Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: 'Lieut.-Colonel Olden is well qualified to undertake the work, as, joining the Regiment on its inception, he served with it throughout the War, and, though twice wounded, was never long away from duty. He..... More
Brisbane, A. Green, 2009 (facsimile edition)/ [1921]. Number 9 of only 400 copies. Dornbusch 399; Fielding and O'Neill, page 233; Trigellis-Smith 280 (all referring to the original edition). More
London, Selden Society, 1981. More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956. The first (and most important) of the four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is..... More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
Melbourne, Printed by Arbuckle Waddell Pty. Ltd. for the Felton Bequests Committee, [1923]. With the bookplate of collector David Bremer tipped in to the verso of the front cover, and the publisher's compliments slip tipped in to the recto of the frontispiece. More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936) was already an eminent surgeon when, from '1899 to 1901 he was engaged in studying the processes of degeneration and regeneration of the peripheral nerves and in 1901 he published the results in collaboration with Sir James Purves-Stewart. The..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1982. This book describes the work produced by Bannon at his Paddington Print Studio for other artists. More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1982. This book describes the work produced by Bannon at his Paddington Print Studio for other artists; this copy is inscribed and signed by the artist. More
Melbourne, N.H. Seward, 1948. One of 650 copies only; designed and printed by John Gartner at The Hawthorn Press. More
Melbourne, N.H. Seward, 1948. One of 650 copies only; designed and printed by John Gartner at The Hawthorn Press. More
The illustration on the front panel of the card ('Mountain Country - Australia') is signed in the image 'Sylvia B'. The bookplate is Peake 313 (not recording the artist or a date). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1938 (five volumes), 1939 (five volumes), 1940 (one volume), and 1942 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, and the others are mixed editions ranging from the fourth (Volumes V and XI) to the eleventh (Volume XII). The Australian..... More
New York, D. Appleton, 1917. The author was currently the Chairman of the Walpole Town Planning Committee; one in the National Municipal League series. Charmingly, this copy also bears the inscription, 'Hall cupboard and please put it back'. More
Cambridge, The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Number 131. More
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1988. A 'celebration of a great natural phenomenon ... (by) Australia's greatest living Romantic painter [in a] major series of paintings, drawings and etchings' (Introduction). More
London, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1989. The title page is signed by both Charles Blackman and Thomas Shapcott. More
London, Andre Deutsch, 1989. A review copy, with ephemera from the publisher loosely inserted. More
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. A lavish catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, held at the Ian Potter Centre, August-October 2006. A cloth-bound edition published simultaneously sold out at the time. More
Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1968 (corrected edition)/ 1948 (second revised edition). One of the Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints series. A story of the colony in Macao, 'centred round typical personalities of the time' (dustwrapper blurb). One has to read the introduction to make the following useful discovery: 'Readers..... More
Tokyo, Oxford University Press, 1968 (corrected edition)/ 1950 (second revised edition). Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. More
Wellington, Oxford University Press, 1980. With the loosely inserted publisher's review slip. More
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist, was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated 'March 1988 Italy'). More
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Inscribed, dated (20 June 1979) and signed by the author. More