Adelaide, Government Printer, 1916. The Yudnamutana Mining Field is in the Northern Flinders Ranges. 'One of the main mines in the Yudnamutana District, the Yudnamutana mine (also known as the Yuda mine) was worked intermittently for copper. Started around 1862, work was abandoned in 1867, then picked up by the..... More

There is no details indicating the subjects, the photographer, or where or when the photograph was taken, but we suggest Australia (possibly South Australia, where the item surfaced) in the 1870s. The basic nature of the setting, indoors but impermanent, makes us further suggest it is the product of a...... More

Sydney, Coote & Jorgensen Ltd. ,Gear Manufacturers, March 1934. 'The time will come, we hope, when the ancient custom of installing odd gears will pass into oblivion, where it belongs' (foreword). More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers (for the South Australian Institute of Engineers), 1914. 'In preparing this paper I need hardly tell you that I have obtained many particulars from the Departmental Reports, especially those of the late Sir Charles Todd ... The late Mr R.R. Knuckey, who had charge..... More

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839. Offered with a copy of the Classics of Neurology and Neurosurgery Library 1985 facsimile edition of MAYO, Herbert: 'Anatomical and Physiological Commentaries'. Octavo, two volumes (originally published August 1822 and July 1823) here bound as one, [iv] (new preliminaries), [iv], 120, [ii]..... More

Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist who was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated with his details..... More

An original gelatin silver photograph (image size 367 × 404 mm) signed and dated in pencil ('Dupain '37') in the bottom right-hand corner, float-mounted as originally offered for sale, with the title 'Sunbaker' written in pencil by Dupain on the mount below the image. The verso of the mount is..... More

Dusseldorf, Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, 1976. Number 190 of 1000 copies of a tri-lingual catalogue of the very limited output of graphic works of the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy (1900-1955). Stanley Hayter 'led a graphic workshop in Paris (Atelier 17) since 1927' and produced many of Tanguy's prints. He provides a...... More

London, Folio Society, 2014 (first thus)/ 1866 (in the original French). Number 513 of 1250 copies. This is the first edition of this work to contain Victor Hugo's original illustrations. The translation and notes are by James Hogarth; the introduction is by Graham Robb, the author of 'Victor Hugo -..... More

London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1909 ('New edition, revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated')/ 1861. More

Pipsmore Farm, Chippenham, The Author, 1892 (second edition). Loosely inserted is a self-promotional leaflet (circa 1897) advertising the author's services (quarto, 4 pages with 3 illustrations, folded to fit inside the book), as well as an annotated printed note (folded twice) from English physicist, dowser and parapsychologist Sir William Fletcher..... More

Adelaide, Government Printer, from 1881 to 1893. The first two reports have 'with compliments' inscriptions (possibly by George McEwin, one of the board); the recipient's name has been erased. John Ednie Brown (1848-1899), sylviculturist, was Conservator of Forests in SA (1878-1890), Director-General of Forests in NSW (1890-1895), and the first..... More

Adelaide, Rigby, 1980. The 'trade' edition, limited to 990 copies (this fact is not noted in the book). A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. More