DUPERREY (Louis-Isidore).Livre Rare Book
1827ref. LBW-4433[1827]. 756 x 501 mm.
ref. 127784First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong small folio 215 × 345 mm a bespoke shooters' register with each page ruled in blue with red columns headed 'Date' 'Place' 'No. of Guns' 'Names of Guns' 'Ducks' 'Swans' 'Plover' 'Stilts' 'Turkeys' 'Quail' 'Sand Piper' 'Hares' 'Rabbits' 'Snipe' blank 'Total' and 'Remarks'. The label of the manufacturer J.H. Sherring & Co. Adelaide is mounted on the front pastedown. On an early blank the following warning is written in ink: 'No shooter to have a drink after dinner until this book is entered up for the day. 9.11.97'. Full calf lettered in gilt on the front cover 'Game Book Buckland Park'; leather slightly marked and a little scuffed; in excellent condition. The gelatin silver portrait photograph 197 × 143 mm is on the original thick card mount 295 × 245 mm with the caption 'George V at Buckland Park' and the name of the photographer J. Gazard in white ink at the foot of the mount. Minor surface damage and creasing to the right-hand side of the mount; the photograph is in excellent condition. The Duke is pictured with Lord Richard Nevill private secretary to the Governor of South Australia. Buckland Park is a pastoral property near Port Gawler South Australia. George Frederick Ernest Albert The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V 1865-1936 was the second eldest son of King Edward VII who ascended the throne on Queen Victoria's death in January 1901. With the first Parliament of Australia set to open in early May the mourning King sent George now next in line to the throne to Australia as his representative. The Duke and his Duchess Mary 1867-1953 left England on 15 March aboard an Orient steamship specially chartered for the voyage. Two days after arriving in Melbourne on 9 May the royal couple drove through streets lined with cheering crowds to the Exhibition Building where the Duke declared the Parliament open before thousands of guests. 'The Duke and Duchess were kept busy with a program ranging from dinner and a University Commencement to the presentation of prizes to public schools. They also managed to visit briefly country Victoria. Nevertheless during their 10-day visit they still managed to fit in a day's shooting. The tour also included visits to other states New Zealand South Africa and Canada' Museums Victoria website. The official party made a short visit to South Australia 10-15 July not least to take up an invitation for another day's shooting . Alice Foster tells the story in the 'Salisbury and District Local History Newsletter' December 2019: 'Mr Leonard Browne the owner of Buckland Park and at the time in England invited the Royal party to a shooting excursion to his property. The Royal party consisted of HRH The Duke of Cornwall Prince Alexander of Teck Lord Wenlock Sir Charles Cust The Hon. Derek-Keppel Commodore Winsloe and Commander Faussett. On 3rd July 1901 a special meeting was held in the Salisbury Institute to make arrangements for welcoming their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall who were to make a short stay on their journey to Buckland Park on Friday 12th July. There was a large attendance and Mr J.P. Swann was elected chairman on the motion of Dr E. Brookes seconded by the Rev. S. Moncrieff. It was decided to form a committee who were empowered to make the necessary arrangements. As Salisbury was the only town in South Australia to be visited by the Royal party there was great enthusiasm from the residents with suggestions for decorating the railway station. An orange arch consisting of branches blossoms and fruit would be formed and extended from the station gate to the spot where his Royal Highness's carriage would stand. The scholars of Salisbury and neighbouring schools would constitute a guard of honour to the Duke. The Royal train left North Terrace station a few minutes after 9 am driven by Mr Thomas Youll and sped swiftly on its way reaching Salisbury at 9.25 am. A crowd of townsfolk had assembled and church choirs and state school children united in singing the national anthem. The Hon. J. Stirling MLC drove His Royal Highness from Salisbury to Buckland Park arriving at 11 am. A good morning's sport was obtained in the swamps near the sea and luncheon was prepared in two marquees. A facsimile of the pigeongram sent by His Royal Highness follows: "We only got about 325 this should read 35 ducks this morning hope to get some peacocks this afternoon. G." . The special train left Salisbury at 6.08 pm and arrived in Adelaide at 6.20 pm' with all on board tired but happy. The game book saw little use with only the first three pages filled in. The first entry is dated 29 January 1898 and there are 20 separate entries in that year. There are ten parties in 1901 one in 1902 two in 1907 and the final one in 1936. However 1901 is the stellar year with numerous old South Australian names manning the guns: these include Baker Belt Hawker Jacob Matheson Phillipson Rounsevell and Stow. The names of the Duke's party are listed in a scribe's hand; only 40 peafowl were added to the aforementioned ducks and the remarks column has nothing remarkable to say 'One hour at ducks in morning only'. A fortnight later Messrs Hawker Phillipson Belt Belt Stow and Matheson had better luck bagging 41 ducks 2 stilts 1 avocet 1 sandpiper and 2 rabbits and reporting it was 'Cold & wet. Birds fairly plentiful but wary of new hides. Meat pies good'. 2 items. hardcover
2012ref. 133506Cheltenham: The Author 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cheltenham The Author 2012. Quarto 242 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs many in colour. Pictorial papered boards; covers a little scuffed; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper 'For Airlie & Barry with appreciation and every good wish Ralph Holden 1.9.15'. The Author hardcover
ref. 244240Londres, chez l'auteur [Holborn press], in-4, xii pp., 88 pp., broché.
