The Story of a Battalion
Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF. More
Online Catalogue #20
The preparations for our forthcoming two-part auction on April 10 have monopolized our time and energy for most of this new year, at the expense of some of our routine activities. So the current catalogue is as much to let you know we haven't forgotten you as anything else!
The Local (about the pubs of London) contains 15 delightful colour lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. Explorations of a different kind are Cook's final voyage (1784, three volumes, alas no atlas!); Bligh (first French edition of A Voyage to the South Sea, 1792); James Ross in the Antarctic (1847); Lindsay's Elder Expedition journal (1893); a signed certificate from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30; and a complete run of The South Australian Register for 1858, with much original content by Babbage, Gregory, Stuart and Warburton.
Autograph items include letters from Lord Baden-Powell and Alexander Humboldt; cards and an original lithograph signed by Oscar Kokoschka; and books signed by George Fife Angas, Mary Grant Bruce, Russell Drysdale, and Donald Friend.
There's Australia's first fly-fishing book, Joseland's Angling in Australia (1921); the very rare original volumes of Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia (1925 and 1927); and signed vintage photographs of the Flinders Ranges by Frederick Joyner (1920s) ... you get the idea!
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![Item #102270 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1:...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/102270.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656057741)
Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism. [Volume] 2: Anthropology and Nutrition. [Volume] 3: Botany and Plant Ecology. [Volume] 4: Zoology
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
The Local. Lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. Text by Maurice Gorham
London, Cassell and Company, 1939. More
Journal of Mr Barclay's Exploration, 1878
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 209 of 1878. Barclay and his small party left Alice Springs on 31 January 1878; before turning back on 4 June, they had almost reached the Queensland border. Lack of food and water was the main problem, exacerbated on their return..... More
Report on Recent Development in Economic Geology
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. Special Intelligence Bulletin Number 17, issued by the South Australian Intelligence Department. More
The complete set of six booklets in the 'Out of the Ark' series. Individual titles are Ham and the Egg; Teddy's New Job; Wally the Kangaroo; Jennie the Big Giraffe; Grunty the Pig; and Jimmy the Baby Elephant
London, Warne, [circa 1930]. Muir 604 (Wally the Kangaroo): 'Simple story about toy animals with no reference to Australia'. More
Voyage à la Mer du Sud ... avec une Relation de la Révolte à bord son Vaisseau, etc. Traduit de l'Anglais par F. Soules
Paris, Chez Garnery, Libraire ..., Buisson ..., Desenne ..., Blanchon ... 1792. The first French edition of Bligh's 'A Voyage to the South Sea' (1792). Bound together with two contemporary works in French on the American Revolution, namely [CHASTELLUX, François Jean, Marquis de]: Discours sur les Avantages ou les Désavantages..... More
Two autograph letters signed by Lord Baden-Powell while on a visit to Adelaide, South Australia. Both letters are on Government House, Adelaide letterhead, both are dated 23 June 1912, and both are written to a Boer War comrade-at-arms, 465 Company Sergeant-Major Walter Mansel Balfour-Ogilvy, 3rd Victorian Bushmen. One letter (one page, quarto) deals with Boy Scout matters; the other (two pages, small octavo) touches on their shared Boer War experiences
'I am glad that you treasure the badge that you won so well, & heartily wish you long life to wear it. Your work in teaching the boys to take their turn in doing their duty as citizens of their country is a fitting round-off to your own rendering of..... More
Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd ... and the Executive Committee of the Byrd Aviation Associates express to [recipient's name, Edward Dapp, in ink] their enduring appreciation in the equipping of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. It is our privilege to attest, and we gratefully acknowledge, that without such assistance the accomplishment of the Expedition in the Antarctic would not have been possible ...
