Selected Illustrations from Rare Book Collections

Japanese Screens in Miniature:
Six Masterpieces of the Momoyama Period
[BISON Record] 

Box Container [ill]
Screen No. 5: Empty Sleeves [ill, ca. 1615]


Narrative of an Expedition...
...Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy,
for the
Exploration of the Country Lying Between Rockingham Bay & Cape York
by Wm. Carron,
One of the Survivors
1849
[BISON Record]

Dedication [ill]
(to William Carron's father, Charles Carron, 1855)

Map of Cape York [ill]

Complete e-text
at Project Gutenberg Australia

A brief account of the ill-fated 1848 expedition
& a MAP of Captain Kennedy's route across Cape York
at Project Gutenberg Australia

The Naturalist's Library / Wm. Jardine, Ed.
[40 v., ca. 1833-1855: Henson Collection]
[BISON Record]

Table of Contents [ill]
[from http://www.archives.org/]

Butterflies
[from v.28/I of Entomology/Insects, at http://www.archives.org/]


Liv Valmestad's Exhibition Catalogue
LINEARIS
[BISON Record]

2009 LINEARIS Cover [ill]
1995 Exhibition: SYNERGY [ill]



 

Heart Throbs of the Halifax Horror
Stanley K. Smith ; Covers illustrated by Arthur Lismer
[BISON Record]

Cover & Back-Cover[ills]
List of Dead, Blue insert [pp.112/113]
NOTE: the Back-Cover is advertising a fully illustrated edition by Lismer