‎Australie‎

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 109024

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 107917

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 109142

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 109199

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 54580

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 44333

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 1484332 ISBN : 0731223608 9780731223602

‎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

Ссылка продавца : 108344

‎DENTON Margaret Abbie‎

‎Joanna Priest. Her Place in Adelaide's Dance History‎

‎North Adelaide: Joanna Priest 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. North Adelaide Joanna Priest 1993. Small quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper. Dated 5 August 1993 signed and warmly inscribed 'For Robin Eade with most grateful thanks for all your help' by the author. Joanna Priest hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 108502

‎2/10th Battalion. ALLCHIN Lieutenant Colonel Frank‎

‎Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF the Adelaide Rifles 1939-1945‎

‎Adelaide: 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. Large octavo xxviii 454 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and 6 maps including a folding map mounted on the rear pastedown. Light blue cloth printed in purple; spine a little sunned; an excellent copy. The author was also Chairman of the 2/10th Battalion AIF History Committee; his signature E.F. Allchin appears at the end of the acknowledgements section page ix. Fellow-committeeman Hec Ellis who contributed the chapter on sport has also signed this page appending the date 6 May 1958. 2/10th Battalion Association hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 108397

‎HMT 'Orontes'. Saturday August 10th 1918. Final Reunion of South Australians under the auspices of the Literary and Debating Societies of 2nd General Reinforcements 'S' UK and South Australian Reinforcements AAMC . cover title‎

‎At Sea: The Societies as above 1918. Very Good. At Sea The Societies as above 10 August 1918. Duodecimo 172 x 107 mm 4 pages a bifolium last page blank comprising the title page and the toast list-cum-programme on the two centre pages. The leaflet is folded horizontally with a few light creases elsewhere and occasional light foxing; overall in very good condition. Not surprisingly we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith courtesy of the invaluable National Archives of Australia website indicates that he hailed from the Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh enlisted on 8 February 1918 'Embarked for Active Service . HMAT "Orontes" Sydney 5-6-18 Disembarked Liverpool 11-8-18'. This Final Reunion must have been quite a party; all nine entertainments listed on the programme are preceded by a toast. This might be related somewise to the instruction printed at the foot of the first page: 'Guests are requested to bring the Lid of their Mess Tin with them'. The Societies, as above] unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : 108521

‎HANCOCK HM. H. M.‎

‎Australian Scenic Tours 1936. South Australia's Centenary Number. A Travel and Tourist Annual‎

‎Adelaide: Bastin's Australian Scenic Tours 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Bastin's Australian Scenic Tours 1936. Quarto 68 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Colour pictorial wrappers with a colour map of Adelaide on the inside rear cover; trifling signs of use and age to the covers including slight silverfish loss to the front top edge; an excellent copy. Bastin's Australian Scenic Tours paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 108347

‎ROUND Kerrie‎

‎As Many Lives as a Cat The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild 1938 - 1998‎

‎Adelaide: University of Adelaide Theatre Guild 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide University of Adelaide Theatre Guild 1999. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. '. a chronlogical drama .'. University of Adelaide Theatre Guild paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 108477

‎Education Department of Western Australia‎

‎Writing Developmental Continuum‎

‎Heinemann 1997-06-06. Ring-bound. Very Good. Pages Unused! Book Leaves in 1 Business Day or Less! Leaves Same Day if Received by 2 pm EST! Cover has shelf wear. Contents Unused. Very Good. Heinemann unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : 037-01-00196 ISBN : 0435072498 9780435072490

‎Radium Hill South Australia. Official Opening by His Excellency the Governor-General Field-Marshal Sir William Joseph Slim . 10th November 1954. Souvenir‎

‎Adelaide: South Australian Department of Mines 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide South Australian Department of Mines 1954. Quarto 16 pages with numerous two-colour illustrations. Overlapping gilt-pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Reduced copies of a blueprint of the main shaft head-frame and winder house are loosely inserted. 'It is visualized that the emergence and growth of nuclear-power plants will come to supplement and not supplant existing ones' introduction. South Australian Department of Mines paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 107831

‎Trade Catalogue‎

‎'Sun' Foundry. Illustrated Catalogue. Second Edition. Vol. II. Architectural Sanitary and General Castings and Wrought Ironwork. A.C. Harley & Co. General Ironfounders and Blacksmiths‎

‎Adelaide: A.C. Harley and Co 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide A.C. Harley and Co. 1914. Foolscap folio iii 137 pages with many hundreds of illustrations. Gilt-lettered cloth very lightly flecked and rubbed at the extremities; flyleaves discoloured as ever in our experience; top corner crease to the last leaf; essentially a fine copy. 'Notwithstanding the fact that we have more than doubled the number of illustrations it has been found impossible to include all our patterns as we are constantly adding to their number.' A rare handsome and important catalogue of decorative ironwork; the very rare first edition appeared in 1897 and is in fact Volume 1. A.C. Harley and Co hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 108132

‎DICKSON Robert‎

‎Addicted to Architecture‎

‎Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2010. Quarto viii 246 1 colophon pages with numerous illustrations and plans many in colour. Papered boards with the dustwrapper; mint. Wakefield Press hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 108152

‎FISHER Sir James Hurtle‎

‎An almost-lifesize vintage portrait photograph of Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'‎

‎The very fine portrait visible image size 545 � 395 mm in its original ornate gilt frame external dimensions 740 � 595 mm is exquisitely hand-painted and signed by the famous colonial photographer Townsend Duryea 1823-1888. His original label is affixed to the paper backing on the verso of the frame 'T. Duryea Artist Photographer 66 and 68 King William Street Adelaide' and in our opinion he has created a masterpiece as both artist and photographer with this work. James Hurtle Fisher commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835. He was selected as resident commissioner one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act . second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo" arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay where the official oaths were administered a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. In January 1837 Fisher erected his reed hut and Land Office near the survey camp of Colonel William Light at the north-western corner of the new capital site; the destruction of these temporary buildings by fire on 23 January 1839 caused both men serious loss. Fisher had been allowed to draft his own instructions which were not shown to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Disputes between the two men over their respective powers had begun on the voyage and were soon revived in the new Council of Government and more violently outside and led in February 1837 to the Resident Magistrate's Court binding the participants over to keep the peace towards each other. The new governor George Gawler was appointed both governor and resident commissioner a radical departure from the principles on which the colony had been founded' ADB. Fisher returned to his profession and became a leader of the South Australian Bar. In October 1840 he was elected first mayor of Adelaide; in 1860 he became the first resident South Australian to be knighted. Townsend Duryea was at the King William Street address from 1858 until his illustrious career as a photographer 'was cut short when his studio and entire collection of 50000 negatives were destroyed by fire on 18 April 1875' ADB. We suggest as a date for this magnificent portrait 'circa 1870'. unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : 108073

‎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. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 red calf top edge gilt others uncut and these now a little discoloured; leather a little rubbed at the extremities with a few small light stains to the front cover and the spine a little sunned and lightly scraped near the head; title page a little foxed; a very good copy with the signature H.W. Marshall and stamp of the General Secretary of the Public Library Museum & Art Gallery of South Australia on the title page and a 'With Compliments' label from the Board of Governors on the pastedown. Number 39 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. Royal Geographical Society of South Australia hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 108186

‎FLIERL Joh‎

‎1886-1936. Ein dankbarer Ruckblick und ein hoffnungsvoller Ausblick auch in schwesten Zeiten. Zum goldenen Jubilaum der Lutherischen Mission bei Finschhafen auf Neu Guinea. Together with Volume II: . Dom Reitochsen zum Flugzeng. Zur Hebung der Transportnote in der Lutherischen Mission auf Neu Guinea and . Eine kurze Denkschrift. Zum goldenen Jubilaum der Neuendettelsauer Lutherischen Mission bei Finschhafen auf Neu Guinea‎

‎Tanunda: The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. Octavo three volumes 32 16 and 92 4 pages with several photographic portraits. Pictorial wrappers lightly rubbed; a fine set. Text in German. Three pamphlets commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea. The Author (and printed by Auricht) paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 108162

‎SMITH Thelma‎

‎For Freedom. A Collection of Poems‎

‎Adelaide: Thornquest Press 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Thornquest Press 1940. Octavo 32 pages. Overlapping card wrappers; a little marked creased chipped and torn with slight loss; a very good copy. Foreword by local radio personality Tommy Hudson. Thornquest Press paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 58149

‎LIGHT Colonel William‎

‎A View of the Country and the Temporary Erections near the Site for the Proposed Town of Adelaide in South Australia‎

‎An original hand-coloured aquatint image size 365 � 545 mm sheet size 523 � 685 mm after a painting by William Light; discoloured tape stains near the edge of the top and side margins well away from the printed surface a legacy of having been framed at one stage; in excellent condition. The original plate was engraved by Robert Havell and published in London by Smith Elder and Co. in 1838. The subtitle states that it is 'Forming the First of a Series of Views of that Colony now preparing for Publication'. This is certainly the best-known of them. The 1928 Francis Edwards catalogue 'Australasia Old and New' states in item 6 that the original plate for this view had recently been found and that prints have been produced from it. There is little doubt that this is one of these 1920s restrikes from the original plate with later colouring. Carroll 7. unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : 104398

‎Roxby Management Services Pty Ltd Olympic Dam Project. Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Together with: . Supplement‎

‎Adelaide: Kinhill Stearns Roger 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide Kinhill Stearns Roger 1982. Quarto two volumes individually paginated by chapter but a total of approximately 700 pages with tables diagrams plans maps and illustrations many coloured plus a colour isometric view 4 folding schematic diagrams 2 folding tables and 9 folding coloured maps. Laminated colour pictorial card covers a little sunned and rubbed; first volume a little bumped; a very good pair. Both volumes were prepared by Kinhill Stearns Roger Joint Venture. Kinhill Stearns Roger paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 108238

‎BOETTGER Otto 1842 1907 Adelaide optician and instrument maker‎

‎Two very detailed manuscript ledgers from Boettger's practice as an optician 1886-1894 together with approximately 275 invoices covering importations for his extensive engineering surveying optical and scientific instruments business 1892-1900‎

‎The foolscap folio ledgers are uniformly bound in half suede and cloth with the letters A and B respectively on the spines; the covers show signs of wear but the volumes are very sturdy with the contents in excellent condition. The first one contains 21 pages of index and 102 pages of the ledger proper. Each page is designed to record the details of nine patients; the last entry is numbered 916. The data are the name of the patient often the address the date of the consultation the referring doctor the prescription for the lens for each eye and more often than not specific details of the spectacle lenses or frames. Examples of the latter include 'pale blue periscopic lenses / gold frame / twisted curled sides'; 'Gold Pince-nez Canadian'; 'pantoscopic frame'; and 'Extra small Children's frame made to order'. The first entry is dated 20 October 1886. Initially business was not brisk; the fifth entry was not for another eleven weeks on 7 January 1887 when no less an individual than William Austin Horn presented himself. By the time this volume ends on 15 July 1892 a host of still-familiar Adelaide family names had made an appearance: Verco Goyder Hawker Hack Fowler Woods Bagshaw Magarey Jury Mead Rischbeith Morphett . The second volume is more of the same: there are 39 pages of index 298 pages of the ledger proper with each page containing details of seven patients approximately 2086 individual records. This volume commences on 16 July 1892 the day after the first volume ends and the last page is reached on 19 December 1894. The invoices are chronologically arranged in a contemporary quarter cloth and marbled papered boards post-binder; both covers are detached with minor signs of use and age and there are some chipped edges to the contents but overall it is a fascinating collection of unique records documenting a highly specialised profession in colonial Australia. An obituary of Otto Boettger 1842-1907 appeared in 'The Chronicle' Saturday 7 September 1907: 'The death occurred at Cologne recently of Mr. Otto Boettger the well-known Adelaide optician and instrument-maker. The deceased who was 65 years of age was born in Elberfeldt Germany and came out to Australia in 1877. He had previously conducted a large business in St. Petersburg but the venture not proving successful he determined to emigrate to Adelaide. His first engagement was with Mr. Dobbie Alexander Williamson Dobbie 1843-1912 a successful local engineer and inventor cleaning old keys and repairing machinery. Starting in business for himself his great knowledge of surveying and engineering instruments led the Government to place all their work in this department in his hands and the results proved eminently satisfactory. About 10 years ago the business in Flinders-street was transferred to Mr. G.C. Kohler who was an apprentice of Mr. Boettger's at one time and had been with him nearly 30 years. Mr. and Mrs. Boettger then returned to Germany to spend the remainder of their lives in retirement'. Another local newspaper 'The Register' records details of an overseas trip Boettger made in 1894. He left Adelaide for Europe on 11 April 1894 see the report of the Valedictory Dinner on 2 April in the newspaper the following day. His return is reported on 13 December: 'Among the passengers who returned to Adelaide by the German mail steamer "Habsburg" on Wednesday was Herr Otto Boettger the well-known optician and maker of scientific instruments. He went to Europe for the purpose of seeing what is at present being done in the large cities in optical matters and returns in very good health. To a representative of the "Register" who saw Herr Boettger on board the mail steamer he gave a few particulars of his enquiries. "You must know" he began "that until the last few years it was not possible to get made to order astigmatic lenses either here or in any of the other colonies. I am glad to say that the plan I had followed is in all essential points the same as I have seen in the best optical workshops in London Berlin Paris and Birmingham. The difference is merely in the speed because in these large centres there is so much to be done. I was glad to find that in the matter of accuracy of curve and perfection of finish the lenses turned out in Adelaide are not inferior to any I have seen. There has been considerable advance made in the construction of all sorts of scientific instruments and I have been much interested in examining all the latest improvements'. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 107901

‎HEYNE Ernst Bernhard‎

‎The Amateur Gardener. Second Edition greatly enlarged of the Fruit Flower and Vegetable Garden‎

‎Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and Sons 1877. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg and Sons 1877 second edition. Duodecimo 132 4 index 8 advertisements pages. Original quarter contrasting red and green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; covers a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minor restoration to the joints and slight wear to the head of the spine; cloth a little marked and flecked; front flyleaf a well-matched replacement; first and last leaves offset; occasional light scattered foxing; a very good copy. A rarity: this is only the second copy we have seen in over 40 years and Trove records only five institutional holdings. Ernst Bernhard Heyne 1825-1881 botanist and horticulturist 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to the early development of the two colonies' of Victoria and South Australia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' making a rare error in not recording accurately this edition. Ferguson 10397; Crittenden 53 with a lengthy commentary on its importance. The first edition was published as 'The Fruit Flower and Vegetable Garden' in 1871 Ferguson 10396 recording only one copy; Crittenden 47 'not sighted'; Trove records four copies. E.S. Wigg and Sons hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 107647