Our current catalogue contains an eclectic selection of 200 items, including numerous signed copies. One highlight is Recklings (1966), a rare volume of verse by Ted Hughes, one of only 150 signed copies, with a further signed inscription to his brother. Some of the other authors featured are David Malouf (including Four Poets, 1962), J.M. Coetzee and Richard Flanagan … and Michael Leunig has executed a delightful small pen drawing of his archetypal everyman in another work.
Photographs are another notable inclusion: over 200 stereographs of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05; nine 1880s stereoviews of Sydney by Kerry & Jones; 'Samoan Beauties', an album of photographs by Thomas Andrew (circa 1900); and Tree Portraits (1956) by Charles Mountford, a presentation copy with a signed vintage print of one of the photographs reproduced in the book.
The cover image for this catalogue shows some of the seventeen hand-painted bookplates for (and likely by) Charlotte Louise Burckhardt (1862-1892), the model for John Singer Sargent's famous portrait 'Lady with the Rose'.
From antiquarian books to vintage ephemera … happy browsing!
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Provenance: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Drummond Verrier DCM ED (1896-1974), first commanding officer of the 2/10th Battalion, with his ownership details and gift inscription on the front endpaper. Verrier enlisted for service in the First World War in 1915 and served with the 10th Battalion and..... More
Lakemba, The Author, 1981. 'The 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion was formed on the outbreak of the 1939-45 war and was one of two battalions in the British Commonwealth who had the honour of fighting all the King's enemies during that great world conflagration. Bolt Holt was an original of this..... More
Norwood, Peacock Publications, 2006. Compiled from letters, diaries and manuscripts; the illustrations are predominantly portraits. The author informed us that the print run was 1000 copies. More
Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1861 (third edition). Provenance: George Fife Angas, with his signature in full in pencil at the head of the title page, and with his occasional pencilled emphases and two references on the rear free endpaper. As in several other works we have handled from Angas' personal..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969 (facsimile edition)/ 1847 (second edition). Provenance: Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), Centralian author and historian, with his neat ownership signature in both volumes. Peade A184: 1116 sets. [2 items]. 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
![Item #67693 Milbi Bidha-Gurrbi Godngu [Children's Stories about God]. Australian Indigenous...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/67693_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786609449)
Darwin, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, 1978. One of 500 copies of this 'first booklet in a series of Bible story booklets in the Gugu-Yimidhirr language by George Rosendale. There are approximately 700 speakers of Gugu-Yimidhirr at Hopevale and Cooktown, North Queensland' (preface). Trove indicates one companion volume..... More
![Item #101660 Altjirraka Angkatja. Arrarnturna Kngartiwukala [The Bible in Aranda (Arrente)]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/101660_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637023451)
Canberra, Bible Society in Australia Incorporated, 1997. 'Study New Testament in Western Arrarnta [sic], Central Australia (Containing Old Testament portions and the New Testament)'; one of only 600 copies. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1980. 'These texts were recorded, chiefly at Numbulwar Mission (Northern Territory) in the period 1973 to 1977' (introduction). More
![Item #147329 Adnyamathanha Muda Collection [cover title]. Australian Indigenous Language, Buck...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/147329_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787879161)
Wistow, Inhaadi Adnyamathanha Ngawarla Publishing, 2018. A bilingual collection of eight Muda (Dreaming narratives) of the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The product of the Inhaadi Adnyamathanha Ngawarla language project coordinated by Jillian Bovoro, it comprises English versions by Uncle Buck McKenzie and Adnyamathanha by Aunty Lily..... More
Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920 (second edition)/ 1902. A presentation copy, with the verso of the front free endpaper signed by both authors and inscribed by Richard Baker to 'E.C. O'Sullivan Esq with the Authors' Compliments & kind regards. We wish here to render our very best thanks..... More
Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, for the Technological Museum, New South Wales, 1910. Technical Education Series Number 16. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1945 (first edition, second issue). Leaf 295/6 is a cancel. The original leaf contained the following text as the second (and last) sentence of the first paragraph, relating to the significance of 'The Bulletin' magazine: 'We who see that journal today as a minor weekly..... More
Banbury, Printed and Sold by J.G. Rusher, [circa 1835]. The British Library catalogue dates this edition as '1835?'. The publisher's booklist printed on the inside surface of the front cover lists the title as 'A new History of the House that Jack Built'. The outside rear wrapper has some promotional..... More
Banbury, Printed by J.G. Rusher, [circa 1820]. The catalogue of the Osborne Collection gives the date of this edition as '[ca. 1820]' (Volume I, page 23). The upshot of the interesting story is the children had a lucky escape from being murdered by hired assassins in the wood, only to..... More
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., Printers (for the Society), 1916. The Victoria, Fitzmaurice, Daly, Adelaide, McKinlay and Mary Rivers; among others. McLaren 5066 (this issue). More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. Special Intelligence Bulletin Number 17, issued by the South Australian Intelligence Department. More
Canberra, National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. Herbert Basedow (1881-1933) 'was an anthropologist, geologist and medical doctor who used photography to document his expeditions into central and northern Australia in the early decades of the twentieth century.... These revealing, sometimes confronting images provide a fascinating historical record of the people..... 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
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). Provenance: Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), Centralian author and historian, with his neat ownership signature on the..... More
[Tabor], printed by Hamilton 'Spectator' Print [for the Parish], 1953. The pageant play was performed at the Hamilton Town Hall on 13 April 1953. While 'written with the limitations of a country congregation in mind' it traces the story of the early Old Lutheran settlers in south-western Victoria, including the..... More
