An Encyclopedia of Shade Perennials
Portland, Timber Press, 2003 (third printing)/ 2002. More
Portland, Timber Press, 2003 (third printing)/ 2002. More
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Inscribed, dated (August 1926) and signed by the author, Floyd Wilfred Schmoe (1895-2001), who was at that time Park Naturalist at Mount Rainier, 'the most complicated, largest, and most beautiful single-peak glacier in the United States'. More
Tanunda, Auricht, [1935], second edition. The text is in a German dialect ('Barossa Deutsch'); it is an account of a trip to Hermannsburg mission, written in the form of a letter from 'August von der Flatt', the author's alter ego, to his ficticious friend Fritz in the Barossa Valley. More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1873. Alexander Walker Scott (1800-1883), the author of this uncommon and interesting work, was the father of the naturalists and botanical artists Harriet and Helena (later, Harriet Forde and Helena Morgan). In the lengthy preface, he explains why the publication of this, the second part..... More
Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1995. More
Carollton, Squadron/ Signal Publications, 1981. Illustrated by Don Greer. More
[New York], Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1992. More
London, Ian Allan, 1966. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1967. With a signed inscription ("Thanks, Bob, for the loan of this copy") by the author to poet Robert Clark. More
London, Chapman and Hall Limited, 1884. An account by an Englishman of twenty months in America in 1882-83; 'my journey took me through Wyoming, about Montana, across to Washington territory, then back from California, through Nevada into Idaho. Cattle, cow-boys, round-ups, sheep-driving, herders, and life on the prairie, these are..... More
Singapore, Editions Didier Millet, 2007. 'Collectors and scholars have admired the art of the Batak tribes in the mountains of northern Sumatra since the 19th century. Unfortunately, only a limited number of pieces, and often the same ones, have been published over the years. 'Batak Sculpture' brings together hundreds of..... More
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1976 (thirteenth edition)/ 1929. More
Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 1999-2000. Articles covering mammals and reptiles, geology, vegetation and birds of the region. More
London, Constable, 1893 ('new edition edited by Vincent Arthur Smith')/ 1844. Volume 5 in Constable's Oriental Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications. Both volumes carry the ownership signature of [Sir] Walter Crocker, Delhi, 1960 (at that time Australian High Commissioner to India), with his occasional pencilled emphases and commentary ('A..... More
London, John Murray, 1924. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last 18 pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. Two contemporary John Murray brochures are loosely inserted. More
London, John Murray, 1924. Review copy, with the embossed stamp 'With Mr. Murray's Compliments' on the title page. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last eighteen pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. More
London, John Murray, 1924. Inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Sir William Sowden, wishing him Many Happy Returns, April 26, 1925', and signed in ink by B.S. Roach and 29 others, including such local luminaries as S.A. White, F.J. Mills, Fred Johns and Rodney Cockburn, many of them staff..... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1906. 'Private Print' is printed at the head of the front cover and the title page; 'With Dr Ramsay Smith's compliments' is written in ink across the top of the front cover. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer [for the AAAS], 1907. Inscribed in ink on the front cover 'With the author's compliments'. More
Adelaide, AAAS, 1907. This issue also contains HOWITT, A.W.: Personal Reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills Expedition (43 pages); KLAATSCH, Hermann: Some Notes on Scientific Travel amongst the Black Population of Tropical Australia in 1904, 1905, 1906 (16 pages plus 17 plates and a folding map) and..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1966. 'These first four volumes of selections, down to 1919, cover the same period as the first volume of [Professor Hancock's] authoritative biography, "Smuts - The Sanguine Years, 1870-1919", published by the Cambridge University Press in 1962. A fine copy of that book (albeit with a...... More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986. Not stated as such, but this copy comes from the collection of contributor Leonard E. Boyle, OP, OC and bears his date of acquisition (21 July 1986) on the front free endpaper and his light marginal pencillings. Loosely inserted is a manuscript note to him (Oxford..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1906. An enquiry on behalf of the South Australian Government. Other articles include EITEL, E.J.: Social Life in China (20 pages); and John Ainsworth Horrocks' Journal (Horrocks was fatally wounded in 1846 on an expedition that 'would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1919. The author, Sir William Sowden, editor of the Adelaide 'Register', was South Australian representative on the delegation of Australian editors invited by the British Government to witness the war operations on land and sea during the latter half of 1918. He was one of..... More
Bendigo, Cambridge Press, 1939. Inscribed, dated (23 November 1939) and signed by the author (then editor of 'The Bendigo Advertiser') to Harry Peters (sometime Director of Lands for South Australia, and cousin of the bookseller and WW1 hero Captain Charles Harold Peters). Loosely inserted is a typed ALS from the..... More