Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, (1973). More about John Constable, the Natural Painter. An Exhibition arranged for Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney by...
Perth, United Aborigines Mission - Language Department, (1959). Loosely inserted are a supplementary Pronunciation Sheet (one page quarto, produced in the later 1960s) and a receipt signed by the author. More about Illustrated Topical Dictionary of the Western Desert Language. Warburton Ranges Dialect, Western...
London, Cassell, 1960. More about Fair Dinkum
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1872. On the front flyleaf is a gift inscription from Albert Gard to his father, Melbourne, 9 May 1872. The author, a medical practitioner, records a discussion on the preservation of human bodies in the six-page preface to this 'quaint novel'; the only other publications attributed to... More about Lazarus of Bethany. The Story of His Life in Both Worlds
London, Richard Bentley, 1853 (second edition, with additions and corrections)/ 1852. Essentially the narrative of this important expedition, reprinting letters 'almost in their original form as they were written, sometimes as a report direct to his Majesty the King, sometimes to his Excellency ... Eichhorn, or to other high patrons... More about Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years 1842-1845, during the...
Adelaide, James Heath Lewis, Printer (first conference), and Wesleyan Book Depot (all other conferences), 1874 to 1886. Trove indicates that the only institutional holdings of any copies are the first three issues in the State Library of South Australia. More about Minutes of Several Conversations between the Ministers of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist...
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, April 1951 (fifth impression)/ June 1945. More about Horrie the Wog-Dog. With the AIF in Egypt, Greece, Crete and Palestine. Written from the Diary of...
Adelaide, United Aborigines' Mission, [first edition, 1936?]. More about Pearls from the Deep. The Story of Colebrook Home for Aboriginal Children, Quorn, SA
Vancouver, UBC Press, 1993 (first Canadian edition)/ 1993. One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest... More about A World That Was. The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia
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[Broken Hill], AIME (printed in Adelaide by Sands & McDougall), 1894. The annual report records that dues were received from 195 members, which suggests the print run of this volume is not much more than that number. Other articles of interest include three on gold fields, and the lengthy presidential... More about Some Notes on the White Cliffs Opal Fields. [Contained in] Transactions of the Australasian...
The sepia-toned high-gloss albumen paper photograph (image size 153 × 196 mm) is in excellent condition; the original card mount (253 × 303 mm) is stained in one margin, with minor loss to one corner and another margin. The photographer is not credited, but someone at a later date has... More about A vintage photograph of staff at Chateau Tanunda Winery in the Barossa Valley, South Australia;...
London, John Murray, 1849. Provenance: Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope (1920-2018), Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus, 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' (LCA obituary); his signature in pencil appears on the front flyleaf. Ferguson 5248 (not noting that... More about The Working Man's Handbook to South Australia. With Advice to the Farmer, and Detailed...
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1989. More about Needlework in Australia. A History of the Development of Embroidery
[Ballarat, printed by F.W. Niven & Co for the Federal Amalgamated Mining Managers' Association of Australasia, 1901]. A pictorial Christmas card addressed in ink the secretary of the Tarcoola Branch of the association. The illustration charts the development of mining activity in Australia, from gold panning on a river bank... More about Friendly Greeting. 1901-1902. The Central Council of the Federal Amalgamated Mining Managers'...
[Melbourne, Commonwealth Celebrations Committee, 1901]. The pass is stamped with the number 162; this example was issued to Mr James Davis, Editor of 'The Traveller', on 4 May 1901, and is signed by David Hewett Maling, Chairman of the Press Club Committee (he was a leader-writer at the Melbourne 'Argus')... More about Commonwealth Celebrations. Opening of the Federal Parliament, Melbourne. May, 1901. Press Club...
Collingwood, CSIRO, 1991. Number 221 of 375 signed 'Collector's Edition' copies. More about Australia. 300 Years of Botanical Illustration
London, J.M. Dent and Sons, 1988 [first thus]. 'This new selection is a major addition to Lawrencia. [It includes] many letters of historic value embargoed until the late 1960s and thus unavailable to early biographers'. More about The Letters of T.E. Lawrence. Selected and edited by Malcolm Brown
George Taplin (1831-1879), missionary and teacher, began his work with the Ngarrindjeri in April 1859; the 'site he chose for a settlement on the shores of Lake Alexandrina was a traditional camping ground called Raukkan (The Ancient Way), known to Europeans as Point McLeay.... Keenly interested in Ngarrindjeri culture and... More about A vintage full-plate albumen paper photograph (163 × 220 mm) of a group of fourteen Ngarrindjeri...
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Angaston, 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide), 1911. A very rare item of local history: we have handled only two other copies since 1976, and both were in worse condition than this one. The content is far more substantial than its title suggests; there are thirteen pages... More about The Barossa District. Souvenir. Gawler-Angaston Railway Opening [cover title
Brisbane, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland), [1933]. 'Supplement to the Journal' of the RGSA (Queensland), Number 34, Volume 48; the four vocabularies are for the Kabi-kabi, Wakka-wakka, Yugarabul and Yugumbir languages. At the head of the title page is a gift inscription to the 'Rt. Rev. Archdeacon Leo Hayes... More about Vocabularies of Four Representative Tribes of South Eastern Queensland with Grammatical Notes...
London, Macmillan Press Limited, 1980 [facsimile edition]/ 1913 (third edition, revised and enlarged). More about The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
Brisbane, Queensland Printing and Publishing Co. (Hodgson and Paton), 1897. The artist James Swinton Diston (1857-1940) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia in 1886. 'Mr Diston is an artist of long-established reputation, a Member of the Council of the Art Society of New South Wales, his pictures having... More about The Australian Art Union .. Collection of Oil & Water Color Paintings (Valued at £409 10s),...
[Adelaide, A.W. Dobbie, circa 1899]. 'Alexander Williamson Dobbie (1843-1912), brassfounder, merchant and inventor ... photographer, pianist, optician, astronomer and gardener ... also a writer of direct, individual style' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). His parents emigrated to South Australia in 1851, and Scotland was the poorer. The printed introduction ('A Few... More about A collection of stereophotographs of 'New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon, and many other islands...
[Adelaide], Citizens and Business Men's Committee, 1919. A very attractive publication, rarely seen on the open market. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 247. More about Souvenir Guide of South Australia's Fighting Men of the AIF. The History, Achievements and Colors...
