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GEORGE FR. and WR. MURRAY F. R. W. R.
Journal . of the Government Prospecting Expedition to the South-Western Portions of the Northern Territory by F.R. George; and to the Buxton and Davenport Ranges by W.R. Murray
Adelaide: Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1907. Foolscap folio 24 pages plus 4 folding colour maps 515 x 445 mm 390 x 330 mm 270 x 335 mm and 270 x 335 mm. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; first leaf very slightly chipped with the loss of a tiny piece from the bottom right-hand corner and an even tinier piece from the corner of the second leaf; an excellent copy. Northern Territory of South Australia Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1907; one of only 600 copies. A very detailed account of the expedition from the Petermann and Treuer Ranges to Tanami by camel from September 1905 to September 1906; F.R. George died of illness on the expedition. McLaren 8950 and 13940. Government Printer paperback
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SHORNEY M.
On Eagle's Wing
London: Epworth Press 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Epworth Press 1935. Octavo 254 pages plus a frontispiece. Cloth; an excellent copy. A novel set in contemporary South Australia. Epworth Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58122
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BUNDEY WH. W. H.
Reminiscences of Twenty-Five Years' Yachting in Australia. An Essay on Manly Sports a Cruise on Shore . Notes of a Voyage to China and Japan
Adelaide: Wigg 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Wigg 1888. Octavo xx 224 xvi advertisements pages plus 15 lithographs 5 ensigns 3 maps 6 views by members of the author's family and a frontispiece by 'the well-known artist Mr Leonard'. Original gilt-decorated dark blue cloth lightly marked and very slightly rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy. Sir William Henry Bundey 1838-1909 for ten years Commodore of the South Australian Yacht Club was a South Australian MP Attorney-General 1878-81 and later a Supreme Court judge. An uncommon book on an uncommon Australian topic. Wigg hardcover
Bookseller reference : 57140
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Northern Territory
Proposed Settlement on Victoria River
Adelaide: Government Printer 1879. Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1879. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; left and right margins are chipped with a few short tears to the leading edge; a good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 128 of 1879. The proposal came from an Englishman W.J. Browne and full details of his scheme are included not less than 500 natives of Great Britain predominantly 'capitalist-bachelors' . and so on; tacit Ministerial approval is given after stressing that the country 'would require experience of a very different kind to that of young English farmers' and sounding similar sorts of warnings. Government Printer unknown
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Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition. LINDSAY David
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition 1891-2. Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia . Together with The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition 1891-2. Photographs . Together with The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition 1891-2. Confidential Report
North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. As New. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893 2002 first thus and 2003 first thus. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 huge maps each 770 x 1450 mm in a separate cloth-covered case the journal; oblong quarto xii pages plus 107 plates printed rectos only the photograph album; and octavo vi 133 pages the confidential report. Cloth; a mint set. Each of the three parts is limited to 400 numbered copies; the three were published at different times and the volumes offered here do not carry the same edition number. The two maps accompanying the journal are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. Corkwood Press hardcover
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Railways
Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway. Report of the Royal Commission on the charges made by D.L. Gilchrist concerning the construction of the western section
Melbourne: Government Printer 1916. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1916. Folio 60 pages. Title-wrappers; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 321 of 1914-15-16: only 755 copies printed. A series of spurious charges brought by a disgruntled employee with detailed rebuttals; the Royal Commissioner was J.G. Eagleson. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 27322
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WORSNOP Thomas
History of the City of Adelaide from . 1836 to . 1877
