The History of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969 (revised and enlarged edition)/ 1955. More
Photography
Lesotho, Kingdom in the Sky
The Netherlands, Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, in cooperation with The Netherlands-Lesotho Foundation, 1993. More
Five vintage gelatin silver photographs (each 215 x 165 mm) by Gillen or Spencer, being individual portraits of four Indigenous men and one woman in the Northern Territory, 1901-02
Contemporary captions are pencilled on the blank versos, for example '114 [later crossed out] Kaitish woman / Barrow Creek/ 1901' and 'Urabanna [Arabana] man / The Peake / 1902'. Minute pinholes in most corner tips; trifling surface chips to a few edges; in excellent condition. More
Signals from the Perimeter. James Gleeson: Drawings and Texts
Roseville, The Beagle Press, 1993. More
'Mayors of Glenelg, with Years of Office' [a cabinet card photograph of a collage featuring the first nine mayors of the Adelaide bayside suburb of Glenelg]
Glenelg, John Hood, Miniature Painter and Photographer, [early 1880s]. The mayors range from Richard Colley (1855-56) to William Frederick Stock (1878-80; he later served a second term in 1886-87). John Soal, the Town Clerk, is also featured in the image; he took over the role in January 1877. More
Beken of Cowes 2. 1919-1939. Photographs by Frank and Keith Beken
London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1969 (first English edition)/ 1968. With many folding illustrations from photographs. More
Gallipoli Revisited. In the Footsteps of Charles Bean and the Australian Historical Mission
Prahran, Hardie Grant, 2009. More
Gallipoli Revisited. In the Footsteps of Charles Bean and the Australian Historical Mission
Prahran, Hardie Grant, 2009. More
Bitter Fruit. Australian Photographs to 1963
Melbourne, Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. 'The images included here are inevitably skewed in viewpoint, most having been taken by non-Aboriginal men. But they have a value to the extent that they show actual people in actual situations. This publication does not aim to fix interpretations, like butterflies on a specimen board..... More
Rambles in Australia
London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1916. More
Fragment. Icons from Antiquity
Neutral Bay, Chapter and Verse, 2000 (first edition). Inscribed, dated (3 December 2000) and signed by the photographer. Not least, Persepolis (Iran); Ephesus (Turkey) and Luxor and Giza (Egypt). More
A group photograph of approximately 120 Australian soldiers and eight American servicemen
The mount below the photograph is signed by one captain and seven lieutenants (two of them Americans). Five also identify their disparate units, suggesting this group is on a training course, possibly at Seymour army camp during the Second World War. More
Himalayan Pilgrimage
London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. More
Coded Character. Media Art by Jill Scott
Austfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz, 2003. More
A portrait photograph signed on the image 'D. Haig. F.M. 1919'
'The Battle of the Somme was the first campaign launched by Sir Douglas Haig after he took over command of the British Army on the Western Front. His leadership during the battle made him one of the most controversial figures of the war and has been intensely disputed ever since..... More
Australian Women Photographers, 1840-1960
Richmond, Greenhouse, 1986. More
A Summer in Saint Tropez
London, Collins, 1982 [first English edition]. More
Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846. By an Old Hand
Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer, 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. With the armorial bookplates of James Angas Johnson and Charles Glover on the pastedown; the white ink on the spine is a legacy of Glover's ownership. The last part of the book, 'A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846' (23..... More
Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839; and A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846. By an Old Hand
Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer [for the Author], 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. The particulars of the photographs match those given in Holden (where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against listed is explained). The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals..... More
A Vision Fulfilled. [Cover title: The Adelaide to Darwin Railway. Laying the Track from Alice Springs to Darwin]
Darwin, SkyScans Australia/ Sprout Creative, 2004. More
'Go To It!' The Illustrated History of The 6th Airborne Division
London, Bloomsbury, 1990. More
African Image
London, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1967 (first edition). More
Five Girls
New York, Crown Publishers Inc., 1962 (presumably the first edition sheets; see our footnote). The book was first published in New York by Crown in 1962; the text block of our copy appears to be that of the true first edition. The boards are lettered at the foot of the..... More
Argosy of Sail. A Photographic History
Auckland, Collins, 1980. More