Collins Street, Melbourne. An original gelatin silver photograph (visible image size 233 × 302 mm)
[Circa 1920s]. Signed on the lower right of the image. More
[Circa 1920s]. Signed on the lower right of the image. More
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1920. Volume 35 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
Ballarat, [The Author, circa 1920s] (printed by S.L. Vale). The photographer, 319 Private William Edwin Leslie Clapham, was at Gallipoli at the time of the landings, in which he almost certainly took part. Evacuated to Malta with a gunshot wound to his hand on 14 May 1915, he served there..... More
[Circa 1920s]. Signed and titled in pencil on the mount. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Melbourne?], Oxford Studios, [1920]. The Melbourne 'Argus' (Wednesday 24 March 1920) contains an account of the visit. The final paragraph notes that 'In the City Hall tonight the mayor (Alderman H. Hitchcock) gave a dinner in honour of the General. There were present as guests 150 returned AIF officers who..... More
Angaston, C.C. Yates [Photographer], [circa 1920s]. The details identifying the scene were written in pencil on the mount of another example of this photograph we have handled. Light Pass (as it is known today) is in the Barossa Valley, 3 kms from Nuriootpa. The tiny hamlet is home to two..... More
Angaston, C.C. Yates [Photographer], [circa 1920s]. The details identifying the scene are written in pencil on the verso of the mount. Light Pass (as it is known today) is in the Barossa Valley, 3 kms from Nuriootpa. The tiny hamlet is home to two Lutheran churches (the Immanuel, and the..... More
Bruxelles, Alb. Dohmen, [circa 1920s]. The postcards depict the story of the battle and the monuments. Text in French and English. More
Louvain, J.-P. Stroobants Librairie-Journaux, [circa 1920s]. 'Over the course of five days, beginning August 25, 1914, German troops stationed in the Belgian village of Louvain during the opening month of World War I burned and looted much of the town, executing hundreds of civilians' (History website). Captions in French and..... More
London, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., 1923. More
London, John Murray, 1924. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last 18 pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. Two contemporary John Murray brochures are loosely inserted. More
London, John Murray, 1924. Review copy, with the embossed stamp 'With Mr. Murray's Compliments' on the title page. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last eighteen pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. More
Gawler, Marchant's Studio, [circa 1924]. 'The game of hockey was brought to Australia by British Naval officers stationed around the country in the late 1800s. By 1900, according to Hockey Australia, the game was being played in private girls' schools. Being a non-contact team sport, it was considered ideal for..... More
London, John Murray, 1924. Inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Sir William Sowden, wishing him Many Happy Returns, April 26, 1925', and signed in ink by B.S. Roach and 29 others, including such local luminaries as S.A. White, F.J. Mills, Fred Johns and Rodney Cockburn, many of them staff..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1927. More
Washington, National Geographic Society, 1928. These twelve issues contain a number of important lengthy articles by (or about) famous early aviators: Lindbergh (two), Cobham, de Pinedo, and Kingsford-Smith and Ulm. The main article in the December issue, 'Renascent Germany' (pages 639-717), makes very interesting reading. More
Sydney, Art in Australia Ltd., 1928. Rural views of Cudgewa, Mallacoota Inlet, Tallangatta, and Mount Buffalo, with two of Jamieson Valley. More
National Geographic, 1929. Not least, Siepen on gliding in Germany (pp 751-780). The secret rise of the Luftwaffe. More
Sydney, Art in Australia Limited, 1929. More
Circa 1930s. 'Photograph by J. Kauffmann, 243 Collins St., Melbourne' inkstamped on the verso of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Signed in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930. Signed and titled in pencil on the mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 47 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold..... More
Circa 1930s. Signed and titled (twice) on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 25 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold..... More
[Melbourne], H.M. Walker [Photographer], [circa 1930s]. Apart from the photographer's credit in the negative, there are no details about the place or date, but we have handled similar Walker panoramas taken at Victorian training camps in the 1930s. More
[New Guinea, Unknown Photographer, circa 1930s?]. Two photographs show ornately decorated men in a village. The other one features two young girls in grass skirts holding posies (or something similar); the word 'lusious [sic]' is written in ink on the verso. A fourth snapshot (64 × 108 mm, on 'Velox'..... More
London, Simpkin Marshall, 1931 (Australian edition). 'Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era ... a brilliant landscape and travel photographer.' (E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection website). More
