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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
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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
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 109153
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 108941
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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
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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
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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
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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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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
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WORSNOP Thomas
History of the City of Adelaide from the Foundation of the Province of South Australia in 1836 to the End of the Municipal Year 1877 with Appendix and Map
Adelaide: J. Williams Printer and Publisher 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams Printer and Publisher 1878. Octavo xvi 457 1 colophon vi 72 advertisements pages with several illustrations plus a large folding map 385 � 530 mm. Cloth lightly rubbed and scuffed with light wear to the corners; a few tears to the map and a short tear to the blank margin of one leaf expertly sealed; mild signs of handling; an excellent copy. Ferguson 18879. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his partially erased signature on the flyleaf and a few pencilled corrections to the text. J. Williams, Printer and Publisher hardcover
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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 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
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TOWNSEND William. WAXEND William
Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printer 'Register' Office for The Author 1857. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printer 'Register' Office for The Author 1857. A broadside on thick paper 510 � 328 mm printed recto only. Three horizontal creases; trifling chips creases and marks to the blank left and right margins; an excellent copy. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of this 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857. Some years later he released an 'Address to the Electors of Sturt'; apart from the change of place-name it is identical in content to this item. W.K. Thomas, Printer, 'Register' Office [for The Author unknown
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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
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Adelaide
City of Adelaide. Mayor's Report 1877-8. Delivered to the City Council November 1878. Bound together with the Mayor's Reports for the years 1878-79 1879-80 1880-81 and 1881-82
Adelaide: Robert Kyffin Thomas Printer 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide Robert Kyffin Thomas Printer 1878; William Kyffin Thomas Printer 1879 1880 and 1881; and Sands & McDougall Printers 1882. Octavo 158 3 blank; 95 1 blank; 145 1 blank; 145 1 blank; 151 viii 1 blank 129-144 additional reports ix-xiv index pages with overall about a dozen graphs and numerous tables 3 folding plus 3 tipped-in errata or explanatory slips. Blind-stamped full purple calf unlettered but with the spine gilt in compartments gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges dyed red; covers a little rubbed and scuffed; spine a little sunned; trifling signs of use and age; in excellent condition. The 27th to the 31st annual reports of the City of Adelaide. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature and acquisition details 'Purchased at Becks Book Shop on Friday 13/11/36. Personal Property'. Robert Kyffin Thomas, Printer hardcover
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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
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MOUNTFORD Charles P.. LAMSHED Max
'Monty'. The Biography of C.P. Mountford
Adelaide: Rigby 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Rigby 1972. Octavo viii 222 pages plus 16 pages of plates 30 images. Papered boards; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper sunned on the spine. Inscribed and signed 'with much regards Monty'. Loosely inserted is a small quantity of interesting related ephemera: an invitation to the launch of this book and a newspaper review clipping; a photograph captioned 'Monty's Hon Ph.D Investiture Melbourne Uni' it was an honorary Litt.D. in 1973; his funeral notice clipped from a newspaper; and a remembrance card from Mountford's funeral inscribed in ink 'With special remembrance to you CPM's fellow worker'. Rigby hardcover
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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
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WHITINGTON Frederick Taylor editor
