The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis). Now first translated and edited from Ancient MSS. in the British Library ...
New York, Samuel Weiser Inc., 1978/ 1976 (first American edition)/ 1972 (second facsimile reprint)/ 1888. 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.
Down tools or drinks for twenty minutes and enjoy the catalogue!
New York, Samuel Weiser Inc., 1978/ 1976 (first American edition)/ 1972 (second facsimile reprint)/ 1888. More
Wellington, Richard Alexander McKay for the Wellington Club of Printing House Craftsmen, August 1940. Number 292 of 600 copies. More
Munster, Aschendorff, 1909. Myths and legends of the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, with parallel text in both the original Tolai and German (and an early example on both counts). 'Anthropos-Bibliothek. Internationale Sammlung Ethnologischer Monographien. Band 1, Heft 1'. More
Adelaide, The Cheer-up Society Incorporated, June 1920. Inscribed, dated (1 September 1920) and initialled by Mills to 'Brother Fred Johns (Editor SA Freemason)'. Frederick John Mills (1876-1952) was a writer, broadcaster and welfare worker. After World War 1 began, Mills was vice-president (1915) of the Cheer-Up Society, founded by Alexandra..... More
[San Mateo], Cafe Press, 2005. Number 111 of 666 copies signed by Eurhythmy (with an ink-stamped A.'. A.'. seal); loosely inserted is a similarly signed and sealed 'Letter of Authenticity'. More
London, British Museum Publications, 1984. The only material 'acquired from the Torres Strait Islanders during the nineteenth century ... [that was] systematically collected and adequately documented is that obtained by Professor A.C. Haddon in 1888-9 and 1898' (page 38). In fact, Haddon's collections of Torres Strait artefacts taken back to..... More
Morphett Vale, Morphett Vale Baptist Church, 1915. The cover title is 'Morphett Vale Baptist Church. Souvenir. Jubilee Celebrations. 1865-1915'. More
Adelaide, James R. Tyrrell, 1911. Inscribed and signed 'To dear Winnie, with much love, Paris Nesbit. 9 October 1921'. Paris Nesbit (1852-1927), lawyer, editor, and certified lunatic: 'Adelaide gossiped about this "absinthe-drinking, woman-loving, tobacco-enslaved ... Prince of Bohemia"' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1968. Number 110 of 200 copies signed by both author and artist. More
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880 (eighth thousand). Offered with three other volumes in the Non-Christian Religious Systems series, in uniformly fine condition. Each volume contains a colour folding map frontispiece; all four have a small personal name-plate on the front pastedown; three have a relevant newspaper clipping mounted..... More
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Number 1277 of 1450 sets printed on Van Gelder Rag paper (of a total edition of 1540). The first volume contains 'Paradise Lost'; the second volume contains 'Miscellaneous Poems', 'Paradise Regain'd', and 'Samson Agonistes.' [2 items]. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914 [first edition]. The very interesting 'Publisher's Note' states in full: 'On the outbreak of the war the Baroness Orczy decided to postpone the publication of "The Laughing Cavalier." In response, however, to many requests from the novel-reading public, and from those employed in the bookselling..... More
Pasadena, Showcase Publications, 1985, 1989, and 1995. 'This three-volume encyclopedia provides a wealth of primary source material on the American theater [sic] organ, an instrument designed for the movie theaters of the silent film era that has now all but disappeared from American pop culture. The first two volumes contain..... More
[Adelaide], [The Author], 1973. 'Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for ... the Degree of Master of Music in Musicology at the University of Adelaide.' Of particular note is the extensive 'Gazetteer of Organs in South Australia' (Appendix V, pages 319-621). Of particular note is the extensive 'Gazetteer..... More
Madras, reprinted by Pharoah and Co., Athenaeum Press, 1861 and 1862 (a reprint of the revised editions of 1803). An early Indian reprint of this primary resource, covering the period 1745 to 1761. [3 items]. More
London, 1928 [first edition]. Muir 5604 (recording only quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards). More
Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., 1917. Tipped in on the flyleaf is the 'with compliments' slip of Edward Dyason Pty. Ltd. (a local firm of mining engineers). Bendigo-born Edward Clarence Evelyn Dyason (1886-1949), company director, economist, mining engineer, stockbroker ... and also 'militant pacifist' and 'Always an internationalist, in search..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, August 2006/ 1809 [Volume I] and October 2003 [first edition in English - Volume II]. The publisher's prospectus had this to say about Volume I: 'This new translation by Christine Cornell ... complements her acclaimed translation of Volume II, published by..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2008 [first thus]. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 223; number 22 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 400 copies). More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. Peade A185: 1,144 copies. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1991 (facsimile edition)/ 1945 (first American edition). One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Limited, 1935 (first edition). The final volume in R.B. Plowman's fine 'Inland trilogy'. He was an Australian Inland Mission missionary in the region from Hawker to Birdsville; when the events recorded here took place, 'Motor cars, aeroplanes, and wireless sets had not made their appearance in..... More
Port Adelaide had already won the SAFL Premiership for 1913 (losing only two matches over the season), and played VFL premiers Fitzroy at Adelaide Oval on 8 October 1913 for the Championship of Australia. The result was a one-sided victory by Port Adelaide, 13.16 (94) to 4.7 (31), with Watson..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1875. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 134 of 1875. More
Melbourne, Rae Bros., Printers, 1897. Not in Trove. More