It may be that a catalogue from an antiquarian bookseller is the last thing you are looking for at the present time. But this is what we do, and old habits die hard. Hopefully you will find something in our latest offering to lift the spirits or engage the mind.
Highlights include a signed original print of Max Dupain's iconic photograph 'Sunbaker', and early issues of Verve complete with the sumptuous colour lithographs by the likes of Klee, Miró, Kandinsky, Chagall and Matisse.
Happy browsing, and stay healthy!
New York, 1917 to 1942. + Annals of Medical History. Index (1917-1942) (quarto, 89 photocopied leaves, printed rectos only, in binder's cloth). [25 items]. More
Published in Paris in both French and English editions (with the texts translated by Robert Sage) under the directorship of E. Teriade (an ex-patriate Greek, Efstatios Eleftheriades), 'Verve' was 'devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms'. 'That the illustrations may retain the import of the originals..... More
Published in Paris in both French and English editions (with the texts translated by Robert Sage) under the directorship of E. Teriade (an ex-patriate Greek, Efstatios Eleftheriades), 'Verve' was 'devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms'. 'That the illustrations may retain the import of the originals..... More
Published in Paris in both French and English editions (with the texts translated by Robert Sage) under the directorship of E. Teriade (an ex-patriate Greek, Efstatios Eleftheriades), 'Verve' was 'devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms'. 'That the illustrations may retain the import of the originals..... More
London, Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804 [first edition]. Bound together with another title by John Abernethy (1764-1831, distinguished London surgeon and a student of John Hunter): 'Special Observations on Injuries of the Head; and on Miscellaneous Subjects' (Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson, 1811, first American edition; octavo, 162 pages..... More
Adelaide, Robert Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1878; William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1879, 1880 and 1881; and Sands & McDougall, Printers, 1882. A consecutive run of five annual reports of the City of Adelaide, from the 27th to the 31st. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his pencilled..... More
Sydney, Tourist International Publishing Co. (printed by Webb and Son, Adelaide), [circa 1889]. See Ferguson 9120 and 15757-15759 for items with similar titles (but ranging in pagination from 200 to over 290 pages). More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1962 (first edition). The original manuscript is here published in full for the first time. More
London, J. and P. Knapton, and P. Vailant, 1744 [first edition in English]. The nine-page introduction by the unidentified Bazin quotes his sources: 'To what M. de Réaumur has said, in his Memoir concerning Bees, I have added every thing which had relation to that subject, which is found in..... More
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1909 ('New edition, revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated')/ 1861. More
Adelaide, 'Privately printed for The ... Company', 1965. Number 186 of only 320 copies; this copy is signed by Chairman of Directors, Tom Elder Barr Smith (in our experience, not all copies are signed by him). The principal author is identified in the Chairman's foreword as A.A.R. Cooper. The pioneering..... More
London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1843. The author lived in South Australia from March 1839 to March 1842; chapters include 'Sketch of Adelaide and Surrounding Villages - Colonial Life and Manners', 'The Native Inhabitants', and 'Information for Emigrants', plus an appendix bringing the information up to date to the end..... More
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986. The rear flap of the dustwrapper states that 'Volume 1 [is] on Southwestern Zaire ... The following three volumes in the series will cover the arts and cultures of Lower Zaire, southeastern Zaire, and northern and central Zaire'. We can find no record of..... More
Sydney, 2/3 Australian Field Regiment Association, 1998. Appendices include the Honour Roll, POW Roll and Nominal Roll. More
London, The Folio Society, 2015 (first thus). Number 207 of 1750 copies. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, [1885]. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 [of 1885]; only 850 copies printed. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, from 1881 to 1893. The first two reports have 'with compliments' inscriptions (possibly by George McEwin, one of the board); the recipient's name has been erased. John Ednie Brown (1848-1899), sylviculturist, was Conservator of Forests in SA (1878-1890), Director-General of Forests in NSW (1890-1895), and the first..... More
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist, was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated 'March 1988 Italy'). More
London, 'Daily Telegraph', 1937. The High Commissioners are: The Honourable Vincent Massey, Canada; The Right Honourable Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth of Australia; W.J. Jordan, New Zealand; C.T. Te Water, Union of South Africa; J.W. Dulanty, Irish Free State; and Sir Firoz Khan Noon, India. The Ambassadors are: Dr Paul Regis de..... More
Adelaide, Oxford University Press, 1983. 'This book traces in photographs, drawn from archival sources, the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' (and it continues still). More
Offered with a George Bush 'Vice-President of the United States' tie bar (with seal and facsimile signature). [2 items]. More
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 (first edition). 'Churchill has, during the six years 1932-38, achieved an extraordinary ascendancy in the House of Commons.... This book ... comprises more than forty of the speeches which he has delivered during this time on the paramount topics of foreign affairs..... More
London, Phoenix House Ltd, 1954 (first edition). Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (1917-2008), British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, television series host, and co-author of the screenplay for the 1968 film '2001: A Space Odyssey' (Wikipedia). In this early work for children, he is..... More
Adelaide, 'Published by the Artist, Lionel Coventry, 15 Fashoda Street, Hyde Park, South Australia', 1936. Number 73 of 120 copies numbered and initialled by the artist. More
London, Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1877 (second edition)/ 1876. The first of three volumes of fairy stories by Mary De Morgan (1850-1907), with illustrations by her brother William De Morgan (1839-1917), who 'was far more than William Morris's potter friend, as he is often remembered. He was the most inventive..... More
The verso is inscribed in pencil 'To Joe | Good Luck | Jack Dempsey'. More
