‎Austrália‎

‎MORPHETT George Cooper‎

‎The Life and Letters of Sir John Morphett. Compiled by his Grandson‎

‎Adelaide: Hassell Press for the Author 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Hassell Press for the Author 1936. Octavo xii 167 pages plus 24 plates. Cloth a little lightly flecked and scuffed; spine lightly sunned; edges a little foxed; a very good copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Number 80 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. This copy is also inscribed and signed to Frank Downer brother of Sir John Downer 1843-1915. Sir John Morphett 1809-1892 landowner and politician: by 1835 he was one of the most enthusiastic and energetic supporters of the new province of South Australia and he arrived on the 'Cygnet' in September 1836. He was one of the discoverers of the Torrens and at 'the crucial meeting on 10 February 1837 Morphett's votes were decisive in confirming the site of Adelaide . He threw his weight behind every good cause . and his political career was long and distinguished' Australian Dictionary of Biography. Hassell Press [for the Author] hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 104361

‎LANDSBOROUGH W.‎

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

‎Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1963 facsimile edition/ 1862. Octavo vi 128 pages plus a frontispiece and a large folding map. Synthetic cloth a trifle marked; endpapers a little offset; an excellent copy. Peade A17: only 576 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 103004

‎COCKBURN Stewart‎

‎The Salisbury Affair‎

‎South Melbourne: Sun Books 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. South Melbourne Sun Books 1979. Small octavo xviii 351 pages plus 8 pages of plates. Flush-cut colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; top corner of pages 17-80 a little creased; a very good copy. 'The sacking of the English-born police commissioner of South Australia Harold Salisbury was an event with few parallels in the Western world. This action by the Labor Government of former Premier Don Dunstan created a political uproar polarised public opinion and led to a royal commission' publisher's blurb. 'The royal commission found that Salisbury had misled the government and that there were grounds for his removal from office' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. This copy is inscribed dated 1 October 1982 and signed by Harold Salisbury 1915-1991 to a former colleague a senior detective: 'Peter Giles. Keep the old flag flying. Good luck. Harold Salisbury'. Sun Books paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 103724

‎SCOTT Sir Walter‎

‎The Journal of Sir Walter Scott 1825-32 from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford. New Edition‎

‎Edinburgh: David Douglas 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh David Douglas 1891. Octavo; cloth slightly flecked marked bumped and rubbed; spine a little darkened; three tiny spots of wear with trifling loss; a few small marks; a very good copy. Local provenance. The gift inscription; 'From my dear daughter Helen Mary Mayo Xmas 1892'; is signed by George Gibbes Mayo. David Douglas hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 103727

‎FINDLAY Alexander‎

‎The Treasures of Coal Tar‎

‎London: George Allen and Unwin 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London George Allen and Unwin 1917 first edition. Octavo xiv 138 pages with several diagrams. Cloth slightly bumped; endpapers very slightly offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper chipped creased and torn with minor loss chiefly to the head and foot of the spine. With the ownership signature of Luther Robert Scammell 1858-1940 of Faulding's fame. George Allen and Unwin hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 82801

‎MOFFAT Alfred‎

‎Our Old Nursery Rhymes. The Original Tunes Harmonized . Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair‎

‎London: Augener 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Augener 1911 first edition. Oblong quarto 64 pages with 32 large colour illustrations. Original blue cloth with a colour plate laid down on the front cover; covers a little flecked and marked; bottom corners a little bumped; front pastedown slightly marked; a very good copy. With the presentation inscription dated Christmas 1911 to Kendal Archer and Dorothea Kyffin Thomas from 'Auntie Charles'. Augener hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 102942

‎DUTTON Geoffrey‎

‎Paintings of S.T. Gill‎

‎Adelaide: Rigby 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Rigby 1962. Quarto iv 12 pages plus 12 tipped-in colour plates on captioned leaves. Papered boards lightly sunned at the bottom edge; endpapers a little offset; an excellent copy with the undersized celluloid dustwrapper slightly scuffed and creased. Rigby hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 103793

