Our latest catalogue contains a series of letters and a manuscript list of early career highlights by Dame Nellie Melba; a group of scores and an impressive portrait photograph, all with fulsome signed inscriptions from Percy Grainger; an 1862 carte de visite of Das Torrens-Fest in the Barossa Valley, feting Robert Torrens and the Real Property Act; vintage photographs by Frank Hurley (exhibition prints from his ground-breaking 1915 exhibition); an 1880s watercolour by George Frederick Gregory Jr, with the classical Italianate Largs Pier Hotel featured prominently; a collection of over 80 Australian bookplates; items associated with an 1802 Port Phillip Settlement pioneer … and of course there are books galore!
Cook’s Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784, four volumes, complete with the atlas); Phillip (1790, the preferred second edition); Hunter (1793); Taplin’s Folklore … and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines (signed by Dr John Harris Browne, surgeon on Sturt's Central Australian expedition of 1844-45); Willshire’s Aborigines of Central Australia (Port Augusta, 1888); Elliot’s Review of the Primates (1912, three volumes) … among many others!
London, John Dicks, 1882. Number 230, 30 December 1881 to Number 253, 9 June 1882, bound with the volume title page, cumulative index and page of errata. More
Sydney, 36th Battalion Association, 1967. More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1876. We successfully tendered for a large quantity of duplicate pamphlets from the SLSA in 2001; this is one of them, which we are finally getting around to processing. More
The inscription reads 'Ps. 11.1: "In the Lord put I my trust"'. Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the widow of King William IV (1830-1837), is best remembered by her namesake, the 'City of Churches', the capital of South Australia. More
Adelaide, Robert Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1878; William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1879, 1880 and 1881; and Sands & McDougall, Printers, 1882. A consecutive run of five annual reports of the City of Adelaide, from the 27th to the 31st. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his pencilled..... More
'The Albion Woollen Mill was one of the four key sites - with Victoria, Barwon and Union Mills - that was established in the late 1860s to mid 1870s. These mills were in constant operation on the west side of the Barwon Bridge over the last century and led to..... More
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. The ownership details of SX1624 D.J. Sheppard, a member of the Battalion, are written on the flyleaf. A pair of wartime-vintage mugshots of Sheppard, an illustrated cutting featuring St Peter's Old Collegians on active service (Sheppard is included), and one other relevant photograph are loosely..... More
Adelaide, Printed by Modern Printing Company [for the Author], 1905 (second edition)/ 1905. A venomous invective against the self-satisfaction and dullness of Edwardian Adelaide, dedicated 'To any kindred spirit whom duty may compel to live in Adelaide, and who, living there, suffers as we suffer'. Anderson takes aim at everything..... More
Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1974 ('A facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition of hand-coloured lithographs')/ 1849. The four-page introduction by Frank R. Bradlow is new to this edition; number 221 of 950 copies (with the first 100 copies signed by Bradlow). More
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1842. Provenance: Sir Walter Crocker, with his ownership details ('W.R. Crocker, Sicily 1968 (Jan.)'). Sir Walter Russell Crocker (1902-2002) was Australian Ambassador to Italy at the time he acquired this copy. Tipped in on the front flyleaf is an autograph aerogramme from Susanne Toogood, a...... More
Adelaide, G. Hassell & Son, Printers [for the Author?], 1905. Thistle Anderson's 'Arcadian Adelaide' (1905) provoked a spate of scathing reviews and apologiae for the city, yet proved extremely popular. Anderson claimed there were ten editions, and another four of its sequel, 'The Arcadians'. The original publication was 'a venomous..... More
[Magill], Auldana Vineyards, 1906. Richard Seddon, New Zealand's longest-serving Prime Minister, died on his return journey to New Zealand, less than two weeks after the events commemorated in this pictorial souvenir. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, but an employee of the Adelaide City Council from the..... More
London, Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1843. Provenance: Johannes Leigh-Jones, Sydney; later (1948) Frederick Walter ('Doc Robbie') Robinson (1888-1971), University of Queensland (the founder of the University's Fryer Library and one of the instigators of the John Oxley Library, now part of the State Library of Queensland). The occasional pencilled corrections..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1976. 'Megastructure, the concept of a giant, adaptable, multi-purpose building containing most of the functions of a city'. More
