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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
rif. 6293Paris, Didot jeune, an X. 6 volumes in-8 de [4]-VIII-341p., [4]-384p., [4]-381p., [4]-368p., [4]-438p., et un atlas de [4]p., 17 vues et 9 cartes, plein veau moucheté, dos lisses ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, pièces de titre rouge. Reliures un peu malmenées, coiffes frottées, mors un peu fendus, épidermures, auréoles pales à trois volumes, plus présentes dans l'atlas. Chaque première page est frappée d'un large tampon non identifié par votre serviteur.
1777rif. 44433Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot, Nyon, 1777. In-8 de (4)-XIX-(1)-546 pp., veau havane marbré, dos orné à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
1859rif. 63536London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society 1859. With Maps and the Rare Supplement From the collection of R. David Parsons. A collection of accounts of early Spanish and Dutch voyages to Australia made prior to those of Captain James Cook published by the Hakluyt Society and here bound with the rare supplement. Contents of the volume include the accounts of Juan Luis Arias Luis Vaez de Torres Francisco Pelsaert Gerrit Thomasz Pool the ship Vergulde Draeck Samuel Volkersen William Dampier the ship Vossenbosch and P.A. Leupe. Among the documents the editor notes are "some.from the Hague which have never before been printed." The documents are preceded by an extensive and lengthy introduction by the editor Richard Henry Major a geographer librarian and curator of the British Museum's map collection. Bound in at rear is a separate pamphlet an extract from a letter from Major to Sir Henry Ellis dated 1861 on "The Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601" reprinted from an issue of Archaeologia and "distributed to the Members of the Hakluyt Society for insertion as a Supplement" to the present volume. The present volume comprising both the Early Voyages and the supplement features seven maps in all six of them folding. The present copy was once in the collections of the New Zealand General Assembly Library and bears a device in gilt on the front board as well as a bookplate to that effect. Half title. Contemporary polished calf rebacked with original spine laid down boards ruled in blind and gilt with gilt device on front board spine gilt with raised bands gilt leather label marbled edges. Light to moderate foxing to text. One-inch closed tear to lower edge of pp.29-30 not affecting text repaired. Ex-library with 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown modern bookplate on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription on half-title. Very good. HOLMES 122. FERGUSON 12195. hardcover
1859rif. 63536London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society 1859. With Maps and the Rare Supplement From the collection of R. David Parsons. A collection of accounts of early Spanish and Dutch voyages to Australia made prior to those of Captain James Cook published by the Hakluyt Society and here bound with the rare supplement. Contents of the volume include the accounts of Juan Luis Arias Luis Vaez de Torres Francisco Pelsaert Gerrit Thomasz Pool the ship Vergulde Draeck Samuel Volkersen William Dampier the ship Vossenbosch and P.A. Leupe. Among the documents the editor notes are "some.from the Hague which have never before been printed." The documents are preceded by an extensive and lengthy introduction by the editor Richard Henry Major a geographer librarian and curator of the British Museum's map collection. Bound in at rear is a separate pamphlet an extract from a letter from Major to Sir Henry Ellis dated 1861 on "The Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601" reprinted from an issue of Archaeologia and "distributed to the Members of the Hakluyt Society for insertion as a Supplement" to the present volume. The present volume comprising both the Early Voyages and the supplement features seven maps in all six of them folding. The present copy was once in the collections of the New Zealand General Assembly Library and bears a device in gilt on the front board as well as a bookplate to that effect. Half title. Contemporary polished calf rebacked with original spine laid down boards ruled in blind and gilt with gilt device on front board spine gilt with raised bands gilt leather label marbled edges. Light to moderate foxing to text. One-inch closed tear to lower edge of pp.29-30 not affecting text repaired. Ex-library with 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown modern bookplate on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription on half-title. Very good. HOLMES 122. FERGUSON 12195. hardcover books
1790rif. PHO-2072Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1790. In-4 de (4)-XVI-309-(3)pp., illustré de 11 cartes dépliantes et 1 gravure, basane mouchetée, dos lisse avec pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, large filet doré aux plats, filets aux coupes, frottements et épidermures, bel exemplaire
