The year is no longer new, we are no longer in holiday mode, and our latest catalogue is on its way. Eclectic is the word!
Some of the highlights are Macdonald Gill’s poster map commemorating the Atlantic Charter; a signed copy of the thesis Terence Tao submitted for his Degree of Master of Science in August 1992 (a month after his seventeenth birthday); and Sir Isaac Newton’s Universal Arithmetick, or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution (1728 ‘Second Edition, very much Corrected’).
Other items include a complete set of The Folio Society edition of Patrick O’Brian’s acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series; Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, par Monsieur Bayle (1697, first edition, four volumes); Gifford Chapman’s Wooden Fishing Boats … off Kangaroo Island (1998); and two superb portrait photographs of Dame Roma Mitchell (1913-2000) in court dress, taken on the occasion of her appointment as Queen's Counsel in 1962.
Brookvale, Printcraft Press (for the 2/33rd Battalion Association), 1971. The author 'was one of the 34 men left at the end of the war at Balikpapan, Borneo, in 1945, who had served in the unit from formation to the end of hostilities' (from a private aged 17 to a CSM..... More
Port Augusta, The Author, 1988. The deluxe edition, presumably produced in small numbers for presentation. More
Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1968. Number 1196 of 1500 copies. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's graphic works. More
Russell Square, Evans Brothers Ltd., 1936 and 1937. The run comprises Volume 1, Numbers 1-3, and Volume 2, Numbers 1-9, October 1936 to September 1937. 'This new journal ... has come into being to assist all teachers ... They can rely upon finding in "Arts and Crafts Education" not only..... More
Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1932 (first thus). A superb example of private press printing. This is one of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper, with a further 25 copies printed on vellum. The colophon reads in full: 'Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, with..... More
Adelaide, Surveyor General's Office, 1877 [but 1878]. Lithographed throughout by Frazer S. Crawford (Government Printer); signed on the double-page title 'G.W. Goyder Sur Genl 29/6/78' with a two-digit number (71 in this case) in his hand under the date - presumably the copy number of what we suggest was a...... More
London, The Author, 1828. The extensive hand-colouring would appear to be the exception rather than the rule (hand-coloured in outline only). More
Melbourne, 'Designed, Engraved and Printed by Osboldstone & Co., Pty Ltd', [circa 1919]. An attractive souvenir poster showing the principal commanders, unit colour patches, honours and decorations, and important statistics of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War. 'Copyright, J.W. Sanders (late AIF) | Doug. Moule, del.' is..... More
London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1988. More
London, Gurney and Jackson, 1922. More
Darwin, [The Author], 2013 (revised edition)/ 1989. Provenance: Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), Centralian author and historian, with a typed letter signed by the author loosely inserted. [2 items]. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992. The journals cover Barker's period of command of 'the isolated settlement at Raffles Bay (near modern Darwin) for just over a year and ... King George Sound (Albany)', ending with his untimely death at the mouth of the Murray River. Number..... 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
Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1983. Number 691 of 1000 copies signed by the author. 'The emphasis of this book is on the Baudin Expedition and the observations on the Aborigines made by its scientists and naval officers - Baudin himself, Péron the anthropologist/naturalist, the Freycinet brothers (Louis and Henri), Hamelin..... More
Rotterdam, Chez Reiner Leers, 1697 (first edition). The first edition of Bayle's influential dictionary, one of the foundational texts of the early enlightenment. 'Bayle championed reason against belief, philosophy against religion, tolerance against superstition. In a seemingly detached way he posed arguments and counter-arguments side by side, reserving his most..... More
London, J. and P. Knapton, and P. Vailant, 1744 [first edition in English]. The nine-page introduction by the unidentified Bazin quotes his sources: 'To what M. de Réaumur has said, in his Memoir concerning Bees, I have added every thing which had relation to that subject, which is found in..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1938 (five volumes), 1939 (five 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 V and XI) to the eleventh (Volume XII). The Australian..... More
Adelaide, Privately printed for The Beltana Pastoral Company Limited, 1965. Number 184 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
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2013. A lavish catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition of the same name, held at the Art Gallery of South Australia from October 2013 to January 2014. More
Cremorne, Copperfield Publishing Company Pty Ltd, 1979. Number 41 of just 275 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by the artist. This copy also contains a small original landscape watercolour (67 × 81 mm, signed 'Rubery') executed on the title page, accompanied by an additional signed inscription to 'Ethel and..... More
Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1978. Edited by Shahrokh Amirarjomand. Loosely inserted is a large folding map of Iran. 'The product of Roloff Beny's sixteen years of exhaustive journeys and research in all provinces to explore and evaluate the intricate visual aspects of Iran's technological developments ... a modern portrait of..... More
Sydney, Printed by D.L. Welch, Atlas Office [for the Australian Patriotic Association], 1849. 'The Australian Patriotic Association was a political party founded in 1835 to encourage immigration to Australia and to advocate for the introduction of responsible government in New South Wales. The Association was led by the newspaper publisher..... More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian War Memorial, 2002. More
Wheathold Green, The Crosby Press, 1973. Number 692 of 1000 copies. More
Sydney, Rigby, 1987. This is an example of the deluxe edition limited to only 500 sets; a small printed numbered sheet of paper signed by Don Bradman was mounted in the first volume of each set when it was originally published. This set comes from the bindery archive and is..... More
