The Lake of Lucerne and the Forest Cantons. Album (Edition De Luxe) ...
Zurich, Fine Art Establishment Th. Schroeter, 1900. Translated from the German by John C. Milligan. More
Our copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may be just one of the 12,000 printed in the two years after it first appeared in 1866, but the exquisite double Cosway binding it received some forty years later makes it unique – and uniquely desirable. In the same league, we have an original South Australian land grant for Town Acre 558, issued to Osmond Gilles in December 1837, less than a year after the colony was established. At the time, he was also the Treasurer and one of the largest land speculators in the province!
In our latest offering, you will find complete runs of some rare Australian ‘little magazines’: Manuscripts (13 issues, 1931-35); Phoenix (nine issues, 1935-50); and Ern Malley’s Journal (six issues, 1952-55). A sampling of other titles includes Lindt’s Picturesque New Guinea (1887); Lambert’s A Trip to Cashmere and Ladak (1877); Menpes’ The Grey River (1889, one of only 230 copies with 12 original signed etchings, a gift from co-author Rosa Praed to Katie Langloh Parker); and Whitworth’s An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710 (Strawberry Hill Press, 1758).
Indigenous Australian history includes a copy of The London Chronicle for 6 April 1789, containing one of the earliest accounts of the indigenous inhabitants of the Sydney region; Spencer and Gillen’s The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899, signed by both authors); and two nineteenth-century portrait photographs.
Of course, there’s much more!
Zurich, Fine Art Establishment Th. Schroeter, 1900. Translated from the German by John C. Milligan. More
Melbourne, Hills Memorial Volume Committee, 1989. 'This volume brings together some 30 papers written to honour the unique contribution that the late Professor Edwin Sherbon Hills made to earth science knowledge over more than half a century. Facsimiles of six of Hills' benchmark papers are accompanied by contributions from many..... More
Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892 to 1901. Loosely inserted in the atlas is a small quantity of early newspaper clippings and pencilled memoranda of maritime interest. [9 items]. More
Reutlingen, J.C. Mäcken Sohn, 1849 (fifth edition, 'aufs neue durchesehen, verbessert und auch für den Gebrauch der Erwachsenen eingerichtet') [revised, improved and arranged for adult use]/ 1827. A revised edition of a work by Heinrich Rebau (the pseudonym of Christian August Gebauer), first published in 1827. This edition certainly has..... More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1998 (revised second edition with supplement)/ 1984. This revised edition describes almost 450 orchids, and 'includes over forty new species in a full-colour supplement. The complete text has been updated and many new plates added' (from the loosely-inserted prospectus). 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
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994. An essential reference work: more than 200 contributing authors (more than one-third of whom are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people); around 2000 entries, including 600 group and community entries and 500 biographies; over 30 appendices with detailed statistical information; a bibliography of almost 2000..... More
The letters are addressed to Master Leo Cooke, Royal Hotel, St Kilda. The first letter is in response to a recent letter from Leo, a thank-you to Hughes for sending his autograph. 'My dear little boy, I ... am very glad to know you are pleased with my Autograph. I...... More
London, John Stockdale, 1793. The journal of John Hunter, second Governor of New South Wales, is an important source for the early European settlement of Australia. Plates include the first published illustration of the new settlement ('View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove', after a sketch by the author), and..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1946 (ninth edition)/ 1931. More
Sydney, 'Kerry Photo', [circa 1890s, but printed early in the twentieth century?]. Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928) 'turned a small portrait studio into the colony's largest photographic organization. Kerry sold albums of high-quality pictures ... and sold prints to the public. In 1885 he was asked to prepare an exhibit of..... More
Adelaide, S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide, [circa 1870s]. We have previously sold a carte de visite, mounted on an identical printed card, of a studio tableau by Solomon of an 'Indigenous woman wearing a fur cloak, with a child on her back, a boomerang in one..... More
