English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants .. Volume IV
London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More
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Vues de Versailles. Le Chateau le Parc, Le Petit and le Grand, Trianon
[No Place, No Publisher, late 1800s]. Contemporary ownership inscription; 'Versailles, 28/29 October '73'. More
Die Kunste und Gewerbe des Menschen. Zum Behuf nutzlicher Kenntnisse in 104 Abbildungen [The Arts and Crafts of Man .. in 104 Illustrations]
Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, [1819]. Attractive woodcut illustrations of 104 trades and professions of the day, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text: pharmacist, cooper, pastry-cook, turner, carpenter, organ-builder, vinegar-maker, butcher, glazier, hatmaker, huntsman, tinsmith ... and that's just the first dozen. Johannes Andreas Christian Lohr (1764-1823) was a German..... More
Sicilian Scenery from Drawings by P. De Wint. The Original Sketches of Major Light
London, Rodwell & Martin, 1823. William Light (1786-1839), soldier and surveyor, was born in Malaya and spent his childhood in Penang. He served with distinction (and was unharmed) in the Peninsular war. He missed Waterloo, but was severely wounded in a minor Spanish revolution in 1823. In the years before..... More
Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France, with beautifully finished Engravings, from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. [Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1834 (spine title)]
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in..... More
The Churches of London: A History and Description of the Ecclesiastical Edifices of the Metropolis. With Biographical Anecdotes of Eminent Persons, Notices of Remarkable Monuments, Etc
London, C. Tilt; J. Hatchard & Son; L. & G. Seeley; J. Weale; and J. Williams, 1838 and 1839. Many of these churches were bombed by Germany during WW2, most were rebuilt in the years that followed. More
The Artist and Amateur's Magazine. A Work devoted to the Interests of the Arts of Design and the Cultivation of Taste
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. This would appear to be all twelve unnumbered and undated issues of the cumulative edition of Volume 1 of the magazine. The editor's 'Farewell Address' (see pages 359-363) indicates there will be no more: 'as regards the success of my project, it is..... More
Meteorological Observations at Bendigo. [Contained in] Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria .. 1855. Volume 1. [The society was renamed the Royal Society of Victoria from Volume 5, 1860]
Melbourne, James J. Blundell & Co., 1855. The front flyleaf is signed in pencil 'R. Campbell / Septer 15th 1855'; Robert Campbell is one of the 132 subscribers whose names and addresses are printed in the volume. Becker's article, although short and prosaically titled, is most entertaining because of his..... More
American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
London, Virtue & Co., City Road and Ivy Lane, [circa 1855]/ 1840. More
Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore
Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1859 (fourth edition, corrected and enlarged)/ 1855. Glaucus is a genus of small brightly coloured sea slugs; if nothing else, they make for attractive chromolithographs. Provenance: 'Francis Hayter, HMS "Liffey" Nov 1867' is written on an early binder's blank. Francis Hayter (1843-1891) was a Commander in..... More
Expositions of Raphael's Bible
London, Arthur Miall, 1868. 'The characteristic excellencies of Raphael's Bible, being those of composition and expression, can be conveyed through the medium of engraving. Early impressions of plates, printed at Rome in 1674, have therefore been secured.... The Photographs may be fairly left to speak for themselves'. The publisher's advertisements..... More
Tin-Bearing Country, New England. (Report of Mr Licensed Surveyor Wilkinson on)
Sydney, Government Printer, 1873. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper Number 181 of 1873. The attractive plates (two full-page and four half-page) are well-executed views of operational mining scenes or interesting landscape features ('granite outcrops and alluvial workings', as Trove succinctly puts it); artists identified are Wilkinson himself and R.L. Murray..... More
Waihoura, or the New Zealand Girl
London, Gall and Inglis, [c.1873]. More
On a Pincushion and other Fairy Stories
London, Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1877 (second edition)/ 1876. The first of three volumes of fairy stories by Mary De Morgan (1850-1907), with illustrations by her brother William De Morgan (1839-1917), who 'was far more than William Morris's potter friend, as he is often remembered. He was the most inventive..... More
A History of the Birds of Ceylon
London, The Author, 1880. Tasmanian-born William Vincent Legge (1841-1918), soldier and scientist, was stationed in Ceylon from 1868 to 1877, when the material for this important work was gathered. After his return to Tasmania in 1883, he retained a strong interest in natural history, being a founder and president of..... More
Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career
London, Sampson Low ... 1886. More
Welsh Pictures drawn with Pen and Pencil
London, Religious Tract Society, (circa 1890). More
Birds of Australia. Comprising Three Hundred Full-Page Illustrations, with a Descriptive Account of the Life and Characteristic Habits of over Seven Hundred Species
Melbourne, Charles Stuart and Co., 1890 and 1891. The plate count per volume is, respectively, 52, 58, 48, 48, 50 and 47. Although it is complete, this set is sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. More
Early Victorian Life
[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
14 Views of Old Adelaide from Sketches in 1840-1849 by S.T. Gill, F.R. Nixon, S. Calvert and O. Korn
[Adelaide], E.S. Wigg, [1890]. Ferguson 9924e (but we have seen any number of bindings identical to ours, and none as described by Ferguson). He also states that 'The Mitchell Library copy has a pencil note: 200 printed, in George Robertson's hand-writing'. In spite of this comment, and the 181 subscribers'..... More
Sir Joshua Reynolds
London, Seeley, 1894. With the ownership signature of Nora Kyffin Thomas. More
The Straight and Devious Paths of Studentship. A Lecture delivered at the School of Design, Adelaide, on Friday, 9th February, 1894
Adelaide, School of Design Art Club, 1894. Harry Pelling Gill (1855-1916), art curator and teacher, at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and, following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting, Gill..... More
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Egyptian Tales translated from the Papyri. First Series. IVth to XIIth Dynasty [and] Second Series. XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty
London, Methuen & Co., 1895. With illustrations (many full-page) by Tristram Ellis. More
The Australian Art Union .. Collection of Oil & Water Color Paintings (Valued at £409 10s), By the well-known Artist, Mr J. Swinton Diston. List of Prizes .. To be drawn publicly in Brisbane, September 30, 1897 .
