Our latest catalogue contains two early works on mathematics, including John Wilkins's Mathematicall Magick (1648), the first edition of the first book on mechanics in English. There are other antiquarian books on economics, law, philosophy and religion, and a bound volume of eight pamphlets (1803-1808) on the Napoleonic Wars.
You will also find tickets to the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, the signed limited edition of the Works of Max Beerbohm (10 volumes, 1922-28), signed lithographs by Oskar Kokoschka, a mammoth map of Kangaroo Island (1858), and an unpublished large-format photograph by George Aiston of a Wangkangurru elder spinning string from grass fibres using a cross-piece spindle (early 1920s).
London, Collins, 1941 [first edition]. '"The Butterfly" is the story of a spinster lady who falls in love with a commercial traveller and is finally murdered by him. That baldly, is the plot, but Martin Armstrong makes literature of it by the power of his characterisation and by the slow..... More
![Item #108434 Bayonets of the World. Volume 1 [to] ... Volume 4 [all published]. Bayonets, Paul...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693961265)
Kedichem, Military Collectors Service, [circa 1973, 1974, 1974, and 1976]. [4 items]. More
[Germany, privately printed, circa 1905]. Number 26 from a privately-printed edition of only 200 copies on Zanders laid paper; the translation is by Johannes Minckwitz. More
![Item #114836 The Works of Max Beerbohm [complete in 10 volumes]. Max BEERBOHM](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/114836_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559717345)
London, William Heinemann, 1922 to 1928. Number 453 of 780 sets (750 for sale), with the first volume signed by the author. The titles are 'The Works of Max Beerbohm'; 'More'; 'Yet Again'; 'A Christmas Garland'; 'And Even Now'; 'Zuleika Dobson'; 'Seven Men'; 'Around Theatres l'; 'Around Theatres ll'; and..... More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995, Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide), with his bookplate. More
Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers, 1917, 1914 and 1914. The first formal Census taken since Federation. Knibbs explains in the preface to his report that its publication was delayed for three years because of the 'disorganisation of duties which resulted from the war and the work involved in the..... More
Kensington, NSW University Press, 1992. More
[Adelaide, Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia, 1943]. The annual report for 1942, with directories of personnel, committee members and churches for the two years ahead, plus short articles on the history of the Congregational Church in South Australia, and the Parkin Aboriginal Mission at Point McLeay. More
Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. The superior full-cloth binding; most copies were bound in quarter cloth and printed papered boards. More
The original gelatin silver photograph contains vignette portraits of the 'Five Cricketers of the Year': the Australians Warren Bardsley and Vernon Ransford, Sidney Barnes, Douglas Carr, and Arthur Day. More
This large-format black and white gelatin silver photograph (303 × 240 mm) is personally signed in ink on the image by Sir Donald Bradman (1908-2001), and comes with our letter of authenticity. Although produced in the mid-1990s, this photograph was individually hand-printed from the original 1930s negative. We purchased it..... More
It was issued as part of a series of fifteen portrait postcards of the 1930 Australian Test team. 'Jackson reached his peak at 19 when, in Adelaide against England in February 1929, he played in his first Test match and scored a chanceless 164 runs in 368 minutes. He had..... More
The rear cover has been signed in ink by the bulk of the squad: Border (captain), Marsh, Boon, Dyer, Jones, McDermott, May, Moody, Reid, Peter Taylor, Steve Waugh and Zesers (plus Crompton, Alcott and Bob Simpson, respectively the manager, the physiotherapist and the coach). Only Mike Veletta and Simon O'Donnell..... More
York Beach, Samuel Weiser, 1992 [facsimile edition]/ 1929. One of 1000 copies. More
London, Harding and Lepard, and G.B. Whittaker, 1827 (fourth edition, greatly enlarged and corrected). An attractive early edition of this classic of bibliography. With the early armorial bookplate of the English classical scholar Benjamin Bickley Rogers, and the later bookplate of Hardwicke Knight. More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. A Special Bulletin issued by the South Australian Department of Intelligence. 'The purpose of this book is not to catalogue or to scientifically describe our native birds; but to bring prominently before the public, the police, and others in authority, and more especially the..... More
London, Bernard Quaritch, 1900. Fraser's collection comprised some 475 scarabs and cylinders. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1934. More
