London, John Richards & Co., 1841 ('Third edition, revised and corrected to the present time'). Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context, the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of..... More
All images are captioned in the negative. All eight oblique views carry the same date, 25 June 1918, preceded by 'A3 AEO *** 62°' (*** ranges from 110 to 121). Place names on them are Hamel, Hamel Wood, Somme, Accroche Wood, Tailloux Wood, and Vaire Wood. The vertical images are..... More
The vintage gelatin silver photographs are in excellent condition; two are 130 × 180 mm (taken on 22 July); one is 180 × 240 mm (taken on 14 August). The large one is a slightly raking view of the village, taken from a height of 400 metres; the substantial shell..... More
The first image shows 665 'Lord of the Isles', a Problem class (or Lady of the Lake class) passenger locomotive. Clearly visible on the wheel arch is its build date, 'Jany 1863'. The second image shows 2146, a DX Goods class locomotive. Both locomotives are shown in 'photographic grey' livery..... More
London, London and South Western Railway, 1907 and 1908. The foot of the retained backstrip is stamped in gilt 'Supt. [Superintendent] of Line'; this might explain why these three handsome Edwardian time tables from the heyday of the London and South Western Railway are in such wonderful shape. More
Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, Acting Government Printer, 1881. Victorian Legislative Assembly Paper Number C20; one of 775 copies. Hugh McColl (1819-1885), irrigation promoter, 'became secretary in 1874 of the Grand Victorian North West Canal, Irrigation, Traffic and Motive Power Co. Ltd. This visionary project, evolved by Benjamin Hawkins Dods in..... More
[London], 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed', 1838. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 685 of 1838. The bulk of this important paper (pages 4-19) is given over to 'Nos. 5, 6, 7. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir James Stirling, bearing Date 15 October..... More
[Kalgoorlie, Back to the Goldfields Celebrations, 1950]. An attractive souvenir with much of Western Australian mining interest, as well as short local histories of goldfields towns such as Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Broad Arrow, Norseman. More
Perth, Western Australian Museum, 1981. More
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London, C. Dolman, 1842. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year, and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet, 'Evidences of an Inland Sea, collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' (Dublin, 1837). More
Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1882, and London, L. Reeve & Co., 1879. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas, from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting..... More
London, Edward Stanford, 1872. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title, and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson (1841-1902), accountant and pastoralist, was a son of Rosetta French Johnson, later Hannay, eldest daughter of George Fife Angas ('Australian Dictionary of Biography')..... More
The photographs (cartes de visite and cabinet cards) depict Annie Griffith Roberts, her first husband Dr James Hawkins, her second husband, Dr Edward Bruce Robertson, and Oriana, one of the children of the second marriage. The Robertsons came to Australia in 1887; Oriana married into the Moodie family of 'Wando..... More
The heart of the album consists of 19 striking images of towns between Lens (near Arras) and Maurepas (near Saint Quentin), and the panoramic format of the photographs captures the horrifying extent of artillery damage. The towns (identified in pencil on the images) are Albert, Lens, Peronne, Roye, Villers Carbonnel..... More
London, James Imray and Son, 1884. A very large and detailed blueback chart of the western rim of the Pacific Ocean, including the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and parts of the coastlines of Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and New Guinea. It features eight inset charts: Guajan Island;..... More