General Sir Harry Chauvel’s annotated map from the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917 is the stand-out item in our latest catalogue. ‘The capture of Beersheba, and the final battle at Megiddo remain some of the finest feats achieved by mounted troops in any war’ (AWM). A collection of photographs and printed ephemera relating to the First World War service of his younger brother James Chauvel is also on offer.
Other items of strong military interest include a set of the official biography of Winston Churchill, complete with all 13 matching companion volumes (21 volumes); and a complete set of the Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918 (12 volumes) in exceptional condition.
There are numerous works on Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, including exploration, travel, tribal art and anthropology; about a dozen works on Carl Fabergé; catalogues raisonnés (all with original lithographs) of Braque, Buffet, Chagall, Clavé, Delvaux and Miro; and copies of Verve containing original lithographs by Braque, Matisse, and (in a suite on the four seasons) Chagall, Miro, Rattner, and Klee.
And yet again, we have sourced some interesting and unusual trade catalogues, ranging from a group on 1900s flour milling, to others from the 1930s dealing with typewriters, calculators and cash registers; ornamental wrought ironwork; tiles and sanitary ware; and from 1946, Playthings, a Sydney toy catalogue.
[Enoggera], The Battalion, 1986 [expanded edition]/ 1967. The complete history of the Battalion, reprinting the material contained in the two earlier volumes, 'Vietnam. A Pictorial History of the Sixth Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1966-1967' (1967) and 'The History of 6 RAR-NZ (Anzac) Battalion, 1967-1970' (1972), and adding to it..... 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
London, Castell Brothers Ltd., [1909]. More
London, Castell Brothers Ltd., [circa 1904]. One of Ainslie's charming and outrageous peg-doll books for naughty Edwardian children. This one is an account of what happened when 'I' went to boarding school. When some of the other boarders start a pillow fight, disturbing a peg doll sleeping peacefully, the response..... More
Bathurst, Crawford House Press, 1994. 'This book contains a long-overdue treatment of the marine fauna of the region extending from the central Gulf of California, southward to Ecuador, including the offshore Revillagigedos, Cocos and Galapagos island groups' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell, and W.C. Rigby, [1867]. Provenance: Sir Thomas Meek Ramsay (1907-1995), of Kiwi boot polish fame, with his blindstamp on the front free endpaper. More
Redfern, Iron Horse Press, 2009. [2 items]. More
Redfern, Iron Horse Press, 2004. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Haag/Obb, Verlag Gertrud Arntz-Winter, 1980. 'This catalogue raisonné of Jean Arp's graphic work has been compiled from unbound serial parts of the first volume of the "Arntz-Bulletin. Documentation der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Haag/Obb. 1974). The original pagination has been preserved. Adjoined are some additional notes and corrections that have..... More
New York, Abbeville Press, 1981 [first thus]. 'The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio' differs from earlier editions of the work in a number of substantial ways. Not least, the plates 'are organized not in the order that Audubon produced them for his subscribers but phylogenetically; that is, in a modern..... More
Camperdown, Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, [circa 1976]. Internal evidence suggests this is a catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition that travelled to the USA during America's bicentennial year. More
Bathurst, Crawford House Press for The St. Stanislaus' College Old Boys' Association, 1989. 'This numbered deluxe edition is limited to 200 copies of which this is number A/P 1/4' (author's presentation copies?). This copy is signed by the author. The centenary history of St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1938 (ten volumes), 1940 (one volume), and 1942 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, and the others are mixed editions ranging from the fourth (Volumes 5 and 11) to the tenth (Volume 12). The Australian Government accepted Charles Bean's..... More
London, Cassell and Company Ltd., 1932, 1932 and 1933 (all first editions). Offered together with the first trade edition of 'Journal 1929' (Cassell, June 1930; [vi], 166 pages; cloth lightly sunned on the spine, with minimal wear to the head of the front joint; an excellent copy without a dustwrapper)..... More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham Limited, 1911 ('Second Edition - Revised, Enlarged, and Continued to a Later Period')/ 1907. More
