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1870rif. 58346Adelaide: Government Printer 1870. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1870. Foolscap folio 8 pages. Drop-title; four small holes in the inner margin where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 of 1870 surprisingly the date is not printed on the item but 1870 is correct. The descriptive notes by surveyor George McLachlan for Section 1681 in the Hundred of Ayers are typical: 'Light brown loamy soil generally covered with nodulous ironstone rocky ironstone hills steep and high. Open forest country timbered with stringybark ironbark cotton tree plum tree and grevillia. Large open flats in places with good dark and often black soil to creeks. High coarse grass all over the land'. Government Printer unknown
1887rif. 57324Adelaide: Government Printer 1887. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1887. Foolscap folio 7 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 98 of 1887; only 670 copies printed. An account by Messrs W. Earle Peter Anderson and George Mayers of a 2000-mile journey undertaken between late July and mid-September 1887 'through the western district of South Australia from Streaky Bay to the boundary of Western Australia near Eucla inspecting the country and taking notes of its physical features the nature of the soil the water supply and rainfall vegetation facilities for communication and shipping ports'. The first four pages comprise the daily journal of the trip. [Government Printer] unknown
1977rif. 127227Adelaide: Native Orchid Society of South Australia 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Native Orchid Society of South Australia 1977 to 1979. Foolscap folio 31 issues bound in one volume ranging from 4 to 18 pages of processed typescript per issue with occasional line illustrations and maps plus the pictorial front cover in all instances often printed on paper of a different colour. Blue binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth slightly marked and rubbed; a tiny tape repair to the front wrapper of the first issue; minimal signs of age and use including a small number of annotations; in excellent condition. A complete run of the first three years of the monthly NOSSA Newsletter it became the 'Journal' from Volume 2 Number 3 April 1978. The first year comprised eight issues the second year 11 there was none in January and the third year 12 no January issue but two in June. Three pressed orchids loosely inserted have been left where we found them. Native Orchid Society of South Australia hardcover
rif. 102439Fine. Ten gelatin silver photographs each approximately 110 × 160 mm stamped on the versos 'The Advertiser . Adelaide . Krischock Photos copyright'. In fine condition. Locomotive 506 'Sir George Murray' entered service in October 1926; it was withdrawn in June 1959 and scrapped three years later. We have been able to trace a couple of relatively minor derailments involving this locomotive but not this particular incident. The terrain and surrounding vegetation suggest to us the mallee country between Tailem Bend and the border; the clothing on the bystanders especially the two boys in their long woollen socks thick overcoats and school caps brings back childhood memories from the early 1950s. But the train wreck is the story and this series of photographs serves graphically to confirm the official SAR estimates of the total weight of the engine and tender at more than 220 tons . 10 items. unknown
rif. 147222Fine. Eight gelatin silver photographs all approximately 160 × 215 mm or the reverse all with short captions in ink and pencil on the verso. The photographs are individually mounted behind photocorners and attractively presented on individual captioned cards; in fine condition. The four photographs of Renmark and two of Mannum were taken from the air; the other two also of Mannum were taken by a cameraman on the water. One of these is a view down the main street; the other shows a flooded backyard with water coming up to just under the eaves. 8 items. unknown
1888rif. 135488London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Wells Gardner Darton & Co. 1888/ 1887 first edition published in Adelaide. Octavo xxii 301 3 blank colophon blank 40 publisher's catalogue pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece 120 × 95 mm and an errata slip after page xiv not found in the Adelaide edition. Gilt-decorated cloth slightly rubbed; small paper label at the foot of the spine see below; edges and leaves adjacent to the boards a little foxed; overall an excellent copy. Pages ix-304 from the table of contents onwards are the sheets of the 1887 Adelaide edition. The first eight pages the cloth colour lettering and decoration for this London edition differ and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen paper photograph occasionally but not invariably found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 not noting the last point. Provenance: Sir Henry Parkes 1815-1896 NSW politician and journalist with a commemorative bookplate on the front pastedown 'This book was one of a Collection associated with the name of Sir Henry Parkes and housed in the Chief Secretary's Department of New south Wales until 1956'. The inkstamp of the Colonial Secretary's Office is on the verso of the frontispiece and at the end of the author's preface; the inkstamp of the Colonial Secretary's Office Library is on the title-page and explains the small label on the spine. Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co hardcover
