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FLETCHER John Percy and John Francis HILLS
Conscription under Camouflage. An Account of Compulsory Military Training in Australasia down to the Outbreak of the Great War
Adelaide: John Francis Hills 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide John Francis Hills 1919. Octavo 145 pages. Flush-cut thin card covers a little rubbed creased sunned and marked; canted spine a little chipped and torn with slight loss; a very good copy. 'It is not my intention to be drawn into any newspaper controversy either about what is contained in this book . or about the notes and appendix matter I have added to it. My friend and collaborator John P. Fletcher is at present serving as a conscientious objector under the English Military Service Act a term of two years' imprisonment inflicted upon him by a court-martial. On his release any criticisms of this book will receive from us the attention they deserve.' John Francis Hills 1867-1948 Friend Quaker teacher and anti-conscriptionist: 'in 1912 Hills and a visiting English Friend J.P. Fletcher founded the Australian Freedom League to campaign against compulsory military training. The league quickly extended to other States and at one time claimed 50000 members. Hills spoke often at public meetings and even paraded in a sandwich board at Victoria Park racecourse. The league was disbanded soon after the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Of his many pamphlets the most powerful probably was "Child Conscription: Our Country's Shame" 1912 which not only condemned military training but implicitly war itself. These themes were reiterated in the small book Hills and Fletcher wrote in 1915 "Conscription Under Camouflage" which was not published until 1919' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. John Francis Hills paperback
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QUIN Tarella
Paying Guests
Melbourne: Lothian 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Lothian 1917. Octavo; cloth a little flecked and marked; page 7 slightly marked; small inscription to the rear pastedown; a very good copy. The author is identified in brackets on the title page as 'Mrs Daskein'; this is one of her adult novels with the backdrop of outback life. Lothian hardcover
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WOODS James Dominick editor
The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri by the Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe by Dr. Wyatt J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe by the Rev. A. Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe by the Rev. C.W. Schuermann; The Dieyerie Tribe by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect Northern Territory by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett; with an introductory chapter by J.D. Woods
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and Son 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg and Son 1879. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original publisher's gilt-decorated polished half blue calf and blue textured cloth edges and endpapers marbled with a contrasting leather tile-label on the spine; leather lightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly worn at the bottom corner tips; spine sunned and slightly marked; an excellent copy internally very fine and we know it to be uncirculated as it comes from the publisher's archive. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Taplin's substantial contribution The Narrinyeri 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 Australian Dictionary of Biography. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting variant bindings. E.S. Wigg and Son hardcover
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FERGUSSON June
Bush Battalion. The AMP Society's Ninety Mile Desert Development in South Australia
Sydney Cove: AMP Society 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sydney Cove AMP Society 1984. Octavo 128 pages with numerous plates plus endpaper maps. Papered boards slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper. Inscribed and signed by the author. Loosely inserted is a typed letter to Sir Walter Crocker signed by the author; and a two page handwritten letter from the author to Crocker. Also loosely inserted is a handful of related newspaper articles mostly photocopied. AMP Society hardcover
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WARBURTON JW. editor J. W.
