London, Simpkin Marshall, 1931 (Australian edition). 'Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era ... a brilliant landscape and travel photographer.' (E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection website). More

The Hundred of Kappakoola [sic], derived from Kappakoola Hill, near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula, is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 (information courtesy of..... More

The gelatin silver postcard-format print (circa 1920s) is in fine condition. The unidentified location depicted is presumably in England, where the item was sourced. The British passion for dogs is taken to extremes in this instance, with the bulldog resting on its stomach and front paws on the operating table..... More

New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1919. Volume 34 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More

London, Lockwood, 1870 [third edition, carefully revised and considerably enlarged]/ [1857]. All of the plates in the second volume relate to specific bridges: one double-page plate gives details of the 'Bridge over Salt Water River, Melbourne and Williams Town Railway, Victoria' (and one of the diagrams in the first volume..... More

This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More

This is an example of item 143 of the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works, which emanated from the Fine Art Society, London. The full title of the catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other Photographic Studies by Frank Hurley' (small octavo..... More

New York, Harper and Row, 1964. Features 148 illustrations, 48 in colour. More

Eight members of the team are posed standing with six (presumably) members of the factory staff in a yard with stacks of timber in the background; the odd hunk of wood and new bat are being held by the assembled group. This was only the second tour of England by..... More

Image sizes are 100 × 150 mm (three), and 75 × 105 mm or the reverse (eight); all are captioned in ink (eight on the verso of the mount, three on the image itself). All depict scenes of rural life, most of them identifying Serajgunge in East Bengal. Images include..... More

The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More

The photograph is positioned so that the finished product presents as a diamond shape; it is both unusual and effective. Both the mat and photograph are in fine condition. The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat..... More

Neither the subject nor the photographer are identified (or known to us). The photograph may have been taken in South Australia, where it surfaced about 20 years ago; we suggest it dates from the 1890s. More