The Making of a Scientist
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Several chapters on herpetological matters. More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Several chapters on herpetological matters. More
London, Folio Society, 1992-1998. Each volume is illustrated. More
London, Folio Society, 1996 (first thus). More
London, John Camden Hotten, 1867 (cheap edition)/ 1861. The front flyleaf carries the contemporary inkstamp of 'E.S. Wigg | Bookseller &c | Adelaide', with 'South Rhine Book Club | No 99 | 3 weeks' written in ink above it. 'South Rhine district - near the South Rhine now the Marne..... More
London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1925 (first UK edition)/ 1924. The author, an engineer sent to the Malay Jungle 'in 1913 to survey a route for a railway' was kept there for six years by the fortunes of war. More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Number 25 of 780 copies (750 being for sale). Loosely inserted is a period postcard of R.L. Stevenson. More
Stroud, The History Press, 2010. 'Covering the period from the 1880s to the 1950s using many rare and previously unpublished images, through the golden years of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the difficult years of the 1920s and 1930s, and the resurgence of the late 1940s. [Includes] stories from the..... More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2002. 'a tour of 120 gardens across Japan, covering a broader geographical spread than any other book available in English, [explaining] the gardens' physical aspects, and the historical, symbolic, religious and meditative meanings, purposes and allusions embodied in them' (dustwrapper). More
Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1981. Number 29 in the Roebuck Series. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. A superb production, limited to only 500 numbered sets (this is number 98). The storage box was designed with a matching two-door lid opening at the centre, and attached to the base with piano hinges. About a third of the edition was issued..... More
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [No date]. With the ink ownership signature of Jeannie Stirling, daughter of Sir Edward Charles Stirling, later wife of Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson. More
[Willunga, The Author], 2008 (second reprint)/ 1999. Inscribed, dated (27 August 2008) and signed in ink by the author (on page vii). More
London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1884. A rare and spirited travel book by Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde (circa 1821-1896), influential Irish poet, translator and feminist, and the mother of Oscar Wilde. 'From 1846 she began to contribute prose (as "John Fanshawe Ellis") and verse (as "Speranza") to the "Nation", where..... More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1992. More
Adelaide, Intelligence and Tourist Bureau (R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer), November 1918. The French economic mission was touring South Australia when the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. In his welcome at the beginning of this publication the Premier, Archibald Peake, presages this development. 'Australia rejoices that her citizen soldiers..... More
Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1944. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink on the half-title. More
London, Virtue & Co., City Road and Ivy Lane, [circa 1855]/ 1840. The early inkstamp of 'J.R. Hamilton | Book Importer | Sydney' is on the front pastedown. More
London, George Newnes, Ltd., 1900. With the armorial bookplate of James Howard Johnson, great-grandson of George Fife Angas (and the local binder's ticket of F. Binns & Co., Charles Street, Adelaide). Not least, Western Australia (pages 63-66). More
Sapporo, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Printing Shop, 1949. With numerous illustrations from photographs. More
Hong Kong, Ravi Kumar for Visual Dharma Publications Ltd., 1982. Number 552 of 3000 copies. More
Adelaide, The Author, 2001 (first edition). Signed by the author; loosely inserted is handwritten card from her ('I have no intention of setting up as an author, but it has been pleasant putting all the diaries together to tell the story'). The illustration on the card is also by the..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. The first leaf in the first division (headed 'This leaf not to be bound with the Volume') contains a short printed note: 'Conditions of Publication. This edition, specially prepared for subscription only, will be completed in Twenty-two parts, at 2s. each, or..... More
Portland, Timber Press, 1998. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria Jose Nemry von Thenen de Jaramillo-Arango. More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 (first edition). Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), the South Australian historian and bibliographer; later, the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. The John Goodchild-designed bookplate on the pastedown records these facts; there is a cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title page. Loosely inserted..... More