Five Metropolitan Creeks of the River Torrens South Australia. An Environmental and Historical Study
Adelaide: Department of Adult Education University of Adelaide 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Department of Adult Education University of Adelaide 1977. Oblong folio ii 134 pages with numerous illustrations and maps. Colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Department of Adult Education, University of Adelaide paperback
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FATCHEN Max
Forever Fatchen
Adelaide: Advertiser Newspapers 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Advertiser Newspapers 1983. Octavo 144 pages with numerous illustrations plus inside cover illustrations all by the author. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Inscribed with a short bit of doggerel 'In my retirement/ This small requirement/ Fishing wishing and dishing' dated August 8 1984 and signed by the author. Advertiser Newspapers paperback
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WELKE Adrian
Influences in Regional Architecture
Adelaide: Architecture Department University of Adelaide 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Architecture Department University of Adelaide 1978. Oblong small folio ix 146 single-sided pages with numerous illustrations including several maps. Cloth-bound pictorial card covers lightly marked and rubbed; an excellent copy. Architecture Department, University of Adelaide paperback
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BRAY John
Poems 1972-79
Canberra: Australian National University Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Canberra Australian National University Press 1979 first edition. Octavo viii 48 pages. Cloth; a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper a little creased sunned and torn with trifling loss. Presentation copy. Inscribed 'To Christopher Pearson/ With affection and regards/ and fraternal greetings to a/ fellow-labourer in the vineyard of/ literature' dated 25 January 1980 and signed by the author. Australian National University Press hardcover
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COLEMAN Peter
The Heart of James McAuley. Life and Work of the Australian Poet
Sydney: Wildcat Press 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney Wildcat Press 1980 first edition. Octavo; papered boards; extremities very slightly rubbed and bumped; an excellent copy with thevery good dustwrapper a little unevenly sunned and slightly rubbed. Christopher Pearson's presentation copy. Inscribed 'For Christopher "what an epoch for a magazine to emerge in!" dated April 1998 and signed by the author. Wildcat Press hardcover
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JOSE GH. editor G. H.
The Official Report of the Tenth Australian Church Congress at Adelaide October 17 to 24 1928
Adelaide: Church Congress Office 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Church Congress Office 1929. Octavo; cloth and top edge a little marked; spine slightly sunned; a very good copy. Church Congress Office hardcover
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TEESDALE SMITH EN. E. N.
Bibliography of South Australian Geology. Includes all literature published up to and including June 1958
Adelaide: South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey 1959. Small quarto; flush-cut quarter cloth and papered boards lightly scuffed with some negligible surface loss about the edges; cloth slightly flecked; ownership signature; a very good copy. South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey hardcover
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Adelaide Botanic Gardens
'Botanical Gardens Adelaide South Australia'. A nineteenth-century photograph of a pond and active fountain
The carte de visite an albumen paper photograph 55 x 91 mm was recently removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; the title above was written in pencil on the verso of the image. The number '202' is pencilled on a fence-post in the foreground; in excellent condition. The photographer is unidentified; undated but possibly 1860s. unknown
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SHAW William and H. Lipson HANCOCK
A Sunday School of To-Day. An Illustration of Principles
Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham 1912. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey and Gillingham June 1912 second edition/ July 1911. Small octavo 151 1 colophon pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus 3 large folding sheets depicting the floor plans of 9 churches 'Sunday School Plans'. Olive green cloth slightly flecked; top corner slightly bumped; endpapers lightly discoloured; short tear to the first folding sheet expertly sealed; an excellent copy. A 'brief record of the evolution of a modern Sunday School . published in response to requests from numerous Sunday School workers'. Hussey and Gillingham hardcover
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SAVVAS Adrian compilor
Sixty Nine Years of Events from the Pages of The News
