The highlight of our latest catalogue would be a highlight wherever it appeared: a superlative copy of Duryea’s Adelaide Album (1866), featuring as its frontispiece a three-foot wide panorama of the fledgling city less than 30 years after its foundation. Contemporary advertisements indicate that apart from the panorama, these were bespoke albums – unique by design.
Other singular examples of photographica are a very rare stereo-daguerreotype by André Disderi of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855, and a collection of 65 snapshots taken by Captain Samuel White while on active service during the Boer War, before he achieved fame as an ornithologist and conservationist. There are also numerous books on international photographers, not least Nagano, Narahara, Inamura, Kawada, Holomicek, Meatyard and Serrano.
The large number of art books includes Die Buecher (1975), an early work on the Swiss artist Markus Raetz (1941-2020): it is signed, and contains an original signed woodcut. The two works by Garry Shead each contain an original signed ink drawing.
Australian botany is well represented, with works on plants of Capricornia, poisonous plants, grevilleas, dryandras and several others specific to the flora of Western Australia.
With over 200 items, there’s plenty more to choose from, so happy browsing!
Swanbourne, John Burridge, [1988] (facsimile edition)/ 1919. One of 300 copies of this facsimile edition. The portrait, preface and index are new to this edition, and Limb's authorship is acknowledged on the title page (it is not done in the original edition). See Trigellis-Smith 212 (giving 1989 as the date..... More
[Lockleys, 2/10th Battalion AIF Association] (Printed by Swift Printing Services Pty Ltd, Stepney), 1993 (facsimile reprint with a new supplement)/ 1958. One of only 500 copies of this edition (not stated, but we had a hand in its republication). The supplement contains complete nominal and honour rolls and much new..... More
Adelaide, [The Regiment] (and distributed by Rigby Ltd.), 1952. Not least, El Alamein and Tarakan. Provenance: SX 4636 K.F.A. Lawson, with his ownership details on the front free endpaper. The Australian War Memorial has in its collection a photograph (C197378) with the caption 'Tarakan Island. 14 July 1945. Members of..... More
London, J.J. Guillaume, Chester Square, and James J. Blundell & Co., 44 Collins Street, Melbourne, [1854]. Sir William à Beckett (1806-1869) was 'Chief Justice of Victoria' when the book was published. 'From 1843 à Beckett suffered from some form of paralysis in the legs, reputedly derived from an injury while..... More
New York, Samuel Weiser Inc., 1969 [facsimile edition]/ [1923]. One of only 750 copies. More
![Item #141656 Q.B.L. or The Bride's Reception. Being a Short Cabalistic [sic] Treatise on the...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141656_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725522479)
New York, Samuel Weiser Inc., 1969 [facsimile edition]/ [1922]. One of only 750 copies. The short errata list printed on the recto of the frontispiece calls for 'Qabalastic' in the title. More
London, Scarlet Imprint, 2022. Number 437 of 1000 copies bound thus; a further 72 copies were bound in full yellow goatskin. More
Adelaide, Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2006. The book was released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. More
Adelaide, The Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1996 (second impression)/ 1990. 'Text about each heritage item ... also photographs and maps to show the location of each item in the city ... a valuable source guide for those concerned with built form in the historical development of the city..... More
London, Strange Attractor Press, 2016. 'It's true that [Austin Osman] Spare's tarot deck has been lost to the world beyond The Magic Circle, within whose museum collection the cards had lain since 1944, and that almost all of his paintings have disappeared into private hands over the years' (from the..... More
[Wynn Vale], Max A.M. Sayer, 2013. Jack Babbage 'with his family operated the daily mail run from Laura, and the general store at Appila for almost sixty years' (foreword). This book complements his 'Between the Ranges' (1972), compiled for Appila's centenary. Max Sayer is Jack Babbage's nephew. More
![Item #141814 The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night [a six-volume boxed set]. Arabian...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141814_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727412597)
London, The Folio Society, 2003 (first thus). The eight-page introduction by Marina Warner is new to this edition. [6 items]. More
Aireys Inlet, Merrijig Word & Sound Co., 2003. Number 50 of only 50 copies signed by the photographer and the poet. Loosely inserted is an original digital print signed, dated (2003) and captioned in the bottom margin by Robert Ashton ('Riverslip, 2002', external dimensions 198 × 249 mm, being an..... More
Artarmon, Legend Press, 1961. One of 450 unnumbered copies; a further 300 copies of a signed deluxe edition were also published. With a preface by Robert Menzies, and an 'Artist's Tribute by William Dargie'. More
![Item #139902 Sturt's Explorations in Australia. [Bound together with] Recent Explorations in...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/139902_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724659511)
[Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., circa 1856]. The first article deals with Sturt's journey along the Murray; the second one deals with Eyre, Mitchell and Leichhardt. More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1975 (19th printing)/ 1924 (first large paper edition)/ 1899. The last two leaves (pages 61-64, versos blank) contain the seven-part 'Front View' and the one large part 'Back View' of Sambo; the large one-piece card model is partially detached from its die-cut leaf. A cursory look..... More
St. Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012. A lavish exhibition catalogue; loosely inserted are some related newspaper clippings. More
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1990. More
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2015 (revised second edition)/ 1990. John Beard died in 2011; this edition has been corrected, updated and expanded, with an index to place names (preface). More
Edinburgh, Blackwood, July 1931 (second impression)/ May 1931. Provenance: the signature 'N. Learmonth' is written in ink on the front free endpaper (possibly Noel Fulford Learmonth, 1880-1970, author, farmer, naturalist, and historian of Portland and surrounding areas in Victoria). More
