Aneroid Barometers. Shortland Bros. (Manchester) Ltd. [Catalogue No. 37 (cover title)]
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
Welcome to our latest catalogue and our revamped website. The ease with which you will be able to navigate your way around it belies (but more than justifies) the time and effort spent on the project.
However, if you remain cartographically challenged, read on. We can offer you a copy of the very rare atlas, Goyder’s Plan of the Southern Portion of the Province of South Australia (1877), and a presumably much rarer linen handkerchief map highlighting the Dardanelles in 1914. We have J.M. Black’s complete set of Brown’s Forest Flora of South Australia (1882-90), with 45 superb chromolithographs. There are eight photobooks by Bird, Everard, Green and Haskins; a vintage photograph of three-times Australian prime minister, Alfred Deakin and his wife; and a very large-format photograph taken at the farewell banquet in London in October 1900 to The Earl of Hopetoun, the first Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
There are rare and desirable cricket cartoon books by Branson, Glover and Mailey; fine first editions of Idriess’s The Desert Column (1932, with the dustwrapper) and Gold-Dust and Ashes (1933, one of only 200 of the signed deluxe version); Kaleski’s Australian Barkers and Biters (1914, in the original pictorial wrappers) … in short, the tempting eclectic mixture as before!
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
[Adelaide, T.J. Richards and Sons, not before 1936]. Curiously, the company behind the product is not named in this lavish brochure, which has lots of orange and silver splashed around the black and white. The rear cover is overprinted in red 'With the compliments of Waymouth Motor Co. Ltd.... Adelaide'..... More
Hasegawa Sadanobu II (1848-1940) was the second of at least five generations of Sadanobu artists. More
Bonn, Bernard and Graefe, 1996 [first edition]. Founder of the Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, German aircraft designer and engineer Hugo Junkers (1859-1935) was instrumental in establishing the common use of multi-engined all-metal aircraft, particularly the Ju-52, with national and international airlines. Junkers' name is associated with German WW2 aircraft..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1938. 'Harry Dexter found caravaning [sic] a delightful existence; and when his presence on the outskirts of an Australian country town proved so unwelcome that attempts were made on his life, he resolved to know the reason why, so involving himself in a tangle of mystery..... More
London, T. Werner Laurie Limited, 1914. Number 83 of the Edition de Luxe limited to only 100 sets on handmade paper, signed by Stuart Mason. Each volume contains a copy of the original four-page prospectus (both folded and a little foxed, with one slightly chipped). Stuart Mason was the pseudonym..... More
London, John Murray, 1848. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia, and contains, from this source, detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer, on Agriculture, Stock Farming, Building, Gardening, Manufacturing in various branches ... and Mining and Mineral..... More
Adelaide, Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1919. Historical Compilations based upon the Study of Original Documents, Number 2. More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1874. New South Wales Legislative Assembly Paper Number 46 of 1874. The House sought to repeal the Act, and called for the Report 'embodying the opinions and experiences of the Police in the various districts of the Colony respecting the working of the said Act'..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1861. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 42 of 1861; the report covers the calendar year 1860. Contents include a densely-printed two-page 'Report by the Judges of the Vineyards' (E.B. Heyne, Alwin Seidel and J.W. Dardel), and an eight-page report by the Director of the Experimental Farm (Thomas Skilling)..... More
Portland, Timber Press, 1995/ 1988; 1998/ 1990; 1993; 1996; 1998; and 2000. More
San Francisco, Paul Elder and Company, 1908. Denatured Series No. 24: illustrated nonsense verse for children. The drawings are clever, and the idea behind them; the verses are pretty funny too. There's 'The Puss. The Octo-pus'; 'The Ant. The Pheas-ant'; 'The Cow. The Cowry' ... you get the drift. Not..... More
Woomera, Woomera Welfare Club (printed in Whyalla by the 'Whyalla News'), [1948]. Rule 2: 'The Club is situated at Long Range Weapons Experimental Area, Woomera in the State of South Australia', about 490 kilometres north of Adelaide. Woomera township was established in 1947 to house and service the personnel involved..... More
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1997 (second reprint)/ 1989. Important, and long out of print. More