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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
书商的参考编号 : 80666
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80144
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80332
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80835
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80073
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80714
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80699
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80708
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80160
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80169
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80715
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80817
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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
书商的参考编号 : 21741
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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
书商的参考编号 : 80052
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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
书商的参考编号 : 61052
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MacDERMOTT Marshall
A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott Esq. JP of Adelaide South Australia
Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly marked; front flyleaf removed; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed on the verso of the title page to 'Charlotte de S. Dutton with kind regards' and signed by the author. MacDermott an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846 died in 1877. The provenance is most interesting: Charlotte de S. Dutton was the widow of William Hampden Dutton 1805-1849; her mother's maiden name was Da Silva. In 1849 William's brother Francis Stacker Dutton 1818-1877 married MacDermott's daughter Caroline. The Duttons and their pastoral property Anlaby were household names in South Australia for generations; to put them into context 'While working at Anlaby in 1842 Francis had discovered with Captain Charles Bagot the Kapunda copper mine' Australian Dictionary of Biography. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80623
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SANSOM PM Bro. Philip
History of the First Fifty Years of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship from 1834 to 1884. Written expressly for and read at the Jubilee Meeting on October 22 1884
Adelaide: Lodge of Friendship 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Lodge of Friendship 1886. Octavo iv 88 pages. Cloth a little flecked slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities with slight wear to the corners and the ends of the spine which is sunned and carries the faint residue of the title written in white ink along it; front flyleaf creased and slightly chipped; a very good copy. Inscribed 'With fraternal compliments' and signed by the author with the later ownership signature of Will Sowden. Ferguson 15449. Lodge of Friendship hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80112
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MORPHETT George Cooper
Sir James Hurtle Fisher First Resident Commissioner in SA. His Life and Times. Compiled by his Great Grandson
Adelaide: Griffin Press for the Author 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Griffin Press for the Author 1955. Octavo x 154 pages plus 8 plates. Cloth; boards slightly bowed and flecked and endpapers faintly offset as ever; an excellent copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Number 56 of 250 copies numbered and initialled by the author. An autograph letter signed by the author dated July 1955 and with his 'Cummins' Morphettville blindstamp discussing the distribution of the book and the original pictorial order form are loosely inserted. Griffin Press [for the Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80618
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WHITE Captain SA. S. A.
The Cruise of the Avocet. In Search of Skuas and other things. Reprinted from 'The Register'
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1916. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1916. Sextodecimo 68 pages plus 16 full-page plates. Original printed wrappers reprinting the title page details in full very slightly rubbed at the extremities; first and last pages lightly discoloured by the wrappers; last leaf and rear wrapper pulled away from the staples but still firm; an excellent copy. McLaren 16761: 'Visit to the islands at the entrance to the St Vincent and Spencer's Gulfs in January 1916' on board the Rymills' motor yacht. W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers paperback
书商的参考编号 : 80043
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GEE Lionel CE. C. E.
Bush Tracks and Gold Fields. Reminiscences of Australia's 'Back of Beyond'. Foreword by F. Wood-Jones
Adelaide: Preece 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Preece 1926. Octavo viii 109 pages plus 3 plates. Cloth very lightly flecked; endpapers offset; a fine copy with the dustwrapper a trifle used and with slight loss including a few small spots of silverfish damage to the front panel. The title page has been signed by the author 'sometime South Australian Government Surveyor Warden of Goldfields and Special Magistrate'. The book has much Aboriginal and north Australian content. Preece hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80087
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BENNETT James F.
Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia founded on the Experience of a Three Years' Residence in that Colony
London: Smith Elder & Co 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Smith Elder & Co. 1843. Duodecimo 152 pages. Early half calf and cloth a little rubbed at the extremities; endpapers discoloured at the edges by the leather and a little offset; all edges uncut with upwards of a centimetre variation in the height and width of the leaves; some edges dusty with one leading edge lightly chipped; trifling signs of use; a very good copy. The author lived in South Australia from March 1839 to March 1842; chapters include 'Sketch of Adelaide and Surrounding Villages - Colonial Life and Manners' 'The Native Inhabitants' and 'Information for Emigrants' plus an appendix bringing the information up to date to the end of 1842. This copy contains 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 3566. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80637
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MORPHETT George C.
C.B. Fisher. Pastoralist Studmaster and Sportsman. An Epic of Pioneering. Compiled by his Great-Nephew
Adelaide: The Author 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1945. Octavo viii 72 pages plus 20 plates including 4 folding panoramas. Cloth with minimal flecking to the inside top and bottom edges; an uncirculated copy in the fine dustwrapper in the original packaging. Number 130 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. 'The story deals with the development of country from the "Mt Schanck" run in the south to "Victoria River Downs" and Port Darwin' as well as properties along the Murray and Darling and in western and northern Queensland. Consult the Australian Dictionary of Biography for more details. [The Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80101
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MORPHETT George Cooper
The Life and Letters of Sir John Morphett. Compiled by his Grandson
Adelaide: Hassell Press for the Author 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Hassell Press for the Author 1936. Octavo xii 167 pages plus 24 plates. Cloth lightly sunned on the spine; essentially a fine copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Number 73 of only 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. The original prospectus one page octavo is mounted on the front pastedown of this copy; the price in 1936 was one guinea. This copy is also inscribed and signed to 'Major M.V. sic Newland with kind regards' Victor Marra Newland the third son of Simpson Newland. Loosely inserted is a SA House of Assembly how to vote card featuring Newland who represented North Adelaide for the Liberal and Country League from 1933 to 1938. Sir John Morphett 1809-1892 landowner and politician: by 1835 he was one of the most enthusiastic and energetic supporters of the new province of South Australia and he arrived on the 'Cygnet' in September 1836. He was one of the discoverers of the Torrens and at 'the crucial meeting on 10 February 1837 Morphett's votes were decisive in confirming the site of Adelaide . He threw his weight behind every good cause . and his political career was long and distinguished' Australian Dictionary of Biography. Hassell Press [for the Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 27171
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Law
Knox and Hargrave. A Legal Heritage. 150 Years of Practice in Law
Adelaide: Knox and Hargrave 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Knox and Hargrave October 1988. Octavo viii 60 pages with 31 illustrations. Gilt-lettered and extensively blind-stamped full grey leather; a fine copy in the fine two-part slipcase. One of an unspecified limited edition printed 'in the sesquicentenary year for private circulation'. Nine partners lacking only Max Horton have signed a blank page at the rear of the book; this copy comes from the estate of one of them Ian Dow. A copy of the standard edition in flush-cut gold card covers is offered together with this deluxe version. Knox and Hargrave hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80593
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SPENCE Catherine Helen
State Children in Australia. A History of Boarding Out and its Developments
Adelaide: printed by Vardon and Sons for the State Children's Council 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide printed by Vardon and Sons for the State Children's Council 1907. Octavo ii 148 pages plus 6 plates. Decorated wrappers a little rubbed creased and sunned; two pinholes in the front cover and the adjacent frontispiece; an excellent copy. 'This book is a labour of love. It was written by Miss Spence as a recognition of the services to the children of the State rendered by her friend Miss C.E. Clark. The two ladies have been friends for fifty years and were associated in the beginning of the Boarding Out of State Children in South Australia. Miss Spence wrote the book and the Council and other friends have subscribed to print and publish it . It is sent forth to assist any fellow-workers among children to whom its pages may bring encouragement stimulus or information.' This copy comes from the collection of W.J. Sowden with his ownership signature and shelving details in pencil inside. Sir William Sowden 1858-1943 was a journalist and the influential editor of the 'South Australian Register' from 1899 to 1922. The front cover is inscribed in ink by James Gray the secretary of the State Children's Council: 'The "Register" with Compliments from the Author. To be offered at this Dept . 1/3 paper 2/- cloth'. printed by Vardon and Sons [for the State Children's Council] paperback
书商的参考编号 : 80054
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Photography. HAMILTON George
Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846. By an Old Hand
Adelaide: J. Williams Printer for the Author 1880. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide J. Williams Printer for the Author 1880 second edition/ 1879. Octavo viii 84; 80; 23 pages plus 3 albumen paper photographs of 5 drawings on 3 unnumbered leaves. Gilt- and blind-stamped brown cloth sunned on the spine and a little discoloured around the edges; first and last pages offset; apart from the sunning a fine copy. The particulars of the photographs match those given in Holden where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against listed is explained. The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals of Grey and Eyre. The first edition was not photographically illustrated. Ferguson 10184 inadequately describing the plates; Holden 49. J. Williams, Printer [for the Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80023
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WHITE Captain SA. S. A.
The Life of Samuel White Soldier Naturalist Sailor. By his Son
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1920. Octavo iv 116 pages with 5 illustrations plus 11 full-page plates including 4 colour plates. Cloth sunned on the spine and unevenly on the front cover with minor silverfish damage; short split to the head of the front hinge; a very good copy internally fine. A biographical sketch of the South Australian pioneer and early field naturalist who died in 1880 at the age of 45. This account 'based upon a few remaining letters notes of his early life and notes compiled during the last twelve months he lived added to by personal memories of the writer and those of his father's brother who still survives' is largely an account of Samuel White's ornithological expeditions to north Queensland and the Aru Islands the easternmost island group of the Moluccas in the Arafura Sea. McLaren 16754. W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80615
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WHITE Captain SA. S. A.
In the Far North-East. A Scientific Expedition. Reprinted from The Register
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1917. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1917. Duodecimo 144 pages plus 13 plates. Contemporary blind-stamped binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth sunned on the spine and a little flecked; an excellent copy bound without the wrappers. Inscribed dated 10 November 1917 and signed by the author at the head of the title page to T.G. Souter an amateur ornithologist from Maitland in country South Australia with the latter's ownership signature on the flyleaf. In September and October 1916 White accompanied Edgar Waite on a small South Australian Museum expedition north-east from Farina into Burke and Wills country. McLaren 16763. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
书商的参考编号 : 80607
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GILES Ernest
Diary of Explorations of Mr Ernest Giles in Central Australia 1872
Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1986. Octavo 117 pages. Cloth; a fine copy without a dustwrapper as issued. One of only 160 numbered copies. A new edition of the rare 1875 first printings South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 215 of 1874 and Number 21 of 1875 here incorporating about fifty author's corrections. An account of Giles' first expedition from August to November 1872; although unsuccessful in his attempt 'to penetrate to the sources of the Murchison River' he named Palm Valley Glen of Palms Mt Olga and Lake Amadeus. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 60718
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MORPHETT Geo. C.
Sir James Hurtle Fisher First Resident Commissioner in SA. His Life and Times. Compiled by his Great Grandson
Adelaide: Griffin Press for the Author 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Griffin Press for the Author 1955. Octavo x 154 pages plus 8 plates. Cloth; boards slightly bowed and flecked and endpapers faintly offset as ever; frontispiece a little cockled; an excellent copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Number 125 of 250 copies numbered and initialled by the author. Griffin Press [for the Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80104
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UNAIPON David
Native Legends
Adelaide: Hunkin Ellis & King Printers and Publishers 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hunkin Ellis & King Printers and Publishers 1929. Octavo i 15 pages with 3 photographic illustrations. Mauve pictorial wrappers lightly marked with the spine expertly strengthened from the inside and with archival thread replacing the rusty staples; an excellent copy. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian see Michael Richards: 'People Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia 1788-1988' National Library of Australia 1988 - item 48 with 1929 as the date of publication. Both ANB and Greenway are unclear confused and confusing on this point but a review copy with this date in Sir Will Sowden's hand has been sighted and that should settle it. Variant issues of this seminal work exist: there are two different cover illustrations - a portrait of the author as with this copy and a portrait of an Aboriginal woman and each appears on at least two variant colour wrappers. We have not been able to establish priority of publication of these two impressions but we can state that later reprints of both issues are paginated from the first page not the second. Hunkin, Ellis & King (Printers and Publishers) paperback
书商的参考编号 : 80652
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GOUGER Robert. HODDER Edwin editor
The Founding of South Australia as recorded in the Journals of Mr Robert Gouger First Colonial Secretary
London: Sampson Low Marston 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston 1898. Octavo 239 pages plus 2 plates. Cloth very slightly marked and flecked and slightly bumped at the extremities; paper a little discoloured around the edges as ever; an excellent copy. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Sampson Low, Marston hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80638
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EDMUNDS William Herbert
Topographic Maps of South Australia cover title
Adelaide: The Compiler 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Compiler 1926. Colour pictorial wrappers external dimensions 305 � 385 mm and 6 colour maps 295 � 375 mm printed rectos only. Wrappers slightly marked and creased but with expert restoration to some tears and small missing pieces and with the string binding renewed; short tears to the leading margin of four maps neatly closed; overall an excellent copy. The copy in the State Library of South Australia has a presentation inscription on the front cover 'by the author'. It also contains an introductory leaf of text which is worth quoting: 'These maps are to be issued in sets of six at short intervals. They will comprise all parts of the State and the remotest Districts will be included. The further the District is from the Capital the more minute will be the detail supplied. The maps are all made to join up with those adjacent so that a complete wall-map may be built up as the various sets are made available. The first set comprising the Adelaide Hills has a limited issue and those who wish to have complete wall-maps as well as the sets in Book-form are advised to secure special mounting copies without delay'. The maps identical in both copies inspected albeit in different order are Semaphore #1 Henley #4 Brighton #7 Millbrook #2 Uraidla #5 and Aldgate #8. No further maps were published. The Compiler] paperback
书商的参考编号 : 79796
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BARLOW William
The Local Courts Act Rules and Forms and Special Magistrates Confirmation Act. Together with the Intercolonial Debts Acts of South Australia New South Wales and Victoria. And the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Act
Adelaide: Vardon and Pritchard Printers 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon and Pritchard Printers 1890. Octavo xxx 486 pages. Cloth very slightly marked; top corners bumped; endpapers offset; a very good copy. Vardon and Pritchard, Printers hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 12244
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South Australia
Reports from the Select Committee on South Australia; together with the Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. Comprising the First Report . 9th March 1841 and the Second Report . 10th March 1841
London: 'Communicated by the Commons to the Lords' 1841. First Edition. Paperback. London 'Communicated by the Commons to the Lords' and 'Ordered to be printed 21st June 1841'. Foolscap folio ii 8 last blank pages First Report and xl 272 x 358 appendix 58 index pages plus 4 large folding hand-coloured maps including 3 by John Arrowsmith - see below Second Report. Relatively modern half calf and cloth by Morrell of London retaining both front and rear original printed blue wrappers; leather very slightly rubbed at the extremities with a light tidemark to the foot of the spine; front wrapper very slightly marked; minor offsetting to the maps with an expert repair to a very short tear near the stub of the last one; essentially a fine uncut copy - it is difficult to imagine a better one turning up. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper 174 of 1841 the House of Lords issue Ferguson 3221 with minor pagination errors: see also Ferguson 3218 and 3219. 'This Report contains very complete information regarding the Colony from its foundation in 1836 to 1841' Ferguson 3219 referring to the Second Report. Wakefield's self-supporting system of colonization administered by the South Australian Colonization Commission failed and the commission was dissolved in January 1840. 'The new board of three salaried commissioners slowly became aware that the colony's funds in London were rapidly dwindling. After months of inexcusable procrastination they had no choice but to throw the colony on the mercies of the Colonial Office. Nevertheless the blame of their own shortcomings and extravagance was placed squarely on Governor Gawler for his irregularities "reckless" expenditure and alleged grave errors of judgment.' The imperial parliament accepted the select committee's recommendations and took control of the colony's affairs. Although the select committee had refused to condemn Gawler and reported that 'even his severest critics had suggested no way in which Gawler's expenditure might have been significantly reduced' he was abandoned as the scapegoat and after his recall in May 1841 he was never again to find public employment 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The maps are: 1 Plan of the District of Adelaide shewing the application of the Running Survey to that locality Water Sections coloured approximately 500 � 600 mm; 2 The District of Adelaide South Australia; As divided into Country Sections. From the Trigonometrical Surveys of Colonel Light . 500 � 600 mm; 3 The Maritime Portion of South Australia from Capn. Flinders and the more recent Surveys made by the Survr. Genl. of the Colonies 620 � 500 mm; and 4 Map shewing the Special Survey in South Australia to the Eastward of the Gulf of St Vincent 515 � 600 mm. From the notable collection of Rodney Davidson with his bookplate on the front pastedown. 'Communicated by the Commons to the Lords' paperback
书商的参考编号 : 80653
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NEWLAND Simpson
The Far North Country
Adelaide: Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. Octavo 39 pages. Original cloth slightly sunned and flecked; endpapers browned; an excellent copy. 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. Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80063
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Horace Walpole Press. ROGERS FE. F. E.
Ballades Rondeaus and Occasional Verse
Adelaide: 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. Octavo 171 pages with the press mark on the title page. Flush-cut quarter cloth and papered boards; essentially a fine copy of a very indifferent production. Inscribed by the author who later released his hand-set and -printed items under the imprint of The Horace Walpole Press. Offered together with four other titles from the Press: 'Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1933; 'More Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1935 and 'Selections from Modern French Poetry' and 'Dips into the Classics' both translated by H.E. Ashley and F.E. Rogers. Although the last two mentioned are undated Farmer Private Presses and Australia 1972 gives 1938 as the publication date of 'Selections from Modern French Poetry'. As this book lists all of the titles recorded by Farmer other than 'Memoirs of a Medico' 1941 it seems reasonable to suggest that the six undated titles in Farmer appeared not later than 1938. Of the four extra titles offered here only 'Occasional Verse' is not inscribed and signed by Rogers. 'Printed and Published by the Author' hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80489
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HESLING Bernard
Art Ruined My Career In Crime
Adelaide: The Author 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1977 first edition. Small oblong quarto 87 pages with a few illustrations and 46 colour plates of enamels by Hesling. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper. Signed - with a small self-portrait - by the author. [The Author] hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 80497
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KINGDOM E. WOOLLEY D. and I. FAULKS
Water Bore Locations in Central Australia
Canberra: Department of National Development Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra Department of National Development Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics 1967. Folio x 120 pages plus 47 folding maps. Stapled card covers bound in binder's tape; covers slightly rubbed and creased; the maps somewhat discoloured due to the high acid content; an excellent copy. Record Number 1967/83. Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics paperback
书商的参考编号 : 80399
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Militaria. ROYCE Josiah
War and Insurance. An address delivered before the Philosophical Union of the University of California at its twenty-fifth anniversary at Berkeley California August 27 1914
New York: Macmillan 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York Macmillan 1914. Octavo l 96 11 publisher's catalogue pages. Cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities; top edge dusty; endpapers slightly offset; an excellent copy. With the contemporary ownership signature of the Australian biochemist Thorburn Brailsford Robertson at that stage an associate professor at the University of California in Berkeley. Macmillan hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 79954
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BROOK David
Roundshot to Rapier. Artillery in South Australia 1840-1984
Hawthorndene: Investigator Press 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hawthorndene Investigator Press 1986. Octavo 349 pages with numerous illustrations. Gilt-decorated blue cloth; a fine copy. Investigator Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 27804
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BERKELOUW MESSRS AUSTRALIA
Catalogue 421/ n.d.: Middle East.
281 nos. 26pp. Wrs.; 8vo . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 76269
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HOSSFELD PS. and TD. CAMPBELL P. S. T. D.
Australian Aboriginal Stone Arrangements in North-West South Australia. Reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 90 1966
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Quarto 6 pages with an illustration and a map plus 4 plates. Wrappers; a fine copy. paperback
书商的参考编号 : 60205
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RUSSELL Alexander
Voices of Doubt. Australian Scenes and Other Poems
Adelaide: Wigg and Melbourne Mullen 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Wigg and Melbourne Mullen 1884. Octavo viii 286 pages. Original blind-stamped watered cloth all edges red; cloth very lightly rubbed and flecked with trifling wear to two corners; spine lightly sunned; an excellent copy. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. Wigg and Melbourne, Mullen hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 77339
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GORDON The Hon. David J.
Problems of Transporation and their Relation to Australian Trade and Commerce. The Joseph Fisher Lecture in Commerce delivered at the University of Adelaide . 28th April 1914
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1914. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1914. Octavo 45 pages. Wrappers lightly discoloured about the spine and slightly rubbed; pencilled ownership signature on the front cover; two pages very slightly marked; an excellent copy. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
书商的参考编号 : 75765
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STEPHENS John
The 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
London: Smith Elder 1839. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. London Smith Elder 1839 second edition/ 1839. Octavo viii 224 2 9 advertisements pages plus 4 lithographs 2 folding maps and a folding table. Original gilt- and blind-stamped light brown cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; spine a little sunned; minimal foxing to the plates; a most attractive copy. Apart from dropping the original title 'on the ground sic of vagueness and liability to misconstruction' and outing himself as author only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. Smith, Elder hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 79279
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State Service of Intercession in Thankful Response to the Call to Prayer of His Majesty the King for the Empire its Allies and the Cause in which they are United on Sunday May 26th 1940 at 4 pm in the Adelaide Town Hall
Adelaide: Government Printer 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1940. Small quarto 12 pages. Wrappers very slightly scuffed; an excellent copy. Stamped 'Draft Copy'. Government Printer paperback
书商的参考编号 : 79449
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STEPHENS John
The 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
London: Smith Elder 1839. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. London Smith Elder 1839 second edition/ 1839. Octavo viii 224 2 9 advertisements pages plus 4 lithographs 2 folding maps and a folding table. Original gilt- and blind-stamped dark green ribbed cloth lightly marked and a little bumped at the extremities; corners and spine ends neatly reinforced with black leather; endpapers replaced; title page slightly marked with the leading edge lightly chipped; plates moderately foxed affecting the adjacent leaves a little with light scattered foxing elsewhere; overall a very presentable copy with the contemporary signature of J. Smith at the head of the title page and the later bookplate of F.G. Coles. Apart from dropping the original title 'on the ground sic of vagueness and liability to misconstruction' and outing himself as author only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. Smith, Elder hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 79454
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SINNETT Frederick
An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862. Together with a Catalogue of all the Products of South Australia exhibited in the South Australian Court of the International Exhibition
Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1862. Octavo vi 99 pages plus a large folding map 740 x 635 mm. Original papered boards slightly rubbed and very slightly worn at the extremities and bumped at the front bottom corner; spine slightly sunned with minimal loss to silverfish in one spot and trifling chipping and wear to both ends; front endpaper creased where it is in contact with the folds of the frontispiece map; expert repair to a long tear to the stub panel of the map with tiny splits to some creases also closed; an excellent copy of a book so often found lacking the map - and rarely encountered in the fragile original binding. This copy is more desirable still by virtue of its provenance - it has the armorial bookplates of the notable South Australians Sir Henry Ayers on the pastedown and Edward Angas Johnson on the flyleaf - and we purchased it from the estate of Dr Hedley Marston FRS. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 29123
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PIKE Philip and Julian MOORE
Captain Sweet's Adelaide
Adelaide: Longwood Media 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Longwood Media 1983. Oblong quarto viii 103 pages with 3 illustrations and 77 plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the very slightly marked dustwrapper. A short 28-page biography of Samuel Sweet South Australia's foremost colonial photographer with approximately 54 of his images reproduced; a number of the scenes are coupled with their modern-day equivalents. Longwood Media hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 55827
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