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ANGAS George Fife
A framed and glazed original pen and ink portrait of George Fife Angas 1789-1879 South Australian pioneer
The visible image size is 615 � 500 mm; the external dimensions of the frame are 895 � 755 mm; apart from three tiny holes low down on the left-hand lapel of the coat perhaps moths and a very small amount of surface loss on the other lapel the condition of the portrait matt and frame are excellent. It is based on one of the variant frontispiece portraits used in Edwin Hodder's 1891 biography 'George Fife Angas. Father and Founder of South Australia'; we have identified different images and reproduction processes for this frontispiece. This portrait is based on a photograph but whether it was done from an original print or the frontispiece reproduction is not known - nor is the artist known. However it is a well-executed portrait and the matt and frame suggest that the item is at least of the same vintage as Hodder's book. 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'. unknown
Bookseller reference : 69226
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West Indies 1975 76 and Australia 1975 76
A detached autograph album leaf 165x200mm signed in ink by fifteen members of the West Indies touring team in Australia 1975-76
The signatures are Lloyd Captain Ali Baichan Boyce Fredericks Gibbs Greenidge Holder Holding Julien Kallicharran possibly Murray Richards Rowe and Clive Walcott the Manager. On a conjugate leaf are the signatures of eight members of the Test team for Australia: Gilmour Jenner Lillee Mallett Marsh McCosker Turner and Walker. These were probably collected at the time of the First Test in Brisbane in which case the Australians not to have signed are Ian Chappell Captain Greg Chappell Redpath and Thomson. Leading edges of the leaves slightly silverfish-nibbled; all edges slightly discoloured; two small light marginal spots; in very good condition. unknown
Bookseller reference : 55378
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REYNOLDS Thomas
Report on Northern Territory. The Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration of his Official Visit to the Northern Territory via Galle Singapore Java Macassar and Timor
Adelaide: Government Printer 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1873. Foolscap folio 10 pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 55 of 1873. Reynolds was away for approximately fifteen weeks and his report is full of matters pertinent to his portfolio - land its uses and people to use it. 'Any person visiting these islands who considers the number of their inhabitants the peculiar adaptability of the people for tropical and semi-tropical lands their habits their general industry the rapid increase of population in these islands - which threatens ere long to burst through its present geographical limits . then takes up the map of Australia and especially that portion our Northern Territory - can draw no other inference but that Nature and Providence combine to show that the Northern Territory of Australia is destined to become by its striking geographical position the point where the superabundant population of those islands may find a foothold and a home where millions of acres wait for the occupancy of a race just adapted to their special wants'. He spent from 17 May to 11 June in the Northern Territory and got stuck into things - and people - and recommended that the entire control of the Territory be 'under one experienced responsible head'. However something struck a chord with him; shortly after he returned to Adelaide he resigned from his position and 'Attracted by business opportunities in the Territory he went back and opened a store. This was not successful and in February 1875 he and his wife embarked on SS Gothenburg for the return journey to Adelaide - and went down with the ship off the Queensland coast' Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography Volume 1. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58350
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MILLER F. and W. DUTTON
Explorations by Messrs. Miller & Dutton. Letter from W.G. Harris to Commissioner of Crown Lands forwarding Tracing of Country adjacent to Denial and Fowler's Bays explored by Messrs. F. Miller and W. Dutton
Adelaide: Government Printer 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1857. Foolscap folio 1 page plus a folding map 425 x 362 mm. Modern cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; a fine copy. The map is rudimentary; the cover letter is reasonably short but not without interest containing observations such as 'The hole opened by Mr Eyre in 1840 Miller now says is a spring bubbling over'. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 192 of 1857. McLaren 13394. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75605
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HOWARD Dora
The English Activities on the North Coast of Australia in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 33 1931-32
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 174 pages with 2 maps. Wrappers; a fine copy. 'Permission has been obtained through Professor Newton of the University of London for the publication of a very brilliant thesis written by Dora Howard in 1925'. paperback
Bookseller reference : 20730
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LOUWYCK Reverend NH. N. H.
