Our special catalogue for 2009 includes a handsome copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1768, a fundamental reference work for Captain Cook; the important Dutch edition of Foigny's famous imaginary voyage to Australia, one of the trio of separate "Southern Continent" works published simultaneously with Vlamingh; a rare complete set of the five hand-coloured prints by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, together with the exceptionally rare text volume; a beautiful set of the large paper issue of Raffles on Java; a fine and interesting letter from one of the first Sydney printers on his ambitions to set up his own house and adjoining shop; the rare Tegg edition of the voyages of Wallis and Carteret; a letter written by the Admiralty Hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple, detailing a discussion of the northwest Pacific at Sir Joseph Banks' house in 1801; and an exceptional copy of Gould's Mammals in a striking Bedford binding.