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

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

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

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

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, Ellis Limited, [1924]. 'The Ellis Cafe organisation was formed about 1917 as bakers, pastry cooks, caterers, fruiterers and confectioners. The office and factory was at 120 Gouger Street, Adelaide, with a restaurant Covent Gardens at 50 (later 68) King William Street, the Arcadia Cafe in Bowman's Buildings, King William..... 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

Bath, J. Johnson, 1778 [first edition]. More

The expedition was the culmination of several varying investigations over the previous decade: Madigan's first aerial reconnaissance in 1929, Colson's crossing (practically along the 26th parallel) in 1936, and a journey by truck around the northern end of the desert in 1937. This pioneering scientific expedition, of nine men and..... More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1906. The first Australian golf book of any substance. Daniel Gordon (Dan) Soutar was born in Carmyllie, Scotland in 1882. 'In 1888, his family moved to the nearby seaside resort town of Carnoustie where - over the next 15 or so years - he received a...... More

The samples vary in size, but they must average around 40 to 50 square centimetres each; they are accompanied by extensive technical details (including threading and loom settings) handwritten, neatly and in the one hand, in Italian. One page has no sample, one has two samples, two have a sample..... More

'Situated west of the Stuart highway about halfway between Port Augusta and Woomera, Yudnapinna can trace its pastoral origins to mid nineteenth century. The property was established by Thomas McTurk Gibson and was one of the largest sheep stations in South Australia, with peak shearing of 100,000 sheep in the..... More