BRADSHAW ART OF THE KIMBERLEY. By Grahame L.Walsh. Toowong. Takarakka Nowan Kas Publs. 2000. Oblong Folio. Or.bds. 464pp. Profusely illustrated in colour with much of the Aboriginal splendid rock art of the Kimberley region. Fine copy. 1st ed. A splendid volume. Very Scarce.

Handbook of Australian New Zealand Antarctic Birds. By MARCHANT, S., HIGGINS, P.J. et al. Melbourne. OUP. 1990 – 2006. 7 vols in 9. 4to (272x195mm), orig. cloth. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. All vols are first editions and are Fine in dustjackets. Vol. 1 Rarities to Ducks, Part A: Ratites to Petrels; Part B: Australian Pelican to Ducks; Vol. 2: Raptors to Lapwings; Vol. 3: Snipe to Pigeons; Vol. 4: Parrots to Dollarbird: Vol. 5: Tyrant-Flycatchers to Chats; Vol. 6: Pardalotes to Shrike-Thrushes; Vol. 7 Boatbill to Starlings, Part A: Boatbill to Larks; Part B: Dunnock to Starlings.

ADELAIDE OVAL TEST CRICKET 1884-1984. By Bernard Whimpress & Nigel Hart. The De-Luxe Edition. Adel. Wakefield Press. 1984. Folio. Full leather binding with gilt SACA logo on front board. 262pp. Many b/w ills. Fine in the original cardboard box. Very Scarce. Limited edition of 299 numbered copies (marking Don Bradman’s highest score made at Adelaide Oval in a Test Match) with a gilt-embossed leather cricket ball signed by Sir Donald Bradman. This copy is no.90.

HOMER. THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. Two volumes in the slip-case. English & Greek parallel texts. Translated by Alexander Pope. Chestertown. Chester River Press. 2011. Large folio. Or.cl. Dustjackets. 550,434pp. t.e.g. Special edition illustrated with fifty-two illustrations in Greek vase style. Introduction by Pope scholar Professor Steven Shankman. Fine set. Scarce. Each illustration in this splendid edition portrays a specific scene from each of the 48 books making up the Iliad and the Odyssey. (Overall size in slip-case 390x330x105cm)

QUEEN VICTORIA SIGNATURE. GRANT OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH TO COLONEL HUGH GOUGH, 3 JUNE 1899. Document of a single paper leaf folded. Signed by Queen Victoria at the head of the document and at the end of the document by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who became Edward VII in 1901 on the passing of the Queen. Fine copy. Details of the military career of Colonel Gough are provided with the document. Very Scarce.

Wood engraving. A fold-out panorama twenty-one feet in length. Looks northward from the newly-built Houses of Parliament to the Tower of London and St.Katharine’s Docks to the Royal Victualling Office.. Lond. Charles Evans. c.1844. The panorama folds into an octavo booklet which has been rebound but has portion of the original gilt decorated cloth pasted to the front board. Some of the folds have been repaired on the verso of the panorama, else a good copy. Very Scarce. (Image shows only a small part of panorama) Very Scarce. The activity on the Thames shows its importance as a thoroughfare.

SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS. By Ethel Turner. Illustrated by A.J.Johnson. Lond. Ward Lock & Bowden Ltd. 1894. Or.decorated cloth. 240,16pp. b/w plates & illustrations. Sl.wear to corners & tail of spine, some tanning to pages & a few spots internally. Name on ffe. A generally good copy of the truly rare first edition of the author's first book, an Australian children's book classic.

EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. By Thomas Baines. Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. Lond. Longman Green Longman Roberts 1864. A first edition copy rebound in half morocco with cloth sides. 535pp. t.e.g. (sl foxing) Chromo-lithograph frontispiece, 7 b/w plates, b/w ills. + three fold-out maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Between 1861 & 1862 the British explorer undertook an expedition to South West Africa with James Chapman. With maps by Baines & wood engravings by G. Pearson.

“The Gas Lash”, drawn by Martin Sharp first appeared in the OWeek edition of Tharunka, the UNSW student magazine, on February 17, 1964. As a result of a complaint the Vice Squad interviewed Sharp, the printer Francis James and two editors and they were charged and found guilty in the Magistrate’s Court of publishing an obscene publication. On appeal the original verdict was later quashed by Judge A.Levine. This is a separate printing of the cartoon, appearing at the same time as the original in 1964. 370x310cm. Mounted. Fine. Very Scarce. An artefact of 60's Australian censorship struggles.

A Fantasy of interplanetary travel by the South African architect, William Timlin. An Old Man sails “by way of the Moon and the more friendly planets” to Mars. Blends Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lond. George G.Harrap & Co. 1923. 4to. Or.quarter vellum with grey printed paper sides, the spine heavily ornamented. 48 tipped-in full-page colour plates. 48 tipped-in printed pages of calligraphic lettering in the author’s hand, mounted on grey paper. Sl.foxing else a very good copy of a rare illustrated book. First Edition. 2,000 copies were printed but most were destroyed in WWII bombing.