‎Australia‎

‎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

Bookseller reference : A36264

‎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

Bookseller reference : 110426

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109285

‎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

Bookseller reference : 110562

‎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

Bookseller reference : 110034

‎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

Bookseller reference : 110166

‎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

Bookseller reference : 110100

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109430

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109769

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109397

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109585

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109125

‎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

Bookseller reference : 105861

‎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

Bookseller reference : 108941

‎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

Bookseller reference : 108992

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109128

‎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

Bookseller reference : 109147

‎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

Bookseller reference : 108959

‎ELLERY T. Geo. editor‎

‎Official Illustrated Guide to Adelaide and Environs. Containing Full and Authentic Descriptive Letterpress and Pictorial Information of Value to Visitors and Tourists‎

‎Adelaide: Goodwin & Co. for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Goodwin & Co. for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1906. Octavo xvi advertisements 216 pages with numerous mostly full-page illustrations from photographs plus a folding colour map of Adelaide pictorial printed wrappers and advertisements mounted on the pastedowns. Original full red leather attractively lettered in gilt on the front cover retaining the original printed wrappers; head of the spine neatly restored; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities; many of the illustrations offset; notwithstanding an excellent copy. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature dated 1906. Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 109139

‎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 a little rubbed and slightly worn at the extremities; a small section of marbled paper has been abraded from the front cover; 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. Both pamphlets in this instance are interleaved with blank leaves. Thomas Worsnop Town Clerk of Adelaide 1869-1898 the author of the first pamphlet is acknowledged on the verso of the title page of the second item as a significant contributor to its compilation. These may well be his personal copies. At the head of the first item he has written a lengthy note exceeding 30 words providing additional references relating to the Adelaide Park Lands. On the blank page facing page 9 he has pencilled in a lengthy comment on his reliance on a document contemporary with the controversial purchase of the Park Lands noting that it is 'worth a cart-load of personal recollections'. Provenance: possibly Thomas Worsnop; later although not identified as such 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

Bookseller reference : 108961

‎Cricket. Australia 1930‎

‎One leaf in a small autograph album leaf size 80 � 138 mm signed in ink on the recto only by seven members of the Australian squad selected to tour England in 1930‎

‎The signatories are a'Beckett Fairfax Grimmett Hurwood Kippax Oldfield and Walker. The signatures were collected by the parents of a five year-old boy when the family travelled on the same ship as the cricketers on the voyage to England in early 1930. The leaves are the first two in an album with the printed image of the ship the Orient Line's SS 'Orford' on the front cover; some of the leaves are held in place with clear paper tape but the overall condition is very good. The page was also signed in pencil by Victor Richardson and again by Walker but the young owner went over these signatures in ink after first having tried to erase the second Walker signature written at right angles along the right-hand side at the end of the other signatures. The balance of the squad's signatures on another page are similarly gone over. However among the seven decent signatures there are some famous names as well as some rare and interesting Test players. Ted a'Beckett played in four Tests; Alec Hurwood played in only two Tests; Charlie Walker toured twice 1930 and 1938 without playing in a Test match due to injuries and he was killed in action in a bombing mission over Germany in 1942. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 109418

‎DALY Mrs Dominic D.‎

‎Digging Squatting and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia‎

‎London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1887. Octavo xii 368 pages plus a folding colour map 435 � 190 mm. Original mustard yellow cloth with extensive brown and green floral decoration and attractive gilt lettering; all edges uncut; covers a little marked and discoloured and rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges uncut with the top edge dusty; occasional foxing; trifling chips to a few uncut edges due to careless opening of the leaves; a few minor signs of handling; a very good copy. With the armorial bookplate of Bernard Gore Brett on the front pastedown and an early address stamp on the dedication page. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April 1870 my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' and the rest of the family north. She spent the better part of the next three years in the Territory returning south for her marriage in 1871 to a nephew of the late Governor before leaving for good in 1873 when her father was dismissed for incompetence. Her chatty account based on her personal experiences concludes then at page 208; the rest of the book is written 'by means of researches in newspapers official reports and other documents'. Ferguson 8939 not noting the map. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 109242

‎ELLIS Mrs F.‎

‎A Scratch from an Adelaide Cat. In Vindication of Adelaide and its People in Reply to 'Arcadian Adelaide'‎

‎Adelaide: G. Hassell & Son Printers for the Author 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Adelaide G. Hassell & Son Printers for the Author 1905. Octavo 16 pages with a vignette illustration on the title page a cat in attack mode plus a frontispiece portrait of the author 'Specimen of an Adelaide "Cat"' and a portrait of a top-hatted Mr Ellis at the rear 'One of Adelaide's Celluloid-Collared Narrow-Toe-Booted Shallow-Brained Fools'. Pictorial wrappers repeating the full title page details including the cat on the front cover the rear cover - apparently blank - is missing; front cover a little marked but expertly conserved and reattached; minor signs of use and age; a decent copy. Thistle Anderson's 'Arcadian Adelaide' 1905 provoked a spate of scathing reviews and apologiae for the city yet proved extremely popular. Anderson claimed there were ten editions and another four of its sequel 'The Arcadians'. The original publication was 'a venomous invective against the self-satisfaction and dullness of Edwardian Adelaide'. These cheaply produced booklets clearly struck a chord and untold quantities must have been sold. However despite or more likely because of their popularity copies are rarely seen on the open market. This rebuttal by Ellis is possibly even rarer; this is the first copy we have handled. Trove records a second edition in the same year but having read it we are not surprised it then died a natural death. It doesn't lay a glove on the opposition; venomous invective beats earnest pleading hands down. Mrs Ellis comes out punching left and right: 'As everyone well knows there are two sides to every question and feeling that possibly by reading Thistle Anderson's book "Arcadian Adelaide" our sisters and brothers in the other States may take her side of the question for granted and well knowing that most of the contents of her book are - to say the least of it - exaggerated clap-trap and oh! so horribly overdrawn I am in defence mainly of my sex - woman penning these lines in refutation of what she says about us and our beautiful clean and wholesome little city'. Enough already . Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his ownership signature in ink on the front cover. G. Hassell & Son, Printers [for the Author?] paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 108944

‎DAWSON Peter‎

‎A signed portrait photograph of Peter Dawson by Tornquist Wellington New Zealand‎

‎A vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph visible image size 237 � 185 mm behind glass in a contemporary slight wooden frame; the dark ink inscription has turned a lighter colour in parts and is now a little diffuse; overall in excellent condition. The inscription in the top left-hand corner is 'Vera & Harold Gard with all good wishes Peter Dawson 28/10/31'. Vera Thrush and her husband Harold Gard were Adelaide singers active in the local opera scene at the time. They travelled to England and Italy in 1924-25 to study grand opera. Adelaide-born Peter Dawson 1882-1961 was initially apprenticed to his father an ironworker and plumber. His parents also encouraged his appreciation of music and he went on to became an internationally-acclaimed baritone. He was one of the first artists to have faith in the gramophone and his fifty-year recording career with His Master's Voice made him a household name in many countries with sales of more than 13 million records of 3500 titles. He also composed many songs 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The National Library of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery in London have a different Tornquist portrait of Dawson in their collections; an image search online failed to locate another copy of this particular one. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 108350

‎GOULD John England and Australia 1804 1881‎

‎Lagorchestes conspicillata Spectacled Hare-Wallaby‎

‎An original hand-coloured lithograph matted framed and glazed; visible surface 330 x 450 mm; in fine condition. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 104276