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‎DAY Theodore Ernest‎

‎Lecture on Central Australia. Its Undeveloped Interior and its Possibilities. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 23 and 24 combined issue‎

‎Adelaide: RGSSA 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1924. Octavo 22 pages plus 4 plates in xvi 48 last blank xx 106 2 last blank pages plus 5 plates and a map Volume 23 and 19 plates and a folding map Volume 24. Later binder's cloth retaining the original wrappers; boards slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer librarian book collector and bibliographer. This combined issue also contains HALLIGAN G.H.: An Expedition to Lake Eyre in South Australia 7 pages plus a map and a plate; DODWELL G.F.: South Australian Solar Eclipse Expedition to Cordillo Downs 1922 13 pages plus 4 plates; WHITE Captain S.A.: The Country traversed by the Scientific Expedition of Professor Sir Edgeworth David to the Finke River Northern Australia 8 pages plus 4 plates; and BUCHANAN Alexander: Diary of a Journey overland from Sydney to Adelaide with Sheep July-December 1839 26 pages plus a plate and a folding map. RGSSA paperback‎

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‎Camels‎

‎Petition of Camel Troop Carrying Company‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1858. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1858. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; an excellent copy. The seventy-seven petitioners were the promoters and subscribers of the Camel Troop Carrying Company 'established in the City of Adelaide to facilitate the organized introduction of camels into South Australia . We are satisfied that the exploration of Australia will only be profitably accomplished by the employment of these animals'. A Government bonus of 20 pounds per head was sought on the proposed first importation of sixty head of the best breeds. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1858. Government Printer unknown‎

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‎Northern Territory Correspondence‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1865. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1865. Foolscap folio 4 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 79A of 1868. The correspondence ranges in dates from 13 February 1864 to 4 September 1868; it includes good contributions by Francis Cadell a half-page interim report on his expedition and John Robertson business partner of the explorer J.G. Macdonald a half-page detailing their exploits in the Gulf of Carpentaria and outlining their proposal for the Northern Territory survey. McLaren 6907 under Cadell but not under Macdonald. Government Printer] unknown‎

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‎Australian Art‎

‎The High Light. A Souvenir Volume by the Adelaide Drawing and Sketch Club. Artistic and Literary. Bernard Dubois Honorary Editor‎

‎Adelaide: George Robertson 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1910. Quarto 112 pages with 26 plates 2 in colour and a number of text illustrations. Overlapping decorated wrappers slightly chipped and sunned with some very light stains to the spine; a little foxing to the first and last leaves; an excellent copy. Literary contributors include Mary Gilmore Hugh McCrae E.J. Brady and Bernard O'Dowd; artists include D.H. Souter John Shirlow and Oswald Pryor. The editor states that the Club "was formed by a number of students who had studied in the Life Class at the School of Design Adelaide" and that "this volume . is the first of its kind in Australia". With the signature of Will Sowden on the title-page and front cover with the date 12 August 1910. George Robertson paperback‎

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‎ANDERSON JB. J. B.‎

‎Commemoration of Proceedings in connection with the Eightieth Anniversary of the Lodge of Truth Number 8 SAC. A Short History of the Lodge of Truth .‎

‎Adelaide: The Lodge 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Lodge 1935. Octavo 84 pages with 10 plates. Gilt-decorated cloth very lightly marked and rubbed; small library stamp on the preface page; an excellent copy. The Lodge hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 58613

‎COX A. Bertram‎

‎Links with a Past. A History of Golf at Glenelg‎

‎Glenelg: Pagel/ Glenelg Golf Club 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Glenelg Pagel/ Glenelg Golf Club 1987. Octavo; synthetic leather; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Pagel/ Glenelg Golf Club hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 71828

‎HELPMAN Benjamin Francis‎

‎The Helpman Journals. Being Extracts and Comments on the Manuscript Journals of Benjamin Francis Helpman of HM Sloop 'Beagle' 1837-38-39-40. Edited by E.M. Christie. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 45 1944‎

