Highlights

Thos. Cook & Son. Yokohama. 1913. 3 folding black and white maps, 5 full page black and white maps, black and white photographic plates, 122pp. 12 full page advertisements and adveristements on both endpapers. A near fine copy in bright original cloth boards. 18 x 12.4cm. A very scarce guide particularly in such good condition. First published in 1910 under a slightly different title.

One of 525 numbered copies on hand-made paper (total edition 533), signed by the artist.

A late 11th century. Bible leaf, Italy, 1075-1125 with an archetypal Carolingian script. Hair follicles from the animal used for the parchment are clearly visible. The leaf's margins have been cropped to become a flyleaf in a slightly smaller volume at a later date and the four brown marks, one near each corner, were caused by the rusting of metal bosses in the new volume’s binding. The text is from the First Book of Samuel, chapters 24 & 25. A remarkable example of large, very early Italian monastic Bibles with clear, rounded and generously spaced late Carolingian minuscule script.

Mary Hammond was born in 1928. Her sketches of people and places around Melbourne Prices range from $475-$850 Unframed

内務省社会局保険部. [Naimu-shō Shakai-kyoku Hoken-bu]. 東京. [Tokyo]. (Circa 1925). Large coloured lithographed poster, 108 x 79cm. Poster has been folded and is now creased but still very striking. Scarce. This Japanese government poster was published to raise awareness for the prevention of tuberculosis. It bears the campaign slogan "Train your body!" in Japanese. The artists style is strong and dynamic as the young men wrestle like sumo wrestlers while in the background an industrial area with smoking chimneys can be seen.

Andre Deutsch 1969. Atwood's first novel. From our literature selection we are exhibiting at the fair.

Harper and Brothers Publishers NewYork 1866 (Ist US Edition) 8vo, 638pp + 6 adverts. Professionally rebound in half green morocco, twin coloured labels, gilt, raised bands and marbled boards, new endpapers, minor spotting in text which otherwise is in excellent condition.

Hand drawn and written book from Ure Smith for the occasion of Ashton’s birthday in 1904. 16 illustrations in ink, 4 in colour. All signed Syd Smith. “To the finest and best man, I know… Mr Julian Ashton.” Ure Smith went to the Julian Ashton School from 1902 until 1906.

Signed by the author "'Yes' Caresse Crosby." which was her motto. Caresse was an arts patron, antiwar activist, and bohemian in the 1920s. She co-founded the Black Sun Press in 1927 with her second husband Harry Crosby, They published limited editions of works by Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, and Hart Crane. Crosby is the inventor of the first modern bra, which she patented in 1914.

National Library of Australia. [Sydney]. (1989). Original printed poster to accompany a travelling exhibition held throughout Australia as part of the Bi-Centennial celebrations, this particular poster advertises the exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, to open on 11th January 1989. ' Celebrating the Books of Australia'. 84 x 59cm. A large striking image of a Lionel Lindsay woodcut, depicting a sulphur crested cockatoo munching through an old book. Poster design by Debbie McLeod SLNSW.