Our last catalogue for the year contains some rare and impressive presentation copies, including The Native Tribes of Central Australia, Spencer and Gillen’s first joint publication in 1899, ‘a landmark in anthropological history’. We have two other presentation sets from Spencer, and a signed letter. From General Sir John Monash, we have a presentation copy of The Australian Victories in France in 1918 (1920), offered together with a signed portrait photograph and typed letter. Our copy of John Betjeman's Collected Poems (1958, first edition) contains a signed Christmas card with an unpublished poem in Betjeman’s hand.
Photography again features prominently: items include an album compiled by a South Australian participant en route to the aerial pageant at Essendon Aerodrome in May 1929; a complete set of 100 stereographs of India (plus part-sets on Jerusalem and Japan); and a stunning portrait by Charles Scott of a young Indigenous woman, Clara, near Oodnadatta in 1903-04.
Time on your hands, and resolving to read more this New Year? You can’t go past the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O’Brian, especially in the handsome Folio Society edition, complete in 20 volumes …
We close for a short break on Christmas Eve, reopening on Monday 6 January. Our new business hours will be Monday to Thursday, 10 am to 5.30 pm. Semi-retirement? Hardly! Fridays will be spent getting on top of the veritable mountain of valuable paper in the warehouse and multiple storage facilities. You have been warned: our catalogues and auctions will be more frequent, and more tempting!
As ever, many thanks for your support this year, and all the best for Christmas and the New Year.
Mick, Sue, Tom, Robert, David and Harry.
Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936. Dornbusch 322; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211 (none of them noting that the first issue binding is lettered in gilt, the second in black). More
Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: 'Lieut.-Colonel Olden is well qualified to undertake the work, as, joining the Regiment on its inception, he served with it throughout the War, and, though twice wounded, was never long away from duty. He..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46; one of only 700 copies. More
London, Messrs. (James) Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1842 and 1838. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'Presented by the Author | with his best wishes'. The following has been added in ink in an early hand: 'to | Mr. Sam'l Bartlett | and from him to the..... More
Perth, Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd., [1964]. The front cover artwork is by Frank Norton, an official Australian war artist; the three-page foreword is by Basil Embry (1902-1977), sometime commander of No. 2 Group Bomber Command. 'The squadron is regarded as having been the most efficient of the Australian bomber squadrons..... More
![Item #142560 'Trip to Melbourne, May 1929' [cover title of an album of photographs]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/142560_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733984099)
[Adelaide, Harry Carew Nott, 1929]. A lengthy article related to this event appeared in 'The Advertiser', Thursday 23 May 1929: 'The Victorian section of the Australian Aero Club will conduct an aerial pageant at the Essendon Aerodrome, near Melbourne on Saturday afternoon. The programme of events includes the Aerial Derby..... More
Adelaide, The Author, 1978 (first edition). Number 95 of 1000 copies; this copy is signed in ink by the author on the title page. However, keep reading ... Provenance: Captain Malcolm E. Brooks of 11 Squadron RAAF, sometime pilot of Catalina A24-49 with his signed commercial bookplate mounted on the..... More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1918. Provenance: South Australian ornithologist and conservationist Captain Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), with his ink ownership signature and details on the front free endpaper of the first volume ('Captain S.A. White | Wetunga | Fulham | South Australia | 1920'). [2 items]. More
Adelaide, Beaumont Press, 1986. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. Offered together with two companion volumes by the same author: 'Beaumont House. The Land and its People' (1993; quarto, viii, 168 pages with numerous illustrations; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper); and 'The..... More
[Paris, Neurdein Frères, circa 1880s]. All the usual attractive architectural suspects are there from Brussels, Bruges, Waterloo, Louvain, Dinant, Ypres, Gand, Spa ... but with the passage of time, the best would have to be the five images depicting activities at the sea-bathing resorts of Ostend and Blankenberghe. Each photograph..... More
Adelaide, Privately printed for The Beltana Pastoral Company Limited, 1965. Number 103 of only 320 copies; this copy is signed in ink by Chairman of Directors, Tom Elder Barr Smith (not all copies were signed). The first of the Beltana stations was acquired in 1862; the early history of the..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1921. Provenance: South Australian ornithologist and conservationist Captain Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), with the front free endpaper inscribed in ink to him 'with the publishers' compliments'. 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
