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BLACKET Reverend John
A South Australian Romance. How a Colony was founded and a Methodist Church formed
London: Charles H. Kelly 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. London Charles H. Kelly 1899. Octavo xii 214 2 advertisements pages with vignette illustrations and 14 plates. Original blue cloth with a black floral decoration fairly heavily flecked; small light mark on the rear cover; essentially unread. Inscribed on the pastedown 'To the Hon. J.J. Duncan from the Author. March 20th 1907' with the later ownership signature of J.G. Duncan-Hughes 1927. Charles H. Kelly hardcover
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LENDON AA. A. A.
Dr Richard Penney 1840-1844. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 31 1931
Adelaide: RGSSA 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1931. Octavo 14 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This article deals primarily with the Lower Murray and Milmenrura tribes. 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 TERRY Michael: Two Journeys Westwards from Horseshoe Bend and Oodnadatta 3 pages plus a full-page map. RGSSA paperback
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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 slightly marked rubbed and creased; a very good copy. Text in German. The third of a series of three pamphlets commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea. The Author (and printed by Auricht) paperback
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THOMAS Mary
The Diary and Letters of Mary Thomas 1836-1866. Being a Record of the Early Days of South Australia. Edited by Evan Kyffin Thomas
Adelaide: Thomas 1925. 3rd Edition. New. Adelaide Thomas 1925 revised and enlarged third edition/ 1915. Octavo xiv 191 pages plus 9 plates. An account of the Thomas family's journey to South Australia on the 'Africaine' in 1836 and the fascinating early years of colonization as described in Mary's letters to her brother in England. Her husband Robert was the first newspaper publisher in South Australia and important details of the practical difficulties involved in the printing business are included. Of more immediate and remarkable bibliographic interest is the fact that this is one of 300 unbound copies of the original 1925 edition discovered in the family attic in 1985; the entire cache has now been attractively bound in full reconstituted morocco. It is offered for sale with a fine copy of the first edition of a companion family volume: 'Maisie. Her Life in Her Letters from 1898 to 1902' edited by Joan Kyffin Willington Adelaide Wakefield Press 1992; xii 451 pages with numerous plates in papered boards with the dustwrapper. This 'collectors' duo' comes in a cloth-bound slipcase and each book contains a numbered certificate of authenticity signed by Joan Kyffin Willington Maisie's granddaughter and Mary's great-great-granddaughter. Thomas hardcover
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Sanitation
South Australia. Report of Commission appointed to inquire into the whole question of Sanitation for the Province; together with minutes of evidence and appendix
Adelaide: Government Printer 1876. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1876. Foolscap folio xxviii 138 xxii pages with 2 folding plans. Titling-wrapper; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1876. Detailed answers to 3897 questions; with much on contemporary manufacturing industries in their relation to public health. Government Printer unknown
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MATTHEWS The Very Rev. WR. and The Rev. WM. Atkins editors W. R. W. M.
A History of St Paul's Cathedral and the Men associated with it
London: Phoenix House 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Phoenix House 1957. Octavo; cloth slightly flecked; spine slightly sunned; a very good copy. With a 1960 gift inscription to Thomas Thornton Reed Lord Bishop of Adelaide. Phoenix House hardcover
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LINDSAY David
Mr D. Lindsay's Explorations through Arnheim's sic Land
Adelaide: Government Printer 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1884. Foolscap folio 21 pages plus a large folding map 575 x 855 mm. Recent quarter leather and gilt-lettered cloth; very short tear to the map near the stub expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 239 of 1883-84; one of only 680 copies. Leaving Katherine in late July 1883 Lindsay 'led a Government expedition of six men into Arnhem Land. He followed the overland telegraph . to Roper Creek. He travelled east to the Chambers River and on to the Roper River. He surveyed along the north bank of the Roper to its confluence with Leichhardt's Wilton River and followed the Wilton upstream to the junction with the Mainoru River. Returning to the Roper he went downstream until he reached its tidal flats about twenty miles from Limmen Bight. A broad line of country was then explored to the north and the expedition reached the Gulf of Carpentaria near latitude 14 S opposite Groote Eylandt. A general north-west course was taken and the Goyder River traced to the coast at Castlereagh Bay. Directing the expedition homeward Lindsay crossed the Blyth River above its tidal influence and reached the Mann River a tributary of the Liverpool. Following a south-westerly course now the party reached the banks of the Liverpool River and followed it to its source. Continuing south they came to another stream which Lindsay described as the "supposed Cadell River" but he had come again to the banks of the Mann which was also followed to its source. Crossing the watershed between the northerly and westerly flowing rivers of central Arnhem Land the expedition came to the headwaters of the Katherine River' Feeken Feeken and Spate: 'The Discovery and Exploration of Australia' and thence back to Katherine in early November having covered 1916 miles. 'Rivers and Creeks from my exploration' are overprinted with a wide grey-blue band on this most detailed map. Lindsay notes in his journal that the 'natives are very numerous and inclined to be hostile' and he gives a detailed account of an incident when 'After seeing the coast we started west for the Liverpool lost our horses in the tableland for five days were attacked by natives and were compelled to fire on them in self defence'. McLaren 12615. Government Printer hardcover
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Kangaroo Island. TATE Professor R.
