Elist 40 ~ Prints, Rugby, Maps, Autographs, Fine Bindings

Elist 40 ~ Prints, Rugby, Maps, Autographs, Fine Bindings

84 items including L’Art Arabe a Alger with evocative photogravures of Algeria by Jean Geiser, one copy on OCLC; William Dawes 1792 map of Sydney illustrating the first exploration of the Sydney basin; Czech/Nazi propaganda poster Japonska Vitezna Vlajka nad Pacifikem showing the proposed Japanese advance across the Pacific towards Australia, 1942; Civil War regimental clothing issue list for the 12th Connecticut Artillery, signed by soldiers, 1864; The Book of Exotic Birds by Jerrard [1852] with an 1855 California gold fields inscription in a special lacquered binding possibly created in California at the time; fine bindings including Beaux & Belles of England, Edition Magnifique, limited to 26 copies, Letters of Madame de Sevigne and Works of Samuel Johnson; Views of Fremantle W.A. in 1892, large panoramic view of Fremantle, 1892; stunning double plate images of pineapples from Volckamer’s Nurnberische Hesperides, c. 1710, etc.

Prints, maps, photographs, books, ephemera