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DRIDAN David
The Art of Hans Heysen
Adelaide: Rigby 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Rigby 1966. Oblong quarto 12 pages plus 72 plates 32 in colour. Cloth lightly sunned and very slightly marked; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper chipped and torn with slight loss. Rigby hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114901
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DRIDAN David
The Art of Hans Heysen
Adelaide: Rigby 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Rigby 1966. Oblong quarto 12 pages plus 72 plates 32 in colour. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Rigby hardcover
Bookseller reference : 93770
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ROWE Reverend Gordon
Australian Aborigines who have made good. This selection of biographical sketches is presented for the purpose of showing that the Australian Aborigines are capable of qualifying to fill a variety of useful positions in the community cover title
Adelaide: Aborigines' Friends' Association 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Aborigines' Friends' Association circa 1955. Octavo 8 pages with 2 plates. Titling-wrappers a little creased and slightly marked; a few trifling minute tears to the leading edge of the first leaf; a very good copy. Albert Namatjira the O'Donoghue sisters Reg Saunders and 'the first aboriginal soldier settler in South Australia': Tim Hughes. Aborigines' Friends' Association paperback
Bookseller reference : 114892
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PROEVE Pastors EH. and HFW. E. H. H. F.
A Work of Love and Sacrifice. The Story of the Mission among the Dieri Tribe at Cooper's Creek. Part 1: The Preparatory Period and the first Attempt 1838-1867
Tanunda: printed by Auricht for the Authors 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda printed by Auricht for the Authors 1952. Octavo 93 pages with 8 illustrations and a map. Wrappers a little rubbed and unevenly sunned; front cover lightly creased; head and foot of the spine very slightly worn with trifling loss; a very good copy. printed by Auricht [for the Authors?] paperback
Bookseller reference : 114894
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SCARBOROUGH Rev. JC. J. C.
Uncle Tom's Wurley
North Unley: The Author 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. North Unley The Author 1966. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; a fine copy. With the author's compliments stamp. The Author paperback
Bookseller reference : 114897
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HEYSEN Hans
Hans Heysen Masterpieces. Selected by David Heysen. Introduction by Colin Thiele
Adelaide: Rigby 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Rigby 1977. Large quarto 159 pages with 72 colour plates. Cloth; brown lettering on the spine rubbed heavily affecting mainly the word 'Masterpieces'; tiny mark to the front cover; a very good copy internally fine in the matching cloth slipcase. Number 609 of 1001 copies signed by David Heysen the artist's son. Rigby hardcover
Bookseller reference : 109618
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Freemasonry
'Jubilee of Knights Templar in South Australia - Aug. 24th 1908' caption on a vintage photograph of the celebratory dinner
A gelatin silver photograph image size 150 � 196 mm on the original card mount 250 � 306 mm with the indistinct blindstamp of the photographer; the print has four tiny indentations a few light surface scuffs and some silvering-out; the mount has a few chips to the extremities it was framed at one stage; overall the condition is excellent. The verso of the mount has some pencilled notes by the framer not least 'stain out gilt printing' thus obliterating the photographer's details!; the client's name was Boucaut. This would be Sir James Penn Boucaut 1831-1916 three-times Premier of South Australia clearly visible in the foreground of the photograph. Sitting next to him is another prominent freemason Archibald Henry Peake 1859-1920 who was also to serve three terms as Premier of South Australia. One of Boucaut's sons Ernest Bertram Boucaut has later inscribed the verso of the mount: 'Jubilee Knight Templarly sic in South Australia. Alfred Masonic Hall Thursday Aug 24th 1908. E.B. Boucaut. K.T.'. unknown
Bookseller reference : 114190
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Mathematics. MYDORGE Claude Jean LEURECHON and Denis HENRION
Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques et de ses Problemes en Geometrie Mecanique Optique et Catoptrique. O� sont aussi discut�es & restablies plusieurs experiences Physiques y propos�es