‎MEYER HEA. H. E.‎

‎Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe South Australia‎

‎Adelaide: 'printed and published for Government by George Dehane' 1846. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide 'printed and published for Government by George Dehane' 1846. Octavo ii 15 pages. Original stiffened blue wrappers with the title page details repeated on the front cover; trifling surface blemish to the front cover; an excellent copy. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840 and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on Ngarrindjeri "Vocabulary of the Language spoken by the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe South Australia". He lived at Encounter Bay until 1848 . Meyer was part of an Adelaide-based community of missionaries from the Dresden Missionary School which placed great emphasis on learning the language because it believed in the importance of communicating with the Aboriginal people in their own language . He also had continuing contact with other missionaries who were also involved in writing grammars such as Clamor Schurmann who had published a grammar of Kaurna the language to the North of Ngarrindjeri just before Meyer's arrival. This background as well as the assertion in his introduction to the 1843 grammar that the whole publication had been twice reviewed with different natives so that the meaning assigned to the words may be relied upon as correct . has resulted in a text that is considered to be a reliable reflection of the language at the time and a good grammar for its time' Corinne Bannister: 'A Longitudinal Study of Ngarrindjeri' online. In this short but closely printed pamphlet Meyer in 'giving an account of these people . endeavours to trace the life of one from his birth upwards'. His extended period of living with the Encounter Bay people in these early years of white settlement adds authenticity to his detailed account of subjects such as hunting sorcery and burial customs. Ferguson 4348; see also Ferguson 13095 WOODS J.D. editor: The Native Tribes of South Australia Adelaide Wigg 1879 which reprints this item; Greenway 6696. 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane' paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 101318

‎Berri. KRANTZ Harry‎

‎'Berri 1921'. A vintage sepia-toned panorama 100 x 460 mm comprising three original gelatin silver photographs of approximately equal size‎

‎The title and photographer's credit are written in a neat calligraphic hand in white ink on the original mount. The left- and right-hand photographs are a little unevenly tanned otherwise it is a fine panorama attractively presented behind glass in its original polished timber frame external dimensions 190 x 595 mm. Berri on the River Murray about 240 kilometres north-east of Adelaide was proclaimed a town in 1911 just a decade before these photographs were taken. Irrigation subsequently led to the establishment of the vineyards and fruit orchards that are synonymous with the region. However the 'first impetus for settlement came when paddle steamers came down the River Murray and a refuelling stop was developed' at this 'wide bend in the river' Wikipedia and it is this aspect of Berri's history that is captured in this panorama. The fledgling township comes a distant second to the river the paddle-steamers and the vast woodheap that takes up half the width of the scene. unknown‎

Referência livreiro : 102509

‎Railways‎

‎Official Opening of South-Eastern Broad Gauge Railway Wolseley-Naracoorte February 1950‎

‎Adelaide: South Australian Railways 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Railways 1950. Oblong quarto 35 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and a full-page two-colour map. Overlapping card covers slightly sunned; an excellent copy. 'A souvenir to commemorate the official opening by His Excellency the Governor of South Australia Lieut.-General Sir Willoughby Norrie' at Naracoorte on 1 February 1950. South Australian Railways paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 102850

‎Souvenir of the Nearer South-East of South Australia. Embodying Murray Bridge Bletchley Monarto & Monarto-South Woodchester Callington Mannum Mt. Barker Palmer Strathalbyn Mount Pleasant and their Environs. The Garden of Agriculture Grazing Dairying etc. cover title‎

‎Adelaide: O. Ziegler 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide O. Ziegler 1924. Oblong folio 110 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and illustrated advertisements. Blue wrappers with a pictorial advertisement on the outside rear cover with both panels printed in dark blue and gilt; covers slightly marked and rubbed with minimal wear to the spine; leaves lightly creased at the top corners; a few other minor signs of handling; overall an excellent copy. With the ownership stamp of Harold Woodlands 4 May 1943. O. Ziegler paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 102577

‎STEPHENS WJ. W. J.‎

‎South Australia. Its Wealth and Beauty‎

‎Bendigo: Cambridge Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bendigo Cambridge Press 1939. Octavo 100 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and a frontispiece map. Cloth slightly bumped at the bottom corners with the head of the spine slightly snagged; two pinholes in the front flyleaf where the letters described below were originally attached; an excellent copy. Inscribed dated 23 November 1939 and signed by the author then editor of 'The Bendigo Advertiser' to Harry Peters sometime Director of Lands for South Australia and cousin of the bookseller and WW1 hero Captain Charles Harold Peters. Loosely inserted is a typed ALS from the author to Peters and a carbon copy of his warm and chatty reply referring to Charles and correcting the author on a minor point. Cambridge Press hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 102683

‎Parkside‎

‎Parkside School Jubilee Souvenir 1885-1935 cover title‎

‎Adelaide: Felstead & Ormsby Printers for the School 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Felstead & Ormsby Printers for the School 1935. 160 x 255 mm 40 pages with 21 illustrations mostly of staff and students and numerous advertisements. Cord-bound overlapping pictorial wrappers lightly creased and marked with a few tiny edge tears; a very good copy. Felstead & Ormsby, Printers [for the School] paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 102574

