Highlights

A good set of William Dampier’s voyages, four volumes bound into three. c1705-1709

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Octavo, original blue buckram lettered in red, fore-edge uncut, publisher's red topstain, with Norman Lindsay pictorial dustwrapper. First US edition. Precedes the English edition, published later in the same year as Miracles by Arrangement (but issued with a typographical rather than pictorial dustwrapper). Scarce with the fabulous Lindsay dustwrapper.

Beautifully presented watercolour album, in oval format Orihon (folding) binding with silk cloth covered boards, gilt page edges and traditional ties, in an oval album with fourteen signed and folded watercolours of Mount Fuiji, birds, trees.

First edition of John White’s account of the natural history of the new colony at Sydney Cove, printed for J. Debrett Piccadilly, London. C1790

Rare first edition of Charles Waldstein’s notes on Sir Charles Nicholson’s collection of ancient marbles. 8vo. Pp. 12, 2 pl. dark green Morocco, with bookplates of Dr George Mackaness (Sydney University Alumni) and David D. Levine.

C.19th travel guide of Salzburg, beautifully rebound in full black pebbled leather, with five raised bands, maroon title labels with gilt lettering.

First edition of Thomas Sidney Cooper’s outstanding study of cattle.

The earliest obtainable map showing the results of Maerten van Delft (?-1705) voyage of exploration to the Southland.

Very rare and important c.18th map of Australia based on Cook’s first voyage observations and one of only a handful of maps to be solely devoted to the Australia continent.

Sydney, The Bookfellow, 1919. Octavo, very good in original blue streaked cloth, author & title in gilt gothic font on upper board with typographical dustwrapper. First edition, the rare first (uncancelled) state with the final lines of the third & fifth stanzas of 'Love's Coming' transposed. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Rare with dustwrapper.