[AUSTRALIE]Livre Rare Book
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rif. 218657Melbourne et Adelaide, 1865-1866 5 pièces en un vol. in-8, demi-veau blond, dos lisse, roulette dorée, filets à froid (reliure pastiche). Cachet (annulé). Bon exemplaire.
rif. 235576Paris, E. Plon, 1872 in-4, 641 pp., très nombreuses gravures dans le texte, 7 cartes en couleurs et 11 gravures hors-texte, demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos lisse orné, tête dorée, couverture conservée (reliure de l'époque).
1774rif. PHO-2388Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, Hôtel de Thou, 1774-1785, 14 vol. in-8 (20x12,5cm). Basane porphyre poque, dos à nerfs avec pièces de titre, date du voyage et tomaison maroquin vert, triples filets aux plats, tranches cailloutées bleues. Coins usés, coiffes arasées, frottements, etc…, petite mouillure au t1. 2 tableaux dépliants au tome 3 du 3ème voyage.
1841rif. 39808Paris, Clarey, 1841. In-8 de (4)-III-259 pp. maroquin vert, dos orné à nerfs, triple filet doré d’encadrement sur les plats, dentelle intérieure dorée, tranches dorées sur marbrure, non rogné (Brany).
rif. LBW-3945[1812]. 763 x 503 mm.
rif. LBW-3946[1812]. 501 x 748 mm.
rif. LBW-3958[1812]. 375 x 482 mm.
rif. LBW-3948[1812]. 754 x 495 mm.
1855rif. 22345Paris A. Courcier [1855] in-8 (23 x 14,5 cm) percaline noire de l'éditeur, dos lisse et premier plat orné d'un décor polychrome, tranches dorées, dos passé, qqs rouss
1789rif. 41692Paris, Knapen fils, 1789. In-8 de (XVI)-136 pp., basane marbrée, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin citron (reliure de l'époque).
rif. 134831An unbroken run of the of Australia's premier contemporary art journal uniformly bound in 45 gilt-lettered half faux leather and cloth-bound volumes retaining the original card covers of the quarterly publication there was one double issue: Volume 14 Numbers 3 and 4 January to June 1977. In fine condition albeit lightly trimmed when bound. Copies of Volume 46 Numbers 1 and 2 in the original pictorial card covers as issued are included with the collection. unknown
1800rif. 144429London: Printed by Luke Hansard . and sold by John White 1800. Very Good. London Printed by Luke Hansard . and sold by John White 1800. An engraved map printed surface 498 × 585 mm sheet size approximately 560 × 690 mm engraved by W. Palmer. Folded as issued; old repaired tear near the stub just encroaching on the printed surface; some moderate foxing; in very good condition with ample margins. A map of Australia labelled 'New Holland' noting but not showing the 'Supposed New discov'd Straits' between Tasmania and the mainland Matthew Flinders and George Bass had discovered Bass Strait in 1798. Bound as issued in the fourth volume of Pennant's 'Outlines of the Globe' titled 'The View of the Malayan Isles New Holland and the Spicy Islands' quarto contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards; edges uncut; covers worn; in very good condition overall with pages 97-147 devoted to New Holland. See Ferguson 278; not in Tooley; Perry and Prescott 1800.11. Printed by Luke Hansard ... and sold by John White unknown
1925rif. 141101Adelaide: Publishers Limited 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Publishers Limited 1925 and 1927 first editions. Quarto two volumes 207 1 colophon and 263 pages with numerous portraits and illustrations from photographs. Matching original half maroon roan and cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and front covers; leather a little rubbed and scuffed with minor wear to the extremities and the head and foot of the spine of the first volume expertly renewed; cloth flecked mottled and a little marked; endpapers in the first volume a little tanned with the margins discoloured by the leather turn-ins; trifling signs of age and use; a very good set internally excellent of these rarely-seen first edition volumes. An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10 1923 and continued weekly until August 10 1927. During that period a total of 230 articles was published and the number of pastoralists to receive attention is in the neighbourhood of 300. No really representative pioneer sheep-farmer or cattle-breeder who operated in South Australia has been overlooked and in many cases it has been possible to retrieve from almost complete oblivion the interesting records of lesser lights' foreword to the second volume. A short article in 'The News' 8 July 1941 relating to