We trust our latest catalogue finds you in good health; either way, we hope it improves your day. Our selections of rare 1930s Australian political ephemera and vintage trade catalogues are a reminder of what we have lost (and gained).
Photographs on offer include some 1861 Mayall portraits of British Royalty, a suite of late nineteenth century portraits of SA’s governors and administrators, and an album featuring Stawell and the Grampians of the 1930s.
For the rest, there’s early Australian exploration, numerous Escutcheon Press titles, cricket, literature … over to you now!
Adelaide, E.J. McAlister & Co., Printers (for A Society working for a Christian Social Order), 1939. Not in Trove. More
London, J.J. Guillaume, Chester Square, and Melbourne, James J. Blundell & Co., 44 Collins Street, [1854]. Sir William à Beckett (1806-1869), was 'Chief Justice of Victoria' when the book was published. 'From 1843 à Beckett suffered from some form of paralysis in the legs, reputedly derived from an injury while..... More
London, David Bogue, 1849 [first edition in English]. Prince Adalbert (1811-1873) was a Prussian naval theorist and admiral; several journeys led him between 1826 and 1842 to the Netherlands, Britain, Russia, Turkey, Greece, and Brazil (Wikipedia). He spent the last four months on 1842 in Brazil. Alexander von Humboldt makes..... More
Adelaide, The Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1928. Provenance: 'Haddon Bowen 7/8/1928' is written in ink on the inside front cover. 1866 Private Haddon Lancelot Bowen, 50th Battalion AIF, became a prisoner of war during the attack on Noreuil on the Western Front on 2 April 1917, and was..... More
Adelaide, Printed by Hussey & Gillingham, [1890s]. All plate leaves depict one or more illustrations from photographs, against a watercolour pictorial background with calligraphic titles. There is only one full-page plate proper. Trove records copies in four institutions, as well as what appear to be later editions: 'Gall's Glimpses of..... More
Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. One of 1000 copies of this high-quality facsimile. The illustrations comprise views of the fledgling city of Adelaide and outlying settlements, the topography, flora and fauna, and the Indigenous people and their lives. Some 22 of the 60 plates (and the..... More
![Item #75336 From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71. [Contained in]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/75336_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587531566)
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. The author was one of a small party of men, under Ralph Milner of Killalpaninna, which set out in December 1870 with 7000 sheep and about 300 horses, with the intention of claiming a South Australian Government reward for the first 1000 sheep or 100 head of..... More
Sydney, Technological Museum, Department of Public Instruction, 1915. Department of Public Instruction, Technical Education Branch, Technical Education Series, Number 19. More
Cairo, F. Diemer (printed by John Swain & Son, Ltd., London), [1914]. Provenance: 'Chas. Barrett. Cairo, 24/5/18' is written in ink on the inside front cover. Charles Leslie Barrett (1879-1959), naturalist and journalist, enlisted in June 1916 'in the Australian Imperial Force and joined the Camel Brigade Field Ambulance which..... More
![Item #118240 The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume I [and] Volume II: Colonial Latin...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118240_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587430840)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1984 and 1985 (all first editions). The set is complete in twelve volumes. [3 items]. More
[Adelaide, The Author ('W.K. Thomas & Co., Print'), 1922]. The foreword is by W.J. Sowden (Sir William Sowden, 1858-1943, editor of the 'South Australian Register'). A mixture of genres: tenderly sentimental ('The Golden Rose'), parochial ('Gawler, S.A.'), religious ('Christmas'), war ('The Worn-out Sentry: A Vision'; 'The Song of the Sandbags';..... More
Adelaide, South Australian Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1926/ 1864. More
![Item #108491 Offizium der Madonna. Vat. Lat. 3781 [cover title]. Jean BOURDICHON, attributed to](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108491_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587430840)
Zurich, Belser, 1984 (facsimile edition of a fifteenth-century manuscript). Volume 67 in the series 'Belser-Faksimile-Editionen aus der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana'. The original of this beautiful illuminated manuscript is in the Vatican Library ('Codex Vaticanus latinus 3781'); it is attributed to Jean Bourdichon (c.1457-1521). 'Over the course of a career that..... More
Sandhurst, K.J. Robshaw, Printer and Stationer, 1867. Thomas Bracken (circa 30 December 1841?-1898), was born in Ireland; he became an orphan in 1852. He 'was cared for by an aunt until about the age of 12, when he was sent to Australia to the care of his uncle, John Kiernan..... More
Dunedin, Arthur T. Keirle, 1890. The deluxe edition of poetical works by Bracken, published to commemorate New Zealand's Golden Jubilee. Thomas Bracken (circa 30 December 1841?-1898), was born in Ireland; he became an orphan in 1852. He 'was cared for by an aunt until about the age of 12, when..... More