[USA, Byrd Aviation Associates, 1930?]. Offered together with a companion booklet by Byrd, 'Into the Home of the Blizzard' (1928; octavo, [32] pages), with the recipient's name and the copy number (X-204) written in ink (but not by Byrd) on the presentation page. The cover of the booklet is a...... More
Nomenclature of South Australia
Adelaide, Thomas, 1908. Offered together with a quantity of relevant newspaper clippings, and two mimeographed sheets (folded, unevenly discoloured and a little chipped) comprising 'A Full List of the New Names given to places bearing Names of Enemy Origin'. The list contains nearly 70 changed Germanic names, some of which..... More
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe ... In his Majesty's Ships the 'Resolution' and 'Discovery,' in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780
London, W. and A. Strahan, 1784 [first edition]. The large folio atlas is not present with this set of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The first two volumes were written by James Cook, the third volume by James King. With the armorial bookplate of John Dixon..... More
A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, made in Divers Reigns. From King Edward III, to King William and Queen Mary. Also Receipts in Ancient Cookery
London, Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. Pages 423-476 are 'Ancient Cookery. From a ms. in the Library of the Royal Society', and the prefatory note is worth quoting at length: 'The ms. from which the following pages are transcribed, is without title or date, or..... More
The Plant Introductions of Reginald Farrer
London, New Flora and Silva, 1930. One of only 500 copies. Reginald John Farrer (1880-1920), traveller and plant-hunter, died in the remote Minshan mountains in Upper Burma at the early age of 40. 'This volume originated from the desire of a number of Reginald Farrer's gardening friends and admirers to..... More
Three large albumen paper photographs, captioned in ink on the verso of each mount 'Palmerston, Port Darwin, NT, destroyed by Tornado, December, 1896'
Further specific details are pencilled onto the verso of each mount, namely 'P.R. Allen's Store', 'Rundle's Store', and 'Bennett Street'. Interestingly, the well-exposed interior of Allen's store shows another photographer at work. The initials 'FEB' are on the verso of each mount; not unnaturally, we thought this was the photographer..... More
Some New Industries for South Australia. Silkworms, Mulberry, Olives, Tobacco, etc., etc
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson, 1864. Sir Samuel Davenport (1818-1906) was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ('Australian Dictionary..... More
The Art of Brian Dunlop
Frenchs Forest, The Craftsman's Press, 1984. The deluxe edition; this is number 121 of only 200 copies signed by the artist. Loosely inserted, and as issued, is an original signed etching, numbered to match (paper size 330 × 255 mm; image size 200 × 165 mm). More
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the Cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the Purpose of completing the Exploration of Australia ...
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1893. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical, but one has added chromolithographic geological features, and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 (the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here, because McLaren..... More
Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan, including Visits to Ararat and Tabreez, and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz
London, Longmans, Green, 1869. With the early name-plate of Edward Charles Stirling. More
The Farce of Sodom by The Right Honourable Earl of Rochester. Written for the Royall Company of Whoremasters and printed a-new upon the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the untimely Demise of our Noble Author in the thirty-third year of his Life. With Sets and Costumes suitable for Theatrical Performances designed by Donald Friend
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1980. 'Rochester's Lyrical, lewd & licentious poems were circulated only in manuscript during his lifetime. The earliest printed Editions appeared a year after his Death. But "The Farce of Sodom" was never printed in England. For centuries its fame (or notoriety) depended on crude Continental imprints. Consequently..... More
South Australia in 1837, in a Series of Letters. With a Postscript as to 1838. Second edition, with additional information
London, Harvey and Darton, [1838], second edition/ 1838. The map, 'Part of South Australia from the Surveys of Colonel Light', with an inset map of Australia, appears only in this second edition. Ferguson 2498 (noting dark green or brown cloth). More
The Art of Ivor Hele. With Preface by Sir Will Ashton [and Biographical Note by V.M. Branson]
