new century antiquarian books catalogue 85 winter 2015

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1 new century antiquarian books catalogue 85 winter 2015

2 Books are offered subject to prior sale at the nett prices in Australian dollars. All prices include Australian Federal Government Goods and Services Tax. Freight and insurance are extra and will be added to your invoice. Overseas customers will be invoiced in Australian dollars and are requested to remit payment in Australian dollars only. Books will be sent by airmail. Orders may be left at any time on our 24-hour answer phone (03) (International ) or by or or by mail to PO Box 325 KEW VICTORIA 3101 AUSTRALIA We accept Mastercard and Visa. Please advise card number, ccv number, expiry date, and name as it appears on your card. Payment is due on receipt of books. Customers not known to us may be sent a pro forma invoice. Any item may be returned within five days of receipt if we are notified immediately. Normal trade courtesies are observed where a reciprocal arrangement exists. Printed, typeset and bound in Australia for New Century Antiquarian Books. Copyright Jonathan Wantrup All rights reserved. No part of this publication my be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of New Century Antiquarian Books. Cover No. 25. Kalorama, a small concession to modernism. Above no. 20. Cazneaux giftbooks

3 [1] ATKINSON, Louisa. Cowanda, the Veteran s Grant. Sydney, J.R. Clarke, Octavo, 136, [10] (publisher s advertisements) + woodcut illustrated additional title by Walter Mason; a little early tanning, original plum moroccograin cloth, gilt-lettered spine mellowed as usual with plum cloth, small surface defect at the bottom of the spine, an excellent copy. $2200 Rare. Louisa Atkinson was the first Australian-born woman novelist and a most remarkable woman in many other respects. Born in 1834 near Berrima, New South Wales, Louisa Atkinson was the daughter of James Atkinson who had written the first Australian book on agriculture. Educated at home, mainly by her mother, Louisa showed an early interest in geology, botany, and zoology. She was best recognised in her own life and is best remembered now as a botanist but she was also an important pioneer of Australian women s writing. Her novel Gertrude the Emigrant was published in Sydney in 1857 and her second novel, Cowanda, the Veteran s Grant, was published in Both novels are notable for the descriptive passages drawn, no doubt, from her extensive experience riding and rambling in the bush. As one of the native born, she was among the first to write about the Australian environment unaffectedly with eyes unprejudiced by memories of Britain. These were her only two separately-published novels but she wrote other fictional works that were published serially in the Sydney Mail and the Sydney Morning Herald between 1861 and All mid-century Australian novels are now rarely seen on the market: Cowanda has been rare long before this is the Hammet copy (bought by Victor Crittenden from Peter Arnold in 1977) and the only one we have seen on the market in nearly forty years.

4 [2] BLACK, George. A History of the N.S.W. Political Labor Party from its Conception until By Gerge Black, M.L.C., One of Its Founders. [First Sixth Number]. Sydney,George A. Jones, Printer [for the author], n.d. but Six parts, octavo, bound for the author with original wrappers in gilt-lettered law buckram with red leather titling label, a fine copy. $1100 Rare: a fine presentation set of this uncommon piece, bound on the author s instructions and inscribed on a binder s blank to Dr William Maloney, M.H.R. as a token of the esteem & affection of George Black. Christmas Maloney was a staunch supporter of Black and his positive review of the present work is quoted on the front wrapper verso of all but the first part. Black s personal account commences with the establishment of the party in the 1890s, through the Federation debates and referendum (he opposed Federation), and concludes with the establishment of Labor in power, Black served with distinction in several ministries and also at the highest level within the party, lending considerable authority to his usually objective account. Originally planned for publication in twelve parts, Black appears to have decided to bring his account to a conclusion with the sixth part (i.e. concluding in about 1913). A further part was published some years later but it is almost never found with sets of the first six parts.

