History of the 15th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, War 1914-1918. Revised and edited by Lt.-Col. Paul Goldenstedt
[Perth, John Burridge, 1980s facsimile edition]/ 1948. One of only 200 copies. More
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The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1988 (facsimile edition)]/ 1921. One of only 200 copies. More
![The 28th. A Record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919. Volume 1. Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula [all published]. 28th Battalion, Colonel Herbert Brayley COLLETT.](/pictures/thumb/105607_00.jpg?v=1536813604)
The 28th. A Record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919. Volume 1. Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula [all published]
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1983 (facsimile edition)]/ 1922. Number 11 of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 227. More
Nulli Secundus. A History of the Second Battalion AIF, 1914-1919
Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1942. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. More
The Thirty-Seventh. History of the Thirty-Seventh Battalion AIF
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1984 (facsimile edition)]/ 1936. One of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 233. More
The Fortieth. A Record of the 40th Battalion, AIF
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1986 (facsimile edition)]/ 1922. One of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 238. More
The Seventh Battalion AIF. Résumé of Activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War, 1914-1918
Collingwood, Abb-typesetting Pty Ltd, 1986 (amended facsimile edition)/ 1933. The two leaves of additions and corrections to the Rolls are new to this edition. More
The 7th Field Artillery Brigade Yandoo. Containing Publications of the Organ of the 7th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, whilst on board the SS 'Argyllshire', with 9th Field Artillery Brigade and the 9th Field Ambulance, en route from Australia to England
[Perth, John Burridge, 1991] (facsimile edition)/ 1916, 1917 and 1919. The three original parts are here bound as one, in this facsimile reprint limited to a mere 200 copies. Our catalogue notes for the first edition are not out of place here: 'These three volumes reproduce the brigade's typescript journals... More
Plan of the Southern Portion of the Province of South Australia as divided into Counties and Hundreds, showing the most Important Settlements, Post Towns, Telegraph Stations, Main Roads, Railways &c. Compiled from Official Documents in the Office of the Surveyor General
Adelaide, Surveyor General's Office, 1877. Lithographed throughout by Frazer S. Crawford (Government Printer); signed on the double-page title 'G.W. Goyder Sur Genl 30/5/78' with a two-digit number (42 in this case) in his hand under the date; this is presumably the copy number of what we suggest was a very... More
Fishing under Sail. Edited from the original manuscript by Glen Ralph
Lockleys, Wilmar Library, November 1993 (second, corrected, edition)/ February 1993. The autobiography of a professional fisherman, born on Yorke Peninsula in 1921, the son of a Gallipoli veteran who first took his son to sea when he was aged two. The introduction to this volume lists the pages where the... More
Ladies' Legs and Lemonade
Adelaide, Rigby, 1979. Warmly inscribed, dated (August 2007) and signed by the author (1920-2011), the influential contemporary Australian art dealer (and much else besides). More
Notes on the Occurrence of Coal, Petroleum and Copper in Papua
Melbourne, Department of External Affairs (printed in Sydney by William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer), 1913. Bulletin of the Territory of Papua, Number 1. The report deals predominantly with the Purari Coal Expedition of 1912, but it also contains a potted 'history of discoveries to date in regard to the special subjects dealt with'. More
![Winston S. Churchill [the Official Biography]. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900. Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914. Volume 3: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916. Volume 4: 1917-1922. Volume 5: 1922-1939. Volume 6: Finest Hour, 1939-1941. Volume 7: Road to Victory, 1941-1945. Volume 8: Never Despair, 1945-1965. Randolph S. CHURCHILL, Martin GILBERT, first two volumes.](/pictures/thumb/95923-01.jpg?v=1543625636)
Winston S. Churchill [the Official Biography]. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900. Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914. Volume 3: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916. Volume 4: 1917-1922. Volume 5: 1922-1939. Volume 6: Finest Hour, 1939-1941. Volume 7: Road to Victory, 1941-1945. Volume 8: Never Despair, 1945-1965
London, 1966 to 1988 (all first editions). The complete Official Biography. + The matching Companion Volumes as follows: Volume 1, Parts 1 and 2; Volume 2, Parts 1, 2 and 3; Volume 3, Parts 1 and 2; Volume 4, Parts 1, 2 and 3; and Volume 5, Part 1 (London... More
South Pacific Air War. Volume 1: The Fall of Rabaul, December 1941-March 1942. Volume 2: The Struggle for Moresby, March-April 1942
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2017 and 2018. More
Report and Plans of Explorations in Central Australia
Melbourne, Department of External Affairs, 1916. Bulletin of the Northern Territory, Number 20, December 1916. An account of two expeditions between April and September 1915, and May and October 1916. 'The first expedition left Oodnadatta on the 23rd March, travelling by way of Macumba, Dalhousie, and Arina Water, on the... More
Back-to-Eudunda Official Souvenir.. 26th October to 2nd November, 1935
Eudunda, Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee, 1935. More
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1; sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans
London, T. and W. Boone, 1845 (first edition). Provenance: the contemporary signature 'R. Keppel Craven' is written in ink at the head of the first title page (presumably The Honorable Richard Keppel Craven, 1779-1851, British traveller, author, and long-time resident of Naples and Salerno). The blind-stamp of 'The Durdans, Roseberry... More
Journals of Australian Explorations
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969 (facsimile edition)/ 1884. Explorations in the 'Western, Northern and Central portions of Australia' between 1846 and 1858. Peade A14: only 366 copies. More
South Australia. Its History, Resources, and Productions
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Provenance: Sir John Hawkshaw, Hollycombe, with his name-plate on the front pastedown, and a pencilled inscription on the first blank page ('To Sir John Hawkshaw with Mr Sam Davenport's complts. Phila 30/6/76'. Sir John Hawkshaw (1811-1891) was a famous British civil engineer... More
Early Experiences in South Australia
Adelaide, Wigg, 1899. The author's memoirs, dating back to 1838, first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. Loosely inserted is an original cutting from the 'Register' of 22 July 1899, containing the last article in the book (where it is #26... More
!['The Last Break' [Sydney, circa 1912]. A vintage blue-toned carbon print, unmounted as originally produced. Frank HURLEY, Australia.](/pictures/thumb/108648-00.jpg?v=1534183383)
'The Last Break' [Sydney, circa 1912]. A vintage blue-toned carbon print, unmounted as originally produced
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
An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul. Being the Substance of Observations made during a Mission to that Country, in the year 1793
London, William Miller, 1811 [first edition]. 'No Englishman had hitherto passed beyond the range of lofty mountains which separates the secluded valley of Nepaul from the north-eastern parts of Bengal' when the author spent seven weeks in the country (13 February to 3 April 1793) on a diplomatic mission to... More
An Aviary on the Plains
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934. 'This book comprises forty-six sketches of bird life in western Queensland'; these include recipes for cooking Plain turkeys. More
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales .
London, T. & W. Boone, 1839 ('second edition, carefully revised')/ 1838. Ferguson 2811; Wantrup 125. More
The Story of the Noble Opal
Brisbane, Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey, 1908. Flavelle's Gem Series Number 1. Sydney Skertchly (1850-1926) arrived in Brisbane in 1891 after a successful career as a geologist in places as varied as the Fenland and East Anglia, Egypt, California, Burma and China. In 1895-97 he was assistant government geologist in the... More