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Four original albumen paper photographs mounted on one sheet of card from a loose-leaf album. They are numbered and captioned on the mount - No. 10: General Post Office. No. 12: King William St. No. 14: King William St. No. 16: Rundle St
The gloss-paper prints are each approximately 150 × 200 mm. The three streetscapes have the title and studio credited in the negative. The first two items are slightly foxed, and there is a tiny hole in the sky in the first one; the gloss surface is lightly scuffed; overall, the... More about Four original albumen paper photographs mounted on one sheet of card from a loose-leaf album....
Four original albumen paper photographs mounted on one sheet of card from a loose-leaf album. They are numbered and captioned on the mount - No. 169: Rundle Street. No. 172: Currie Street. No. 173: Pirie St. No. 174: Grenfell St
The gloss-paper prints are each approximately 150 × 200 mm. All four photographs have the title credited in the negative. The gloss surface is lightly scuffed in all instances; overall, the condition is excellent. These photographs come from an incomplete and damaged loose-leaf album purchased at auction in Adelaide in... More about Four original albumen paper photographs mounted on one sheet of card from a loose-leaf album....
A postcard-format gelatin silver photograph of an Anzac Day commemoration in England in 1917. A sombre group of Australian walking wounded features prominently
The image is captioned in the negative 'Anzac Day 25-4-17'. Apart from trifling surface loss to a tiny section in the blank foreground, the item is in very good condition. The verso contains a short letter from an Australian serviceman (surname Baker) convalescing in Exeter ('23.5.17. 5 V.A. Hospital Exeter..... More about A postcard-format gelatin silver photograph of an Anzac Day commemoration in England in 1917. A...
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
London, William Heinemann, 1915. The first volume contains a frontispiece portrait of the author, signed in ink 'Douglas Mawson' in the lower margin. More about The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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The Barossa District. Souvenir. Gawler-Angaston Railway Opening [cover title]
Angaston, 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide), 1911. A very rare item of local history: we have handled only two other copies since 1976, and both were in worse condition than this one. The content is far more substantial than its title suggests; there are thirteen pages... More about The Barossa District. Souvenir. Gawler-Angaston Railway Opening [cover title
Le Moyen de Parvenir. OEuvre contenant La Raison de ce qui a esté, est et sera, avec Demonstrations certaines selon la renconre des effects de vertu
Paris, Leon Willem, 1870 ('nouvelle edition')/ [circa 1616]. Printed for subscribers only, this copy comes from the issue on fine laid China paper. 'Cet ouvrage, imprimé à petit nombre aux frais & pour le compte des Souscripteurs n'a pas été mis en vente. MM. les Libraires-Souscripteurs sont prévenus qu'il leur..... More about Le Moyen de Parvenir. OEuvre contenant La Raison de ce qui a esté, est et sera, avec...
A Journal of a Tour of Discovery across the Blue Mountains
Sydney, Gibbs, Shallard and Co., 1870 (second edition)/ 1823. The earliest obtainable edition of Blaxland's account of his 1813 expedition with William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, which opened up the interior of New South Wales (the first edition was published privately and is exceedingly rare). Ferguson 7133; Wantrup 103c... More about A Journal of a Tour of Discovery across the Blue Mountains
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton
[No publishing details given, other than 'Privately printed by the Burton Club' on the title page, but probably a 1970s American facsimile reprint of the Burton Society edition of 1900-1901, which was the first reprint of the first unexpurgated edition of 1885-1888]. Penzer's bibliography of Burton contains interesting details of... More about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian...
Rough Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Natives. [Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, South Australian Branch, Session 1925-6]
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1927. The information 'more particularly relates to the Adelaide tribe'; from the previously unpublished manuscript of 1844, which was first published in Volume 27 (1927) of the Proceedings. More about Rough Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Natives. [Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal...
Diary of a Bad Year
London, Harvill Secker, 2007 (first edition). 'This leather-bound edition ... signed by the author, is limited to 100 copies of which this is number 1'. More about Diary of a Bad Year
Disgrace
London, Folio Society, 2011 (first thus, with illustrations by Andrew Gibson). This novel was awarded the 1999 Booker Prize. The title page is signed by the author. More about Disgrace
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Disgrace [Chapter 1]
Douglas, Isle of Man, Oak Tree Press, 2006 (first thus). The second volume in the Oak Tree Press First Chapter Series (first chapters from Booker Prize-winning novels; the series is 'dedicated to children living with HIV/AIDS'). The total edition comprised 350 copies: 300 in the standard edition, numbered 36 to... More about Disgrace [Chapter 1
Slow Man
London, Secker & Warburg, 2005 (first edition). 'This leather-bound edition ... signed by the author, is limited to 100 copies of which this is number 1'. More about Slow Man
A People's Tragedy. The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
London, The Folio Society, 2013. More about A People's Tragedy. The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
Conscription under Camouflage. An Account of Compulsory Military Training in Australasia down to the Outbreak of the Great War
Adelaide, John Francis Hills, 1919. 'It is not my intention to be drawn into any newspaper controversy either about what is contained in this book ... or about the notes and appendix matter I have added to it. My friend and collaborator, John P. Fletcher, is at present serving, as... More about Conscription under Camouflage. An Account of Compulsory Military Training in Australasia down to...
The Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) .. Literally translated
[London], Printed for Private Circulation Only, [1887]. Forberg's translation was first published in Latin and Greek in 1824; this appears to be a pirated edition translated from the French. Provenance: Glen Ralph, with his Wilmar Library bookplate. More about The Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) .. Literally translated
The Dolmetsch Collection of English Consorts. Eleven Fantasies, Airs, Pavans, Galliards, Almains, etc. by 16th and 17th Century Composers. Scored from the Original Version for Viols by Arnold Dolmetsch. Version for Modern String Instruments by Percy Aldridge Grainger, with Bowing and Fingering by Ottokar Cadek .. [Three sets of scores, comprising] Number 1: Alfonso Ferrabosco (died 1628): The Four Note Pavan. Number 2: John Jenkins (1592-1678): 5-Part Fantasy, No. 1. Number 3: William Lawes (died 1645): 6-Part Fantasy and Air, No. 1
New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1944. The front cover of each volume is signed and dated (October 1944) by Percy Grainger, with a warm personal inscription in each case, respectively 'To dear Harry, with love from his friend Percy'; 'To dear Harry, in boundless admiration from Percy'; and 'To Harry... More about The Dolmetsch Collection of English Consorts. Eleven Fantasies, Airs, Pavans, Galliards, Almains,...
Comrades in Captivity. A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and officer in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; 'he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder of the war in prisoner-of-war camps. His first volume of poems, "A Gloucestershire Lad", was published shortly after... More about Comrades in Captivity. A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps
Australia. 300 Years of Botanical Illustration
Collingwood, CSIRO, 1991. Number 221 of 375 signed 'Collector's Edition' copies. More about Australia. 300 Years of Botanical Illustration
Orchidaceae.. Plates drawn by Mary A. Grierson
Bourton, The Bourton Press, 1973. Number 471 of 600 copies signed by the author and artist (respectively, the former curator of the Herbarium at Kew Gardens, and the official botanical artist at Kew Gardens). The name of the original subscriber, David W.G. Kennett, has been calligraphically inscribed on the same... More about Orchidaceae.. Plates drawn by Mary A. Grierson
Application de la Photographie aux Levés Militaires [Application of Photography in Military Surveys]
Paris, Librairie Militaire J. Dumaine, 1866. Auguste Chevallier's ingenious photographic plane-table produced a disc-shaped horizontal panorama by means of a rotating lens. Comparing images taken at different vantage points allowed the surveyor accurately to calculate distances and heights as with a regular plane table, but with less room for human... More about Application de la Photographie aux Levés Militaires [Application of Photography in Military Surveys
Koonibba Jubilee Booklet, 1901-1926. [Koonibba. 25 Years of Mission Work among Australian Aboriginals, 1901-1926 (cover title)]
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing Company, 1926. Offered together with the 'Second Koonibba Jubilee Booklet, 1901-1951', edited by the Reverends E. Harms and C. Hoff (octavo, 40 pages with 35 illustrations; an excellent copy in the unevenly sunned wrappers). The former Lutheran mission of Koonibba is in the far west of South... More about Koonibba Jubilee Booklet, 1901-1926. [Koonibba. 25 Years of Mission Work among Australian...
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Die Deutschen in Australien [Germans in Australia]
Stuttgart, Ausland und Heimat Verlagsaktiengesellschaft, 1932. Inscribed, dated (Melbourne, 25 January 1933) and signed by the author to Pastor C. Siegle. 'Schriften des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. A: Kulturhistorische Reihe [Cultural History Series]', Volume 32. More about Die Deutschen in Australien [Germans in Australia
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Buckingham Palace from the Mall. [Together with] Tower of London, White Tower; Horse Guards; Windsor Castle, Norman Gate; Hampton Court Palace [and] St James's Palace
[London], Orient Line, [1937]. The complete set of six menu cards in this series, each featuring a colour lithograph 'by Mr Barnett Freedman of some of the historic palaces and buildings in or about London associated with the Royal Family'. The art work is dated 1935 (four cards) and 1936... More about Buckingham Palace from the Mall. [Together with] Tower of London, White Tower; Horse Guards;...