‎Australia‎

‎McKINLAY John‎

‎John McKinlay's Northern Territory Explorations 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Papers 1865-66‎

‎Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1999/ 1865 to 1867. Octavo xxxvi 196 pages with a plate plus 2 folding maps. Cloth; a fine copy. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 1; one of only 600 copies. Reset in more legible type with the format changed from folio to the more convenient octavo this work reproduces seven SA parliamentary papers 'relating to John McKinlay's arrival at Escape Cliffs and his explorations in the Northern Territory in 1866'. The illustration one of the maps and the 29-page introduction by Valmai Hankel are new to this edition. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 92051

‎BUDD Wallace B.‎

‎Hear the Other Side. A History of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in South Australia 1875-1988‎

‎Hawthorndene: Investigator Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Hawthorndene Investigator Press 1988. Quarto 237 pages with numerous plates. Synthetic cloth; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed scratched and sunned dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the book launch and the accompanying letter. With the bookplate of Grattan and Junelee Wheaton and the earlier ownership signature of Mary Wheaton. See Wheaton in the index - there are a few annotations and whited out annotations at these references. Investigator Press hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 92373

‎MAEGRAITH Donna MEASDAY Stephen and Larry BUTTROSE editors‎

‎DHARMA‎

‎Prospect: Dhama Poetry Society 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Prospect Dhama Poetry Society February 1975. Small quarto; stapled card covers; 28 pages plus iv covers of poetry with a few illustrations. Cover title: All statments within this frame I Love You I Hate You are untrue'. Poets include the editors and others. Dhama Poetry Society paperback‎

Referencia librero : 92369

‎WIGHT Russell‎

‎A Century of the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated 1899 - 1999‎

‎Plympton: The Author for the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Plympton The Author for the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated 1999. Quarto; cloth; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed creased and torn dustwrapper. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Also inscribed and signed by David Neil Cliff Keiley Joe Heptinstall and Ron Halliday. The Author for the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 90276

‎CANT James. YOUNG Elizabeth‎

‎James Cant‎

‎Adelaide: Brolga Books 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Brolga Books 1970. Square quarto 18 pages plus 27 plates 7 in colour. Cloth; very slightly marked; an excellent copy with the slightly used dustwrapper. This copy is signed and dated 10 April 1970 by the artist under his frontispiece portrait; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. He died in 1983 at the age of 71. Also signed on the title page by Elizabeth Young the second daughter of John Young of Macquarie Galleries fame published her later books under her married name Jean Elizabeth Campbell. Her husband was the artist and arts administrator Robert Campbell. Brolga Books hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 90125

‎BOYD Arthur. BOASE TSR. T. S.‎

‎Nebuchadnezzar‎

‎London: Thames and Hudson 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Thames and Hudson 1972. Quarto 40 pages plus 52 plates by Arthur Boyd including 34 tipped-in colour plates. Cloth; a slight nick to a few top page edges; an excellent copy with the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. With the contemporary ownership signature of Kym Bonython. Thames and Hudson hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 90195

‎CARROLL Alison‎

‎Graven Images in the Promised Land. A History of Printmaking in South Australia 1836 - 1981‎

‎Adelaide: Art Gallery of SA 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Art Gallery of SA 1981. Quarto 64 pages with over 130 illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers lightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Art Gallery of SA paperback‎

Referencia librero : 21355

‎ANGAS George Fife‎

‎The Southern Australian. Volume 1 Number 29 15 December 1838 Number 30 22 December 1838 Volume 2 Number 52 29 May 1839‎

‎Adelaide 1838. Very Good. Adelaide 1838 and 1839. Tabloid in two different sizes 4 pages each issue the last two each with a one-page supplement loosely inserted. Unbound as issued; old folds; minor marginal chips and loss to the third number; in very good condition. George Fife Angas's personal copies of three early issues of South Australia's second newspaper with his name and London address in ink at the head of the first page of each issue. These details are not in his hand; as the newspapers were posted to him in London from Adelaide the addressing would have been done there. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 88563

