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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
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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
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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
Referência livreiro : 109597
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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
Referência livreiro : 85896
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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
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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
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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
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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
Referência livreiro : 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Referência livreiro : 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
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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
Referência livreiro : 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Referência livreiro : 109125
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MELENG FE. F. E.
Fifty Years of the Port Adelaide Institute Incorporated with Supplementary Catalogue
Adelaide: Vardon and Pritchard 1902. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Vardon and Pritchard 1902. Octavo viii 84 4 124 catalogue xx advertisements 1 colophon pages plus numerous plates. Later gilt-decorated half calf and buckram retaining the original textured wrappers; a fine copy. Vardon and Pritchard paperback
Referência livreiro : 109313
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AUSTIN JB. J. B.
The Mines of South Australia including also an account of the smelting works in that colony; together with a brief description of the country and incidents of travel in the bush
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1968. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1968 facsimile edition/ 1863. Synthetic cloth; endpapers marked at the edges a production flaw; a fine copy. Peade A48: only 508 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
Referência livreiro : 105861
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HAWKER James C.
Early Experiences in South Australia
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg and Son 1899. Octavo 83 1 colophon pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Original brown cloth a variety of colours may be found; cloth very slightly rubbed and marked; patterned endpapers offset with a tiny split to the foot of the front inner hinge; tiny sealed tear to the leading edge of the title leaf; an excellent copy. The author's memoirs dating back to 1838 first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature and his occasional pencilled emphases mainly confined to the margins. E.S. Wigg and Son hardcover
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York Hotel Adelaide
An advertisement for the York Hotel Adelaide illustrated with an original photograph by Bernard Goode
The advertisement comprises a captioned card approximately 253 � 200 mm verso blank with an original albumen paper photograph upper corners rounded 140 � 160 mm mounted in the centre. Mount a little creased at the corners photograph lightly foxed and both are lightly marked; in excellent condition. The caption reads in full 'York Hotel Adelaide. Corner of Rundle and Pulteney Streets C.A. Hornabrook Proprietor'. The photograph is credited to 'B. Goode Photographer Rundle Street Adelaide'. While undated the photograph shows the hotel before it was remodelled in the 1870s; it is similar to an uncredited 1866 image held by the State Library of South Australia B 7849. The present image is superior as it includes two carriages and around ten figures outside and on the first-floor verandah of the premises. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his ownership details and the following note in pencil on the verso: 'From Mrs Champion Hackett 2/10/39'. unknown
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Horseracing
'Kappacoola' by 'Go-ahead' - Dam unknown 1905. By 'Gang Forward' from 'Rivalry' by 'Talk o'the Hill' caption on the original mat around a large gelatin silver photograph image size 238 � 298 mm
The Hundred of Kappakoola sic derived from Kappakoola Hill near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 information courtesy of Trove; apparently she photographed better than she raced. unknown
Referência livreiro : 109232
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South Australia
Majority of South Australia. Commemoration Festival at Glenelg on Monday December 28 1857 being the Twenty-first Anniversary since the Colony was proclaimed by Governor Hindmarsh. Programme of the Day's Proceedings drop title
Glenelg: Printed by Hilton & Co. for the General Committee 1857. Fair. Glenelg Printed by Hilton & Co. for the General Committee 1857. A small card 112 � 75 mm printed on both sides; some staining from adhesive residue and slight surface loss affecting some text; a decent copy of a very rare item. The programme is principally a list of the competitive games and sports on offer from a football match to 'Jumping in Sacks' and 'Greasy Tail Pig'. Offered together with an equally rare companion piece: 'Majority of the Colony. Two Original Songs to be sung by Gentlemen Amateurs during the Dessert in the Grand Pavilion Glenelg on Monday. December 28 1857' a handbill trimmed down to 255 � 157 mm printed recto only; numerous folds with splits along some of them but mounted on plain paper at some stage and now stabilized; a decent copy. A small printed label attached to the upper margin states 'from the pen of Mr O.K. Richardson'. The two songs in question are 'The Old Colonists' Song' and 'The Pioneers of South Australia'. The State Library of South Australia has one copy of each of these rarities; not surprisingly Trove records no other holdings. 2 items. Printed by Hilton & Co. [for the General Committee] unknown
Referência livreiro : 108992
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ALLEN James
The South Australian Almanack and General Colonial Directory for 1849
