Catalogues

Elist 60~ Maps, Pith Paintings, Prints

Elist 60~ Maps, Pith Paintings, Prints

 94 items including Bells & Bellringing; early Portrait of Houqua, richest man in the world in 1830; rare Arrowsmith map in Royal Mail prospectus, 1839; Michaux, Voyage a l’ouest des Monts Alleghanys, 1804, a pristine untrimmed copy; four Hogarth prints Stages of Cruelty, 1768; a late Robert Scott autograph letter with his partial fingerprint, sent from the South Pole, 1911?; series of  Ethel Turner books in original gilt bindings; Preuss, Topographical Map… 1846, first map to show Oregon Trail accurately; Rembrandt etching of Saskia, signed on the verso by French printseller “Naudet 1801”; Chinese pith painting albums; Lizars System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, 1857, with Australian association; collection of Milk Maids & Milk Industry in the UK, 1873-88; etc.

Books, Paintings, Prints, Maps, Ephemera

Elist 59 ~ Gould’s Birds of Australia, Fine Bindings, China, Paintings, Prints

Elist 59 ~ Gould’s Birds of Australia, Fine Bindings, China, Paintings, Prints

98 items including Gould’s Birds of Australia, Bishop Hale’s copy; Hannah Millard painting album, Pre-Raphaelite artist famed for “California Grapes”, c. 1875; Grand Canyon El Tovar chromolithograph in period frame, 1906; manuscript notebooks of an imaginative French furrier in training, 1929; Rev War General & bookseller Henry Knox, bill of lading for books shipped from England, 1772; Brassai’s Paris de Nuit, signed; Fine Bindings; Art Deco design books; Chinese pith painting albums from Youqua and the SunQua studio; manuscript recipe book passed down thru 4 generations of women, started in England 1820, continued in America 1830; Wordsworth reference collection annotated by Wordsworth scholar James Logan, etc.    Books, Paintings, Prints, Ephemera, Photographs