1918Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part I of the First True Account of the Exploits of the World's Most Noted Outlaws, by Emmett Dalton, the only survivor of the "Dalton Gang" - article with photos and great cover illustration; Wonders of the Teleferica - an interesting account of the remarkable aerial lines/cableways used by the Italians to transport men, guns, and provisions in the high Alps - article with many photos; The Youngest Soldier in the French Army - photo of 11-year-old Charles Meux of the French Army; Tales of the Service - Part I - A Night in a Vat; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part II - Eva J. Jordan, F.R.G.S. travelled with her husband for four-thousand miles through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, becoming the first woman to penetrate this area - article with photos; A Night of Terror - an associate of Izaak Walton sinks into quicksand while fishing; Buried in a Snowdrift - a mining engineer is caught in an avalanche in the Andes; "Hooshta!" - the Tragedy of an Australian camel race - a stirring story from the West Australian goldfields; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part I - Fanny and William Workman describe their Himalayan mountaineering exploits - article with map and great photos; Thrice Through the Jaws of Death - Sergeant J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport relates hair-breadth escapes at sea and on land; How We Built the Bridge - War story related by a corporal of the canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps; Crossing the Canal - A despatch orderly attempts to cross the Suez Canal at night; Some Adventures of a Newspaper Woman - Marie Harrison provides a graphic and thrilling account of her startling adventures in search of 'copy'; The Railway Conquest of the Bay - a photo-illustrated account of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway; A Happy Family - humorous account of the antics of a number of strange pets belonging to a party of colonials in Singapore; A Modern Grace Darling - Miss Ella Trout rescues a sailor from a torpedoed ship off the coast of Devon - article with nice photos of Miss Trout; Photo of a group of Solomon Islands head-hunters reading The Wide World Magazine; Interesting four-page illustrated stock offering by Guaranteed Tractors, Inc., Edmund G. Soward, President; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 4-88, 9-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1985rif. 38454The Fertility Society of Australia. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - PRISTINE Mild cover shelf wear; else flawless. 72 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Saund; The Fertility Society of Australia Proceedings of the Fourth Scientific Meeting of The Fertility Society of Australia - Dallas Brooks Hall Melbourne - 15 - 16 November 1985 . 1985. The Fertility Society of Australia paperback
2006rif. 92398Images Publishing Dist Ac. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 216 pages; 400 color illustrations. Description: "Extensive reserach over a number of years pointed to the need for a comprehensive easy to follow guide to architectural details. Deatails in Architecture Volume Two depicts drawings and concept sketches alongside succinct summaries and a photograph of the finished Contained within these informative pages are designs from some of the world's leading architects of residential and commercial spaces." -- with a bonus offer--; Details in Architecture; Extensive reserach over a number of years pointed to the need for a comprehensive easy to follow guide to architectural details. Deatails in Architecture Volume Two depicts drawings and concept sketches alongside succinct summaries and a photograph of the finished Contained within these informative pages are designs from some of the world's leading architects of residential and commercial spaces. . 2006. 1864700386 . Images Publishing Dist Ac hardcover
2001rif. 92385Images Publishing Dist Ac. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 212 pages. Description: "In all probability the planning of educational institutions is the most socially responsive design that an architect can pursue and doubtless the most difficult to perform well. The primary purpose of all featured buildings is education and this ranges from tertiary institutions colleges Biographies fo participating firms are provided." -- with a bonus offer--; In all probability the plannign of educational institutions is the most socially responsive design that an architect can pursue and doubtless the most difficult to perform well. The primary purpose of all featured buildings is education and this ranges from tertiary institutions colleges Biographies fo participating firms are provided. . 2001. 1864700335 . Images Publishing Dist Ac hardcover
1837rif. PHO-2280Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1837, 2 volumes (3) grand in-4° (30x24,5cm), VIII pp., 742 pp., demi chagrin et coins époque, dos lisse avec auteur, titre et tomaison, frottements au dos, quelques rousseurs, défaut à la coiffe supérieure. Édition originale du texte du voyage du Bougainville autour du monde, manque l’atlas.
1778rif. PHO-434Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 6 volumes in-8, veau marbré, dos lisse orné , pièce de titre et tomaison , tranches rouge (rel. de l'époque) avec son ATLAS (260x220mm) , relié demi cuir (reliure moderne) illustré de 65 planches H.T., nombreuses dépliantes,bords brunis , déchirure à une carte sans manque. Traduction française par Suard du récit du deuxième voyage de Cook (1772-1775), depuis l'Angleterre jusqu'aux îles de Pâques. Les Observations de Forster forment les deux derniers tomes. Ex libris C. Du Mesnil.
