Highlights from our latest catalogue include copies of Johnston’s National Atlas (1844) and Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena (1856), and Smith’s New General Atlas (1809); numerous catalogues raisonné of significant twentieth century European artists (among them Bonnard, Braque, Buffet, Delvaux, Klee, Leger, Meryon, Miro, and Picasso – several with original graphics); a good selection of photographs of Indigenous Australians; and iconic Hurley images of the Antarctic.
Among the autographs and manuscripts of importance are works by Proust, Queen Victoria, Gorki, and Mussolini. Norman Lindsay has added an original pen drawing of Bunyip Bluegum to his signed inscription in a copy of The Magic Pudding; we also have a copy of one of his earliest illustrated works, A.G. Stephens’ Oblation [1902]. We continue to mine the archive of T.G.H. Strehlow, and now offer a significant letter from him, in reply to one from the eminent anthropologist Nancy Munn seeking information about story-telling by Aranda (Arrernte) women and children. Strehlow recalls from his childhood years in Hermannsburg two bloodthirsty tales told by little girls to frighten little boys, and records them in great detail.
Don’t just sit there, get stuck into them!
Geneva, Gerald Cramer, 1973 and 1976. The first two volumes of the catalogue raisonné, featuring over 370 items (with corrigenda and addenda). A third volume (1976-1979) appeared in 1980, with the final one (1980-1984) in 1986. [2 items]. More
London, John Murray, 1868 (second edition) (first two volumes) and 1867 (first edition) (last two volumes). [4 items]. More
London, John Murray, 1875/ 1874. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty, with his ownership signature in ink in each volume (and his neat underlining and marginal marks in pencil on virtually every page). [2 items]. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1965 (first edition). The half-title is signed by Charles Mountford and Ainslie Roberts. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, March 1970 ('revised in full colour', and first thus)/ 1965. 'This edition ... now presents the whole series of original illustrations in full colour, enhanced by new black and white sketches' (dustwrapper blurb). The half-title is signed by Charles Mountford and Ainslie Roberts. More
![Item #122987 Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906. [Together with] Edvard...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122987_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617075125)
Oslo, J.W. Cappelens, 1974 (augmented facsimile edition)/ 1907 (the first volume) and 1974 (first edition). A catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of Edvard Munch (1863-1944), comprising over 500 items (with over 100 of them illustrated). [2 items]. More
An apposite document relating to Mussolini, who was wounded on active service in the First World War. 'After the war, with the Socialist Party closed to him and Communism threatening disruption, he founded (1919) the first "Fascio di Combattimento", nominally to serve the cause of the neglected ex-servicemen. This proved..... More
The decree confirms the appointment of Georges Frédéric Fallot as Lutheran pastor in the parish of Dampierre-les-Bois near Audincourt, Doubs. It is countersigned by Hippolyte Fortoul, Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des Cultes. The decree was apparently cancelled soon after it was issued; it is crossed out, with the word..... More
[New Guinea, Unknown Photographer, circa 1930s?]. Two photographs show ornately decorated men in a village. The other one features two young girls in grass skirts holding posies (or something similar); the word 'lusious [sic]' is written in ink on the verso. A fourth snapshot (64 × 108 mm, on 'Velox'..... More
The specific details are HOPPIT, Julian: A Land of Liberty? England, 1689-1727 (not before 2002/ 2000); LANGFORD, Paul: A Polite and Commercial People. England, 1727-1783 (1998/ 1989); HILTON, Boyd: A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846 (2006); and HOPPEN, K. Theodore: The Mid-Victorian Generation. England, 1846-1886 (1998). [4 items]..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1905. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with two contemporary inkstamps on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown; a small unused card pocket is mounted on the rear..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1906. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with a contemporary inkstamp on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown; a small unused card pocket is mounted on the verso..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1907. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with a contemporary inkstamp on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown; a small unused card pocket is mounted on the verso..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1910. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with a contemporary inkstamp on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown. More
