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BRUMMITT Barbara
The Moulden Family
Adelaide: The Author 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1984. Quarto 240 pages with illustrations plus endpaper maps. Laminated colour decorated papered boards lightly rubbed; spine slightly sunned; an excellent copy. The Author hardcover
Référence libraire : 14201
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OSTERSTOCK Alan
The Duncow Report
Hampstead Gardens: The Author 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hampstead Gardens The Author 1979. Small oblong folio; quarter cloth and pictorial green synthetic cloth; extremities slightly rubbed and bumped; an excellent copy. Number 322 of 400 copies signed by the author. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton OAM his ownership signature and his inscribed date of purchase. The Author hardcover
Référence libraire : 86315
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GIBBS RM. R. M.
A History of Prince Alfred College
Kent Town: Peacock Publications 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Kent Town Peacock Publications 1984. Quarto xiv 393 pages with 121 illustrations and plates. Gilt-decorated papered boards; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Peacock Publications hardcover
Référence libraire : 86380
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TREGENZA John
Collegiate School of St Peter Adelaide. The Founding Years 1847-1878
Adelaide: Collegiate School of St Peter 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Collegiate School of St Peter 1996. Quarto; gilt-decorated synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton OAM and a typed letter to him signed by the author loosely inserted. Collegiate School of St Peter hardcover
Référence libraire : 86090
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MAWSON Lady Paquita
Mawson of the Antarctic. The Life of Sir Douglas Mawson
London: Longmans 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London Longmans 1964. Octavo 240 pages plus 41 plates and 2 maps. Cloth; extremities slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly rubbed marked and with a few tiny tears and the spine lightly sunned. Longmans hardcover
Référence libraire : 85830
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Kangaroo Island. CUMPSTON JS. J. S.
Kangaroo Island 1800-1836
Canberra: Roebuck 1986. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Canberra Roebuck 1986 third edition/ 1970. Quarto x 218 pages with 2 maps plus 6 maps 61 plates and endpaper maps. Pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Roebuck hardcover
Référence libraire : 65898
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DICKEY Brian
Holy Trinity Adelaide 1836-1988. The History of a City Church
Adelaide: Trinity Church Trust 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Trinity Church Trust 1988. Small quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Signed by the author on the title-page. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton OAM his ownership signature and his inscribed date of purchase. Trinity Church Trust hardcover
Référence libraire : 86224
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STANLEY Ray editor
Tales from the Tin Tabernacle and Other Stories
Adelaide: St Peter's College 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide St Peter's College 1997. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a slight crease to the front cover; an excellent copy. Inscribed dated 8 October 2000 and signed by the author to and with the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton OAM. St Peter's College paperback
Référence libraire : 86223
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PFEIFFER PG. P. G.
Hymeneal to a Star
Adelaide: Adelaide University Arts Association 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Adelaide University Arts Association 1942. Octavo 32 pages. Printed wrappers with leading edge flaps attached to plain paper covers; tiny chip to the foot of the spine; essentially a fine copy. The author was also a contributor to 'Phoenix' the precursor to 'Angry Penguins'. Max Harris the editor of this book of verse notes that the author is 'at present serving overseas in the Air Force'. Paul Pfeiffer he did not return; he died in an aircraft accident in Scotland in 1944. Adelaide University Arts Association paperback
Référence libraire : 83656
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COWARD Noel
Theatre Royal . Thursday 12th December 1940 . Matinee in aid of Red Cross Funds. Personal Appearance of Mr Noel Coward
Adelaide: Australian Red Cross Society South Australian Division 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Australian Red Cross Society South Australian Division 1940. Quarto 8 pages with 2 illustrations including a portrait of Noel Coward. Wrappers with a window 115 x 70 mm cut off-centre in the front cover through which the portrait is visible; a fine copy. Signed by Noel Coward beneath the portrait. A large contemporary newspaper cutting advertising his Adelaide Red Cross functions is tipped in on the inside rear cover. Australian Red Cross Society, South Australian Division paperback
Référence libraire : 83590
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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. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Mitcham Anglican Parish of Mitcham 2002. Quarto; papered boards; commercial bookplate; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Signed and dated 17 October 2002 by the author. Anglican Parish of Mitcham hardcover
Référence libraire : 84428
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RYAN John
Back on the Fairway. 80 Years of Golfing at the Mount Lofty Golf Club Inc
Mount Lofty: The Mount Lofty Golf Club 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Mount Lofty The Mount Lofty Golf Club 2007. Quarto; synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. The Mount Lofty Golf Club] hardcover
Référence libraire : 84436
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JOHNSTON TH. and BH. CLELAND T. H. B. H.
