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1864ref. 80178Adelaide: W.C. Rigby and Melbourne Geo. Robertson 1864. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Rigby and Melbourne Geo. Robertson 1864. Octavo xii last one blank 82 2 colophon pages plus 2 lithographs by William Wyatt a double-page plate of 'Method of training the White Mulberry to a standard' and 'The Reeling Machine'. Original yellow card covers with the plain spine expertly renewed; absolutely trifling surface loss to silverfish; essentially a fine copy with the contemporary blind-stamp of Rigby as bookseller on the front flyleaf. Sir Samuel Davenport 1818-1906 was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Other new industries discussed in the book are Verdigris and Flower-Farming. Ferguson 8971 pagination incorrect and the plates are not recorded. W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson paperback
1988ref. 145396Morwell: Alella Books 1988. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Morwell Alella Books 1988 second edition/ 1987. Quarto viii vi 416 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; an excellent copy. A presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author 'Best Wishes Tom Dixon 30/10/90'. The recipient was Dick Kimber Richard Glyn Kimber AM 1939-2024 author anthropologist and historian. Loosely inserted is a short autograph letter signed by Dixon to Kimber with the same date as the inscription relating primarily to the Night Parrot. It closes 'Hope you find the "Wizard" helpful in more ways than one'. Thomas Sidney Dixon 1916-1993 was a Catholic priest and a missionary to the Arrernte people of Central Australia. This is Dixon's detailed account of his role in the case of Rupert Max Stuart an Arrernte man sentenced to death for the 1958 murder of a young white girl. Called to visit Stuart in prison because of his knowledge of Arrernte Dixon quickly realised that Stuart's limited English meant he could not have made the detailed confession presented to the court by police and spearheaded the high-profile campaign to overturn Stuart's conviction. While it was upheld by a Royal Commission public pressure led Premier Thomas Playford to commute the sentence to life imprisonment and the case exposed systemic injustices faced by Aboriginal people in the Australian justice system. 2 items. Alella Books paperback
1920ref. 033216London: Hodder & Stoughton 1920. xix 408pp4 appendices maps charts bw photographs. Or red cloth with gilt rising sun on front. No date- 1920. Very slight fading of spine spine with vertical crease minor foxing. An excellent example of this scarce Australian unit hisotry. The Fifth Division saw action in many battles including Fromelles Somme Polygon Wood Messines-Wytschaete Villers-Bretonneux Western Front and Peronne. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
1983ref. 144244Adelaide: Omnibus Books 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Omnibus Books 1983 first edition. Square quarto 260 × 245 mm 32 pages with numerous superb colour illustrations by Julie Vivas. Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. The front free endpaper is inscribed and signed by the author: 'For Jurgen - the only German possum in my acquaintance! With heaps of Aussie hugs - Mem Foxxx'. Although the print run was 5000 copies first editions of this modern classic in any condition are uncommon; a signed copy in fine condition is a rarity. Omnibus Books hardcover
1982ref. 052407Moulins France: Les Marmousets 1982. HEAVY. 154pp bw ills maps. Full maroon leather with laid on image of Timorese woman in maroon slipcase. As new. Deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies of which this #036. Peron's voyage to Australia at the start of the 19th century. Text in French/en Francais. Deluxe Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. Folio. Les Marmousets Hardcover
1862ref. 141503London: Hall Virtue & Co 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue & Co. 1862. Duodecimo viii 167 1 colophon pages. Blind-stamped dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; top edge uncut and a little dusty; paper a little tanned as usual; trifling signs of age and handling but overall an excellent copy. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men' author's preface although he showed the cut of his nib on the title page: 'Castigat ridendo mores'. Indeed nothing is sacred so it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing a note in the Petherick copy in the National Library of Australia. Hall, Virtue & Co hardcover
1899ref. 137624Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. Octavo 83 1 colophon pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark brown stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; free endpapers heavily offset the pastedowns lightly so; short tear to the inner margin of one leaf expertly sealed; mild signs of age and use but see below; an excellent copy. These memoirs of James Collins Hawker 1821-1901 date back to 1838 when he arrived with Governor George Gawler. They first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours. This is a presentation copy inscribed and signed in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper to 'J. Tomkinson from James Collins Hawker Feby 22. 