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1942ref. 19807Privately Printed Auckland 1942. 8vo. First Edition with 3 plates and double-page pedigree and several maps a number full-page in the text page edges browning label scar on title; modern boards upper board with printed paper label ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED a very good clean copy. VERY SCARCE. [Privately Printed], Auckland, hardcover
1901ref. 109637Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Printers for the Author 1901. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Printers for the Author 1901. Duodecimo 28 pages last blank. Cord-bound gilt and brown-decorated card covers; text printed in gilt and brown; front cover and the first two leaves lightly creased; two short tears to the second leaf expertly sealed; a very good copy. Hussey & Gillingham [Printers, for the Author] paperback
2000ref. RO20174840KONEMANN. 2000. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 416 pages - nombreuses photos et cartes en couleurs dans et hors texte - protège couverture souple.. . . . Classification Dewey : 994-Australie
1905ref. 140504North Adelaide: The Photographer 1905. Very Good. North Adelaide The Photographer circa 1905. A collection of 87 stereo-microphotographs comprising original gelatin silver photographs with the pairs of images printed as one plate approximately 65 × 120 mm mounted on stiff card approximately 88 × 178 mm in various shades of grey. There are 21 with printed labels captioned 'Wm. P. Dollman John St. N. Adelaide S. Aus.' with numbered manuscript captions the numbers range from 2 to 228; there are 14 with unnumbered manuscript captions on plain labels; the remaining 52 are on plain cards. There are only six duplicates and none of them are an identical matching pair. Minimal signs of age and use; overall in excellent condition. The literature on the photographic history of Australia is singularly quiet on the life and work of William Parmeter Dollman 1846-1908. He is not to be found in Davies and Stanbury or Photohistory SA the pioneering research work of Robert Noye now on the website of the Art Gallery of South Australia. However he was definitely recognised in his own time. His obituary appears in the 'Evening Journal' on 7 October 1908: 'The death is announced from heart failure at the age of 63 of Mr. William Parmeter Dollman of North Adelaide. The deceased gentleman came to South Australia from England in 1853 and for about 30 years had been in the service of the proprietors of "The Register" and its associated journals as a printer and reader. He was sub-overseer of the newsroom for several years but relinquished that position to return to the reading room. Mr. Dollman was held in the highest respect for his integrity and ability and was much esteemed by his intimate friends. He was a member of the microscopical section of the Royal Society and conducted a great deal of microscopical research. He was an authority on the instrument itself a student of electricity and a skilful photographer'. We have traced a number of newspaper references to his photography not least in a list of prize-winners in connection with the 14th annual exhibition of the SA Society of Arts reported in the 'South Australian Register' on Thursday 15 December 1870. 'Six entirely untouched stereoscopic views . by W.P. Dollman' were awarded a cash prize of £1 1s. Given that the other prize-winners in the photography section were Bernard Goode and Townsend Duryea this is high praise indeed. An article by Dollman appeared in the 'Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society' in June 1906: 'A Simple Method of producing Stereo-Photomicrographs sic' 3 pages plus a full-page illustration of one of the stereo-microphotographs present in this collection 'Polyzoa Idmonea radians'. It was 'Read February 21 1906'. Dollman states 'I have made a hobby of stereoscopic photography since 1865 and as well have handled many Microscopes optical work being always an attraction to me. Some twelve or more months ago a friend called my attention to an article on stereo-photomicrography in the "British Journal of Photography Almanac" for 1894 by the then-editor . who therein explained several methods of producing stereograms of microscopic objects. I adopted what I thought the simplest method that of obscuring by a semicircular shield half of the objective in use. A good deal of my apparatus is makeshift - that is diverted from other uses - but is effectual. My optical outfit is the best both in low and high powers condensers etc.'. In addition to the 87 stereo-microphotographs there is a stereophotograph captioned on a plain label 'Photo-microscopic Apparatus' depicting an impressive set-up in Dollman's studio as described in the journal article. This card and two others with hand-written captions on plain labels have the following inscription in ink on the verso: 'Not for competition. Wm. P. Dollman North Adelaide'. Also included with the collection is a slightly damaged unmounted single microphotographic print 74 mm square. 89 items. The Photographer unknown
ref. 108942Fine. A gelatin silver photograph 237 × 307 mm unmounted as issued: in fine condition. The ink-stamp of the photographer 'J. Gazard 111 King Wm. St. Adelaide' is on the verso together with a pencilled caption reading: 'June 21 1905. Unveiling of the Monument to Colonel Light the founder of Adelaide in Light Square Adelaide where his remains are buried'. Light Square became the burial place of Colonel William Light in 1839; the original monument erected over his grave in 1843 became damaged and was replaced. 'The new monument which still stands today consisted of a theodolite placed on a tall column. It was unveiled on the 21 June 1905 to a large crowd that included "old colonists" who had witnessed Light's funeral 66 years previously seated on either side of the monument. Sir Samuel Way addressed the crowd reinforcing Light's legend by recalling the achievements and adventures of the founder of Adelaide. The Mayor of Adelaide Mr Theodore Bruce then proceeded with the unveiling of the monument' 'Adelaidia' website. This impressive image captures it all. unknown
