London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1814.

Complete set of the Flinders account, comprising: two volumes large quarto, with nine steel-engraved plates after William Westall, the half-titles present; and elephant folio atlas with 11 double-page and 5 full-page charts, 2 double-page plates of coastal views and 10 botanical plates after Ferdinand...

Paris: Bance aîné, 1809.

Four parts, folio, in original printed wrappers with explanatory text on the inner front wrapper and containing 37 aquatint plates, 27 of which are coloured; in very fine condition as issued.

Landscape painting in watercolour demonstrated in aquatint printing

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)...

Oahu: Na na Misionari, 1834.

Duodecimo, 360 pp., 194 hymns many with full musical notation; in excellent condition in old sprinkled and polished calf, later spine ornately gilt with red leather label; in a full calf protective bookform case.

The first Hawaiian printed music

Augsburg: Martin Elias Ridinger & Johann Jacob Ridinger, 1768.

Two volumes bound together, large folio (433 x 281 cm); each volume with engraved frontispiece printed in red (vol. 1 without title showing a medallion portrait of the artist on a plinth, surrounded by wild animals in a sylvan background; vol...

Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1880.

Duodecimo, pp. 22, [ii]; original wrappers, preserved in a folding cloth box.

Inaugural exhibition catalogue

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...

England: circa 1795-1800.

Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass.

An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend

Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.

Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin with blind-embossed armorial stamps "Insigne Preposit Rayhradensis Ordinis S Benedicti"...

London: the Author, 1794.

Duodecimo in sixes; original stab holes visible in inner margins, a tall copy with excellent margins in later quarter morocco, lilac endpapers; a fine copy, preserved in quarter morocco bookform box.

The first book for Australia: the rarest First Fleet book

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

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."

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