The Mouse and his Master. The Life and Work of Terence Cuneo
London, New Cavendish Books, 1977. More
We thought the cracking copies of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s first two books, Mollie’s Bunyip (1904) and Mollie’s Staircase (1906), would be the children’s book highlights of our current catalogue. Then we purchased Benjamin Forster’s anonymously-issued Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-Four Classes in the Linnaean System of Vegetables (1813): despite its prosaic title, this miniature book with 48 hand-coloured wood engravings would crown any international collection.
Fully one-third of this 200-item catalogue contains autograph material of one kind or another: marks of provenance, authors’ signatures or inscriptions, signed documents, photographs or letters. Signatories range from prime ministers to presidents, musicians to Nobel laureates, self-published authors to world-famous cricketers. However, the stellar item is a small group of letters from the archive of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow. They are primarily from Pastor F.W. Albrecht, who replaced Strehlow’s father as superintendent of the Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg in Central Australia in 1927. These letters, written in 1957-58, are of strong interest in themselves, but greater significance must be attached to the accompanying letters in Western Aranda (Arrernte) from five elders. We have obtained full translations, and our catalogue record is worth reading, whatever your collecting interests may be.
Off you go!
London, New Cavendish Books, 1977. More
Townsville, James Cook University, 1980. [2 items]. More
Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 2001 (first edition in English). Number 36 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. 'This first translation incorporates a substantial introductory essay and explanatory notes by Dr Edward Duyker' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Adelaide, Board of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium, 2006 (third edition)/ 1990. 'A guide to the plants of the Adelaide district, from Goolwa to Gawler [and] contains colour illustrations and descriptions of about 1200 species' (rear cover). More
Sydney, The Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1969. A definitive work, describing and illustrating over 300 species and varieties of native orchids. More
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842 (new edition)/ 1800+ ('appeared in parts, commencing in the year 1800', according to the preface in the new edition). 'At the period when the first edition of this work was presented to the public, the study of exotic insects, and indeed the science of Entomology..... More
Brugge, Stichting Sint-Jan, 1996. Loosely inserted is a large red 'Warning' slip: 'This book contains the works and photographs of Aboriginal artists now deceased. Where Australian Aborigines are concerned, and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant, this book should be used only after consultation with local male..... More
London, Folio Society, 2005 (sixth printing)/ 2000 (first thus). The first two volumes, 'The Aztecs', and 'The Incas', are by Nigel Davies. The third volume, 'The Maya', is by Norman Hammond. [3 items]. More
London, Folio Society, 2005 (tenth printing)/ 1999. [4 items]. More
[Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., circa 1890s]. A scarce souvenir of rural Victoria at the end of the nineteenth century. The chromolithographs include 'Natives spearing Kangaroo', 'Alluvial Diggers', 'A Stampede', 'Yarding Cattle', 'Old Man Kangaroo at Bay', and 'A Buck Jumper'. The last one is curious - and inaccurate -..... More
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Inscribed 'To Douglas Newton with warm regards, Bryce Holcombe', and further signed by Bill Fagg and John Pemberton 3rd. Douglas Newton was an influential curator 'of the department of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and..... More
Two of the portraits are dated (France, July 1917 and [London], October 1918); one of the others is credited to an English photographer; the fourth one was almost certainly taken while Dixon was on active service. They give a graphic portrayal of the impact the war has had on him..... More
The original mailing envelope is still present; it is addressed to Barry Jones as Minister for Science, Customs and Small Business, a position he held from 19 January 1988 to 4 April 1990. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Dunedin, Otago Museum, 1968/ 1967, 1968, 1970 and 1973. Otago Museum Bulletin Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4; another two parts were issued later. [4 items]. More
[Adelaide, The Author, 1981]. The dedication page is signed and dated (27 August 1981) by Llewellyn Fowler. The frontispiece depicts 'Sergeant L. Fowler ... in 1919 after 3 years active service with the 10th Battalion'; pages 21-46 relate to his war service. More
The original document appears to have been a Treasury Bond issued for £50. Offered with an early engraved portrait of Fox as Secretary of State (145 × 115 mm). Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
South Yarra, Croft Press, 1979. 'Reprinted from the Pamphlet originally published by J. Hately of Wolverhampton, circa 1805, and further embellished with Illustrations by Donald Friend. Hand-printed at the Croft Press'. This is number 170 of 250 copies signed by Donald Friend. More
Adelaide, FSLSA, 1995 to 2010. All but two of the items are bound in quarter or half leather; nineteen are limited to 99 copies (and the others are limited to 50, 75, 90, 125, 150 and 199 copies respectively, with two of them 150). The original subscription to copy number..... More
London, William Rider & Son, Limited, 1925. The author was an occultist and Thelemite who wrote a number of works on esotericism and mysticism. He was also a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist: Major-General John Frederick Charles 'Boney' Fuller CB CBE DSO (1878-1966). He was 'an early..... More
London, William Rider & Son, Limited, 1925. The author was an occultist and Thelemite who wrote a number of works on esotericism and mysticism. He was also a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist: Major-General John Frederick Charles 'Boney' Fuller CB CBE DSO (1878-1966). He was 'an early..... More
'Very best thanks for the loan of the Wedgewood [sic] medallion safely received.' Sir John Evans (1823-1908, English archaeologist and geologist), was the author of standard works on ancient coins, bronze implements, and stone implements and weapons of Great Britain. Two modern photographs of portraits of Galton from the National..... More
Below the signature are the first three lines of the warrant (in lithographed manuscript in another hand): 'These are to Authorize you by beat of Drum or otherwise, to raise so many Men in any County within Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland'. Provenance: Collection of The Hon..... More
Canberra, Australian Academy of Science, 1981. More
'My dear Holland, I should like very much to help in your Candidature, but I have foresworn all further promises & engagements, till I have got rid of those which I now have & which will take all of my spare time till Easter. And it is only some six..... More