Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956. The first (and most important) of the four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is..... More

Paris, Léonce Laget, 1972. The first volume contains the history of this important French society of engravers, and the catalogue raisonné of the 300 prints it published; the second volume contains an extensive biographical dictionary of members. Number 11 of only 500 sets for sale. [2 items]. More

London, Faber and Faber, 1938. The half-title is signed by both authors. 'This sumptuous book is no less than a collection of nearly every available lithograph of the Romantic Ballet. Here are all the great ballerinas, Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito, Lucile Grahn, Carolina Rosati, as alive and..... More

London, Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1931(first edition, first impression, the primary variant with the horizontal spine lettering). Provenance: Lesley Kilmeny Symon (1885-1969), one of the daughters of Sir Josiah Symon (1846-1934), South Australian lawyer and politician; he was a member of the Australian Senate in the First Australian Parliament, and an..... More

Montreal, 93 Publishing, 1974 (first edition). More

Maple Grove, Ordo Templi Orientis USA, 2014 (revised second edition). Number 14 of only 93 copies bound in leather (the standard binding is red cloth with identical gilt blocking). The book 'was first published as Red Flame No. 2 in 1995 ... and reprinted in trade paperback format in 2005'..... More

London, Skoob Books Publishing, 1991, 1992 and 1994 [corrected editions]/ 1972, 1973 and 1975. A note printed on the verso of the contents leaf in each volume states that it has been reprinted from the 'first edition in which there were a number of errors. These have been corrected where..... More

Sydney, J. Moore, 1855 (first edition). Hume's account of his famous expedition with Captain William Hilton Hovell, which established an overland route between Sydney and Port Phillip. Outraged at what he considered to be a public lack of acknowledgement of his role in the expedition, Hume was impelled to publish..... More

The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More

The party consisted of Missionaries Johann Goessling and Ernst Homann, and two lay-helpers, Hermann Vogelsang and Johann Jacob. They set out from Langmeil [Tanunda] church on Tuesday 9 October 1866 with two large covered wagons and seven horses. This image, along with the full details of the epic journey and..... More

Melbourne [and] Sydney, Lansdowne Editions (Volumes 1 and 2) and Mallon (Volume 3), 1980, 1987 and 2005. Meredith Smith is the author of the first volume; Smith and Aslin are the authors of the second, and Calaby and Flannery of the third. All volumes carry the number 267 of a...... More

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938 (first thus). The author's first book to be published in the USA; 'A different version of this novel has been published in England under the title "Camera Obscura" (verso of the title page). The story behind this turn of events is intriguing. 'At the age..... More

Long Beach, Safari Press, 1997 (first edition). Number 932 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. Number 20 in the Classics in African Hunting series. More