‎Australie‎

‎Desiderata. A Guide to Good Books. Number 6 1st November 1930‎

‎Adelaide: F.W. Preece & Sons and printed at the Hassell Press 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide F.W. Preece & Sons and printed at the Hassell Press 1930. Octavo; original overlapping wrappers decorated with a Lionel Lindsay woodcut; extremities slightly sunned creased and torn; a light crease throughout; a very good copy. Not least pp 25-26 The Home of the Blizzard by Sir Douglas Mawson and the rear cover advertising the 1930 abridged popular edition. F.W. Preece & Sons (and printed at the Hassell Press) paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100250

‎HAWKER CAS. C. A.‎

‎An Australian looks at Russian Farms‎

‎Adelaide: Advertiser Newspapers Limited 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Advertiser Newspapers Limited 1936. Octavo 64 pages. Card wrappers lightly sunned about the spine; small ownership label with the details blacked out on the verso of the front wrapper; an excellent copy. Advertiser Newspapers Limited paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80397

‎HENDERSON GC. G. C.‎

‎Henderson on History and Archives‎

‎Lyndoch: Pump Press 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Lyndoch Pump Press 1983. Octavo viii pages with two tipped-in plates. Overlapping cord-bound card covers slightly creased; an excellent copy. Phyllis-Mander-Jones' copy with a 4-page ALS from Gerald Fischer loosely inserted. Pump Press Pamphlet Number 17. One of only 85 copies 'printed to mark the 4th Biennial conference of The Australian Society of Archivists Inc held in Adelaide in May 1983'. Pump Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100246

‎FLACCUS Quintus Horatius‎

‎Ad Villicum Suum. From the Prize Book of Alexander Oliver: 1853‎

‎Lyndoch: Pump Press 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Lyndoch Pump Press 1976. Small octavo xii pages three blank with an illustration. Rough-cut cord-bound card covers with a small plate laid down on the front cover; a fine copy. Pump Press Poets Number 7. Number 21 of only 80 copies signed by Gerald Fischer; this copy comes from the estate of Professor David Saunders. Pump Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100254

‎SIMPSON ER. E. R.‎

‎The Clelands of Beaumont. A History of 26 Generations of a South Australian Family‎

‎Adelaide: Beaumont Press 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Beaumont Press 1986. Quarto 166 pages with numerous illustrations and plates 11 in colour. Cloth; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Number 191 of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. Beaumont Press hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100088

‎KAVEL Pastor August‎

‎A manuscript petition signed by 54 'householders and members of the German Lutheran Congregations of Klemzig and Hahndorf' on 26 May 1842 seeking to have Pastor Kavel licensed as an Officiating Minister under a new 'Act for Regulating Marriages in the Province of South Australia'‎

‎Foolscap folio a bifolium comprising the half-page petition with three neat columns each of fourteen signatures below it; a further twelve signatures on the verso; third page blank; fourth page docketed. Four horizontal folds with very slight wear to the open ends of the creases; when folded the docketed portion of the last leaf has been exposed and is a little sunned; overall the document is in excellent condition. The Act came into operation on 1 July 1842. It called for Ministers of Religion to be registered or any marriages they performed would be deemed invalid. Automatically eligible under the Act were 'clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland and of the Church of Scotland'. Section XXXII stated 'That any minister of religion who shall have been for a period of twelve months in charge of a christian congregation consisting of at least forty householders resident in the province may apply to the Registrar General and the Registrar General on production of certificates signed in duplicate by such forty householders at least stating that the applicant has been for such period of twelve months a minister of religion in charge of such congregation of which they are members shall enter such applicant as an officiating minister within the meaning of this Act in a book to be kept for that purpose and shall file and preserve one of such certificates among the records of this office and shall give public notice thereof in the South Australian Government Gazette'. Offered here for sale is one of the original pair of petitions being the copy returned to the parishioners in accordance with the strict letter of the Act. That it has survived is one thing handed down through one of the families. That virtually all of the signatories arrived in South Australia on the 'German First Fleet' is something else again. The story is too well-known to require a detailed account but briefly during 'the bitter church struggle arising from the King of Prussia's attempt in 1817 to enforce unity of Lutherans and Calvinists within his realm' Australian Dictionary of Biography Pastor August Kavel and his congregation sought to emigrate to places where they could practise their faith in freedom. In 1836 he heard of George Fife Angas and the new colony of South Australia. The upshot was that the 'largest group of devout families that he Angas persuaded to emigrate to the new colony were the German Lutherans under Pastor August Kavel. When the Colonization Commission and the South Australian Company refused to help he personally advanced some �8000 to the Germans for their migration. On arrival many of them became tenants on his land at Klemzig' ADB. They arrived on the 'Prince George' the 'Bengalee' the 'Zebra' and the 'Catharina' between 18 November 1838 and 22 January 1839. The first notice regarding the licensing of ministers under the new Act was dated 25 May 1842 and it appeared in the South Australian Government Gazette Number 229 published the following day. The notice was placed by the Registrar General none other than Charles Sturt unhappily cooling his heels in an inferior position on insufficient pay while preparing 'a grandiose plan for exploring and surveying within two years the entire unknown interior of the continent' ADB - but that's another story . When he received the Kavel petitions he docketed them; on this copy he wrote '1. Certificate of the Householders of the Villages of Klemzig and Handorff sic in favor of the Revd. A. Kavel Lutheran Minister. May 26th 1842' and signed it 'C. Sturt RG'. A more pleasing and unlikely group of signatures relating to the foundation of South Australia that one might wish to have materialise after some 170 years is difficult to imagine! Notification that 'the Reverend Augustus Kavel has been entered as an Officiating Minister' appeared in Gazette Number 231 on 9 June 1842. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99962

