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1910ref. 137365Near Kingston: Unidentified Photographer 1910. Very Good. Near Kingston Unidentified Photographer circa 1910s. A gelatin silver photograph 207 × 307 mm with one short tear to the top edge expertly sealed; in excellent condition. '2343 Near Kingston River Murray' is written in red pencil on the verso. The State Library of South Australia has a poor-quality reproduction of this image in its Kingston-on-Murray Collection B 31442 dated 'Approximately 1870'. This is clearly incorrect as PS 'Marion' wasn't built until 1897. [Unidentified Photographer unknown
1907ref. 126888Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1907. Duodecimo 152 pages with several line illustrations plus 2 pages of plates. Gilt-decorated cloth lightly tidemarked with slight loss to silverfish at the rear; boards slightly bowed; endpapers a little stained; contemporary ownership details of one J.W. Shaw; overall a very good copy. Together with 'Supplement to Rule Book. All Electric Signalling. Rules to be observed by All Persons in the Service of the South Australian Railways'. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1915. Duodecimo 20 pages including the flyleaves with some pages blank with 9 pages of illustrations all with some colour. Plum-coloured cloth flecked and slightly marked; an excellent copy. An official 1915 letter to Shaw regarding a signal examination is loosely inserted. 3 items. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer hardcover
1939ref. 140988Adelaide: Frank Trigg Government Printer 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Frank Trigg Government Printer 1939. Duodecimo 48 pages pages 44-48 numbered but otherwise blank. Flush-cut limp red cloth slightly sunned about the spine with the rear cover very slightly marked; an excellent copy. The word 'SECRET' is printed in the top corner of the front cover. 'This book is published for the use of Special Constables only and is not to be shown to or left about where it may come into the hands of other persons . Upon the holder ceasing to hold office as a Special Constable the book must immediately be returned to the Police Department .' page 3. Trove records only two copies. Frank Trigg, Government Printer hardcover
ref. 75053Offered together with a copy of MARSDEN Susan: Working Lines. A History of Robe Electric Telegraph Station and Post Office 1987; card covers octavo i 34 pages with 20 illustrations. This booklet gives details of the introduction of intercolonial telegraphy. An example of a slightly later version of this form is reproduced on page 13; among other changes it no longer states that 'The Government will not be answerable for errors caused by indistinct writing'. unknown
1949ref. 120110Adelaide: The Shell Company of Australia Limited 1949. Adelaide The Shell Company of Australia Limited 1949. Octavo 6 pages formed from a folded sheet of stiff card. The two outer surfaces a little marked and discoloured; minor tanning internally from an acidic newspaper cutting no longer present; light crease down the centre; a very presentable copy with the front panel printed in blue and gilt. This demonstration occurred more than a decade before television was officially launched in Adelaide on 5 September 1959. The Shell Company of Australia Limited unknown
1939ref. 137293Adelaide: Clarkson Limited 'wholly set up and printed . at The Hassell Press' 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Clarkson Limited 'wholly set up and printed . at The Hassell Press' February 1939. Quarto ii 134 pages with well over 700 illustrations. Pictorial wrappers slightly rubbed; top corner of the entire catalogue lightly bent throughout with dogear creases to a few bottom corners; an excellent copy. Clarkson Limited ('wholly set up and printed ... at The Hassell Press') paperback
1962ref. 73183Adelaide: John McIlwraith S.A. Pty. Ltd 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide John McIlwraith S.A. Pty. Ltd. circa 1962. Quarto 306 pages comprising numerous individual leaflets and pamphlets from various manufacturers and suppliers with many of them illustrated occasionally in colour plus 16 card section dividers with captioned leading edge tabs. Screw-bound colour-pictorial card covers a little rubbed with a few closed tears adjacent to the screw heads; section dividers a little creased or bent; basically in excellent condition with the contents uniformly fine. The sections are: Laboratory Fittings; Tapware; Baths and Basins; Bathroom Fittings; Tile Fittings; Kitchen Sinks; Laundry Troughs; Toilets; H.W. Units & Softeners; Sewer Fittings; Hot Water Fittings; Valves; Stoves and Heating; Hardware; Roofing Materials; and Damp-Courses. John McIlwraith (S.A.) Pty. Ltd paperback
1923ref. 112446Adelaide: Cook's Business Directories SA Company printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited Perth 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Adelaide Cook's Business Directories SA Company printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited Perth 1923. Octavo ii advertisements xl title page indexes additions and alterations x advertisements xxix iii advertisements 344 pages with 9 illustrations from photographs and numerous illustrated advertisements plus advertisements on both sides of the covers the spine and the leading edge. Flush-cut quarter cloth and papered boards; covers cracked in two places but stable and a little worn at the extremities; rear cover a little stained and chipped; signs of age and use; overall a decent copy. Cook's Business Directories (SA) Company (printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited, Perth) hardcover
1954ref. 112451Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. Quarto xx 302 pages with 5 maps illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus a two-colour leaf of advertisements one for Coca-Cola after page 280. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; small light tidemark to the foot of the spine; top corner lightly bumped towards the rear of the book; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1855ref. 109635Adelaide: Hussey Shawyer and Gall Printers 1855. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey Shawyer and Gall Printers 1855. Octavo 14 pages. Title-wrappers; outer pages lightly marked and tanned; light vertical crease and an inoffensive light tidemark to the bottom margin throughout; two Public Library of South Australia blindstamps a small accession stamp with a pencilled date in 1921 and an unobtrusive pencilled annotation to the front cover noting it is a duplicate; a very good copy. Hussey, Shawyer, and Gall, Printers paperback
