![Airways [a picture book account of a journey from England to New York]. Airship R37.](/pictures/thumb/110591.jpg?v=1546475188)
[London, circa 1920] (with 'Made in Germany' printed on the front cover). The ultimate fictitious voyage: the R37 was almost completed when production was cancelled in February 1921, and it was dismantled later that year. More
The albumen paper photograph (94 × 61 mm) is mounted on the printed card (104 × 63 mm) of The Adelaide Photographic Company. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW (a gift from a family member, John Howard Johnson); it is dated January... More
![Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volumes 1-12, 1788-1939. [Plus] .. Index: Volumes 1-12. [Plus] .. Volumes 13-16, 1940-1980. [Plus] .. Supplement, 1580-1980. [Plus] .. Volume 17, 1981-1990, A-K [19 volumes]. Australian Dictionary of Biography.](/pictures/thumb/90274_00.jpg?v=1536802771)
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, first published between 1966 and 2007 (earlier volumes here are reprints). Offered with the two-volume companion set, 'A Biographical Register, 1788-1939. Notes from the Name Index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography', compiled and edited by H.J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith (Canberra, 1987; octavo, approximately... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1834. More
London, Richard Bentley, 1834. Approximately 300 pages of the first volume are devoted to Bennett's journeyings in New South Wales in 1832-33. George Bennett (1804-1893), medical practitioner and naturalist, 'had first visited Australia in 1829. He did so again in 1832, arriving in spring and becoming immediately impressed by "the... More
London, The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Number 564 of 625 copies, with the publisher's quarter cloth and papered boards replaced with a stunning designer-binding by Ron Eadie. The accompanying images make short work of any written description we could provide. More
Many of the photographs are large-format prints (on average 220 × 280 mm); apart from a little foxing to some of the mounts, the album and its contents are in excellent condition. The most appealing images are the dozen of Ceylon; 11 of them carry the blindstamp of the Colombo... More
London, HMSO, 1889. British Parliamentary Paper C. 5679 of 1889. The highly detailed and impressive plates illustrate the sections on swine fever, anthrax, tubercular mammitis and actinomycosis bovis ('lumpy jaw'). Reading these reports suggests the rise of vegetarianism in Victorian England was not without good cause. This paper is contained... More
London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1948]. More
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1983. Signed by Don Bradman in thin blue ink on the half-title. A small related newspaper clipping is loosely inserted. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1919. McLaren 509. More
[Adelaide, The Author, 1981]. The dedication page is signed and dated (27 August 1981) by Llewellyn Fowler. The frontispiece depicts 'Sergeant L. Fowler ... in 1919 after 3 years active service with the 10th Battalion'; pages 21-46 relate to his war service. More
Scenes of or around field hospitals, in particular at Anzac Gully and Hotchkiss Gully, are a feature of ten of the photographs. 'Turkish Prisoners at work, Anzac' is another impressive image. South Australian-born Thomas Wolmer (or Woolmer) English (1894-1956) transferred to the 50th Battalion in March 1916 and survived the... More
![Birds of Australia [the complete set of eight volumes]. John GOULD.](/pictures/thumb/113464_00.jpg?v=1546931426)
Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1972 to 1975 (facsimile edition)/ 1848 to 1869. More
Sydney, The Shepherd Press, 1947. Number 679 of 2000 copies (200 copies of a deluxe edition were also published). More
The illustrations, accompanying the poems 'The Intro', 'Doreen', and 'Hitched' in the book, are each drawn within a pencil border (approximately 130 × 100 mm) on larger sheets of paper. The title is written immediately below the image; at the foot of each sheet of paper the artist has written... More
![The New Wessex Edition. [Comprising] Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; The Return of the Native; The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge; [and] Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock Quire. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. Thomas HARDY.](/pictures/thumb/113483_00.jpg?v=1546928629)
London, Macmillan, 1978/ 1975 [first thus]. More
Roseville East, Craftsman House, 1995 (first edition). The appendices include 'comprehensive checklists on over 350 migrant and successive German cabinetmakers'. More
Circa 1897 (a Sri Lankan scene, printed later). Signed on the lower right of the image, with the title in pencil on the original mount. Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 37 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True')... More
[Circa 1910s]. Signed and titled (twice) in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. Adelaide-born John Kauffmann (1864-1942), a pioneering photo-impressionist, spent a decade in Europe studying art... More
Townsville, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1980 and 1982. The first volume carries the ownership signature of N.S. Kirkman, a contributor; the second volume is signed by Dr Peter Bell, who contributed five articles to the two volumes. More
Athens, The Author, 1984. The author was a renowned Greek jeweller and goldsmith (and iconic brand); much of his work was inspired by ancient Greek works. More
London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, 1927 (second printing - '2nd Edition' is printed at the head of the front cover). 'Exhibition No. 427 February 5th-21st, 1927'; Shaw's preface runs to seven pages, Lawrence's (five pages) is an extract 'from a note on Mr Kennington's Arab portraits written... More
Oxford, John Johnson, The University Press, Oxford for J. Thornton & Son, 1937. Winston Churchill unveiled the plaque to the school's most famous old scholar; his lengthy address appears on pages 9-18. O'Brien E117 (the first issue, with the Johnson imprint). More
London, The Bodley Head, 1956 (first edition). The seventh and last volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series. More