Paris: Chez Rolet Boutonn� 1638. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Paris Chez Rolet Boutonn� 1638 second edition/ 1630. Octavo 170 � 105 mm four parts bound as one volume xvi 280; 64 last blank; 63-106 12 index last three blank; and 39 1 blank pages with woodcut printer's devices on the four title pages and 84 illustrations throughout approximately 80 woodcut illustrations and a few type-set diagrams. There are five leaves missing from the 'Troisi�me Partie' F4 F5 G1 G4 and G5: pages 85-90 95-96 and 101-104. Nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards now lacking the leather corner-pieces revealing earlier full vellum boards underneath; covers a little worn; light tidemark to the bottom inner corner of the text block throughout; a little worming to the top blank margin of the first 25 leaves; insect damage to the bottom edge extending at most a few millimetres into the wide blank bottom margins; first title leaf dusty and a little soiled; the five missing leaves notwithstanding overall a very presentable copy. The second edition of Claude Mydorge's expanded edition and critique of this popular early work of recreational mathematics first published in 1624 and usually attributed to Jean Leurechon. Each of Leurechon's mathematical problems is reprinted here in roman type with Mydorge's explanatory notes and criticism following in italic. The third part albeit relatively insubstantial only 44 well-illustrated pages is devoted exclusively to fireworks and their construction which probably explains the few missing leaves. The subtitle is: 'Compos�e d'un receuil de plusieurs plaisantes & recreatives inventions de feux d'artifice plus la maniere de faire toutes sortes de fuz�es tant simples que doubles avec leur composition le tout represent� par figures sic' Comprising a collection of several pleasant and recreative inventions of fireworks plus the manner of making all sorts of rockets both single and double with their composition all represented in figures. This third part together with the second made its first appearance in a 1628 edition of 'R�cr�ations Math�matiques' published by Charles Osmont at Rouen. Their authorship has not been established HEEFER Albrecht: 'R�cr�ations Math�matiques 1624 A Study on its Authorship Sources and Influence' revised 7 October 2004. The fourth part 'Nottes sic sur les Recreations .' is by D.H.P.E.M. Denis Henrion Professeur �s Math�matiques. Claude Mydorge 1585-1647 French mathematician was a friend of Ren� Descartes with whom he shared a strong interest in optics and the nature of vision. 'Mydorge's first major work was the "Examen du livre des R�cr�ations math�matiques" published in 1630. As the title suggests it was a work on recreational mathematics and was effectively a critique of Laurechon's sic book on the theme 'R�cr�ations math�matiques' by the French Jesuit Jean Leurechon writing under the pen name of van Etten first appeared in 1624. However it was through his work on conic sections that Mydorge made the greatest scientific impact' The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon online. Provenance: a 1713 signature on the first page; an early ownership inscription 'Michael Hutchins His Book' on a preliminary page; 'G.S. Kingston Sept 1834' on the front pastedown: Sir George Strickland Kingston 1807-1880 the South Australian pioneer engineer and politician deputy-surveyor-general under Colonel William Light co-discoverer of the River Torrens first Speaker in the House of Assembly. Chez Rolet Boutonn� hardcover
Bookseller reference : 110770
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Napoleonic Wars
A bound volume of eight pamphlets or books relating to war and global affairs published at the height of the Napoleonic Wars
London: J. Hatchard unless otherwise noted 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. London J. Hatchard unless otherwise noted 1803 to 1808. Octavo; later half calf and buckram a little unevenly sunned; edges a little inkstained encroaching into the blank leading margins in places mainly in the first and last items; scattered light foxing; light tidemark to the top corner of some leaves in the first two items; minor loss to the bottom inner corner of the first title leaf; overall in excellent condition. The disruption in Europe caused by the rise of Napoleon is naturally the principal theme but the volume also contains a very early account of the Haitian Revolution extolling the heroism of the recently deceased Toussaint Louverture and an early work on Irish Catholic emancipation. 1 WARD Robert Plumer: 'An Enquiry into the Manner in which the Different Wars in Europe have commenced during the last Two Centuries to which are added the Authorities upon the Nature of a Modern Declaration' J. Butterworth and J. Stockdale 1805; ii 72 pages. 2 HINCKLEY John translator: 'An Accurate Account of the Fall of the Republic of Venice . in which the French System of undermining and revolutionizing States is exposed; and the True Character of Buonaparte faithfully pourtrayed' 1804; xii 287 pages. 3 PELTIER Jean-Gabriel: 'The Empire of Germany divided into Departments under the Prefecture of the Elector of . To which is prefixed A Memoir of the Political and Military State of the Continent' E. Harding 1803; xvi 65 pages. 4 STEPHEN James: 'Buonaparte in the West Indies: or the History of Toussaint Louverture the African Hero' 1803 - in three parts respectively third first and third editions - 16 16 and 16 pages. 5 MELANCTHON O'BEIRNE Thomas: 'A Letter to Dr. Troy Titular Archbishop of Dublin on the Coronation of Bonaparte by Pope Pius the Seventh' corrected edition 1805; 97 pages. 6 'Additional Papers relative to the Discussion with Spain in 1803 and 1804' Part II only John Stockdale 1805; viii 85-164 pages. 