Adelaide, Graham Brookman in association with Sweet Reason Pty Ltd, 2018. Edited by Kit Brookman. George Brookman arrived in South Australia as a two-year-old in 1852; he 'makes three fortunes - in groceries, silver and gold. He becomes a prominent businessman, politician, cultural connoisseur, philanthropist and a major figure in..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1896. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1896; one of only 500 copies. Henry Brown, the South Australian Government Geologist, was in the Northern Territory from early April to early August 1896; this paper contains detailed reports (and maps) for each of his five journeys. Etheridge's..... More
Perth, Western Australian Museum, 2000. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement Number 61. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1983. The title page is 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' (dustwrapper blurb). More
South Melbourne, The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd, 1984. 'This book is the story of paintings which epitomise the determination of an artist who, from the time of the Second World War and the Holocaust, strove to maintain her life as an artist' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Roseville, CGC Gold, 1992. An important reference work: 'Detailed biographies of jewellery makers and merchants, noted craft jewellers, specialist Masonic jewellers, chain manufacturers, medallist, fob and badge makers' from the 1820s to the 1950s, with more than 1000 superb items reproduced (many for the first time). We sold many copies..... More
![Item #128182 Marc Chagall. Monotypes [Volume II], 1966-1975. Marc CHAGALL, Jean LAYMARIE](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/128182_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1645514181)
Geneva, Éditions Gérald Cramer, 1976. Number 427 of 1200 copies of the standard edition of this catalogue raisonné of monotypes (numbers 168-308). The first volume, containing numbers 1-167 from the period 1961 to 1965, was published in 1966. More
Kingscote, Gifford Chapman, October 1998. An extraordinary work, long out of print, and rarely seen on the open market these days. More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1982 (first English edition)/ 1974. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. J.M. Coetzee's first published work of fiction, comprising two novellas..... More
New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977 (first US edition). 'This work was first published in Great Britain under the title "In the Heart of the Country". English version prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans' (verso of the title page). The title page is signed by the author..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1977 [first edition, prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans]. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. This copy is also..... More
Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1978 (first South African edition)/ 1977. 'This work was first published in Great Britain under the title "In the Heart of the Country". English version prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans' (from the verso of the title page of the first American edition in 1977)..... More
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1902 (first edition). 'William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.... In 1892..... More
[London, A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1773]. The earliest published chart to show the east coast of Australia in detail (from Point Hicks to Cape York by way of Botany Bay and Port Jackson) as charted by Cook on his first voyage. The chart is oriented west, and comes from..... More
[London, A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1773]. The earliest published chart to delineate the Great Barrier Reef. It tracks the course taken by James Cook's 'Endeavour' between Cape Tribulation (near where the ship ran aground on 11 June 1770), up the Queensland coast to Cape York, through treacherous reefs and..... More
Washington, D.C., The Textile Museum, 1981. More
London, Sotheby's Publications in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1990. More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 (first thus). The first two parts of the book (pages 29-389) were first published in 1929; the balance of the work is published here for the first time. More
![Item #120098 Thelemic Magick. Unexpurgated, Commented. Part II. [Edited by Daniel B. Stone]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/120098_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614150312)
Washington, Daniel B. Stone, 1991 [first thus]. This edition of Part II, complete with the commentary, was produced in very limited numbers, and is rare. More
London, The O.T.O. [Ordo Templi Orientis], BCM/ANKH, 1939. 'In a 15 July 1939 letter to Wilfred Talbot Smith, Crowley mentions that in order to save on shipping costs he is sending 30 copies of the book in sheets to be bound by Smith as near as possible to the original..... More
Sacramento, The College of Thelema of Northern California, August 2008 (first edition). Number 21 of only 31 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by David Shoemaker. Much of this work comprises a facsimile of Wolfe's typescript of her handwritten diary entries, with Crowley's annotations. 'The diaries collected here represent the..... More
Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. One of 1000 copies. Janet Cumbrae Stewart (1883-1960) 'devoted the most significant section of her oeuvre to studies of the female nude in pastel.... While influenced by the academic draughtsmanship of Bernard Hall, Cumbrae Stewart imparted a sensuous and graceful quality to her rendering of women's..... More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010 (first edition). The book accompanied a major Indigenous art exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA in 2010-11. 'Showcasing the Gallery's extensive Aboriginal art collection - one of the finest in Australia - "Desert Country" charts the forty-year journey of the desert painting..... More
Adelaide, Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, 1990 (first edition). 'This is an identification guide to the plants of the Adelaide district, an area which extends from Goolwa to Gawler and including the coastline. It contains colour illustrations and descriptions of about 1200 species ...' (from the dustwrapper blurb). More
Morwell, Alella Books, 1988 (second edition)/ 1987. A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author 'Best Wishes | Tom Dixon | 30/10/90'. The recipient was Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), author, anthropologist and historian. Loosely inserted is a short autograph letter signed by Dixon to Kimber, with..... More