Locarno, Ateliers Lafranca, 1984. An impressive catalogue for an exhibition at Ateliers Lafranca Locarno (10 May - 25 June 1983) and Kunsthalle Mannheim (15 January - 4 March 1984). More
![Item #71135 The Holy Bible reprinted according to the Authorised Version, 1611 [in four volumes]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71135.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557984146)
London, Nonesuch Press, 1924 (The Apocrypha), 1925, 1925, 1926 and 1927 (all first thus). One of 1000 unnumbered sets of the Bible and number 995 of 1250 copies of the Apocrypha, all printed on Japon vellum. [5 items]. More
St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1995. Signed on the title page by the author. More
Brisbane, Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey, 1908. Flavelle's Gem Series Number 1. Sydney Skertchly (1850-1926) arrived in Brisbane in 1891 after a successful career as a geologist in places as varied as the Fenland and East Anglia, Egypt, California, Burma and China. In 1895-97 he was assistant government geologist in the..... More
Adelaide, printed for the Editors by the Modern Printing Company, 1919 to 1920. A substantially complete run of this scarce Australian literary quarterly, comprising Volume I, Number 2, September 1919 to Volume I, Number 4, March 1920, and Volume II, Number 1, June 1920 to Volume II, Number 3, December..... More
Adelaide, State Publishing, 1989 to 1992 (facsimile editions, first thus)/ 1866-1870, 1869, and 1910-1927, respectively. Each volume is number 232 of 500 copies of a facsimile edition of works originally owned and used by Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), 'ornithologist and conservationist ... His most arduous and important work as a...... More
In 1934, during a period of political unrest, Pétain reluctantly allowed himself to be appointed minister of war, becoming secretary of state in 1935, petitioning the government for more funding for the army, and to increase the period of compulsory conscription from two to three years. After the Nazi invasion..... More
London, Arthur Miall, 1868. 'The characteristic excellencies of Raphael's Bible, being those of composition and expression, can be conveyed through the medium of engraving. Early impressions of plates, printed at Rome in 1674, have therefore been secured.... The Photographs may be fairly left to speak for themselves'. The publisher's advertisements..... More
Berne, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975 (revised third edition)/ 1968, 1971, and 1979. The text throughout is in French, English and German. These three volumes comprise the complete catalogue raisonné of Picasso's graphic works on paper; Volume III in the series is 'Catalogue of the Printed Ceramics, 1949-1971'. [3 items]..... More
Genève, Patrick Cramer, Editeur, 1983. This catalogue raisonné 'comprend la description des 156 livres, albums et catalogues enrichis de gravures ou de lithographies originales et la reproduction de chacune d'elles' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Washington, Pantheon Books for Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1948. Provenance: the Australian artist and sculptor Owen Broughton (1922-1984), with his ownership stamp on some preliminaries. [2 items]. More
There are three of Mayaguana (in the Bahamas) dated 16 July (black ink and pencil, on wide strips of paper, 120 × 400 mm, torn from a ledger with columns and headings printed in red). One of them is recorded as being drawn from HMS 'Endymion'. A thinner strip (50..... More
Proust writes to persuade his 'Chère amie' that his financial troubles (apparently mentioned in an earlier letter) are transitory and that he is horrified that she believed he was asking to borrow money. The following quote is just a sample; there's a lot more in the same vein! 'C'est peut-être..... More
Brisbane, Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1897. Chapter XIII, 'Ethno-Pornography' (pages 167-184), is prefaced by an Author's Note: 'The following chapter is not suitable for perusal by the general lay reader'. We also add that it is not for the faint-hearted either. More
San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1976 (first US edition). A fully-illustrated catalogue raisonné of 353 artworks. More
Paris, Mercure de France, 1968. Number 238 of 500 copies. [2 items]. More
The gelatin silver photograph (135 × 86 mm) is identified and credited in the negative: 'GG Co. 5371 | Duhrkoop, Berlin - Hamburg'). Apart from mild silvering-out along the right-hand edge, in excellent condition. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Adelaide, Vardon and Sons, 1908 (first edition). The front flyleaf is inscribed 'To Mrs Sumsion with the best wishes of the author, HJ Driscoll 14 July '09'. Henry John Driscoll was born in Adelaide in 1857; his obituary appears in 'The Advertiser' on 4 September 1916, and he was 59..... More