a substantial gift of books and papers to the SA Archives by A.T. Saunders states in part that 'Among the books is a copy of the very rare first volume of Cockburn's "Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia"'. We recall reading in one of James Dally's catalogues in our early days in the late 1970s that many copies of the first volume of this work were destroyed in a fire. Although we cannot substantiate this fact in our experience it is indeed an absolute rarity. Provenance: Alexander Cockburn brother of the compiler of these volumes. The verso of the title page is inscribed 'To Alexander Cockburn from his son Malcolm as a Souvenir of the first fee received by him for his professional services Dec 1925'. At the foot of the foreword Malcolm has written 'The majority of the sketches herein were written by Rodney Cockburn brother of Alexander Cockburn'. 2 items. Publishers Limited hardcover
1906rif. 84574Adelaide 1906. Fair. Adelaide 1906 facsimile of Number 1 1878 facsimile of Number 2 and 1837 to 1840. Tabloid approximately 128 issues each generally 4 to 6 pages but Number 10 lacks the last leaf. Unbound as published more than half of them or disbound with some inner marginal blemishes; marginal stains to a few early issues; occasional signs of use and age; the first issue on acidic paper discoloured and brittle; overall in decent condition. The original first number was published in London the second one in Adelaide almost a year later. Although the originals of these two significant issues are not present in this run it must be said that ALL of these early issues of South Australia's first newspaper are utterly rare on the open market and the opportunity to purchase virtually all of the first three years' worth and more will probably not arise again. unknown
rif. 138947Very Good. Original gelatin silver photographs with the pairs of images printed as one plate 86 × 144 mm mounted on light yellow cards 98 × 178 mm uniformly printed and decorated on the verso 'Photographed by Edwin C. Thomas. Australasian Stereo Views'. Some have hand-written captions see below. Minimal signs of age and handling; overall in excellent condition. The 'Petersburg Times' on Friday 12 May 1893 contained a short article under the headline 'Photography'. 'It will be noted by our advertising columns that Mr Edwin C. Thomas has commenced business at Petersburg as a Photographer and thus another long felt local want has been filled. The Studio which is replete with the latest accessories to the photographic art is in Jervois Street opposite the Courthouse. Besides the ordinary work of the photographer Mr Thomas makes a specialty of stereoscopic views in which he is very successful. The prices quoted for photographs are extremely moderate whilst good work is assured. We believe there is a good opening for a photographer in the town and we hope Mr. Thomas may be successful in working up a thriving business. Farmers and others who would like their residences taken should communicate with him'. Thomas merely appears on the 'List of Names' compiled by Robert Noye AGSA. Davies and Stanbury simply note 'Edwin Thomas Petersburgh sic Peterborough South Australia 1894'. Institutional holdings of his works are almost non-existent: if Trove is any indicator the State Library of SA is the only location of any of his photographs with a grand total of two examples one of which is a battered stereo view of 'Stoney Creek near Quorn' B 78542. The 'Evening Journal' and the 'South Australian Register' both carry the following snippet on Tuesday 18 October 1892: 'From Mr. Edwin C. Thomas travelling photographer we have received six stereo views of South Australian scenes: two of the Burra Burra Mines and one each of the Kooringa State School Botanic Gardens Parkside Asylum and King William street. The workmanship is good and the pictures are attractive'. Ten of the stereographs in this collection have short captions in ink: nine are on the verso four of which have the same caption on the recto with the other five having some variant of it; one is captioned solely on the recto 'Mr Crocker's Farm'. In the main they confirm what is apparent from the scene and apart from a number in Adelaide King William Street Adelaide Arcade Parkside Lunatic Asylum several in the Botanic Gardens they depict scenes in Clare the interior of the Catholic Church at Seven Hills Orroroo Port Augusta Quorn Saltia Pichi Richi Pass and unidentified rural settings. One identifying S.A. Blondin walking a high wire in Quorn enables us to date it to the month and year. The 'Manning Index of South Australian History' online records that 'A photograph of "Blondin at Quorn" is in the Pictorial Australian on Monday 1st October 1894 page 169'. It is a slightly different image - Blondin seems to have taken a step or two forward and is now balancing on one leg - and the caption states 'With a Country Photographer - Blondin at Quorn. From a Negative by Mr. E. Thomas'. 17 items. unknown