‎Adelaide: RGSSA 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1944. Octavo 59 pages in vi 129 pages with a map plus 6 plates and a folding map. Original wrappers; a fine copy. Benjamin Francis Helpman 'actively participated in the surveying and exploring of the North-west Coast between Roebuck Bay and the Prince Regent River and later in the discovery and exploration of the Adelaide and Victoria Rivers . accompanying Captain Wickham on the boat trip to the navigable head of the Adelaide River and his Journal contains a very full account of the expedition'. His name has been perpetuated in Helpman Islets Point Helpman and Mount Helpman. This issue also contains previously unpublished material from William Light's diary 8 pages; OLDHAM Wilfrid: How Adelaide was bought and sold 9 pages plus a folding map; and ANGAS Captain J. Keith: An Examination of the Ninety Mile Beach South Australia 17 pages with a map plus 2 plates. RGSSA paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20729

‎TINDALE NB. N. B.‎

‎Notes on the Natives of the Southern Portion of Yorke Peninsula South Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 60 1936‎

‎Adelaide: RSSA 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1936. Quarto 16 pages including a 10-page vocabulary. Original quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains FENNER F.J.: Anthropometric Observations on South Australian Aborigines of the Diamantina and Cooper Creek Regions 9 pages with a map and an illustration plus 2 pages of plates containing 8 portraits; BLACK J.M.: The Botanical Features between Oodnadatta and Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges with a Locality List of Plants from the North-West of South Australia 13 pages and CAMPBELL Dr T.D.: Anthropology and the Royal Society 6 pages. RSSA paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 19642

‎South Australia in 1842. By one who lived there nearly four years‎

‎Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1972/ 1971 facsimile edition/ 1843. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. With the armorial and aboriginal bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill. Peade A78: only 577 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 70336

‎Electric Lighting. ANDERSON George‎

‎Report on Public and other Electric Lighting in Australia Europe and America from personal observations‎

‎Adelaide: Adelaide City Council 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Adelaide City Council 1894. Octavo 41 pages plus 5 plates including one double-page folding plate. Wrappers with the title-page details reprinted on the front cover very slightly marked; small sticker neatly removed from the front cover; cancelled library stamp on the verso of the title-page; first and last pages slightly discoloured by the wrappers; an excellent copy. (Adelaide City Council) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 58845

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‎CAMPBELL WS. W. S.‎

‎Northern Territory. Reports . regarding the Suitability of Certain Lands for Purposes of Agriculture and for the Establishment of Experimental Farms‎

‎Melbourne: Government Printer 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1911. Folio 24 pages plus 3 large folding maps. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued wire slightly rusty; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1911: only 950 copies printed. Government Printer paperback‎

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‎PEARCE Andrew‎

‎Brown Boys and Boomerangs and other Stories for Boys and Girls of all ages‎

‎Adelaide: United Aborigines Mission 1950. Very Good. Adelaide United Aborigines Mission early 1950s. Octavo 32 pages plus 8 plates. Two-colour pictorial covers very lightly marked; an excellent copy. The author Uncle Arthur of 'New Life' was UAM Missionary at Finniss Springs. United Aborigines Mission unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18253

‎JONES Professor Frederic Wood‎

‎The Status of the Dingo. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 45 1921‎

‎Adelaide: RSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1921. Octavo 10 pages. Quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains HOWCHIN Professor Walter: On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Regions of Central Australia 25 pages plus 11 pages of plates and a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of Australia in the making of Stone Implements based on actual observation 2 pages. The implements were found in the vicinity of the Macumba Head Station "about 34 miles to the northward of Oodnadatta" RSSA paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 59736

‎WHITELOCK Derek and Doug LOAN‎

‎Festival. The Story of the Adelaide Festival of Arts‎

‎Adelaide: The Author 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1980. Quarto; laminated pictorial papered boards very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Professor Colin Horne's presentation copy signed by both authors Adelaide Lord Mayor James Irwin and Festival Director Anthony Steel. The Author hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 72091

