Looking Back. An Autobiographical Excursion
London, Chatto and Windus, 1934 (first thus)/ 1933 (in two volumes). More
Online Catalogue #56
The cover illustration to our latest catalogue – an image emblematic of the times? – is ‘The Blizzard’, one of seven vintage photographs by Frank Hurley from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 we have for sale. Other important photographic items are the Royal Photographic Society’s 1932 portfolio, Pictures from the Tyng Collection, containing six fine photogravures, including ‘Bewegungs Studie (Study of Movement)’ by Rudolf Koppitz; and Richards’ New South Wales in 1881 (1882), containing 24 high-quality autotypes produced in Australia (and very rare thus).
Private press and art books are well-represented: among them are The Lithographs of Chagall (five volumes, 1960-1984), complete with all 28 original lithographs as called for; Delteil’s 1923 volume of catalogues raisonné of etchings and lithographs of Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, containing an original etching by each artist; Flaubert’s Hérodias, one of only 226 copies printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro, with their illustrations; and a superb exemplar from the Ashendene Press, Ecclesiasticus (1932, one of 328 copies).
There are plenty of other items, selected as ever for being interesting, unusual, quirky, or in some cases, just plain expensive.
Keep well!
The Waste Land
London, Faber & Faber, 1961 (first thus)/ 1922. Number 102 of only 300 copies signed by T.S. Eliot. This attractive edition was 'printed in Dante type by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona.... on paper made by Fratelli Magnani, Pescia'. Gallup A6d (giving the date..... More
Of Dramatick Poesie. An Essay, 1668. Preceded by a Dialogue on Poetic Drama by T.S. Eliot
London, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. Number 499 of 580 copies; one of the Haslewood Books series. Eliot's contribution is quite short (one and a half pages). More
Hérodias
London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901 [first thus]. One of only 226 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette was designed and engraved by Lucien, and Esther engraved the other decorations..... More
Rapara or the Right of the Individual in the State
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. The inscription on the half-title reads: 'Presented to J.G. Le Brun by the Author Archibald Forsyth. Sydney 1 Feb 1901'. Archibald Forsyth (1826-1908), ropemaker and politician, was born in Scotland; in 1848 he migrated to Sydney. He worked variously as a cedar-getter, gold miner, and..... More
The Life of a Regiment. The History of the Gordon Highlanders ... Volume 1: ... from its Formation in 1794 to 1816. Volume 2: ... from 1816 to 1898, including an Account of the 75th Regiment from 1787 to 1881. Volume 3: ... from 1898 to 1914. [Together with] MILES, Wilfrid: The Life of a Regiment... Volume 5: ... 1919-1945
London, Medici Society (Volumes 1 and 2), 1929/ 1901 and 1929/ 1903; Leo Cooper (Volume 3), 1972/ 1939; and Frederick Warne (Volume 5), 1980/ 1961. Two other volumes have been published (Volume 4, 1914-1919, and Volume 6, 1945-1970). [4 items]. More
Storia Medica della grave ferita toccata in Aspromonte dal Generale Garibaldi il giorno 29 agosto 1862 [cover title]
Milano [Milan], Tipografia di Gaetano Bozza, 1863. A curious medical pamphlet giving details details of the wounds sustained by Giuseppe Garibaldi at the Battle of Aspromonte (La Giornata dell'Aspromonte) on 29 August 1862. Among much purple prose advocating Italian unification and a short personal account of the battle (Ripari fought..... More
Traite de Chimie Organique
Paris, Didot Freres, 1853 to 1856. Charles Frederic Gerhardt (1816-1856), a French chemist known for his work on reforming the notation for chemical formulas (1843-1846) died suddenly two days short of his 40th birthday, 'having just completed checking the proofs for the final volume of his "Traité de chimie organique"..... More
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Translated and annotated by ...
Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1916 (third edition, revised)/ 1908 (second edition, revised)/ 1880. More
Victoria Illustrated
[Melbourne, Sands and McDougall, circa 1890 facsimile edition]/ 1857. Ferguson 15440c (a lengthy entry, not least establishing the approximate date); Wantrup 260c and page 334 ('In 1975 Gaston Renard recorded a previously unnoticed printed slip from the publisher tipped in at the front of a copy. This slip announced that..... More
The Comic History of Victoria, after the Style of Gilbert A. a'Beckett (a Very Long Way). Written by Mr W.B. Gill, and delivered by him, with Immense Applause, at the Suburban Penny Readings [cover title]
Melbourne, Charlwood and Son, Booksellers, Stationers, and Printers, [July 1867]. Trove has enabled us to established beyond doubt the date of publication - Saturday 20 July 1867 - according to the advertisements in the 'Argus' on that and the previous day. Ferguson 9927 (noting a curious variant, with the four..... More
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Open Head [and] Open Eye
Melbourne, Sun Books, 1972 (first edition). Inscribed, signed and with sketched self-portraits by both poets on their respective title pages. Both authors were participants in Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide in March 1972. The recipient, Ethel Payne, was the manager of the Co-op Bookshop, the..... More
The Ritual Magic Manual. A Complete Course in Practical Magic
Beverly Hills, Golden Dawn Publishing, 1999. More
Elioth Gruner. Twenty-four Reproductions in Colour from Original Oil Paintings. Foreword by Norman Lindsay
Sydney, The Shepherd Press, 1947. Number 679 of 2000 copies (200 copies of a deluxe edition were also published). More
British Etchers, 1850-1940
London, Robin Garton, 1977. The three original etchings by Robin Tanner (all signed in pencil) are 'Wren and Primroses' (a vignette on the title page), 'Full Moon', and 'The Old Road' (both full-page). There is a short chapter on 'The Australian School of Etching' (two pages of text plus 14..... More
For Whom the Bell Tolls
London, Jonathan Cape, 1941 (first UK edition). More
History of Charles Thomas Hewett and his Second Child, Onesimus Hewett
[Adelaide], The Author, 1983. Audrey Peters is a 'grand-daughter of Onesimus Ebenezer Hewett'. More
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The Gardens of England. In the Southern and Western Counties. [Together with] ... In the Midlands and Eastern Counties [and] ... In the Northern Counties
London, The Studio, 1907 to 1911. Special issues of 'The Studio' : the Special Winter Number, 1907-08; the Special Winter Number, 1908-09; and the Special Spring Number, 1911. [3 items]. More
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The Iliad [and] The Odyssey
London, Folio Society, 1998 (third printing)/ 1996 (first thus), and 1998 (first thus). 'Translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox' (both volumes). [2 items]. More
Exploring Central Australia. Society, the Environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition
Chipping Norton, Surrey Beatty, 1996. The book reviews the achievements and reassesses the significance of the expedition, with contributions from 'prehistorians, historians, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists, geologists, Aboriginal people and social commentators'. Not indicated, but limited to 1200 copies. More
Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. [Volume 1: Introduction, Narrative, Summary of Results, Supplement to Zoological Report, Map. Volume 2: Zoology. Volume 3: Geology and Botany. Volume 4: Anthropology]
London, Dulau, 1896. The set was withdrawn from the Public Library of New South Wales; the cancelled stamps are signed by Ida Emily Leeson (1885-1964), the second Mitchell Librarian (from 1932 until [officially] 1946). A pencilled note in each volume indicates the set entered the library on 16 March 1909..... More
Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. [Volume 1: Introduction, Narrative, Summary of Results, Supplement to Zoological Report, Map. Volume 2: Zoology. Volume 3: Geology and Botany. Volume 4: Anthropology]
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1994 (facsimile edition)/ 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..... More
Journal ... of the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition to Central Australia ... 1894
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1896. South Australian Parliamentary Paper 19 of 1896: only 650 copies printed. Winnecke was the leader of the expedition, and in 'the natural order of things these [journals and maps] should have been published in connection with the scientific and other records of the Horn Expedition, as..... More
Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century. Daily Life, Customs and Learning. The Moslims of the East-Indian-Archipelago
Leyden, Late E.J. Brill Ltd, and London, Luzac & Co, 1931 (first English-language edition, and first thus). Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) 'was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)' (Wikipedia). In 1884-85 the..... More
Selected Works of C. Snouck Hurgronje. Edited in English and in French by G.-H. Bousquet and J. Schacht
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1957. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) 'was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)' (Wikipedia). Specifically, on the centenary of his birth, 'a collection of some of his master's writings, translated..... More
Four Years in Paradise
London, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., [early 1940s]. Big game hunting in Africa. More
Australia's Muslim Cameleers. Pioneers of the Inland, 1860s-1930s
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2010 (revised edition)/ 2007. Originally published in association with the South Australian Museum to accompany an exhibition of the same name. More
The Jewish War of Flavius Josephus, with his Autobiography. A New Translation by the late Rev. Robert Traill ... Edited, with Notes ... by Isaac Taylor ...
London, Houlston and Wright, 1868 (fifth edition)/ 1831 (first thus). 'Flavius Josephus, original name Joseph Ben Matthias, (born AD 37/38, Jerusalem - died AD 100, Rome), Jewish priest, scholar, and historian ... Josephus' first work, "Bellum Judaicum" ("History of the Jewish War"), was written in seven books between AD 75..... More
Ulysses
London, Folio Society, 1998 (first thus). The preface is by Stephen James Joyce, with the introduction by Jacques Aubert. This edition is a facsimile reproduction of the 1926 second edition ('in which the type of the text was entirely reset and Joyce's corrections from the previous printings were absorbed'), with..... More
Dublin's Joyce
London, Chatto & Windus, 1955. More
Joseph Judd. His Ancestors and Descendants c.1500 to 1981
Tanunda, The Author, 1981. More
The Official Opening of Kangaroo Creek Reservoir by The Hon. R. Steele Hall M.P., Premier of South Australia, Friday, 5th December, 1969
Adelaide, A.B. James, Government Printer, 1969. An official presentation binding. Provenance: 'The Hon. D.N. Brookman, R.D.A., M.P.' is spelled out in Letraset on the front flyleaf. David Norman Brookman (1917-2000) 'was elected to the seat of Electoral district of Alexandra in the House of Assembly for the Liberal and Country..... More
Police Commission. Minutes of Evidence taken before Royal Commission on the Police Force of Victoria ...
