No pertinent details - when, where and why the photograph was taken, and by whom - are known, and the later pencilling on the verso (a price and what seems to be a name) adds nothing. From first principles, we suggest the 1860s, 'somewhere in England', a training exercise, and..... More
London, Hatchards, 1889. A short printed note indicates 'Major Mainwaring's compilation commences with the year 1825'. Inscribed and signed to 'Erlistoun Barr-Smith from Rowland Mainwaring S.S. Balaarat [sic] Feby 1891. "Grace was in [all] her steps, heaven in her eye | for every gesture dignity and love"' (Adam describing Eve..... More
![Prince Alfred College Speech Day. December 18, 1918 .. [cover title]. World War 1 Honour Roll](/pictures/thumb/117018_01.jpg?v=1585695676)
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers (for The College), 1918. 'First Speech Day. HRA' is written in pencil at the head of the front cover; we presume this is a later inscription by the H.R. Adamson who was awarded third prize in Junior A at the Preparatory School that year..... More
Sydney, New South Wales Government Railways, [1946]. The last four pages are a Roll of Honour of 'Railway Employees who Died on Active Service'. More
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 (first edition). 'Churchill has, during the six years 1932-38, achieved an extraordinary ascendancy in the House of Commons.... This book ... comprises more than forty of the speeches which he has delivered during this time on the paramount topics of foreign affairs..... More
The right-hand column of printed text can be translated as 'Enemy released under oath'; the name 'Richard Green' on the left-hand side, and the number '56' at the bottom, have been added by hand in black ink. A thorough search through information on prisoner-of-war relics located approximately fifty examples of..... More
[No Place, No Publisher, ?1980s facsimile]/ 1963. More
Parramatta, RNSW Lancers Centenary Committee, 1986. More
![A History of 'A' Battery. News South Wales Artillery (1871-1899) [and] Royal Australian Artillery...](/pictures/thumb/117606_01.jpg?v=1584680639)
Sydney, Elizabethan Press, 1978. More
London, The Folio Society, 2004 [first thus]/ 1959. Lavishly illustrated plus different endpaper maps showing the advance - and retreat - of Nazi Germany. William Lawrence Shirer (1904-1993)was 'a foreign correspondent whose pioneering live trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts on the eve of World War II helped inform Americans about Nazi Germany..... More
