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1860réf. 135299London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1860. 'Small pica 16mo' unpaginated. Original full morocco all edges gilt; leather a little rubbed at the extremities with a small glass-ring on the front cover; some foxing throughout; mild signs of age and use including a dried sprig of maidenhair fern loosely inserted at one opening; in very good condition. The front free endpaper is signed by John McDouall Stuart at the foot of the following inscription: 'Presented to me Henry Nathaniel Phillips by John McDouall Stuart on board of the Ship "Indus" on her pasage sic from South Australia to London in 1864'. Written on the verso in another hand is '"Ask and it shall be given you". Matt 7th - 7.v'. The book has the contemporary blindstamp of the Adelaide booksellers W.C. Rigby 53 Hindley St Adelaide on the top corner of the rear free endpaper. We would like to think the book was purchased in Adelaide inscribed with a most apposite Biblical text and given to Stuart prior to his departure from Adelaide in late 1861 on his ultimately successful sixth expedition across the continent and back. However in many ways it was a Pyrrhic victory: 'Ill with scurvy and nearly blind Stuart had to be carried on a stretcher slung between two horses; recovering sufficiently to ride by the time they reached Mount Margaret on 26 November he pushed on with three of the party and arrived in Adelaide on 17 December 1862. On a public holiday on 21 January 1863 crowds lined the streets amid banners strung from buildings. He was awarded £2000 though allowed only the interest from it and his party received £1500 between them. White-haired exhausted and nearly blind Stuart decided to visit his sister in Scotland and sailed in April 1864. He later went to London. His claims for a greater reward from the South Australian government led to another £1000 again with only the interest. His "Explorations in Australia. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart" was edited by W. Hardman and published in 1864. He died of ramolissement and cerebral effusion on 5 June 1866 aged only 50 in London and was buried in the Kensal Green cemetery. He has remained a lonely and independent figure with a fierce pride. His reputation as a heavy drinker has led detractors to minimize his achievements even to the extent of doubting that he reached the Indian Ocean in 1862' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Surprisingly apart from this singularly personal gift from Stuart Henry Nathaniel Phillips has left no other trace of his existence that we can find. George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
réf. 64089London: The West Australian Gold Fields Limited 29 St. Swithins Lane. Printers: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Ltd. c.1895. Original colour-printed map overall 63 x 65 cm backed onto linen. Shows the Murchison Yilgarn Coolgardie and Dundas goldfields. With separate map of the Murchison goldfield with the addition of the Yalgoo goldfield on a separate slip 22 x 22 cm stating 'Whilst the map was in the press another goldfield - the Yalgoo - was proclaimed.and this slip has been prepared to show the new goldfield and the consequent subdivision of the Murchison field 30th March 1895'. Signs of old restored creases mainly to lower half and outer margins; the slip map browned and backed with archival tissue the top left corner clipped signs of old tears across the centre withal very good for such an ephemeral item. Shows the prospector's routes: Gregory 1846 Roe 1848 Dempster 1863 Giles 1875 Forest 1877 Lindsay 1891 Carnegie 1894 London: The West Australian Gold Fields Limited, 29 St. Swithins Lane. Printers: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Ltd. [c.1895]. unknown
1812réf. 133915Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1812. Very Good. Paris Imprimerie Royale 1812 second issue/ 1811. An engraved map 'Gravé par P.A.F. Tardieu . Ecrit par Giraldon et Lale' matted framed and glazed visible image size surface 510 × 760 mm; external dimensions approximately 725 × 980 mm. Vertical centrefold crease as issued; paper a little tanned with some offsetting and a few spots of foxing; in excellent condition not examined out of the frame. One of the earliest published charts of the South Australian coastline compiled by Louis de Freycinet on the Baudin voyage 1800-1803. It includes the complete coastline of Kangaroo Island which was first circumnavigated and fully charted by the French on this voyage Matthew Flinders had charted its north coast a short time previously. The charming engraved vignettes of Australian wildlife are after drawings by Charles Alexandre Lesueur. This example is from the scarce second issue published as Plate 10 of the imperial folio atlas to the 'Partie navigation et géographie' volumes of the official account of the expedition 'Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes' 1812. It had previously appeared as Plate 2 in the second part of the atlas to the 'Historique' volumes published in 1811 Tooley 611. Tooley does not appear to list this issue but does list a subsequent state twice as 414 and 633 which includes a price at the bottom right and the reference 'Hyd. Fr. N° 636' next to the plate number. Imprimerie Royale unknown
1876réf. 23907Boston: Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. 1876. First edition. This scarce tinted lithograph was issued to commemorate the escape of Irish political prisoners from Fremantle W.A. on April 17th 1876. The Fenians are shown rowing towards the bark which is under full sail. The Catalpa is flying a flag with the initials "J T R" - for John T Richardson the ship's agent. A pennant with the letter C the Fenian flag and the American flag are also flying. The police boat is in hot pursuit and the British steamship "Georgette" is steaming in from a distance. Among the Fenians freed in this effort was John Boyle O'Reilly who became a leading citizen in Boston and was later to edit the 'Boston Pilot'. Captain George Anthony an American whaling captain out of New Bedford Massachusetts recruited a crew for this mission and set sail for Western Australia where two Fenian agents John Breslin and Tom Desmond had already established themselves with aliases. With several delays the day for the escape was set for the 17th of April when most of the convict garrison was distracted by watching the Perth Yacht Club regatta. Captain Anthony who refused to surrender the escaped prisoners to the British later sold his story to Zephaniah W. Pease who published the account in 'The Catalpa Expedition'. See also Laubenstein 'The Emerald Whaler'. On its arrival in New York in August of 1876 the Catalpa was met with great crowds; jubilant celebrations were held in the US and Ireland. 17 x 13" on paper 22 x 14 1/4". For information on the artist E. N. Russell see Blasdale Artists of New Bedford pp 160-161; Kendall Prints 28; Ingalls 318. OCLC: 191908718 1 copy at the Boston Athenaeum. Trove 45254 at the Australian National Maritime Museum; and 57714676 at the State Library of Western Australia. Professionally deacidified. In very good condition. A rare print important for its depiction of an important Western Australian colonial event. Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. unknown