The Botany of Kangaroo Island with Historical Sketch of its Discovery and Settlement and Notes on its Geology. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 6 1883
Adelaide: RSSA 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1980s facsimile reprint/ 1883. Octavo 55 pages plus a folding map. Wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains four other botanical articles by Professor Tate totalling 22 pages. RSSA paperback
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MAWSON Professor Sir Douglas
Some Aspects of Forestry in South Australia
Adelaide: Hassell Press 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hassell Press 1925. Octavo ii 30 pages. Wrappers with full title-page details printed on the front cover sunned around the edges; Royal Society of South Australia stamp on the front cover and title-page; an excellent copy. The 1925 University of Adelaide Commemoration Address. Hassell Press paperback
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LANDSBOROUGH W.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke and Wills
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Wilson and Mackinnon 1862. Octavo iv 128 pages with a frontispiece a lithographed group portrait and a large folding map 'General Map of Australia shewing the routes of most of the the explorers' 577x778mm. Flush-cut quarter cloth and pink papered boards a little rubbed with a few small light stains to the front cover; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers and first and last few leaves a little foxed; ownership signature stamp on the flyleaf; light tidemark to the bottom left-hand margin of the frontispiece; map slightly foxed and expertly repaired where it has split along a few folds with minimal loss in two places where folds intersect; overall a very good copy. The blindstamp 'F.F. Bailliere Publisher Melbourne' is at the foot of the preface leaf see Wantrup page 241 for information regarding publishing details and priority of issues - this minor point is not noted. Not identified as such but from the collection of J.D. Somerville the SA amateur historian with his occasional marginal notes in pencil. Wilson and Mackinnon hardcover
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BIRNEY Earle
Selected Poems 1940-1966
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1966 first edition. Octavo; cloth; a fine copy with the very slightly chipped dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a typed lettercard dated 22 September 1968 warmly inscribed and signed by the author twice; the note thanks John Colmer sometime Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Adelaide and his wife Dorothy for their hospitality during his recent stay in Adelaide. McClelland and Stewart hardcover
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Land Selections in Northern Territory for Sugarcane Cultivation
Adelaide: Government Printer 1881. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1881. Folio 5 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 179 of 1881. Government Printer unknown
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SANDERS Benjamin Stuart
Autumn Leaves and Christmas Joys. Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Short Spicy Poems &c
Adelaide: printed by Sands & McDougall for the Author 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide printed by Sands & McDougall for the Author 1891. Duodecimo 64 pages. Original flush-cut limp cloth; front inner hinge and part of the rear one cracked but firm; an excellent copy. The last page is a list of subscribers 'for five copies and upwards'; there are 24 names. And another thing: clearly 'Spicy' is not now what it used to be . printed by Sands & McDougall [for the Author] hardcover
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LEICHHARDT Ludwig
The Leichhardt Plate. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society South Australian Branch Volume 37 Session 1935-36
Adelaide: RGSSA 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1937. Octavo 32 pages. Early half calf with raised bands and contrasting title-labels without the original wrappers; leather a little rubbed at the extremities and slightly worn at the head of the spine and the joints with a little surface loss to the spine; a very good copy with the cropped ink signature of W. Champion Hackett the South Australian nurseryman at the head of the title page. McLaren 12077. Investigations into a small brass plate branded 'Ludwig Leichhardt 1848' allegedly found attached to the butt of a rifle partially destroyed by fire. Volume 37 is bound together with Volumes 35 and 36 of the Proceedings. They contain numerous articles on the early history of South Australia celebrating its centenary in 1936 as well as CLELAND J. Burton: The Native Central Australian and his Surroundings Volume 35 16 pages. Further details on request. RGSSA paperback
