An undoubted highlight of our latest catalogue is the extensive archive of Second Lieutenant Edward Watson Powell (service number 187, a veteran of Gallipoli and the Western Front, before training as a pilot and being commissioned as an officer in the Royal Flying Corps in March 1917). He was reported missing in action over Belgium in October that year. The archive contains over 520 items, mainly letters, postcards, and photographs.
Another significant offering is the substantial retained duplicate typescript dossier of depositions and interrogations compiled by an officer in the Australian War Crimes Section in Tokyo in 1949 and 1950.
Botany and horticulture are a strong feature: McEwin’s The South Australian Vigneron and Gardeners’ Manual (1871), Stones and Curtis’ The Endemic Flora of Tasmania (1967-78), Jessop and Toelken’s Flora of South Australia (1986), Wheeler’s Flora of the Kimberley Region (1992), Chinnock’s Eremophila and Allied Genera (2007), and facsimile editions of the Herefordshire Pomona, Fitzgerald’s Australian Orchids, and Hooker’s volumes on the botany of the Antarctic voyage of Erebus and Terror are just some of the titles.
There are numerous books on Papua New Guinea and the occult, as well as nineteenth century South Australia Parliamentary Papers (including many relating to George Woodroffe Goyder).
And as ever, we can’t resist a good photograph, autograph, or map ...
Swanbourne, John Burridge, [1985 (facsimile edition)]/ 1935. One of only 200 copies, and almost as scarce as the original edition these days. See Trigellis-Smith 345. More
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. Fourteen individual authorities contribute lengthy chapters on the country house, country cottage, town house, suburban house, working man's house, coastal houses, houses in Sweden and America by comparison, and the interior. More
Adelaide, Printed by Andrew, Thomas, & Clark, at the 'Register,' 'Observer,' and 'Journal' Offices, 1871. The pamphlet comprises a title page, list of office-bearers and members, and the report for the year (each one leaf, verso blank), followed by 11 papers read at the society's meetings during the year. The..... More
Adelaide, C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell, and W.C. Rigby, [1866]. The very large oval blindstamp of 'Howell | Bookseller | Rundle Street | Adelaide' appears at the head of the first leaf of the first index. More
London, Thomas Ward & Co., 1834. The brother of South Australian pioneer George Fife Angas, William Henry Angas (1781-1832) 'was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 Oct. 1781; went to sea and was captured by a French privateer, and imprisoned for a year and a half. He afterwards commanded ships of his..... More
London, John Arrowsmith, 5 February 1839 (second state)/ 1838. A very early map of the fledgling colony of South Australia, with three inset maps showing: 1. The eastern coast of Gulf St. Vincent; 2. 'The City of Adelaide with the Acre Allotments numbered, surveyed by Col. Light'; and 3. 'Sketch..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum, 2010 (first edition). Number 174 of only 199 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of 999 copies: 450 copies in cloth, 300 in card covers and..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum, 2010 (first edition). One of only 450 copies in cloth (in the total edition of 999 copies: 199 copies in half leather, 450 in cloth, 300 in card covers..... More
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company ('Printed at the Ballantyne Press, London & Edinburgh'), [1915] (first edition, first state). The superlative bibliography by Michael H. Rosove, 'Antarctica, 1772-1922. Freestanding Publications through 1999' (2001), contains much valuable information about the unusual circumstances surrounding the release of this work soon after the outbreak of..... More
East Melbourne, CSIRO Australia, 1993. Volume 2, by Hyland and Whiffin, 'provides information on the more than 1000 species of tropical rain forest trees in Australia.... [It] contains a short description of each species, a series of additional (diagnostic) features to aid in identification, and comments on the distribution and..... More
[London, Humprey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934]. 'Reprinted from "The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine", Volumes II and III' is printed at the foot of the panel trimmed from the original front wrapper of the reprint from the journal. Not least, '306. Shellal, Gaza. Discovered in May..... More
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1958. More
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale Éditions, 2000 (first thus). The text is in French; the introduction is by Jacqueline Bonnemains, with prefaces by Michel Rocard and Antoine Rufenacht. More
New York, AMS Press, 1979 (facsimile edition)/ 1920 (second edition)/ [1920]. Provenance: Anthony Crawford, anthropologist and publisher, with his contemporary ownership signature (1980) on the front free endpaper. The emphases, confined to pages 192-209 in the two chapters on the Girara tribes, are in his hand. More
Bathurst, Crawford House Publishing, 2003. Charles Thomas Johnston ('Bill') Adamson (1901-1978): 'In Queensland, Bill was a shearer and cane cutter. In the Australian territory of Papua he was a gold prospector, government officer and plantation owner. As an "Outside Man" of Sir Hubert Murray's Papuan Administration, he accompanied Ivan Champion..... More
London, Gaston and Andrée, [circa 1937]. A series of striking nude 'Camera Studies posed by the famous dancers and physical culturists Gaston and Andrée' (from the preface). The photographs are by Walter Bird FRPS (circa 1903-1969), who was well-known for his nudes. The spiral binding has almost certainly ensured that..... More
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[Melbourne, The Artist, 1979?]. A flipbook is a small book of drawings which change gradually from leaf to leaf, giving the illusion of animation when the leaves are flipped in quick succession with the thumb. These artist's books by Charles Blackman (1928-2018) are by all accounts very rare. The National..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1944. The first book in the 'Adventure' series. More
London, Gay and Bird, 1905. Sir James Penn Boucaut (1831-1916), besides being an Arab horse breeder, was also a Supreme Court Judge and three-times Premier of South Australia. More
Codicote, Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd., and Weinheim, Verlag J. Cramer, 1965 (facsimile reprint)/ 1885 (second edition)/ [1845]. 'The first edition of the "Catalogue of Lizards," published in the year 1845, was based on a collection containing only one eighth of the number of specimens at present in the Natural History..... More
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 2018. 'Northern Australia is one of the few tropical places left on Earth in which biodiversity - and the ecological processes underpinning that diversity - is still relatively intact. However scientific knowledge of that biodiversity is still in its infancy and the region remains a...... More