Augustus Short First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1887 this Adelaide edition is the first edition. Octavo xxiv 301 2 blank colophon pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Bishop Short image size 145 � 98 mm mounted on card printed with his facsimile signature. Gilt-pictorial cloth a little flecked marked bumped and rubbed; four-digit number written in ink along the spine with a small inkspot near a nick to the rear cover; two contemporary Magill Institute stamps on early blank pages one with a cancellation stamp; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy. A London edition of this book was published in 1888 with pages ix-304 from the table of contents onwards being the sheets of this Adelaide edition. The first eight pages the cloth colour lettering and decoration differ and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen paper photograph occasionally but not invariably found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 not noting the last point. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature and note 'Purchased at Coles Secondhand Department on 3rd February 1925'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
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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
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TOWNSEND William. WAXEND William
Address to the Electors of the Sturt
Adelaide: The Author 1860. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1860s. A broadside on thick paper 368 � 250 mm printed recto only. Mounted on linen when restored essential to stabilise long tears but affected areas of text have not been re-aligned precisely; minor loss to a few letters along the bottom edge; a very good copy. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of Waxend's 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857; apart from the change of place-name it is identical in content to this item. A copy of the Onkaparinga broadside is listed in the collection of the State Library of South Australia with the date 1864. This Sturt example would appear to be unrecorded. [The Author unknown
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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
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SINNETT Frederick
An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862. Together with a Catalogue of all the Products of South Australia exhibited in the South Australian Court of the International Exhibition
London: Robert K. Burt 1862. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London Robert K. Burt 1862 first thus. Octavo iv 96 4 catalogue of products pages plus a large folding map of South Australia 740 � 635 mm. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated within a ruled border on the front cover a little dusty creased and very lightly chipped with a small clear tape repair to the foot of the spine; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy and rarely encountered in such agreeable original condition. Ferguson 15735. The Adelaide printing of the same year did not contain the map or the catalogue of exhibited products see Ferguson 15734. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of an article from 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'. Robert K. Burt paperback
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LOYAU George Ettienne
The Gawler Handbook. A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added Memoirs of McKinlay the Explorer and Dr Nott
Adelaide: Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced 1880. Octavo 182 30 advertisements pages plus 6 lithographed plates of farm machinery by James Martin & Co. and 17 albumen paper carte de visite photographs individually mounted on tipped-in captioned leaves. Blind-decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities a little marked and bubbled and lightly sunned on the spine; some mounts lightly creased a production flaw; a few trifling signs of use; a very good copy but internally fine with the photographs in superb condition. With the pictorial bookplate of J. Cluny Harkness Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s according to Trove. Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative although the photographs may vary slightly between copies. The photograph facing page 17 in this copy is of the 'Gawler Institute' showing the Institute building and Town Hall rather than 'Frankel's Hotel' as called for in Holden. These variations notwithstanding two separate editions were produced: one in wrappers with advertisements on the verso of the front cover and on both sides of the rear cover without photographs but with the lithographs not noted by Ferguson; the other in gilt-lettered cloth without the cover advertisements containing 17 mounted photographs plus the lithographs. Both contain 30 pages of advertisements at the rear. Rare in any state and in our view the version on offer is one of the more important and interesting photographically illustrated books produced in Australia. 'The handbook is illustrated with a number of views by Mr J. Taylor the local photographic artist representing the most important edifices and establishments in town' Holden quoting a contemporary review. The frontispiece is a portrait of John McKinlay 1819-1872; there are 14 pages devoted to him he married a Gawler woman in the early 1850s and was based in the town until his death. Justice is not done to the other photographs in describing them prosaically as 'the most important edifices and establishments in town'. Without exception signs of life and day-to-day activities flesh out the images and most of the businesses - butcher shop photographic studio cordial factory furnishing warehouse music emporium - feature well-stocked windows or yards and numerous staff members or customers. Holden reproduces two interesting ones including perhaps the best the butcher shop captioned merely 'Hodgson & Clements' but there are wonderful vignettes in many others. Not least of these are the horse-drawn tram in front of the 'Commercial Bank' and the ornate hearse outside 'F. Fowler's Furnishing Warehouse'. While we are on the subject of death one chapter stands out. Among those to be expected say on 'Horticultural and Agricultural Progress. Gardens around Gawler' or 'The Humbug Society. Flam! Bam! Sham!' or 'The Streets - Number of Businesses - Description of Hotels' there is Chapter XI: 'The Neville and Adamson Tragedy'. Its thirteen pages describe in great detail the events surrounding the double suicide 'and its romantic accomplishment' of Neville and his partner Adamson. 