First edition, 4to, xii, 88pp., one of 525 copies, orig. printed wrappers.
First edition, 4to, xii, 88pp., one of 525 copies, orig. printed wrappers.
2003ref. 113931Adelaide: Department for Environment and Heritage 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Department for Environment and Heritage 2003. Laminated pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Department for Environment and Heritage paperback
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
1955ref. 127459Adelaide: RGSSA 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA December 1955. Octavo pages 1-10 plus a frontispiece portrait. Original wrappers; a fine copy. The Presidential Address of George William Symes MC and Bar 1896-1980 sometime commander of 70th Division second-in-charge to Major General Orde Wingate's Special Force and commander of the South Burma District; and secretary to governors Sir Robert George and Sir Edric Bastyan 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. This issue also contains EDWARDS Robert: St Mary's-on-the-Sturt pages 35-46 plus 2 plates; MARSHALL Ann: Climate and Housing pages 11-33 with a table 8 graphs and 10 floor plans plus a plate with 6 illustrations from photographs; and THOMSON Keith W.: The Changes in Function of Former Mining Settlements in the Wallaroo Copper Belt pages 47-58 with a map a graph and 2 tables plus a plate with 2 illustrations from photographs and a folding map. RGSSA paperback
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1874ref. 121082Adelaide: 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 limp boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers lightly marked; head of the spine slightly chipped; 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'. That being said copies of this original printing are now rare nearly a century and a half later. Marshall MacDermott 1791-1877 arrived in Adelaide in 1846 and after nearly three worthy and earnest decades here penned these memoirs decidedly brief when it comes to Australian content. Up until page 35 he reminiscences about his 22 years in the British army. He chose Western Australia as his future residence and arrived there in June 1830. Over the last eighteen pages he recounts his six years on the land and ten years in banking in WA then his eleven years 'as a bank manager three years as a merchant; four years in Parliament . and lastly over ten years administering the laws in Local Courts' in SA. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
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
1825ref. 80009London: William Darton 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London William Darton circa 1825. Octavo xii 64 pages plus 64 engraved portraits with tissue-guards. Early gilt-decorated half calf and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; corners and the rear leading edge a little worn; 'Vol III' label missing from the spine; occasional scattered foxing and offsetting; a very good copy. Provenance: James Hurtle Fisher with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown and his signature in ink at the head of the engraved title page. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. He commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835. He was selected as resident commissioner one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act . second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo" arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay where the official oaths were administered a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. In January 1837 Fisher erected his reed hut and Land Office near the survey camp of Colonel William Light at the north-western corner of the new capital site; the destruction of these temporary buildings by fire on 23 January 1839 caused both men serious loss. Fisher had been allowed to draft his own instructions which were not shown to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Disputes between the two men over their respective powers had begun on the voyage and were soon revived in the new Council of Government and more violently outside and led in February 1837 to the Resident Magistrate's Court binding the participants over to keep the peace towards each other. The new governor George Gawler was appointed both governor and resident commissioner a radical departure from the principles on which the colony had been founded'. Fisher returned to his profession and became a leader of the South Australian Bar. In October 1840 he was elected first mayor of Adelaide; in 1860 he became the first resident South Australian to be knighted. The destructive fire referred to above is described in detail in the biography of Light Dutton and Elder 1991. Light was living 'in the wood and reed surveyor's hut alongside Fisher's equally combustible house in the parklands on North Terrace. In his own account ". we discovered Fisher's house to be on fire. At the same time the breeze freshening up the destruction to both houses became inevitable. In less than ten minutes both houses were burnt to the ground mine catching fire at the roof by a lighted piece from Fisher's. We saved nothing of value"'. Accordingly personal mementoes such as this presumably brought by Fisher to South Australia on the 'Buffalo' must be of the utmost rarity. William Darton hardcover
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
19338vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 8 other facsimiles; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, backstrip worn else a sound, clean copy. Among the printers represented are Caxton, De Worde, Rastell, Berthelot, Hawkins and Pynson.
