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
The artist is unidentified, but he was possibly attached to No. 9 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF (9 RSU). The Australian War Memorial website states that in 1945 three artists already serving with the RAAF were seconded to the RAAF War History Section as artists - Harold Freedman (1915-1999), Max..... More
Sydney, Australian Museum, 1901 to 1914 ('Second edition ... entirely rewritten, with additions')/ 1889. Australian Museum, Sydney, Special Catalogue Number 1. Orginally issued in 19 parts (Volume I, Parts 1-4; Volume II, Parts 1-3; Volume III, Parts 1-5; and Volume IV, Parts 1-5): it is here bound without the wrappers..... More
Los Angeles (Numbers 1-14), St Ives (Numbers 15 and 16) and South Yarra (Number 17), The Editor, 1907 to 1909. Provenance: E.M. Christie, Melbourne (address label on an early blank); then presumably gifted ('with the compliments of' is written in pencil on the label) to Edward Edgar Pescott, with his..... 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
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, 1860. The newspaper came out Monday to Saturday, and accordingly it contains a never-ending, ever-changing fascinating miscellany of local, national and international news, with the large parochial components being far and away the most instructive and entertaining. The issues for the second half of this year..... More
Paris, Jacques Guerin, 1731. The first edition of this popular fantasy novel, which first popularised the concept of the 'Egyptian Mysteries' in Europe. This issue, with titles in red and black, carries the imprint of 'Jacques Guerin, libraire-imprimeur, Quay des Augustins'. Another issue exists, with the titles in black and..... More
[London, printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts, London, and John Lane, New York] [Vale Press], 1901. One of only 310 copies. The Latin text of this famous tale of Cupid and Psyche from the 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius (often known as 'The Golden Ass') was edited by C.J...... More
Paris, E. Tériade, 1938. Published in Paris in both French and English editions (with the texts translated by Robert Sage) under the directorship of E. Tériade (an ex-patriate Greek, Efstatios Eleftheriades), 'Verve' was 'devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms'. 'That the illustrations may retain the..... More
Toowong, Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, in association with The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 2000. Signed and dated (17 August 2000) on the title page by the author. An unparalleled 'visual record of ancient Kimberley rock art, dealing specifically with periods predating the Ice Age', and a work of lasting..... More
London, Sold by J. Gliddon, 3, Austin Friars, and W.H. Mason, Chichester, 1838 (second edition)/ [1838?]. A dozen pages are given over to the letters from emigrants, including nine from the brothers Hack, written between February and August 1837. The first one, from Glenelg on 20 February, less than two..... More
Melbourne, E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro. [1874]. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader".... The writer left Melbourne on 1st September, 1874, and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September, in which..... 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
Yardea Station is a pastoral lease approximately 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide; it was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges, in the late 1850s. 'Lying on one of the main east-west corridors through the Ranges, Yardea became the main postal depot during the late 1860s. A stone..... More
