Adelaide Lace
Adelaide, Rigby, 1973. Number 305 of 1001 copies numbered and signed by the author. A survey of the Adelaide's cast-iron lacework. More
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The World's Banker. The History of the House of Rothschild
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. From the front flap: 'Money is the god of our time ... and Rothschild is his prophet'. Ferguson was 'the first historian to have unrestricted access to all the surviving archives of the five Rothschild branches'. More
Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation
Hampshire, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008. 'Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. [This book is] the first full length study of Vittoria Colonna in English for a century ... essential reading for scholars interested in issues of gender, literature..... More
Norfolk Island and its Second Settlement, 1825-1855
Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1991. More
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978. More
Early Adelaide Architecture, 1836 to 1886. [A Photographic Record]
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. Signed by both authors on the title page, this copy is also inscribed (on the verso of the front flyleaf) 'Nan/ From Dorothy and Edward/ With love/ 1969'. 'Edward' is one of the authors, judge and poet Sir Edward James Ranembe Morgan (1900-1977), of whom..... More
The Colossus. Poems
London, Faber and Faber, 1967 (first thus)/ 1960. More
Remembrance of Things Past. Illustrated Edition [complete in 12 volumes]
London, Chatto and Windus, 1957 (first thus, 8 volumes); 1960 (reprint, 3 volumes)/ 1957; and 1961 (reprint, 1 volume)/ 1957. Illustrations by Philippe Jullian, translations from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Volumes 1-11) and Stephen Hudson (Volume 12); dustwrapper design by Enid Marx. More
The Sky-Religion in Egypt. Its Antiquity and Effects
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1938. 'Mr Wainwright, who has devoted special attention to the cults and myths of the Ancient Egyptians, here shows that the late, organised state-religion has been allowed to obscure the far older beliefs from which it must have evolved. He collects all the available evidence for..... More
Egyptian Tales translated from the Papyri. First Series. IVth to XIIth Dynasty [and] Second Series. XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty
London, Methuen & Co., 1895. With illustrations (many full-page) by Tristram Ellis. More
The Fellahin of Upper Egypt. Their Religious Social and Industrial Life To-day with Special Reference to Survivals from Ancient Times
London, George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., 1927. With over 185 illustrations, mostly from photographs. More
The Making of Egypt
London, The Sheldon Press, 1939. More
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An illuminated address presented 'To John Furphy, Esq. Shepparton, 29th July 1909', from 'Ministers, Officers and Members of the Churches and Congregations in the Shepparton Methodist Circuit'
'Dear Mr Furphy, [We] ... have heard with very great sorrow of your removal from the District after a residence of about 35 years and an unbroken association with the Methodist Church.... As a Local Preacher you have rendered invaluable Service to all our churches, travelling thousands of miles, at..... More
A signed program for the Old Vic Theatre Company's production of Thornton Wilder's 'The Skin of Our Teeth', performed on its Australian and New Zealand Tour in 1948
Adelaide, Thornquest Press Limited [Printers], 1948. Signed in ink on the cover by Vivien Leigh and Sir Laurence Olivier. At that time, they were married; the tour was a great success, but stressful and exhausting, and it put the marriage under considerable pressure. Extra-marital affairs, and Leigh's increasing physical and..... More
Animal Farm. A Fairy Story
London, Secker & Warburg, late August 1945 (reissue)/ 17 August 1945 (not May 1945 as printed in the book). The contemporary small paper label of the original Mary Martin Bookshop (Adelaide) is on the front pastedown. The first edition carries the imprint date of May 1945 on the verso of..... More
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Robert Klippel
Sydney, Bay Books, 1983. A substantial study of the artist's extensive output of abstract sculpture and drawing. More
Caricatures of the Australian XI. English Tour 1953
Sydney, Shepherd & Newman, Printers, 1953. This copy is signed in ink alongside each caricature by all but one (Jim De Courcy) of the seventeen players and the manager, George Davies. The signatures are those of Hassett (captain), Miller, Morris, Tallon, Lindwall, McDonald, Harvey, Ring, Hole, Craig, Langley, Johnston, Benaud..... More
London exhibited in 1852; elucidating its Natural and Physical Characteristics; Antiquity and Architecture; Arts, Manufactures, Trade, and Organization; Social, Literary, and Scientific Institutions; and Numerous Galleries of Fine Art
London, John Weale, 1852 (second edition). The charming presentation inscription on the front flyleaf ('... health, happiness, and prosperity') is dated London, 22 June 1852. More
Waltzing Matildas. The Men and Machines of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regimental Group in Australia and Borneo, 1941-1946
Blackwood, 2/9th Association, 1988. More
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The Rotifera; or Wheel-Animalcules
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. Preaching to the converted: 'Rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals of the phylum Rotifera. Rotifers can be found in many freshwater environments and in moist soil, where they inhabit the thin films of water that are formed around soil particles. The habitat of rotifers may..... More
A Jaeger camel-hair woollen blanket-sleeping bag as supplied to members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Mawson makes specific reference to the camel-hair woollen material supplied by Jaeger to the expedition (see the 1915 first edition of 'The Home of the Blizzard', Volume 2, Appendix VII, 'Equipment', page 313). 'With regard to the clothing, the main bulk was of woollen material as supplied by Jaeger of..... More
Facsimile Editions of Early English Children's Books from the Osborne Collection, Toronto Public Library. [35 facsimile volumes in 28 slipcases, plus the descriptive companion volume]
London, Bodley Head, 1983/ [the originals date from the 1700s and 1800s]. The 35 titles are: Orbis Sensualium Pictus; Goody Two-Shoes; A New Year's Gift for Little Masters & Misses; The Birth-Day Gift, or the Joy of a New Doll, from Papers cut by a Lady; The Death and Burial..... More
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Centenary Year of South Australia, 1936. Progressive Adelaide as it stands Today. A Pictorial Directory of its Most Attractive Centres. Embracing Glenelg, Brighton, Seacliff, Victor Harbour, Port Elliot, Port Lincoln, Tumby Bay, Port Noarlunga, Clare, Narracoorte [sic], Mount Gambier and Port Pirie. Including Broken Hill, the World's Greatest Silver-Lead Mines [cover title]
Adelaide, G.H. Baring, Publisher and Printer, 1936. The book's lasting value is the very large number of panoramic images of commercial streetscapes across the state. In 2012, a companion volume, 'City Streets. Progressive Adelaide 75 Years On' was published. 'Inspired by "Progressive Adelaide", photographer Mick Bradley and writer Lance Campbell..... More
Egypt's Place in Universal History. An Historical Investigation in Five Books. Translated from the German by Charles H. Cottrell
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 and 1854 (first editions into English). Mounted on the front pastedown of each volume is the armorial bookplate of the British heiress and book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861). She 'was England's earliest female bibliophile and was described by Dibdin as the..... More