'It is universally believed that Neville was the leading spirit in the suicide and so strong was Adamson's affection love friendship or whatever it may be termed for his companion that he consented to take that final leap in the dark in the wine cellar with him to visit that "bourne whence none return"'. Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced] hardcover
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MINCHIN Richard Ernest
Arrival of the English Mail at Glenelg
An unsigned two-colour watercolour on paper with the ink caption mounted below the image image size 75 � 140 mm visible paper size 105 � 160 mm. Mounted behind a double window mat framed and glazed; in fine condition. Irish-born Richard Ernest Minchin 1831-1893 'painter lithographer draughtsman and zoo director' emigrated originally to South Australia in 1851. He was employed with the Land Titles Registration Department for some 25 years from 1859 essentially as a draughtsman at increasing levels of seniority. In 1882 he 'was appointed director of the new Adelaide Zoological Gardens having for many years been honorary secretary of the local Acclimatization Society which founded it' and Minchin himself had been a prime mover in establishing the Society in July 1878. This information comes from 'The Dictionary of Australian Artists . to 1870' which devotes an entire page to Minchin. By all accounts he was active even prolific over many years but his work is rarely offered for sale. The invaluable online resource the Australian Art Sales Digest has no record of him. The website of the Art Gallery of South Australia contains illustrations of ten watercolours by Minchin. None are dated more accurately than the mid-1850s to 1890 but we believe there is a strong case to be made that pressure of his zoological management work makes pre-1880 a much more likely upper limit. None of them is signed; most of them are captioned; the handwriting is identical to the caption on this painting. unknown
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GOULD John England and Australia 1804 1881
Hapalotis hemileucura Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat
An original hand-coloured lithograph sheet size 355 x 540 mm; in fine condition. unknown
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SAUNDERS John
The Tinker's Wig. A Story for Children . Illustrated by F. Matania
Loughborough: Wills and Hepworth 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Loughborough Wills and Hepworth 1947. Small quarto; cloth a little rubbed and flecked; spine slightly dulled; corners slightly bumped and worn with slight loss; a very good copy. School prize inscription from Brighton High School 1950. A Ladybird Book series 478. Wills and Hepworth hardcover
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Eckersley Robyn & Robyn Eckersley Monash University Melbourne Australia.
Environmentalism And Political Theory: Toward An Ecocentric Approach
Routledge. 1. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 05/28/1992 Routledge paperback
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MARTIN AE. A. E.
Twelve Hundred and More Place Names in South Australia Western Australia and the Northern Territory
Sydney: NSW Bookstall Co 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney NSW Bookstall Co 1943. Octavo 110 pages. Stapled colour pictorial wrappers with flaps; very slightly rubbed; foot of the spine slightly split; an excellent copy. With 79 pages on South Australia and the Northern Territory and 26 pages on Western Australia; many adapted from Aboriginal words. NSW Bookstall Co paperback
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HASELOFF Win
The Memorial Hospital. 75 Years On
Adelaide: The Memorial Hospital 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Memorial Hospital 1995. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. The Memorial Hospital paperback
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HAWKE Jonathan
Under the Street Lamp. Vignettes of Australian Bush Life
London: Charles H. Kelly 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Charles H. Kelly 1910. Octavo 320 pages. Gilt-lettered patterned cloth; top edge gilt; covers slightly marked and rubbed; endpapers lightly offset; an intriguing pencilled annotation an underscore and a question mark; a very good copy. With an Introductory Note by Henry Howard; the previous owner has laid down a clipping of a memoriam of the Reverend Charles Martin also by Henry Howard. Charles H. Kelly hardcover
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Stonyfell Quarry
Nine vintage photographs of the Stonyfell Quarry and adjacent vineyards in the Adelaide foothills circa 1915
