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Secondary Towns Association formed for the purchasing of One or More Special Survey or Surveys of Land in South Australia for Sites for Secondary Towns

1843ref. 133575London: Printed by J.C. Hailes 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Printed by J.C. Hailes 1843. Octavo 30 9 pages plus a folding map 'Plan of part of South Australia 1843' 216 × 171 mm and 2 folding survey plans 'Plan of the Two Special Surveys on the River Light 1843' 341 × 185 mm and 'Plan of the Special Survey on the River Murray 1843' 245 × 193 mm. Original blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt on the front panel with the title later added in white ink along the spine; cloth a little sunned on the spine with light wear to the extremities; endpaper hinges cracked; residual paste along a strip at the top of the front free endpaper; occasional trifling spots of foxing; maps a little offset; nevertheless an excellent copy of an extremely rare publication relating to the early land surveys in South Australia. The first section comprises a 'Statement of the Proceedings of the Directors for the Information of the Proprietors' with the final unpaginated section consisting of a statement of accounts for the surveys of the River Light and the River Murray. This copy has the ownership signature dated 1855 of London corn factor John Burrows and contains noteworthy annotations and additional manuscript material relating to his family's land speculations in South Australia and New Zealand. John has neatly annotated both of the survey plans with details of the selections on the River Light and the River Murray owned by him and his mother Jane. These appear to have been inherited from his father Thomas and subsequently expanded in the 1860s. The rear endpapers contain detailed notes in another hand summarising the family's colonial landholdings and giving details of their agents in Adelaide and Wellington we suggest in the 1870s. A clipping from another document mounted on the rear pastedown gives similar information. Additional material comprises: 1. An autograph letter addressed to John Burrows from his Adelaide agent James Walsh dated 1872 regarding the lease of two blocks in the abortive township of Victoria 85 km north of Adelaide octavo; 2 pages of a bifolium affixed with sealing wax to the verso of the final page. The meagre rents received are demonstrative of Victoria's failure it is located approximately 12 km north of Kapunda and was soon eclipsed by that town after the discovery there of copper ore in 1842. A leaf from a later letter is similarly mounted inside the bifolium. 2. A loosely-inserted autograph letter addressed to Thomas Burrows from his agent Daniel Riddiford in Wellington dated 24 January 1841 regarding his selections in New Zealand quarto 1 page of a bifolium folded to form the cover stamped 'Ship Letter"; complete with the address panel postmark and wax seal. Riddiford was himself a pioneering runholder in Wairarapa and Hutt River. 3. A manuscript document outlining lands on the River Light and River Murray owned by C.J. Heath another absentee landowner and corn factor. We are unsure of the nature of his connection to John Burrows but they shared an Adelaide agent Joel Roberts see 'The South Australian Advertiser' for 27 May 1873. 4. A newspaper clipping with content relevant to the subject of the book with its source the South Australian 'Advertiser' 13 June 1878 written in ink in the margin by James Walsh. Provenance: John Burrows as above; possibly James Walsh see above; later Charles R.J. Glover with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. Charles Richmond John Glover 1870-1936 the first lord mayor of Adelaide public benefactor businessman and book collector; some 2787 lots of his books were sold by auction over five days in late 1970 and we know from long and unhappy experience that he is responsible for the lettering in white ink on the spine. His bookplate is mounted in the bottom left-hand corner of the front pastedown and the top right-hand corner of the plate was not glued down as it partially covers an earlier coat of arms possibly hand-drawn in black ink. It features Britannia extending a hand in greeting to an Indigenous man holding a spear with a rocky cliff and a kangaroo in the background. This image is based on the design of the emblem used on the South Australian flag between 1876 and 1904. Ferguson 3706 citing a lengthy 1934 William Dawson and Sons Limited catalogue record for this particular copy. Printed by J.C. Hailes hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia3000,00 AUD≈ 1882,18 €

[South Australia]. [McLAREN, David]Biblio.com

South Australia in 1842. By One who lived there nearly Four Years. Illustrated by Drawings