1940réf. 180936Adelaide: 20 July 1940. We're off to see the inland; the wonderful inland of Aust! A personal album kept by the Australian opera singer Una Rosalind Hale. It documents the trip she and 11 other schoolgirls took on 9 May 1940 travelling by train from Port Pirie to Alice Springs and the aboriginal community of Hermannsburg. They were given a tour of Alice Springs by Reverend Harry Griffiths who designed and opened the ANZAC Hill Memorial. Hale 1922-2005 was born in Adelaide to the Unitarian minister George Ernest Hale. This album dates from her education at Adelaide Methodist Ladies' College. As she describes on page 1 the girls were accompanied by their headmistress and four teachers on a train journey to the Australian inland. The photographs show their stopovers at Port Augusta Marree and Coward Springs where they posed for photographs outside the train and with aboriginal people. Hale moved to Britain in 1946 to study at the Royal College of Music. "On leaving the college she joined the Carl Rosa Opera Company and quickly established herself in such roles as Marguerite Faust Violetta La traviata Micaela Carmen Mimì La bohème and Donna Anna Don Giovanni invariably with success. Of a disastrous production of Tannhäuser The Times wrote: 'The one redeeming feature was the Elisabeth of Una Hale.'" The Times. She then joined the Covent Garden Company in 1954 and starred as Ariadne in the Australian premiere of Araidne auf Naxos in 1962. Once in Alice Springs the group were given a tour by Reverend Harry Griffiths and his wife Dorothy shown on pages 14 and 31. The album contains shots of the church and the manse where they stayed as well as the countryside and the missionary trips they performed. These include to Todd River Hermannsburg Palm Valley Standley Chasm and Simpson's Gap. One spread contains four photographs of a place they named "MLC Rock" and another contains a photograph of two girls riding a camel "with a steadfast and a strong intent fearful of the consequences". The two loose photographs show the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the AMP Building once Australia's tallest building completed in 1962. Oblong folio 190 x 276 mm. With 84 gelatin silver photographs mostly 63 x 85 mm snapshots landscape or portrait photographic postcard halftone photographic illustration colour newspaper clipping colour manuscript map all corner-mounted on card leaves with manuscript captions. Two additional gelatin silver commercial photographs loosely inserted. Contemporary crocodile skin-textured boards black string binding with tassle light brown textured lining. Binding a little worn photographs generally bright with some toning slight silvering to postcard: a very good example. "Una Hale: Australian lyric soprano who shone in the 1950s and 1960s" The Times 12 March 2005. hardcover
1800réf. PHO-1086Texte In-8 (200 x 130 mm) Relié demi-basane, dos orné pièce de titre et de tomaison ,T1 manque coiffe sup.,T2 ,manque coiffes, papier bruni. 440 pp et 332 pp suivi de 109 pp de vocabulaire et table des planches contenues dans l’atlas, table des chapitres du volume et errata. ATLAS Atlas pour servir à la relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l’Assemblée constituante, Pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et 2eme année de la République Française. Paris : H. J. Jansen, An VIII de la République (1800). — In-folio, 510 x 335 : titre, 1 carte, 43 planches. Demi toile , dos lisse avec titre , planches 6 détachée et 35 détachée et émargée , dédicace «à Mr V. Rey, secrétaire général de la Nouvelle Calédonie,1903»
1744réf. 133907London: Printed for T. Woodward and others 1744. Very Good. London Printed for T. Woodward and others 1744. A hand-coloured engraved map visible image size 372 × 483 mm recently mounted and matted just outside the printed border using archival materials visible image size 372 × 483 mm external mat size 545 × 643 mm ready for framing or long-term storage in its custom-made Mylar sleeve. A long sealed clean tear to the blank area in the bottom right-hand corner mainly along the crease of the original fold; light central vertical crease; a few small insignificant light marks; in very good condition. The first dedicated English map of Australia originally issued as part of the second edition of John Harris's 'Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels' London 1744-1748; 'Vol. 1 page 325' is printed in the top right-hand corner. Clancy 'So They Came South' pages 136-37; Clancy 'Mapping of Terra Australis' page 91; Tooley 241: 'A reissue of Thevenot's map of 1663 but with title as above within cartouche bottom right. Bowen inserts the Tropic of Capricorn and two long legends. The first one is very exactly copied from the original . The second legend is a long laudatory account of the presumed riches of Terra Australis'. Printed for T. Woodward (and others) unknown
réf. 123505Very Good. Folio five documents approximately 387 × 240 mm each each being a bifolium centrefold blank last page docketed; the first page in each instance contains a small hand-coloured diagram of the block showing the orientation of the land a paper-over-wax impressed seal and the signature of Governor George Gawler as Resident Commissioner and Alfred Miller Mundy as Private Secretary dated 16 July 1840. Three horizontal creases when the documents are folded thus the docketed portion of the last page becomes visible on one of the exposed panels; a few tiny marginal chips; one document has a short split along one fold and its outer panels when folded are a little tanned; trifling signs of age; overall all five documents are in very good condition. The consecutively numbered land grants 1037 to 1041 are for 'Eighty acres numbered 957 to 961 in the Provincial Survey marked with the Letter C' purchased by 'George Frederick Dashwood Esquire Royal Navy Forest Lodge Bracknell Berks'. The purchase price of £80 per section is not shown; all five documents have the word 'Duplicate' in ink in a contemporary hand at the head of the first page and they have a slightly different title to examples we have seen where purchase prices are recorded 'Land Grant under Preliminary Sales in England and Partial Purchase in the Province'. Lieutenant George Frederick Dashwood RN 1806-1881 . 