Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF (the Adelaide Rifles), 1939-1945
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. More
Our first catalogue for the new year contains some superb items, including rare classics, both old and modern. These days it is probably no less difficult to find a set of Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (three volumes, 1845-47), or an original edition of South Australia Illustrated (1847) by George French Angas, than it is to procure the complete set of David De Havelland’s Gold & Ghosts (four volumes, 1985 to 1989), or a copy of T.G.H. Strehlow’s Songs of Central Australia (1971).
We also have a stunning copy of Strehlow’s Aranda Traditions (1947); all three of Grahame Walsh’s significant works on rock art (1988, 1994, and 2000); a signed copy of The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1994); Charles Mountford’s Nomads of the Australian Desert (1976); the complete set of Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (four volumes, 1956 to 1964) edited by Mountford; and an extraordinary group of eight original Mountford photographs of Indigenous Australians in the Musgrave and Mann Ranges.
Autograph material includes three letters and three postcards signed by Evelyn Waugh (1952 to 1963); a letter by Max Bruch (1872); five original land grants for country sections purchased in 1840 by the SA pioneer, George Frederick Dashwood …
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[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. More
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. More
Roseville, Craftsman House, 1997. The short preface is by Rodney Hall; John Kinsella has contributed an essay, 'A Juxtaposition of Essences'. More
No Place [USA], No Publisher [H.O.O.R. Publications], 2013 (first edition in English). The title page is inscribed and signed by Monica D. Rocha. The first edition of this work by Dr Jorge Adoum (1897-1958) was published in Brazil in the 1950s; a second edition was published there in 1993. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. One of 1000 copies of this high-quality facsimile. The illustrations comprise views of the fledgling city of Adelaide and outlying settlements, the topography, flora and fauna, and the Indigenous people and their lives. Some 22 of the 60 plates (and the..... More
London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847. '"South Australia Illustrated" is without question Angas's greatest and most accomplished work. His views of towns and scenery, of the Aborigines and of the flora and fauna offer an outstanding - if romantic - interpretation of the Australian landscape. It is a very scarce book ....... More
London, Charles Knight & Co., 1845, 1846 and 1847 (New Edition). The 219 hand-coloured engraved maps, city plans and star charts that comprise this fine atlas were issued in parts by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge between 1829 and 1844, under various imprints (including Chapman and Hall..... 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
Sydney, Technological Museum, 1915. Provenance: Lesley Kilmeny Symon (1885-1969), with her initials on the front free endpaper. She was one of the daughters of Sir Josiah Symon (1846-1934), South Australian lawyer and politician. More
Sydney, Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 1942. Annuals from the early wartime years are scarce in our experience. More
Sydney, Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1945. More
Sydney, Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 1939. Annuals from the early wartime years are scarce in our experience. More
Sydney, Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 1940. Annuals from the early wartime years are scarce in our experience. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2004 [first thus]/ 1974. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 222; the edition was limited to just 300 copies, of which the first 99 were numbered and bound in quarter leather (this copy is number 59). The 1974 edition, essentially by the same..... More
Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1983. Number XXII of only 25 copies of the deluxe leather-bound edition, signed by the author and the publisher (Dan Sprod). The trade edition comprised 1000 copies in cloth with a dustwrapper, with all copies signed by the author and numbered. More
London, Faber and Faber, 1938. The half-title is signed by both authors. 'This sumptuous book is no less than a collection of nearly every available lithograph of the Romantic Ballet. Here are all the great ballerinas, Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito, Lucile Grahn, Carolina Rosati, as alive and..... More
Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1993 [first Canadian edition]/ 1993. One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some..... More
Haarlem, Volute, 1994. Signed and warmly inscribed ('For Joyce, from my heart | Machiel 11/97') by the photographer to the Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019). One of only 500 copies in English (with 500 in French, and 500 in Dutch). Loosely inserted are invitations to two..... More
Bruch writes to an unnamed recipient ('Mein lieber Freund'), thanking him and his wife for a letter of congratulations, exclaiming 'Ich glaube wirklich, man kann sagen, "Hermione" ist durch!'. His opera 'Hermione' had premiered in Berlin several days earlier, on 21 March 1872. Bruch notes a favourable review in the..... More
Adelaide, Bungey / Bungay Family History Committee, 1993. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1995. 'A register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people[;] a deliberate challenge to the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread ... a detailed, meticulously researched study of massacres on..... More
Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1962 (facsimile edition)/ 1845. South Australian Facsimile Editions Number 44. Peade SA44: one of only 51 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library, 'reproduced ... using the xerographic process', with the text bound from fan-fold paper printed on..... More
Chicago, The Standard Book Co., 1983 (first American edition)/ 1982. More
York Beach, The Teitan Press, 2010. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Western Australian Museum, 1968. The author was Curator of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum. The book is based on information gathered by him on five expeditions through the Kimberley, accompanied by Aboriginal guides and a professional photographer. More
[No Place], Amen Press, 2008. Number 38 of 93 copies (these details are printed on a small piece of paper loosely inserted in the booklet). The suite of plates includes two each of the recto and verso of the Cairo Stela 666, with a paraphrase of the relevant hieroglyphs printed..... More
Essex, Mandrake Press Ltd., 1990. Number 284 of 1000 copies. The lengthy introduction (21 pages) is by Keith Richmond. More
Chicago, The Teitan Press, Inc., 1988 ('First collected edition'). 'Six of the eight stories in this book were originally published pseudonymously in "The International: A Review of Two Worlds" between October 1917 and April 1918'. More
Kings Beach, Thelema Publications, 1974/ [1914]. More
[No Place, Ray Eales], 2010. More
San Francisco, Level Press, [1973 (first thus)]. Designed specifically for use in the gnostic mass. More
[England], Orange Box Books, 2007. An account of a 'nostalgic journey to a small village on the north-east coast of Sicily ... [this] lavishly illustrated travelogue answers all of the questions you are ever likely to ask about Crowley's "Abbey of Thelema"' (rear cover blurb). More
Grantham, Lincolnshire, The Hell Fire Club, [2014]. Number 22 of only 50 sets. 'Aleister Crowley founded his A.'.A.'. Order in 1907 with the assistance of George Cecil Jones. In 1909 whilst on a Magical Retirement Crowley developed "Liber DCLXXI vel Pyramidos" for the singular purpose of attaining a higher form..... More
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978 (first thus). 'No vin ordinaire, this book combines the great Salvador Domenech Felipe Jacinto Dali and the world's greatest wines to produce a refreshing blend of art, fun and information. The illustrations are unique in their variety and visual humor. Among the numerous..... More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1989. Individually, these volumes are rare and much sought-after; this full series in such fine condition is an exceptional offering. [4 items]. More
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. The edition was limited to only 750 sets. Titles are Robinson Crusoe (3 volumes); Colonel Jack (2 volumes); Moll Flanders (2 volumes); The Fortunate Mistress (2 volumes); Memoirs of a Cavalier; The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; A Plan of..... More
London, Martin Hopkinson Ltd, 1931 (first edition in English). The author is the daughter of Amalie Dietrich; translated from the original German by A. Liddell Geddie. In 1862, the German-born naturalist 'was introduced to the merchant, J.C. Godeffroy, who was persuaded by well-known scientists to send her to Australia to..... More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1957. A memoir of Sir William Macewen (1848-1924), former Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, by one of his students (the well-known 'Doctor among the Aborigines'). The author has inscribed and signed the title page, and amended one of his qualifications (from FRFPS to FRCS)..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1935. 'The real story of the South Sea slaves and blackbirders is to be pieced together from ... the writings of naval officers, of missionaries, and of traders, the proceedings in the few cases in which massacres and other outrages by these men led to..... More
Hunters Hill, David Ell Press, 1980. The half-title is signed 'Max Dupain '80'. A significant retrospective monograph reproducing 85 photographs taken between 1928 and 1980, edited and with a lengthy biographical essay (21 pages) by Gael Newton. Provenance: Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019). More
Leiden, Brill, 2004. Studies in Textile and Costume History, Volume 3. Papers in English, French and German, presented initially at a symposium in Leiden in 2000. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1988 and 1992. The Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Excavation Memoirs, respectively. [2 items]. More
New York, Pantheon Books, 1954. The two parts constitute Volume 1 in Bollingen Series XL: Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations. Alexandre Piankoff has also contributed introductions to several sections. [2 items]. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1988 and 1989. Texts from Excavations, Ninth Memoir and Tenth Memoir, respectively. [2 items]. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1976. Forty-eighth Excavation Memoir. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 2006. Excavation Memoir 77. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005 [first thus]. 'Edited and with an introduction by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley. Foreword by Witgar Hitchcock. Preface by Paul Brunton.' This is the first published transcription of the private journal kept by Flinders 'from the first day of..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. Peade A37: 2150 sets. [3 items]. More
New York, Grossman Publishers, [1967]. Inscribed, signed and dated (1969) by the photographer on the half-title. More