[Roseville], Beagle Press, [1993]. Number 25 of only 100 copies of the deluxe edition numbered and signed by the artist, with a (matching) numbered and signed five-colour lithograph ('Interior', 308 × 250 mm, dated 1994) loosely inserted. A typed letter signed by the artist (7 February 1994, on Port Jackson..... More
London, George Bell & Sons, October 1882 [second edition]/ [May] 1882. This work includes a short history and description of approximately 70 famous stones. More
Born in Yorkshire to Quaker parents, Mary Packer Harris (1891-1978) emigrated to South Australia in 1921; she is best remembered as an inspirational teacher at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. She was a 'leading member of Adelaide's ... Society of Friends ... and was an ardent pacifist..... More
Munn writes to say that she has observed Walbiri (Warlpiri) women story-telling by means of sign language and figures drawn in the sand, and wonders if Strehlow has observed these practices among Aranda (Arrernte) women and children. In his retained response (foolscap folio, one page, duplicate typescript signed, dated 6..... More
Paris, Jacques Guerin, 1731. The first edition of this popular fantasy novel, which first popularised the concept of the 'Egyptian Mysteries' in Europe. This issue, with titles in red and black, carries the imprint of 'Jacques Guerin, libraire-imprimeur, Quay des Augustins'. Another issue exists, with the titles in black and..... More
Buckland Park is a pastoral property near Port Gawler, South Australia. George Frederick Ernest Albert, The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V (1865-1936) was the second eldest son of King Edward VII, who ascended the throne on Queen Victoria's death in January 1901. With the first..... More
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641), and William Laud (1573-1645), archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45), were influential counsellors to Charles I during his period of personal rule. The letters deal primarily with proposed television documentaries; one is signed 'yours sincerely, Hugh Trevor-Roper', while the two others are signed simply 'Hugh'..... More
'I intended to stay here only one week & to be able to spend the next with yourself & my excellent friends the Martins. As it is, I shall only be able to come to you' for a shorter period of time ... Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones..... More
Adelaide, Australian Letters, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961. The editors are Robert Clark, Max Harris, Geoffrey Dutton, and Ian Mudie, respectively. [4 items]. 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
The licence is granted to Giffard to defend John Howells of Merthyr at Glamorgan Spring Assizes of 1869 on a charge of manslaughter. The document is countersigned by the Home Secretary, Henry Austin Bruce. Hardinge Giffard was later appointed Lord Chancellor and 1st Earl of Halsbury; he is best known..... More
Adelaide, The Author, 1978 (first edition). Number 438 of 1000 copies of the first edition; this copy is signed on the title page by the author. More
Monte Carlo, André Sauret, Editions du Livre, 1948. Number 2198 of 2500 copies. More
Toowong, Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, in association with The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 2000. Signed on the title page by the author. An unparalleled 'visual record of ancient Kimberley rock art, dealing specifically with periods predating the Ice Age', and a work of lasting significance produced to the highest..... More
Adelaide, South Australian Museum, 2009. 'Aboriginal skeletal remains and artefacts had been eroding out from a dune north of Blanchetown, along the River Murray for years. Once exposed, remains were lost either to souvenir hunters or to destruction from the natural elements. In 1969, South Australian Museum archaeologist Graeme Pretty..... More
![Item #122837 Wayzgoose. The Australian Journal of Book Arts. Number One [all published]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122837_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644966967)
Pyrmont, The Wayzgoose Press, 1985. Number 296 of 450 copies (the first 50 copies were bound in quarter leather and cloth). Thirteen articles of varying lengths on printing history, hand-printing, bookbinding and papermaking, including 'George Howe and Early Printing in New South Wales', 'The Art and Craft of Oil and..... More
'Felix Werder [Bischofswerder] was born in Berlin in 1922 but fled the increasingly difficult political situation in Nazi Germany in 1935. On arriving in Australia with his father in 1940 [on the 'Dunera'], Werder was interned for four years as a political prisoner. During this time he produced a large..... More
London, The Artist, 1 January 1825 (but later). A dramatic and important whaling print, engraved by T. Sutherland after Huggins' painting. The engraved caption reads: 'A representation of the Ships "Amelia Wilson" & "Castor" off the Island of Bouro, with their Boats & Crew in the various process of Fishing..... More