Our first catalogue for 2022 contains some very appealing rarities: an American Civil War muster roll; eight issues of Verve (containing numerous original lithographs by the likes of Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Derain, Giacometti, Klee, Léger, Matisse, Miro, and Roualt); Stoddart’s presentation copy of the Australian Cricket Annual 1896-7; the first edition of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (with the dustwrapper); a 1930 autograph letter signed by Aldous Huxley (with very interesting literary content); rare examples of Indigenous Australian portraiture; a fine copy of the golden jubilee edition of Winnie-the-Pooh (one of only 300 copies signed by Christopher Robin himself); and an album of 87 large-format aerial photographs of New Guinea, circa 1943.
Don’t worry, there are also some standard works: Oxley’s Journals (1820); Our Pastoral Industry (1910); Pastoral Homes of Australia, New Series, Volume 1 (1929); Wild Rivers (1983) by Peter Dombrovskis and Bob Brown (signed by both of them) … we won’t go on ...
At Sea, [HMAT A18 'Wiltshire'], 1918. The Australian War Memorial has in its collection an illustration - for all intents and purposes the same one reproduced on the menu - of the ship, with the following comment: 'HMAT "Wiltshire" (A18) was one of the steamships requisitioned by the Australian Government..... More
![Item #113886 John Ainsworth Horrocks' Journal. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/113886_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1592358138)
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1906. 'In 1846 Mr Horrocks organised what proved his last exploring party, and but for the fatal accident which so unhappily terminated the expedition, he would doubtless have left a high record in the history of exploration, and would probably have traversed a great deal of the country..... More
The letter is in response to one from a Mr Johnstone in New Zealand, who had some queries about the social satire 'The Claxtons', one of the three short stories in the recently published 'Brief Candles' (London, Chatto & Windus, 1930). One needn't to have read the story for the..... More
London, The Folio Society (by arrangement with the Royal Horticultural Society), 1999 [first thus]. More
[Strathalbyn, Unknown Photographer], 'About 1903-4'. Most of the players are identified in pencil in a later hand on the verso of the mount; the date 'About 1903-4' and one name are in ink in an earlier hand; alas, both scribes took it as read that the team itself needed no..... More
[No Place (probably rural South Australia), Unknown Photographer, circa 1910s?]. More
Adelaide, S. Solomon, 51 Rundle St. 1891. The South Australian 'Register' (Monday, 20 April 1891) contains an interesting article on a recent match between Norwood and Maylands, adjoining suburbs in Adelaide. 'On Saturday afternoon an opening match was played on the Adelaide Oval. It was a preliminary game arranged for..... More
Norwood, [Unknown Photographer], Muller St. 1894. 'Expansion of football into country areas was rapid and by the 1890s many country associations had been formed. Two of the biggest matches staged on Adelaide Oval during 1892 and 1893 were between combined country teams north and south of Adelaide. Clubs represented included..... More
![Item #127677 The Spirit of the Bush. Part One [all published]. Alexander Stewart JOLLY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127677_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642055381)
Sydney, William Homer, 1932. A book for children; this copy is inscribed and signed by the author to a Mr Grace (15 June 1933). Chapter 5 is 'King Billy' Cave'. The bandicoot takes the boys to the cave where a great Aboriginal king had lived with his tribe. '"That must..... More
The short message was written in the autograph book of a young Sandra Waterman, daughter of Ewen Waterman, President of the South Australian Deaf and Dumb Society. Helen Keller visited South Australia with her travelling companion Polly Thompson from 23 June to 11 July 1948; a surprise party was held..... More
Kunsan, Korea, Office of Information Services ('Printed by Obun Printing Co., Tokyo'), 1954. An orientation booklet prepared for distribution to new arrivals at the USAF K-8 Air Base at Kunsan, South Korea. The 77th Squadron RAAF was also based there (see page 22, with three illustrations). 'Following the signing of..... More
Paris, Diane de Selliers, in association with Editions Citadelles & Mazenod, 1993 (first thus). A deluxe edition, with the beautiful plates by Jean-Baptiste Oudry reproduced from a hand-coloured copy of the famous Paris edition of 1755 to 1759, published by Dessaint & Saillant and Durand. This is one of a...... More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. The seven-page introduction is by A.C. Haddon. More
Sydney, Art in Australia, 1931. The plates are preceded by a five-page article by Lionel Lindsay. The 'article and many illustrations in this book appeared in the "Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay", published ... in 1918'; the earlier edition contained 51 plates. More
Sydney, The Shepherd Press, 1947. More
Sydney, 'The Bulletin', 1954. More
![Item #16934 Aboriginal Water-Quest. [Reprinted from] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16934_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1599117834)
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1895. A rare pamphlet on Aboriginal water-finding techniques, derived mainly from first-hand accounts of early explorers. More
London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1860 (second edition)/ 1859. The front flyleaf is signed 'Mr Hill, City Rifles' (possibly the Adelaide City Rifles). Pages 5 and 6 ('Extract from the Circular Memorandum dated "Horse Guards, 1st May, 1860"') is certainly new to this edition. More
![Item #127271 Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 1 [in two books]:...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127271_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638752420)
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1990. [2 items]. More
![Item #127519 Cambrian and Sub-Cambrian Formations at Parachilna Gorge. [Reprinted from]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127519_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641536104)
![Item #127522 The Cambrian Sequence in the Wirrealpa Basin. [Reprinted from] 'Transactions of the...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127522_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641536104)
![Item #127517 The Mount Caernarvon Series of Proterozoic Age. [Reprinted from] 'Transactions of...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127517_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641536104)
![Item #127526 Palaeozoic Igneous Rocks of Lower South-Eastern South Australia. [Reprinted from]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127526_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641536104)
