Bendigo, 38th Battalion History Committee (printed by the 'Bendigo Advertiser' Pty Ltd and the Cambridge Press), 1920. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's..... More

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

Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1869 [fifth edition, eleventh issue?]. The Complete Edition ('Vollständige Ausgabe') with 84 sheets (an abridged edition with only 63 sheets was also published). The majority of the maps are attractively hand-coloured; a small number are printed in colours. Three are undated; all others are dated either 1868..... More

The document, dated 27 August 1833, is addressed to the Justices of Goal Delivery for the Northern Circuit and the High Sheriff of Lancaster. Convict records indicate Emett, sentenced to death for a malicious shooting, was transported with 252 other convicts to NSW on the 'Hive' in January 1834, arriving..... More

Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, 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..... More

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

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

Canberra, L.F. Johnstone, Commonwealth Government Printer, [1940]. Northern Territory Report No. 43 '(to which N.T. Report No. 30 was preliminary)' of the Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia. With the details of M. Revelman on the front cover. Revelman was director of the Lady Claire group of companies..... More

This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More

Signed and titled (twice) in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). The boat is SS 'Alacrity', operated at the time by Howard Smith in Port Phillip Bay. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney..... More

London, Max Parrish & Co. Limited, in association with Chanticleer Press Incorporated, New York, 1948. The book was issued in conjunction with Kokoschka's first American exhibition, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The colophon states that 'Of this edition of 2,000 copies, 200 numbered copies have been specially..... More

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