The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919
Adelaide, Lonnen and Cope, 1921. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. More
Online Catalogue #38
Our latest offering features an important collection relating to the early exploration of the Northern Territory, compiled by William Webster Hoare (1841-1927), surgeon's assistant and dispenser on George Goyder's survey expedition of 1868-9.
The balance of the catalogue is an eclectic assortment of militaria, bookplates, photography, art, aviation, vintage Australian tourist guides and more.
Happy browsing!
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The Adelaide Almanack, Town and Country Directory, and Guide to South Australia for 1866
Adelaide, C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell and W.C. Rigby, [1865]. The third of the long-running series of almanacks edited by Boothby, the South Australian Government statist. His superior product saw off a number of competitors and was incorporated with Sands and McDougall's 'South Australian Directory' in 1884 (which finally..... More
Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England, incorporated with the Political Text of the late J.L. De Lolme ...
London, John Richards & Co., 1841 ('Third edition, revised and corrected to the present time'). Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context, the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of..... More
George Fife Angas. Father and Founder of South Australia
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. Inscribed to 'Rev'd J. Hall Angus with J.H. Angas' kind regards. 20 Sep 1893' (from the older son of George Fife Angas to an Angus relative). Ferguson 10473 (noting an erratum slip). More
The Local. Lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. Text by Maurice Gorham
London, Cassell and Company, 1939. More
A striking sepia-toned photograph of a Bristol F.2B biplane piloted by pioneering Australian aviator Captain Harry Butler while on an anti-submarine patrol off the coast of Scotland in late 1917 or 1918. At the time Butler was fighting-instructor at the Royal Flying Corps School of Aerial Gunnery and Fighting at Turnberry (now a Trump golf resort)
The framer's pencilled notes indicate that the original client's name was Butler, almost certainly Harry Butler himself during his brief years in Adelaide between the war and his early death in 1924. An article from the Adelaide 'Advertiser' for Tuesday 21 May 1946 records Butler's own description of this scene..... More
Journal of the Government North-West Expedition (March 30th - November 5th, 1903). [An offprint from] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 15, Session 1913-1914
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1914. An important expedition, scientifically and anthropologically, under the leadership of L.A. Wells; it filled in the gap 'linking together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions'. McLaren 5065 (this separate issue). Many of the photographs are of strong Aboriginal interest. More
A South Australian Romance. How a Colony was founded and a Methodist Church formed
London, Charles H. Kelly, 1899. Inscribed and signed by the author on the recto of the frontispiece 'To Mr Buttrose from John Blacket, Feb. 1900'. Ferguson 7077 (noting only 'Brown cloth boards, title repeated in gold on front cover and spine'; we have also handled copies in red, blue and..... More
The Bligh Notebook. 'Rough account - Lieutenant Wm Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor.' 28 April to 14 June 1789. With a Draft List of the Bounty Mutineers. Facsimile edition in two volumes. Edited by John Bach ... Volume 1: The Facsimile. Volume 2: The Transcription
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1986. Number 383 of only 500 sets, comprising the well-produced facsimile of the notebook Bligh used as the deck log of the launch during the epic voyage to Timor, and its transcription (which contains a 40-page introduction by the editor). More
The Army that went with the Boys. A Record of Salvation Army Work with the Australian Imperial Force
Melbourne, Salvation Army, 1919. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 241. More
John B. Godson Bookplates
Melbourne, Printed 'under the supervision of Major W.D. Joynt, V.C., at his Colarts Studios' and 'designed and published by Lieutenant G.C. Ingleton R.A.N.' [under the Golden Lantern Press imprint], July 1933. The short (three-page) introductory essay is by Camden Morrisby. Number 58 of only 150 copies (with the first 60..... More
A collection comprising 11 of the 12 bookplates featured in Harry Muir's 'The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet' (Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1942)
The bookplates, all unmounted, are printed in two or three colours, and two have applied hand-colouring. The bookplate not present is Harry Muir's 'Ex Lib Galsworthii'. More