‎BROWN HYL. H. Y.‎

‎Reports on Arltunga Goldfield etc. Reports on Arltunga Gold Field and Hart's Range Mica Field and Explorations north-east of Hart's Range north-west of Alice Springs and of the Frew River Country &c. and also Appendix by Mr R. Etheridge Junr. being Contributions to the Palaeontology of South Australia‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1896. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide Government Printer 1896. Foolscap folio 16 pages plus a page of lithographic illustrations accompanying the Etheridge paper 4 folding geological maps and a large folding geological section all in colour. Salmon-coloured title-wrappers with drop-title contents; minimal stabilisation to the wrappers; light crease down the centre of the entire item; 'University of Adelaide School of Geology' stamp on the front cover; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1896; one of only 500 copies. Henry Brown the South Australian Government Geologist was in the Northern Territory from early April to early August 1896; this paper contains detailed reports and maps for each of his five journeys. Etheridge's four-page contribution is 'No. 9 - The Occurrence of Olenellus in the Northern Territory'. Government Printer paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 100007

‎COMBE Gordon D.‎

‎Responsible Government in South Australia‎

‎Adelaide: Government Printer 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1957 first edition. Quarto xvi 277 pages with plates mainly portraits. Synthetic cloth; an excellent copy. Government Printer hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64043

‎South Australia‎

‎Tourist Guide. A.B.C. Tourist Bureau. The Centre for Service . Service Car Time-Tables. Vol. 2 No. 2 December 1936 cover title‎

‎Adelaide: ABC Tourist Bureau 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide ABC Tourist Bureau 1936. Quarto 176 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs many of them within advertisements. Gilt-pictorial red card covers; a very fine copy. The cover subtitle 'Service Car Time-Tables' doesn't begin to tell the whole story. For each destination some interstate for example Portland Hamilton Lorne and Sea Lake in Victoria and Broken Hill Mildura and Wentworth in NSW there is a potted history of the place and advertisements from local and almost invariably small businesses. These often feature photographs of the business premises mainly facades but there are interior scenes too; 80 years later it has become another worthy volume in the 'Lost Australia' series. Apparently there were three issues of this guide produced by the ABC Austral Booking Company Tourist Bureau: Volume 1 Number 1 in August 1935 this issue and a Sydney Sesquicentenary issue in 1937. ABC Tourist Bureau paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99699

‎LOCK WEIR Tracey editor‎

‎John Dowie. A Life in the Round‎

‎Adelaide: Wakefield Press 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 2001. Quarto 88 pages with numerous plates many in colour. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Signed by the artist on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a 12-page illustrated and hand-corrected RSASA Exhibition Catalogue 'The Art of John Dowie' from 2006 and a newspaper article on the artist folded and slightly torn; Dowie a Rat of Tobruk responsible for many of Adelaide's most definitive public sculptures died on 18 March 2008. Wakefield Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99286

‎Lawrence Daws‎

‎Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Brisbane Philip Bacon Galleries 2005. Oblong tall octavo; laminated colour pictorial wrappers with colour pictorial flaps; an excellent copy. Invitation exhibition catalogue. Price list loosely inserted. Philip Bacon Galleries paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99408