1843ref. 80073London: J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. Octavo 32 pages plus a small folding map 205 × 156 mm an engraving of Adelaide and 2 full-page lithographs: 'Farm of J. Barton Hack . Echiunga sic Springs Mount Barker' and two portraits on the one plate of Kertamaroo King John and Mogata his wife. Later half calf and cloth retaining the original pale yellow front wrapper lettered 'South Australia in 1842' and with numerous binder's blanks at the rear to make a more substantial object; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and high spots; wrapper lightly stained and creased with the leading edge neatly reinforced presumably when the binding was done; first and last leaves lightly foxed with the last one lightly marked; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank. Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly the lithographs are by George French Angas from the artwork of others 'a sketch by Col. Gawler' in the first instance and from drawings 'Model'd from life by Mrs Walker - cropped to Walk' in the second. There are some extracts from official reports and various statistics up to August 1842 but the book is comprised predominantly of first-hand accounts often in the form of lengthy quotes from letters from settlers. The passage of time puts things into perspective. There is a PS to Alexander Lorimer's letter: 'I have neglected to mention that vineyards are forming by many of the settlers'. The closely-printed two pages on Aborigines concludes with this paragraph: 'It is hoped that a conviction of the deep responsibility which we have incurred toward the aboriginal inhabitants of that beautiful country of which we have taken possession will render the minuteness of the preceding information not unacceptable'. Ferguson 3721 not mentioning Angas nor identifying the author. Susan Woodburn has recently alerted us to a paragraph in the 'Adelaide Observer' of 1 July 1843: 'The "South Australian News" of January last announces the publication of a pamphlet to be entitled "South Australia in 1842" not by "One who is going" but by "One who lived there four years". We understand it will contain a full true and particular account of the Colony and be embellished with views of Adelaide Mr Hack's Farm and the portraits of two natives King John and his wife. We suspect our friend David McLaren to be the author of the pamphlet'. David McLaren 1785-1850 arrived at Kingscote Kangaroo Island in April 1837 as the second colonial manager of the South Australian Company. He left Adelaide on his return to London in January 1841 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia3000,00 AUD≈ 1882,18 €

[Yardea Station]. [EVANS, WR] W RBiblio.com

A collection of 23 vintage photographs of Yardea Station and environs in the Gawler Ranges South Australia circa 1905

ref. 122043Original gelatin silver prints uniformly 122 × 165 mm but three have been trimmed a little all captioned in ink on the verso four are dated 1905. All prints are unmounted as produced; two have a short tear to one edge one of these and one other have a small piece missing from one or two corners; one is a little creased; two are a little marked; overall the condition is excellent. Yardea Station is a pastoral lease approximately 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide; it was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges in the late 1850s. 'Lying on one of the main east-west corridors through the Ranges Yardea became the main postal depot during the late 1860s. A stone police station was erected in 1873 staffed by two police troopers who had been placed there a year earlier to keep order and to distribute rations to Aboriginal people who were increasingly attracted to Yardea. After the Yardea police were withdrawn in 1885 the building served as a post-office and telegraph station and then as a repeater station when a direct telegraph link to Western Australia was established in 1903. During the 1890s when most of the Gawler Ranges station leases including Yardea were abandoned due to a combination of high government charges drought and uncontrolled dingo numbers the building was still staffed by three telegraph station employees' Philip Jones in 'Naturally Disturbed' 2010 'an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sue Kneebone and Philip Jones. The exhibition engages with the complex history intersecting narratives and unexplained absences that relate to Yardea a pastoral property in the Gawler Ranges in South Australia once managed by Sue Kneebone's great-grandfather'. Elsewhere in her PhD thesis of the same name Sue Kneebone writes: 'In late 1903 at a time of high demand and high prices for sheep Yardea was taken up by James Grey Moseley with his station manager my great-grandfather Arthur Bailey . The Yardea lease . by then included Paney Yartoo and the old Pondana and Cacuppa stations'. A small number of these images have been located in the collection of the State Library of South Australia with some attributed to W.R. Evans who appears to have been on the staff of the Eucla Telegraph Station around this time. One of the present photographs is captioned 'A. Cole Post Master A. Bailey Manager Yardea'. Nearly all of the captions mention Yardea; Pondona Pondana and Paynea Paney are also noted. Pastoral pursuits are well-recorded: these include 'Mowing Crop' 'Hay-Stack' 'Stooking Hay' 'Hay Carting' all dated 1905 'Mustering Cattle' 'Bullock Team' 'Shearing' 'Wool Team' 'Woolly Sheep' and 'Horses'. There is also a fine image of a 'Camel Team en route for W.A. passing through Yardea'. Other scenes are 'Rock Hole Yardea' from above and below 'Dam Yardea Station' 'Stone Dam Paynea sic' and views of the Yardea Gorge Pondona Hills two views both with sheep 'Hills Gawler Ranges' and 'Deep Well Yardea' featuring a horseman and a stone hut. People are visible in seventeen of the photographs and in at least seven instances they are Indigenous men. Offered with a cabinet card photograph 145 × 105 mm mounted on plain card of the fresh grave site at Yardea of Sarah Cole wife of Alfred Cole. A notice of her death appeared in the Adelaide 'Chronicle' on Saturday 26 June 1897: 'COLE. On the 20th June at Yardea telegraph station Sarah Elizabeth Broughton née Garrett the dearly beloved wife of Alfred Cole and second daughter of C.J. and the late William Garrett late of Port Lincoln aged 33 years and 9 months'. She was the mother of six children. The presence of this poignant photograph in the collection suggests to us a Cole family provenance. 24 items. unknown

