London, Martin Secker, 1922 [deluxe edition]/ [1917]. Number 109 of 150 copies of this deluxe large-paper issue on blue paper signed by the author. Loosely inserted is an autograph postcard initialled by Norman Douglas, addressed to his friend Ralph Straus, prolific novelist and biographer: 'c/o T. Cook & Son, Via..... 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
As Baron Sydney he 'was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay. He chose Arthur Phillip as governor; on 26 January 1788, Phillip named Sydney Cove in honour of Sydney and the settlement became known as Sydney Town..... More
Buckland Park is a pastoral property near Port Gawler, South Australia. George Frederick Ernest Albert, The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V (1865-1936) was the second eldest son of King Edward VII, who ascended the throne on Queen Victoria's death in January 1901. With the first..... More