Map of Queensland showing Pastoral Stations &c
Canberra, H.E.C. Robinson Ltd, sixth edition [1940s]. More
Our latest list features an impressive portrait of a young Aboriginal woman, Clara, photographed by Charles Scott at Allendale Station, near Oodnadatta, in 1903-04. There are another dozen or more photographic items (including cartes-de-visite, stereophotographs, albums and photographically-illustrated books), many of them genuine rarities. From antiquarian travel, and Australian unit histories and military ephemera, to signed modern literature and a broad miscellany in between ... enough already, it's over to you now!
Canberra, H.E.C. Robinson Ltd, sixth edition [1940s]. More
Canberra, H.E.C. Robinson Ltd, fourth edition [1933]. More
London, 1860. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his surname signature on the pastedown. The verso of the title page is inscribed 'To Mr and Mrs T.C. Vidler, with the Affectionate regards of the Author' (August 1860). Taped to the inner margin of the first..... More
London, William Tweedie, [1872]. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his surname signature in pencil on the title page. In his Bonwick bibliography, published in 1939, Pescott records this item as number 50 ('Little Joe. London, 1862') and marks it as unseen. Clearly he found..... More
Printed in gilt in the centre of the large handkerchief is 'AUSTRALIA v AMERICA / at the ORMONDE CLUB, / 1890 / FRANK P. SLAVIN, / Champion of Australia, / in his Great BATTLE with / JOE M'AULIFFE, / for £1,000 and / THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD'. In the..... More
Paris, Durand, 1756. 'This is an extremely important and thorough collection of voyages, and one of the outstanding works relating to the early history of Australasia. It contains an account of all voyages, beginning with the second expedition of Vespucci in 1502 and ending in 1747, in which navigators touched..... More
Sydney, printed by Arthur McQuitty and Co. [for the ANZ Wireless Signal Squadron History Committee], 1927. The 'histories of the 1st Australian Pack Wireless Signal Troop, the NZ Wireless Signal Troop, the 1st Australian and New Zealand Wireless Signal Squadron, the 1st Cavalry Divisional Signal Squadron, the Light Motor Wireless..... More
Melbourne (Volume 1) and Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1938 (second edition)/ 1930, 1940 and 1943. The medical companion to the twelve-volume 'Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918'; all volumes are scarce (and the third volume must be deemed rare). Arthur Graham Butler (1872-1949) 'was appointed regimental medical officer..... More
Perth, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1903. Phosphate ore in South Australia was discovered at Clinton on Yorke Peninsula in 1899; the map is dated 22 February 1902. This copy is signed in pencil on the contents page 'Robt Sticht, Adelaide SA, 15VII09' (Robert Carl Sticht, 1856-1922, metallurgist and mining engineer, a dominant..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1990 (second impression)/ 1990. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Douglas, Isle of Man, Oak Tree Press, 2006 (first thus). The second volume in the Oak Tree Press First Chapter Series (first chapters from Booker Prize-winning novels; the series is 'dedicated to children living with HIV/AIDS'). The total edition comprised 350 copies: 300 in the standard edition, numbered 36 to..... More
Austin, Intermezzo Press, 2002. The text is the postscript to the author's novel, 'Elizabeth Costello', published in 2003. The title page is signed by the author. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1925 (first edition, first impression, India paper edition). The standard edition of this work is in two volumes; this is one of only 100 copies on India paper of the first impression of the first edition. The eight-page 'Corrigenda and Addenda' booklet published in August 1936..... More
London, 1923. With the ownership stamp of C.W.M. Swithinbank on the flyleaf and on both exposed outer panels of each folding map. Charles Swithinbank (1926-2014) 'was a glaciologist and polar specialist whose experience of the Arctic and Antarctic was unsurpassed in its variety. Having started his remarkable career as a...... More
Parisiis [Paris], apud Simonem Colinaeum [Simon de Colines], 1545. 'This magnificent folio volume is one of the finest of all anatomical treatises. Certainly it was the finest printed in France in its century, and the sixty-two full-page woodcuts, artistically presenting the anatomical subjects in special poses before unusual background settings..... More
London, John Murray, 1825. An important compilation of material collected during Field's residence in New South Wales from 1817 to 1824, after his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court. Significantly, it includes the only published account of Oxley's 1823 expedition to survey the Queensland coast, when he 'discovered..... More
Friend's erotic masterpiece was published in Melbourne in 1979 by Richard Griffin's Gryphon Press - a full-colour facsimile of the richly illustrated holograph manuscript (elephant folio, [iv], 126 pages). The edition was limited to only 150 copies numbered and signed by Donald Friend; it was oversubscribed on publication. This large-format..... More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced], 1880. Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative, although the photographs may vary slightly between copies. The photograph facing page 17 in this copy is of the 'Gawler Institute' (showing the Institute building and..... More
London, 1689. The first edition in English of the collected works of Johann Glauber (1604-1670), 'the best practical chemist of his day and the first industrial chemist' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). The lengthy title accurately foreshadows the veritable cornucopia within; not least, Glauber was an active promoter and innovator in..... More
An original hand-coloured lithograph (sheet size 355 × 540 mm); in fine condition. More
An original hand-coloured lithograph (matted, framed and glazed; visible surface 330 × 450 mm); in fine condition. More
[Devon], Morrigu Press, 1981. Each broadside, handset and printed by the publisher, Nicholas Hughes (the author's son), is limited to 75 numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes. More
Approximately 315 Edwardian snapshots (120 × 95 mm) of travels in India, China and Central Asia, with some 'at home, at ease' images as well. Apart from curling at the edges, the photographs are in excellent condition. Many are captioned, some are dated (1907), and there are occasional clues to..... More
The photograph is positioned so that the finished product presents as a diamond shape; it is both unusual and effective. Both the mat and photograph are in fine condition. The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat..... More