Aboriginal Names and Uses of Plants in the Ooldea Region South Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 66 Part 1 1942
Adelaide: RSSA 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1942. Quarto 11 pages. Original wrappers very slightly sunned; a fine copy. RSSA paperback
Référence libraire : 19579
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CURTIN Penelope and Nat WILLIAMS editors
Adelaide Installations Volume 1 and Volume 2
Adelaide: 1994 Adelaide Festival of Arts Inc 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide 1994 Adelaide Festival of Arts Inc 1994. Oblong quarto; ring-bound card covers a little rubbed; extremities slightly worn; a very good set. 1994 Adelaide Festival of Arts Inc paperback
Référence libraire : 83989
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HARCUS William
South Australia. Its History Resources and Productions
London: Sampson Low . 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low . 1876. Octavo xvi 432 pages plus 66 engraved plates a folding table and 2 folding maps bound in towards the rear South Australia 795 x 545 mm and Australia 320 x 400 mm. Original quarter brown cloth and papered boards slightly bumped at the corners; the small amount of cloth on the two covers is a little flecked; first and last pages discoloured by the acidic endpapers; leaves near the folding maps a little creased by the bulk of the folded paper; a tiny tear near the stub of each map expertly repaired; an excellent copy. An undervalued work - the plates wood engravings from photographs are a major pictorial record and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northen Territory I have incorporated some useful papers written by residents there and prepared for publication by Mr J.G. Knight'. The chapter on Central Australia is even more important: 'Since the foregoing was in type the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. The entire chapter is devoted to the article which refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. Ferguson 10233 not recording the maps or this quarter cloth binding. Copies in full cloth are also in stock - please enquire. Sampson Low .. hardcover
Référence libraire : 84142
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'Magpie' SCOTT Winifred
Chatter on Things in General
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1898. Octavo 95 pages with decorations. Gilt-lettered olive green cloth lightly sunned and flecked; new endpapers; first and last pages uniformly discoloured; an excellent copy. Contributions by Winifred Scott 1866-1950 gleaned from the pages of 'The Adelaide Observer' and 'The Evening Journal'. W.K. Thomas hardcover
Référence libraire : 17265
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ROBERTS Dianne
From Hope to Here. The William Holden Family Story 1808-1897
Christies Downs: The Author 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Christies Downs The Author 1986. Octavo; pictorial card covers lightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Featuring 11 pages of family trees. The Author paperback
Référence libraire : 84322
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MENZ Christopher
Australian Decorative Arts 1820's to 1890's. Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of SA 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Art Gallery Board of SA 1996. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards slightly bumped and lightly rubbed; one word highlighted ! on page 82; an excellent copy. Art Gallery Board of SA hardcover
Référence libraire : 84352
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TURNER GW. G. W.
The English Language in Australia and New Zealand
London: Longmans Green and Co 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Longmans Green and Co 1966. Octavo; papered boards very slightly rubbed; inner hinge a little cracked but sound; a very good copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper. The author was Reader in English at Adelaide University so it is no surprise to find that the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow and his inscription 'University of Adelaide 29 March 1966' is followed by the autograph of the author inscribed 'Adelaide 4 May 1966'. One of the General Language series edited by Randolph Quirk. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 83865
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CHITTLEBOROUGH Anne and others
Alas for the Pelicans. Flinders Baudin & Beyond. Essays and Poems
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 2002. Octavo; pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Wakefield Press paperback
Référence libraire : 66723
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STRONG Sir Archibald
Four Studies. Swinburne's Mary Stuart Trilogy. The Poetry of Thomas Hardy. The Spirit of the Elizabethan Age. Tragedy
Adelaide: Preece 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Preece 1932. Octavo viii 140 pages plus frontispiece portrait. Quarter cloth and papered boards unevenly sunned entirely uncut; a very good copy. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow and inscribed 'Alice Springs March 3 1933'. Number 78 of 300 numbered copies. Preece hardcover
Référence libraire : 30923
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JURY CR. C. R.
