Our latest catalogue contains numerous rare and fascinating items (not to overlook the many interesting and collectible ones too!). Militaria is well represented: there are signed letters from Montgomery of Alamein and Alexander of Tunis in a small archive relating to the WW2 service of two SA brothers, Fred and Percy Cockington (Percy was KIA in 1942); over 100 issues of the Special Siege Edition and Special Siege Slips of The Mafeking Mail (1899-1900); Souvenir of Sinai & Palestine. Compiled by Tpr. J. Ellis, 7th L.H. (an album of 96 original photographs of strong military interest); Shadbolt's Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880 (1882, two volumes), with 140 Woodburytype portraits of soldiers who lost their lives; and 132 Boer War stereographs.
Other important photographic items include Pictures from the Tyng Collection (1931), featuring a photogravure of the famous 'Bewegungs Studie [Study of Movement]' by Rudolf Koppitz; and 96 stereographs of famous disasters (from the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée to the Messina earthquake of 1908).
Numerous maps include Stanford's Library Map of Australasia (circa 1862, an uncut example, a mammoth 1455 x 1600 mm), and Smith’s New General Atlas (1809), containing 43 engraved maps with original hand-colouring.
A collection of material relating to John McDouall Stuart includes an unrecorded manuscript journal of the first seven weeks of his second exploring expedition (March-May 1859); an apparently unrecorded carte de visite portrait photograph of him; and The Book of Common Prayer (1860) with his signed presentation inscription.
Other signed books include works by or about Pelé, Ion Idriess, Charles Bean, Wing Commander 'Bobby' Gibbes, Professor Terence Tao (his 1992 MSc thesis), and artists Norman Lindsay, Justin O’Brien, Brian Dunlop and John Olsen (the last two with original artwork).
Montigny [Belgium], 18th Battalion Education Office, 1919. One issue of a rare cyclostyled regimental paper; we have previously handled a substantially complete run, and the following information derives from that set. 'Information found on the second page of Number 11 indicates the first issue was published on Sunday 19 January..... More
Adelaide, 2/27th Battalion Ex-Servicemen's Association, 1960. Dornbusch 429; Trigellis-Smith 403. More
Adelaide, Second 43rd Battalion A.I.F. Club, 1972. We have previously catalogued a copy containing the original prospectus, which stated that the book was to be published 'in a restricted edition'. We believe this to be not more than 600 copies; in any event, the book is perennially scarce on the..... More
Ringwood East, 2/5 Battalion Association, 1988. More
307 Private Charles Henry Willis enlisted on 8 January 1915; he survived the war, with the rank of lieutenant. He was awarded the DCM for conspicuous gallantry at Broodseidne on 4 October 1917; a colour photocopy of the citation comes with this lot. Other items include two Field Message Books..... More
[Egypt? Privately Published, circa 1919]. A scarce self-published photographic record of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade in the Sinai and Palestine campaign, from the Battle of Romani (3-5 August 1916) to the capture of Gaza (1-2 November 1917), by way of Al Arish, Rafah, Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah, and Wadi..... More
Norwood, Peacock Publications, 2006. Compiled from letters, diaries and manuscripts; the illustrations are predominantly portraits. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author (who informed us that the print run was 1000 copies). More
Adelaide, The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club], 1937. The book includes a five-page Honor Roll, and a preface by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO (1885-1963), the Battalion's Commanding Officer from August 1916 to the end of the war. The editor was 'late Sergeant "D"..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, [1880s]. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet | Adelaide', and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar..... More
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Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, [1880s]. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Three of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet | Adelaide' (albeit an attempt has been made in two of them to mask these details), and..... More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1929 [first edition]. The striking colour design on the front panel of the dustwrapper is by Paul Nash. More
London, Printed for C. Smith, Mapseller Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1809. An attractive Georgian atlas 'on a Scale sufficiently large for the Purposes of general Reading, and yet not too inconvenient for the Study, or the Table' (advertisement at the foot of the contents page)..... More
London, Edward Stanford, [circa 1862/ first published May 10th 1859]. Comparison with digitised copies online indicates some subtle differences relating to the progress of John McDouall Stuart, and also the Burke and Wills expedition, enabling us to narrow the suggested date of publication of this impression. The map also has..... More
[Paris, Chez Saillant et Nyon ... chez Panckoucke, 1774] (first thus). A map of the east coast of Australia (from Point Hicks to Cape Cornwall by way of Botany Bay and Port Jackson) as charted by Cook on his first voyage. It comes from the first French edition of the..... More
London, James Imray and Son, 1884. A large blueback chart of part of the coastline of New South Wales, with eight inset charts: Port Jackson; Twofold Bay; Jervis Bay; Bateman Bay; Botany Bay and Port Hacking; Broken Bay; Newcastle Harbour; and Port Stephens. Lighthouses are highlighted with small spots of..... More
[London, Printed by Luke Hansard ... and sold by John White, 1800]. A map of Australia (labelled 'New Holland'), noting but not showing the 'Supposed New discov'd Straits' between Tasmania and the mainland (Matthew Flinders and George Bass had discovered Bass Strait in 1798). Bound as issued in the fourth..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1964. More
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson, 1963 (revised second edition)/ February 1962 (first edition, from the original manuscript held in the Mitchell Library). The short preface to the second edition, dated July 1962, states in part that 'the necessity..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1975. The edition was limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the author; this is number 326. More
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. The thirty-five page introduction by the editor is essential reading. The original manuscript of half a million words 'was written during Mrs Bates's period of service with the Western Australian Government from 1904 to 1912'; most of the information on the Aborigines of north-west..... More