5 [3] COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES: ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE. Royal Military College Orders, 1911 [binder s title]. colophon: Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, N.S.W. [for the Commonwealth of Australia], Foolscap folio, Military College Orders nos 1-52 variously paginated (single leaves largely unpaginated), with 24-page index as preliminaries; bound in government binder s limp red morocco, titled in gilt on the front board, some bleeding of the red dye onto the corners of the endpapers, a very good set. $880 Rare: a cumulative binding of Military College Orders nos 1-52 without a title (and so issued), being copies received and filed by the Commonwealth Department of Home and Territories; the binding was executed circa 1912 and the individual orders show evidence of Departmental filing prior to binding (punch-holes in the margins). These first 52 Orders are of great importance to the establishment of Duntroon as the Royal Military College. Mooted first in 1902, it was established in 1911, before the formal establishment of Canberra itself, and the first of these orders, dated 7 April 1911, announces the official establishment of the College under the command of Brigadier-General W.T. Bridges. The volume concludes with the final order for 1911, No. 52, dated 29 December The orders provide a remarkably clear and succinct account of the administrative establishment of the College, including identification of all personnel involved even casual labourers to make it ready for its first intake of officer cadets in These orders had a very limited circulation outside the immediate circle of officers and officials at the College. The present set was bound from the copies sent to the Home and Territories Department Canberra was a central concern of the Department and subsequently deposited by that Department or its successor in the Australian War Memorial Library, from which this copy was deaccessioned a splendid double provenance. The stamps of the Home and Territories Department (cancelled) and of the A.W.M. Library (also cancelled) are on the front endpaper; there are no other stamps or marking elsewhere. This is one of very few copies in private hands.

6 [4] DEAKIN, Alfred, as Prime Minister. Autograph letter as Prime Minister, signed in full and dated. [Canberra?], 22 April, Two pages on two conjugate leaves, sextodecimo, on official Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia red-printed letterhead; very fine $880 Rare: complete letters in such fine state by the founding Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth Deakin was the second are most uncommon on the market. The letter is a generous and warmly personal one to a political opponent, Senator Lieutentant-Colonel Neild: our personal relations have been free from any suggestion of anything but camaraderie....

7 [5] F.K. COX & CO. PTY. LTD. Fly-Proof Wire Doors & Window Screens. Melbourne, F.K. Fox & Co. Pty. Ltd., Quarto broadsheet, old folds; pink sheet of Trade Discounts attached with adhesive; loose, minor use but very good in original state. $125 Uncommon and, of its nature, highly ephemeral. The front of the broadsheet photographically illustrates ten attractive fly-screen door designs showing quite a heavy Art Nouveau influence in a number of them. The other side shows a selection of eight ice chests of varying size and construction that allows a full appreciation of the convenience afforded by a modern refrigerator.

8 [6] [FEDERATION] THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (Sydney). Commonwealth Number. The Daily Telegraph. Second Edition. Wednesday, January 2, 1901 [banner title]. Sydney, 2 January, Quarto, pp. 24, illustrated with woodcuts, some full-page; the fore-margin of the first leaf frayed with two associated sealed marginal tears (no loss), other signs of general use, a good copy withal. $220 Rare: souvenir printing of this issue of the newspaper, printed on good quality paper and very much reduced to demy quarto format. The issue is devoted to the ceremonies marking the swearing-in of the Governor-General and the Inauguration of the Commonwealth in Sydney, covered extensively on pp. 6 19, with much illustrations, some full-page. These attractive reduced souvenir newspaper issues were popular at the turn of the century and were intended to be kept in albums or to be sent by post to friends in other parts of the world.

9 [7] [FEDERATION] SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday January 2, 1901 [banner title]. Sydney, 2 January, Small quarto, pp. 16, very numerous line-drawn illustrations; light soiling and minor edge-wear, small defect in the blank bottom margin of the first leaf, essentially a very good copy. $330 Rare: souvenir printing of this issue of the newspaper, printed on fine paper and very much reduced. The issue is devoted to the ceremonies marking the swearing-in of the Governor-General and the Inauguration of the Commonwealth in Sydney, covered extensively on pp. 9 15, with much illustrations. These attractive reduced souvenir newspaper issues were popular at the turn of the century and were intended to be kept in albums or to be sent by post to friends in other parts of the world.