In Quest of Truth
St Peters: The Author at the 'Ankh' Press 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. St Peters The Author at the 'Ankh' Press 1939. Octavo iv vi 119 pages. Overlapping card covers slightly rubbed creased and marked with a tiny closed tear to the rear leading edge; uncut edges and first and last blank pages slightly foxed; an excellent copy. Number 90 of 150 copies signed by the author. 'I have printed this little book on my small hand-printing machine' from his home at 85 First Avenue St Peters an inner suburb of Adelaide South Australia. The Author at the 'Ankh' Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 71821
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Vessels offered for Northern Territory Service
Adelaide: Government Printer 1869. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1869. Folio 1 page. Drop-title; neatly disbound with holes in the left-hand margin where formerly stab-sewn; a very good copy. Thirty-four vessels are listed with the names of owners tonnage date available and terms charter rates or purchase price; Elder Smith's ship Moonta was chartered and James Darwent's steam launch Midge was purchased. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 193 of 1868-69. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 27432
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BROWN HYL. H. Y.
Government Geologist's Report on Explorations in the Northern Territory
Adelaide: Government Printer 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1895. Foolscap folio 34 pages plus 7 plates photolithographs of scenes on the Victoria River 15 geological maps and sections 3 folding all with colour and a large folding map of the Territory 630 x 335 mm. Recent cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; drop-title; short split to a blank margin of the map along a fold expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 82 of 1895; one of only 620 copies. The results of four months' work in the latter part of 1894. 'I regret that I am able to present only a few photographic views the greater number of the dry plates I took with me having become spoilt through the action of the climate or some other cause'. McLaren 5400 recording the separate issue and incorrectly stating 'Not a Parliamentary Report'. Government Printer] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75096
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DIXON Samuel
Remarks on some Indigenous Shrubs of South Australia suitable for Cultivation as Fodder. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 8 1886
Adelaide: RSSA 1886. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1886. Octavo 13 pages. Wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains WINNECKE Charles: Plants collected in Central Australia 4 pages; it is a revised and corrected version of the list published in his official report of his 1883 expedition see SA Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1884. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 59765
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COX Francis William
Jubilee Record 1837-1887. The Congregational Churches of South Australia
Adelaide: Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. Octavo viii 173 pages. Green cloth a little flecked and slightly rubbed; a little offsetting to the title-page; light marginal stains to the first three leaves of text; a very good copy. Webb, Vardon and Pritchard hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64213
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MOUNTFORD Charles P. and Norman B. TINDALE
Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie South Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 50 1926
Adelaide: RSSA 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1926. Quarto 4 pages with a map and an illustration plus 5 plates. Original quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy of Mountford's first publication. This issue also contains MAWSON Sir D. and P. HOSSFELD: Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District 8 pages with 2 full-page illustrations plus 4 plates; HOSSFELD Paul S.: The Aborigines of South Australia. Native Occupation of the Eden Valley and Angaston Districts 11 pages with a map and 3 pages of illustrations; CAMPBELL Dr T.D. and Dr A.J. LEWIS: The Aborigines of South Australia - Anthropometric Descriptive and other Observations recorded at Ooldea 9 pages plus 3 pages of plates containing 12 portraits and two short articles by Dr R. Pulleine. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 60901
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LEWIS JW. J. W.
