Melbourne, Hyland House, 1997. With the bookplate of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), annotated with his acquisition date: '26 July 1999', mounted on the front pastedown. More
London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922 to 1939 (mixed editions). Full details are as follows: 'The Garden Party and Other Stories' (1922, third impression/ 1922); 'The Doves' Nest and Other Stories' (1923, third impression/ 1923); 'Something Childish and Other Stories' (1924, first edition); 'The Letters of Katherine Mansfield' (two volumes..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson/ Royal Australian Historical Society, 1968 / 1793. With the Royal Australian Historical Society's application for membership form loosely inserted. More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. Not least, sections on Horticulture (by Albert Molineux; 9 pages with 2 plates), and Wine Growing (10 pages, plus a plate showing Joseph Gillard's vineyard and property at Clarendon). Provenance: Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, with his bookplate..... More
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1901. An illustrated dictionary of over 6000 genera of plants, in plain English. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, his tidy ownership stamp to the title-page (and elsewhere). More
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1936. With Noel Lothian's name-plate on the front pastedown, and his ink ownership signature at the top corner of the front flyleaf. More
London, J. & A. Churchill, 1922. Provenance: Dr Lance Walters (Chief Brewer at the South Australian Brewing Co. from 1944 to the 1980s), with his early quirky bookplate ('XXX Libris'); the later inkstamp of the company's technical library is on the front flyleaf. More
London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. Presentation copy. Inscribed ('from Grandpapa'), dated (September 1985) and signed in ink to a young Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1884-1930), biochemist and professor, with his scientific bookplate ('In Limine'). More
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1912 (second, revised and enlarged edition)/ 1910. Inscribed in ink on the front flyleaf; 'With the Author's Compliments', and with his printed address details at the Preface crossed out in ink and substituted with his new address. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward..... More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. Provenance: Henry Priestley (1884-1961), Australian biochemist, with his pictorial bookplate in each volume. 'His most enduring monuments at [Sydney] university are the department of biochemistry itself, and the B.Sc. (Med.) degree, a research training programme for medical students, which, against opposition, he fought to..... More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1928 (eighth impression)/ 1906 (second edition)/ 1904. With the pictorial bookplate, and ink ownership signature (lightly faded), of senior SA Brewing Co. employee Milton Cousins. More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] (slightly marked) of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1910. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1909. Loosely inserted is an autograph note regarding the book initialled by Robert Henry Pulleine (1869-1935), physician and naturalist (2 pages, on his letterhead, lightly tanned along the top edge). The addressee of the note is almost certainly Edward Charles Stirling, whose pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward']..... More
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1905 (second, revised and enlarged, edition). With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, his pencilled ownership signature on the half-title (inscribed 'S.S. Pekin, 1885'), and his pencilled notes on two pages at the rear, and with his occasional pencilled emphases. More
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. The author was the wife of naturalist Henry O. Forbes. More
London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of [Sir] Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, and the gift inscription (dated 8 September 1905) signed by prominent Melbourne surgeon Frederic Dougan Bird (1858-1929). More
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London, Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1901. Inscribed by the author to 'E.C. Stirling | ex dono Warrigalis | May 1901' - from one significant South Australian identity to another. William Austin Horn (1841-1922) was a mining magnate, pastoralist, politician - and occasional poet. 'In 1894 he organized and equipped the Horn..... More
London, Chapman and Hall, Ld. 1892. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, and his pencilled ownership signature on the recto of the frontispiece. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1906 [first edition]. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. One of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series. Of considerable North Australian interest. More
London, George Newnes, Ltd., 1900. With the armorial bookplate of James Howard Johnson, great-grandson of George Fife Angas (and the local binder's ticket of F. Binns & Co., Charles Street, Adelaide). Not least, Western Australia (pages 63-66). More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. The background to this biography of George Fife Angas (1789-1879) is not without interest, and it is to be gleaned from the entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' on Henry Hussey (1825-1903), 'evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian ... Hussey's printing and publishing encouraged him..... More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker (1841-1911), barrister, pastoralist and politician. Baker was 'the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature, being elected at the head of the poll for Barossa in the House of Assembly ... [and] became..... More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1920. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover (1870-1936), several times Lord Mayor of Adelaide. More