We thought the cracking copies of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s first two books, Mollie’s Bunyip (1904) and Mollie’s Staircase (1906), would be the children’s book highlights of our current catalogue. Then we purchased Benjamin Forster’s anonymously-issued Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-Four Classes in the Linnaean System of Vegetables (1813): despite its prosaic title, this miniature book with 48 hand-coloured wood engravings would crown any international collection.
Fully one-third of this 200-item catalogue contains autograph material of one kind or another: marks of provenance, authors’ signatures or inscriptions, signed documents, photographs or letters. Signatories range from prime ministers to presidents, musicians to Nobel laureates, self-published authors to world-famous cricketers. However, the stellar item is a small group of letters from the archive of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow. They are primarily from Pastor F.W. Albrecht, who replaced Strehlow’s father as superintendent of the Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg in Central Australia in 1927. These letters, written in 1957-58, are of strong interest in themselves, but greater significance must be attached to the accompanying letters in Western Aranda (Arrernte) from five elders. We have obtained full translations, and our catalogue record is worth reading, whatever your collecting interests may be.
Off you go!
London, Heinemann, 1959. 'The 16th Battalion, originally recruited in Western Australia, suffered heavy casualties, and eventually, through reinforcements, represented a wide cross-section of the typical Australian citizen-soldier' (dustwrapper blurb). Trigellis-Smith 383. More
Paisley, Alexander Gardner, 1908. Ten short prose works by the author of 'Arcadian Adelaide' (a venomous invective against the self-satisfaction and dullness of Edwardian Adelaide); the last page collects press notices for both 'Arcadian Adelaide' and its sequel, 'The Arcadians'. 'These fragments spell the idle moments of a restless life..... More
Kineton, Roundwood Press, 1974. Warmly inscribed, dated (27 July 1974) and signed by the author to Peggy Mountford, Charles Pearcy Mountford's daughter. Loosely inserted is a chatty four-page autograph letter to Peggy from the author, dated the same day. She discusses at length the joys and trials of publishing, mutual..... More
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. [2 items]. More
Edinburgh, W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited, 1909. An early owner has amended the title page thus: 'with special notes on the maps by A.H. Watters and additional maps (1920-22) inserted showing the post-war boundaries'. His typewritten notes (foolscap folio, four pages) outlining the differences between this 1909 edition and the..... More
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1869 [fifth edition, eleventh issue?]. The Complete Edition ('Vollständige Ausgabe') with 84 sheets (an abridged edition with only 63 sheets was also published). The majority of the maps are attractively hand-coloured; a small number are printed in colours. Three are undated; all others are dated either 1868..... More
Mawson makes specific reference to the camel-hair woollen material supplied by Jaeger to the expedition (see the 1915 first edition of 'The Home of the Blizzard', Volume 2, Appendix VII, 'Equipment', page 313). 'With regard to the clothing, the main bulk was of woollen material as supplied by Jaeger of..... More
The Radfords were born in Devon, emigrated to South Australia in October 1838, and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects, these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other (later) images of the Radfords are held in..... More
Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1901. An attractive invitation card (later matted, framed and glazed, visible image size 230 × 300 mm) featuring a chromolithographic design inset with sepia-toned illustrations (from photographs) 'set into the border. The border is vividly decorated with flags, shields and a large coat of arms..... More
Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1901. An attractive invitation card (later matted, framed and glazed, visible image size approximately 240 × 310 mm) featuring a large chromolithographic illustration of the Exhibition Building, with vignette illustrations of the capital cities of Australia; the artwork is by G.B.H. Austin. Exposure to light..... More
Melbourne, Sands & McDougall Limited, 1901. An attractive invitation card (later framed and glazed, visible image size 300 × 354 mm) featuring a large chromolithographic illustration by cartoonist Tom Carrington. His 'design shows Young Australia, fresh from battle, approaching Britannia for honour and acceptance. Toscin, a radical newspaper, disapproved: "The..... More
[Peterborough? The Association], 1921. This 'souvenir' is in fact a substantial and comprehensive history of the first ten years of the association. The short introduction ('Fight the Clean Fight') is written by Henry J. Weckert. His portrait appears in 'The 1921 Delegates' on page [16], where he is described as..... More
'Each year at the ASID [Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases] scientific meeting, a world-renowned expert in infectious diseases is invited to give the Macfarlane Burnet Oration, named in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning Australian virologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, a pioneer in the fields of virology and immunology' (ASID website)..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1952 [limited edition]/ 1951 (standard edition). Number 27 of only 130 copies signed by the author and the ten artists represented in the book (Albert, Enos, Oscar and Ewald Namatjira; Edwin, Otto and Reuben Pareroultja; Walter Ebatarinja, Henoch Raberaba and Richard Moketarinja). A rarity, especially in..... More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1980. Reset from the (anonymous) first edition of 1873, 'Memories of the Past, 1834-1848'; number 21 of 500 copies. More
Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1977. Inscribed 'For Douglas [Newton] ... with respect and appreciation, best, Tony' (from one of the authors to Douglas Newton, influential curator 'of the department of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an innovator in designing..... More
