Big weekend on Garrison Landing, Aug 18-20th... Opening night of the Desmond Fish Library book sale, purchase a Friends membership and get best picks of the incredible books, enjoy food and drinks. Free entrance August 19 thru 27th. Saturday & Sunday, the Garrison Riverside Craft Fair is on Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm, and the shop will be open throughout. If you'd like to get in touch, please call nine one four, 456 9698 or eight four five 242 4687.
110 items including handsome Sea Mosses albums, seaweeds of Santa Cruz CA & NY Harbor, 1878; 185 postcards of China~ Hong Kong, Macau, Chefoo, Peking, Canton & Shanghai; a variety of items on Captain Cook, including a collection of Cook images; a proof edition of George Carter’s superb The Death of Captain James Cook by the Indians of O,why,ee…; the Spy cartoon of W.G. Grace, with his autograph; an archive of 460 professional photographs of American historical & political handkerchiefs; an album of ephemera from the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 & an English family's visit to Japan; Plattes’ A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure…, the 1st useful English text on metallurgy; La Loubere’s New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam… 1693, from the South Manchuria Railway Library; collection of unusual WWI silk postcards; the 1st issue of Hankow Daily News 1906 advertising West Australian timber; a Japanese silk sample album showcasing the new synthetic dye colors of purple, mauves and bright hot reds, ca. 1900. Books, photographs, prints, ephemera.
91 items including an annotated Newgate Prison Calendars for 1814, listing hundreds of people transported to New South Wales, with extensive manuscript notations; a 1st edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent...
Elist 23 – Rubaiyats, Maps, Theater, China, Australia
91 items including a collection of Rubaiyat’s including St. Dunstan’s edition, one of 22 copies; original issues of Transactions of The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1925-1931; long run of The Theatre magazine, possibly Noel...
Elist 22 – Antarctic, China, Dickens, World War I & II, Australia
179 items including a 1st edition of Dickens Christmas Carol; an extraordinary Manuscript Order of Transportation signed by King George IV in 1824, listing 66 convicts transported to Australia; a....