The Sun in Servitude and other plays. The Administrator. The Battle in the West.
Melbourne: Cheshire 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Cheshire 1961. Octavo xviii 218 pages with illustrations by Richard Beck plus a frontispiece portrait by William Salmon. Cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed marked and torn. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow on the flyleaf again on the half-title and inscribed 'Adelaide University 3rd July 1961'. Loosely inserted is a folded foolscap sheet - 'WEA Bookroom Bulletin' addressed to Strehlow with a review of this book by fellow poet J.J. Bray. A small associative piece of Adelaide's literary history. Cheshire hardcover
Référence libraire : 83715
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ROBERTS Tom. RADFORD Ron HYLTON Jane and others
Tom Roberts
Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 1996. Quarto 224 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. This book was published in conjunction with a national touring exhibition October 1996 to July 1997; 'the first Tom Roberts retrospective for fifty years'. Art Gallery of South Australia hardcover
Référence libraire : 57727
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Australian Lutheranism. HEBART Th
The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia UELCA. Its History Activities and Characteristics 1838-1938. English version edited by Johs. J. Stolz President-General
North Adelaide: Lutheran Book Depot 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. North Adelaide Lutheran Book Depot 1938. Octavo 336 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and maps and a large folding chart. Cloth; extremities slightly rubbed and bumped; slight amount of glue adhering to the leading edge of the rear cover a production flaw; an excellent copy. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow and inscribed 'University of Adelaide 23 March 1961'. An abridged version of the German-language edition published earlier the same year; the material not included in the translation tends to be documentary evidence. Lutheran Book Depot hardcover
Référence libraire : 83754
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WESTON Neville
Franz Kempf. Graphic Works 1962-1984
Netley: Wakefield Press and Hyde Park Press 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Netley Wakefield Press and Hyde Park Press 1984. Quarto; colour pictorial card covers lightly rubbed; very slight wear and tears to the head and foot of the spine; a very good copy. Wakefield Press and Hyde Park Press paperback
Référence libraire : 83662
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PAYNE George
An Incredibly Varied Life
Fullarton: The Author 1996. Very Good. Fullarton The Author 1996. Quarto 192 pages with numerous plates. Laminated pictorial boards lightly sunned and rubbed; an excellent copy. With a presentation inscription from the author on the front flyleaf signed on both the fly and the title page. Loosely inserted is a personal invitation to the recipients to the book launch also in the author's distinctive hand. Murray River paddle steamers feature prominently. The Author hardcover
Référence libraire : 83550
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SPENCE Catherine Helen
The Laws We Live Under: with some chapters on Elementary Political Economy and the Duties of Citizens
Adelaide: Education Department 1881. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Education Department 1881 second edition/ 1880. Duodecimo ii 120 iv "Opinions of the Press" pages. Flush-cut limp cloth flecked and marked; endpapers lightly foxed; top corner of one leaf pp 43-44 clipped; rear pastedown somewhat nibbled and with a tiny nibble at the last leaf with very slight loss; a very good copy. The preface says it all: 'it is not a dry text-book but has the local colour which my long residence in South Australia and my deep interest in her welfare has enabled me to give it'. Education Department) hardcover
Référence libraire : 83510
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BURNS Martin L.
