Season’s greetings! Our last catalogue for the year hopefully contains some stocking fillers, but it certainly has some items to help you fill your bookshelves. Multi-volume sets include The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition (34 volumes, 1973-76); The Royal Magazine (43 volumes, 1898-1920, with very early Wodehouse content); The Oxford English Dictionary (20 volumes, second edition, 2004); and A Survey of Persian Art (16 volumes, third edition, 1977).
Other areas of interest include antique rugs, tribal art, ethnography, travel, photography (stereographs of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, among others), militaria, literature, antiquarian books ...
The last item in the catalogue is a superb snakeskin-bound album containing over 200 original photographs by Léopoldville-based Casimir Zagourski, from his 'L'Afrique qui disparaît!' series, from the 1930s.
[Adelaide], The Author, 1983. Inscribed and signed by the author 'Reg & Joan Lantzke | Best wishes | Kev Baff | RNZAF Feb 87'. No. 10 Squadron RAAF operated Sunderland flying boats off the coast of Britain and in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. More
Loftus, Australian Military History Publications, 2004. The title page is signed by the author. Extensive appendices including the nominal roll, honours and awards, and casualties. More
Blackwood, Donovan and Associates (for The 2/9th Australian Armoured Regimental Group Association, incorporating the 9th Light Horse Old Comrades Association), 1988. The title page is signed and dated (23 April 1988) by the author. Loosely inserted is a colour plate of the 'Guidon of the 9th Light Horse Regiment with..... More
Norwood, Peacock Publications, 1991. Inscribed and signed by the author. Compiled from letters, diaries and manuscripts; the illustrations are predominantly portraits. Offered with a copy of the 1993 'Supplementary Edition' (card covers, 16 pages, consisting primarily of portraits of members of the battalion, many of whom had died in action..... More
Darlinghurst, Crossing Press (for the Editors), 2016. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, [circa 1932]. More
Winchester, St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986. A presentation copy, inscribed, dated (20 August 1986) and signed by the author (to Ralph Grandison, Adelaide schoolteacher with a strong interest in botany). Loosely inserted is a photocopy of a review of the book. More
Sydney, Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Number 535 of 1000 copies of this fine facsimile. The Indigenous Australian content is considerable and significant: 22 of the 60 plates (and the accompanying leaves of text) are devoted exclusively to the state's Aborigines, and they are depicted in a further five plates..... More
![Item #99375 Circular. Town Hall, Brighton, S.5, Victoria. 6th June, 1940 [drop title]. Australian...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/99375.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765349880)
[Brighton, City of Brighton, 1940]. The pamphlet comprises facsimile copies of two circulars (dated 6 June and 28 June 1940) from E.M. Young, Mayor of Brighton, accompanying draft proposals (the first dated 1 October 1939) for a volunteer Municipal Reserve, similar to Britain's Home Guard, to be administered and resourced..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1882 (Second Issue)/ 1881. Ferguson 14893 ('Edition de luxe'), noting only the frontispiece portrait of Captain James Cook, and citing only the Mitchell Library copy. The State Library of NSW has now digitised that copy (Mitchell's own, with his signature on the title page), and..... More
Fishguard, Crosby Press, 1975. The first edition in English of a revised and expanded version of a catalogue to a major 1970 carpet exhibition in Hamburg. More
Hawthorn East, Birds Australia (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union), 2003. More
Paris, Flammarion, 2004. The 'riddle' is that Bihzâd was a figurative painter, at a time when depictions of sentient beings were (and are still) considered 'haram' or forbidden under Islamic Law. More
London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1913. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed at the head of the retained wrapper 'R. Büring Esq | with the Compliments | of H. Basedow'. Adolph Wilhelm Rudolph (Rudi) Buring (1872-1950) was a well-known figure in the (South) Australian wine trade..... More
Port Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2013. [2 items]. More
Doha, University of Qatar, 1981. More
Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933. An account of Cecil Madigan's expedition to The Granites, 380 miles north-west of Alice Springs, which put paid to a goldrush (the 'tragedy' of the title). More
Paris, Mouton & Co., 1962. A discussion of attempts by Elcho Islanders to grapple with the problems of social and cultural change. Cahiers de l'Homme, Nouvelle Série II. More
Sydney, 1935. The photograph is inscribed in ink in the top left-hand corner 'To Mr F. Gordon with compliments from E.E. Bullen'. Errol Eviot Bullen was one 'of Australia's most prolific early game fishermen in the 1930s', and he was renowned for the high-quality custom-made reels he designed and marketed..... More
London, John Richardson, 1832. An important account of Tasmania, prepared at the behest of the proprietors of the Van Diemen's Land Company. One lengthy appendix contains detailed reports of explorations in 1826-27 by the Company's surveyors, Alexander Goldie, Henry Hellyer and Joseph Fossey (27 pages in small print, extracted from..... More
(1) Burial Trees. Being the First of a Series on the Aboriginal Customs of the Darling Valley and Central New South Wales. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd., 1941. 40 pages with a map and 24 illustrations. (2) Cyclons. The Mystery Stones of the Darling River Valley. [Leeton, The Author], 1942..... More
Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel Lambert and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, 1756 ('IIe Edition, corrigée et augmentée', but in fact the first complete edition). Part of this treatise on vocal technique and interpretation appeared in 1755 under the title 'L'art du chant, dedié a Madame de Pompadour', with the authorship attributed to vocal..... More
The contract reads 'Bloemfontein | 13 Apl 1900 | I.O.U. Ten Pounds [with Ten crossed out in pencil, £15 written above it in ink, and 'Fifteen' in pencil, with both initialled in pencil by F.W. Belt] | F.W. Belt | Payable to H.C. Hawker or order'; H.C. Hawker has signed..... 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
