The Story of a Battalion
Melbourne, Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd., 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF. More
Picture Book 10
Our Picture Book 10 celebrates the return of the Melbourne Rare Book Fair in fitting style. The cover illustrations are Scenes in the Bush of Australia, By A Squatter, Alexander Denistoun Lang. Published in 1847, in this very rare hand-coloured form it constitutes the first Victorian colour-plate book. It is in excellent company with the four parts of The Diggers & Diggings of Victoria as they are in 1855 by S.T. Gill (1856, in the original wrappers). If your taste in lithography is a little more gothic, you can’t go past The Demon McGuire (1872), a very rare early illustrated Australian children's book, in which a monstrous demon rampages through the streets of Sydney.
Literature is another strength. Stellar items include first editions of key works by T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1923), and Poems 1909-1925 (1925), as well as the deluxe edition of 1926, limited to a mere 85 signed copies. Our run of ten issues of The Little Review (1919-21) includes eight with instalments of the first appearance of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Beautiful editions from the famous Kelmscott, Eragny, and Ashendene private presses are present, along with Idyllia (1922, with five original Norman Lindsay etchings), a rarity from N.L. Press.
We hope you enjoy looking at Picture Book 10, replete with eye-catching books, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and ephemera – and it won’t take you long to read it either!
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The entire output of stand-alone works published by Cecily Crozier under the imprint '"A Comment" Publication', offered as one lot
As well as her signature little magazine 'A Comment', Cecily Crozier published four other little-known and now extremely scarce titles. All were printed by The Bradley Printers, Malvern, and three follow closely the format and bold designs seen in the magazine. This group includes all four titles, with two of..... More
The original muster roll of A Company, 124th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
'Companies A and F were from the village of Kewanee, in Henry county [Illinois] ... The exigencies of the struggle and the call had wrought the enthusiasm of the village to its highest pitch, when, on the morning of August 7th, a muster roll was opened in the office of..... More
The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiasticus
Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1932 (first thus). A superb example of private press printing. This is one of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper, with a further 25 copies printed on vellum. The colophon reads in full: 'Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, with..... More
Smith's New General Atlas, containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, carefully delineated from the best Authorities extant
London, Printed for C. Smith, Mapseller Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1809. An attractive Georgian atlas 'on a Scale sufficiently large for the Purposes of general Reading, and yet not too inconvenient for the Study, or the Table' (advertisement at the foot of the contents page)..... More
'A Dreamy Venice in Seal-land'
This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' (Volume 1, page 102), with the caption 'Adelie Land. Weddell seals asleep on pancake ice'. Several pages earlier, Mawson writes: 'Seals and penguins on magic gondolas were the silent denizens of this dreamy Venice. In the soft glamour of the..... More
'The Nugget Penguin Rookery'
A striking view showing two unidentified expeditioners among the royal penguins at the colony on Nuggets Beach, Macquarie Island. This vintage print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label..... More
![Item #122914 'A Terminal Moraine [At the wasting face of the great ice-sheet at Cape Denison]'....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122914.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627267843)
'A Terminal Moraine [At the wasting face of the great ice-sheet at Cape Denison]'
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the full title..... More
A Jaeger camel-hair woollen blanket-sleeping bag supplied to Douglas Mawson as a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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
A panoramic photograph of 'Officers, Cadets, N.C.Os. & Men, Australian Flying Corps, Wendover, March 1918'
Wendover, 'Photo by Panora Ltd., 60 Doughty St. W.C.', March 1918. The Australian War Memorial has the following caption on an example of this impressive group photograph in its collection: 'Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, 1918-03-11. Large group portrait of officers, cadets, NCOs and men of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), together..... More
The Garden of Edens. Illustrated by Roderick Shaw
