Some unique items in our current catalogue include a portrait photograph of the ‘erratic, histrionic genius’ Professor Archibald Watson, signed with a more than friendly inscription to the recently widowed Mrs Charles Rasp; Sir John Downer’s copy of a Draft of a Bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia (1891), with some annotations; an informal group portrait of the Governors of each of the Australian colonies, along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand, at the South Pacific Defence Conference in Sydney in 1888; and a copy of the very rare Secondary Towns Association, formed for the purchasing of One or More Special Survey or Surveys of Land in South Australia (1843), with numerous annotations and additional manuscript material relating to one family's early land speculations in SA and NZ.
Rarities jostle with curiosities: the graphic poster for the Austral-Brindisi subdivision near Adelaide’s Outer Harbour in 1911 lines up against one for the VI Seminario Interamericano de Rayos Cosmicos in La Paz in 1970 … that's enough, you get the drift, and there are 236 items to check out!
Sydney, The Somerset Publishing Company, [1894]. The text comprises the title page, three pages of reminiscences by Charles Pyke, two poems ('Argemone' and 'Verses inspired by my "Old Black Pipe"'), and one page of a letter to a Mr Trainor. The title page is inscribed and signed 'To A. Wills..... More
New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1944. The front cover of each volume is signed and dated (October 1944) by Percy Grainger, with a warm personal inscription in each case, respectively 'To dear Harry, with love from his friend Percy'; 'To dear Harry, in boundless admiration from Percy'; and 'To Harry..... More
Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1997 (facsimile edition)/ 1906. Number 18 of only 50 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of only 250 copies). Provenance: pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), with his small ownership label on the front pastedown, and his signature on the limitation..... More
Nuremburg, Johann Ziegers, 1683. An early and well-illustrated work on military architecture and fortifications, presumably very rare if the standard online resources are any indication. More
Australia, Collective 777 (Art Guild of Ordo Templi Orientis Australia), 2014 (first edition). 'Created by J. Daniel Gunther between 1977 and 1979 ... the series [of images] forms an account of transformation and a gradual realisation of the Great Work' (from the foreword by Robert Buratti). Loosely inserted is a...... More
Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer, 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. The last part of the book, 'A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846' (23 pages) is new to this edition. The particulars of the photographs match those given in 'Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book'..... More
Leipzig, A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1880. A classic German history of the act and art of writing. More
Paris, Librairie de Hachette et Cie, 1863. Provenance: Richard Davies Hanson, with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. London-born Sir Richard Davies Hanson (1805-1876), author and judge (eventually Chief Justice of South Australia); he settled there in 1846. He had been very active in colonization schemes since the early 1830s..... More
![Item #133883 Victorian Staffordshire Figures, 1835-1875 [complete in three volumes]. A. HARDING,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/133883_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680747752)
Atglen, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1998, 1998 and 2000. These volumes contain contemporary values for nearly 4000 figures, many of which had never been seen before. [3 items]. More
London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1992. A catalogue raisonné of 452 prints by Hayter, with all published colour prints reproduced in colour. Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was 'perhaps the greatest and most influential printmaker of the twentieth century.... At the centre of the avant-garde in Paris and for a decade in..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1944. Benjamin Francis Helpman 'actively participated in the surveying and exploring of the North-west Coast, between Roebuck Bay and the Prince Regent River, and later, in the discovery and exploration of the Adelaide and Victoria Rivers ..., accompanying Captain Wickham on the boat trip to the navigable head..... More
Sydney, The Bulletin Poster Press, [early 1910s]. A more accurate title would be 'An English Tourist goes to Medlow Bath'. 'Prospectus and any other information can be obtained by sending a postcard to Lister Henry, 241 Flinders Lane, Melbourne' (page 31). More
![Item #133243 The Venom of the Australian Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus). [Contained in]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/133243_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677201215)