1799rif. PHO-333Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8 ,demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné (rel. Légt post., mors usagés et rongés) et un atlas in-folio en seconde édition (1817) brochure moderne en papier marbré. Texte :Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp.Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1)f. Atlas : titre gravé, grande carte sur double page (Mer des Indes et une partie de celle du Sud, par Darbié du Bocage - volante) et 43 planches (vues, scènes, costumes, portraits et types, faune et flore) gravées sur cuivre par Dien, Copia, Pérée, etc., d'après Piron, Redouté, Audebert, etc. représentant des personnages, des scènes de vie, des armes, des vues, la faune et la flore. Nombreuses piqûres et taches d'humidité, mais papier solide, à bonnes marges.
1843rif. 133575London: Printed by J.C. Hailes 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Printed by J.C. Hailes 1843. Octavo 30 9 pages plus a folding map 'Plan of part of South Australia 1843' 216 × 171 mm and 2 folding survey plans 'Plan of the Two Special Surveys on the River Light 1843' 341 × 185 mm and 'Plan of the Special Survey on the River Murray 1843' 245 × 193 mm. Original blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt on the front panel with the title later added in white ink along the spine; cloth a little sunned on the spine with light wear to the extremities; endpaper hinges cracked; residual paste along a strip at the top of the front free endpaper; occasional trifling spots of foxing; maps a little offset; nevertheless an excellent copy of an extremely rare publication relating to the early land surveys in South Australia. The first section comprises a 'Statement of the Proceedings of the Directors for the Information of the Proprietors' with the final unpaginated section consisting of a statement of accounts for the surveys of the River Light and the River Murray. This copy has the ownership signature dated 1855 of London corn factor John Burrows and contains noteworthy annotations and additional manuscript material relating to his family's land speculations in South Australia and New Zealand. John has neatly annotated both of the survey plans with details of the selections on the River Light and the River Murray owned by him and his mother Jane. These appear to have been inherited from his father Thomas and subsequently expanded in the 1860s. The rear endpapers contain detailed notes in another hand summarising the family's colonial landholdings and giving details of their agents in Adelaide and Wellington we suggest in the 1870s. A clipping from another document mounted on the rear pastedown gives similar information. Additional material comprises: 1. An autograph letter addressed to John Burrows from his Adelaide agent James Walsh dated 1872 regarding the lease of two blocks in the abortive township of Victoria 85 km north of Adelaide octavo; 2 pages of a bifolium affixed with sealing wax to the verso of the final page. The meagre rents received are demonstrative of Victoria's failure it is located approximately 12 km north of Kapunda and was soon eclipsed by that town after the discovery there of copper ore in 1842. A leaf from a later letter is similarly mounted inside the bifolium. 2. A loosely-inserted autograph letter addressed to Thomas Burrows from his agent Daniel Riddiford in Wellington dated 24 January 1841 regarding his selections in New Zealand quarto 1 page of a bifolium folded to form the cover stamped 'Ship Letter"; complete with the address panel postmark and wax seal. Riddiford was himself a pioneering runholder in Wairarapa and Hutt River. 3. A manuscript document outlining lands on the River Light and River Murray owned by C.J. Heath another absentee landowner and corn factor. We are unsure of the nature of his connection to John Burrows but they shared an Adelaide agent Joel Roberts see 'The South Australian Advertiser' for 27 May 1873. 4. A newspaper clipping with content relevant to the subject of the book with its source the South Australian 'Advertiser' 13 June 1878 written in ink in the margin by James Walsh. Provenance: John Burrows as above; possibly James Walsh see above; later Charles R.J. Glover with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. Charles Richmond John Glover 1870-1936 the first lord mayor of Adelaide public benefactor businessman and book collector; some 2787 lots of his books were sold by auction over five days in late 1970 and we know from long and unhappy experience that he is responsible for the lettering in white ink on the spine. His bookplate is mounted in the bottom left-hand corner of the front pastedown and the top right-hand corner of the plate was not glued down as it partially covers an earlier coat of arms possibly hand-drawn in black ink. It features Britannia extending a hand in greeting to an Indigenous man holding a spear with a rocky cliff and a kangaroo in the background. This image is based on the design of the emblem used on the South Australian flag between 1876 and 1904. Ferguson 3706 citing a lengthy 1934 William Dawson and Sons Limited catalogue record for this particular copy. Printed by J.C. Hailes hardcover
