London, J. Davis, 1795. With 71 hand-coloured botanical plates. More

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

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

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

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

London, Gall and Inglis, [c.1873]. More

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

[London, The Victoria Institute, 1889]. More

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

[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

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

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

Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1899. 'With 76 Coloured Plates and 6 Engravings'. More

London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More

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

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

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. George Morland (1763-1804) 'stood alone as a painter of (English) peasant and humble life'. More

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

London, Chatto and Windus, 1908. More

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

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

Melbourne, George Robertson and Company (Printed in Scotland), [1910]. The cover title is 'Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop. Words by Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop'. Dorothy Frances McCrae (1879-1937) was a daughter of George Gordon McCrae, 'poet and man of letters', and sister of the poet Hugh..... More

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911. Both volumes bear the ownership signature of James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty. More

London, The Studio, 1912. Not least, J.M.W. 'Turner at Farnley Hall' by Alexander J. Finberg, and 'Eugene Boudin: A Painter of the Sea' by Henri Frantz. Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors; 'expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and..... More

Dusseldorf, Ernst Ohle, 1913. Coloured illustrations by Von Wilhelm Heinse. Text in German. More