1900'. The later inkstamp signature of A. Grenfell Price is on the front pastedown his marginal emphases in pencil are on 40 pages and his annotations in pencil appear on four pages. In the most significant annotation Sir Archibald Grenfell Price 1892-1977 geographer historian and educationist has written at the head of page 12 with reference to an underlined section on rammed-earth or 'pise' houses: 'I used this account of pisé houses in Foundation and Settlement 'The Foundation and Settlement of South Australia 1829-1845' published in 1924. Although the information was incorrect I knew it rested on an early authority. AGP'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1924ref. 139348London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1924. Octavo xii 184 pages with an illustration plus 48 pages of plates totalling 90 illustrations from photographs and a folding colour map 325 × 275 mm. Handsomely rebound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in half green morocco and cloth the spine lettered in gilt in compartments; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; spine lightly sunned; cloth a little mottled; minor signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. The 'country the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours east of Lake Eyre . For the last eight or nine years Mr. Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines' haunts . Above all an incalculable debt of gratitude is due to Sir Baldwin Spencer who not once but several times read through and corrected the manuscript' from the preface by George Horne. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1994ref. 133217Broome: Magabala Books 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Broome Magabala Books 1994. Octavo viii 216 pages. Colour-pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; essentially a fine copy. Signed on the half-title by the author using his true name Leon Carmen. Purporting to be the memoir of an Aboriginal woman born in Central Australia and fostered in Adelaide as part of the Stolen Generations 'My Own Sweet Time' received critical acclaim was widely set as a school text and won the Nita May Dobbie Award for a first novel by a woman writer. In 1997 it was revealed to be a hoax written by white male taxi driver Leon Carmen with his friend John Bayley posing as literary agent for the entirely fictitious Wanda. When approached with the manuscript for her second book the small Aboriginal publishing house Magabala Books asked to meet with the author. Conscious of the recent Demidenko affair Carmen and Bayley revealed the hoax the book was quickly withdrawn from sale and the prize money returned. Geoffrey Cains gives a lengthy account of the affair in 'Access Denied. A Bibliography of Suppressed Australian Literature' pages 131-135. Offered together with: 1 'Door to Door' the sequel to Wanda's story and the first novel to be published under Carmen's true name Surry Hills Despot Publishing 1998; a near-fine copy signed. In the introduction Carmen gives his account of the hoax including his conviction that his previous literary efforts had been rejected because he was white and male. 2 'Autographs. Contemporary Australian Autobiography' an anthology featuring an extract from 'My Own Sweet Time' St Lucia University of Queensland Press 1996; a very good copy signed by Carmen. Cain 86. 3 items. Magabala Books paperback
1909ref. 110166Adelaide: Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. Quarto 64 pages with 37 illustrations all but 2 of them from photographs many of which are credited to familiar names: Bastard Foelsche Holtze Scott with 7 by Frank Gillen. The fourth page and the last four pages are advertisements although an illustration of 'Egyptian Cotton' pads out one of them. Salmon-pink wrappers with text and a large map on the front cover and advertisements on t he other three surfaces; spine lightly sunned and cracked with minimal expert conservation; very tiny cut to the bottom margin throughout maximum depth 5 mm; tiny tear to the leading edge of the rear wrapper expertly sealed; an excellent copy almost certainly uncirculated. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The Need for a Direct Transcontinental Railway. Can it be developed without Colored Labor Yes!'. The foreword to this prospectus aimed at the 'miner the agriculturalist and the pastoralist' is by Simpson Newland President of the Australian Railways and Territory League. Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League paperback
1874ref. 80075Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; some discolouration to the front endpapers from a newspaper cutting; essentially a very fine copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed to 'Percival Randolph Stow from his affectionate grandfather' and signed by the author. Stow a son of Judge Randolph Stow was the second husband of Catherine Stow Katie Langloh Parker. Loosely inserted is a 1941 newspaper clipping containing a brief biography of the author an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846; he died in 1877. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
1874ref. 80623Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly marked; front flyleaf removed; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed on the verso of the title page to 'Charlotte de S. Dutton with kind regards' and signed by the author. MacDermott an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846 died in 1877. The provenance is most interesting: Charlotte de S. Dutton was the widow of William Hampden Dutton 1805-1849; her mother's maiden name was Da Silva. In 1849 William's brother Francis Stacker Dutton 1818-1877 married MacDermott's daughter Caroline. The Duttons and their pastoral property Anlaby were household names in South Australia for generations; to put them into context 'While working at Anlaby in 1842 Francis had discovered with Captain Charles Bagot the Kapunda copper mine' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
