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South Australian Land Company
Proposal to His Majesty's Government for Founding a Colony on the Southern Coast of Australia
Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1964 facsimile edition/ 1831. Octavo xi 40 pages. Maroon cloth slightly rubbed with slight surface wear to the extremities; a trifling bump to the top edge; endpapers offset as ever; still an excellent copy. Appendix includes a report of a voyage from Sydney to Kangaroo Island and of observations made during a stay of seven months on and near the island by Captain Sutherland. Peade SA10: one of only 134 copies. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
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TEICHELMANN CG. and CW. SCHURMANN C. G. C. W.
Outlines of a Grammar Vocabulary and Phraseology of the Aboriginal Language of South Australia spoken by the Natives in and for some distance around Adelaide
Adelaide: 'Published by the Authors at the native location' and printed by Robert Thomas and Co. Hindley Street Adelaide 1840. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide 'Published by the Authors at the native location' and printed by Robert Thomas and Co. Hindley Street Adelaide 1840. Octavo vi fourth and fifth pages blank sixth page errata iv-viii ii sectional half-title verso blank 24 ii sectional half-title verso blank 76 pages. Nineteenth century plain blue wrappers identical to the material used for the original plain wrappers; title page very lightly foxed and dusty; a few minor corner creases; small inkspot to one page; an excellent copy. A rare and important early Adelaide publication and among the earliest and extensive works of its kind; the vocabulary and phraseology run to 76 pages. Ferguson 3102 with slight variations to the preliminary pagination but definitely in error in omitting the 26 pages of grammar. 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide] paperback
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Marschall Family History
Marshalling the Marschalls. Commemorating 140 Years in Australia 1854-1994
Evanstone: Marschall Reunion Committee 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Evanstone Marschall Reunion Committee 1994 first edition. Quarto 224 pages with numerous illustrations. Gilt-pictorial synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Foreword by P.A. Scherer. Marschall Reunion Committee hardcover
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TAPLIN Reverend George
The Narrinyeri. An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina Albert and Coorong and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay. By the Rev. George Taplin Missionary to the Aborigines Point Macleay South Australia
Adelaide: J.T. Shawyer Printer 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J.T. Shawyer Printer 1874. Octavo iv ii 107 pages plus an original albumen paper photographic frontispiece 184 x 113 mm. Flush-cut black cloth with a large printed paper titling-label on the front cover; some loss to the bottom half of the label confined mainly to the margins but with the loss of one word and a few letters of others in the bottom right-hand corner; a long split to the front outer hinge expertly closed; minimal loss to the head and foot of the spine; top and bottom edges of the rear cover a little rubbed and very slightly worn; minimal foxing; a very good copy internally excellent. The frontispiece a Townsend Duryea photograph is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 not identifying the photographer and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite photograph. The revised second edition of this work Ferguson 16707 does not retain the photograph; it contains six tinted lithographs as does the version published in the 1879 collection of reprints 'The Native Tribes of South Australia' Ferguson 13095. Loosely inserted is a lengthy cutting from the Register 24 April 1889: 'An Australian Native Fifty Years Ago' By the Late Mr F.W. Taplin' introduced thus: 'Subjoined is the lecture which was delivered by Mr Taplin before the Australian Natives' Association three nights before the author's tragic death in the Coffee Palace fire'. Frederick William Taplin 1853-1889 a son of George Taplin had succeeded him as superintendent of the mission Australian Dictionary of Biography. J.T. Shawyer, Printer hardcover
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PARKHOUSE Thomas Anstey editor
Reprints and Papers relating to the Autochthones of Australia
Woodville: The Editor 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodville The Editor 1923 and 1935. Octavo two volumes viii 176 and iii-vi 47 pages. Brown cloth with the title in gilt along the spine; head of one spine a little bumped with one corner lightly worn; cloth very lightly rubbed at the extremities and very slightly flecked and rubbed; marbled endpapers of the first volume a little mottled on the plain inside surface of the flyleaves; an excellent set with the ownership signature and stamp of E. Angas Johnson see our footnote. The articles are by John Stephens William Wyatt William Williams C.G. Teichelmann and C.W. Schuermann and M. Moorhouse. Both volumes were hand-set and printed by Thomas Parkhouse who died before the completion of the second volume - his daughter Mary finished printing the page he was working on. Norman Tindale in his preface to the second volume states that 100 copies of the first volume were produced but we have sold a copy containing a 1934 letter to the amateur anthropologist Harold Sheard from Parkhouse wherein he claims to have printed 80 copies. Either way sets are scarce. Edward Angas Johnson 1873-1951 was an Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles; his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas. 'His hobby was collecting curios and historical relics especially those relating to South Australian history. This remarkable collection and his library were distributed to public institutions before his death' Australian Dictionary of Biography. Johnson has added to or inserted in these volumes a quantity of relevant ephemera. Mounted in the volumes are printed portraits of Teichelmann and Schuermann a newspaper cutting about the production of the first volume with additional personal comments by Johnson and an original photograph of Teichelmann with a lengthy account by Johnson of how he came to have it. Loosely inserted are nine contemporary newspaper or magazine cuttings and two unrelated items. The Editor hardcover
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PAGE Michael
Fitted for the Voyage. The Adelaide Steamship Company Limited 1875-1975
Adelaide: Rigby 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Rigby 1975. Quarto xii 339 pages with numerous plates plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; extremities slightly sunned; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly browned and very slightly marked. Rigby hardcover
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ROBINSON Nancy
Reluctant Harbour. The Romance of Pirie
Jamestown: Nadjuri 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Jamestown Nadjuri 1976. Quarto 327 pages with 9 maps and numerous plates and drawings plus endpaper maps. Laminated colour pictorial papered boards; ownership signature; an excellent copy. Nadjuri hardcover
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Machinery
Instruction Book for Strippers
Mannum: David Shearer Limited 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Mannum David Shearer Limited 1932. Octavo; lettered card wrappers; a fine copy. David Shearer Limited paperback
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Hindmarsh Congregational Church. SHARPLES Reuben and JE. and FW. MITTON J. E. F. W.
Three Quarters of a Century Continuous History of the Hindmarsh Congregational Church 1838-1913
Adelaide: Sharples Brothers 1913. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sharples Brothers 1913. Oblong duodecimo 20 pages with 10 illustrations. Overlapping pictorial red card covers with pink cotton binding; covers very slightly rubbed and a little creased with a corresponding light crease to the first leaf; an excellent copy. Sharples Brothers paperback
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WALKER Jenny editor
South Australia's Heritage
Netley: Department of Environment and Planning 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Netley Department of Environment and Planning 1986 first edition. Quarto x 227 pages with over 250 maps and plates several in colour. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Cultural heritage; 'the complete Register of State Heritage Items to date a list of over 700 places' is published here for the first time. Department of Environment and Planning hardcover
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BRAY John
Seventy Seven. Poems
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1990. Octavo x 70 pages. Pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Signed and dated 25 September 1990 by the author. Wakefield Press paperback
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KIDD Ian
Design
Adelaide: Ian Kidd Design 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Ian Kidd Design 1992. Square octavo; card covers; a fine copy with the lightly scuffed card dustwrapper. Inscribed dated 1992 and signed by the author. The company has produced designs for many iconic SA companies. Ian Kidd Design paperback
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NICHOLLS Stan
HMAS Shropshire
Adelaide: Naval Historical Society of Australia 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Naval Historical Society of Australia 1989. Quarto xx 315 pages with numerous maps and plates. Colour pictorial laminated papered boards a little bumped; ownership signature; a very good copy with the very slightly creased dustwrapper. Number 935 of 1000 copies this copy is signed by the author. A presentation inscription commemorates the recipient's 'Roly' 88th birthday and goes on to remark that the author was one of Roly's 'many friends'. Naval Historical Society of Australia hardcover
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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; two tiny nicks to the foot of the spine; ownership stamp; an excellent copy. 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
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Kangaroo Island. South Australian Land Company
Proposal to His Majesty's Government for Founding a Colony on the Southern Coast of Australia
Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1831. Octavo xi 40 pages. Papered boards slightly bumped at the head and foot of the spine; endpapers lightly offset; an excellent copy. Appendix includes a report of a voyage from Sydney to Kangaroo Island and of observations made during a stay of seven months on and near the island by Captain Sutherland. Peade SA10: one of only 134 copies. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
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TILNEY Charlotte
The Wilmots. A South Australian Story by Effie Stanley
London: Elliot Stock 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Elliot Stock 1877. Octavo iv 187 pages. Original black-decorated cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; inner hinges expertly reinforced; endpapers and title page a little offset and foxed; ownership signature on the title page; trifling signs of use; a very good copy. An 'evangelical novel . which gives a most favourable impression of Adelaide as a pleasant place in which to live. One need not linger over the religious and psychological crudities in the novel - cards liquor dancing the theatre all are condemned in the customary dogmatic but dramatically unconvincing manner' Depasquale: A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930. Elliot Stock hardcover
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ANGAS John Howard. BURGESS HT. H. T.
John Howard Angas. Pioneer Pastoralist Politician and Philanthropist
Adelaide: Vardon and Pritchard 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon and Pritchard 1905. Octavo vi 309 pages plus 14 plates. Gilt-decorated purple cloth a little flecked and mottled especially at the rear; spine and a small section of the front cover sunned; endpapers very slightly rubbed; recto of the frontispiece slightly marked and foxed; corner crease to one plate with a few marginal fingermarks; a very good copy uncut and unopened from page 141. Vardon and Pritchard hardcover
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SUTHERLAND George
The South Australian Company. A Study in Colonisation
London: Longmans Green 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longmans Green 1898 'new impression' on the title page. Octavo viii 238 pages with 5 illustrations plus 4 plates. Black-decorated brown cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities and slightly scuffed and marked; bottom corners lightly bumped; scattered light foxing; several top corner creases; an excellent copy uncut and unopened beyond page 136. Inscribed on the half title to 'G. Bagley White With Author's Compliments August 6 1900'. Ferguson 16459 not recording this new impression. Longmans, Green hardcover
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DAVENPORT Samuel
Some New Industries for South Australia. Silkworms Mulberry Olives Tobacco etc. etc.
Adelaide: W.C. Rigby and Melbourne Geo. Robertson 1864. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Rigby and Melbourne Geo. Robertson 1864. Octavo xii last one blank 82 2 colophon pages plus 2 lithographs by William Wyatt a double-page plate of 'Method of training the White Mulberry to a standard' and 'The Reeling Machine'. Original yellow card covers with the plain spine expertly renewed; absolutely trifling surface loss to silverfish; essentially a fine copy with the contemporary blind-stamp of Rigby as bookseller on the front flyleaf. Sir Samuel Davenport 1818-1906 was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Other new industries discussed in the book are Verdigris and Flower-Farming. Ferguson 8971 pagination incorrect and the plates are not recorded. W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson paperback
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HARRISON Robert
Colonial Sketches: or Five Years in South Australia with Hints to Capitalists and Emigrants
London: Hall Virtue 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue 1862. Octavo viii 167 pages. Original blind-stamped brown cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities with slight wear to the corners; expert restoration to minor wear to the head and foot of the spine; trifling surface damage to the gutter of the rear endpaper; an excellent copy. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men.' Nothing is sacred; it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing the Petherick copy in the National Library copy. Hall, Virtue hardcover
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HARRISON Robert
Colonial Sketches or Five Years in South Australia with Hints to Capitalists and Emigrants
London: Hall Virtue and Co 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue and Co. 1862. Duodecimo viii 167 pages. Blind-decorated dark green ribbed cloth lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; two trifling surface blemishes to the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the contemporary and thus very early blind-stamp of the Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby on the front flyleaf. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men' author's preface although he showed the cut of his nib on the title page: 'Castigat ridendo mores'. Indeed nothing is sacred so it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing the note written in the Petherick copy in the National Library. Hall, Virtue and Co hardcover
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CAPPER Henry
Capper's South Australia. Containing the History of the Rise Progress and Present State of the Colony Hints to Emigrants and Useful and Authentic Information
London: The Author 1839. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Author 1839 third edition considerably enlarged/ 1837. Octavo iv 243 16 advertisements pages plus 3 folding maps 'District of Adelaide' with an inset 'Sketch of Encounter Bay' 310 x 312 mm; 'Maritime Portion of South Australia' 240 x 425 mm and 'The City of Adelaide' 162 x 198 mm a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding advertising slip with an engraved illustration. Original blind-stamped purple cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal expert restoration to the head of both hinges; spine sunned to brown; first map lightly foxed; an excellent copy internally fine. With the armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Downshire most probably Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill 4th Marquess of Downshire 1812-1868. The preferred edition being more than twice as large as its predecessors of 1837 and 1838. Ferguson 2725. The Author hardcover
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FISHER James Hurtle
A Cabinet of Portraits consisting of Distinguished Characters British and Foreign: accompanied with a Brief Memoir of each Person
London: William Darton 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London William Darton circa 1825. Octavo xii 64 pages plus 64 engraved portraits with tissue-guards. Early gilt-decorated half calf and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; corners and the rear leading edge a little worn; 'Vol III' label missing from the spine; occasional scattered foxing and offsetting; a very good copy. From the collection of James Hurtle Fisher with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown and his signature in ink at the head of the engraved title page. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' Australian Dictionary of Biography. He commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835. He was selected as resident commissioner one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act . second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo" arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay where the official oaths were administered a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. In January 1837 Fisher erected his reed hut and Land Office near the survey camp of Colonel William Light at the north-western corner of the new capital site; the destruction of these temporary buildings by fire on 23 January 1839 caused both men serious loss. Fisher had been allowed to draft his own instructions which were not shown to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Disputes between the two men over their respective powers had begun on the voyage and were soon revived in the new Council of Government and more violently outside and led in February 1837 to the Resident Magistrate's Court binding the participants over to keep the peace towards each other. The new governor George Gawler was appointed both governor and resident commissioner a radical departure from the principles on which the colony had been founded'. Fisher returned to his profession and became a leader of the South Australian Bar. In October 1840 he was elected first mayor of Adelaide; in 1860 he became the first resident South Australian to be knighted. The destructive fire referred to above is described in detail in the biography of Light Dutton and Elder 1991. Light was living 'in the wood and reed surveyor's hut alongside Fisher's equally combustible house in the parklands on North Terrace. In his own account ". we discovered Fisher's house to be on fire. At the same time the breeze freshening up the destruction to both houses became inevitable. In less than ten minutes both houses were burnt to the ground mine catching fire at the roof by a lighted piece from Fisher's. We saved nothing of value"'. Accordingly personal mementoes such as this presumably brought by Fisher to South Australia on the 'Buffalo' must be of the utmost rarity. William Darton hardcover
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NEWLAND Simpson
The Far North Country. Reprinted from the 'South Australian Advertiser' cover sub-title
Adelaide: Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. Octavo 39 pages. Original printed wrappers slightly marked and very lightly chipped; an excellent copy with the early ink ownership signature of Sidney Plint at the head of the front cover. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white relations; there 'is too much namby-pambyism about the way we deal with the whole subject'. Ferguson 13317 noting only red cloth boards. Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office paperback
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Almanack. BOOTHBY Josiah
The Adelaide Almanack Town and Country Directory and Guide to South Australia for 1868
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1867. Duodecimo iii viii 126 iv 124 South Australian Directory iv index 139 South Australian Almanack Advertiser pages including endpaper advertisements plus a rear cover advertisement but lacking a folding inland mail table originally tipped onto the front flyleaf. Flush-cut cloth boards a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities with a tiny piece of cloth missing from the front bottom corner; spine sunned; edges a little marked; rear advertising leaf heavily creased; an excellent copy. With the blindstamp of the publisher and bookseller Howell on the front flyleaf and the contemporary ownership inscription 'SWS & Co. Feb 1868' in ink on the front cover. E.S. Wigg, J. Howell and W.C. Rigby hardcover
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GILL Thomas
A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes and other interesting Documents including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts of 1852. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch
Adelaide: Vardon & Sons Printers for the RGSSA 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon & Sons Printers for the RGSSA 1912. Octavo viii 101 pages plus 22 plates one folding 2 folding facsimile documents 8 and 4 pages respectively a folding map and a tipped-in errata slip. Original half black leather and dark green cloth; leather a little rubbed at the extremities cloth slightly flecked and scuffed; endpapers a little discoloured at the corners by the leather turn-ins; minor silverfish nibbling to the rear endpaper; an excellent copy inscribed at the head of the title page by the author to E.W. Hawker East Bungaree. Loosely inserted is the illustrated front panel of a mailing cover wrapped around a periodical when posted for example from George Collingridge's Jave-la-Grande Library addressed to Gill; the two NSW centenary penny stamps on it are postmarked 1893. Vardon & Sons, Printers [for the RGSSA] hardcover
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Almanack. BOOTHBY Josiah
The Adelaide Almanack Town and Country Directory and Guide to South Australia for 1869
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and J. Howell 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg and J. Howell 1868. Duodecimo viii 124 4 index 148 South Australian Directory 4 index 177 South Australian Almanack Advertiser pages including the rear endpaper advertisements plus front endpaper advertisements and rear cover advertising - but this copy lacks pages 169-76 of the advertising section and the folding map originally tipped �n at the title page a small portion of the first panel remains as proof. Flush-cut cloth boards rebacked with the bulk of the original spine retained; cloth a little marked with minor silverfish damage; a few trifling marks to some pages; a very good copy rare in any condition. Our current average rate of handling copies of this item is one every 20 years. Not least of its many attractions is The Farmers' Gardeners' and Vignerons' Calendar revised by George McEwin 13 pages. E.S. Wigg and J. Howell hardcover
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GORDON DJ. D. J.
The Gateway of the Interior. How to utilize Australia's Great Waterways
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1902. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1902. Large octavo 16 pages plus 2 folding maps and advertisements on three panels of the wrappers. Original salmon-pink wrappers with the title page details repeated within a border on the front cover; wrappers slightly chipped at the rear and creased with minor wear to the foot of the spine; first and last pages uniformly discoloured; an excellent copy. Reprinted from 'The Register' 'The Adelaide Observer' and 'The Evening Journal'. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
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Kangaroo Island. HALLACK EH. 'A Native' E. H.
Kangaroo Island 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. 1905. Octavo 45 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates and a small folding map. Bound without the original pictorial wrappers in contemporary half morocco and cloth a little rubbed at the extremities and bumped on the bottom corners; spine lightly sunned with a few short surface cracks; cloth slightly marked; a very good copy. With the ownership signatures of local printing and publishing identities R. Kyffin Thomas and W.H. Langham on the front flyleaf. W.K. Thomas & Co paperback
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KNIGHT JG. editor J. G.
The Northern Territory of South Australia
Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Octavo 55 pages. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers with the title page details repeated on the front cover; cloth a little flecked and slightly sunned and rubbed; card a little marked and mottled with a small corner crease and minimal silverfish nibbling to the rear cover; small sections of the front pastedown pulled away from the cover by the stitching but the binding is still tightly attached; trifling silverfish nibbling to the tip of the bottom corner of a handful of leaves; overall an excellent copy. At the time of publication the author was Chief Warden of the Goldfields of the Northern Territory. 'This pamphlet is published by permission of the Government of South Australia; but it is only proper to state that the recommendations herein made especially with reference to the formation of a railway have not yet been considered by the Ministry and must therefore be only regarded as the individual views of the author. A portion of the matter in the following pages was compiled by me' for Harcus's 'South Australia' published in 1876; it 'incorporated some useful papers written by residents there'. That book also contained an important chapter on Central Australia incorporated here with additional material. To quote Harcus: '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'. Knight remarks that it 'affords an excellent insight into the vast tract of country'. The article takes up most of the 17-page chapter; it refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. It is augmented with a page of quotations from Charles Winnecke's 1879 Herbert River expedition reports. Ferguson 11231 pretty light on detail even to the extent of not recording the binding. E. Spiller, Government Printer paperback
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DAY Alfred N.
Names of South Australian Railway Stations with their Meanings and Derivations
Adelaide: Government Printer 1915. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1915. Large octavo 32 pages with a large folding map 710 x 510 mm showing all the railway stations of SA. Wrappers lightly discoloured around the edges as is the text block; staples a little rusty; an excellent copy. Government Printer paperback
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TALBOT HC. H. C.
The Early History of the South-East of South Australia
Adelaide: J.L. Bonython and Co. Printers 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide J.L. Bonython and Co. Printers 1921. Octavo pages 107-135 drop-title plus 2 plates a folding map and an errata list printed inside the front cover. Original brown wrappers with the front one set as a title page; trifling edge blemishes to three leaves where carelessly opened; essentially a fine copy. Printed on the front cover is 'Reprinted from the Proceedings - Session 1919-20 Vol. XXI' of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia South Australian Branch. J.L. Bonython and Co., Printers paperback
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BORTHWICK Thomas
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia
London: Bailliere Tindall and Cox 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Bailliere Tindall and Cox 1891. Octavo 67 pages with 3 charts. Cloth flecked and a little bumped at the extremities; title page creased; a few marginal fingermarks; an excellent copy with two manuscript corrections page 4 'Death Curses' now reads 'Death Curves'; page 25 line 4 the first 'natural' now reads 'necessary' and the ownership signature of Arthur Edmund Shepherd 1867-1942 a local doctor. Demography in its broadest sense: 'a description of the geographical features of the colony which have a hygienic relationship; of the meteorological conditions and their relation to certain diseases; of the sanitary progress of the colony'. Ferguson 7288; Ford 362. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox hardcover
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HAY Mrs Agnes Grant
Footprints. A Memoir of the late Alexander Hay one of the fathers and early colonists of South Australia by his widow
London: Elliot Stock 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Elliot Stock 1899. Octavo xvi 132 pages plus 14 plates. Half contrasting blue and cream cloth top edge gilt others uncut; cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities and a little bubbled and slightly marked on the front and rear covers; spine a little sunned; new endpapers; a very good copy. Alexander Hay 1820-1898 merchant pastoralist and politician arrived in the colony in 1839. 'The book contains interesting reminiscences of South Australia in early pioneering days also of Hay's political career' Ferguson 10306 not noting the plates but mentioning an errata slip no longer present in this copy. Elliot Stock hardcover
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HUGO William Marks
History of the First Bushmen's Club in the Australian Colonies established at Adelaide South Australia. Compiled from various sources and furnishing in detail its origin and progress up to the present year 1872; also miscellaneous readings letters etc.
Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Original flush-cut dark green cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities with slight wear in a couple of places; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers a little marked with some scuffing and silverfish damage to the front flyleaf; small stain to the bottom edge bleeding very slightly into some bottom margins; very occasional foxing; three smallish areas on pages 167-70 lost to silverfish with two patches affecting some 25 words of text now supplied on an insert; a very good copy. With the armorial bookplate of P. Curzon Clement on the pastedown; the bookplate is listed in Peake Australian Personal Bookplates 2000 with John Shirlow recorded as the artist. A note dated January 1879 in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' Australian Dictionary of Biography. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
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GARRAN Andrew
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1854
Adelaide: printed and published at the 'Register' and 'Observer' Office 1854. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide printed and published at the 'Register' and 'Observer' Office 1854. Duodecimo xii 244 42 Directory 36 advertisements pages with the hand-coloured plate featuring nine 'Signals used at the West Terrace Flagstaff'. Flush-cut quarter cloth and printed card covers repeating the title page details on the front with advertisements on the rear; covers rubbed marked and lightly tidemarked with some simple arithmetic on the front cover and front flyleaf; extremities of the covers lightly worn; minimal expert restoration to the foot of the front hinge; title written in ink on the spine; minor signs of use and age; essentially a very good copy with the contemporary ownership details of Joseph Grivell 1854 on the flyleaf and indistinctly on the front cover. His name does not appear in the directory suggesting he lived outside Adelaide see below. In the preface dated 10 January 1854 the compiler apologises for the lateness of the appearance of the almanack the delay being 'occasioned by the extreme difficulty in obtaining compositors' - presumably all off to the diggings. He also apologises for the 'total omission of the Country Directory' for various reasons so the 42-page directory covers only Adelaide and suburbs. Most of the balance of the book is given over to the usual statistics regulations and lists of assorted office-bearers. However the farmers' and gardeners' calendar runs to 18 pages and there is a lengthy and important contribution by E.W. Andrews: 'Navigation of the Murray. Being extracts from a journal kept on board the "Lady Augusta" during Captain Cadell's exploratory voyage from the Goolwa to Ganawarra' 51 pages. Fellow-passengers James Allen and Arthur Kinloch published their independent accounts of this pioneering trip in book form in late 1853. In any event Andrews' account was reasonably hot off the press; his last journal entry was dated 15 October 1853 less than three months before this almanack delayed in publication appeared. Ferguson 9829f. printed and published at the 'Register' and 'Observer' Office paperback
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OPIE EAD. E. A.
South Australian Records prior to 1841
Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for the Author 1917. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for the Author 1917. Octavo 112 pages. Original wrappers with the title page details repeated within a border on the front cover; extremities slightly rubbed with minimal wear to the head of the front cover and the ends of the spine; small light mark on the rear cover; very light cockling to the front bottom corner throughout; an excellent copy. 'For private circulation'. With the ownership signature of Fred Johns of biographical dictionary fame written in pencil at the head of the front cover. Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers [for the Author] paperback
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GORDON David J.
Conquering the Desert. Conservation - Reclamation - Irrigation. A National Policy for Progressive People
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1907. Large octavo 37 pages plus advertising on the wrappers. Light green wrappers with the title page repeated within a border on the front cover; small light tidemark to the foot of the front cover and the first few leaves; a small rust-coloured stain affects the first half of the pamphlet maximum size 20 x 15 mm on the front cover gradually disappearing by the middle of the item; tiny top corner piece missing; light crease down the middle throughout where once folded; minor silverfish damage to the bottom margin of one leaf; a very good copy. Reprinted from 'The Register' 'The Adelaide Observer' and 'The Evening Journal'. 'With the Compliments of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the State of South Australia' is printed at the head of the front cover. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
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Bank of South Australia
Two early items associated with the Bank of South Australia are offered together. 1 A manuscript personal promissory note 90 x 167 mm dated Adelaide 24 October 1840 - 'Three months after date pay to my order Thirty Pounds value received. F.W. Allen. To C.W. Stuart Esqre'. Stuart has written across it 'Accepted Payable at the Bank of South Australia'. It was subsequently stamped by the Bank of South Australia Adelaide when it was paid on 27 January 1841. The verso is endorsed by F.W. Allen C. Crispe and 'For the Bank of South Australia Edwd Stephens Manager'. Apart from two vertical creases and a tiny spike hole it is in fine condition. 2 A printed Bank of South Australia cheque 80 x 180 mm printed by Batho and Bingley London with manuscript insertions - 11 February 1841 from C.W. Stuart to Harry Lechahdee for 3 pounds. A bank stamp on it indicates it was paid out in Adelaide on 15 February 1841. It is endorsed on the verso by Robert Champlay an indecipherable signat
Edward Stephens 1811-1861 was appointed cashier and accountant of the South Australian Company in 1836; he arrived in the 'Coromandel' on 17 January 1837 at Holdfast Bay. 'There he set up his office in a tent but at first business was slight. He was induced to sign a letter to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh asking for a public meeting to reconsider the site of Adelaide. Although in February the meeting decided in favour of Colonel William Light's choice Stephens did not hesitate to buy eight city acres 3.2 ha when they were auctioned and later became very friendly with Light. Stephens fell foul of Hindmarsh and was rebuked by George Fife Angas for dabbling in politics' Australian Dictionary of Biography. In 1840 he became the Adelaide manager of the Bank of South Australia. Charles William Stuart ~1811-1891 arrived in the colony in 1836 and became Acting Police Commissioner during Alexander Tolmer's extended absences on overland gold escort duties in 1852-53. Tolmer's dismissal in November 1853 was in part due to his involvement 'in demeaning disputes with his subordinates' not least Stuart. Frederick William Allen 1813-1850 arrived on the 'Buffalo' and became a publican. Clement Crispe ~1804-1857 arrived in 1837 on the 'John Renwick' and was a butcher and farmer. Robert Champlay was married in Adelaide on 30 January 1840. Most of the biographical details have come from the 'Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885'. We have not yet traced Harry - there are some intriguing possibilities. unknown
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South Australia. McLAREN David
South Australia in 1842. By One who lived there nearly Four Years. Illustrated by Drawings
London: J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. Octavo 32 pages plus a small folding map 205 � 156 mm an engraving of Adelaide and 2 full-page lithographs: 'Farm of J. Barton Hack . Echiunga sic Springs Mount Barker' and two portraits on the one plate of Kertamaroo King John and Mogata his wife. Later half calf and cloth retaining the original pale yellow front wrapper lettered 'South Australia in 1842' and with numerous binder's blanks at the rear to make a more substantial object; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and high spots; wrapper lightly stained and creased with the leading edge neatly reinforced presumably when the binding was done; first and last leaves lightly foxed with the last one lightly marked; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank. Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly the lithographs are by George French Angas from the artwork of others 'a sketch by Col. Gawler' in the first instance and from drawings 'Model'd from life by Mrs Walker - cropped to Walk' in the second. There are some extracts from official reports and various statistics up to August 1842 but the book is comprised predominantly of first-hand accounts often in the form of lengthy quotes from letters from settlers. The passage of time puts things into perspective. There is a PS to Alexander Lorimer's letter: 'I have neglected to mention that vineyards are forming by many of the settlers'. The closely-printed two pages on Aborigines concludes with this paragraph: 'It is hoped that a conviction of the deep responsibility which we have incurred toward the aboriginal inhabitants of that beautiful country of which we have taken possession will render the minuteness of the preceding information not unacceptable'. Ferguson 3721 not mentioning Angas nor identifying the author. Susan Woodburn has recently alerted us to a paragraph in the 'Adelaide Observer' of 1 July 1843: 'The "South Australian News" of January last announces the publication of a pamphlet to be entitled "South Australia in 1842" not by "One who is going" but by "One who lived there four years". We understand it will contain a full true and particular account of the Colony and be embellished with views of Adelaide Mr Hack's Farm and the portraits of two natives King John and his wife. We suspect our friend David McLaren to be the author of the pamphlet'. David McLaren 1785-1850 arrived at Kingscote Kangaroo Island in April 1837 as the second colonial manager of the South Australian Company. He left Adelaide on his return to London in January 1841 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert hardcover
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HUSSEY Henry
The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden Age' Descriptions of Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific and a Tour through some of the States of America in 1854
London: Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. Duodecimo vi 174 pages. Original blind-stamped closely-woven brown cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal wear to the head of the front hinge and one bottom corner; front flyleaf very lightly creased and marked; an excellent copy uncut and partially unopened with occasional chipping to the top edges due to inexpert opening. The contemporary ownership details of E. Barlow Adelaide are written in ink on the front pastedown. Henry Hussey 1825-1903 arrived in South Australia in 1839 so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 of 36 pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The title adequately describes the other stages of his journey. American conditions in several states are noticed'. Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg hardcover
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ROBERTSON JG. J. G.
Lessing's Dramatic Theory. Being an Introduction to and Commentary on his Hamburgische Dramaturgie
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1939. Small quarto; cloth a little bumped and unevenly sunned; top edge foxed; a few tiny fox marks to early leaves a few rear leaves slightly creased at the corners; a very good copy with the unevenly sunned and marked dustwrapper a little chipped and torn with slight loss. With the ownership signature dated 1948 of Professor David Galliver Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide 1964-82. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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TODD Charles. MALLESON Colonel GB. G. B.
Akbar
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford Clarendon Press 1891. Octavo 204 4 publisher's advertisements pages plus a folding map. Cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities and lightly marked; spine a little sunned; endpapers slightly offset and marked; first and last pages heavily offset; two clean tears to the folding map expertly repaired; a very good copy. Signed and dated 1892 twice by Charles Todd of Overland Telegraph fame. Number 2 in the 'Rulers of India' series; the full title appears in the publisher's list at the rear as 'Akbar and the Rise of the Mughal Empire'. Clarendon Press hardcover
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CAPPER Henry
South Australia. Containing Hints to Emigrants; Proceedings of the South Australian Company; a Variety of Useful and Authentic Information
London: Robert Tyas 1838. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Robert Tyas 1838 second edition 'considerably augmented'/ 1837. Octavo vi 118 pages plus a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding frontispiece 147 x 268 mm containing on it a map of Australia with South Australia marked out a map of the eastern coast of Gulf St Vincent and a plan of Adelaide. Original cloth slightly mottled and a little silverfish-nibbled; spine renewed with most of the original spine retained; frontispiece a little foxed; an excellent copy. With the ownership signature of Robert Kyffin Thomas 1902 on the front flyleaf. Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas 1851-1910 the grandson of Robert Thomas who arrived on the 'Africaine' at Holdfast Bay in 1836 with a printing press was himself an influential newspaperman in the state. Ferguson 2452 our copy does not have the four pages of 'book advertisements' clearly never present. Robert Tyas hardcover
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The Northern Territory of South Australia. Accompanied with a Map
Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. Octavo 54 pages plus a large folding map and an errata slip tipped onto the contents page; the map 890 x 650 mm is of the Northern Territory itself and shows the 'exploration tracks' of Stuart Sturt A.C. Gregory McKinlay and Leichardt sic. Contemporary full morocco with decorative gilt borders front and rear and the title in gilt on the front cover a most attractive colonial binding; extremities slightly rubbed; leather slightly dusty; the map has tiny holes nibbled by silverfish along the fold of two blank panels and short splits to four fold junctions insignificant blemishes; a fine copy. 'On 16 July 1863 the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and the relevant Acts and Regulations 20 pages together with lengthy extracts from Earl's 'Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia' printed earlier the same year at the 'Pinang sic Gazette' Press in the Straits Settlement 22 pages. The last section 'Interior of the Country' 12 pages is largely extracted from the journal of Stuart and the report of Waterhouse naturalist to his expedition. Ferguson 13458 the wrappers here are not stiffened and the title page is also printed within a border. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of The Honorable Henry Ayers CMG at the time South Australian Chief Secretary under whose command the 'Northern Territory Land Regulations' and 'Appointment of Officers' printed in the book were proclaimed. Ayers has underlined in ink six lines in the Northern Territory Act relating to land orders. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover
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HUSSEY H.
The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden Age' Descriptions of Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific and a Tour through some of the States of America in 1854
London: Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. Duodecimo vi 174 pages. Original blind-stamped textured brown cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal wear to the corners and the the head and foot of the rear hinge; three tiny nail-point holes to the cloth on the front cover; new sympathetic endpapers; an excellent copy. Henry Hussey 1825-1903 arrived in South Australia in 1839 so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 of 36 pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The title adequately describes the other stages of his journey. American conditions in several states are noticed'. Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg hardcover
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MADIGAN Dr CT.. HOERR Wollaston Neith C. T.
Clipped Wings or Memories of My Childhood and Youth
Flinders University: Flinders Press for the Author 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Flinders University Flinders Press for the Author 1997. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers lightly rubbed and marked and with a tiny tear to the bottom of the front cover; a very good copy. The author the daughter of Dr. C.T. Madigan lived from 1919 to 1999 with much of her childhood at Blackwood South Australia and 'gives an insight into the personality of Dr Madigan.'. Flinders Press for the Author paperback
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German Australian Literature
Adelaider Blaetter fur Ernst und Scherz. Belletristische Beilage zur Sud-Australischen Zeitung. Herausgegeben von Wilhelm Eggers und Georg Eimer Volume 12 parts 1 and 2 and Volume 13 part 2
Adelaide: Sud-Australische Zeitung 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Sud-Australische Zeitung 1870 and 1871. Large octavo two volumes ii 620 526 and ii 638 pages. Contemporary half roan and marbled papered boards rubbed at the extremities and on the covers with some wear to the corners; scattered foxing and mild signs of use and age; essentially a very good copy first volume: contemporary half calf and cloth; leather rubbed at the extremities with slight wear to the corners; cloth a little marked with trifling blemishes at the rear; replacement endpapers; an excellent copy second volume. These are bound volumes of weekly issues of the literary supplement to the long-running Adelaide German-language newspaper 'Sud-Australische Zeitung'. Offered here is the complete run of the 52 weekly issues of the twelfth year 1870 and issues 27-52 of the thirteenth year 4 July to 26 December 1871. The indexes show that the contents are mainly short novels by German authors. Sud-Australische Zeitung hardcover
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LOYAU George E.
Notable South Australians; or Colonists - Past and Present
Adelaide: Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. Octavo viii 288 20 advertisements pages plus 16 lithographs and a mounted albumen paper photograph 98 � 59 mm. Gilt-decorated plum-coloured stippled cloth sunned on the spine with the front cover lightly mottled and marked; extremities slightly rubbed with the head of the spine very slightly snagged and the bottom corners a little bumped; an excellent copy internally fine. The lithographs are a delightful frontispiece view of Glenelg in 1837 after John Michael Skipper and 15 full-page portraits. The photograph is of Loyau facing the camera with his eyes looking a little to his right; the photographers George and Walton are credited in the negative. We have identified numerous variants in the plate content. Ferguson 11748 recording only the frontispiece with 14 pages of advertisements; Holden 71. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision') hardcover
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BLACKET Reverend John
History of South Australia. A Romantic and Successful Experiment in Colonisation
Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham 1911. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey and Gillingham 1911 'second edition - revised enlarged and continued to a later period'/ 1907. Octavo xxiv 480 pages with 39 plates and a map. Gilt-decorated black cloth a little flecked; spine slightly creased with a trifling snag to the head; endpapers a little offset rear flyleaf very slightly silverfish-nibbled both inner hinges slightly pulled but unbroken and firm; an excellent copy. A review copy marked as such on the flyleaf by the author with an autograph letter signed by him loosely inserted. The letter 2 pages small quarto on a pair of conjugate leaves from the Parsonage Brompton 30 December 1911 is to 'Dear Mr Editor'. Blacket explains that this is a 'larger & much better book' than the first edition and he itemises the new sections in particular the chapter on 'Legislatic Difficulties'. He also explains that he is selling the book too cheaply; 'when I sent out my prospectus twelve months ago I was not aware that the Book would consist of so many pages and having advertised it at 5/- I cannot increase the price now as faith must be kept with the public'. The letter has been folded for posting and has a few other minor creases. The editor is none other than Sir William Sowden whose signature dated 1911 appears in ink at the head of the title page; his notes are pencilled on the rear flyleaf. Hussey and Gillingham hardcover
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