Adelaide: J. Williams 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams 1878. Octavo xvi 458 vi 72 advertisements pages plus a large folding map 385x530mm. Cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities and a little marked; small indentation to the top and bottom edges of the front cover; trifling silverfish damage to the bottom edge of the title-page; archival tape repair to a short tear near the stub of the map; inner hinges slightly cracked but firm; first few leaves the map and the edges a little foxed and the edges slightly marked; a very good copy. J. Williams hardcover
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Australian Aborigines cover title. Australian Aborigines - a Study in Contrasts
Adelaide: Aborigines' Friends' Association 1930. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Aborigines' Friends' Association late 1930s reprinted from the AFA Report. Octavo 16 pages with 21 plates plus text printed inside both covers. Pictorial wrappers bright orange textured paper; archives library stamp on the front cover and the title-page; an excellent copy. The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives who have come under mission influence' and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads for His Race'. Printed inside the front cover is 'Our Duty to the Aborigines' by Reverend J.H. Sexton and inside the rear cover are selections from AFA literature. Aborigines' Friends' Association paperback
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GILL Thomas
Bibliography of South Australia
Adelaide: Government Printer 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1886. Octavo ii 118 pages. Original orange cloth with black lettering and decorative border; endpapers discoloured by the acidic boards; covers slightly bumped rubbed and marked; a very good copy. Prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886; with an attractive lithographed title-page signed 'Leo'. With an eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory plus extra material in the appendix. Government Printer hardcover
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Who's Who in Australia. HOWIE Ann C. editor
Who's Who in Australia. XXVIIth Edition 1991. An Australian Biographical Dictionary and Register of Prominent People with which is Incorporated John's Notable Australians first issued 1906
Melbourne: Information Australia 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Melbourne Information Australia 1991. Octavo viii 1267 pages. Papered boards with the dustwrapper; a fine copy. Information Australia hardcover
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WHITE Captain Samuel Albert
Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 39 1915
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 135 pages plus 40 plates 5 pages of scientific drawings and 2 maps. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy. The expedition was under the leadership of R. Lockhart Jack; his concerns were primarily geological. White accompanied him in an unofficial capacity and the 'present notes deal mainly with the zoological and botanical objects noticed during the trip'. The party travelled by camel from Oodnadatta to the Everard and Musgrave Ranges from mid-June to the end of August 1914 during a period of prolonged drought. Approximately 29 pages and all of the plates are devoted to the narrative and the local Aborigines who appear in 16 of the plates. This is followed by scientific reports mainly on mammals birds spiders insects and botany. This issue also contains a major contribution by Bronislaw Malinowski: The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea 213 pages plus 17 plates. McLaren 16784. A popular account was published in book form in 1916 as 'In the Far North-West. An Expedition to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges'. paperback
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LOYAU George E.
Notable South Australians; or Colonists - Past and Present
Adelaide: Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. Octavo viii 288 20 advertisements pages plus 16 lithographs and one mounted albumen paper photograph. Plum-coloured stippled cloth a little marked and slightly rubbed at the corners; spine sunned; amateurish repair to a small hole in the flyleaf where an old price has been erased; relevant newspaper cutting tipped onto the front flyleaf; slight abrasion to the top corner of the title-page; a very good copy. The lithographs are a frontispiece view after Skipper and fifteen full-page portraits; the photograph is of Loyau facing right 98x58mm by George and Walton. Yet another variant we have identified at least half a dozen; Holden 71. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision') hardcover
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PEARCE Andrew
The Land of Sunburnt Babies. A Series of Aboriginal Stories
Adelaide: United Aborigines Mission 1950. Very Good. Adelaide United Aborigines Mission early 1950s. Octavo 36 pages with illustrations. Two-colour pictorial covers; an excellent copy. The author Uncle Arthur of 'New Life' was UAM Missionary at Finniss Springs. United Aborigines Mission unknown
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PENNEFATHER EW. E. W.