7 'An Argument upon the Justice and Expediency of the Order issued by Government for the detaining All Ships bound to the Ports of Spain freighted with Treasure or Warlike Stores' John Stockdale 1805; 63 pages. 8 CEVALLOS Pedro: 'An Exposure of the Arts and Machinations which lead to the Usurpation of the Crown of Spain and of the Means pursued by Bonaparte to carry his Views into effect to which are annexed Documents to substantiate every Assertion' J.J. Stockdale 1808 new revised edition; viii 128 pages. Provenance: John Hector 9/48 in ink at the head of the first title page - possibly John Hector c.1788-1863 an accountant who arrived in South Australia 'by 1848'; Thomas Doyle North Adelaide September 28th 1866 in ink on a retained early binder's blank - probably Thomas Doyle 1834-1913 the Irish-born 'Policeman Prison Guard Publican' who arrived in South Australia before April 1856 when he was married in Adelaide. Genealogical information obtained with thanks from the 'Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885'. J. Hatchard (unless otherwise noted) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114436
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Map: South and East Africa
A colour map of 'South & East Africa to accompany "Through South Africa" by Mr. Henry M. Stanley M.P.'
London: Sampson Low Marston & Company Limited 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston & Company Limited 1898. Printed surface 365 � 415 mm overall paper size 435 � 540 mm mounted on a printed linen flour bag 'Patent Roller Flour. Edwin Davey & Sons Adelaide' surmounted by a large lion rampant. The map is folded as issued albeit now lightly cockled in places; slight loss to both paper and cloth along the top margin well clear of the printed surface with a little bleed-through from the printed flour bag in the top margin with minimal impact on the map; light mark along portion of one fold; overall an excellent copy. The map by 'G. Philip & Son London & Liverpool' was removed from a copy of Stanley's book published in 1898. The book came from the collection of Arnold Edwin Davey 1862-1920 well-known local flour-miller and grain merchant one of the eponymous Sons of Edwin Davey. Prospective buyers please note: if you are only interested in the map you can get it cheaper elsewhere. Sampson, Low, Marston & Company, Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 110982
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2/10th Battalion. ALLCHIN Lieutenant Colonel Frank
Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF the Adelaide Rifles 1939-1945
Adelaide: 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. Large octavo xxviii 454 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and 6 maps including a folding two-colour map mounted on the rear pastedown. Light blue cloth printed in purple later rebacked retaining the original backstrip now sunned; small bump to the head of the rear board; a very good copy internally excellent. Loosely inserted is a photograph mounted on card flush-cut to 203 � 152 mm of a member of the 2/10th identified on the verso as QX 32901 Private G.J. Porter see the nominal roll page 447. The photograph is inscribed in ink by him 'All my love All my life Gordon. 1946'; the inscription is a little faded and the image has a few surface scratches. Bound in at the rear is a photocopy of the 14-page supplement prepared by Charles Stening for the 1984 facsimile edition; it contains additional material and corrections to this first edition. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. 2/10th Battalion Association hardcover
Bookseller reference : 112734
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MURDOCH Judy
An Agricultural Awakening. The Story of Kybybolite 1840-2005
Kybybolite: Kybybolite History Group 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kybybolite Kybybolite History Group 2005. Small oblong quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Kybybolite History Group paperback
Bookseller reference : 115159
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LEASK B. Chalmers
Leask's Genealogical Guide to some Australian Families their Antecedents and Genealogies
Armadale: Australian Genealogies 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Armadale Australian Genealogies 1979. Thick quarto; gilt-decorated blue synthetic cloth; outer hinges slightly rubbed; corners very slightly bumped; an excellent copy. Australian Genealogies hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115160
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BUTLER Reg and Alan PHILLIPS compilers
Register Personal Notices. Volume 1: 1836-1859; Volume 2: 1860-1865 and Volume 3: 1866-1870
Gumeracha: Gould Books 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gumeracha Gould Books 1989 1990 and 1991. Octavo 448 448 and 416 pages. Laminated papered boards; a fine set. Gould Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115140
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BURDEN Michael
Lost Adelaide. A Photographic Record