[London, The Author], 1900. The edition was limited to 200 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and presumably out of series. More
London, H. Grevel & Co., 1897. With the attractive pictorial bookplate of Alfred Trapnell on the pastedown. 'Alfred Trapnell (1838-1917), was born in Bristol and was a ship's captain trading in the East before joning his father's metal smelting business.... He collected Chinese, Plymouth and Bristol porcelains and Spode named..... More
![Item #100147 Native Laws of the Ellice Islands (British Protectorate). 1894 [cover title]. Ellice...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/100147.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559717847)
Suva, Edward John March, Government Printer, 1894. Offered with a copy of the same title printed in Gilbertese: 'Tulafono o le Atu Elisa (Faamamaluiga e Peretania)'. Publication details, format and pagination are the same as above; the rear cover is a little creased and foxed, and the spine is starting..... More
Auckland, Leightons Limited [Printers], 1945. The author is identified on the last page of text. Dr Henry Evans Maude (1906-2006), British civil servant and anthropologist, was for many years an administrator on various Pacific islands, including the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now Kiribati and Tuvalu). At the time of compiling..... More
Adelaide, Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide (to Number 22); Carfax (numbers 23-45); and Routledge (numbers 46-51), 1985 to 2006. At the time the journal was published bi- or triannually. [49 items]. More
Two of the portraits are dated (France, July 1917 and [London], October 1918); one of the others is credited to an English photographer; the fourth one was almost certainly taken while Dixon was on active service. They give a graphic portrayal of the impact the war has had on him..... More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1762 [first edition]. 'The part dealing with Crown law is a highly authoritative exposition of the law relating to treason, homicide, and some other capital offences' (Pargellis and Medley 630). The four-page 'Advertisement. To be placed immediately after the Preface' was produced after the book was published;..... More
![Item #114190 'Jubilee of K[nights] T[emplar] in South Australia - Aug. 24th 1908' (caption on a...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/114190_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559614962)
The verso of the mount has some pencilled notes by the framer (not least, 'stain out gilt printing', thus obliterating the photographer's details!); the client's name was Boucaut. This would be Sir James Penn Boucaut (1831-1916), three-times Premier of South Australia, clearly visible in the foreground of the photograph. Sitting..... More
The material relates to her travels in Asia, Africa and Europe in the early 1990s, accompanied by her husband, the German artist Anselm Kiefer. Many of these photographs, dating back to Graf's earliest use of the camera on her journeys, are overwritten with her often-impressionistic notes and commentaries. This intriguing..... More
![Item #96386 History of the English People [four volumes]. John Richard GREEN](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/96386.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553758652)
London, Macmillan and Co., 1880 to 1883 (early printings). An attractive set of this popular social history of England from the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons to Waterloo. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty, with this ownership signature and 'St John's College, Cambridge' in each volume..... More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874 (second edition). The complete first series in an attractive Victorian binding. A further five volumes in two series were published, covering the reign of Queen Victoria. Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of the South Australian pastoralist and book collector Henry Hampden Dutton (1879-1932);..... More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1973. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 30, Social Anthropology Series Number 5. More
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. The decidedly arch (if not waspish) account of a hunting safari undertaken by two Edwardian ladies, Agnes Herbert and her cousin Cecily, in Somaliland in 1906. The tone is set by Miss Herbert's dedication: 'To the Leader of the Opposition Shoot, Soldier, Shikari..... More
Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1700 [second edition]/ [1692]. More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. The name of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor, is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers..... More
![Item #114605 An impressive large-format photograph of a 'Wangkangurru [Wonkonguru] man spinning...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/114605.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559719788)