Adelaide: The Author 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide The Author 1992. Folio; papered boards; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. (The Author) hardcover
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HODGE Charles Reynolds
Guide-Book to Victor Harbour the Miniature Naples of Australia and the South Coast
Adelaide: 'The Advertiser' Office for the Author 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide 'The Advertiser' Office for the Author 1930. Octavo 18 pages with 9 illustrations 7 full-page from photographs by R.S. Sladdin. Title-wrappers pulled away a little from the slightly rusty staples; rear cover creased and foxed; a very good copy. Inscribed and dated January 1931 by the author with the recipient's name in pencil on the front cover. 'The Advertiser' Office [for the Author] paperback
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LIGHT Colonel William. GILL Thomas
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia
Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1911. Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1911 enlarged edition. Octavo viii 108 vi 84 pages plus 18 plates 2 folding maps and 2 folding facsimile documents. Gilt-pictorial vellum top edge gilt others uncut; a few trifling surface blemishes to the front panel; essentially a fine copy with the 'With Compliments' slip from the Board of Governors of the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of SA mounted on the front pastedown. Number 31 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
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LYALL J. A Bloke with a Bludgeon
The Cussedness of Things in General. A Few Reflections on Matters of Everyday Moment
Adelaide: The Author and printed by Gillingham Swann & Co. 1922. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Author and printed by Gillingham Swann & Co. 1922. Octavo 48 pages. Wrappers; a fine copy with a contemporary ownership signature on the front cover and first page. Our man reflects on Patriotism Militarism Internationalism Prohibition Over-Government and Wowserism among other cussed things. The first page is date-stamped 30 May 1922 and the original owner has supplied the name we have given as the author. Trove records the author as 'Patroclus'. The Author] (and printed by Gillingham, Swann & Co.) paperback
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Australian Aborigines
South Australian Institutes' Journal . Volume 1 Number 1 August 18 1900
Adelaide: Vardon and Pritchard Printers 1900. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon and Pritchard Printers 1900. Tall octavo iv 16 v-x pages including the printed wrappers with advertisements on all pages with Roman numerals except the first one which is the title. Acidic title-wrappers a little discoloured around the margins and very lightly chipped; an excellent copy with contemporary annotations to a page of statistical returns. The contents are what one would generally expect to find - a potted history of the association lists of new publications reviews a 'useful list' of books numerous period advertisements - but there are two topical contributions. The first a little over two pages long is devoted to publications relating to the war in South Africa. The second one column in fine print is a lengthy poem 'To a Black Venus' by Guy Bronte. Pity we don't have time to quote it in full: 'Hail dusky Venus! Not the classic article / But Venus camping in the Myall Creek. / Yet like thy namesake thou hast not a particle / of dress redundant for the sculptural Greek. // . // But as thou wilt not be for exhibition / I need not further here this theme discuss. / Thou art content no doubt with thy condition; / At least for "Woman's Rights" thou dost not fuss. // After a feed of snake right as a trivet / thou art to lie and in the sunshine bask. / Yet stay a whitefellow may "Baccer give it" / So thou I may be sure wilt come and ask'. There is a moral to this tale in twelve quatrains but we'll not spoil it for the lucky purchaser. Vardon and Pritchard, Printers paperback
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SUTHERLAND James de la Zouche
A Remarkable Life. Mr David Sutherland MP. Interesting Biographical Sketch. Reprinted from 'The Register' April 18 1925 cover title
Adelaide: 'The Register' Print 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide 'The Register' Print 1925. Duodecimo 19 pages with 2 full-page portrait illustrations from photographs. Title-wrappers; a fine copy. The author is identified on the first page. 'The Hon. Sir Josiah Symon KCMG has courteously handed us for publication the following extremely interesting biographical sketch. In his note accompanying the MS Sir Josiah says: "Mr Sutherland was my uncle. The sketch was written by his younger son the late James de la Zouche Sutherland who was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme court very shortly before his death'. David Sutherland 1801-1879 arrived in South Australia in 1840; 'Obituaries Australia' has a very informative account of his life. Not in Trove. 'The Register' Print paperback
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GORDON David J.
