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1853réf. biblio249First edition. John Murray. London. 1853. 8vo. vi 1 errata slip 488pp. Chromolitho frontispiece 3 further chromolitho plates all with tissue guards 3 uncoloured plates folding map text illus. Later half calf marbled boards Spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt lettering rules and motifs leather label to spine. All edges marbled. New endpapers. Occasional marginal light foxing to plates. Short closed tear to attachment of map. A handsome volume. John Elphinstone Erskine 1806 - 1887 British Naval Officer and Liberal MP. "In February 1848 Erskine was appointed to the Havannah as senior officer on the Australian station. Soon after his arrival Erskine made a tour of Samoa Tonga Fiji the New Hebrides the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia between 25 June and 7 October 1849. With experience of naval anti-slavery operations in the West Indies and the effects of European penetration in the Pacific he joined the Aborigines Protection Society and became a parliamentary leader of the influential lobby working for the Pacific Islanders Protection Act of 1872." Australian Dictionary of Biography. John Murray hardcover
réf. 37734Melbourne: Photo-graphed at the Department of Lands and Survey H. J. Green Govt. Printer. 1925. Large coloured map 650 x 900 mm folding down to 16 sections small hole to one fold otherwise in excellent condition. Melbourne: Photo-graphed at the Department of Lands and Survey, H. J. Green, Govt. Printer. [1925.] unknown
1986réf. BIB328659Adelaide: South Australian Government. 1986. Small Quarto Size approx 18x26. Very Good condition - some mild rubbing to covers and Volume 3 has a slightly sunned spine. Colour and black & white illustrations. Scarce in hardback. This is a heavy set over 5kg unpacked and will cost more to ship. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Volume 1: Lycopodiaceae-Rosaceae; Volume 2: Leguminosae-Rubiaceae; Volume 3: Polemoniaceae-Compositae; and Volume 4: Alismataceae-Orchidaceae. . Very Good. 4th Edition Jubilee Edition. Hardback. South Australian Government hardcover
réf. 247527 June 1847; 7 Pavilion Place Battersea. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Folded twice for postage. Begins: ‘Mr. Westall presents his compliments to Miss Macirone & begs to assure her how very much obliged to her he feels for the honor she has done him in sending him two tickets for her morning concert’. He will have ‘the greatest pleasure in attending’ the concert and is ‘quite sure he shall be very much delighted’. 7 June 1847; 7 Pavilion Place, Battersea. unknown
réf. 25015'Royal Mint Melbourne Australia / 21 May 1875'. Barton who was born in London joined the Royal Mint’s Melbourne branch as one of two assayers on its opening in 1869; in 1887 he was promoted to Superintendent and in 1895 to Deputy Master holding that position until his reitrement in 1904. See his entry in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Science and Innovation. In case Barton has misspelled the name the recipient may be William Dawson Grubb 1817-1879 or his son Frederick William Grubb 1844-1923 who have a joint-entry in the Australian Dictionary of National Biography. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. Signed ‘Robert Barton’. In very good condition lightly aged and folded twice for postage. Begins: ‘Dear Grubbe / I met the writer of the enclosed letter not present after you left & he told me that between us we could not have advised you to go to a worse place for the sport you want than Echuca I feel therefore that I have been instrumental although far from my intention in leading you a wild duck chase.’ He has been informed by ‘Singleton’ that ‘there are very few Kangaroo if any near Echuca & the duck are impossible to get near’. He suggests that Grubbe takes the steamer to Albury and proceeds as Singleton directs ‘& you are in a country abounding with Kangaroo & splendid duck shooting’. Barton is enclosing a note from his friend ‘to his brother who is managing the “Walla Walla” station’ and whom Grubbe will find ‘a very decent fellow. He is a batchelor sic I believe living in a large house. Ask at Albury if you are anywhere near Tumbarumba Caves because if so they are one of the finest sights of the Colonies.’ Barton wishes he had known this information before Grubbe left ‘as then you might have gone to Albury via the new line but if you elect to go from Echuca you will at all events see the river Murray’. 'Royal Mint [Melbourne, Australia] / 21 May 1875'. unknown