London, James Imray and Son, 1862. A large blueback chart of the Bay of Bengal with thirteen inset maps: Point de Galle Harbour; Colombo; The Bay and Harbour of Trincomalee; River Mutla; Preparis Island; Rangoon River (by Captain D. Ross); Maulmain River; Amherst Road; Mouth of the Bassein River; Maulmain..... More
London, James Imray and Son, 1880/ 1864. A very large and detailed blueback chart of the Bay of Biscay, with 19 inset maps, including the Gironde and Loire estuaries, the Glénan Islands, and important anchorages such as Lorient, Quiberon Bay, Bilbao, Santander, and San Sebastian. The imprint below the bottom..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981 (first thus). 'This is the first complete survey of the vegetation of the whole of Australia' (preface of the editors: the book was first published in Germany - but in English - in 1981 as Volume 4 of the series 'Vegetationsmonographien der einzelnen Großräume'). Loosely..... More
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Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1937 (first edition). Mounted on the title page is the bookplate of the 'Healesville Sub-Branch R.S.S.I.L.A.'. The bottom third of the bookplate is left blank, under the heading 'Author's Autograph'; in this instance, it has been signed by C.E.W. Bean himself. The front pastedown has..... More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931. More
Amsterdam, A. Asher & Co., and Brook (near Ashford), L. Reeve & Co., 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1863 to 1878. '"Flora Australiensis", still a classic, was the first to cover any large continental area and one of the very few entirely written by one author. It represents a prodigious intellectual effort..... More
New York, Underwood & Underwood; Chicago, H.C. White Co.; London, Erdmann & Schanz; Meadville, Keystone View Company; and London, Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co., 1900 to 1902. The stereo views depict scenes from some of the most important campaigns of the war (including Ladysmith, Colenso, Modder River, Kimberley, Spion Kop..... 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
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
Baltimore, Bookman Publishing, [1986] (second edition)/ [1979]. The last Pontiac rolled off the production line in January 2010. More
Sydney, Privately Printed [The Author], 1950. Number 76 of 200 copies signed by the author; a further 100 copies in two deluxe editions were also published. An additional bookplate for P. Neville Barnett, by Eric Thake, is tipped in on the limitation page (and with a printed note to this..... More
Collingwood, CSIRO Publishing, 2000. 'This outstanding new work is the definitive guide for the identification of Australia's butterflies. Nearly 400 species - all those currently recognised from Australia, plus those from surrounding islands - are represented, with all adults and a selection of immature stages displayed in stunning colour photographs'..... More
Glebe, Puncher & Wattmann, 2010. The title page is signed and dated (13 August 2010) by the author. Broken Hill underground miner, militant trade unionist and politician Percy Brookfield was 'possibly the most extreme anti-politician ever to be elected in this country. The Great War and the years that followed..... More
Braunschweig, J. Cramer and London, British Museum (Natural History), 1985. The half-title is signed and dated by the author (Adelaide, 21 March 2002). Loosely inserted are some related ephemera (mainly newspaper cuttings concerning the Matthew Flinders bicentenary celebrations in South Australia), but including two colour photographs of the author at..... More
London, Thames & Hudson, 2012. 'The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things' (from the dustwrapper). More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1983. 'This book traces in photographs, drawn from archival sources, the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' (and it continues still). More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1983. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author. 'This book traces in photographs, drawn from archival sources, the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' (and it continues still). More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1862. Number 96 of only 99 copies of the deluxe edition with, as issued, two facsimile copies of the chapbook 'Death and Burial of Cock Robin' (16 pages with illustrations; one in wrappers in an endpocket, the other..... More
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1963]. More
[London], George Nicol, April 12th, 1796. John Barrow (later first Baronet) was attached to the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by George Macartney in 1792-94. The map is plate 9 from the atlas to the official account of the embassy, George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy..... More
London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956, 1956, 1957, and 1958 (all first editions). [4 items]. More
Blackwood, Lynton Publications Pty. Ltd., [1974] (facsimile edition)/ 1925 and 1927. The 56-page cross-referenced index, new to this facsimile reprint, is indispensible. [2 items]. More
London, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1962. Apart from Colt, there are ten other contributors, including T.J. Colin Baly, A.R. Bellinger, Louisa Bellinger, Virginia Grace and D.B. Harden. More
Provenance: Frank Trigg (1876-1963), with his personal 'Conchological Library' bookplate on the front pastedowns, his annotations on the front free endpapers, and his occasional signature or initials. Frank Trigg 'held the office as treasurer and committeeman of the Field Naturalists' section [of the RGGS] for a number of years. He..... More
Berkeley, The Author, 2019. One of only 200 'signed Hardcopies', with the author's signature on the verso of the title page. More
Perth, Bulwer Lytton Publications, 1996. 'The author's Grandfather left Scotland in the late nineteenth century to find a new life and fortune in Australia. From humble beginnings Robert Crawford became one of the largest sheep magnates in South Australia with his empire stretching over the border to New South Wales..... More
Berkeley, J. Edward and Erica M. Cornelius, 2020. One of only 200 copies, signed in ink by the author on the verso of the title page. More
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978 (first thus). 'No "vin ordinaire", this book combines the great Salvador Domenech Felipe Jacinto Dali and the world's greatest wines to produce a refreshing blend of art, fun and information. The illustrations are unique in their variety and visual humor. Among the numerous..... More
Leichhardt, Elsie Ritchie, 1998. Pastoralist Colonel Jack Rupert Cyril Davies, M.C., V.D. (1882-1956) of the 12th Light Horse was awarded the Military Cross in the field after the charge of Beersheba. Sometime member of General Chauvel's staff during WW1, he was also Deputy-Director Recruiting A.I.F. during WW2 ('Australian Dictionary of..... More
Jefferson, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005. More