As well as preparing for our two currently-running online auctions (see below) we have also been hard at work on our latest retail list.
One singular and significant item is an impressive sketchbook of original drawings and verse compiled collaboratively by two Australian officers on the Western Front during the First World War.
The balance of the catalogue is our traditional rich miscellany, including travel and exploration, literature, fine bindings, autograph material, photographs, trade catalogues, Indigenous Australiana, and more.
[Adelaide, John Martin & Co., 1946]. An early souvenir booklet for 'Johnnies' Annual Street Parade', still held each November, albeit no longer under the auspices of the now-defunct department store. 'Information, Annual Christmas Pageant, November 2nd'; the date '1946' appears on one of the floats illustrated on page [6]. Not..... More
Paris, Maeght Editeur, 1956. A superior catalogue produced for the exhibition to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this French art periodical. All original graphics are present: Chagall (a double-page colour lithograph); Miró (a double-page colour lithograph and a tinted etching); Bazaine (a tinted lithograph); and Giacometti (an etching). More
Adelaide, Published at the 'Australian Star' Office, 1880. 'Our motto should be "South Australia for South Australians"'. Not in Trove. More
Paris, Éditions de la revue Verve, 1952. All lithographs are present: Georges Braque (2); Henri Matisse (3, including one double-page); Henri Laurens (2); Alberto Giacometti (2); Andre Masson (3, including one double-page); Fernand Leger (3, including one double-page); Joan Miro (3, including one double-page); Francisco Bores (2); Marcel Gromaire (2);..... More
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' (from 1855 to 1864); he was also George Fife Angas's agent and attorney in SA from 1841 to 1844. Provenance: this copy comes from the collection of George Fife Angas himself; the..... More
![Item #18651 Explorations in Central Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18651_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536795479)
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. This issue also contains ASHWIN, Arthur C.: From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71 (47 pages). More
Sydney, Printed by The Beacon Press (for the Society), 1934. Number 183 of 250 copies. The ten original bookplates are by J.C. Goodchild, P. Roach Pierson, Adrian Feint, Ethleen Palmer, George Perrottet, F. Millward Gray, L. Roy Davies, Helen Ogilvie, Douglas Pratt and Eirene Mort. More
London, John Murray, 1851 (first edition). More
![Item #114065 The Art of Raymond Ching. [Paintings and Drawings, 1972-1979 (cover subtitle)]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/114065_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553665747)
Auckland, William Collins, 1981. Portraits, landscapes, 'detailed plant and animal studies - and of course, his birds'. More
London, William Collins, 1978. More
Adelaide, Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia (and printed by G. Hassell & Son), 1912 and 1918. A 'With Compliments' slip is tipped in on the title page of the first item; the front cover is signed by H.W. Marshall, the general secretary of the Public Library..... More
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
Sydney, Rigby, 1987 [first trade edition]. This first trade edition (issued at the same time as the signed limited edition in full leather), is greatly superior in quality to subsequent reprints. In this set, the frontispiece portrait of each volume is signed in blue ballpoint pen by Don Bradman, and..... More
Sydney, Rigby, 1987 [first trade edition]. The first trade edition (issued at the same time as the signed limited edition in full leather), is greatly superior in quality to subsequent reprints. In this set, the frontispiece portrait of each volume is signed in blue ball-point pen by Don Bradman, and..... More
Melbourne, Hutchinson, 1976. Number 1240 of 1500 copies signed by the author. More
Adelaide, South Australian Cricket Association, 1933. A pre-match publication for the Test that saw bodyline tactics move from controversy to crisis. Padwick 4487. More
The signatories are Woodfull (captain), Bradman, Fairfax, Hurwood, Jackson, Kippax, McCabe, Oldfield, Ponsford, Richardson, Rigg and Wall. All apart from Richardson played in that historic first Test (Grimmett did, but his signature does not appear here). Kippax and Richardson have signed in pencil; apart from minimal smudging and fingermarks, this..... More
Captioned 'The Australians, 1930. W.M. Woodfull (Captain)', it features screened photographic portraits of the fourteen-member squad; 'A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromich' are credited with the photographs. Woodfull, Fairfax, Oldfield and Richardson appear in rectangular full-length portraits in the centre, with the rest of the team around them in oval..... More
The signatures are Wyatt (Captain), Duckworth, Duleepsinhji, Hobbs, Larwood, Leyland, Parker, Rhodes, Sandham, Sutcliffe and Tate. All but Tate have signed in ink; in fine condition. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005/ 1905. The original and only other edition was South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905, limited to 730 copies (McLaren 7723). This new reset edition is one of the FSLSA's Australian Parliamentary Editions series, limited to only 300 copies..... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1905. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905; one of only 730 copies. McLaren 7723. The Murchison and Davenport Ranges in 1898 and 1899, and from the vicinity of Tennant Creek westward to within 30 miles of the Western Australian border and back by..... More
Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF. More
Melbourne, Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1892. One of the Library of Australian Authors series. 'Shape-shifter aliens establish bases in wilderness areas of Earth, including north-west Australia ... While exploring the Kimberleys, two English youths stumble upon a plot by the aliens to destroy humanity through the breeding of new forms..... More
