Pictorial History of Port Augusta
Adelaide, Rigby, 1974. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1974. More
Melbourne, Colorgravure Publications, 1957. Number 162 of a limited edition (upper limit not known). The superb illustrations include many from original photographs by Spencer, Basedow, Love and Poignant. More
South Yarra, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2006. 'Selected artists and their families were asked to travel to destinations of their choice and to create new artworks as a result of their experiences' (foreword). The artists are: Jason Benjamin, Zhong Chen, Fred Cress, Sharon Green, Tanya Hoddinott, Dean Home, Emma langridge, Anthony..... More
Upwey, Burrinja Gallery, [circa 2007]. The inside front cover is inscribed: 'Imagination Free to Roam. to my best friend Joyce Evans. Love from Neil Mcleod'. The recipient was the Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019). 'At which point does a photograph become a painting and when does..... More
The photographs are displayed in three rows of three: the captions from left to right, top to bottom are 'The Derby Winner - "Mountain King"'; 'View on the Flat'; 'Poseidon'; 'The Finish'; 'Returning to the scales'; 'The Lawn'; 'Saddling up'; '"Apologue" - Winner'; and 'Leaving the Bird Cage'. Jockey William..... More
Coventry, 'Privately printed' by Curtis & Beamish, Printers & Publishers [for the Author], 1893. George Melly (1830-1894) 'was an English merchant and shipowner and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1875' (Wikipedia). The frontispiece (an original gelatin silver photograph, now moderately silvered-out) is..... More
All but three of the captions are signed 'Fred' or initialled 'F' (but all captions are in the same hand); seven are numbered in series. Seven images show Australian, New Zealand and Allied troop movements in central Cairo around the coronation of the newly-installed puppet Sultan Hussein Kamel (misidentified as..... More
Adelaide, Fruhling Studio, 62 Rundle Street, [mid- to late-1890s]. Contemporary business directories indicate that Fruhling Studio commenced operating from 62 Rundle Street in 1895 ('Portrait and Enlarging Co., Fruhling & Co.'); this 'continued until 1913, when the address was changed to 62A Rundle Street. From 1918 to 1927 the address..... More
An unusual grouping, with a variety of cap badges and headgear (Australian, New Zealand and British); the majority of the soldiers sport a white hat-band, indicative of the personnel of an officer cadet unit, of which there over 20 in the UK during the First World War (information courtesy of..... More
[Melbourne], H.M. Walker [Photographer], [circa 1930s]. Apart from the photographer's credit in the negative, there are no details about the place or date, but we have handled similar Walker panoramas taken at Victorian training camps in the 1930s. More
No details are supplied, but we suggest a training camp in Victoria during the First World War. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (second impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1983. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. Signed in ink on the title page by both authors. Sir Edward James Ranembe Morgan (1900-1977), judge, local historian and sometime president of the National Trust of South Australia and foundation board-member of the National Gallery of South Australia. Stephen Hamilton Gilbert (1910-1979) took the..... More
San Francisco, Camera Craft Publishing Company, September 1940 (third printing)/ March 1937. Provenance: Walter MacNeill, with his original gelatin silver bookplate and his signature and address (Springfield, 1941) in pencil on the front endpaper. The attractive scene depicted in the image may be his residence in the leafy Adelaide suburb..... More
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1940. More
The gelatin silver print (120 × 167 mm) has a shallow v-shaped hairline crack in the emulsion at the top centre; overall it is in excellent condition. The photographer is not credited; the verso is ink-stamped 'Photo supplied Central News', and tipped in on it is the duplicate typescript caption..... More
The earliest reference to local football in Mount Gambier appears to be the following article in the 'Border Watch' on Saturday 31 August 1867: 'The match at football which has been for some time under consideration between competitors selected from the two Cricket Clubs belonging to The Mount, will, it..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. 'These sensitive studies are neither tourist poses nor anthropological records' (dustwrapper blurb). The title page is inscribed and signed 'To Olga Hardy with much regards from the Author, Charles P. Mountford'. We know of Olga Hardy only as the author of 'Like a Bird on..... More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. Inscribed and dated (1956) by the author to his son on the flyleaf. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their..... More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
Four of the items are large exhibition-quality vintage prints (255 × 305 mm or the reverse) from 1940 negatives: the truly stunning 'Komita with a sand drawing'; 'Young woman taking water from Erliwunyawunya rockhole'; 'Kulpitjata the song leader'; and 'Katabulka in mourning'. We have located no reproduction in print of..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
Flinders Ranges, South Australia, [circa 1937]. The State Library of South Australia holds the original negative (PRG 1218/34/675G) in its Mountford-Sheard Collection, with the date given as 'Approximately 1937'. More