A similar (but far less appealing) image, previously unpublished, appears in the 2009 augmented second edition of 'Savage Life in Central Australia' by George Aiston and George Horne, first published in 1924. From 1912 to 1923, George (Poddy) Aiston (1879-1943), policeman and ethnographer, 'was based at the Birdsville Track outpost..... More
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Adelaide, Government Printer, November 1992; March 1993; and September 1993. The complete report of the Royal Commission into the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia in 1991, from the collection of the Royal Commissioner, Samuel J. Jacobs AO QC. Loosely inserted is a greetings card dated 5 March..... More
Roseville East, Craftsman House, 1994. 'This unique and thoroughly researched dictionary contains profiles of over 500 Western Desert artists ... During the 1970s the Papunya Tula Artists were the best known group of Aboriginal artists but since then work from Yuendumu, Napperby, Mt Allen, Lajamanu, Ernabella, Utopia and Balgo Hills..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1858. Douglas, the Harbor Master of South Australia, refers regularly to the observations of Flinders, the French (under Baudin) and Eyre in this survey from the western boundary of the province. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 134 of 1858. In the two-page report, Douglas, the Harbor Master of South Australia, publicly expresses his 'admiration of the wonderful correctness in all essential points of Capt. Flinders's survey; and would observe, that no means at our disposal at present..... More
London, Printed by M. Flesher, for Joanna Brome and William Clarke, 1682 [first edition]. The first edition of a funeral sermon by this important English churchman, with much on Grace, Beauty, and Womanhood. Thomas Ken (1637-1711), Bishop of Bath and Wells, was one of the Seven Bishops to protest against..... More
Three are 210 × 150 mm (folded size), two of which are in colour; the fourth one is 125 × 170 mm (folded size). All four cards are signed in ink by Oskar Kokoschka and his wife Olda (who has also inscribed the two colour cards). Only one inscription is..... More
It is offered together with another eleven letters and an aerogram (seven in German, five in English, dated between 1974 to 1980), all written and signed by Olda Kokoschka to the Roths. The content tends to be routine and repetitive, but it is not without appeal. For example, in November..... More
London, Max Parrish & Co. Limited, in association with Chanticleer Press Incorporated, New York, 1948. The book was issued in conjunction with Kokoschka's first American exhibition, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The colophon states that 'Of this edition of 2,000 copies, 200 numbered copies have been specially..... More
London, William Heinemann Limited, 1934 (third impression and first 'Cheap Edition')/ 1932. Provenance: the pioneering Australian children's book bibliographer Marcie Muir, with her George Perrottet-designed bookplate (an attractive handcoloured woodcut of a vase of Australian native flowers, in her maiden name, Marcie Collett). More
London, Martin Secker, July 1927 (second impression)/ June 1927. With the bookplate of John Preece (designed by Lionel Lindsay). More
London, Company of Stationers, 1606 [new and corrected edition]/ 1515. With summaries of hundreds of cases heard during the reign of Edward III (1327 to 1377), selected from the Yearbooks and arranged chronologically. The cases range from criminal matters to property disputes. The text, in Law French, is set in..... More
![Item #105119 The Erstwhile Savage [cover title]. An Account of the Life of Ligeremaluoga (Osea)....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/105119_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559717345)
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., 1932. Inscribed and signed by the translator, an Australian missionary. According to the foreword, this book is 'unique in being the first autobiography of a New Britain native, and possibly of any native of the Pacific'. The author was an early convert to Christianity, and..... More
Bungendore, Odana Editions, 2003. The 135 watercolours featured 'in this volume are a chronological survey of Norman Lindsay's work in the medium from 1897 when he was eighteen years old to 1969 when he died at the age of ninety'. Two related newspaper articles are loosely inserted; one of them..... More
[Manila? 2773rd Engineers Base Reproduction Company, 1945]. 'Two and a half years ago the first men came together to form this unit. Starting "Down Under" in Brisbane, we moved northward, adding men as we gathered miles, until Manila became our final home. During this time we have seen and done..... More
![Item #97501 'Achills Sturz' [Achilles' Fall, 1969]. An original chalk lithograph (now archivally...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/97501_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536739778)