Adelaide, Printed by Webb, Vardon, and Pritchard [for the Author], 1882. 'Essential; an important regional novel and nearly a comic masterpiece' states Depasquale ('A Critical History of South Australian Literature, 1836-1930'); 'a rambling, episodic, undisciplined novel, part romance, part satire, part detective novel and ... part didactic religious novel'. The..... More
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
Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. A substantial history of a town with a substantial history; a feature of the book is a detailed biographical register running to more than 80 pages. Provenance: Charles E. Cameron Wilson, with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page. More
![Item #109890 Birds of Australia [the complete set of eight volumes]. John GOULD](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/109890_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536739442)
Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1972 to 1975 (facsimile edition)/ 1848 to 1869. + GOULD: Handbook to the Birds of Australia (the matching companion volume, a facsimile of the two-volume 1865 original octavo edition, presented here in one stout volume). [9 items]. More
London, John Murray, 1906 (first edition). A colonial edition in blue cloth was published in 1909. More
[Adelaide, The Author], 1992. A doctoral thesis, signed by the author on the title page; it was later published as 'Emigration and the Labouring Poor. Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-1860' (Macmillan, 1997). More
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
Colombo, Lake House Printers & Publishers, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1927, 1928, 1930 and 1935. More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years, and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-1881), botanist and horticulturist, 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller, his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to..... More
Honolulu, Wall, Nichols & Company, 1908. Loosely inserted is a small folding leaflet, 'The Scenic Trip Supreme. In and Around Honolulu by the Honolulu Coach Co.' (duodecimo, 8 pages with 2 maps and 2 illustrations; undated but probably 1920s). Offered together with 12 vintage snapshot photographs (each 92 × 146..... More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 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..... More
![Item #113986 'Homes in Lonely Places'. [An article contained in] The Home Annual for 1939. Ion...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/113986_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553647909)
Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald, 1939. A selection of vignettes describing living in Australia's more isolated spots. Other prose contributors include Frank Hurley (along with numerous illustrations from his photographs), Frank Dalby Davison, Frank Clune and Vance Palmer. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1947 (second edition)/ 1941. Inscribed ('Good luck to you') and signed by the author on the title page. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1933 [first edition]. The statement of limitation indicates this is 'One of 200 copies in art [artificial] leather, with jacket bound in. This is No. 125', numbered and signed by the author. The book is based on the life of Cecil John Levien (1874-1932), district officer..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1939 (first edition, with the variant 'red question-mark' dustwrapper). More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1947 [first published in 1941]. This edition is in the Australian Boys' Adventure Series. More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1922 [first Australian edition]/ 1921. From the personal collection of the explorer and pastoralist Joseph Breaden, with his ownership signature on both front flyleaves and his initials in ink on the leading edge of each volume. Breaden 'was second in command to Hon. David Carnegie, who explored..... More
London, William Heinemann, 1897 [first edition, second issue]. The Heinemann first edition was published in September 1897 (a month before the US edition) in two issues, one for the British market (with 1898 on the title page) and one for the colonial market (on wove paper, and with 1897 on..... More
London, Archibald Constable and Co., 1902 [first UK edition]. More
New York, Scribner's, 1906. Some Australian content; there is also a 13-page 'Ethnological Introduction' by Alfred C. Haddon. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown, with his pencilled ownership initials. More
![Item #114058 Nature's Masterpiece. Jenolan Caves NSW [cover title]. Jenolan Caves, Harry PHILLIPS](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/114058_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553647909)
Willoughby, 'Photographed, Printed and Published by H. Phillips', [1910s]. More
London, Lund Humphries, 1992/ 1961 and 1973 (first English language editions). Translated by Ralph Manheim, and edited by Jurg Spiller. More
London, John Murray, 1838 (first edition). Provenance: 'The Hindmarsh Library & Reading Rooms' inkstamp on the title page, and the later Hindmarsh Institute (Incorporated) library by-laws plate on the front pastedown (mounted over an earlier plate); the initials 'H.I.' are stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine. The..... More
[Hobart], Wellington Bridge, 2012. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1926. Department of Mines Geological Survey of South Australia Bulletin Number 12. With the ownership signature of C.T. Madigan on the front cover and title page. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), geologist and explorer, was selected by (Sir) Douglas Mawson as meteorologist for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914..... More
The record is not included (think about it ...) but the sleeve has been slit open and the inside blank double-page spread has been completely filled with a large inscription signed and dated (1986) by Marceau, with large doodles of an eye and a flower thrown in for good measure..... More