The gelatin-silver photographs image size 160 x 205 mm or the reverse in three instances are mounted on thick flush-cut cardboard; there are some chips and trifling imperfections around the edges and two have slight surface imperfections in background areas; overall they are in very good condition. The images cover a wide range of activities: two are at the quarry face; two show the light railway leading from the quarry; three are at or in the crushing plant; and two show the mine buildings surrounded by vineyards; workmen appear in all but two of them. unknown
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Equal Opportunity
An Edwardian photograph of the staff of a butcher's shop possibly in Woodside in the Adelaide Hills
The five men four in butcher's striped aprons and one woman are standing on the unsealed road in front of the shop next to a horse-drawn delivery cart sign-written with the name 'A. Mount'. The vintage photograph gelatin silver image size 107 x 152 mm is on the original blind-stamped mount of 'McNeills 184 Rundle St Adelaide' 207 x 246 mm. Pencilled on the verso is '1907 / A. Mount / Woodside'; although we have been unable to verify these details most places in the Adelaide Hills in the Edwardian era probably did look like this. However what is decidedly most rare about this scene is that one of the butchers is of Indian or Afghan descent. unknown
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JAMES Henry
Notes of a Son and Brother
London: Macmillan and Co 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co 1914. Octavo; cloth; uncut; covers slightly flecked marked and scratched; top edge a little foxed; endpapers offset; a very good copy. With the publisher's embossed 'Presentation copy' stamp on the title page and with the ownership signature dated 7 May 1914 of Will J. Sowden and his pencilled annotations on the rear flyleaf. Sir William Sowden 1858-1943 was editor of 'The Register' in Adelaide. Macmillan and Co hardcover
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Sands and McDougall's South Australian Directory 1972
Adelaide: Sands and McDougall 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Sands and McDougall 1972. Thick quarto 68 including front pastedown approximately 1800 pages. Gilt-lettered cloth with the attached TAA bookmark; extremities slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. The penultimate issue. Sands and McDougall hardcover
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JESSOP John and HR. TOELKEN editors H. R.
Flora of South Australia. Fourth Edition produced for the State's Jubilee 150 Celebrations
Adelaide: Government Printer 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1 August 1986 fourth edition/ 1922-1929. Quarto four volumes containing a total of 2248 pages with 1009 line illustrations plus flyleaf maps in all volumes. Cloth; a fine set. Government Printer hardcover
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SLEE Max A. editor
Biographical Guide to Northern Yorke Peninsula 1976
Kadina: Apex Club of Kadina 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Kadina Apex Club of Kadina 1976. Small quarto; burgundy cloth; a gentlemanly whiff of tobacco; essentially a fine copy. The numbered limited edition was only 210 copies; this copy is out-of-series. Apex Club of Kadina hardcover
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FLINDERS MATTHEW. THE NAMING OF AUSTRALIA.
Observations upon the Marine Barometer made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales in the years 1801 1802 and 1803. Read March 27 1806.
London W. Bulmer and Co. 1806. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1806 - Part II. Pp. 239-268. Having also the titlepage to the volume Part II 1806. A faint bit of soiling to outer right margin of the first 2 leaves otherwise clean and wide-margined. � First printing of this important paper relating Flinder's observations on the ship "Investigator" when exploring the coast of Australia. IN THE PAPER THE NAME "AUSTRALIA" APPEARS PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SCIENTIFIC MEMOIR p. 247.<br><br>The name Australia was popularised by Matthew Flinders who pushed for the name to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis he was persuaded by his patron Sir Joseph Banks to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so but allowed himself the footnote:<br>"Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term it would have been to convert it to Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth." In the paper offered he used the name "Australia" as early as 1806.<br><br>"Captain Matthew Flinders RN 16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814 was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years he sailed with Captain William Bligh circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."Wikepedia unknown
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AUSTRALIA
Reizen van Australi� naar Java. Als Uitkomsten van Wetenschap en Ervaring aangaande Winden en Zeestroomingen in sommige gedeelten van den Oceaan. Uitgeven door het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut in 1862.
Utrecht Drukkerij de Industrie 1862. 4to. Orig. clothbacked printed boards. Stamp on title-page. 470 pp. and 12 lithographed plates with wind directions day by day and month by month. hardcover
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FLINDERS MATTHEW. THE NAMING OF AUSTRALIA.
Observations upon the Marine Barometer made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales in the years 1801 1802 and 1803.
London The Author 1807. 8vo. Contemp. calf rebacked with brown buckram. Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy Chemistry and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XVI. - VIII3928 pp. a. 8 engraved plates. Entire volume offered. Flinders letter: pp. 107-118 a. pp. 173-182. Internally clean. � Second printing of this important paper relating Flinder's observations on the ship "Investigator" when exploring the coast of Australia. IN THE PAPER THE NAME "AUSTRALIA" APPEARS PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SCIENTIFIC MEMOIR here p. 118. The letter was first printed in Philosophical Transactions late in 1806 read to the Royal Society March 27. Nicholson reprinted it here in the February issue of the offered volume 16. 1807.<br><br>The name Australia was popularised by Matthew Flinders who pushed for the name to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis he was persuaded by his patron Sir Joseph Banks to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so but allowed himself the footnote:<br>"Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term it would have been to convert it to Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth." In the paper offered he used the name "Australia" as early as 1806.<br><br>"Captain Matthew Flinders RN 16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814 was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years he sailed with Captain William Bligh circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."Wikepedia hardcover
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AUSTRALIA JAMES WYLD.
Map of South Australia New South Wales Van Diemens Land and Settled parts of Australia. Respectfully dedicated to Major Sir T.L. Mitchell.
London JAs James Wyld around 1850. 625 x 94 cm. Engraved map with original outline colourung. A few small tears in margins not affecting image. � This large map having insets of Western Australia plan of Adelaide plan of Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. unknown
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O'NEILL Helen
David Jones' 175 Years
Sydney: New South/ University of New South Wales Press 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sydney New South/ University of New South Wales Press 2013. Quarto; yellow papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. New South/ University of New South Wales Press hardcover
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Education Department of Western Australia & Allen Leanne
Oral Language Resource Book First Steps
Rigby 06/22/1997. 1st Revised edition. Paperback. Used; Good. WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON UK 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Rigby paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1484332 ISBN : 0731223608 9780731223602
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ROBINSON AC. CASPERSON KD. CANTY PD. and CA. MacDONALD A. C. K. D. P. D. C. A.
A Biological Survey of the Gawler Ranges South Australia in October 1984
Adelaide: National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Environment and Planning 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Environment and Planning 1988. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and worn with slight surface loss; a very good copy. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Planning paperback
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HOWCHIN Walter
The Stone Implements of the Adelaide Tribe of Aborigines now extinct
Adelaide: Gillingham & Co 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Gillingham & Co. 1934. Quarto viii 94 pages with 19 illustrations from photographs featuring approximately 150 implements. Cloth a little scuffed and rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal wear; endpapers unevenly offset; a few mild signs of handling; a very good copy. With the ownership signature of Stanley Robert Mitchell 1881-1963 'ethnologist mineralogist metallurgist and businessman . In the 1930s and 1940s he belonged to a distinguished group of "amateur" ethnologists and collectors who gathered around Sir Baldwin Spencer. They collected massive numbers of Aboriginal implements and championed the value of field-work over "armchair theorists". They believed that the raw geological material was the dominant factor in determining the forms of stone implements and that these forms had not changed from earliest times to the period of European contact' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. One correction in ink 'lava' for 'land' near the end of the first paragraph on page 14 and some light marginal emphases in pencil are presumably by Mitchell. The original four-page prospectus a little chipped and torn at the edges is loosely inserted. Gillingham & Co hardcover
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The Pump Press. FISCHER Gerald L.
Coaching Days at Aldgate
Aldgate: The Pump Press 1964. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Aldgate The Pump Press 1964. Octavo ii 4 pages with 2 line illustrations. Overlapping sewn wrappers with the title and an illustration on the front panel; covers slightly marked creased and lightly discoloured around the edges; an excellent copy. 'The pamphlet has been issued to mark the centenary of the licensing of the Aldgate Pump Hotel.' The eighth Pump Press pamphlet limited to 80 copies; it was handset and hand-printed by Gerald Fischer. The Pump Press paperback
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