rif. 146921The collection comprises: 1 A ring-bound folder containing nearly 100 designs for cap and blazer badges including 40 with mounted examples of the finished embroidered patches. The designs are full-scale pencil drawings some coloured and most with typed or manuscript details of the colours designs and materials e.g. 'Royal Blue Cap. Badge worked all gold'. Badges for schools predominate with some of the wealthier private schools calling for multiple designs. For instance St Peters College has different designs for: Colours Junior Second First and First for prefects tennis cap regular and for prefects house and school prefects rowing cap regular and for prefects and old scholars. Also well represented are sporting clubs mainly baseball and cricket including the South Australian Cricket Association as well as a small number of youth clubs fraternities and other societies. The mount leaves are pulled at the punched holes and a little stained and torn; one leaf is defective; overall an impressive and extraordinary collection. 2 Approximately 300 hand-cut stencils paper or card used to transfer designs to the fabric where they would then be worked over by skilled embroiderers using free-motion or 'Irish' embroidery machines. The stencils include many designs not in the sample book including company logos and many other school and association badges. Of particular note are several relating to the Australian military forces in the Second World War including two for a Royal Australian Air Force pilot's wings one pricked for pouncing one a cut stencil one for what appears to be a torpedoman's shoulder patch and one for the Red Cross Transport Service. Some are dated with the earliest noted being for the West Torrens Cricket Club South Australian Cricket Association premiers 1932-33; the latest date noted is 1940. Companies represented include General Motors-Holden GM-H Amscol Mastakraft itself Howells Electric Motors Amalgamated Airways and the Simson's Electric Light Company Cricket Club. Sporting clubs include the Port Adelaide Football Club and the MCC. 3 Four loose cloth patches one for the S.A. Emergency Fire Service H.Q. Reserve. 4 Half a dozen further pencil designs on paper one relating to the Royal Life Saving Society. A large quantity. unknown
1839rif. 144319London: John Arrowsmith 1839. Very Good. London John Arrowsmith 5 February 1839 second state/ 1838. A hand-coloured engraved map printed surface approximately 536 × 655 mm sheet size approximately 562 × 665 mm dissected into 18 panels and mounted on linen folding down to 188 × 113 mm with plain paper mounted on the two external surfaces. A few small spots; some very faint offsetting; unobtrusive marks and pencilling to the backing linen on the verso; an excellent copy. A very early map of the fledgling colony of South Australia with three inset maps showing: 1. The eastern coast of Gulf St. Vincent; 2. 'The City of Adelaide with the Acre Allotments numbered surveyed by Col. Light'; and 3. 'Sketch of Nepean Bay and Kingscote Harbour by Wm. Chesser'. 'Arrowsmith's Australian Maps' an online resource by Dorothy Prescott suggests this is the second state prior to the addition of a fourth inset map of Encounter Bay in the upper right-hand corner. Provenance: James Edge-Partington with his bookplate by Charles Praetorius on one of the external surfaces; afterwards Geoffrey Ingleton with the G. & N. Ingleton bookplate and the Ingleton Collection catalogue inkstamp and number 10415. John Arrowsmith unknown