‎Australia 1945 and England 1945‎

‎A scorecard 240x125mm for the third of five three-day 'Victory Test' matches played at Lord's 14-17 July 1945. England won the toss and batted first; both England innings the first Australian innings and the fall of the first wicket of her second innings are printed and the details down to the fall of the sixth wicket at 193 are completed in ink. Australia won by 4 wickets reaching 6 for 225 so the card is complete apart from the scores of Cheetham and Miller 71 not out - he was the series' leading batsman with an average of 63.28. The card is slightly worn and has three horizontal creases presumably when folded for posting; in good condition - and uncommon. International cricket started again in England after the Second World War with these 'Victory Test' matches between the Australian Services team under Lindsay Hassett and an England XI under Walter Hammond. 'The matches were played in a most pleasing spirit and watched by large crowds. It was hoped both these face‎

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Bookseller reference : 55284

‎Central Australia‎

‎Report on the Administration of Central Australia for the year ended the 30th June 1928‎

‎Canberra: Government Printer 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Canberra Government Printer 1929. Folio 8 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1929; only 815 copies printed. The Government Resident at the time was J.C. Cawood. The Northern Australia Act of 1926 which resulted in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927 was repealed on 11 June 1930; this is the second of only four Central Australian reports. Government Printer paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20542

‎Railways‎

‎Extension of Transcontinental Railway from Angle Pole to Alice Springs‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1890. Foolscap folio 12 pages plus 3 folding maps 'Proposed Route through the Macdonnell Ranges' 350 x 280 mm '. Angle Pole to near Alice Springs . showing routes examined' 705 x 280 mm and 'Crossing of River Finke near Crown Point' 450 x 520 mm. Recent cloth; drop-title; two short marginal splits along the folds of two maps expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 204 of 1890; only 650 copies printed. Government Printer hardcover‎

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‎MEULEMAN Kenneth Douglas Victoria WA and Australia‎

‎An autograph letter signed Ken Meuleman to Srikantan Ramamurthy‎

‎Folio one page on Meuleman's business letterhead 21 April 1983. Routine content regarding autograph hunting with a couple of interesting observations: "the other photo is of pure gold cuff links personally presented to all players who participated in Sir Donald Bradman's testimonial in 1949". Meuleman an accomplished right-handed batsman born in 1923 played his sole Test in Wellington in 1946; his "Test hopes were frustrated by the heavy run-scoring of Sid Barnes Arthur Morris and to a lesser extent Billy Brown" Pollard. A couple of tiny tears to the bottom edge otherwise in fine unfolded condition. unknown‎

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‎TORRENS Robert‎

‎Substance of a Speech delivered by Colonel Torrens in the House of Commons 15th February 1827. for the re-appointment of a Select Committee on Emigration from the United Kingdom‎

‎Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 xerographic facsimile/ 1827 second edition. Octavo vi 36-56 pages. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Peade SA38: one of only 45 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32230

‎RODDA Percival Charles. HOLT Gavin‎

‎The Garden of Silent Beasts‎

‎London: Hodder and Stoughton 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. London Hodder and Stoughton 1931 first edition. Octavo 320 pages. Cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges and a few leading margins slightly marked; endpapers offset; top margin slightly cockled throughout a little more pronounced in the first third of the book; overall still a better-than-good copy. Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick with love Perce. Leaden Roding 15 Jan. 1932' from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda to relatives in Adelaide. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller with a visit to Australia in passing; the author's eighth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym Loder. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 75180

‎ELLIS Catherine J.‎

‎Aboriginal Songs of South Australia. Reprinted from Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies in Musicology. Volume 1 1966‎

‎Adelaide: LBSA 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide LBSA 1966. Small quarto 54 pages with 2 maps. Wrappers; a fine copy. LBSA paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20186

‎North Australia‎

‎Report on the Administration of North Australia for the year ended the 30th June 1929‎

‎Canberra: Government Printer 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Canberra Government Printer 1930. Folio 29 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1930; only 850 copies printed. The Government Resident for the period was R.H. Weddell. The Northern Australia Act of 1926 resulting in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927 was repealed on 11 June 1930; this is the third of only four North Australian reports and it has detailed mining health police and other sections. Government Printer paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20564

‎TILBROOK Ian‎

‎Torn Edges‎

‎Adelaide: F.W. Preece 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide F.W. Preece 1938. Octavo; staple-bound wrappers unevenly sunned and lightly creased; edges very slightly torn with slight loss; a very good copy. Signed and dated 14 September 1987 by the author on the title page. F.W. Preece paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 75878