Sketch showing route traversed by Exploration Party commanded by J.W. Lewis Esq. under authority of the Crown Lands Department Adelaide SA. 1874-5. Adjoining Surveys in Lat 28 50' on the East of Lake Eyre and in Lat 28 15' on the West. Ordered by the House of Assembly to be Lithographed 29th June 1875 . printed title
Adelaide: Government Printer 1875. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1875. A large map 690 x 550 mm folding down to foolscap folio size. One edge very slightly chipped; one tiny marginal tear expertly repaired; a fine copy detached from a bound volume with the preceding one-leaf parliamentary paper retained for the time being for protection. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 57 of 1875 no text accompanied this map. McLaren 12530-31-32 are confusing confused: the first entry refers to this item by correct Parliamentary Paper number but the title is incorrect; the third entry shows the correct title for a map accompanying the journal published the following year as SAPP19 of 1876. Feeken Feeken and Spate comment on the fact that although Lewis reported his arrival at Beltana on 12 July 1875 after completing his surveys 'Curiously the map of his surveys was signed by Surveyor-General Goyder already on 15 July'. We have not inspected the map issued in 1876 but the present copy contains a lithographed note that may explain the apparent anomaly: 'Copied from Plan forwarded by J.W. Lewis Esq. in the Office of The Surveyor General by Edwin S. Berry and H.C. Talbot . June 15th 1875'. Little is known about J.W. Lewis not to be confused with John Lewis of 'Fought and Won' fame but he accompanied Warburton across the Great Sandy Desert in 1872-73. 'Warburton admitted that Lewis had several times saved the party from perishing on that epic journey' Feeken. An abridged account of Lewis' Lake Eyre expedition will be found in Threadgill along with a reduced facsimile of a later version of the map which includes 'a detailed examination of the course of the Barcoo as far as Innamincka'. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 24335
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HUDSON Flexmore
Ashes and Sparks. 43 poems
Adelaide: Preece 1937. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Preece 1937. Octavo vi 46 pages. Plain paper covers with attached grey dustwrapper with large flaps trifling piercing to the top edge of the last two leaves and rear cover; an excellent copy. Hudson's first collection of poetry. Preece unknown
Bookseller reference : 58239
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MAWSON Sir Douglas. SUZYUMOV EM. E. M.
A Life given to the Antarctic. Douglas Mawson - Antarctic Explorer. Authorized translation by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1968 first edition in English. Octavo x 61 pages plus 5 plates and 2 folding maps. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73409
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Lunatic Asylums
Third Progress Report from the Select Committee on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum
Melbourne: Government Printer 1884. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Government Printer 1884. Folio vi 77 pages. Titling-wrappers stab-sewn as issued; uncut edges very slightly foxed; several leaves near the centre are heavily foxed; a very good copy. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 41 of 1861-2. The Select Committee also enquired into the treatment of the lunatics in the Melbourne Gaol. This progress report contains the detailed answers to 1832 questions: two of them should suffice . "672: What was Coates's conduct towards the other patients - Very irritating; he argued with them on religious matters and he was very nearly killed by one patient for calling the Virgin Mary a wh--e. 673: You have no doubt he was insane - I think he must have been insane when he made that remark" Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 56107
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STURT Charles
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia during the years 1828 1829 1830 and 1831
Lane Cove: Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lane Cove Doubleday 1982 facsimile edition/ 1833. Octavo two volumes ii lxxx 219 and ii vi 271 pages plus 18 plates and a folding map. Synthetic cloth; a fine set with the fine dustwrappers. Doubleday hardcover
Bookseller reference : 73994
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DALY Mrs Dominic D.