A Visit to India
Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co. 'The Advertiser' Office 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide J.L. Bonython & Co. 'The Advertiser' Office 1894. Octavo iv 147 pages. Original wrappers acidic and brittle slightly marked and a little chipped and cracked with a little loss lacking most of the spine three corners and small pieces near the hinges; title-page and the last page discoloured; a very good copy. The author was 'Professor of Laws at the University of Adelaide'; perhaps not surprisingly this copy has the small circular rubber-stamp of then-Chief Justice Sir Samuel Way on the front cover and the title-page. J.L. Bonython & Co., 'The Advertiser' Office paperback
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Northern Territory
NTGR1 Quarterly Report on Northern Territory to 31 March 1884. Together with the Quarterly Reports ending 30 June 1884 and 30 September 1884
Adelaide: Government Printer 1884. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1884. Folio 3; 11 and 15 pages plus 3 maps with the second paper: a 2-page folding sketch-map of the Adelaide River a sketch-map of the Daly River and a 'Rough sketch of about 40 miles of the McArthur River showing farthest point reached by Captn Carrington of Govt SS Palmerston' 430x520mm. Drop-title in each instance; small holes in the inner margins where sewn when bound now disbound as one item; minor marginal repairs to two leaves in each of the first and third reports; repairs to a tear affecting the text of two other leaves of the first paper; short repaired marginal tears to the large map with two other unrepaired 140mm clean splits along the map folds - only one affects the printed surface; overall in very good condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 53 53A and 53B of 1884 with print runs of 760 860 and 650 copies respectively. The standard formula of reports on mining agriculture the Botanic Gardens and pastoral occupation plus a two-page report by Captain Carrington on his search for the McArthur River in Number 53 and a two-page report on 'Outrages by Aboriginals' in Number 53B the murder of Houschildt Noltenius Landers and Schollert. Government Printer unknown
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Northern Territory
Order of Choice Town Allotments Northern Territory. List showing the order of choice in the selection of town allotments in the Northern Territory as determined by lots publicly drawn at the Government Land Office in Adelaide on 10th May 1870. Together with Order of Choice Country Sections Northern Territory . as determined by lots publicly drawn . on 11th May 1870 and the area to be selected according to applications received to 20th May inclusive. Together with Order of Choice Country Sections . Supplementary and Final List
Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio three papers 5 7 and 1 pages. Each item is drop-title with four small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; the bottom edge of each leaf of the first item is slightly nibbled; overall in very good condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 29 30 and 30A of 1870. Government Printer unknown
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Port Augusta. The Natural Shipping Port of Inlet and Outlet for the Barrier Trade
Port Augusta: D. Drysdale Printer 'Dispatch' Office 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Port Augusta D. Drysdale Printer 'Dispatch' Office 1889. Small octavo 16 pages including the wrappers last page blank. Original decorated titling-wrappers stapled into later plain card covers with hand-lettering; library stamp on the verso of the front cover; two-digit number in ink on the front cover; an excellent copy. Ferguson 14261 listing only one copy held by the State Library of South Australia. In the final paragraph of the pamphlet readers are asked to note a proposed railway link "as may be seen in the attached plan"; neither this copy nor Ferguson throws any light on the matter. D. Drysdale, Printer, 'Dispatch' Office paperback
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REYNOLDS Thomas
Report on Northern Territory Government Buildings
Adelaide: Government Printer 1874. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1874. Foolscap folio 1 page. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1874. A highly critical report compiled by Thomas Reynolds on his official trip to the Northern Territory as Commissioner of Crown Lands the previous year; he was in the Territory from 17 May to 11 June 1873 and this report is dated 16 July of that year. His paper hits the table with a bang - "there is not a building belonging to Government that can be considered creditable except the Telegraph offices and they are facing the wrong way" - and gets louder. Government Printer unknown
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GEORGE Henry
The Land for the People. An Address delivered . at Ashton-under-Lyne England
Port Adelaide: Port Adelaide Taxation Reform League 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Port Adelaide Port Adelaide Taxation Reform League 1889. Octavo iv 8 6 pages including titling-wrappers and 9 pages of advertising drawn mainly from nearby suburbs. Wrappers a trifle creased; ink reference number on the front cover; an excellent copy. The first page of text proper outlines the aims of the League and kindred bodies and comments on the current situation in South Australia. Port Adelaide Taxation Reform League paperback
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BRAY John
Poems 1972-79
Canberra: Australian National University Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Canberra Australian National University Press 1979 first edition. Octavo viii 48 pages. Cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper slightly sunned on the spine. Inscribed signed and dated 18 December 1979 by the author. Australian National University Press hardcover
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Shipwrecks
Wrecks at Port Elliot. Correspondence . relative to the recent Disasters to Shipping in the Harbor of Port Elliot
Adelaide: Government Printer 1856. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1856. Folio 6 pages plus a full-page map of the harbor at Port Elliot. Drop-title; later neat white paper-tape spine masking slight inner marginal damage caused when the item was disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 45 of 1856. Not least "the melancholy catastrophe of the total loss of the cutter Lapwing" and the loss of two of her crewmen "I believe they were drunk at the time". Government Printer unknown
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DIESELDORFF JPD. J. P.
