Further Discoveries of Sapropelic Deposits in the Coorong Region of South Australia. [Reprinted from 'Oil Shale and Cannel Coal', 1938]
[London], The Institute of Petroleum, 1938. More
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 ...
[London], The Institute of Petroleum, 1938. More
[Melbourne], Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1921. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1921. This issue also contains the annual address of the President, the Honorable John LEWIS (67 pages, comprising a detailed account of the voyage of Flinders, concentrating on South Australia west of Port Lincoln); and NEWLAND, Simpson: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life (22 pages). More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1934. This issue also contains MILLS, May and Helene RAFFELT: Geographical Observations on the South Mount Lofty Range (38 pages with 3 maps and a diagram plus 2 plates). More
London, Methuen Children's Books, 1976 (Golden Jubilee facsimile edition)/ 1926. Number 219 of only 300 copies signed by Christopher Milne, the original Christopher Robin, for the fiftieth anniversary of the book's first publication. More
Geneva, Editions d'Art Albert Skira S.A., 1981 (facsimile edition)/ 1933 to 1939. The first number appeared in June 1933; numbers 3 and 4 were a double issue, as were numbers 12 and 13, the last to be published, in May 1939. [3 items]. More
London, Guy Chapman, 1924. One of only 275 numbered copies signed by the author. Offered together with a copy of the 1925 first trade edition, which has textual changes from the first limited edition ('The Night at Pudney' has a new conclusion by the author). Pictorial cloth with two tiny..... More
Five of the photographs show the construction of Narewa Airfield on Woodlark Island in the Territory of New Guinea (now Milne Bay Province, PNG). 'Narewa Airfield is located at 10' above sea level parallel to Guasopa Bay on the southeast of Woodlark Island. Also known as "Guasopa Airfield" or "Woodlark..... More
Sydney, Sherriff & Downing, [1863]. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995), Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, with his signature in pencil at the head of the title page. Ferguson 15645 (supplying the date; the advertisement on the rear flyleaf contains testimonials dated January 1863, and suggests those wishing to 'be supplied in..... More
Adelaide, Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office, 1887. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs, with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white..... More
Adelaide, Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office, 1887. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs, with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1895. A separately-paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch), Session 1894-5. 'In this paper I shall not dilate upon the treatment of the aboriginal by the European in the past or dwell upon the course that..... More
Canberra, L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, 1939. The period covered is 1 July to 31 December 1938. The extensive reports are mainly geological, covering areas of WA (26 pages), Queensland (33 pages), and the Northern Territory (12 pages). Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 172 of 1937-38-39; one of only 810 copies..... More
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) and Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) were married, and touring Australia and New Zealand with the Old Vic Theatre Company, in 1948 when these autographs were collected. The tour was a great success, but stressful and exhausting, and it put the marriage under considerable pressure. Extra-marital affairs, and..... More
London, John Murray, 1820. The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, 'arguably the most handsome of all Australian exploration journals [and] the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup). The..... More
Sydney, 'The Pastoral Review', 1929. The fifth of seven substantial quarto volumes in this rare and important series, published in Sydney between 1910 and 1931. The first four volumes were published by 'The Pastoralist's Review' between 1910 and 1914; the three volumes of the New Series were published by 'The..... More
Melbourne, Hyland House, 1985. More
Lutetiae [Paris], Apud Mamertum Patissonium [Mamert Patisson] Typographum regium, in officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1585 (first thus). An early collection of Latin satires by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) and Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), as well as the satire attributed to the female poet Sulpicia. This is the second edition..... More
Melbourne, Australian Alliance Prohibition Council, 1919. The third year book issued by the Council. More
Brisbane, The Author, 1963. Captain Frederick Cecil Rhodes (1877-1964) was an Australian master mariner, journalist, author and cotton farming lobbyist. If he is known at all these days, it is as the author of 'Pageant of the Pacific', a two-volume maritime history of Australasia, published in the mid-1930s. His lengthy..... More
Flagstaff Hill, The Author, 2021. Ian and Greg Chappell, Victor Richardson's grandsons, have each written a foreword; the author has signed the title page of this copy. More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1873. Alexander Walker Scott (1800-1883), the author of this uncommon and interesting work, was the father of the naturalists and botanical artists Harriet and Helena (later, Harriet Forde and Helena Morgan). In the lengthy preface, he explains why the publication of this, the second part..... More
Adelaide, Australian 'Garden & Field', 1910. A rare South Australian pastoralists' who's who. Provenance: 'E.A. Brooks, Buckland Park, S. Aust' is written in ink across the front pastedown, and in pencil at the head of the title page. The pioneering pastoralist George Brooks (1849-1926) and his son Edmund Albert Brooks..... More
Four pages, quarto and small quarto, on University of Western Australia, Department of Psychology, Anthropology letterheads; two filing holes punched in the left-hand margins; in excellent condition. In 1956, the eminent Australian social anthropologist Ronald Murray Berndt (1916-1990) 'took up a senior lectureship in anthropology in the department of psychology..... More