‎STREHLOW TGH.. McNALLY Ward T. G.‎

‎Aborigines Artefacts and Anguish‎

‎Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Lutheran Publishing House 1981. Octavo 208 pages with numerous plates plus endpaper maps. Papered boards with the dustwrapper; a fine copy. A biography. Lutheran Publishing House hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 29453

‎HOUSTON Carol compiler‎

‎A Selected Regional Bibliography of the Aboriginals of South Australia‎

‎Adelaide: South Australian Museum 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Museum 1975. Quarto 178 pages versos blank. Flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers lightly creased unevenly sunned and with light surface silverfish-damage; a very good copy. South Australian Museum paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 64657

‎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 370x325mm. Original blind-stamped cloth; new endpapers retaining the bookplate of Arthur Kingston Moore; first and last leaves foxed; map slightly foxed with the leading margin slightly chipped and sunned; a very good copy. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' from 1855 to 1864. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover‎

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‎Simpson Desert Expedition‎

‎The complete set of the published Scientific Reports of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition is offered as one lot‎

‎The expedition was the culmination of several varying investigations over the previous decade: Madigan's first aerial reconnaissance in 1929 Colson's crossing practically along the 26th parallel in 1936 and a journey by truck around the northern end of the desert in 1937. This pioneering scientific expedition of nine men and seventeen camels left Andado in early June and reached Marree on 8 August after a journey of 800 miles in a little over ten weeks. The Reports are contained in the following volumes of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia: Volume 68 Part 1; Volume 69 Part 1; Volume 70 Parts 1 and 2; and Volume 72 Part 1 1944 to 1948. The series is preceded by MADIGAN C.T.: Introduction Narrative Physiography and Meteorology 22 pages plus 10 plates and a large detailed folding map 535 � 395 mm. 1st Report HICKMAN V.V.: Biology - Scorpions and Spiders 31 pages with 3 illustrations. 2nd CARROLL D.: Geology - Desert Sands 11 pages plus a plate. 3rd KINGHORN J.R.: Biology - Reptiles and Batrachians 7 pages. 4th MUSGRAVE A.: Biology - Hemiptera 2 pages. 5th WHITLEY G.P.: Biology - Fishes 4 pages. 6th MADIGAN C.T.: Geology - the Sand Formations 19 pages with illustrations plus 8 plates. 7th EARDLEY C.M.: Botany. Part I: Catalogue of Plants 30 pages plus 11 plates. Part II: The Phytogeography of some important Sandridge Deserts compared with that of the Simpson Desert 29 pages with a map. 8th CROCKER R.L.: The Soils and Vegetation of the Simpson Desert and its borders 24 pages plus 15 plates and a folding map 300 � 325 mm. Each volume is quarto in original wrappers edges a little discoloured; overall a fine set. 5 items. unknown‎

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‎South Australia‎

‎The Acts and Ordinances of South Australia . A bound volume containing Numbers 3 8 and 17 of 1844 plus complete years 1845 17 items 1846 17 items 1847 19 items plus title-page and index leaf and 1848 12 items plus title-page and index leaf‎

‎First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto each Ordinance separately paginated totalling several hundred pages. Half leather and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and worn at the extremities; some pencilled annotations; internally in excellent condition. Not least Ordinance Number 8 of 1844 with an Amendment Number 5 of 1846: 'To allow the Aboriginal Inhabitants of South Australia and the parts adjacent to give Information and Evidence without the sanction of an Oath'. Other Ordinances of interest include 'To Establish a Savings Bank in South Australia to Provide for the Management thereof and for the Security of Deposits therein' Number 15 of 1847 and its Amendment Number 13 of 1848; 'For the Naturalization of certain Persons Natives of Germany' only Messrs Meyer Klose Teichelmann and Schuermann in 1845; in 1847 the list contained 309 names with addresses and occupations; 'Authorising the making of Railways' Number 7 of 1847 in 68 pages plus business as usual Scab in Sheep Laws of Customs Salary of the Governor Qualifications of Medical Practitioners . hardcover‎