‎COMPORT AL. Pip A. L.‎

‎Clean Cut. A Selection of Linocut Prints‎

‎Adelaide: Comport 1997. Very Good. Adelaide Comport 1997. Small quarto viii 128 pages with 66 plates; a 4-page priced catalogue of prints for sale is tipped in on the rear pastedown. Laminated pictorial boards; an excellent copy. Number 364 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Comport hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 87865

‎BLAIR RJ. ME. FRANCIS and IS. PRETORIUS R. J. M. E. I. S.‎

‎AWRI. Advances in Wine Science. Commemorating 50 Years of the Australian Wine Research Institute‎

‎Urrbrae: Australian Wine Research Institute 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Urrbrae Australian Wine Research Institute 2005. Foolscap folio 272 pages with numerous illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial papered boards; small light tidemark near the top front of the front endpaper and first leaf with minimal cockling to the top lefthand corner of the first handful of leaves; an excellent copy. Australian Wine Research Institute hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99150

‎SMART Richard E. editor‎

‎Smart Viticulture presents Italian Varieties for Australia. A Seminar Series featuring Alberto Antonini Federico Curtaz and Richard Smart‎

‎Port Macquarie: Smart Viticulture 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Port Macquarie Smart Viticulture 1999. Foolscap folio 152 pages with graphs charts and a few portrait illustrations. Plastic comb-bound card covers with a clear plastic overlay on the front; a fine copy. Smart Viticulture paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 99136

‎Illuminated Address‎

‎An illuminated address visible image 390 x 260 mm presented 'To H. Basford Esq. On behalf of the Presbyterian Church of Murray Bridge and Monarto' December 1916‎

‎An attractive calligraphic testimonial to the outgoing Honorary Secretary in blue ink on a two-tone blue background within a decorative gilt border signed by nine senior members of the congregation. It is surmounted by a large ornamental scroll a mass of wattle blossom and a large vignette illustration of a paddle steamer towing a heavily-laden barge on the River Murray. The copious amounts of dirty smoke belching forth are starkly realistic - an unexpected bonus on an otherwise routine production. The work is signed 'Niehuus & Lucy Adelaide'; we are unsure when they commenced work together but the partnership was dissolved four months after this commission was completed. Minimal foxing and light surface blemishes do not detract from this charming period piece recently archivally mounted. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98784

‎REASON Robert‎

‎Inspired Design. European and North American Decorative Arts from the Arts Gallery of South Australia‎

‎Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 2011. Quarto; colour pictorial card covers; all edges gilt; a fine copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Art Gallery of South Australia paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98778

‎KIRSOVA Helene‎

‎Australian Ballet. Drawings by Trevor Clare‎

‎Adelaide: Frank E. Cork 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Frank E. Cork 1944. Large quarto 23 pages with 8 vignette illustrations and 11 tipped-in monochrome plates one in colour by Trevor Clare. Stiffened overlapping wrappers with a twelfth monochrome plate mounted on the front cover slightly marked chipped and creased; an excellent copy. Signed 'Helene Kirsova 1944' on the title page. 'The drawings and sketches in this book are not intended to be a comprehensive record. They are selected at random from the young artist's typical back-stage impressions formed in the fascinating atmosphere of wings and back-stage'. Frank E. Cork paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98744

‎South Australia‎

‎Industrial School for the Blind North Adelaide SA. Second Annual Report together with Balance Sheet List of Subscribers Constitution Regulations &c. May 1887‎

‎Adelaide: 'Colonist' Press 1886. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide 'Colonist' Press 1886 sic. Octavo 20 pages. Salmon-pink wrappers with the title page details repeated now within a decorative border on the front cover; one corner slightly chipped with minimal conservation to the bottom edge; ink handwriting offset onto the outside rear cover; slight adhesion damage to two adjacent pages with minimal loss to a few words of text; occasional light marks; an excellent copy with the contemporary ownership details of Addie Pickett Robe on the front cover. Loosely inserted is a bookmark from the 'Trade Industrial School for the Blind' distributed at the Queen's Jubilee Adelaide International Exhibition 1887 with Addie Pickett's name in Braille in the blank middle section. A roughly-torn piece of card with the alphabet and Addie's name again in Braille is also present. 'Colonist' Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 97761

‎Willunga. "Place of Green Trees". A Brief History Compiled by Members of the Willunga Progress Association‎

‎Willunga: National Trust of South Australia 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Willunga National Trust of South Australia 1982/ 1952. Octavo viii 92 pages with several plates. Cloth; ownership signature; a fine copy. National Trust of South Australia hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98679

‎Trade Catalogue‎

‎A cabinet maker's manuscript specifications book written in ink on 167 pages of a vintage cash book 405 x 165 mm bound in half suede and cloth now a little worn at the extremities; there are also another 130 blank leaves‎

‎There are details of all component parts for approximately 230 items of furniture with hand-drawn illustrations included for about 155 of them of which 90 are quite charming miniatures. There is a small comprehensive alphabetical index booklet mounted inside the front cover. A small piece has been snipped from the head of the flyleaf leaving only the handwritten word 'Factory'. Internal evidence suggests an Adelaide business styles of bedsteads are 'Enfield' and 'Prospect'; of clocks 'Gawler' 'Rundle' Sturt' and 'Pulteney'. Undated but possibly the 1920s. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98490

‎JAMES Maude Wordsworth‎

‎The 'Coo-ee' Call by an Australian. Dedicated to all Men in Khaki‎

‎Adelaide: Sands and McDougall 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sands and McDougall fourth edition circa 1919. Oblong octavo ii 34 pages with illustrations plus text printed inside both covers with a small 1919 calendar mounted inside the front one and a postage rate slip inside the rear. Cord-bound flush-cut colour pictorial card covers; light tidemark to only the blank portion of the bottom margin throughout; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed to E.J. Bowen by the author 'Mrs Wordsworth James Febry 27th 1919'. A genuine oddity - a personal anthology in praise of the humble coo-ee the 'Call of my Country' - featuring verse art crafts limericks and yarns. Military and Aboriginal themes are well-represented; not least is the one-page account of several visits the author paid to Mr Gillen of Spencer and Gillen fame then near the end of his life 'all helpless and paralysed as he was'. Sands and McDougall paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 97243

‎FORT Carol‎

‎Keeping a Trust. South Australia's Wyatt Benevolent Institution and its Founder‎

‎Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2008. Large quarto x 262 pages with numerous illustrations and plates some in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Dr William Wyatt 1804-1886 emigrated to South Australia in 1837. He became a 'notable pioneer of the town of Adelaide' with his 'major interests and influence . in the fields of cultural development medicine and education'. The trust he set up on his death 'has grown to become one of Australia's leading philanthropic institutions'. Wakefield Press hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98777

‎MOUNTFORD Charles Pearcy‎

‎The Pitjandjara. Their Land and Beliefs. Department of Geography University of Adelaide. Thesis submitted October 30th 1962 an unpublished thesis for the degree of Master of Arts‎

‎First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto ii 89 2 leaves of original typescript rectos only with a few typographical corrections in ink and typed onto small pasted-on strips of paper. Binder's cloth; a fine copy. Signed by the author on the declaration of originality page with a further inscription on an initial blank 'To Ken and Peggy Mountford from Dad' to his son and daughter-in-law. He has also written 'First Copy Superseded' at the foot of the title page. Offered together with the revised version dated 30 October 1963 quarto iv iii 93 ii leaves of duplicate typescript in binder's cloth; this is the author's retained personal copy with his signature on an initial blank as well as the declaration of originality page. Tipped in at the rear of this volume is a typed letter on University of Adelaide letterhead signed by the Registrar awarding Mountford his MA 'when you have made some minor corrections'. These may be the corrigenda typed onto small pasted-on strips of paper scattered throughout the work many of them relate to citations in the footnotes. In 1965 Mountford published 'Ayers Rock. Its People Their Beliefs and Their Art'; in the acknowledgements he refers to this MA thesis 'which forms the core of this book'. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 92998

‎PETERS Audrey and Helen SCARBOROUGH‎

‎Forever Young. The Story of William and Elizabeth Young and their Descendants‎

‎Adelaide: Young Family Reunion Committee 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Young Family Reunion Committee 1991. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Young Family Reunion Committee paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98183

‎MURRAY Les A.‎

‎Persistence in Folly. Selected Prose Writings‎

‎Sydney: Angus and Robertson under the Sirius imprint 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Angus and Robertson under the Sirius imprint 1984. Octavo vi 183 pages. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; first and last pages lightly tanned; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed 'to Christopher cicerone of wisdom and excess - Les' - to Christopher Pearson 1951-2013 publisher editor and newspaper columnist. Angus and Robertson (under the Sirius imprint) paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 98477