Sydney, Hordern House Rare Books Pty Ltd, 1997. One of 2000 copies. The first comprehensive history of domestic architecture in New South Wales during its first fifty years. More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1881 [first edition]. The author was the 'Conservator of Forests for the Government of South Australia'. A second edition appeared later the same year, and a revised third edition was published in 1886. More
[Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer], 1884. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 179 of 1884; one of only 450 copies. The report by J.E. Brown, SA Conservator of Forests, points out 'the profit to be derived from the systematic cultivation of Wattles; ... the relative strength of the bark of the..... More
[Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer], 1884. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 178 of 1884; 2550 copies printed (but decidedly uncommon in our experience). The 'etc.' in the title refers to 'White Mulberry Planting' and 'Planting Dates in the Far North'. The map of the entire state is overprinted in blue..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1902. A description of 'working in the pastoral industry in South Australia in the second half of the 19th century [and] encounters with Aboriginal people' (Trove). Peade A195: 610 copies. More
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2003. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed to a relative by the author. Loosely inserted is a postcard with another signed message to the recipient, and some relevant ephemera. The first book devoted to the life and work of the Australian modernist artist Lina Bryans (1909-2000)..... More
Oxford, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913 (first edition). Provenance: Edward Angas Johnson (1873-1951), Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles (his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas), with his signature inkstamp on the front pastedown of the second volume (now partially obscured by one of the..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, and London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1884 [first thus]. 'Publishers' Note: The first edition of this work was privately printed by the author for circulation in South Australia only. This new and enlarged second edition may therefore be regarded virtually as a new..... More
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1965 (first edition). More
The message reads in full: 'London, April 10th. Very many thanks for that kind letter, and do please forgive this brevity - I have an ocean of neglected mail about me. I should, of course, be honoured to come to next Festival. It would be stupid of me to reiterate..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2007 (first thus). Number 16 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 'Howitt's..... More
North Ryde, Academic Press Australia, 1983. More
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1894. More
Sheffield, Printed for the Author by Pawson & Brailsford, 1900 (printed on a corrigendum slip pasted over the date 1901 on the title page). The black and white plates, after photographs primarily by the author, but also by Sidney Jackson and Dudley Le Souef, include many interesting scenes in the..... More
Washington, The Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1921. Some related ephemera are loosely inserted. Provenance: 'Harold J Finnis | 11/9/49' is written in pencil on an early blank. Harold Jack Finnis (1889-1980), administrator: 'With his work on the Libraries Board of South Australia (1942-74) and the board of commissioners of the..... More
London, H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1935. More
Melbourne, Domus Publishing Co., [1944]. More
London, The Scolar Press, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1484. Number 229 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 'This is the first facsimile edition of Caxton's "Fables of Esope", 1484 (STC 175). It reproduces (original size) the unique perfect copy of the work in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.' The..... More
London, The Scolar Press, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ circa 1483. Number 222 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 'Reproduced in facsimile from the copy at Trinity College, Cambridge, with an introduction by N.F. Blake'. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (first paperback edition)/ 2013 (second edition)/ 1956. 'In their 1956 book, "Documents in Mycenaean Greek", Michael Ventris (1922-56) and John Chadwick (1920-98) demonstrated that the previously mysterious script Linear B was, in fact, a syllabic form of written Greek, thereby revolutionizing ancient history and linguistics..... More
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1887. Later editions do not have the main part of the illustration on the front cover in gilt. More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1987 (first edition, London Limited Editions issue). Number 132 of 150 copies 'signed by the author and specially bound' for London Limited Editions. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2010 (first thus)/ [1882 to 1930]. Number 92 of only 125 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 325 copies). A collected reprint of four journeys undertaken by Chewings in 1881-82, 1883, 1885 and 1909. 'Accounts of..... More
Dural, Rosenberg, 2007. 'This book is the result of thirty years' research by Dr R.J. (Bob) Chinnock, the world authority on the family Myoporaceae. He has produced a new classification of the family resulting in the delimitation of three new genera, 95 new species and 46 new subspecies, and a...... More
[Collingrove, The Author], 1985. A presentation copy, warmly inscribed, dated (19 April 1988) and signed by the author on the front free endpaper; the recipient has inscribed her name and address on the front pastedown. Trove records only two institutional holdings (in the State Library of South Australia and the..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2019 (first thus). Number 16 of only 125 copies of this deluxe edition; the small numbered slip tipped in on the front free endpaper notes this is a 'Subscriber's Copy'. Edmund Albert Colson (1881-1950), 'explorer and bushman ... was cameleer and..... More
Berkeley, Privately Published by the Author, 2016. Number 80 of only 200 'Numbered and Signed Hardcopies', with the author's signature on the verso of the title page. The title page of this copy carries an additional personal signed inscription from the author. More
Berkeley, The Author, 2019. One of only 200 'signed Hardcopies', with the author's signature on the verso of the title page. More
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