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia3000,00 AUD≈ 1882,18 €

PORTER, HalBiblio.com

Short Stories

1942ref. 140203Adelaide: The Author 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide The Author 1942. Quarto 63 pages. Saddle-stapled grey card covers lettered in black very slightly creased and marked with one trifling snag at the foot of the spine; edges slightly thumbed; a near-fine copy. Two typographical errors have been corrected in pencil by the author: on the dedication page it is now 'juvenilia' not 'juvenalia' at the end of the first line; and on page 55 'spoilation' is now 'spoliation'. However we note in passing that 'daguerrotype' in the line above got through unnoticed. Number 138 of an undated limited edition with the upper limit not stated numbered and signed by Hal Porter. This is a presentation copy of his first stand-alone work additionally inscribed and signed in ink at the head of the title page 'To dear Lucy Lockett with love and gratitude from Hal. 14 xii 1944'. The recipient Lucy Lockett Ayers 1886-1971 was a granddaughter of Sir Henry Ayers. The revised edition of Porter's biography by Mary Lord 'Hal Porter - Man of Many Parts' 1993 states '"Short Stories" came out late in 1942 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Most if not all were numbered and signed then distributed randomly and recklessly by the author. The volume contained fourteen stories none of which had been published and one of which was the prize-winning "And from Madame's sic"' page 28. The precise details of the publication remain unclear. Lord's checklist indicates that the book was printed by the Adelaide 'Advertiser' and gives a date of '1942' but the very few perfunctory press notices relating to the book appear in April and May 1943 perhaps suggesting a later date of publication. Although copies are undoubtedly now extremely scarce whatever the truth of the matter this presentation inscription demonstrates that Porter still had copies to hand in December 1944. The stories contained in this collection are 'The Room' 'And from Madame's .' 'The Two Bachelors' 'At Aunt Sophia's' 'No-one Knows!' 'Miss Rodda' 'Carnival Piece' 'Cafe Samovar' 'Scene: The Bend of a River' 'Otto Ruff' 'Gone Away' 'The White Rabbit' 'Miss Brockel' and '- And Nothing More'. Loosely inserted is a typescript of a contemporary review of the book 1 page quarto with two of the six paragraphs struck out with pencil. We have been unable to determine whether or not it was published or if Lucy Lockett Ayers is the reviewer. 2 items. The Author paperback

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia3000,00 AUD≈ 1882,18 €

RAFFLES, Sir Thomas StamfordMareMagnum

Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape Illustrations of The History of Java

18304to, 8vo [33.5 x 26.5 & 23 x 14.5 cm]; 3 volumes including plate volume, xlviii, 536; iv, 332, clxxix pp,with large folding map, 92 plates including 10 finely hand-colored aquatints, large folding plan, music notation, other maps, tables, index. original red cloth with title lettering on front cover or spine, plate volume spine worn, mostly lacking, light foxing on some plates, heavier on a few, colored plates clean with tissue guards, text volumes bit faded but near fine, plate volume very good. First printed in 1817 in only 900 copies with only 66 plates, this edition being expanded to 92 plates and map. The plates are reputed to be by William Daniell. The author travelled extensively on the island. Abbey Travel 554; Tooley 391; Hill I, 245. According to Abbey, the atlas of plates was published separately for the second edition which was published in 1830 and printed in only a small number. Bastin p. 5: 'The book was got together with considerable haste and was published in 1817 in two quarto volumes. . .a total of 900 copies were published. Apart from its originality. . .the outstanding feature of the book is its 66 plates, ten or which are coloured aquatints illustrating Javanese life and costume and the Papuan boy who accompanied Raffles to England in 1816'. The plates of this edition include all the plates of the first edition plus additional plates of Javanese antiquities and topography. Prideaux: 'a monumental work. . . still a standard book'. Von Hunersdorff: 'An influential work valued for the author's firsthand observations on the customs and condition of the Javanese under his administration as Governor General during the British occupation of the Dutch East Indies'. The text volumes printed in 1830 have a great deal of data, much in tabular form including statistics, populartion, vocabularies, etc. with much of the author's text describing the people and country in great detail. from natural history and anitiquities to musical instruments, hunting methods, literature, games of skill, language, etc. All of the plates are present according to the plate list.