1962ref. 137493London: Public Library of South Australia 1962. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. London Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1838 second edition/ 1838. Octavo v 30 pages. Synthetic cloth; free endpapers lightly tanned; leaves uncut; a near-fine copy. Peade SA17: one of only 48 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library 'reproduced . using the xerographic process' with the text bound from fan-fold paper printed on one side only uncut and unopened along the leading edges. South Australian Facsimile Editions Number 17. A dozen pages are given over to the letters from emigrants including nine from the brothers Hack written between February and August 1837. The first one from Glenelg on 20 February less than two months after the arrival of the first settlers sets the tone: 'The natives are only too friendly: a family called this morning; they seem very good natured. I breakfasted this morning on damper a definition is supplied in a footnote and parrot regular bush-fare; the parrot was capital eating. I hope we shall be fortunate enough to shoot some daily'. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
1996ref. 144563Perth: Bulwer Lytton Publications 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Perth Bulwer Lytton Publications 1996. Small quarto xiv 165 pages with numerous illustrations 9 genealogical tables and a map plus 4 pages of plates 3 in colour. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. 'The author's Grandfather left Scotland in the late nineteenth century to find a new life and fortune in Australia. From humble beginnings Robert Crawford became one of the largest sheep magnates in South Australia with his empire stretching over the border to New South Wales and the Northern Territory' rear cover blurb. Bulwer Lytton Publications paperback
1988No marks or inscriptions. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jackets not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunned and slightly foxed spines and chip/nick to top of spine of Henry Lawson volume. The two volumes in excellent condition slipcase. 304 + 304pp. Volume one contains the selected works of A.B. Banjo Paterson including his best-loved stories and poems such as 'Waltzing Matilda'. Volume two contains the sketches and poems of Henry Lawson which are an essential part of the Australian literary tradition. Illustrated with period photographs throughout both volumes. A heavy set.
1912ref. 94751Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Hussey and Gillingham 1912. Small oblong quarto 106 pages with illustrations plus a frontispiece all by Tom Ferry. Quarter red cloth and pictorial cream papered boards printed in black and red; a very fine copy. Muir 6266 not identifying the author. The dedication to this pseudonymous work is by 'Aunt Sissie' whom we have identified as Lavinia Mary Scammell 1859-1915 the second of twelve children of Luther Scammell of Fauldings fame. This attribution appears not to have been made before. The manuscript is held by the State Library of South Australia in PRG 119: Papers of Mrs A.M. Madden. Item 112 in the list of papers is 'Manuscript of "Laughter and Life: a tale for the young" by Lavinia Mary Scammell. 1912. 3 cm. Typescript. Written by Sissie Scammell Red Gum Blossom with a dedication to her nieces and nephews 12 April 1912. This was published that year as "A little bit of laughter and life for the young" by Hussey & Gillingham and was set in Adelaide. Each chapter is sewn together and housed inside a red covered album. The manuscript shows editorial marks ready for publication'. Hussey and Gillingham hardcover
1994ref. 124861Renmark: The Author 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Renmark The Author 1994 revised edition/ 1984. Small quarto 120 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour and maps. Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Signed on the title page by the Author. Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed by the author and an invitation to the book launch of his 'Bush Detective'. The Author 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
1898ref. 007763Wellington: Government Printer 1898 SPECIMEN copy being only 111pp of the 'A' section of the Maori lexicon and 21 disconnected samples of the English lexicon cover titled in gilt 'Maori-English Lexicon of the New Zealand Tongue by the Rev. W. Colenso F.R.S. & F.L.S. Specimen' blind panelled cloth lightly handling bumped original black endpapers rear one has minor edge tear three small pen 'ticks' to half-title printed slip tipped onto title 'With Author's Compliments' xii 1-111 iv -21pp The complete lexicon was never issued pp 17-21 at rear are Colenso's letters to the General Assembly of the New Zealand Government concerning his work on the lexicon Bagnall C1195 scarce. association copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Government Printer hardcover
1947ref. 009205Christchurch 1947 typescript bound in scarlet cloth boards typed to recto only affixed are actual developed photographs pasted onto the pages anonymously issued with "Code Number: 144" to title this will have been the item submitted for examination 84pp the photographs include what appear to be some taken aerially includes Heathcote Horotane Avoca St. Martins and Bowenvale areas. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Privately Printed. hardcover
2008ref. 031068Sydney: Focus Publishing Interactive 2008. HEAVY. 416pp index bibliography bw & col photographs. Or blue boards in pictorial jacket. Full page inscription SIGNED by Graeme Arman one of the original partners in Arman Larmer on front free endpaper. The history of Arman Larmer- one of the longest and most successful private partnerships in PNG history. From humble beginnings in 1964 Michael Larmer Graeme Arman and dedicated crews battles jungles crocodile infested swamps tribal wars and socio-economic turmopil to become the leading private survey company in PNG. Includes sections on oil/petroleum the Kutubu Project and later surveys in Indonesia. Signed by Subject. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Focus Publishing Interactive Hardcover
1991ref. 147733Kingswood: Waterwheel Books 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kingswood Waterwheel Books 1991. Oblong small folio xii 146 pages with numerous illustrations and a map. Pictorial card covers slightly marked and a little rubbed; a very good copy. Waterwheel Books paperback
