An undoubted highlight (and definitely the heavyweight offering!) in our current catalogue is the complete set of six volumes of Forshaw and Cooper's acclaimed series, Kingfishers and Related Birds (1983-1994).
First-hand accounts of voyages and expeditions include the first collected edition of Sydney Parry's Arctic voyages (three volumes, 1828-29), and Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by François Péron, continued by Louis de Freycinet (three volumes, 2003-2008), the first full edition in English of the official account of the 1800-03 French voyage of exploration to Australia under the command of Nicolas Baudin. We have one of the deluxe edition of only 99 sets of the text volumes and 150 copies of the atlas, in the total edition of only 400 sets.
David Lindsay's Expedition across Australia from South to North, between the Telegraph Line and the Queensland Boundary, in 1885-6 (1889), and A.C. Gregory’s Journal of the North Australian Exploring Expedition (1858) both contain large folding colour maps.
A range of individual antiquarian maps are also available, including Magini's Universi Orbis Descriptio ad usum Navigantium (1598), and Lodge's A New and Accurate Chart of the Discoveries of Capn. Cook and other later Circumnavigators (circa 1797).
The first edition in English of The Plague by Albert Camus (1948), a proof copy of Colin Wilson's Ritual in the Dark (1959), and signed copies of over two dozen works by J.M. Coetzee, including proof copies and other rarities, are some of the many other items of genuine interest.
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Adelaide, A. Simpson & Son Limited, 1954. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed to 'Dr A. Grenfell Price | with compliments from | Robert Simpson | 31 July 1961'. Simpson was a director of his family's eponymous manufacturing firm (the subject of this history), and Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977)..... More
London, 'Published for the Translators by The Mining Magazine', 1912. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper 'To Charles Butters ... With Compliments of H.C. Hoover'; the number 420 is stamped below it. The recipient was Charles Butters (1854-1933), an influential American metallurgist, engineer and mine..... More
Melbourne, George Robertson & Company, 1911 [first edition in English]. French-born Marie Lion (1855-1922) emigrated to Australia in 1881, and settled in Adelaide in 1892. She was an artist and art teacher, and published novels under the pseudonym Noel Aimir, an anagram of her name. 'In 1910 Marie Lion wrote..... More
Adelaide, Printed by Openbook Publishers (for the Finke River Mission), 2002. Signed by the author on the title page, and dated 'Hermannsburg, 8/9/02'. He was raised at Hermannsburg where his father, Pastor F.W. Albrecht, was in charge of the Lutheran mission to the Arrernte people of Central Australia, and later..... More
![Item #144270 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1:...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/144270_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754621145)
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
Yerevan, State Publishing House of the Armenian SSR, 1952. An unusually pleasing copy of this lavish monograph on Armenian miniatures from the 10th to 17th centuries. The large and attractive plates include printing in gold inks to reproduce the illuminations of the original manuscripts. The text is in Armenian and..... More
London, L. Booth, 1862. A contemporary signature is written in ink on the half-title (indecipherable, but perhaps 'James Rinder'?). The early initials 'JC' are written in blue pencil on the front free endpaper (presumably by the person responsible for the few annotations). More
Full details of each item are as follows. (1) VIRCHOW, Prof. Dr. Rudolph: Australier. 20 ethnographische und anthropologische Tafeln, ausgefuhrt nach Anweisungen und Zeichnungen. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Heft X. Hamburg, 1902. Large quarto, [vi], 13 pages plus 20 plates (10 photogravures, 9 tinted lithographs and a chromolithograph). (2) LUSCHAU..... More
Kingswood, Lothar Hoff, 2004. 'The Koonibba Mission, 35 km northwest of Ceduna, South Australia, was established in 1901. As Superintendent between 1920 and 1930. Pastor Hoff made an effort to become fluent in the local Aboriginal languages.... A written record of the translation of local words into English was recorded..... More
[Paris, chez François Buisson, 1812]. One of the earliest published maps to show the full coastline of Australia, issued after Freycinet's 'Carte Générale de la Nouvelle Hollande' (1811) but before Flinders' 'General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia' (1814, the publication of which was delayed due to the explorer's imprisonment..... More
[Paris, chez François Buisson, 1812]. One of the earliest published maps to show the full coastline of Australia, issued after Freycinet's 'Carte Générale de la Nouvelle Hollande' (1811) but before Flinders' 'General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia' (1814, the publication of which was delayed due to the explorer's imprisonment..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (second impression)/ 2004/ 1912. Offered together with a fine copy of the matching companion volume from The Folio Society, 'Peter Pan and Wendy', illustrated by Debra McFarlane (still in the original shrink-wrap, but probably the 2006 edition, first thus). [2 items]. More
