[No publication details given, but we suggest Frith, Reigate, 1860s]. There is no duplication of images in these volumes. Gernsheim (Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 1839-1875), records books published between 1864 and 1867 under the same generic title, containing half- and full-plate photographs, but he makes no mention of this..... More

Paris, Librarie Militaire J. Dumaine ... et chez l'Inventeur, 1862. Auguste Chevallier's ingenious photographic plane-table produced a disc-shaped horizontal panorama by means of a rotating lens. Comparing images taken at different vantage points allowed the surveyor accurately to calculate distances and heights as with a regular plane table, but with..... More

Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Almost half the book (58 pages) is given over to verse by Stephenson, who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. With a contemporary inscription (in Charles Todd's hand?) to 'Lizzie Todd 4th Decr 1865' in ink on an early blank; the..... More

Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. With the contemporary ownership details of 'Revd Henry Pollitt, Woodville, 4th Decr 1865' on the flyleaf. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs (see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' [Sydney, 1988]), where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text..... More

London, Arthur Miall, 1868. 'The characteristic excellencies of Raphael's Bible, being those of composition and expression, can be conveyed through the medium of engraving. Early impressions of plates, printed at Rome in 1674, have therefore been secured.... The Photographs may be fairly left to speak for themselves'. The publisher's advertisements..... More

London, Lockwood, 1870 [third edition, carefully revised and considerably enlarged]/ [1857]. All of the plates in the second volume relate to specific bridges: one double-page plate gives details of the 'Bridge over Salt Water River, Melbourne and Williams Town Railway, Victoria' (and one of the diagrams in the first volume..... More

London, Peacock, Mansfield and Britton, 1870 (extra-illustrated edition, using the sheets of the 131st edition published by James Parker and Co., Oxford). A deluxe edition of Keble's influential collection of poems, extra-illustrated with 13 original photographs of important religious paintings. This copy comes from the collection of South Australian pastoralist..... More

[Reigate, Frith & Co., circa 1873]. Offered together with a rare example of Frith's Cosmoscope, the patented viewer for which these large-format mounted prints were designed. 'It gives the user an impression of depth when viewing images ... due to the combined use of a wide optics and a curved..... More

Adelaide, J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. The frontispiece, a Townsend Duryea photograph, is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 (not identifying the photographer, and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite..... More

London, HMSO, 1879. British Parliamentary Paper C2452 of Volume 29 of Session 1878-79. The bulk of the supplement is the 'Report by Dr. Ballard on the Effluvium Nuisances arising in connexion with various manufacturing and other branches of industry. Part III' (280 pages). This report deals primarily with industries in..... More

Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer, 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. With the armorial bookplates of James Angas Johnson and Charles Glover on the pastedown; the white ink on the spine is a legacy of Glover's ownership. The last part of the book, 'A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846' (23..... More

London, Bickers, 1880. The 12 mounted Woodburytype illustrations (of significant religious events) are approximately 60 x 77 mm each. More

Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer [for the Author], 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. The particulars of the photographs match those given in Holden (where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against listed is explained). The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals..... More

Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. With the pictorial bookplate of J. Cluny Harkness (Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s, according to Trove). Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative, although the photographs may..... More

[Melbourne, No Publisher Identified, circa 1880]. One of the panoramic views is 'The Melbourne International Exhibition' building (known as the Royal Exhibition Building today); the inaugural event was held there from October 1880 to April 1881. More

London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882. Loosely inserted is an albumen paper photograph (170 x 110 mm) mounted on card (300 x 230 mm, with the rubber-stamp credit of the photographers T. and R. Annan of Glasgow) of the memorial tablet in Glasgow Cathedral to Major Alexander Dunlop..... More

Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision'), 1885. The lithographs are a frontispiece view after Skipper and fifteen full-page portraits; the photograph is of Loyau, facing right) (98x58mm, by George and Walton). Yet another variant (we have identified at least half a dozen); Holden..... More

Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ("Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision"), 1885. The lithographs are a delightful frontispiece view of Glenelg in 1837 after John Michael Skipper, 14 full-page portraits, and a plate containing the portraits of Cotton, Watsford and Waterhouse. The photograph is a head-and-shoulders portrait of..... More

London, Sampson Low ... 1886. More

Canterbury, Gibbs, 1889. More

1890s (a European scene, printed later). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More

Circa 1895 (a European scene, printed later). Signed on the lower right of the image. Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 57. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More

Adelaide, McGann [Photographer], 1899. Provenance: Archibald Henry Peake (1859-1920), Premier of South Australia on three occasions (1909-1910, 1912-1915 and 1917-1920; he died in office on 6 April 1920). The details 'Mr Peake / Parl' are written in ink on the verso. The main group in the photograph comprises, from left..... More

[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More

[Circa 1900s]. Signed and titled in pencil on the original mount. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More