From Anzac to the Hindenburg Line. The Patrick Walters Collection. To be sold at auction Sunday 10 April 2016 ...
Adelaide, Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, March 2016.
Quarto, [136] pages with 171 colour illustrations.
Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy.
This 249-lot auction catalogue takes the form of a discursive annotated bibliography. 'This is a fine example of a collection that can only be formed over many year of focused dedication. Such a collection can never be complete, but it is only with the passage of decades spent searching, researching and gradually acquiring understanding, that it reaches a point where its intrinsic value can be truly appreciated.The sum of its parts may be greater than the individual elements, but many of these are nothing short of breath-taking. The shrapnel-pierced water bottle found at Gallipoli at the 60th anniversary of the landing; the maps that were actually there; the albums of unique photographs; the exquisite artworks produced by the French; the significant association copies; the elusive ephemera; the very rare published works, including such treasures as the unit histories of the 5th, 7th and 10th Light Horse; the fine copies of the literary masterpieces that were born on the battlefields' (cataloguer's note).
Item #104688
Price (AUD):
$30.00