1914rif. 115888Adelaide: Sands and McDougall 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Sands and McDougall 1914. Large octavo ii-xxxvi 1788 23 advertisements pages including the endpapers plus 2 unnumbered leaves on pink paper after page xx 'Alterations & Corrections for 1915 Directory' and advertisements on all surfaces of the covers and the edges of the textblock. Original red quarter cloth and papered boards extensively lettered in gilt; covers lightly scuffed and marked with minimal expert conservation to the foot of the front joint; trifling signs of age and use but essentially an excellent copy of a rare directory from the eve of World War One. Sands and McDougall hardcover
1879rif. 123653Adelaide: E. Spiller Acting Government Printer 1879. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Acting Government Printer 1879. Octavo 31 pages. Flush-cut card with the full title page details reprinted within a decorative border on the front cover; new plain paper spine; covers a little marked chipped and creased; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy internally excellent. The Adelaide 'Advertiser' of 10 June 1890 makes reference to a recently published 'Marine Board Directory . a mercantile navy list containing the names of masters and mates of the Mercantile Marine of South Australia'. We find no record of that edition nor of the much earlier one we have for sale in Trove. E. Spiller, Acting Government Printer unknown
1872rif. 121218Adelaide: J. Williams 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams 1872. Octavo vi x 138 Alphabetical Directory ii iv 82 Official Ecclesiastical Legal Banking and Mercantile Directory ii iv 180 Trades Directory pages plus a tipped-in leaf listing the new House of Assembly members. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover and extensively decorated in blind front and rear; textblock expertly recased with minor conservation to the ends of the spine; front free endpaper creased; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy. J. Williams hardcover
1936rif. 139227Adelaide: The Universal Publicity Company 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Universal Publicity Company 1936. Oblong quarto 962 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs including numerous portraits of local councillors. Maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover; boards a little bowed; cloth a little dusty and lightly rubbed at the extremities; endpapers a little tanned around the edges; front free endpaper and title leaf lightly chipped; top edge slightly marked; the first dozen or so leaves a little cockled or creased; overall a very good copy. A substantial parochial who's who worthy of a place in any genealogist's library. Provenance: 'C.J. Plenty' is stamped in gilt on the front cover. The portait photograph and potted biography of 'Past Councillor George James Plenty Corporation of Hindmarsh' appear on page 267. The Universal Publicity Company hardcover
1885rif. 129679Adelaide: Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. Octavo viii 288 24 local advertisements pages plus 17 lithographs a frontispiece view after J.M. Skipper 15 individual portrait illustrations and one plate containing three portraits and 2 mounted albumen paper portrait photographs. Mid-brown stippled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine; cloth a little marked and lightly worn at the corner tips; spine sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers offset with the leading half of the rear flyleaf neatly excised; name-stamp or signature on four early pages with an old price in ink on the flyleaf and initial blank; a very good copy internally excellent. The photographs are of Captain Samuel White Sweet 130 × 71 mm presumably a self-portrait and George Loyau 98 × 58 mm credited in the negative to George & Walton: he is facing the camera with his head turned a little to the left. This is another variant see Holden 71 of an item usually found with the author's photograph only and to further complicate matters the latter occurs in at least three variant forms as well!. In our experience this issue with the portrait of Samuel Sweet is most uncommon. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 sea captain surveyor and photographer took command in January 1869 'of the two-masted schooner "Gulnare" which was later bought by the South Australian government for the Northern Territory survey expedition'. Between February 1869 and April 1872 he made five trips to the Northern Territory. 'In September 1870 in Darwin he photographed the official party at the ceremonial planting of the first pole of the overland telegraph; he also took pictures of the township the men at work and forest scenery.' He spent the next three years as a master mariner based in Adelaide until 11 May 1875 when 'his ship the "Wallaroo" with his wife aboard ran aground in a gale on Office Beach Wallaroo. An inquiry attributed it to Sweet's error of judgment and he was censured. 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'. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision') hardcover
