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THREADGILL Bessie
South Australian Land Exploration 1856 to 1880
Adelaide: The Board of Governors of the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia 1922. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Board of Governors of the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia 1922. Octavo two volumes viii 184 pages and 20 folding maps Stuart Gregory Hack McKinlay Giles Warburton Lewis Winnecke and others complete with the detachable sheet of adhesive numbers. Wrappers slightly creased; essentially a fine set. Extensive details of Lewis' 1874-75 Lake Eyre expedition 4 pages are accompanied by a reduced facsimile of the route map. This hard to read map includes 'a detailed examination of the course of the Barcoo as far as Innamincka' not found on the first version of the map which was prepared and printed before the expedition ended and published as SA Parliamentary Paper Number 15 of 1875. The Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia paperback
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MASTERS Frank
Saga of Wangaraleednie Hill of The West Wind
Franklin Harbour and Cleve: National Trust of South Australia 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Franklin Harbour and Cleve National Trust of South Australia 1974 revised edition/ 1950. Octavo 233 pages with maps and plates. Papered boards a little lightly rubbed; very small label to flyleaf; a very good copy. A related newspaper clipping is loosely inserted. Franklin Harbour and Cleve are on the Eyre Peninsula. National Trust of South Australia hardcover
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FOLDS Ralph
Whitefella School. Education and Aboriginal Resistance
Sydney: Allen and Unwin 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Allen and Unwin 1987. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. "Through case studies of two schools in central Australian Pitjantjatjara settlements a number of key themes are explored." Allen and Unwin paperback
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DENNIS CJ. C. J.
The Glugs of Gosh
Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1917 first edition. Octavo 130 2 blank colophon 2 publisher's advertisements pages with decorated initials and tail-pieces plus a colour frontispiece an additional colour pictorial title page 6 full-page line illustrations and 6 full-page colour plates each with a captioned tissue-guard; all illustrations are by Hal Gye. The 'Blue Wren' edition in green cloth with the front panel lettered in dark blue and decorated in two-tone blue with the author's monogram in the centre and the spine lettered in gilt; boards a little bowed; spine lightly sunned; flyleaves lightly offset; an excellent copy. This is a review copy inscribed to 'The Editor The Advertiser' on the half-title with the small ink-stamp of the Adelaide booksellers E.S. Wigg and Son. The first edition comprised 20000 'ordinary' copies and 5000 Blue Wrens; the six colour plates and the variant binding were exclusive to them. McLaren 475 'Blue Wren Edition with monogram'. This edition was published at 7/6; the ordinary edition was 4/-. McLaren states in his biographical essay that 'The public demand was so poor for the Blue Wren edition that it was remaindered at sixpence a copy' page 16. Angus and Robertson hardcover
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BANNON John C.
Supreme Federalist. The Political Life of Sir John Downer
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2009. Quarto; papered boards; pencilled ownership signature; an excellent copy with the excellent slightly torn dustwrapper. Wakefield Press hardcover
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Australian Daguerreotypes
A pair of quarter-plate daguerreotype portraits each approximately 100 � 80 mm of Thomas Radford 1795-1867 and his wife Martha 1796-1867
The Radfords were born in Devon emigrated to South Australia in October 1838 and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other later images of the Radfords are held in the State Library of South Australia. They substantiate the identification and confirm that these daguerreotypes by an anonymous photographer are of rural South Australian origin as the Radfords did not leave the colony after they arrived here in 1838. Both images are in excellent condition with the original brass matts one a little tarnished preservers and glass but uncased as found. Daguerreotypes of Australian origin are rare. unknown
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WILLINGTON Joan Kyffin editor
Maisie. Her Life in Her Letters from 1898 to 1902
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 1992 first edition. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated 1 November 1992 by the editor and with the publisher's matching bookmark loosely inserted. Wakefield Press hardcover
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WILLINGTON Joan Kyffin editor
Maisie. Her Life in Her Letters from 1898 to 1902
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 1992 first edition. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Signed and warmly inscribed by the editor. Wakefield Press hardcover
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CLARE Trevor. KIRSOVA Helene
Australian Ballet. Drawings by Trevor Clare
