Highlights of our latest catalogue include an issue of Peninsula Press, the broadsheet issued in the field during the Gallipoli campaign; the 1971 deluxe edition of The Wind in the Willows, the first to contain the illustrations in colour, limited to only 250 copies signed by Ernest Shepard; an early twentieth-century designer binding by Margaret Chapman, one of the first professional craft bookbinders in Australia; a substantial collection of Jindyworobak publications; and Nova Architectura Militaris (1683), a very rare well-illustrated work on military architecture and fortifications.
And to celebrate the Captain Cook sestercentennial, we have two genuine rarities, one at $250, the other at $50,000.
First in, best dressed!
Melbourne, Thomas C. Lothian, 1907 and 1908. A rare Australian poetry magazine, with each number limited to 500 numbered copies. The first one is out of series; the other three, with individual titles ('The Book of the Opal'; 'The Shadow on the Hill'; and 'Fire o' the Flame') are numbers..... More
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London, Punch, 1841 to 1853. Attention all 'Flashman' fans! George Macdonald Fraser (1925-2008) 'rightly prided himself on his command of 19th-century trivia and slang, often drawn from contemporary issues of "Punch"' (from his obituary in 'The Telegraph', 3 January 2008). The first Flashman book is set between 1839 and 1842..... More
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[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
Irish-born Tate Adams (1922-2018) 'began painting and printmaking in 1949 at which time he studied for six months at the Central School of Art and Crafts, London. He arrived in Melbourne in 1951 and studied book illustration and design at Melbourne Technical College (now Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). He..... More
Wellington, Government Printer, 1884. 'With a view to encouraging the more extensive culture of Citrus fruits in the northern portion of New Zealand, and of aiding planters with reliable information on the subject, the author of this book was empowered by the New Zealand Government to visit New South Wales..... More
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986. More
Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008 (fifth impression)/ 1988. A facsimile of the 1906 catalogue, with a lengthy and informative introduction, make this the standard reference work. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1918. This volume also contains numerous other papers, some of them lengthy, some of them well-illustrated, on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi (with 4 colour plates), Australian orchids, the geology of Ardrossan, and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. More
Canberra, British and Foreign Bible Society in Australia, 1968. 'Adzera is a member of the Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, and there were 30,000 speakers according to the 2000 census. The language is also known as Atzera, Azera..... More
London, Grant Richards, 1897. The following is printed on the verso of the half-title, facing the title page: 'Of this book there is a very limited edition printed on Japanese vellum numbered and signed by the Author'. This copy is not numbered or signed, nor is it printed on Japanese..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1920. This issue contains numerous other papers, unrelated but of considerable interest, including some by eminent scientists such as Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson ('Observations on the Physiology of the Fly's Intestine', 13 pages), and Professor Frederic Wood Jones ('The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials', 13 pages..... More
'After the war and during the 1920s, the Salvation Army directed migrants to Australia. By this stage its efforts were directed to assisting families and settling farm boys, especially in Queensland. The Army worked closely with the Royal Colonial Institute and the Oversea Settlement Department within the Dominions Office. In..... More
London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1834. John Simpson first published 'A Complete System of Cookery' in 1806; the fourth edition appeared in 1822. For all intents and purposes, Brand ('of the kitchen of His Late Majesty George the Fourth') has produced a different book. More
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Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1916. Most of the 62-page article comprises the 'Journal of Aurorae observed at Cape Royds, Ross Island ... during 1908' (specifically, from 26 March to 2 October). The first paragraph of the author's preface is worth quoting in full: 'The following notes were prepared..... More
London, William Heinemann, 4 November 1910 ('Popular Edition', first thus)/ 4 November 1909. Rosove 305.D1 (the first William Heinemann impression, with a 'Preface to the Second Edition' by the author, dated September 1910). More
Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1907 and 1909. This reprint edition was limited to 1000 sets. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1898. Keartland's field notes make this far more interesting than the 'List of Birds' title suggests. For example, he concludes his account of the Nankeen kestrel thus: 'I took four eggs from a tree near our camp, and was surprised to find the nest lined with pellets of..... More
'The Nations Sign The Pact That "Closes The Gates Of War". A happy photograph, taken in the garden of the Premier's [sic] house in Downing Street after the Treaty of Locarno was signed....'. 'The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5-16 October 1925 and formally signed..... More
London, Cassell, 1961 (first and only edition). The fifth and final volume of Churchill's post-war speeches, and the last of his books published in his lifetime. More
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1958. Provenance: the Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Thomas Thornton Reed, , with his armorial bookplate and ownership signature ('Thomas Adelaide'). A charming thank-you card (probably for a birthday card and poem sent by Reed) written and signed by the author, in the original envelope, is laid..... More
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, August 1943 [second impression]/ September 1942. The autobiography of an Australian First World War flying ace attached to Number 4 Australian Flying Corps; he was awarded the DSO and the DFC with two Bars. During the Second World War, he was awarded the George Medal for..... More
Adelaide, Lynton, [early 1970s facsimile edition]/ 1925 and 1927. The 56-page cross-referenced index by Dorothy Aldersey, new to this facsimile reprint, is indispensible. Sets of the original edition are impossibly scarce in our experience. [2 items]. More
Torquay, Bearnes and Waycotts, 1971. The small sale comprised 17 lots, 13 of which were originally purchased in 1806 from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever. In 1781, 'he acquired the bulk of the collection which was brought back from Captain Cook's third voyage'. Upwards of eight of the lots..... More
Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1828. One of the Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints series; the introduction by David K. Wyatt is new to this edition. More
Although produced in the mid-1990s, this photograph was hand-printed from the original 1930s negative. The sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph (178 × 126 mm) is personally signed in ink on the image by Sir Donald Bradman (1908-2001). More
