The Travel Department's flagship catalogue features a selection of Indian colour plate books as well as visual material relating to the West Indies, South Africa and the Pacific. Of real importance are the journals of Basil Thomson - the first volume is an account of his trip to New Guinea in 1888, the second documents his negotiations with the Tongan King which resulted in the island becoming a British Protectorate.. Further items of interest include Albert Armitage's copy of The Antarctic Manual, which travelled on the Discovery, and a beautiful copy of Roussin's Le Pilote de Bresil.

Eight remarkable works of illumination from 1470 to 1700 including the first edition of Plutarch, printed and illuminated in Rome, two unrecorded miniatures by Simon Bening and a triptych altar card with a miniature after Leonardo's Last Supper.

CATALOGUE 1463, MAGGS COUNTERCULTURE.
A HAIRLESS HORSE, A CRAZY DIAMOND, A GAY TRAITOR, URBAN GUERRILLAS, GUERRILLA GIRLS, BLACK PANTHERS, BLUE DOVES, UFOS,
RUPERT THE BEAR, FEMINIST RATS, A THING AND THE GREAT BEAST ET AL.