Recent acquisitions and some unusual items unearthed as we continue to excavate our warehouse give the latest catalogue some of its strengths.
Not least, we have both the first and second editions of the superlative colour-plate book, Foreign Field Sports (1814 + 1813, and 1819), each one containing the Supplement of New South Wales, with 10 hand-coloured aquatints depicting various aspects of Indigenous life in the Port Jackson region. The 1813 first edition of the supplement is described by Jonathan Wantrup as ‘the very first book on the Australian Aborigines, a fact not often acknowledged’.
Our copy of the deluxe edition of Mortimer Menpes’s Durbar (1903) is not only signed and limited to 1000 copies – it is one of 100 copies containing an original signed watercolour by Menpes.
Two rare works on Singapore are Song Ong Siang’s One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore (1923), and Charles Burton Buckley’s An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore (1902, two volumes), the latter from the collection of Sir Ernest Woodford Birch, son of J.W.W. Birch, the first British Resident of Perak, assassinated there in 1875.
Any one of the 96 issues of the Peninsula Press, the Gallipoli field newsletter, is fiendishly rare: we have 13 of them, offered for sale separately.
The success of the Eiffel Tower at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1889 inspired the British to attempt to go one better. All that remains to show for it is the Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue of the Sixty-Eight Competitive Designs for the Great Tower for London (1890). This item won’t last long! And we also have the only other British publication that might upstage this one for outrageous/courageous eccentricity: the complete set of first editions of the published diaries of James Lees-Milne (1975 to 2005).
Happy browsing!
Adelaide, The Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1928. The last 12 plates depict playgrounds: the Glover Playground, South Terrace (4); the Glover Playground, North Adelaide (3); the West Terrace Playground (3); and the East Terrace Playground (2). Clearly visible at the entrance to the charming North Adelaide precinct are..... More
![Item #140673 Scenic Views of South Australia [cover title]. Adelaide](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140673_02.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719216868)
Adelaide, 'Printed in England for E.S. Wigg & Son, Ltd.', [1900s]. Contrary to the promise of the expansive title, all views are in and around Adelaide. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. The background to this biography of George Fife Angas (1789-1879) is not without interest, and it is to be gleaned from the entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' on Henry Hussey (1825-1903), 'evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian ... Hussey's printing and publishing encouraged him..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2002 (first thus). Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Maxwell Staniforth; preface by A.C. Grayling. More
Adelaide, [The Authors], May 1992 (revised edition)/ 1992. The dictionary containing Adna-mat-na [Adnyamathanha] 'words from the North Flinders Ranges of South Australia has been compiled over a period of almost twenty years. It especially records the language as spoken by Pearl McKenzie and her family and ancestors.... The importance of..... More
London, Percival & Co., 1893. Some Pacific and New Guinea content. Provenance: Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown, his contemporary signature on the half-title, and a few marginal emphases and notes in pencil in his hand (some..... More
Richmond, Spectrum Publications Pty Ltd, 1991. A contemporary newspaper review of the book is loosely inserted. More
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson, 1962 (first edition). The first edition, from the original manuscript held in the Mitchell Library. [2 items]. More
London, Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824 (sixth edition). The Sir Joseph Banks contribution (pages 151-166 plus the folding plate, 'Drawn by Francis Bauer' - Franz Bauer, Ferdinand Bauer's elder brother) first appeared in the fourth edition of this book in 1805. There is a five-line reference in it..... More
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. The thirty-five page introduction by the editor is essential reading. The original manuscript of half a million words 'was written during Mrs Bates's period of service with the Western Australian Government from 1904 to 1912'; most of the information on the Aborigines of north-west..... More
Sydney, The Beacon Press, 1930. Number 125 of an edition of only 150 copies, signed in ink by the author. Muriel Danvers Power (1876-1951) also published verse under the name Muriel Faucett Power; the two-page foreword to this work is her 'Folk Art' manifesto. The frontispiece is a large woodcut..... More
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, [late 1920s]. The book was awarded to Ruth Prescott in 1934 as a prize for domestic science at Accrington Grammar School. The prize plate is mounted on the front pastedown, and the school crest is blocked in gilt on the front cover. More
Adelaide, Nature Lovers' League, [1931]. An interesting posthumous miscellany of autobiography and nature studies by the early conservationist Thomas Paine Bellchambers (1858-1929). More
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1951. A study in assimilation in SA, based on field work carried out over a considerable period of time. 'Here we find in a relatively compact area aborigines in virtually all stages of contact with Europeans, from the "Bush" people to those in whom there is no..... More
London, Henry Stocking, 1837. The head of the title page is inscribed 'with Mr Bingle's Compts'. John Bingle (1796-1882) sailor, merchant and landholder, arrived at Port Jackson as a settler in December 1821. He eventually 'acquired 1800 acres (728 ha) of land at Dart Brook, in the Upper Hunter district..... More
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1900. Provenance: Jane (Jeannie) Winifred Stirling (1881-1966), third daughter of Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919, eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician), with a gift inscription on the front free endpaper ('To Jennie [sic] | With Love and warmest Wishes | from | M.A. Overbury'..... More
Melbourne, Edition Renard, 2005 (eighth edition)/ 1803. Number 44 of only 75 copies bound thus, of a total of only 212 copies (200 for sale). The 'Eighth Edition, faithfully reprinted from the first, incorporating the additions and corrections of the later editions. Edited, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard' (title..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2004 (first thus). With a foreword by Sir Patrick Cormack. More
Collingwood, CSIRO Publishing, 2000. More
Melbourne, Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. The SY 'Morning' (originally named 'Morgenen') was a Norwegian-built steam yacht, one of two relief vessels for Captain Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904. The songs were 'Compiled and composed by Captain Gerald S. Doorly, One Time Third Executive Officer, S.Y. "Morning"'. Rosove 98.A1..... More
London, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [circa 1870s]. Provenance: Richard John Hone, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. More