Adelaide: Oxford University Press 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Oxford University Press 1983. Quarto 224 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs. Papered boards lightly bumped at the ends of the spine; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper very lightly sunned on the spine. 'This book traces in photographs drawn from archival sources the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' and it continues still. Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115101
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HEINRICH Rhoda KOITHAN Dulcie and Delphine KAESLER
Kaesler Chronicles. The Story and Family Record of Gottfried and Christiane Kaesler and their Descendants 1845-1988
Adelaide: Kaesler Reunion Committee 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Kaesler Reunion Committee 1988. Quarto; synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Some related genealogical ephemera is loosely inserted. Kaesler Reunion Committee hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115146
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HEINRICH Rhoda KOITHAN Dulcie and Delphine KAESLER
Kaesler Chronicles. The Story and Family Record of Gottfried and Christiane Kaesler and their Descendants 1845-1988
Adelaide: Kaesler Reunion Committee 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Kaesler Reunion Committee 1988. Quarto; synthetic cloth; an excellent copy. Kaesler Reunion Committee hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115147
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HANNAFORD AD. LILLECRAPP Eric and Joan MARTIN A. D.
The Lillecrapp Families of South Australia. A Record of Three Families and their Descendants
Adelaide: Lillecrapp Family Reunion Committee 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Lillecrapp Family Reunion Committee 1988. Small quarto; laminated papered boards; an excellent copy. With 2 death notices clipped from a newspaper and laid down on a paper slip loosely inserted. Lillecrapp Family Reunion Committee hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115142
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WURFEL Max EVANS Margaret and Roy WERFEL
Friedrich Wurfel Family History 1800-1982 and Family Tree of Known Descendants
Port Pirie: Wurfel Family History Committee 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Port Pirie Wurfel Family History Committee 1982. Small quarto; gilt-decorated papered boards; ownership signature; an excellent copy. With the ownership signature and details of a family member. Taped to an early blank is the 4 page Wurfel Reunion Thanksgiving Service Gawler 11 April 1982. Wurfel Family History Committee hardcover
Bookseller reference : 115151
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DOLLMAN Lieutenant Colonel Walter and Sergeant Henry Matthew SKINNER
The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion Australian Imperial Force 1915-1919
Adelaide: Lonnen and Cope 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Lonnen and Cope 1921. Octavo 228 pages with 12 illustrations and 16 maps plus 18 plates and the printed front endpaper. Colour pictorial cloth; covers slightly worn and bumped most notably at the head of the spine; acidic paper discoloured as ever; a few marks to the edges; a very good copy of a book notoriously difficult to find in even decent condition because of the poor quality of the materials used in its production. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. Lonnen and Cope hardcover
Bookseller reference : 113880
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HARRIS Mary Packer
Spirit of the Night
Visible image size approximately 480 � 685 mm; matted framed and glazed external dimensions 730 � 920 mm; in fine condition. Gouache on grey-brown paper signed 'Mary P. Harris' at the bottom right-hand corner of the image. With the label of Greenhill Galleries North Adelaide on the backing paper. Yorkshire-born Mary Packer Harris 1891-1978 is best known as a teacher at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts where her students included Ivor Francis Jaqueline Hick and Dora Chapman. unknown
Bookseller reference : 108229
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Poltoonga School
Poltoonga School Magazine Christmas 1932
Adelaide: The Advertiser Print for Poltoonga School 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Adelaide The Advertiser Print for Poltoonga School 1932. Octavo 43 pages with 4 illustrations 3 from photographs. Saddle-stapled wrappers a little foxed and browned; foot of spine splitting with minor loss; a good copy. Poltoonga School was a private school for girls run by the Misses Henderson from their family home 'Poltoonga' on Harrow Road College Park South Australia. With the pencilled ownership signature of one Mary Button who is mentioned in the magazine as a kindergarten student. Offered together with an engraved prize cup approximately 145 � 115 mm with the school's crest awarded to Miss Button for winning the school egg and spoon race in 1934. The Advertiser Print for Poltoonga School paperback
Bookseller reference : 112761
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Photography. KEBLE John
The Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year