Adelaide, Rigby, 1966. On the front flyleaf is a gift inscription 'To Sir Alick ... many happy returns for your birthday' from Walter Wotzke and his family. The book was a present to Sir Alexander Russell Downer (1910-1981) on his seventieth birthday; he died less than a year later. Walter..... More
Savage Life in Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., 1924. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines'..... More
The 'Coo-ee' Call by an Australian. Dedicated to all Men in Khaki
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, fourth edition [circa 1919]. Inscribed and signed to E.J. Bowen by the author ('Mrs Wordsworth James, Febry 27th 1919'). A genuine oddity - a personal anthology in praise of the humble coo-ee, the 'Call of my Country' - featuring verse, art, crafts, limericks and yarns. Military..... More
Angling in Australia and Elsewhere
Sydney, Art in Australia, 1921. The first Australian book on flyfishing. More
Chinese and Annamese Ceramics found in the Philippines and Indonesia
London, Hugh Moss, 1973. Number 551 of 1020 copies. More
'Bunyeroo Valley, Flinders Ranges'
Frederick Allen Joyner (1863-1945) was 'President of the South Australian Photographic Society at the height of its influence as a leading group in the fledgling nation, and as an individual he had his own work shown and reproduced around the world. Later, in the 1920s, he was one of the..... More
'A Washout, Hayward Range'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (visible image size 225 × 345 mm) captioned and signed in pencil on the mat by this influential pioneering South Australian photographer
Frederick Allen Joyner (1863-1945) was 'President of the South Australian Photographic Society at the height of its influence as a leading group in the fledgling nation, and as an individual he had his own work shown and reproduced around the world. Later, in the 1920s, he was one of the..... More
Kelly Reward Board. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into and report upon the Proper Mode of distributing the Rewards offered for the Capture of the Kelly Gang
Melbourne, S. Brain, Acting Government Printer, 1881. Victorian Parliamentary Paper 85 of 1880-81; one of only 885 copies printed. The report contains 171 detailed questions and answers from five witnesses. Some 67 individuals shared £8000, ranging from Superintendent Hare with £800, to Mr Osborne with £25. Seven native trackers (Hero..... More
Police Commission. Charges against Members of the Police Force
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1881. Victorian Parliamentary Paper C6 of 1881; one of only 800 copies printed. The five witnesses include Superintendent Francis Hare, Superintendent John Sadleir, Detective Michael Ward and Constable Robert Alexander. Aaron Sherritt, a childhood friend of Joe Byrne, one of the Kelly gang, became a double agent..... More
The Magic of a Line. The Autobiography of Laura Knight
London, William Kimber, 1965. 'The world has honoured Dame Laura Knight for over half a century as a painter and draughtsman of the first order.... The gypsies, the people of the circus and the ballet, Diaghilev, Bernard Shaw and the great people of her time have been her models and..... More
![Item #97501 'Achills Sturz' [Achilles' Fall, 1969]. An original chalk lithograph (now archivally...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/97501_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536739778)
Four printed pictorial Christmas cards by, and from, Oskar Kokoschka are available separately
Three are 210 × 150 mm (folded size), two of which are in colour; the fourth one is 125 × 170 mm (folded size). All four cards are signed in ink by Oskar Kokoschka and his wife Olda (who has also inscribed the two colour cards). Only one inscription is..... More
A UNICEF Christmas card (printed on paper, unfolded dimensions 220 × 155 mm); on the blank verso is an autograph letter signed from Olda (Mrs Kokoschka). It is also inscribed and signed at the foot of the letter 'Love and kindest wishes for 1977, yours, Oskar Kokoschka'. The letter, to unnamed recipients, contains season's greetings and thank yous for various kindnesses; we know it to be addressed to one of his former students, Ernest Roth, and his wife in Adelaide, South Australia
It is offered together with another eleven letters and an aerogram (seven in German, five in English, dated between 1974 to 1980), all written and signed by Olda Kokoschka to the Roths. The content tends to be routine and repetitive, but it is not without appeal. For example, in November..... More
The Etched Works of Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938). Volume 1: The Early Years, 1855-1900, with a Biography of the Artist. Volume 2: Etchings, 1901-1913. Volume 3: Etchings, 1914-1938
