[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. The author was also Chairman of the 2/10th Battalion AIF History Committee; his signature (E.F. Allchin) appears at the end of the acknowledgements section (page ix). Fellow-committeeman Hec Ellis, who contributed the chapter on sport, has also signed this page (appending the date 6 May..... More

Melbourne, 'Designed, Engraved and Printed by Osboldstone', [circa 1919]. We have also handled examples of this poster presented as the centrefold in a half leather and gilt-decorated cloth cover, with oblong-format printed text as the pastedowns ('Records of the Generals whose Portraits appear on the Record' at the front, and..... More

There are two each of Tetbury and Oxford, and one each of Windsor Castle and Gloucester Cathedral. Four are captioned in the negative, recording the location and date (between 1 October and 25 November 1918); all have alpha-numeric reference numbers. The fifth photograph, possibly a composite of several vertical images..... More

The artist is 1894 Air Mechanic Sydney English, Aeroplane Repair Section, stationed at the time at the Australian Flying Corps Training Depot at Wendover, Buckinghamshire. He was a twenty-something iron founder from Northcote in Victoria when he enlisted on 27 April 1917; his artistic skills would appear to be innate..... More

Sydney, Penlington & Somerville, 1928. + 'Kingsford Smith (Aussie is proud of you)'. Words & Music by Jack O'Hagan. Melbourne, Allans, [1928]. A piece of sheet music commemorating the historic flight: overlapping colour-pictorial wrappers, 8 pages including the covers (the title song is on pages 3-5); contemporary ownership signature on..... More

Adelaide, John Martin & Co. Ltd., [1920]. The recto features sepia-toned circular portraits of the two brothers, the text as above, with the addition of the details of the two mechanics, Bennett and Shiers, the itinerary, and a map (all printed in blue), with the route printed in red. The..... More

[London], By Permission of the 'Manchester Guardian', [1916]. A piece of hemmed white linen (overall dimensions 610 × 465 mm), the map (510 × 382 mm) printed in black, within a decorative blue and red border; in fine condition. The area depicted is roughly from Arras, Pozières, Albert and Rosières-en-Santerre..... More

Limerick, Peggy Bawn Press, 2011. A study of the life and work of 'the peerless Scottish yacht designer, George Lennox Watson (1851-1904) ... Watson's career spanned a seminal period in industrial and social development, embracing the powerful transition from intuitive and anonymous craft work to technological innovation in custom design..... More

Melbourne, George Robertson and Company Propy. Ltd., [1918] (see page 1075 in passing). Edwin James Brady (1869-1952), journalist and writer, uses the introduction to this work to introduce himself as much as anything: 'My work on "Australia Unlimited" began definitely with the year 1912.... I had spent many years in..... More

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1903. Phosphate ore in South Australia was discovered at Clinton on Yorke Peninsula in 1899; the map is dated 22 February 1902. More

Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More

Melbourne, E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, [1913]. The author's first published book. The front cover illustration is by David Low; the last six pages are a Glossary, 'for the use of the thoroughly genteel'. McLaren 243. The Institute of Australian Culture contains on its website some interesting information about this book..... 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, Government Printer, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. A superb production, limited to only 500 numbered sets; this set is number 1. More

An original hand-coloured lithograph (sheet size 355 × 540 mm); in fine condition. More

London, Alexander Moring Ltd., and Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, May 1906 (second edition)/ October 1905. Muir 3110 (not noting the preliminaries, and referring to the colophon as an acknowledgement). More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [probably early 1910s]/ 1905. This edition is not listed in Muir (but see Muir 3112 for the 'New and revised edition' of 1909, and an undated example). The first, second and third impressions of the first edition of 1905 contain 24 plates, whereas this one, and..... More

London, Dulau, 1896. The purpose of this scientific expedition, sponsored by mining magnate and philanthropist William Austin Horn, and with Charles Winnecke as commander and surveyor, was to examine the MacDonnell Ranges on the not unreasonable premise that 'when the rest of the Continent was submerged the elevated portions of..... More