San Marino, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2013. 'A rigorously researched study of what must be one of America's most exceptional collecting families.... Documenting their extraordinary string of art purchases, Shelley Bennett has put together a meticulous account of their varying tastes, cultural ambitions, multiple philanthropies, and innovative..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. A copy..... More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2016. The 'strange narrative of certain magical work conducted at the infamous Hyde Park Lodge in Chicago during the period 1965-1975. The lodge was a ritual collective of occult initiatives who would meet monthly ... "Ontological Graffiti" contains the seances, lecture notes and descriptive texts for this..... More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2010. Number 662 of 708 copies thus (in a total edition of 804 copies). Bibliotheque de Verseau Number II. More
London, Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1910. The author was 'Late Professor, Indian Staff College'. Chapter 1 ('Nature of War'), written a few years before the outbreak of the First World War, was prescient, and there is something dishearteningly contemporary about it too: 'But no tribunal has as yet been universally recognized..... More
Adelaide, South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies, 1984. The cover subtitle is 'A heritage survey carried out for the South Australian Department of Environment and Planning by the South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies'. The Adelaide Hills town of Birdwood was formerly know as Blumberg; the German name was changed..... More
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press (Volume I) and the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium, Adelaide (Volumes II and III), 1986, 1991 and 2003 (all first and only editions). John McConnell Black (1855-1951) emigrated to South Australia in 1877; he 'eventually became a senior reporter and respected editorialist on the "Advertiser"..... More
Melbourne, Georgian House [for The Australiana Society, 1952]. The second (and last) volume of The Australiana Facsimiles series. Number 867 of 1000 copies. More
![Item #141853 William Bouguereau. His Life and Works. [Together with] William Bouguereau....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141853_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727077518)
New York, Antique Collectors' Club in co-operation with The Art Renewal Center, 2014 [revised second edition in two volumes]/ 2010. Both volumes are translated by Don Wilson. William Bouguereau (1825-1905), French academic painter: 'Modernism nearly succeeded in expunging three generations of great art from 1850 to 1910. The Biography explores..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1967. More
Sydney, John Ferguson in association with The Royal Australian Historical Society, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1883. 'This specially bound edition is limited to 100 numbered copies of which this copy is No. 6'. More
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1925 [first edition]. Muir 1115. More
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1923 [first edition]. Muir 1107. More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1888. A presentation copy of an uncommon book on an uncommon (Australian) topic: the head of the title page is inscribed 'Revd. G.H. Jose, with the author's best regards' (albeit the inscription is now very faint, as an attempt has been made to chemically erase..... More
London, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1911. 'My views and opinions upon the Missionary question may not, in some quarters, be perceived with approval. They are, however, the results of years of investigation and close study of a subject which I approached with an impartial and unprejudiced mind. I have..... More
London, The Folio Society, respectively 1996; 1996 (second printing)/ 1995; 1997; 1998; 1994; and 1994 (third printing)/ 1992 (all first thus unless otherwise stated). Each volume is illustrated, with a new introduction. [6 items]. More
London, The Author, 1839 (third edition, considerably enlarged)/ 1837. The preferred edition, being more than twice as large as its predecessors of 1837 and 1838. Ferguson 2725. More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1987. The half-title is signed in ink by both authors. Loosely inserted is an 8-page offprint from the 'Australian Journal of Legal History (2003) Volume 7' by Wilfred Prest ('Alex Castles: An Adelaide Perspective'), inscribed to 'Hugh | from | Wilf' (Hugh Stretton, 1924-2015, historian and social..... More
Hawthorn, Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria) Inc. and Wildflower Society of Western Australia Inc., Nedlands, 2006. The half-title is signed and dated by Alex George (October 2006); given that most of you reading this will not be able to refer to the first paragraph of the acknowledgements, the following information..... More
Warrandyte, Burgewood Books, 1998 (first thus)/ 1993 (new edition)/ 1981. More
Cape Town, Purnell & Sons (SA) (Pty) Ltd, 1977. Number 355 of 1000 copies (with the date of publication also inscribed in the same hand). 'Few conflicts so compelled the interest of the public as the Zulu War of 1879. The crushing defeat of British forces at Isandhlwana, the dramatic..... More
![Item #141920 A History of Australia [the complete six-volume set]. C. M H. CLARK, Manning](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141920_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727404448)
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1978 (reprinted with alterations and corrections)/ 1962; 1978/ 1968; 1978/ 1973; 1980/ 1978; 1981; and 1987. The first and sixth volumes are signed on the title page in ink by the author (as 'Manning Clark'). [6 volumes]. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1908. More
Chatswood, Reed, 1994 (reprinted with a revised appendix)/ 1992 (fifth revised edition)/ 1975. More
Guildford, Genesis Publications and Adelaide, Rigby, 1977 [first edition thus]. Number 311 of only 500 copies. The bulk of the book (approximately 380 pages) comprises a facsimile reproduction of the Admiralty copy of Cook's journal, considered by the Cook authority J.G. Beaglehole as 'the best and most careful, as it..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1936. 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
![Item #140593 Cricket Quarterly [India]. Volume I, Number 1, January 1975 to Volume V, Number 3,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140593_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727404457)
Bombay, Anandji Dossa, 1975 to 1979. Despite being titled a 'Quarterly', the periodical appeared only three times a year. More
London, The Mandrake Press, 1929 (first edition). Crowley's second novel; one of only 2500 copies. 'The Mandrake Press was a British small press founded by Edward Goldston and P.R. Stephensen [an Australian] in 1929. In 1930 the company had financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake..... More
![Item #120104 Thelemic Magick Unexpurgated. Commented [by Marcelo Motta]. Part I [and] Thelemic...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/120104_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727665721)
Rio de Janeiro, Society Ordo Templi Orientis International, 1987 and 1991. [2 items]. More