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Police
Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of South Australia appointed to inquire into and report upon the Conduct of the Police Force; together with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix
Adelaide: Government Printer 1856. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1856. Foolscap folio vi 20 xxxiv pages. Disbound four small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound; a few leading edges a little discoloured; a fine copy. SA Parliamentary Paper 171 of 1856; the inquiry stemmed from the demotion from Commissioner to Inspector in November 1853 of Alexander Tolmer 'partly from the disorganization of the police force as a result of his long absences on escort duty and partly from his character' Australian Dictionary of Biography. The replacement Commissioner Major Peter Warburton of exploration fame whose evidence forms the bulk of this report was himself dismissed from the position in 1867. Government Printer unknown
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HOSSFELD Paul S. and Sir Douglas MAWSON
Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 50 1926
Adelaide: RSSA 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1926. Quarto 8 pages with 2 illustrations. Original quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue contains three other contributions by Sir Douglas MAWSON: Additions to the South Australian Mineral Record 6 pages; Varve Shales associated with the Permo-Carboniferous Glacial Strata of South Australia 3 pages and The Wooltana Basic Igneous Belt 9 pages with an illustration and 7 plates. Other interesting articles include HOSSFELD P.S.: The Aborigines of South Australia - Native Occupation of the Eden Valley and Angaston Districts 9 pages with 4 illustrations; CAMPBELL Dr T.D. and Dr A.J. LEWIS: The Aborigines of South Australia - Anthropometric Descriptive and other Observations recorded at Ooldea 9 pages and TINDALE N.B. and C.P. MOUNTFORD: Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie South Australia 4 pages with a map and an illustration. RSSA paperback
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RODDA Percival Charles. HOLT Gavin
Mark of the Paw
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hodder and Stoughton 1933 first edition. Octavo 317 pages. Cloth a little lightly marked; edges very slightly marked; a very good copy. Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick and Ken with love. Perce. Leaden Roding 5th May 1933' from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda to relatives in Adelaide. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller; the author's twelth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym Loder. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
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South Australiana. A Journal for the Publication and Study of South Australian Historical and Literary Manuscripts. Volume 1 Number 1 March 1962 to Volume 24 Number 2 September 1985 all published
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 to 1985. Octavo 48 issues each approximately 60 pages generally with illustrations plus plates; most of the index inserts are present. Wrappers Volumes 1 and 2 and quarter cloth and wrappers; tiny mark to one front cover; a fine set. The contents are as good as the subtitle suggests. Libraries Board of South Australia paperback
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DAY Theodore Ernest
Lecture on Central Australia. Its Undeveloped Interior and its Possibilities. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 23 and 24 combined issue
Adelaide: RGSSA 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1924. Octavo 22 pages plus 4 plates in xvi 48 last blank xx 106 2 last blank pages plus 5 plates and a map Volume 23 and 19 plates and a folding map Volume 24. Later binder's cloth retaining the original wrappers; boards slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer librarian book collector and bibliographer. This combined issue also contains HALLIGAN G.H.: An Expedition to Lake Eyre in South Australia 7 pages plus a map and a plate; DODWELL G.F.: South Australian Solar Eclipse Expedition to Cordillo Downs 1922 13 pages plus 4 plates; WHITE Captain S.A.: The Country traversed by the Scientific Expedition of Professor Sir Edgeworth David to the Finke River Northern Australia 8 pages plus 4 plates; and BUCHANAN Alexander: Diary of a Journey overland from Sydney to Adelaide with Sheep July-December 1839 26 pages plus a plate and a folding map. RGSSA paperback
