Highlights of our latest catalogue include rare occult titles, many by or about Aleister Crowley. Militaria is also heavily represented, with many unique items. Not least is the deluxe menu and autograph album from the dinner given by the entrepreneur and politician Hugh McIntosh for VC winners on Armistice Day 1919: our copy is signed by sixteen of them.
Rare photographs include two albums with 110 hand-coloured images of 1880s Japan by Adolfo Farsari; a stereo-daguerreotype by Disderi of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855; two Australian items depicting racial stereotyping, and a fine early portrait of an Adelaide Indigenous woman and child by Saul Solomon.
Our range of Folio Society publications offers an affordable indulgence with a handsome set of a favourite author: Churchill, Collins, Doyle, Eliot, Gibbon, Greene, Hardy, Nesbit, Orwell, Peake, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Trollope, Waugh or Wilde.
Happy browsing!
Coventry, Woven in Silk by Thomas Stevens, Inventor and Manufacturer, [1880s]. Comprehensive details about this - and every other Stevengraph - may be found online at stevengraph-silks, an invaluable resource. More
Coventry, Woven in Silk by Thomas Stevens, Inventor and Manufacturer, [1880s]. Comprehensive details about this - and every other Stevengraph - may be found online at stevengraph-silks, an invaluable resource. More
York Beach, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1999 (revised edition)/ 1897. Number 430 of 950 copies in cloth. 'This new edition features a foreword by John Mitchell and a new introduction by esoteric scholar R.A. Gilbert. It also includes the notes and marginalia of an anonymous reader conversant in kabbalah and tarot..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969. The account of the last journey, in October 1922, of the author's desperately ill father, the Reverend Carl Strehlow, overland from Hermannsburg to the railhead at Oodnadatta; Horseshoe Bend was where he died and was buried. The author, who made the trip with his father..... More
Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1993 (sixth impression)/ 1987. Inscribed and signed by the artist on the half-title (19 February 1995). All artwork relates to the Second World War, and the blank verso of the front free endpaper facing are nine signatures (often with service details and awards). These include..... More
[Adelaide], The Shell Company of Australia Limited, [1949]. This demonstration occurred over a decade before television was officially launched in Adelaide, on 5 September 1959. More
Washington, The Scottish Rite Research Society, 1993 ('Reprint Edition')/ 1992 to 2014. All volumes are edited by S. Brent Morris. This is an unbroken run of the first 22 volumes of the 'preeminent publication of scholarly Masonic research, recognized and highly anticipated by Masonic scholars worldwide. It is a peerless..... More
Canberra, Royal Australian Ordnance Corps Committee, 1989. Trigellis-Smith 46. More
![The Lord of the Rings. [Comprising] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; and The Return of...](/pictures/thumb/120535_01.jpg?v=1601350569)
London, Folio Society, 1993 (third printing)/ 1977 (first thus). [3 items]. More
[Sydney], Drug Houses of Australia Limited (stocked and distributed by L. Fairthorne & Son Pty. Ltd., Launceston), 1948 (eighth edition). Members of Drug Houses of Australia Limited included Elliotts & Australian Drug Pty. Ltd., Sydney; A.M. Bickford & Sons Ltd., Adelaide; and Felton, Grimwade & Duerdins Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. We..... More
Leeds, Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, [circa 1955]. The most recent date in the addenda is May 1954; there is a contemporary ownership date of 27 January 1956 on the front free endpaper. An endpocket, now empty, presumably originally contained a price list. More
Leeds, Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, [circa 1946]. The most recent date in the addenda is November 1946. An endpocket, now empty, presumably originally contained a price list. More
![Dallmeyer Lenses and Apparatus [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/102345_01.jpg?v=1599696018)
London, J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, [early 1920s]. J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, 'Manufacturers and Patentees of Photographic, Kinematograph Lenses and Apparatus', was established in 1860. The introduction mentions its high standards 'for the last 60 years' and refers to the 'Mount Everest Expedition' (presumably the first British attempt in 1922). Loosely inserted is..... More
![Dallmeyer Lenses. Lenses, Cameras, Projectors and Apparatus for Cinematography [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/102343_01.jpg?v=1599696012)
London, J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, [circa 1937]. J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, 'Manufacturers and Patentees of Photographic, Cinematograph Lenses, Cameras and Scientific Apparatus', was established in 1860. More
Adelaide, Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd., [later 1930s]. 'Under the conditions of trade now prevailing, prices are liable to constant variation' (foreword). Trove records only one copy, in the State Library of South Australia, dated [192-?]. The typography and product range suggest to us a somewhat later date. More
