Catalogue 82
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!
Assemblage, Environments and Happenings. With a Selection of Scenarios by 9 Japanese of the Gutai Group, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, Kenneth Dewey, Milan Knizak, and Allan Kaprow
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1966. The title and publication details are to be found at pages 146-147. Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) was a pioneering American performance artist. Provenance: Paul Greenaway, Australian gallerist (Gagprojects, based in Adelaide), with his ownership signature (1974). More
Cosmos of the Dream King
Tokyo, Asahi Sonorama Co., Ltd., [1979]. The book contains a series of images 'dealing with the castle of Ludwig II ... "the Bavarian dream king" ... In this collection Kawada represents with clinical faithfulness the unique products of the insanity of Ludwig II, illuminating and recording the interior of an..... More
Lions of the Day. The Colonial Contingents to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897. The South Australians
Melbourne, The Author, 2008. The pencilled ownership signature and tipped-in printed email on the endpapers are from a descendant of one of the SA contingent. More
Head-Dress Badges of the British Army. Volume One: Up to the End of the Great War. Volume Two: From the End of the Great War to the Present Day
Farnham, K & K, 1999 (sixth impression)/ 1978 (revised edition)/ 1973 and 2001 (second impression)/ 1995 (revised edition)/ 1979. [2 items]. More
Doctors. An Address delivered to the Students of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital, 1st October, 1908
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908 (first edition). A hospital fund-raising publication; Kipling's nine-page address is preceded by a 12-page preface by Reginald Lucas, a member of the Hospital Board of Management. Provenance: Lucy Lockett Ayers (1886-1971), a granddaughter of Sir Henry Ayers, with her signature in pencil on the..... More
Gustav Klimt. Erotic Drawings
London, Thames and Hudson, 1980 (first edition in English)/ 1979. Number 779 of 1000 copies; the lengthy introductory essay (17 pages) is translated by Jean Steinberg. The first publication of these drawings, executed between 1902 and 1918. More
The Relativity of Reality. Reflections on the Limitations of Thought and the Genesis of the Need of Causality
New York, Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1940 (first edition in English)/ 1937. Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs Number 66; translated from the French by Anne Jouard. Provenance: Brian Medlin (1927-2004), Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Flinders University in suburban Adelaide, South Australia, with his contemporary ownership signature (twice -..... More
The Life and Letters of Col. William Light
Adelaide, F.W. Preece & Sons, 1937. With an important 57-page appendix of previously unpublished letters, and a foreword by Archibald Grenfell Price. More
Lobethal (Valley of Praise). A Report of a Joint Research Project ...
Adelaide, South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies, 1983. 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'. More
Mughal India. Art, Culture and Empire. Manuscripts and Paintings in the British Library
London, The British Library, 2012. A substantial volume published to accompanying an exhibition held at the British Library, November-April 2013. More
![Item #141767 The History of England from 1485 to 1685. [Together with] The History of England...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141767_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726733329)
The History of England from 1485 to 1685. [Together with] The History of England from the Accession of James II [in five volumes]; and A History of England in the Eighteenth Century [a seven-volume set presented in four slipcases]
London, The Folio Society, 1985 (first thus); 1987 and 1990 (second printing)/ 1985 and 1986 (first thus); and 1991 (fifth printing)/ 1980 (first thus). A Folio Society postcard with detachable bookmark is loosely inserted in the first volume. [7 items]. More
Adventure in Watercolour. An Artist's Story written and illustrated by Kenneth Macqueen
Sydney, The Legend Press, [1948]. Number 551 of 1100 copies signed in ink by the artist. The lengthy subtitle is 'With a Letter from Professor J.V. Duhig, Biographical Summary by Vida Lahey, also an Explanation of Technique by the Artist Himself'. More
![Item #136362 Language of the Bungandity [Booandik] Tribe, South Australia. [Contained in] Journal...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/136362.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727236627)
Language of the Bungandity [Booandik] Tribe, South Australia. [Contained in] Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1903 (Volume 37)
Sydney, The Society, 1903. This issue contains two other articles by R.H. MATHEWS: The Aboriginal Fisheries at Brewarrina (11 pages with an illustration and a diagram), and Notes on Some Native Dialects of Victoria (11 pages with an illustration). The substantial volume (of approximately 650 pages plus plates and folding..... More
The Scree
St Kilda South, Cannibal Books, 2001. A 'darkly humorous journey into the bizarre, a new chapter in illustrated books - chilling yet fun, the stuff of nightmares and daydreams' (rear cover blurb). This is a presentation copy, inscribed 'To Paul from Paul', with a bizarre hand-drawn illustration (probably a self-caricature)..... More
Big John. The Extraordinary Adventures of John McKinlay, 1819-1872
Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, 1995. 'Fifty copies have been specially bound for Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books and signed by the Author. This is copy number 14' (inserted flyleaf). Loosely inserted is a bookmark fashioned from the printed flaps of the original binding. More
The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater
Millerton, The Jargon Society, 1974 (first edition). More
Observations respecting the Islands of the Mauritius, written during a Short Sojourn there in 1828
Adelaide, James Dally, 2004 (first thus)/ [1830]. Number 6 of only 55 copies initialled in ink by the publisher, the antiquarian bookseller James Dally (1931-2005). The informative 'Editor's Note' explains the background to this work, the first edition of which was published in Hobart in 1830. Melville 'published only twelve..... More
Plants of Capricornia
Rockhampton, Capricorn Conservation Council, 2007. The front free endpaper is signed by one of the authors, Rhonda Melzer (27 October 2007). A copy of the original prospectus is loosely inserted. More
Painting. Photography. Film
London, Lund Humphries, 1969 (first English edition)/ 1969. 'A translation [by Janet Seligman] of the Bauhaus book of 1925-7, which tries to retain the flavour of the original by offering a "facsimile" treatment of the typography.... This is the first of his more important theoretical works, and offers a concise..... More
The Street Markets of London
New York, Benjamin Blom Inc., 1972 ('Reissued')/ 1936. More
A History of Rome. From the Foundation of the City to the Sole Rule of Julius Caesar
London, The Folio Society, 2007 (second printing)/ 2006. More
Giovanni Battista Moroni
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014. A substantial volume published to accompanying an exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts, October-January 2015. Loosely inserted are some related review clippings. More
The Pax Britannica Trilogy. [A three-volume boxed set, comprising Heaven's Command. An Imperial Progress; Pax Britannica. The Climax of an Empire; and Farewell the Trumpets. An Imperial Retreat]
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (fifth printing)/ 1992 (first thus, with a revised introduction by the author). [3 items]. More
Architecture, Industry and Wealth. Collected Papers
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., November 1902 ('New Edition')/ July 1902 ('First Collected Edition printed in the Golden type of the Kelmscott Press'). Provenance: Bertram William Mathyson Francis Stevens (1872-1922), Australian literary and art critic, with his ink ownership signature on the title page. 'A proficient, lucid critic, Stevens was..... More
Gallery A. Sydney, 1964-1983
Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre in association with Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 2009. The book was published in conjunction with an exhibition devoted to Gallery A, 'a private gallery that began in Melbourne in 1959 and expanded to Sydney in November 1964'. Provenance: Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM..... More
The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of Caistor-by-Norwich and Markshall Norfolk
London, The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1973. 'Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XXX'. More
Invitation to a Beheading
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960 (first English edition)/ 1935. 'Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author'; the three-page foreword by the author is new to this edition. More
Japan's Dream Age
Tokyo, Asahi Sonorama Co., Ltd., 1978. 'The photographs ... cover the period from the latter half of the 1950s through the EXPO '70 World Trade Exposition in Osaka, Japan, in 1970.... In my capacity as an editor, I was present at the sites where roughly half of these photographs were..... More
Domains
[Tokyo, Asahi Sonorama Co., Ltd.], 1978. 'The photographs in the first part of this book were taken in the Trappist Man Monastery in Hakodate City, Hokkaido. The second part includes photographs made at the women's prison in Wakayama City' (from the English-language afterword by Shoji Yamagishi). The text is predominantly..... More
The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche contra Wagner. The Twilight of the Idols. The Antichrist
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 (first thus). This collection of four essays, translated by Thomas Common, is the third volume in the publisher's series 'The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'. More
Cyclopedia of Lithuanian Numismatics. Volume I: Primitive Money in Prehistoric Times [all published]
Chicago, Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 1965. The text is in Lithuanian and English; no other volume was published. More
![Item #141919 The Grevillea Book [in three volumes]. Peter OLDE, Neil MARRIOTT](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141919_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727324793)
The Grevillea Book [in three volumes]
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1994, 1995 and 1995 (all first editions). 'Grevilleas are among the most horticulturally desirable trees and shrubs of the Australian flora. This three-volume study of the genus provides comprehensive coverage of more than 260 species as well as the cultivars, with many cultivation tips' (Trove). [3 items]..... More
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
London, Oxford University Press, 1970 (ninth impression)/ 1953 (second edition, reprinted and revised)/ 1941. More