New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. Provenance: Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), Centralian author and historian, with his neat ownership signature on the front free endpaper. More
London, Charles H. Kelly, 1899. A presentation copy, with the front free endpaper inscribed by the author to The Honorable J.J. Duncan, 20 March 1907. Provenance: Sir John James Duncan (1845-1913), SA pastoralist and member of parliament; later, by descent, his son John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962), lawyer, soldier, pastoralist and..... More
London, Putnam, November 1937 (first edition in English). This British edition precedes the American edition and can be considered the first edition of Blixen's original text. Unusually, Blixen wrote in English, before translating it herself into her native Danish, with substantial textual changes. The Danish edition was published in October..... More
Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1842 to 1870 (but all are 1870s reprints). The unique bookplates, hand-painted in shell gold and other metallic paints by an accomplished amateur, all feature variations on the initials of Charlotte Louise Burckhardt (1862-1892, later Ackerley), whose ownership signature (dated 1880) is pencilled in each volume. We..... More
![Item #127284 Alarms & Excursions. Reminiscences of a Soldier [1892-1937]. With a Foreword by...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127284_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787731958)
London, Longmans Green and Co., 1938. Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges (1871-1939), 'lieutenant-general and governor ... spent his early service in India and Nyasaland. In the South African War for a few months in 1901 he commanded the 5th and 6th Western Australian (Mounted Infantry) Contingents ... He lost a...... 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
Adelaide, Printed by Register Newspapers Limited, [1928]. 'Reprinted from "Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, South Australian Branch, Session 1927-8"'. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1945. The front free endpaper is inscribed in pencil 'With Compliments (after reading "Searchlights in Australia"). Canberra ACT 15/5/46. A.G. Butler'. Presumably the reference is to 'Talks given in Radio Programmes: Searchlights on Life and Searchlights on Australia, by Various Speakers' (cover title). Trove records..... More
![Item #147210 Abstract of Journal of Explorations in Western Australia, 1896-7. [An offprint from]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/147210_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786609448)
Adelaide, The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, [1899]. The Wells journal was the first published account (apart from newspaper reports) of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition of 1896-97, despatched by A.F. Calvert under the auspices of the RGSSA. More
London, Printed for Benjamin Fisher, 1630. This is the first complete English translation of William Camden's history of the reign of Elizabeth I, originally published in Latin (1615-1625). Provenance: With a small name-label ('Ernest H. Shackleton.') on the front pastedown. More
London, Houlston & Stoneman, 1841 (second edition)/ [1839] (first edition in English)/ [1813] (first edition, in French). [2 items]. More
New York, The Poster Art Library, 2004. 'This is the largest collection of Cappiello's work every presented' (dustwrapper blurb). More
London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956, 1956, 1957, and 1958 (all first editions). [4 items]. More
![Item #147388 The Second World War [the cumulative title of the six-volume set]. Winston S. CHURCHILL](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/147388_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787878936)
London, The Folio Society, 2003 (third printing)/ 2000 (first thus). The titles of the individual volumes are The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; and Triumph and Tragedy. [6 items]. 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
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1991 (facsimile edition)/ 1758. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper. More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1908. An account of the abuses which a young man witnessed and experienced in American mental institutions in the early years of the twentieth century, prior to overcoming his own severe paranoia. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones..... More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1889. A work by an early German exponent of hypnotism with a significant influence on Sigmund Freud. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the front pastedown. More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1993 (facsimile edition)/ 1887. A seminal work exploring hypnotism by two Frenchmen, psychologist Alfred Binet and physician Charles Féré. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper. More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1586. Written by doctor turned cleric, Timothy Bright (1551?-1615), who placed the lens of each of his professions on the study of melancholia for the benefit of sufferers, in this earliest extant English work on the subject. The..... More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1837. A work by one of the most important British mental health superintendents and reformers of the nineteenth century. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper. More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1993 (facsimile edition)/ 1858. The complete title is 'A Manual of Psychological Medicine, containing the History, Nosology, Description, Statistics, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Insanity, with an Appendix of Cases'. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso..... More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1838. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper. More
New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1994 (facsimile edition)/ 1925. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper. More
New York, Viking, 1994 (first US edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 1994'). 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], Viking, [1994] (first US edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, 'Fall 1994 Publication'). Signed by the author on the title page. 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
London, Harvill Secker, 2011 (first UK edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2011'). 'Here, for the first time in one volume, is J.M. Coetzee's majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, "Boyhood", "Youth" and "Summertime"' (dustwrapper blurb). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the..... More
[New York], Viking, [2005] (first US edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, 'On sale September 26, 2005'). Signed by the author on the title page. 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], Viking, [2013] (first US edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, 'On sale March 11, 2013'). Signed by the author on the title page. 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