Digging Squatting and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia
London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1887. Octavo xii 368 pages plus a folding colour map 435 � 190 mm. Original light fawn cloth with extensive gilt floral decoration and attractive gilt lettering; all edges uncut; cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities with a tiny amount of wear to the front bottom corner; vertical crease near the centre of one leaf; trifling occasional fingermarks; an excellent copy. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April 1870 my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' and the rest of the family north. She spent the better part of the next three years in the Territory returning south for her marriage in 1871 to a nephew of the late Governor before leaving for good in 1873 when her father was dismissed for incompetence. Her chatty account based on her personal experiences concludes then at page 208; the rest of the book is written 'by means of researches in newspapers official reports and other documents'. Significantly this copy bears the ownership signature of John Lewis Benacre 1910 on the dedication page. The Honorable John Lewis 1844-1923 was an 'Explorer bushman drover roughrider pastoralist businessman legislator'; his father James accompanied Charles Sturt in 1844-45 and one of his sons was the industrialist Essington Lewis. Lewis has pencilled annotations on two pages of text. The notes on the first page relate to gold crushing statistics; the second corrects a passing comment Daly makes about him in relation to a rescue party. On page 227 Daly names the leaders of the party as Messrs. Lewis and Levi; Lewis notes that 'Levi did not go on this trip but went with J. Lewis the following year' refer to Lewis's autobiography 'Fought and Won' chapters 13 and 14 for the full details. Offered together with a fine copy of the 1984 Hesperian Press facsimile edition. Ferguson 8939 not noting the map. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75543
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DONNAN Henry 1864 1956: NSW and Australia
An albumen paper cabinet photograph image size approximately 150x100mm laid down on the blind-stamped card of H. Parker Rolfe of Philadelphia; it dates from the short visit to America made on the homeward journey of the 1896 Australian touring team to England
It is a posed outdoor shot of the batsman at the crease; it is inscribed 'Yours Truly . 3.10.96' and signed in ink in the bottom right-hand corner of the image. The surface of the image is slightly scuffed and the mount has a few minor surface chips; overall it is in excellent condition. Henry Donnan made only the one tour and he played in only five Test matches; 'he made 1009 runs but was disappointing in the Tests'. His main claim to fame is that in 'the first of all Sheffield Shield matches in 1892/3 he scored the competition's first century against SA in Adelaide' OCAC. unknown
Bookseller reference : 66212
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Australia 1938 and England 1938
An end-of-match scorecard approximately 255x150mm for the Fifth Test England versus Australia commencing Saturday 20 August 1938 a four-day match
England won by an innings and 579 runs: Hutton 364 Leyland 187 and Hardstaff 169 contributed to the record total of 7 wickets declared for 903 a figure that is still in the top ten first-class scores of all time; Australia could manage only 201 and 123 as both Bradman and Fingleton were injured during the innings and did not bat. As Frith puts it: 'With England's total around 800 Bradman put himself on to bowl - but soon fell and fractured a shinbone'. Archivally mounted ready for framing with a card signed by Don Bradman displayed in a window in the mount; minimal pale foxing; in excellent condition. unknown
Bookseller reference : 29156
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MUELLER Ferdinand
Report on the Plants collected during Mr Babbage's Expedition into the North-Western Interior of South Australia in 1858
Melbourne: Government Printer 1859. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Government Printer 1859. Folio 21 pages. Titling-wrappers stab-sewn as issued; small blank piece torn from the bottom right-hand corner of the first two leaves; minimal scattered foxing; an excellent copy. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1859. The report contains a detailed list of all species of plants collected although it included only three new genera and seventeen new species: the complete index 'would convey a more comprehensive idea of the vegetation which clothes the barren interior of South Australia' than hitherto available. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 20646
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DAVEY Constance M.
Children and their Law-Makers. A Social-Historical Survey of the Growth and Development from 1836 to 1950 of the South Australian Laws relating to Children
Adelaide: University of Adelaide 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide University of Adelaide 1956. Octavo xiv 158 pages. Cloth a fine copy with the dustwrapper a little bumped and sunned at the spine. With a signed receipt attached to an original request to the author subsequently inscribed and initialled by her loosely inserted. [University of Adelaide] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64604
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Adelaide
Photographic Views of Adelaide and Suburbs by the Melbourne Photographic Co. 16 18 & 20 Rundle Street Adelaide cover title. New cabinet view album of Adelaide and suburbs suitable for a present to friends abroad inside front cover. A folder purple papered boards 160x110mm containing 12 albumen paper photographs cabinet size approximately 88x138mm laid down in two columns on a folding sheet of paper 310x630mm with captions and red-ruled borders. On the front pastedown and the blank portion of the folded sheet facing it are laid down two cartes-de-visite approximately 57x93mm including one of the facade of Rigby's bookshop. Probably late 1870s: the pastedown has printed details of two awards "First prize awarded February Show 1878" and "Bronze Medal Paris Exhibition 1878". Altogether a fine example of a rare and attractive item
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Bookseller reference : 24560
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GEE Lionel CE. C. E.