Adelaide: Frank E. Cork 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Frank E. Cork 1944. Large quarto 23 pages with 8 vignette illustrations and 11 tipped-in monochrome plates one in colour by Trevor Clare. Stiffened overlapping red silver-speckled wrappers with a twelfth large monochrome plate mounted on the front cover; edges lightly bumped; a fine copy. 'The drawings and sketches in this book are not intended to be a comprehensive record. They are selected at random from the young artist's typical back-stage impressions formed in the fascinating atmosphere of wings and back-stage'. Offered together with a large pastel drawing captioned in the image 'Joan Gadsden in Swan Lake' signed and dated 'Trevor Clare 44'. Mounted and glazed in a contemporary frame visible image size 525 � 385 mm; although the acidic matt and mount have discoloured the artwork the overall condition is very good. The drawing is reproduced in the book tipped in on page 9 with the caption 'Swan Lake in chalk' printed below the image. Trevor Clare was a well-known South Australian artist and art teacher; born in 1917 he was active through to the 1980s at least. A few related catalogues and newspaper cuttings are also present. 2 items. Frank E. Cork paperback
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BROOKMAN Sir George
'Suffolk Punch Mares Imported by Hon. George Brookman MLC'. A triptych of three original sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs in the original mount with calligraphic captions in white ink and frame external dimensions 345 � 875 mm. Each image visible size approximately 145 � 200 mm shows Sir George Brookman 1850-1927 mining speculator politician and philanthropist holding the lead rope of one of the three Suffolk Punch mares he imported for his stud farm at O'Halloran Hill around the middle of 1905. The horses are identified as Beauty Snowdrop and Molly
The photographs are a little uniformly faded with some unobtrusive tiny dark spots and minimal silvering-out; they are attractively presented in the original wooden frame with a gilt fillet behind the glass. The frame is lightly scuffed in places; it has a new hanging wire and backing tape but retains the original framer's label on the verso 'From K. Cameron Picture Framer and Mount Cutter Leigh St. Adelaide'. Two of these images heavily cropped to show only the horse were reproduced in 'The Observer' Adelaide 24 June 1905. The photographer is not identified. The Suffolk is a breed of draught horse nicknamed Punch because of its stocky appearance and power Hendricks: 'International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds' 2007. unknown
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Cricket
A vintage group photograph captioned 'Cricket Match Feb 02 Furreedpore' '1902 Faridpur' in another hand on the verso
Image size 229 � 286 mm on the original mount 252 � 304 mm with the caption in ink below the image behind a mat with interior quarter-round corners maximum visible image size 223 � 282 mm framed and glazed with a gilt fillet behind the glass. The caption is not visible when the mat is in position; the bottom left-hand corner of the mount and photograph has been broken away and repaired with a 75 mm diagonal crack across that corner visible but unobtrusive; there is a tiny amount of surface loss to the shirt of the player in the centre of the front row; overall a very appealing period piece in an early but not contemporary mat and frame. Furreedpore Faridpur formerly in East Bengal India now Bangladesh has important Australian connections exemplified by this photograph. Silas Mead 1834-1909 a Baptist minister emigrated to South Australia in July 1861; 'he preached at chapels in Adelaide and North Adelaide. Regular services began at White's Rooms and within a month a Baptist Church was constituted with twenty-six members. Inspired by Mead's enthusiastic leadership the congregation decided to build a large church in Flinders Street; it was opened on 19 May 1863. When its cost of �7000 was cleared by 1864 he established at Furreedpore India the first constituted Australian Baptist Foreign Mission and later helped to found similar societies in other Australian colonies'. His son Dr Cecil Silas Mead 1866-1940 followed closely in his footsteps; after graduating from the University of Adelaide in 1891 'he served as a medical missionary in eastern Bengal for twenty-nine years returned to Adelaide to teach anatomy in 1923-39 and died in June 1940' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Dr Mead is second from the right in the top seated row; we have no reason to doubt that this photograph was once in his possession and for all intents and purposes it is unique. A copy of 'Doctor Sahib: The Story of Dr Cecil Silas Mead' by Elva Schroeder 2013 is offered together with the photograph. unknown
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FLIERL Joh
Wunder der gottlichen Gnade. Evangelisten aus Menschenfressern! Geschichte der Gehilfenarbeit in der Lutherischen Mission bei Finschhafen auf Neu Guinea
Tanunda: The Author and printed by Auricht 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda The Author and printed by Auricht 1931. Octavo 303 pages with 20 plates and a map. Wrappers lightly rubbed at the extremities; minimal signs of use and age; an excellent copy. 'The Miracle of God's Grace. From Cannibals to Evangelists!'; a history of Lutheran Missions in New Guinea printed in the Barossa Valley. An abridged version was published the following year in English under the title 'Christ in New Guinea. Former Cannibals become Evangelists by the Marvellous Grace of God. A Short History of Missionwork done by the Native Helpers and Teachers in the Lutheran Mission New Guinea'. The Author (and printed by Auricht) paperback
Référence libraire : 111828
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FLIERL Joh
Christ in New Guinea. Former Cannibals become Evangelists by the Marvellous Grace of God. A Short History of Missionwork done by the Native Helpers and Teachers in the Lutheran Mission New Guinea
Tanunda: Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office 1932. Octavo 208 pages the last 32 pages contain 34 plates and a map. Pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. An abridged English version by the author of his 'Wunder der gottlichen Gnade' published the previous year. Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office paperback
Référence libraire : 111827
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MAP AUSTRALIA STULPNAGEL F. v.
Festland von Australien und benachbarte Inseln.