‎South Australia‎

‎State supply 1888-1988. The history of the South Australian Supply and Tender Board and State Supply Board‎

‎Adelaide: State Supply Board 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide State Supply Board 1988. Large octavo vii 174 pages with numerous illustrations and tables. Pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. State Supply Board paperback‎

Referencia librero : 89921

‎TRUMBLE Angus‎

‎Love and Death. Art in the Age of Queen Victoria‎

‎Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 2002. Large quarto 240 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. This book was published in conjunction with the touring exhibition of the same title December 2001 to November 2002 Adelaide Sydney Brisbane and Auckland. Art Gallery of South Australia hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 89092

‎INGE William Ralph‎

‎The Philosophy of Plotinus. The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews 1917-1918‎

‎London: Longmans 1923. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longmans 1923 second edition/ 1923. Two volumes octavo; cloth unevenly sunned and slightly flecked and rubbed; top edge slightly marked and darkened; a tiny mark to a leading edge; a tiny tear to an outer hinge; a very good set. With the bookplates of Lorna Waterhouse. Loosely inserted is a folded sheet of typescript a segment from Milton and Browning respectively with the previous owner's relevant pencilled annotations. Longmans hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 61909

‎KENDERDINE Sarah‎

‎Artefacts from Shipwrecks in the South-East 1851-1951‎

‎Adelaide: State Heritage Branch Department of Environment and Planning 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide State Heritage Branch Department of Environment and Planning 1995. Quarto; half-cloth tape and laminated pictorial card covers a little marked and slightly rubbed; a very good copy. A catalogue of collections of artefacts from vessels wrecked in the South-east of South Australia. State Heritage Branch, Department of Environment and Planning paperback‎

Referencia librero : 88979

‎MOON Milton‎

‎A Potter's Pilgrimage‎

‎Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2010. Quarto x 294 pages with dozens of illustrations mainly in colour. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. A small errata slip is loosely inserted. Wakefield Press paperback‎

Referencia librero : 89082

‎FYFE Dorothy M.‎

‎Maritime History of Wallaroo. An Outline 1802-1978‎

‎Adelaide: The Author 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1979. Octavo; pictorial card covers lightly rubbed; ownership name on the front cover; an excellent copy. Signed by the author on the title page. The Author] paperback‎

Referencia librero : 88613

‎ROBERTS Melva Jean‎

‎Dreamtime. The Aboriginal Heritage. Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings by Ainslie Roberts and Text by‎

‎Adelaide: Rigby 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Rigby 1981. Large quarto 144 pages with 67 line drawings and 66 colour plates all by Ainslie Roberts. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper. A companion volume to 'The Dreamtime Book' planned with Charles Mountford who died in 1976 and completed by the artist's wife who "took up the task of collecting and adapting the myths". With 24 new paintings and 42 enlarged from the four earlier and smaller format books in the series. Rigby hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 88199

‎WARBURTON Elizabeth‎

‎Old Stradbroke‎

‎Blackwood SA: Lynton 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Blackwood SA Lynton 1976. Octavo 303 pages with plates some in colour. Cloth; tape marks to the verso of the flyleaf; a very good copy with the dustwrapper very slightly sunned creased and torn. Signed by the author on the title page; two items of related ephemera are loosely inserted. Lynton hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 88324

‎MANNING Geoffrey H.‎

‎The Grange Golf Club. A History of the First 70 Years with a Contribution on Women's Golf by Alison Painter‎

‎Grange: Grange Golf Club 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Grange Grange Golf Club 1997. Large octavo 372 pages with numerous illustrations plus pictorial endpapers. Full calf slightly indented at the rear; essentially a fine copy. '75 copies have been bound in leather as a special edition'; this is an unnumbered out-of-series copy. Grange Golf Club hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 88064

‎WALLACE Norman V.‎

‎The Graves of Picardy. Reprinted from 'The Saturday Journal' June 28 1919‎

‎Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1919. Sextodecimo 10 pages. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated in gold; a fine copy. Perceptive contemporary thoughts on the value of war cemeteries. W.K. Thomas paperback‎