The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1942. Number 98 of 275 copies. This is the second publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press. The (unrelated) bookplate of Marie de J. Robin is attached to the inner surface of the rear cover. More
Four large albumen paper photographs of the Broken Hill region. The photographs, each approximately 200 × 225 mm, are on the original glossy cream-coloured mounts with the imprint of the photographer, 'G.F. Jenkinson, Areas Photo Coy, Argent Street, Broken Hill'
Broken Hill, G.F. Jenkinson, [circa 1890s]. Jenkinson was active in the region from 1885, according to his advertisement in 'The History of Broken Hill' by Samuel Curtis (1908); Davies and Stanbury (1985) have him there from 1889. One of the photographs is captioned in the image '[Sir Hen]ry Parkes at..... More
The Bells of Sunda Strait
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. A unique copy of this account of the raising of the ship's bell from the HMAS 'Perth', sunk on 28 February 1942. Not only is it inscribed and signed by the author (twice), but it also contains the signatures of 22 survivors of the sinking, gathered at..... More
The Explorers and other Poems by M.C
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1874. The only published book of poetry by this important South Australian novelist; the title work, of 130 pages, is subtitled 'A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition'. More
The Book of Common Prayer
London, William Clowes and Sons, [circa 1930s]. Both front and rear flyleaves are stamped 'Garrison Adjutant, Changi. No...... 31 Oct 1934'. Although its presence at Changi dates back to the peacetime military base developed in the early 1930s for the British Far East Command, the prayer book comes from the..... More
The Henry G. Smith Memorial Medal for chemistry awarded to Sir Geoffrey Badger, eminent organic chemist and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, in 1950. The cast bronze medal was designed by Eileen McGrath (a pupil of Raynor Hoff) and produced by Amor Pty Ltd, Sydney, around 1934
The medal was established by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1927 in honour of the biochemist Henry George Smith (1852-1924). The obverse features a portrait in low relief of Smith, and the reverse shows his birth and death dates and the Latin motto 'Solum utile verum'. South Australian-born Sir..... More
Nomenclature of South Australia
Adelaide, Thomas, 1908. Offered together with a quantity of relevant newspaper clippings, and two mimeographed sheets (folded, unevenly discoloured and a little chipped) comprising 'A Full List of the New Names given to places bearing Names of Enemy Origin'. The list contains nearly 70 changed Germanic names, some of which..... More
The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. Volume 1: The Voyage of the 'Endeavour', 1768-1771. Volume 2: The Voyage of the 'Resolution' and 'Adventure', 1772-1775. Volume 3: The Voyage of the 'Resolution' and 'Discovery', 1776-1780 (in two volumes)
Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of Humanities, 1985 (the first two volumes) and 1987 (both parts of the third volume) (all first editions). 'With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with..... More
A vintage group photograph captioned 'Cricket Match Feb 02 Furreedpore' ['1902 Faridpur' in another hand on the verso]
Furreedpore (Faridpur), formerly in East Bengal, India (now Bangladesh), has important Australian connections, exemplified by this photograph. Silas Mead (1834-1909), a Baptist minister, emigrated to South Australia in July 1861; 'he preached at chapels in Adelaide and North Adelaide. Regular services began at White's Rooms and within a month a...... More
Three large albumen paper photographs, captioned in ink on the verso of each mount 'Palmerston, Port Darwin, NT, destroyed by Tornado, December, 1896'
Further specific details are pencilled onto the verso of each mount, namely 'P.R. Allen's Store', 'Rundle's Store', and 'Bennett Street'. Interestingly, the well-exposed interior of Allen's store shows another photographer at work. The initials 'FEB' are on the verso of each mount; not unnaturally, we thought this was the photographer..... More
Some New Industries for South Australia. Silkworms, Mulberry, Olives, Tobacco, etc., etc
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson, 1864. Sir Samuel Davenport (1818-1906) was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ('Australian Dictionary..... More
Survey of New Port in Great Australian Bight
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1867. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 137 of 1867. Reports by E.A. Delisser of his surveys in the Eucla area, and by Captain B. Douglas of HM Colonial Schooner 'Flinders' on Delisser's proposed anchorage and landing-place. The accompanying 'Plan showing surveys and exploration, by Mr E.A. Delisser..... More
Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory, 1936. Seventy-Third Year of Publication ...
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1936. More