Gotha Justus Perthes 1841. Engraved map 355 x 435 cm. Handcoloured in outline. Fine and clean. � From Stieler's Hand-Atlas No. 50 b. unknown
Référence libraire : 55741
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2/48th Battalion. GLENN John Gray
Tobruk to Tarakan. The Story of the 2/48th Battalion AIF
Adelaide: Rigby 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Rigby 1960. Octavo xiv 277 pages with 11 maps plus 18 plates. Publisher's full morocco; tiny stain to the bottom corner of a small number of leaves at the end of the book; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper chipped with minor loss. This presentation binding is rarely seen. The text is the preferred 'member's' edition containing the Honour Roll Awards and Postings at Time of Embarkation. The version with the sub-title 'The Story of a Fighting Unit' lacks this information. Dornbusch 444; Trigellis-Smith 415. Rigby hardcover
Référence libraire : 111090
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GILL Harry Pelling
The Straight and Devious Paths of Studentship. A Lecture delivered at the School of Design Adelaide on Friday 9th February 1894
Adelaide: School of Design Art Club 1894. Very Good. Adelaide School of Design Art Club 1894. Octavo 43 pages with a full-page illustration the author's monogram. Flush-cut card lettered in gilt on the front cover a little foxed and nicked with a chip to the foot of the spine; a very good copy. Harry Pelling Gill 1855-1916 art curator and teacher at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting Gill assumed control of all the board's art teaching activities. His growing authority in art matters his self-confidence and abrasive manner and his attitude toward other art schools led to criticism. Critics found Gill a vain man who controlled lucrative and influential art offices and who disdained the democratic brotherhood of art. His supporters admitted that he could be uncompliant and disagreeable but said that he had worked hard was a good judge of the monetary value of pictures saved the board expense and was a courageous and incorruptible curator. He supported and reorganized the South Australian Society of Arts and was its first president elected from the fellows 1909-11' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; this entry contains one of the few errors we have noted in the ADB - the title of this book is given as 'The Straight and Crooked Paths of Studentship'. School of Design Art Club unknown
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MURCH Arthur James Australia 1902 1989
A cast plaster bust of Dr Hedley Marston
Approximately 280 � 230 � 230 mm in two sections; unsigned and undated but see our note below; in excellent condition. Hedley Ralph Marston 1900-1965 a biochemist was head of CSIRO's Division of Animal Nutrition when it solved the problems caused by deficiencies of trace elements in the soils of South Australia. He was also the only senior Australian scientist who adopted a hostile attitude towards the British atomic bomb tests when they occurred locally. He 'formed a wide and eclectic circle of friends. In the arts they included Elioth Gruner Arthur Murch Clive Turnbull and Sir William Dobell whose portrait of Marston is held by the Queensland Art Gallery' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The website devoted to the life and works of Arthur Murch contains an illustration of a plaster bust of Marston circa 1963 in the artist's estate; the present example would appear to be a preliminary version. The National Portrait Gallery has several Murch sculptures in its collection. Provenance: Dr Hedley Marston purchased from the auction of his estate. unknown
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The Photo-Miniature. A Magazine of Photographic Information. Edited by John A. Tennant. Volume 6 Number 71 August 1905. Marine and Surf Photography
New York: Tennant and Ward 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. New York Tennant and Ward 1905. Octavo iv advertisements 571-626 32 advertisements pages plus advertisements on the covers. Overlapping wrappers slightly chipped and creased; an excellent copy. From the personal collection of the photographer John Kauffmann with his signature in ink on the front cover. Tennant and Ward paperback
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SPENCER Walter Baldwin and Francis James GILLEN
The Native Tribes of Central Australia
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Octavo xx 671 pages with 12 unnumbered line illustrations of churingas a map and 130 illustrations mainly after photographs plus 2 folding maps 3 folding charts 4 folding chromolithographic plates and an erratum slip tipped in at page 1 noting that on page 570 the tassel should be 'pubic' not 'public'. Olive-green gilt-pictorial buckram a little flecked and rubbed with the spine a little sunned; all edges uncut; scattered light foxing; minimal chipping to some uncut leading edges; an excellent copy. The head of the title page is inscribed in indelible pencil in an unknown hand 'With Kindest Regards from': this is followed by the ink signatures of both authors as W. Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen. A seminal work in the history of anthropology: in over forty years of dealing in works of this kind we have neither seen nor heard of another copy signed by both Spencer and Gillen. Macmillan and Co. Limited hardcover
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Eight medals awarded to John Kauffmann for British and Australian photographic competitions between 1900 and 1919. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann by descent sold by Sotheby's Australia 24 July 1988; private collection Sydney