The following paragraph appeared in 'The Photographic News' (Volume IV, Number 104, 31 August 1860, page 215, sourced from 'The Athenaeum'): 'Photography At The Palace. Mr Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album", the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace..... More
The following paragraph appeared in 'The Photographic News' (Volume IV, Number 104, 31 August 1860, page 215, sourced from 'The Athenaeum'): 'Photography At The Palace. Mr Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album", the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace..... More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1923 [first edition]. 'We have in these four volumes all, or practically all, the discoverable evidence upon the various parts of the subject, collected, weighed, sorted, classified and built up with immense care into a logical and beautiful structure, ornamented by a distinguished literary style.' Provenance..... More
Oxford, The Muston Company, 1925 (a facsimile edition of the original Clarendon Press edition)/ 1903. Provenance: Brian Medlin, with his pencilled ownership signature (1954) in each volume. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, The Society, 1946. 'Soon after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Mrs Alexandrine (Alexandra) Seager, a real estate and employment agent, and William Sowden, editor of the "Register", were shocked by the lack of public support for troops awaiting embarkation at the suburban Morphettville camp..... More
Sydney, The Author, May 1914/ [1911]. William James Chidley (1860?-1916), sex reformer and eccentric; we recommend you read his entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. But we'll give you The Answer here: 'While reasonably recommending vegetarianism, fresh air, sunlight and unrestrictive clothing, and criticizing money-making and class distinction, he..... More
![Item #118433 Boycott National Register! Defeat Conscription! [drop-title]. Conscription](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118433_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587531566)
Sydney, 'Issued by Central Committee, Communist Party of Australia' (and printed by The Forward Press Pty. Ltd.), [circa July 1939]. The date is written in ink at the foot of the leaflet. 'The National Register 1939 is a compilation of documents relating, a census of male persons between the ages..... 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
The postcard reproduces a photograph of 'Don Bradman, when playing for Bowral Cricket Club, 1926'. It is Series 1-3 issued by the Bradman Museum in Bowral in the 1990s. This example is signed by Don Bradman using a fine blue felt-tipped pen. More
Adelaide, South Australian Cricket Association, 1933. 'International Cricket. England v. Australia. Souvenir of Visit of MCC Team. October 1932 to March 1933. Third Test Match ...' [cover title]. Padwick 4487. More
The 12 signatures are Hassett (Captain), Benaud (12th man), Harvey, Hole, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston, Langley, Lindwall, McDonald, Miller, Morris and Ring. A heavyweight team by any account, with eight former Invincibles and five future Australian Captains. On the verso are the pencil signatures of the Victorian team for the..... More
The signatures are Allen (Captain), Ames, Barnett, Copson, Duckworth, Fagg, Farnes, Fishlock, Hammond, Hardstaff, Leyland, Robins, Sims, Verity, Voce, Worthington and Wyatt (plus the manager, Captain R. Howard). Apart from very light smudging, the leaf is in excellent condition. Australia won the series 3-2: 'England's failure can be attributed to..... More
The signatures are Hammond (Captain), Alec Bedser, Edrich, Evans, Fishlock, Gibb, Hardstaff, Hutton, Ikin, Langridge, Pollard, T. (Peter) Smith, Voce, Washbrook, Wright and Yardley (plus the manager, Major R. Howard); only Compton is missing. 'Hammond led a team of great experience, although many players were in the twilight of their..... More
Adelaide, Australian League of Peace and Democracy (SA), [1938]. Not in Trove. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1924. This combined issue also contains HALLIGAN, G.H.: An Expedition to Lake Eyre in South Australia (7 pages plus a map and a plate); DODWELL, G.F.: South Australian Solar Eclipse Expedition to Cordillo Downs, 1922 (13 pages plus 4 plates); WHITE, Captain S.A.: The Country traversed by the..... More
Melbourne, Department of External Affairs, 1916. Bulletin of the Northern Territory, Number 20, December 1916. An account of two expeditions between April and September 1915, and May and October 1916. 'The first expedition left Oodnadatta on the 23rd March, travelling by way of Macumba, Dalhousie, and Arina Water, on the..... More
Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1886. 'A description of Victorian vineyards and the Australian wine industry by a pioneer Australian vinegrower' (Ferguson 9049, not noting the plates). The author puts it a little less prosaically in his short preface: 'He who could not compose a landscape from his imagination may..... More
![Item #105862 The Australian Small Home Owner by 'Domus' [cover title]. 'DOMUS', Charles Edward...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/105862_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587433113)
