Highlights of our latest list include three striking prints by George Baxter relating to missionaries in the Pacific; Sturt's Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849), with the provenance of fellow-explorer George Woodroofe Goyder; significant books and photographs by Charles Pearcy Mountford; an impressive group of Wunderlich trade catalogues; and an interesting selection of military and shipping history, vintage photographs, and ephemeral printings.
Happy browsing!
Kapunda, 'Kapunda Herald' Print, 1929. 'This short account would have been impossible to put forth in book form but for the generous co-operation of Mr L.N. Tilbrook, our valued friend and fellow townsman, and the present-day proprietor and editor of the "Kapunda Herald". To him we owe our grateful thanks..... More
Melbourne, History House, 2002 (extensively revised and augmented edition)/ 1921. Signed by Carl Johnson. 'This revised edition does not attempt [to] nor cannot change the 1921 record of events. It does however offer significant enhancements to the original edition due to the inclusion of background information, a nominal roll, an..... More
London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [circa 1903] (first thus?). More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co. [Printers], 1925. The title page is signed boldly by the author. These memoirs of 42 years in the South Australian police force first appeared as a series of articles published in 'The Register'. Le Lievre was stationed at Burra, Quorn, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Port..... More
London, The Bodley Head, 1956 (first edition). The seventh and last volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series. More
Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. One of the publisher's 'Studies in Ethnomethodology' series. Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his ownership signature (March 1996). More
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Sydney, NSW Bookstall Co. Ltd., 1918. William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) became prime minister of Australia in October 1915. He travelled to England, arriving there 'on 7 March 1916. His public activity, in which he urged greater economic pressure on Germany and more co-operation with the dominions, was strenuous. Coming at..... More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. With the pictorial bookplate of J. Cluny Harkness (Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s, according to Trove). Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative, although the photographs may..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited (for the Royal Society of South Australia), 1911. This part-volume is complete in itself, and as published. Chiastolite is 'a variety of the mineral andalusite containing dark carbonaceous inclusions giving a cross-shaped appearance' ('Concise Oxford Dictionary'). 'The chiastolites herein described constitute, for the most part, a select..... More
Adelaide, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, 1980. The history of the McBride family and the family company, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, a major South Australian pastoral company controlling Wooltana, Teetulpa, Wilgena and Nepowie stations (among others). Number 41 of 350 copies signed by Phillip Affleck McBride, the Chairman of..... More
![The Exhibition Album of Melbourne Views [cover title]. Melbourne](/pictures/thumb/110419_01.jpg?v=1550894496)
[Melbourne, no publisher identified, circa 1880]. One of the panoramic views is 'The Melbourne International Exhibition' building (known as the Royal Exhibition Building today); the inaugural event was held there from October 1880 to April 1881. More
Adelaide, Rigby, Limited (for the Committee of the South Australian Children's Patriotic Fund), [1917]. The very small number of copies in Trove (one of which we supplied nearly two decades ago) make no reference to the secondary title, which we have not seen before. Many of the illustrations depict children..... More
Mounted behind a double window mat, framed and glazed; in fine condition. Irish-born Richard Ernest Minchin (1831-1893), 'painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director', emigrated originally to South Australia in 1851. He was employed with the Land Titles Registration Department for some 25 years from 1859, essentially as a draughtsman at..... More
Adelaide, Griffin Press [for the Author], 1955. Number 143 of 250 copies initialled by the author; this copy also has his full signature on the title page. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1976. The magnum opus of Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), published the year he died. It is a seminal study of the Aborigines of the Mann and Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia, with much of it based on his own extensive field..... More
Signed by the author on the declaration of originality page, with a further inscription on an initial blank 'To Ken and Peggy Mountford from Dad' (to his son and daughter-in-law). He has also written 'First Copy, Superseded' at the foot of the title page. Offered together with the revised version..... More
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
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Mountford has been busy in the eastern states: 'Ayers Rock is in the hands of the publishers, the last volume of the Arnhem Land reports is almost complete, and I am going to get my M.A. Apparently the last examiner (undoubtedly Stanner) was much fairer in his criticisms than the..... More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978 (fifth edition)/ 1939. The edition was limited to 1001 copies; this copy is unnumbered and out-of-series. More
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., 1895. More
[London, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1856]. An original tinted lithograph showing Florence Nightingale tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. This print comes from William Simpson's important plate book 'The Seat of War in the East' (1855-6) Abbie 'Travel in Aquatint and Lithography' 237.75. More
Melbourne, G.W. Green and Sons, 1934. The front flyleaf is signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), the battalion's Commanding Officer ('A.T. Paterson Lt.Col'). Dornbusch 334; Fielding and O'Neill, page 228 (giving the author as P.V. Allen, credited in the editor's foreword with laying much of the groundwork for the..... More
Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1986. Inscribed and signed by the author to Professor Henry Krips (son of the Austrian-Australian conductor and composer, Henry Krips). Veroffentlichungen zum Archiv fur Volkerkunde, Band 9. More