'was a naval officer public servant and politician in South Australia. He was appointed an acting member of the Legislative Council of South Australia serving from June 1843 to June 1844. He entered the Royal Naval College Dartmouth in 1819 and served 1832-1833 under Captain C. H. Fremantle on HMS "Challenger" noted for earlier 1829 claiming all of New Holland west of New South Wales for the Crown. He was commissioned lieutenant in December 1833 later served on the survey vessel "Sulphur". Dashwood suffered terribly from rheumatism and was retired on half pay. Dashwood married Sarah Rebecca Loine on 27 December 1839 in a Catholic church in London. They arrived in South Australia aboard "Orissa" in November 1841. He purchased an estate 5 miles 8 km west of Meadows named Dashwood's Gully. He and Sarah married again in a civil ceremony for reasons of bureaucratic convenience. In 1844 he applied for partial remission of the purchase price of the land by virtue of his naval service. This was initially refused but granted in 1850 after much argument. In 1842 he was appointed justice of the peace and sworn in as magistrate and on 15 June 1843 he was appointed to the Legislative Council holding this position until July 1844 when he resigned and apart from a public meeting at which he protested against the proposed settlement in the colony of a contingent of Parkhurst boys he took no part in public life until November 1846 when he was reappointed JP and in April 1847 he was made Acting Commissioner of Police and Police Magistrate. Two years later he was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate for Port Adelaide. In October 1850 he was appointed Police Commissioner a position he held until January 1852 when he was appointed Collector of Customs succeeding later Sir R.R. Torrens. In July 1858 he was appointed Emigration Agent in Great Britain and apart from a visit in May 1861 was in England until late 1862 when the office was abolished and served as Stipendiary Magistrate in various places including Mount Barker and Strathalbyn. In 1875 he was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate for Port Adelaide and Edithburgh. He held this post until around 1880' Wikipedia. 'From Almanda to United States: Lost Localities in the City of Onkaparinga' consulted online records more specifically that Dashwood 'had purchased sections 955 956 957 958 959 960 and 961 in the Hundred of Kuitpo in 1840 while still living in Berkshire' that Dashwood Gully had a post office and a school which operated from 1863 to 1869 and that the area continued to be known as Dashwood Gully until at least the 1950s. George Gawler 1795-1869 was South Australia's second governor. 'Disputes between the first governor Captain Sir John Hindmarsh and the resident commissioner Sir James Fisher over their respective jurisdictions had retarded the colony's development so the two offices were combined in Gawler. Thus as governor he became representative of the Colonial Office in the province and as resident commissioner representative of the non-governmental Colonization Commission which was responsible for the control of land sales for applying the proceeds to the emigration of labourers and for raising loans until such time as the colony had sufficient revenue to support itself. On 12 October 1838 Gawler with his wife and five children arrived in Adelaide in the "Pestonjee Bomanjee" and found conditions far worse than he had been led to expect. The most urgent necessity he believed was to promote rural settlement. He persuaded Charles Sturt to accept the post of surveyor-general and until he could assume office Gawler himself took charge of the Survey Department reorganizing it and conducting preliminary explorations. He also hired every available surveyor including some of Light's former officers. In October 1839 to his dismay he was ordered to dismiss them. The commissioners had appointed Lieutenant Edward Frome as surveyor-general and sent him out with a party of sappers. Gawler solved the problem by amalgamating the two forces feeling justified by the increasing volume of land sales. In 1839 over 170000 acres 68797 ha were sold'. Gawler produced results: within twelve months 200000 acres had been surveyed and by May 1841 mapping of 7000 square miles had been completed and over 500000 acres divided into sections. These rare land grants are evidence of Gawler's energy and zeal. Unhappily for him history was about to repeat itself: his 'major weakness was his complete failure to understand political realities. His recall and his successor Captain Sir George Grey arrived together on 10 May 1841' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Alfred Miller Mundy 1809-1877 has his own claims to fame as well. He 'enlisted in the army and was stationed in Sydney in November 1827 when he was promoted . to lieutenant. He was appointed a Magistrate in Tasmania in March 1835 and as Justice of the Peace in 1837. He resigned his commission in 1839 but was later commonly referred to as "Lieutenant Mundy". On 11 July 1839 Mundy John Bourke and Joseph Hawdon set out from Melbourne for Adelaide Mundy and Bourke on a light tandem and Hawdon on horseback following the route taken by Charles Bonney via Portland Bay and the Glenelg River. They arrived in Adelaide exactly a month later and estimated it could easily be done in half that time. He joined with Edward Bate Scott and Edward John Eyre who had a scheme to purchase and transport livestock from Adelaide to the Swan River Colony now Perth aboard chartered ships as far as King George's Sound then the only deepwater harbor in Western Australia and then drive them overland to Perth. On 30 January 1840 they loaded some stock onto the schooner "Minerva" and a few days later the remainder onto the barque "Cleveland". Eyre sailed aboard "Minerva" while Mundy was aboard the "Cleveland". The stock consisted of 1700 sheep which included over 1000 ewes and 450 lambs 6 horses and 100 cattle. They achieved good prices in Perth and would have made a tidy profit except many sheep and cattle died on the track in Western Australia ascribed to their eating poisonous plants. On 3 April 1840 Eyre and Mundy were elected honorary members of the WA Agricultural Society. They arrived back in Adelaide aboard "Minerva" in May 1840. Mundy was appointed acting Clerk of the Legislative Council in June 1840 and Private Secretary to the newly appointed Governor Grey in May 1841. He was appointed by the Governor to the Legislative Council on 15 June 1843 originally as a non-official appointee then as Colonial Secretary from 15 June 1848 to 14 June 1849 when he returned to England on leave of absence. His brother Edward Miller Mundy who was MP for the constituency of South Derbyshire had died childless on 29 January 1849 and Alfred resigned on succeeding to the family estate which included lucrative coal mines. He was Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1855 and a JP and DL for that county and a JP for Nottinghamshire. He died on 30 March 1877 while on holiday in Nice' Wikipedia. These documents indicate Mundy was also private secretary to Governor Gawler by mid-July 1840 little more than two months after he arrived in Adelaide. He was successful in securing another important government contract too: less than a year later on 5 June 1841 he married Jane Hindmarsh 1814-1874 the eldest daughter of the colony's first governor John Hindmarsh. He had been recalled by the Colonial Office and he sailed for England on 14 July 1838. The 'recall was not considered a disgrace either in Adelaide or at the Colonial Office' and he 'had high hopes of reinstatement and left his wife in Adelaide. she married off her daughters with enviable success: in July 1840 Mary to G.M. Stephen a cousin of James Stephen at the Colonial Office and in July sic 1841 Jane to Alfred Miller Mundy a cousin of the earl of Lincoln. Mrs Hindmarsh also managed the sale of her husband's land to such effect that her account of £12000 was by far the largest in the Adelaide branch of the Bank of Australasia when she left to rejoin her husband in 1841' after he was appointed governor of Heligoland in 1840 ADB. 5 items. unknown