1843rif. 80073London: J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. Octavo 32 pages plus a small folding map 205 × 156 mm an engraving of Adelaide and 2 full-page lithographs: 'Farm of J. Barton Hack . Echiunga sic Springs Mount Barker' and two portraits on the one plate of Kertamaroo King John and Mogata his wife. Later half calf and cloth retaining the original pale yellow front wrapper lettered 'South Australia in 1842' and with numerous binder's blanks at the rear to make a more substantial object; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and high spots; wrapper lightly stained and creased with the leading edge neatly reinforced presumably when the binding was done; first and last leaves lightly foxed with the last one lightly marked; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank. Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly the lithographs are by George French Angas from the artwork of others 'a sketch by Col. Gawler' in the first instance and from drawings 'Model'd from life by Mrs Walker - cropped to Walk' in the second. There are some extracts from official reports and various statistics up to August 1842 but the book is comprised predominantly of first-hand accounts often in the form of lengthy quotes from letters from settlers. The passage of time puts things into perspective. There is a PS to Alexander Lorimer's letter: 'I have neglected to mention that vineyards are forming by many of the settlers'. The closely-printed two pages on Aborigines concludes with this paragraph: 'It is hoped that a conviction of the deep responsibility which we have incurred toward the aboriginal inhabitants of that beautiful country of which we have taken possession will render the minuteness of the preceding information not unacceptable'. Ferguson 3721 not mentioning Angas nor identifying the author. Susan Woodburn has recently alerted us to a paragraph in the 'Adelaide Observer' of 1 July 1843: 'The "South Australian News" of January last announces the publication of a pamphlet to be entitled "South Australia in 1842" not by "One who is going" but by "One who lived there four years". We understand it will contain a full true and particular account of the Colony and be embellished with views of Adelaide Mr Hack's Farm and the portraits of two natives King John and his wife. We suspect our friend David McLaren to be the author of the pamphlet'. David McLaren 1785-1850 arrived at Kingscote Kangaroo Island in April 1837 as the second colonial manager of the South Australian Company. He left Adelaide on his return to London in January 1841 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert hardcover
rif. 122043Original gelatin silver prints uniformly 122 × 165 mm but three have been trimmed a little all captioned in ink on the verso four are dated 1905. All prints are unmounted as produced; two have a short tear to one edge one of these and one other have a small piece missing from one or two corners; one is a little creased; two are a little marked; overall the condition is excellent. Yardea Station is a pastoral lease approximately 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide; it was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges in the late 1850s. 'Lying on one of the main east-west corridors through the Ranges Yardea became the main postal depot during the late 1860s. A stone police station was erected in 1873 staffed by two police troopers who had been placed there a year earlier to keep order and to distribute rations to Aboriginal people who were increasingly attracted to Yardea. After the Yardea police were withdrawn in 1885 the building served as a post-office and telegraph station and then as a repeater station when a direct telegraph link to Western Australia was established in 1903. During the 1890s when most of the Gawler Ranges station leases including Yardea were abandoned due to a combination of high government charges drought and uncontrolled dingo numbers the building was still staffed by three telegraph station employees' Philip Jones in 'Naturally Disturbed' 2010 'an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sue Kneebone and Philip Jones. The exhibition engages with the complex history intersecting narratives and unexplained absences that relate to Yardea a pastoral property in the Gawler Ranges in South Australia once managed by Sue Kneebone's great-grandfather'. Elsewhere in her PhD thesis of the same name Sue Kneebone writes: 'In late 1903 at a time of high demand and high prices for