Brisbane, Queensland Printing and Publishing Co. (Hodgson and Paton), 1897. The artist James Swinton Diston (1857-1940) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia in 1886. 'Mr Diston is an artist of long-established reputation, a Member of the Council of the Art Society of New South Wales, his pictures having..... More
English History Stories for Fourth Class. Brooks's New Australian School Series. The New Standard Histories, No. 3
Sydney, Wm Brooks, Circa 1898. More
Atlas of the External Diseases of the Eye, including a Brief Treatise on the Pathology and Treatment. Edited by G.E. de Schweinitz
Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1899. 'With 76 Coloured Plates and 6 Engravings'. More
Poems by Matthew Arnold
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More
The Paris Exhibition 1900. An Illustrated Record of its Art, Architecture and Industries. Section 1
London, The Art Journal Office, 1900. More
The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. Volume Eighteen [18]
London, The Studio, 1900. Not least, 'The Work of Pietro Fraciacomo' (with 9 illustrations, 2 coloured; Fraciacomo 'drew mainly seascapes and cityscapes of Venice, often at night, a thematic also pursued by Mario de Maria. By the turn of the century, his style had acquired Symbolist overtones devoid of a...... More
The Camp at Wandinong
London, Ward, Lock and Co, [c.1900]. 20 plates by Frances Swan and others. More
The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages
London, W. and R. Chambers, 1902 (first edition). With numerous illustrations plus 20 colour plates by Gordon Browne. More
Anthropological Notes made on the South Australian Government North-West Prospecting Expedition, 1903. [Contained in] Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 28, 1904
Adelaide, RSSA, 1904. This issue also contains numerous articles by Bragg, Howchin, Tepper, Verco, Woolnough, and others. More
Romantic Cities of Provence
London, Fisher Unwin, 1906. With the bookplate of Sir Richard Baker (1841-1911). 'Barrister, pastoralist and politician ... [Baker was] the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature ... [and] one of the founding fathers of Federation' (ADBonline). More
Hyksos and Israelite Cities
London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906. Volume 12 in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. More
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Anthropological Notes on the Western Coastal Tribes of the Northern Territory. [Contained in] Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 31, 1907
Adelaide, RSSA, 1907. This issue also contains numerous other articles, including four by Professor W.H. Bragg (totalling 28 pages), four by Douglas Mawson (totalling 20 pages) and three by Dr J.C. Verco (totalling 41 pages). More
George Morland. His Life and Works
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. George Morland (1763-1804) 'stood alone as a painter of (English) peasant and humble life'. More
Gizeh and Rifeh
London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907. Volume 13 in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. More
The Heart of the Rose. A Quarterly Magazine. Volume 1, Number 1, December 1907, to Number 4, October 1908 [all published]
Melbourne, Thomas C. Lothian, 1907 and 1908. A rare Australian poetry magazine, with each number limited to 500 numbered copies. The first one is out of series; the other three, with individual titles ('The Book of the Opal'; 'The Shadow on the Hill'; and 'Fire o' the Flame') are numbers..... More
Velazquez. An Account of his Life and Works
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, 1841-1911; barrister, pastoralist and influential South Australian politician. Baker was one of the founding fathers of Federation and the first President of the Senate in the first Commonwealth Parliament. One of the Spanish Series..... More
The Franco-British Exhibition Illustrated Review, 1908. Edited by F.G. Dumas
London, Chatto and Windus, 1908. More
A Summer Tour in Finland
London, Methuen, 1908. With the ownership signature of local businessman Arnold Edwin Davey (dated 7 May 1913) and a few characteristic pencilled emphases. Laid down to the rear blanks are a three-page contemporary article on Finland ('Where Women have the Vote') and the August 1913 'Bulletin International des Douanes... Number..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 (fifth edition). More
From Sketch-Book and Diary
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1909. Loosely inserted is this handwritten, charming gift inscription; 'With every good wish for Xmas and A very Happy New Year from a grateful patient'. More
The original preliminary artwork for a lavish promotional publication for the Parisian fashion boutique High-Life Tailor
Paris, printed by Draeger for High-Life Tailor, [1909]. The story is a tale purportedly from the 'Thousand and One Nights' entitled 'Histoire du Tailleur de Bagdad et du Secret Merveilleux'. The preliminary drawings prefigure the published version, but vary in many ways from the final product. A copy of the..... More
The High Light. A Souvenir Volume by the Adelaide Drawing and Sketch Club. Artistic and Literary. Bernard Dubois, Honorary Editor
Adelaide, George Robertson, 1910. Literary contributors include Mary Gilmore, Hugh McCrae, E.J. Brady and Bernard O'Dowd; artists include D.H. Souter, John Shirlow and Oswald Pryor. The editor states that the Club "was formed by a number of students who had studied in the Life Class at the School of Design..... More