Bush Tracks and Gold Fields. Reminiscences of Australia's 'Back of Beyond'. Foreword by F. Wood-Jones
Adelaide: Preece 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Adelaide Preece 1926. Octavo viii 109 pages plus 3 plates. Cloth slightly marked and sunned; top edge a little foxed; one four-page section not completely sewn in; a good copy without the folding map present in some copies. Presumably as issued as this is an author's presentation copy signed on the title-page and inscribed and dated 23 August 1930 on the flyleaf. With much aboriginal and north Australian content. Preece hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20478
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WOODS James Dominick
The Province of South Australia written for the South Australian Government. With a Sketch of the Northern Territory by H.D. WILSON
Adelaide: Government Printer 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1894. Octavo vi 446 pages. Original wrappers slightly chipped and marked; spine sunned and slightly cracked; name-stamp on the flyleaf; a very good copy. With 28 pages on the Aborigines of South Australia and 32 pages on the Northern Territory. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 65551
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COX Francis Wm
Jubilee Record 1837-1887. The Congregational Churches of South Australia
Adelaide: Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. Octavo viii 173 pages. Cloth flecked and a little marked; extremities very slightly rubbed with a small section of the front leading edge slightly worn; first and last pages slightly discoloured by the acidic boards; a very good copy. Webb, Vardon and Pritchard hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58140
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KEMPE Reverend J. sic Adolf Hermann
Plants indigenous to the Neighbourhood of Hermannsburg on the River Finke Central Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 3 1880
Adelaide: RSSA 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1980s facsimile edition/ 1880. Octavo 8 pages. Wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains SMEATON Stirling: Diagnoses of New Species of Plants discovered in South Australia 3 pages; one of the plants is Justicia kempeana found 'Near the MacDonnell Range by Rev. H. Kempe'. Doubtless in both instances this is Pastor Adolf Hermann Kempe one of the pioneering missionaries at Hermannsburg. Two other interesting articles are TEPPER Otto: On the Characteristics and Distribution of the Native and Naturalised Plants about Ardrossan Yorke's Peninsula 21 pages and an uncredited article: Short Directions for Collecting and Preserving 7 pages. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 59766
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NEWLAND Simpson
'Some Aboriginals I Have Known'
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. Octavo 15 pages. Titling-wrappers; a fine copy. A separately-paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Session 1894-5. With the pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. W.K. Thomas, Printers paperback
Bookseller reference : 64096
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COX A. Bertram at the request and on behalf of the club
Out of the Rough. A History of the Mount Lofty Golf Club.1925-1975
Adelaide: Mount Lofty Golf Club 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Mount Lofty Golf Club 1975. Small quarto; decorated papered boards; an early ownership signature on front flyleaf; a fine copy with the fine plastic dustwrapper with the ownership sticker of the dedicatee on the rear panel. Number 15 of 1000 copies. Signed and dated 1st April 1st 1975 by the author with a remarkable dedication and a relevant black and white snapshot taped to the verso of the half-title and many relevant signatures at rear including two captains of the club. Mount Lofty Golf Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 68736
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South Australia
Secondary Towns Association formed for the purchasing of One or More Special Survey or Surveys of Land in South Australia for Sites for Secondary Towns; Statement of the Proceedings of the Directors for the Information of the Proprietors
Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1843. Octavo ii 30 pages plus a folding map and 2 folding survey plans. Synthetic cloth; endpapers slightly discoloured; a fine copy. Peade SA13: one of only 35 copies. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
Bookseller reference : 52949
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FINNISS Boyle Travers
Report of Commission . to inquire into the Management of the Northern Territory Expedition
