London: printed for J.Sewell; Vernor and Hood, and others, 1799-1812.

Eleven volumes, quarto, with a total of 132 plates (of which 24 are folding), some handcoloured; contemporary polished half calf with gilt spines.

'Much more than the Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian world'

Sydney: circa 1857.

Oil painting on papered boards, 31.3 x 61 cms. in an early gilt frame, signed lower right F. Halsted.

Looking from Vaucluse to Mosman

Sydney: Bank of NSW, 1826.

Cashier's receipt, printed and completed in manuscript, 90 x 140 mm.

To William Redfern

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...

Paris: Paris Philip-Dionysius Pieres (part-titles add: sold by Louis-Nicolas Prevost, Paris; Peter Elmsley, London; and Rudolph Gräffer, Vienna and Leipzig), 1784-1791.

6 parts in 1 volume, folio, (510 x 355 mm); with a general title-page, six part-titles (each with one or two woodcut vignettes) and 91 engraved plates (two double-page)...

Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1653.

24mo., engraved title, all edges gilt; in nineteenth-century full red morocco, gilt arms of Henry J.B. Clements on front cover, spine banded and gilt.

Build a wall "lest the English should break in and bring heresy."

Paris: c. 1830.

A collapsible engraved and handcoloured globe in six gores (170 mm. tall); protected by the original lithographed portfolio, 8 folding pages of text; with loose double-sided engraved and hand-coloured card 'Mécanisme du Glode Artificiel'; a very good and attractive example.

Charming French collapsible globe, with accompanying booklet

London: B. White, 1771.

Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece; a delightful copy in its original binding of unlettered speckled sheep.

Forster's how-to on collecting: a primer for Cook's second voyage

London: Harrison & Co., 1785.

Two volumes, folio, with 100 handcoloured engraved plates (most incorporating from four to eight images); title-pages printed in black and red; contemporary marbled calf, very skilfully rebacked to match, preserving original red and green labels.

The Leverian and beyond: natural history for the popular market

Paris: Dabo and Masson, 1823.

15 volumes, duodecimo, with numerous folding maps & plates; contemporary half calf.

Miniature voyage collection, with a Freycinet section

London: Engravings printed by Boydell for the publishers Strahan and Cadell, 1777.

Large folio atlas, with the full complement of 64 charts and plates published to accompany the voyage account and two extras (see below), some folding, the smaller plates mounted to size; in a very good modern quarter calf...

A Lausanne: chez Marc-Mic. Bousquet, 1756.

Four volumes, quarto; contemporary speckled calf, gilt backs with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering, with gilt stamped coat-of-arms arms at foot of spine encircled by the text 'Monstrant regibus astra viam'.

De la Rochefoucauld's copy of a de luxe issue, with...

London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802.

Quarto, 19 pp. and four large folding plates; contemporary (? original) neat quarter red roan binding.

The earliest scientific notice of the echidna, in a special author's pre-issue

London: Printed & Sold by Carington Bowles, Published as the Act directs, 24 June 1779.

Handcoloured engraving, 360 x 505 mm. in fine original condition, mounted and framed.

Convict Hulks on the Thames

Dunedin: New Zealand Institute, 1896.

Large quarto, profusely illustrated throughout (including seven special plates printed in black and red), a very attractive copy in original half morocco binding.

The original Maori design source-book

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"

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 1850.

Oil on artists' board, 139 x 291 mm.

Government House and Fort Macquarie from the Harbour