London, Humphrey Milford, and Oxford, Oxford University Press, [circa 1923]. A large 1936 Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Ormond, prize plate is mounted on the half-title. The book was awarded to Betty Paterson; the plate is signed by Florence Muriel Fysh, the principal from 1934 to 1943. 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

Significantly, this dramatic image of an expeditioner on skis, silhouetted against gigantic ice cliffs, features Xavier Mertz, one of the two men to lose their lives on the expedition. This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' with the caption 'Adelie Land. The cliffs at Land's End, Cape..... More

This print comes from the original 1915 London exhibition of Hurley photographs. The printed label from the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London, is on the verso of the mount: 'This photograph is enlarged from a negative taken during Dr Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition ...'. The title and London..... More

Sydney, [The Author], 1950. Number 76 of the standard issue of 200 copies signed by the author; a further 100 copies in two deluxe editions were also published. More

Sydney, The Author, 1938. Number 101 of only 200 copies signed and sealed by the author (and hand-set and printed by Harrie Mortlock at the Beacon Press). Loosely inserted is a four-page pictorial prospectus headed 'Japanese Colour-Prints', advertising the author's other books on the subject. Percy Neville Barnett (1881-1953), author..... More

Belair, Crawford House Publishing Australia in association with Oceania Art Society, Sydney, 2005. The 'first comprehensive book of its kind and illustrates more than 100 types of shields from all culture areas of Melanesia that used such objects. Around 80 per cent of the shields illustrated have never before been..... More

Sydney, Palmtree Press, June 1928. Number 85 of 125 copies numbered and signed by Adrian Feint and published under his private imprint; the typography is by Percy Green. This copy is inscribed and signed on an early blank page 'For Enid Wienholt with all good wishes. Adrian Feint. Sydney, 1932'..... More

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon KCMG (1829-1904), civil servant and politician, spent the years 1847 to 1878 in India, mainly as an administrator in the Deoghar division and the 'recently annexed province of Oudh.... much of his time was spent in the saddle', and..... More

The cover is addressed to 'Mrs Pallmer, Norbiton', and is sealed with the Queen's wax seal (the Royal crown below a capital A). Mrs Pallmer, née Dennis, was wife of Charles Nicholas Pallmer, Member of Parliament and Jamaican slave owner, who owed his Surrey estate to his wife. Pallmer was..... More

The Duke writes to Colonel Braddyll in relation to military appointments. The cover is addressed to 'Colonel Braddyll, Hampton Court Green', from 'Clarence', and has a wax seal. The letter reads: 'St James's. July 13th 1810. Dear Sir, You may see by the seal where I write from: I am..... More

London, 'Daily Telegraph', 1937. The High Commissioners are: The Honourable Vincent Massey, Canada; The Right Honourable Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth of Australia; W.J. Jordan, New Zealand; C.T. Te Water, Union of South Africa; J.W. Dulanty, Irish Free State; and Sir Firoz Khan Noon, India. The Ambassadors are: Dr Paul Regis de..... More

When compared with all other examples of portrait photographs of either explorer in the public domain, this matching pair - delicately hand-coloured and skilfully vignetted to the head and shoulders - has little if any competition. And significantly, they are fresh to the market ... However, when it came to..... More

Melbourne, Printed at the Herald Office, 1862. 'The "Firefly", chartered by the Government of Victoria to convey stores, &c., for the exploration party sent in search of the ill-fated explorers, Burke and Wills, left Melbourne on July 29th, 1861, under orders to proceed to Brisbane, to take those who undertook..... More

Guildford, Genesis Publications and Adelaide, Rigby, 1977 [first edition thus]. Number 100 of only 500 copies. The bulk of the book (approximately 380 pages) comprises a facsimile reproduction of the Admiralty copy of Cook's journal, considered by the Cook authority J.G. Beaglehole as 'the best and most careful, as it..... More

'Until the introduction by State associations and the Australian Cricket Board of Players' Provident Funds, it was the custom to reward prominent players for long service by granting them testimonial matches. Stan McCabe and Bill O'Reilly in 1956-57 were the last to be given an official benefit match' (Pollard). Bradman..... More

Broughty Ferry, Dundee, [Unidentified Photographer], 1938. The Burnie 'Advocate' (Friday 5 August 1938) has an interesting account of the first day's play: 'The Australians arrived by charabanc at the picturesque Broughton [sic] Ferry ground to-day, wearing tartan bonnets, but there was nothing festive about their early batting on a good..... More

Probably Edwardian; the underside of the base is stamped 'James Deakin & Sons | Sheffield | 10475'. More

A small broadside (295 × 210 mm) limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Stoppard, of an extract from his play of the same name published by Faber in 1982. It is a monologue on the construction of a cricket bat. 'Henry: (holding his cricket bat). This thing here, which..... More

The photograph is inscribed and signed ('Every good wish, Bing Crosby') in black ink. It is uncredited and undated, but we suggest the 1940s. More

Oxford, The Daniel Press, 1903. 'A noteworthy experiment in versification by Robert Bridges [later poet laureate] in the form of an Epistle to L.M.... It will be seen that the poem is in (438) quantitative hexameters, modified in accordance with Stone's phonetic system, in which all syllables in English are..... More

Oxford, 'Printed by H. Daniel' [The Daniel Press], 1890 (corrected reprint)/ 1889. Number 57 of only 100 copies. 'This is a corrected reprint (of a hundred copies), occasioned by the speedy sale of ... the first (enlarged) edition, the demand for the book, and a piracy in America. It is..... More