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Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933. Quarto, 48pp., black & white illustrations, neat modern inscription on half-title page, bright original colour pictorial wrappers. First edition. Very scarce Frank Johnson publication in uncommonly good condition. Wills & Wep's Sydney of the early 1930s, flappers, six-o'clock closing, and the Harbour Bridge &c. Pidgeon's striking illustrations include his useful & important drinking map of Sydney 'With Wep Where it's Wet'.

REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (1606-1669) Dutch School “The Flute-player” (het Uylenspiegeltje) 1642, ETCHING AND DRYPOINT Fourth state of four, without the face among the branches. Barstch 188, Hollstein Dutch 144, New Hollstein 211 Very good impression on fine 17th century laid paper. Trimmed outside the copperplate, 4mm margins on right, left and lower side, 2mm margin upper side. Upper left corner of the margin reinforced.

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-1925. First Editions. 3 vols. 8vo. Original blue, burgundy and green cloth gilt, uncut. A very good set of the foundational works of Himalayan mountaineering literature, recounting the unsuccessful British attempts to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s, forming a very handsome record of the courage and daring of the early Everesters, including a high point of 8,550 m (28,050 ft) achieved by Norton without oxygen, and the loss of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in their final push for the summit

Canberra: AGPS Press - Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988-1991. First Editions. 3 vols.. 4to. original blue boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrappers (a little rubbed & nicked, slight crease to spine vol. 1). A near fine copy of an uncommon set, detailing the history of Canberra from 1820 to 1980

The second edition, published in 1870 by the explorer’s son, as the first edition from 1823 was now unprocurable. The journal accounts the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains, opening up westward settlement in New South Wales. At the auction of the Davidson Collection 2006 a copy of the first edition of 1823 sold for $407,750, while the second edition (as here) sold for $7573.

Together with an Excursion into the Interior of the Eastern part of Java. 2 volumes. Lond. T & W. Boone. 1847. Beautifully bound in half morocco with raised bands. xii,423,8;v,361,10pp. t.e.g. 19 engraved plates, 18 text figures & 2 fold-out charts, laid down on linen. The charts are of the Great Barrier Reef and the eastern end of the Island of Java. The edges of the plates, though not the pages, with sl.water-marking. The first British expedition to be despatched to Australia on a surveying mission. 1st ed. Very Scarce.

London : printed by W. Closes and Sons for John Murray, 1866. Fourth edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (light bumping to corners, very minor stains), green endpapers, contemporary owner’s inscription in pencil ‘M Purser 1867’ to half-title, pp. xxi; [blank], 593; [blank] 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated January 1865), folding lithographic plate by William West after Darwin, one quire slightly sprung, a fine copy of the fourth edition, entirely unsophisticated, crisp, complete and unrestored.

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTE (GOYA) 1815-1824 (published 1877) ETCHING AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT We’ve heard of raining cats and dogs, but bulls'! Goya loved to watch bullfights for their festivity and their tragedy. He drew detailed images of their many variations. In this dream-like image, he removed the bulls from the pressures of the ring. Here they float in the air, seemingly as weightless as butterflies. From the additional series of 4 plates of “Les Disparates” Published for the first time on the revue of “L’Art” in 1877, in Paris by Lienard. In perfect condition.

Hobart Town: Henn and Co., Printers, 1876. First Edition. 12mo. modern full leather gilt (leaves a little rubbed and marked, trifling spots); pp. [iv (last blank)], 116 (last blank), [iv (last blank)]. A very good copy of an uncommon work in a mint binding

Melbourne, George Robertson, 1867, & London, Constable, 1912. First editions: pp(ii), 172, 8vo, & ppxxxii, 464 pages, 17 plates, text ills; 8vos, `Sea Spray' in original pebbled cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and faded: The biography, a very fine copy in pictorial cloth gilt.. Jonathan Wantrup sees `some irony in the fact that the first poet to give voice to verse that was distinctively Australian was not native-born but a Scottish remittance man' and suggests that of `Sea Spray' `500 copies were printed of which only a hundred sold'.

C1928 Stunning Bangkok travel guide by Major Erik Seidenfaden and published by the Royal State Railways of Siam, 1928. Second edition. 8vo, pp iii, 324, xxxii, numerous photographic illustrations, some in colour, numerous maps including large folding coloured plan at rear, adverts. Richly gilt decorated publisher's green cloth.

Kinsberg, J.G.H. C.E. Fritze's Royal Library. Stockholm. 1901. Scarce work by Swedish physician, veterinarian and zoologist Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg (1820-1908). This work is his noble attempt to offer a simplified transcription for Japanese and Chinese characters following the work of J. J. Hoffman (1868) and Georg V. D. Gabelentz (1881).