Manchester, The Open Air Publications Limited, [circa 1937]. 'A valuable guide to the mountains of Ireland complete with one-inch ordnance map' (dustwrapper blurb). More

Adelaide, Adelaide University Arts Association, [1940]. The first issue of the journal, taking off where 'Phoenix' crashed and burned. The introductory note says it all: 'Last year "Phoenix" went, and thus was happily consummated a failure to understand which had started with the first number. Had the members of the..... More

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1912. 'Mary Ansell (1868-1950) published three books in her lifetime: "The Happy Garden" and "Happy Houses", both in 1912; and "Dogs and Men" in 1924. The former two were written three years after she had left her writer-husband, J.M. Barrie, for Gilbert Cannan, an up-and-coming..... More

[Antwerp, Plantin, from the second version of the plate, re-engraved circa 1574]. A hand-coloured engraved map from a Latin edition of Ortelius' groundbreaking 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', considered the first modern geographical atlas, 'produced in thirty-one editions between 1570 and 1612' (David Parry: 'The Cartography of the East Indian Islands', 2005)..... More

Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1988. With the bookplate and signature of Grattan Wheaton OAM. More

Adelaide, ANFC, 1940. Bound in contemporary full white calf (with a contrasting leather title-label lettered in red on the front cover) together with eleven similar (undamaged) minutes from meetings held later in Adelaide (A), Melbourne (M), Perth (P), or Sydney (S): 1941 (A), 1946 (M), 1948 (A, henceforth called 'Executive..... More

Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1988 and 1988. Offered with two companion volumes by the same author, published by UBCP, and in fine condition with fine dustwrappers: Russia in Pacific Waters, 1715-1825 (1981; xviii, 300 pages with a double-page map plus 23 plates); and Russian Shadows on the British..... More

Melbourne, Schutze, Steffens & Co., [late 1880s]. 'The Bendigo Advertiser' (28 November 1889) contains the following short notice: 'Photographic Views of Sandhurst. We have received an album of photographic views of Sandhurst from Messrs Schultze [sic], Steffens and Co., of Melbourne. They are the finest photographs of the city we..... More

Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1993 (first Canadian edition)/ 1993. One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some..... More

London, Griffith, Farran and Co., 1894. Inscribed on the half-title to 'E.P. Nesbit Esq QC, with the Author's kind regards'. The recipient was Edward Paris[s] Nesbit (1852-1927), 'lawyer, libertine, lunatic' (the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' will enlighten you). The imprint details on the title page have been crossed out and..... More

Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, Printers, 1864. The address was delivered by Professor McCoy at the Society's Anniversary Dinner on 25 April 1864. Among other things, he discusses at some length and in great detail the 'unlucky mischances' that dogged the last weeks of the Burke and Wills expedition. McLaren 6620..... More

This photograph of Martinho Lowande (1839-1927) and his daughter Marrietta (1871-1962) was one of a number taken in Melbourne in 1878 when the Lowandes toured Australia as members of Cooper, Bailey's Great International Circus, from the USA. [We are indebted to Mark St Leon, the Australian circus historian, for kindly..... More

It is a most lavish production, comprising a very large sheet of deckle-edged card (300 × 255 mm), with the city's coat-of-arms printed in gilt at the head and the bill of fare occupying the bottom half. Tipped in on the top portion is a large title-etching ('Supper. Menu', 105..... More

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971 (facsimile edition)/ 1798 and 1802. Peade A76: 1,002 sets. More

Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson & Co. Ltd. (Printers), 1933. Alfred John Cotton (1861-1941) was born in Jersey; he was apprenticed to the merchant marine at 14; at 22 he left the sea and settled in Australia ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). 'His subsequent years in Australia as a jackeroo [sic], station storekeeper..... More

[Hobart], Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Number 503 of 1000 copies numbered and signed by the author. + CRAIG: Old Tasmanian Prints prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the Mainland of Australia. Launceston, Foot & Playsted, 1964. Quarto, xii, 349 pages with 81 plates (7 in colour). Colour pictorial..... More

Sydney, Elizabethan Press, 1978. More

London, Charles Griffin, 1920. Provenance: M.E. (Max) Lawton, with his signature on the front pastedown. He was one of the sons in J.A. Lawton & Sons Limited, Adelaide, coach and motor body builders, and manufacturers of 'Electric Factory Vehicles' (for instance, forklifts). More

London, Butterworths, 1851 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1844. Provenance: Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875), 'one of the most important pioneers of South Australia', with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. His signature in pencil appears on an early blank, above an inscription in pencil in his hand: 'With..... More

Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1940 (new edition)/ 1916 (as 'The Australian Household Guide'). 'An Australian Guide-Book to Good Living. Contains: Thousands of Recipes and Hundreds of Household Hints, with articles upon Foods and their Value'. More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1916. The Yudnamutana Mining Field is in the Northern Flinders Ranges. 'One of the main mines in the Yudnamutana District, the Yudnamutana mine (also known as the Yuda mine) was worked intermittently for copper. Started around 1862, work was abandoned in 1867, then picked up by the..... More