The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919
Adelaide, Lonnen and Cope, 1921. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. More
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The Story of the 5th Pioneer Battalion AIF
Adelaide, The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club], 1937. The author was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill, page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. 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
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Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism. [Volume] 2: Anthropology and Nutrition. [Volume] 3: Botany and Plant Ecology. [Volume] 4: Zoology
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
The Local. Lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. Text by Maurice Gorham
London, Cassell and Company, 1939. More
Hans (Jean) Arp. Das Graphische Werk, 1912-1966. L'oeuvre gravé. The Graphic Work
Haag/Obb, Verlag Gertrud Arntz-Winter, 1980. 'This catalogue raisonné of Jean Arp's graphic work has been compiled from unbound serial parts of the first volume of the "Arntz-Bulletin. Documentation der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Haag/Obb. 1974). The original pagination has been preserved. Adjoined are some additional notes and corrections that have..... More
An autograph note signed by J.D. Bernal to an unknown recipient, referring to Henry Noel Brailsford (1873-1958), the prolific British left-wing journalist
'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
Reports on Arltunga Goldfield, etc. [Reports on Arltunga Gold Field and Hart's Range Mica Field and Explorations north-east of Hart's Range, north-west of Alice Springs, and of the Frew River Country, &c ... and also Appendix by Mr R. Etheridge, Junr., being Contributions to the Palaeontology of South Australia ...]
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1896. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1896; only 500 copies printed. Brown was in the Northern Territory from early April to early August 1896; he gives detailed reports (and maps) for each of his five journeys. Etheridge's contribution is 'No. 9 - The Occurrence of..... More
Bernard Buffet. Lithographe
Paris, Editions Michèle Trinckvel, Draeger, 1979. A catalogue raisonné of Buffet's lithographs from 1952 to 1979. More
Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd ... and the Executive Committee of the Byrd Aviation Associates express to [recipient's name, Edward Dapp, in ink] their enduring appreciation in the equipping of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. It is our privilege to attest, and we gratefully acknowledge, that without such assistance the accomplishment of the Expedition in the Antarctic would not have been possible ...
[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
Annual Report of the Agricultural Department, Privy Council Office, on the Contagious Diseases Inspection and Transit of Animals for the Year 1888, with an Appendix
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
A very large signed vintage photograph (372 × 368 mm) of Richie Benaud, taken in England during a publicity shoot for Gray-Nicolls cricket bats
The inkstamp of the London photographer, Chard Jenkins, is on the verso. The photograph probably dates from the 1962-63 Australian tour of England. The signature and inscription ('Best wishes') were obtained at a later date. They are written very clearly in ink on the surface of the photograph. Richie Benaud..... More
Whyalla, S.A. '35
The scene depicted here shows iron ore from Iron Knob being loaded by conveyor belt onto a ship bound for the BHP steelworks in Newcastle. Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996), English-born Australian artist, architectural draftsman, camouflage officer, and official war artist, emigrated to Queensland in 1914. In 1922 he 'travelled to..... More
The Three L's, or, Lawyers, Land-Jobbers, and Lovers. A Tale of South Australia Twenty Years Ago
Adelaide, Printed by Webb, Vardon, and Pritchard [for the Author], 1882. 'Essential; an important regional novel and nearly a comic masterpiece' states Depasquale ('A Critical History of South Australian Literature, 1836-1930'); 'a rambling, episodic, undisciplined novel, part romance, part satire, part detective novel and ... part didactic religious novel'. The..... More
A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery of that Vast Country ... in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. A superb production, limited to only 500 numbered sets (this is number 98). The storage box was designed with a matching two-door lid opening at the centre, and attached to the base with piano hinges. About a third of the edition was issued..... More
Dardan-Hells, 1915. Being the Unofficial Log of a Battleship which took an Active Part in the Exploit from Start to Finish of the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Campaign Adventures [an unpublished typescript manuscript prepared for publication circa 1960]
The author's short introduction to this work speaks for itself: 'I'm getting towards the afternoon of life now. Looking back to the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, and the part played by the naval forces and squadrons, I am not only surprised, but am definitely annoyed that, although innumerable volumes..... More
Province of South Australia. Land Grant under Preliminary Sales in England and Partial Purchase in the Province. Country Section... [A printed document, with manuscript insertions]
Land Grant Number 639 is for 'Eighty-two acres numbered "903" in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'James Warland and George Warland of Adelaide' for the sum of £2. Elizabeth Warburton, in 'The Paddocks Beneath. A History of Burnside from the Beginning' (1981), makes short work of locating the land in..... More
The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II (three volumes), [together with] View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (three volumes), [and] Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (three volumes)
London, John Murray, respectively 1854 (seventh edition), 1856 (eleventh edition), and 1854 (fourth edition). A handsome set of the principal works of Henry Hallam in nine volumes, with the armorial bookplates of Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE (1910-1981) and Sergius Henry d'Avigdor in each volume. [9 items]. More
Savage Life in Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in..... More
A series of twelve photographs depicting aspects of Indigenous life (and death) in North Australia
[North Australia, Unknown Photographer, circa 1930s?]. The captions are: 'Circumcision Corroboree, N.A.'; 'Leading the Patient to the Circumcision Corroboree, N.A.'; 'Bathurst Id. Natives'; 'Burial Ceremony, N.A.'; 'Burial Corroboree, N.A.' (two different images); 'Burial Corroboree'; 'Burial, N.A.'; 'Natives Mourning, N.A.'; '... Ornaments of [Burial] Corroboree, N.A.' (caption partially illegible); 'Spear Throwing..... More
Police Commission. Charges against Members of the Police Force
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1881. Victorian Parliamentary Paper C6 of 1881; one of only 800 copies printed. The five witnesses include Superintendent Francis Hare, Superintendent John Sadleir, Detective Michael Ward and Constable Robert Alexander. Aaron Sherritt, a childhood friend of Joe Byrne, one of the Kelly gang, became a double agent..... More
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts illustrating Col. T.E. Lawrence's Book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. With Prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence
London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, 1927 (second printing - '2nd Edition' is printed at the head of the front cover). 'Exhibition No. 427 February 5th-21st, 1927'; Shaw's preface runs to seven pages, Lawrence's (five pages) is an extract 'from a note on Mr Kennington's Arab portraits written..... More
A manuscript document signed by Louis Philippe to the French Ambassador to Russia, Prosper de Barante
Louis Philippe instructs the Ambassador to Russia to attend the opening of the new session of Parliament in Paris after the fall of the second Thiers administration. The document is countersigned by the Garde des Sceaux, Alexandre-François Vivien. Offered with a small pen-and-ink botanical drawing (200 × 125 mm) by..... More
An untitled pamphlet published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for its coverage of the MacRobertson International Air Race from England to Australia in 1934, part of the Melbourne Centenary celebrations
[Sydney, ABC, 1934]. Trove, listing only the NLA and Monash University Library copies, describes the item thus: 'A pamphlet issued by the ABC for its radio listeners throughout its national radio network in Australia. It includes the conditions and regulations, route, prizes, handicap formula, safety measures, entries with biographies, pilots..... More