Our current catalogue features a collection of approximately 200 books on campanology, offered as one lot. If that doesn’t ring your bell, move on to the literature and illustrated works. We have half a dozen titles from the Cuala Press by W.B. Yeats; a large-paper copy of T.S. Eliot’s Marina (1930), one of 400 signed copies; Ngaio Marsh’s Death and the Dancing Footman (1942), a fine copy with the dustwrapper; and Verve, Numbers 27 and 28 (1952), a double issue containing 29 original lithographs.
Singular or unique items include a photograph of ‘Breaker’ Morant, in a small group of troopers in Adelaide in January 1900; a copy of The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899), the seminal work on anthropology, signed by both Spencer and Gillen; and a husband-and-wife pair of 1850s South Australian daguerreotypes.
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Paris, Maeght Editeur, 1956. A superior catalogue produced for the exhibition to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this French art periodical. All original graphics are present: Chagall (a double-page colour lithograph); Miró (a double-page colour lithograph and a tinted etching); Bazaine (a tinted lithograph); and Giacometti (an etching). More
[Switzerland], Sandoz, 1963 to 1967. Series 6 was issued with 16 plates; numbers 9, 13 and 14 are no longer present. Series 8 ('The Pictorial Representation of Depression' by E. Cunningham Dax, Chairman, Mental Health Authority, Melbourne), lacks the first of its 12 plates. Apart from minor wear to the..... More
Paris, Éditions de la revue Verve, 1952. All lithographs are present: Georges Braque (2); Henri Matisse (3, including one double-page); Henri Laurens (2); Alberto Giacometti (2); Andre Masson (3, including one double-page); Fernand Leger (3, including one double-page); Joan Miro (3, including one double-page); Francisco Bores (2); Marcel Gromaire (2);..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1960. This presentation binding is rarely seen. The text is the preferred 'member's' edition containing the Honour Roll, Awards and Postings at Time of Embarkation. The version with the sub-title 'The Story of a Fighting Unit' lacks this information. Dornbusch 444; Trigellis-Smith 415. More
Adelaide, 3rd Light Horse Regiment (South Australian Mounted Rifles), 1950. Part 1, 'The Regiment prepares for War' and 'Gallipoli Campaign' (pages 1-52), was compiled by 111 Trooper Frank Mead Blackwell, who enlisted on 24 August 1914. Part 2, 'Western Egypt, Sinai, Palestine. Rewritten from the original history of the 3rd..... More
[Perth, John Burridge, 1991] (facsimile edition)/ 1916, 1917 and 1919. The three original parts are here bound as one, in this facsimile reprint limited to a mere 200 copies. Our catalogue notes for the first edition are not out of place here: 'These three volumes reproduce the brigade's typescript journals..... More
Adelaide, Government of South Australia, [circa 1965]. Number-stamped on the rear flyleaf '1182' (of an unspecified upper limit). Provenance: Dr Alan Hutchings ('Director - Town Planning, Monarto Dev. Comm.'). More
Adelaide, Adelaide City Council, 1988. A limited edition portfolio (number 52 of only 60 published), with each lithograph, 'Printed on Magnani paper, 310 gsm', signed and numbered by the respective artist. Titles are (in order of artist) 'Parklands, North Adelaide', 'Adelaide', 'Springtime in the Botanic Gardens', 'Street Stall', and Untitled..... More
The Radfords were born in Devon, emigrated to South Australia in October 1838, and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects, these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other (later) images of the Radfords are held in..... More
![Item #102688 Album of Sandhurst Views [cover title]. Bendigo](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/102688_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585872541)
Melbourne, Schutze, Steffens & Co., [late 1880s]. 'The Bendigo Advertiser' (28 November 1889) contains the following short notice: 'Photographic Views of Sandhurst. We have received an album of photographic views of Sandhurst from Messrs Schultze [sic], Steffens and Co., of Melbourne. They are the finest photographs of the city we..... More
London, The Galley Press, 1962. Sven Berlin (1911-1999), conscientious objector, soldier, artist, and poet, published his war memoir, 'I am Lazarus', in 1961. Its 'psychobiographic' sequel was published in the autumn of 1962, and 'after a few weeks and a flurry of libel actions, withdrawn. Since that time, a few..... More
Wellington, Government Printer, 1925. New Zealand Dominion Museum Bulletin Number 7. With the later ownership details of A.R. Jones (Wellington, 26 January 1959). More
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd, 1926. A posthumous publication: the author 'died on the seventeenth of September, 1926, before this book had gone through the press; but it is written exactly as he left it, save that Part IV ['Where to Fish'] has been added by Mr. Frank Cudmore, a...... More
![Item #110554 Historical Records of New South Wales [seven volumes in eight]. Volume 1, Part 1:...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/110554_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536738271)
Mona Vale, Lansdown Slattery and Company, 1978 and 1979 (facsimile edition)/ 1893 to 1901. The first volume of the facsimile edition is the 'Second impression November 1978'. 'In addition to a complete record of Lieutenant Cook's discovery of Australia, the "Historical Records of NSW" contains all the colony's official correspondence..... More
The foolscap folio ledgers are uniformly bound in half suede and cloth (with the letters A and B respectively on the spines); the covers show signs of wear, but the volumes are very sturdy, with the contents in excellent condition. The first one contains 21 pages of index and 102..... More
Sydney, 'Composed, Bound and Printed by the Artist at the Studio 38A Pitt St', 1936. Number 20 of only 25 signed copies, with the bookplates signed as well. This very rare item is not to be confused with another work with the same title, produced in the same year by..... More
Two of these images (heavily cropped to show only the horse) were reproduced in 'The Observer' (Adelaide, 24 June 1905). The photographer is not identified. The Suffolk is a breed of draught horse nicknamed Punch because of its stocky appearance and power (Hendricks: 'International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds', 2007). More
Hunter's Hill, David Ell Press, 1979 (facsimile editions)/ first published 1825, 1830 and 1833 respectively. Each volume is limited to 1000 copies. More
London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1937. 'An enquiry into the origins of Islamic art presented in the form of one of the most entertaining travel books of modern times' ('Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'). The account of the events and impressions of the first day should suffice to prove the..... More
The books are in excellent condition; in most instances they were purchased new. The publications are in a wide range of languages - predominantly English, but also German, French, Dutch, and Italian, with the occasional one in Danish and Russian - reflecting the traditional origins of the subject-matter, but its..... More
Adelaide, Frank E. Cork, [1944]. 'The drawings and sketches in this book are not intended to be a comprehensive record. They are selected at random from the young artist's typical back-stage impressions formed in the fascinating atmosphere of wings and back-stage'. Offered together with a large pastel drawing, captioned in..... More
Melbourne, A.H. Massina & Co., [1889]. Provenance: Trevor Nottle, with his bookplate. More
![Item #111020 The Constant Mistress [Poems]. Enid CLAY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/111020_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536734249)
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Number 126 of only 300 copies signed by Enid Clay and Eric Gill. More
Adelaide, Lynton Publications Pty Ltd, [early 1970s facsimile edition]/ 1925 and 1927. The 56-page cross-referenced index, new to this facsimile reprint, is indispensible. More
![Item #110553 The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. [Volume] 1: Inscriptions on Stone. R. G....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/110553_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536734827)
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1965. More