potter, and was assistant director of Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, from 1969-1972. It has special interests in works of Australian traditional and contemporary painters, sculptors, potters and craftworkers.

GIOIA, Dana (poems); WAGENER, Richard (engravings) From California San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2024. First Edition. Nine boxwood engravings : letterpress on mold made paper : silk spine over paper covered boards with paper label to spine : matching silk covered slip case : signed by the poet and the engraver. From California is the 243rd publication of then Book Club of California. This the standard edition of which 225 copies were made.

PHILLIP, Arthur The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island... London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789. First Edition. First state engraved title, stipple-engraved portrait of Phillip by W. Sherwin after F. Wheatly, and 53 further plates, plans and charts (7 folding; 55 plates in total), errata and advertisement leaves, list of subscribers : armorial bookplate (George Henry Cherry, Denford) to pastedown : contemporary calf, spine gilt.