Sydney, 1935. The photograph is inscribed in ink in the top left-hand corner 'To Mr F. Gordon with compliments from E.E. Bullen'. Errol Eviot Bullen was one 'of Australia's most prolific early game fishermen in the 1930s', and he was renowned for the high-quality custom-made reels he designed and marketed..... 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
London, Thames & Hudson, 2013. With 360 illustrations, 114 in colour. More
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More
[Melbourne], R. McGeehan, 96 Albert St., Windsor, [circa 1899]. The second figure from the right in the front row is wearing a slouch hat with a distinctive hatband, and the brim turned up on the right side. We have discovered the same man in one of Rose's Stereoscopic Views, #2242..... More
The stamp of 'J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide' is on the verso of one image, together with a pencilled caption reading 'The National Memorial to the SA troops who fought in South African War. Unveiled by the Governor of SA at Adelaide June 6, 1904'. One image shows..... More
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
Brisbane, The Jacaranda Press/ The Australian National University Press, 1965. 'The first camera in the north of Australia belonged to an enthusiastic amateur photographer, Richard Daintree (1832-1878) ... His Queensland photographs are a unique record of the first years of contact between squatters and Aborigines, the birth of a gold-rush..... More
Bangkok, Amber House, 2008 (first edition). Presentation copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Bangkok, Amber House, 2010 (first edition). More
New York, American Illustration, 1983. More
London, European Illustration, 1975. Text in French and English. More
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London, Ian Allan, 1968. 'Fenman' is the collective pseudonym of five former graduates of Cambridge with a shared interest in railway photography (dustwrapper). More
Rushcutters Bay, Pergamon Press (Australia) Pty Limited, 1970. In this book, 'the core of which is Mark Strizic's pictorial representation of his buildings, Robin Boyd tries to explain more than is usual about the architect's motivations and to set the buildings in the context of Australian society'. The work of..... More
East Roseville, Simon & Schuster Australia, 1994. 'In this national park, in the heart of Australia, exist Australia's most recognisable landforms. Uluru and Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) are two of the continent's most sacred sites for Aboriginal Australian, yet their images also lie deep in the psyche of Piranpa, white..... More
Sydney, Collins, 1982 (with a new preface)/ 1970, 1972 [and] 1975. More
The large-format gelatin silver prints (185 × 240 mm, on captioned mounts) include many prototypes and non-production models, such as the Bagshot (only this prototype was ever built, and flown a mere three times), the Bullfinch, the Type 138A High Altitude Monoplane, and the Type 143 light airliner. The condition..... More
The following paragraph appeared in 'The Photographic News' (Volume IV, Number 104, 31 August 1860, page 215, sourced from 'The Athenaeum'): 'Photography At The Palace. Mr Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album", the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace..... More
The following paragraph appeared in 'The Photographic News' (Volume IV, Number 104, 31 August 1860, page 215, sourced from 'The Athenaeum'): 'Photography At The Palace. Mr Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album", the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace..... More
'The Darge Photographic Company had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname..... More
Two of these images (heavily cropped to show only the horse) were reproduced in 'The Observer' (Adelaide, 24 June 1905). The photographer is not identified. The Suffolk is a breed of draught horse nicknamed Punch because of its stocky appearance and power (Hendricks: 'International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds', 2007). More
London, 'Daily Telegraph', 1937. The High Commissioners are: The Honourable Vincent Massey, Canada; The Right Honourable Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth of Australia; W.J. Jordan, New Zealand; C.T. Te Water, Union of South Africa; J.W. Dulanty, Irish Free State; and Sir Firoz Khan Noon, India. The Ambassadors are: Dr Paul Regis de..... More
