![Item #65591 Australian Aborigines [cover title]. Australian Aborigines - a Study in Contrasts](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png)
Adelaide, Aborigines' Friends' Association, [late 1930s?, reprinted from the AFA Report]. The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives, living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives, who have come under mission influence', and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads..... More
Tokyo, Gallery Min, 1987. Introduction by Mark Johnstone. More
[Tokyo, Fuji Shogo, early 1950s]. Text in Japanese. Not least, the innumerable illustrations, many colour illustrations, with others from Official US Navy and US Marine Corps sources. More
Adelaide, Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, September 2019. A selection of 37 items, some rare and important, others unusual or curious, but at all times interesting, and with the guaranteed provenance of Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson and his father-in-law, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, General Manager of BHP. Highlights include a seventeenth-century..... More
National Geographic, 1929. Not least, Siepen on gliding in Germany (pp 751-780). The secret rise of the Luftwaffe. More
[Taipei, Taipei Crossover Dance Company], 2010. Inscribed, dated (7 August 2011) and signed by Xiao Xio Ag Zhang to Russell Starke. With over 120 full page photographic illustrations. More
New York, Tennant and Ward, 1908. From the personal collection of the photographer John Kauffmann, with his signature in ink on the front cover. More
New York, Tennant and Ward, 1905. From the personal collection of the photographer John Kauffmann, with his signature in ink on the front cover. More
Tokyo, Gallery Min, 1987. Introduction by Ellen Manchester. More
London, Scriptum, 1997 (third printing)/ 1997. 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, The Studio, 1913. Not least, 'Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture' (with 26 illustrations, including a colour plate); 'Public Art Galleries of Australia' by William Moore; and 'Chinese Hard Carving', by L.W.C. Lorden. 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
London, The Studio, 1913. Of some architectural interest are 'Recent Designs in Domestic Archtecture' (with 9 illustrations, 1 in colour); and 'The Workmen's Colonies of the Krupp Company at Essen' by L. Deubner (with 9 illustrations). Also features E.A. Taylor's 'Isle of Arran as a Sketching-Ground' (with 10 illustrations, 3..... More
London, The Studio, 1911. More
[No Place, No Publisher, 1990s facsimile]/ 1919. Chiefly some 50 pages (rectos only) of small portraits. More
[No Place, No Publisher, late 1800s]. Contemporary ownership inscription; 'Versailles, 28/29 October '73'. More
The four items in the presentation are displayed together behind glass in a heavy period-style moulded wooden frame (external dimensions 845 × 1200 mm). They are behind individual windows cut in one large mat: the display comprises a very large full-length portrait photograph of Hayes in uniform (573 × 269..... More
Alex[andria] [Egypt], Paramount Photo, [Second World War]. The name 'Bourk' is written in blue pencil on the verso - perhaps Lance Corporal H. Bourke, identified here in the third row. 'The first Ordnance Field Parks were established during the Second World War. They served with distinction in the Middle East..... More
This very small and relatively unknown unit, formed in February 1915, was diverted to Gallipoli and put under the control of the British Army. On 7 August, during the August Offensive, the Bridging Train went ashore at Suvla Bay and built a number of essential piers. The unit remained at..... More
![Item #125873 A group photograph of the 'Second Signal Squadron at Zapata [Zgharta], near Tripoli,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/125873_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1651461545)
The caption mentions '2 Wireless Limbers, 2 cable waggons & 3 G.S. Limbers as water carts'; the 10 motorcycles and two early motor vehicles are taken as read. Part of the date (January) is present: the signal squadrons were present in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1918. More
Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877 (first thus). Bound by Alfonso Dori, Florence, and extra-illustrated with nine original albumen paper photographs of religious paintings in Florentine collections. Dori specialised in fine bindings for the English tourist trade. Translated from the Latin by W. Benham, Vicar of Margate. More
Brighton, Teredo Books Ltd., 1975. With an Introduction by Alex. A. Hurst. 'The story of the years the author spent in the four-masted barque 'Silberhorn', running to Oregon and San Francisco ... together with many memories and reflections' (dustwrapper). More
Internal evidence suggests they were taken in the mid- to late-1990s by someone with a passion for South Australia's colonial architecture, from workman's cottage to squatter's castle, as well as the more commonly recorded churches and public buildings. Although this extensive gallery of our built environs is barely twenty-five years..... More
The carte de visite (an albumen paper photograph, 55 x 91 mm) was recently removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; the title above was written in pencil on the verso of the image. The number '202' is pencilled on a fence-post in the foreground; in..... More