Beecham toured Australia in 1940, and this portrait was presumably produced and signed then. Sir Thomas Beecham, the son of a wealthy industrialist, 'made his debut in 1905. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra and in 1910 initiated a series of opera seasons at Covent Garden. The following..... More
London, Harrap Limited, 1985. More
London, Harrap Limited, 1985. A related magazine article is loosely inserted. More
The photographs (image size approximately 120 × 190 mm) are mounted one per page on both sides of thick card leaves, with printed borders and captions. All the usual suspects are there: Brussells, Bruges, Waterloo, Louvain, Dinant, Ypres ... but with the passage of time, the best would have to..... More
Ontario, Boston Mills Press, 2004 (first edition). More
Washington, National Geographic, 1999. In addition to the 250 illustrations from photographs (most in colour), there are essays by Bendavid-Val, Robert A. Sobieszek, Carole Naggar, Anne H. Hoy, Ferdinand Protzman and Fred Ritchin. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. More
London, Andre Deutsch, 1979 (first English edition)/ 1978. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1973. More
The title and photographer's credit are written in a neat calligraphic hand in white ink on the original mount. The left- and right-hand photographs are a little unevenly tanned, otherwise it is a fine panorama attractively presented behind glass in its original polished timber frame (external dimensions 190 x 595..... More
London, Charles H. Kelly, 1890. The Woodburytypes are of James Bickford, his wife, and fellow-missionary the Reverend William Moister (1808-1891). More
London, Thames & Hudson, 2013. With 360 illustrations, 114 in colour. More
The image is undated and is not credited in any way, but it is signed 'J.B. Hobbs' very clearly in ink across the pads. The originally blank verso is now even more interesting than the face of the card: it bears a lengthy autograph message signed by Hobbs. It was..... More
![Everlasting Silver Leaves, from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa [cover title]. Boer War...](/pictures/thumb/99831_00.jpg?v=1550893871)
[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
Those present are Colonel James Rowell, Captain Howard Locke Dexter Wilson, and Lieutenant James Hay. 'James Rowell (1851-1940), soldier, orchardist and politician ... is best known for his association with the Volunteer Military Forces of South Australia before Federation, then with those of the Commonwealth.... He commanded the South Australian..... More
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, 'The Bushmen's Contingent at Camp, Langwarrin', illustrated in 'George..... More
With the stamp of 'J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide' 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
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
It was printed from the original 1930s negative in the mid-1990s, when it was personally signed in ink by Bradman and purchased by us at that time. Offered together with a vintage blotter issued by Vacuum Oil Company ('marketers of Laurel, Australia's Greatest Kerosene'), where a detail from the same..... More
Camberwell, Lantern, 2011. More