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Camels
Petition of Camel Troop Carrying Company
Adelaide: Government Printer 1858. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1858. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; an excellent copy. The seventy-seven petitioners were the promoters and subscribers of the Camel Troop Carrying Company 'established in the City of Adelaide to facilitate the organized introduction of camels into South Australia . We are satisfied that the exploration of Australia will only be profitably accomplished by the employment of these animals'. A Government bonus of 20 pounds per head was sought on the proposed first importation of sixty head of the best breeds. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1858. Government Printer unknown
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Northern Territory Correspondence
Adelaide: Government Printer 1865. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1865. Foolscap folio 4 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 79A of 1868. The correspondence ranges in dates from 13 February 1864 to 4 September 1868; it includes good contributions by Francis Cadell a half-page interim report on his expedition and John Robertson business partner of the explorer J.G. Macdonald a half-page detailing their exploits in the Gulf of Carpentaria and outlining their proposal for the Northern Territory survey. McLaren 6907 under Cadell but not under Macdonald. Government Printer] unknown
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Australian Art
The High Light. A Souvenir Volume by the Adelaide Drawing and Sketch Club. Artistic and Literary. Bernard Dubois Honorary Editor
Adelaide: George Robertson 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1910. Quarto 112 pages with 26 plates 2 in colour and a number of text illustrations. Overlapping decorated wrappers slightly chipped and sunned with some very light stains to the spine; a little foxing to the first and last leaves; an excellent copy. Literary contributors include Mary Gilmore Hugh McCrae E.J. Brady and Bernard O'Dowd; artists include D.H. Souter John Shirlow and Oswald Pryor. The editor states that the Club "was formed by a number of students who had studied in the Life Class at the School of Design Adelaide" and that "this volume . is the first of its kind in Australia". With the signature of Will Sowden on the title-page and front cover with the date 12 August 1910. George Robertson paperback
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ANDERSON JB. J. B.
Commemoration of Proceedings in connection with the Eightieth Anniversary of the Lodge of Truth Number 8 SAC. A Short History of the Lodge of Truth .
Adelaide: The Lodge 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Lodge 1935. Octavo 84 pages with 10 plates. Gilt-decorated cloth very lightly marked and rubbed; small library stamp on the preface page; an excellent copy. The Lodge hardcover
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COX A. Bertram
Links with a Past. A History of Golf at Glenelg
Glenelg: Pagel/ Glenelg Golf Club 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Glenelg Pagel/ Glenelg Golf Club 1987. Octavo; synthetic leather; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Pagel/ Glenelg Golf Club hardcover
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HELPMAN Benjamin Francis
The Helpman Journals. Being Extracts and Comments on the Manuscript Journals of Benjamin Francis Helpman of HM Sloop 'Beagle' 1837-38-39-40. Edited by E.M. Christie. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Volume 45 1944
Adelaide: RGSSA 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1944. Octavo 59 pages in vi 129 pages with a map plus 6 plates and a folding map. Original wrappers; a fine copy. Benjamin Francis Helpman 'actively participated in the surveying and exploring of the North-west Coast between Roebuck Bay and the Prince Regent River and later in the discovery and exploration of the Adelaide and Victoria Rivers . accompanying Captain Wickham on the boat trip to the navigable head of the Adelaide River and his Journal contains a very full account of the expedition'. His name has been perpetuated in Helpman Islets Point Helpman and Mount Helpman. This issue also contains previously unpublished material from William Light's diary 8 pages; OLDHAM Wilfrid: How Adelaide was bought and sold 9 pages plus a folding map; and ANGAS Captain J. Keith: An Examination of the Ninety Mile Beach South Australia 17 pages with a map plus 2 plates. RGSSA paperback
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TINDALE NB. N. B.