1976ref. 145410Adelaide: Rigby 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adelaide Rigby 1976. Quarto 628 pages with a frontispiece map 33 numbered line illustrations and 737 numbered 'plates' many from photographs plus 12 colour plates and a very large folding colour plate with an integral black and white key. Papered boards; front top corner lightly bumped; top and bottom edges slightly marked; two items mounted on the front free endpaper see below; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper lightly scored with a short scrape along the front leading edge. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara sic of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara sic of the Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South Central and Western Australia Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40. The following caveat is printed on the verso of the dedication page: 'Where Australian Aborigines are concerned and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; and because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed'. Provenance: Dick Kimber Richard Glyn Kimber AM 1939-2024 author and historian with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2001 for 'services to the community through research projects and the recording of information of national interest in the areas of history anthropology Aboriginal art ecology and land management practices in Central Australia'. Taped to this page is the original slip of mustard-colour paper 100 × 203 mm with the text of the disclaimer printed on it; the clear tape is now discoloured staining a little both the slip and the endpaper. The small three-colour label of 'Marron's Newsagency Alice Springs N.T.' is mounted at the foot of the page; the original retail price of $35 is pencilled in the top corner. Rigby hardcover
1898ref. 136660Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. and London J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne George Robertson & Co. and London J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited 1898. Oblong folio 330 × 450 mm 36 pages plus 15 tipped-in chromolithographs by the author each with a paper guard now with associated offsetting. Dark green pebble-grain cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover all edges gilt; cloth lightly flecked with slight bumps and minimal wear to the extremities; frontispiece mount a little foxed; an excellent copy and probably as nice as they come given the age and large format of the volume. 'Captain Sturt discovered and followed this river down. My friend and I went over the same water after an interval of many years but the greater portion of its scenery remains unchanged the population is so sparse; so in effect this illustrates his exploration. I have confined myself almost entirely to the natural scenery' the preface. George Robertson & Co. and London, J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited hardcover
1934ref. 99357Perth: Govt Printer: Fred Simpson. 1934. 1st ed. royal octavo. pp xviii 489 b/w & colour fold. maps half-bound in kangaroo retaining the original gilt titled silk moire boards professionally repaired new gilt leather spine label ownership in ink of Western Australian historian to ffep. Loosely inserted news-cutting "The Case for the Case" dated 19th September 1934 showing the casket made of local wood which will contain the Secession petition . which will be presented to the King by the Secession delegate". A beautifully bound copy in near fine condition. The 1934 'case for secession' failed and support for the Dominion League in the Western Australian community dwindled. The secession debate was reignited briefly in 1974 by mining magnate Lang Hancock with the formation of the Westralian Secession Movement. The movement was sparked in reaction to the centralist policy of the Whitlam Labor Government. However the movement failed to achieve prominence due to the strong economy at the time and disappeared as quickly as it emerged. Harrop 1st edition. Half leather. Govt Printer: Fred Simpson hardcover
1904ref. 139852Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham 1904. Octavo x 153 pages. Purple cloth embossed with a snakeskin pattern; covers sunned about the spine and slightly worn at the extremities; numerous newspaper clippings mounted and tipped in throughout see below obscuring printed text in places including the title leaf; extensive tanning from the acidic newsprint; hinges cracked but holding; front free endpaper nearly detached; a few institutional stamps the Justices' Association; a decent copy nevertheless. Provenance: with the bookplate and ownership signature of Edward Angas Johnson 1873-1951 sometime City Health Officer of Adelaide who is mentioned in accounts of the controversial autopsies that led to William Ramsay Smith's suspension from his position as City Coroner following charges of mutilating human bodies. In addition to numerous ink annotations Johnson has filled this volume with approximately 40 articles clipped from newspapers some of them lengthy. Most date from the 1920s and they relate to coronial cases involving Dr Smith and to controversy surrounding coronial processes and powers in South Australia. William Ramsay Smith 1859-1937 physician anthropologist coroner plagiarist and trafficker in human remains: 'In August 1903 he was suspended from his coronial duties following charges of misusing