The Victoria Cross recipients who have signed this menu are: William Jackson VC; George J. 'Snowy' Howell VC MM; Rupert Theo Vance 'Mick' Moon VC; Robert Gee VC MC; Clifford William King Sadlier VC; John Carroll VC; Thomas Leslie 'Jack' Axford VC MM; William Donovan Joynt VC; Edward 'Ted' Kenna..... More
London, Jarrold & Sons, [1916]. The front free endpaper is signed by W.R. Birdwood, R.A. Carruthers, C.B.B. White, S.S. Butler, R.G. Chirnside, J.S. Churchill, C.H. Brand, Alec McGrigor and Walter A. [surname not deciphered]. In November 1914 Sir William Birdwood (1865-1951) was appointed commander of the Australian and New Zealand..... More
HRH the Prince of Wales spent a week in Adelaide in mid-July 1920, during a three-month visit to Australia. The photograph shows him standing in front of Parliament House, Adelaide. He has inscribed the bottom corner 'Sincerely Yours | Edward P.' George Lionel Marchant (1882-1958) ran a successful studio in..... More
'Bool Lagoon on South Australia's Limestone Coast has been the most disputed of the state's game reserves set aside for conserving wildlife and managed seasonal game hunting. Bool Lagoon, south of Naracoorte, was simultaneously declared in 1967 a game reserve ... and a fauna conservation reserve ... While Bool Lagoon..... More
The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More
London, Blackie and Son Limited, [1910s]. The 1919 gift inscription on the front free endpaper is between members of the pioneering South Australian Kyffin Thomas family. More
London, Blackie and Son Limited, [1910s]. The 1918 gift inscription on the half-title is between members of the pioneering South Australian Kyffin Thomas family. More
London, Cassell and Company, July 1916 (third impression)/ September 1912. Edith Annie Howes (1872-1954), teacher, writer and educationalist, was born in England but emigrated to New Zealand at a young age. 'In all she wrote about 30 books for children, some of which were reprinted many times. The most famous..... More
London, Cassell and Company, November 1916 (second impression)/ September 1916. Edith Annie Howes (1872-1954), teacher, writer and educationalist, was born in England but emigrated to New Zealand at a young age. 'In all she wrote about 30 books for children, some of which were reprinted many times. The most famous..... More
Maitland, C.C. Neale, Printer, 'Maitland Watch', 1914. Weetulta is a small settlement on the Yorke Peninsula, between Moonta and Maitland; the population in 2016 was 74. The front cover is signed 'Dawson Morris'; he is presumably a member of the pioneering family featured in the booklet. More
Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1981 [expanded facsimile edition]/ 1841-42 [originally published in two parts]. Number 548 of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, Curator of Mammals at the National Museum of Victoria, who has supplied detailed appendices tracing the background, content and distribution of this work plus current information..... More
[Yokohama, Yokohama Nursery Company, 1890s]. A rare (and sumptuous) Japanese nursery catalogue produced for the export market. Generally, the outlines of the flower illustrations are printed lithographically on Japanese tissue paper (rectos only) and fully hand-coloured in watercolour and gouache (the maple leaves may be partially colour-printed). The Yokohama Nursery..... More
The match was over in three days, with Western Australia winning by an innings and 124 runs (WA 444, with Carmody 198; SA 109, following on with 211). The photograph comes from one of the SA team, Dick Niehuus, and is accompanied by some ephemera from the celebrations surrounding the..... More
London, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, Ltd., 1926 (thirteenth edition). The India paper edition, desirable not least because it occupies less than 90 cm of shelf space. [32 items]. More
London, George Harrap & Co., [circa 1920]/ 1909 [first thus]. A most attractive edition, with the text printed in an ornate calligraphic font, often set within variant decorative borders. More
'Kureelpa', via Nambour, Queensland, 'Designed and Copyrighted throughout the United Kingdom and Australia by Wm. Smith', 1920. This deluxe souvenir consists of ten vignette illustrations (two from photographs) in decorative cartouches (a design of red, white and blue ribbons, and sprays of wattle). They show Allied artillery, aeroplanes, submarines, tanks..... More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956. The first (and most important) of the four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is..... More
Adelaide, Webb and Son, 1903. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), one of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty (D. & J. Fowler Limited and the famous Lion Brand), with his ownership signature (Jas R Fowler) on the front free endpaper and his emphases in pencil on about 15 pages. His 'beautiful..... More
Evans was second officer of the 'Morning', the ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society in 1904 to the relief of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second-in-command of his second expedition and captain of the 'Terra Nova'. He accompanied Scott in..... More
South Melbourne, Gryphon Books [Richard Griffin], 1981. Number 86 of only 150 copies signed by the artist; 'There are no out of series copies'. The title is partially correct: the book is more suited to non-readers. More
London, Rees & O'Neill, 2003. Published in an edition of only 87 copies ('75 copies, numbered 1-75, are bound in cloth; 12 copies, numbered I-XII, are bound in Nigerian goatskin. All copies are signed by the author'). This is copy number V. Not only is the colophon signed, as stated..... More
London, Faber and Faber, and Harvill Secker, 2013. 'One hundred and ten copies have been specially bound and signed by the authors. One hundred copies numbered 1-100 are for sale. Ten copies numbered i-x are reserved for the authors'; this is copy number iii. More
Santiago, El Faro, 2015. The limited edition comprised 110 copies signed by the author (100 copies numbered 1-100 for sale, 10 copies numbered I-X not for sale). This is copy number VIII, signed by both the author and the translator. More
'The Pastoral Review', December 1931. Seven substantial quarto volumes in this rare and important series were published in Sydney between 1910 and 1931. The first four volumes were published by 'The Pastoralist's Review' between 1910 and 1914; the three volumes of the New Series were published by 'The Pastoral Review'..... More