Crafers West, Stuart Gallery Publications, 2012. The first volume is signed and numbered by the author; this is set number 328 (the upper limit is not stated, but we know it to be 500). A catalogue raisonne of the etched works of the Australian-born British artist Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938), considered..... More
![Item #79025 Buckingham Palace from the Mall. [Together with] Tower of London, White Tower; Horse...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/79025_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1566289311)
Buckingham Palace from the Mall. [Together with] Tower of London, White Tower; Horse Guards; Windsor Castle, Norman Gate; Hampton Court Palace [and] St James's Palace
[London], Orient Line, [1937]. The complete set of six menu cards in this series, each featuring a colour lithograph 'by Mr Barnett Freedman of some of the historic palaces and buildings in or about London associated with the Royal Family'. The art work is dated 1935 (four cards) and 1936..... More
Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia
Adelaide, 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane', 1846. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840, and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on..... More
'Coastal Scene, Morotai'. A well-executed watercolour on paper (an impressive 274 × 397 mm) mounted on cardboard and captioned on the original attached mat (external dimensions 405 × 505 mm). The painting (featuring tents and simply-constructed dwellings nestled among palm trees), is in fine condition; the mat has a thin light tidemark along the bottom left-hand margin
The artist is unidentified, but he was possibly attached to No. 9 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF (9 RSU). The Australian War Memorial website states that in 1945 three artists already serving with the RAAF were seconded to the RAAF War History Section as artists - Harold Freedman (1915-1999), Max..... More
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the years 1839-43
London, John Murray, 1847 [first issue, with the January 1847 publisher's catalogue]. Rosove 276 (not noting the unlisted illustration): 'a cornerstone of the Antarctic literature and a monument to one of mankind's greatest expeditions of geographical and scientific exploration'; Taurus Collection 9; Renard 1328. The expedition was 'the first to..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. From the Fourth Version of Edward Fitzgerald's Translation ... with Illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom
London, George G. Harrap and Co., 1908/ [1905]. The plates are life studies by Adelaide Hanscom (1876-1932), 'using many notable Bay Area literary figures and artists as her models'. Her studio burned down in 1906, along with the negatives. Originally published by Dodge Publishing Company, New York, this book was..... More
Ten Months in the Fiji Islands by Mrs Smythe. With an Introduction and Appendix by Colonel W.J. Smythe
Oxford, John Henry and James Parker, 1864. More
Kookaburras and Satyrs. Some Recollections of The Fanfrolico Press
Cremorne, Talkarra Press, 1954. Number 13 of only 225 copies. The limitation page is inscribed and signed in ink to Jean, the wife of the publisher Walter Stone, by him ('For Jean: her copy of a book she watched grow. from Wal. 1.2.54') and by the author ('and from P.R...... More
Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1880/ 1878. First published as a separate pamphlet in 1878, it was reissued in 1879 as an addendum to Taplin's 'The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines'. This edition is the reprint of the following year with reset contents page and..... More
Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1878. The first edition, and very rare thus. It was reissued in 1879 as an addendum to Taplin's 'The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' and reprinted the following year with reset contents page and variant title page. Ferguson 16709. More
The Austrovert. Number 4, Spring 1951, to Number 9, December 1952
Glen Iris, Bruce Muirden, 1951 to 1952. 'An occasional journal devoted mainly to Australian literature' (John Tregenza: 'Australian Little Magazines, 1923-1954'). Ten issues of this literary journal were published between December 1950 and June 1953 (the last one, published in Darwin, was called 'The Northern Austrovert'). The first two were..... More
The RAAF Hudson Story. Book One. [Together with] ... Book Two
Highbury, The Author (the second one under the imprint of Vincent Aviation Publications), 1999 and 2010. The main chapters in the first volume are Policy and Procurement; Operations Malaya, Sumatra, Java; Operations Maritime Trade Protection; Operations Mediterranean; Australian Hudson Training; Special Transport Flight and Survey Flight, with relevant appendices. The..... More
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