human bodies. The government set up another board of inquiry. Smith was cleared and his painstaking research commended; but while remaining coroner and head of the health department he had to relinquish his hospital and other duties because of possible conflict of interests. Perhaps uniquely for Australian coroners Smith made medical statements from the bench which were pedagogical informed incisive and objective. He wrote "A Manual for Coroners" 1904 long regarded as a standard text' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' giving a somewhat sanitised account of his career. Ramsay Smith's 'main interest lay in postmortem research for "medical purposes" and he used his positions to illicitly dissect and remove human remains. Witnesses described how Smith would practise with a .303 rifle on corpses at the mortuary of Adelaide Hospital. Outside it was not unusual to see the head of an Aboriginal in a kerosene tin waiting to be sent to DJ Cunningham professor of anatomy at Edinburgh where Smith donated the majority of remains - including organs skin tongues and male genitalia - over at least a 15-year period' Claire Scobie 'The Observer Magazine' 2009. Hussey & Gillingham hardcover
1912ref. 131253Sydney: The Bookfellow 1912. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney The Bookfellow 1912. Octavo ii 56 2 blank colophon 2 publisher's list verso blank pages with an original autograph poem 'The Singer' initialled by the poet as the frontispiece and 23 original ink drawings by him 7 on five blank pages 4 with lengthy captions. Original half morocco and marbled papered boards retaining the original two-colour pictorial wrappers; all edges uncut; leather lightly worn at the extremities with the headcap missing; papered sides a little rubbed; old ownership details on an early blank; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy internally fine. Number 2 of only 15 copies of this deluxe edition 'marginally illustrated by the author' and signed by him. It was priced at 'half-a-guinea'; the balance of the edition in papered boards printed as per the wrappers in the deluxe edition comprised 'one hundred and eighty-five copies at half-a-crown'. The autograph poem appears to be unpublished. The Bookfellow paperback
ref. 115751George Taplin 1831-1879 missionary and teacher began his work with the Ngarrindjeri in April 1859; the 'site he chose for a settlement on the shores of Lake Alexandrina was a traditional camping ground called Raukkan The Ancient Way known to Europeans as Point McLeay. Keenly interested in Ngarrindjeri culture and society he learned their language used it in preaching and translated and published Bible tracts. He published invaluable anthropological studies which were much superior to contemporary work on South Australian Aboriginals. Despite his sympathy with the people and their traditions Taplin adhered to the contemporary view that Christianity and Europeanization should be adopted and Ngarrindjeri civilization abandoned; as a result he assisted in undermining their government and social structure further weakened traditional discipline and morale within the confederacy and provoked strong opposition from conservative tribal members. But they had been dispossessed and persecuted before his arrival and by helping them become literate and numerate and to acquire trades he enabled them to survive and flourish briefly in European society. Today hundreds of their descendants remain in various districts of Australia; their durability can largely be attributed to Taplin. He was a compassionate Christian and a courageous fighter. Exhausted he died of heart disease at Raukkan on 24 June 1879 survived by his wife and six children. He was buried in the village cemetery' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The photograph 163 × 220 mm shows the newly-installed headstone which was 'Erected By The Aborigines'. It is on the original mount captioned along the bottom margin 'S.W. Sweet Photo. Flinders Street Adelaide'. The acidic mount is discoloured lightly stained and unevenly trimmed; the top right-hand corner is broken away taking with it a small triangular piece of the photograph approximately 10 × 45 mm of the sky; the sepia-toned print is a little speckled confined mainly to the left and right margins but overall it is a very arresting image. The only example recorded in Trove in the State Library of SA appears to be of better quality but it is not for sale and more importantly the photographer is not identified. This significant fact may now be added to the record. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
1992ref. 145261Bellevue Heights: The Author 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bellevue Heights The Author August 1992. Quarto x 92 leaves of processed typescript printed rectos only plus a full page of errata mounted on the front pastedown. Blue binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; a fine copy. The 'Statement of Originality' page iv is signed by Terence Tao. A number of errata have been corrected manually ink over correction fluid presumably by the author. Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS born on 17 July 1975 to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide South Australia 'is an Australian-American mathematician Fields medalist and professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis partial differential equations algebraic combinatorics arithmetic combinatorics geometric combinatorics probability theory compressed sensing and analytic number theory. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014 and is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians' Wikipedia. Terence Tao B.Sc. Hons submitted this thesis for his Degree of Master of Science in August 1992 a month after his seventeenth birthday. The Author hardcover
