[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1990 (facsimile edition)]/ 1919. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 239 (giving '1970/80' as the date of this facsimile edition). More
Melbourne, Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd., 1919. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Dornbusch 309; Fielding and O'Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 246. More
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1980s (facsimile edition)]/ 1919. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. See..... More
Melbourne, Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd., 1919. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Dornbusch 309; Fielding and O'Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 246. 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
London, Thomas Ward & Co., 1834. The brother of South Australian pioneer George Fife Angas, William Henry Angas (1781-1832) 'was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 Oct. 1781; went to sea and was captured by a French privateer, and imprisoned for a year and a half. He afterwards commanded ships of his..... More
Seattle, Beckett Publishing Company, 1991. More
London, Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824 (sixth edition). The Sir Joseph Banks contribution (pages 151-166 plus the folding plate, 'Drawn by Francis Bauer' - Franz Bauer, Ferdinand Bauer's elder brother) first appeared in the fourth edition of this book in 1805. There is a five-line reference in it..... More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1918. Loosely inserted is a small mimeographed slip reading 'With the Author's Compliments'. James (later Sir James) Barrett (1862-1945), a leader of the medical profession in Melbourne and an able publicist, was Assistant Director of Medical Services, Australian Forces, in Egypt until August 1915..... More
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1906 [first edition]. 'In the fifty-two short essays of this volume I have presented familiar objects from unusual points of view. Bird's-eye glances and insect's-eye glances, at the nature of our woods and fields, will reveal beauties which are wholly invisible from the usual..... More
Cremorne, Copperfield Publishing Company Pty Ltd, 1979. Number 41 of just 275 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by the artist. This copy also contains a small original landscape watercolour (67 × 81 mm, signed 'Rubery') executed on the title page, accompanied by an additional signed inscription to 'Ethel and..... More
Wellington, Hicks, Smith & Wright, 1949. With the contemporary ownership signature of Brian Lewis Jones (a relative of the author; see page 159) and his two pencilled annotations. Together with: Philp Beveridge Mair: 'Shared Enthusiasm. The Story of Lord and Lady Beveridge, by her Son' (Surrey, Ascent Books Ltd, 1982;..... More
The letter (octavo, two pages on one leaf, dated '26 Oct. [1942], Coates, Cirencester, Glos.', on embossed House of Lords writing paper), is warm and effusive in its praise for Simopoulos and its expressions of sympathy for his widow. Apart from a single crease across the centre for posting, it..... More
[Melbourne?], Oxford Studios, [1920]. The Melbourne 'Argus' (Wednesday 24 March 1920) contains an account of the visit. The final paragraph notes that 'In the City Hall tonight the mayor (Alderman H. Hitchcock) gave a dinner in honour of the General. There were present as guests 150 returned AIF officers who..... More
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Sydney, W. Blackwood [The Photographer], 1859. The preface (dated 8 November 1859) is informative regarding the production of the photographs: 'In taking the Views of the whole of the Banking Establishments of Sydney, the Photographer has had to contend with numerous difficulties, especially with the impossibility of obtaining, in some..... More
London, William Blake [for John Linnell], 'Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825' [in fact 1826]. 'William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints (published 1826) by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier..... More
London, Studio Vista/ Christie's, 1979. Flaxman, one of William Blake's circle of friends, also produced designs for Josiah Wedgewood. More
Edinburgh, Constable and Co., 1827. Volume IV in the 'Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications ... of Literature, Science, & the Arts' series. The short preface is by Hugh Murray. This volume contains 'Narrative of the Shipwreck of "The Antelope" in August 1783' (pages 1-210, derived from Keate's account..... More
Honolulu, Rare Books Ltd, [1960s]. More
Cambridge, Patrick Stephens, 1982. More
Wellingborough, Patrick Stephens, 1985. More
London, Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, 2010 [first thus]. 'Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. One of only 500 copies (including a deluxe issue of 75 copies). Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 208. Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has been reprinted. More
Lynn, Printed and sold by W. Whittingham [and others], 1777 (second edition, enlarged and corrected)/ [1622]. More
Frederikshavn, The Bookplate Society/ Forlaget Exlibristen, 1986. One of 900 signed copies. More