Adelaide: Government Printer 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1866. Foolscap folio xxviii 112 xlii pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; last page slightly marked and discoloured with a very small piece missing from the bottom corner; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 17 of 1866. Finniss 1807-1893 became the first Premier of South Australia in 1857; in 1864 he was appointed the first Government Resident in the Northern Territory. 'The hastily organized and poorly planned survey party under his command was instructed to examine the Adelaide River and near-by coast and to select a capital site. Against the advice of his subordinates Finnis chose Adam Bay and began marking out sections on its mosquito-infested mud flats. Bitter dissensions followed with his assistants who complained to Adelaide. Finniss was recalled to face a Royal Commission which condemned him for poor judgment and for spending some 40000 pounds of public funds on a hopeless venture' Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 1. Not least of the charges brought against him was 'That in sending away an armed party for the express purpose of "retaliating" upon the blacks on the 8th day of September 1864 he caused the death of a defenceless prisoner and violated the principles which have hitherto actuated this Government in their treatment of the natives thereby bringing the Colony into disrepute'. A very detailed Royal Commission report laying bare the nuts and bolts of colonization. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58407
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Kangaroo Island. HOWCHIN Walter
Notes on the Geology of Kangaroo Island with special reference to evidences of extinct glacial action. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 23 Part 2 1899
Adelaide: RSSA 1899. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1899. Octavo 10 pages plus 2 plates one folding. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains a nine-page address by the President of the Society W.L. CLELAND; he concentrates on the Australian Aborigines with particular reference to the recent publications of Roth Spencer and Gillen. He concludes that the 'Australian is not degenerate but primordial . A consequence of this is that no longer protected by isolation he must shortly entirely disappear from the face of the earth for he is an anachronism and archaic'. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 59769
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HOWARD Frederick
Proceedings of Surveying Schooner 'Beatrice'
Adelaide: Government Printer 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1866. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; leading edge slightly chipped; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 79 of 1866. A summary account of activities from 28 December 1865 to 26 August 1866; with numerous references to the McKinlay expedition the 'Beatrice' was its support vessel. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58402
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Relation of Northern Territory to South Australia
Adelaide: Government Printer 1883. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1883. Folio 4 pages. Drop-title; small holes and trifling tears in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. Official "correspondence with the Imperial Government concerning the title of this colony to the Northern Territory". South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 113 of 1883; only 620 copies printed. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 50358
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JOHNSTON TH. T. H.
Aboriginal Names and Utilization of the Fauna of the Eyrean Region. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 67 Part 2 1943
Adelaide: RSSA 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1943. Quarto 68 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. An exhaustive survey based in part on material collected on expeditions "to Pandi on the lower Diamantina adjacent to the Queensland border in 1934 and the northern Flinders Ranges in 1937" combined with "much published information . widely scattered in literature. The present paper is an attempt to bring it together under a zoological classification". It is effectively an annotated thematic bibliography of the area the north-eastern corner of South Australia and environs. This issue also contains COOPER H.M.: An Exceptional Australian Axe-head 2 pages with 3 illustrations plus a full-page plate. A 25-page companion article by T.H. JOHNSTON and J.B. CLELAND on the flora of basically the same area was published in Part 1 of this volume. Fine copies are available for $55 each. SPECIAL: the two parts are offered together for $165. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 19591
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MAGAREY AT. A. T.
Aboriginal Water-Quest. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Session 1894-5
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. Octavo 15 pages with 4 illustrations. Titling-wrappers; a fine copy. W.K. Thomas, Printers paperback
Bookseller reference : 16934
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COMBE Gordon D.
Responsible Government in South Australia
Adelaide: Government Printer 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1958/ 1957. Quarto xvi 277 pages with plates mainly portraits. Synthetic cloth very slightly marked on the rear cover; an excellent copy. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54847
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HAZELL Anne
A Slice of History. Blackwood Golf Club 1930-1980
Hawthorndene: Investigator Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hawthorndene Investigator Press 1979. Octavo 88 pages with drawings by Jack Peake and plates some in colour. Decorated cloth; a fine copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Investigator Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53740
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BATES Daisy M.