1878ref. 124103Adelaide: mainly The Philosophical Society of Adelaide called the Royal Society of South Australia from 1880 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide mainly The Philosophical Society of Adelaide called the Royal Society of South Australia from 1880 1878 to 1881. Octavo 12 pamphlets pagination varies; plates appear in some of them. Contemporary binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; in excellent condition. The papers are mainly on insects and native plants but also 'Cliffs and Rocks at Ardrossan' the 'Bay of Biscay' soil of SA and butterflies with two lithographs one with some hand-colouring. Loosely inserted is a related paper translated by him and three leaflets one each on ants bees and insects by him quarto or larger printed rectos only. Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper 1841-1923 arrived in SA in 1847. He trained as a school teacher and 'taught at Two Wells 1869 Monarto 1872-73 Nuriootpa 1873-78 Ardrossan 1878-81 and Clarendon 1881-83. Between 1873 and 1883 he wrote a series of natural history papers about Nuriootpa "Notable Native Plants about Ardrossan"' and numerous others such as those present here. 'In March 1883 Tepper was appointed natural history collector at the South Australian Museum; in 1888 he was promoted to entomologist numismatist and librarian there. Many of his entomological papers were later to appear in the Garden and Field and in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia which society he joined in 1878; he was an honorary fellow from 1912 and was sometime chairman of its field naturalists' section. In 1879 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a life member of the Society of Science Letters and Art London receiving their medal in 1898' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. [mainly] The Philosophical Society of Adelaide (called the Royal Society of South Australia from 1880) hardcover
1882ref. 132972London: Sampson Low . 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low . 1882. Octavo two volumes xii 323 and viii 308 32 advertisements pages plus a frontispiece portrait in the first volume. Light blue cloth printed in red and gold; top and leading edges uncut; cloth very slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly flecked; spines very lightly sunned; inner hinges cracked at the endpapers but firm; an excellent set and notoriously difficult to find in such pleasing condition. Alexander Tolmer 1815-90 was Commissioner of Police in South Australia in 1852-53. He is best remembered for his 'overland gold escort service from Victoria to South Australia designed to reverse the drain of currency from the colony during the gold rush'; however his long absences on escort duty led in part to his being demoted from the job in November 1853. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' goes on to describe his autobiography as 'an engaging and egotistical work in two volumes mainly devoted to his military service in Portugal and with the police'. This set has the ink stamp of 'Harold Woodlands May 19 1942' on the verso of each front free endpaper. 2 items. Sampson Low .. hardcover
ref. 101125A colour linocut on paper image size 151 × 230 mm; paper size 165 × 243 mm with the edition number 85/100 title and artist's signature in ink in the lower margin. The paper is moderately foxed but this is really only noticeable in the narrow margins because of the black olive green and brown colours of the print; in excellent condition unmounted as issued. 'In the late 1930s Warner designed a series of linocuts which were cut by his daughter and printed by his son. These works were signed "The Warners"' from the introduction by Roger Butler National Gallery of Australia to the catalogue of works by Warner published by Josef Lebovic Gallery in 2009. unknown
1848ref. 10550London: 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; front joint 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. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown 1925-2009 solicitor collector and philanthropist with his pencilled ownership initials. 'In 2011 the University of Sydney used his substantial bequest to establish both the Tom Austen Brown Chair in Australian Anthropology the first such chair at an Australian university and the publication series Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology' 'Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation' online. John Murray hardcover
1829ref. 28055London: John Murray 1829. Paperback. Very good condition. Important early report on the Swan River Colony based on Captain Stirling's findings during his 1827 expedition and intended as a guide for prospective emigrants. The 29 page article is titled "Regulations for the Guidance of those who may Propose to embark as settlers for the New Settlement on the Western Coast of New Holland" and includes a one page woodblock map. The map "Sketch of the New Settlement on Swan River" has the text "Fine undulating grass plains thinly wooded" stretching from Mangles Bay to Port Leschenault. The WA coast is shown from above Swan River in the north around Cape Leeuwin and further to the East. Disbound from Vol XXXIX with the title page pp 315-344 with some extraneous pages. John Murray paperback
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