London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 [third edition]/ 1754. William Hay (1695-1755), author and MP, wrote this 'autobiographical polemic addressing contemporary demonizing attitudes towards disfigurement [which] has been under-recognized as a key intervention in the history of disability' (Shuttleton: Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820). Bound together with [ASGILL, J.]... More about Deformity. An Essay
London, printed by Thomas Baskett ... for J. Nourse, 1757. More about The British Customs, containing an Historical and Practical Account of Each Branch of that...
London, The Author, 1766 ['second edition, corrected and enlarged'; the first two tracts were first published in 1758 and 1759 respectively]. Important early works on the corn trade, which earned the praise of Adam Smith in his 'Wealth of Nations'. More about Three Tracts on the Corn-Trade and Corn-Laws .. 1. A Short Essay on the Corn-Trade and the...
Edinburgh, [The Author], 1786. More about A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland or, a Complete Register of the...
London, J. Debrett, 1789. Dalrymple (1726-1810), fourth baronet of Cranstoun, was one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland. He was a prolific author of history and current affairs, and he 'occupied his leisure with various experiments of a useful kind. He discovered the art of making soap from... More about Queries concerning the Conduct which England should follow in Foreign Politics in the Present...
London, John Stockdale, 1794 [new edition]/ 1782. The dedication referred to in the title runs to 116 pages. More about An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain during the Present and Four Preceding...
London, John Stockdale, 1794 (new edition)/ 1782. The dedication referred to in the title runs to 116 pages. More about An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain during the Present and Four Preceding...
London, John Cumming, 1800. An early ownership inscription on the first page (Wm. Fenton, Spring-Grove) has been slightly trimmed. More about Selections from the Correspondence of General Washington and James Anderson .. in which the...
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803, 1803 and 1804 [revised third edition]/ 1784. Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835), first president of the Board of Agriculture and voluminous writer. This work was 'a standard treatise, which was long one of the chief authorities on the subject' (DNB). More about The History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire. Containing an Account of the Public...
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, Printer, 'Register' Office [for The Author, 1857]. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of this 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857... More about Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga
Adelaide, printed at the 'Times' and 'Dispatch' Office (first volume) and The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices (second and third volumes), [1858 and 1859]. On the flyleaf of the third volume is the contemporary ink signature of Francis Dutton, (1818-1877), at various times MLC, MHA, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration... More about Epitome of the Debates in the Houses of Legislature, during the First Session of the First...
Sydney, Mason, 1859. With the Bounty bookplate of Dr George Mackaness on the pastedown. 'In 1931 he published The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, for which he was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Melbourne in 1932' (ADB). More about A Discourse delivered in the Scots Church, in the Evening of Sabbath, the 3rd of April, 1859, on...
Adelaide, [The Author, 1860s]. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of Waxend's 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857; apart from the change of place-name... More about Address to the Electors of the Sturt
Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1865. Not least, fish and fishing. 'The alimentary virtues of Horse-Flesh and Fungi are discussed with a half-earnest levity ... but with the sea as our fish-pond, and pisciculture capable of endless developement alike in salt-water and fish, it is marvellous that multitudes should be pining with hunger... More about Contributions to Natural History, chiefly in Relation to the Food of the People. By a Rural D.D
London, Lockwood, 1865. The photographs are an oval portrait of Cobden (by J. Eastham, 77 x 55 mm), and three views (each 67 x 90 mm) by S. Ayling: a streetscape of Midhurst (Sussex), Dunford House, and West Lavington Church. More about Richard Cobden, the Apostle of Free Trade. His Political Career and Public Services. A Biography
London, Macmillan, 1867. Other contributors include G.C. Brodrick, R.H. Hutton, Lord Houghton, John Boyd Kinnear, James Bryce and Sir George Young. More about On the Working of Australian Institutions. [Contained in] Essays on Reform
Adelaide, Rigby, 1886. Offered together with a copy of BOOTH, Jenny and Keith BORROW: B.T. Finniss, First Premier of South Australia (octavo, 60 pages with 4 plates plus 7 colour plates; published by the authors in October 2001). This copy is signed by Keith (Travers) Borrow, the great-grandson of Boyle... More about The Constitutional History of South Australia during Twenty-one years from the Foundation of the...