Wegweiser nach Suedaustralien oder Suedaustralien in seiner jetzigen Gestalt. Nach eigener Anschauung waehrend eines mehrjaehrigen Aufenthalts besonders fuer Auswanderer geschildert
Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1849. Octavo vii 63 pages. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy reproduced from microfilm using the Xerographic process. The text is in German. Peade SA26: one of only 48 copies. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
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MOUNTFORD Charles P.
Aboriginal Message Sticks from the Nullabor Plains. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 62 Part 1 1938
Adelaide: RSSA 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1938. Quarto 5 pages. Original card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains TINDALE N.B.: Prupe and Koromarange - a Legend of the Tanganekald Coorong SA 7 pages with a map and an illustration plus a plate. RSSA paperback
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McGUIRE DP. D. P.
The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A lecture delivered to the Adelaide branch of the English Association on September 22 1933
Adelaide: Preece for The Association 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Preece for The Association 1934. Octavo 30 pages. Card covers; slightly sunned around the edges and corners slightly bumped; pages uncut; an excellent copy. Pamphlet Number 2. Preece (for The Association) paperback
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GILES Ernest
Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872 to 1874
Melbourne: Printed for the Author by McCarron Bird 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Melbourne Printed for the Author by McCarron Bird 1875. Octavo iv 223 pages plus a large folding map 320 x 570 mm. Original blind-stamped brown cloth with the gilt 'View of Mt Olga from 60 miles West' on the front cover; spine lettering now lacking the gilt; cloth flecked a little marked and rubbed at the extremities with a little wear to the head of the spine and minor loss to both the cloth and the board at the foot of the leading edge of the front cover nibbled away; map a little soiled along the bound-in edge only slightly affecting a blank portion of the printed surface with one tear extending from the stub expertly repaired; about one third of the leaves have been marked by pressed flowers resulting in small stains resembling foxing with approximately ten leaves more heavily affected; endpapers and top edge marked with a small stain to the top edge impacting slightly on the edge of the first four leaves and the folding map; ownership signature; withal a presentable copy priced to sell. Printed for the Author by McCarron, Bird hardcover
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MOUNTFORD CP. C. P.
Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places belonging to the Northern Aranda Tribe of Central Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 61 1937
Adelaide: RSSA 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1937. Quarto 12 pages. Original quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD C.P.: Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places in South-Western Central Australia 15 pages and Examples of Aboriginal Art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour North-Western Australia 11 pages; TINDALE N.B.: Two Legends of the Ngadjuri Tribe from the Middle North of South Australia 5 pages and Native Songs of the South-East of South Australia 14 pages; TINDALE N.B. with H.K. BARTLETT: Notes on some Clay Pots from Panaeati Island South-East of New Guinea 4 pages and JOHNSTON T.H. and J.B. CLELAND: A Survey of the Literature relating to the Occurrence in Australia of Helminth Parasites of Man 28 pages. RSSA paperback
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TINDALE NB. N. B.
