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The first separately published book on Australian botany. The Specimen of the Botany of New Holland contains the first illustrations of a number of Australian species, including the waratah. According to a note in the preface the drawings on which the fine hand-coloured plates were based were done in the colony by John White, the Surgeon-General, who was a keen amateur natural history artist and collector. White’s own Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, published in 1790, celebrated the new colony’s ornithology in particular

London, J. M. Dent, 1927 (revised and enlarged edition). A very detailed and scholarly account of the fashion and modes of living in the years 1819 to 1914. 4 volumes

First edition. With armorial bookplate of novelist Anthony Powell on upper pastedown, and an inked inscription to him from the author.

One of several manuscript Missal leaves we will bring to the Fair. Text includes the Feasts of St. Valentino and the Conversion of St. Paul. Six two-line decorated initials alternating in red with blue pen flourishes and blue with red pen flourishes. The illuminated initial is on a raised and highly burnished gold ground and includes three burnished gold bezants. It is a fine example of Northern Italian illumination in the early 15th century. Condition: Recto, very good, slight ink loss to a section that has a crease running through it. Verso with considerable ink loss and a few spots.

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

First edition, one volume issue. With a tipped-in autograph letter from Dibdin, signed, and dated April 15, 1814, to W. Godwin, and with an integral address leaf to Godwin, franked by Earl Spencer (in Bath).

[Waterman, L. E.] "Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen" First edition: published in New York by L.E. Waterman Company, 1925. Worldcat lists one copy only in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Scarce. Quarto, bound in blue cloth boards with gilt-decorated title, 96 pages, a fine copy.

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.

The supplementary volume of one of the most sought after of Antarctic works, the deluxe first edition limited to 300 copies in vellum of The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909, also known as the Nimrod Expedition made by Ernest Henry Shackleton and his party to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica and making extensive journeys into the interior. This supplement, in the corrected second state, contains 2 sheets with the 16 signatures of the shore party.

A LEAF FROM THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK PRINTED BY MOVABLE TYPE, THE GUTENBERG BIBLE. Folio 148 from Volume I, comprising the entire text of Chapter 3 of the Second Book of Samuel (II Samuel 3: 1-39), with the closing verses of Chapter 2 and opening verses of Chapter 4.