10 [8] [FEDERATION: AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION]. Copy of Federal Constitution under the Crown, as finally adopted by the Australasian Federal Convention, at Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, on the 16th March, Draft of a Bill To Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia [drop title]. [Melbourne, Government Printer], n.d. but Octavo, pp. 30, [2] (blank); stapled as issued, folded for posting and postally used; with the inoffensive stamp of the Historical Society of Victoria (by whom recently deaccessioned); very good. $145 Uncommon: the draft Australian Constitution as finalised by the Convention of 1898, printed in handy octavo format for public discussion. The present copy was sent from the Victorian Chief Secretary s office, and is so postmarked, to the notable public man Percival Serle at his Glenferrie Road, Kew, address.

11 [9] W.S. FRIEND & Co. W.S Friend & Co. Sydney. Catalogue, Sydney, W.S. Friend & Co., Quarto, variously paginated, profusely and thoroughly illustrated throughout; original publisher s gilt-lettered cloth, somewhat worn but sound; first four leaves with some pale damp-staining in the gutter, last half-dozen leaves with a light stain (trivial in context). Collates: pp. [iv] (General title-leaf and cumulative preliminaries) + pp. [ii], 6 + pp. 4, 76 + pp. [ii], 24 + pp. [ii], 2 20, [1] + pp. [ii], 1 16, 16A-B, 17 36, 36A-B, pp. [ii], 2, 2A-H, 3 14, [2], 14A-D, [4] (each numbered 14), 14E-H, 15 30, 30A-B, 31 42, 49 80, 80A-B, 81-2, 82A-B, (eccentric but complete) + pp. [ii], 6 + pp. [ii], 14 + pp. [ii], 16, 16A-B, 17 24, 24A-H, 25 36, 36A-B, pp. [ii], 16, 5-6 (bis), [ii] (Part 2 title), pp. [ii], 12, 12A-B, pp. [ii], 10 + pp. [ii], 26 + pp. [ii], 10 + pp. 2, 12 (last blank) + pp. xiv ( General [i.e. cumulative] Index ) + two addenda slips (in Section A and Section K). $5500 Rare: a substantial and richly-illustrated wholesale catalogue from one of the oldest firms in the trade, established in Sydney in 1840 and still in family hands a hundred years later. As wholesale catalogues these substantial publications would have had a moderately limited shelf life but that does not easily explain why Friend catalogues are so rare, although in our experience all trade catalogues published in the decade or so before the First World War are rare, almost certainly the victims of extensive waste-paper drives.

12 Friend s richly-illustrated 1886 catalogue is well-known and comparatively speaking well-held in Australian institutions with four (or five?) copies located. This 1905 catalogue none are known between 1886 and 1905 is significantly rarer with apparently the only copies known being those in the Mitchell Library and in The Mint (Historical Houses Trust of NSW). The 1905 catalogue was a cumulative issue of the various separate departmental catalogues issued by Friend, comprising 15 sections, denominated A to Q. The sections are: A. Enamelled Hollow-Ware; B. Household Ironmongery; C. Horticultural and Garden Tools; D. Saddlery, Harness &c.; E. Engineers & Carpenters Tools; F. Builders and General Ironmongery; G. Scales, Weighing Machines &c.; H. Tinsmiths Tools and Machinery; J. Engineers, Blacksmiths & Coachbuilders Requirements; K. Lamps, Stoves, Ranges &c.; L. Guns, Ammunition &c.; M. Mining Requisites; N. Station Requisites; P. Painters & Glaziers Tools; Q. Dairy & Agricultural Machinery &c.

13 [10] [GAME BOARD] NATIONAL GAME CO. Courtship and Marriage: A Fascinating Game for 2, 3, or 4 Players. [Ballarat and Melbourne, National Game Co.], n.d. but circa Folding game board (363 x 360 mm unfolded), printed in colour and gilt; original pale grey-green papered boards (lightly rubbed and slightly worn at extremities), cloth backstrip with a split but sound, colour pictorial and gilt title-label; the printed board with quite pale stains, a very good copy. $275 A rare Australian game board one of the famous National series of games with nine delightful vignettes of incidents in the horrifying ordeal of Victorian courtship and marriage. The progress of the couple is worth retailing in full: Introduction, Pic-nic, Already Engaged Go back to Introduction, Motor Ride Advance to Smooth, Bachelors Club, Flirtation Back to Picnic, Offend Parents Back to Bachelors Club, Parents Charmed Advance to Proposal, Croquet Party Advance to Engagement, Rival Back to Bachelors Club, Short of Money Back to All Smooth, Fancy Dress Ball Advance to Seaside, Engagement, Jilted Back to Fancy Dress Ball, Seaside, Breach of Promise Back to Introduction, Jealousy Return to Seaside, Happy Wedding (phew!). Of course, it is easy to ridicule but such games played a fairly important part in introducing children to a very (unnecessarily) complicated social ritual that they would need to navigate one way or another. It is also worth noting the game s fairly even-handed treatment of both sexes, in so far as disasters are concerned. This, we believe, is a slightly later printing of circa 1910 (first printed circa 1900).