Notes on the Natives of the Southern Portion of Yorke Peninsula South Australia. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 60 1936
Adelaide: RSSA 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1936. Quarto 16 pages including a 10-page vocabulary. Original quarter cloth and card covers; a fine copy. This issue also contains FENNER F.J.: Anthropometric Observations on South Australian Aborigines of the Diamantina and Cooper Creek Regions 9 pages with a map and an illustration plus 2 pages of plates containing 8 portraits; BLACK J.M.: The Botanical Features between Oodnadatta and Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges with a Locality List of Plants from the North-West of South Australia 13 pages and CAMPBELL Dr T.D.: Anthropology and the Royal Society 6 pages. RSSA paperback
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South Australia in 1842. By one who lived there nearly four years
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1972/ 1971 facsimile edition/ 1843. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. With the armorial and aboriginal bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill. Peade A78: only 577 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
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Electric Lighting. ANDERSON George
Report on Public and other Electric Lighting in Australia Europe and America from personal observations
Adelaide: Adelaide City Council 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Adelaide City Council 1894. Octavo 41 pages plus 5 plates including one double-page folding plate. Wrappers with the title-page details reprinted on the front cover very slightly marked; small sticker neatly removed from the front cover; cancelled library stamp on the verso of the title-page; first and last pages slightly discoloured by the wrappers; an excellent copy. (Adelaide City Council) paperback
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CAMPBELL WS. W. S.
Northern Territory. Reports . regarding the Suitability of Certain Lands for Purposes of Agriculture and for the Establishment of Experimental Farms
Melbourne: Government Printer 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1911. Folio 24 pages plus 3 large folding maps. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued wire slightly rusty; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1911: only 950 copies printed. Government Printer paperback
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PEARCE Andrew
Brown Boys and Boomerangs and other Stories for Boys and Girls of all ages
Adelaide: United Aborigines Mission 1950. Very Good. Adelaide United Aborigines Mission early 1950s. Octavo 32 pages plus 8 plates. Two-colour pictorial covers very lightly marked; an excellent copy. The author Uncle Arthur of 'New Life' was UAM Missionary at Finniss Springs. United Aborigines Mission unknown
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JONES Professor Frederic Wood
The Status of the Dingo. Contained in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Volume 45 1921
Adelaide: RSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1921. Octavo 10 pages. Quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains HOWCHIN Professor Walter: On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Regions of Central Australia 25 pages plus 11 pages of plates and a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of Australia in the making of Stone Implements based on actual observation 2 pages. The implements were found in the vicinity of the Macumba Head Station "about 34 miles to the northward of Oodnadatta" RSSA paperback
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WHITELOCK Derek and Doug LOAN
Festival. The Story of the Adelaide Festival of Arts
Adelaide: The Author 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1980. Quarto; laminated pictorial papered boards very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Professor Colin Horne's presentation copy signed by both authors Adelaide Lord Mayor James Irwin and Festival Director Anthony Steel. The Author hardcover
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Australia 1945 and England 1945
A scorecard 240x125mm for the third of five three-day 'Victory Test' matches played at Lord's 14-17 July 1945. England won the toss and batted first; both England innings the first Australian innings and the fall of the first wicket of her second innings are printed and the details down to the fall of the sixth wicket at 193 are completed in ink. Australia won by 4 wickets reaching 6 for 225 so the card is complete apart from the scores of Cheetham and Miller 71 not out - he was the series' leading batsman with an average of 63.28. The card is slightly worn and has three horizontal creases presumably when folded for posting; in good condition - and uncommon. International cricket started again in England after the Second World War with these 'Victory Test' matches between the Australian Services team under Lindsay Hassett and an England XI under Walter Hammond. 'The matches were played in a most pleasing spirit and watched by large crowds. It was hoped both these face
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Central Australia
Report on the Administration of Central Australia for the year ended the 30th June 1928
Canberra: Government Printer 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Canberra Government Printer 1929. Folio 8 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1929; only 815 copies printed. The Government Resident at the time was J.C. Cawood. The Northern Australia Act of 1926 which resulted in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927 was repealed on 11 June 1930; this is the second of only four Central Australian reports. Government Printer paperback