Horizon Books · Canadá2097,36 €

Smith, [Christina] nee Menzies - AUSTRALIAABAA

The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines .

1880ref. 19039Adelaide: E Spiller 1880. First Edition. Contemporary full green morocco. Very good. 8vo xi 3 3 - 139 1 pp. 6 full page plates in text. Christina Smith nee Menzies 1809-1893 was the first white woman to settle in the district of Rivoli Bay South Australia in 1845. She established a home for Aborigines in Mt Gambier in 1865. She was a teacher and missionary known for her support of Aborigines in particular the Booandik Buandig or Buandik people whose numbers were diminishing due to European aggression disease and land depredation. In 1864 under her married name Mrs Smith she published as a pamphlet Memoir of Wergon an Australian Aborigine of the Reedy Creek tribe South Australia born in 1836; died in 1850. In 1865 she profiled a Booandik woman known as Mingboaram or Caroline in a 31-page pamphlet titled Caroline and her family or The Conversion of Black Bobby. It tells how the woman who is aware she is dying asked Mrs Smith to care for her two young children.At the request of the Booandik people Smith recorded in detail their customs legends and social relationships while her son Duncan compiled a Booandik vocabulary. In 1880 under the pen name Mrs James Smith she wrote The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits Customs Legends and Language. It is an account of their rites of passage songs and language with brief biographies of fourteen christian converts. The Australian Dictionary of Biography describes it as an influential ethnography blending scholarly observation with personal narrative it was a unique window onto an Aboriginal-settler frontier. Smith wrote in the foreword that she lamented the loss of this once large and powerful tribe as a result of cruel practices of the early settlers of the colony and considered it her duty to record Booandik characteristics customs habits language and legends for future historians antiquarians and philologists. Ferguson #15823. E Spiller unknown books

Palinurus Antiquarian Books · Estados Unidos2450,00 US$≈ 2188,87 €

[Gawler]. LOYAU, George EttienneBiblio.com

The Gawler Handbook. A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added Memoirs of McKinlay the Explorer and Dr Nott

1880ref. 104186Adelaide: Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced 1880. Octavo 182 30 advertisements pages plus 6 lithographed plates of farm machinery by James Martin & Co. and 17 albumen paper carte de visite photographs individually mounted on tipped-in captioned leaves. Blind-decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities a little marked and bubbled and lightly sunned on the spine; some mounts lightly creased a production flaw; a few trifling signs of use; a very good copy but internally fine with the photographs in superb condition. Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative although the photographs may vary slightly between copies. The photograph facing page 17 in this copy is of the 'Gawler Institute' showing the Institute building and Town Hall rather than 'Frankel's Hotel' as called for in Holden. These variations notwithstanding two separate editions were produced: one in wrappers with advertisements on the verso of the front cover and on both sides of the rear cover without photographs but with the lithographs not noted by Ferguson; the other in gilt-lettered cloth without the cover advertisements containing 17 mounted photographs plus the lithographs. Both contain 30 pages of advertisements at the rear. Rare in any state and in our view the version on offer is one of the more important and interesting photographically illustrated books produced in Australia. 'The handbook is illustrated with a number of views by Mr J. Taylor the local photographic artist representing the most important edifices and establishments in town' Holden quoting a contemporary review. The frontispiece is a portrait of John McKinlay 1819-1872; there are 14 pages devoted to him he married a Gawler woman in the early 1850s and was based in the town until his death. Justice is not done to the other photographs in describing them prosaically as 'the most important edifices and establishments in town'. Without exception signs of life and day-to-day activities flesh out the images and most of the businesses - butcher shop photographic studio cordial factory furnishing warehouse music emporium - feature well-stocked windows or yards and numerous staff members or customers. Holden reproduces two interesting ones including perhaps the best the butcher shop captioned merely 'Hodgson & Clements' but there are wonderful vignettes in many others. Not least of these are the horse-drawn tram in front of the 'Commercial Bank' and the ornate hearse outside 'F. Fowler's Furnishing Warehouse'. While we are on the subject of death one chapter stands out. Among those to be expected say on 'Horticultural and Agricultural Progress. Gardens around Gawler' or 'The Humbug Society. Flam! Bam! Sham!' or 'The Streets - Number of Businesses - Description of Hotels' there is Chapter XI: 'The Neville and Adamson Tragedy'. Its thirteen pages describe in great detail the events surrounding the double suicide 'and its romantic accomplishment' of Neville and his partner Adamson. 'It is universally believed that Neville was the leading spirit in the suicide and so strong was Adamson's affection love friendship or whatever it may be termed for his companion that he consented to take that final leap in the dark in the wine cellar with him to visit that "bourne whence none return"'. Provenance: J. Cluny Harkness Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s according to Trove with his pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced] hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia3500,00 AUD≈ 2195,87 €