14 [11] [GAME BOARD] NATIONAL GAME CO. Fairy Land for any number of players. Brimful of Interest, Excitement and Skill [Ballarat and Melbourne, National Game Co.], n.d. but circa 1030s 1940s. Folding game board (370 x 370 mm unfolded), printed in colour; original purple papered boards (slightly rubbed at extremities), paper backstrip with an old tape repair (no staining); a very good, clean copy. $175 Very scarce: a National Game Company board game, Australian designed and made, comprising All Round Trip to Fairyland. All Aboard. Adults 1/- Children Half Price. The characters and incidents are drawn from wellknown fairy tales, although some incidents are unspecific (Lions Den, Red Indians, Giant s Castle, Pirates ).

15 [12] [HARWOOD, Gwen] LEHMANN, Walter. Eloisa to Abelard and Abelard to Eloisa [contributed to] The Bulletin August 5, Sydney, The Bulletin, 5 August Quarto; an excellent copy, near fine in original wrappers. $275 Harwood s two notorious obscene poems published unwittingly in The Bulletin. After Sir Frank Packer took over The Bulletin at the end of July 1961, there was some concern that the editorial independence of the publication was in jeopardy. Much to the distress of the editorial staff, the two infamous acrostic poems by Gwen Harwood, writing under her pseudonym Walter Lehmann, were printed innocently on page 33. The acrostics read: So Long Bulletin and Fuck all Editors. Spotted within a few hours of the journal being distributed, the issue of 5 August was recalled by the publisher and pulped, although copies had, of course, already been sold and could not be retrieved. Harwood was subsequently banned by The Bulletin, a circumstance which became something of a badge of honour among Australian literary elites of her generation. This suppressed issue is unexpectedly rare given the contemporary notoriety of the incident, which might have led one to expect those few issued copies to be quite prized.

16 [13] [JOHNSON, Amy]. Johnnie, Our Aeroplane Girl. [and B side] A Lone Girl Flyer. Sung by Art Leonard. [Sydney], Regal Records, circa bakelite 78 rpm record; in very good state in the original printed sleeve. $125 Rare. Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, a feat she achieved in 19 days in Her theme tune, A Lone Girl Flyer, was written by Jack O Hagan. Regal record (T948-9) G (Regal Records was an imprint of Columbia Records Aust.).

17 [14] KAURI TIMBER CO. (N.S.W.) PTY. LTD. Kauri Timber Co.Presents the American Style Space Saver Dor. [sic] Sydney, Kauri Timber Co. (N.S.W.) Pty Ltd, circa Large octavo, pp. 8; black and white photographic illustrations throughout; original coloured wrappers in near fine condition. $110 Uncommon. The Space Saver Dor was the only Wood Folding Door operating on a straight or curved track, allowing it to used for doors, room dividers and the ubiquitous curved counter closure that became so common in the schools, churches, cafes, clubs and offices at whom it was aimed. The simple design of Kauri Space Saver Dors compliments the clean lines of modern interiors, adds beauty and charm when building or remodelling. This piece was issued shortly before the Kauri Timber Co. was taken over by Fletcher Timber Ltd in 1961.