1846rif. 139438London: T. and W. Boone 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London T. and W. Boone 1846. Octavo ii x 361 pages with 7 illustrations in the text 2 full-page plus 5 plates 4 tinted a map and a large folding hand-coloured map by John Arrowsmith printed surface 613 × 494 mm sheet size 683 × 530 mm in a pocket. Three additional advertisements from the publisher are tipped in namely: on the front endpaper 2 pages for J. Lort Stokes' expedition; before page 1 a slip printed recto only for Eyre; and on the rear flyleaf an 8-page catalogue for T. and W. Boone's 'Library of Australian Travels'. Original brown ribbed cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine with the sides decorated in blind; all edges uncut; cloth slightly chipped at the head of the spine with the joints slightly split now protected with a Mylar dustwrapper; folding map lightly offset and marked; plates and adjacent pages a little foxed and offset; stitching slightly strained near the centre of the textblock; a few other minor signs of age and handling; overall an excellent copy of a scarce work difficult to find in this condition and rarely found complete with the map. A presentation copy inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'Mrs T. Wilkinson with the authors kind regard'. Wantrup: 'Thomas & William Boone's Library of Australian Travels' page 81 this copy conforming with his Aii variant. Ferguson 4267. T. and W. Boone hardcover
1886rif. 106596Perth: Government Printer. 1886-1887. First editions folio three parts published 1886 and 1887. Original buff-coloured printed wraps laid over buff-coloured card with reinforcing tape to spine in the same colour pp i 118 7 ii 88. Lacks the top corner of the front cover small chip at bottom edge both restored. Water marks to the outside edge of the text block not affecting text. Much fainter marks to the wraps. Chips to the edges of rear wrap with some loss and amateur restoration. Pages toned. Clean. Very good condition. RARE. Reports presented to the Legislative Council. They include official dispatches return dispatches and supporting documents. Many of the documents are by or involve J.B. Gribble who was vocal in his criticism of the treatment of Aborigines and published "Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land" also in 1886. The official papers arose during intense public and political debate over frontier violence institutionalized imprisonment including the deaths of Aboriginal prisoners at Rottnest and conditions amounting to unfree labor or near-slavery in northern industries like pearling Broome and pastoral work. The "Papers respecting the treatment of Aboriginal natives" are very important documents in the history of Western Australia. 1st Edition. Paper Wraps. Government Printer paperback
rif. 83654First Edition. Hardcover. The prints 195 × 245 mm or the reverse in uniformly fine condition are tipped in on album leaves rectos only; these are cord-bound into the cloth-covered album now slightly rubbed and marked. They are all individually captioned and signed 'Hugo Keil ARPS' in pencil on the wide bottom margins; undated but we suggest the early 1940s. The Northern Territory Archive Service has an album containing the same twenty-five images captioned but apparently unsigned. The catalogue record for that album NTRS 3050 states that 'Hugo Keil was a photographer who worked at the Appropriation Ledger Section of the Allied Works Council in Alice Springs during the Second World War. Hugo gave this wonderful album of Central Australian images to Phyllis Prideaux later Johnson which has come into NTAS as part of the Phyllis Johnson collection. Hugo took many photographs of Central Australian scenes including images of Mount Gillen the Hugh River Palm Valley and the Spotted Tiger Mine at Harts Range'. An article in the 'Barrier Miner' 28 October 1938 makes mention of a forthcoming 'exhibition of Bromoil Prints by Hugo Keil of the Crown Studios Adelaide' and a review in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' 21 August 1940 of The Adelaide Camera Club's exhibition of pictorial photography notes that 'Hugo Keil shows fine timber sharply etched in "Grandeur of the North"'. hardcover
