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
Sydney, Sherriff & Downing, [1863]. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995), Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, with his signature in pencil at the head of the title page. Ferguson 15645 (supplying the date; the advertisement on the rear flyleaf contains testimonials dated January 1863, and suggests those wishing to 'be supplied in..... More
Brisbane, Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey, 1908. Flavelle's Gem Series Number 1. Sydney Skertchly (1850-1926) arrived in Brisbane in 1891 after a successful career as a geologist in places as varied as the Fenland and East Anglia, Egypt, California, Burma and China. In 1895-97 he was assistant government geologist in the..... More
[Melbourne], Australian Post Office, 1972. The photographs show the official centenary celebrations at Alice Springs on 22 August 1972 (46 photographs, including the reopening of the restored Old Telegraph Station), and in Adelaide on 21 and 22 August (5 photographs). Dignitaries present include Sir Alan Hulme (Postmaster General), Sir Arthur..... More
London, John Murray, 1820. The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, 'arguably the most handsome of all Australian exploration journals [and] the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup). The..... 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
Lutetiae [Paris], Apud Mamertum Patissonium [Mamert Patisson] Typographum regium, in officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1585 (first thus). An early collection of Latin satires by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) and Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), as well as the satire attributed to the female poet Sulpicia. This is the second edition..... More
![Item #128170 Pablo Picasso. Volume 2*: Oeuvres de 1906 à 1912. [Together with] Volume 2**:...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/128170_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649812002)
Paris, Éditions 'Cahiers d'Art', 1986/ 1942 and 1982/ 1942. Two of the 33 volumes of this monumental catalogue raisonnée. [2 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
(A) A small album (150 × 145 mm) with the hand-painted title 'Souvenir of Egypt, Palestine, Sinai, Syria. 1914 to 1919', containing 45 (originally 48) small snapshots (45 × 63 mm) loosely inserted behind captioned window mounts. Fifteen photographs are of more than passing interest. The most fascinating one, 'Beersheba..... More
[No Place], Primal Craft Occult Publications, 2013, 2015 and 2017. Each volume is numbered, inscribed and signed by the author, with an elaborate sigil on the facing page; the first two volumes are inscribed to the same person, the third one to another person. Volume 1 (number 31 of only..... 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, E. Tériade, 1939. The artistic component of this number includes three original lithographs by Henri Matisse (a double-page work, 'The Dance', with two individual 'figures of skaters' on the verso), as well as three drawings by him; seven small lithographs (on four pages) by André Derain; six full-page colour..... 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