Prupe and Koromarange. A Legend of the Tanganekald Coorong SA. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 62 Part 1 1938
Adelaide: RSSA 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1938. Quarto 7 pages with a map and an illustration plus a plate. Original card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD C.P.: Aboriginal Message Sticks from the Nullarbor Plains 5 pages with 10 small illustrations. RSSA paperback
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BROWN HY. Lyell H. Y.
Some Notes on Central Australia. Geographical Features. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 22 1923
First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo 22 pages. Original wrappers rear cover slightly marked; a very good copy. Incorporated with a couple of other relevant pages in the annual address of the President of the Society Simpson Newland. paperback
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KILLINGTON Gary
A Preliminary Survey of the World View of Urban Aboriginal People participating in the Community Development Program of the Port Adelaide Central Mission
Adelaide: The Author 1970. Fine. Adelaide The Author early 1970s. Quarto iii 206 11 leaves of duplicate typescript printed on the rectos only plus a folding table and 2 tipped-in leaflets both folded. Red buckram slightly rubbed at the extremities; a fine copy. A University of Adelaide Politics III B project; presumably the author's copy with his name and address on the flyleaf. The detailed responses to - on average - approximately 130 questions by the eight people interviewed by the author. Rare by definition and of far greater import and interest than many undergraduate assignments. The Author hardcover
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Northern Territory
Tenders for Survey Northern Territory. Copies of all Correspondence not already before the House referring to the Survey of the Northern Territory Lands between the Government and Mr Gregory the Surveyor-General of Queensland and other persons who may have tendered or made propositions for the survey since the return of Mr McKinlay from the Northern Territory
Adelaide: Government Printer 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1868. Foolscap folio 12 pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; uncut leading and bottom edges slightly chipped with some lightly tidemarked; scattered pale foxing; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 81 of 1868. Government Printer hardcover
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FORSTER Anthony
South Australia. Its Progress and Prosperity
London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. Octavo xii 474 2 16 catalogue pages plus a folding hand-coloured frontispiece map 370 x 325 mm. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities and slightly worn at the head of the front hinge; map very slightly chipped on the two bottom corners when folded with two short tears expertly repaired; a very good copy internally a fine uncut copy. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' from 1855 to 1864; he was also George Fife Angas's agent in SA from 1841 to 1844. This copy comes from the collection of the South Australian historian and bibliographer Thomas Gill with his signature on the flyleaf and the first contents page along with his attractive ownership stamp based on the letter G. His collection was bequeathed to the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia which later disposed of duplicates; this copy has the cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title page and the John Goodchild-designed Gill bequest bookplate on the front pastedown. Ferguson 9691 not recording the map. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
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Illuminated Address
'To W.B.T. Andrews Esquire J.P. Registrar-General of Deeds. Dear Sir on the eve of your departure for England we the Officers of your Department desire simply and sincerely and with unaffected unity of feeling to wish you a prosperous voyage and a hearty God-speed. We trust that though your visit may be overshadowed by affectionate anxiety for the health of your daughter it will nevertheless fulfil your hopes and we assure you we shall look forward to the day when you will once more resume your official duties as one worthy to be celebrated amongst us. We have the honor to remain Dear Sir Your obedient servants . Lands Titles Office Adelaide 1st July 1882'
Inscribed on a sheet of vellum 355 � 215mm with the recipient's name and the initial letter of the text highly decorative and all other capitals ornamental. Running the full length of the left-hand side is a standard with a twirled ribbon captioned 'The Deeds Themselves Though Mute Speak Loud The Doer' topped by a banner 65 � 45mm illustrated with a cloaked Aborigine an upright spear in one hand the other holding aloft a partially unrolled deed. Signed 'Joyner' William George Percy Joyner; cased in an elaborately gilt-decorated full morocco folder very slightly rubbed. A treasure! Walter Boyd Tate Andrews succeeded Sir Robert Richard Torrens as Registrar-General. hardcover
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BLACKET Reverend John
A South Australian Romance. How a Colony was founded and a Methodist Church formed
London: Charles H. Kelly 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. London Charles H. Kelly 1899. Octavo xii 214 2 advertisements pages with vignette illustrations and 14 plates. Original blue cloth with a black floral decoration fairly heavily flecked; small light mark on the rear cover; essentially unread. Inscribed on the pastedown 'To the Hon. J.J. Duncan from the Author. March 20th 1907' with the later ownership signature of J.G. Duncan-Hughes 1927. Charles H. Kelly hardcover
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LENDON AA. A. A.