Sydney, RSNSW, 1892. This volume contains numerous lengthy, interesting and important articles, and would suit any budding polymath. The range includes FRASER, J.: On the Languages of Oceania (24 pages); STATHAM, E.J.: Observations on Shell-heaps and Shell-beds. Significance and importance of the record they afford (10 pages plus 2 plates..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1966. This copy is signed in full by Sir Hans Heysen (1877-1968) at the head of the first page of the introduction (next to his photographic portrait). More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1918. A small relevant newspaper clipping is loosely inserted. More
![Item #133318 Le Petit Chaperon Rouge [Little Red Riding Hood]. Warja HONEGGER-LAVATER](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/133318_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679541400)
Paris, Adrien Maeght, 1965. A curious avant-garde artist's book, which retells Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale by means of coloured abstract pictograms rather than words. One of the artist's 'Imageries' series, which included similar retellings of tales by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. More
Bourton, The Bourton Press, 1973. Number 471 of 600 copies signed by the author and artist (respectively, the former curator of the Herbarium at Kew Gardens, and the official botanical artist at Kew Gardens). The name of the original subscriber, David W.G. Kennett, has been calligraphically inscribed on the same..... More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004 ('Reprinted with corrections')/ 2000. The book was originally published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 24 November 2000 to 25 February 2001. More
![Item #134802 The Australian Guerrilla. Book 1 [to] Book 6. [The complete set, comprising Shoot to...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134802_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688354908)
Uralla, Idriess Enterprises Pty Limited, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1942 and 1943. Each volume is limited to only 500 copies. Although these are the facsimile editions, they are superb examples of the reprinter's craft, and the originals are so rare, we can't resist quoting a few snippets from the dustwrapper blurbs..... More
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1951. Provenance: Colin Thiele (1920-2006), poet, author and educator, with his signature in ink on the half-title, and in pencil on the title page, and with his occasional pencilled emphases. Loosely inserted are a few pencilled manuscript notes, the prospectus, and some related ephemera. More
Roseville East, Craftsman House/ G+B Arts International, 1995 (first edition). The appendices include 'comprehensive checklists on over 350 migrant and successive German cabinetmakers'. More
USA, Seven Darks Press, 2013 (first edition). More
Honolulu, Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, distributed by the University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. A lavish illustrated catalogue for this important private collection, signed and inscribed 'With my warmest Aloha, Mark Blackburn' on the title page. More
![Item #133891 Kunst vom Sepik [complete in three volumes]. Heinz KELM](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/133891_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680747774)
Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, 1966, 1966 and 1968. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Volkerkunde Berlin, Neue Folge 10, Abteilung Südsee V; Neue Folge 11, Abteilung Südsee VI; and Neue Folge 15, Abteilung Südsee VII. The text is in German. [3 items]. More
Adelaide, The Author, [early 1970s]. A University of Adelaide Politics III B project; presumably the author's copy, with his name and address on the flyleaf. The detailed responses (to approximately 130 questions, on average) by the eight people interviewed by the author. Rare (by definition), and of far greater import..... More
Adelaide, The Author, 1973. A thesis presented as part of the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree at the University of Adelaide in 1973; of consequence and, by definition, rare. 'Summary of evidence of physical anthropology and its relation to racial questions and the work of psychologists on..... More
![Item #134071 The Kirchner Album. [Twelve Prints in Colours (cover subtitle)]. Raphael KIRCHNER](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134071_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687162138)
London, 'Sketch' Offices, [circa 1917 (second edition)]. Raphael Kirchner (1876 - 2 August 1917) 'was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work' (Wikipedia); this volume showcases the latter. More
