[Grantham], 'Printed and bound at The Hell Fire Club', 2014. The title page is inscribed and initialled by the author ('Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!'). Loosely inserted in a plain cream envelope is a greetings card printed in gilt with Aleister Crowley's A.'. A.'. seal..... More
Not identified as such, but from the estate of Sir Alexander Russell Downer, politician and diplomat (1910-1981). The album has the look and feel of a deluxe presentation production, not for general distribution. It would appear to be a pictorial precursor to the NCDC's commercial publication, 'Tomorrow's Canberra - Planning..... More
London, Hudson & Kearns and George Newnes, 1895 to 1898. [5 items]. More
Adelaide, Paris Nesbit (to Number 15), then John Newton Wood, 1900 and 1901. 'The small religious newspaper "Morning" was founded in 1900 by the gifted but unbalanced lawyer, Paris Nesbit. The newspaper was initially used largely as a vehicle for his personal views on religion and Adelaide society. Nesbit unashamedly..... More
The sketches range between 100-140 mm high and 70-90 mm wide (two are smaller); they are mounted in five roughly straight lines, with their names and regional addresses (or rural industry employers) added in ballpoint pen to the mount. It is behind glass in its original and appropriately rustic white-painted..... More
Richard Parkinson (1844-1909) is usually considered to have been of German origin, although he was born in the Duchy of Schleswig when it was part of Denmark. Following Germany's establishment of its Pacific Island colonies in the late nineteenth century, Parkinson was officially recognized by the colonial authorities as being..... More
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
The high-quality sepia-toned photogravure is printed on stiff card (external dimensions 217 × 255 mm, image size 139 × 190 mm). The wide margin beneath the image is inscribed and signed in ink: 'Yours, affectionately Florence E. Booth. The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Gal[atians]..... More
The sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph (image size 188 × 137 mm) is mounted on light-brown textured card, set within a slightly larger impressed area, with a single lead pencil line ruled around the edges of the print itself (we suggest to mask trifling amounts of excess glue). The mounted photograph..... More
Adelaide, A.C. Harley and Co., 1914. 'Notwithstanding the fact that we have more than doubled the number of illustrations, it has been found impossible to include all our patterns, as we are constantly adding to their number.' A rare, handsome and important catalogue of decorative ironwork; the very rare first..... More
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [1929 (first edition, later impression)]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia, 1788-1988', National..... 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
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
