‎Australie‎

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106739

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106830

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106843

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106847

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106267

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106292

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106345

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106294

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106288

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 105922

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106011

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 20556

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106136

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 106123

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 105467

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 105589

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 105154

‎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

书商的参考编号 : 105406

‎CLARK Professor AJ. A. J.‎

‎Patent Medicines. Contained in: Fact. May 1938. A Sixpenny Monograph published on the 15th of every month . General Editor: Raymond Postgate‎

‎London: Fact 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London Fact 1938 first edition. Octavo; colour card covers slightly rubbed and marked; two tiny closed tears to the spine; top edge foxed; a very good copy. Loosely inserted is an inscribed and signed memo on F.H. Faulding and Co letterhead to Mr Scammell of Adelaide. Fact paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 105631

‎BONYTHON Simon‎

‎The Jatujak Market of Bangkok‎

‎Bangkok: Amber House 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bangkok Amber House 2010 first edition. Oblong quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Amber House hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 93030

‎STUART John McDouall‎

‎The Journal of John McDouall Stuart's Second Journey of Exploration April-July 1859. Edited by Valmai Hankel and Mark Gilbert‎

‎Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2002 first thus. Octavo xxviii 63 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus a folding map. Quarter leather and cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; a fine copy. Number 96 of 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue from a total edition of just 300 copies. The first edition of the 'most complete account of the expedition to be published'; it is 'the only one for which no manuscript diary or fair copy survives' and the contemporary published versions are incomplete. The base text for the present volume is that published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume 31 1861 to which has been added portions from Hardman's 1864 edition omitted from the RGS version. The map is based on Mary Quick's map in Webster's 1958 biography of Stuart; the 24-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 105017

‎Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition. LINDSAY David‎

‎Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia‎

‎North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 very large folding maps each 770 x 1450 mm in a separate leather-covered case. These two maps are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. Full blue leather; a fine set. Number 31 of only 50 sets of this deluxe edition in the total print-run of only 400 sets. Corkwood Press hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 105020

‎LANDSBOROUGH W.‎

‎Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke and Wills‎

‎Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2000 facsimile edition/ 1862. Octavo xvi 128 pages with a frontispiece and a large folding map in an endpocket. Quarter calf and cloth; a fine copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 221. This is number 96 of 99 copies of the deluxe issue from a total edition of 500 copies. The seven-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 105018

‎Education Department of Western Australia‎

‎Reading Developmental Continuum First Steps‎

‎Rigby. 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

书商的参考编号 : mon0002077102 ???????? : 0731223551 9780731223558

‎ROGERS Jeffery N.‎

‎A Noble History. The Story of A. Noble and Son. 1911-2011‎

‎Kilburn: Peacock Publications for A. Noble and Son 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Kilburn Peacock Publications for A. Noble and Son 2011 first edition. Small quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Loosely inserted is a pamphlet for Peacock Publications a printed invitation to the book launch to local historian Ron Gibbs and a further invitation to the company's new premises in 2012. Peacock Publications for A. Noble and Son hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 105412