Crows Nest, Allen and Unwin, 2002. 'The Regiment participated in many of the major battles of the Vietnam campaign, including Long Tan in 1966, and often played a key role in the outcomes. However, until now its unique achievements have all too often been lost within the larger accounts of... More about When the Scorpion Stings. The History of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, South Vietnam, 1965-1972
![The Works of Max Beerbohm [complete in 10 volumes]. Max BEERBOHM](/pictures/thumb/114836_00.jpg?v=1559717350)
London, William Heinemann, 1922 to 1928. Number 453 of 780 sets (750 for sale), with the first volume signed by the author. The titles are 'The Works of Max Beerbohm'; 'More'; 'Yet Again'; 'A Christmas Garland'; 'And Even Now'; 'Zuleika Dobson'; 'Seven Men'; 'Around Theatres l'; 'Around Theatres ll'; and 'A Variety of Things'. More about The Works of Max Beerbohm [complete in 10 volumes
Kensington, NSW University Press, 1992. More about The Crafts Movement in Australia. A History
Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. The superior full-cloth binding; most copies were bound in quarter cloth and printed papered boards. More about History of Gawler, 1837 to 1908. Published by the Gawler Institute as a Memento of the Jubilee of...
It was issued as part of a series of fifteen portrait postcards of the 1930 Australian Test team. 'Jackson reached his peak at 19 when, in Adelaide against England in February 1929, he played in his first Test match and scored a chanceless 164 runs in 368 minutes. He had... More about A vintage postcard-format gelatin silver photograph inscribed in ink on the verso 'To Olive with...
London, Harding and Lepard, and G.B. Whittaker, 1827 (fourth edition, greatly enlarged and corrected). An attractive early edition of this classic of bibliography. With the early armorial bookplate of the English classical scholar Benjamin Bickley Rogers, and the later bookplate of Hardwicke Knight. More about An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics....
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. A Special Bulletin issued by the South Australian Department of Intelligence. 'The purpose of this book is not to catalogue or to scientifically describe our native birds; but to bring prominently before the public, the police, and others in authority, and more especially the..... More about Protected Native Birds of South Australia
London, Bernard Quaritch, 1900. Fraser's collection comprised some 475 scarabs and cylinders. More about A Catalogue of the Scarabs belonging to George Fraser
London, Oxford University Press, 1934. More about From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt
[London, The Author], 1900. The edition was limited to 200 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and presumably out of series. More about Egyptian Ceramic Art. Typical Examples of the Art of the Egyptian Potter portrayed in Colour...
London, H. Grevel & Co., 1897. With the attractive pictorial bookplate of Alfred Trapnell on the pastedown. More about Religion of the Ancient Egyptians
Adelaide, Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide (to Number 22); Carfax (numbers 23-45); and Routledge (numbers 46-51), 1985 to 2006. At the time the journal was published bi- or triannually. More about Australian Feminist Studies. Number 1, Summer 1985 to Volume 21, Number 51, November 2006...
Two of the portraits are dated (France, July 1917 and [London], October 1918); one of the others is credited to an English photographer; the fourth one was almost certainly taken while Dixon was on active service. They give a graphic portrayal of the impact the war has had on him... More about A series of four postcard-format gelatin silver photographs of 3705 Private William Forrest Dixon...
The material relates to her travels in Asia, Africa and Europe in the early 1990s, accompanied by her husband, the German artist Anselm Kiefer. Many of these photographs, dating back to Graf's earliest use of the camera on her journeys, are overwritten with her often-impressionistic notes and commentaries. This intriguing... More about A small archive of 17 photographs and accompanying correspondence by the contemporary Austrian...
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. The name of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor, is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers... More about History of the First Bushmen's Club in the Australian Colonies, established at Adelaide, South...
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 134 of 1858. In the two-page report, Douglas, the Harbor Master of South Australia, publicly expresses his 'admiration of the wonderful correctness in all essential points of Capt. Flinders's survey; and would observe, that no means at our disposal at present... More about Survey of Kangaroo Island and Backstairs Passage. Report by B. Douglas, of a Survey of the...
![Bayonets of the World. Volume 1 [to] .. Volume 4 [all published]. Paul KIESLING](/pictures/thumb/108434_00.jpg?v=1559614973)
Kedichem, Military Collectors Service, [circa 1973, 1974, 1974, and 1976]. More about Bayonets of the World. Volume 1 [to] .. Volume 4 [all published
It is offered together with another eleven letters and an aerogram (seven in German, five in English, dated between 1974 to 1980), all written and signed by Olda Kokoschka to the Roths. The content tends to be routine and repetitive, but it is not without appeal. For example, in November... More about A UNICEF Christmas card (printed on paper, unfolded dimensions 220 × 155 mm); on the blank verso...
London, William Heinemann Limited, 1934 (third impression and first 'Cheap Edition')/ 1932. Provenance: the pioneering Australian children's book bibliographer Marcie Muir, with her George Perrottet-designed bookplate (an attractive handcoloured woodcut of a vase of Australian native flowers, in her maiden name, Marcie Collett). More about The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Aldous Huxley
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1762 [first edition]. 'The part dealing with Crown law is a highly authoritative exposition of the law relating to treason, homicide, and some other capital offences' (Pargellis and Medley 630). The four-page 'Advertisement. To be placed immediately after the Preface' was produced after the book was published;... More about A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the...
London, Company of Stationers, 1606 [new and corrected edition]/ 1515. With summaries of hundreds of cases heard during the reign of Edward III (1327 to 1377), selected from the Yearbooks and arranged chronologically. The cases range from criminal matters to property disputes. The text, in Law French, is set in... More about Le Liver des Assises et Plees del Corone, Moues & Dependaunts deuant les Justices, cibien en...
[Semarang, Indonesia], Koninklijke Vereeniging Java Motor Club [with the imprint 'Lith. G. Kolff. & Co Batavia'], [1920s]. A motoring map of Java and Madura in three sheets, with details of the different grades of roads, regional boundaries, railroads, sugar factories, historical sites and more. A later edition of this map... More about Automobielkaart van de Java Motor Club van Java en Madoera
Paris, Chez Rolet Boutonné, 1638 [second edition]/ 1630. The second edition of Claude Mydorge's expanded edition and critique of this popular early work of recreational mathematics, first published in 1624 and usually attributed to Jean Leurechon. Each of Leurechon's mathematical problems is reprinted here in roman type, with Mydorge's explanatory... More about Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses Problemes en Geometrie, Mecanique,...
Melbourne, MPOA, 1922 to 1941. All but one of the items is signed by numerous attendees, and most of them carry the ownership signature of one Clyde R. Scott. Also included is a 1924 MPOA Christmas greetings card ('In Friendship's Name'). [9 items]. More about A group of eight menus-cum-programmes for the Melbourne Printers Overseers' Association Annual...
London, J. Hatchard (unless otherwise noted), 1803 to 1808. The disruption in Europe caused by the rise of Napoleon is naturally the principal theme, but the volume also contains a very early account of the Haitian Revolution, extolling the heroism of the recently deceased Toussaint Louverture, and an early work... More about A bound volume of eight pamphlets or books relating to war and global affairs, published at the...