Dr Richard Penney 1840-1844. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 31 1931
Adelaide: RGSSA 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1931. Octavo 14 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This article deals primarily with the Lower Murray and Milmenrura tribes. This issue also contains a facsimile two-page letter plus a map from John McDouall STUART concerning his 1858 Streaky Bay to Mt Arden expedition and TERRY Michael: Two Journeys Westwards from Horseshoe Bend and Oodnadatta 3 pages plus a full-page map. RGSSA paperback
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FLIERL Joh
1886-1936. Eine kurze Denkschrift. Zum goldenen Jubilaum der Neuendettelsauer Lutherischen Mission bei Finschhafen auf Neu Guinea
Tanunda: The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. Octavo 96 pages with 8 plates. Pictorial wrappers slightly marked rubbed and creased; a very good copy. Text in German. The third of a series of three pamphlets commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea. The Author (and printed by Auricht) paperback
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THOMAS Mary
The Diary and Letters of Mary Thomas 1836-1866. Being a Record of the Early Days of South Australia. Edited by Evan Kyffin Thomas
Adelaide: Thomas 1925. 3rd Edition. New. Adelaide Thomas 1925 revised and enlarged third edition/ 1915. Octavo xiv 191 pages plus 9 plates. An account of the Thomas family's journey to South Australia on the 'Africaine' in 1836 and the fascinating early years of colonization as described in Mary's letters to her brother in England. Her husband Robert was the first newspaper publisher in South Australia and important details of the practical difficulties involved in the printing business are included. Of more immediate and remarkable bibliographic interest is the fact that this is one of 300 unbound copies of the original 1925 edition discovered in the family attic in 1985; the entire cache has now been attractively bound in full reconstituted morocco. It is offered for sale with a fine copy of the first edition of a companion family volume: 'Maisie. Her Life in Her Letters from 1898 to 1902' edited by Joan Kyffin Willington Adelaide Wakefield Press 1992; xii 451 pages with numerous plates in papered boards with the dustwrapper. This 'collectors' duo' comes in a cloth-bound slipcase and each book contains a numbered certificate of authenticity signed by Joan Kyffin Willington Maisie's granddaughter and Mary's great-great-granddaughter. Thomas hardcover
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Sanitation
South Australia. Report of Commission appointed to inquire into the whole question of Sanitation for the Province; together with minutes of evidence and appendix
Adelaide: Government Printer 1876. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1876. Foolscap folio xxviii 138 xxii pages with 2 folding plans. Titling-wrapper; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1876. Detailed answers to 3897 questions; with much on contemporary manufacturing industries in their relation to public health. Government Printer unknown
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MATTHEWS The Very Rev. WR. and The Rev. WM. Atkins editors W. R. W. M.
