Sir Roger de Coverly
London, The Folio Society, 1967 [first thus]. Edited, and with an 11-page introduction, by John Hampden. More
London, The Folio Society, 1967 [first thus]. Edited, and with an 11-page introduction, by John Hampden. More
The letter is addressed to James Charles Coke, then the company's mine storekeeper at Burra, and relates to procedures for the 'sampling, weighing, taking water weight etc.' of copper ores. It is accompanied by a second document in Ayers' hand, also signed by him (4 pages, a uniform bifolium), copying..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1988 [first thus]. Introduction by John Letts. The 'Publisher's Weekly' website describes the book (first published anonymously in 1924) as an 'apocryphal autobiography of a painfully pious, self-satisfied English landowner [whose] droll inanities of its protagonist easily pass muster'. More
London, Batsford, 1948. Two related (but later) items are loosely inserted. More
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon KCMG (1829-1904), civil servant and politician, spent the years 1847 to 1878 in India, mainly as an administrator in the Deoghar division and the 'recently annexed province of Oudh.... much of his time was spent in the saddle', and..... 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, The Folio Society, 2007 (first thus). Edited by Geoffrey Keynes; preface by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. More
London, MacDonald, 1967/ 1888 [second edition]/ 1873. More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1980 (first thus). More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1973. The notorious rape-murder trial involving Rupert Maxwell Stuart (born on a cattle station near Alice Springs, the son of 'a full-blood Aranda tribesman ... and a girl who had one white grandparent'. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated December 1982). More
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
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 (first edition). 'Churchill has, during the six years 1932-38, achieved an extraordinary ascendancy in the House of Commons.... This book ... comprises more than forty of the speeches which he has delivered during this time on the paramount topics of foreign affairs..... More
Sydney, Boolarong Publications, 1967. Presentation inscription dated (1986) signed by the author's wife. The 'Thomas King' was wrecked on Cato's reef, off the Queensland coast. Not least The Massacre and Captain Walker's heroic journey to safety. More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1923. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 35 of 1923; only 860 copies printed. More
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1902 (first edition). 'William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.... In 1892..... More
This unused, albeit lightly foxed, advertising postcard (captioned '"I always use Waterman's" J.B. Hobbs') features a portrait of a late-vintage Jack Hobbs complete with blazer, cigarette and Waterman's pen, busily signing autographs for a couple of young lads. This example has been signed prominently in dark blue ink by Hobbs..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1985. Presentation copy inscribed by the author (in green ink). Sir Raphael Cilento 'was the most senior official of Australian citizenship during the United Nation's founding years. My qualifications for speaking on this phase of Sir Raphael's life are those of a witness...'. More
London, J. Debrett, 1789. Dalrymple (1726-1810), fourth baronet of Cranstoun, was one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland. He was a prolific author of history and current affairs, and he 'occupied his leisure with various experiments of a useful kind. He discovered the art of making soap from..... More
Kingston, Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, 1996. 'Lecture detailing the Gurindji strike and walk-off from Wave Hill station (central Northern Territory, Gurindji land), 23 August, 1966; leader elder Vincent Lingiari; and its ramifications for industrial, social, legal and land rights justice in Australia; and as a call for necessary reconciliation between..... More
Auckland, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1935 [second edition]/ [1918]. Issued under the Auspices of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children and the Australian Mothercraft Society. Sir Frederic Truby King (1858-1938), bank clerk, asylum superintendent, child health reformer ('Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'). More
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2003. Warmly inscribed in ink to Alan & Libby [Brissenden], dated (10 April 2003) and signed by the author on the half-title page, and again beneath the half-title. 'The first published biography of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972)' (dustwrapper). Number 42 in the..... More
London, Cassell, 1960, 1962 and 1965 (all first editions). The title page of the first volume is signed by the author (as Anthony Eden). The third volume has the small ex libris label of the Dutch historian Professor F.F.X. Cerutti (1915-1970) on the front pastedown. [3 items]. More
New York, Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., [1970s] (facsimile edition)/ 1828. Number 1762 of 2500 copies thus (there were also 300 copies of a leather-bound deluxe edition). Loosely inserted is the publisher's 10-page booklet by Colonel Harold Wellington Jones, 'Charles Bell and the Origin of his Engravings of the Arteries' (slightly..... More
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1926. More
Oxford, 'Printed for The Griffith Institute at the University Press by Vivian Ridler', 1960. With the label of The Printer's Library, University of Oxford (with the later 'withdrawn' red stamp) on the front pastedown. More