The medals are: 1 'Amateur Photographer' Prize Medal. Engraved Special Competition 1900. J. Kauffmann. A silver medal 50 mm in diameter hallmarked and stamped with the initials J.A.R. James Andrew Restall the Birmingham medallist. 2 'Amateur Photographer' Prize Medal. Engraved Holidays with the Camera 1901. J. Kauffmann. A silver medal 50 mm in diameter hallmarked and stamped with the initials J.A.R. James Andrew Restall the Birmingham medallist and housed in the original leather case. 3 'Amateur Photographer' Prize Medal. Engraved J. Kauffmann. A hallmarked silver medal 32 mm in diameter attached with a clasp to a blue ribbon with two bars engraved 'Monthly Competition' and 'No. 50' and housed in the original leather case of James Andrew Restall the Birmingham medallist. 4 Photographic Society of New South Wales recto. International Exhibition 1903. Awarded to J. Kauffmann engraved on verso. A silver medal 39 mm in diameter hallmarked and stamped with the initials J.A.R. and 'Restall Birm' James Andrew Restall the Birmingham medallist and housed in the original leather case. 5 A.P.A.V. Awarded to J. Kauffmann 1905 engraved on the verso. A bronze award 39 mm in diameter issued by the Amateur Photographic Association of Victoria decorated in relief on the recto and housed in the original leather case of James Andrew Restall the Birmingham medallist. 6 'The Amateur Photographer'. Engraved J. Kauffmann. October 31st 1905. An unmarked silver award plaque 100 � 55 mm extensively decorated in relief verso blank. 7 Broken Hill A.P.S. 1906 engraved on recto. J. Kauffmann Esq Judge. A Memento engraved on verso. A brass plaque 41 � 63 mm issued by the Broken Hill Amateur Photographic Society with the initials J.A.R. James Andrew Restall the Birmingham medallist at the foot of the classical relief decoration on the recto. 8 The Amateur Photographer and Photography recto. Awarded to J. Kauffmann Colonial Competition 1919 engraved on verso. A heavy and very appealing unmarked silver award plaque 82 � 82 mm with the title and decoration in relief on the recto. Offered together with a hallmarked silver vesta case engraved with Kauffmann's initials overall dimensions approximately 50 � 40 � 10 mm. hardcover
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SINNETT Frederick
An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862
Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1862 first edition. Octavo vi 99 pages plus a large folding map 740 � 635 mm supplied from the London edition see our footnote. Modern half synthetic cloth and cloth in fact it is the same binding used by Austaprint for its 1970s facsimile edition; a few short tears to edges and intersecting folds of the map; minimal light foxing; an excellent copy. Ferguson 15734 the original Adelaide printing issued without the map. This edition is far less common than the London one issued later the same year with the large map and a four-page catalogue of exhibited products see Ferguson 15735. We have previously referred to an article in the Adelaide 'Observer' 18 January 1862 which states in part: 'it is intended that the fifty or sixty thousand copies which will be required shall be printed in England after a proof has been struck off at the Government Printing Office in the colony. This plan has been adopted for economy as the expense of issuing such a work will be much less in England than it would be to do it here and afterwards send the whole of the issue home'. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover
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Boer War
'Officers of the Sth Australian Contingent Mounted Rifles 1897'. An impressive portrait photograph of three officers in London for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations
The vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph image size 208 � 150 mm is laid down on the printed card mount of 'Elliott & Fry 55 Baker Street W' trimmed to 253 � 203 mm to accommodate a frame no longer present. The title and identities of the officers are written in ink on the mount below the image; apart from a light tidemark to the middle of the bottom margin of the mount clear of the caption and able to be matted out the item is in fine condition. Those present are Colonel James Rowell Captain Howard Locke Dexter Wilson and Lieutenant James Hay. 'James Rowell 1851-1940 soldier orchardist and politician . is best known for his association with the Volunteer Military Forces of South Australia before Federation then with those of the Commonwealth. He commanded the South Australian Contingent to Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in London in 1897 and in 1900 as a colonel he raised and took to the South African War the 4th Imperial Bushmen's Contingent. For his war service he was appointed C.B. and he was mentioned in dispatches' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Captain later Major Howard Wilson served under Rowell in South Africa and was also mentioned in dispatches. In October 1899 James Hay by now a captain 'having been one of the first to volunteer for the South African war . was appointed a subaltern of the earliest South Australian contingent under Major Howland and looked forward eagerly to serving his country in the Transvaal. He was unable however to settle private matters connected with the trusteeship of his father's estate in time to sail with his comrades and he had reluctantly to retire from the position assigned to him. On September 17 1904 he obtained his majority and was appointed to the command of the 16th Australian Light Horse a position which he filled with the utmost credit' up to the time of his death from influenza at the age of 50 in 1908 details from his obituary in the Adelaide 'Express and Telegraph' 27 May 1908. unknown
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ODMANN SAMUEL. + JOHN WHITE + JOHN HYNES + GEORGE CARTER. FIRST SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF JOHN WHITES'S VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA
John Whites Resa till Nya Holland �ren 1787 och 1788. i.e. Swedish: "Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales" Ber�ttelse om �ngelska skeppets Grosvenors strandning p� Africas �stra kust samt bes�ttningens vandring genom landets inre �knar till capska nybygget �r 1782. Fr�n tyskan f�rkortad. i.e. Swedish "A Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman Which was unfortunately wrecked upon the coast of Caffraria somewhere between the 27th and 32d Degrees of Southern latitude on the 4th of August 1782.".