[Sydney], 'Imprinted by Richard Edwards & Roderick Shaw at the Barn on the Hill, over St Columbkille's', [1939]. A collection of stories for children, told from the perspective of a young girl, Juditheden. The exuberant design of the book matches its eccentric prose style. One of only 600 copies of..... More
![Item #123111 The Lithographs of Chagall (Chagall Lithographe) [Volumes 1 to 5]. Marc CHAGALL,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/123111_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627266421)
The Lithographs of Chagall (Chagall Lithographe) [Volumes 1 to 5]
Monte Carlo, Editions André Sauret, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1974, and 1984. Specific details of each volume of this definitive catalogue raisonné are as follows. [Volume I] CAIN, Julien: The Lithographs of Chagall, [1922-1957]. [Volume II] MOURLOT, Fernand: The Lithographs of Chagall, 1957-1962. [Volume III] CAIN, Julien, Fernand MOURLOT and Charles..... More
The Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World, illustrated with Maps and Numerous Engravings on Wood and Steel
London, John Tallis & Company, [1852]. A collected edition of Cook's three voyages. The attractive maps, by John Rapkin, feature vignette illustrations by various artists, and the plates include portraits of Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, and a version of the famous image of Cook's death. The text follows the..... More
Journal du second voyage du Capitaine Cook, sur les vaissaux la Résolution & l'Aventure; entrepris par ordre de S.M. Britannique, dans les années 1774 &1775
Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Pissot and Nyon, 1777. The first French edition of this unauthorised account of James Cook's second voyage. The English edition was published in 1775, and Beddie attributes this translation to A.F.J. [Anne Francois Joachim de] Fréville. 'Correspondence between Cook and the Admiralty shows that..... More
The Apocrypha, according to the Authorized Version
London, The Cresset Press, 1929 [first thus]. Number 410 of only 450 copies on mould-made paper; a further 30 copies were printed on hand-made paper. More
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. An Autohagiography. Edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant
London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 (first thus). A pencilled inscription on the half-title states it is 'To Be Published In London | July. | Pre-Pub Price £5/5/- | Aust $15.00 | After July £6/6/- | $18.00 | Aust'. The first two parts of the book (pages 29-389) were first published in..... More
Moonchild. A Prologue
London, The Mandrake Press, 1929 (first edition). Crowley's second novel; one of only 2500 copies. 'The Mandrake Press was a British small press founded by Edward Goldston and P.R. Stephensen [an Australian] in 1929. In 1930 the company had financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake..... More
![Item #120391 Book 4 [Part I]. [Together with] Book 4 [Part II]. pseudonyms, Aleister CROWLEY,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/120391.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600665645)
Book 4 [Part I]. [Together with] Book 4 [Part II]
London, Wieland and Co., [1912, first edition] and [1913, first and only edition]. The first edition print run of both these volumes was only 500 copies each. The print run of the second issue of Part I, also in 1912, was between 1500 and 2000 copies. [2 items]. More
Eight Lectures on Yoga... Being The Equinox, Volume 3, Number 4
London, The O.T.O. [Ordo Templi Orientis], BCM/ANKH, 1939. 'In a 15 July 1939 letter to Wilfred Talbot Smith, Crowley mentions that in order to save on shipping costs he is sending 30 copies of the book in sheets to be bound by Smith as near as possible to the original..... More
Poems, 1909-1925
London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 [1926, first edition, signed deluxe issue]. Number 1 of 85 copies of the deluxe issue on hand-made paper, signed by T.S. Eliot (and only 75 copies were offered for sale). This collection includes some of Eliot's best-loved poems, including 'Prufrock', 'The Waste Land', and..... More
Poems, 1909-1925
London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 [first edition]. This collection includes some of Eliot's best-loved poems, including 'Prufrock', 'The Waste Land', and 'The Hollow Men'. 'The dedication to "The Waste Land" ['For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro'] (which appears as an autograph inscription in the copy of the first edition..... More
The Waste Land
Richmond, Printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923 (first English edition in book form)/ [1922]. A splendid unopened copy of this seminal work of modern poetry, hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press in an edition of approximately 460 copies. The..... 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
Un Coeur Simple
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
![Item #129785 Moralités Légendaires. Tome premier [and] ... Tome second. Eragny Press, Jules...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129785.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656641026)
Moralités Légendaires. Tome premier [and] ... Tome second