réf. 250401915 1924 3 1925 3 and 1926 2. The nine items on letterheads of the metallurgy department of the National Physical Laboratory Teddington Middlesex. See his entries in the Oxford DNB and Australian Dictionary of Biography. The recipient George Kenneth Menzies 1869-1954 was Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts between 1917 and 1935. The nine items are in good condition lightly aged and are folded for postage. Each bears the stamp of the RSA some with manuscript docketting. Letters of 4 April and 18 September 1925 are in autograph the rest typed; all nine are signed ‘Walter Rosesnhain’. A letter of 1 October 1924 responds to a request for information about zirconium with reference to the ‘literature’ on the subject and British and American firms ‘interested in Zirconium products’. The rest of the correspondence is taken up with lecturing. The first item ANS 2 February 1915 is a covering note for ‘the synopsis of my forthcoming course of Cantor Lectures’. On 13 September 1924 Rosenhaim writes that he could ‘quite well give either one lecture or a course of three during the coming Autumn and Winter. The subject I habe in mind is the Inner Structure of Alloys on which I gave a Royal Institution Friday lecture last year. While it is possible to deal with the subject in a single lecture it would be much more satisfactory to give a course of three lectures upon it. The subject really relates to the X-ray study of crystal structures and its application to metallurgical problems and consitutes I think perhaps the most important metallurgical advance which has been achieved recently.’ He asks for a quick response as his ‘Winter engagements have a way of piling up during the year’. On 4 April 1925 he states that he has ‘mentioned the matter of Cantor lectures to one or two of my colleagues & I think either Mr. Higgins or one of the others might give a course on such a subject as “Thermometers” or possibly “High Vacua’ but before approaching them he would like to clarify the question of a fee. ‘I am also interested in the matter because although about a month has now elapsed since my recent course was finished I have received no fee & I am wondering whether a letter may have gone astray.’ The matter is presumably resolved as a few weeks later on 30 April 1925 he sends not present ‘a memorandum on the subject of a course to be entitled “Thermometry” by Mr W. F. Higgins of this Laboratory’ and mentions that ‘there is also a possible suggestion of a course entitled “The Production and Measurement of High Vacua” with experimental demonstrations by Dr G. W. C. Kaye’ both of which courses he thinks ‘would be very satisfactory for your Society but that of Dr Kaye would be particularly interesting and would I think attract a considerable audience as the whole problem of high vacua is becoming of every sic increasing importance in connexion with electric lamps and radio valves’. On 8 January 1926 he wonders whether Higgins’s communication with Menzies regarding a proposed lecture has also ‘gone astray’ and agrees to review ‘Sir Robert Hadfield’s book on Metallurgy’ for the RSA journal ‘provided that the review may be anonymous. I very much object to writing signed reviews’. On 11 February 1926 he asks for an offprint of a lecture by Sir Richard Paget: ‘I may be able to obtain a copy by asking Sir Richard Paget himself but I would prefer not to trouble him if it can be got from you.’ 1915, 1924 (3), 1925 (3) and 1926 (2). The nine items on letterheads of the metallurgy department of the National Physical Labor unknown
1977réf. 99711Melbourne Australia: Christie Manson & Woods Australia Ltd. 1977. 1977. Very good. - Small quarto 9-5/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Softcover bound in light violet printed wraps. The corners of the front cover are creased. 150 2 pages & 25 full-page black & white illustrations on glossy paper bound in at the end with a few additional full-page black & white and color illustrations interleaved throughout the text. Very good. The catalog lists 1468 items offered for sale at the auction which opened on March 3 1977. Melbourne, Australia: Christie, Manson & Woods (Australia), Ltd., 1977. paperback
2007réf. BIB328670Adelaide: East Street Publications. 2007. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Black & white maps. Includes two Reviews of the book. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 386 pages. A compelling well researched and well illustrated account of how for a brief moment in the 1520s Australian and New Zealand came close to becoming Portuguese otposts in the southern seas. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. East Street Publications paperback
1793réf. 27862Edinburgh: Alexander Scott - Gazetteer Office 1793. Third edition corrected and greatly enlarged. Hardcover. Very good condition. Muir was a Scottish political reformer and lawyer who was ultimately accused of sedition was the first political prisoner transported to Australia from which he later escaped. Muir was sentenced to 14 years transportation for the the crime of sedition; for campaigning for parliamentary reform and for distributing copies of Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man'. His trial became one of the great sensations of the day; he was one of the group known as the 'Scottish Martyrs' who were sentenced in Scotland in 1793-4. Large 12mo 4 128pp rebound in a later half cloth and marble boards leather spine label revised engraved portrait frontis of Muir showing him from the waist up by J. Kay. OCLC 17619597 recorded at 8 locations. Libraries Australia ID 62770710 cites one copy at Queensland Univ. of Technology. Alexander Scott - Gazetteer Office hardcover