London: Peacock Mansfield and Britton 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Peacock Mansfield and Britton 1870 extra-illustrated edition using the sheets of the 131st edition published by James Parker and Co. Oxford. Small octavo xii 383 pages plus a duplicate title leaf printed in gold list of illustrations 13 original albumen paper photographs one mounted on the duplicate title leaf 12 mounted on gold-bordered leaves. Full brown morocco with a gilt-edged red morocco onlay in the shape of a cross on the front cover; spine compartments and sides bordered in blind; all edges gilt; covers a little rubbed and marked; spine a little sunned; a very good copy. A deluxe edition of Keble's influential collection of poems extra-illustrated with 13 original photographs of important religious paintings. This copy comes from the collection of South Australian pastoralist Henry Dutton 1844-1914 and contains an additional albumen paper photograph portrait of him mounted on the recto of the frontispiece. A calligraphic inscription in red and black on an early blank reads: 'An Offering to Henry Dutton from the Chorister Boys of Christ Church North Adelaide October 1871'. Peacock, Mansfield and Britton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114169
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MELBA Dame Nellie
Souvenir. Melba Patriotic Concert. Exhibition Building Adelaide. 21st November 1914 cover title
Adelaide: printed by The Howard Correspondence College Limited Printing Works 1914. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide printed by The Howard Correspondence College Limited Printing Works 1914. Quarto 8 pages with the title page decorated with colour flags of the Allied nations the balance printed in two colours. Overlapping two-colour wrappers a little torn at the leading edges and a little discoloured; a very good copy internally fine. All those involved generously gave their services: 'Madame Melba Miss Doris Madden Mr John Lemmone Mr Fred C. Collier Mr W. Burrell and the Adelaide Choral Society' and presumably the The Howard Correspondence College Limited Printing Works. Offered together with two other ephemeral publications relating to Melba: 'Souvenir. Grand Opera Season. Her Majesty's Theatre Sydney 1928. Presented by J.C. Williamson and Dame Nellie Melba' Sydney 1928; quarto; in excellent condition and 'Music in Australia. Volume VI Number 9 20 March 1931' 'Melba: Special Articles on the Diva and Her Records in This Issue'; an excellent copy. printed by The Howard Correspondence College Limited Printing Works paperback
Bookseller reference : 113649
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BASEDOW Herbert
Journal of the Government North-West Expedition March 30th - November 5th 1903. An offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 15 Session 1913-1914
Adelaide: RGSSA 1914. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1914. Octavo ii 57-242 pages with several diagrams plus 59 pages of plates most from photographs and a very large folding map 475 � 985 mm. Original printed wrappers; rear wrapper a little creased from the folding map and with one tiny closed tear; essentially a fine copy. An important expedition scientifically and anthropologically under the leadership of L.A. Wells; it filled in the gap 'linking together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions'. McLaren 5065 this separate issue. Many of the photographs are of strong Aboriginal interest. RGSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 113774
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Adelaide Railway Station . September 1928 cover title
Adelaide: Harrison Weir Government Printer 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Harrison Weir Government Printer 1928. Oblong quarto 14 leaves with 13 plates from photographs. Saddle-stapled overlapping title-wrappers slightly creased and rubbed; extremities very slightly torn; head and foot of the spine slightly worn; an excellent copy. 'This booklet is published at the request of a number of the General Public who have from time to time sought copies of views and particulars in relation to the new Adelaide Railway Station.' The General Public got what they asked for. In addition to the fine views of the station including dining areas kitchen public areas and before and after shots of the street frontage they learnt that that the storage space under the Northern end of the Eastern Roadway had a floor space of 11680 square feet and similar useful information. Harrison Weir, Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 114733
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Railways
South Australian Railways. Illustrations of Locomotives and other Rolling Stock. Adelaide August 1929 cover title
Adelaide: Harrison Weir Government Printer 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Harrison Weir Government Printer 1929. Oblong folio 222 x 340 mm 28 leaves printed rectos only comprising an index and 27 pages of plates from photographs with 21 full-page and 12 half-page plates. Title-wrappers; spine a little sunned chipped and worn; covers a little marked creased chipped and torn with slight loss; a very good copy. Harrison Weir, Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 114734
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Asian Studies Association of Australia
