c1480. Ink on vellum with illuminated initials in blue, red and black, 26 x 20.2cm (sheet). Double-sided frame. “The book of hours is a Christian devotional book popular in the Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.” Ref: Wiki. More
c1490s. Ink on vellum with illuminated initials in blue, red and brown, and marginalia in brown ink, 17 x 13.3cm (sheet). Double-sided frame. “The book of hours is a Christian devotional book popular in the Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.” Ref: Wiki..... More
![Nicomachean Ethics [By Aristotle]. John Argyropoulos, c1415–1487 Greek](/pictures/thumb/CL199-3_1.jpg?v=1585635216)
1542. Hardcover quarto with vellum boards, 16th edition, obscured annotations of previous owners’ names in ink and pencil on endpaper, contemporary marginalia in ink on last few pages, 32 x 21.5cm. Missing title page, splits to binding, backstrip mostly missing, stains and paper loss to boards, minor insect damage to..... More
1729. Engraving, titled in Italian, Latin and French in plate lower centre, 33.2 x 42.2cm. Old vertical fold, stains and minor missing portions to margins. Laid down on acid-free tissue. Text in Latin and French reads “Volatus, ignes artificiales, aliique lusus die Jovis in Bacchanaliis” and “Volee, feux d’artifice, et..... More
c1744. Engraving in two sheets, plate number “XLI” and title upper right in image, and engraver “Richard William Seale” in platemark below image, 27.7 x 90cm. Old folds, minor tears and stains to edges, trimmed upper margin. Text includes “Commodore Anson’s track from Acapulco to Tenian and from thence to..... More
1759. Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas, titled and dated in ink in contemporary hand on stretcher bar verso, 42.6 x 29.6cm. Stain upper right, slight rubbing. Original restored frame. Captain John Neale Pleydell Nott (1732–1781) attended the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth, UK, during the 1740s. He saw..... More
c1775. Hand-coloured engraving, text including title upper centre and engraver “Guill Delahaye” lower right, stencilled page number “92” verso, 49.5 x 54.6cm. Slight foxing. Text continues “principalement fur les cartes de Russie, de la Chine, et de la Tatarie Chinoise; et divisee en ses Empires et Royaumes, par le Sir..... More
![The Magus, Or Celestial Intelligencer; Being A Complete System Of Occult Philosophy [Book]....](/pictures/thumb/CL199-138_1.jpg?v=1585635154)
1801. Hardcover quarto with quarter leather and marbled paper boards, previous owner’s stamp and name in ink on flyleaf pages, 26 x 21cm. Missing title and prelim pages (content, list of plates), foxing, stains and creases to interior, old repairs to portion of spine, scuffing overall and splits to hinges..... More
![Birds Of Paradise And Toucans]. After Jacques Barraband, c1767–1809 French](/pictures/thumb/CL199-9_1.JPG?v=1585635302)
1806/later 20th century printing. Six engravings, printed à la poupée on Arches watermarked paper, title, artist, publisher and engraver in plate lower left to right, 53.5 x 35.5cm (approx. each). Slight foxing. Titles and plate numbers read (1) Le grand oiseau de paradis emeraude, no. 1; (2) Le petit oiseau..... More
![Birds] and [Butterflies](/pictures/thumb/CL199-10_1.JPG?v=1585635068)
1816. Watercolour with gouache, one image signed “Charles Alston” and dated “Dec’r 6, 1816” lower centre, 31.3cm (diameter, approx. each). Slight foxing and soiling. The unusual border and perspective suggest that these images were produced for a type of optical apparatus. More
c1834. Watercolour, titled lower centre, captioned in later hand in pencil on frame verso, 23.8 x 16.5cm. Slight foxing, mount burn. Framed. Caption reads “Servant of Lord William Bentinck, Governor of Madras 1803–1807, Governor-General of India 1828–1835.” Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839) was a British soldier and statesman who has been..... More
![“Canadian Scenery,” Volume II. Illustrated From Drawings By W.H. Bartlett [Book]. Nathaniel...](/pictures/thumb/CL199-15_1.jpg?v=1585635192)
1842. Hardcover quarto with gilt-illustrated and lettered leather boards, gilt edges, 28.5 x 22cm. Split joint between cover and text block, scuffing and bumping to boards, edgewear, slight foxing to interior. Published by George Virtue, London, 115pp, frontispiece and 63 steel engraved plates, all with tissue guards. Canadian Scenery followed..... More