pp. 12-74, 1 fold. map Large 8vo. Offprint, orig. wrs.
2007ref. 147723Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 2007. Quarto 232 pages with numerous illustrations many full-page with two gatefolds showing a panorama plus a CD-ROM in an endpocket containing 'Dictionary of South Australian Photography 1845-1915' by R.J. Noye. Pictorial card covers lightly scuffed; an excellent copy. The book was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Art Gallery of South Australia November 2007 to January 2008. Art Gallery of South Australia paperback
2001ref. 034348Toowoomba Qld.: Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society Queensland Branch 2001. 330pp tables charts lists num bw ills. Or card covers. Near new. Volume 1 only- a second volume was published in 2009. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to. Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society, Queensland Branch Paperback
1999ref. 90276Plympton: The Author for the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Plympton The Author for the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated 1999. Quarto; cloth; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed creased and torn dustwrapper. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Also inscribed and signed by David Neil Cliff Keiley Joe Heptinstall and Ron Halliday. The Author for the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Incorporated hardcover
1942ref. 116235Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1942. Octavo 20 pages last blank plus the colophon. Plain card covers with attached overlapping wrappers lightly rubbed and bumped; small red X against six titles in the checklist; an excellent copy with the small name-stamp of Johannes Larsen on the front flyleaf. Number 76 of 250 copies signed by the author and the first publication of his Wakefield Press. Wakefield Press paperback
1942ref. 107838Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1942. Octavo 20 pages last blank plus the colophon. Plain card covers with attached overlapping wrappers lightly sunned bumped and marked; an excellent copy. Number 170 of 250 copies signed by the author; the first publication of his Wakefield Press. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott 1872-1954 horticulturalist naturalist author and book-collector with his ownership signature. Wakefield Press paperback
1927322 pages. "The following letters were written by Hwuy-ung, one of the class of literati and a social reformer, to his (and my) friend Tseng between the years 1899 and 1912. They came into my possession through Tseng-Ching, a scholar, who urged me (and helped me) to translate them into English, so that the reforms suggested by his enlightened countryman might meet with due recognition and support from abroad. It was also his intention to have the Chinese version published and distributed among his countrymen, in order (under God's gracious will) that their eyes might be opened to their shortcomings and the race strengthened and rejuvenated." - from Introduction. Red front board attractively decorated in yellow and black. Card pocket inside back board. Library bookplate inside front board. No other markings. Minor lean to spine. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting work. Book
ref. 146428Very Good. Nine vintage gelatin silver prints eight approximately 220 × 285 mm one 138 × 206 mm all but two captioned or dated on the verso. Some prints with some residue on the verso from previous mounting; two with drawing pin-holes in some corners one of them with slight surface loss near a bottom corner the other with slight loss to a top corner; some with trifling chips or creases at the extremities; overall in excellent condition. The earliest image dated June 1926 shows the site on North Terrace before the commencement of construction; two show the station platforms in October 1926 and March 1927; two show the railway yards at the approach to the station one before construction one in December 1927; and four show the progressive construction of the western southern and eastern frontages of the station dated between April 1927 and March 1928. An interesting observation by Paul McGuire appeared in 'The New Triad' Volume 2 Number 7 1 July 1928: 'The Railway Department also has been showing its superiority to mere prettiness too. A magnificent station is nearing completion and the Assembly hall has already revealed itself as a splendidly conceived piece far superior to anything of its kind in Australia. The walls are scarcely finished and they are already blotted with posters dodgers and various advertising signs. The architects themselves have protested but in this case too we will be pleasureably sic surprised if the official mind sees beyond its balance sheets'. We have not identified the photographer or traced these particular images in institutional collections or elsewhere but they have the appearance of official photographs by a professional. 9 items. unknown
