Adelaide, The Author, 2001 (first edition). Presentation copy signed by the author, with a loosely inserted handwritten card from her ('I have no intention of setting up as an author, but it has been pleasant putting all the diaries together to tell the story'). The illustration on the card is..... More
Didsbury, Printed by the Scolar Press for E.J. Morten (Publishers), [1973]. One of only 500 copies of the Special Commemorative Edition. With the bookseller stamp of the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield, and some related ephemera loosely inserted. More
Auckland, Hodder and Stoughton, 1979 (first edition). More
London, Simpkin Marshall, 1931 (Australian edition). 'Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era ... a brilliant landscape and travel photographer.' (E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection website). More
London, The Folio Society, 1982 (first thus). Introduction by John Keay, translated by Charles de Salis. More
London, The Folio Society, 1993 (first thus). 'The Grand Tour was in its purest form the culmination of the rich young eighteenth-century Englishman's education' (from the introduction). More
London, The Folio Society, 1993 (first thus). 'The Grand Tour was in its purest form the culmination of the rich young eighteenth-century Englishman's education' (from the introduction). More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903) arrived in South Australia in 1839, so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 (of 36) pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1897. Peade A203: one of only 501 copies. More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More
Paris, Édité sous la direction de Lucien Vogel chez Jules Meynial, 1934. Number 117 of 500 copies of the trade edition (a further 200 'hors-de-commerce' copies were also printed, as well as a deluxe edition of 20 copies). This suite of plates is the lavish pictorial record by the official..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). Abridged, annotated and with a Foreword by Tim Macintosh-Smith; the Introduction is by Tahir Shah. 'Abu Abd Allah Muammad ibn Abd Allah al-Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battutah 1304-1368/69 or 1377), the greatest medieval Muslim traveler and the author of one of the most famous..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, [September] 1932 [first edition]. The illustrations are from photographs by W.H. Dudley Le Souef (they were originally published in his book, 'Wild Life in Australia', circa 1910). The author's sixth book, an account of his pre-WW1 mining days on 'the northern Peninsula goldfields' in the hinterland..... More
Long Beach, Safari Press, 2000 (first edition). Number 704 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. The thirty-third book in the Classics in African Hunting series. More
New York, Harper, 1899 [first American edition]. The account of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, led by Jackson and equipped and sponsored by Harmsworth 'to make a thorough scientific exploration of the newly-discovered Franz-Josef Land, only some part of its southern shores being then known, and the hope being reasonably entertained that..... More
London, Marshall Brothers and The Mission to Lepers, [1901]. The large bookplate of the Regent Square Presbyterian Church Missionary Library is mounted on the front pastedown. More
Sydney, Harper Collins Publishers/ ABC Books, 2013 (second printing)/ 2013. Dated (12 April 2014), signed and warmly inscribed by the author in ink on the half-title. More
London, Allen Lane/ Penguin Books, 2002 (tenth impression)/ 2002 (revised edition)/ 1999. 'Organized by county', the churches selected 'are of all periods and denominations, though most are medieval foundations' (from the dustwrapper). More
London, The Folio Society, 1992 (first thus). More
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London, The Folio Society, 1990 (first thus). Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Levi. More
Tanunda, Gedruckt in Auricht's Druckerei (printed by Auricht), [1937]. An account of a trip from Australia to Germany in the mid-1930s, written in 'Barossa-deutsch' dialect. More
Vienna, Hollinek Brothers for The Authors, 1924 [first, single-volume, edition]. Not least, Part II: Yorkshire from a Railway Carriage Window (pages 663-730). With the three ink ownership signatures (and other details) of geologist Arthur Raymond Crawford (who also worked in SA). More
Camden, John Culler and Sons, 1994 (first thus)/ [1910]. Number 329 of 500 copies of a facsimile edition, with a new five-and-a-half-page introduction by Kenneth P. Czech. One of the publisher's Asian Series. More
New York, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1968 (revised)/ 1924. The artist's account of his voyage to the southern tip of South America, finally penetrating the mountainous regions of Tierra del Fuego. More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Printer, 1853. The author, Clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia, was on board the vessel; this is his account of the first successful navigation of the Murray as far as Swan Hill by Captain Francis Cadell. Fellow-passenger James Allen also published his version of events..... More