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FLINDERS, MATTHEW - THE NAMING OF AUSTRALIABiblio.com

Observations upon the Marine Barometer made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales in the years 1801 1802 and 1803.

1807rif. 47325London The Author 1807. 8vo. Contemp. calf rebacked with brown buckram. Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy Chemistry and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XVI. - VIII3928 pp. a. 8 engraved plates. Entire volume offered. Flinders letter: pp. 107-118 a. pp. 173-182. Internally clean. Second printing of this important paper relating Flinder's observations on the ship "Investigator" when exploring the coast of Australia. IN THE PAPER THE NAME "AUSTRALIA" APPEARS PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SCIENTIFIC MEMOIR here p. 118. The letter was first printed in Philosophical Transactions late in 1806 read to the Royal Society March 27. Nicholson reprinted it here in the February issue of the offered volume 16. 1807.The name Australia was popularised by Matthew Flinders who pushed for the name to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis he was persuaded by his patron Sir Joseph Banks to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so but allowed himself the footnote:"Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term it would have been to convert it to Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth." In the paper offered he used the name "Australia" as early as 1806."Captain Matthew Flinders RN 16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814 was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years he sailed with Captain William Bligh circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."Wikepedia hardcover

Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn A/S · Danimarca4500,00 DKK≈ 602,04 €

[2/10th Battalion]. ALLCHIN, Lieutenant-Colonel FrankBiblio.com

Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF the Adelaide Rifles 1939-1945

1958rif. 147254Adelaide: 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Adelaide 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. Large octavo xxviii 454 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and 6 maps including a folding map mounted on the rear pastedown. Light blue cloth printed in purple a little marked and soiled; extremities slightly bumped and worn; a few minor marks and small edge tears internally; a few other signs of age and handling; a good copy internally very good. Provenance: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Drummond Verrier DCM ED 1896-1974 first commanding officer of the 2/10th Battalion with his ownership details and gift inscription on the front endpaper. Verrier enlisted for service in the First World War in 1915 and served with the 10th Battalion and 50th Battalion. 'He was wounded in the Battle of Noriel Noreuil on the 2nd April 1917. In that action his conspicuous gallantry in leading his platoon under heavy fire against strong enemy positions won him the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Although he was wounded and his platoon suffered heavily the enemy positions captured had an important bearing on the success of the battle' Allchin pages 1-2. Between the wars he rose through the ranks of the Citizen Military Forces to command the 43rd Battalion before being appointed commanding officer of the 10th Battalion on the outbreak of war in 1939. The lengthy gift inscription to a relative dated 7 August 1965 gives a brief genealogy of the Verrier family; it is signed 'Arthur & Phil Phyllis Verrier'. Offered together with: A vintage gelatin silver photograph of Verrier as a sergeant circa 1917 wearing his Distinguished Conduct Medal 195 × 153 mm on card mount; the mount is marked a little worn with a heavy crease across it cracking the photograph. A gelatin silver photograph of Verrier during the Second World War 142 × 107 mm; creased with a few imperfections around the edges in an envelope inscribed in his hand 'To Kathie from Uncle Arthur. Colonel 2/10th Bn.' and dated '23/4/72' in another hand. 'The Dardanelles. An Epic told in Pictures' London The Alfieri Picture Service 1916 inscribed and signed 'Ruby H. Loxton from Arthur' card covers repaired with clear tape along the spine now neatly detached from the contnets. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. 4 items. 2/10th Battalion Association hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia1000,00 A$≈ 622,82 €

[GILES, Ernest] JESSOP, William RH R HBiblio.com

Flindersland and Sturtland; or The Inside and Outside of Australia

1862rif. 116508London: Richard Bentley 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Bentley 1862 first edition first issue. Octavo two volumes viii 289 and x 322 pages. Original navy blue textured cloth blocked in gilt and blind with the large kangaroo illustration on the front covers particularly striking; all edges uncut; covers a little bumped and marked with slight wear at the extremities and the spines a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; overall an excellent set with the armorial bookplate of Edward Bennett on both front pastedowns and a very small inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of both title pages. An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s 'A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia including station properties social conditions travel aborigines etc.' according to Ferguson but there's much more . In the second volume pages 233-50 Jessop records meeting two men at Wilpena 'on their way back to Adelaide with the results of a private exploration. The leader or scout was named Giles who was engaged by Mole a man of more energy than money to assist him in opening up some new part . They finally left the known country at Angipena and entered upon the unknown in the direction of north-west . They were absent about a month from Angipena and altogether going and coming passed over 1200 miles'. The meeting is recorded in some detail not least regarding contact with the Aborigines 'Giles said he was the first person in the Colony that vaccinated a black and that it happened on this occasion'. Wantrup notes that this expedition 'does not appear to be elsewhere recorded and dates at least ten years before Giles's career became a matter of public record. Jessop supplies no precise date but from the context it is clear that the expedition took place in the first half of 1859. Constituting the first appearance in print of the last of the great Australian explorers it is well worth adding to an exploration library'. Wantrup 2023 pages 346-7; not in McLaren; see Ferguson 10938-41. 2 items. Richard Bentley hardcover