Adelaide, printed by Felstead & Omsby [for the Author?], [circa 1929]. The Adelaide 'Mail' of 15 July 1929 contains the following paragraph: 'Mr Charles Edward Carter is well known to [radio] listeners as "Accelerator" and "Domus".... Mr Carter is the author of a book on homecraft, "The Australian Small Home..... More
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [circa 1890s] ('One hundred and forty-fourth thousand')/ 1884. The front flyleaf is inscribed 'This for Una in memory of the cold tongue & salad period from a sufferer. Y'clept [By the name of]. John. September 97'. Offered with a companion volume by Ewing, 'The..... More
Cheltenham, England, Burrow's Press Ltd, 1929. A short article in the Adelaide 'News' (15 January 1930) notes that 'An interesting booklet entitled "Australia Visits England" has just been published by Burrows Press Limited. It is the record of an actual visit, and consists of three parts, describing the journey, the..... More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, April 1991. Loosely inserted is a one-page note initialled by the publisher R.E. (Bob) Summers to Michael Treloar (on a discarded sectional-title leaf from the book), pointing out that the grey cover material 'is light-sensitive! So don't leave the book in the sun, because it..... More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, April 1991. Number 80 of 220 copies designed, hand-set and signed by R.E. Summers (and printed by Bob and his son Nick). The fifth book from the Escutcheon Press. More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, March 2002. Extracts from 'Travels in Arabia Deserta', first published in 1888. Number 14 of only 25 copies hand-set, produced (and signed) by R.E. Summers. The twenty-seventh book from the Escutcheon Press. More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, 2002. 'The passages, in order, are from: "Reflections on a Marine Venus" by Lawrence Durrell ... 1953 and "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell ... 1956' (page [18]). One of only 25 copies (numbers I-X comprised the special edition, number 1-15 the standard..... More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, 1993. Geoffrey Farmer, Norah's only son, discovered the letter, written to her in 1917, after her death in 1992. It told of the death at Gallipoli in June 1915 of a penfriend, 1874 Private Geoffrey Flemming, 2nd Battalion, who was killed by sniper fire three..... More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, January 1992. A 'new setting of poet Ralph Hodgson's lyrical paean to nature and the goodness of mankind' (from the original prospectus - we think - although this book has been 'in storage' since we purchased it new 28 years ago!). Number 34 of 55..... More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, February 1997. This story first appeared in 'Plain Tales from the Hills' (1888). Number 38 of 53 copies designed, hand-set, printed (and signed) by R.E. Summers. The seventeenth book from the Escutcheon Press. More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, Christmas 1996. 'This book originally appeared as Chapter Ten of "Conducted Tour", by Bernard Levin ... 1981' (page 40). Number 23 of 100 copies initialled by the printer, Bob Summers. 'This is the first Christmas Book from the Escutcheon Press and it marks the tenth..... More
![Item #118447 The News from Carthage. [Bound back to back with] Libretto. Purcell's Dido & Aeneas....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118447_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587430840)
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, June 2003. The poem by Kate Llewellyn was first published in 1999. Number 22 of 30 copies designed, type-set, printed and initialled by R.E. Summers. The twenty-eighth book from the Escutcheon Press (a corrigendum slip to this effect is tipped in on the colophon of..... More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, November 1996. 'This book originally appeared, in slightly altered version, in "IPA Review" and the "Weekend Australian".' Number 20 of 75 copies initialled by the designer, printer and publisher, R.E. Summers. More
Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, October 1989. 'In Algernon Charles Swinburne's dramatic monologue "Anactoria," the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho meditates on the relative values of carnal love and artistic immortality' (The Victorian Web, online). Number 28 of 75 copies signed by the printer, R.E. Summers. 'This is the third..... More
The prospectus for 'A Letter to Norah' is relatively straightforward: large octavo, [4] pages, sewn with blue thread in lettered card. 'A Private Pursuit' is far more involved: mounted in a two-colour card cover with a french flap at the rear, are one endpaper, two sample leaves (pages 9-10 and..... More
Taipei, Caves Books Ltd, 1986 (second printing, authorised Taiwan edition)/ 1978, and 1989 (second printing, authorised Taiwan edition)/ 1980. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, J.H. Sherring & Co., Printers, 1885. The large armorial seal of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of South Australia is embossed at the foot of the dedication leaf. More
