Irish-born Tate Adams (1922-2018) 'began painting and printmaking in 1949 at which time he studied for six months at the Central School of Art and Crafts, London. He arrived in Melbourne in 1951 and studied book illustration and design at Melbourne Technical College (now Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). He..... More

Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986. More

London, Grant Richards, 1897. The following is printed on the verso of the half-title, facing the title page: 'Of this book there is a very limited edition printed on Japanese vellum numbered and signed by the Author'. This copy is not numbered or signed, nor is it printed on Japanese..... More

'After the war and during the 1920s, the Salvation Army directed migrants to Australia. By this stage its efforts were directed to assisting families and settling farm boys, especially in Queensland. The Army worked closely with the Royal Colonial Institute and the Oversea Settlement Department within the Dominions Office. In..... More

Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1916. Most of the 62-page article comprises the 'Journal of Aurorae observed at Cape Royds, Ross Island ... during 1908' (specifically, from 26 March to 2 October). The first paragraph of the author's preface is worth quoting in full: 'The following notes were prepared..... More

Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1907 and 1909. This reprint edition was limited to 1000 sets. [2 items]. More

'The Nations Sign The Pact That "Closes The Gates Of War". A happy photograph, taken in the garden of the Premier's [sic] house in Downing Street after the Treaty of Locarno was signed....'. 'The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5-16 October 1925 and formally signed..... More

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1958. Provenance: the Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Thomas Thornton Reed, , with his armorial bookplate and ownership signature ('Thomas Adelaide'). A charming thank-you card (probably for a birthday card and poem sent by Reed) written and signed by the author, in the original envelope, is laid..... More

Adelaide, Lynton, [early 1970s facsimile edition]/ 1925 and 1927. The 56-page cross-referenced index by Dorothy Aldersey, new to this facsimile reprint, is indispensible. Sets of the original edition are impossibly scarce in our experience. [2 items]. More

Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1828. One of the Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints series; the introduction by David K. Wyatt is new to this edition. More

Although produced in the mid-1990s, this photograph was hand-printed from a negative depicting Bradman in the later 1940s. We have located online an image of him with his fellow-captain Lindsay Hassett before his testimonial match in Melbourne in December 1948, wearing what appears to be the same suit. The sepia-toned..... More

London, Printed for G. Kearsly, 1761. A history of the development of taxation in England, including a commentary upon the effects of every piece of legislation affecting taxes. More

Paris, Jean-Marie Farina, [early 1800s]. The broadsides advertise products stocked by Farina, a Paris perfumer. The first lists the extraordinary properties of the dentifrice of J.C. Dominique Merellini, while the second promotes a skin-whitening cream by way of inflated references to Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'. [2 items]. More

London, W.W. Gibbings, 1892 [first thus?]/ 1886 (first English translation)/ 1857. The first leaf is an advertisement for the publisher's 'Representative French Fiction' series. This work was first translated into English by Eleanor Marx-Aveling (1855-1898), the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. It was first published in London by Vizetelly &..... More

Largs Bay, The Author, 1994. Signed by the author on the title page. More

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. Each volume is number 441 of only 500 copies; the first (and only) edition, prepared from the original manuscript. More

Paris, Librairie de Hachette et Cie, 1863. Provenance: Richard Davies Hanson, with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. London-born Sir Richard Davies Hanson (1805-1876), author and judge (eventually Chief Justice of South Australia); he settled there in 1846. He had been very active in colonization schemes since the early 1830s..... More

Canberra, Commonwealth Government Printer, [1938]. Report, Northern Territory Number 30, of the Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia. More

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1793. Peade A148: 702 copies. More

Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2015. Tjala Arts is located at the base of the Musgrave Ranges in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. More