Sojourners and Settlers : Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese
Allen & Unwin 1996. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Allen & Unwin paperback
Bookseller reference : G1863739904I3N00 ISBN : 1863739904 9781863739900
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ROBERTSON T. Brailsford
The Spirit of Research
Adelaide: Preece 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Preece 1931. Octavo xiv 210 pages plus 2 plates. Quarter cloth and textured papered boards; inner hinge cracking but binding sound; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper with the spine slightly creased sunned and torn. Preece hardcover
Bookseller reference : 112537
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DUFFIELD T. and Alfred Geo. EDQUIST
Protected Native Birds of South Australia
Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1910. Octavo ii 30 pages plus 12 full-page chromolithographs by Alfred Vaughan after drawings by C. Wall. Overlapping wrappers a little chipped and discoloured around the edges with minor loss to the ends of the spine; two ownership inscriptions on the title page and an early signature on the rear wrapper; a very good copy. A Special Bulletin issued by the South Australian Department of Intelligence. 'The purpose of this book is not to catalogue or to scientifically describe our native birds; but to bring prominently before the public the police and others in authority and more especially the children in our State those of our protected native birds that most often fall victims to thoughtless boys and sportsmen'. A small slip is tipped onto page 5 noting the names of six more birds added to the protected list since the page was printed. R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 114699
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McCOLL Maureen
A Salute to Quorn
Quorn: The Author 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Quorn The Author 1993. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; ownership details; a fine copy. Central Australian Railway and CWA Troop Hospitality in WW2. [The Author] paperback
Bookseller reference : 114521
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CHITTY Alfred
Outline Catalogue of Australasian Tokens including Surcharged and Cast Tokens. Together with Outline Catalogue of Copper and Bronze Australasian Tokens. Supplement with Table of the Commonwealth Silver and Bronze Coinage
Adelaide: Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia and printed by G. Hassell & Son 1912. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia and printed by G. Hassell & Son 1912 and 1918. Octavo two volumes 32 pages with 26 small illustrations plus the loosely inserted Additions and Errata sheet; and 15 pages. Wrappers; the first volume has light tidemarks and associated minor cockling to the leading margins; the errata sheet is a little chipped along the bottom margin; errata corrected in pencil; ownership signature on the front cover; the second volume is lightly creased; overall a very good set. Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia (and printed by G. Hassell & Son) paperback
Bookseller reference : 114187
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MUNDAY Bruce
Those Dry-Stone Walls. Stories from South Australia's Stone Age
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2015. Paperback. Very Good. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2015 revised edition/ 2012. Small quarto viii 183 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author and the photographer. Wakefield Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 114248
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STUART John McDouall
Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia . Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta
Melbourne: Government Printer 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1858. Foolscap folio ii title page verso blank 9 pages plus a large folding map 'Country in South Australia explored by John McDouall Stuart. June to September 1858'; 600 � 510 mm; 'Lithographed by W. Knight at the Crown Lands Office Melbourne'. A fine copy in relatively recent modern blind-decorated quarter calf and cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858. This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end of Lake Torrens and then turned north and north-west until they reached the present site of Coober Pedy. They then followed a southerly course to Lake Gairdner passing it on the west side. After a strenuous march they arrived at Ceduna . By now the men had run out of provisions. They travelled along the coast to Streaky Bay and from there to the settled districts at Mount Arden in a state of semi-starvation' Feeken Feeken and Spate 1970. McLaren 15457 noting the map but as ever recording the size of the sheet of paper not the printed surface. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114205
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McCARTHY David ROGERS Tony and Keith CASPERSON
Floods in South Australia 1836-2005
