Paris: l'Honore & Chatelain, 1719.

Engraved map, with fine hand colouring, printed in four sheets joined, 860 x 1440 mm.; mounted and framed.

One of the most richly decorated world maps ever produced

London: 1773-1784.

Together eight volumes, quarto, and two folio Atlases; uniformly bound in contemporary polished diced russia leather, decorated in blind and gilt, atlases in half binding with marbled paper sides matching the endpapers of the text volumes; all volumes neatly respined.

Cook's voyages: with the extra atlas, and uniform...

Sydney: 1885.

Signed with initials, dated twice and extensively inscribed: 31viii 81.Quapena/Luepada of Maupa/District Aroma/South Coast/New Guinea. / "Carthona"/Sydney/23 Jan. 1885/'Momento" from New-Guinea- Commodore J. Erskine. R.N.-, pen and brown ink and pencil with coloured chalk; 34 cm x 25 cm, mounted and framed.

London: J. Souter, 1825.

Oblong folio, handcoloured lithographed title and 48 fine handcoloured aquatint views after drawings by Joseph Lycett, with descriptive text, two folding maps; a fine copy in half morocco, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in compartments, edges fully gilt.

A pivotal work in Australian landscape art...

Paris: circa 1795.

Engraved aquatint with original handcolouring, 440 x 530 mm. (sheet size), mounted and framed.

From ethnology to fashion

Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1483.

Small folio (302 x 198mm), 191 leaves (initial blank leaf discarded), with seven diagrams and a world map within the text; capital spaces blank; a fine, large copy in handsome Regency russia leather, sides richly tooled in gilt and blind with anthemion and scroll motifs...

Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707.

Folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; well-preserved contemporary vellum, spine elegantly lettered in ink with in gilt ornament between raised bands, covers ornately gilt with complex central emblematic device.

The best edition of Strabo's "colossal work"

Probably Venice: variously dated from 1795 to 1825.

Oblong small quarto album, 185 x 275mm, containing forty-six watercolours of various sizes and shapes ranging from delicate circular vignettes to larger scenes of urban and theatrical life, elegantly bound in nineteenth-century ochre morocco with ornate gilt decoration.

Fine Commedia dell'arte watercolours

Manchester: issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, "Lithographed by Palmer, Howe & Co., Manchester" 1890/1895/1898.

Three volumes, oblong folio, with 854 lithographic plates loose in the three original cloth portfolios, as issued, complete with the leaves of additional notes published respectively in 1892, 1895 and 1899;...

211 Piccadilly, London: Smith, Warner & Co., 1800-1820.

205 x 245 mm, engraved vignette at head.

"Discoveries": special new colours for travel artists

London: Published by J. Sowerby & Co, 1793.

Hand coloured engraved plate, 235 x 170mm, mounted and in a handsome nineteenth century timber frame.

The first engraved image of the magnificent waratah

[Sydney?]: circa 1840s.

Three ink caricatures on a single sheet of laid foolscap paper, 215 x 340 mm.

Unsigned caricature of three men in mid-century New South Wales

London: James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814.

Engraving on paper, 290 x 430 mm; a good, well-inked impression.

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