Catalogues

Choice Australian Books, Pictures, Manuscripts and Maps.
CATALOGUE 119: Issued November 2009
Including a handsome set of collected early voyages, the first view of habitation in Victoria, an interesting shipping record of 1807, accounts of the exploration of inland Australia, the first book on Australian wine, the finest views of Melbourne topography, the earliest survey of Port Phillip Bay, the 1847 first edition of Ham’s squatting map, rare publications on the goldfields, and a suite of attractive nineteenth century maps.
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Fine Illustrated Books.
Catalogue 118, Issued May 2009
Australian art including rare catalogues, limited and signed editions: Norman Linsday, Irena Sibley and Arthur Boyd in deluxe limited editions: a wide selection of John Shirlow publications, original etchings and presentation copies. Fine Literature, Illustrated and Private Press books including signed Virginia Woolf: Eric Gill and Mark Severin with additional plates: Dolmen Press, Eragny Press, and Golden Cockerel Press. Children’s including an exceptional group of early or first edition Beatrix Potter: original golligwog and nursery rhyme artwork.Printing History, and Facsimile Illuminated works

Victoria Described.
Catalogue 117, Issued September 2008
Including...~ A Call of the Seaside; ~ A Sketch of Port Phillip; ~ John BATMAN. 1835 Treaty with the Chiefs of the Dutigallar; ~ Sir Redmond BARRY. ROSCOE, Henry. A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases; ~ General Map of Australia and Tasmania, or Van Diemen’s Land; ~ Batman Memorial Fund; ~ Illustrated Guide to the Australian Alps & Buffalo Ranges; ~ Illustrated Almanac for Victoria 1855; ~ New Tourists’ Guide and Victorian View Album, 1888; ~ How to Settle in Victoria; ~ Victoria Illustrated; ~ Map Of The Settled District Of Melbourne.

Victoria In Print
Catalogue 116 Issued November 2007
Including...~ The Arts & Crafts Movement in Melbourne
Margaret CHAPMAN of the Craftsman Bindery, Sassafras, exhibiting at the
First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907; ~ Australian Men of Mark: Vol I and II. Illustrated With Authentic Portraits; ~ The Diggings, the Bush, and Melbourne; or, Reminiscences of three years' wanderings in Victoria; ~ Recollections of an Australian Squatter 1835-1883; ~ The Felton Bequests An Historical Record 1904-1933; ~The Chronicles of Early Melbourne: 1835 to 1852 Historical, Anecdotal and Personal; ~ Five Years' Experience in Australia Felix; ~ Australasian Sketcher, Nos. 1 – 187.

New York Book Fair
Catalogue 115 Issued September 2006
Including...~Seven Pillars of Wisdom; ~ The Waves; ~ Winnie The Pooh; ~Robin Hood; ~The Indian Tribes of the United States; ~The Flight of the Old Woman who was Tossed up in a Basket,sketched and etched by Aliquis; ~The Enemies of Books; ~A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; ~The Universal Body of Physick in five books.

Settlement and History of the Australian States (other than Victoria)
Catalogue 114, Issued March 2006
Including …~ Trout fishing in Tasmania; ~ Life on the Kimberley goldfields; ~ The Canberra Annual, 1934; ~ Earl’s settlement at Port Essington; ~ Hamilton’s 1839 journey from Port Phillip to
South Australia; ~ Lycett’s view of the Heads at Port Jackson;
~ Life in the law in 1840s;, ~ First publication of Richard Browne’s 1813 natural history drawings; ~ Attractive limited editions, fine printings, regional histories, ephemera, and maps.