Adelaide, Rigby, 1886. With the large early ownership signature (surname only) of the well-known South Australian pioneer Sir Simpson Newland on the flyleaf (along with details of a later owner). More about The Constitutional History of South Australia during twenty-one years from .. 1836
Adelaide, Rigby, 1886. The author was 'late Colonial Secretary of the Province, and First Chief Secretary under Responsible Government'. Ferguson 9610. More about The Constitutional History of South Australia during Twenty-one Years from the Foundation of the...
Adelaide, Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher, A. Timmann, at the 'Pioneer' Office, 1890 and 1891. The recto of the large folding supplement to Number 10 contains the text, with three line illustrations, of an article that 'appeared originally in the "SA Register" in six short letters': 'Protection or Freedom... More about 'The Pioneer'. Land and Labor Library of Australasia. Volume 1, Number 1, November 1890 to Volume...
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Printed at the head of the first page is the following: '21/6/91. Draft of a Bill as adopted by the National Australasian Convention, 9th April, 1891. Henry Parkes, President. F.W. Webb, Secretary'. This copy has the printed paper name-label 'Sir J.W. Downer' on the..... More about Draft of a Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia
London, Longmans, Green, 1896. More about Democracy and Liberty
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897. Printed at the head of the first page is the following: 'Copy of Federal Constitution under the Crown, framed and approved by the Australasian Federal Convention, at Adelaide, South Australia, 22nd March to 23rd April, 1897. E.G. Blackmore, Clerk. C.C. Kingston, President'. The signature..... More about Draft of a Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia
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New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1897 (first edition, first thousand). With the ownership signature of Edward William Hawker (1850-1940), South Australian barrister, grazier, politician and metallurgist. Hawker was 'the first president of the South Australian branch of the Australian Natives' Association in 1888; a member of the Public Library... More about A Description of Minerals of Commercial Value. A Practical Reference-book for the Miner,...
London, Macmillan, 1899 [first edition in English]. With the ownership signature (and inscribed 'Benacre, 30 September 1915') of the South Australian explorer, pastoralist and politician John Lewis (1844-1923), father of the industrialist Essington Lewis (both men appear in Volume 10 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography). 'Menger's remarkable study of... More about The Right to the Whole Produce of Labour. The origin and development of the theory of labour's...
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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 about 'Members Independent Party. SA Parliament, 15th Session, 1899' [a vintage photograph
London, Newman, Graham & Co., [circa 1905 (first edition thus)]. Lengthy biographical sketches are accompanied by fine portraits, with many of the latter by Elliott & Fry. Other photographers noted include Messrs. Bassano, C.E. Fry & Son, Langfier Limited, Russell & Sons, Lafayette Limited, and A.C. Hoskins. The contents of..... More about Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen [in two volumes
London, Gay and Bird, 1906. Interesting family provenance; the first inscription reads; 'Eric, with my Love, September 1st, 1922, Sonia, Medindie'. The second inscription appears to be in the same hand, but at two different times: it begins at the top of the front flyleaf '(Mrs Borrow)', and continues beneath... More about Letters To My Boys. An Australian Judge and Ex-Premier on his Travels in Europe
London, Methuen, 1906. When Emperor Meiji died in 1912, Japan had gone from being an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyos, to a great power which had undergone political, social, and industrial revolution. The author travelled throughout Japan and met the influential men who... More about Makers of Japan
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, 1841-1911; barrister, pastoralist and influential South Australian politician. Baker was one of the founding fathers of Federation and the first President of the Senate in the first Commonwealth Parliament. One of the Spanish Series... More about Velazquez. An Account of his Life and Works
London, Longmans, Green, 1909. With the (University of Adelaide days) ownership signature of Sir Walter Crocker (twice in each volume), and his occasional pencilled annotations and emphases. More about The Last Years of the Protectorate, 1656-1658
Manchester, Mack & Co. [Photographers], 1913. At the time, Archibald Henry Peake (1859-1920) was the Premier of South Australia, a position he held on three occasions (1909-1910, 1912-1915 and 1917-1920). He died in office on 6 April 1920. In 1912, 'the Liberals won an eight-seat majority ... Peake again became... More about 'Arrival of the Hon. A.H. Peake, the Premier of South Australia and Party at Manchester on 7th...