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Railways
Extension of Transcontinental Railway from Angle Pole to Alice Springs
Adelaide: Government Printer 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1890. Foolscap folio 12 pages plus 3 folding maps 'Proposed Route through the Macdonnell Ranges' 350 x 280 mm '. Angle Pole to near Alice Springs . showing routes examined' 705 x 280 mm and 'Crossing of River Finke near Crown Point' 450 x 520 mm. Recent cloth; drop-title; two short marginal splits along the folds of two maps expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 204 of 1890; only 650 copies printed. Government Printer hardcover
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MEULEMAN Kenneth Douglas Victoria WA and Australia
An autograph letter signed Ken Meuleman to Srikantan Ramamurthy
Folio one page on Meuleman's business letterhead 21 April 1983. Routine content regarding autograph hunting with a couple of interesting observations: "the other photo is of pure gold cuff links personally presented to all players who participated in Sir Donald Bradman's testimonial in 1949". Meuleman an accomplished right-handed batsman born in 1923 played his sole Test in Wellington in 1946; his "Test hopes were frustrated by the heavy run-scoring of Sid Barnes Arthur Morris and to a lesser extent Billy Brown" Pollard. A couple of tiny tears to the bottom edge otherwise in fine unfolded condition. unknown
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TORRENS Robert
Substance of a Speech delivered by Colonel Torrens in the House of Commons 15th February 1827. for the re-appointment of a Select Committee on Emigration from the United Kingdom
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 xerographic facsimile/ 1827 second edition. Octavo vi 36-56 pages. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Peade SA38: one of only 45 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
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RODDA Percival Charles. HOLT Gavin
The Garden of Silent Beasts
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. London Hodder and Stoughton 1931 first edition. Octavo 320 pages. Cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges and a few leading margins slightly marked; endpapers offset; top margin slightly cockled throughout a little more pronounced in the first third of the book; overall still a better-than-good copy. Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick with love Perce. Leaden Roding 15 Jan. 1932' from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda to relatives in Adelaide. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller with a visit to Australia in passing; the author's eighth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym Loder. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
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ELLIS Catherine J.
Aboriginal Songs of South Australia. Reprinted from Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies in Musicology. Volume 1 1966
Adelaide: LBSA 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide LBSA 1966. Small quarto 54 pages with 2 maps. Wrappers; a fine copy. LBSA paperback
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North Australia
Report on the Administration of North Australia for the year ended the 30th June 1929
Canberra: Government Printer 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Canberra Government Printer 1930. Folio 29 pages. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1930; only 850 copies printed. The Government Resident for the period was R.H. Weddell. The Northern Australia Act of 1926 resulting in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927 was repealed on 11 June 1930; this is the third of only four North Australian reports and it has detailed mining health police and other sections. Government Printer paperback
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TILBROOK Ian
Torn Edges
Adelaide: F.W. Preece 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide F.W. Preece 1938. Octavo; staple-bound wrappers unevenly sunned and lightly creased; edges very slightly torn with slight loss; a very good copy. Signed and dated 14 September 1987 by the author on the title page. F.W. Preece paperback
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STREHLOW TGH.. McNALLY Ward T. G.
Aborigines Artefacts and Anguish
Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Lutheran Publishing House 1981. Octavo 208 pages with numerous plates plus endpaper maps. Papered boards with the dustwrapper; a fine copy. A biography. Lutheran Publishing House hardcover
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HOUSTON Carol compiler
A Selected Regional Bibliography of the Aboriginals of South Australia
Adelaide: South Australian Museum 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Museum 1975. Quarto 178 pages versos blank. Flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers lightly creased unevenly sunned and with light surface silverfish-damage; a very good copy. South Australian Museum paperback
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FORSTER Anthony
South Australia. Its Progress and Prosperity
London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. Octavo xii 474 2 16 catalogue pages plus a folding hand-coloured frontispiece map 370x325mm. Original blind-stamped cloth; new endpapers retaining the bookplate of Arthur Kingston Moore; first and last leaves foxed; map slightly foxed with the leading margin slightly chipped and sunned; a very good copy. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' from 1855 to 1864. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
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Simpson Desert Expedition
The complete set of the published Scientific Reports of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition is offered as one lot