1914rif. 100690Blackwood: Literary Society of the Blackwood Coromandel and Belair Club 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Blackwood Literary Society of the Blackwood Coromandel and Belair Club 1914. Octavo 12 issues bound as one volume 288 pages 24 pages each issue with a handful of illustrations. The first number has 'Second Edition' printed at the head of the first page. A note on Trove states that 'the only difference identified is on page 5 where a different verse is printed in each edition'; in this one it is a topical limerick about 'An elderly farmer of Mitcham'. Original gilt-decorated cloth containing the twelve separate issues of the drop-title magazine; binding a little worn at the extremities with the front cover bowed and a little ink-marked; old tape-stains to the endpapers; vertical crease down the middle of most issues where folded before binding; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy of a rare item with the ownership details of local pioneer Frank Chapman of Coromandel Valley on the front flyleaf. This elusive journal was 'devoted to the interests of the Adelaide Hills suburbs Blackwood Coromandel Valley Belair and Eden Hills'. The editorial to what became the final issue commences thus: 'Many a good man has been hung for no fault of his own and "The Blackwood Magazine" because the Kaiser has chosen to embroil the world is to be suspended'. Literary Society of the Blackwood, Coromandel and Belair Club] hardcover
1872rif. 131493London: Edward Stanford 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Edward Stanford 1872. Octavo xvi 415 pages plus a frontispiece Government House Perth. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and extensively decorated in blind all edges uncut; cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; spine tanned with minor wear to the ends and the front bottom corner; front endpaper slightly marked with the hinge cracked but firm; first and last pages offset; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant and pastoralist was a son of Rosetta French Johnson later Hannay eldest daughter of George Fife Angas 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Edward Stanford hardcover
1890rif. 141871Adelaide: Education Department 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Education Department 1890. Octavo originally viii 303 pages plus a map: this copy lacks the map the title leaf and its conjugate pages i-ii and vii-viii and the last leaf 303-4 last page blank. Original full black roan lettered in gilt on the front cover; leather slightly rubbed and bumped; last leaf a little torn; signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. We presume this is a publisher's deluxe or presentation binding; the standard binding is grey cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover. Samuel Albert White 1870-1954 ornithologist and conservationist: 'His most arduous and important work as a naturalist occurred when he collaborated with Gregory Mathews on "The Birds of Australia" London 1910-27. To this end White mounted major collecting expeditions often accompanied by his wife. He travelled with camels to Alice Springs and beyond 1913 with a government team to the Musgrave and Everard ranges 1914 and with the South Australian Museum expedition to Cooper Creek 1916; he also went to the Nullarbor Plains 1917-18 with Sir Edgeworth David and Professor Walter Howchin to the Finke River 1921 and in 1922 led the great adventure from Adelaide to Darwin and back using three Dort motor cars supplied and serviced by Adelaide mechanics Cyril and Murray Aunger. White's outstanding achievement lay in completing an ornithological survey of the whole of South Australia and much of the Northern Territory. He was the first European to see several species and regarded the Princess Alexandra parrot as the world's most beautiful bird. A keen conservationist he was a central figure in the declaration of national parks in the State and was a noted spokesman on insects birds and botany' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. In this copy of the book 'A Classified List of the Native Species' pages 204-272 is extensively annotated in ink in what we know to be the hand of Captain S.A. White; there are slight annotations or emphases on numerous other pages. Although his name does not appear anywhere in the volume we purchased this item among many others direct from the White family home 'Weetunga' at Fulham a couple of decades ago. Loosely inserted is a ticket to an 'Exhibition of Wild Flowers' by the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of SA annotated on the verso by White; undated but 1920s. Education Department hardcover
1916rif. 028933Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. Editor's Preface. 187pp portrait frontis map of Mesopotamia and 15 leaves of b/w plates. Endpapers toned. Some light foxing. Spine rubbed and title faded. Or brown cloth boardswith a few minor marks. Loosely inserted is a rare bookmark with RAMC colours at top and the following wording: In dispatches from Lt-Gen Sir Percy lake dated August 12th from Basra published by the War Office Oct 19th 1916 the name of Captain RM Allan RAMC is 'mentioned'. This is a continuation of "Letters from a Young Queenslander" published in December 1915 for private circulation. Private letters between father and son and dedicated to Captain T J Mitchell. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
1882rif. 040149London: Queensland Emigration Office 1882. 96pp printed in double column. Or blue cloth covered card. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover as well as initial in ink small bookseller stamp on front free endpaper. Minor crease and slight edge wear to covers. Rare early colonial gazetteer to inform potential emigrants to Queensland. Content includes agriculture railways steam navigation education and land laws. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Queensland Emigration Office Paperback
1983rif. 141157Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Melbourne Oxford University Press 1983. Quarto 224 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs. Papered boards; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper front flap a little creased. The title page is signed by the author. 'This book traces in photographs drawn from archival sources the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' dustwrapper blurb. Oxford University Press hardcover