ref. 55378The signatures are Lloyd Captain Ali Baichan Boyce Fredericks Gibbs Greenidge Holder Holding Julien Kallicharran possibly Murray Richards Rowe and Clive Walcott the Manager. On a conjugate leaf are the signatures of eight members of the Test team for Australia: Gilmour Jenner Lillee Mallett Marsh McCosker Turner and Walker. These were probably collected at the time of the First Test in Brisbane in which case the Australians not to have signed are Ian Chappell Captain Greg Chappell Redpath and Thomson. Leading edges of the leaves slightly silverfish-nibbled; all edges slightly discoloured; two small light marginal spots; in very good condition. unknown
1927ref. 110188Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paris Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils 1927. Duodecimo 80 pages with 16 illustrations. Printed wrappers; minor conservation work to the spine; corners of most leaves lightly bumped; a very good copy. One of the Petite Bibliotheque Agricole series. Written in ink at the head of the front cover is the contemporary ownership signature of John Rothwell Seppelt a fourth-generation member of the famous Seppelt winemaking dynasty. Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils paperback
1819ref. 162103Tokyo.: Tōseisha. Showa 18 1943. Folding colour map of Australia 54.2 x 76.4cm. Some foxing particularly along folds and upper right margins a few repaired tears and small holes at folds.With original sleeve. The 15th map in the Standard Maps of Greater East Asia series of 20 maps. Shows the natural resources such as sheep gold pearl diary regions opals etc. Tasmania appears as an inset in the bottom right corner. Text in Japanese. . Tōseisha. unknown
1890ref. 108120Adelaide: Gresham Studio 1890. Very Good. Adelaide Gresham Studio 1890s. A gelatin silver photograph 135 × 93 mm including a facsimile signature of the subject mounted on textured card with the small inkstamp of 'Gresham Studio Adelaide' on the verso. Mount slightly marked at the foot of the recto; in excellent condition. 'The South Australian Register' 2 November 1891 featured a review of the recently published biography of George Fife Angas by Edwin Hodder London Hodder and Stoughton. It is described as having an 'etched portrait by H. Manesse'. We have identified several variant portraits used as the frontispiece; this unattributed one similar to Manesse's could well be another example. However this cabinet card was clearly produced as a stand-alone portrait. Gresham Studio unknown
1910ref. 104167Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1910. Octavo 20 pages. Pink wrappers with the full title page details reprinted on the front cover; a fine copy. Special Intelligence Bulletin Number 17 issued by the South Australian Intelligence Department. R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer paperback
1990ref. 144316Adelaide: A.B. Caudell Government Printer 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide A.B. Caudell Government Printer 1990 first edition. Quarto 182 pages with maps and numerous illustrations plus colour plates featuring 229 species. Colour-pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and lightly bumped on the rear joint; an excellent copy. One of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks series. The head of the title page of this copy is inscribed 'With compliment sic to dear friend Ralph from Joe Z. Weber AD 1991'. A.B. Caudell, Government Printer paperback
1881ref. 056795Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore 1881. HEAVY. xii 780pp 15pp index. Original brown cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt to front and spine Blair's Cyclopaedia of Australasia. Ex-regional library with less than usual stamps etc label to front free endpaper and another smaller older ownership label on the same page. Front internal hinge racked for about 6cm from bottom title page only partially detached but present. On the pastedowns there are remains of an adhesive lear plastic contact covering which has been removed externally. Presents quite well. Spine somewhat faded. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/None as Issued. 4to. Ex-Library. Fergusson and Moore Hardcover
1988ref. 138745Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities 1988. Folio xii 347 pages with 36 plates and maps and some 300 plates many in colour in the descriptive catalogue. Silver-decorated cloth ruled in blind; covers slightly marked with the front cover very slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. 'Until recently the important geographical and scientific investigations carried out by the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands led by Captain Nicolas Baudin between 1800 and 1804 has received little attention in either France or Australia. In particular the significance of the drawings and the gouache and watercolour paintings executed by two young artists of the expedition Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit has hitherto been known only to a small number of specialists. 'Baudin in Australian Waters' brings these works to the notice of a wider public for the first time in the form of an illustrated descriptive catalogue of these drawings and paintings of Australian subjects .' from the dustwrapper blurb. The illustrations include Petit's sympathetic portraits of the Aboriginal people encountered by the expedition. Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities hardcover
1908ref. BIB224005Gawler SA: The Gawler Insitute. 19081910. Large octavo size 16x25cm approx. Very Good condition. Blue cloth spine over papered boards. Boards are a little age toned and the spine a bit speckled. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Tightly bound. Advertisements to rear. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 427 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The Gawler Insitute hardcover
