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LEON WILLIAM HANSON [signed R. PARSONS, pseudonym of] Oil on canvas on board 400mm(H) x 500mm(L) Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour with a detailed depiction of St. Mary's Cathedral, with Bennelong Point at the back and Archibald Fountain lower left. State Library of NSW and Art Gallery of NSW buildings are visible at left of the Cathedral. Overall in very good condition. Board slightly uneven on the right side.

1687, 8vo, owners signiture, Joh. Vander Avele. Enhanced with a letter of Etienne Le Moyne. A beautiful and extraordinary book, with inserted vignettes of architectural and sculptural drawings. Two vols in one the second half features bi and tri-fold pages of large architectural drawing. Re-bound in the 18th century, a real treasure.

Confucius. Andreas Cramoisy for Danielem Horthemels. Paris. 1867. The first and most influential translation to be widely available in the West of the works of Confucius, with a wonderful full-page engraved portrait of him labelled the "foremost teacher under heaven".

London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. First English. 4to. original pictorial red cloth gilt (sl. sunning to spine and upper board, a trifle rubbed, occ. spots, prev. owner's name and discreet blindstamp to prelims., occ. creasing to corner of final leaves, else clean & bright throughout); pp. xviii, 598 (last blank), with numerous illustrations and folding colour map. A very good copy of a scarce book. An account of the 1888-1890 German expedition mounted for the relief of Emin Pasha, German born governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria, trapped by the Mahdist uprising in Sudan since 1881.

​Sydney, 1882. First edition: pp24, 12 b/w cartoons (depicting Parkes in various situations); 4to, original stab sown wrappers. Paper tanned, else very good. A humorous piece of ephemera, supposedly following Parkes around the world. Sir Henry Parkes, five-times premier of New South Wales, Father of Federation, Knight Grand Cross, and founder of free public education. He lived at Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains

"APTERIX AUSTRAL" Shaw and his "SKELETON" 1842 JEAN-CHARLES WERNER (painted by) (Paris 1798-1856) After LOUIS LE BRETON (Douarnenez 1818-1866) STIPPLE ENGRAVINGS Superb and very detailed pair of stipple engravings from Dumont d’Urville's "Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie": An exquisite image of a brown Kiwi with two detail sketches of a feather, and his Skeleton depiction with two detail sketches of the crane and beak. Two superb images of New Zealand's national bird. Attractive contemporary hand colours. Sold as a pair.

London: Truslove & Shirley, 1891. First Edition. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed, occ. spots and marks, small paper label to spine, else clean & bright throughout); pp. xviii (last blank), 148, with 8 plates + two folding charts (short marginal tear to map). A near fine copy. Ex-libris Lieut. General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, with his bookplate to upper pastedown. Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was a British army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist, whose ethnographical collections form the basis of the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford

Sydney : Nelson P. Whitelocke, [1885]. Privately published in Sydney in 1885, this rare and highly evocative graphic work documents – with the empathetic eye of an artist possessing a strong social conscience – the city’s poor and working-class types, as well as the appearance (and sounds) of its streets.

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

With illustrations. Lond. Macmillan & Co. 1914. Or.cl. with gilt ornament on front board. xx,516pp. uncut. t.e.g. 36 plates (some in colour), a map & 92 b/w. ills. Sl. foxing & name on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce.

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.