They are mainly examples of California Bungalows, popular in Australia from the early 1910s until the Second World War. The designs are printed (by an early duplicating process) on the recto of individual sheets of stiff paper (332 × 200 mm), numbered 1-33, 39, 41 and 42. They are in..... More

Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1876. The leather title-label contains some interesting details: 'The New District Atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory. Published by E.S. Wigg and Son, Adelaide, for the Proprietors, F.E. Hiscocks and Co.'. All but one of the very attractive maps carry the imprint of 'F.W...... More

London, William Heinemann, 1915. The first volume contains a frontispiece portrait of the author, signed in ink 'Douglas Mawson' in the lower margin. More

London, Printed at The Field Press 'For Private Circulation Only' [by Charles Alma Baker], [1920]. Inscribed in pencil on the initial blank page 'With the compliments of the Honorary Organiser, C. Alma Baker'; mounted above this inscription is an original pencil drawing (approximately 160 × 210 mm, dated 1918 and..... More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1911] (first edition). The first edition of Barrie's best-loved work, and the fullest version of the Peter Pan story, it expands upon Barrie's play 'Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up', first performed in 1904 but not published until 1928. The character of Peter..... More

[London], By Permission of the 'Manchester Guardian', [1916]. A piece of hemmed white linen (overall dimensions 610 × 465 mm), the map (510 × 382 mm) printed in black, within a decorative blue and red border. Apart from a very short inconspicuous right-angled tear (15 × 10 mm) to the..... More

Sydney, Gibbs, Shallard and Co., 1870 (second edition)/ 1823. The earliest obtainable edition of Blaxland's account of his 1813 expedition with William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, which opened up the interior of New South Wales (the first edition was published privately and is exceedingly rare). Ferguson 7133; Wantrup 103c..... More

London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792. The revised, official account of the voyage of the 'Bounty', including the mutiny and Bligh's subsequent voyage in the ship's launch with eighteen loyal crewmen. 'In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half..... More

Sydney, Kemp and Fairfax, 1849. The account of Kennedy's disastrous expedition to explore Cape York in 1848, '... the most tragic of all Australian explorations, not least because he and his men were defeated at the outset. The bravery, skill, good humour and generosity of Kennedy, the loyalty and bravery..... More

London, Chaffey Brothers, [1889 (third edition)]/ 1888. A self-promotional prospectus on a very grand scale, as befits the scheme itself. We have previously handled a copy of the 'standard' version of this edition: the contents were the same, but the book measured 395 × 285 mm, and was bound in..... More

London, Published by J. Cross, 1833. Joseph Cross was a London cartographer; his 'volume is the earliest work relating to the inland exploration of Western Australia. The book consists of the journals and reports of over twenty exploratory expeditions into the country around the Swan River settlement undertaken by, among..... More

London, G. and W. Nicol, 1814. The text volumes are in the very rare large-paper issue (only 150 sets were printed). Australia's greatest travel book: as well as recounting his epic circumnavigation of the continent, which finally established that it was a single landmass, Flinders provides a long introductory survey..... More

Bernard Goode (1834-1897) was active in South Australia at the address printed on the verso of the card (69 Rundle Street, Adelaide) between 1864 and 1874. Davies and Stanbury ('The Mechanical Eye in Australia. Photography, 1841-1900') devote two pages to Goode's penchant for novelty images, in particular multiple-image photography, where..... More

London, T. & W. Boone, 1845. The account of Hodgkinson's surveying expedition to the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales between 1840 and 1842. Provenance: Samuel Gist Gist [sic], with his armorial bookplate; later, in the library of the notable historian Ida Lee, with a gift inscription to her..... More

Sydney, J. Moore, 1855 (first edition). Hume's account of his famous expedition with Captain William Hilton Hovell, which established an overland route between Sydney and Port Phillip. Outraged at what he considered to be a public lack of acknowledgement of his role in the expedition, Hume was impelled to publish..... More

Brisbane, J.W. Buxton, 1867. The rare account of the Jardine brothers' pioneering stock drive up the Cape Yorke Peninsula. 'When [their] father was posted to Somerset, Frank and his brother Alexander overlanded the stock. Accompanied by four Europeans and four Aboriginals [sic] they left Rockhampton on 14 May 1864 with..... More

Brisbane, George Slater, 1865. MacDonald's successful private expedition was undertaken at his own expense, as was the printing of this account. This copy is inscribed on the front flyleaf to 'Alfred G. Manning [?] Esq with the Author's compts'. Ferguson 11936; Wantrup 184a. More

London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited, 1894 (first edition). The seven stories in this volume appeared in 'The Strand Magazine' between March and September 1894. They effectively took up where Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' left off after twelve appearances between July 1891 and June 1892. 'Of Doyle's..... More

The four books are: SEARCY, Alfred: 'In Australian Tropics' (London, 1907) [IAT07]; SEARCY, Alfred: 'In Australian Tropics' (London, 1909) [IAT09]; SEARCY, Alfred: 'By Flood and Field' (Melbourne, 1911) [BFF]; DALY, Mrs Dominic: 'Digging, Squatting and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory' (1887) [DSP]. Together, the four books contain 20 original..... More

The aircraft used was a Savoia-Marchetti S.55 ('a double-hulled flying boat produced in Italy, beginning in 1924. Shortly after its introduction, it began setting records for speed, payload, altitude and range', according to Wikipedia). The first image, a snapshot (66 × 111 mm), is a close-up view of the aircraft..... More

This experimental image (102 × 76 mm) is mounted on plain card (121 × 190 mm); both are in fine condition. The card is warmly inscribed (we believe to Becquerel himself) by its maker, one Julius Hartmann of Michelstadt, Hesse. He refers to it as a 'Radiographie'. On the verso..... More

Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), 'MP for Hythe and a second lieutenant in the East Kent Yeomanry, spent most of the war working as a secretary and general fixer for Field Marshal Haig, who was Commander in Chief of the British forces in France and Flanders. Today, we might recognise his..... More