The 'Nile' of Australia. Nature's Gateway to the Interior. A Plea for the Greater Utilization of the Murray and its Tributaries
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1906. Large octavo viii 74 8 advertisements pages plus 25 plates many from photographs and 2 maps. Pictorial blue wrappers slightly rubbed and creased with expert infill to a small chip to the front leading edge; minimal foxing; an excellent copy. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
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HODGE Charles Reynolds
Thrilling Episodes of Early Days! cover title
Adelaide: The Author 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1940. Octavo 16 pages with 4 full-page plates. Pictorial wrappers a little foxed; an excellent copy. The front cover is inscribed by the author. The Author paperback
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Journalism
Jubilee of South Australian Journalism. The Register's Fiftieth Anniversary. Reprinted from the 'South Australian Register' of June 3 1887
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1887. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. 1887. Square octavo 17 pages with two full-page portrait illustrations of Robert Thomas and William Kyffin Thomas versos blank. Title-cover stapled as issued; a few trifling rust marks near the staples and scattered mild foxing; an excellent copy. W.K. Thomas & Co unknown
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TAPLIN Reverend George
The Narrinyeri. An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina Albert and Coorong and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1878. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1878 second edition revised. Octavo 225 x 145 mm viii 156 pages plus 6 tinted lithographs new to this edition. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine decorated in blind on the front and rear boards with three gilt rules at the head and foot of the spine; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities and slightly ink-marked at the front and rear; spine sunned flecked and a little marked with light wear to the head and minor loss to the foot; inner hinges neatly reinforced with cloth tape; a very good copy internally fine. The first edition was published in 1874; it contains only one illustration the frontispiece. This is an original Townsend Duryea albumen paper photograph a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. See Ferguson 16706 not identifying the photographer and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite photograph. This revised second edition Ferguson 16707 contains six tinted lithographs the second one of which is based on the Duryea composite photograph and there is no obvious key to the identities of the subjects. Taplin makes some interesting observations in his preface to this edition: 'The reader will find that some additions have been made to the book. An account has been given of the Aboriginal Council called the Tendi by which the clans of the Narrinyeri are governed. Some friends of the Mission complained that the history of the Mission at Point Macleay was too short and expressed their desire that more incidents had been related. An attempt has been made to supply this deficiency by inserting some extracts from the author's diary'. Ferguson does not make it clear that it is the revised second edition of this work which appears in the 1879 collection of reprints 'The Native Tribes of South Australia' Ferguson 13095. In our experience this stand-alone 1878 edition is rare. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
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DANIELS Christopher B. and Catherine J. TAIT editors
Adelaide. Nature of a City. The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036
Adelaide: Biocity/ University of Adelaide 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Biocity/ University of Adelaide 2005. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. With numerous colour illustrations. Biocity/ University of Adelaide paperback
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SCHIRMER Heather
History of Settlement. Rhine Villa - Cambrai and Beyond
Cambrai: The Author 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cambrai The Author 2001. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. '.the historical events and related stories pertaining to the settlement of the Cambrai area' of South Australia. The Author] paperback
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JAMIESON Eric
What they Learned they Shared. The History of the Gumeracha Branch of the Agricultural Bureau of South Australia 1888 to 1988
Gumeracha: Gumeracha Branch of the ABSA 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Gumeracha Gumeracha Branch of the ABSA 1988. Octavo; laminated pictorial wrappers; head of the spine slightly torn; an excellent copy. Gumeracha Branch of the ABSA paperback
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MAXWELL Helen
Sanderston. Where's That Cover title
Adelaide: The Author 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1997. Octavo 147 pages with numerous photographic illustrations. Metal spiral-bound colour pictorial card covers; extremities slightly rubbed; rear cover slightly marked; an excellent copy. A history of Sanderston since settlement in 1884. The Author] paperback
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WILTON Christine COULTHARD Clifford and Desmond
The Flinders Range. An Aboriginal View
Adelaide: Aboriginal Heritage Unit 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Aboriginal Heritage Unit 1980. Quarto; colour pictorial card wrappers a little lightly creased and marked; a very good copy. Not least An Introduction to the Adnjamathanha Language 5 pages by Peter Austin. Aboriginal Heritage Unit paperback
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GRAY ED. E. D.
The Murray River and Bottom Enders
Cheltenham: The Author 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cheltenham The Author 1977. Octavo; synthetic cloth marked and slightly bumped at the extremities; a very good copy. [The Author] hardcover
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ROBERTSON Enid L. with Ann Prescott
Restoration of Grassy Woodland. Watiparinga Reserve Management Plan
Adelaide: National Trust of South Australia 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide National Trust of South Australia 1999. Foolscap; laminated colour pictorial card covers; initial leaves lightly yellowed at the edges; an excellent copy. Ann Prescott is also the author of 'It's Blue with Five Petals'. National Trust of South Australia paperback
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BOTT Tony
A Drop of Water A Blade of Grass. Blinman and Surrounds: A Documentary History 1850-1869
South Plympton: The Author 2008. Very Good. South Plympton The Author 2008. Foolscap; plastic comb binding with plastic cover and card rear cover; rear cover slightly splash-marked; an excellent copy. In the Knowing the Flinders Ranges series. The Author unknown
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ZAITE Lynette D.
