![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
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
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
London, George Baxter, 1844. 'A scene connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society and the Maories [sic]. Mr Waterhouse, general superintendent of that Society's Missions in Australia and Polynesia, is seen introducing to the natives Mr Creed (their new missionary) and his wife. The detail is wonderful and the colouring beautiful..... More
London, Grant Richards, 1897. The following is printed on the verso of the half-title, facing the title page: 'Of this book there is a very limited edition printed on Japanese vellum numbered and signed by the Author'. This copy is not numbered or signed, nor is it printed on Japanese..... 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
Geelong, George Mercer, Malop Street, and Melbourne, George Robertson, [1873]. The separately paginated section at the rear has its own title page: 'Contributions to the Phytography of the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, from Mr F.A. Campbell's Collections. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller'. The half-title is inscribed and signed 'To..... More
The signatures are Allen (Captain), Ames, Barnett, Copson, Duckworth, Fagg, Farnes, Fishlock, Hammond, Hardstaff, Leyland, Robins, Sims, Verity, Voce, Worthington and Wyatt (plus the manager, Captain R. Howard). Apart from very light smudging, the leaf is in excellent condition. Australia won the series 3-2: 'England's failure can be attributed to..... More
The signatures are Brown (Captain), Alec Bedser, Berry, Close, Compton, Dewes, Evans, Hollies, Hutton (twice - once in ink), McIntyre, Parkhouse, Sheppard, Simpson, Warr, Washbrook and Wright (plus Nash, one of the managers, in ink). The only player not to have signed is Bailey. Given the starring role Hutton played..... 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
At the time, William Bloomfield Douglas (1822-1906) was Government Resident of the Northern Territory; he had been appointed shortly after 'the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Form and context, as well as content, make this an unusual reference: 'These are..... More
London, W.W. Gibbings, 1892 [first thus?]/ 1886 (first English translation)/ 1857. The first leaf is an advertisement for the publisher's 'Representative French Fiction' series. This work was first translated into English by Eleanor Marx-Aveling (1855-1898), the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. It was first published in London by Vizetelly &..... More
Adelaide, FSLSA, 1995 to 2010. All but two of the items are bound in quarter or half leather; nineteen are limited to 99 copies (and the others are limited to 50, 75, 90, 125, 150 and 199 copies respectively, with two of them 150). The original subscription to copy number..... More
London, Lovell Reeve, [November] 1859 [first separate edition]. 'The first important botanical work by a supporter of the doctrine of evolution by natural selection' (Norman, often quoted, but not going nearly far enough in our opinion!). A singular rarity, of the utmost importance. In the concluding paragraph of the postscript..... More
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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
From the spring of 1931 until the end of his enlistment in February 1935, T.E. Lawrence 'was part of a small team that developed and perfected the new types of RAF boat. He worked on seaplane tenders and armoured target boats, general-purpose workboats, refuelling dinghies, bomb-loading dinghies and experimental craft'..... More
London, T. & W. Boone, 1847. One of the longest and most impressive expeditions of Australian inland exploration; after leaving Moreton Bay, Leichhardt's small party set out across the uncharted interior of northern Australia. Some fourteen months and 4800 kilometres later they reached Port Essington in the Northern Territory, having..... 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
Adelaide, RSSA, 1915. This issue also contains a major paper by Captain Samuel Albert WHITE (and others): Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 2 maps and 25 pages of plates). White supplied the lengthy introductory narrative and section on birds, and..... More
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[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; in fine condition. The area depicted is roughly from Arras, Pozieres, Albert and Rosieres-en-Santerre..... More
The author was a member of the South Australian Mounted Police Force from September 1840 to January 1846. This issue also contains articles on the memorial to Captain Collett Barker (12 pages), the destruction of Stuart's tree at Chambers Bay (6 pages), and recollections of various old SA colonists (27..... 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
The subjects are German pianist Wilhelm Backhaus; Serbian violinist Milan-Yovanovitch Bratza; Russian-born American pianist Shura Cherkassky; Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson (two photographs, with Clarence Mates in one of them); Polish pianist and composer Ignaz Friedman; Italian soprano Amelita Galli-Curci; Italian-American soprano Dusolina Giannini; Russian-British pianist Mark Hambourg; Hungarian violinist Joseph..... More
[London, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1856]. An original tinted lithograph showing Florence Nightingale tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. This print comes from William Simpson's important plate book 'The Seat of War in the East' (1855-6) Abbie 'Travel in Aquatint and Lithography' 237.75. More