A History of St Paul's Cathedral and the Men associated with it
London: Phoenix House 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Phoenix House 1957. Octavo; cloth slightly flecked; spine slightly sunned; a very good copy. With a 1960 gift inscription to Thomas Thornton Reed Lord Bishop of Adelaide. Phoenix House hardcover
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LINDSAY David
Mr D. Lindsay's Explorations through Arnheim's sic Land
Adelaide: Government Printer 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1884. Foolscap folio 21 pages plus a large folding map 575 x 855 mm. Recent quarter leather and gilt-lettered cloth; very short tear to the map near the stub expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 239 of 1883-84; one of only 680 copies. Leaving Katherine in late July 1883 Lindsay 'led a Government expedition of six men into Arnhem Land. He followed the overland telegraph . to Roper Creek. He travelled east to the Chambers River and on to the Roper River. He surveyed along the north bank of the Roper to its confluence with Leichhardt's Wilton River and followed the Wilton upstream to the junction with the Mainoru River. Returning to the Roper he went downstream until he reached its tidal flats about twenty miles from Limmen Bight. A broad line of country was then explored to the north and the expedition reached the Gulf of Carpentaria near latitude 14 S opposite Groote Eylandt. A general north-west course was taken and the Goyder River traced to the coast at Castlereagh Bay. Directing the expedition homeward Lindsay crossed the Blyth River above its tidal influence and reached the Mann River a tributary of the Liverpool. Following a south-westerly course now the party reached the banks of the Liverpool River and followed it to its source. Continuing south they came to another stream which Lindsay described as the "supposed Cadell River" but he had come again to the banks of the Mann which was also followed to its source. Crossing the watershed between the northerly and westerly flowing rivers of central Arnhem Land the expedition came to the headwaters of the Katherine River' Feeken Feeken and Spate: 'The Discovery and Exploration of Australia' and thence back to Katherine in early November having covered 1916 miles. 'Rivers and Creeks from my exploration' are overprinted with a wide grey-blue band on this most detailed map. Lindsay notes in his journal that the 'natives are very numerous and inclined to be hostile' and he gives a detailed account of an incident when 'After seeing the coast we started west for the Liverpool lost our horses in the tableland for five days were attacked by natives and were compelled to fire on them in self defence'. McLaren 12615. Government Printer hardcover
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Kangaroo Island. TATE Professor R.
The Botany of Kangaroo Island with Historical Sketch of its Discovery and Settlement and Notes on its Geology. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 6 1883
Adelaide: RSSA 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1980s facsimile reprint/ 1883. Octavo 55 pages plus a folding map. Wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains four other botanical articles by Professor Tate totalling 22 pages. RSSA paperback
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MAWSON Professor Sir Douglas
Some Aspects of Forestry in South Australia
Adelaide: Hassell Press 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hassell Press 1925. Octavo ii 30 pages. Wrappers with full title-page details printed on the front cover sunned around the edges; Royal Society of South Australia stamp on the front cover and title-page; an excellent copy. The 1925 University of Adelaide Commemoration Address. Hassell Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 15324
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LANDSBOROUGH W.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke and Wills
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Wilson and Mackinnon 1862. Octavo iv 128 pages with a frontispiece a lithographed group portrait and a large folding map 'General Map of Australia shewing the routes of most of the the explorers' 577x778mm. Flush-cut quarter cloth and pink papered boards a little rubbed with a few small light stains to the front cover; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers and first and last few leaves a little foxed; ownership signature stamp on the flyleaf; light tidemark to the bottom left-hand margin of the frontispiece; map slightly foxed and expertly repaired where it has split along a few folds with minimal loss in two places where folds intersect; overall a very good copy. The blindstamp 'F.F. Bailliere Publisher Melbourne' is at the foot of the preface leaf see Wantrup page 241 for information regarding publishing details and priority of issues - this minor point is not noted. Not identified as such but from the collection of J.D. Somerville the SA amateur historian with his occasional marginal notes in pencil. Wilson and Mackinnon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61191
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BIRNEY Earle
Selected Poems 1940-1966
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1966 first edition. Octavo; cloth; a fine copy with the very slightly chipped dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a typed lettercard dated 22 September 1968 warmly inscribed and signed by the author twice; the note thanks John Colmer sometime Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Adelaide and his wife Dorothy for their hospitality during his recent stay in Adelaide. McClelland and Stewart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23978