1846réf. 25916Paris: French Admiralty chart 1846. Very rare early map of the south west coast of Western Australia just 17 years after the founding of the colony. The map covers much of the Western Australian coast from the Dampier Archipelago in the north Broome Exmouth Gulf Shark Bay Perth Geographe Bay Cape Leeuwin Albany all the way to Port Lincoln in South Australia. To our knowledge the only copy held in an Australian institution is at the State Library of Western Australia. It is not recorded in the collection of National Library of Australia collection nor other Australian institutions. It is very interesting for the early inland detail. The areas around Perth and Fremantle are shown extending inland to Beverley York Bejoording Toodjoy and Northam on the Swan River with the Swan Avon & Moore Rivers. There are 4 insets: Plan de la entree de la Riviere Cygnes Swan River et de l'Ile Rottnest J. L. Stokes; Plan de Port Grey nomme aussi Baie Champion Captain Wickham Plan du Havre Peel dans la Baie Warnbro Lieut. J. S. Roe Plan de la Baie Warnbro J.S. Roe. Coastal features include Baie de l'Esperence; Houtmann's Abrolhos; Albany north east of Albany a mountain described as "Montagne escarpee visible a 10 lieues"; Golfe Exmouth with a prominent Cape Nord Ouest. Depth soundings are taken all around the coast. Daussy maps are rare. The State Library of Western Australia holds two. Their copy of this map bears the "Prix deux francs" lower right; with an applied printed chart sellers label from P. Sauvat Bordeaux below the rule on the lower right. They also hold the following: "Carte des mers Australes partie comprise entre les méridiens du Cap de Bonne Espérance et du Port du Roi Georges" cartographic material / dressée par M. Daussy Ingénieur Hydrographe en Chef ; gravé par Jacobs ; écrit par J.M. Hacq. MAPR0000018. This map is recorded as Tooley 1470 and Libraries Australia ID 23501679 which calls it "Rare". Centered below the margin - Ecrit de J. M. Hacq Grave par Jacobs lower left Noo. 1111 in upper right margin. Printed area 34.5 x 23.25" with very large margins 40 1/4 x 27 1/2". Backed with tissue on the center fold and margin edges supporting some small closed tears. In magnificent condition overall. An extremely rare map especially in this condition. French Admiralty chart unknown
1851réf. 28279Adelaide: Penman & Galbraith 1851. Print. An extraordinarily rare set of four of S. T. Gill's Adelaide views no. 1-3 i.e. Views in Adelaide No. 1. Hindley Street from King William St.; No. 2. Hindley Street Looking East; No. 3 Rundle Street Looking East; with a variant second copy of No. 3 which is black & white. The images are held at the Art Gallery of South Australia; the State Library of New South Wales the National Library of Australia and some a the City of Adelaide. There are tinted lithographs some with a tinted border others not and black & white lithographs as well. The street images appear to be the same in all the recorded prints consistent with these four- there are some minor variations which are noted. The three tinted lithographs are mounted on polished cloth. The period cloth mounting is unusual. It is not known if these were a reference set or perhaps proofs. Views in Adelaide No. 1./ Hindley Street from King William St./ Published by Penman & Galbraith Adelaide/ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G 1851. Tinted plate with no tinted border outline. Image 17.5 x 22.5 on paper 18 x 23.5 cm. AGSA 684G11; SLNSW nmQdoR5n. SLNSW image has tan border outline this copy does not. Mounted on cream cloth trimmed outside the catty corners with margins. Views in Adelaide No. 2./ Hindley Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G indistinct date. Tinted plate with a faint tinted border outline. Image 18 x 23.1 cm on paper 18.3 x 24 cm. AGSA 684G12; SLNSW 9PQ8kDxn; Nat Lib ID 7566602 Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3544/B. Slt. foxing on left lower margin. Mounted on saffron cloth trimmed outside the catty corners with margins. Views in Adelaide No. 3/ Rundle Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G 1851 S inverted. Tinted plate with tinted border outline. Image 18 x 22.8 on paper 18.2 x 23.4 cm. AGSA B 2430; SLNSW Yj7djR39 for 3 print set which is colored and without border outlines. Mounted on saffron cloth trimmed outside the catty corners with margins. Views in Adelaide No. 3/ Rundle Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G 1851 S inverted. Black and white plate with no tinted border outline. Image 18 x 22.2 on paper 20.9 x 25.8 cm. AGSA B 2430; NLA Lib ID 7566601 Nan Kivell NK3544/C. Printed on cream paper some watermarks. A rare set of images by one of the master artists of this period in Australia. Penman & Galbraith unknown
réf. 129361First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A folio ledger 330 × 205 mm with information on the hotels on approximately 130 pages plus a further 90 or so letters documents notes floor plans and maps pinned to leaves or loosely inserted. Half calf and cloth; minor signs of external wear; trifling signs of handling to some of the inserted paperwork; overall in excellent condition. The Lion Brewing and Malting Company in North Adelaide was founded in 1884 and floated in 1888 the same year as the South Australian Brewing Company Limited 'in order to secure the brewing hotel and property assets of Beaglehole and Johnston . The company owned many hotels in South Australia' Wikipedia. 'The Register' on 24 April 1914 reported that 'At the Lion Brewery North Adelaide which has been in existence for many years the last brew of beer has been made. The company who owns it has arranged with the Walkerville Brewing Company to supply all its houses in future and a contract has been entered into with the Lion Company to supply the other with malt'. When Lion was eventually taken over by the SA Brewing Company in 1973 'The Canberra Times' 1 August 1973 noted that 'Lion's name is misleading as it operates in the hotel trade and not in the brewing field. It owns 25 hotel freeholds in SA and recently agreed to pay $550000 for the 50% interest of the estate of F.S. Sison deceased in six hotels'. When both these companies - the Lion and the SA Brewing Company - entered the industry in the 1880s 'it was common practice for breweries wishing to protect and expand their trade to do so by obtaining control over as many retail outlets as their finances would permit. The tenants of theses outlets hotels were required by contract to stock only the products of the brewer owner. Investment of hotels therefore was conceived and practised essentially as an aid to protect and expand brewery output. The return by way of rents was of secondary importance and was usually much below the yields available from alternative invests' Michael Cudmore: 'History of the South Australian Brewing Company Limited' page 33. The Trade Practices Act 1974 made illegal this very lucrative 'tied house' system. This unique register gathers together in one volume a wealth of fascinating detail relating to this system pertaining to approximately 60 hotels across the state. Country localities include Elliston Hamley Bridge Goolwa Jamestown Kingston Maitland Narracoorte Port Augusta Port Lincoln Rivoli Bay Saddleworth and Stockport. Many of the city and suburban hotels are still familiar names: the Bath Britannia British Cremorne Cross Keys Land of Promise Mitcham Inn Oxford Royal Oak Talbot Union Walker's Arms and Wheatsheaf. hardcover
