Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1972/ 1971 [facsimile edition]/ 1843. With the armorial (and aboriginal) bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill. Peade A78: only 577 copies. More
London, J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert, 1843. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore (and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank). Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly, the lithographs are by George French Angas from... More
Portland, The Anthoensen Press, [c.1950]. Number 147 of 300 copies (250 of which were for sale). Eight leaves of illustrations include one tipped-in bookplate. More
Berlin, Axel Juncker, [c.1920]. With the bookplate of Lorna Waterhouse. With illustrations by Alfred Thon. Text in German. More
Adelaide, Vardon and Pritchard, 1905. The recto of the frontispiece has the original ownership signature (dated 6 May 1911) of Mrs Gilbert Wood, the widow of George Wood, the founder of the wholesale grocers G. Wood and Sons. This is lightly red-pencilled out and beneath it is the signature of... More
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1962, 1957, 1962/ 1954 and 1963. Each volume boasts the bookplate of Robert David Lawson, QC, sometime South Australian politician and 45th Attorney-General of South Australia. More
London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John... More
London, C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878. With the bookplate of Harold Sheard. More
London, James Nichols, 1902. With the bookplate of Dr Frederick Lucas Benham (and the cancelled stamp of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia). James Bonwick (1817-1906), 'teacher, author, historian and archivist ... More than sixty publications can be attributed to him and they reveal the major characteristic of his... More
Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by... More
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Milan, Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1902. Number 197 of an unspecified limited edition. Provenance: Ann and Geoffrey Long, with their bookplate, designed by Pixie O'Harris, on the front pastedown. More
Sydney, 'Composed, Bound and Printed by the Artist at the Studio 38A Pitt St', 1936. Number 20 of only 25 signed copies, with the bookplates signed as well. This very rare item is not to be confused with another work with the same title, produced in the same year by... More
Dulwich, Tudor Australia Press, 2000. One of 350 numbered copies of the 'ordinary' edition; this copy is signed by the author on the title page. An alphabetical register of 5746 Australian personal bookplates, with details including a description of the plate, the artist, medium, size and date of production. Nearly... More
Dulwich, Tudor Australia Press, 2012. One of only 100 numbered copies of the 'ordinary edition'; this copy is signed by the author on the title page. There were also 25 copies of a 'special edition'. Anomalously, the numbering in this copy suggests a total print-run of 130. More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1942. Number 98 of 275 copies. This is the second publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press. The (unrelated) bookplate of Marie de J. Robin is attached to the inner surface of the rear cover. More
London, T.N. Foulis, 1914. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. More
London, Edward Lloyd, 1896 and 1897. The set comprises BOWDLER SHARPE, R.: British Birds (4 volumes with 124 colour plates); OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.: Handbook to the Game Birds (2 volumes with 42 colour plates); KIRBY, W.F.: Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (5 volumes with 159 colour plates); FORBES, H.O.: Handbook to... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1966/ 1960. With the acquisition date and ownership signature of archaeologist Dr Peter Bell, and the earlier bookplate of Brian Causby (by Neil Marchant). The experiences of an AIM nurse. More
Esher, Edward Burrett at The Penmiel Press, 1985. Number 52 of 150 copies (140 of which were for sale) signed by the author/ publisher. With the bookplate of Ann and Geoffrey Long, designed by Pixie O'Harris. More
London, William Tegg, and Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1860 (second edition) and 1856 [first edition]. With the armorial bookplate of the significant South Australian Downer family in each volume, and a different early bookseller's stamp also in each volume. 'The Analogy of Religion' bears the ownership signature (dated 1865)... More
Frederikshavn, The Bookplate Society/ Forlaget Exlibristen, 1986. One of 900 signed copies. 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, Smith, Elder, 1902 [first edition]. With the armorial bookplate of Henry Dutton. With illustrations by author. More