The Western Australian Flora. A Descriptive Catalogue
Perth, Wildflower Society of Western Australia (Inc.), in association with the Western Australian Herbarium ... and the Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority, 2000. 'In this book 11,922 plants are detailed by their habit, height, flowering time and colour, habitat and distribution [and] arranged alphabetically by family, genus and species' (rear..... More
Pole to Pole
London, The Folio Society, 2022 (first thus). The three-page introduction by the author is new to this edition; the original maps by David Atkinson were redrawn for this edition by Sara Mulvanny. More
My Friend Phil
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, [1920s reprint]/ [1915]. Inez Isabel Maud Peacocke (1881-1973) was a New Zealand teacher, novelist and broadcaster. She wrote 25 novels for children; this was the first one (and her first book) (DNZB). It is set in Sydney, and is one of only two to..... More
Interwoven Globe. The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013 (second printing)/ 2013. A lavish catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of the same name hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 2013 to January 2014. Some related printed ephemera are loosely inserted. More
Empire of Fear
London, Andre Deutsch, 1956. 'Third Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra and head of the Soviet espionage organisation in Australia, Mr Petrov sought political asylum in April 1954. His wife decided to join him literally at the last moment, when the 'plane taking her back to Moscow touched down..... More
The Adelaide House, 1836 to 1901. The Evolution of Principal Dwelling Types
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1986. Long out of print, and of perennial interest and value. More
Margaret Preston's Monotypes. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith
Sydney, Ure Smith, [1949]. 'A complete list of her [80] monotypes'; the half-title is signed in ink by Margaret Preston (again, as ever). More
A superb large wooden printing block, probably of Australian origin - perhaps it was artwork for a poster? (the imagery suggests pantomime to us)
The impressive printing block measures 565 mm long, between 130 and 190 mm high, and 22 mm deep. We know nothing definite about it, but suggest it could date from the late nineteenth century; we presume it to be of Australian origin (we discovered it here in Adelaide over 35..... More
The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. [Volume I, comprising The Prelude and The First Day of the Trilogy]: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. [Volume II, comprising The Second Day of the Trilogy and The Third Day of the Trilogy]: Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods
London, William Heinemann, November 1910 (second impression)/ October 1910 (first thus) and 1911 (first thus). [2 items]. More
Die Buecher [facsimile editions of three small sketchbooks in a slipcase designed by the artist]
Zurich, Galerie und Edition Staehli, 1975. Number 239 of 600 sets initialled on the statement of limitation at the rear of the third volume by Markus Raetz (1941-2020), the Swiss artist and illustrator. The colophon states that sets 1-10 come with an original drawing; sets 11-90 come with two etchings..... More
Dust Storms in China Teacups. Ragless Family Heritage to Australia
[Adelaide], The Author, in co-operation with the Ragless Reunion Committee, 1988. This copy comes with a Lutheran Publishing House 'award winning book' wraparound. More
Pastoral Settlement in Northern Victoria. Volume 1: The Coliban District
Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press, 1979. Number 273 of an edition limited to 525 signed copies. More
![Item #124445 Renmark Jubilee, 1887-1937 [cover title]. Renmark, H. C DRIDAN](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/124445_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660799866)
Renmark Jubilee, 1887-1937 [cover title]
[Renmark], W. Gilmore Taylor, [1937]. Loosely inserted are two 1954 tourist pamphlets, 'Renmark on the Murray' and 'The Upper Murray in South Australia' (both [4] pages octavo, and in fine condition). [3 items]. More
Whichaway? Photographs from Kiwirrkura, 1974-1996
Thora, The Author, 1998. An exhibition catalogue of Rhodes' important photographs of Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara people taken at Kiwirrkura (also known as Kiwirrkura Community) between the Gibson Desert and the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. More
Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life and particularly showing the Distresses that may attend the Misconducts both of Parents and Children in Relation to Marriage
London, The Folio Society, 1993 (second printing)/ 1991 (first thus). Edited, with notes and two introductions, by Angus Wilson, who explains that this edition 'offers a complete text of the first edition of Richardson's Clarissa'. Later editions featured revisions in which Richardson altered characters, 'tone and appearance'. The text of..... More
![Item #140607 Over the Hill. Verses by Eva M. Roach. Drawings by Rosemary Cave [cover title]. Eva...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140607.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719288353)
Over the Hill. Verses by Eva M. Roach. Drawings by Rosemary Cave [cover title]
Adelaide, Harman & Jacka, Printers, [1934]. 'The name "Boolee" and the ideas in "Picaninny" are taken from Australian Legends collected by Mrs. Percival Stow (Kate Langloh Parker)' (acknowledgments) - and the preface is by Catherine Stow. Muir 6407. More