Upsala J. Edmans Enka 1793 &1794. 8vo. In contemporary paper covered boards with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Spine cracked otherwise a fine and clean copy. XII 147 1 7 86 1 pp. � First Swedish translations abbreviated of these two important travel accounts.<br>John Whites Resa: John Whites principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia. In 1788 White was appointed Surgeon-General of New South Wales Nya Holland and organized a hospital for the new colony somewhat hampered by a lack of medical supplies. He became interested in the native flora and fauna of the new land and investigated the potential of Australian plants for use as medicine. He observed the olfactory qualities of eucalyptus and distilled eucalyptus oil in 1788.<br><br>Ber�ttelse om �ngelska skeppets Grosvenors: "The ill-fated vessel sailed from "Trincomale" on the 13th of June 1782 and struck on the coast of Kaffraria a few weeks after. The passengers agreed to accompany Captain Coxon in an attempt to reach the Dutch settlements in the Cape. One by one however the doomed sufferers succumbed or were left behind and when after 117 days of fearful hardships a remote Dutch farm was reached only six men arrived out of a whole ship's company" Mendelssohn I p.651;<br><br>The works were translated by Samuel �dmann 1750-1829 who also translated works by James Cook Pierre Sonnerat and Carsten Niebuhr. hardcover
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ODMANN SAMUEL. + JOHN WHITE FIRST SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF JOHN WHITES'S VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA
John Whites Resa till Nya Holland �ren 1787 och 1788. i.e. Swedish: "Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales".
Upsala J. Edmans Enka 1793. 8vo. Completely uncut in recent marbled paper covered boards. A very fine and clean copy. XII 147 1 pp. 4 plates. � First Swedish translation abbreviated of John Whites principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia. In 1788 White was appointed Surgeon-General of New South Wales Nya Holland and organized a hospital for the new colony somewhat hampered by a lack of medical supplies. He became interested in the native flora and fauna of the new land and investigated the potential of Australian plants for use as medicine. He observed the olfactory qualities of eucalyptus and distilled eucalyptus oil in 1788.<br>The work was translated by Samuel �dmann 1750-1829 who also translated works by James Cook Pierre Sonnerat and Carsten Niebuhr. hardcover
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Kapunda
Memories of Kapunda and District by a Circle of Friends. Edited by L.N. Tilbrook
Kapunda: 'Kapunda Herald' Print 1929. Fine. Kapunda 'Kapunda Herald' Print 1929. Small octavo 116 pages. Later red rexine lettered in gilt on the spine; boards a little bowed; endpapers slightly bubbled and offset; essentially a fine copy. 'This short account would have been impossible to put forth in book form but for the generous co-operation of Mr L.N. Tilbrook our valued friend and fellow townsman and the present-day proprietor and editor of the "Kapunda Herald". To him we owe our grateful thanks for his risk in printing and publishing. Also to those who readily contributed their store of "memories" we offer our sincere thanks our only regret being that more did not join in the work and thus enable a fuller and more complete volume to be issued' preface. The primary binding is blue cloth; these red rexine covers were produced by the bindery of the State Library of South Australia either in the late 1960s or early 1970s. This secondary issue was prepared using the original sheets which the Library had acquired possibly from the Tilbrook family. The original issue is rare and we have not seen a copy of this later issue for a dozen years now. 'Kapunda Herald' Print hardcover
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STUART John McDouall
Fourth Expedition Journal March to September 1860
Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1983. Quarto 92 pages. Cloth; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly marked and creased and lightly sunned on the spine. The first intended transcontinental expedition; Central Mount Sturt Stuart the geographical centre of Australia was climbed and named on 23 April 1860 but insurmountable problems caused the party to turn back two months later near the Tennant Creek area. From the original manuscript; the first separate edition in book form number 57 of only 220 copies. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
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WHITELOCK Derek
Conquest to Conservation. History of Human Impact on the South Australian Environment
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1985. Octavo xvi 271 pages with maps and plates. Deluxe edition. Half-gilt-decorated green leather and maroon calf with the original clear plastic dustwrapper; a mint copy. Wakefield Press hardcover
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United States Army Forces In Australia
Souvenir Of The Land Of The Southern Cross
Washington D. C.: United States Army. Very Good. 1945. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format paperback book with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The covers have some overall rubbing and there are creases to the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the rear inside cover. "The 23rd Infantry Division more commonly known as the Americal Division of the United States Army was activated 27 May 1942 on the island of New Caledonia. In the immediate emergency following Pearl Harbor the United States had hurriedly sent three individual regiments to defend New Caledonia against a feared Japanese attack. This division was the only division formed outside of United States territory during World War II." . United States Army paperback
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Book Auction Catalogue. HACKETT W. Champion
Catalogue of the late Mr. W. Champion Hackett's Library of Valuable Books
Adelaide: Theodore Bruce & Co. Fine Art Auctioneers 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Theodore Bruce & Co. Fine Art Auctioneers 1938. Octavo 72 pages. Wrappers a little tanned with a couple of tiny chips; acidic text paper tanned; an excellent copy. Some 3252 lots were offered for sale; some prices realised are pencilled in but bibliographical details are thin on the ground. Theodore Bruce & Co., Fine Art Auctioneers paperback
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Koonibba
Koonibba Jubilee Booklet 1901-1926. Koonibba. 25 Years of Mission Work among Australian Aboriginals 1901-1926 cover title
Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing Company 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Lutheran Publishing Company 1926. Octavo ii 89 pages with 40 pages of plates. Printed wrappers with a 65 mm circular window in the front cover exposing portion of the title page illustration; wrappers lightly marked and indented with a short sealed internal split near the hinge at the rear; an excellent copy. The far west coast of South Australia. Lutheran Publishing Company paperback
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KEARNEY Robert and Sharon CLEARY
Valour & Violets. South Australia in the Great War
Mile End: Wakefield Press 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Mile End Wakefield Press 2018. Large quarto viii 392 pages with hundreds of illustrations many from photographs some in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. 'Drawing on the work of the many who have written on the subject previously "Valour and Violets" provides a wholly South Australian perspective on the impact of the Great War on individuals on families and on our state's coastal regional and outback communities. "Valour and Violets" brings together for the first time the stories of the campaigns and battles in which South Australians served set against the backdrop of the South Australian home front. Here are the stories of Frederick Prentice the first of three Indigenous South Australians to be awarded the Military Medal; Thomas Baker the gunner who became an ace pilot; and Sister Margaret Graham awarded the Royal Red Cross for her contribution to army nursing. Here too are lesser known stories such as that of Alexandrina Seager who formed the Cheer-Up Society back home and worked every single day during the war despite losing her youngest son at Gallipoli. Or Clara Weaver of Rosewater who not only lost five sons to the war but also her husband George who died at home before the war ended' publisher's blurb. Wakefield Press hardcover
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STREHLOW TGH. T. G.
