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Law. HAGUE Ralph Meyrick
Hague's History of the Law in South Australia 1837-1867
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. New. Adelaide University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press 2005. Quarto xii 943 pages with hundreds of illustrations plus a colour pictorial 'half-title'. Half cream leather and green cloth with contrasting title-labels on the spine; a fine copy. The manuscript for this work was completed in 1936 and it remained unpublished for nearly 70 years. This first edition also includes a biography of the author by Helen Whitington and a foreword by the Honourable Justice Perry; the superb selection of illustrations was compiled and captioned by Bruce Greenhalgh. These leather-bound editions are effectively produced on demand but we usually have a copy in stock; thus far approximately thirty have been issued. Copies of the trade edition bound in pictorial card covers as two volumes are available from us at $165 the set. University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75608
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Trade Catalogue
Modern Home Fittings. Mantelpieces Tiles and Grates Door Furniture Lavatory-ware Plumbers Tools Fittings . Clarkson Ltd 'The House of Decoration' 124-126 Rundle Street Adelaide. Everything for the Home will be found in these Pages cover title
Adelaide: Clarkson Ltd 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Clarkson Ltd 1924. Oblong quarto ii 110 pages including page 76A extensively illustrated. Three-colour pictorial wrappers; front cover slightly creased and chipped with minor loss to the bottom edge; first leaf slightly chipped along the bottom edge with two pinholes and very slight surface damage to a small circular section a drop of water on the sized paper; overall an excellent copy. This catalogue is a revised edition of the firm's previous publication 'Fixtures for the Modern Home'. The most attractive section on mantelpieces runs to 30 pages. Clarkson Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 73160
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Telegraphy
An unused 1850s South Australian Magnetic Telegraph message form. Light blue paper printed in black; 175 x 215 mm with light crease marks where it had been folded in four; a fine copy
Offered together with a copy of MARSDEN Susan: Working Lines. A History of Robe Electric Telegraph Station and Post Office 1987; card covers octavo i 34 pages with 20 illustrations. This booklet gives details of the introduction of intercolonial telegraphy. An example of a slightly later version of this form is reproduced on page 13; among other changes it no longer states that 'The Government will not be answerable for errors caused by indistinct writing'. unknown
Bookseller reference : 75053
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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. Fine. Adelaide Carey Page & Co. Printers "Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision" 1885. Octavo viii 288 24 advertisements pages plus 17 lithographs and 2 laid-down albumen paper photographs. Tan stippled cloth very slightly rubbed; a fine copy. The lithographs are a frontispiece view after Skipper 15 full-page portraits and one plate containing three portraits; the photographs are of the Governor and dedicatee Sir William Robinson 140x88mm by Hammer and Co. and Loyau 98x58mm by George and Walton - facing the camera looking a little to his right. This is another variant see Holden 71 of an item usually found with the author's photograph only and to further complicate matters the latter occurs in at least three variant forms as well!. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ("Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision") hardcover
Bookseller reference : 29217
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PEAKE JONES Kenneth
The Branch without a Tree. The Centenary History of the Royal Geoographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Incorporated 1885-1985
Adelaide: RGSSA 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1985. Octavo; gilt-decorated cloth; one corner slightly bumped; an excellent copy without a dustjacket as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. RGSSA hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75259
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SANTICH Barbara Jennifer HILLIER and Catherine KERRY editors
Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium of Australian Gastronomy. 'Sustaining Gastronomy.' Adelaide September 28-30 1994
Adelaide: Eighth Symposium Committee 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide Eighth Symposium Committee 1996. Folio xi 123 4 list of participants pages with 2 pages of illustrations. Pictorial card covers; mint. (Eighth Symposium Committee) paperback
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Bounties Bill 1907. Memorandum including Report of Conference of State Agricultural Experts New South Wales Victoria South Australia and Western Australia and Report of the Queensland Agricultural Department
Melbourne: Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1907. Folio 44 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; minor rust stains; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 12 of 1907 Second Session; only 900 copies printed. The items under discussion are primarily of a tropical nature: cotton fibres mohair vegetable oils rice rubber coffee beans tobacco leaf dates and fish. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 20633
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HOSSFELD Paul S.
The Aborigines of South Australia. Native Occupation of the Eden Valley and Angaston Districts. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 50 1926
Adelaide: RSSA 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1926. Quarto 11 pages with a map and 3 pages of illustrations. Original quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains MAWSON Sir D. and P. HOSSFELD: Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District 8 pages with 2 full-page illustrations plus 4 plates; CAMPBELL Dr T.D. and Dr A.J. LEWIS: The Aborigines of South Australia - Anthropometric Descriptive and other Observations recorded at Ooldea 9 pages plus 3 pages of plates containing 12 portraits; TINDALE N.B. and C.P. MOUNTFORD: Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie South Australia 4 pages with a map and an illustration plus 5 plates and two short articles by Dr R. Pulleine. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 59770
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FRY HK. H. K.
Aboriginal Social Systems. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 73 Part 2 1950
Adelaide: RSSA 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1950. Quarto 13 pages with diagrams plus 6 folding kinship charts. Original card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains LOVE J.R.P.: Worora Kinships 2 pages plus a folding kinship chart and COOPER H.M.: Stone Implements from a Mangrove Swamp at South Glenelg 3 pages with 11 small illustrations. RSSA paperback
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Land Rights
Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 cover title
Adelaide: Government Printer 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1984. Folio ii 22 pages. Wrappers; a fine copy. 'An Act to provide for the vesting of title to certain lands known as the Maralinga lands in the people who are acknowledged as the traditional owners'. Number 3 of 1984. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 60128
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SOWDEN WJ. W. J.
On Pearl-Fishing in North-West Australia. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 8 1904-06
Adelaide: RGSSA 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1906. Octavo 11 pages. Original wrappers; a couple of tiny chips to the wrappers; an excellent copy. An enquiry on behalf of the South Australian Government. Other articles include EITEL E.J.: Social Life in China 20 pages and the Journal of John Ainsworth HORROCKS fatally wounded in 1846 on an expedition that "would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored by his successors Warburton and Stuart" 12 pages plus 2 plates and a map. RGSSA paperback
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Northern Territory: Transfer to the Commonwealth. Correspondence dated 15 October 1906 to 16 July 1909
Melbourne: Government Printer 1909. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1909. Folio 29 pages. Drop-title stapled as issued wire slightly rusty; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 21 of 1909: only 950 copies printed. Alfred Deakin and Thomas Price South Australian Premier figure prominently in the correspondence; with 12 pages detailing the estimated and actual expenditure and revenue for the period 1907-08. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 28767
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McKINLAY John. ALEXANDER CL. C. L.
John McKinlay Explorer 1819-1872. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 63 1962
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Quarto 22 pages with 2 plates and a map. Original card covers; a fine copy. Another relevant article in this issue is GOSSE Fayette: Sir Thomas Elder GCMG 17 pages. paperback
Bookseller reference : 19675
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BROWN HYL. H. Y.
Notes on the Echunga Goldfield
Adelaide: Government Printer 1885. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1885. Foolscap folio 6 pages plus a large folding chromolithographic map 670 � 475 mm. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where sewn when bound now disbound with minor traces of glue along the slightly curled inside edge; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 of 1885; only 850 copies printed. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 74038
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Northern Territory
Enlarged Plans of Northern Territory Townships . Enlarged Plans of the various Townships . with Memorandum relative to Width of Streets Reserves &c. &c
Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Folio 1 page plus 4 very large folding plans all dated June 1870. Plan 1: Township of Palmerston. Approximately 760x1220mm printed surface. Short repaired tear to a blank portion near the stub very short repaired split to a fold near the title. Plan 2: Township of Southport. 795x500mm sheet size. Short repaired tear to a blank portion near the stub. Plan 3: Virginia. Approximately 570x750mm sheet size. Plan 4: Township of Daly. 820x545mm sheet size. Repaired split to one fold in a blank portion of the map. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 73 of 1870. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 27446
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BELL Clarrie
Eighty Golfing Years. A History of North Adelaide Golf Club
North Adelaide: The Golf Club 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. North Adelaide The Golf Club 1985. Quarto 204 pages with numerous plates. Gilt-decorated papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a 165x215mm black and white photograph of Howard Cocks "the grand old man of North Adelaide Golf Club" page 141. The Golf Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64262
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WARBURTON Elizabeth
For the Love of the Arts. A History of the Arts Council of South Australia
Adelaide: Arts Council of South Australia 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Arts Council of South Australia 1992. Quarto; papered boards; extremities slightly rubbed and bumped; an excellent copy with the slightly bumped dustwrapper. Signed and dated 17.10.92 by the author and with an intriguing presentation inscription dated the same day. Arts Council of South Australia hardcover
Bookseller reference : 74022
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TEICHELMANN misprinted as TIECHELMANN CG. C. G.
Aborigines of South Australia. Illustrative and Explanatory Notes of the Manners Customs Habits and Superstitions of the Natives
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1965. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1965 facsimile edition/ 1841. Octavo ii 13 1 pages although this pagination from the original is slightly reorganized in this early xerographic facsimile. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Peade SA2: only 142 copies a further 213 copies were printed in 1967. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63788
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HEWITT Clement Barnett
Swifter than Eagles
Leabrook: The Author 1987. First Edition. Fine. Leabrook The Author 1987 first edition. Quarto 226 pages with 5 maps and numerous plates. Laminated pictorial boards; a fine copy. Deals with seven months of active service of a Lancaster Bomber crew which flew with Bomber Command 12 and 582 Squadrons in late 1944 and early 1945. The author's cousin was the crew's navigator. The Author hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28409
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Mining
Regulations under Northern Territory Mineral Act 1888. April 17th 1889
Adelaide: H.F. Leader Government Printer 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide H.F. Leader Government Printer 1889. Octavo 14 pages. Titling-wrappers; front cover foxed; vertical crease down the centre of the entire pamphlet; a very good copy. An excellent copy of the 1899 reprint by C.E. Bristow Government Printer is available for $100. H.F. Leader, Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 18255
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FLIERL Joh
1886-1936. Eine kurze Denkschrift. Zum goldenen Jubilaum der Neuendettelsauer Lutherischen Mission bei Finschhafen auf Neu Guinea
Tanunda: The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. Octavo 96 pages with 8 plates. Pictorial wrappers very slightly marked and creased; a few trifling marginal marks to the text; an excellent copy. Commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea. The Author (and printed by Auricht) paperback
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Rabbits
Rabbit Nuisance in New South Wales and Tasmania
Adelaide: Government Printer 1885. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1885. Folio 9 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 103 of 1885; only 570 copies printed. The paper reprints three letters to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1883 as well as an 1884 report from the NSW Government Veterinarian on rabbit and cattle disease in Tasmania. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 56048
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McELROY William D. and Bentley GLASS editors
Copper Metabolism. A Symposium on Animal Plant and Soil Relationships sponsored by the McCollum-Pratt Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Baltimore Johns Hopkins Press 1950. Octavo viii 443 pages with illustrations and plates plus a folding chart. Cloth a little rubbed and bumped; inner hinge a little cracked but firm; a very good copy. Contribution Number 5 of the McCollum-Pratt Institute contains 18 papers including contributions from eminent South Australian scientists Professor H.C. Trumble and Dr Hedley Ralph Marston FRS Chief of the CSIRO Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition. This copy comes from Dr Marston's collection and has his pencilled corrections to five pages of his article or the discussions in which he took part. Johns Hopkins Press hardcover
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Women's Cricket
An original glass plate negative 120x160mm featuring a women's cricket team in Broken Hill around 1909 other captioned negatives in the same collection make this a certainty
The team proper is grouped in two rows: five are seated on chairs behind the other six who are sitting on the ground around standing stumps in front of which the middle pair are holding crossed bats. Eight other women stand at the rear while a gentleman possibly the coach stands respectfully to one side. Did I mention the dog - he's there as well! Although the attire looks formal complete with very decorative headwear comparison with other photographs of women cricketers of the period suggests this could well be the uniform . A modern contact print is offered with the negative. unknown
Bookseller reference : 54260
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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 heavily flecked and a little marked; a very good copy with two manuscript corrections page 4 'Death Curses' now reads 'Death Curves'; page 25 line 4 the first 'natural' now reads 'necessary'. 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'. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10565
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JURY CR. C. R.
Love and the Virgins and Poems
Adelaide: The Wakefield Press 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide The Wakefield Press 1958. Octavo xii 116 3 pages. Quarter cloth and papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper. The title-piece is a revised edition of the work first published in 1929 see the above item. The ninth publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press; not stated but limited to 500 copies. The Wakefield Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24868
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ELLIS Catherine J.
Aboriginal Songs of South Australia. Reprinted from Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies in Musicology Volume 1 1966
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1966. Octavo 54 pages with 2 maps and music examples. Wrappers a little unevenly sunned; an excellent copy. Libraries Board of South Australia paperback
Bookseller reference : 64982
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Northern Territory
Tenders for Survey in Northern Territory . Tenders for Survey of Land in the Northern Territory; together with Report on Same by Surveyor-General
Adelaide: Government Printer 1868. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1868. Foolscap folio 8 pages plus copies of two enclosures with the tender forms: a folding plan showing the proposed system of surveying sections approximately 260 � 315 mm and a large folding colour map 'Sketch Map of the North Territory Country in the vicinity of Adam Bay constructed by J.W.O. Bennett Draughtsman from data and instructions furnished by the Hon. B.T. Finniss L.Col. V.M.F. Govt. Resident Northern Territory. Showing approximately the tracks of the various explorers of the N.T. and the locality of the gold producing district discovered by Mr F.H. Litchfield in September 1865' 515 � 595 mm. Four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; light marginal foxing to the text and folding plan with light waterstains to the leading edge of the last leaf; the folding map is foxed confined mainly to the wide unprinted margins and blank areas of the printed surface and there are light waterstains along portions of the top and leading edges; notwithstanding a very good copy of a very rare item. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 100 of 1868-69. It contains full details of the nine tenders for the survey of 420000 acres of land in the Northern Territory together with a report on them by George Goyder the Surveyor-General. He saw fit to consider seriously only one of the tenders and his concluding remarks suggest the ultimate course of action: 'it only remains to be considered whether an efficient party organized and equipped by the Government and the additional information gained thereby would not be infinitely preferable to the bare local description of the country actually operated on by the contractors'. The very detailed map may be seen as a monument to Bennett who returned with Goyder's party only to meet his death by spearing on 29 May 1869. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 24946
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SYMES Major General GW. G. W.
Exploring in the MacDonnell Ranges 1870-1872. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 61 1960
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Quarto 17 pages with a map plus a plate. Original card covers; a fine copy. Another relevant article in this issue is CROSS J.: Wilton Hack and Japanese Immigration into North Australia 5 pages. paperback
Bookseller reference : 32949
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COCKS C. chairman
Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party Report. June 1978 cover title
Adelaide: Government Printer 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1978. Foolscap folio ii iv 130 pages plus 4 maps. Flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 63881
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BROWN HYL. and R. ETHERIDGE Junior H. Y.
Official Contributions to the Palaeontology of South Australia by R. Etheridge Jun. and Record of Northern Territory Boring Operations by H.Y.L. Brown
Adelaide: Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1907. Folio 22 pages plus 12 pages of plates. Wrappers; a fine copy. A supplement to Parliamentary Paper 55 of 1906 'Northern Territory of South Australia north-western district. Reports geological and general resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905'. Incorporated in this supplement are details of 'the diamond drill boring operations in search of gold reefs at the Union and the Ironstone Blow and in search of coal at Port Keats; bringing the history of the Northern Territory drill operations up to date'. Government Printer paperback
Bookseller reference : 20477
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GOYDER George Woodroofe. WILLIAMS Michael
George Woodroofe Goyder: a Practical Geographer. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 79 1978
First Edition. Paperback. Quarto 22 pages with 3 maps and 3 plates. Original card covers; mint. The story of George Woodroofe Goyder Surveyor-General of South Australia who with a hand-picked party of 150 men in the six months from February 1869 "selected Palmerston as the capital site and . accomplished the survey of 665886 acres". This issue also contains BUTLER Harry: The Canning Stock Route 16 pages with 3 maps and a plate and WHITAKER Chris: Captain Charles Sturt's Cannon 5 pages with a plate. paperback
Bookseller reference : 18181
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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 4 publisher's catalogue pages plus a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding map 147x268mm 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 a little sunned on the spine mottled and lightly marked; extremities very slightly worn with one bottom corner slightly bumped; minor foxing confined mainly to the folding leaf of statistics and adjacent leaves the advertisements and the last few leaves of text; an excellent copy. Robert Tyas hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64089
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WAITE Edgar R.
The Reptiles and Amphibians of South Australia. With an Introduction by Michael J. Tyler and Mark Hutchinson
Richmond: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 1993. Paperback. Fine. Richmond Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 1993 second printing/ 1993 facsimile/ 1929. Octavo xii 270 4 publisher's catalogue pages with 192 plates and illustrations plus a colour plate. Card covers; a fine copy. An improved facsimile reprint 'Issued to Commemorate the Second World Congress of Herpetology Adelaide'. New to this edition are the colour plate and nine pages of text comprising a biographical sketch and a bibliography of Waite 2 pages each and a 5-page list comparing Waite's scientific names and current nomenclature. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles paperback
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Sydney Partrige Press. PARTRIGE Sydney
Life's Wallaby
Norwood: printed and published by Sydney Partrige at the Sydney Partrige Press 1908. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Norwood printed and published by Sydney Partrige at the Sydney Partrige Press 1908. Octavo 108 pages. Colour pictorial wrappers a little rubbed and marked with minor loss at the head and foot of the spine; a very good copy. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone; this copy has the 1908 ownership signature of Doris Egerton Jones Adelaide-born novelist and playwright. printed and published by Sydney Partrige [at the Sydney Partrige Press] paperback
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DAVIDSON Allan A.
Journal of Explorations in Central Australia by The Central Australian Exploration Syndicate . 1898 to 1900
Adelaide: Government Printer 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1905. Foolscap folio 76 pages plus 2 extremely large folding colour maps: 'Map of Explorations in Central Australia . 1898 to 1901' showing the geographical and topographical nature of the relevant regions 575 � 1550 mm with a small section extending beyond the top margin and one giving details of an 11000 square mile block prospected by Davidson in the first two years paper size 622 � 1747 mm. Recent cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; short tear near the stub of one map expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905; one of only 730 copies. McLaren 7723. The Murchison and Davenport Ranges in 1898 and 1899 and from the vicinity of Tennant Creek westward to within 30 miles of the Western Australian border and back by a circuitous route Tanami The Granites in 1900. Davidson explored one of the few regions that remained unknown at the end of the nineteenth century and fellow Australian explorer Charles Winnecke considered that 'Mr Davidson's journey although not quite so extensive should be classed with that of other leading explorers; his work is of double interest also to us by the fact that it gives us a correct knowledge of the topographical as well as geological nature of the country which has not been the case with many other explorers'. The last three pages of this paper reprint a lecture on Davidson's explorations given in 1901 by Winnecke wherein the latter explains how he was responsible for compiling the maps from Davidson's 'bearings and old field notes and plans'. A copy of the recently published Friends of the State Library of South Australia's edition reset in octavo format and bound in cloth with a matching map case is included in the price. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27158
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FLIERL Joh
Christ in New Guinea. Former Cannibals become Evangelists by the Marvellous Grace of God. A Short History of Missionwork done by the Native Helpers and Teachers in the Lutheran Mission New Guinea
Tanunda: Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office 1932. Octavo 208 pages the last 32 pages contain 34 plates and a map. Pictorial wrappers; light crease to the bottom corner of the rear cover; essentially a fine copy. An abridged English version by the author of his 'Wunder der gottlichen Gnade' published the previous year. Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office paperback
Bookseller reference : 52851
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Photography. JERVOIS Sir WF. Drummond and others W. F.
The South Australian Institute . Addresses delivered at the Laying of the Foundation Stone by His Excellency Sir W.F. Drummond Jervois
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1879. Octavo 30 pages plus a frontispiece an original albumen paper photograph 159x85mm of an artist's impression of the proposed building. Original gilt-lettered watered cloth; ink blemish on one page a trifling production flaw; essentially a fine copy. Holden 61; Ferguson 15986 noting only an edition in wrappers without the frontispiece. W.K. Thomas hardcover
Bookseller reference : 29187
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FRY HK. H. K.
Concerning Aboriginal Marriage and Kinship. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 80 1957
Adelaide: RSSA 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1957. Quarto 16 pages plus a folding genealogical chart. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains TINDALE N.B.: A Dated Tartangan Implement Site from Cape Martin South-East of South Australia 15 pages with a map and 8 illustrations. RSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 19583
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JESSUP RW. R. W.
The Geography of North-Western South Australia. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 51 December 1950
Adelaide: RGSSA 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1950. Octavo 8 pages with a map plus 8 plates. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains PRICE A. Grenfell: Presidential Address . 11 pages. RGSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 28734
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MATHER JB. J. B.
The Golden Pellet and other verses
Adelaide: The Advertiser 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Advertiser 1935. Octavo 83 pages. Papered boards very slightly rubbed; top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy. Inscribed signed and dated 1935 by the author. The Advertiser hardcover
Bookseller reference : 56002
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Northern Territory
Quarterly Report on Northern Territory four consecutively issued reports
Adelaide: Government Printer 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide Government Printer 1883 1883 1883 and 1884. Foolscap folio four reports 3 4 2 and 3 pages. Bound together in recent cloth with titling on the front cover; a tiny tear to the top edge throughout with the top margin of the first page slightly discoloured; excellent copies. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 53 53A 54 and 54A of 1883-84; only 670 copies of each of the last three reports were published. Although these reports are numbered consecutively the periods covered are the last quarter of 1882 and the last three quarters of 1883; there is no report for the first quarter of 1883 probably because of the departure of the long-serving Government Resident Edward Price in that period. The usual pastoral mining and agricultural reports are enlivened in the last paper by Acting Government Resident Gilbert McMinn's detailed account of his success in finding Stuart's marked tree at his last camp near the mouth of the Mary River. This discovery removed 'the last shadow of doubt in connection with the great explorer's achievement' brought on by Stuart's mistaken belief that he was following the Adelaide River. Government Printer hardcover
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Australia 1947
An original photograph 140x160mm mounted on a detached autograph album leaf 165x195mm captioned in pencil '1st Test Team for Australia at Brisbane. Dec 1947'. The match was against India on 28-29 November and 1-4 December 1947; it was India's first tour of Australia. The team comprised Bradman Captain Brown Hamence 12th man Hassett Ian Johnson Bill Johnston Lindwall McCool Miller Morris Tallon and Toshack; the Manager is also in the group portrait
'The late withdrawal of key Indian players . greatly weakened its side. The strength of Australian cricket at this time further unbalanced the contest resulting in a 4-0 thrashing in the series' Webster. This is hardly surprising considering that ALL of the Australians in this particular team went on the 1948 Invincibles tour. A newspaper cartoon relating to the match is mounted on the verso of the leaf; apart from a little cockling due to an excess of paste the photograph is in fine condition. unknown
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Victor Harbor
Report on Port Victor Harbor Works. Suggested Improvements
Adelaide: Government Printer 1875. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1875. Folio 4 pages plus a full-page illustration and a large folding chart approximately 340x450mm - a proposed breakwater off Granite Island. Drop-title; four holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound with a later neat white paper-tape spine; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 62 of 1875. The suggested improvements were the construction of a breakwater and a causeway to Granite Island and the extension of the jetty. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 56135
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GILES Ernest
West of the Peake 1882
Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1985. Duodecimo 7-25 pages. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. One of only 210 numbered copies; reprinted from The Adelaide Observer 3 February 1883. 'Mr Ernest Giles the explorer has furnished us with the following notes of his late trip west of the Peake and neighbouring regions which although essentially a private expedition will be seen to present points of general interest'. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
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Northern Territory
Proposed Northern Territory Expenditure 1871. as amended after Receipt of Despatches from the Government Resident
Adelaide: Government Printer 1871. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1871. Foolscap folio 1 page. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 54 of 1871. Primarily an itemized list of salaries in categories of Euopeans Natives and those on the 'Gulnare'. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 58349
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MacDERMOTT Marshall
A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott Esq. J.P. of South Australia
Adelaide: LBSA 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide LBSA 1969 facsimile/ 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Quarter cloth and papered boards; a fine copy. Peade A189: only 513 copies printed. LBSA hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25021
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PARKER FL. and JD. SOMERVILLE compilers and editors F. L. J. D.
Centenary of Edmund Kennedy's Expedition 1848. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 49 1948
Adelaide: RGSSA 1948. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1948. Octavo 12 pages with one illustration. Original wrappers; a fine copy. A detailed report from the Historical Memorials Committee. RGSSA paperback
Bookseller reference : 20305
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WILKINSON George Blakiston
South Australia. Its Advantages and its Resources. Being a Description of that Colony and a Manual of Information for Emigrants
London: John Murray 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1848. Octavo xii 392 4 advertisements pages plus a folding map 215 � 170 mm. Original blind-stamped cloth slightly bumped at the edges and very slightly rubbed at the head and foot of the spine; outer hinge slightly split; an excellent copy and rare thus in our experience as the original cloth is prone to wear. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia and contains from this source detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer on Agriculture Stock Farming Building Gardening Manufacturing in various branches . and Mining and Mineral Productions'. There are chapters on overlanding 31 pages and Aborigines 52 pages. With the pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. John Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10550
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ELLERY T. Geo
Official Illustrated Guide to Adelaide and Environs. Containing Full and Authentic Descriptive Letterpress and Pictorial Information of Value to Visitors and Tourists
Adelaide: Goodwin & Co. for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Goodwin & Co. for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1906. Octavo xvi advertisements 216 pages with numerous illustrations and plates plus a folding map pictorial printed wrappers and advertisements mounted on the pastedowns. Original cloth as well as the original wrappers; cloth a little marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities; wrappers a little discoloured around the edges; some offsetting to the advertisements; pastedown advertisements a little glue-discoloured; essentially an excellent copy. With a presentation inscription from the publisher. Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide) paperback
Bookseller reference : 64216
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