London, Fulgur Limited, 2007 (extensively revised edition, first thus). Bibliothèque de Verseau, Number I. The standard edition, limited to 700 copies (in a total edition of 788); this copy is unnumbered and out-of-series. 'First appearing nearly thirty years ago the original work has been corrected and augmented with a new..... More
London, John Murray, 1958 [first edition]. Loosely inserted is a personalised Christmas card inscribed and signed by the author: 'Hooray Hooray for | Middlesex, London's | County, London's Elysium, | Keats's inspiration & to | Hell with the L.C.C. & up | with Mill Hill | Happy Christmas | [from]..... More
[Adelaide], Council of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Australia, 1956. We have previously handled a copy of this book from the collection of Pastor Philipp Scherer; loosely inserted in it was a photocopy of a short illustrated article he had written regarding the presentation binding. The cover designs..... More
London, Andre Deutsch, 1989. The title page is signed by Charles Blackman (late in life). More
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. A lavish catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, held at the Ian Potter Centre, August-October 2006. A cloth-bound edition published simultaneously sold out at the time. More
Adelaide, [Bleasdale Wines, 1950]. A presentation copy in a presentation binding: the half-title is inscribed 'as an appreciation of | long & helpful guidance | in the management | of "Bleasdale" | A.B. Potts | 1950'. Loosely inserted is a Bleasdale Vineyards 'With Compliments ... in their Centenary Year' slip..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1986 (first edition). Every significant aspect of over 11,000 plants is covered in detail: its botanical and common names, family classification, place of origin, natural habitat, preferred soil and position, drought and frost reactions, plant type, height and spread, descriptions of its parts, flowering times..... More
Mafeking, Townshend & Son, 1899 and 1900. Dr Robin Pelteret has published his impressive research notes on 'The Mafeking Mail Special Siege Slips' online. He sets the scene: 'Mafeking lies 1392 kilometres north of Cape Town and 298 kilometres west of Johannesburg.... [It] was first settled in the early 1850s..... More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973 (first edition). From the first sentence ('Blooming Christmas here again!'), this is a classic. More
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1973. This is an extensively revised edition of the author's first book, 'Facial Prosthesis' (1945). More
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861. Ferguson 7702; Wantrup 163 (identifying this as an early issue, probably the first, by the two misprints in the second column on page 25: 'explana ions' for 'explanations', and 'Fred.' for 'Ferd.' Mueller). More
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861 [first thus]. Ferguson 7703; Wantrup 164a (a 'reissue or re-impression' of Wantrup 163, with the last two leaves, frontispiece and expanded title on the front cover and title page new to this edition, but retaining the two misprints in the second column on page 25..... More
When compared with all other examples of portrait photographs of either explorer in the public domain, this matching pair - delicately hand-coloured and skilfully vignetted to the head and shoulders - has little if any competition. And significantly, they are fresh to the market ... However, when it came to..... More
Adelaide, AAAS, 1907. This issue contains numerous articles of interest across the board, but others of particular relevance include SMITH, W. Ramsay: The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in Recent Anthropological Research (19 pages); KLAATSCH, Professor Hermann: Some Notes on Scientific Travel amongst the Black Population of Tropical Australia in..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (facsimile edition, first thus). Number 2738 of 3750 copies of this fine facsimile edition reproducing the original manuscript (British Library Add. MS. 46700). Complete with the companion volume by Sally Brown, 'The Original Alice' (sewn pictorial card covers, 32 pages with a frontispiece and 16..... More
London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, [circa 1870s]. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, Department of Restorative Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, 1972. A thesis 'submitted for the Degree of Master of Dental Surgery' at the University of Adelaide. 'The material available for study consisted of dental casts obtained by others in a longitudinal study of a group of Australian Aborigines living under..... More
Milsons Point, Knopf ('an imprint of Random House Australia'), 2005 (first Australian edition)/ 2005. The title page is signed by the author. Loosely inserted is a full-page 'Australian Government Promotion' on Australian citizenship (extracted from 'The Weekend Australian Magazine', 24-25 June 2005). It features John Coetzee (awarded the 2003 Nobel..... More
North Sydney, Knopf ('Published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd'), 2009 (first Australian edition)/ 2009. The title page is signed by the author (awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature). More