Journey to Horseshoe Bend
Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1969. Octavo vi 220 pages plus endpaper maps. Cloth; top edge a little foxed; verso of the flyleaf and the half-title offset from a tipped-in newspaper article now removed leaving two tiny glue spots; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed its spine a little sunned as often and slightly chipped at the ends. The account of the last journey in October 1922 of the author's desperately ill father the Reverend Carl Strehlow overland from Hermannsburg to the railhead at Oodnadatta; Horseshoe Bend was where he died and was buried. The author who made the trip with his father was fourteen at the time. This work received the 1970 Weickhardt Award for the best general Australian book; it has stood the test of time and must now be ranked among the classics. Angus and Robertson hardcover
Référence libraire : 109285
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GLADSTONES John
Wine Terroir and Climate Change
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2015. Paperback. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2015 revised edition/ 2011. Octavo x 277 pages. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; mint. Wakefield Press paperback
Référence libraire : 110556
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OATES Horace
They of the Inland. A Travel Talk of Northern Australia
Adelaide: The Author 1958. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1958. Octavo 24 pages plus a tipped-in sheet combining acknowledgement addendum and details on the booklet's distribution. Pictorial covers; lightly rubbed and sunned; an excellent copy. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author to T.G.H. Strehlow on the last page; one of 4000 copies. The Author unknown
Référence libraire : 110562
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HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Ltd
The English Spy
2009-02-02. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Référence libraire : 0732298946 ISBN : 0732298946 9780732298944
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PALMER George Junior
South Australia 'The Select Committee upon the affairs of South Australia' first line of text
London: Richard Clay Printer 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Clay Printer 1841. Octavo 5 6-27 1 blank pages the title page contains just the words 'South Australia' with the imprint details on the verso. Later half morocco and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine top edge gilt marbled endpapers; covers lightly rubbed with the marbled paper a little unevenly discoloured; title page a little dusty with some light pencilling author date binder's instructions and a tiny sealed tear to the leading edge; bottom corner of the last leaf a little creased with trifling loss to the corner-tip; a very good copy. Correspondence and evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on the affairs of South Australia relating to 'the dismissal by Her Majesty upon the recommendation of Lord John Russell of the original South Australian Commissioners on the 23rd of December 1839 who had been giving their gratuitous services to the public from the 5th of May 1835 up to that time and the appointment of three friends of his own in their places with salaries of �1000 per annum each' from the preamble. Ferguson 3272. Richard Clay, Printer hardcover
Référence libraire : 110034
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LIGHT Colonel William. GILL Thomas
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia
Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1911. Very Good. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1911 enlarged edition. Octavo viii 108 vi 84 pages plus 18 plates 2 folding maps and 2 folding facsimile documents. Gilt-pictorial vellum top edge gilt others uncut; front panel very lightly discoloured in a few spots; tiny red mark to the head of the spine; small light tidemark to the top and bottom margins of pages 81-86 with light cockling to those areas on nearby leaves and plates; an excellent copy. Number 6 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the Proceedings of the RGSSA in the same year. The extra material includes text maps and facsimile documents. The 'Brief Journal' was reprinted 'verbatim et literatim'; there is a list of errata on page 81. These errors about 30 in all have been corrected in pencil in the text. The sharp-eyed reader has found an error in the errata list see page 35 line 7 re Flinders. Provenance: an initial blank is inscribed to the 'Hon. F.S. Wallis M.L.C. / Chief Secretary / Adelaide / with the kind regards / of the Compiler'. Tipped in on that page is an autograph letter signed from Thomas Gill to F.S. Wallis octavo one page Adelaide 5 October 1912 presenting the book to him. He points out that 'For your kind offices as Chief Secretary and the Ministerial Head of the Govt. Printing Office I have made acknowledgement in the preface'. He seems to have been the right man for the latter role if he picked up the typo above . On the conjugate blank leaf of the letter there is an inscription in a very shaky hand 'Geo. W. Swann from Uncle Fred. 18/5/37' Uncle Fred being presumably the Hon. F.S. Wallis MLC. Loosely inserted is a contemporary leaflet regarding a presentation to Lady Bosanquet. Royal Geographical Society of South Australia hardcover
Référence libraire : 110037
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LINDSAY David and Alexis L. HOLTZE
'Territoria. The Great Lone Land. Land of the Dawning' cover title