London, The Royal Photographic Society, June 1931. The first photogravure is 'Bewegungs Studie (Study of Movement) by Prof. Rudolf Koppitz of Vienna', featuring dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936), was born in the Czech Republic; he was a Photo-Secessionist, and 'one of the leading representatives of..... More
London, The Royal Photographic Society ('Printed in Photogravure by Lascelles & Co. Ltd., Essex St. Strand W.C.2'), June 1931. The first photogravure is 'Bewegungs Studie (Study of Movement) by Prof. Rudolf Koppitz of Vienna', featuring dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936), was born in the Czech..... More
[Adelaide], Krischock Photo. 1932. Between Sturt's first premiership in 1915, and their epic clean-sweep from 1966 to 1970, the club had success only in 1926, 1932 and 1940. This premiership side included William Keith Dunn, who 'overcame a slow start to his league career with Sturt to develop into an..... More
Wetzlar, Ernst Leitz, August 1933. The booklet ('Photo List No. 7298') deals with 'four scientifically interesting applications of photography through the medium of the Leica camera ... These are surgical photography, photomicrography, the reproduction of X-ray plates and films (for the purpose of subsequent projection on the screen), and the..... More
London, Hodder & Stoughton, Publishers, 1935. Includes 36 full-page plates. Francis 'Frank' Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), mountaineer, photographer, author and botanist. More
Sydney, 1935. The photograph is inscribed in ink in the top left-hand corner 'To Mr F. Gordon with compliments from E.E. Bullen'. Errol Eviot Bullen was one 'of Australia's most prolific early game fishermen in the 1930s', and he was renowned for the high-quality custom-made reels he designed and marketed..... More
Canton, The Fomo Publishing Company, 1935 (fourth edition)/ 1933. A small pencilled manuscript note is loosely inserted. More
Adelaide, D. Darian Smith, Commercial & Aerial Photography, [1936]. The photograph was taken as the landscaping in the front of the building was being undertaken; the horse-drawn roller seems an anachronism against the backdrop of the impressive Art Deco facade. The State Library of South Australia has in its collection..... More
London, Oxford University Press, 1937. William Philip Schreiner (1857-1919) 'was [the first South African-born] prime minister of Cape Colony [1898-1900] at the outbreak of the South African War (1899-1902); he was the younger brother of author and political activist Olive Schreiner. A moderate politician, he tried to prevent the war..... More
London, 'Daily Telegraph', 1937. The High Commissioners are: The Honourable Vincent Massey, Canada; The Right Honourable Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth of Australia; W.J. Jordan, New Zealand; C.T. Te Water, Union of South Africa; J.W. Dulanty, Irish Free State; and Sir Firoz Khan Noon, India. The Ambassadors are: Dr Paul Regis de..... More
Flinders Ranges, South Australia, [circa 1937]. The State Library of South Australia holds the original negative (PRG 1218/34/675G) in its Mountford-Sheard Collection, with the date given as 'Approximately 1937'. More
Broughty Ferry, Dundee, [Unidentified Photographer], 1938. The Burnie 'Advocate' (Friday 5 August 1938) has an interesting account of the first day's play: 'The Australians arrived by charabanc at the picturesque Broughton [sic] Ferry ground to-day, wearing tartan bonnets, but there was nothing festive about their early batting on a good..... More
[Circa 1940]. Signed on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
San Francisco, Camera Craft Publishing Company, September 1940 (third printing)/ March 1937. Provenance: Walter MacNeill, with his original gelatin silver bookplate and his signature and address (Springfield, 1941) in pencil on the front endpaper. The attractive scene depicted in the image may be his residence in the leafy Adelaide suburb..... More
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1940. More
London, Home & Van Thal Ltd., 1946. Photographic studies of the dancer Robert Helpmann by Anthony Gordon; introduction by Ninette de Valois. More
[New York], T.J. Maloney ('A U.S. Camera Book'), 1947. This copy is signed in ink by the photographer at the foot of the frontispiece. This is possibly one of a deluxe issue; the standard edition (unsigned) is bound in blue cloth with white lettering. More
Adelaide, Adelaide Camera Club, 1948. The exhibition of work by the Adelaide photographer Eric Robertson (1889-1955) ran from 17-27 February 1948. Offered together with an album (approximately 190 × 235 mm) containing related photographs: a large portrait of Robinson, 14 interesting snapshots of scenes at the exhibition, six examples of..... More
Sydney, Ure Smith, [1948]. With the ink ownership signature of Alan Brissenden. More
Auckland, Whites Aviation Limited, [1950s]. The individual titles are (in order in the volume) Auckland; Waikato; Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty; Gisborne and District; Taranaki; Wanganui and District; Palmerston North; Hawke's Bay; Wairarapa; Wellington; Marlborough, Nelson, Buller, Westland; Canterbury; Otago; and Southland. More
[Tokyo, Fuji Shogo, early 1950s]. Text in Japanese. Not least, the innumerable illustrations, many colour illustrations, with others from Official US Navy and US Marine Corps sources. More
Sydney, Columbia Pictures, 1954. More