Paris, Printed at the Lecram Press ('Published for Subscribers Only'), 1929. This 'Subscriber's Edition' is the first cased edition, using sheets from the first issue (comprising four parts in wrappers, with one colour plate). Crowley was dissatisfied with the quality of the binding and the colour plate, and the bulk..... More
[Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer], 1886. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 137 of 1886; one of only 700 copies. All 'correspondence, telegrams and minutes relating to ... dispensing with the services of Dr. Morice as Protector of Aborigines and Health Officer'. Morice was sacked for 'insubordination, resistence [sic] of retrenchment..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1935. Inspired by the birdlife around the author's home, the 'forty-odd bird self portraits are arranged in four groups following the procession of the seasons ... each group is accompanied by prose idylls and verses' (dustwrapper blurb). More
The centrepiece is a large oval illustration (270 × 370 mm) depicting 'The Landing of our Gallant Sons of Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula' (some of whom have already been killed in action). Ten Allied and Commonwealth flags radiate from it; each corner of the cloth contains a circular illustration..... More
![Item #142558 More Adventures of Ginger Meggs. Series 21. Sunbeams Book [cover title]. Ginger...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/142558_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732864056)
Sydney, Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1944. More
Glastonbury, The Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911 and 1917 (first editions). The first volume contains an introductory chapter by Robert Munro, and there are additional chapters in the second volume by C.W. Andrews, Clement Reid, W. Boyd Dawkins and J. Wilfred Jackson. Provenance: Emeritus Professor J.V.S. Megaw, with his pictorial bookplate..... More
London, AIF Sports Control Board (and printed by the Rosebery Press), 1919. The plate depicting the AIF Cricket Team accompanying the relevant fourteen-page chapter contains some familiar names: Gregory, Oldfield, Pellew ... Dornbusch 235; Fielding and O'Neill, page 246. Provenance: Lucy Lockett Ayers (1886-1971), a granddaughter of Sir Henry Ayers..... More
Adelaide, [E. Spiller], Government Printer, 1886. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 62 of 1886; one of only 700 copies. The author was Assistant Government Geologist. More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. The 'main feature of the book is its constructive advice to golfers on their personal faults in playing the game' (dustwrapper blurb). More
![Item #142181 A Souvenir of Broken Hill. Etchings by J.C. Goodhart [cover title]. Joseph Christian...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/142181_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729150295)
[Broken Hill, The Artist, 1933]. Number 590 of a signed limited edition (upper limit not stated, but this is the highest number we have seen). The date of publication has been confirmed by a short article in the 'Barrier Miner' on Tuesday 5 September 1933: 'Mr. J. C. Goodhart has..... More
London, Hall, Virtue & Co., 1862. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia, strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles..... More
Sydney, Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1924 (fourth Australian edition)/ 1924 [first thus]. 'Fourth Australian Edition Completing an Issue of 13,000 copies' (head of the front panel of the dustwrapper). Provenance: Frederick John Mills (1876-1952), South Australian writer, broadcaster and welfare worker, with the front free endpaper inscribed to him 'from the..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893. The useful chronology extends over 228 pages. [2 items]. More
Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847. The front free endpaper of each volume is tantalisingly inscribed 'Louis de Rougemont | Souvenir de tante Hedwige | 1881'. Sadly, the recipient is not the infamous hoaxer of the same name (1847-1921), who serialised a spurious account of living with Australian Aboriginal tribes in..... More
![Item #142557 The Odyssey [and] The Iliad. Translated in Selection by F.L. Lucas. HOMER](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/142557_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732864056)
London, The Folio Society, 1948 and 1950 (first thus). [2 items]. More
Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, and Co., 1879 [first edition]. Provenance: E.W. Hawker, with his signature on the front flyleaf; occasional light marginal pencilling is presumably in his hand. Edward William Hawker (1850-1940), barrister, grazier, politician and metallurgist, was born at Bungaree (near Clare), the property established by his father George in..... More
The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat. Charles Scott (1878-1928) is listed as a photographer at that address in South Australian directories 'from 1909 to 1915+' (Photohistory SA website). We have previously handled another example of..... More
We presume the card, which has 'Queen's Jubilee' and 'S.A. Jubilee' printed on it as well, would have been embossed for (a young) Thomas Gifford when he visited the Adelaide International Exhibition. 'An industrial school for the blind in South Australia opened in 1884 in the former Ebenezer chapel in..... More