18 [15] LINDSAY, Norman [ELDERSHAW, M. Barnard]. A Collection of the Drawings to illustrate The Quartermaster by M. Barnard Eldershaw. Sydney, Bulletin, [1929]. Twelve prints (approximately 42 x 52 cm) including the illustrated title-sheet; loose as issued. $1850 Rare: separate publication in large format of Lindsay s illustrations for A House is Built by M. Barnard Eldershaw, serialised in the Bulletin under the title The Quartermaster before publication in book form. Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw collaborated to write A House is Built which won first prize in the Bulletin 2000 Prize novel competition. It was then published in weekly instalments in an abridged form as The Quartermaster in the Bulletin between May and July 1929, with illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Norman Lindsay s illustrations proved hugely popular and the Bulletin decided to publish this series of loose plates (eleven plates and an illustrated title-shee). Amazingly, the price was an exceptionaly reasonable 2/- the set, which were promoted as suitable for framing and sold as a set of plates without wrapper or other covering. This circumstance may well explain the rarity of the set today.

19 [16] METTERS LIMITED. Metters Fuel Stove Sectional Catalogue. July 1939 [wrapper title]. Sydney, Metters Limited, Octavo, pp. 86, [2] (blank), illustrations throughout; original titling-wrappers, the edges of the front wrapper mildly silverfished and the margins of the first leaf also but a very good, sound and in other respects fine copy. $220 Rare trade catalogue. Despite the title the catalogue is more extensive than Fuel Stoves although they are, indeed, comprehensively covered (to page 32). Also included are laundry stoves and heaters, grates, hearths, mantelpieces, interior grates, then coppers, boot lasts (!), pig troughs, sheep troughs, cattle troughs, garden rollers, garden seats, incinerators, wheelbarrows, oil stoves, kitchen pots, urns, and so on and on. Pretty much everything illustrated.

20 [17] NYLEX. What you can make with Plastic Film [cover title]. [Australia], Nylex, n.d. but 1950s. One leaf folded to form a piece of six pages, illustrations throughout, printed in black and red; folded as issued, an excellent copy. $65 Post-war austerity over and Australians celebrate with bright colours and new materials over 100 attractive patterns. Nylex Plastic Film was one of the new industrial creations that began to replace older materials. While plastic was very much THE material of the twentieth century, it was during the Second World War that the word plastic acquired an almost magic ring, as Australian Home Beautiful was to remark in The brochure demonstrates the multiple uses this new material can be put to with illustrations evoking 1950 s domestic modern. There s no limit to the ways Nylex can help you in the home : uses suggested include rainwear or make-up capes, baby wear, aprons, dressing-table skirts, sofa slip covers, curtains and drapes, shower curtains, shelf edging and dust ruffles, etc., in fact anything that could be sewn (there are detailed instructions for sewing plastic film).

21 [18] [PHOTOBOOK] BOSTOCK, Cecil W. Cameragraphs of the Year A Souvenir of the First Exhibition of the Australian Salon of Photography. Sydney, Harringtons, n.d. but Quarto, pp. 48 (chiefly photographic plates) + tipped-in frontispiece; an excellent copy in the original cloth. $185 Edition limited to 1000 copies. The Sydney Camera Circle was behind the formation of the annual Australian Photography Salon in 1924 and Bostock, a leading figure in photography circles, designed the catalogues for both exhibitions, both of which also included lengthy critical reviews by Harold Cazneaux. Only the 1924 and 1926 salons were afforded substantial catalogues; it was not until the 1940s and 1950s that elaborate publications drawn from the Australian Photography Salon of 1947 and 1957 were produced, this time by Oswald Ziegler. [19] [PHOTOBOOK] BOSTOCK, Cecil W. Cameragraphs Selections from the Second Exhibition of the Australian Salon of Photography. Sydney, Harringtons, n.d. but Quarto, tipped-in frontispiece and 48 pages of photographic plates; a trace of silverfishing on the endpapers and marks of ownership (see below) but a very good copy overall in original cloth. $185 Extremely scarce: unlike the first selection of 1924, the second is without edition statement and was probably issued in larger numbers than the first volume. The present copy is, however, one of the rare copies in original cloth most appear to have been issued in wrappers. This is also an appealing association copy with the label of the Melbourne Camera Club and their small an inoffensive stamp on the endpapers and in the margins of a few text leaves.