[Adelaide, Frederick George Goss, 1919]. The poster shows the colour patches of all units from the Light Horse, the 1st to 5th Divisions, and a number of other groups (from Signals to Dentistry via the Tunnellers), laid out in the Rising Sun motif with the English Crown as the centrepiece..... More
[Brisbane, A. Green/ Imperial War Museum], 2009 (second facsimile edition)/ 1923. Number 27 of 400 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 278. More
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1984] (facsimile edition)/ 1923. One of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 278. More
London, Wilson and Co. [Printers, for the Brigade] (Volumes 1 and 2), 1916 and December 1916, and [Sydney, Government Printer, 1920] (the Preface is dated 1 February 1920). The cover subtitles are 'Troopship Issue' (Volume I), 'Camp Life in England' (Volume II), and 'Active Service Issue' (Volume III). These three..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1930. With the two-colour bookplate (by George Perrottet, dated 1942) of horticulturalist, naturalist and author Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954). Loosely inserted are some orchid-related newspaper cuttings, a postcard-format photograph of an orchid, possibly taken by Pescott (inscribed on the verso 'Dendrobium? H. Overall, NSW 1927. Rupp..... More
New Haven, Yale University Press (for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), 2010 (revised edition)/ 1976. 'Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile and immediately influential domestic architect of the late domestic period in England.... His most prolific period of practice saw the triumph of "Old..... More
Adelaide, The Savings Bank of South Australia, 1943. More
Glasgow, William Maclellan, [circa 1951]. Lavinia Derwent was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Dodd (1909-1989), a Scottish broadcaster and author, mainly of works of fiction for children. 'Thousands of young people follow the comic strip adventures of Tammy Troot from day to day and know the other fascinating little Scots characters..... More
London, Robert K. Burt, 1862 [first thus]. Ferguson 15735. The Adelaide printing of the same year did not contain the map or the catalogue of exhibited products (see Ferguson 15734). Loosely inserted is a photocopy of an article from the Adelaide 'Observer' (18 January 1862), which states in part: 'it..... More
[Surrey], Maritime Publishing Concepts, 2006. The first three of five volumes on SS 'Normandie', published under the cumulative title '"Normandie". France Afloat. From Construction to Scrap'. More
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Sydney, Sungravure, 1978. 'In March 1978 "Stern" magazine in Germany published a sumptuous sixteen-page spread on secret-sacred Aranda ceremonies [including] eight colour photographs displaying Aboriginal men in ceremony.... Strehlow had provided "Stern" with 211 colour slides and 78 black-and-white photographs. The selection from which the editors had made such a...... More
Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1942. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. More
Adelaide, [The Author, 1860s]. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of Waxend's 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857; apart from the change of place-name..... More
Sydney, Wunderlich Limited, 1927 to 1940. They are housed in the original quarto-format screw binder with 'Wunderlich Catalogues' impressed into the spine; the binder shows signs of use and age; the contents are in uniformly fine condition. There are 11 sizable catalogues (two with inserted supplements), and two four-page leaflets..... More
Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Offered with 'Operating and Maintenance Instructions for Lawton Fork Trucks, Models PFT 45M, PFT 68M, TFT 45M, TFT 68M, and "Fluidrive" Models. 2nd Edition'. Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Quarto, approximately 170 leaves of duplicate typescript (printed rectos only) plus a...... More
Melbourne, Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd., 1927. More
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New York, Blue Riband Publications, Inc., 1995 and 1997. Compiled by the editor, with a new introduction in each volume. Between them they reproduce the text of 94 'passenger vessels of various size and importance that were originally published in "The Shipbuilder" prior to 1915'. These include the 'Titanic', 'Olympic'..... More
London, Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck and Sons, [1917]. Despite its title, the greater part of this attractive poster is given over to a nominal roll of the men who served with the 18th Battery, attractively laid out within six cartouches in the shape of large-calibre..... More
London, Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1918]. Despite its title, the greater part of this fine display piece is given over to a nominal roll of the men who served with the 18th Battery, attractively laid out within five cartouches in the shape of..... More
[Melbourne, Henry Berry & Co. (A'asia) Ltd., [early 1950s?]. A revised edition of a work previously issued under a slightly different title, with W.J. Trevena the co-author. With this edition, confectioners have been added to the target audience, 'Revision has been keen', and there has been the 'Addition of many..... More
The bulk of the text is printed (including the signatures); Private Colgate's name and date of death, and the date the certificate was prepared (20 August 1918) are the only manuscript insertions. Patriotic portraits, symbolic images, flags of Allied nations, and Australian battle honours are surrounded by a wide border..... More
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Adelaide, Children's Patriotic Fund, May 1918 to July 1919. The run comprises Number 3 (May 1918), Number 5 (July 1918) to Number 11 (February 1919), and Number 13 (April 1919) to Number 16 (July-August 1919, the last number). The title of Number 3 is 'Children's Patriotic Times'; all other numbers..... More
The details of the contents are written on the front pastedown in ink in a neat calligraphic hand, decoratively laid out in shields linked with garlands. The Secretary and Assistant Secretary are identified respectively as Mr W.A. Hutchinson from WA, and Mr C.W. Smith from SA. The first photograph is..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co. ('the Proprietors of "The Register"), 1926. A well-illustrated work with a substantial amount of text; the foreword, dated 1 November 1926, provides some context. 'In presenting this Souvenir of the Yorke's Peninsula districts, the Proprietors of "The Register" wish to tender thanks to all who..... More