London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1897 and 1898 (first thus). One of only 220 sets (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette and borders were designed and engraved by Lucien, and Esther..... More
Histoire de Peau d'Ane (Conte de ma mère l'Oye)
London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1902 [first thus]. One of only 230 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette and two illustrations were drawn and engraved by T. Sturge Moore; the..... More
Possum Magic
Adelaide, Omnibus Books, 1983 (first edition). Although the print run was 5000, copies of the first edition of this modern classic are scarce, and in such superb condition they are rare. The signature of Mem Fox just caps it off. More
The Diggers & Diggings of Victoria as they are in 1855. Drawn on Stone by S.T. Gill
Melbourne, James J. Blundell, 1856. The run contains 20 busy and entertaining original lithographs of the Victorian goldfields by Gill, as well as the very rare printed wrappers (also by Gill). These scenes of goldfields life are 'arguably still the most popular and most readily recognised representations of the Australian..... More
Two plates from the rare series 'Sketches of Australian Life & Scenery'
[London, Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co., after 1865]. The complete series comprises twelve views of the Australian goldfields in the manner of S.T. Gill; the set 'was probably issued loose, without any title or wrapper' (Wantrup, page 327). The two plates on..... More
![Item #129274 The Demon McGuire! [cover title]. Francis H. GRUNDY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129274.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656646203)
The Demon McGuire! [cover title]
Sydney, 'Lithographed by Gibbs, Shallard, & Co.', [1872]. A very rare early illustrated Australian children's book, in which a monstrous demon rampages through the streets of Sydney. Identifiable landmarks in the illustrations include the Hyde Park Obelisk, Woolloomooloo, North and South Heads, and Government House. Many more are mentioned in..... More
A small archive of artwork, including original field sketches from Sinai and Palestine, by the South Australian artist and illustrator William Otho Hewett (1887-1942)
William Otho Hewett (1887-1942) enlisted in Adelaide on 26 November 1914; he 'served with the 9th Light Horse Regiment [at Gallipoli] and 3rd Light Horse Brigade Headquarters during the First World War. Trained as a designer is South Australia, he joined the ANZAC Divisional Headquarters at Romani as a panoramic..... More
![Item #129067 'Condoman says "Don't Be Shame Be Game". Use Condoms!' [caption on a poster]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129067_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656637882)
'Condoman says "Don't Be Shame Be Game". Use Condoms!' [caption on a poster]
[Annandale, Printed by Redback Graphix for the] Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland), [second version, circa 1989]/ 1987 (first version, with 'Use Frenchies!' in lieu of 'Use Condoms!'). 'One of the most successful Australian AIDS awareness campaigns, in terms of acceptance, memory retention..... More
![Item #126741 'Condoman says "Don't Be Shame Be Game". Use Frenchies!' [caption on a poster]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/126741_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1639545936)
'Condoman says "Don't Be Shame Be Game". Use Frenchies!' [caption on a poster]
[Annandale], Redback Graphix for the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health, Public Relations Section | NACAIDS, [1987 (first version; in later versions, 'Use Frenchies!' was replaced by 'Use Condoms!')]. 'One of the most successful Australian AIDS awareness campaigns, in terms of acceptance, memory retention and educative subtlety, must surely..... More
Mr Norris Changes Trains
London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935 (first edition). More
Dubliners
London, Grant Richards, [1918 (second English edition, from the sheets of the 1917 second American edition)/ 1914]. 'Joyce's troubles did not end with the publication of "Dubliners" on June 15, 1914. Grant Richards was extremely remiss in paying him royalties and could not be persuaded to publish a second edition..... More
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
New York, Margaret C. Anderson, 1919 to 1921. '"The Little Review", New York, between March 1918 and December 1920, published serially 13 and part of the 14th of the 18 episodes of "Ulysses". In all, 23 installments appeared before publication was stopped by action brought by the Society for the..... More
Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis
London, Printed and published by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896 (first thus). The first of only two Kelmscott Press books to be printed in three colours; this is one of only 250 copies on paper (a further 10 copies were printed on vellum). 'These poems are taken from..... More
Ballads and Narrative Poems
London, Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press for Ellis & Elvey, 1893 (first thus). One of only 310 copies on paper (a further six copies were printed on vellum). Peterson A20. More