Aborigines of the West Coast of South Australia. Vocabularies and Ethnographical Notes. Communicated by J.M. Black. Contained in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 42 1918
Adelaide: RSSA 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1918. Octavo pages 152-167. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy. This volume also contains numerous other papers some of them lengthy some of them well-illustrated on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi with 4 colour plates Australian orchids the geology of Ardrossan and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 29545
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Australia 1935 36
Australian Cricket Team. South African Tour 1935-36 cover title. An official Christmas card
178x115mm 4 pages deckle-edged stiff card: with the Coat of Arms and green and gold corner stripes on the front cover the team portrait photograph printed on the second page traditional Christmas and New Year sentiments on the third page and the tour fixture list on the last page. The covers particularly the front cover are foxed; the centre pages have minor spots of foxing confined mainly to the edges. The third page is inscribed 'To you both and Lin' and signed in ink by Bert Oldfield wicket-keeper on the tour. The centre-spread makes a most attractive display item. unknown
Bookseller reference : 56476
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Northern Territory
Petition from Residents in Northern Territory
Adelaide: Government Printer 1874. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1874. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; leading edge lightly chipped and sunned with several tiny tears; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 232 of 1874. With all due respect the 231 signatories - all residents of the Northern Territory - have had enough: "That while engaged in a struggle of no ordinary magnitude with the object of forming a colony in and developing the resources of this portion of the Province your petitioners have had and still have to encounter in addition to the natural obstacles arising from climate and remoteness from civilization the still greater obstacle occasioned by the maladministration of the government of this portion of the Province". The details follow. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 58354
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FINNISS Boyle Travers
The Constitutional History of South Australia during twenty-one years from . 1836
Adelaide: Rigby 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Rigby 1886. Octavo xii 610 pages. Original bright red cloth spine a little sunned and slightly marked; top edge lightly marked; a very good copy. With the large early ownership signature surname only of the well-known South Australian pioneer Sir Simpson Newland on the flyleaf along with details of a later owner. Rigby hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53757
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Catalogue of the Work of Fred. C. Britton & F. Millward Grey. Exhibition held at the SA Society of Arts Gallery North Terrace
Adelaide: Tyrrell's Limited 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Tyrrell's Limited mid-1920s. Quarto 19 pages with 8 tipped-in plates including a colour frontispiece. Wrappers very slightly marked; an excellent copy. Tyrrell's Limited paperback
Bookseller reference : 58207
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STEFANSSON Dr Vilhjalmur
Central Australia. Report
Melbourne: Commonwealth Government Printer 1924. Melbourne Commonwealth Government Printer 1924. Foolscap folio 4 pages title-wrappers plus 3 pages of text; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 133 of 1923-24; only 960 copies printed. The journey of the famous Arctic explorer 'as the guest of the Commonwealth Government was by train from Adelaide to Oodnadatta and by motor car from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs and back' with side trips to north of the MacDonnell Ranges and west of Hermannsburg Mission. Among other things he stressed the development of motor transport. Commonwealth Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 53927
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SCHULZ JFW. J. F.