22 [20] [PHOTOBOOK] CAZNEAUX, Harold. Three illustrated gift booklets. Sydney, Art in Australia, Three pieces, quarto and small quarto, illustrations throughout (a good number tipped-in); original wrappers, about fine. $330 An excellent group of these illustrated gift books largely illustrated by Cazneaux s photographs. Comprising: i. Sydney Streets. Written by Charles H. Bertie. Small quarto, pp. [24], with woodcut illustration on the title-page by Margaret Preston, and ten tippedin plates (four photographic studies by Cazneaux, reproductions of etchings, watercolours, and oils by Warner, Goodchild, and Moore); original orange leather-grain card wrappers with flaps, woodcut (by Margaret Preston?) on front wrapper. Sydney, Art in Australia, ii. Sydney Harbour. Photographs by H. Cazneaux. Small quarto, pp. [16], with five tipped-in plates after Cazneaux; original plum leather-grain card wrappers with flaps, woodcut by Adrian Feint on front wrapper. Sydney, Art in Australia, Short text by Jean Curlewis. iii. The Sydney Book. Photographs by H. Cazneaux, T. Purcell and Milton Kent. Quarto, pp. [20], with 19 mainly full-page photographic illustrations; original illustrated wrappers. Sydney, Art in Australia, Short text by Jean Curlewis. Twelve of the images are by Cazneaux, the balance are aerial photographs by Milton Kent and (mainly) T. Purcell.

23 [21] [PHOTOBOOK] FLATTELY, Stan (compiled by). The Australian Snow Pictorial. Melbourne, Georgian House, Large quarto, pp. 96, with duotone photographic illustrations throughout; the endpapers a little offset from the boards, near fine in original cloth with little edge-worn dustwrapper. $95 First edition and scarce: compiled for the Ski Club of Victoria by Stan Flattely, who was editor of the club s journal Schuss. Apart from a small number of photographs supplied by departments of the Victorian, New South Wales, and Tasmanian governments, the photographs in the book were supplied by members of the club. Among the more prominent contributors were E.G. Adamson, H.S. Gibbs, L.J. Clarke, and F. Smithies.

24 [22] [PHOTOBOOK] KAUFFMANN. BEER, Leslie H. The Art of John Kauffmann. Twenty Illustrations in half-tone, with Biography and Essay by Leslie H. Beer. Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, Folio, pp tipped-in half-tone plates; very good in the original thin plain boards with attached dustwrapper with a clean, sealed tear near the bottom spine and a little worn at the extremities. $770 Extremely scarce: the first monograph on an Australian photographer as an artist and one of the earliest Australian photobooks. Published in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the photographer, the collection celebrated the work of the pioneering Australian photo-impressionist. [23] [PHOTOBOOK] ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (editor). Australian Photography Sydney, Ziegler Gotham Publications, [ 1947]. Quarto, pp. 200, with 160 pages of photographic illustration (pp in colour); an excellent copy in the original cloth with the quite uncommon dustwrapper (a touch rubbed and lacking the front flap otherwise very good). $125 First edition: very scarce with dustwrapper. An important, if uneven, collection, Ziegler published this as the first of a planned annual series covering the best of Australian photography. It was a substantial book with pages of quality illustrations drawn from the works submitted for the accompanying exhibition [the Australian Photography Salon of 1947]. It was in the tradition of both the old Pictorial salon catalogues and the newer annuals such as US Camera Annual. Pictorial work was included as well as technical categories but the book validated the importance of the documentary photographers and professional illustrators. Cazneaux thought the book a wasted and spoilt opportunity by its support for what seemed soulless or ugly modern photography. The Documentary followers no doubt felt the amateur Pictorial work was trite and sentimental. The photographers in [the book] with a social bent included David Moore and painter John D. Moore (Gael Newton, Shades of Light, p. 126).

25 [24] STEELE & CO. Herald Lounge furnished by Steele s. Everything for the Furnishing of The Home. Melbourne, Steele & Co., circa Large octavo, pp. 8, illustrated throughout, printed in sepia; stapled as issued, small insect nibble in the blank foremargin of the first leaf, well clear of the text; a very good copy. $185 Scarce: furnishing the average home in the 1930s conservative and distinctly Edwardian without a shadow of art deco influence. This conservative suburban style should not be sneered at: it was the predominant taste in home décor until the late 1950s and 1960s (even then it remained a constant in the homes of the older generation). The catalogue is profusely illustrated throughout, depicting entire room settings for the lounge room, bedroom, and dining room.