The earliest printed accounts of the expedition of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, and the settlement at Sydney Cove appeared in issues of the 'London Chronicle' in early 1789. Important accounts appeared in the issues for 24-26 March (Number 5058) and 26-28 March (Number 5059). This particular issue contains..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1980. The 'trade' edition, limited to 990 copies (this fact is not noted in the book). A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1 August 1986 (fourth edition)/ 1922 to 1929. [4 items]. More
Farnham, Ashgate (for the Navy Records Society), 2012. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 159. More
London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910. Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), 'anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist ... as a young graduate, Wood Jones found medicine 'cramped and small when compared to biology' and jumped at the chance of a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. on the..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1921 ('From the SA "Register", September 2, 1899'). The frontispiece is inscribed and signed by Sir George Brookman (1850-1927), mining entrepreneur, businessman and politician. 'After news of promising gold finds in Western Australia, Brookman formed the Adelaide Prospecting Party (later Coolgardie Gold Mining and..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., [1926]. The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders (it) appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' (established in 1867 by the author). A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1905 (third edition, preface dated 30 June)/ May 1905 (second edition, first in book form). The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Apart from the tipped-in leaf, this third..... More
Salisbury, The Aloe, Cactus and Succulent Society of Rhodesia, 1972 to 1984. An unbroken run from issue 2 to issue 11. [10 items]. More
[Adelaide, The Author], 2015, December 2017 and April 2018. Each volume is signed on the title page by the author. (We can supply volumes separately: Volume 1 is $65; Volume 2 is $80; Volume 3 is $75). [3 items]. More
London, Henry S. King & Co., 1877. 'When I was preparing for my trip in 1874, I felt the want of a book from which I might gather some information as to the chances of sport in the particular countries I intended to visit; and I hope that in future..... More
London, Thomas Murby, [1866]. The editor notes that the work was 'chiefly dictated, with the help of materials recorded in the log-book of the journey, by Mr. Landsborough himself' during a four-month voyage from Australia. Ferguson 11330; Wantrup 175 (noting the edition in wrappers, but not recording that it has..... More
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1944. Number 107 of only 375 copies of the fourth publication of the Harry Muir's original Wakefield Press - oversubscribed at the time and scarce to this day. More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. This book was published to wide critical acclaim. Lindt was awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 'with special mention for his ethnological photographs, landscapes and photographs from shipboard; they are simply unique. From a technical point of view the..... More
Geelong, The Book Nook (Numbers 1 to 11) and Melbourne, The Bookshop of Margareta Webber, 1931 to 1935. Number 1 is the deluxe edition limited to 50 copies numbered and signed by the editor, containing 'Original, Signed and Numbered Lino-cuts, by Christian Waller, Arthur Baldwinson, Marjorie Wood, Ron Meadows, -..... More
Melbourne [and] Sydney, Lansdowne Editions (Volumes 1 and 2) and Mallon (Volume 3), 1980, 1987 and 2005. Meredith Smith is the author of the first volume; Smith and Aslin are the authors of the second, and Calaby and Flannery of the third. All volumes carry the number 267 of a...... More
Tokyo, Kodansha International Ltd., 1978. The original woodcut, printed on 'one hundred percent mulberry (kozo) paper', is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (#139/3000). More
[Grantham], 'Printed and bound at The Hell Fire Club', 2014. One of only 220 copies of this deluxe edition. Loosely inserted in a plain cream envelope is a greetings card printed in gilt with Aleister Crowley's A.'. A.'. seal, inscribed, initialled and signed in ink by the author ('Abrahadabra! the..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (fourth printing)/ 2001. A '"Decline and Fall" for the twenty-first century ... [this] brilliant book will shatter most people's conception of the Dark Ages' (from the TLS review, quoted on the dustwrapper). More
London, Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1863. 'John Davis was a member of the South Australian relief expedition, led by John McKinlay, to search for Burke and Wills. The expedition travelled to Cooper Creek and north almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria ... [They then] made for Port Denison (Bowen)..... More
London, Seeley and Co., 1889. The front flyleaf is inscribed and signed by one of the authors, Rosa Praed, 'To my Friend & Country woman Mrs Langloh Parker. In cordial admiration & regard & with sincere good wishes for the future. R.M. Praed. London. Oct 30th / 05'. The catalogue..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1848. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; there were only 99 numbered copies of this deluxe issue (in a total edition of 600 copies). This is an unnumbered out-of-series copy. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters..... More
Melbourne, Lansdowne (Lansdowne Editions after the first one), 1973 to 1981 (as detailed above). All volumes are signed and numbered copies of editions limited to 500 copies (or just 350 copies for the book on finches). All volumes carry the number 53 and the bookplate of J. Mark Bonnin, with..... More
Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, 1974. A catalogue raisonné ('Otto Mueller on his Hundredth Birthday. The Complete Graphic Work. Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs, Colour Lithographs'); the text is in German. More
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1972. The work by Desnos is a history of urology to the latter part of the nineteenth century, originally published in 1914, and here translated into English for the first time. More
London, 1898. The plates appear to be printed on Japanese vellum. More
London, The New Sydenham Society, 1897. NSS Volume 161, containing fourteen articles on the diagnosis and treatment of various infections and illnesses (including leprosy, syphilis and gangrene) by prominent nineteenth-century physicians. Osler's contribution is 'On the Visceral Complications of Erythema Exudativum Multiforme' (pages 321-347). More
France, Hadean Press, 2013 (first edition). The book is 'a fascinating exploration of the Voudon-Gnostic philosophy of Michael-Paul Bertiaux and the Monastery of the Seven Rays. The author, a Gnostic Bishop, takes us through his practice and experiences' (extract from a review quoted on the rear panel of the dustwrapper)..... More
Adelaide, Adelaide University Union, 1935 to 1948, and Adelaide University Students' Representative Council, 1949 and 1950. 'Phoenix' supplanted 'The Adelaide University Magazine'; in turn, it was supplanted by 'Angry Penguins' during the war years. The post-war issues generally do not compare with those from the 1930s, which contain illustrations (often..... More
Paris, Andre Sauret, Editions du livre, 1970. A catalogue raisonné of Picasso's lithographs (1945-1969); the text is in French. More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1986. Long out of print, and of perennial interest and value. An annotated copy of a draft of a contemporary review of the book is loosely inserted. More
South Melbourne, Richard Griffin, 1983. One of 1500 copies of a book that is both 'an orchid art folio and an authoritative dissertation on the biology of the orchids of the Yarra Valley' (from the original prospectus). This is number 32 of only 55 copies of this deluxe edition, signed..... More
Sydney, John Brackenreg, Australian Artist Editions at Artarmon Galleries, 1978. Signed and dated (14 July 1978) by Lloyd Rees on the half-title. More
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. 1898. More
Phoenix, Falcon Press, 1990 (fourth printing)/ 1984. More
London, Constable and Company Limited, 1923. The author was Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland (1876-1961), styled Lord Dundas until 1892, and Earl of Ronaldshay from 1892 until 1929. A British Conservative politician, he was Governor of Bengal (1917-1922) and Secretary of State for India (1935-1940). Although a...... More
Melbourne, Monash University, 1981 (in association with Academic Press, London); 1988 (in association with the State Bank of Victoria); and 2000 (in association with Nokomis Publications). The first two volumes are limited to 720 numbered copies, the third to 520; all three volumes of this set are number 221. Complete..... More
West Melbourne, Nelson, 1980. From the collection of the sculptor John Dowie (1915-2008), with a lengthy personal gift inscription to him on the front flyleaf. Loosely inserted is a 1984 letter to Dowie from the Department of Works, Queensland, informing him that his submission of a proposal for public artworks..... More