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London Types. [Quatorzains by W.E. Henley]
London, 1898. The plates appear to be printed on Japanese vellum. More
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Reunion by Destruction. Reflections on a Scheme for Church Union in South India: Addressed to the Laity
Westminster, The Pax House for The Council for the Defence of Church Principles, 1940. The Council for the Defence of Church Principles, Pamphlet 7. More
The Book of Household Management. A Guide to Cookery in All Branches. Daily Duties, Mistress & Servant, Hostess & Guest, Marketing, Trussing & Carving, Menu Making, Home Doctor, Sick Nursing, The Nursery, Home Lawyer
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1912 ('New edition, revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated')/ 1861. More
An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710
[London], Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. An early publication from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press in an elegant binding in the style of (or perhaps by) the influential English binder Roger Payne (1739-1797). 'Charles Lord Whitworth ... was Envoy Extraordinary to Russia in 1704, and Ambassador Extraordinary in 1710. Seven hundred..... More
Un Coeur Simple
London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901 [first thus]. One of only 226 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette was designed and engraved by Lucien, and Esther engraved the other decorations..... More
Kangaroo Island, 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1905 (third edition, preface dated 30 June)/ 1905. We presume the first edition to be the series of newspaper articles. We have not seen this third edition before; apart from the tipped-in leaf, it also contains an additional two pages of text..... More
The Kangaroo Islanders. A Story of South Australia before Colonization, 1823
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., [1926]. The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders (it) appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' (established in 1867 by the author). A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly..... More
The Ashmolean Ostracon of Sinuhe
London, Oxford University Press for the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1952. More
Aboriginal People and their Plants
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007. More
The Idea of a Christian Society
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. More
The Corps of Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War, 1939-45
Melbourne, Specialty Press, [1946]. 'Compiled by some who were there, and with acknowledgements and thanks to Major W. Lennard, formerly of "Guinea Gold", now of the Melbourne "Herald" for his assistance'. With a full honor roll and list of decorations and awards. More
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Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918 [the complete twelve-volume set]
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934 (one volume), 1935 (one volume), 1936 (two volumes), 1937 (three volumes), 1938 (two volumes), 1942 (one volume), 1943 (one volume) and 1944 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, the fifth volume is the first edition of 1937, the..... More
Clarice Beckett. Politically Incorrect
Melbourne, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1999. This catalogue was issued in conjunction with an exhibition organised by The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, from 1999-2000. More
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope towards the Antarctic Polar Circle round the World and to the Country of the Hottentots and the Caffres from the Year 1772-1776
Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1975 and 1977. Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series, Numbers 6 and 7. Offered with another eleven uniformly-presented volumes in the same series: Volumes 3, 4, and 8-16, published between 1972 and 1985. Further details on request. The Van Riebeeck Society (now called Historical Publications Southern..... More
A Mining Romance. [The Romance of Kalgoorlie (drop-title)]
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1921 ('From the SA "Register", September 2, 1899'). The frontispiece is inscribed and signed by Sir George Brookman (1850-1927), mining entrepreneur, businessman and politician. 'After news of promising gold finds in Western Australia, Brookman formed the Adelaide Prospecting Party (later Coolgardie Gold Mining and..... More
Reminiscences of the Early Days. Personal Incidents on a Sheep and Cattle Run in South Australia ...
Perth, V.K. Jones & Co. Ltd., 1916. The balance of the title sets the scene: 'Where the Writer, Mrs. J. Fairfax Conigrave (a daughter of one of South Australia's well-remembered pioneers, Mr Charles Price, of Hindmarsh Island) spent her childhood'. The verso of the frontispiece is inscribed to 'Mrs Lewis..... More
Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia... Reprinted from 'The Stock and Station Journal'
Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More
The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1944. Number 107 of only 375 copies of the fourth publication of the Harry Muir's original Wakefield Press - oversubscribed at the time and scarce to this day. More
Selected Essays and Monographs. Translations and Reprints from Various Sources
London, The New Sydenham Society, 1897. NSS Volume 161, containing fourteen articles on the diagnosis and treatment of various infections and illnesses (including leprosy, syphilis and gangrene) by prominent nineteenth-century physicians. Osler's contribution is 'On the Visceral Complications of Erythema Exudativum Multiforme' (pages 321-347). More
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Philiberta. A Novel [An Australian Story (cover sub-title)]
London, Ward, Lock and Co., [1883]. There is no spoiler alert before the published letter to the editor of the Melbourne 'Leader' on 22 July 1882. Emily of Geelong has just finished reading the last chapter of the novel serialised in the newspaer, and she's not at all happy with..... More
Great Contemporaries
London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd., September 1937 (second impression)/ September 1937. From the Earl of Rosebery to King George V, with the ex-Kaiser, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Chamberlain, Lawrence of Arabia, Leon Trotsky, and Hitler just some of the other 'Great Men of our age' discussed in these essays 'written by..... More
Manuscripts... Number 1, [November 1931] to Number 13, May 1935 (the complete set, variously subtitled 'The Book Nook Miscellany' [Numbers 1 and 2], 'A Miscellany of Art and Letters' [Numbers 3 to 10] and 'A Quarterly of Art and Letters' [Numbers 11 and 12]; A.C. Jackson was the co-editor for the last two issues
Geelong, The Book Nook (Numbers 1 to 11) and Melbourne, The Bookshop of Margareta Webber, 1931 to 1935. Number 1 is the deluxe edition limited to 50 copies numbered and signed by the editor, containing 'Original, Signed and Numbered Lino-cuts, by Christian Waller, Arthur Baldwinson, Marjorie Wood, Ron Meadows, -..... More
Ern Malley's Journal. Volume 1, Number 1, November 1952 to Volume 2, Number 2, November 1955. [The complete run of six issues, published sporadically, and edited by Max Harris, John Reed and Barrie Reid]
Heidelberg, The Editors, 1952 to 1955. 'Six years ago Ern Malley lived and died in Australia. Child of the unintended creative act of two other Australian poets he became overnight the most significant figure in the current literary scene. Alike as poet and as a symbol of creative living ....... More
Phoenix. Published annually by the Adelaide University Students' Representative Council. 1935. [Together with the issues for 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1950 - the complete set of nine volumes]
Adelaide, Adelaide University Union, 1935 to 1948, and Adelaide University Students' Representative Council, 1949 and 1950. 'Phoenix' supplanted 'The Adelaide University Magazine'; in turn, it was supplanted by 'Angry Penguins' during the war years. The post-war issues generally do not compare with those from the 1930s, which contain illustrations (often..... More