Melbourne, George Robertson, [1916]. Not least, Trade Unions and Profit Sharing. More about Industrial Peace. The Way to Secure Industrial Efficiency, Unity and National Prosperity
London, Constable and Company, 1919. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More about Commerce and Industry. A Historical Review of the Economic Conditions of the British Empire from...
Melbourne, Whitcombe and Tombs, [1920]. More about Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6
Sydney, Alfred Ames Kent, Government Printer, 1924. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front pastedown 'To A. Hurley Esq. With Compliments, W. Kenneth Charlton'. More about Parliamentary Governmnent in New South Wales (A Brief Historical Sketch). 25th August, 1824, to...
Melbourne, National Publicity Bureau [Commonwealth of Australia], 1928. 'Reprinted from Hansard'. More about Migration, the Trade Balance and Unemployment. A Speech by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. S.M....
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1929. The Rede Lecture, 1929, delivered by novelist and MP John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. More about The Causal and the Casual in History
Adelaide, Commonwealth Club of Adelaide, 1929. Sir Herbert William (Bert) Gepp (1877-1954), 'mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist ... Gepp began a new career in 1926 as a public servant. Stanley Melbourne (Viscount) Bruce appointed him chairman of the Development and Migration Commission, which, like the Council... More about Speech - 'The Functions of the Development and Migration Commission' - delivered by Mr H.W. Gepp...
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1934. With the ownership signature (and place and dated 1934-5) of Sir Walter Crocker, his annotations on the rear flyleaf and his occasional marginal pencilling. Crocker spent two years at Stanford from June 1928 as a Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund. He studied demography, specialising (in... More about The Second-Generation Japanese Problem
Adelaide, Hassell Press [for the Author], 1936. Number 73 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. The original prospectus (one page octavo) is mounted on the front pastedown of this copy; the price in 1936 was one guinea. This copy is also inscribed and signed to 'Major... More about The Life and Letters of Sir John Morphett. Compiled by his Grandson
London, Hutchinson, 1936. In his thirty years in the Colonial Service, the author 'has been stationed out east in the islands of the Pacific; south in the Falklands ... and west in the islands of the Caribbean'. More about From a Colonial Governor's Note-Book
Adelaide, Hassell Press [for the Author], 1936. Number 80 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. This copy is also inscribed and signed to Frank Downer, brother of Sir John Downer (1843-1915). Sir John Morphett (1809-1892), landowner and politician: by 1835 he was one of the most... More about The Life and Letters of Sir John Morphett. Compiled by his Grandson
Manchester, University of Manchester, 1937. More about Studies in the Constitutional History of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
London, 'Daily Telegraph', 1937. The High Commissioners are: The Honourable Vincent Massey, Canada; The Right Honourable Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth of Australia; W.J. Jordan, New Zealand; C.T. Te Water, Union of South Africa; J.W. Dulanty, Irish Free State; and Sir Firoz Khan Noon, India. The Ambassadors are: Dr Paul Regis de..... More about The High Commissioners in London for the Dominions and for India and Ambassadors to the Court of...
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1937. Chapter VIII: Putting the Capitalist on the Dole. More about The Time is Now Ripe. Revolution Without Tears