London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1913. This major article was first published in the 'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute', Volume XLIII, January-June 1913. This separately-issued offprint has a half-title leaf (verso blank) and wrappers printed with full details of the publication. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974 (first complete edition in English). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. This is the first complete English translation of Baudin's personal journal during the 1800-1804 expedition to the Australian coast, and provides an alternative perspective to..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). '"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was first published in 1900 by the George M. Hill Company. This Folio Society edition follows the third printing of the first edition, with minor emendations' (publication page). The ten-page introduction by Maria Tatar is new to this..... More
Sydney, Australian Medical Publishing Company Limited, 1945. 'Reprinted from "Oceania", June, 1942, Vol. XII, No. 4 ... [to] March, 1945, Vol. XV, No. 3', where it originally appeared in 12 separate issues of the journal. More
[Paris, Nicolas-Léger Moutard, circa 1789]. A map of most of the Pacific Ocean showing Australia (labelled 'Nouvelle Hollande', with Tasmania attached to the mainland), Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and the Pacific coasts of China, Russia and North America. The track of the third voyage of Captain James Cook is shown..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1881 (second edition)/ 1881. The author was the 'Conservator of Forests for the Government of South Australia'. The lithographs by J.W. Love illustrate various species of trees (exotic and native), techniques and layouts for planting, and tools. Ferguson 7514. More
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1988 [first thus]. Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought series, Volume 40. The Latin text is edited by Irena Backus, with substantial critical apparatus and introduction in English. 'This book is a critical edition of the Commentary written by M. Bucer (1491-1551), the Strasbourg reformer; Bucer's Commentary..... More
London, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. [for Francis Griffiths], 1911. 'My views and opinions upon the Missionary question may not, in some quarters, be perceived with approval. They are, however, the results of years of investigation and close study of a subject which I approached with an impartial and unprejudiced..... More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1948 (first edition in English)/ 1947. The first English edition, translated by Stuart Gilbert. Camus's classic absurdist novel 'La Peste' was published in 1947. The evocative dustwrapper design is by Michael Ayrton. More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1998 (facsimile edition)/ 1898. Number 15 of only 50 copies of the deluxe issue; the complete edition ran to 400 numbered sets, with the standard issue bound in cloth. The publisher's original prospectus is loosely inserted. [2 items]. More
Köln, Taschen, 2001. With 'interviews by Dan Auiler'. More
Melbourne, Sands and McDougall, Printers, 1877. At least 53 of the 77 lots have the names of the purchasers, and the prices realised, pencilled in (and a few others have these details erased but still discernible); a number of others have just the price present. More
![Item #146565 Central Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/146565_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777538164)
London, Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society, 1891. Chewings offers 'a brief outline of Central Australia and its prospects', with an introductory summary on exploration; the main emphasis is on geology. The other contributions to this volume are BAKER, G.P.: 'Travel and Ascents in the Basardjusi District, Daghestan' (with..... More
Wellington, Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1909. The comprehensive scientific results of this survey of the Auckland, Campbell, Bounty, and Antipodes Islands, sponsored by the New Zealand government. [2 items]. More
Sydney, William Brooks & Co., Ltd., 1918 [but 1919?]. Not least, there are numerous illustrations of the Catholic order's schools and other institutions. More
Melbourne (Volumes 1-5) and London (Volume 6), Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1954 (the first five volumes are all first Australian editions; the final volume is the first UK edition). The first volume contains a printed 'Author's Note' at the foot of page ix: 'July..... More
![Item #146929 The Second World War. [Volume 1:] The Gathering Storm. [Volume 2:] Their Finest...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/146929_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1782442622)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (the first volume in association with the Cooperating Publishing Company, Inc.), 1948, 1949, 1950, 1950, 1951 and 1953 (the only dates present, found on the verso of each title leaf, but these are undated reprint editions not issued by the BOMC). The second volume contains a...... More
