Adelaide, C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell and W.C. Rigby, [1865]. The third of the long-running series of almanacks edited by Boothby, the South Australian Government statist. His superior product saw off a number of competitors and was incorporated with Sands and McDougall's 'South Australian Directory' in 1884 (which finally..... More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. Inscribed to 'Rev'd J. Hall Angus with J.H. Angas' kind regards. 20 Sep 1893' (from the older son of George Fife Angas to an Angus relative). Ferguson 10473 (noting an erratum slip). More

London, Charles H. Kelly, 1899. Inscribed and signed by the author on the recto of the frontispiece 'To Mr Buttrose from John Blacket, Feb. 1900'. Ferguson 7077 (noting only 'Brown cloth boards, title repeated in gold on front cover and spine'; we have also handled copies in red, blue and..... More

Melbourne, Salvation Army, 1919. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 241. More

The bookplates, all unmounted, are printed in two or three colours, and two have applied hand-colouring. The bookplate not present is Harry Muir's 'Ex Lib Galsworthii'. More

Broken Hill, G.F. Jenkinson, [circa 1890s]. Jenkinson was active in the region from 1885, according to his advertisement in 'The History of Broken Hill' by Samuel Curtis (1908); Davies and Stanbury (1985) have him there from 1889. One of the photographs is captioned in the image '[Sir Hen]ry Parkes at..... More

Melbourne, George Robertson, 1874. The only published book of poetry by this important South Australian novelist; the title work, of 130 pages, is subtitled 'A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition'. More

The medal was established by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1927 in honour of the biochemist Henry George Smith (1852-1924). The obverse features a portrait in low relief of Smith, and the reverse shows his birth and death dates and the Latin motto 'Solum utile verum'. South Australian-born Sir..... More

Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of Humanities, 1985 (the first two volumes) and 1987 (both parts of the third volume) (all first editions). 'With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with..... More

Further specific details are pencilled onto the verso of each mount, namely 'P.R. Allen's Store', 'Rundle's Store', and 'Bennett Street'. Interestingly, the well-exposed interior of Allen's store shows another photographer at work. The initials 'FEB' are on the verso of each mount; not unnaturally, we thought this was the photographer..... More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1867. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 137 of 1867. Reports by E.A. Delisser of his surveys in the Eucla area, and by Captain B. Douglas of HM Colonial Schooner 'Flinders' on Delisser's proposed anchorage and landing-place. The accompanying 'Plan showing surveys and exploration, by Mr E.A. Delisser..... More

Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1936. More

Melbourne, Deutscher Art Publications and Resolution Press, Sydney, 1981. Number 380 of 1000 copies. More

Adelaide, University of Adelaide, 1971 to 1974. A collection of 294 scientific papers by the important statistician and geneticist Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962). 'Perhaps no other man has had a greater impact on the methodology of scientific research in [the twentieth] century. Fisher's writings are renowned as a basis..... More

North Caulfield, Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1982. Number 115 of 1500 copies. More

South Yarra, Croft Press, 1979. 'Reprinted from the Pamphlet originally published by J. Hately of Wolverhampton, circa 1805, and further embellished with Illustrations by Donald Friend. Hand-printed at the Croft Press'. This is number 170 of 250 copies signed by Donald Friend. More

The library principally contains children's books (most with moral and religious themes), together with some devotional works and popular histories, published from the 1850s to the 1880s, although dates range from as early as 1833 to around 1915. Several volumes have the ink ownership stamp of Reverend Gustav Julius Rechner..... More

Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1932. Gilmore was well known for her advocacy of Indigenous Australians, and many of the poems in this collection reflect this preoccupation. In the foreword she states that '... I have attempted to write here in songs some of the emotions of a people once generous..... More

London, The Richards Press, 1928. More

London, John Murray, respectively 1854 (seventh edition), 1856 (eleventh edition), and 1854 (fourth edition). A handsome set of the principal works of Henry Hallam in nine volumes, with the armorial bookplates of Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE (1910-1981) and Sergius Henry d'Avigdor in each volume. [9 items]. More

Gouache on grey-brown paper, signed 'Mary P. Harris' at the bottom right-hand corner of the image. With the label of Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide, on the backing paper. Yorkshire-born Mary Packer Harris (1891-1978), is best known as a teacher at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts, where her..... More

Sydney, The Legend Press, [1948]. The first volume in the Australian Artists Editions series, and one of 1000 copies. With a biographical note by John Brackenreg. More

[Otley, Renwick of Otley (identified from the company's monomark 'B.C.M./ RNIKZ'), circa 1930s]. The bottom portion of each board-game contains the rules, a number of cut-out counters, and a cut-out hexagonal spinner ('Cut out small square in centre of top with point of sharp penknife and insert used match stick..... More