Leeton, [The Author], 1943. The third part of the series (of five) on the customs of the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and Central NSW. More
Dublin, H. Fitzpatrick, printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. McKenzie, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, R. McAllister and J. Rice, 1792 (first Irish edition, published in the same year as the London first edition). This edition includes a revised version of Bligh's 1790 narrative of the mutiny. The..... More
The stamp of 'J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide' is on the verso of one image, together with a pencilled caption reading 'The National Memorial to the SA troops who fought in South African War. Unveiled by the Governor of SA at Adelaide June 6, 1904'. One image shows..... More
The artists best represented are Adrian Feint (6, with 2 signed), Roy Davies (6, with one signed), Lionel Lindsay (6, with one signed), Philip Neville Barnett (at least 5, with 4 signed), Philip M. Litchfield (9, with one signed), and Karna Birmingham (6, with one signed). Other notable artists represented..... More
Oaklands Park, Oaklands Publishing, 1985. This collector's edition was limited to only 200 copies numbered and signed by the artist. This unnumbered copy is the artist's personal copy (noted thus, and signed). It comes with the original pencil drawing of the Nankeen Kestrel, reproduced on page 29 in the book..... More
Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1980. The edition was limited to 750 copies signed by the three contributors; the first 500 copies contained a loosely inserted tinted lithograph (an illustration of a bird not reproduced in the book) numbered, dated (1980) and signed by the artist. This is Jeremy Boot's personal copy, with..... More
London, John Murray, 1872. Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1936. The author 'lived and worked in the Centre as pioneer and contractor' from the beginning of the 1880s; this is a 'very detailed and intimate description of the life, personal and tribal, of the Central Australian natives; their characteristics, beliefs and superstitions; their tools and..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 [first edition, Colonial issue, with an asterisk in gilt near the foot of the spine]. Provenance: Arnold Edwin Davey (1862-1920), South Australian flour-miller and grain merchant, with his signature (20 March 1909) on the flyleaf and a few pencilled emphases in his hand. The clippings..... More
Adelaide, Andrew Murray, Printer, Rundle Street (Sold by C. Platts, Bookseller, Hindley Street ...), 1845. The State Library of South Australia has a copy of this item with the map (and it's a beauty - a hand-coloured lithograph, 322 × 213 mm, produced in 'Goodwood nr Adelaide' in 1845). However..... More
London, Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. Each volume contains the Ingleton bookplate and Ingleton Collection catalogue stamp and number (6362). 'Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William..... More
The signatories are a'Beckett, Fairfax, Grimmett, Hurwood, Kippax, Oldfield, and Walker. The signatures were collected by the parents of a five year-old boy when the family travelled on the same ship as the cricketers on the voyage to England in early 1930. The leaves are the first two in an..... More
Each photograph is personally signed in ink on the image by Don Bradman, and each one comes with our letter of authenticity. We purchased these items in the late 1990s from one source only, whom we knew well, and whose connection with Don Bradman was proven and long-established; we knew..... More
The signatories are Woodfull (Captain), a'Beckett, Bradman, Fairfax, Grimmett, Hornibrook, Hurwood, Jackson, Kippax, McCabe, Oldfield, Ponsford, Richardson, Walker and Wall (as well as W.L. Kelly, the manager). The signatures were collected by the parents of a five year-old boy when the family travelled on the same ship as the cricketers..... More
The single performance of the fund-raising testimonial play took place at the Theatre Royal in Adelaide on Saturday 16 December 1933. Ernest Jones (1869-1943) was 'Australia's first express bowler', and considered among the best of his day; he played 19 Tests for Australia between 1894 and 1902, touring England in..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1886, 1886, 1887 and 1887. Accounts (but primarily vocabularies) of over 200 tribes that 'have been drawn up by the writer from replies sent by his correspondents to a series of questions circulated in print'. Contributors are named; well-known figures include Foelsche, Gason, Gillen, Howitt, Salvado and..... More
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870, my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography') and the rest of the..... More
Amsterdam, Chez la Veuve de Paul Marret, 1711 (the first three volumes, the first bearing the additional legend 'Troisième Edition revûe, corrigée & augmentée d'un volume'), 1714 (the fourth volume), and 1712 (the fifth volume). The separately printed 'Traité des Vents' bound with the second volume, the 'Voyages ... à..... More
The inscription, in the top left-hand corner, is 'Vera & Harold Gard | with all good wishes | Peter Dawson | 28/10/31'. Vera Thrush and her husband Harold Gard were Adelaide singers active in the local opera scene at the time. They travelled to England and Italy in 1924-25 to..... More
![Item #109121 The International Design Yearbook 1985/86 [Number 1] to The International Design...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/109121_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536733470)
New York, Abbeville Press (Numbers 1, 2, 13, 14, 16-18, 20, 21); London, Thames and Hudson (Numbers 3-7); and London, Laurence King (Numbers 8-12, 15, 19), [1985] to 2006. More
Philadelphia, Printed for The Author, 1813 (fourth edition)/ 1812. William Duane (1760-1835) was an American journalist and editor of the 'Aurora', the pro-Jeffersonian journal. 'Duane fought successfully against the infamous Alien and Sedition acts that were in force between 1798 and 1801. The controversial Irish-American was cited by Thomas Jefferson..... More
Adelaide, Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide), 1906. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his pencilled ownership signature, dated 1906. More
![Item #109283 A Review of the Primates [Monograph Series Number 1, complete in three volumes]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/109283_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536737246)
New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1912 [but June 1913]. The correction page at the beginning of each volume explains that almost the entire work was printed in 1912, but 'unexpected delay in the preparation of the colour plates prevented the issue of the work until June 15, 1913'..... More
[Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., circa 1890s]. A scarce souvenir of rural Victoria at the end of the nineteenth century. The chromolithographs include 'Natives spearing Kangaroo', 'Alluvial Diggers', 'A Stampede', 'Yarding Cattle', 'Old Man Kangaroo at Bay', and 'A Buck Jumper'. The last one is curious - and inaccurate -..... More
London, T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1761. More
Sydney, David Ell, 1985. Limited to 2000 copies. Still an essential reference work, now considerably cheaper than in years gone by. More
Ballarat, [The Author, circa 1920s] (printed by S.L. Vale). The photographer, 319 Private William Edwin Leslie Clapham, was at Gallipoli at the time of the landings, in which he almost certainly took part. Evacuated to Malta with a gunshot wound to his hand on 14 May 1915, he served there..... More
The catalogue of the State Library of South Australia indicates that the original manuscript is in its collection ('202, 5 leaves; 30 cm ... Compiled principally from his own experiences as an overlander and pioneer pastoralist, with special reference to the foundation of the Springvale, Delamere and Newcastle Waters runs')..... More
An original etching (printed surface 250 × 164 mm), with the title, edition details (62/75) and signature of the artist in pencil in the margin below the image; pencilling lightly rubbed, affecting one letter of the signature; overall in excellent condition, mounted and matted, ready for framing. London-born John Charles..... More
An original etching (printed surface 168 × 250 mm), with the title, edition details (4/30) and signature of the artist in pencil in the margin below the image; in fine condition, mounted and matted, ready for framing. This is a distinctly modern impression of the newly-rebuilt Adelaide Railway Station, completed..... 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
New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1944. The front cover of each volume is signed and dated (October 1944) by Percy Grainger, with a warm personal inscription in each case, respectively 'To dear Harry, with love from his friend Percy'; 'To dear Harry, in boundless admiration from Percy'; and 'To Harry..... More
The painting is a watercolour (with gouache highlights) on linen-mounted paper, behind glass in an elaborate gilt frame of the period (we suggest the 1880s; the hotel was built in 1882). It is signed by the artist (as GF Gregory) in the bottom left-hand corner. The visible image size is..... More
London, John Murray, 1906 [first edition]. With the bookplates of James Edge Partington (1854-1930) and Charles Richmond John Glover (1870-1936); the occasional pencilling, mainly to the bibliography, appears to be by Edge Partington. Loosely inserted is a contemporary review of the book, and a small sheaf of relevant newspaper clippings..... More
Calcutta, West Bengal Government Press, 1959. Provenance: Sir Walter Crocker, Australian High Commissioner to India, 1952-55 and 1958-62, with his signature (New Delhi, 18 October 1959) on the flyleaf. More