1847. Colour woodcut, signed with artist’s and censors’ seals “Muramatsu, Yoshimura” in block centre right, 36.1 x 24.4cm. Perforations to left side of image. Held in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with full description “Actors Bando Hikosaburo IV as Ichimonjiya Saihei [right panel], Onoe Kikujiro II as Okaru [centre panel]..... More
1848. Hardcover quarto, olive buckram and gilt illustrated boards, gilt edges and repaired spine, two ex-libris plates laid in on prelim pages, inscribed “With the best respects of William Gaspey, Jan. 3, 1848” in ink on half-title, 27.5 x 22cm. Spine repaired with blue tape, bumping and scuffing to boards..... More
![Port Jackson Views]. Conrad Martens, 1801–1878 Brit./Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL199-18_1.jpg?v=1585635197)
c1850s. Two hand-coloured lithographs, one monogrammed in image lower left, one titled in pencil in lower margin, 15.6 x 23cm and 15.2 x 25.1cm. Creases to one image, minor perforation and stain to centre of other image, old mount burn and stains to margins of both. Image titles read (1)..... More
c1850s. Watercolour, title on mount below image, 14 x 22.5cm. Framed. “Owing to its location on the shores of Lake Lucerne…Lucerne has long been a destination for tourists…From 1850 to 1913, the population quadrupled and the flow of settlers increased. In 1856 trains first linked the city to Olten and..... More
1851. Two lithographs, each monogrammed in image lower left and titled in pencil in lower margin, 20 x 14.7cm and 13.5 x 22.5cm. Slight foxing, creases, one with minor perforation and stains to edges. Both images appeared in Martens’ Sketches Illustrative of the Scenery of New South Wales, 1851. Ref..... More
1853. Hardcover octavo in quarter-leather and buckram binding, gilt title with date on leather label attached to front cover, 24 x 15cm. Front board split from text block, slight stains and scuffing overall. This book contains 62 examples of needlework, including crochet, knitting, quilting, tatting, and embroidery. The samples are..... More
1853. Hardcover octavo in brown cloth, gilt stamp and text to front and spine, previous owner’s name and annotation “won at Randwick 1929” in ink on flyleaf, 22.6 x 15cm. Damaged backstrip, split gutter between boards and text block, bumping to corners, slight foxing to interior. Published by Ingram, Cooke..... More
1856. Hardcover quarto with quarter leather and buckram boards, containing 71 tinted lithographs: one printed in colour and two with hand-colouring, each accompanied by topographical descriptions in Danish, with artist, lithographer, title and publisher’s line “Em. Baerentzen & Cos. Forlag, eneberettiget” in lower margin, 36.1 x 30cm. Boards split and..... More
![“The European March” [Sydney Heads From Vaucluse, NSW]. Thomas Edmund, 1827–1867...](/pictures/thumb/CL199-25.jpg?v=1585635211)
1857. Hand-coloured lithograph, signed in image lower right, 35 x 25cm. Glue stain to old horizontal fold upper centre, minor tears to trimmed edges, slight foxing. Text continues “[Music] by [Edouard Desiree] Boulanger. Sydney. Dedicated to Captain Parfitt and the officers of the ARMSS European, published by J.R. Clarke, George..... More
c1860. Albumen paper photograph, stero card format, titled and annotated in ink verso, 7.6 x 7.4cm (approx. each). Slight stains overall, pinholes, laid down on original backing. Annotation reads “Spinning, water carrying, pounding rice, etc.” Historically known as Tinnevelly during British rule, Tirunelveli is a major city in the Indian..... More
c1860s. Two colour lithographs, one with artist name “F. Yerna”, both with title and publisher’s line in image lower left to right, 23.5 x 15.6cm (approx. each). Slight foxing. Framed. Publisher’s line reads “Paris. Imp. Zanote, 13 r. des Boulangers.” Images depict (1) Pancratium illyricum, (its Italian name “giglio stella”..... More
c1860s. Albumen paper photograph of a drawing, titled in image lower centre, captioned in pencil on backing below image, 9.6 x 13.6cm. Laid down on old backing. Caption reads “Gympie Qld, known as Nashville.” The North Queensland town of Gympie was previously named Nashville, “after James Nash, who discovered gold..... More
![Near Glenrock [NSW]. Rosalie Ann Thorne . After Conrad Martens, 1850–1927 Aust.,...](/pictures/thumb/CL199-29.jpg?v=1585635215)
1864. Pencil and wash, titled, annotated, dated and initialled “R.A.T.” in pencil lower right, 19 x 31cm. Tears to edges, creases, minor missing portions, slight foxing. Annotation reads “Taken July 13th, 1847 by C. Martens, copied Nov. 27th, 1864.”. More