Our latest list features the first Australian gardening book by a woman, The Flower Garden in Australia (Melbourne, 1893); the deluxe large-paper edition of Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic (1909, one of only 300 sets), signed by 16 members of the expedition; Federation material from the collection of Sir John Downer; classic texts of inland exploration (mainly the deluxe issues of the Friends of the State Library of South Australia facsimiles); two photograph albums compiled for the architects Woods, Bagot, Laybourne-Smith & Irwin (Adelaide, 1930s); as well as good selections of natural history, cricket, photography and more.
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Two of them show the facade from different directions; the other 14 all feature cars in the various areas of the large sales and service complex. The first photograph is signed in ink on the image 'K. Phillips', and we think it safe to conclude the album is the work..... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Printed at the head of the first page is the following: '21/6/91. Draft of a Bill as adopted by the National Australasian Convention, 9th April, 1891. Henry Parkes, President. F.W. Webb, Secretary'. This copy has the printed paper name-label 'Sir J.W. Downer' on the..... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897. Printed at the head of the first page is the following: 'Copy of Federal Constitution under the Crown, framed and approved by the Australasian Federal Convention, at Adelaide, South Australia, 22nd March to 23rd April, 1897. E.G. Blackmore, Clerk. C.C. Kingston, President'. The signature..... More
[Sydney], [No Publisher], 1891. In a presentation binding, embossed in gilt on the front cover 'Presented to The Hon. Sir John Wm. Downer, K.C.M.G., Q.C., M.P.'. Sir John William Downer was one of the Fathers of Federation; this item was presumably given to him as a South Australian delegate at..... More
The inscription reads in full: 'To dear Harry, in warm admiration of his true genius, thanking him for his glorious first performance of "The Lost Lady", & in happy memory of one of the few electric concerts of my life (June 2). His friend, Percy, June 1938'. The musical sentiment..... More
![Item #105283 The Life and Adventures [sic] Dog 'Oscar'. [The Life and Adventures of the Dog...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/105283_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536745670)
Melbourne, Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1889. 'With the Author's Compliments' is stamped on the first (blank) page. Muir 3262 (recording a second edition of the same year, but clearly both are rare - for instance, this first edition is not in the National Library of Australia). More
Netley, Wakefield Press, 1986. One of 150 copies signed and numbered by the artist, with an original signed and numbered etching ('Skipping') loosely inserted (image size 211 × 146 mm, sheet size 285 × 205 mm). More
London, William Heinemann, 1909 [first edition: the deluxe large-paper issue of 'The Heart of the Antarctic', with the supplementary volume in its first uncorrected state]. Number 65 of only 300 sets of this deluxe edition, signed by 16 members of the expedition on the double-page frontispiece of 'The Antarctic Book'..... More
London, Griffith & Farran, 1883 [first edition, with the advertisements dated '9.83']. With a gift inscription on the front pastedown: 'R.M.W. Thirkell & G.L.A. Thirkell, Christmas 1904, from L.F. Piesse'. The Tasmanian Thirkell brothers, who would have been in their early teens when they were given this book, both served..... More