2010réf. BIB328629Clapham SA: Published by Author. 2010. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 361 pages. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover. Published by Author paperback
1987réf. BIB328652Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1987. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 461 pages. The scientific voyage of Nicolas Baudin in 1800-1804 is all but forgotten in Australia and France - yet it produced the first "complete" map of Australia. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Melbourne University Press hardcover
réf. BIB287029Adelaide: Austaprint. 19781846. Octavo Size approx 14x23cm. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. Attractive black cloth binding with gold gilt illustration of a miner blocked on front board and silver lettering on front board and spine. Three-toned colour illustrations and maps. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 361pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1846 1st edition published by T and W Boone London. . Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Austaprint hardcover
réf. 1462403247.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1877réf. 23994Dublin: The Central Tenants' Defense Committee 1877. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. The trial of returned convict John Sarsfield Casey an activist defender of Irish tenant farmers who earlier in his career wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy' which were used in his 1865 trial to support a charge of treason and a sentence of transportation to Australia. Casey was one of the 62 Fenians transported to Western Australia. He was granted a free pardon in 1869 and returned to Dublin in 1870. The 1877 trial recorded here was brought against Casey in Ireland by the agent for a wealthy land owner Nathaniel Buckley named Patten Smith Bridge. Bridge had imposed enormous rent increases on the Galtee Mountain tenant farmers; he alleged that Casey's articles to the press about the excessive rent increases had libeled him. Huge rents increases and the inability of farmers to pay resulted in whole families being thrown out of their homes; Casey knew these facts from personal experience as some of these tenants were his relatives. The trial lasted 8 days; Bridge's claim for damages against Casey was repudiated. 8vo vii 98pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine leather label slightly rubbed. Printed on cheap newsprint paper Title page detached chipped at edges with early paper repair on verso; Preface pages through vi chipped along gutter but holding. OCLC: 20515747. The Central Tenants' Defense Committee hardcover
1903réf. BIB264686Melbourne: The Montfort Press. 1903. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Green cloth boards. Corners lightly bumped. A single ink "tick" to ffep. Black and white frontispiece. Tiny piece missing from top corner of "Synopsis" page. Light scattered foxing to fore and top edges and inside edges of covers. 200 pages. The story of the Elphington family and their life in the Mallee country of Victoria during the 19th century. Whilst fictional it is a very good representation of life at that time in that place. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The Montfort Press hardcover
réf. 24073Novar's signature dated by him from Stirling 14 October 1922. See their entries in the Oxford DNB. Two Autograph Signatures on an 11 x 5 cm slip cut from a leaf of an album. In good condition lightly aged. On one side: ‘Novar / G. G. Australia 1914 - 20. / Stirling 14. 10. 22.’ The date ‘1914’ is slightly smudged. On the other side ‘Katharine Atholl - Jan. .’; and above it in another hand ‘Duchess of Atholl - Under Secretary for Edu<cation>’. See image. Novar's signature dated by him from Stirling, 14 October 1922. unknown
1916réf. BIB272759Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. 1916. 12mo approx 12x15cm. Very Good condition - an excellent copy. Original paper covers. 2 folding maps. 31 black & white plates all present. McLaren 16762. Very scarce. 200 pages. Captain Samuel Albert White was a wealthy Australian racehorse owner soldier explorer conservationist and amateur ornithologist. He fought in the South African War 1900-1903 reaching the rank of Captain which title he continued to use throughout his life. He made several private ornithological collecting expeditions across remote areas of Australia to Alice Springs 1913 Musgrave and Everard Ranges 1914 Cooper Creek 1916 Nullarbor Plain 1917-1918 Finke River 1921 and Adelaide to Darwin and return 1922 on behalf of Gregory Mathews. He was a foundation member of the South Australian Ornithological Association SAOA in 1899 and served as its President for several periods between 1904 and 1944. He was also a foundation member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union RAOU in 1901 and served as its President 1914-1916. . Very Good. 1st thus. Softcover. W.K. Thomas & Co paperback
