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Guildford, Genesis/ Hedley Australia, 1986. More
Our latest list includes rare nineteenth-century colour plate books (natural history and travel), numerous items on Australian bookplates, important Antarctic exploration material, and a miscellany of unusual, rare or unique photographs, signed copies, and ephemera.
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Guildford, Genesis/ Hedley Australia, 1986. More
London, John Murray, 1906 [first edition]. With the bookplates of James Edge Partington (1854-1930) and Charles Richmond John Glover (1870-1936); the occasional pencilling, mainly to the bibliography, appears to be by Edge Partington. Loosely inserted is a contemporary review of the book, and a small sheaf of relevant newspaper clippings..... More
[Adelaide], Citizens and Business Men's Committee, 1919. A very attractive publication, rarely seen on the open market. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 247. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, [September] 1932 [first edition]. The illustrations are from photographs by W.H. Dudley Le Souef (they were originally published in his book, 'Wild Life in Australia', circa 1910). The author's sixth book, an account of his pre-WW1 mining days on 'the northern Peninsula goldfields' in the hinterland..... More
Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941) was one of the most influential and inspirational women of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930 and set a string of other records throughout her career. The head-and-shoulders portrait depicts a smiling Johnson in her..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1870. The areas under discussion are near Kingscote. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 216 of 1870. More
Adelaide, printed by W.K. Thomas for the Authors, [circa 1926]. Bradley contributes 'The Holidaymakers' Paradise' (4 pages); Bell contributes 'Kangaroo Island Caves. The Story of their Discovery and Exploration' (14 pages). More
Kingscote, The Author, October 1998. An extraordinary work, long out of print, and rarely seen on the open market these days. This is number 214 of 250 copies of the leather-bound limited edition signed by the author (on stiff card tipped in on the title page, as issued). The trade..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1858. Douglas, the Harbor Master of South Australia, refers regularly to the observations of Flinders, the French (under Baudin) and Eyre in this survey from 'the western boundary of this province, and the west end of Kangaroo Island'. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1905 (third edition, preface dated 30 June)/ May 1905 (second edition, first in book form). The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Apart from the tipped-in leaf, this third..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1857. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1857. More
Tanunda, Gedruckt in Auricht's Druckerei (printed by Auricht), [1937]. An account of a trip from Australia to Germany in the mid-1930s, written in 'Barossa-deutsch' dialect. More
[Fulham, The Artist], 2005. 'Original artwork painted between 1992 and 1997' at the artist's home in Fulham Gardens, Adelaide. Not in Trove (although the original album of artwork is in the State Library of South Australia). More
Salisbury, Castle Hill Press, 2010. Number 127 of only 377 copies (a further 377 copies were also issued in four variant deluxe bindings). Volume 5 in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series. More
Salisbury, Castle Hill Press, 2000. Number 180 of 600 copies bound thus (a further 102 copies were also issued in variant deluxe bindings). Volume 9 in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series. More
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. Number 318 of 500 copies. O'Brien A229. More
Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2009. Number 249 of only 277 copies printed for subscribers (the first 77 copies were issued in two deluxe editions). + LAWRENCE: The Mint. A Day-book of the RAF Depot between August and December 1922, with Later Notes by 352087 A/c Ross. London, Jonathan Cape, 1955..... More
Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 1997 [first thus]/ 1922. Number 249 of 650 sets bound thus (in a total edition of 752 sets). Reprinted here for the first time since 1922 (when only 'Eight copies were produced on a proofing press'), this 'Oxford Text' is 'one third longer, containing an additional..... More
Upper Denby, The Fleece Press, 2003. An endpocket contains a small booklet, 'Notes made by William McCance after visiting bookbinding firms for T.E. Lawrence in 1926' (overlapping wrappers, a fine copy), together with (as issued) the facsimile cheque for £250 (signed 'J.H. Ross'). One of only 240 copies. More
Seaforth, Craftsman House, 1988. Number 43 of 100 copies signed by the artist; the large signed and (matching) numbered screenprint issued with the book is now framed and glazed (image size 535 × 455 mm; overall external dimensions 885 × 765 mm). More
London, The Author, 1880. Tasmanian-born William Vincent Legge (1841-1918), soldier and scientist, was stationed in Ceylon from 1868 to 1877, when the material for this important work was gathered. After his return to Tasmania in 1883, he retained a strong interest in natural history, being a founder and president of..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969 (first edition). 'Chiefly drawings of the nude from the model ... None of them have previously been reproduced'; with a foreword by A.D. Hope. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1968 (first edition). Fifty of the sixty reproductions 'have never been published before. The unpublished work comprises fourteen drawings made in 1967-68, with other major works done between 1930 and the 1960s'. The American edition published by Bonanza Books in the same year is no substitute..... More
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1969 (first edition). 'Nineteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium by Norman Lindsay and a survey of the artist's life and work by Geoffrey Blunden'; fourteen of the plates appeared in the 'Norman Lindsay Watercolour Book', published in 1939; the other..... More