The Waite. A Social and Scientific History of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute
University of Adelaide: Barr Smith Press 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press 2014. Oblong quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper with a tiny surface tear to the front panel and a very short light crease to the rear panel. Dated 12 May 2014 and warmly inscribed and signed by the author to 'an inspirational man and scientist' Australian wheat breeder Tony Rathjen see numerous entries and the Index. Barr Smith Press hardcover
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Kangaroo Island. HALLACK EH. 'A Native' E. H.
Kangaroo Island 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905. Small octavo viii 45 12 advertisements pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates a folding map and advertisements on both sides of the rear cover. Pictorial wrappers slightly rubbed creased and marked; spine sunned cracked and slightly chipped at the head; an excellent copy. With the contemporary ownership signature of George S. Fowler of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers paperback
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ANGAS George Fife
South Australia. drop-title . Statements prepared and published under the Sanction of the Committee appointed for the Diffusion of Information on the State and Prospects of South Australia
London: Alfred Boot Printer 3 Dockhead Bermondsey for George Fife Angas 1848. Very Good. London Alfred Boot Printer 3 Dockhead Bermondsey for George Fife Angas 1848. Duodecimo approximately 186 x 116 mm 16 pages last blank. A saddle-stitched drop-title pamphlet; small portions of the blank leading margin slightly stained; small dob of wax to the top right-hand corner of the last page presumably the item had been mounted in an album or scrapbook at some stage; a very good copy. This copy is inscribed and signed at the head of the first page 'London 1 Jany 1848. G.F. Angas London'. At the foot of the page Angas has written 'G.F. Angas prepared this tract & printed & circulated many thousands of them in England at his own cost. - before he went to So. Aust'a himself'. We can find no record of this item - and even if another copy has survived and eventually surfaces it cannot begin to compare with this exquisitely-annotated example. It is surely the type specimen . The role of George Fife Angas 1789-1879 in the foundation and settlement of South Australia is too well-known to require elaboration here. The South Australian Company which he formed in October 1835 with other wealthy British businessmen 'was not the only part of Angas's work for the foundation of South Australia. He lobbied the Colonial Office subsidized authors and published magazines and pamphlets. He gave evidence to the select committee on South Australian affairs in 1841. Despite his passionate faith in self help he became convinced that the colony would founder unless aided by the British government. His interviews with the Colonial Office his lecture tours and his wide distribution of literature on South Australia helped to ensure a majority for the parliamentary grant that saved the colony's credit. In 1848 Angas decided to go to South Australia where his German tenants were at last paying their rents and the South Australian Co. was again paying a dividend. He resigned as its chairman and director and with renewed vigour planned a score of colonial ventures ranging from the export of tallow to drain pipes made by machine. Again he lectured and wrote and lobbied this time for the Australian colonies' government bill. When it was passed in August 1850 . and all his English property was sold he sailed with his wife and youngest son in the "Ascendant" and arrived in Adelaide in January 1851' Australian Dictionary of Biography. From internal evidence this rare pamphlet would appear to have been produced early in the second half of 1848. Reference is made to the 3rd Annual Report of the South Australian Mining Company dated 14 April 1848; obviously sufficient time had elapsed for this to have reached England by ship. At the Annual General Meeting of the South Australian Company on 28 June 1848 Angas tendered 'his resignation of the office of Chairman and also his seat at the Board of Directors' Hodder page 299. As there is only passing reference to the South Australian Company in the pamphlet merely as the contact address for the secretary of the committee David McLaren and Angas heads the alphabetical list of six committee-men his resignation from the SAC would appear to have taken place. This 'Committee appointed for the Diffusion of Information on the State and Prospects of South Australia' about which we can found no other trace may be yet another example of Angas indulging his 'lifelong passion for forming societies and joining charitable committees' ADB. As far as the text of the pamphlet goes 'The Committee are aware of the anxious desire for information relative to South Australia. and shall studiously avoid giving currency to any statements of questionable authority'. These noble sentiments are prefaced by suitable quotes from Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby and Dr Robert Vaughan. The closely-printed text goes into great detail about land regulations for its sale land sold land under cultivation; flocks and herds; population; wages and prices of provisions; free passages; imports and exports; soil and climate; and mineral discoveries. One full page is given over to the Reverends Thomas Quinton Stow and August Kavel extolling the virtues of the climate on the flocks under their pastoral care. The final section almost a page long is headed 'The Self-Supporting Colony' and if George Fife Angas had not identified himself as the author of this tract these five paragraphs would have done so with as much certainty. He goes out with a flourish: 'Thus notwithstanding the ridicule in which many indulged and the misgivings which others experienced the noble conception of the founders of the colony has been realised and SOUTH AUSTRALIA STANDS ALONE IN HER PROUD PRE-EMINENCE A SELF-SUPPORTING COLONY'. Thanks to the marvel that is Trove we have discovered in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' Monday 28 April 1845 page 5 in a section headed 'English Extracts' a lengthy article on 'Australian Colonies' taken from the 'Colonial Gazette' December 14 1844. It quotes the same two 'very eminent writers' Dr Arnold and Dr Vaughan as it zooms in from 'the growing importance of our Australian colonies' to an enthusiastic promotion of South Australia. 'The revival of the sales of land in the colony and the consequent renewal of free emigration are very encouraging features in this case. This is a beginning. May it go on!' - surely more pure Angas. Alfred Boot, Printer, 3, Dockhead, Bermondsey [for George Fife Angas] unknown
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DAY Alfred N.
Names of South Australian Railway Stations with their Meanings and Derivations
Adelaide: Government Printer 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1915. Large octavo 32 pages with a large folding map 710 x 510 mm showing all the railway stations of SA. Flush-cut green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover 'Nomenclature of Railway Stations' a little silverfish-nibbled; endpapers slightly foxed with trifling blemishes to the edges; the map has minor restoration including short tears near the stub expertly sealed and infill to minor silverfish loss to a small blank area; overall a very good copy. Government Printer hardcover
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MUNDAY Bruce
Those Dry-Stone Walls. Stories from South Australia's Stone Age
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2015. Paperback. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2015 revised edition/ 2012. Small quarto viii 183 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; mint. Wakefield Press paperback
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WHITELOCK Derek
Gawler. Colonel Light's Country Town. A History of Gawler and its Region - the Hills the Plains and the Barossa Valley
Gawler: Corporation of the Town of Gawler 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gawler Corporation of the Town of Gawler 1989. Small quarto; green morocco; a fine copy in the excellent laminated colour pictorial card slipcase slightly rubbed at the extremities. 200 numbered and signed presentation copies were issued; this copy is unnumbered unsigned and out of series. Corporation of the Town of Gawler hardcover
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JENKINS The Honorable John Greeley
The Northern Territory of South Australia. Its Development. Proposals of the Government as announced by the Premier and Minister controlling the Northern Territory . Reprinted from 'Hansard' September 14-15 1904
Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide J.L. Bonython & Co. 1904. Tall octavo 248 � 165 mm 12 pages last blank. Salmon-coloured wrappers with the full title page details repeated within a decorative border on the front cover; a fine copy. J.L. Bonython & Co paperback
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YOUNG Elizabeth
James Cant
Adelaide: Brolga Books 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Good. Adelaide Brolga Books 1970. Square quarto; laminated titled card covers; a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper a little rubbed with some slight loss of colour about the gutter. Brolga Books paperback
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BLACK Thomas
'Boston Bay' and Other Poems
Port Lincoln: Zebra Music 1998. Paperback. Fine. Port Lincoln Zebra Music 1998 facsimile reprint/ 1915. Octavo; coloured pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Scarce in the original edition this copy is number 13 of only 100 signed copies of this facsimile reprint and is also inscribed dated February 1999 and signed. Zebra Music paperback
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LEVER Richard Hayley
Important Sale of the Pictures of Richard Hayley Lever 1876-1958 on Thursday 26th March 1992