Adelaide, The Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2007 (first thus). Number 131 of 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of only 400 copies). The 30-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition, a most interesting compilation which has as its linchpin..... More
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. The work is based primarily on letters and diaries of the expeditioners (notably Burke) and official documents. Ferguson 10857 (not noting the advertisements). More
London, The Folio Society, 1992 to 1998 (all first thus). Each volume is illustrated, with a new introduction. [6 items]. More
[No Place, No Publisher], 1991. The title page is signed in ink by two of the authors (Carlisle and Howard). More
![Item #140773 Rough Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Natives. [Contained in] Proceedings of...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140773_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723439089)
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1927. This previously unpublished manuscript from 1844 'more particularly relates to the Adelaide tribe'. Other articles of interest include LENDON, A.A.: Kent versus Torrens. An Episode in the History of Suburban Settlements (pages 29-46 plus 2 plates and a facsimile map of Adelaide in 1839); and FENNER, Charles..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2003 (second printing)/ 2003 (first thus). The four-page preface by A.C. Grayling is new to this edition. More
London, Published and sold by H.R. Young, 56 Paternoster-Row, 1819 [second edition]/ 1813. The second edition of this fine collection of hunting and fishing scenes with text by Captain Thomas Williamson, complete with the 'Supplement of New South Wales' containing 10 plates of Australian Aboriginal people. The 1813 first edition..... More
London, Published and sold by Edward Orme, 1814 and 1813. The 'Supplement of New South Wales' ('Field Sports &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales, with Ten Plates, by the Author, dedicated, by permission, to Rear Admiral Bligh ...') is described by Jonathan Wantrup as 'the very..... More
Kenthurst, Rosenberg, 2008. 'This book explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, spanning the period from the expansion of world exploration in the seventeenth century to the beginning of systematic scientific studies in the late nineteenth century' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1955 (first - and only - edition). The half-title is inscribed, signed and dated (Christmas 1965) by the author (with a heavy hand: the impression is clearly visible on the following two leaves). More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Volume VII. More
London, British Museum Press, 1997. 'This book brings together and illustrates the contributions of thirteen distinguished speakers at an international seminar held in the British Museum in 1993. The result is the most comprehensive study ever published of seals and sealing practices around the world' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Carlton South, Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1999 (third edition, 'with revisions')/ 1997. 'Part Two of the text contains a composite log of "Endeavour"'s voyage up the east coast of Australia'. Number 13 in the second numbered series of Miegunyah volumes. An extraordinary work, aptly described as a 'fitting..... More
![Item #130611 The English Spirit. [An Australian looks at the War (dustwrapper subtitle)]. James...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/130611_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660799866)
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1941 (first UK edition)/ 1940. 'The author of this book is a Scot who settled in Australia many years ago, and is well-known in business circles in Sydney. His far-reaching and penetrating survey is the more important, therefore, because it is made from a distance' (from..... More
![Item #141405 Sinks of London Laid Open [The Dens of London (cover title)]. A Pocket Companion for...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141405_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723079658)
London, J. Duncombe, 1848 [an early reprint]/ 1822. The delightful title continues thus: 'with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging made easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens depicted, the Common Lodging House..... More
Gettysburg, The Copper Corner (published by Thomas Publications and William J. McKivor), 2015 (revised and expanded edition, first thus)/ 1910 to 1918. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005/ 1905. Number 61 of only 99 copies of the deluxe edition. The original (and only other) edition was South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905, limited to 730 copies (McLaren 7723). This new reset edition is one of the..... More
Kalgoorlie, 'D. Falconer, Photo Artist', [between August 1894 and 1896]. The most readily-accessible, extensive (and accurate) information on Davidson is to be found in the lengthy introduction by Valmai Hankel to the new edition of 'Journal of Explorations in Central Australia ... 1898-1900'. The journal was first published as South..... More
Chipping Norton, Surrey Beatty & Sons in association with Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1992 (completely revised edition)/ 1969. 'Subsequent to the first edition (published in 1969) ... there has been considerable field work in tropical Australia and research in herbaria and laboratories ... resulting in 50 species being added..... More
[Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1979, facsimile edition]/ 1768 to 1771. [3 items]. More
Littleton, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2002. This 'valuable resource provides readers with a comprehensive look at the geology of diamonds to lead them from historical data and crystal structure to diamond deposits, methods of exploration, and marketing' (rear cover). A few related photocopies are loosely inserted. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1997 (facsimile edition)/ 1845. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 213; only 600 sets printed. The eight-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers ... Wholly set up, Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers-Limited', 1927. Copies in Trove, and further details about this publication, are scarce. The first volume was published in December 1925, at least one more volume appears to have been published..... More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1966 (first edition). More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005 (first thus). Number 98 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of 850 copies); it was oversubscribed on publication. This is the first published transcription of the private journal kept by Flinders 'from the first..... More
Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing, 2000. The deluxe edition, apparently limited to only 100 copies (not noted in the book, so we are going from memory). More
London, Basilisk Press, 1976 (first edition). Number 75 of 515 copies. 'This volume reproduces 25 coloured drawings of Australian plants made in 1801-5 by Ferdinand Lukas Bauer when he was official Botanical Draughtsman' on the 'Investigator' under Matthew Flinders. The plates, selected from among 236 held in the British Museum..... More
