Argali. High-Mountain Hunting
Huntington Beach, Safari Press, [1994]. Number 210 of 1000 copies signed by the author. More
Huntington Beach, Safari Press, [1994]. Number 210 of 1000 copies signed by the author. More
[Boston], Boston and Albany Railroad, 1894 ('6-5-'94'). Dinner was one dollar, and one could dine handsomely on Mackerel, Ribs of Beef or Spring Lamb, Fried Soft Shell Crabs, and all the trimmings. However, this pales beside the choices available on the wine list, commencing with seven varieties of Champagne ....... More
London, John Camden Hotten, 1867 (cheap edition)/ 1861. The front flyleaf carries the contemporary inkstamp of 'E.S. Wigg | Bookseller &c | Adelaide', with 'South Rhine Book Club | No 99 | 3 weeks' written in ink above it. 'South Rhine district - near the South Rhine now the Marne..... More
Adelaide, Intelligence and Tourist Bureau (R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer), November 1918. The French economic mission was touring South Australia when the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. In his welcome at the beginning of this publication the Premier, Archibald Peake, presages this development. 'Australia rejoices that her citizen soldiers..... More
London, Bodley Head, 1974 (first edition). Presentation copy inscribed to Lady Mary and Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE, dated (24 August 1979) and signed 'Mary Mitchell' (presumably the author's wife). More
Dobbs Ferry, Sheridan House, 1998. More
London, Methuen, 1906. When Emperor Meiji died in 1912, Japan had gone from being an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyos, to a great power which had undergone political, social, and industrial revolution. The author travelled throughout Japan and met the influential men who..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2002 (first thus). Introduction by Simon Jenkins; endpaper map redrawn by Reginald Piggot after the original map in the first edition. More
London, Hutchinson, 1958. Illustrated by Eric Hosking. More
London, The Folio Society, 1991 (first thus). With an introduction by Tim Burnett. More
London, The Folio Society, 1991 (first thus). Introduction by Tim Burnett. More
London, John Murray, 1878. Provenance: 'given me from "Manoah" Library' is written in ink on the verso of the front flyleaf; a bookplate ('Words | Words | Words | F A S') is mounted on the front pastedown. 'Manoah' was the name of the Adelaide Hills estate of Sir Josiah..... More
[Melbourne], George Robertson & Co. and London, J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited, 1898. 'Captain Sturt discovered and followed this river down. My friend and I went over the same water, after an interval of many years, but the greater portion of its scenery remains unchanged (the population is so sparse);..... More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. The half-title is inscribed 'Presented to Carl H.F. Werner Esq by the Writer February 1910'. This book was published to wide critical acclaim. Lindt was awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 'with special mention for his ethnological photographs, landscapes..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1942. John Lloyd Preece (1895-1969), one of the sons of the noted Adelaide bookseller and publisher F.W. Preece, was himself an influential bookseller, publisher and proprietor of Preece's Gallery. He 'studied English at the University of Adelaide ... In 1926 he visited Italy with Lionel..... More
London, Collins, 1958. With the contemporary ink ownership signature of British entomologist Dr Adrian C. Pont on the front flyleaf. Number 36 in the New Naturalist Library. 'Dr Williams's own personal observations and adventures have played a fundamental part in demonstrating the extent to which insects migrate. His opportunities of..... More
Christchurch, Souvenir Art Publishing Co. (Printed by Horace J. Weeks Limited), 1906. A 'work combining both the useful and beautiful, showing the commercial enterprise of the Colony, and depicting at the same time some unrivalled beauty spots' (Introduction). More
Camberwell, Lantern, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2010. Dee Nolan's 'emotional journey along the Way of St James - el camino de Santiago - takes her back to the very heart of things: why we should care about what we eat and how it is produced, why we need escape..... More
London, Dent, 1905. A delightful tour through forgotten Tuscany. More
Long Beach, Safari Press, 1997 (first edition). Number 932 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. Number 20 in the Classics in African Hunting series. More
Dublin, The Black Cat Press/ Faber and Faber, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page, and dated (May 1992), signed and warmly inscribed by her, referring to a 'fond memory of the Coorong, and the opportunity to enjoy a delightful mind'. More
Sydney, Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pty Ltd, 2013. More
London, Longmans & Green, 1947 (3rd impression)/ 1938. With the ownership signature and details of local maritime enthusiast Peter McBride. A 'purely personal account of life in the Antarctic, among whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship 'Discovery II''. More
London, Sampson Low ... sixth edition [circa 1900]. With over 100 pages on Australia and New Zealand - a much-expanded and 'completely new account' prepared for this sixth edition. More
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 (first edition). 'From the African veldt to New Zealand's Southern Alps to Alaska's glacier country ...'. More