Brisbane, William Brooks and Co., 1942. This is a rare item, with provenance from two light horsemen. An inscription on the front free endpaper reads: 'Originally owned by the late [868 Corporal] Jack Ledlie but given to me by his widow Olive. Clive Kynaston. 512 - 12th ALH'. A second..... More
Brisbane, A. Green, 2009 (facsimile edition)/ 1942. Number 57 of 400 copies signed by the publisher. More
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The booklet was sent by 2901 Private Ernest Stewart, 7th Battalion, to his sister Lill in Hamilton, Victoria. He has written the date '26/10/15' on the front cover, and his address at the time was Zeitoun Camp, Egypt. He has written messages to her on blank pages at the front..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Provenance: With the ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM ('Archaeology, ANU, 9.9.94'). More
Adelaide, Printed by Hussey & Gillingham, [1890s]. All plate leaves depict one or more illustrations from photographs, against a watercolour pictorial background with calligraphic titles. There is only one full-page plate proper. Trove records copies in four institutions, as well as what appear to be later editions: 'Gall's Glimpses of..... More
London, Humphrey Milford, and Oxford, Oxford University Press, [circa 1923]. A large 1936 Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Ormond, prize plate is mounted on the half-title. The book was awarded to Betty Paterson; the plate is signed by Florence Muriel Fysh, the principal from 1934 to 1943. More
The letter comes 'From No. 96 VMR on active Service South Africa', and is addressed to his cousin, Miss E. Kirwood (Eva) in Glenferrie, Victoria. After he deals at length with the squabbles over the fate of some stamps he had sent, he explains in even greater detail what occurred..... More
East Ardsley, EP Publishing, 1974 (first thus)/ 1931. The four-page introduction by Cyril A Wratten is new to this edition. More
London, Spring Books, 1965/ 1927 (revised)/ 1902. Revised and enlarged by Theodore Besterman. More
New York, Howell Book House Inc., 1973 (second edition, illustrated)/ 1959. More
Winchester, Massachusetts, Ernest Dudley Chase, 1938. A scarce illustrated map of Europe, here in its uncoloured issue. The vignette illustrations show prominent buildings or landmarks. More
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1908. Rare with the dustwrapper (in any condition). More
Gladesville, Golden Press, 1983 (facsimile edition)/ 1888. More
Winchester, Massachusetts, Ernest Dudley Chase, 1935. The uncoloured issue of this attractive illustrated map of France, with the numerous vignettes showing prominent buildings or geographical features. More
Winchester, Massachusetts, Ernest Dudley Chase, 1935. A scarce illustrated map of Nazi Germany prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The map is found in several states; this example is uncoloured and features the Nazi swastika in its correct orientation in the centre of the top border (other..... More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1986. Number 24 of 160 copies. A new edition of the rare 1875 first (and only other) publication (South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 215 of 1874 and Number 21 of 1875), here incorporating about fifty author's corrections. An account of Giles' first expedition from August to November..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000 (first thus)/ 1872 to 1876. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 2. This is number 7 of 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 600 copies. The parliamentary papers reprinted here are Number 21 of 1875, Number..... More
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1993 (facsimile edition)/ 1875. Number 184 of 220 copies. The account of Giles's first and second expeditions in Central Australia, during which he discovered the Gibson Desert, Lake Amadeus and Mount Olga (Kata Tjuta). More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999/ 1880. Reset from the first published edition of 1880, this edition was limited to only 400 numbered copies and quickly went out of print. More
[Broken Hill, The Author, 1937]. Reprinted from the 'Barrier Miner' (13 August 1937), which specifies that the text was delivered as a talk to the Field Naturalists' Club. It concerns a series of cave inscriptions carved by explorer Ernest Giles between 1861 and 1863 at Nootumbulla Creek (now in the..... More
London, Richard Bentley, 1862 (first edition, first issue). An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s ('A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia, including station properties, social conditions, travel, aborigines, etc.' according to Ferguson), but there's much more ... In the second..... More
London, Robert Hale, 1946. With the contemporary initials of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, and his inscription indicating the book was a Christmas gift from a member of the pioneering Hubbe family. A companion volume to 'Surgeon's Mate'. More
Sydney, New South Wales Bookstall Co., 1927 (ninth edition)/ 1883 (fourth). With the ownership signature (twice; once in pencil and once in ink) of W.D. Wilson (of Largs Bay), and a blank invoice with his Semaphore letterhead. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1936 (first edition). Mounted on the front pastedown is the bookplate of the 'Healesville Sub-Branch R.S.S.I.L.A.'. The bottom third of the bookplate is left blank, under the heading 'Author's Autograph', and has been personally signed in purple ink by Ernest Scott. The front free endpaper..... More