1936ref. 118163Adelaide: 'Published by the Artist Lionel Coventry 15 Fashoda Street Hyde Park South Australia' 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Published by the Artist Lionel Coventry 15 Fashoda Street Hyde Park South Australia' 1936. Quarto xvi pages plus 106 full-page caricatures rectos only with brief biographical details of each subject on the facing verso. Eight leaves are printed on matte green paper; all others are printed on gloss white paper. Three-colour pictorial cloth a little rubbed scuffed and lightly sunned and bumped; a very good copy internally in fine condition. Number 73 of 120 copies numbered and initialled by the artist. 'Published by the Artist, Lionel Coventry, 15 Fashoda Street, Hyde Park, South Australia' hardcover
ref. 127205Very Good. An original pencil drawing mounted and matted visible image size 178 × 288 mm initialled 'R.E.C.' and captioned in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner. The drawing is slightly foxed with a short closed vertical crack approximately 60 mm barely visible in the sky above the tree; the mat is slightly bumped at one top corner; overall in very good condition. An article in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' on tourism in the 'Picturesque Northern Towns' Monday 16 December 1929 refers to 'Watervale with its fine gums and wealth of undulating vineyards is another of the show places of the locality and the well-known Springvale winery and distillery is situated in this locality'. Robert Emerson Curtis 1898-1996 English-born Australian artist architectural draftsman camouflage officer and official war artist emigrated to Queensland in 1914. In 1922 he 'travelled to the USA with his great friend the pioneer filmmaker Charles Chauvel. There he developed what was to become a lifelong interest in industrial modernism and on returning to Sydney in 1928 he set about documenting the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He painted murals and did industrial illustration in 1932-38 including the series "Australia at Work" which was syndicated in Australian newspapers. During WWII Curtis recorded working life in the Commonwealth Munition factories 1939-41 worked as Camouflage Officer in Australia and with the RAAF in New Guinea 1941-43 until he was finally appointed an official war artist to record the nation's industrial war-time production 1943-45. More than 200 works are in the Australian War Memorial AWM collection' Design & Art Australia Online. unknown
2004ref. 147582Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2004. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2004 first thus/ 1905. Octavo xl 230 pages with a table and 4 illustrations new to this edition plus a folding map and 2 extremely large folding colour maps presented as 5 maps in the separate map case in this edition. Pictorial cloth; a fine set. The original and only other edition was South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905 limited to 730 copies McLaren 7723. This new reset edition is one of the FSLSA's Australian Parliamentary Editions series limited to only 300 copies with the first 99 copies numbered and bound in quarter leather. The lengthy introduction by Valmai Hankel 'reveals for the first time details of his busy and adventurous life and includes the first photographs of him to be published'. 2 items. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1996ref. 024111Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1996. xvi 408pp cold frontis map ills index. Or blue cloth with gilt vignette black leather spine quarter leather. Edition limited to 600 copies of which 99 were numbered and bound in quarter leather- this copy #41 of the deluxe edition of 50 copies. Facsimile of original 1863 edition. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. Friends of the State Library of South Australia Hardcover
1957ref. 138362Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd 1957. Octavo iv 52 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Cloth slightly flecked; endpapers expertly renewed; an excellent copy. A memoir of Sir William Macewen 1848-1924 former Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University by one of his students the well-known 'Doctor among the Aborigines'. The author has inscribed and signed the title page and amended one of his qualifications from FRFPS to FRCS. A short autograph note on his letterhead dated 12 October 1971 is loosely inserted: 'I hope this my first book will give you some pleasure. It was written from my heart'. A wonderful head-and-shoulders portrait photograph 180 × 125 mm of Dr Charles Duguid 1884-1986 is also loosely inserted. Dr Duguid was 87 when he wrote the short letter so he can be forgiven for not remembering that more than half a century earlier he had pseudonymously published 'The Desert Trail. With the Light Horse through Sinai to Palestine. By Scotty's Brother'. The book was written in honour of 'Scotty' his brother William George Duguid an original member of the 8th Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli; he had transferred to the 3rd Light Horse when he was killed in action on 19 April 1917 near Aseifiyeh. The author's foreword recounts in pathetic detail the circumstances of his death. This classic war memoir went through four editions in less than six months. 3 items. Oliver and Boyd hardcover
1906ref. 109139Adelaide: 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 mostly full-page illustrations from photographs plus a folding colour map of Adelaide pictorial printed wrappers and advertisements mounted on the pastedowns. Original full red leather attractively lettered in gilt on the front cover retaining the original printed wrappers; head of the spine neatly restored; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities; many of the illustrations offset; notwithstanding an excellent copy. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature dated 1906. Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide) paperback