réf. 98413Babbage was 'engineer scientist and explorer . son of Charles Babbage Cambridge professor of mathematics and the first computer pioneer and his wife Georgina sister of W.W. Whitmore a founder of South Australia. In 1856 Babbage was sent north to search for gold as far as the Flinders Ranges. He found none but discovered the MacDonnell River Blanchewater and Mount Hopeful. He was the first to dispel the current idea of the impassability of the Lake Torrens "horseshoe" . In late 1857 he was appointed leader of a northern expedition. Babbage left in February 1858 to explore the country between Lakes Torrens and Gairdner and further to the north and west. His concept of exploration was based on thorough survey mapping and examination of the country ideals with which Francis Dutton commissioner of crown lands agreed in his instructions and early correspondence. With cumbrous and ingenious equipment Babbage carried out the first part hampered by bad terrain and lack of water. But he had no sense of urgency and was thus completely out of tune with the current concept of opening up new country for quick exploitation. His slowness led to public and parliamentary clamour to which Dutton later succumbed and sent Peter Egerton Warburton to supersede him. Meanwhile Babbage had moved north from the Elizabeth River discovered Hermit Hill and delineated the western shores of Lake Eyre South. There Warburton relieved him on 5 November. Based on his experiences of 1856 Babbage also believed in a gap in the "horseshoe" and at Hermit Hill confirmed his belief. He had actually crossed the gap but Warburton was the first to traverse it completely. On grounds of unfair treatment Babbage successfully petitioned for a parliamentary inquiry. In 1858-59 voluminous evidence was taken but no report issued. He then withdrew from public life until 1866. In 1870-72 Charles Todd employed Babbage as an assistant in planning and plotting the Overland Telegraph line and as a supervisor of contractors. His achievements as an explorer were notable but the accompanying controversy tended unduly to overshadow them and his attainments in other fields' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Indeed 'the reports from the expedition were . a significant prelude to Stuart's successful crossing of the continent from south to north' in 1861-62 The Davidson Collection Third Sale July 2007 lot 565. This lengthy preamble should help explain the connection between the following eleven foolscap folio Parliamentary Papers relating to Benjamin Babbage published in Adelaide by the Government Printer in 1858 and 1859. 1 Northern Exploration. Reports &c of Explorations into the Interior by Messrs. Babbage Warburton Geharty and Parry. SAPP25/1858; 51 pages plus 2 large folding maps. 2 Northern Exploration. Further Correspondence respecting the Exploring Party under Command of Mr. Babbage. SAPP25/1858; 6 pages. 3 Cost of Northern Exploration. SAPP36/1858; 1 page. 4 Northern Exploration. Correspondence between the Hon. the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Commissioner of Police Major Peter Egerton Warburton relative to the Progress of the Northern Exploring Parties. SAPP127/1858; 4 pages. 5 Northern Explorations. Reports from Messrs Babbage and Warburton and Police-Trooper Burtt on Exploration into the North and North-Western Interior of South Australia. SAPP151/1858; 19 pages plus 3 maps 2 folding. 6 Petition of B.H. Babbage. SAPP154/1858; 1 page. 7 Northern Exploration. Letter with Enclosure from Major Warburton relative to Exploration in the Neighborhood of Lake Torrens. SAPP159/1858; 3 pages. 8 Northern Exploration. Correspondence between the Honourable the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Major Warburton relative to the Northern Exploration. SAPP166/1858; 6 pages. 9 Cost of Northern Explorations. SAPP20/1859; 1 page. 10 Minutes of Evidence taken by the Select Committee appointed to enquire into and report on the Petition of B.H. Babbage. SAPP21/1859; 63 pages. 11 Northern Exploration. Correspondence between the Government and Messrs. Babbage and Warburton relative to Northern Explorations. SAPP37/1859; 2 pages. As often with these Parliamentary Papers relating to expeditions the maps are a constant source of pleasure. The best one in this group is one of the large folding maps in SAPP25/1858: 'Sketch of the Country North of the Gawler Ranges' 324 × 485 mm. It is a lithographed map printed in two colours in an unusual manner blue on the left red on the right: 'The portion in Blue is taken from a Plan supplied by Major Warburton. The portion in Red is taken from a Drawing supplied by Mr Babbage'. These parliamentary papers printed on blue stock have been neatly removed from several bound volumes; essentially they are in uniformly fine condition ideal candidates for preservation in a more appropriate binding. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Numbers 25 25 36 127 151 154 159 and 166 of 1858 and 20 21 and 37 of 1859 McLaren 4981-4983 16481 4984-4986 16485 16486 4987 and 4988 respectively. Items 16481 16485 and 16486 are listed under Warburton only and not Babbage as well. We suggest they should be there; we have called them 4983A 4986A and 4986B in our annotated copy of the bibliography. Offered together with a related item Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1859 'Report on the Plants collected during Mr Babbage's Expedition into the North-Western Interior of South Australia in 1858' by Ferdinand Mueller foolscap folio 21 pages stab-sewn and uncut as issued; a fine copy albeit with minor infill to the bottom corner of the first two leaves. McLaren 13749. The complete suite of Parliamentary Papers relating to Babbage's 1858 Northern Exploring Expedition and its aftermath is very rare; for example the exceptional collection of Rodney Davidson contained only six of the above twelve items which sold in four lots to the one buyer for $5360 in 2007. 12 items. unknown
réf. 137300Fine. Octavo 4 pages a bifolium on the crested notepaper of Parliament House Melbourne in the original envelope marked 'Personal' and addressed in Deakin's hand to 'The Honourable Sir J. Langdon Bonython C.M.G. Carclew Adelaide' contemporary Melbourne postmark; stamp removed. Letter folded in half for posting; apart from a couple of ink blotches in fine condition; envelope with flap detached and with some pencilling on the verso. Deakin was sworn in as Prime Minister on 2 June 1909 after being elected leader of the Liberal Party which had recently formed from the 'Fusion' of his Protectionist Party with the Anti-Socialist Party. Sir Langdon Bonython a fellow Protectionist had sat with Deakin in the inaugural Parliament of Australia as a member for the Division of South Australia later for the Division of Barker. In this letter Deakin reflects on the difficulties confronted by his new government including preselections in South Australia but is generally optimistic about its progress. However his government would soon suffer a resounding defeat at the hands of Andrew Fisher's Labor Party in the federal election of 13 April 1910. The letter reads in full 'Aug 11.09. My dear Sir Langdon Cockburn's very interesting description of the prose of our press delegates in England though possibly a little coloured by his natural disgust at their doctrines is obviously & substantially true. It defines their attitude of old & new always the same as is proper in a party that does not change. He very clearly perceives their policy of playing