The Photographic Work of Calvert Richard Jones
London, Science Museum/ Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1990. More
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The Bells of Sunda Strait
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. A unique copy of this account of the raising of the ship's bell from the HMAS 'Perth', sunk on 28 February 1942. Not only is it inscribed and signed by the author (twice), but it also contains the signatures of 22 survivors of the sinking, gathered at..... More
A matching pair of vintage hand-coloured cartes de visite portrait photographs [circa 1861] of the ill-fated explorers Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861) and William John Wills (1834-1861)
When compared with all other examples of portrait photographs of either explorer in the public domain, this matching pair - delicately hand-coloured and skilfully vignetted to the head and shoulders - has little if any competition. And significantly, they are fresh to the market ... However, when it came to..... More
Touch Me. Photographs
Toowoomba, Top Shelf Publications, 1998. More
City Streets. Progressive Adelaide 75 years on
Mile End, Wakefield Press, in association with Adelaide City Council, 2017/ 2016 (reprinted with revisions)/ 2012. More
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays in Five Volumes
London, Chapman and Hall, [1910s]. With an interesting photograph of a drawing of Blanche Stanley, Countess of Airlie, laid down on the front pastedown, and with her signed gift inscription 'to her friend Ida Hankey', dated 26 September 1919. The Countess was a correspondent of Carlyle's. More
One Man's World. Photographs 1955-1984
Glasgow, Third Eye Centre, 1984. One of 2100 copies. Exhibition catalogue. More
Spanning the Gate. The Golden Gate Bridge
Mill Valley, Squarebooks, 1979. With the contemporary presentation inscription to Malcolm Kinnaird, co-founder of Kinhill Australia. More
Yesterday and Today, 1872-1972. [A Selection of Photographs taken in the Hundreds of Maitland and Kilkerran (cover subtitle)]
Adelaide, The Maitland and Kilkerran Centenary Committee, 1972. More
The Story of the Camera in Australia
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1955. This deluxe edition consisted of only 100 numbered and signed copies; this out-of-series copy is unnumbered and unsigned. More
The Story of the Camera in Australia
(Melbourne), Institute of Australian Photography, 1979 (third edition)/ 1977 (second editioin)/ 1955. More
The Best of Australian Geographic Photography
Terrey Hills, Australian Geographic, 1997. More
A vintage photograph of Centennial Hall at the Adelaide Showgrounds in inner-suburban Wayville, prior to its opening in 1936
Adelaide, D. Darian Smith, Commercial & Aerial Photography, [1936]. The photograph was taken as the landscaping in the front of the building was being undertaken; the horse-drawn roller seems an anachronism against the backdrop of the impressive Art Deco facade. The State Library of South Australia has in its collection..... More
Uniforms and Equipment of the British Army in World War I. A Study in Period Photographs
Atglen, Schiffer Military History, 2005. 'Royal Flying Corps, Field Infantry, MGC and Tank Corps, Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, Infantry Weapons, Insignia' (sub-title). More
Eve in Ebony ... the Story of 'Jedda'
Sydney, Columbia Pictures, 1954. More
Two photographs of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at the Bradford Town Hall on 6 December 1942
The first one shows Churchill arriving, standing in the rear of an open vehicle. In the second one, he is seen addressing the huge crowd from the steps of the Town Hall. His informal speech, a warning against complacency, was widely reported at the time. The full text is readily..... More
A carte de visite of the famous Brazilian circus equestrians Martinho Lowande and his daughter Marrietta, taken in Melbourne in 1878
This photograph of Martinho Lowande (1839-1927) and his daughter Marrietta (1871-1962) was one of a number taken in Melbourne in 1878 when the Lowandes toured Australia as members of Cooper, Bailey's Great International Circus, from the USA. [We are indebted to Mark St Leon, the Australian circus historian, for kindly..... More
Souvenir Photos of Egypt, Malta and Durban. Taken by L. Clapham, late of the 8th Battalion, AIF [Souvenir Photos by an Original Anzac (cover title)]
Ballarat, [The Author, circa 1920s] (printed by S.L. Vale). The photographer, 319 Private William Edwin Leslie Clapham, was at Gallipoli at the time of the landings, in which he almost certainly took part. Evacuated to Malta with a gunshot wound to his hand on 14 May 1915, he served there..... More
Solos. Photographs by ...
Millerton, Apeiron Workshops, 1979. More
Hong Kong. Return to the Heart of the Dragon. A Photographic and Literary Tribute to Hong Kong and Macau
Hong Kong, O & A Editions/ Elsworth Books Limited, 1997 [new edition/ 1993]. Loosely inserted is a colour pictorial commemorative leaf; 'In Commemoration and in Witness of the Handover of the British Colony of Hong Kong to Chinese Sovereignty at Midnight, 30th of June 1997', from JW Marriott Hotel, Hong..... More
Edge of Centre. The Eventful Life of Group Captain Gerald Packer
Point Cook, Royal Australian Air Force Museum, 1992. Number 4 in an occasional series. More
The Mountain Men. And the Snowy River Riders on the Mountains Make Their Home...
Moorebank, Mallard Press, 1990/ 1982. More
Private Gardens of Paris
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. More
A cabinet card photograph of a curious cricketing ephemeron if ever there was one
The albumen paper photograph (approximately 78 × 143 mm, mounted on a standard cabinet card, 108 × 167 mm) takes the form of a triptych. The left and right panels contain 'The Noble Game of Cricket', five quatrains of verse 'written with the right and left hands' as mirror images..... More
A vintage group photograph captioned 'Cricket Match Feb 02 Furreedpore' ['1902 Faridpur' in another hand on the verso]
Furreedpore (Faridpur), formerly in East Bengal, India (now Bangladesh), has important Australian connections, exemplified by this photograph. Silas Mead (1834-1909), a Baptist minister, emigrated to South Australia in July 1861; 'he preached at chapels in Adelaide and North Adelaide. Regular services began at White's Rooms and within a month a...... More