[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

The artist is 1894 Air Mechanic Sydney English, Aeroplane Repair Section, stationed at the time at the Australian Flying Corps Training Depot at Wendover, Buckinghamshire. He was a twenty-something iron founder from Northcote in Victoria when he enlisted on 27 April 1917; his artistic skills would appear to be innate..... More

Babbage was 'engineer, scientist and explorer ... son of Charles Babbage, Cambridge professor of mathematics [and the first computer pioneer], and his wife Georgina, sister of W.W. Whitmore, a founder of South Australia.... In 1856 Babbage was sent north to search for gold as far as the Flinders Ranges. He..... More

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1890. More

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

London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757 [first edition]. The first edition of this popular satire against the 'vain, luxurious and selfish effeminacy of England's higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years' War' (ODNB). This..... More

Sydney, Rigby, 1987 [first trade edition]. This first trade edition (issued at the same time as the signed limited edition in full leather), is greatly superior in quality to subsequent reprints. In this set, the frontispiece portrait of each volume is signed in blue ballpoint pen by Don Bradman, and..... More

The signatures are Hassett (Captain), Benaud (12th man), Harvey, Hole, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston, Langley, Lindwall, McDonald, Miller, Morris and Ring. A heavyweight team by any account, with eight former Invincibles and five future Australian Captains. On the verso are the pencil signatures of the Victorian team for the match..... More

An original gelatin silver photograph (image size 367 × 404 mm) signed and dated in pencil ('Dupain '37') in the bottom right-hand corner, float-mounted as originally offered for sale, with the title 'Sunbaker' written in pencil by Dupain on the mount below the image. The verso of the mount is..... More

London, T. and W. Boone, 1849 [first edition, slightly later issue]. Provenance: George Woodroofe Goyder, with the pastedown of each volume inscribed in his hand 'Hill Side Cottage | Medindie | April 1858'. George Woodroofe Goyder (1826-1898), South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty-three years, is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's..... More

London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More

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