Our first list for 2015, with a real miscellany of items relating to Australia and the Pacific.
A few highlights are: a fascinating letter sent by a senior army officer in Bathurst in 1840; a fine set of the works of Francis Bacon owned by the abolitionist Thomas Fowell Buxton; two maps from the Newfoundland survey of James Cook; a 1599-published work on "discovery", L'Histoire des histoires of La Popelinere; a truly significant broadside with manuscript annotations by Johann Lhotsky, printed in Sydney and calling for mining in the Australian Alps; and an apparently unrecorded large-format print of a plant grown by the Duchess of Portland at "Bulstrode".