Normally, at this time of the year, we would be issuing our Picture Book to patrons at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair. But ‘the time is out of joint’, and this online catalogue, as agreeable as any we have issued, is no substitute for all that we are missing. On reflection, though, members of the antiquarian book trade must count themselves among the most fortunate of all small businesses these days.
Highlights of our current list include a copy of The Magic Pudding, inscribed and signed by Norman Lindsay, with an original pencil drawing of Bunyip Bluegum; an annotated copy of John McDouall Stuart's Explorations in Australia (1864) from the personal collection of Stephen King Jr, unofficial artist of Stuart's epic sixth expedition; numerous items relating to early Australian aviation and aerial photography; an autograph letter signed by T.E. Lawrence; Isaac Newton's Universal Arithmetick (1728, second edition); and sections on Australian inland exploration, natural history, town planning and private press books.
Happy browsing!
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. The author was also Chairman of the 2/10th Battalion AIF History Committee; his signature (E.F. Allchin) appears at the end of the acknowledgements section (page ix). Fellow-committeeman Hec Ellis, who contributed the chapter on sport, has also signed this page (appending the date 6 May..... More
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association], November 2008/ 1993 [facsimile reprint with a new supplement]/ 1958. The history is updated to 2008, and contains complete nominal and honour rolls, a foreword by Peter Brune, and much else. Limited to 250 copies. Loosely inserted is a program for the 'Salute to the ANZACS..... More
Melbourne, 'Designed, Engraved and Printed by Osboldstone', [circa 1919]. We have also handled examples of this poster presented as the centrefold in a half leather and gilt-decorated cloth cover, with oblong-format printed text as the pastedowns ('Records of the Generals whose Portraits appear on the Record' at the front, and..... More
There are two each of Tetbury and Oxford, and one each of Windsor Castle and Gloucester Cathedral. Four are captioned in the negative, recording the location and date (between 1 October and 25 November 1918); all have alpha-numeric reference numbers. The fifth photograph, possibly a composite of several vertical images..... More
Three oblique views are captioned in the negative, recording the location and date (7 August, 8 August and 17 December 1918); all have reference numbers starting with '7.T.S.A.A.'. The fourth photograph, possibly a composite of several vertical images, includes a printed caption ('Leighterton Aerodrome. Scale ... 20-11-18 - 5000 ft')..... More
The artist is 1894 Air Mechanic Sydney English, Aeroplane Repair Section, stationed at the time at the Australian Flying Corps Training Depot at Wendover, Buckinghamshire. He was a twenty-something iron founder from Northcote in Victoria when he enlisted on 27 April 1917; his artistic skills would appear to be innate..... More
We suggest the eighteen members of the squad come from the Aeroplane Repair Section of the Australian Flying Corps based at Leighterton. We purchased this photograph with a small group of aerial photographs of Leighterton Aerodrome, about which the Australian War Memorial has this to say: 'By 1917 the Australian..... More
The aircraft appear to be a Sopwith Camel and two Avro 504s (specific models not determined). Offered with two other photographs of a biplane (possibly a Sopwith Camel) in the air: one is silhouetted above billowing sunlit clouds (147 × 199 mm, printed without margins); the other is shown flying..... More
The Australian War Memorial holds an example of this photograph (C22559); it is reproduced online with the following detailed caption: 'Captain A.H. Cobby DSO DFC and two Bars sitting in the cockpit of a Sopwith Camel fighter aircraft. He was officially credited with the confirmed destruction in combat of twenty..... More
Numbers pencilled on the verso of all but the small print include '/43' so we will suggest 1943 as the date. The only caption is a later one in ballpoint pen identifying Darling Harbour; there are another two featuring the same general area. Eight feature Garden Island (prominently, in all..... More
All images are captioned in the negative. All eight oblique views carry the same date, 25 June 1918, preceded by 'A3 AEO *** 62°' (*** ranges from 110 to 121). Place names on them are Hamel, Hamel Wood, Somme, Accroche Wood, Tailloux Wood, and Vaire Wood. The vertical images are..... More
Sydney, Penlington & Somerville, 1928. + 'Kingsford Smith (Aussie is proud of you)'. Words & Music by Jack O'Hagan. Melbourne, Allans, [1928]. A piece of sheet music commemorating the historic flight: overlapping colour-pictorial wrappers, 8 pages including the covers (the title song is on pages 3-5); contemporary ownership signature on..... More
Melbourne, Allans, [1928]. The song presumably commemorates Hinkler's historic flight in February 1928, the first solo flight from England to Australia ('And now he's home, from o'er the foam ... | Bustling Hinkler rides all alone'). We say presumably, because 'Copyright MCMXXVII by Leo. Feist Inc. N.Y.' is printed at..... More
Adelaide, John Martin & Co. Ltd., [1920]. The recto features sepia-toned circular portraits of the two brothers, the text as above, with the addition of the details of the two mechanics, Bennett and Shiers, the itinerary, and a map (all printed in blue), with the route printed in red. The..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1964. Offered together with a copy of the catalogue 'Francis Bacon Paintings 1959-60', from the exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London in March and April 1960 (quarto, 12 pages plus 17 pages of plates: card covers slightly rubbed and marked). [2 items]. More
![Item #119339 Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia. [Contained in]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/119339_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593667942)
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., Printers (for the Society), 1916. The Victoria, Fitzmaurice, Daly, Adelaide, McKinlay and Mary Rivers; among others. McLaren 5066 (this issue). More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1890. More
Limerick, Peggy Bawn Press, 2011. A study of the life and work of 'the peerless Scottish yacht designer, George Lennox Watson (1851-1904) ... Watson's career spanned a seminal period in industrial and social development, embracing the powerful transition from intuitive and anonymous craft work to technological innovation in custom design..... More
![Item #64893 Lloyd's Natural History. [Sixteen volumes, the complete set]. R. BOWDLER SHARPE](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64893_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593736144)
London, Edward Lloyd, 1896 and 1897. The set comprises BOWDLER SHARPE, R.: British Birds (four volumes with 124 colour plates); OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.: Handbook to the Game Birds (two volumes with 42 colour plates); KIRBY, W.F.: Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (five volumes with 159 colour plates); FORBES, H.O.: Handbook to..... More
Melbourne, George Robertson and Company Propy. Ltd., [1918] (see page 1075 in passing). Edwin James Brady (1869-1952), journalist and writer, uses the introduction to this work to introduce himself as much as anything: 'My work on "Australia Unlimited" began definitely with the year 1912.... I had spent many years in..... More
Geelong, George Mercer, Malop Street, and Melbourne, George Robertson, [1873]. The separately paginated section at the rear has its own title page: 'Contributions to the Phytography of the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, from Mr F.A. Campbell's Collections. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller'. The half-title is inscribed and signed 'To..... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1903. Phosphate ore in South Australia was discovered at Clinton on Yorke Peninsula in 1899; the map is dated 22 February 1902. More
![Item #110896 Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia. Vol. I [and] Vol. II. Reprinted from 'The...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/110896_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542696429)
Adelaide, Lynton, [early 1970s facsimile edition]/ 1925 and 1927. The 56-page cross-referenced index by Dorothy Aldersey, new to this facsimile reprint, is indispensible. More
![Item #118855 Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia. Vol. I [and] Vol. II. Reprinted from 'The...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118855_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593592122)
Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More