Adelaide, Adelaide Camera Club, 1948. The exhibition of work by the Adelaide photographer Eric Robertson (1889-1955) ran from 17-27 February 1948. Offered together with an album (approximately 190 × 235 mm) containing related photographs: a large portrait of Robinson, 14 interesting snapshots of scenes at the exhibition, six examples of..... More
This experimental image (102 × 76 mm) is mounted on plain card (121 × 190 mm); both are in fine condition. The card is warmly inscribed (we believe to Becquerel himself) by its maker, one Julius Hartmann of Michelstadt, Hesse. He refers to it as a 'Radiographie'. On the verso..... More
[No Place], Fall of Man Press, 2016. Number 35 of only 96 copies. More
The grant is for 'All that One Acre Section of Town Land numbered "558" in the Provincial Survey', purchased by none other than the Treasurer himself! Osmond Gilles (1788-1866) was an extremely interesting character by any account (not least, the one in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'): 'Of Huguenot descent..... More
Adelaide, English & Soward, Architects, Cowra Chambers, Grenfell Street, 1907. The main drawings, in black ink and up to six different watercolours, comprise the Front Elevation (West), South Elevation, Ground Plan, Back Elevation, and Cellar; there are also four sections and a number of minor details. It has been signed..... More
Adelaide, 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], 1840. A rare and important early Adelaide publication, and among the earliest and extensive works of its kind; the vocabulary and phraseology run to 76 pages. Ferguson 3102 (with slight variations..... More
HRH the Prince of Wales spent a week in Adelaide in mid-July 1920, during a three-month visit to Australia. The photograph shows him standing in front of Parliament House, Adelaide. He has inscribed the bottom corner 'Sincerely Yours | Edward P.' George Lionel Marchant (1882-1958) ran a successful studio in..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 177 of 1866. Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889), at this stage of his life also the Commissioner of Police in South Australia, 'examined the northern shores of Lake Eyre, searching unsuccessfully for Sturt's Cooper's Creek but finding instead a large river, now..... More
A colour linocut on paper (image size 151 × 230 mm; paper size 165 × 243 mm), with the edition number (85/100), title and artist's signature in ink in the lower margin. The paper is moderately foxed, but this is really only noticeable in the narrow margins because of the..... More
The photographs (cartes de visite and cabinet cards) depict Annie Griffith Roberts, her first husband Dr James Hawkins, her second husband, Dr Edward Bruce Robertson, and Oriana, one of the children of the second marriage. The Robertsons came to Australia in 1887; Oriana married into the Moodie family of 'Wando..... More
[London], Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. An early publication from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press in an elegant binding in the style of (or perhaps by) the influential English binder Roger Payne (1739-1797). 'Charles Lord Whitworth ... was Envoy Extraordinary to Russia in 1704, and Ambassador Extraordinary in 1710. Seven hundred..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