![Item #143195 Hoadley's Mini-Cars Game. Fun for all the Family! [cover title]. Board Game](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/143195_02.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741215096)
[Australia, Hoadley's Chocolates, circa 1960s]. The movable pieces are Grand Prix racing cars (Lotus, Ferrari, Cooper, Brabham ...), designed to be cut from the right-hand leading edge; they are intact, as issued. Hoadley's Chocolates was a private Australian confectionary company, founded in 1913, and bought out in 1972. The rear..... More
Sydney, Turner & Henderson, 1900 [first edition]. The nominal roll and various other lists of names run to twelve pages. Not in Ferguson; Dornbusch 38; Fielding and O'Neill, page 133; Trigellis-Smith 165. More
Bathurst, Crawford House Publishing, 1996. 'The first major contemporary anthropology work covering ... the construction of canoes and of standing slit-drums, the inventiveness apparent in the masks and mats, the aesthetics of dress, the raising of tusker pigs, the sharing out of sea-turtle meat, the symbol of the hawk representing..... More
[Sydney], printed by Scotow and Presswell (for the Australian Comforts Fund), [circa 1921]. The full subtitle is 'Being the Official Record of a Voluntary Civilian Organisation which during the Great War (1914-1919) and until the return of all the Australian Troops (1920) provided and distributed Free Comforts to the Australian..... More
Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1963. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's lithographs, with all 147 items illustrated. Number 2944 of 4125 copies of the trade edition. More
London, Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, 2010 [first thus]. 'Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the..... More
Paris, Editions Michèle Trinckvel, Draeger, 1979. A catalogue raisonné of Buffet's lithographs from 1952 to 1979. More
Kingscote, [The Author], 1999. The '343' refers to Penn Tour 343, the overland trip Frank and Winifred Bull undertook in 1968. 'This chapter is part of an extensive saga dealing with the Bull family. Because, however, it might be of interest to a wider circle of friends, particularly our fellow..... More
London, Richard Bentley, 1863. The first issue of the first edition, with the inappositely festive endpapers and the 32-page publisher's catalogue. Wantrup 172a (and page 313: 'the volume is 'generally found ... with chocolate-coloured endpapers. Some variant copies ... were supplied with brightly-coloured "wall-paper" endpapers which resemble patterned gift-wrapping paper..... More
Canberra, Australian National Gallery/ Oxford University Press, 1987. More
London, John Murray, 1866 (fifth edition)/ [1848]. 'A considerable portion of this work relates to the emancipation of the slaves of the West Indies' (preface). Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton's grandson and namesake, the 3rd Baronet, served as Governor of South Australia from 1895 to 1898. This is an association copy..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1997 and 1998, all first thus unless otherwise stated: respectively 1997 (second printing)/ 1996; 1998 (third printing)/ 1995; 1997; 1998; 1997 (third printing)/ 1994; and 1998 (fifth printing)/ 1992. Each volume is illustrated, with a new introduction. [6 items]. More
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2016 (reprinted with revisions)/ 2012. New to this edition are an unspecified number of illustrations from photographs by Mick Bradley (1945-2013), and a dedication page to him. 'When South Australia was 100 years old, Gustav Hermann Baring celebrated with style. His mammoth publication "Progressive Adelaide -..... More
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. More
![Item #123111 The Lithographs of Chagall (Chagall Lithographe) [Volumes 1 to 5]. Marc CHAGALL,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/123111_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627266421)
Monte Carlo, Editions André Sauret, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1974, and 1984. Specific details of each volume of this definitive catalogue raisonné are as follows. [Volume I] CAIN, Julien: The Lithographs of Chagall, [1922-1957]. [Volume II] MOURLOT, Fernand: The Lithographs of Chagall, 1957-1962. [Volume III] CAIN, Julien, Fernand MOURLOT and Charles..... More
![Item #123102 Chagall Lithographe 1969-1973 [Chagall Lithographe IV (dustwrapper title)]. Marc...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/123102_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741827694)
Monte-Carlo, Editions André Sauret, 1974. The fourth volume in the six-volume series, dealing with lithographs numbered 561 to 708. More