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2013. The South Australian artist Stephen Bowers 'makes pottery that fires the imagination.... From familiar, everyday items, to the transformative alchemy of deluxe and super deluxe bravura museum pieces, his art is acclaimed and collected across Australia and overseas' (dustwrapper blurb). More
London, Harrap, 1981 (second edition)/ 1968. 'Many years of research into dresses, accessories and underwear in private collections have culminated in this remarkably fine set of highly skilled, well-documented drawings and detailed studies, which show not only the outside of the garment from various views, but the inside construction as..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. George Brown (1835-1917), a Methodist missionary, had his headquarters in Sydney from the early 1880s. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1903. Primarily a geological report, with interesting general observations scattered throughout. More
Cambridge, At the University Press, 1935 (first edition). The reports of this important expedition (1898-1899) were published in six volumes between 1901 and 1935, this being the last to appear. It includes studies of the material culture, social organisation, religious beliefs, languages, and folk tales of the peoples of the..... More
[Canberra, National Capital Development Commission, late 1960s]. Not identified as such, but from the estate of Sir Alexander Russell Downer, politician and diplomat (1910-1981). The album has the look and feel of a deluxe presentation production, not for general distribution. It would appear to be a pictorial precursor to the..... More
[Canberra, Federal Department of the Interior, circa 1937]. 'Arranged and compiled by Miss Gwen Cameron, of 71 Hunter Street, Sydney, in conjunction with the Federal Department of the Interior' (page 11); printed by Osboldstone & Co. Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. The map is dated 1937, and Swallow & Ariell's Biscuits have..... More
Zi-Ka-Wei [near Shanghai], Imprimerie de l'Orphinat de T'ou-Se-We, 1930 [second edition]/ 1929. Loosely inserted are three contemporary maps in French, neatly hand-drawn and hand-coloured in outline, of China, Indo-China and the French colonies in the Pacific, and a printed map in English, removed from another book, showing the coast and..... More
The first photograph shows Churchill arriving, standing in the rear of an open vehicle. In the second one, he is seen addressing the huge crowd from the steps of the Town Hall. His informal speech, a warning against complacency, was widely reported at the time. The full text is readily..... More
London, The Library of Imperial History in association with (variously) The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, George G. Harrap and Company, and Cassell & Company, 1973 to 1976 (first thus). This monumental edition, the first collected edition of Churchill's works, had an intended limitation of 3000. In fact only some 2000..... More
London, Hutchinson, 1968 (first UK edition)/ 1968 (first edition, published in New York by The New American Library). 'The screenplay credits were shared whereas the "2001" novel, released shortly after the film, was attributed to Clarke alone. Clarke wrote later that "the nearest approximation to the complicated truth" is that..... More
Germany, Verlag Thomas Reche, 2012. In spite of the title, the book is in fact bilingual, the first half being 'The Farm' (an extract from the author's fictionalized 1997 memoir 'Boyhood') in English. One of 400 unnumbered copies signed in pencil at the rear by the author and the artist..... More
The black and white photograph (303 × 240 mm) is personally signed in ink on the image by Sir Donald Bradman (1908-2001), and comes with our letter of authenticity. Although produced in the mid-1990s, this photograph was individually printed from the original 1930s negative. We purchased this item in the..... More
Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1936. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume V. The 'first monograph of aboriginal rock carvings and paintings' (F.D. McCarthy in 'Mankind', Volume 2, Number 1, 1937). More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1988 (facsimile edition)/ 1838. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
London, John Murray, [1918] (John Murray issue)/ 1916 (seventh impression)/ 1898. The title page is inscribed and signed in ink 'With best regards from A. Conan Doyle. | This was my first book - full | of feeble stuff, but here & there an | idea. ACD.'. More accurately, this..... More
'Bool Lagoon on South Australia's Limestone Coast has been the most disputed of the state's game reserves set aside for conserving wildlife and managed seasonal game hunting. Bool Lagoon, south of Naracoorte, was simultaneously declared in 1967 a game reserve ... and a fauna conservation reserve ... While Bool Lagoon..... More
The albumen silver photograph (paper size 60 × 95 mm, image size an oval 55 × 85 mm) is mounted as issued on a plain card. The photographer is not identified; the item was found in an album in Adelaide, so it is probably of South Australian origin. Five gentlemen..... More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. A Special Bulletin issued by the South Australian Department of Intelligence. 'The purpose of this book is not to catalogue or to scientifically describe our native birds; but to bring prominently before the public, the police, and others in authority, and more especially the..... More
London, T. and W. Boone, 1846. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'Mrs T. Wilkinson | with the authors kind regard'. Wantrup: 'Thomas & William Boone's Library of Australian Travels', page 81 (this copy conforming with his Aii variant). Ferguson 4267. More
Sevenoaks, George L. Frow, 1978. Copy number 1220 of an unspecified upper limit. More
London, Duckworth, 1983 (fifth impression)/ 1953. More
Washington, D.C., The Textile Museum, 1980. More
London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901 [first thus]. One of only 226 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette was designed and engraved by Lucien, and Esther engraved the other decorations..... More
![Item #122695 Max Ernst. Das Graphische Werk [Volume 1]. Max ERNST, Helmut R. LEPPIEN](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122695_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622777795)
Houston, Menil Foundation and Cologne, M. DuMont Schauberg, 1975. One of 1500 copies; the text is in German, English and French. The first volume of 'Max Ernest Oeuvre-Katalog', under the general editorship of Werner Spies. More