The expedition was the culmination of several varying investigations over the previous decade: Madigan's first aerial reconnaissance in 1929 Colson's crossing practically along the 26th parallel in 1936 and a journey by truck around the northern end of the desert in 1937. This pioneering scientific expedition of nine men and seventeen camels left Andado in early June and reached Marree on 8 August after a journey of 800 miles in a little over ten weeks. The Reports are contained in the following volumes of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia: Volume 68 Part 1; Volume 69 Part 1; Volume 70 Parts 1 and 2; and Volume 72 Part 1 1944 to 1948. The series is preceded by MADIGAN C.T.: Introduction Narrative Physiography and Meteorology 22 pages plus 10 plates and a large detailed folding map 535 � 395 mm. 1st Report HICKMAN V.V.: Biology - Scorpions and Spiders 31 pages with 3 illustrations. 2nd CARROLL D.: Geology - Desert Sands 11 pages plus a plate. 3rd KINGHORN J.R.: Biology - Reptiles and Batrachians 7 pages. 4th MUSGRAVE A.: Biology - Hemiptera 2 pages. 5th WHITLEY G.P.: Biology - Fishes 4 pages. 6th MADIGAN C.T.: Geology - the Sand Formations 19 pages with illustrations plus 8 plates. 7th EARDLEY C.M.: Botany. Part I: Catalogue of Plants 30 pages plus 11 plates. Part II: The Phytogeography of some important Sandridge Deserts compared with that of the Simpson Desert 29 pages with a map. 8th CROCKER R.L.: The Soils and Vegetation of the Simpson Desert and its borders 24 pages plus 15 plates and a folding map 300 � 325 mm. Each volume is quarto in original wrappers edges a little discoloured; overall a fine set. 5 items. unknown
Bookseller reference : 29623
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South Australia
The Acts and Ordinances of South Australia . A bound volume containing Numbers 3 8 and 17 of 1844 plus complete years 1845 17 items 1846 17 items 1847 19 items plus title-page and index leaf and 1848 12 items plus title-page and index leaf
First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto each Ordinance separately paginated totalling several hundred pages. Half leather and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and worn at the extremities; some pencilled annotations; internally in excellent condition. Not least Ordinance Number 8 of 1844 with an Amendment Number 5 of 1846: 'To allow the Aboriginal Inhabitants of South Australia and the parts adjacent to give Information and Evidence without the sanction of an Oath'. Other Ordinances of interest include 'To Establish a Savings Bank in South Australia to Provide for the Management thereof and for the Security of Deposits therein' Number 15 of 1847 and its Amendment Number 13 of 1848; 'For the Naturalization of certain Persons Natives of Germany' only Messrs Meyer Klose Teichelmann and Schuermann in 1845; in 1847 the list contained 309 names with addresses and occupations; 'Authorising the making of Railways' Number 7 of 1847 in 68 pages plus business as usual Scab in Sheep Laws of Customs Salary of the Governor Qualifications of Medical Practitioners . hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13685
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Northern Territory Survey. Surveyors' General Description of Soil
Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio 8 pages. Recent cloth with titling on the front cover; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 of 1870 surprisingly the date is not printed on the item but 1870 is correct. The descriptive notes by surveyor George McLachlan for Section 1681 in the Hundred of Ayers are typical: 'Light brown loamy soil generally covered with nodulous ironstone rocky ironstone hills steep and high. Open forest country timbered with stringybark ironbark cotton tree plum tree and grevillia. Large open flats in places with good dark and often black soil to creeks. High coarse grass all over the land'. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58346
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WOOD Rev. JG. J. G.
Natural History
London: George Routledge 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London George Routledge 1877. Octavo; gilt-decorated full prize calf; one corner slightly bumped; corners slightly worn; extremities slightly rubbed; a very good copy. With a Christmas Examination Prize plate from the North Adelaide Grammar School on the front pastedown. George Routledge hardcover
Bookseller reference : 68191
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WOODS JD. J. D.
On the Aborigines of South Australia. Contained in Transactions . of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide South Australia for 1878-9 Volume 2
Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1980s facsimile edition/ 1879. Octavo 8 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains TATE Professor Ralph: The Natural History of the Country around the Head of the Great Australian Bight 35 pages plus a page of illustrations. It contains a three-page history of exploration in the area and there are numerous cross-references to previous explorers plus passing references to the local Aborigines. Royal Society of South Australia paperback
Bookseller reference : 20760
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Mining
Regulations under the Northern Territory Gold Mining Act 1873. July 14th 1891
Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1903. Very Good. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1903. Octavo 4 pages one folded sheet. Titling-cover; outside pages a little marked some contemporary calculations in ink in the margins of the inside pages; a very good copy. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 18254
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