Melbourne, Heinemann, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1881. The comprehensive official enquiry into the Kelly Gang. This 'Pioneer Facsimile Edition' was limited to 250 numbered copies (this is an unnumbered 'Production Sample Only'); even this facsimile is very scarce in our experience. More
The Law of the Australian Constitution. Being a Treatise on the Commonwealth of Australia Act ... and the Judicial Interpretation of it
Sydney, Law Book Company of Australasia Limited (and printed at The Hassell Press, Adelaide), 1925. The author's personal copy, extensively annotated on the printed text and the interleaves, with numerous newspaper review cuttings and original letters from distinguished members of the law fraternity mounted in the book. There are minor..... More
Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic, including a Generalization of Logical Processes in their Application to Complex Inferences
London, Macmillan and Co., 1887 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1884. 'This edition has been carefully revised, and numerous sections have been almost entirely rewritten [and] an index has been added'. More
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Robert Klippel
Sydney, Bay Books, 1983. A substantial study of the artist's extensive output of abstract sculpture and drawing. More
The Northern Territory of South Australia
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1880. At the time of publication, the author was Chief Warden of the Goldfields of the Northern Territory. 'This pamphlet is published by permission of the Government of South Australia; but it is only proper to state that the recommendations herein made, especially with reference to the..... More
S, M, L XL. Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large ...
Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 1995 (first European edition). Edited by Jennifer Sigler; photography by Hans Werlemann. 'This massive book is a novel about architecture. Conceived by Rem Koolhaus - author of "Delirious New York" - and Bruce Mau - designer of Zone - as a free-fall in the spaceof the typographic..... More
Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia; the Right of the Colonies, and the Interest of Britain and of the World
London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852. More
A Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after Nature by John William Lewin, A.L.S., late of Paramatta, New South Wales. Illustrated with Twenty-Six Plates
London, J.H. Bohte, 1822 [third edition, being the first complete edition]/ 1808. The scarce third edition of this important early ornithological plate book, and the first edition to contain all 26 plates; the fourth edition was published in London in 1838. 'A collection of etched drawings of birds of New..... More
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A Story for Children
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1950 (first edition). More
Fought and Won
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1922. John Lewis (1844-1923), 'explorer, bushman, drover, roughrider, pastoralist, business man, legislator, historian' (from the foreword by Ernest Whitington); with much on the Northern Territory in the 1860s-70s. His father James accompanied Charles Sturt in 1844-45; one of his sons was the industrialist Essington Lewis..... More
Discobolus and Other Verse
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1959. Number 274 of 300 copies (a further 50 copies were printed on hand-made paper with original wood-engravings printed by the artist). More
The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF, 1914-19
Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936. Dornbusch 322; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211 (none of them noting that the first impression binding is lettered in gilt, the second in black). More
The Modern Fisher; or, Driffield Angler; containing, Descriptions of the Different Kinds of Fresh Water Fish, and the Best Methods of taking them in Rivers, Lakes, and Fish-ponds; with Full Directions for Baits, and the Manner of making Artificial Flies for Every Month of the Season. To which are added, Instructions for Shooting and Coursing: with Rules for the Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers, Spaniels, and Greyhounds
Derby, Henry Mozley, 1821. Provenance: the verso the front flyleaf is inscribed to 'Dr W Angove from [indecipherable] Jany 1911'. Dr William Thomas Angove (1854-1912) founded Angove Family Winemakers in Adelaide in 1886. More
The Maczkowiack Family History
[Adelaide], The Author, 1988. More
'The Adelie Blizzard'. Mawson's Forgotten Newspaper, 1913
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of S.A. in association with the Friends of Mawson at the S.A. Museum, 2010 [first thus]. One of only 450 copies in cloth, in the total edition of 999 copies (199 copies in half leather, 450 in cloth, 300 in card covers, and 50..... More
First Views of Australia, 1788-1825. A History of Early Sydney
Sydney, David Ell Press, 1987. A comprehensive survey; with a foreword by Bernard Smith. More
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High Green to Marceline. Santa Fe in Colour Series, Volume 1. [Together with] Wheat Lines and Super Freights. Santa Fe in Colour Series, Volume 2
Woodridge, McMillan Publications, 1989 and 1992. [2 items]. More
The Official Opening of Morgan-Whyalla Water Supply by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, K.C.M.G. at Morgan, on Friday, 31st March, 1944. Souvenir
Adelaide, K.M. Stevenson, Government Printer, 1944. This extensively-illustrated souvenir befits 'the most important public work undertaken in South Australia. It is the last and greatest of the many fine water schemes carried out by the State to overcome the disabilities arising from the lack of natural water supplies' (introduction). More