A Voyage round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by J.F.G. de La Pérouse. Published conformably to the Decree of the National Assembly, of the 22d of April, 1791, and edited by M.L.A. Milet-Mureau ... In Three Volumes. Translated from the French
London, J. Johnson, 1798 [first edition in English]/ 1797. The first English edition of the voyage around the world that 'was intended to be the French equivalent of Captain Cook's Third Voyage ...'. After leaving Brest in August 1785, the ships 'Boussole' and the 'Astrolabe' visited Easter Island, Hawaii ('the..... More
Scenes in the Bush of Australia. By A Squatter
[London, McLean & Co., 1847]. 'Scenes in the Bush of Australia. By A Squatter' was originally published as 'an oblong quarto volume consisting of two fine lithographs within green titling-wrappers. [The wrappers (not present here) stated the work was 'Published for the benefit of the Famine Relief Fund of the..... More
The Horse and His Boy
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1954 (first edition). The fifth volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series. More
Twenty-One Woodcuts. Drawn, engraved & printed by Lionel Lindsay
Sydney, Meryon Press, 1924. 'This book, the first of the "Meryon Press", was printed by Lionel Lindsay on the hand press given to him by his friend The Honourable John Lane Mullins M.L.C. It was completed in May, 1924. Of this edition 30 copies are on full vellum of Nikko..... More
Creative Effort. An Essay in Affirmation
Sydney, Published for the Author by 'Art in Australia', 1920. One of 120 copies (of which only 100 were for sale), with an original signed etching by Norman Lindsay tipped in (Number 39). Provenance: R.M. Chirnside, with his John Shirlow-designed bookplate (featuring the racehorse 'Linass') on the front pastedown... More
Exhibition of Norman Lindsay's Watercolours and Etchings. Opened by Lady Moulden
Adelaide, The Dunster Galleries (and printed at The Hassell Press), July 1926. Number 14 of only 35 copies on hand-made paper signed by Norman Lindsay ('Of these, twenty-five are for sale'). There were also 250 unsigned copies of the standard edition. A priced catalogue of eight watercolours (plus two not..... More
![Item #127072 Idyllia [verse by Hugh McCrae, illustrated by Norman Lindsay]. Norman LINDSAY, Hugh...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127072_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656637020)
Idyllia [verse by Hugh McCrae, illustrated by Norman Lindsay]
[Sydney, N.L. Press, 1922]. Number 5 of 133 copies (of which only 100 were for sale to the public) signed by Hugh McCrae. The five original etchings, individually numbered and signed in pencil by Norman Lindsay, are 'What the Deer Said'; 'Robin Hood'; 'Pantera'; 'The Yellow Lady'; and 'The Talking..... More
The detailed register of approximately 60 hotels owned or leased by the Lion Brewing and Malting Company Limited, Jerningham Street, North Adelaide, compiled between the 1880s and 1920s
The Lion Brewing and Malting Company in North Adelaide was founded in 1884, and floated in 1888 (the same year as the South Australian Brewing Company Limited) 'in order to secure the brewing, hotel and property assets of Beaglehole and Johnston ... The company owned many hotels in South Australia'..... More
A series of nine photographs depicting various aspects of the 1907 Melbourne Cup, framed as one display
The photographs are displayed in three rows of three: the captions from left to right, top to bottom are 'The Derby Winner - "Mountain King"'; 'View on the Flat'; 'Poseidon'; 'The Finish'; 'Returning to the scales'; 'The Lawn'; 'Saddling up'; '"Apologue" - Winner'; and 'Leaving the Bird Cage'. Jockey William..... More
A printed portrait of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Gordon, inscribed and signed by him
'Rt Hon. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies KT AK CH PC QC (1894-1978) was Prime Minister of Australia for a record total of 19 years: from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966. Born in Jeparit, Victoria, Menzies attended school in Ballarat and studied at Melbourne University, where he gained a...... More
Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-Four Classes in the Linnaean System of Vegetables, by Select Specimens of English Plants
London, Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1813. 'A very rare [miniature] children's book on botany with very attractive and delicately coloured flower plates, including a few mosses and mushrooms' (Spielmann: 'Catalogue of the Library of Miniature Books collected by Percy Edwin Spielmann', page 23). Darton attributes authorship to Benjamin..... More
Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of Both Testaments
London, Printed for J. Harris, late Newbery, & for Darton & Harvey ('E. Hemsted, Printer, Great-New-street, London'), [circa 1790]. Spielmann 18 (recording a minor variant printed by 'Darton & Harvey, Gracechurch-Street, London', with 15 plates): 'Very similar to the Newbery Bible [1780], but with some alterations. The preface, for example..... More