Militaria

  • The Anzac book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the men of Anzac (first impression, first issue)

    # 45822

    A.N.Z.A.C.

    The Anzac book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the men of Anzac (first impression, first issue)

    London : Cassell and Company, 1916. First impression, with the 2’6 price on upper wrapper. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn and frayed, a couple of short splits to foot of spine), pp. xvi; 170, scattered foxing, colour plates and other illustrations, general wear. First impression, the poem ‘Trojan War’ maintaining its misattributed …

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  • Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.

    # 39882

    NYE, Gideon (1812-1888)

    Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace : a lecture delivered before the Canton community on the evening of April 14th 1873.

    Also titled: Peking the goal, the sole hope of peace. Comprising an inquiry into the origin of the pretension of universal supremacy by China and into the causes of the first war: with incidents of the imprisonment of the foreign community and of the first campaign of Canton. 1841. Canton : s.n., 1873. Small quarto, original …

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  • Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    # 45575

    JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)

    Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘With love and best wishes, Gladys Jackson. Hong Kong, Feb. 1929’. pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number of poems relating to the Great …

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  • [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Barrow Creek (Sheet F6)

    # 45483

    RAAF

    [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Barrow Creek (Sheet F6)

    [Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1944. “Reprinted August 1944, with minor amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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  • [QUEENSLAND] Australian aeronautical map: Cloncurry (Sheet F7)

    # 45481

    RAAF

    [QUEENSLAND] Australian aeronautical map: Cloncurry (Sheet F7)

    [Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted July 1945, with minor adjustments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, a few minor stains in lower section, otherwise very good.

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  • [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Darwin (Sheet D6)

    # 45482

    RAAF

    [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Darwin (Sheet D6)

    [Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted June 1945, with major amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; one flight path marked in red pencil; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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  • [NEW SOUTH WALES] Australian aeronautical map: Bourke (Sheet H8)

    # 45484

    RAAF

    [NEW SOUTH WALES] Australian aeronautical map: Bourke (Sheet H8)

    [Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted June 1945, with minor amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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  • [CASED POCKET ATLAS; REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. [Almanach géographique ou petit atlas élémentaire ...]

    # 42554

    [DESNOS, Louis-Charles]

    [CASED POCKET ATLAS; REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. [Almanach géographique ou petit atlas élémentaire …]

    [Paris : Desnos, circa 1771]. Thirty-two copperplate engraved maps, each measuring 95 x 95 mm (image) and 115 x 115 mm (sheet), numbering in the upper right corner of each map; laid on linen, overall measurements 470 x 940 mm; inscribed verso Presented by the Marquis St. Simon to A. Gordon, with the initials M. G. (another …

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  • Songs of a campaign

    # 45349

    GELLERT, Leon

    Songs of a campaign

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson 1917. Third, enlarged edition. Octavo, decorated cloth, dustjacket illustrated by Norman Lindsay (small chips, loss to head of spine), with a portion of the rare second dustjacket (lower panel and inner flap) containing reviews of the book), illustrated endpapers, pp. 124, illustrated by Norman Lindsay. First edition to be illustrated …

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  • Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts

    # 44206

    HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich

    Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts

    [San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …

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  • War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan. Poems by Jack Lindsay

    # 44748

    COUNIHAN, Noel, and LINDSAY, Jack.

    War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan. Poems by Jack Lindsay

    Preface by Robert Smith. Melbourne: Gryphon Books, n.d. [1978]. Large oblong quarto, quarter maroon morocco with gilt-lettered boards in matching slipcase, numerous colour plates reproducing Counihan linocuts, additional suite of the plates in black and white contained in a stiff paper maroon folder. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Counihan Lindsay. Fine copy. When …

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  • Australia at war : a winter record

    # 44712

    DYSON, Will (1880-1938)

    Australia at war : a winter record

    / made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres during the campaigns of 1916 and 1917 ; with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London : Cecil Palmer and Hayward, 1918. First edition. Folio, original stiff pictorial wrappers, 52 pp, [21] leaves of monochrome plates, clean and sound, a fine copy.

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  • [GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

    # 44287

    SAVAGE, Albert William

    [GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

    Group of 13 (thirteen) gelatin silver print photographs in uniform 110 x 150 mm format, versos all with a blue wet stamp ‘Photographed by A. W. Savage, No. 3 Australian General Hospital (Not to be used for Publication)’, and with a fully contemporary handwritten caption (often with a date) in violet ink; the group comprises …

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  • [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.

    # 43944

    WOOD, J. E.

    [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.

    Manuscript in ink, [3] pp. quarto (245 x 195 mm); headed ‘Lagrange, Lucas Co., Iowa, June 12th 1865’, the letter is addressed ‘Dear Miller’ and is signed at the foot ‘Your friend, J. E. Wood’; accompanied by the original postal envelope, addressed to ‘L. D. Miller Esq., Newton Falls, Trumbull Co., Ohio’, with pen-cancelled 3¢ …

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  • Victorian Volunteer Artillery at the Dandenong Encampment, April 1882.

    # 44035

    LINDT, John William (1845-1926)

    Victorian Volunteer Artillery at the Dandenong Encampment, April 1882.

    Two albumen print photographs in identical Paris Panel format, 170 x 245 mm, the rectos and versos of the matching gilt-edged mounts with the gilt imprint of J. W. Lindt, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne; both rectos with faint contemporary inscription at left of lower margin: ‘Dandenong Encampment’, one with the additional caption ‘Gun Drill’; …

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  • History of Europe

    # 43965

    ALISON, Sir Archibald

    History of Europe

    from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCC.XV. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1853 – 1855. Ninth edition. Twelve volumes octavo (lacking the oblong quarto atlas), bound in uniform half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title …

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