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‎Northern Territory Survey. Surveyors' General Description of Soil‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio 8 pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 of 1870 surprisingly the date is not printed on the item but 1870 is correct. The descriptive notes by surveyor George McLachlan for Section 1681 in the Hundred of Ayers are typical: 'Light brown loamy soil generally covered with nodulous ironstone rocky ironstone hills steep and high. Open forest country timbered with stringybark ironbark cotton tree plum tree and grevillia. Large open flats in places with good dark and often black soil to creeks. High coarse grass all over the land'. Government Printer hardcover‎

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‎WOOD Rev. JG. J. G.‎

‎Natural History‎

‎London: George Routledge 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London George Routledge 1877. Octavo; gilt-decorated full prize calf; one corner slightly bumped; corners slightly worn; extremities slightly rubbed; a very good copy. With a Christmas Examination Prize plate from the North Adelaide Grammar School on the front pastedown. George Routledge hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 68191

‎WOODS JD. J. D.‎

‎On the Aborigines of South Australia. Contained in Transactions . of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide South Australia for 1878-9 Volume 2‎

‎Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1980s facsimile edition/ 1879. Octavo 8 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains TATE Professor Ralph: The Natural History of the Country around the Head of the Great Australian Bight 35 pages plus a page of illustrations. It contains a three-page history of exploration in the area and there are numerous cross-references to previous explorers plus passing references to the local Aborigines. Royal Society of South Australia paperback‎

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‎Mining‎

‎Regulations under the Northern Territory Gold Mining Act 1873. July 14th 1891‎

‎Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1903. Very Good. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1903. Octavo 4 pages one folded sheet. Titling-cover; outside pages a little marked some contemporary calculations in ink in the margins of the inside pages; a very good copy. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18254

‎PARKHOUSE Thomas Anstey editor‎

‎Reprints and Papers relating to the Autochthones of Australia‎

‎Woodville: The Editor 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodville The Editor 1923 and 1935. Octavo two volumes viii 176 and iii-vi 47 pages. Cloth with the title in gilt along the spine a little flecked; an excellent set. The articles are by John Stephens William Wyatt William Williams C.G. Teichelmann and C.W. Schuermann and M. Moorhouse. Both volumes were hand-set and printed by Thomas Parkhouse who died before the completion of the second volume - his daughter Mary finished printing the page he was working on. Norman Tindale in his preface to the second volume states that 100 copies of the first volume were produced but we have sold a copy containing a 1934 letter to the amateur anthropologist Harold Sheard from Parkhouse wherein he claims to have printed 80 copies. Either way sets are scarce. The Editor hardcover‎

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‎KILLINGTON Gary‎

‎Similar Yet Distinctive. Aborigines in Urban Settings with Particular Reference to Adelaide‎

‎Adelaide: The Author 1973. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1973. Quarto vi 193 73 leaves of duplicate typescript printed on the rectos only. Maroon buckram slightly marked and very slightly rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy. A thesis presented as part of the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree at the University of Adelaide in 1973. Of consequence and by definition rare. The Author hardcover‎

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‎Aviation‎

‎A gelatin silver photograph image size 200x150mm in a contemporary frame 295x245mm of South Australian aviation identity John Hamilton Buckham died 1989 aged 84. It is a fine head-and-shoulders portrait complete with scarf and flying cap with goggles; there is a slightly faded inscription in the bottom right-hand corner: 'With my sincerest regards Buck'. Undated but most probably mid-1930s. John Buckham joined the RAAF as a mechanic and was offered a pilot's course in the 1920s. He was chief flying instructor with the Royal Aero Club of South Australia from 1934 to 1939; he rejoined the RAAF during the second world war reaching the rank of Wing Commander. He joined the DCA after the war was the first airport manager at Moorabbin and ended his working life as airport manager at Parafield‎

