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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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TIETKENS William Henry
The Nullabor Plains and the West Boundary of the Province. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch. Sessions 1886-7 and 1887-8. Volume 2
Adelaide: RGSSA 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1890. Octavo 5 pages plus a very large and detailed folding map of the boundary line between South Australia and Western Australia 845 � 300 mm. Early half calf and cloth; leather rubbed at the extremities and a little worn at the head of the joints and three corners with slight loss to the surface of the spine; endpapers offset and a little discoloured at the corners by the leather; some foxing to the leaves at the front and rear and near the folding maps; the Tietkens map has two very short tears expertly sealed; a very good copy with the pencilled surname 'Cowlishaw' lightly erased from the title page possibly Leslie Cowlishaw 1877-1943 physician medical historian and bibliophile. Unquestionably rare and important with all but one of the numerous articles in this volume relating to North Australia or Australian Aborigines. They are WINNECKE Charles: Physical Features of Central Australia 8 pages; WORSNOP Thomas: The Pre-historic Arts of the Aborigines of Australia 25 pages plus 4 lithographs 7 chromolithographs and a small folding map; KRICHAUFF F.: The Customs Religious Ceremonies etc. of the Aldolinga Tribe of Aborigines in Krichauff Ranges Central Australia 5 pages plus 4 pages of further notes; CARRINGTON Captain: The Rivers of the Northern Territory of South Australia 22 pages plus a large folding map 405 � 515 mm; LINDSAY David: Explorations in the Northern Territory of South Australia 16 pages; SUTTON T.M.: The Adjahdurah Tribe of Aborigines on Yorke's Peninsula 3 pages; and NEWLAND S.: The Parkengees or Aboriginal Tribes of the Darling River 14 pages. The other article is ROBINSON Sir Wm.: The Physical Geography of the South-West of Western Australia 13 pages plus a large folding map 380 � 425 mm. RGSSA hardcover
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GELENCSER Janos
The Continental Flavour. Cover title: Modern Cooking
Adelaide: Rigby. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Rigby No date 1950s. Quarto xvi 185 pages with illustrations plus colour plates. Cloth slightly rubbed; endpapers a little offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and chipped with very slight loss. 'Mr Gelencser comes from a Hungarian family that has been connected for many generations with the preparation and production of Continental foods particularly in Budapest.'. Rigby hardcover
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South Australian Land Company
Proposal to His Majesty's Government for Founding a Colony on the Southern Coast of Australia
Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1964 facsimile edition/ 1831. Octavo xi 40 pages. Light green synthetic cloth lightly marked and slightly split near the head of the gutter of the rear hinge; endpapers offset; a very good copy. Appendix includes a report of a voyage from Sydney to Kangaroo Island and of observations made during a stay of seven months on and near the island by Captain Sutherland. Peade SA10: one of only 134 copies. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
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PEAKE JONES K.
The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition 1891: a Study of Incompatibles. Contained in Proceedings of the RGSSA Volume 85 1985
First Edition. Paperback. Quarto 18 pages with 4 plates and a map. Card covers; mint. This Centenary issue of the Proceedings also contains 'Biographical Notes on Society Worthies of the Past' 26 pages with 9 plates. paperback
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WALKLEY Gavin
Pioneer Planning of British Colonies in Malaya and Australia. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 55 1954-55
Adelaide: RGSSA 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1954. Octavo 8 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains WINTON W.A.: History of the Surveys of the Eastern Boundaries of the Province of South Australia 11 pages with a diagram and STREMPEL A.A.: The First Public Railway in Australia 7 pages. RGSSA paperback
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Railways
Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of South Australia appointed to inquire into the allegations contained in preamble of the Railway Improvements Patent Bill
Adelaide: Government Printer 1856. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1856. Folio 9 pages plus 2 large folding diagrams. Recent quarter cloth and card covers; folding diagrams a little creased; blank section of one fold nibbled with slight paper loss; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 165 of 1856. The Bill establishes and recognises the patentee as the original and true inventor "the invention consists of so constructing a railway as to take advantage of the tensile property of the iron.". Government Printer paperback
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Alice Springs
Plan of Land South-East of Alice Springs Northern Territory proposed to be leased for Pastoral Purposes
Adelaide: Government Printer 1883. Adelaide Government Printer 1883. A folding map 285 x 330 mm with a neatly repaired and insignificant tear to the bottom margin under the title which incidentally says about all that can be said about the content. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 150 of 1883; only 620 copies of the map were published without any accompanying text. Government Printer unknown
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Stores Stock etc. left in Northern Territory
Adelaide: Government Printer 1868. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1868. Folio 1 page. Drop-title; neatly disbound with holes in the left-hand margin where formerly stab-sewn; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1868-69. In short there were no records kept; part of the return relates to McKinlay's expedition. "As permitted the explorer availed himself of the stock and stores at the Settlement in completing his equipment" Government Printer unknown
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RATCLIFFE FN. F. N.
The Flying Fox Pteropus in Australia
Melbourne: Government Printer 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Government Printer 1931. Octavo 81 pages with a map and 4 plates. Original wrappers very slightly rubbed at the extremities and slightly sunned along the spine; signature on the front cover; an excellent copy. Commonwealth of Australia Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Pamphlet Number 53. Government Printer paperback
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TILBROOK Ian
Time-Shadows. Verse by
Adelaide: Jindyworobak 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Jindyworobak 1945. Octavo; wrappers slightly sunned; an excellent copy. Signed and dated 14 September 1957 by the author on the title page. Jindyworobak paperback
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TERRY Michael
Two Journeys Westwards from Horseshoe Bend and Oodnadatta. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 31 1931
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 3 pages plus a full-page map. Original wrappers very slightly marked; a fine copy. This issue also contains a facsimile two-page letter plus a map from John McDouall STUART concerning his 1858 Streaky Bay to Mt Arden expedition and LENDON A.A.: Dr Richard Penney 1840-1844 14 pages primarily on the Lower Murray and Milmenrura tribes. paperback
Bookseller reference : 53874
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BLOOMFIELD Paul
Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Builder of the British Commonwealth
London: Longmans Green 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London Longmans Green 1961. Cloth with the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper; a fine copy. Longmans Green hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61050
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SWANN Bruce
Defence '87 Down Under The America's Cup - Australia 1987
Netley: Samaria 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Netley Samaria 1986. Oblong quarto Approximately 96 pages with numerous black and white and colour illustrations. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Inscribed and signed by James Hardy yachtsman etc etc on the flyleaf and inscribed dated 1986 and signed by the artist on the half-title. Samaria hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25818
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MOUNTFORD Charles P.. KIETHAHN Edward
Igloo Tales
Washington: United States Indian Service 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Washington United States Indian Service April 1944. 185 x 260 mm 122 pages with numerous illustrations by George Aden Ahgupuk plus a pictorial front pastedown and publisher's information printed on the recto of both flyleaves. Cloth very lightly marked; an excellent copy without a dustwrapper presumably one was issued. Limited to 3000 copies; this copy has the 1945 ownership signature of Charles P. Mountford the noted Australian anthropologist. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping recording the 100th birthday of Mountford's wife Betsy in November 1990 she accompanied Mountford on his 1948 Arnhem Land expedition and others. United States Indian Service hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58626
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BROWN HYL. H. Y.
Report of Geological Examination of Country in Neighborhood of Alice Springs
Adelaide: Government Printer 1890. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1890. Folio 8 pages plus a folding map 325x440mm. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where sewn when bound now disbound; bottom portion of the hinge of the outside pair of conjugate leaves expertly repaired where split; top margins a little sunned bottom corners slightly marked; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 189 of 1890; only 650 copies printed. 'The total population of the district generally including the diggers and miners and settlers as far south as Charlotte Waters is computed as not exceeding 200 persons. This estimate of course is exclusive of aborigines'. Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 20535
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