'You may have heard that there is a plot on foot to capture Brailsford as he comes to the meeting tonight and to rag the meeting. If you feel inclined to help com [sic] to Dickinson's rooms at 7.30 tonight'. Extraordinarily, the minor incident referred to in this note, and..... More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2011. This 'anthology features essays, artwork, prose and soundscapes'. One of 808 standard copies bound in cloth. More
Sydney, Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Ure Smith Pty Ltd, 1969 (first edition). William Dixson Foundation Publication Number 2. [2 items]. More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975 (first edition). The first book in the series, 'Father Christmas' (1973), was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal. More
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1983. Number 137 of 230 copies (with only 170 made available for sale). The original two-colour prospectus, featuring a reduced offset reproduction of the frontispiece, is loosely inserted. The tenth book of the Brindabella Press. More
Deakin, Officina Brindabella, 1987. Number 274 of 275 copies signed by the author. The thirteenth book of the Brindabella Press. More
New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1963 (facsimile edition)/ 1937 (second edition). [2 items]. More
Perth, Heytesbury Holdings, 1990. Written 'in association with Rodney Gooch, CAAMA Shop and the Utopia artists'; the numerous portrait photographs are by Nicholas Adler. More
London, John Murray, 1872. Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore..... More
Melbourne (Volume 1) and Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1938 (second edition)/ 1930, 1940 and 1943. These volumes are the medical companion to the twelve-volume 'Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918'. All three volumes are scarce; the third volume must be deemed rare. Arthur Graham Butler (1872-1949) 'was appointed..... More
[USA, Byrd Aviation Associates, 1930?]. Offered together with a companion booklet by Byrd, 'Into the Home of the Blizzard' (1928; octavo, [32] pages), with the recipient's name and the copy number (X-204) written in ink (but not by Byrd) on the presentation page. The cover of the booklet is a...... More
Ottawa, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, 1968. Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture Monograph Number 4, Parts 1 and 2. A third volume dealt with the systematics and phytogeography of the non-vascular plants of the islands. [2 items]. More
Dural, Rosenberg, 2007. A copy of the prospectus is loosely inserted. More
Brimscombe Port, The History Press, 2014. 'Thousands of Old Etonians flocked to the front, with many of them stepping out of the classroom, into the army and onto the battlefields before they had left their teenage years behind. Over 1,200 of them would not return. Historian Alexandra Churchill's groundbreaking narrative..... More
Mitcham, Clan Enterprises, 1987. All engines come from the collection of the author; some related ephemera are loosely inserted. More
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007. More
[Yowie Bay], Rangeland Management Action Plan, 2002. Dated (25 August 2002) and signed by the author on the title page. Loosely inserted is a processed leaflet from the author explaining that he 'had to take out about one-third to one-quarter of most chapters' for publication, 'however, an unabridged version of..... More
London, HMSO, 1889. British Parliamentary Paper C. 5679 of 1889. The highly detailed and impressive plates illustrate the sections on swine fever, anthrax, tubercular mammitis and actinomycosis bovis ('lumpy jaw'). Reading these reports suggests the rise of vegetarianism in Victorian England was not without good cause. This paper is contained..... More
London, Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. Pages 423-476 are 'Ancient Cookery. From a ms. in the Library of the Royal Society', and the prefatory note is worth quoting at length: 'The ms. from which the following pages are transcribed, is without title or date, or..... More
[Adelaide, The Author, 1952]. Number 163 of only 200 copies (with part of the edition bound in card covers). The work is based on three main sources: the official published account written by Peron and Freycinet after the death of Baudin (much of it had not at this time been..... More
The photograph is personally signed in ink on the image by Sir Donald Bradman (1908-2001), and comes with our letter of authenticity. Although produced in the mid-1990s, this photograph was individually printed from the original 1930s negative. We purchased this item in the late 1990s from a source whom we..... More
London, Hutchinson's Library of Sports and Pastimes, 1953. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink on the title page (he has added 'Rather precarious' after the printed title 'Cricket Triumph'!). The front flyleaf is signed by Lindsay Hassett (1913-1993), the Australian captain. Harris was correct with his inscribed comment..... More
Glebe, Simmons Limited (Printers), [1933]. Padwick 6881. More
All photographs are signed by the subjects; all but one is credited to May Moore (with her signature on the photograph [SP], the mount [SM] or in the negative [SN], as indicated below). Image sizes are given; all are presented on their original studio mounts, now archivally remounted and matted..... More
[USA?], 'Privately Printed by O. T. O.' [Ordo Templi Orientis], [circa 1970s?]. An enlarged edition, incorporating a partial facsimile of the original 1909 edition. More
New York, 93 Publishing, 1991 (revised edition)/ 1986. More
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New York, 93 Publishing, 1989 (corrected edition)/ 1983. More
New York, 93 Publishing, 1991 (revised edition)/ 1962. More
Dublin, California, The Ordo Templi Orientis (Thelema Publications), 1976. More
New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1975 (first edition). This book 'introduces a new series of "The Equinox" ... released under the auspices of Marcelo Motta, the current Praemonstrator ... It is the first book to bear the Imprimatur of the Order since the publication of Liber Aleph in 1962' (dustwrapper..... More
New York, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1975 (first edition). This book 'introduces a new series of "The Equinox" ... released under the auspices of Marcelo Motta, the current Praemonstrator ... It is the first book to bear the Imprimatur of the Order since the publication of Liber Aleph in 1962' (dustwrapper..... More
[Grantham], 'Privately published by the A.'.A.'. [Astrum Argenteum]; Printed and Bound at the Hell Fire Club', 2017 (new edition)/ 1938. Number 22 of 200 copies bound thus (in a total edition of only 222 copies). More