Adelaide: Andrew Murray 'South Australian' Office 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Andrew Murray 'South Australian' Office 1849. Duodecimo xl 8 12 calendar months 25-220 pages the last 20 pages being advertisements with a page of signals plus a folding table of tarifs sic and a folding hand-coloured map 311 � 249 mm. In spite of the pagination irregularity the volume appears to be complete. Contemporary burgundy roan with a single gilt rule around each cover but unlettered; leather a little scuffed and rubbed with minor wear to the corners; spine a little more heavily worn with minor loss and with expert conservation to the front joint; bottom edge of the title leaf lightly chipped; trifling signs of use and age; repaired tears to the folding table and the map which has a couple of short splits to intersecting folds; overall a very good copy with the early ownership details of A.R. Tomson St Neots on the title page and T. Birt Bigglesware on a binder's blank at the rear. The tenth issue of this early South Australian almanack. The directory itself - including Port Adelaide and Country areas - occupies 46 pages with the bulk of the balance given over to the usual statistics regulations and lists of assorted office-bearers. However as well as a short gardener's and farmer's calendar at the foot of the twelve monthly calendar pages there are 22 pages devoted to 'The Garden the Vineyard and the Field'. This section is extracted with due credit from 'The South Australian Vigneron and Gardeners' Manual' the pioneering work by George McEwin published in 1843. Ferguson 5189 calling for blue paper wrappers but not noting the lengthy horticultural section in his description of the contents. Andrew Murray, 'South Australian' Office hardcover
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COLLISSON Marcus
South Australia in 1844-45. A Description of the Actual State of the Colony of its Sources of Wealth and of the Moral and Physical Condition of its Inhabitants. Also a Comparison with other British Dependencies; and Full Information for developing its Latent Capabilities particularly in Reference to Fruits and Plants grown in Warm Countries
Adelaide: Andrew Murray Printer Rundle Street Sold by C. Platts Bookseller Hindley Street . 1845. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide Andrew Murray Printer Rundle Street Sold by C. Platts Bookseller Hindley Street . 1845. Octavo xii last blank 106 pages plus a folding etching but lacking the folding frontispiece map noted by Ferguson. Original bright green wrappers with the full title page details repeated on the front cover with the date of publication now added; wrappers a little marked but expertly conserved the front cover is now lined on the verso stabilizing a long tear and filling in some minor loss to the edges; title page a little marked; occasional chips and dog-ear creases to the uncut edges; trifling signs of age and use but essentially a very agreeable copy. The State Library of South Australia has a copy of this item with the map and it's a beauty - a hand-coloured lithograph 322 � 213 mm produced in 'Goodwood nr Adelaide' in 1845. However reading between the lines a case may be made for stating that not all copies were issued with the map. Its absence here notwithstanding this is by any account a very rare publication and worthy of serious consideration on at least two counts. The folding plate is an etching paper size approximately 220 � 280 mm of 'Ridley's Reaping Machine. S. Australia' signed and dated in the plate 'NRF 1845'. The artist is Frederick Robert Nixon circa 1817-1860 who arrived in Adelaide in May 1838 to take up a position as assistant surveyor. In 1845 he published 'Twelve Views in Adelaide and its Vicinity South Australia. Drawn etched and printed by F.R. Nixon'; it was the earliest South Australian plate book. He was a self-taught artist who 'had to manufacture all his machinery for preparing and pressing his etchings . they are superior as works of art and accurately as well as pleasingly depict the scenes which they represent 'The South Australian' 21 February 1845. Nixon left Adelaide in May 1846 bound for Mauritius where he died in 1860. Kerr's 'The Dictionary of Australian Artists' 1992 records that the Ridley etching was the only other one he is known to have produced. There is a lengthy chapter 10 pages on the Aboriginal inhabitants and the chapter on horticulture contains seven pages on vines and wine-making with the information credited to M. Vaillant see page 58. Ferguson 4014. Andrew Murray, Printer, Rundle Street (Sold by C. Platts, Bookseller, Hindley Street ...) paperback
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LIGHT Colonel William. GAZARD John
A large vintage gelatin silver photograph of the unveiling of the monument to Colonel William Light in Adelaide on 21 June 1905
The photograph 237 � 307 mm is in fine condition unmounted as issued. The ink-stamp of the photographer 'J. Gazard 111 King Wm. St. Adelaide' is on the verso together with a pencilled caption reading: 'June 21 1905. Unveiling of the Monument to Colonel Light the founder of Adelaide in Light Square Adelaide where his remains are buried'. Light Square became the burial place of Colonel William Light in 1839; the original monument erected over his grave in 1843 became damaged and was replaced. 'The new monument which still stands today consisted of a theodolite placed on a tall column. It was unveiled on the 21 June 1905 to a large crowd that included "old colonists" who had witnessed Light's funeral 66 years previously seated on either side of the monument. Sir Samuel Way addressed the crowd reinforcing Light's legend by recalling the achievements and adventures of the founder of Adelaide. The Mayor of Adelaide Mr Theodore Bruce then proceeded with the unveiling of the monument' 'Adelaidia' website. This impressive image captures it all. unknown
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WORSNOP Thomas
Are the City Park Lands Waste Lands of the Crown The Town Clerk's Report on City Park Lands drop title