[Paris], Georges Sauvaget for Les Amis des Travailleurs Intellectuels, 1927. Number 302 of 400 copies (of which 50 were not for sale), numbered and initialled by the publisher, with nine original etchings by Luc Lafnet. The 'Dîner du Quatrain' was a dining club whose members were required to contribute at..... More
London, Paradine, in assocation with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1550. Number 38 of 100 copies of this deluxe facsimile, produced from Samuel Pepys's copy of the first printed edition of Langland's poem, now housed in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College. This edition 'will enable readers to read..... More
Victor Harbor, The Author, 1985. Signed by the author. More
Glasgow, James Maclehose, 1880 (third edition)/ 1870. The standard gynaecological text book of the day. 'William Leishman (1834-1894) was a graduate of the University of Glasgow ... In 1863 he was appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Anderson's College where he began to specialise in Obstetrics ... and in 1868..... More
Wellingborough, Thorsons Publishers Limited, 1975 (first thus). Volume III in the 'Studies in Hermetic Tradition' series. 'Never before published in English, this newly-translated work of occult philosophy was written in 1868'. More
Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (and printed by R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer), 1911 [enlarged edition]. Number 31 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the..... More
Sydney, Privately printed by Harry F. Chaplin, 1953. Number 165 of only 300 copies (250 for sale) signed by the publisher. More
Sydney, Magazine Programmes Pty. [Ltd.], [1927]. More
Jonsered (Volume 1) and Sävedalen (Volume 2), Paul Åströms Förlag, 1996 and 2006. Volumes CXXIII:1 and CXXIII:2 in the 'Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology' series. With contributions from Robyn Adams, Paul Croft, Dianne Simmons, Michael A. Smith, Glenn Summerhayes, Costas Xenophontos, Sherry C. Fox, Kirsi O. Lorentz, C. Jack Moyer, and..... More
Sydney, The Worker Trustees, 1920. 'With Commemorative Poems by Mrs Mary Gilmore, Henry Lawson, C.J. Dennis, Roderic Quinn, and J. Le Gay Brereton, and Appreciations by Leading Publicists' (frontispiece). Claude Arthur Marquet (1869-1920), a 'proficient, self-taught black-and-white artist' was born in Moonta, South Australia. He moved to Victoria in 1902..... More
![Item #29581 The Australian Aborigines. [Contained in the] Journal and Proceedings of the Royal...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29581_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585872589)
Sydney, RSNSW, 1889. An Australia-wide survey, in which the author pulls no punches. He expresses special indebtedness to the work of E.M. Curr, 'although some of [the latter's] conclusions have been widely different from those enunciated in this essay'. This volume also contains STEPHENS, Edward: The Aborigines of Australia, being..... More
Adelaide, The Hassell Press, 1925. The 1925 University of Adelaide Commemoration Address. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930 (abridged popular edition, first thus)/ 1915. Loosely inserted are some related ephemera, including 18 Australian Antarctic Territory stamps (postally used and mounted on paper). The 'Author's Preface' is illuminating: 'In this edition ... it has been my endeavour to present a connected narrative of the..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995/ 1995. 'The first major study in English for over half a century of one of Portugal's most important historical figures, Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, marques de Pombal (1699-1782) ... the key figure in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the devastating earthquake of 1755'..... More
Kensington, Bay Books, 1982. More
Adelaide, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, 1980. The history of the McBride family and the family company, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, a major South Australian pastoral company controlling Wooltana, Teetulpa, Wilgena and Nepowie stations (among others). Number 40 of 350 copies signed by Phillip Affleck McBride, the Chairman of..... More
Sydney, David Ell Press, 1987. A comprehensive survey; with a foreword by Bernard Smith. More
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Number 77 of only 100 copies of this deluxe edition signed by the author. More
Berkeley, Red Flame Productions, 2005. 'Red Flame. A Thelemic Research Journal', Numbers 12 and 13. The first volume is signed by the author; the second volume is signed by the author and dated (10 January 2006). [2 items]. More
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby (for the Royal Society of South Australia), [1900] to 1913. All four parts of the first volume are by STIRLING, E.C. and A.H.C. ZIETZ: Fossil Remains of Lake Callabonna. An interesting note from the editor is printed on the verso of the front wrapper of the first..... More
London, Blackie and Son, 1899. More
London, The Folio Society, 1992 (first thus, with a revised introduction by the author). [3 items]. More