London, Faber, 1969. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1991 (first edition in English)/ 1991 (in French). 'The revival of interest in Art Deco and the applied and decorative arts of the 1920s and 30s has also led to the rediscovery of its leading practitioners. The Swiss-born French artist Jean Dunand (1877-1942) ranks as one..... More
An original gelatin silver photograph (image size 367 × 404 mm) signed and dated in pencil ('Dupain '37') in the bottom right-hand corner, float-mounted as originally offered for sale, with the title 'Sunbaker' written in pencil by Dupain on the mount below the image. The verso of the mount is..... More
Adelaide, Gillingham Printers, 1985. The first and only edition of these memoirs; number 42 of 260 copies signed by Peter Cotton (Managing Director of Gillingham Printers). 'Frost's reminiscences recount his experiences as a labourer, gardener, shepherd, cowherd, drover, miner, house-repairer, builder, contractor and, ultimately, architect with such well-known buildings to..... More
The grant is for 'Eighty acres numbered 161 in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'Henry Giles of Adelaide | Merchant' for the sum of £80. Henry Giles (1812-1892) was born at 'Farrington-Gurney, Somerset, England and came to South Australia on the ship 'Buffalo' in 1836, listed as a Labourer. He..... More
A friendly, chatty letter from Gibbes, thanking the recipient, one Mitch Evans, for a cheque, 'but too much, so am returning $15.00'. The payment would have been for a copy of his autobiography, 'You Live But Once', self-published in 1994. He mentions some of his current health issues: 'my big..... More
Adelaide, Southern Heritage, May 2014 (second impression)/ November 2013. 'South Australia has a reputation for being different. Conceived as a "province" fully formed, it was the only colony to be founded by an Act of the British parliament. The ideals present at its founding in 1836 included enlightened aspirations towards..... More
London, John Murray, 1929. 'Rodney Gilbert (1889-1968) was an American conservative editorial writer, newspaper columnist.... In 1912 Gilbert went to China to travel the country; he began as a salesman for Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People but ended up spending 17 years there, becoming fluent in Chinese and..... More
Roseville, Beagle Press, 1987. Number 64 of 100 copies of the special collectors' edition in full leather, each containing 'an original signed lithograph by James Gleeson. Copies numbered 1-50 contain "Comet I" and copies numbered 51-100 contain "Comet II"'. Apart from a tiny spot of foxing to the bottom edge..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, 1898. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 (noting only the frontispiece portrait). Provenance: Peter Dowding Prankerd (1819-1902), with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown (with an additional inscription in ink 'to William Leigh | May 10th [18]99'). Prankerd arrived in South..... More
[Mt Gambier], Kanawinka Writers and Historians Inc., 2007. Number 77 of only 500 copies, and rare since the day it sold out soon after publication. George Woodroofe Goyder (1826-1898), South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty years, is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's Line. For over 160 years, 'this line which..... More
The eight-line poem is written on the verso and recto of consecutive leaves in the small autograph book; it is apparently unpublished. 'They've raised the fares by ten percent. | It leaves us in consequence, short of rent. | But if we raise the legal tender, | Be off to..... More
London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1938. The front flyleaf is inscribed by Robert Graves to 'Margaret with love from "The Captain" 1938'. Higginson & Williams A47a. Provenance: Margaret Russell (née Reed), nanny to Jenny, the first child of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson, then lifelong friend of Robert Graves; by..... More
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. This copy contains corrections and alterations to the text in the author's hand on 30 pages. Most of them (on 24 pages) are minor typos or changes from double to single inverted commas. However, in six instances (pages 4, 24, 26, 55, 60 and 82)..... More
London, Hogarth Press, 1942. The front free endpaper is inscribed by Robert Graves to 'Margaret with love from The Captain 1942'. Volume VI in The New Hogarth Library. 'These three small books are published under a single cover, for economy and friendship'; pages 43-64 are contributed by Robert Graves. Higginson..... More
Graves has written: 'With much love to dear Leonard who can always count on his friend Robert Graves Feb 3 1937'. Riding writes 'With much love to dear Leonard from Laura, who was born just twenty-five years before him. Laura Riding. February 3, 1937. London'. Following the break-up of their..... More
Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. One of The History of Medicine in Context series. Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his signature (August 2011) on the front flyleaf. More
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892 ('The Works') to 1896 ('Life and Letters'). [15 items]. More
San Francisco, Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc., 1991. One of only 470 sets of the standard edition; there were also 30 sets of an 'extra-deluxe' edition. The 'first bibliographical catalogue to offer complete annotated descriptions, with full collations, paginations, and plate counts for the first editions of the great classics..... More
San Francisco, Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc., 1991. This deluxe edition was limited to only 30 numbered sets, with a printed list of original subscribers. This set is number 11, and comes from the collection of Dr Milton Roxanas. The 'first bibliographical catalogue to offer complete annotated descriptions, with full..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2014 (first thus)/ 1866 (in the original French). Number 513 of 1250 copies. This is the first edition of this work to contain Victor Hugo's original illustrations. The translation and notes are by James Hogarth; the introduction is by Graham Robb, the author of 'Victor Hugo..... More
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Uralla, Idriess Enterprises Pty Limited, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1942 and 1943. One of only 500 sets. Although these are the facsimile editions, they are superb examples of the reprinter's craft, and the originals are so rare, we can't resist quoting a few snippets from the dustwrapper blurbs to whet appetites..... More
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Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1939 (first edition, with the variant colour pictorial dustwrapper). A rarely-seen book, even rarer with any part of the dustwrapper. 'Here is a book that every man and woman in Australia should read. In no other book is brought home to the average citizen, in language..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1980. The 'trade' edition, limited to 990 copies (this fact is not noted in the book). A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. More