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‎Kangaroo Island‎

‎Survey of Kangaroo Island and Backstairs Passage. Report by B. Douglas of a Survey of the Troubridge Shoal and Kangaroo Island‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1858. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1858. Foolscap folio 2 pages plus a huge folding map 957 � 1400 mm: 'Kangaroo Island and Backstairs Passage from the Survey by B. Douglas . Novr 1857'. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margin where sewn when bound now disbound; trifling residual glue on the spine; two very short repaired tears to the map which also has a thin horizontal line of light discolouration along the junction of the two sheets of paper required for a map of this size; essentially a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 134 of 1858. In the two-page report Douglas the Harbor Master of South Australia publicly expresses his 'admiration of the wonderful correctness in all essential points of Capt. Flinders's survey; and would observe that no means at our disposal at present are sufficiently reliable to correct the various leading features as determined by that intrepid navigator'. Douglas also begs 'respectfully to request that one hundred copies of the chart may be lithographed'; in the absence of any other publication details we present his request for what it's worth. Government Printer unknown‎

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‎Militaria‎

‎10th-50th Battalions and Associate Units 3rd and 13th Brigades 1st AIF. Sixteenth Annual Re-Union Hotel Barmera Saturday August 20th 1949‎

‎Barmera: Irving Print 1949. Barmera Irving Print 1949. External dimensions 100 x 205 mm but cut and printed to resemble a digger's slouch hat 8 pages comprising title double-page 'rations' list double-page toast list with relevant colour patches a page for autographs the committee list and details of deaths since the last meeting. Light-brown card printed in dark brown; one 'rations' page slightly marked; trifling abrasion to the front cover; a superb item. A most attractive souvenir menu from the South Australian Riverland. It is interesting to note that these annual reunions did not commence until 15 years after the First World War ended. The outside rear cover has the pencil ownership signature of H.L. Bowen #1866 Sergeant Haddon Lancelot Bowen 50th Battalion returned to Australia in February 1919 after more than three years on active service. Irving Print] unknown‎

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‎Northern Territory‎

‎Ordinances of 1911 Nos. 1 to 12‎

‎Melbourne: Government Printer 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1911. Folio 17 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 14 of 1911; only 950 copies printed. Topics include the powers and functions of the Administrator leases for tin dredging and the establishment of a Supreme Court for the Territory. Government Printer paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20621

‎Central Australia‎

‎Report on the Administration of Central Australia for the year ended the 30th June 1929‎

‎Canberra: Government Printer 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Canberra Government Printer 1929. Folio 12 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 12 of 1929 Second Session; only 825 copies printed. The Government Resident at the time was J.C. Cawood. The Northern Australia Act of 1926 which resulted in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927 was repealed on 11 June 1930. This is the third of only four Central Australian reports; with considerable aboriginal content. Government Printer paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20543

‎FRY Dr HK. H. K.‎

‎Kinship and Descent among the Australian Aborigines. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 58 1934‎

‎Adelaide: RSSA 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1934. Quarto 8 pages. Original quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains CAMPBELL Dr T.D.: Notes on the Aborigines of the South-East of South Australia 11 pages with a map as well as MAWSON Sir Douglas: The Arltunga and Karoonda Meteorites 6 pages. RSSA paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 19618

‎PRICE A. Grenfell and others‎

‎Lake Eyre South Australia. The Great Flooding of 1949-50‎

‎Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1955. Quarto xii 75 pages with 16 maps and diagrams plus 14 plates and a folding map. Original card covers; a fine copy. Royal Geographical Society of South Australia paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 68079

‎FARRAR Frederic W.‎

‎History of Interpretation. Eight Lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1885. On the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton‎

‎London: Macmillan 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Macmillan 1886. Octavo lii 554 2 advertisements. Cloth slightly rubbed; corner tips a trifle worn; spine darkened; front inner hinge slightly cracked but firm; a very good copy. With the ownership signature and bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide and with his occasional pencilled emphases and annotations. Loosely inserted is a small newspaper clipping a contemporary illustration of the author. Macmillan hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 75990

‎GALE Fay BAILEY HARRIS Rebecca and Joy WUNDERSITZ‎

‎Aboriginal Youth and the Criminal Justice System. The Injustice of Justice‎

‎Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990. Octavo; papered boards a trifle rubbed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a trifle rubbed. Inscribed and signed by one of the authors. Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 75497