Canberra: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology 2006. Fine. Canberra Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology 2006. Quarto iv xii 252 pages with numerous illustrations some in colour; the last 11 pages are left blank for notes. Laminated colour pictorial ring-bound covers with a large folding flap on the leading edge of the rear cover; a fine copy. Signed by co-author Tony Rogers on the title page. An accompanying interactive DVD is in a plastic sleeve mounted on the verso of the front cover. A 'chronological listing of reported floods grouped by decade detected in South Australia' together with 'a number of short technical papers relating to the phenomenon of floods'. The DVD allows researchers 'to interrogate the data'. Australian Government (Bureau of Meteorology) unknown
Bookseller reference : 114253
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STEPHENS John
The Land of Promise. Being an Authentic and Impartial History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South Australia . by One who is going
Adelaide: Gillingham Printers 1988. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Gillingham Printers 1988 facsimile edition first thus/ 1839. Octavo xii viii 224 9 advertisements pages plus 4 plates 2 folding maps and a folding table. Gilt-decorated cloth; a fine copy. Number 40 of only 300 copies. A facsimile of the first edition with a new introduction by Rob Linn on the views and life of John Stephens plus reproductions of the title page and preface of the second edition also published in 1839 with the latter the only distinguishing points between the first and second editions. Gillingham Printers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114272
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BEADELL Len
Outback Highways
Adelaide: Rigby 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Rigby 1979 first edition. Large octavo 237 pages with numerous illustrations by the author plus 28 plates and endpaper maps. Papered boards slightly rubbed along the bottom edges; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed and sunned dustwrapper. The activities of the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party; the material for this book has been selected from the author's five earlier books. Inscribed on the verso of the half-title to 'Dick from one desert to another. Best wishes from the author Len Beadell Nov 79'. Rigby hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114273
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ROBSON nee MADER Merryl
Conversations with Dad. Part 1: A Barossa Boy. Conrad Wilfred 'Wilf' Mader OM cover title
Sydney: University Publishing Service for the author 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney University Publishing Service for the author 2002 second corrected and expanded edition/ 1998. Small quarto iv 476 pages with numerous illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers slightly bumped rubbed and marked; an excellent copy. Presentation copy signed by Wilf Mader and dated 13 April 2003. "Originally transcribed from tapes for Dad's 90th birthday on 19 March 1998" University Publishing Service for the author paperback
Bookseller reference : 114252
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RAYNES Cameron
The Last Protector. The illegal removal of Aboriginal children from their parents in South Australia
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2009. Small quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Wakefield Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 114283
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HERBERT Colonel A. Kenney
Fifty Dinners
London: Edward Arnold 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Edward Arnold 1894. Octavo; decorated cloth a little flecked marked and rubbed; a very good copy. With the ownership signature of Bessie Hawker. Edward Arnold hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114174
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SHANAHAN Frank and Philippa BRIDGES
Oodnadatta Walkabout. Reminiscences of Oodnadatta and Beyond in the 1920s. Edited by John Dallwitz
Melbourne: Frank Shanahan 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Melbourne Frank Shanahan 1996. Octavo x 138 pages including frontispiece plus 28 pages of plates. Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Frank Shanahan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 114233
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Volume 1: North America Classic Comparative Perspectives D. Umiker Sebeok and Thomas A. Sebeok Australia
Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : 159616-118 ISBN : 0306310732 9780306310737
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SWAIN Veda and Frank FORD
Ecstasy. The Penitence. Paintings by Clifton Pugh
North Adelaide: Greenhill Galleries 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. North Adelaide Greenhill Galleries 1989. Folio 2-78 pages with several plates and 6 illustrations plus 32 full-page colour plates. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Based on a series of paintings executed by Pugh in Mexico in 1965 and first exhibited in St Louis in 1965. Greenhill Galleries paperback
Bookseller reference : 113633
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Cricket. GRIMMETT CV. C. V.