Adelaide: Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. Quarto 64 pages with 37 illustrations all but 2 of them from photographs many of which are credited to familiar names: Bastard Foelsche Holtze Scott with 7 by Frank Gillen. The fourth page and the last four pages are advertisements although an illustration of 'Egyptian Cotton' pads out one of them. Salmon -pink wrappers with text and a large map on the front cover and advertisements on t he other three surfaces; spine lightly sunned and cracked with minimal expert conservation; very tiny cut to the bottom margin throughout maximum depth 5 mm; tiny tear to the leading edge of the rear wrapper expertly sealed; an excellent copy almost certainly uncirculated. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The Need for a Direct Transcontinental Railway. Can it be developed without Colored Labor Yes!'. The foreword to this prospectus aimed at the 'miner the agriculturalist and the pastoralist' is by Simpson Newland President of the Australian Railways and Territory League. Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League paperback
Référence libraire : 110166
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Map. WHITWORTH Robert Percy compiler
Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide. Containing the Most Recent and Accurate Information as to Every Place in the Colony
Adelaide: F.P. Bailliere 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide F.P. Bailliere 1866. Octavo ii recto of the front flyleaf-viii i blank-viii 296 xxxvii advertisements i advertisement on the recto of the rear flyleaf pages plus a large folding extensively hand-coloured map 755 � 620 mm dated 1867 and a small blue-paper advertising sheet for 'Companion Works' to this volume respectively after page vi and at the end of the advertisements at the front of the book a small octavo 16-page publisher's catalogue dated January 1866 and a full-page blue-paper advertisement the bottom half announcing that Landsborough's journal is 'Just Published' verso blank respectively after page xvi and after page xxxii in the advertisements at the end of the book and endpaper advertisements front and rear. Publisher's half morocco and stippled cloth lettered in gilt in compartments on the spine with the date '1867'; leather lightly rubbed at the extremities; early shelf number at the foot of the spine originally in black ink over a white patch now greatly softened in impact by our conservator; a few short splits along map folds expertly sealed; as attractive a copy in original condition as one might hope to find. The map is a beauty; it is easy to understand why it is rarely found in copies of this book. F.P. Bailliere hardcover
Référence libraire : 110170
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SMITH Sir Ross
The Diggers' Gazette. Official Organ of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia South Australian Branch. Volume V Number 3 21st June 1922
Adelaide: RSSILA SA 1922. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Adelaide RSSILA SA 1922. Quarto 48 pages with numerous illustrations many from photographs; Oswald Pryor's cartoons appear throughout. Drop-title wrappers; staples slightly rusty; the entire journal is a little creased with a few light marks and other mild signs of use and age; short tear to the leading margin of the last leaf expertly sealed; overall a decent copy of a very rare item. This issue covers in depth the funeral of Sir Ross Macpherson Smith 1892-1922; there are 12 pages devoted to it with 11 illustrations 10 from photographs and a full-page illustration by Oswald Pryor. Adelaide-born Smith enlisted in August 1914 'as a private in the 3rd Light Horse Regiment Australian Imperial Force and on 1 October was promoted sergeant. He embarked for Egypt on 22 October and landed on Gallipoli on 13 May 1915. On 11 August he attained the rank of regimental sergeant major and was commissioned second lieutenant on 5 September. Invalided to England in October he was promoted lieutenant on 1 March 1916 and three weeks later embarked for Egypt to rejoin his old regiment. With the 1st Light Horse Brigade 1st Machine-Gun Squadron his principal action occurred during the battle of Romani on 4 August 1916. In July 1917 he responded to a call for volunteers to join the Australian Flying Corps the transfer taking effect on 4 August'. The historic flight from England to Australia in November and December 1919 by Ross and his brother Keith and their two crew members brought them instant and lasting fame. 'The next proposal to fly round the world in a Vickers Viking amphibian ended in disaster. Both brothers travelled to England to prepare for the trip and on 13 April 1922 while Ross and his long-serving crew member Bennett were test-flying the aircraft at Weybridge near London it spun into the ground from 1000 feet 305 m killing both. Keith who arrived late for the test flight witnessed the accident. Ross had not flown at all for many months and had never flown this type of aircraft. The investigating committee concluded that the accident had been the result of pilot error. The flight was abandoned. The bodies of Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant Bennett were brought home to Australia and after a state funeral Smith was buried in Adelaide on 15 June' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. RSSILA (SA) paperback
Référence libraire : 110100
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BRUNET R. and R. CHAMINADE
Les Vins de Liqueur
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paris Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils 1927. Small octavo 80 pages with 16 illustrations. Wrappers; minor conservation work to the spine; top and bottom corners of most leaves lightly bumped; a very good copy. One of the Petite Bibliotheque Agricole series. Written in ink at the head of the front cover is the contemporary ownership signature of John Rothwell Seppelt a fourth-generation member of the famous Seppelt winemaking dynasty. Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils paperback
Référence libraire : 110188
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GOUGER Robert
South Australia in 1837 in a Series of Letters. With a Postscript as to 1838
London: Harvey and Darton 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Harvey and Darton 1838 first edition. Duodecimo viii 136 pages. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth all edges uncut; covers a little marked scuffed and bumped with trifling wear to the ends of the spine; occasional foxing and mild signs of handling; minor blemishes to a few leading margins due to careless opening of uncut edges; overall a very good copy. Ferguson 2497. Harvey and Darton hardcover