‎Morphett Vale. HILBIG Paul Berthold‎

‎Glimpses into the Past on the Occasion of Back to Morphett Vale Day. Being a Collection of Interesting Facts relating to the Early History of the District‎

‎Morphett Vale: The Author 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Morphett Vale The Author April 1932. Small octavo 24 pages. Wrappers; two corrigenda in ink leaving a small inkspot on some leading edges; an excellent copy. Inscribed inside the front cover 'To "Rufus". With compliments from Walter Teare Late AIF a native of old Morphett Vale'. 'Rufus' was the pen-name of the prominent South Australian journalist Ernest Whitington 1873-1934. The Author] paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 102621

‎TAYLOR JK. THOMSON BP. and RG. SHEPHERD J. K. B. P. R. G.‎

‎The Soils and Geology of the Adelaide Area. Bulletin 46‎

‎Adelaide: Department of Mines Geological Survey of South Australia 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Department of Mines Geological Survey of South Australia 1974 first edition. Quarto; original red cloth; pencilled ownership inscription; a fine copy. Department of Mines, Geological Survey of South Australia hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 104311

‎Gibbs RM. R. M.‎

‎Bulls Bears and Wildcats A Centenary History of The Stock Exchange of Adelaide Limited Edition - Signed by Author‎

‎Adelaide: Peacock Publications. 1988. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Near Fine copy in full dark blue leather binding. Silver title to face and spine. Housed in a very good slipcase. A limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies - this is copy 165 and signed by the author. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 518pages. The history of the first hundred years of the Stock Exchange of Adelaide - from its birth in 1887 to 1988. . Limited Edition. Hardback. Peacock Publications hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : BIB285650 ISBN : 0909209316 9780909209315

‎STACEY Claude editor‎

‎Men of the West. A Pictorial Who's Who of the Distinguished Eminent and Famous Men of the West Country embracing the Counties of Cornwall Devon Somerset Dorset Wilts and Gloucester including the City of Bristol‎

‎London: Claude Stacey Limited 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Claude Stacey Limited 1926. Large quarto xii ii 175 pages with many hundreds of portrait illustrations from photographs. Dark green cloth top edge gilt; covers lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities with minimal wear to one corner; front flyleaf and half-title a little cockled by items mounted on them details below; minor signs of handling it looks as if one leaf pages 67/8 has been neatly excised and reinserted at some stage; two newspaper clippings mounted on the rear flyleaf; overall a very good copy. Provenance: the front flyleaf is inscribed 'To M. Fisher from Sidney Wilcox. 5 Sept 1928'. Mounted below this is a short autograph note signed by M.S. Fisher: 'Left for perusal by Mr Justice Mayo Dr John Mayo Dr Helen Mayo and for permanent retention if they would care to have it. 3.iii.52'. Mounted on the half-title is a newspaper clipping depicting Irene Mayo 'who speaks four languages. However instead of an academic career she prefers modelling jewellery on TV'. Wilcox Fisher and Mayo are all significant local South Australian family names. Sidney Wilcox bequeathed his substantial Brougham Place residence for the creation of a residential college for women St Ann's College; the Mayo dynasty needs no introduction; M.S. Fisher worked for 'The Advertiser' and he and his family regularly featured in the society news. We are uncertain how the two other cuttings portraits of young women and the loosely inserted colour snapshot of an elderly gentleman dated 1972 are connected; perhaps the latter is Mr Fisher. Claude Stacey Limited hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 102982

‎GIBBS RM. R. M.‎

‎Under the Burning Sun. A History of Colonial South Australia 1836-1900‎

‎Adelaide: Southern Heritage 2014. Hardcover. As New. Adelaide Southern Heritage May 2014 second impression/ November 2013. Quarto viii 679 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards; a mint copy. 'South Australia has a reputation for being different. Conceived as a "province" fully formed it was the only colony to be founded by an Act of the British parliament. The ideals present at its founding in 1836 included enlightened aspirations towards the Aboriginal inhabitants. In colonial times it succeeded in becoming the granary of the Australian continent though limited resources often handicapped it. Adelaide the colony's capital exercised an influence over the colony unmatched by the capitals in other Australian colonies. This book seeks to explore the South Australian experience to the time of Australia's federation in 1901' publisher's blurb. Southern Heritage hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 102594

‎German Australian Literature‎

‎Dritter Synodalbericht der Sud-Australischen Distrikts-Synode der Bereinigten Ev.-Luth. Kirche in Australien. Sedan SA 24-26 Februar 1924‎