1967ref. 138977Melbourne: Newcraft Publicity 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Newcraft Publicity 1967 to 1969. Seventeen portfolios in various formats see below each containing a page or two of text and 5 colour serigraphs printed on card unless otherwise stated and interleaved with tissue-guards. Thick card covers with cloth spines; minor blemishes to some covers; minor damage to a bottom corner of portfolio B Volume 4 see below with loss of the corner-tip to the last three plates; overall the contents are in excellent condition. Two volumes are bound in portrait format; the others are presented in landscape format albeit with the spine along the top edge. The National Library of Australia catalogue states that this material was 'Available only in set of 24 portfolios at $310.00 . "Authentic reproductions ready for framing". Edition limited to 200 numbered copies' we have not traced the original source of this information. However we have incorporated below a number of pertinent details gleaned from Trove; in particular we found the relevant catalogue records provided by the State Library of Victoria to be the most informative. A Magnificent Decorative Designs. Melville Island Abstract - Map Central Aust. - Pintubi Churingas - Victorian Possum Skin Rug - Far N. West Coast Phallocrypt 375 × 505 mm; #13/116. B Australian Aboriginal Art. Primitive Traditional Decorative four volumes each 403 × 550 mm and all numbered #095; together with three larger-format volumes each approximately 550 × 795 mm respectively #1/086 #2/090 and unnumbered. The third volume without the subtitle 'Primitive Traditional Decorative' contains seven plates reproducing ones that appear in the smaller-format volumes; six are printed on paper the seventh is printed on the inside rear card cover. C Cave Paintings of Arnhemland Volumes 1 2 3 and 5; each approximately 385 × 500 mm; all #126. The title of the fifth volume is 'Ceremonial Cave Paintings of Arnhemland "Amazing Anthropomorphic Figures"'. D Central Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Brilliant Abstract Designs of the Pitjantjatjara two volumes bound portrait-format each 750 × 550 mm respectively #66 and #2/100. The first volume has a brown cover decorated in ochre and lettered in black; the second volume has a blue cover decorated in white and lettered in black. Both volumes contain seven plates. E Magnificent Bark Paintings of Arnhemland and the Islands Volumes 1 2 and 4; each approximately 380 × 500 mm; respectively #1/126 #2/116 and #101. The title of the fourth volume is 'Magnificent Bark Paintings of Arnhemland'. Offered together with three plates mounted as issued on thick card; these also appear in the volume of duplicated plates noted in B above. Also included are two copies of another Newcraft Publicity item 'Central Australian Aboriginal Paintings' by Winifred Hilliard wrappers oblong quarto with 7 colour plates; the second copy is numbered 153. Although the lengthy subtitles are different 'The Pitjantjatjara Abstracts. Designs in Vibrant Colours from Ancient Mythological and Totemic Motifs by Aboriginal Artists at Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges' and 'Ancient Mythological and Totemic Motifs in Vibrant Colors by Finke River Aboriginal Artists' the contents are the same albeit in a different order and with minor variation to the introductory text. To complicate matters even more the same contents appear in the first very much larger-format volume in D above. We have identified five portfolios not present in this run cross-referenced with the descriptions above: A Magnificent Decorative Designs. Volume 1 Churinga Patterns Ground and Rock Paintings; C Cave Paintings of Arnhemland. Volume 4; E Magnificent Bark Paintings of Arnhemland. Volume 3: Oenpelli Portfolio; Australian Aboriginal Art: Bark Paintings - Angurugu Groote Eylandt Gulf of Carpentaria; and Australian Aboriginal Art: Decorated Shields of North Queensland. The SLV also identifies one related item we do not have: 'Australian Aboriginal Art' Melbourne Newcraft Publicity 1969. It is described as being a single volume 750 mm tall containing 'Colour prints on paper of items of aboriginal art miniaturised from the series of authentic reproductions of bark and cave paintings in the Newcraft collection of 23 portfolios'. 22 items. Newcraft Publicity paperback