Référence libraire : 109430
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HAMILTON George
Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846. By an Old Hand
Adelaide: J. Williams Printer 1880. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams Printer 1880 second edition/ 1879. Octavo viii 84 80 23 pages plus 3 albumen paper photographs 77 � 146 mm 165 � 112 mm and 165 � 110 mm of 5 drawings on 3 unnumbered card leaves. Gilt- and blind-stamped brick-red cloth very slightly rubbed at the extremities and slightly flecked; trifling loss of cloth to the top edge of the rear board; author's surname and date of publication written neatly in white ink on the spine but see below; one plate and an attached leaf of text slightly loose and a little proud of the leading edge; a very good copy. With the armorial bookplates of James Angas Johnson and Charles Glover on the pastedown; the white ink on the spine is a legacy of Glover's ownership. The last part of the book 'A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846' 23 pages is new to this edition. The particulars of the photographs match those given in 'Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book' 1988 by Robert Holden where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against those listed is explained. The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals of Grey and Eyre. The first edition of this work contains six plates five of which are wood engravings based on the original drawings here photographed. J. Williams, Printer hardcover
Référence libraire : 59924
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VORT RONALD Michael P.
South Australian Bank Branches. Volume 4: Bank of New South Wales Commercial Bank of Australia
Kadina: The Author 1979. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kadina The Author 1979 first edition and 2000 second edition/ 1985. Quarto; colour laminated card wrappers; an excellent copy. Inscribed dated 9 December 2008 and signed by the author 'on the 20th anniversary' and date-stamped on the same day by the Banking and Currency Museum Kadina. The Author paperback
Référence libraire : 109769
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Concept Design Australia
Megafuture: Super Futuristic Cars & Vehicles of other Galaxies
2015-05-09. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Référence libraire : 1507821905 ISBN : 1507821905 9781507821909
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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 24 advertisements pages plus 16 lithographs and a mounted albumen paper photograph 98 � 58 mm. Original blue cloth with the title and decorations in gilt on the spine a little marked flecked and rubbed at the extremities; a few trifling marks of use and handling to some margins; contemporary gift inscription 'To Mr JP Pearson wishing him a happy New Year from Mr & Mrs JA Duggan' on the verso of the title page and a much later signature 1965 on the recto of the frontispiece; a very good copy. The lithographs are a delightful frontispiece view of Glenelg in 1837 after John Michael Skipper 14 full-page portraits and a plate containing the portraits of Cotton Watsford and Waterhouse. The photograph is a head-and-shoulders portrait of Loyau in profile looking to the right with the photographers George and Walton credited on the negative. We have identified numerous variants in the plate content including the portrait of Loyau. Ferguson 11748 recording only the frontispiece with 14 pages of advertisements; Holden 71. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ("Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision") hardcover
Référence libraire : 109397
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IOANNOU Noris
Ceramics in South Australia 1836-1986. From Folk to Studio Pottery
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1986 first edition. Large quarto xiv 386 pages with approximately 200 illustrations 96 in colour. Red textured synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper. An essential reference work now out of print. With the compliments label of Hallett Nubrik Group who sponsored the publication. Wakefield Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 109708
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NEWLAND Simpson
The Annual Address of the President on October 27th 1921. Contained in: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch for the Session 1920-21 Volume XXII
Adelaide: RGSSA 1923. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1923. Octavo pages 1-64 plus 3 plates and a folding appendix. Card covers a little marked and tanned; foot of the spine slightly chipped and torn with slight loss; folding appendix slightly creased; a very good copy. Newland devotes the first 14 pages of his address to Aborigines and a further 26 on whaling in South Australia. H.Y. Lyell Brown's 'Geographical Features' of Central Australia pp 43-64 are of both geological and Aboriginal interest. RGSSA paperback
Référence libraire : 109585
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BRYAN Allen
Recollections of the Murray Bridge Racing Club
Murray Bridge: The Author 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Murray Bridge The Author 1989. Octavo; decorated card covers; a fine copy. The Author paperback
Référence libraire : 109531
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South Australia. STATTON Jill editor
Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885
Marden: South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Marden South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society 1986. Octavo four volumes xvi 479; xvi i 480-945; xvi i 946-1414; and xvi 1415-1762 2 127 index pages. Cloth; a fine set. Long out-of-print rarely seen on the open market and a perennially useful reference work. South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society hardcover
Référence libraire : 109125
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