26 [25] JIM STYLES. This key will unlock the door to the home of your dreams: A Styline Home. Melbourne, Jim Styles, circa Octavo, pp. [24]; stapled as issued; an excellent copy, stapled in self-wrappers. $245 Very scarce: Styles was a joinery manufacturer and builder in Huntingdale, in Melbourne s south-east, who branded his houses Styline Homes (showing a decent imagination). His, mainly three-bedroom, homes were weatherboard and aimed squarely at the average homebuyer. The pamphlet offers twenty designs all with floor plans, the first nine with half-tone elevations, the next four with line-drawn elevations, the remainder as floor plans only. Most houses are fairly conventional in the characteristic style of the period, although one, the two-bedroom Kalorama, is more adventurous. The centrefold depicts various Styline window options, notable for their generosity of size and modern styling. (That word style does keep cropping up!)

27 [26] TURNER, Ethel S. Seven Little Australians. London, Ward, Lock, and Bowden, Octavo, pp. 240, [16] (advertisements) + frontispiece and two full-page plates (facing pp. 60 and 226), with numerous vignettes in the text; recased with new endpapers in the original gilt-pictorial green cloth of the special gift issue cased in bevelled boards with extra gilt illustration and all edges gilt; some use but a very good copy of the rare gilt, extra issue. $1850 Extremely scarce: the first edition of Ethel Turner s classic first book, translated into at least eight languages and reprinted in English so often that there is no authoritative count of the editions. Seven Little Australians has been described as the book at the heart of the 1890s and Brenda Niall described the whole decade as Ethel Turner s: this was the decade of little pickles, little rebels, little larrikins and instead of young Anglo-Australians little Australians. The first edition especially in acceptable condition has proved quite scarce on the market in recent years. Miller, p. 663; Muir, 7457; People, Print & Paper, 201.

28 [27] WATER CONSERV- ATION AND IRRIGATION COMMISSION [Leslie Augustus Burton WADE.] Types of Houses Erected by the Commissioner for Settlers on the Irrigation Areas. Sydney, Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, Small oblong quarto, pp. [10], six photographic illustrations, printed in sepia; small mark on front but near fine in original red wrappers. $485 A surprisingly rare pamphlet giving details of the (inexpensive) houses being constructed for settlers in the Murrumbidge Irrigation Area, presumably as part of the Commission s campaign to entice settlers from Australia and overseas to the area. The six photographic illustrations show individual houses, together with floor plans. The last four pages contain detailed lists of the exact materials required to build each of the houses as well as the cost price of each house design. Schemes for nation-building were a central concern of government in the first years of the Commonwealth. New impetus came with the election of the Labor Party in the Federal elections of April 1910 and in the New South Wales elections in October. The new state government supported the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Scheme with the

29 Murrumbidgee Irrigation Act of 1910 which also provided for the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust to administer the works when completed. But the huge scheme soon proved to be beyond the competency of the Trust, and the Irrigation Act of 1912 replaced the Trust with a Commissioner for Water Conservation and Irrigation with control over all of the water conservation and irrigation works in New South Wales. Leslie Augustus Burton Wade was appointed first Commissioner in 1 January A civil engineer with the Department of Works and formerly executive officer and secretary of the superseded Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust, he now had the power to fulfil his grand vision of creating a huge oasis of prosperous, intensive farms operated by energetic families recruited through a world-wide campaign. Wade involved himself closely in the physical infrastructure and the farms but also looked more widely to new railways for the area, power generation, enterprises to process and market the produce, commercial service centres to support the anticipated population, and, ultimately, new cities and towns to reflect the grandeur of the scheme and the prosperity it would bring to the inland. Wade sought to involve Walter Burley Griffin in the urban planning Griffin was at the time suffering at the hands of Canberra bureaucrats but in the end the towns of Leeton and Griffith were developed without Griffin s assistance.