[Egypt], 'Official Photograph | A.I.F. in Egypt | Copyright Reserved'), [circa 1917]. Harry Chauvel (1865-1945) 'served on Gallipoli as commander of the 1st Light Horse Brigade. Arriving on 12 May, he took command of a sector that included Quinn's Post, Courtney's Post, and Steele's Post, each the scene of heavy..... More
[Cairo], Printed, by the Survey of Egypt, under Authority from the War Office ('Geographical Section, Government Staff, No. 2321'), 22 January 1917. In 1929, when Sir Harry Chauvel (1865-1945) was promoted general, he was the first Australian to attain this rank; he had been the first Australian to lead a...... More
James Chauvel embarked Brisbane on 26 October 1916, disembarking at Suez on 3 December. He was appointed for transport duty back to Australia, and was attached to the Remount Unit awaiting embarkation on A50 'Itonus' on 24 December 1916. When the vessel was torpedoed off Port Said on 21 December..... More
London, Heinemann, 1966 to 1989 (all first editions apart from Biography Volume 6, the 1989 second impression, first published in 1983). The biography proper comprises eight volumes, as follows. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900 (1966). Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (1967). Volume 3: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916 (1971). Volume 4..... More
![Item #76934 A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. [Together with] A Collection of...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/76934_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741827694)
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library (Division of Gryphon Editions, Inc.), 1990 (facsimile edition)/ 1752, 1754 and 1764. The publisher's bookplate personalised for the original subscriber (copy number 87 of 3000) is mounted on the first blank page in each volume. [3 items]. More
Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1977. Number 646 of 1850 copies, this being one of 1680 copies of the standard edition, complete with three original lithographs. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's graphic works. More
Carlton South, Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 2020 (third edition)/ 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 companion and..... More
Adelaide, [The Author], [1952], 1953 and 1955. Number 52 of 200 copies (the first volume), number 30 of 500 copies (the second), and number 25 of 200 copies (the Supplement). All three volumes are presentation copies inscribed and initialled by the author in the year of publication to his colleague..... More
Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing Australia, 2010. 'Exhibitions at the new museum building [opened in 1977] were developed to show the prehistory of the people, some of the more striking natural heritage, and a selection of the most significant cultural treasures were given pride of place in the central-exhibition hall. The..... More
Port Moresby, National Cultural Council, 1975. A presentation copy inscribed, dated (1976) and signed by the author. 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. Provenance: the..... 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
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981 (facsimile edition)/ 1881. More
Monaco, Editions André Sauret, 1976. The catalogue raisonné of engravings and lithographs by Paul Delvaux from 1966 to 1976. More
London, The Holland Press, 1969 (facsimile edition)/ 1890 to 1898. This two-volume facsimile edition is limited to 350 sets. The original edition was published in three parts 'for private circulation' in 1890, 1895 and 1898. [2 items]. More
London, The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1979/ 1903; 1979/ 1905; 1973/ 1905; 1975/ 1906; 1973/ 1908; and 1975/ 1908 (all volumes are facsimile reprints). Archaeological Survey of Egypt, Thirteenth Memoir to the Eighteenth Memoir inclusive (the complete set). [6 items]. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1974 and 1989. Archaeological Survey of Egypt, Thirty-fifth Memoir and Thirty-Ninth Memoir, respectively. [2 items]. More
New York, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1922 (twelfth edition, 'Handy Volume Issue')/ 1910 to 1911 (eleventh edition). The twelfth edition comprises the 29 volumes of the eleventh edition (dated 1910 and 1911), plus three 'New Volumes, constituting, in combination with the existing volumes of the eleventh edition, the twelfth edition'..... More
Bathurst, Robert Brown & Associates, 1984 (facsimile edition)/ 1885. 'This facsimile edition has been produced to commemorate the official opening on August 7, 1984, of Papua New Guinea's Parliament House by His Royal Highness, Prince Charles The Prince of Wales, and also to mark the centenary year since the Proclamation..... More