[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. The author was also Chairman of the 2/10th Battalion AIF History Committee; his signature (E.F. Allchin) appears at the end of the acknowledgements section (page ix). Fellow-committeeman Hec Ellis, who contributed the chapter on sport, has also signed this page (appending the date 6 May..... More
![Travels in the South of Europe and Brazil, with a Voyage up the Amazon and the Xingu' [sic]....](/pictures/thumb/93589.jpg?v=1587431448)
London, David Bogue, 1849 [first edition in English]. Prince Adalbert (1811-1873) was a Prussian naval theorist and admiral; several journeys led him between 1826 and 1842 to the Netherlands, Britain, Russia, Turkey, Greece, and Brazil (Wikipedia). He spent the last four months on 1842 in Brazil. Alexander von Humboldt makes..... More
Three oblique views are captioned in the negative, recording the location and date (7 August, 8 August and 17 December 1918); all have reference numbers starting with '7.T.S.A.A.'. The fourth photograph, possibly a composite of several vertical images, includes a printed caption ('Leighterton Aerodrome. Scale ... 20-11-18 - 5000 ft')..... More
The aircraft appear to be a Sopwith Camel and two Avro 504s (specific models not determined). Offered with two other photographs of a biplane (possibly a Sopwith Camel) in the air: one is silhouetted above billowing sunlit clouds (147 × 199 mm, printed without margins); the other is shown flying..... More
Numbers pencilled on the verso of all but the small print include '/43' so we will suggest 1943 as the date. The only caption is a later one in ballpoint pen identifying Darling Harbour; there are another two featuring the same general area. Eight feature Garden Island (prominently, in all..... More
All images are captioned in the negative. All eight oblique views carry the same date, 25 June 1918, preceded by 'A3 AEO *** 62°' (*** ranges from 110 to 121). Place names on them are Hamel, Hamel Wood, Somme, Accroche Wood, Tailloux Wood, and Vaire Wood. The vertical images are..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1964. Offered together with a copy of the catalogue 'Francis Bacon Paintings 1959-60', from the exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London in March and April 1960 (quarto, 12 pages plus 17 pages of plates: card covers slightly rubbed and marked). [2 items]. More
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
![Lloyd's Natural History. [Sixteen volumes, the complete set]. R. BOWDLER SHARPE](/pictures/thumb/64893_01.jpg?v=1593736483)
London, Edward Lloyd, 1896 and 1897. The set comprises BOWDLER SHARPE, R.: British Birds (four volumes with 124 colour plates); OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.: Handbook to the Game Birds (two volumes with 42 colour plates); KIRBY, W.F.: Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (five volumes with 159 colour plates); FORBES, H.O.: Handbook to..... More
Canberra, Defence Public Relations, Department of Defence, 1994. The half-title is inscribed and signed by the author and the photographer. Beneath this are another five signatures: Brigadier Adrian D'Hage AO MC (Director General of Public Information); Colonel Glen Babington, 1 RAR Adjutant; Colonel William Julian Andrew Mellor DSC ('Bill Mellor'..... More
Perth, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92..... More
Sydney, Rigby, 1987. This is an example of the deluxe edition limited to only 500 sets; a small printed numbered sheet of paper signed by Don Bradman was mounted in the first volume of each set when it was originally published. This set comes from the archive of the printer..... More
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
![Book 4 [Part I]. [Together with] Book 4 [Part II]. pseudonyms, Aleister CROWLEY, Mary...](/pictures/thumb/120391.jpg?v=1601333260)
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
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
Adelaide, Printed by David Gall [for John Howell, bookseller and manufacturing stationer], 1858. The Adelaide directory (listing name, occupation and address) runs to 47 pages; the Port Adelaide one is seven pages long. Considering the colony was founded barely two decades earlier, it is an extensive yet unpretentious list. For..... More
Adelaide, Department of Repatriation, 1919 [fourth edition]/ 1919. In our experience, this is a presentation binding. Charles Duguid (1884-1986), a Scottish-born doctor, was appointed captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force, in February 1917. 'He treated casualties in the Middle East (March-July) before returning to Australia in..... More
![The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion [the complete set in 13 volumes]. Sir James...](/pictures/thumb/120054_01.jpg?v=1601333212)
London, Macmillan, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1912 (third edition). The set comprises nine parts in 13 volumes. Part 1: The Magic Art. Part 2: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul. Part 3: The Dying God. Part 4: Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Part 5: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild..... More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2006 (first thus). One of three deluxe editions signed by the authors: this is number 84 of only 91 copies bound thus, in a total edition of 900 copies. 'When writing the original synopsis of this work in the early 1960s, the authors made clear the purpose..... More
![Six Months in South Australia; with Some Account of Port Philip [sic] and Portland Bay, in...](/pictures/thumb/28225_00.jpg?v=1588036096)
London, J. Cross, 1838. The unnumbered four-page postscript after page 208 provides a summary of Adelaide newspapers 'received up to the 14th July'; in it, mention is made of Eyre's overlanding expedition from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1838, during which he discovered and named Lake Hindmarsh. In the lengthy..... More
![Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ [three volumes]. David Laurence JUNCHEN, and Preston...](/pictures/thumb/119379_01.jpg?v=1594108274)
Pasadena, Showcase Publications, 1985, 1989, and 1995. 'This three-volume encyclopedia provides a wealth of primary source material on the American theater [sic] organ, an instrument designed for the movie theaters of the silent film era that has now all but disappeared from American pop culture. The first two volumes contain..... More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. With the pictorial bookplate of J. Cluny Harkness (Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s, according to Trove). Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative, although the photographs may..... More
London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander, quickly suppressed]. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and..... More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