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WILKINSON, George BlakistonBiblio.com

South Australia. Its Advantages and its Resources. Being a Description of that Colony and a Manual of Information for Emigrants

1848rif. 123412London: John Murray 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1848. Octavo xii 392 4 advertisements pages with several tables plus a small folding map 215 × 170 mm. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in blind on the spine and both sides later rebacked retaining the original backstrip but with replacement endpapers; cloth a little rubbed marked and scuffed with the corners a little worn and bumped; occasional foxing; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia and contains from this source detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer on Agriculture Stock Farming Building Gardening Manufacturing in various branches . and Mining and Mineral Productions'. There are chapters on overlanding 31 pages and Aborigines 52 pages. Significantly this copy contains numerous contemporary annotations in pencil on 25 pages. Many of the comments are highly critical. A fine example is the first one in the book at the foot of the second page of the preface below the author's remarks about the 'capacities and kindliness of the new home which may await all who are desirous to emigrate to the splendid country and exquisite climate of South Australia'. Excuse me what about the 'Drawbacks - Scorching sun and hot winds clouds of dust millions of flies and fleas and moschettos and ants swarms of rogues and lying rascals plenty of Thieves - also high Rents and high price of food and a deprivation of luxuries & sometimes of the necessaries of life'. Several of the complaints relate to prices especially of food; one of them is dated 'vegetables we find very dear. Mar 1849'. The author finishes a few pages about fires thus: 'In a large plain covered with such materials and on fire there would be little chance of escape; and few lamentations would be allowed as death would be too instantaneous. From this danger however so formidable in America the Australians are happily relieved'. The man on the spot retorts: 'Black Thursday is a witness that the Australians are not always so happily relieved'. Provenance: Harold Sheard with his bookplate designed by his wife the artist Rose Lowcay. John Murray hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australia1000,00 A$≈ 622,82 €

[Photography; Southeast Asia; Australia; Canada]Biblio.com

Photographic record of a trip from the Philippines to Southeast Asia Australia New Zealand. 200 silvertone photographs in custom album

1926rif. 238471926. Photography. Good overall. 200 original photographs of a 1925/26 trip which begins in the Philippines and includes Singapore Java Australia New Zealand and Suva with many great images of Middle Harbor in Sydney. This is followed by a railway trip across Canada from the Pacific coast and Banff cross country ending in Montreal with the last image of the Engineering building at McGill University. The album is likely an American military man's photographic record of his trip beginning in December 1925 and ending April 1926 as many of the images are of railways bridges ships and military installations and one image identifies a Captain Richardson in white Navy uniform. The album opens with images of the Philippines with rail yards captioned "H. P. Co"; Fabrica Occ. Negros; San Carlos; Fort Santiago Manila; SS "Taiping" of A-O Line; Zamboanga including a shot of "Pettit Barracks" this was the location of the US Army's 43rd Infantry Regiment which was a Philippine scout unit in 1921; Fort Pilar Zamboanga; SS 'Darvel' at Jolo; and city streets of Jolo. The next stage of the trip is the through southeast Asia and Malaysia and Indonesia with images of Sandakan North Borneo; Jesselton Soldier's Monument rubber grove; Labuan government building Naval cemetery two western men in the caption identified as "Jefferson & Watt"; Singapore Bridge government building street scene reservoir old cemetery; Johore Causeway; Fort Canning; Batavia current day Jakarta Indonesia Batavia street scenes bridge canals old Portuguese fort; near Djokjakarta; lowland locomotive; Papandajan smoking craters; Mendoet; Borodbudur temples; Prambanan temples; Surabaya; KPM SS 'Plancius' Dutch ship; Semarang steam tram; KPM SS 'Houtman'; old Fort Macassar; and Celebes canal works views of country side. On to Australia with Brisbane Victoria Bridge Sydney Harbor north & south Head Garden Island "Sydney bridge site" the future site of the Bridge Fort Dennison Spit Bridge Middle Harbor Middle Head Bradley's Head Kuringai Chase Manly and Darling Harbor. Auckland and Fiji are next with images of the RMS 'Niagara' at Auckland and views from Mt. Eden; then on to Suva Fiji with city views landscapes and natives & their dwellings. The author is next in Canada with a Canadian Pacific Railway trip with views from the train windows of the Selkirks Rockies Banff Cascades Mt. Rundle Banff hot springs Mt. Royal Montreal the St. Lawrence River the Victoria Bridge and closing with a shot of the facade of the Engineering Building at McGill University. Oblong album 9 1/4 x 7 1/2". Three quarter leather and stamped patterned paper covered boards the leather at corners rubbed and perished at the spine. 50 pages with 4 photographs per page a total of 200 images 3 x 2 1/2" each dated and captioned on the frame. Photographs in excellent condition. unknown

Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints · Stati Uniti750,00 USD≈ 668,75 €

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