While the photographer is not identified on the image, we believe it to have been taken by Adelaide photographer Darian Smith in the early 1930s, around the time he was producing numerous aerial views of South Australian landmarks for his publication 'Adelaide, South Australia, from the Air' (Adelaide, Gillingham &..... More

It is based on one of the (variant) frontispiece portraits used in Edwin Hodder's 1891 biography, 'George Fife Angas. Father and Founder of South Australia'; we have identified different images and reproduction processes for this frontispiece. This portrait is based on a photograph, but whether it was done from an..... More

The prolific Australian cartoonist 'Armstrong' was active in many of the leading journals and newspapers from the 1920s to the late 1950s - 'The Bulletin', 'The Argus', 'The Sydney Sun', 'Smith's Weekly', 'Melbourne Punch', 'Aussie', 'The Herald', 'The Sun' - but he is perhaps best remembered for his output during..... More

A very large vintage blue-toned carbon print (visible image size 422 × 577 mm) on the original thick cardboard mount, recently matted, framed and glazed (external dimensions, an impressive 690 × 835 mm). The original printed label from the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London, is on the verso..... More

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1834. More

Offered with a vintage cabinet card photographic portrait of Bernhardt as 'The Lady of the Camellias' (circa 1881: image size 140 × 85 mm), and five ephemeral portraits (vintage trade cards and an early commemorative postage stamp). More

London, The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Number 564 of 625 copies, with the publisher's quarter cloth and papered boards replaced with a stunning designer-binding by Ron Eadie. The accompanying images make short work of any written description we could provide. More

This is an example of the first recorded photograph of the tree under which Alfred Howitt buried the remains of Robert O'Hara Burke. It was taken by Emanuel Spiller, South Australian Government Photographer, in 1887 (State Library of Victoria Burke and Wills Research Gateway). Howitt's blaze 'R O'H B |..... More

London, Macmillan, 1967 to 1969/ 1953 to 1958. More

It is an exceptional gelatin silver photographic print measuring a gigantic 530 × 510 mm (approximately), printed from the negative by the photographer for Michael Treloar in the mid-1990s. Treloar went to an exhibition of Simpson's work at his studio at the time, and saw the image on display. It..... More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1934 (first English edition)/ 1932. More

[Ewell], J.W. McKenzie, 1984 (facsimile edition)/ 1884. Number 65 of only 150 copies. The introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse was written especially for this edition. More

London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. 'This edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Numbers 1-100 have been specially bound'; this is number 8, signed by Somerset de Chair. More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1916 [first edition thus]. The 20-page 'Glossary [of slang terms] For use with "The Sentimental Bloke" and "Ginger Mick"' is as essential as the main text. One of only eight titles in Angus and Robertson's evocative and popular 'Pocket Editions for the Trenches' series. McLaren 432..... More

Bombay, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press (Indian Branch), 1950. More

Delhi, Oxford University Press (for Vanya Prakashan), 1991 (second impression of the 1991 special reprint for Vanya Prakashan)/ 1947. More

Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1969. More

London, Collins, 1984 (first edition). More

Scenes of or around field hospitals, in particular at Anzac Gully and Hotchkiss Gully, are a feature of ten of the photographs. 'Turkish Prisoners at work, Anzac' is another impressive image. South Australian-born Thomas Wolmer (or Woolmer) English (1894-1956) transferred to the 50th Battalion in March 1916 and survived the..... More

Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. More

The illustrations, accompanying the poems 'The Intro', 'Doreen', and 'Hitched' in the book, are each drawn within a pencil border (approximately 130 × 100 mm) on larger sheets of paper. The title is written immediately below the image; at the foot of each sheet of paper the artist has written..... More

London, Thames and Hudson, 1979. 'Isamu Noguchi remains primarily a sculptor who has integrated in his own work the forms and materials of East and West to produce a body of work that retains the stamp of his own personality' (publisher's blurb). More

This stunning portrait (visible image size 363 × 260 mm) is behind glass in (possibly) the original ornate gilded plaster and wooden frame (external dimensions 570 × 445 mm); the condition of all aspects of this impressive item is uniformly fine. The photograph has been relatively recently reinserted in the..... More