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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.

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

A leaf of exceptional quality from an early fifteenth century Venetian Antiphonal. The extravagantly illuminated initial “I”, which includes a wolf’s head in the decoration, introduces the text “Ierusalem cito veni”, a Responsory at Matins for the Second Sunday in Advent.

A good early set of this classic by ‘the father of modern geology’, composed of the second edition of the first volume, and first editions of the other two volumes. Principles of Geology “has been called the most important scientific book ever... [it] shook prevailing views of how the earth had been formed" (Cambridge).

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.

A unique presentation album of Manly views, associated with the most significant public figure in the early colonial history of this Northern Beaches municipality, Charles Hayes (1841-1924). Elaborate watercolour decorations and views of Manly (harbour side) and Charles Hayes’ Manly residence; followed by 25 sepia-tone gelatin silver prints individually mounted on the rectos of leaves, each with floral border decoration in watercolour.

COCTEAU, Jean; PICASSO, Pablo; WILDMAN, Carl (Trans.) Orpheé; A Tragedy in one Act and an Interval. London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Pablo Picasso. First English Language Edition. Original cloth. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xi, 43 [1] : frontis by Picasso : photo of Cocteau as Heurtebise : printed on Basingwerk paper : signed by both Cocteau and Picasso at colophon (p.iv), Cocteau has added his signature star : fore-edge untrimmed : black cloth boards lettered in gilt on top board : custom clamshell box in black cloth littered in gilt. Cloth is chipped to all edges. No.24/100. Item #3927.

David Collins. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, The Strand, 1798. First Edition. Quarto, pp. xx, xxxviii, [2, short title], 618 pages (final blank), : illustrated with two maps, one folding, 17 engravings and three in-text vignettes : new e.p.s : old rebinding in quarter calf over paper covered boards with red leather title panel to spine lettered in gilt.

​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

Syd. Angus & Robertson. 1920.Full morocco with gilt decorated boards & spine. Leather gilt-decorated paste-downs. Decorated endpapers. a.e.g. Gauffered edges. 374pp. Walter Taylor gilt binder's stamp on rear paste-down. A splendid binding by this esteemed binder.

EILEEN MAYO (1906-1994) c. 1959 Colour Process Lithograph Original poster promoting the Great Barrier Reef as a tourist destination, showing three black striped cream fish with yellow fins swimming amongst two types of coral, one red the other cream brown. One fish is central and oversized. Includes a sea snail. 775mm x 605mm Held in the National Gallery of Australia.

A handsome copy of this important “Barrington” title, now famous as the first book to contain a suite of coloured illustrations of Sydney, the views in David Collins’ Account, on which they are based, having been published in black and white.