Saint Canice's Southern Centenary. The Catholic Church at Snowtown S.A. 1882-1982
Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Lutheran Publishing House 1982. Quarto 301 pages with numerous plates. Illustrated card covers; a fine copy. Lutheran Publishing House paperback
Référence libraire : 83319
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HEBART Theodor
Die Vereinigte Evangelische-Lutherische Kirsch in Australien VELKA. Ihr Werden Wirken und Wesen. Eine Zentenarschrift 1838-1938
North Adelaide: Lutheran Book Depot 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. North Adelaide Lutheran Book Depot 1938. Octavo 480 pages plus 24 pages of plates and maps and a large folding chart. Cloth; a fine copy no dustwrapper was issued. With the ownership signature of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow inscribed 'University of Adelaide 23 March 1961' on the flyleaf; Strehlow's original purchase receipt is loosely inserted. The history of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia. German text; an abridged edition in English appeared later the same year. Lutheran Book Depot hardcover
Référence libraire : 83335
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PAINTER Alison
Jolly Good Ale and Old. The History of Coopers Brewery 1862-1987
Adelaide: Cooper and Son 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Cooper and Son 1987. Quarto; gilt-decorated synthetic leather; leaves lightly browned at the edges; an excellent copy with the lightly scuffed glassine dustwrapper with a very short closed tear to the head of the spine. With a few related brochures and newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Cooper and Son hardcover
Référence libraire : 75656
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Photography
The South Australian Institute: comprising the Public Library Art Gallery and Museums. Addresses delivered at the laying of the foundation stone by His Excellency Sir W.F. Drummond Jervois . Governor of South Australia; by the Chairman of the Board of Governors Rowland Rees . and by the Minister controlling Education Hon. Thos. King MP. November 7 1879. With a sketch of the initiation and progress of the SA Institute a description of the proposed building and an account of the ceremony
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1879. Octavo 29 pages plus a mounted albumen paper photographic frontispiece showing a grandiose structure its subsequent failure to be erected hinted at in its description on the title page as 'the proposed building'. Original blind-ruled blue cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities; endpapers and frontispiece mount a little foxed; title page offset; a very good copy. See Ferguson 15986 not noting this cloth-bound edition nor the frontispiece - we have previously handled a copy with a lithographic frontispiece - and not mentioning this photographically illustrated edition; see Holden 61. W.K. Thomas hardcover
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PFITZNER Revd Carl J.
Immanuel College Old Scholars Association ICOSA Jubilee History 1926-1976
Adelaide: The Author 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1976. Quarto; gilt-decorated cloth; a fine copy. From the collection of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow 30 Da Costa Avenue 7 July 1977. By the author of The Pfitzner Story 1802-1975. [The Author] hardcover
Référence libraire : 83427
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South Australia
Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons dated 11 March 1841; - for Copies of any Correspondence in the Colonial Department relative to the Establishment of the Settlement of South Australia since the year 1831 and its present Financial Difficulties
London: The Queen's Printers 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Queen's Printers 1841. Foolscap folio 166 pages with the last page the printed endorsement only. Later but not recent binder's cloth; leading edge of the title leaf has minimal expert reinforcement; tiny bottom corner pieces missing from the first and last few leaves; first and last pages a little discoloured and lightly marked; a very good copy. Ferguson 3222: 'A very valuable repository of information concerning South Australia and its early troubles. Copies of the foundation documents are given'. At the head of the title page 'Colonial Land & Emigration Office' is written in ink next to an oval ink stamp noting it was 'Received CL&EO Mar 13 1841'. The Queen's Printers] hardcover
Référence libraire : 80317
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WORSNOP Thomas
Adelaide and its Environs. A Descriptive Guide to Adelaide and Places in its Vicinity
Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blue cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed bumped and worn at the extremities; stitching just starting to loosen; a very good copy with the signature stamp of E. Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. Edward Angas Johnson 1873-1951 was an Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles; his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
Référence libraire : 10740
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DUNLAP Rhodes editor
The Poems of Thomas Carew with his Masque Coelum Britannicum
Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford The Clarendon Press 1949. Octavo; cloth; a little rubbed and slightly sunned and marked; a very good copy. With the contemporary ownership signature of Professor Brian Medlin. The Clarendon Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 83014
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STEPHENS John
The Land of Promise. Being an authentic and impartial history of the rise and progress of the new British province of South Australia; including particulars descriptive of its soil climate natural productions &c. and proofs of its superiority to all other British colonies. Embracing also a full account of the South Australian Company with hints to various classes of emigrants and numerous letters from settlers concerning wages provisions their satisfaction with the colony &c: by one who is going.