Referencia librero : 87793

‎WILSON SC. and KT. BORROW S. C. K. T.‎

‎The Bridge over the Ocean. Thomas Wilson 1787-1863 Art Collector and Mayor of Adelaide‎

‎Adelaide: The Authors 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide The Authors 1973. Octavo 348 pages with 30 plates some in colour. Cloth; an excellent copy with the slightly creased and rubbed dustwrapper and the publisher's wrap-around band. Number 507 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. [The Authors] hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 87920

‎KORNMANN Henricus‎

‎Sibylla Tryg-Andriana seu de Virginitate Virginum Statu & Jure Tractatus . Bound with Linea Amoris sive Commentarius‎

‎Frankfurt: Becker the printer 1610. First Edition. Very Good. Frankfurt Becker the printer 1610 and 1610 both first editions. Duodecimo 282 last blank 6 index and 148 7 index pages. Contemporary vellum with early manuscript title in ink on the spine; front flyleaf a little creased and chipped; paper lightly toned around the edges; an excellent copy. The first editions of much-reprinted works on the rights and duties of women. The first volume addresses virginity the second adultery and the contents are drawn in the main from classical and theological writings with each volume containing an index of sources. With the armorial bookplate of John Walter Tyas 1833-1903 linguist bibliophile and university registrar; the following details of his interesting life are gleaned from the Australian Dictionary of Biography. After studying law and working on the staff of 'The Times' he emigrated to South Australia in 1868. After a period in business in Adelaide he was active in the pearl-shell industry on the north coast of Australia and beyond for three years. In 1873 he returned to England and for some years 'roved the Continent collecting bric-�-brac pieces of art and books on antiquity. In 1878 he was appointed Reuter's agent in Adelaide arriving there on 18 September and in 1882 became registrar of the University of Adelaide. Tyas also acted as examiner in modern languages especially in French. A natural conversationalist and an entertaining host he was envied for his library and his knowledge of literature'. Becker [the printer] hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 75954

‎St Peter's College. THORNTON Katharine‎

‎The Messages of its Walls & Fields. A History of St Peter's College 1847 to 2009‎

‎Kent Town: The Council of Governors of St Peter's College and Wakefield Press 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. New/Fine. Kent Town The Council of Governors of St Peter's College and Wakefield Press 2010. Large quarto xvi 478 pages with hundreds of illustrations many in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The Council of Governors of St Peter's College and Wakefield Press hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 87582

‎O'CONNOR Brian J.‎

‎Personalities in Pink Coats. History of the Mount Gambier Hunt Club‎

‎Mount Gambier: Mount Gambier Hunt Club 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Mount Gambier Mount Gambier Hunt Club 1986. Octavo 128 pages with plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and sunned about the spine. Presentation copy warmly inscribed and signed by the author to Peter and Judy Rymill at "Old Penola" Mount Gambier Hunt Club hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 14157

‎GARNET J. Ros‎

‎Wildflowers of South-Eastern Australia‎

‎Richmond: Greenhouse 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Richmond Greenhouse 1987. Quarto 192 pages with 80 colour plates by Elizabeth Conabere. Papered boards; minor notation on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Greenhouse hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 87470

‎CROCKER Claire‎

‎Peacocks Dancing‎

‎Armadale: Cliffe Books 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Armadale Cliffe Books 2001. Octavo Card covers; a fine copy. Cliffe Books paperback‎

Referencia librero : 67195

‎MILNE William‎

‎Notes of a Journey to the South Eastern District January 1863 . Edited and Annotated by Peter RYMILL‎

‎Rymill Winery: Peter Rymill 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Rymill Winery Peter Rymill 2010. Octavo 96 pages with several illustrations. Colour pictorial card covers; mint. The author Commissioner of Public Works in the South Australian Cabinet travels for 28 days in the high summer of SE South Australia scribbling notes by the campfire. With a biographical preface by Michael Milne. Peter Rymill paperback‎

Referencia librero : 87114