The Visconti Hours. Biblioteca Nazionale, France
London, Thames and Hudson, 1972. More
Manuscripts
The detailed register of approximately 60 hotels owned or leased by the Lion Brewing and Malting Company Limited, Jerningham Street, North Adelaide, compiled between the 1880s and 1920s
The Lion Brewing and Malting Company in North Adelaide was founded in 1884, and floated in 1888 (the same year as the South Australian Brewing Company Limited) 'in order to secure the brewing, hotel and property assets of Beaglehole and Johnston ... The company owned many hotels in South Australia'..... More
Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
Stuttgart and Zürich, Belser Verlag, 1986 (first German edition)/ 1985. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed 'For Heather, New Year, 1987, Leonard' by Leonard Eugene Boyle OP OC, Prefect of the Vatican Library. Text in Italian. More
Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
Florence, Nardini Editore, 1985. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Leonard Eugene Boyle OP OC, Prefect of the Vatican Library, dated Christmas 1985. Loosely inserted is a short autograph note on Vatican Library stationery: '4. xxii. 85. This is the first general book ever on the library. It was..... More
Das Goldene Evangelienbuch von Echternach. Eine Prunkhandschrift des 11. Jahrhunderts
Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer Verlag [for the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg Bibliothek], 1982. With the ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1986 and signed 'Leonard' by Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC, scholar and palaeographer, later Prefect of the Vatican Library (1984-1997). More
A collection of ten letters sent to T.G.H. Strehlow, mainly from the Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg in 1957-58; four are from the mission superintendent Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht, one is from his son Paul, and five - written in Western Aranda (Arrernte) - are from local elders
A poignant correspondence relating to the Aranda (Arrernte) of Central Australia, involving two significant figures in the history of Hermannsburg. Theodor George Henry (Ted) Strehlow (1908-1978), the eminent Australian linguist, was born at Hermannsburg, where his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow (1871-1922), was superintendent. He was replaced in 1927 by Pastor..... More
From Memory to Written Record in England, 1066-1307
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1979. More
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter
Köln, Belser Verlag for the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, 1992. Catalogue of an exhibition which ran from 9 October 1992 to 10 January 1993. More
A manuscript document signed by Lord Sydney, directing that an unidentified petition be referred to the Lord Advocate of Scotland
As Baron Sydney he 'was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay. He chose Arthur Phillip as governor; on 26 January 1788, Phillip named Sydney Cove in honour of Sydney and the settlement became known as Sydney Town..... More
The original muster roll of A Company, 124th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
'Companies A and F were from the village of Kewanee, in Henry county [Illinois] ... The exigencies of the struggle and the call had wrought the enthusiasm of the village to its highest pitch, when, on the morning of August 7th, a muster roll was opened in the office of..... More
The signatures of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh on individual leaves removed from an autograph album
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) and Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) were married, and touring Australia and New Zealand with the Old Vic Theatre Company, in 1948 when these autographs were collected. The tour was a great success, but stressful and exhausting, and it put the marriage under considerable pressure. Extra-marital affairs, and..... More
The Illustrated Herbal
London, Frances Lincoln and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1979]. More
An IOU between two South Australian soldiers, F.W. Belt and H.C. Hawker, while on active service in South Africa in 1900
The contract reads 'Bloemfontein | 13 Apl 1900 | I.O.U. Ten Pounds [with Ten crossed out in pencil, £15 written above it in ink, and 'Fifteen' in pencil, with both initialled in pencil by F.W. Belt] | F.W. Belt | Payable to H.C. Hawker or order'; H.C. Hawker has signed..... More
![Item #117286 'Diary from time of departure from Egypt. 11th April 1915' [to Friday 4 June 1915]....](/pictures/thumb/117286_00.jpg?v=1595812387)
'Diary from time of departure from Egypt. 11th April 1915' [to Friday 4 June 1915]. An early (possibly contemporary) duplicate typescript of the diary of a doctor serving with the 4th Field Ambulance, AAMC, who landed at Gallipoli on the morning of 26 April 1915