1909ref. 101652Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1909. Quarto 23 pages plus 11 full-page plates. Card covers; a near-fine copy. A lavish souvenir produced to commemorate the opening of the new building in Grenfell Street on 3 April 1909. The substantial pile near the corner of King William Street has since been demolished. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
2010ref. 051611Brisbane: Colonial Forces Study Group Queensland 2010. vii 300pp index few bw ills. Or maroon leather in jacket. As new. An estimated 20000 citizens undertook some form of military service in Queensland between 1860 and 1903. They werecalled to active service several times including the Bread Riots of 1866; the Russian war scares of 1878 and 1885; annexation of New Guinea in 1884; the Shearer's Strikes of 1891 and 1894. Personel assisted with rescue operations in the floods of 1891 and many served with the Queensland contingents to South Africa from 1899-1902. Includes much on local units and lists of officers known to have served. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Colonial Forces Study Group (Queensland) Hardcover
1843ref. 1206T097London: Hamilton Adams and Co. 1843. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xviii 560 cxliv. Very Good Minus. 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22 cm. Recent half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands blind and gilt decoration red morocco title label. Fading to spin. Ex-library book with small stamp to top page edge title page and a few text pages. Text block strained at p270 but very securely bound. Complete with the 15 plates several illustrations within the text and three large fold-out maps. Foxing to plates clean text throughout. Maps have some tears creasing and light foxing. First map has a library stamp to upper margin. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22 cm. Hamilton, Adams and Co. hardcover
19178vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xxvii, [i], 331 pp, frontis (portrait) with tissue guard, 32 plates mostly from photos, tables, index. original blue cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, lightly rubbed at edges, small endpaper signature, near fine, clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Shelford, who was curator of the Sarawak Museum and with Oxford University Museum, was an entomologist by training, made expeditions into the interior of Borneo to study the head-hunting tribes and the natural history. The book contains detailed chapters on natural history, birds, insects, mimicry in nature, animal life of the shores, natives of Borneo, reptiles, etc. Very nicely illustrated, including of a head hunting expedition, buildings in Sarawack, Kuching. The work was edited from the manuscript & notes by Edward Poulton after Sheldon's early death due to a tropical disease.
1902large 8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; xxiv, 328 pp, photogravure frontis of the ship, 98 illustrations on 58 plates, folding map, bibliog, tables, index. later green morocco-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, gilt decorations on raised bands, very lightly foxed on few leaves, mostly marginal, near fine sound copy in handsome binding. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wood p. 184. Most of the book is a quality narrative of the voyage in the Indian Ocean, including Laccadive Sea, Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. Also included is a history of the ship "Investigator" and its use in gathering information on natural history over more than a decade, with the final section being on the marine biology of the Indian seas. The illustrations are of fish and other marine creatures, An important study and interesting narrative.
1931ref. 144759Adelaide: Nature Lovers' League 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Nature Lovers' League 1931. Octavo 192 pages plus 24 full-page plates. Wrappers lightly rubbed at the extremities with minimal loss at the ends of the spine; title leaf lightly creased and marked; an excellent copy. An interesting posthumous miscellany of autobiography and nature studies by the early conservationist Thomas Paine Bellchambers 1858-1929. Nature Lovers' League paperback
1950ref. BIB293396Adelaide: The Hassell Press. 1950. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in a Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some small loss and a nick to front panel - now protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Some mild offset to endpapers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Fold-out map. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv 134 pages. As well as the history includes three short chapters in the Appendix dealing with: a brief account of the development of national colours; yachting in South Australia which also includes information on exploration; a description of the Royal Sovereign which greatly influenced the design of wooden ships of war. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The Hassell Press hardcover
2011ref. 213227Australia.: National Museum of Australia. 2011. Colour illustrations 181pp text in English and Chinese covers a little soiled otherwise very good paperback copy. 33.5 x 26.5cm. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the National Museum of Australia 29 September 2011 to 29 January 2012. . National Museum of Australia. paperback
Splendida carta intelata incisa su rame, confini acquarellati, cm. 135x156 composta da 35 riquadri. In grande formato rivela il fascino dell'India e dell'Asia Orientale a fianco della vasta regione australiana. Al margine inferiore, in due riquadri raffigurate "The Colony of New Zealan" e "Continuation of Australia on the same scale as the Map". Figlio di un grande cartografo John Cary (1791-1852), prosegu? il percorso del padre e fu attivo a Londra nella prima metà dell'800. Bella conservaz.
ref. 95220The Radfords were born in Devon emigrated to South Australia in October 1838 and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other later images of the Radfords are held in the State Library of South Australia. They substantiate the identification and confirm that these daguerreotypes by an anonymous photographer are of rural South Australian origin as the Radfords did not leave the colony after they arrived here in 1838. Both images are in excellent condition with the original brass mats one a little tarnished preservers and glass but uncased as found. Any daguerreotype of Australian origin is rare rural South Australian ones excessively so in our experience. 2 items. unknown
