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

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

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

London, John Stockdale, 1794 (new edition)/ 1782. The dedication referred to in the title runs to 116 pages. More

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

London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1855 and 1856. More

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

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

London, Macmillan, 1867. Other contributors include G.C. Brodrick, R.H. Hutton, Lord Houghton, John Boyd Kinnear, James Bryce and Sir George Young. More

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

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

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1894. Mounted on the front pastedown is an autograph letter signed by the Clerk of the Assembly, J.C. Morphett (one page octavo, 25 April 1911, on South Australian Parliament letterhead). 'Dear Sir, I have just heard that His Excellency is desirous of obtaining a copy..... More

London, Longmans, Green, 1896. More

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

London, Horace Marshall, 1901. With the ownership signature of Sir Edward Morgan (1900-1977), judge, and the later ownership signature of Professor Donald Simpson. More

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

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

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

London, Constable and Company, 1919. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More

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

Adelaide, Preece, 1926. More

Melbourne, National Publicity Bureau [Commonwealth of Australia], 1928. 'Reprinted from Hansard'. More

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

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

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