![Masterpiece Furniture. Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd. [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/119995_01.jpg?v=1601333207)
Adelaide, Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd., December 1938. More
![Myer Mail Shoppers' Guide. Spring-Summer, 1933-4 [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/119497_01.jpg?v=1599792605)
Melbourne, The Myer Emporium Ltd., 1933. More
![Peoplestores Ltd... Winter Mail Order Catalogue [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/119498_01.jpg?v=1599792607)
Adelaide, Peoplestores Ltd., [circa 1960]. There is reference on page 44 to items 'as advertised on TV' in Adelaide, where it was launched on 5 September 1959. More
![Quality Tools etc. for Big & Little Farms and Gardens... [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/119993_01.jpg?v=1601333205)
Adelaide, Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd., 1936. More
![Robur Profit-sharing Catalogue. Fourth Edition [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/120253_01.jpg?v=1601333230)
Melbourne, Robur Tea Company, 1 April 1934 (see inside the front cover). More
![Robur Profit-sharing Catalogue. Ninth Edition [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/108128.jpg?v=1601252874)
Melbourne, Robur Tea Company, [late 1930s?]. 'As tea and coffee are better bought in small quantities for immediate use, we give a discount or share of savings for continuous purchasing.' These attractive catalogues are rare in our experience, probably accountably so, given the presumed target audience, the budget-conscious housewife. Trove..... More
![Tools for All Trades. Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd. Currie Street, Adelaide [cover title]. Trade...](/pictures/thumb/119992_01.jpg?v=1601333203)
Adelaide, Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd, [circa 1920s]. More
London, Folio Society, 1990s. Volumes present are The Warden; Barchester Towers; Doctor Thorne; Framley Parsonage; The Small House at Allington; and Last Chronicle of Barset [collectively The Barsetshire Chronicles]; Can You Forgive Her?; Phineas Finn; The Eustace Diamonds; Phineus Redux; The Prime Minister; and The Duke's Children [collectively The Palliser..... More
![The Homing Aussie. A Souvenir of the Voyage of TSS 'Euripides'. Sept. - Oct. 1919 [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/117196_01.jpg?v=1595813366)
Durban, Printed by R. Philps at his West End Printing Works [for the Editor], 1919. The introductory note on the first page explains how the substantial magazine was produced in the three days the ship was in Durban. The editor introduces himself on page 16, and acknowledges the assistance of..... More
Sarah Anne Hildyard was appointed as governess to the older Royal children in January 1847. 'Nicknamed Tilla, the new governess was chosen by Baron Stockmar, and ... Vicky was fortunate in the Baron's choice. Miss Hildyard, the daughter of a clergyman, was intelligent, well-read, and a stimulating teacher' (Pakula: 'An..... More
[Sydney], Vale & Pearson [for Hugh D. McIntosh], 1919. A contemporary newspaper account of the dinner records there were 27 VC winners present at the dinner. The recto of each of the first 21 blank leaves has been signed by attendees at the dinner; 16 are VC winners (one of..... More
Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, 1888 ('seventh edition, revised and enlarged')/ 1885. The front free endpaper is inscribed and signed 'To Professor Scott, &c Memb[er] of the Inter[nation]al Medical Congress of 1889, presented on behalf of the Vict. Government by Ferd von Mueller'. Later provenance: Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937)..... More
The captions comprise an alpha-numeric grave number and the details of the deceased; the first example ('71B. 1657 Tpr. F.E.B. Peisley | 1st A.L.H.') is typical. In all instances, the simple wooden cross and grave are decorated with numerous wreaths; on closer inspection, it seems the same floral tributes recur..... More
[No Place], Sekmet Books, 2014 (second impression)/ 2013 (revised and expanded third edition)/ 2009. The half-title is signed and warmly inscribed by the authors. More
![Sword of Honour. [Comprising] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; and Unconditional Surrender....](/pictures/thumb/120532_01.jpg?v=1601350568)
London, Folio Society, 1993 (second printing)/ 1990 (first thus). The illustrations, new to this edition, are by John Lawrence. [3 items]. More
![Stories. [Together with] Plays and Poems [and] Essays and Letters. [Three volumes]. Oscar WILDE](/pictures/thumb/120589_01.jpg?v=1601333284)
London, Folio Society, 1993 [first thus]. The first volume contains a fourteen-page introduction by Merlin Holland (Oscar Wilde's grandson), and illustrations by Ian Archie Beck. All three volumes were edited by Merlin Holland; the second and third ones contain numerous plates from contemporary sources. Significantly, the second volume contains fifteen..... More
Adelaide, David Gall, Printer, 1864. John Crawford Woods (1824-1906) was the first minister of the Adelaide Unitarian Christian Church. Ferguson 18793. More
