London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Provenance: Sir John Hawkshaw, Hollycombe, with his name-plate on the front pastedown, and a pencilled inscription on the first blank page ('To Sir John Hawkshaw with Mr Sam Davenport's complts. Phila 30/6/76'). Sir John Hawkshaw (1811-1891) was a famous British civil engineer..... More

Albany, State of New York Department of Farms and Markets, 1925. State of New York, Department of Farms and Markets, Thirty-third Annual Report, Part 2. Report of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year ending June 30, 1925. More

London, Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1901. Inscribed by the author to 'E.C. Stirling | ex dono Warrigalis | May 1901' - from one significant South Australian identity to another. William Austin Horn (1841-1922) was a mining magnate, pastoralist, politician - and occasional poet. 'In 1894 he organized and equipped the Horn..... More

London, Chapman and Hall, Ld. 1892. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, and his pencilled ownership signature on the recto of the frontispiece. More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson/ Royal Australian Historical Society, 1968 / 1793. With the Royal Australian Historical Society's application for membership form loosely inserted. More

London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More

London, J. Cross, 1838. The unnumbered four-page postscript after page 208 provides a summary of Adelaide newspapers 'received up to the 14th July'; in it, mention is made of Eyre's overlanding expedition from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1838, during which he discovered and named Lake Hindmarsh. In the lengthy..... More

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1912 (second, revised and enlarged edition)/ 1910. Inscribed in ink on the front flyleaf; 'With the Author's Compliments', and with his printed address details at the Preface crossed out in ink and substituted with his new address. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward..... More

London, London Missionary Society, [circa 1895]. Warmly inscribed to fellow missionary Walter Hutley, and dated (19 March 1898) and signed by the author on page 5 (the Preface). With the later Rose Lowcay-designed bookplate of her husband, collector Harold Sheard mounted on the front pastedown. More

Willowdale, North York Public Library, 1978 [and] 1981. With the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer. Canadiana Collection Publication Numbers 1 and 2. More

Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd for the William Ramsay Henderson Trust, 1938. With the ink gift inscription to, and with the bookplates (one pictorial, one armorial) of, Walter Russell Brain, First Baron Brain of Eynsham (1895-1966); physician, medical statesman, essayist, public servant, medical scientist, neurologist and poet (who wrote one of..... More

Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1977. With the tropical bookplate of British anthropologist Dr Henry Evans Maude (1906 - 2006), who specialised in Pacific studies. ASAO Monograph Number 5. More