[Amsterdam, Elzevir, circa 1660s]. A small but attractive map of the East Indies, including the northwest coast of Australia as charted by Tasman (labelled 'Hollandia Nova'). China, the Indian subcontinent, the southern part of Japan, the Philippines, and the Indonesian archipelago are all shown. The map comes from a duodecimo..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1990 [first edition]. Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 1990'). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
New York, Random House, 1990 (first US edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 1990'). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Melbourne, Text Publishing, 2013 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2013'). Published simultaneously in Australia (this edition) and the United Kingdom (Harvill Secker). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded..... More
London, Harvill Secker, 2007 (first UK edition, uncorrected proof copy). Signed by the author on the title page. At the foot of the half-title page is the printed notice 'FREE PROOF COPY - NOT FOR RESALE. This is an uncorrected book proof made available in confidence to selected persons for..... More
London, Harvill Secker, 2007 (first UK edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2007'). The book is a work of fiction, with most pages divided horizontally into three sections, comprising an essay on politics and modern life by 'Señor C.', and reflections from his typist..... More
Melbourne, Text Publishing, 2007 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2007'). This Australian edition precedes the UK and US releases. The book is a work of fiction, with most pages divided horizontally into three sections, comprising an essay on politics and modern life..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1999 (first edition, uncorrected proof copy). Signed by the author on the title page, and with a loosely-inserted autograph note signed by him prior to the date of publication: '18/6/99 | Dear Catherine, I'd be grateful if I could have this back in due course. Regards..... More
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1992 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 1992'). Edited by David Attwell. This book 'explores the relations between Coetzee's critical writing from 1970 to 1990, and his fiction, an oeuvre of six novels ... the present volume represents the..... More
Milsons Point, Knopf, 2003 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2003'). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. Signed on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2004'). The book includes poems by Gerrit Achterberg, Hugo Claus, Sybren Polet, Hans Faverey, Rutger Kopland, and Cees Nooteboom. They are presented in the original Dutch with parallel English translations by J.M. Coetzee. One of the Facing..... More
![Item #146295 Late Essays [2006-2017 (cover subtitle)]. J. M COETZEE](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/146295_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778138497)
North Sydney, Knopf, 2017 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2017'). These essays are all on literary subjects, from Daniel Defoe to Philip Roth by way of Goethe, Beckett, Patrick White, and others. J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the..... More
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page. A short fictional work in which Coetzee reflects on animal rights through the character of Elizabeth Costello, who would recur in his fiction. The two parts ('The Philosophers and the Animals' and 'The Poets and..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1994 (first edition, uncorrected proof copy). Signed by the author on the title page. 'Uncorrected bound proof | Not for resale' is printed at the foot of the rear cover. Faint pencilled annotations on 10 pages, suggesting excisions and additional paragraph breaks. These were not incorporated..... More
Melbourne, Text Publishing, 2016 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2016'). The second instalment of Coetzee's Jesus trilogy. J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in..... More
New York, Viking, [2017] (first US edition)/ 2016. Signed by the author on the title page and back-dated to 2016, the year of first publication. The second instalment of Coetzee's Jesus trilogy. J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was..... More
[New York], Viking, [2001] (first US edition, uncorrected proof). Signed by the author on the title page. 'ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS | NOT FOR SALE' is printed across the front cover; the rear cover gives a publication date of August 2001. The pagination was altered in the published version. J.M. Coetzee..... More
North Sydney, Knopf, 2009 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2009'). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Cape Town, UCT Press, 2014. Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2014'). The screenplays published here are Coetzee's own adaptations of his novels 'In the Heart of the Country' and 'Waiting for the Barbarians', edited by Hermann Wittenberg. J.M. Coetzee is the first author to..... More
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988 (first US edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 1988' (although signed at a later date). This American edition was published simultaneously with a paperback edition for the South African market (Radix), which may have been released slightly earlier..... More
