Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1876. The leather title label contains some interesting details: 'The New District Atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory. Published by E.S. Wigg and Son, Adelaide, for the Proprietors, F.E. Hiscocks and Co.'. All but one of the very attractive maps carry the imprint of..... More

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. The author was 'formerly attached to the North Australian Expedition, and subsequently to that of Dr Livingston on the Zambesi'. More

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954 [first English edition]. 'Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book-paper catches fire.... This terrifying fable, Ray Bradbury's first long story, is fired by the same poetical imagination as his short stories; and his implied indictment of certain aspects of today's man-made world, projected into the..... More

London, [Her Majesty's Stationery Office], September 1854. This is a half-scale reduction, printed on two sheets, of a larger map in ten sheets adapted and translated by Major Jervis from a Russian military map of the Crimean Peninsula; it includes an inset map of Sevastopol harbour (printed surface approximately 145..... More

Sydney, Palmtree Press, June 1928. Number 100 of 125 copies numbered and signed by Adrian Feint and published under his private imprint; the typography is by Percy Green. 'The Plates in the Book were printed direct from the Original Woodcut Blocks on Jap Hand-wove or Van Gelder Papers. The Title..... More

Sydney, William Brooks and Company, [1907]. The early ownership details of Joseph A. Hill, 'Correa', Wakeham St, Stawell are on an early blank. On the pastedown is the wattle-blossom bookplate of horticulturalist, naturalist and author Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954); his ownership details are written at the head of the preface..... More

London, Lockwood, 1870 [third edition, carefully revised and considerably enlarged]/ [1857]. All of the plates in the second volume relate to specific bridges: one double-page plate gives details of the 'Bridge over Salt Water River, Melbourne and Williams Town Railway, Victoria' (and one of the diagrams in the first volume..... More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969 [first edition]. The last book published during the author's lifetime. More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1938 (Volumes 3 and 7) and 1939. A uniformly bound collected reprint edition of the author's standard works to that time. Each volume is inscribed to the original (named) recipient, dated (1939, with December in one volume) and signed in ink by the author. The inscriptions..... More

Frankfurt, Becker [the printer], 1610 and 1610 [both first editions]. The first editions of much-reprinted works on the rights and duties of women. The first volume addresses virginity, the second adultery, and the contents are drawn in the main from classical and theological writings (with each volume containing an index..... More