Getting Wickets
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Hodder and Stoughton 1930. Octavo 120 pages plus 5 pages of plates. Flush-cut plain card covers with the attached pictorial dustwrapper; spine cracked but firm and a little chipped at the ends now 'stabilized' with two short pieces of clear tape; notwithstanding an excellent copy. Hodder and Stoughton paperback
Bookseller reference : 113630
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Angas Family Property. SMITH Douglas Darian
A large aerial photograph of Lindsay Park circa 1930 the sprawling homestead near Angaston in the Barossa Valley which George Fife Angas made his home upon his arrival in South Australia in 1851. Long know as a stud for thoroughbred racehorses the property is now owned by Goldin Farms
The gelatin silver photograph visible image size approximately 420 � 570 mm is matted framed and glazed external dimensions 590 � 740 mm; mat a little foxed; minimal silvering-out near the vertical edges; overall in fine condition. While the photographer is not identified on the image we believe it to have been taken by Adelaide photographer Darian Smith in the early 1930s around the time he was producing numerous aerial views of South Australian landmarks for his publication 'Adelaide South Australia from the Air' Adelaide Gillingham & Co. circa 1932. Provence: the estate of Sara Angas formerly of Lindsay Park with the small estate stamp affixed to the verso. unknown
Bookseller reference : 110178
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SEAGRAM Giles pseudonym of Henry John DRISCOLL
Bushmen All. A Romance of the Never-Never
Adelaide: Vardon and Sons 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon and Sons 1908 first edition. Octavo viii 327 1 advertisement pages. Original red cloth; spine a little flecked and sunned; rear cover a little bowed; edges a little tanned; first and last page offset; later bookseller's blindstamp on the half-title leaf; a very good copy. The front flyleaf is inscribed 'To Mrs Sumsion with the best wishes of the author HJ Driscoll 14 July '09'. He was born in Adelaide in 1857; his obituary appears in 'The Advertiser' on 4 September 1916 and he was 59 at the time of his death. The novel deals with 'pioneering life in the Riverina and the dry country nearer the centre and though not cleverly constructed contains some authentic - and sometimes diverting - episodes of station life' Depasquale. Vardon and Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 112996
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ANGAS George Fife
A vintage carte de visite photographic portrait of George Fife Angas 1789-1879 the influential South Australian pioneer
The albumen paper photograph 94 � 61 mm is mounted on the printed card 104 � 63 mm of The Adelaide Photographic Company. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW a gift from a family member John Howard Johnson; it is dated January 1870. There are a few tiny surface scrapes to the bottom millimetre or so of the image and slight surface loss to the plain section of the mount adjacent to it but overall it is in excellent condition. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has this to say about Angas: 'although his prominence in the foundation of South Australia has been somewhat exaggerated . he deserves full credit for the capital and settlers that he introduced into the new colony'. At least he put his mouth where his money was: he emigrated with his family in 1851 and spent the rest of his life in the colony. unknown
Bookseller reference : 112789
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HORROCKS John Ainsworth
John Ainsworth Horrocks' Journal. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 8
Adelaide: RGSSA 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1906. Octavo 12 pages plus 2 plates and a map. Original wrappers; a fine copy. 'In 1846 Mr Horrocks organised what proved his last exploring party and but for the fatal acccident which so unhappily terminated the expedition he would doubtless have left a high record in the history of exploration and would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored by his successors Warburton and Stuart'. The journal runs from 29 July 1846 when the expedition set out from Penwortham to 27 August; Horrocks was accidently shot on 1 September near Lake Gill now Lake Dutton 75 miles north-west of Port Augusta. A lengthy death-bed letter dictated by him at Depot Creek on 8 September is also printed here. This issue also contains EITEL E.J.: Social Life in China 20 pages and SOWDEN W.J.: On Pearl-Fishing in North-West Australia 11 pages. McLaren 10029. RGSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 113886
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Kitchen The Australia Women's Weekly Test
Almost Vegetarian
Weldon Owen. Hardcover. 1681883775 Minor shelf wear . Very Good. Weldon Owen hardcover
Bookseller reference : Z1681883775Z2 ISBN : 1681883775 9781681883779
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GILL ST. and others after S. T.
14 Views of Old Adelaide from Sketches in 1840-1849 by S.T. Gill F.R. Nixon S. Calvert and O. Korn
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1890. Oblong quarto 19 leaves all rectos blank comprising the gilt-pictorial title page by E.C. May 14 full-page tinted lithographic views with tissue-guards the 3-page list of 181 subscribers and the key to plate 5 between plates 4 and 5. Original gilt-decorated half maroon morocco and gilt-lettered brown cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly bumped on the rear corners; cloth lightly flecked; inner hinge a little loose at the title page; minimal light foxing; essentially a fine copy. Ferguson 9924e but we have seen any number of bindings identical to ours and none as described by Ferguson. He also states that 'The Mitchell Library copy has a pencil note: 200 printed in George Robertson's hand-writing'. In spite of this comment and the 181 subscribers' names in our experience the book is not as rare as these figures would suggest. The fact that this item is essentially the same as Ferguson 9807 with the Galbraith imprint under the gold blocking carrying the Wigg imprint and the Wigg binder's label on the rear pastedown leads us to suspect that the answer has something to do with this change of publisher after the book was printed. Correspondence on this matter is welcome. E.S. Wigg hardcover
Bookseller reference : 112995
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