30 [28] WITHERS, William Bramwell. The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time. Ballarat, Ballarat Star Office, Octavo, pp. [ii] (Key to the view), xvi, 216; errata slip, folding panorama, 18 plates (6 doublepage); colour printed papered boards, the front board with the coloured title printed in red over a white cross and silver stars on a blue ground; printed on the spine in black on a white ground is History of Ballarat 1870; the spine blue in compartments and ruled with black bands; the white lower board has a triple line frame printed in black and the short title, History of Ballarat, printed centrally in black within a meandering banner; the text fine and clean, the boards lightly soiled and with minor signs of use, pencilled ownership inscription on front endpaper of R.J. Owen. Ballarat ; an uncommonly wellpreserved copy in this far from robust binding. $2200 The extremely scarce papered boards variant of the first edition, rare in this condition. Withers, born in Britain in 1823, emigrated to South Africa in Here, after a brief and unhappy experience of farming, he learnt to set type and began his future career in journalism. Emigrating to the Victorian diggings in 1852 he soon was driven back to Melbourne by failure. For about a year he did menial jobs until joining the Argus and then the Herald in In 1855 he returned to Ballarat to dig but, still unsuccessful, joined the Ballarat Times as part-time reporter and compositor. By the end of September 1855 he was working for the Ballarat Star where he remained for many years. In the mid-1860s Withers determined to write a history of the proud self-confident community with which he himself had such a long, intimate and active connection. His historical research was well based on five years correspondence and interviews with pioneer diggers and squatters, and with eye-witnesses at Eureka. His work proved to be no mere self-congratulatory celebration of parochialism as he sought to draw out causes and consequences in his determination to explain the vigorous tradition of democracy and individualism in the city-state, the continuing strength of its economic achievement and its flourishing cultural life. The result is a comprehensive and magisterial work, well-documented, fluently written and objective, a major achievement of nineteenth-century Australian historiography and a paradigm of Australian local history writing unsurpassed for decades. Above all, Withers s perceptive and judicial interpretation of the Eureka Rebellion is one of the best accounts, marshalling and objectively evaluating an impressively detailed record of first-hand evidence. Ferguson,

31 [29] WITHERS, William Bramwell. The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time. Ballarat, The Ballarat Star Office, Octavo, pp. [ii] (Key to the view), xvi, 216; errata slip, folding panorama, 18 plates (six double-page), errata slip, additional chromolithographed title and four actual photographs mounted as additional illustrations; a few very pale spots but uncommonly fine in the fugitive original plum cloth, spine lightly and evenly sunned. $5500 Quite an uncommonly handsome copy of the rare special extra-illustrated issue, on large paper (215 x 135 mm), with four additional actual photographs, mounted on separate sheets and titled in print below the image. The photographs are: first, a composite photograph of early Ballarat settlers; second, a photograph of Governor La Trobe; third, a photograph of Governor Hotham; fourth, a photograph of Peter Lalor. In this extra-illustrated issue the list of illustrations on pages xv-xvi of the preliminaries differs from that in the ordinary issues, having been reset to include the four additional photographs. This issue is said to have been limited to 100 copies. This is the finest copy of this deluxe issue we have seen in over 30 years, others being almost invariably rather worn and used. Ferguson, 18714; Holden, 127.

32 [30] WITHERS, William Bramwell. The History of Ballarat, from the first pastoral settlement to the present time Second Edition: with Plans, Illustrations, and Original Documents. Ballarat, F. W. Niven & Co., Octavo, folding coloured panorama of Ballarat which has a few short tears skillfully repaired with archival tape, a folding coloured plan, and 31 plates, including lithographs after S.T. Gill and facsimiles of original documents; front hinge a little weak but a very good copy in lightly flecked original green cloth, ornately decorated with designs in gilt and black. $440 Second edition, updated, considerably enlarged, and with different and more numerous illustrations. Withers s extremely welldocumented, fluently written history gives one of the best accounts of the Eureka Stockade and other momentous events of Ballarat s early years. In good condition for a book almost invariably rather used and shaken owing to the rather ineffective binding technique (the sections stapled onto cloth tapes). Ferguson, [31] WUNDERLICH LIMITED. Durawall. An exciting new walling for modern homes and industrial buildings. Melbourne, Wunderlich Limited, circa Quarto, pp. [8], photographic illustrations (some colour); near fine, stapled as issued. $95 Scarce: It s a Walling with Glamour. Illustrations show examples of buildings using the new asbestos-cement sheeting, the measurements and installation guide and assures us that it enables glamour homes to be erected at surprisingly low cost.