Adelaide, Lonnen and Cope, 1921. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. More

Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1953 to 1977 (eight volumes are second printings, one of them - the first in the Army series - with corrections; three volumes are third printings; the other eleven are first editions). [22 items]. More

London, John Murray, 1872. Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore..... 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

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. In this..... 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

London, Martin Secker, 1922 [deluxe edition]/ [1917]. Number 109 of 150 copies of this deluxe large-paper issue on blue paper signed by the author. Loosely inserted is an autograph postcard initialled by Norman Douglas, addressed to his friend Ralph Straus, prolific novelist and biographer: 'c/o T. Cook & Son, Via..... More

Newtown, The Gregynog Press, 1936 (first thus)/ 1633. Number 109 of 225 copies, printed 'under the direction of James Wardrop, at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire; finished the twenty-second day of October, 1936' (colophon). '[Greville's] "Caelica" (published 1633) begins as a conventional sonnet sequence but gradually abandons Neoplatonism for pessimistic..... More

North Sydney, Odana Editions, 1978. Number 20 of 155 copies signed by the artist, with an original two-colour lithograph numbered, titled, signed and dated in pencil in the bottom margin ('4/28 "Buoyant" F.C. Hinder - 78'). More

This is an example of item 143 of the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works, which emanated from the Fine Art Society, London. The full title of the catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other Photographic Studies by Frank Hurley' (small octavo..... More

The material ranges from standard fare (iconic structures, picturesque landscapes, exotic costumes) to most interesting and unusual street-level documentary images. These large-format prints (84 are approximately 205 × 270 mm each, three are a little larger, and two are panoramas measuring 120 × 300 mm) have never been mounted, and..... More

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1963 ('New edition')/ 1918. Norman Lindsay has added to the front flyleaf a charming original pencil drawing of Bunyip Bluegum, and a signed inscription - 'A Slice of Pudden' for [Carl Strehlow] from Norman Lindsay' (overall dimensions 120 × 115 mm). The recipient was the son..... More

May's series was unpublished, but dates from circa 1890; it was based on original sketches by Gill and Hamilton (five each) from upwards of fifty years earlier. May's ten plates were printed in brown ink on light brown arch-topped backgrounds (printed surface 150 × 205 mm) on uniform sheets of..... More