London, HMSO, 1848; 1849; and 1850. The first two annual reports by the Commissioners of Railways, who had assumed the responsibilities of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. The reports on accidents (including evidence from Brunel) run to over 130 pages, and are worth the price on their..... More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1875. A large folding lithographed map (730 x 475 mm); two short tears to the left-hand edge expertly repaired; in excellent condition. The most northerly extent of the surveyed route is in line with Mt Lyndhurst. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 16 of 1875. More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1890. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 204 of 1890; only 650 copies printed. More

Adelaide, printed by Hussey and Gillingham for the South Australian Government, 1902. The full title of the two-part map is 'Geological Map of the Northern Territory of South Australia ... by H.Y.L. Brown FGS, Government Geologist. Physical Geography, compiled by C. Winnecke FRGS, from private and official records. Adelaide, 1898'..... More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1910. More

Angaston, 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide), 1911. A very rare item of local history: we have handled only two other copies since 1976, and both were in worse condition than this one. The content is far more substantial than its title suggests; there are thirteen pages..... More

Perth, Government Printer, 1913. More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1915. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1916. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 321 of 1914-15-16: only 755 copies printed. A series of spurious charges brought by a disgruntled employee, with detailed rebuttals; the Royal Commissioner was J.G. Eagleson. 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

Adelaide, Harrison Weir, Government Printer, 1929. More

Melbourne, The Victorian Railways Advertising Division, [1937]. An attractive tourist guide for Victoria, with details of hundreds of establishments all over the state. The cover illustration is by 'Norris'. More

Manchester, The Scientific Publishing Company, [1945; nineteenth edition]. More

[Australia], Ford Motor Company, [c. 1951]. 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

West Footscray, James Flood Charity Trust, 1968, [1971], 1976 and 1980. Each volume, 'produced regardless of cost', is numbered; the first three volumes are in editions of 4000 copies; the fourth volume is one of 3500. The second volume is dated (18 August 1971) and signed by Harold Paynting and..... More

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

Norwich, Goose, 1973. 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

Tokyo, Koyusha, [1974]. All the plates are from photographs taken by the author from the late sixties to 1972. The text is in both Japanese and English. More