Although this significant account is transcribed, we can find no record that the original diary is held in any institutional collection, or indeed that it survives. The Australian War Memorial has a small collection of material relating to the Boer War service of 'Captain Surgeon Frederick David Jermyn', including 'photocopied..... More
An autograph letter signed (as T.E. Shaw) to 'Dear Bordewich', relating to 'boats for the RAF'
From the spring of 1931 until the end of his enlistment in February 1935, T.E. Lawrence 'was part of a small team that developed and perfected the new types of RAF boat. He worked on seaplane tenders and armoured target boats, general-purpose workboats, refuelling dinghies, bomb-loading dinghies and experimental craft'..... More
A portrait photograph signed by Alexander Dubcek
The lower portion of the image contains a caption in Czech: 'Alexander Dubcek, První Tajemník ÚV KSC' (First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia). Dubcek became 'Slovak Communist Party leader in 1963 and was Czechoslovak party leader 1967-69. After student riots in Prague in 1968..... More
A typed document signed 'Mussolini' ('Roma, addì 7 gennaio 1939-XVII-'), reappointing two wounded veterans as President and Vice President of the 'Casa di lavoro per i ciechi di guerra' (Workhouse for the War Blind, which opened in 1931)
An apposite document relating to Mussolini, who was wounded on active service in the First World War. 'After the war, with the Socialist Party closed to him and Communism threatening disruption, he founded (1919) the first "Fascio di Combattimento", nominally to serve the cause of the neglected ex-servicemen. This proved..... More
A letter (in French) signed by Maksim Gorki ('M. Gorcy') to one Willem Vogel, discussing his views on religion
Not having time to offer a full critique of a manuscript Vogel has sent him, Gorki writes that he will limit himself to a brief sketch of his own conception of religion, which is entirely contrary to Vogel's. 'La religion surgit de la sensation de la liaison entre l'homme et..... More
An autograph letter signed 'Marcel' to Maria Madrazo, sister of composer Reynaldo Hahn, Proust's intimate friend and sometime lover
Proust writes to persuade his 'Chère amie' that his financial troubles (apparently mentioned in an earlier letter) are transitory and that he is horrified that she believed he was asking to borrow money. The following quote is just a sample; there's a lot more in the same vein! 'C'est peut-être..... More
A letter signed by Elisa Bonaparte to her brother Napoleon's Minister of War, Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre
After his conquest of Italy, Napoleon appointed his sister Elisa as ruler of a client state in the north-western part of the peninsula. In this official letter, stamped 'Secret' and written soon after the departure of Napoleon on his ill-fated Russian campaign, Elisa informs the French Minister of War of..... More
A manuscript document signed by Louis Philippe to the French Ambassador to Russia, Prosper de Barante
Louis Philippe instructs the Ambassador to Russia to attend the opening of the new session of Parliament in Paris after the fall of the second Thiers administration. The document is countersigned by the Garde des Sceaux, Alexandre-François Vivien. Offered with a small pen-and-ink botanical drawing (200 × 125 mm) by..... More
A portrait photograph signed by Marshal Pétain ('Mal Pétain')
In 1934, during a period of political unrest, Pétain reluctantly allowed himself to be appointed minister of war, becoming secretary of state in 1935, petitioning the government for more funding for the army, and to increase the period of compulsory conscription from two to three years. After the Nazi invasion..... More
An autograph letter signed ('M. van Buren') to 'My dear Gow'
'I intended to stay here only one week & to be able to spend the next with yourself & my excellent friends the Martins. As it is, I shall only be able to come to you' for a shorter period of time ... Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones..... More
A document signed 'Napoléon', confirming the appointment of a Lutheran pastor
The decree confirms the appointment of Georges Frédéric Fallot as Lutheran pastor in the parish of Dampierre-les-Bois near Audincourt, Doubs. It is countersigned by Hippolyte Fortoul, Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des Cultes. The decree was apparently cancelled soon after it was issued; it is crossed out, with the word..... More
A large-format vintage photograph, inscribed and signed on the mount ('Best wishes, Thomas Beecham')
Beecham toured Australia in 1940, and this portrait was presumably produced and signed then. Sir Thomas Beecham, the son of a wealthy industrialist, 'made his debut in 1905. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra and in 1910 initiated a series of opera seasons at Covent Garden. The following..... More