sheep Yardea was taken up by James Grey Moseley with his station manager my great-grandfather Arthur Bailey . The Yardea lease . by then included Paney Yartoo and the old Pondana and Cacuppa stations'. A small number of these images have been located in the collection of the State Library of South Australia with some attributed to W.R. Evans who appears to have been on the staff of the Eucla Telegraph Station around this time. One of the present photographs is captioned 'A. Cole Post Master A. Bailey Manager Yardea'. Nearly all of the captions mention Yardea; Pondona Pondana and Paynea Paney are also noted. Pastoral pursuits are well-recorded: these include 'Mowing Crop' 'Hay-Stack' 'Stooking Hay' 'Hay Carting' all dated 1905 'Mustering Cattle' 'Bullock Team' 'Shearing' 'Wool Team' 'Woolly Sheep' and 'Horses'. There is also a fine image of a 'Camel Team en route for W.A. passing through Yardea'. Other scenes are 'Rock Hole Yardea' from above and below 'Dam Yardea Station' 'Stone Dam Paynea sic' and views of the Yardea Gorge Pondona Hills two views both with sheep 'Hills Gawler Ranges' and 'Deep Well Yardea' featuring a horseman and a stone hut. People are visible in seventeen of the photographs and in at least seven instances they are Indigenous men. Offered with a cabinet card photograph 145 × 105 mm mounted on plain card of the fresh grave site at Yardea of Sarah Cole wife of Alfred Cole. A notice of her death appeared in the Adelaide 'Chronicle' on Saturday 26 June 1897: 'COLE. On the 20th June at Yardea telegraph station Sarah Elizabeth Broughton née Garrett the dearly beloved wife of Alfred Cole and second daughter of C.J. and the late William Garrett late of Port Lincoln aged 33 years and 9 months'. She was the mother of six children. The presence of this poignant photograph in the collection suggests to us a Cole family provenance. 24 items. unknown
1942rif. 140203Adelaide: The Author 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide The Author 1942. Quarto 63 pages. Saddle-stapled grey card covers lettered in black very slightly creased and marked with one trifling snag at the foot of the spine; edges slightly thumbed; a near-fine copy. Two typographical errors have been corrected in pencil by the author: on the dedication page it is now 'juvenilia' not 'juvenalia' at the end of the first line; and on page 55 'spoilation' is now 'spoliation'. However we note in passing that 'daguerrotype' in the line above got through unnoticed. Number 138 of an undated limited edition with the upper limit not stated numbered and signed by Hal Porter. This is a presentation copy of his first stand-alone work additionally inscribed and signed in ink at the head of the title page 'To dear Lucy Lockett with love and gratitude from Hal. 14 xii 1944'. The recipient Lucy Lockett Ayers 1886-1971 was a granddaughter of Sir Henry Ayers. The revised edition of Porter's biography by Mary Lord 'Hal Porter - Man of Many Parts' 1993 states '"Short Stories" came out late in 1942 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Most if not all were numbered and signed then distributed randomly and recklessly by the author. The volume contained fourteen stories none of which had been published and one of which was the prize-winning "And from Madame's sic"' page 28. The precise details of the publication remain unclear. Lord's checklist indicates that the book was printed by the Adelaide 'Advertiser' and gives a date of '1942' but the very few perfunctory press notices relating to the book appear in April and May 1943 perhaps suggesting a later date of publication. Although copies are undoubtedly now extremely scarce whatever the truth of the matter this presentation inscription demonstrates that Porter still had copies to hand in December 1944. The stories contained in this collection are 'The Room' 'And from Madame's .' 'The Two Bachelors' 'At Aunt Sophia's' 'No-one Knows!' 'Miss Rodda' 'Carnival Piece' 'Cafe Samovar' 'Scene: The Bend of a River' 'Otto Ruff' 'Gone Away' 'The White Rabbit' 'Miss Brockel' and '- And Nothing More'. Loosely inserted is a typescript of a contemporary review of the book 1 page quarto with two of the six paragraphs struck out with pencil. We have been unable to determine whether or not it was published or if Lucy Lockett Ayers is the reviewer. 2 items. The Author paperback
1756A BEAUTIFUL, UNSOPHISTICATED LARGE-PAPER COPY IN AN ELEGANT CONTEMPORARY BINDING. 4, XI, 1, 412; 4, 533; 4, 429; 4, 491 pp. Armorial ownership stamp on title-page of volume I. A large-paper copy, printed 4to on very fine laid paper, with huge margins. Beautifully bound in 18th-century speckled calf. Spines gilt in six compartments with fleurons, morocco lettering-pieces. Covers triple ruled in gilt. Light wear to extremities of bindings, internally FINE AND BRIGHT. A very attractive large-paper set of this important edition.