‎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. Blue cloth very lightly rubbed marked and sunned on the spine; slight offsetting to the title-page; an excellent copy. Loosely inserted is a folded copy of 'Jubilee of Congregationalism in South Australia 1887. Programme of the Intercolonial Conference' 12 pages quarto. Webb, Vardon and Pritchard hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 64214

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‎BERNDT RM. R. M.‎

‎Notes on the Sign-Language of the Jaralde Tribe of the Lower River Murray South Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 64 Part 2 1940‎

‎Adelaide: RSSA 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1940. Quarto 6 pages with 2 pages of illustrations. Original card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD C.P.: Aboriginal Stone Structures 9 pages with 2 maps and 2 illustrations plus 8 plates. RSSA paperback‎

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‎HOWCHIN Professor Walter‎

‎On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Regions of Central Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 45 1921‎

‎Adelaide: RSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1921. Octavo 25 pages plus 11 pages of plates. Original quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. The implements were found in the vicinity of the Macumba Head Station 'about 34 miles to the northward of Oodnadatta'. This issue also contains a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of Australia in the making of Stone Implements based on actual observation 2 pages and WOOD JONES F.: The Status of the Dingo 10 pages. RSSA paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 19729

‎ANGAS George Fife. ARCHBOLD John Frederick‎

‎The Practice of the New County Courts‎

‎London: Shaw 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. London Shaw 1852 fifth edition/ 1847. Octavo xxiv 568 20 advertisements pages. Cloth slightly marked a little sunned and a little bumped at the extremities with a tiny split to the head of the spine; a very good copy internally uncut and unopened. With the ownership signature of George Fife Angas 'G.F. Angas' in pencil at the head of the title page. The book has the later inkstamp of 'Herbert Angas Parsons Solicitor Adelaide' on the front endpaper. George Fife Angas 1789-1879 South Australian pioneer: 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' Australian Dictionary of Biography. Sir Herbert Angas Parsons 1872-1945 was the son of Rosetta Rose Angas Johnson George Fife Angas's granddaughter. Shaw hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 24542

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‎Northern Territory‎

‎Eight Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers from 1906 to 1913 relating to the transfer of the Northern Territory from South Australia to the Commonwealth are offered as one lot. The major items are Parliamentary Paper Number 21 of 1909: 'Northern Territory. Transfer to the Commonwealth. Correspondence dated 15th October 1906 to 16th July 1909' 29 pages and a 1910 Memorandum: 'Northern Territory. Memorandum prepared under the direction of the Hon. L.E. Groom Minister for External Affairs July 1909 in connexion with the Bill for the acceptance of the Northern Territory with some later figures' 36 pages. The other papers range from one to four pages each. They are all folio and in fine condition with the exception of some slight chips to the top margins of two of the lesser items; print runs of 900 to 950 copies are noted in most instances‎

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‎HILL Clem‎

‎Dinner to Clem Hill. Adelaide 1938 cover title. Farewell Dinner tendered by the South Australian Cricket Association to Mr Clem Hill at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday 27th September 1938‎

‎175x120mm 4 pages with the bill of fare and toast list on the centre pages bound into deckle-edged card covers with three ribbons in the SACA colours. With the very large pencil signature of Clem Hill at the head of the front cover. The covers are very slightly marked and the original owner has signed a bottom corner of the front cover; in excellent condition. Clem Hill 1877-1945 Australia's first great left-handed batsman a veteran of 49 Tests and four tours of England captain of Australia in 1910-11 and 1911-12 one of the Big Six in the great Board of Control v Players controversy with a career-highest score of 365 not out . consult any reference book if you want any more superlatives. His first-class career ran from 1892-93 to 1924-25; here he is being farewelled from South Australia having moved to Melbourne in 1937 to become a handicapper for the Victorian Amateur Turf Club. His death seven years later came as a result of injuries sustained while alighting from a tram OCAC. This is a significant memento of the end of a most glorious innings in Australian cricketing history. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 56189

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‎JURY CR. C. R.‎

‎Icarius‎

‎Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1955. Octavo x 41 pages. Quarter cloth and papered boards with the dustwrapper; a fine copy. The eighth publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press; not stated but limited to 500 copies. Wakefield Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 17921

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