Insere Reese noach Hermannsburg
Tanunda: Auricht 1935. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda Auricht 1935 second edition. Octavo 35 pages with numerous illustrations by the author and plates. Pictorial wrappers slightly silverfish-nibbled along a small section of the the spine and on the surface of the front panel; a very good copy. The text is in a German dialect 'Barossa Deutsch'; it is an account of a trip to Hermannsburg mission written in the form of a letter from 'August von der Flatt' the author's alter ego to his ficticious friend Fritz in the Barossa Valley. Auricht paperback
Bookseller reference : 68156
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GALE Fay
The Role of Employment in the Assimilation of Part Aborigines. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 60 1959
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 10 pages with a map plus 4 small plates; two errata leaves versos blank are loosely inserted. Original card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains BOEREE R.M.: Past and Present of Rural Eyre Peninsula 16 pages with 4 maps; FINNIS H.J.: Village Settlements on the River Murray 20 pages; NEWLAND B.C.: The Mountain that moved 18 pages with an illustration and a map and THOMSON Keith W.: Urban Settlement and the Wheat Frontier in the Flinders Ranges South Australia 13 pages with 3 diagrams and a map plus 2 pages of plates. paperback
Bookseller reference : 16283
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MIGNET Henri
The Flying Flea. 'Le Pou-du-Ciel'. How to build and fly it
London: Sampson Low Marston 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Sampson Low Marston 1934 - second impression the first impression of 6000 copies having sold out in less than a month. Octavo xviii 269 pages with 70 illustrations plus a frontispiece plate. Cloth a little marked and flecked with the bottom portion of the spine sunned; ownership details; a very good copy with the dustwrapper chipped and torn with some loss notably the bottom third of the spine and indifferently repaired with clear tape now staining the paper. Translated from the French by the Air League of the British Empire. One of the Aviation for the Amateur series - how to built the original ultra-light. Offered together with a leaflet commemorating 'The First Officially Observed Flight of a Flying Flea in Australia. Constructed by the Litchfield Enginering Co. Limited from the design of the Frenchman M. Henri Mignet and test flown by Pilot W. Scott Maddocks at Parafield Aerodrome on July 16th. 1936' 255 x 180 mm 4 pages with an illustration of the aircraft on the front page. Apart from giving the dimensions the engine and its performance capabilities at the foot of the front page the Flea is not mentioned again - the rest of the leaflet extolls the virtues of Litchfield's Hardened & Tempered Cylinder Liners complete with illustrations of three of them. Parnell and Boughton in their superb book 'Flypast. A Record of Aviation in Australia' devote half a page to 'homebuilts of the Flying Flea type' see the entry for 30 January 1936; it is not exactly a good advertisement for the object. The section of the article devoted to this machine is perhaps the most encouraging so we quote it in full: '26 sic Jul 1936 a Flying Flea was successfully flown at Parafield SA by W.S. Maddocks; built by Keith Litchfield and assistants the first two flights were hops across the airfield; the third was a wide circuit but it had engine trouble and force-landed about a mile away'. John Winchester's book 'The World's Worst Aircraft' 2005 pulls fewer punches about the 'Sky Louse . A series of fatal crashes in 1936 finally warranted a wind-tunnel investigation of the Flea proving that if the nose was lowered below 15 degrees there was insufficient pitching moment to raise the nose and a crash was inevitable. The Flea was banned in 1939'. Sampson Low, Marston hardcover
Bookseller reference : 71292
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Northern Territory
Correspondence with Agent-General . being copies of correspondence between the Agent-General and the Hon. the Treasurer and also between the Agent-General and Mr Purdy and others relative to newspaper criticisms on the public debt of this colony and the Government Northern Territory policy
Adelaide: Government Printer 1869. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1869. Folio 44 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; tiny stain to the leading edge of a few leaves; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 148 of 1869-70. Francis Dutton the Agent-General for South Australia in London certainly earned his salary that year; if nothing else the correspondence is VERY detailed. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 20489
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Northern Territory
Return of Northern Territory Surveys. showing the cost per acre of the surveys in the Northern Territory the number of lineal miles actually marked on the ground during the said surveys the average number of acres and lineal miles marked out per diem by each surveyor and the amounts of all bonuses or allowances exclusive of salary paid to the members of each survey party
Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio 1 page. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; light foxing; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1870. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 58347
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Who's Who in Australia. KNOX Errol G.
Who's Who in Australia. VIIIth Edition 1933-34. Incorporating Johns's Notable Australians and being a Record of the Careers of Prominent and Representative People of our Time
Melbourne: Herald Press 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Herald Press 1933. Octavo ii 348 pages with a few advertising plates. Cloth rubbed at the extremities; endpapers offset; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed chipped and torn with minor loss. Herald Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 70232
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CONYBEARE WJ. W. J.
'Here's a Church - let's go in'. Glimpses of the Church of England at Work
Gloucester: British Publishing Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gloucester British Publishing Company 1946. Octavo; papered boards; spine a little sunned; endpapers offset; an excellent copy. South Australia pages 30-39. British Publishing Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75068
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