to both sides & sees when they have obtained encouragement. Your allusion to the Division of Wakefield is obscure. I have not been asked to assist & have not assisted in any way in the selection of a candidate. He has been chosen entirely on your side & by your associations. When Paddy Glynn got in he found the whole matter so far advanced in making the selection in the constituency that nothing could be done. Up to date I have not been asked to endorse Foster though no doubt we shall have to do so if required. You must be aware of this though you poke fun at me. The time has not yet come for getting into touch with the constituencies. We have not discovered whom we can rely upon or at all events how far. We are making good progress here & in NSW but the other states are still out of hand or rather none have been in order. It is a long task to attempt to get an effective control of Australia. We are gradually getting it within our immediate spheres of influence. But this is written at the table during the debate to which I have to listen with one ear & half my attention. Kind regards. Yours very truly Alfred Deakin'. Deakin's entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' gives some important context to these final months of his political career. 'In May 1909 he agreed to the fusion of anti-socialists Liberal-Protectionists and Forrest's "corner" group. A bewildered Fisher was curtly dismissed. Close friends still believed in Deakin's integrity but to many others his actions seemed nothing but a naked grab for power a base move to regain office at any price by a man who thought he was indispensable. The political confusion produced some of the most dramatic scenes in Federal parliamentary history. Lyne - never a friend of Deakin and now a foe - denounced his former leader as a "Judas" a charge which the vindictive Billy Hughes believed slandered the disciple. Deakin was sworn in for the third and last time as prime minister on 2 June 1909. The Fusion government given its short span of life and the few points of agreement between the uniting parties was remarkably active . The Fusion government entered the election of April 1910 confident of victory but in the event it was routed. In a heavy poll Labor gained absolute majorities in both the House and Senate. Deakin who campaigned on a mainly negative anti-Labor platform barely escaped defeat in Ballarat. Only a handful of his personal followers survived.' Sir John Langdon Bonython 1848-1939 was an important South Australian editor newspaper proprietor philanthropist and parliamentarian. 'He became a follower of Alfred Deakin who wanted him to give his full time to politics; their friendship survived a sharp disagreement over the composition of Deakin's ministry of July 1905 and his disappointment that Deakin's recommendation of him for a K.C.M.G. in 1908 was not accepted. Bonython did not contest the 1906 election although the Labor Party proposed to grant him and other Protectionists immunity from opposition; he suspected that his party would soon be out of power and travelling to Melbourne for parliamentary sittings was becoming irksome' ADB. The Cockburn referred to at the beginning of the letter is presumably Sir John Alexander Cockburn 1850-1929 former Premier of South Australia delegate to the Constitutional Conventions unofficial ambassador in Britain and friend of Sir Langdon's ADB. unknown
1862réf. 140418Adelaide: Printed and published at the 'Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices 1862. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed and published at the 'Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices 1862. Octavo 78 xxii advertisements pages plus advertisements on both sides of the rear wrapper. Original green wrappers with the title page details repeated within a different border on the front cover; wrappers a little marked and creased with some slight wear at the corners affecting also the bottom corner-tip of the last few leaves; spine a little cracked but sound with minimal loss at both ends; minor signs of age and use but overall an excellent copy of a rarity seldom found in any condition - let alone as pleasing as this - now housed in a fine mid-green morocco Solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Descriptions 'are given of most of the most important vineyards and of some of the less important of them having due regard to age extent and quality of produce. South Australia will without doubt become one of the most important Wine countries of the world. The experiments of the past twenty years have proved the advantage of its soil and climate and enough practical knowledge has been acquired to enable its Vignerons to guard against the common errors which so frequently produced discouragement in the earlier days of the Colony'. The original articles are here supplemented 'by revision and some trifling annotations'. Ferguson 18189 noting only green cloth boards. Printed and published at the 'Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices paperback
1927réf. 60008Sydney NSW; Hobart Tasmania & New York: Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service ca. 1927-1934. Two vols. Thick oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 x 2 in. 200; 170 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 197 silver gelatin photographs all tipped-in nearly all w/ typescript mimeograph captions mounted below or alongside sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. most sized 8 x 10 in. all printed on glossy photo stock some on thicker heavier weight most w/ pencil annotations typescript or imprints on verso a few w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge others w/ embossed armorial photo studio stamp of kangaroo on shield. Uniformly bound in contemporary black pebbled flexible shagreen nested steel backed post-binders black brass screw-posts at gutter margin chipping edgewear to covers some scuffing spine leather covering perished occasional closed tears & chipping to some leaves light faint previous mounting offsetting occasional soiling or slight dampstaining to a few leaves still a VG- set of albums with nearly all of the photographs in excellent condition and with strong bright contrast. These substantial land promotion albums appear to have been designed to tout the advantages for potential homesteaders investors and visitors to Australia from the end of the Roaring 20’s into the Great Depression. Nearly 200 photos depicting bustling cities & shipping ports mines manufacturing burgeoning housing sports flora & fauna and some of the indigenous Australian Aborigine peoples extol the possibilities in Oceania’s economic engine. Following World War I Australia had seen massive changes in population and increasing economic and social changes following the devastation of World War I and the worldwide influenza pandemic with over 215000 killed and wounded between both catastrophes. With the onset of the Great Depression economic activity slowed and unemployment soared to nearly 20%. These albums include several photos of the newly constructed Canberra Provisional Parliament House completed in 1927 with bare land and little infrastructure nearby except for the Hotel Canberra. Designed originally to hold politicians and visitors when the parliament was in session the Hotel was built by contractor John Howie and