Adelaide, Government Printer, 1856. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 165 of 1856. The Bill establishes and recognises the patentee as the original and true inventor ("the invention consists of so constructing a railway as to take advantage of the tensile property of the iron..."). More

Scranton, The Company, 1886. More

[Boston], Boston and Albany Railroad, 1894 ('6-5-'94'). Dinner was one dollar, and one could dine handsomely on Mackerel, Ribs of Beef or Spring Lamb, Fried Soft Shell Crabs, and all the trimmings. However, this pales beside the choices available on the wine list, commencing with seven varieties of Champagne ....... More

Adelaide, Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League, 1909. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The..... More

Sheffield, The Company, [circa 1910]. 'With the adoption of electricity as the motive power on street tramways, there came sweeping changes in the designs of points and crossings.... The following pages contain full particulars of Hadfield's Latest and Most Improved Designs of Points and Crossings, and they have been supplemented..... More

London, John Murray, 1912. Provenance: Arnold Edwin Davey (1862-1920), South Australian flour-miller and grain merchant (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Tipped in on the endpapers and a few pages throughout the book are seven relevant cuttings or tearsheets (including a review of the book), the large folded seating plan..... More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1914. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 31 of 1914; only 950 copies printed. The Commissioners reported on 'the Routes (and classes) of necessary Railways ... The desirableness and practicability of creating new Ports [and] The desirableness of setting apart an area for the eventual creation of a New..... More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1915. More

Sydney, New Century Press Ltd, [early 1920s]. An attractive sales brochure for this American automobile, printed in Australia for the 'Agents Throughout the Commonwealth'. 'The success of the Chandler Motor Car Co. encouraged Frederick C. Chandler (1874-1945) to organize the Cleveland Automobile Co. to produce a lower-priced automobile. Founded in..... More

London, Cambridge University Press, 1926 [first edition]. With the ownership signature of Professor W[ilfred] D. Borrie, 'the father of Australian demography'. Not least, the impact of the Railway Revolution on England in the early nineteenth century. Includes 2 folding maps; rare with the dustwrapper. More

Adelaide, Printed by Pritchard Brothers, c.1928]. Loosely inserted is an original pencil caricature by Maegraith (dated 1950); on the verso are twelve autographs of WA cricketers (plus the manager, Bryant) dated November 1949. A fund-raiser for charity. More

London, Iliffe and Sons, [early 1930s]. More

Melbourne, Motor Spares Limited, June 1939 (second edition). The first edition, with half the number of pages, was published in December 1931. More

Adelaide, South Australian Railways, 1950. 'A souvenir to commemorate the official opening by His Excellency, the Governor of South Australia, Lieut.-General Sir Willoughby Norrie' at Naracoorte on 1 February 1950. More

New York, Automobile Quarterly, 1962 to 1981. Offered with three index volumes covering Volumes 1-12. [75 items]. More

[Rhodes, NSW], Tulloch Limited, 1965. Loosely inserted is the inscribed table card for the dinner of one Miss D. Pyatt. Dorothy Pyatt OAM (1918-2019) was a pioneer of the South Australian police force and one of the state's early female police officers. In 1951, she became the first woman police..... More

London, Frank Cass, 1966 [third edition]/ 1962 [second edition]/ 1916. With a new introductory guide by W.H. Chaloner; this third edition also contains 'An Introductory Guide to recent published work on the History of British Transport to 1850'. The author covers sections on roads, rivers, canals, railways, steam navigation and..... More

[Melbourne], Maunsell & Partners, circa.1967]. Primarily a self-promotional record of 'principal projects either in hand' or recently completed by G. Maunsell & Partners, and its allied Australian firm, Maunsell & Partners (established in 1965, from a branch office set up in Melbourne in 1957). 'Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s..... More

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1967. More

Omaha, Kratville, 1969. More

Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1972/ 1964. More

New York, Motor Boating & Sailing Books, 1972. By 'one of America's most practical and imaginative boat designers'. More

Oxford, Oxford Illustrated Press, [Possibly 1973, facsimile/ 1861, second edition]. Two volumes bound as one; the second volume is the Official Illustrated Guide to the Bristol and Exeter, North and South Devon, Cornwall and South Wales Railways. Number 324 of 1000 copies. More

North Plympton, Nesfield Press, 1973. This first edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and out of series. More

London, David and Charles, 1974. More