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Land Selections in Northern Territory for Sugarcane Cultivation
Adelaide: Government Printer 1881. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1881. Folio 5 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 179 of 1881. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 50348
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SANDERS Benjamin Stuart
Autumn Leaves and Christmas Joys. Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Short Spicy Poems &c
Adelaide: printed by Sands & McDougall for the Author 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide printed by Sands & McDougall for the Author 1891. Duodecimo 64 pages. Original flush-cut limp cloth; front inner hinge and part of the rear one cracked but firm; an excellent copy. The last page is a list of subscribers 'for five copies and upwards'; there are 24 names. And another thing: clearly 'Spicy' is not now what it used to be . printed by Sands & McDougall [for the Author] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75037
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LEICHHARDT Ludwig
The Leichhardt Plate. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society South Australian Branch Volume 37 Session 1935-36
Adelaide: RGSSA 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1937. Octavo 32 pages. Early half calf with raised bands and contrasting title-labels without the original wrappers; leather a little rubbed at the extremities and slightly worn at the head of the spine and the joints with a little surface loss to the spine; a very good copy with the cropped ink signature of W. Champion Hackett the South Australian nurseryman at the head of the title page. McLaren 12077. Investigations into a small brass plate branded 'Ludwig Leichhardt 1848' allegedly found attached to the butt of a rifle partially destroyed by fire. Volume 37 is bound together with Volumes 35 and 36 of the Proceedings. They contain numerous articles on the early history of South Australia celebrating its centenary in 1936 as well as CLELAND J. Burton: The Native Central Australian and his Surroundings Volume 35 16 pages. Further details on request. RGSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 75337
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Police
Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of South Australia appointed to inquire into and report upon the Conduct of the Police Force; together with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix
Adelaide: Government Printer 1856. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1856. Foolscap folio vi 20 xxxiv pages. Disbound four small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound; a few leading edges a little discoloured; a fine copy. SA Parliamentary Paper 171 of 1856; the inquiry stemmed from the demotion from Commissioner to Inspector in November 1853 of Alexander Tolmer 'partly from the disorganization of the police force as a result of his long absences on escort duty and partly from his character' Australian Dictionary of Biography. The replacement Commissioner Major Peter Warburton of exploration fame whose evidence forms the bulk of this report was himself dismissed from the position in 1867. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 17670
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HOSSFELD Paul S. and Sir Douglas MAWSON
Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 50 1926
Adelaide: RSSA 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1926. Quarto 8 pages with 2 illustrations. Original quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue contains three other contributions by Sir Douglas MAWSON: Additions to the South Australian Mineral Record 6 pages; Varve Shales associated with the Permo-Carboniferous Glacial Strata of South Australia 3 pages and The Wooltana Basic Igneous Belt 9 pages with an illustration and 7 plates. Other interesting articles include HOSSFELD P.S.: The Aborigines of South Australia - Native Occupation of the Eden Valley and Angaston Districts 9 pages with 4 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 and TINDALE N.B. and C.P. MOUNTFORD: Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie South Australia 4 pages with a map and an illustration. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 59983
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RODDA Percival Charles. HOLT Gavin
Mark of the Paw
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hodder and Stoughton 1933 first edition. Octavo 317 pages. Cloth a little lightly marked; edges very slightly marked; a very good copy. Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick and Ken with love. Perce. Leaden Roding 5th May 1933' from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda to relatives in Adelaide. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller; the author's twelth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym Loder. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75181
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South Australiana. A Journal for the Publication and Study of South Australian Historical and Literary Manuscripts. Volume 1 Number 1 March 1962 to Volume 24 Number 2 September 1985 all published
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 to 1985. Octavo 48 issues each approximately 60 pages generally with illustrations plus plates; most of the index inserts are present. Wrappers Volumes 1 and 2 and quarter cloth and wrappers; tiny mark to one front cover; a fine set. The contents are as good as the subtitle suggests. Libraries Board of South Australia paperback
Bookseller reference : 32107
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