Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1987 (facsimile edition)/ 1904. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Our latest catalogue includes two very rare items that are parochial in the extreme, but by nature of universal appeal to collectors. The album of photographs by Freeman & Wivell, prepared for the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition, contains 20 large-format stark and monumental ‘architectural portraits’ of the city of Adelaide. The mammoth hand-coloured wall map of the settled portions of South Australia, prepared by Sanders & Packard, Surveyors, in early 1886, appears to be unique.
Among other important items of literature are first editions of Katherine Mansfield’s first book, In a German Pension (1911); the third and fifth volumes of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series, as well as his Till We Have Faces (1956); and T.S. Eliot’s Animula (1929, one of only 400 copies of the signed large-paper edition). The signed deluxe edition of Gifford Chapman’s Kangaroo Island classic, Wooden Fishing Boats (1998) is arguably rarer than Fenner's much earlier Pocket Atlas of Modern & Ancient Geography (1828, with 79 hand-coloured maps), but horses for courses …
Less rarified, but no less interesting and definitely as eclectic, items include numerous volumes in the Legal Classics Library series; a selection of Bluey and Curley annuals; assorted trade catalogues and other printed ephemera; and a handsome gold medallion awarded to Joseph Watson, a member of the Port Adelaide Football Club’s team declared ‘Champions of Australia’ in 1913.
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Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1987 (facsimile edition)/ 1904. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
London, Student Christian Movement Press, 1932. More
Zi-Ka-Wei [near Shanghai], Imprimerie de l'Orphinat de T'ou-Se-We, 1930 [second edition]/ 1929. Loosely inserted are three contemporary maps in French, neatly hand-drawn and hand-coloured in outline, of China, Indo-China and the French colonies in the Pacific, and a printed map in English, removed from another book, showing the coast and..... More
London, Faber and Faber, 1965 (first edition). More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1985 (facsimile edition)/ 1912 and 1913. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1990 (facsimile edition)/ 1945. Translated by Anders Wedberg. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
New York, Samuel Weiser, 1973 (first US edition)/ 1973. 'Now, at last, this volume makes available to the occult student not only the symbolic-masonic riches of the initiate on rituals of the [Ordo Templi Orientis] but the secret magical instructions of the Order's seventh, eighth and ninth degrees, the full..... More
Cambridge, The Minority Press ('Gordon Fraser at St John's College'), 1930. Minority Pamphlet Number 1; the dustwrapper design is by Raymond McGrath. 'The Minority Press was a short-lived British publishing house founded in 1930 by Gordon Fraser (1911-1981) while he was an undergraduate student [of F.R. Leavis] at St John's..... More
Penzance, W.H. Lane and Son, 1992. Together with a suite of over 50 original colour photographs (mainly 150 × 200 mm) of Lever's works offered in the sale. Richard Hayley Lever was born in Adelaide; he sailed for Europe in 1893, and lived in Paris and London before settling in..... More
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1954 (first edition). The fifth volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series. More
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1956 (first edition). 'C.S. Lewis has based his novel ... on the classical myth of Psyche and Cupid' (from the rear panel of the dustwrapper; the blurb contains a lengthy description by Lewis of the changes he made to the myth). More
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1952 (first edition). The third volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1922. Inscribed and signed to 'Mrs Von Rieben | With Compliments from | John Lewis'. John Lewis (1844-1923) was an 'explorer, bushman, drover, roughrider, pastoralist, business man, legislator, historian' (from the foreword by Ernest Whitington). This memoir contains much on the Northern Territory in the..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1936 (first edition). More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1983. Full-page reproductions of over 150 cartoons which appeared on the title-wrapper of 'The Bulletin', together with four recruiting posters. More
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1979 [first thus]/ 1909. Complete with the 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. Mounted on the flyleaf is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 332) with the original subscriber's name. [3 items]. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1941. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
[Grantham], The Hell Fire Club, 2017 (first edition thus). Number 313 of 666 copies signed by the author; the first 156 copies were in leather. Details of how this edition differs from the two earlier versions published in 2010 are given on pages 19 and 20. Loosely inserted is an..... More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. A rare and desirable item, attested to by the provenance of this copy: it has the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover on the pastedown, and the blind-stamp of Sir Thomas Ramsay on the flyleaf ('T.M.R. |..... More
London, Merrell and The Natural History Museum, 2000. 'The revolutionary drawings of Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) are considered some of the finest botanical illustrations of the twentieth century.... Most of the drawings in this volume ... are published here for the first time'. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1982 (facsimile edition)/ 1829. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
London, Stephen Swift & Co., [1911] (first edition). The first printing of Mansfield's first book, a collection of short stories. Kirkpatrick A1a ('Published early December 1911; probably 500 copies printed.... it appears to have been scarce since 1923'). More
Sydney, Sands & McDougall, [1941]. 'This map can be used in conjunction with Sands & McDougall's 1941 map of the Far East' is printed in the bottom right-hand margin. This edition is held in two Australian collections (NLA and SLWA); we have handled a variant without this printed legend. More
Adelaide, Sanders & Packard, Surveyors &c., Grenfell Street, 16 January 1886 (based on maps produced by the 'Surveyor-General's Office, Fraser S. Crawford, Photo-lithographer'). A map of the utmost rarity: we have found no record of any other example, and it may well be unique. Charles James Sanders (1846-1923) joined the..... More
Sydney, Print Room Press, 1989. Number 41 of only 55 signed copies; possibly the artist's copy, with his signature, address and telephone number in pencil on the flyleaf. A series of portraits of the elderly. More