designed by John Smith Murdoch. Several photos of Sydney Australia the streets a flapper driving her sporty 1927 Chevrolet Capitol AA Roadster and the famed beaches of Sydney. Several photos depict the Australian Lifesaving Clubs which began in 1907 as surf life saving with the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club but which denied full membership to women until 1980. One particular photo depicts a young comely Australian woman surfer leaning against her wooden longboard only about 15 years after Isabel Letham’s famed ride with Duke Kahanamoku in 1915. Many of the Sydney images reveal a capitol city in transition including horse-drawn cars alongside 1920’s automobiles and electric trolleys and trams. Also featured are photographs of the New Castle Steel works the Lithgow Steel Works whose blast furnace site closed in 1928 and the Mt. Boppy gold mining process mill depicting the cyanid vats to extract the ore. Still others show the Burrinjack Dam construction which had begun before World War I but not finished until 1928; horse-drawn silver ore mining wagons in the Barrgorang Valley from the Yerranderle Mines along roads to Camden NSW; orchards long the McDonald River and raising rabbits for the New South Wales Wool & Fur Co. Ltd. at Castle HIll near Parramatta. Also featured are many aerial and street photos of Queensland Brisbane Docks Victoria Bridge Queen Street with streetcars horse breaking in outback stations grape & cotton harvesting children attending “Bush Schools” and more. Still more reveal the bustling wharves at the Freemantle sheep sheering railway yards boaters on Henley-on-Yarra Flinders Street Station wheat harvest and farming and even the one of the famed wheat windjammers “The Carnandale.” Several of the photos depict the indigenous Australian Aborigines with one of the captions noting that 60000 “Full-Blood and 19000 half-caste Aborigines with 40000 still nomadic and others working sheep and cattle stations.” Another photo is included of two young Maori girls as well.The second album also contains views of a traveling salesman or traveling “Bust Hawker” featuring a horse-drawn wagon with sides hinged up and shoppers as well as aerial photos of gardens banana plantations date farms logging Kerri Trees in Western Australia and an entire section devoted to photos of Australian fauna. These depict Wombats Kangaroos pink & white Cockatoos Cassowary birds Wallabys Barn Owls Koala Bears Black Swans Opossums a Platypus Lyre-birds Kokaburra birds Australian penguins and others. Identified photographs by John Beattie Jr. from Beatties Studio Hobart Tasmania include Mt. Rugby from Balmoral Beach Big Ben Gum Tree on the estate of W.L. Clennett Saw Mill Proprietor Port Esperance whose height was nearly 250 feet as well as Dobson’s Basin Geeveston depicting a remarkable group of fen tree bowers. Originally founded in the 1840’s by the Anson Brothers John Beattie d. 1930 son of a Scottish-Australian emigre photographer worked for them in the 1880’s and then purchased the business renaming it Beatties Studio. He operated the studio for decades was the photographer who first developed all of Amundsen’s original photos of his South Pole Expedition in a single day and was an active proponent of the indigenous Aborigine population often defying popular opinion and authority over their historical mistreatment. Sadly a 1933 fire destroyed the studio and most of the negatives but it was reconstituted and many negatives and images rediscovered afterwards. See: Elizabeth Heffernan Exciting New World: Australia in the 1920s Royal Australian Historical Society 2022; Georgie Burgess Photography Pioneer John Beattie Shared Tasmania’s Wild Places with the World ABC Radio Hobart March 9 2019. Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service, hardcover
1895réf. ABC_475631895. Oblong folio 28 x 39 cm. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco gilt edges. With 58 photograph prints ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm. Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. 60 pp. The album contains 15 silver albumen photographs of Melbourne taken mainly from the series C. Rudd's new views of Melbourne 1886-1887 by Charles Rudd 1849-1901. They show Collins Street Melbourne town hall the public library Parliament House the Court of Law Government House and various other buildings and infrastructure as well as botanical gardens such as Fitzroy Gardens. The photographs of Sydney were the work of the renowned Australian photographer Henry King 1855-1923 born in England in 1855 who emigrated to Australia with his family in 1856. He worked as a photographer at J. Hubert Newman's studio in Sydney before opening his own studio in 1880. King gained recognition for his photographic studies of Australian Aboriginal people and his scenic views of Sydney. He died in 1923 leaving behind his wife son and three daughters. His glass negatives were acquired by J.R. Tyrrell after his death and are now held by the Powerhouse Museum. King is one of Australia's most significant early photographers. The album contains seventeen of Kings photographs of the harbour including Farm Cove and the Circular Quay Government House and interior and exterior photographs of the town hall King and George Street the Mutual Life Association Building the General Post Office and the Ferner Botanical Garden. Rural New South Was appears in nine photographs including images of Illawarra National Park the Hawkesbury River and a series of outdoor photographs taken along the coast at Blackwall and dated July 1895.This curious album of 58 photographs from France Egypt and most importantly Australia opens with a section with six photos from Marseille showing street views the city harbour the Avenue du Prado and the castles.The ten photographs from Egypt depict both the cultural highlights of the country such as the Pyramids the Sphinx the Citadel of Cairo and the Palace of Gizeh as well as ordinary Arabian villages and street scenes. They stemmed from the ateliers of the Abdullah brothers of Constantinople. The Abdullah Frères namely Viçen 1820-1902 Hovsep 1830-1908 and Kevork 1839-1918 Abdullahyan were three Ottoman brothers of Armenian heritage who gained international fame as photographers during the late Ottoman Empire. Some evidence suggests that he may have collaborated with the Zangaki Brothers and he may have been the official photographer for the Universal Company of the Suez Canal. Later he worked in partnership with the British-Italian photographer Antonio Beato.With an owners inscription in pencil "a appartenu Alfred Schmid" some photographs are captioned in black ink or pencil detailing the places. With a small label from the bookshop that sold the album: "Papeterie Sauwen-Jehotte" in Antwerp. The edges are somewhat bumped and some browning and foxing throughout. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1756réf. PHO-4862 Volumes in 4°de 1 titre ,XIV pp, 463 pp, 4pp pour le tome I et 1 titre ,513 pp, 2pp, veau marbré époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec pièce de titre et de tomaison ,tranches rouges, coins usés,charnières fendues Édition originale. UN DES RARES EXEMPLAIRES CONTENANT LES 7 FEUILLETS SUPPLEMENTAIRES (437*- 450*) dans le premier volume intitulé Découvertes des Hollandois dans l'Australasie.
réf. LBW-3943[1812]. 355 x 497 mm.