Adelaide: R.K. Thomas Printer for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide R.K. Thomas Printer for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide July 1879. Octavo 16 pages last blank. Contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards with a black leather title-label heavily ruled and lettered in gilt on the front cover; leather rubbed and a little worn with minor loss to the head of the spine and the front joint; minor blemish to the front pastedown where a bookplate or similar was removed; some offsetting to the endpapers from the leather turn-ins; a very good copy internally fine. Ferguson 18880 calling for blue paper covers. Bound with CONIGRAVE John Fairfax: The City of Adelaide. Historical Sketch of the Municipality &c. Reprinted after Revision from 'The South Australian Advertiser' and 'Weekly Chronicle and Mail' Newspapers. Adelaide Printed at the Office of the 'South Australian Advertiser' 1871. Octavo 39 1 colophon pages. Ferguson 8589 calling for pink wrappers. Thomas Worsnop is acknowledged on the verso of the title page of the second item as a significant contributor to its compilation. Provenance: not identified as such but from the collection of Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46. R.K. Thomas, Printer [for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide] hardcover
Referência livreiro : 109147
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WATSON Henry
A Lecture on South Australia; including Letters from J.B. Hack Esq. and other Emigrants. Delivered before the Members of the Chichester Mechanics' Institution Nov. 27 1837 . Second Edition with an Appendix containing the Regulations of the Commissioners Dietary for Free Emigrants &c
London: Sold by J. Gliddon 3 Austin Friars and W.H. Mason Chichester 1838. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Fair. London Sold by J. Gliddon 3 Austin Friars and W.H. Mason Chichester 1838 second edition/ 1838. Octavo ii 30 pages. Later plain wrappers a little chipped and creased; first and last pages tanned and a little marked; corners a little worn and creased; mild signs of age and use and one bifolium is neatly detached; a decent copy of a rare item. A dozen pages are given over to the letters from emigrants including nine from the brothers Hack written between February and August 1837. The first one from Glenelg on 20 February less than two months after the arrival of the first settlers sets the tone: 'The natives are only too friendly: a family called this morning; they seem very good natured. I breakfasted this morning on damper a definition is supplied in a footnote and parrot regular bush-fare; the parrot was capital eating. I hope we shall be fortunate enough to shoot some daily'. Ferguson 2668 noting printed wrappers; he also records that the 'first edition has not been seen' and suggests that its first appearance might have been in an English magazine in January 1838. Sold by J. Gliddon, 3, Austin Friars, and W.H. Mason, Chichester paperback
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ANDERSON Thistle Mrs Herbert FISHER
Arcadian Adelaide
Adelaide: Printed by Modern Printing Company for the Author 1905. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Modern Printing Company for the Author 1905 second edition/ 1905. Octavo 40 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Thistle-decorated red wrappers expertly conserved and reattached albeit a little mottled and marked; light pink stains and some paper residue to the title page the front cover was damp at some stage; the entire pamphlet has a light vertical crease; neat amateur reinforcements to the centrefold near the staples; minor signs of use and age; overall a very good copy. A venomous invective against the self-satisfaction and dullness of Edwardian Adelaide dedicated 'To any kindred spirit whom duty may compel to live in Adelaide and who living there suffers as we suffer'. Anderson takes aim at everything from the quality of the wine 'The wine matches the inhabitants and I leave the reader to supply his own adjectives' to the treatment of horses but she takes particular delight in poking holes in the stuffy pieties of the city which 'has clothed itself in a self-constituted halo of excessive virtue'. Annotations in a copy we have previously handled identify a couple of her victims. One of these is outed at the end of Chapter 3: The Lesser Animals which contains a mere 25 words: 'I have not devoted much time to the classification of these but I believe that they comprise chiefly mosquitoes cockroaches flies rats and Lady Kitty' editor of the social pages in the 'Adelaide Observer' and the 'Register'. Apparently this was 'Edith Aird - lived at Woodville'! The pamphlet provoked a spate of scathing reviews and apologiae for the city but proved extremely popular; it 'ran through ten editions in the year of its publication while its sequel "The Arcadians" ran through four editions in the same year' Depasquale: 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'. In spite of that in our experience any early printing of this item has proven elusive. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his signature in ink on the front cover. Printed by Modern Printing Company [for the Author] paperback
Referência livreiro : 108959
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GREGORY JW. J. W.
The Dead Heart of Australia. A Journey around Lake Eyre in the Summer of 1901-1902 with Some Account of the Lake Eyre Basin and the Flowing Wells of Central Australia
London: John Murray 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1906 first edition. Octavo xvi 384 pages with 6 figures plus 22 pages of plates most full-page 4 small folding colour maps a map of Lake Torrens opposite page 252 and omitted from the list of plates and maps and 2 large folding maps at the rear 'Sketch Map of Eastern Australia Showing the Central Artesian Basin' and 'Sketch Map of Lake Eyre Basin'. Original light brown cloth with the heart-shaped pictorial paper onlay of desert sand-grains; top edge gilt; spine lightly marked with a very small hole rubbed in the cloth at the foot of the spine; endpapers a little offset and foxed with a light waterstain around some edges of a large bookplate; minimal scattered light foxing; slight paper residue on the half-title where a newspaper cutting was tipped in; paperclip rust mark to two pages and a map at the rear; acidic newsprint offsetting to the verso of the first folding map at the rear with an old paper repair to a short tear near the stub; a very good copy. With the bookplates of James Edge Partington 1854-1930 and Charles Richmond John Glover 1870-1936; the occasional pencilling mainly to the bibliography appears to be by Edge Partington. Loosely inserted is a contemporary review of the book and a small sheaf of relevant newspaper clippings from the 1930s. John Murray hardcover
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