Penzance: W.H. Lane and Son 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Penzance W.H. Lane and Son 1992. Oblong octavo 52 pages with 62 colour illustrations many full-page. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Together with a suite of over 50 original colour photographs mainly 150 x 200 mm of Lever's works offered in the sale. Richard Hayley Lever was born in Adelaide; he sailed for Europe in 1893 and lived in Paris and London before settling in St Ives Cornwall in 1902. He emigrated to America in 1912 where he became recognised as a significant artist. The auctioneer's note put this sale in perspective: 'Unbelievably these paintings lay unstretched collecting dust for approximatley eighty years in a Cornish attic until their recent discovery. It is most unusual to be able to offer some sixty unknown and unseen works by an artist of such international repute'. W.H. Lane and Son paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 106132
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DEPASQUALE Paul
A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930 with subjectively annotated bibliographies
Warradale: Pioneer Books 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Warradale Pioneer Books 1978 first edition. Octavo viii 328 pages. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper slightly sunned on the spine and with a small serrated tear to the front panel. Number 203 of 1000 copies. Number 2 in the Pioneer Books Monographs. Loosely inserted is a newspaper review. Pioneer Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 106123
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NEWLAND Simpson
Paving the Way
Adelaide: Rigby 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adelaide Rigby 1954 Diamond Jubilee edition/ 1893. Octavo viii 416 pages plus endpaper maps. Cloth; contemporary gift inscription; early blank title-page and rear endpapers lightly offset; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper slightly marked creased worn and torn with slight loss chiefly to the extremities with the original publisher's purple 'Coronation and Diamond Jubilee Edition' wraparound slightly worn on the spine with a little surface loss and with a small crease to the front flap. Loosely inserted is a 1983 newspaper clipping of a letter from local historian and librarian Anthony Laube sketching out further details behind the fiction. Rigby hardcover
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Photographic Illuminated Address
A very large albumen paper photograph reproducing an illuminated address presented to John Dunn Esq. J.P. of Mount Barker 1802-1904 member of Parliament and prominent wheat merchant and miller in early colonial South Australia by the workers of J. Dunn & Co. on the occasion of his retirement in May 1889. The address the original of which was illustrated and illuminated by W.G.P. Joyner gives an indication of the scale and importance of Dunn's enterprises: '. by your perseverance energy and strict integrity you have overcome all obstacles and today you have the satisfaction of leaving to your successors the largest milling and wheat business in the Southern Hemisphere'
Image size approximately 325 x 263 mm on the original ruled mount visible surface 430 x 365 mm framed and glazed. The photograph is beginning to lift slightly at two corners; mount slightly soiled at one corner; frame a little scuffed and marked; overall in excellent condition. On the reverse is the paper label of 'S. Solomon Photographer 51 Rundle Street Adelaide'. An article in the 'South Australian Chronicle' for 8 June 1889 describes the circumstances of the presentation of the address and describe the original in detail. 'The address is the work of Mr. Joyner and is one of his most artistic productions . The words and the signatures which number 105 being those of most of the leading employ�s are situated in the centre while all around are well executed paintings of a number of the mills belonging to the firm taken from photographs. In the left-hand corner there is a painting of the site of the original mill at Hay Valley . On the top are Mr. Dunn's residence at Mount Barker 'The Laurels' and the Dunn Memorial Church which that gentleman presented to the residents of Mount Barker while the right hand corner is occupied by a view of the firm's stores and offices in Freeman-street Adelaide now Gawler Place. On the left side of the address there are views of the mills at Wilmington the old mill at Port Adelaide and at Mount Barker and two representations of the new Roller Eclipse mill at Port Adelaide. On the other side the Nairne mill takes precedence while underneath it is the gem of the collection the works at Port Pirie including some of the shipping of the port with the railway in front. The Port Augusta and Bridgewater mills are represented and an excellent portrait of Mr. Dunn is also included in the set.' A number of the source photographs are to be found in a Dunn family photograph album now held by the State Library of South Australia PRG 1485/3. Dunn's entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' records that 'he retired in 1889 and died at Mount Barker on 13 October 1894. The firm's eleven mills five with the most modern machinery then represented an investment of �150000. They annually had an export trade of some 20000 tons of flour to Britain Western Australia New South Wales and South Africa some 400 employees and a payment to farmers of �500000'. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105467