1885réf. ABC_49517Australia 1885. Folio ca. 44 x 36.5 cm. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco with the title lettered in gold on the front gold-tooled turn-ins gilt edges watered-silk end papers. With 65 albumen prints. 29 ll. Late 19th-century photo album with views of New South Wales. The album contains 65 albumen prints of highlights in the region primarily in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. It was bought by the civil engineer Clément van de Velde dates unknown who was born in Belgium and moved to Australia in 1884 where he attempted to set up a sugar-beet industry. He also served as the vice-consul for Belgium. He gifted the album to his friend Cobus in 1885 possibly as a keepsake for a trip they undertook together.At least a third of the photographs show important buildings and other landmarks in Sydney including the Government House the Town Hall the General Post Office the Australian Museum the different colleges of the University of Sydney the Department of Lands building and the public library in Bent Street that has been demolished in 1967. Most of these buildings were relatively new at the time these photographs were taken. Also included are photographs of Hyde park and the Captain Cook monument the Man O'War steps Argyle cut Mrs Macquarie's Chair and the botanic gardens. The other photographs in the album show the towns and nature surrounding Sydney such as the Katoomba Falls the Three Sisters Govetts Leap and Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains the Zig Zag railway the Fitzroy Falls Fort Denison Broken Bay various views of the Nepean River as well as four portraits of Australian Aboriginals.With a contemporary French inscription on the verso of the first flyleaf "Mon cher Cobus Je prie de vouloir accepter cet album en souvenir de nos bons rapporte. Votre dévote Clément van de Velde. Sydney 10 may 1885.". The binding has been professionally restored the boards are somewhat scratched and dented. The leaves are warped and foxed the lower corners of some of the leaves are torn without affecting the photographs the photographs have somewhat discoloured. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. McLennan N. T. "Henri van de Velde 1878-1947" in: Australian Dictionary of Biography 16 2002. hardcover
1835réf. 139494London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green and Longman 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longman Rees Orme Brown Green and Longman 1835. Octavo xvi 304 xxii pages plus a folding frontispiece map 'Part of Southern Australia from the 132 to 141 degree of East Longitude' with an inset map of Australia both hand-coloured in outline 200 × 255 mm. Early blind-tooled calf rebacked to style; edges marbled; covers slightly worn; map a little offset; occasional foxing generally light; a few other trifling signs of age and handling; an excellent copy unopened in places. A presentation copy inscribed on the half-title to 'The Lord Durham from the Author'. John George Lambton 1st Earl of Durham 1792-1840 was a preeminent figure in early nineteenth-century British colonial policy and a sometime close colleague of the author. He was chairman of the New Zealand Company in the 1820s Torrens was a director helped draft the Reform Bill of 1832 earning the nickname 'Radical Jack' and was appointed Governor-General of British North America Canada in 1838. There he served alongside Edward Gibbon Wakefield who helped him prepare the important 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' London 1839 which was instrumental in delivering responsible government to Canada. Lord Durham's armorial bookplate and Lambton Castle library label are mounted on the front pastedown. Robert Torrens 1780-1864 'officer of marines political economist and colonization commissioner'; his 'economic writings are of much importance in the development of economic theory' DNB. In the preface to this book he writes: 'The art of Colonization is based upon the science of wealth; and the rules of the art are principles of the science naturally applied. In replying to objections and in explaining the plan and in unfolding the prospects of the New Colony the Author was naturally and indeed necessarily led into discussions upon some of the fundamental doctrines of Political Economy. In some of these discussions as it is believed new and not unimportant views have been opened'. Not least he was the father of Sir Robert Richard Torrens the lands title law reformer after whom the Torrens system is named. Ferguson 2056. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman hardcover
1905réf. 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
réf. 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
1899réf. 111095London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Octavo xx 671 pages with 12 unnumbered line illustrations of churingas a map and 130 illustrations mainly after photographs plus 2 folding maps 3 folding charts 4 folding chromolithographic plates and an erratum slip tipped in at page 1 noting that on page 570 the tassel should be 'pubic' not 'public'. Olive-green gilt-pictorial buckram a little flecked and rubbed with the spine a little sunned; all edges uncut; scattered light foxing; minimal chipping to some uncut leading edges; an excellent copy. The head of the title page is signed in ink by both authors as 'W. Baldwin Spencer' and 'F.J. Gillen'. Inscribed in indelible pencil before the signatures in an unknown hand is 'With Kindest Regards from'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' makes short work of the significance of the book and by extension this signed copy in its entry on Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer 1860-1929: 'The 1894 Horn scientific exploring expedition to central Australia recruited Spencer as zoologist and photographer. Because of friction between members and their sponsor Spencer later combined mediation with editorship of all four volumes of reports. His own seminal contribution included his classic biogeographic interpretation of Australian faunal distribution. This expedition rekindled his anthropological interest when he met F.J. Gillen the Alice Springs postmaster Francis James Gillen 1855-1912 ethnologist. What began as his offer to assist in publishing Gillen's ethnological notes matured into an enduring partnership and a landmark in anthropological history. In 1896 Spencer joined Gillen for the most intensive field-work then attempted in Australia. "The Native Tribes of Central Australia" 1899 which resulted was to influence contemporary theories on social evolution and interpretations of the origins of art and ceremonial. It impressed Sir James Frazer author of "The Golden Bough" who developed a lifelong friendship with Spencer'. Macmillan and Co. Limited unknown
1783réf. PHO-2039A Paris, Chez Barrois l’aîné, 1783. In-8° (195x120) Relié plein veau époque, pièce de titre rouge, dos lisse orné, tranches rouges. VIII, 290 pp, illustré de 2 cartes dont 1 repliée h.-t. et 5 pl. h.-t., Complet du dernier feuillet, extrait du privilège à la date du 11 mai 1782, établi par Condorcet secrétaire de l’Académie des sciences. Quelques frottements aux charnières.
1864réf. 142931Adelaide: The Author 1864. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1864. Eleven albumen paper photographs approximately 88 × 134 mm mounted on the recto of individual cards approximately 165 × 240 mm neatly captioned below the plate with the title at the head of the first one with all captions by George Hamilton himself. A few light spots and marks to some of the cards; essentially in fine condition with the photographs uniformly rich in colour. The Art Gallery of South Australia has all 11 original artwork - pen and ink with wash - in its collection. The 'Adelaide Observer' on Saturday 27 August 1864 contains a review of Hamilton's recently self-published book 'a well-conceived well-written neatly-printed and elegantly-illustrated brochure under the above title'. It describes at length the illustrations '11 in number photographed from the author's drawings by Colonel Biggs Mr. Baines and Professor Hall and they bear ample evidence of the artistic taste as well as the correct judgment displayed in the spirited originals'. Robert Holden 'Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book' 1988 describes this book and one other Molesworth Jeffrey's 'Various Exercises and Fragments in Metre by Divers Authors' Hobart 1864 as being the 'first recorded use of original photographs as illustrations in commercially produced and dated books' in Australia. His descriptive bibliography records that the published work indeed contains 'Photographs of eleven drawings . by Colonel Briggs sic from rough sketches by the author. It would appear that these images were printed eleven to a sheet and then arranged in random order throughout the text'. His collation of the three copies in the State Library of South Australia indicates the individual print sizes range from 20 × 35 mm to a maximum of 40 × 60 mm. The present offering clearly predates the published use of these images and its presentation is much to be preferred. The first and most obvious difference is the superior size and quality of the prints. However the captions greatly enhance the images; when they are read and viewed in the intended order numbers 1-11 are lightly pencilled in the top right-hand corner of the cards this becomes a proto-photobook of the highest order . and far from being a prosaic account of how to look after a horse as the title might suggest it is a searing indictment of the widespread ill-treatment of horses. 'Mr. Hamilton proceeds with pen and pencil to describe and portray some of the trials a horse has to undergo from the time his liberty is first invaded in the bush until in the last scene of all that ends this painful history he is reduced to the drudgery of a hackney car'. See Ferguson 10180b and 10181a; Holden 50 and 51 plus pages 13-21. Both bibliographies contain errors. 11 items. The Author] unknown