1983rif. 144625Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Melbourne Oxford University Press 1983. Quarto 224 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs. Papered boards; tiny indentation to the rear cover with a matching indentation to the dustwrapper; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine with a crease along the front flap. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author. 'This book traces in photographs drawn from archival sources the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' and it continues still. Oxford University Press hardcover
1978rif. 127443Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1978. Hardcover. Near fine. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint 1978 facsimile edition/ 1907 and 1909. Quarto two volumes vi viii 630; and iv viii 1101 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Cloth lightly bumped on one corner; a near-fine set. This facsimile edition was limited to 1000 sets; loosely inserted is a circular from the publisher explaining the late delivery of the set. Provenance: T.G.H. Strehlow with his signature address in suburban Adelaide and date 13 June and 20 September 1978 respectively in each volume. Theodor George Henry Ted Strehlow 1908-1978 was an eminent linguist with a strong connection to the languages and people of Central Australia he was born at Hermannsburg. He died on 3 October 1978. 2 items. Austaprint hardcover
1908rif. 138935Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1908. Octavo iv 150 pages plus 4 plates. Olive-green papered boards decorated and lettered in black on the front cover and lettered on the spine; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities; joints just starting to split at the foot of both of them and the head of the rear one; spine a little darkened and lightly creased and slightly bumped at the foot; acidic text paper tanned as ever; an excellent copy of a notoriously poor production. Provenance: Dr Herbert Basedow 1881-1933 explorer anthropologist geologist and medical practitioner with a signed inscription to him from the author on the front free endpaper. The book later entered two other notable collections those of F.G. Coles and Sir Thomas Ramsay with the former's tipped-in pictorial bookplate and the latter's blind-stamp also on the front free endpaper. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers hardcover
1916rif. 040133Sydney: Randwick Asylum Board of Directors 1916. xiii 144pp documents in facsimile at rear; bw ills tables. Or gray bevelled cloth. Prev owner name on front free endpaper a few light marks to cloth light toning to endpapers bookseller stamp on front pastedown spine title faded. Scarce history of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children which provided lodging for abandoned and destitute children of both sexes under 8 years of age. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Randwick Asylum, Board of Directors Hardcover
1950rif. 95964Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth slightly sunned and flecked; an excellent copy. Number 84 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 20 November 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
1950rif. 17707Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth a little scuffed and sunned; small erasure to an early page; a very good copy. Number 123 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 15 December 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
1913rif. 007827London: Constable & Co 1913. xi 271pp index 8 bw ills folding map at rear. Or maroon cloth. Narrow strip of insect damage front cover top right plus few other small spots; moderate foxing throughout prev owners bookplate inside front cover WP Hurst. Very scarce title dealing with the early days of North Queensland especially in the 1860s. First 2 chapters deal with experiences in India including the seige of Lucknow. The balance of the book deals chiefly with various aspects of pioneering life in North Queensland including the aborigines gold and the goldfields at Palmer River sheep and cattle 'ranching' various natural disasters including bushfires and tornadoes and general remarks on the life laws climate etc of Queensland. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Constable & Co Hardcover
1876rif. 138384London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. Octavo xvi 432 pages plus 66 engraved plates a folding table a folding full-colour map of Australia 320 × 400 mm and a large folding map of South Australia 795 × 545 mm with minimal colour in an endpocket. Cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities with the rear top corner a little bumped; edges slightly marked or darkened; front free endpaper slightly cracked near the head of the hinge with a small piece snipped from the top corner; tiny splits at a few intersecting folds in the map; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An undervalued work: the plates wood engravings from photographs are a major pictorial record and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northern Territory I have incorporated some useful papers written by residents there and prepared for publication by Mr J.G. Knight'. The chapter on Central Australia is even more important: 'Since the foregoing was in type the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. The entire chapter is devoted to the article which refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. Ferguson 10233 not recording the maps. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover
