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CARY, John (c. 1754 - 1835) Cary’s pocket globe agreeable to the latest discoveries. [London : J. & W. Cary, c. 1791]. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 1/2 inches in diameter, engraved gores over plaster and wooden sphere, two metal pins, housed in the original publisher’s shagreen case, interior map The world as known in Caesar’s time agreeable to D’Anville; and A table of latitudes & longitudes of places not given on this globe, bright original colour, metal eye hooks (one lacking), the case slightly contracted as commonly found, a very good example of a rare pocket globe.

Sydney, 1976. First (only) edition. No.21 of only 100 numbered & signed copies, of a total edition of 200. The first hundred were retained by the author and presented to friends. Signed `to Shirley [Hazzard] and Francis [Steegmuller] with affection and happy memories of a visit David Malouf 1.1.77'

Methuen- London 1929 (Ist Edition). 8vo 884pp. Hardcover slightly marked dust wrapper, in very good condition overall. This is a collection of stories and essays and is a signed limited edition of 250 copies of which this is numbered 249, printed on India paper

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Richard Neville's London underground newspaper, intended as a weekly newsletter aimed at bridging the gap between the radical counter cultural youth and more traditional leftist factions. We are bringing a number of issues.

London: Geo.[rge] Bishop, Horticultural And Commercial Printer, 1895. Attractive dummy catalogue from horticultural printers, George Bishop, issued as promotional material to develop new custom. This is an actual horticultural catalogue with detailed botanical information with the lithographed wrappers, a sample to show to prospective customers the fine quality of their printing and the high style of their design work. Interesting both from a printing point of view and from a botanical perspective, not to mention its beauty. A lovely copy of a scarce item.

[Copenhagen] Denmark, Politikens Forlag, December 2006 and 2007, Hardcover illustrated pictorial boards FIRST EDITION, first printing in English together with Danish third impression, SIGNED and with laid in ephemera Both editions were privately published by Noma in very small print runs. Laid in are the receipt for the purchase of the books at Noma dated 6 September 2007; a menu and two table cards.

A wonderful example of the skill of early printers. This 1474 leaf was printed by Zainer in Augsburg, with coloured initials added by hand after the printing. A huge leaf, folio size, 405x285 mm. Text is from the second edition of the Pantheologia - a theological work of Dominican Raniero Giordani of Pisa (d. 1351). It was organised alphabetically as a dictionary of important theological concepts. Written c. 1331 and influenced by the works of Thomas Aquinas. The red initial ’T’ begins Chapter 6 of Rainerius’ discussion on animal sacrifices.

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.

Reval [Tallinn, Estonia] ; und Leipzig : bey Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780. [Bound with] Briefe aus England ... Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780. Two works in one volume. “Undoubtedly the first account of Cook’s death to be published in book form” (Beddie). An extremely rare German account of the death of Captain James Cook in Hawaii on 14 February 1779, published in Tallinn in Estonia, together with a letter concerning the 1775 Spanish voyage to the west coast of North America by Bodega y Quadra (1744-1794), also in German, with many references to Cook.

Including four vignettes of local buildings Watercolour and ink 57.2 x 45.7 cm Signed also initialled and dated below each vignette and inscribed. Alexander Lewers 1877-1922 born Creswick, worked and trained London and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne