It is a posed outdoor shot of the batsman at the crease; it is inscribed 'Yours Truly . 3.10.96' and signed in ink in the bottom right-hand corner of the image. The surface of the image is slightly scuffed and the mount has a few minor surface chips; overall it is in excellent condition. Henry Donnan made only the one tour and he played in only five Test matches; 'he made 1009 runs but was disappointing in the Tests'. His main claim to fame is that in 'the first of all Sheffield Shield matches in 1892/3 he scored the competition's first century against SA in Adelaide' OCAC. unknown
England won by an innings and 579 runs: Hutton 364 Leyland 187 and Hardstaff 169 contributed to the record total of 7 wickets declared for 903 a figure that is still in the top ten first-class scores of all time; Australia could manage only 201 and 123 as both Bradman and Fingleton were injured during the innings and did not bat. As Frith puts it: 'With England's total around 800 Bradman put himself on to bowl - but soon fell and fractured a shinbone'. Archivally mounted ready for framing with a card signed by Don Bradman displayed in a window in the mount; minimal pale foxing; in excellent condition. unknown
Melbourne: Government Printer 1859. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Government Printer 1859. Folio 21 pages. Titling-wrappers stab-sewn as issued; small blank piece torn from the bottom right-hand corner of the first two leaves; minimal scattered foxing; an excellent copy. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1859. The report contains a detailed list of all species of plants collected although it included only three new genera and seventeen new species: the complete index 'would convey a more comprehensive idea of the vegetation which clothes the barren interior of South Australia' than hitherto available. Government Printer paperback
Adelaide: University of Adelaide 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide University of Adelaide 1956. Octavo xiv 158 pages. Cloth a fine copy with the dustwrapper a little bumped and sunned at the spine. With a signed receipt attached to an original request to the author subsequently inscribed and initialled by her loosely inserted. [University of Adelaide] hardcover
Adelaide: Preece 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Adelaide Preece 1926. Octavo viii 109 pages plus 3 plates. Cloth slightly marked and sunned; top edge a little foxed; one four-page section not completely sewn in; a good copy without the folding map present in some copies. Presumably as issued as this is an author's presentation copy signed on the title-page and inscribed and dated 23 August 1930 on the flyleaf. With much aboriginal and north Australian content. Preece hardcover
Adelaide: Government Printer 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1894. Octavo vi 446 pages. Original wrappers slightly chipped and marked; spine sunned and slightly cracked; name-stamp on the flyleaf; a very good copy. With 28 pages on the Aborigines of South Australia and 32 pages on the Northern Territory. Government Printer paperback
Adelaide: Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. Octavo viii 173 pages. Cloth flecked and a little marked; extremities very slightly rubbed with a small section of the front leading edge slightly worn; first and last pages slightly discoloured by the acidic boards; a very good copy. Webb, Vardon and Pritchard hardcover
Adelaide: RSSA 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1980s facsimile edition/ 1880. Octavo 8 pages. Wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains SMEATON Stirling: Diagnoses of New Species of Plants discovered in South Australia 3 pages; one of the plants is Justicia kempeana found 'Near the MacDonnell Range by Rev. H. Kempe'. Doubtless in both instances this is Pastor Adolf Hermann Kempe one of the pioneering missionaries at Hermannsburg. Two other interesting articles are TEPPER Otto: On the Characteristics and Distribution of the Native and Naturalised Plants about Ardrossan Yorke's Peninsula 21 pages and an uncredited article: Short Directions for Collecting and Preserving 7 pages. RSSA paperback
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. Octavo 15 pages. Titling-wrappers; a fine copy. A separately-paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Session 1894-5. With the pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. W.K. Thomas, Printers paperback
Adelaide: Mount Lofty Golf Club 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Mount Lofty Golf Club 1975. Small quarto; decorated papered boards; an early ownership signature on front flyleaf; a fine copy with the fine plastic dustwrapper with the ownership sticker of the dedicatee on the rear panel. Number 15 of 1000 copies. Signed and dated 1st April 1st 1975 by the author with a remarkable dedication and a relevant black and white snapshot taped to the verso of the half-title and many relevant signatures at rear including two captains of the club. Mount Lofty Golf Club hardcover
Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1843. Octavo ii 30 pages plus a folding map and 2 folding survey plans. Synthetic cloth; endpapers slightly discoloured; a fine copy. Peade SA13: one of only 35 copies. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
Adelaide: Government Printer 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1866. Foolscap folio xxviii 112 xlii pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; last page slightly marked and discoloured with a very small piece missing from the bottom corner; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 17 of 1866. Finniss 1807-1893 became the first Premier of South Australia in 1857; in 1864 he was appointed the first Government Resident in the Northern Territory. 'The hastily organized and poorly planned survey party under his command was instructed to examine the Adelaide River and near-by coast and to select a capital site. Against the advice of his subordinates Finnis chose Adam Bay and began marking out sections on its mosquito-infested mud flats. Bitter dissensions followed with his assistants who complained to Adelaide. Finniss was recalled to face a Royal Commission which condemned him for poor judgment and for spending some 40000 pounds of public funds on a hopeless venture' Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 1. Not least of the charges brought against him was 'That in sending away an armed party for the express purpose of "retaliating" upon the blacks on the 8th day of September 1864 he caused the death of a defenceless prisoner and violated the principles which have hitherto actuated this Government in their treatment of the natives thereby bringing the Colony into disrepute'. A very detailed Royal Commission report laying bare the nuts and bolts of colonization. Government Printer hardcover
Adelaide: RSSA 1899. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1899. Octavo 10 pages plus 2 plates one folding. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains a nine-page address by the President of the Society W.L. CLELAND; he concentrates on the Australian Aborigines with particular reference to the recent publications of Roth Spencer and Gillen. He concludes that the 'Australian is not degenerate but primordial . A consequence of this is that no longer protected by isolation he must shortly entirely disappear from the face of the earth for he is an anachronism and archaic'. RSSA paperback
Adelaide: Government Printer 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1866. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; leading edge slightly chipped; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 79 of 1866. A summary account of activities from 28 December 1865 to 26 August 1866; with numerous references to the McKinlay expedition the 'Beatrice' was its support vessel. Government Printer hardcover
Adelaide: Government Printer 1883. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1883. Folio 4 pages. Drop-title; small holes and trifling tears in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. Official "correspondence with the Imperial Government concerning the title of this colony to the Northern Territory". South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 113 of 1883; only 620 copies printed. Government Printer unknown
Adelaide: RSSA 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1943. Quarto 68 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. An exhaustive survey based in part on material collected on expeditions "to Pandi on the lower Diamantina adjacent to the Queensland border in 1934 and the northern Flinders Ranges in 1937" combined with "much published information . widely scattered in literature. The present paper is an attempt to bring it together under a zoological classification". It is effectively an annotated thematic bibliography of the area the north-eastern corner of South Australia and environs. This issue also contains COOPER H.M.: An Exceptional Australian Axe-head 2 pages with 3 illustrations plus a full-page plate. A 25-page companion article by T.H. JOHNSTON and J.B. CLELAND on the flora of basically the same area was published in Part 1 of this volume. Fine copies are available for $55 each. SPECIAL: the two parts are offered together for $165. RSSA paperback
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printers 1895. Octavo 15 pages with 4 illustrations. Titling-wrappers; a fine copy. W.K. Thomas, Printers paperback
Adelaide: Government Printer 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1958/ 1957. Quarto xvi 277 pages with plates mainly portraits. Synthetic cloth very slightly marked on the rear cover; an excellent copy. Government Printer hardcover
Hawthorndene: Investigator Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hawthorndene Investigator Press 1979. Octavo 88 pages with drawings by Jack Peake and plates some in colour. Decorated cloth; a fine copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Investigator Press hardcover
Adelaide: RSSA 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1918. Octavo pages 152-167. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy. This volume also contains numerous other papers some of them lengthy some of them well-illustrated on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi with 4 colour plates Australian orchids the geology of Ardrossan and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. RSSA paperback
178x115mm 4 pages deckle-edged stiff card: with the Coat of Arms and green and gold corner stripes on the front cover the team portrait photograph printed on the second page traditional Christmas and New Year sentiments on the third page and the tour fixture list on the last page. The covers particularly the front cover are foxed; the centre pages have minor spots of foxing confined mainly to the edges. The third page is inscribed 'To you both and Lin' and signed in ink by Bert Oldfield wicket-keeper on the tour. The centre-spread makes a most attractive display item. unknown
Adelaide: Government Printer 1874. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1874. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; leading edge lightly chipped and sunned with several tiny tears; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 232 of 1874. With all due respect the 231 signatories - all residents of the Northern Territory - have had enough: "That while engaged in a struggle of no ordinary magnitude with the object of forming a colony in and developing the resources of this portion of the Province your petitioners have had and still have to encounter in addition to the natural obstacles arising from climate and remoteness from civilization the still greater obstacle occasioned by the maladministration of the government of this portion of the Province". The details follow. Government Printer unknown
Adelaide: Rigby 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Rigby 1886. Octavo xii 610 pages. Original bright red cloth spine a little sunned and slightly marked; top edge lightly marked; a very good copy. With the large early ownership signature surname only of the well-known South Australian pioneer Sir Simpson Newland on the flyleaf along with details of a later owner. Rigby hardcover
Adelaide: Tyrrell's Limited 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Tyrrell's Limited mid-1920s. Quarto 19 pages with 8 tipped-in plates including a colour frontispiece. Wrappers very slightly marked; an excellent copy. Tyrrell's Limited paperback
Melbourne: Commonwealth Government Printer 1924. Melbourne Commonwealth Government Printer 1924. Foolscap folio 4 pages title-wrappers plus 3 pages of text; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 133 of 1923-24; only 960 copies printed. The journey of the famous Arctic explorer 'as the guest of the Commonwealth Government was by train from Adelaide to Oodnadatta and by motor car from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs and back' with side trips to north of the MacDonnell Ranges and west of Hermannsburg Mission. Among other things he stressed the development of motor transport. Commonwealth Government Printer unknown
Tanunda: Auricht 1935. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda Auricht 1935 second edition. Octavo 35 pages with numerous illustrations by the author and plates. Pictorial wrappers slightly silverfish-nibbled along a small section of the the spine and on the surface of the front panel; a very good copy. The text is in a German dialect 'Barossa Deutsch'; it is an account of a trip to Hermannsburg mission written in the form of a letter from 'August von der Flatt' the author's alter ego to his ficticious friend Fritz in the Barossa Valley. Auricht paperback
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 10 pages with a map plus 4 small plates; two errata leaves versos blank are loosely inserted. Original card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains BOEREE R.M.: Past and Present of Rural Eyre Peninsula 16 pages with 4 maps; FINNIS H.J.: Village Settlements on the River Murray 20 pages; NEWLAND B.C.: The Mountain that moved 18 pages with an illustration and a map and THOMSON Keith W.: Urban Settlement and the Wheat Frontier in the Flinders Ranges South Australia 13 pages with 3 diagrams and a map plus 2 pages of plates. paperback
London: Sampson Low Marston 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Sampson Low Marston 1934 - second impression the first impression of 6000 copies having sold out in less than a month. Octavo xviii 269 pages with 70 illustrations plus a frontispiece plate. Cloth a little marked and flecked with the bottom portion of the spine sunned; ownership details; a very good copy with the dustwrapper chipped and torn with some loss notably the bottom third of the spine and indifferently repaired with clear tape now staining the paper. Translated from the French by the Air League of the British Empire. One of the Aviation for the Amateur series - how to built the original ultra-light. Offered together with a leaflet commemorating 'The First Officially Observed Flight of a Flying Flea in Australia. Constructed by the Litchfield Enginering Co. Limited from the design of the Frenchman M. Henri Mignet and test flown by Pilot W. Scott Maddocks at Parafield Aerodrome on July 16th. 1936' 255 x 180 mm 4 pages with an illustration of the aircraft on the front page. Apart from giving the dimensions the engine and its performance capabilities at the foot of the front page the Flea is not mentioned again - the rest of the leaflet extolls the virtues of Litchfield's Hardened & Tempered Cylinder Liners complete with illustrations of three of them. Parnell and Boughton in their superb book 'Flypast. A Record of Aviation in Australia' devote half a page to 'homebuilts of the Flying Flea type' see the entry for 30 January 1936; it is not exactly a good advertisement for the object. The section of the article devoted to this machine is perhaps the most encouraging so we quote it in full: '26 sic Jul 1936 a Flying Flea was successfully flown at Parafield SA by W.S. Maddocks; built by Keith Litchfield and assistants the first two flights were hops across the airfield; the third was a wide circuit but it had engine trouble and force-landed about a mile away'. John Winchester's book 'The World's Worst Aircraft' 2005 pulls fewer punches about the 'Sky Louse . A series of fatal crashes in 1936 finally warranted a wind-tunnel investigation of the Flea proving that if the nose was lowered below 15 degrees there was insufficient pitching moment to raise the nose and a crash was inevitable. The Flea was banned in 1939'. Sampson Low, Marston hardcover
Adelaide: Government Printer 1869. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1869. Folio 44 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; tiny stain to the leading edge of a few leaves; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 148 of 1869-70. Francis Dutton the Agent-General for South Australia in London certainly earned his salary that year; if nothing else the correspondence is VERY detailed. Government Printer unknown
Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio 1 page. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; light foxing; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1870. Government Printer unknown
Melbourne: Herald Press 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Herald Press 1933. Octavo ii 348 pages with a few advertising plates. Cloth rubbed at the extremities; endpapers offset; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed chipped and torn with minor loss. Herald Press hardcover
Gloucester: British Publishing Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gloucester British Publishing Company 1946. Octavo; papered boards; spine a little sunned; endpapers offset; an excellent copy. South Australia pages 30-39. British Publishing Company hardcover
Adelaide: Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1907. Foolscap folio 24 pages plus 4 folding colour maps 515 x 445 mm 390 x 330 mm 270 x 335 mm and 270 x 335 mm. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; first leaf very slightly chipped with the loss of a tiny piece from the bottom right-hand corner and an even tinier piece from the corner of the second leaf; an excellent copy. Northern Territory of South Australia Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1907; one of only 600 copies. A very detailed account of the expedition from the Petermann and Treuer Ranges to Tanami by camel from September 1905 to September 1906; F.R. George died of illness on the expedition. McLaren 8950 and 13940. Government Printer paperback
London: Epworth Press 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Epworth Press 1935. Octavo 254 pages plus a frontispiece. Cloth; an excellent copy. A novel set in contemporary South Australia. Epworth Press hardcover
Adelaide: Wigg 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Wigg 1888. Octavo xx 224 xvi advertisements pages plus 15 lithographs 5 ensigns 3 maps 6 views by members of the author's family and a frontispiece by 'the well-known artist Mr Leonard'. Original gilt-decorated dark blue cloth lightly marked and very slightly rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy. Sir William Henry Bundey 1838-1909 for ten years Commodore of the South Australian Yacht Club was a South Australian MP Attorney-General 1878-81 and later a Supreme Court judge. An uncommon book on an uncommon Australian topic. Wigg hardcover
Adelaide: Government Printer 1879. Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1879. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; left and right margins are chipped with a few short tears to the leading edge; a good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 128 of 1879. The proposal came from an Englishman W.J. Browne and full details of his scheme are included not less than 500 natives of Great Britain predominantly 'capitalist-bachelors' . and so on; tacit Ministerial approval is given after stressing that the country 'would require experience of a very different kind to that of young English farmers' and sounding similar sorts of warnings. Government Printer unknown
North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. As New. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893 2002 first thus and 2003 first thus. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 huge maps each 770 x 1450 mm in a separate cloth-covered case the journal; oblong quarto xii pages plus 107 plates printed rectos only the photograph album; and octavo vi 133 pages the confidential report. Cloth; a mint set. Each of the three parts is limited to 400 numbered copies; the three were published at different times and the volumes offered here do not carry the same edition number. The two maps accompanying the journal are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. Corkwood Press hardcover
Melbourne: Government Printer 1916. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1916. Folio 60 pages. Title-wrappers; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 321 of 1914-15-16: only 755 copies printed. A series of spurious charges brought by a disgruntled employee with detailed rebuttals; the Royal Commissioner was J.G. Eagleson. Government Printer paperback
Adelaide: J. Williams 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams 1878. Octavo xvi 458 vi 72 advertisements pages plus a large folding map 385x530mm. Cloth slightly rubbed at the extremities and a little marked; small indentation to the top and bottom edges of the front cover; trifling silverfish damage to the bottom edge of the title-page; archival tape repair to a short tear near the stub of the map; inner hinges slightly cracked but firm; first few leaves the map and the edges a little foxed and the edges slightly marked; a very good copy. J. Williams hardcover
Adelaide: Aborigines' Friends' Association 1930. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Aborigines' Friends' Association late 1930s reprinted from the AFA Report. Octavo 16 pages with 21 plates plus text printed inside both covers. Pictorial wrappers bright orange textured paper; archives library stamp on the front cover and the title-page; an excellent copy. The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives who have come under mission influence' and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads for His Race'. Printed inside the front cover is 'Our Duty to the Aborigines' by Reverend J.H. Sexton and inside the rear cover are selections from AFA literature. Aborigines' Friends' Association paperback
Adelaide: Government Printer 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1886. Octavo ii 118 pages. Original orange cloth with black lettering and decorative border; endpapers discoloured by the acidic boards; covers slightly bumped rubbed and marked; a very good copy. Prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886; with an attractive lithographed title-page signed 'Leo'. With an eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory plus extra material in the appendix. Government Printer hardcover
Melbourne: Information Australia 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Melbourne Information Australia 1991. Octavo viii 1267 pages. Papered boards with the dustwrapper; a fine copy. Information Australia hardcover
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 135 pages plus 40 plates 5 pages of scientific drawings and 2 maps. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy. The expedition was under the leadership of R. Lockhart Jack; his concerns were primarily geological. White accompanied him in an unofficial capacity and the 'present notes deal mainly with the zoological and botanical objects noticed during the trip'. The party travelled by camel from Oodnadatta to the Everard and Musgrave Ranges from mid-June to the end of August 1914 during a period of prolonged drought. Approximately 29 pages and all of the plates are devoted to the narrative and the local Aborigines who appear in 16 of the plates. This is followed by scientific reports mainly on mammals birds spiders insects and botany. This issue also contains a major contribution by Bronislaw Malinowski: The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea 213 pages plus 17 plates. McLaren 16784. A popular account was published in book form in 1916 as 'In the Far North-West. An Expedition to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges'. paperback
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 one mounted albumen paper photograph. Plum-coloured stippled cloth a little marked and slightly rubbed at the corners; spine sunned; amateurish repair to a small hole in the flyleaf where an old price has been erased; relevant newspaper cutting tipped onto the front flyleaf; slight abrasion to the top corner of the title-page; a very good copy. The lithographs are a frontispiece view after Skipper and fifteen full-page portraits; the photograph is of Loyau facing right 98x58mm by George and Walton. Yet another variant we have identified at least half a dozen; Holden 71. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision') hardcover
Adelaide: United Aborigines Mission 1950. Very Good. Adelaide United Aborigines Mission early 1950s. Octavo 36 pages with illustrations. Two-colour pictorial covers; an excellent copy. The author Uncle Arthur of 'New Life' was UAM Missionary at Finniss Springs. United Aborigines Mission unknown
Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co. 'The Advertiser' Office 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide J.L. Bonython & Co. 'The Advertiser' Office 1894. Octavo iv 147 pages. Original wrappers acidic and brittle slightly marked and a little chipped and cracked with a little loss lacking most of the spine three corners and small pieces near the hinges; title-page and the last page discoloured; a very good copy. The author was 'Professor of Laws at the University of Adelaide'; perhaps not surprisingly this copy has the small circular rubber-stamp of then-Chief Justice Sir Samuel Way on the front cover and the title-page. J.L. Bonython & Co., 'The Advertiser' Office paperback
Adelaide: Government Printer 1884. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1884. Folio 3; 11 and 15 pages plus 3 maps with the second paper: a 2-page folding sketch-map of the Adelaide River a sketch-map of the Daly River and a 'Rough sketch of about 40 miles of the McArthur River showing farthest point reached by Captn Carrington of Govt SS Palmerston' 430x520mm. Drop-title in each instance; small holes in the inner margins where sewn when bound now disbound as one item; minor marginal repairs to two leaves in each of the first and third reports; repairs to a tear affecting the text of two other leaves of the first paper; short repaired marginal tears to the large map with two other unrepaired 140mm clean splits along the map folds - only one affects the printed surface; overall in very good condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 53 53A and 53B of 1884 with print runs of 760 860 and 650 copies respectively. The standard formula of reports on mining agriculture the Botanic Gardens and pastoral occupation plus a two-page report by Captain Carrington on his search for the McArthur River in Number 53 and a two-page report on 'Outrages by Aboriginals' in Number 53B the murder of Houschildt Noltenius Landers and Schollert. Government Printer unknown
Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio three papers 5 7 and 1 pages. Each item is drop-title with four small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; the bottom edge of each leaf of the first item is slightly nibbled; overall in very good condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 29 30 and 30A of 1870. Government Printer unknown
Port Augusta: D. Drysdale Printer 'Dispatch' Office 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Port Augusta D. Drysdale Printer 'Dispatch' Office 1889. Small octavo 16 pages including the wrappers last page blank. Original decorated titling-wrappers stapled into later plain card covers with hand-lettering; library stamp on the verso of the front cover; two-digit number in ink on the front cover; an excellent copy. Ferguson 14261 listing only one copy held by the State Library of South Australia. In the final paragraph of the pamphlet readers are asked to note a proposed railway link "as may be seen in the attached plan"; neither this copy nor Ferguson throws any light on the matter. D. Drysdale, Printer, 'Dispatch' Office paperback
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