‎Tanunda: Printed at Auricht's Printing Office 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda Printed at Auricht's Printing Office 1924. Octavo 64 pages. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated within an ornamental border on the front cover; wrappers slightly marked staples slightly rusty; an excellent copy. The edition in German; although the title page and front cover state that an 'English Copy of this Report is also available' neither version has yet found its way into Trove. Printed at Auricht's Printing Office paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 102211

‎Newspapers‎

‎A Modern Newspaper Building 1909. The Home of The Register The Observer The Evening Journal‎

‎Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1909. Quarto 23 pages plus 11 full-page plates. Card covers; tiny sealed tear to the leading edge of the rear cover; a fine copy. A lavish souvenir produced to commemorate the opening of the new building on 3 April 1909. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 101652

‎MORGAN Thomas Hunt‎

‎The Theory of the Gene‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New Haven Yale University Press 1926. Octavo xvi 343 pages with 155 illustrations. Cloth a little sunned marked and scuffed with slight wear to the extremities; edges lightly marked; a very good copy. With the contemporary ownership details of 'I.F. Phipps Cornell University . April 1926' and the later name-stamp of G.M.E. Mayo University of Adelaide. While still a student at the University of Adelaide Phipps had been appointed to head the plant breeding section at the Waite Institute; he was 'sent to the US to train under Cornell geneticists R.A. Emerson Barbara McClintock and George Beadle from 1925 to 1928' David Steffes: 'The "Eco-Worldview" of Charles Birch' 2008. Some lightly pencilled marginal notes confined mainly to the 'General Conclusions' chapter appear to be by Phipps. The author famous for his experimental research with the fruit fly and establishment of the chromosome theory of heredity won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933. Yale University Press hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 101922

‎STEPHEN George Milner‎

‎The Case of the Honorable George Milner Stephen‎

‎Adelaide: with the colophon 'Robert Thomas & Co. Printers Hindley Street' 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide with the colophon 'Robert Thomas & Co. Printers Hindley Street' circa 1840. Octavo 140 pages. Later half calf; mild signs of use; a very good copy. The first leaf is signed 'B'; the intended preliminaries including the title page are not present and were most likely never printed. The subject of the book is the 1839 libel action counter-action for wilful and corrupt perjury and the counter-counter-action for libel involving George Milner Stephen South Australian Attorney-General and Crown Solicitor. The actions stemmed from Stephen's speculative land dealings in early 1839 and this lengthy account is drawn from the Supreme Court records the Government Gazette and newspapers of the day from May-September that year. Robert Thomas Government Printer and newspaper proprietor was the successful defendant in the second libel case. This fascinating expos� was almost certainly printed in at most a mere handful of copies and never released for general distribution. It appears to be unrecorded. with the colophon 'Robert Thomas & Co., Printers, Hindley Street' hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 101432

‎OBORN Pamela‎

‎Letters from Mitcham. St Michael's Anglican Church 150 Years of Parish Life. 1852-2002‎

‎Mitcham: Anglican Parish of Mitcham 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Mitcham Anglican Parish of Mitcham 2002. Quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper a little unevenly sunned. Inscribed dated October 2002 and signed by the author to Dorothy Hamilton whose ownership signature is on the front flyleaf. Loosely inserted is some related ephemera including an invitation to the book launch at the Church signed by the author and the pamphlet 'The Church of St Michael Mitcham 1852-1977'. Anglican Parish of Mitcham hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 102122

‎McCREDIE Andrew editor‎

‎Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies in Musicology. Vol. 1‎

‎Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia in association with the University of Adelaide 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia in association with the University of Adelaide 1966. Small quarto; papered boards lightly marked; an excellent copy. Together with an offprint of one of the contributions 'Puritan Attitudes to Music. A Study in History and Ideas' by Professor Heinz Kent. Libraries Board of South Australia in association with the University of Adelaide hardcover‎

Referência livreiro : 102260

‎Cricket‎

‎Official Souvenir of the English Cricketers' Visit to Adelaide. Fourth Test Match commencing January 29th 1937‎

‎Adelaide: Osborne 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Osborne 1937. Octavo 72 pages with numerous illustrations and advertisements plus cover advertisements. Two-colour pictorial wrappers; minimal expert conservation to a few small edge tears and chips; front cover lightly marked; tiny top corner creases to a few leaves; an excellent copy. 'Fourth Test Match. English v Australia. Adelaide. Jan. 29th. 1937' cover title. Padwick 4499. Osborne paperback‎

Referência livreiro : 56186