Hyksos and Israelite Cities
London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906. Volume 12 in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. More
Our latest catalogue is another dose of the mixture as before: books, autographs, photographs and realia. The testimonial presented to the original John Furphy by his fellow-Methodists in 1909 when he left Shepparton and retired to Melbourne; the camel-hair blanket-sleeping bag used by Douglas Mawson on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14; the rare 1866 account of the Ti-Ping Revolution by Lin-le (Augustus Lindley); an album of vintage panoramic photographs of devastation on the Western Front; an Arthur Mailey self-caricature in an Orient Line booklet signed by members of the 1953 Australian Test squad … you get the drift.
Less rarified fare includes a wide range of books on Egyptology, numerous titles from the Brindabella Press, and interesting items relating to art, literature, exploration and natural history.
London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906. Volume 12 in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. More
London, British School of Egyptian Archaeology and Bernard Quaritch, 1911. Volume 2 in the British School of Archaeology in Egypt Studies series. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1881. Inscribed and signed by the author on the flyleaf ('C. Proud | See notes'), and further signed with his initials in pencil. Provenance: an uncirculated copy from the collection of the author; by descent. This is the first copy we have handled since..... More
London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1916. Emily Dorothea Pavy (nee Proud, 1885-1967), teacher, sociologist and lawyer, was awarded the first Catherine Helen Spence scholarship for sociology in 1912. 'She left next year for the London School of Economics where she investigated the industrial conditions of female factory workers (DSc..... More
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1932. University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 6 (but complete in itself). 'The two previous volumes on Nar-'d-Der dealt mainly with three communal cemeteries of Dyn. I-III. The present volume deals with a fourth cemetery which formed the burial ground of one of the same..... More
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1964. One of 1000 numbered sets signed by the authors; this out-of-series set (from the printer's archive) is signed but unnumbered - and you will never see better. More
[Sydney], 'J.W. Rogers, 1st Battalion, Late AIF, Gallipoli', [1918] (the copyright registration form in the National Archives of Australia is dated 4 September 1918). The first plate is fairly pedestrian ('Making a New Road on X Beach'), but the last two make one wonder what market research the author undertook..... More
A cord-bound loose-leaf cloth album (230 × 340 mm) containing 22 gelatin silver photographs (generally 120 × 200 mm or the reverse, with some a little smaller), mounted on both sides of card album leaves with printed captions. The first plate is a composite group portrait of the then-current Adelaide..... More
Adelaide, Advertising Sales Agency, 1927. The Duke, in this case, is Albert Frederick Arthur George (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the..... More
Melbourne, Kookaburra Technical Publications Pty Ltd, 1986. Loosely inserted is a large folding colour poster ('The World of Vintage Sailplanes'), a small folded black and white version of it, and the publisher's prospectus for the book. More
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1924. More
London, 'Printed for the Proprietor, by William Cecil Huttmann', 1840. The prospectus appears on pages 7 and 8 of the first issue; the proprietors' object is 'not mercenary but patriotic ... they are not the organs of any party ... they will offer a fearless and uncompromising opposition to every..... More
Adelaide, G.H. Baring, Publisher and Printer, 1936. The book's lasting value is the very large number of panoramic images of commercial streetscapes across the state. In 2012, a companion volume, 'City Streets. Progressive Adelaide 75 Years On' was published. 'Inspired by "Progressive Adelaide", photographer Mick Bradley and writer Lance Campbell..... More
London, Wild Cat Press, 2011. Signed by the author. 'Of all the early women pioneers omitted from official histories, Carl Strehlow's wife Frieda Keysser is the most glaring example, having spent over a quarter of a century on the Australian frontier when life was dangerous, difficult and often short.... Frieda..... More
London, Wild Cat Press, 2019. Both parts are signed by the author. 'Of all the early women pioneers omitted from official histories, Carl Strehlow's wife Frieda Keysser is the most glaring example, having spent over a quarter of a century on the Australian frontier when life was dangerous, difficult and..... More
'In January 1869 Sweet took command of the two-masted schooner "Gulnare", which was later bought by the South Australian government for the Northern Territory survey expedition'. Between February 1869 and April 1872, he made five trips to the Northern Territory. 'In September [1870] in Darwin he photographed the official party..... More
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962 (first edition, first impression). With the small contemporary paper label of the Adelaide booksellers F.W. Preece Ltd. at the foot of the front pastedown. More
Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), was one of the major stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. More
London, The Company, 1923. Three pages at the rear are devoted to 'Historic Surveying Instruments': these include an illustration of Lieutenant E.R.G.R. Evans 'surveying with a "Cooke" theodolite in the Antarctic. Six special instruments (as above) were made for the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-11, one of which was used..... More
Sydney, New Century Press Ltd, [early 1920s]. An attractive sales brochure for this American automobile, printed in Australia for the 'Agents Throughout the Commonwealth'. 'The success of the Chandler Motor Car Co. encouraged Frederick C. Chandler (1874-1945) to organize the Cleveland Automobile Co. to produce a lower-priced automobile. Founded in..... More
Sydney, George B. Philip & Son, 1911. Offered with copies of the Students' Handbooks for the Universities of Melbourne (The Atlas Press - E. Newlands, 1910; full leather), and Adelaide (Vardon & Sons, 1913; cloth), presented by the respective University Christian Unions. They are both in excellent condition and in..... More
Launceston, Returned Sailors' & Soldiers' Imperial League, Launceston Sub-Branch (and printed at 'The Examiner' and 'Weekly Courier' Offices), 1920. Signed by the author on the front cover. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
London, John Weale, 1852 (second edition). The charming presentation inscription on the front flyleaf ('... health, happiness, and prosperity') is dated London, 22 June 1852. More
The heart of the album consists of 19 striking images of towns between Lens (near Arras) and Maurepas (near Saint Quentin), and the panoramic format of the photographs captures the horrifying extent of artillery damage. The towns (identified in pencil on the images) are Albert, Lens, Peronne, Roye, Villers Carbonnel..... More