1962rif. 1455901962. Fine. 1962. Two vintage gelatin silver photographs visible image size 237 × 187 mm matted glazed and framed to match external dimensions 366 × 306 mm. Both photographs and frames are in fine condition. Dame Roma Mitchell 1913-2000 was Australia's first female Queen's Counsel judge university chancellor and state governor among other achievements. Mitchell was particularly proud of her appointment as Queen's Counsel in September 1962 considering it a highlight of her career and these fine portrait photographs must have been commissioned to mark this occasion. Both show her in court dress against an identical backdrop and with similar props. In one she wears her everyday bar wig and bands and in the other she wears full ceremonial dress with lace jabot and cuffs and full-bottomed wig worn only on formal occasions. Mitchell's appointment attracted scant media attention but an article in 'The Australian Women's Weekly' on 10 October 1962 makes more ado of her new full-dress regalia than it does of her already-distinguished legal career and pioneering advocacy of women's causes: 'Miss Mitchell an easy-to-talk-to elegantly dressed woman of 48 is tall and will wear full dress with distinction'. For women QCs 'full dress is laid down thus: "Coat made of black superfine cloth in the same style as a man's coat except that it should not be skirted but instead be short as in a lady's ordinary suit . black flexible buttons. Plain white blouse . lace frill and ruffles at wrist. Plain black skirt of superfine cloth. Black silk stockings . black patent-leather ladies' court shoes . cut-steel buckles. Black silk gown . full bottomed wig . black silk "wig-bag" . white gloves"'. The State Library of South Australia holds examples of both images PRG 778/57/5 and PRG 778/57/6 but does not identify the photographer. 2 items. unknown
rif. 141099Original sepia-toned albumen paper photograph 158 × 210 mm unmounted as issued; in fine condition. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 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'. 'Sweet Adelaide ' is inscribed in the negative the three-digit reference number is cropped but it appears to be 442 or 443; 'Poonindie native mission school' is written in pencil on the verso. The Art Gallery of South Australia and the State Library of Victoria also have an example of this print. There are several differences between all these three examples: they are different enlargements; the AGSA example does not have the photographer's credit in the negative; the SLV example does but the negative is printed in reverse. 'Captain Sweet's Colonial Imagination - The Ideals of Modernity in South Australian Views Photography 1866-1886' by Karen Magee a 2014 University of Adelaide doctoral thesis accessible online records that Sweet visited Poonindie in 1884. Magee reproduces the AGSA photograph in her extensive catalogue see number 820. unknown
1879rif. 123987Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original publisher's half morocco and watered cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments; edges and endpapers marbled; leather moderately rubbed at the extremities; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. Provenance: John Harris Browne 1817-1904 expeditioner and pastoralist with his contemporary ownership signature 'J.H. Browne 1879' on the front flyleaf. 'In 1844-45 he went as medical officer with Charles Sturt's expedition into Central Australia. Unusually observant and intensely practical he was probably the most useful member of the party and although he suffered like the others from scurvy his courage and professional skill certainly brought Sturt back alive' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant pastoralist and a grandson of George Fife Angas is mounted on the front pastedown. The marginal annotation in pencil on page 212 alongside text relating to body painting of the 'Port Lincoln Tribe' may be in his hand: 'The White paint is Gypsum the Black is the Black Oxide of Manganese the Red is Hematite viz Red Iron ore'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1840rif. 53792Sydney: W.A. Duncan Australasian Chronicle Office 1840. Australian Criminal Trial A rare trial account of a peculiar though perhaps an oddly-justified assault in Australia in 1840. "James Mudie had in his book THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES reflected upon the capacity of Kinchela's father in his office as judge. The younger Kinchela waited for Mudie who had recently returned to the colony and administered many lashes one witness said 50 with a horsewhip. The defence was that Mudie well deserved what he got as a common libeller and that Judge Kinchela was now aged and unable to take his own part. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of £50 - one pound for each stroke" - Ferguson. Some might call the horsewhipping a simple case of frontier justice. Together Ferguson and OCLC locate only five copies all in Australia. Dbd. Small close tear to titlepage no text affected minor toning some loose leaves. Good. FERGUSON 3104. OCLC 220294602. unknown
