Catalogues
Elist 11, Civil War, Australia, Polar & Hudson River
Including a presentation Civil War album of carte de visites photographs; "Voyage de D'Entrecasteaux, envoye a la recherche de La Perouse", a truly handsome copy, the text in period full gilt calf binding, the atlas in the original french papered boards; an unusual Spy cartoon of Captain Robert Falcon Scott;... more
Elist 10, China, Circus, Polar & Australia
Elist 10, China, Circus, Polar & Australia, including an early 19th century oil painting of a traveling menagerie including Australian animals such as kangaroos, emu, dingo & possibly a thylacine; Chinese commercial trade booklets from the 1860s including "Tables" estimating the cost of Remittances, the cost of Tea, the cost... more
Including Fremont, Map of Oregon and Upper California, 1848, "the most accurate general map of the Far West for its time"; Fries Tabula Nova Partis Africae 1541, the 2nd map to show just Southern Africa; Lay, Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York 1801, one of... more
AUSTRALIA IN MAPS 1540 - 1898.
An impressive collection of 262 antiquarian Australian maps & double hemispheres with Australian interest, a collection over 50 years in the making. For sale as a collection. ... more
Cook's Last Voyage - The Artistic Vision in John Webber's Prints Unpublished Aquatints; Lifetime Issues; Boydell Issues A series of Webber views of Cook's third voyage to the South Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Krakatoa, French Polynesia, Vietnam, Russian Kamchatka and Macao in China, published from 1787 to... more
A shortlist of 27 items including a pair of William Bligh's works in original papered boards; Shackleton, the deluxe edition of The Heart of the Antarctic, signed by the Shore Party; ; a collection of 95 vintage Chinese & Japanese silk packaging labels; Diego Rivera Acuarela with original drawing by... more