London: Smith Elder 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Smith Elder 1839 first edition. Octavo viii 224 9 'Land of Promise Advertising Sheet' pages plus a folding frontispiece map 'Part of Southern Australia from the 132 to 141 degree of East Longitude' with an inset map of Australia 195 x 250 mm a folding plan of the City of Adelaide 255 x 205 mm a folding table of emigrant ships and 4 zinc-engraved topographical views two after William Light and one each after William Westall and Captain Pearson. Original gilt-decorated blind-stamped slate-blue cloth all edges uncut; cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities with the spine lightly sunned and marked with minimal expert restoration to the head; a few uncut edges a little creased; some offsetting from an illustration in one of the advertisements; an excellent copy. Ferguson 2850 calling the shipping table a plate. The frontispiece map a zinc engraving very closely resembles the one in 'Colonization of South Australia' by Robert Torrens 1835 as well as the Arrowsmith map in the 'First Annual Report of the Colonization Commissioners of South Australia' 1836 - see item 4 in this catalogue. This copy is inscribed to 'Edmund J. Wheeler / from the author / 21 Decr 1838' on the verso of the initial blank; Wheeler was the London manager of the South Australian Company. John Stephens 1806-1850 newspaper editor was employed 'about 1838 by George Fife Angas . to write emigration propaganda. Stephens's first notable work was "The Land of Promise" republished in 1839 as "The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South Australia". In that year his exposure of absurdities in T. Horton James "Six Months in South Australia" London 1839 ran to three editions. He also edited the "South Australian Colonist" on which Angas lost heavily; it was replaced in 1841 by the monthly "South Australian News" at a cheaper rate' Australian Dictionary of Biography - the too-short entry is well worth reading. Smith, Elder hardcover
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STORRIE William
Chowla. A Romance of the Darling. Edited by Saunders McTavish. Published in aid of the funds of the Wentworth Hospital
Adelaide: David Gall 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide David Gall 1867. Duodecimo vi 82 52 'Chowla Advertiser' pages. Original flourescent green papered boards with expanded title page details repeated within a border on the front cover and with the contents listed on the rear; covers slightly marked and a little rubbed bumped and worn at the extremities with the hinges a little cracked; spine sunned lightly mottled and a little glue-stained; thin light tidemark to the top edge of the front endpaper; a very good copy of a scarce book rarely found with the spine intact and internally this copy is nothing short of fine. 'Storrie exhibits a keen sense of satire not only with regard to conventional tales whose perclivities are mercilessly ridiculed but also with regard to colonial society itself' Depasquale: A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930. Incidentally this is the first novel published in Adelaide. See Ferguson 16305 for confirmation of the Storrie/ McTavish connection. David Gall hardcover
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South Australia
Third Annual Report of the Colonization Commissioners of South Australia to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. 1838. Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 13 May 1839
London: The Queen's Printers 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Queen's Printers 1839. Foolscap folio 60 pages but LACKING the 2-page endorsement at the rear printed on the verso only and the large folding three-colour Arrowsmith map 'The District of Adelaide . as divided into Country Sections' 695 x 500 mm. Contemporary blind-stamped limp full calf lettered in gilt on the front cover; leather a little rubbed at the extremities and lightly marked; endpapers offset with the front flyleaf a little silverfish-nibbled; first and last two leaves discoloured with the title leaf slightly inkstained and silverfish-nibbled; edges of the title leaf and the last two leaves reinforced at an early date with plain paper with one gutter also reinforced the same way; small punctures to the inner margins throughout the item would have been stab-sewn originally; ink annotations to four pages and some pencilling elsewhere but see below; a very good copy with a large early 1930s newspaper article on Adelaide land values pasted onto the rear flyleaf. Ferguson 2735 not noting the endorsement in his pagination. The SA Auditor General's copy with his title stamped in gilt on the front cover and written in ink inside the front cover and at the head of the title page where 'Instructions to Aud. Genl Page 48' is also written. The annotations tend to be of the cross-referencing kind the pencilling and underlining is for emphasis. It would be preferable to have an unmarked copy with the map but at least this is a cheap copy and the appendices make interesting reading. These include Appendix 2 'Report of the Protector of Aborigines dated 1 July 1838' by William Wyatt and Appendix 19 the complete list of the names of the original proprietors of the country sections of Adelaide 289 allotments of 134 acres each and 35 allotments of 80 acres each. Appendices 3 to 8 reprint documents relating to delays with the preliminary surveys. These include 'Letters of Colonel Light and his Assistants announcing their resignation' and Light's letter is worthy of note: 'I am allowed one week to consider whether I will undertake a running survey of 150 square miles in addition to what may have been surveyed on conditions laid down in the letters of Mr. Rowland Hill to Mr. Kingston . In reply to your letter I beg to state that I do not require one week to consider this matter but say at once that I will not do it emphasis in the original and that I despise and contemn the language used by Mr. Rowland Hill'. The Queen's Printers] hardcover
Référence libraire : 80316
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WOODS JD. J. D.
A Narrative of the Visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh K.G. to South Australia
Adelaide: Chas. Platts 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Chas. Platts 1868. Small octavo vi 115 pages. Original light blue papered boards recently respined with matching paper retaining the original endpapers; extremities a little rubbed and bumped with minimal wear; a very good copy internally fine. Ferguson 18782 'Pink or blue boards' and calling for two frontispiece photographs one of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh the other of the Governor Sir Dominick Daly; Holden 128 with the plates but calling - we think erroneously - for pink or blue cloth boards. Holden states that 'Most of the sighted copies of this work have survived without the preliminary leaves and hence the photographs are usually not present'. Even cursory inspection shows that these plates were never present in this copy for instance there is no impression on the flyleaf or the title leaf of the outline of any mounted plate so this may be part of a secondary or remainder issue along with all those copies presumed defective by Holden. 'South Australia was the first colony in New Holland ever visited by a Prince of Great Britain'; he landed at Glenelg on 31 October and departed on 21 November 1867 tired but happy. Chas. Platts hardcover
Référence libraire : 80163
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NERLICH Graham
Values and Valuing. Speculations on the Ethical Life of Persons
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford Clarendon Press 1989. Octavo; cloth lightly bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little lightly rubbed. Presentation copy signed by the author to 'Brian/ Me friend'; that is Professor Brian Medlin. Clarendon Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 82974
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Kangaroo Island. DIXON Samuel
The Full Story of Flinders Chase Kangaroo Island South Australia. A New Holiday and Health Resort for South Australians and Visitors from Other Parts
Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham 1920. Octavo 52 pages plus 4 plates and a large folding map. Original flush-cut stiff card covers; staples a little rusty staining slightly the paper in close proximity; an excellent copy. Hussey & Gillingham paperback
Référence libraire : 66183
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FLINDERS Matthew. INGLETON Geoffrey C.
Matthew Flinders. Navigator and Chartmaker
Guildford: Genesis/ Hedley Australia 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Guildford Genesis/ Hedley Australia 1986. Folio xiv 468 pages with 250 illustrations many by the author plus 32 plates 16 in colour and endpaper maps and plans. Cloth with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; a fine copy no dustwrapper was issued. Genesis/ Hedley Australia hardcover
Référence libraire : 83087
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CASTELNUOVO TEDESCO Pietro editor
Psychiatric Aspects of Organ Transplantation
New York: Grune & Stratton 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York Grune & Stratton 1971 first edition in book form. Quarto vi 172 pages. Cloth very slightly rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy. The book is essentially a bound reprint of the February 1971 issue Volume 3 Number 1 of 'Seminars in Psychiatry'. The introduction notes that 'To date no publication has attempted to gather in one issue the current thinking about psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation; this volume represents the first such effort'. This copy carries the ownership details surname of one of the contributors Professor William Cramond. His article 'Renal Transplantations - Experiences with Recipients and Donors' pages 120-28 is based on his experiences with South Australian patients. Grune & Stratton hardcover
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Jindyworobak Anthology 1940. Australian Contemporary Verse. Chosen by Rex Ingamells
Adelaide: F.W. Preece 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide F.W. Preece 1940. Octavo 56 pages. Original wrappers a little lightly sunned and slightly rubbed; a few tiny tears to the foot of the spine; a very small mark to the flyleaf; an excellent copy. F.W. Preece paperback
Référence libraire : 83138
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Geography of the Australasian Colonies and the Pacific Islands with Illustrations and Coloured Maps
London: Collins. Hardcover. Very Good. London Collins No date circa early 1890s. Duodecimo 184 pages with illustrations plus several colour maps and endpaper publisher's advertisements. Cloth a litte rubbed indented and flecked; flyleaves offset; a very good copy. Tidy contemporary ownership details Whinham College South Australia. One of the Collins School Series. Collins hardcover
Référence libraire : 18524
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BLAKERS Margaret DAVIES Stephen and Pauline REILLY
The Atlas of Australian Birds
Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1984. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Melbourne University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 82797
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BETH Evert W.
The Foundations of Mathematics. A Study in the Philosophy of Science
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Amsterdam North-Holland Publishing Company 1959. Large octavo xxvi 742 pages. Cloth rubbed a little unevenly sunned and slightly bumped; a very good copy. With the contemporary ownership signature of Professor Brian Medlin and his very occasional emphases. North-Holland Publishing Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 82912
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South Australia and its First Two Agents-General cover title
London: printed by Spottiswoode and Co 1877. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London printed by Spottiswoode and Co. 1877. Small octavo 24 pages last two blank. Stab-sewn title-wrappers lightly marked; light crease down the centre of the entire pamphlet; an excellent copy. Inscribed to 'S. Deering Esq from indecipherable initials 14.2.77' on the front cover probably by the anonymous author. Pages 5-7 'Reprinted from the "European Mail" of November 24 1876' deal with Gregory Seale Walters who died 'in his eightieth year on October 29th 1876'. Pages 9-22 'Printed for publication in Australian Newspapers' deal with Francis Stacker Dutton who died in London on 25 January 1877. Ferguson 15953 incorrectly calling for only 12 pages. printed by Spottiswoode and Co paperback
Référence libraire : 81972
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WARD Ebenezer
The South-Eastern District of South Australia. Its Resources and Requirements
Adelaide: 'Published by the Author at the Offices of "The South Australian" newspaper' 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Published by the Author at the Offices of "The South Australian" newspaper' 1869. Octavo viii 96 pages plus a large folding map of the south-east 890 x 550 mm and 64 pages of advertisements. Original blindstamped dark green cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal wear to the corner tips; short tear to the map near the stub expertly repaired; an excellent copy. Inscribed dated Melbourne 27 August 1904 and signed by the author on the front endpaper to 'J. Sabelberg of Victoria in memory of a pleasant impromptu meeting .'. Ferguson 18190 variant colour cloth. 'Published by the Author at the Offices of "The South Australian" newspaper' hardcover
Référence libraire : 80030
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STOW JP. J. P.
South Australia. Its History Productions and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition
Adelaide: Government Printer 1884. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1884 second edition/ 1883. Octavo xvi 307 pages with 56 illustrations mainly full-page wood-engravings versos blank plus 2 large folding maps one a chromolithographic geological map. Brown cloth slightly rubbed; extremities a little rubbed; light wear to the head of the hinges and the corners with the bottom two bumped; short repaired tear and a crease to the foot of the title leaf as a result of a production flaw; tears to the large folding map expertly repaired; a very good copy internally barely touched. In this second edition 'a few small inaccuracies are corrected and one or two passages relating to the Jubilee Exhibition it was proposed to hold in Adelaide are omitted . A few illustrations are added in connection with the chapters on the Aborigines and the Fauna'. In fact three plates are deleted from the first edition numbers 18 25 and 46 in that list and ten new plates appear in this edition numbers 2 4 16 27 and 42-47. Plates 42-47 are wood-engraved versions by J. Bruer of plates that first appeared in Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' 1879. There are portraits of Wewat-thaleri and Waldaninyeri in Taplin these were original albumen paper photographs and four illustrations based on original artwork by Aboriginal artists - 'War Dance' by an unknown artist and 'Hunting Scene' Hunting Party' and 'Group of Animals' all by Yertabrida Yertebrida Solomon. In Taplin these four plates are lithographs and we suggest that Bruer has based his wood-engravings on the Taplin versions not on the original artwork. The erratum at the foot of the list of illustrations notes that the attribution of 'Hunting Party' to Solomon has been omitted. For more information on this early Aboriginal woman artist refer to our Catalogue 106A. By extraordinary coincidence we were recently shown the original engraved wooden block from which 'Hunting Scene' was printed - a local private collector had not long ago purchased it on the open market! Ferguson 16310 'Two maps in cover pockets'. Government Printer hardcover
Référence libraire : 17233
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