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NEUMAYER Dr Georg Balthazar von
On a Scientific Exploration of Central Australia
London: Royal Society of London 1868. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London Royal Society of London 1868. Octavo ii 347-364 pages plus a map of Australia with 'the Route & Principal Stations proposed' printed in red. Plain light brown wrappers sewn as issued; wrappers lightly marked; an excellent copy. 'From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London No. 102 1868' is printed at the head of the title page. Neumayer here seeks support for an expedition to search for Leichhardt and to complete his ambitious plans; he was unsuccessful in his attempt. Ferguson 13146; McLaren 14012. Royal Society of London paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105232
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HIGGINS Thomas Walker
A group of four nineteenth-century photographs featuring Thomas Walker Higgins a pioneer of Currency Creek and Middleton about 80 kilometres south of Adelaide
Two of the photographs are approximately 100 � 150 mm the other two are approximately 70 � 75 mm. All four have been removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; each one has a small number pencilled unobtrusively in the sky in the top right-hand corner. One image in each size depicts Higgins at his pastoral property at Currency Creek with the homestead 'Higginsbrook' figuring prominently in the smaller one. In the other two images Higgins is shown standing on rocks at the coast at Middleton the site was identified on the verso in pencil. The photographer is unidentified; the images are undated but we suggest the 1860s. Irish-born Thomas Walker Higgins 1810-1899 emigrated to South Australia in September 1839. The following year he and his wife and their only child 'journeyed to the South Coast where good land was plenty. They took up a run near Currency Creek and on Section 2147 in the hundred of Goolwa they built their home naming it "Higginsbrook" after his family's ancestral home back in Ireland. It was built on a side of a hill giving a scenic view over the valley towards the sea. In 1849 Thomas Higgins purchased what is now known as Middleton. In 1854 he had the land surveyed and made plans for the township of Middleton naming after his connection with Ireland' genealogical information sourced with many thanks from the Higgins family genealogy page on RootsWeb. 4 items. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105589
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WILKINSON George Blakiston
The Working Man's Handbook to South Australia. With Advice to the Farmer and Detailed Information for the Several Classes of Labourers and Artizans
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1848. Octavo; synthetic cloth slightly marked; a fine copy. Peade: one of only 50 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105259
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JOHNSTON Pauline and others
Walford. A Centenary History. Centenary Year 1893-1993
Norwood: Peacock Publications for Council of Governors of Walford Anglican School for Girls 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Norwood Peacock Publications for Council of Governors of Walford Anglican School for Girls 1994 first edition. Quarto viii 336 pages with a vast number of plates plus 17 colour plates. Gilt-decorated full leather; rear cover with a very small dent to the rear cover; an excellent copy in the excellent matching slipcase. The history of a South Australian school: Walford Anglican School for Girls. Peacock Publications for Council of Governors of Walford Anglican School for Girls hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105154
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WHITINGTON Ernest
The South Australian Vintage 1903
Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1997 facsimile edition/ 1903. Quarto x 74 pages with numerous illustrations. Gilt-decorated quarter calf and cloth; a fine copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 214; number 96 of only 99 copies of the deluxe issue in a total edition of 600 copies. The five-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105542
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FISHER FR. F. R.
Joseph Fisher. A Pioneer Colonist cover title
Adelaide: The Author 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1998 first edition. Octavo; stapled laminated colour pictorial card wrappers a little scratched and rubbed; top corner of the rear cover lightly creased; a very good copy. 'This book is printed for private circulation only'. Loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from the author presenting the book to local historian R.'Ron' M. Gibbs citing Sir Walter Crocker as the instigator. Joseph Fisher 1834-1907 accountant and parliamentarian was also for 12 years the proprietor and commercial manager of Adelaide newspapers the Register and Observer. The Author paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 105406
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