[Northern Territory]Biblio.com

The Northern Territory of South Australia. Accompanied with a Map

1863ref. 80169Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. Octavo 54 pages plus a large folding map and an errata slip tipped in on the contents page; the map 890 × 650 mm is of the Northern Territory itself and shows the 'exploration tracks' of Stuart Sturt A.C. Gregory McKinlay and Leichardt sic. Contemporary full morocco with decorative gilt borders front and rear and the title in gilt on the front cover a most attractive colonial binding; extremities slightly rubbed; leather slightly dusty; the map has tiny holes nibbled by silverfish along the fold of two blank panels and short splits to four intersecting folds insignificant blemishes; a fine copy. 'On 16 July 1863 the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and the relevant Acts and Regulations 20 pages together with lengthy extracts from Earl's 'Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia' printed earlier the same year at the 'Pinang sic Gazette' Press in the Straits Settlement 22 pages. The last section 'Interior of the Country' 12 pages is largely extracted from the journal of Stuart and the report of Waterhouse naturalist to his expedition. Ferguson 13458 the wrappers here are not stiffened and the title page is also printed within a border. Provenance: The Honorable Henry Ayers CMG with his armorial bookplate. Sir Henry Ayers 1821-1897 legislator and businessman was at the time South Australian Chief Secretary under whose command the 'Northern Territory Land Regulations' and 'Appointment of Officers' printed in the book were proclaimed. Ayers has underlined in ink six lines in the Northern Territory Act relating to land orders. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia3500,00 AUD≈ 2195,87 €

[Alaska , Antarctica & Australia]Biblio.com

Admiral M.P. Lazarev. Steel Engraved Portrait. London ca. 1840s.

ref. R60Steel engraving print size 39x345 cm on a large sheet 655x485 cm. “B.R. Davies direxit. J. Thomson sculpt.” underneath the image. With an engraved title in Russian and Lazarev’s coat of arms engraved on the lower margin. Blank margins with minor repaired tears creases on the upper and lower blank margins not affecting the images overall a very good print. Official portrait of Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev 1788-1851 Russian naval officer circumnavigator and the discoverer of Antarctica. The print engraved in England on the special order of the Russian Naval Ministry shows Lazarev in his late years as the Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet since 1832; the Admiral is depicted waist length dressed in uniform with all his regalia and holding a spyglass under his left arm. His name under the portrait is adorned with the coat of arms of Lazarev noble family. ‘‘Lazarev first circumnavigated the globe in 1813-1816 aboard the vessel Suvorov; the expedition began at Kronstadt and reached Alaska. During this voyage Lazarev discovered the Suvorov Atoll. As a commander of the ship Mirny and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen’s deputy on his world cruise in 1819–1821 Bellingshausen commanded Vostok Lazarev took part in the discovery of Antarctica and numerous islands. On January 28 1820 the expedition discovered the Antarctic mainland approaching the Antarctic coast at the coordinates 69°21’28’’S 2°14’50’’W / 69.35778°S 2.24722°W / -69.35778; -2.24722 and seeing ice-fields there. In 1822-1825 Lazarev circumnavigated the globe for the third time on his frigate Kreyser conducting broad research in the fields of meteorology and ethnography’’ Wikipedia. Later Lazarev took part in the Battle of Navarino 1827 part of the Greek War of Independence 1821-32; was in charge of the naval units of the Baltic Fleet 1830 and became the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet the Black Sea ports and military governor of Sevastopol and Nikolayaev since 1833. unknown

Globus Rare Books & Archives · Estados Unidos2500,00 US$≈ 2233,54 €

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