2022réf. BIB327203Walkerville: Robert O'Shannassy. 2022. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. As new conditon. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Foreword by Gideon Haigh. Signed by the authors on the title page. 407 pages. A history of AUCC starting with its beginnings in 1881 its formal formation in 1907 and its invitation to join South Australian Cricket Association in 1908 through the highs and lows finishing with the triumphant 20-21 Premiership season. 395 illustrations including historic team photos and over 30 pages of appendices. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . As New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Robert O'Shannassy hardcover
réf. BIB320289Adelaide: Friends of State Library of South Australia. 19981794. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Fine condition - like new. Deluxe edition - number 81 of only 90 numbered copies. With twelve full page colour plates by James Sowerby. Bound half leather over blue cloth boards. Includes separate blind-stamped box of plates numbers 81/200. All housed in a separate original cardboard box. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 218. 33pages plates. The first book published on Australian fauna and one of the rarest Australian colour-plate books. Exquisite hand-coloured engravings. . As New. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Friends of State Library of South Australia hardcover
1881réf. BIB258229Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son. 1881. Octavo Size. Very Good Condition. Errata slip to prelims. Nice copy. Author was Dean of Adelaide at time of publication. Gift inscription to preliminary pages very neat a couple of spots of foxing to preliminary pages. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 59 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1833réf. 26804Sydney. Printed by E.S. Hall. 1833 1833. Soft cover. 12mo 20.5cm 18p. original plain blue wraps upper cover chipped along fore edge some expert repairs along the gutter edge string tied else a fine copy n12 Fergusson 1667. - An early Australian emigration guide and an early Sydney imprint. John Dunmore Lang 1799-1878 a Scottish Presbyterian minister emigrated to New South Wales in 1823 and formed the Scots Church in Sydney. He was a prolific writer on Australia and a major advocate of encouraging immigration from Britain. ". His continual theme. in books pamphlets lectures and newspaper articles was that the grinding poverty of Britain could be relieved by the boundless opportunities in Australia". ODNB. Sydney. Printed by E.S. Hall. 1833 unknown
1928réf. 24135Sydney: Sydney Ure Smith 1928. paperback. G-VG. 4to. profusely illustrated Australia Beautiful The Home Easter Pictorial Sydney Number undated but 1928 with cover by Margaret Preston a section of photo illustrations by Cazneaux colour plates of paintings by Hilder Penleigh Boyd Gruner John D Moore; also includes lots of period advertising; occasional foxing vertical crease running through o.w. G-VG; wraps rubbed and with mild edgewear vertical crease to front original staples showing through at spine front and rear. Sydney Ure Smith paperback
1852réf. 28720Boston: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion 1852. Hardcover book. Good overall. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion a 19th century English newspaper/periodical well-known for its woodcut illustrations. The periodical ran from 1851 to 1859. This issue has articles and illustrations for Hawai'i Honolulu Cook's Monument and Sandwich Island dance 2pp; Niagara Falls A Valuable Series of Illustrated Views of Niagara Falls 2pp; West Point Second Series of Illustrated Views of West Point New York 2pp; Australia Departure of the Lizzie Webber the first Emigrant Ship to Australia from Sunderland UK 1pp; California A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California 2pp; Chicago 1pp and many other articles with a complete index. Folio 416pp No. 1 Vol. II Jan-June 1852; No. 1 Vol. III Jul-Dec 1852 3/4 black leather and brown cloth boards no title at spine covers detached but present some pages loose ruffled at edges but clean internally and complete. A view into the world in 1852. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion hardcover
1886réf. BIB254876Adelaide: G. Robertson. 1886. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Appears unread. Illustrated with b/w plates. Foldout map - Stratigraphical sketch across the basins of the Wakefield and LIght Rivers. 216 pages plates. Among many natural history & geological articles it also includes: On Geological Section from the Head of St Vincent Gulf Eastwrd across the Wakefield and Light River Basins J.J. East A few remarks about weather forecasting in South Australia W. Ernest Cooke The apricot disease F.S. Crawford Post-Miocene Climate in South Australia Prof R. Tate Plants collected in Central Australia Ch. Winnecke etc . Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. G. Robertson paperback
réf. 1164951548.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
