The material was sent to Barry Jones, and the head of the first page is inscribed 'copy for Barry O. Jones'. The discursive chronology contains numerous corrections and additions in Miller's hand. There are also three additional leaves (rectos only) containing his abridged chronology from 1944 to 1959, without annotations..... More
Geneva, Editions d'Art Albert Skira S.A., 1981 (facsimile edition)/ 1933 to 1939. The first number appeared in June 1933; numbers 3 and 4 were a double issue, as were numbers 12 and 13, the last to be published, in May 1939. [3 items]. More
Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, [1906]. Twelve verses by Annie Isobel Rentoul, with illustrations by her daughter Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite). Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's second book (after 'Mollie's Bunyip', 1904). Muir 6333. More
Manchester, Mack & Co. [Photographers], 1913. At the time, Archibald Henry Peake (1859-1920) was the Premier of South Australia, a position he held on three occasions (1909-1910, 1912-1915 and 1917-1920). He died in office on 6 April 1920. In 1912, 'the Liberals won an eight-seat majority ... Peake again became..... More
Berne, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975 (revised third edition)/ 1968, 1971, and 1979. The text throughout is in French, English and German. These three volumes comprise the complete catalogue raisonné of Picasso's graphic works on paper; Volume III in the series is 'Catalogue of the Printed Ceramics, 1949-1971'. [3 items]..... More
Edinburgh, 'printed for Cadell and Davies, London and William Creech, Edinburgh', 1802. John Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician and geologist. 'Following the death in 1797 of his friend James Hutton, Playfair proceeded to make a careful analysis, clarification, and amplification of Hutton's "Theory of the Earth" [1785 and 1795, the essence of..... More
Offered with a print-out of a lengthy article (ten pages quarto) on Roosevelt by Barry Jones; it was written as part of a series published in the Melbourne 'Sunday Herald-Sun' newspaper. 'When I began writing this series, I had not decided who was the most important of the Ten Greatest..... More
The letter, dated 10 December 1791 and carried privately by ship from Kingston, is addressed to 'Messrs Newton, Gordon & Murdoch, Merchants, Madeira'. A number of lesser matters are touched upon, but the letter deals primarily with the importation of wine: 'I cannot at present ascertain what quantity of wine..... More
The first volume contains eleven Parliamentary Papers (in all, 98 pages plus 7 plans or charts) plus a printed broadside and 11 manuscript documents totalling 19 pages. The documents, all dated 1878, include a proof copy of the Report of the Board of Advice (one page foolscap folio, signed in..... More
Adelaide, Dimond Studio, Rundle St. 1899. Football matches between clubs and state teams from South Australia and Victoria were a regular event from 1879 and 1894, 'but in 1894 the concept of representative intercolonial football was once more called into question as the Vics registered an all time record win..... More
Eight of the plates depict scenes of Shell's business activities in Australia (five are in South Australia). These include aerial views of the bulk installations at Gore Bay, NSW, and Birkenhead, SA; Sir Alan Cobham landing at Albert Part, Victoria on 29 August 1926; a fleet of 20 cars used..... More
Paris, Éditions de la revue 'Verve', 1955. 'Cet ouvrage contient un ensemble de dessins provenant des carnets de travail de Georges Braque' (verso of the title page). More
Paris, printed by Draeger for High-Life Tailor, [1909]. The story is a tale purportedly from the 'Thousand and One Nights' entitled 'Histoire du Tailleur de Bagdad et du Secret Merveilleux'. The preliminary drawings prefigure the published version, but vary in many ways from the final product. A copy of the..... More
London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, August 1939 (first UK edition, preceded by the US edition by only one week: they were published on 25 August and 18 August respectively). 'Herbert Jenkins' Colonial Library' is printed in white on the lime-green oval-shaped panel near the foot of the spine, in place of..... More
![Item #114646 The Masterpieces of Emile Zola. [Comprising] L'Assommoir; La Curée; Germinal; Nana;...](/pictures/thumb/114646_01.jpg?v=1559288548)
[Philadelphia], 'Printed for subscribers only from the plates made by the Lutetian Society' [by George Barrie & Son, circa 1924]. Number 160 of 1000 sets of the 'Library Edition, with the etchings on Japan paper', comprising unexpurgated translations of six novels from Zola's sweeping Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. The stated aim..... More