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réf. 138947Very Good. Original gelatin silver photographs with the pairs of images printed as one plate 86 × 144 mm mounted on light yellow cards 98 × 178 mm uniformly printed and decorated on the verso 'Photographed by Edwin C. Thomas. Australasian Stereo Views'. Some have hand-written captions see below. Minimal signs of age and handling; overall in excellent condition. The 'Petersburg Times' on Friday 12 May 1893 contained a short article under the headline 'Photography'. 'It will be noted by our advertising columns that Mr Edwin C. Thomas has commenced business at Petersburg as a Photographer and thus another long felt local want has been filled. The Studio which is replete with the latest accessories to the photographic art is in Jervois Street opposite the Courthouse. Besides the ordinary work of the photographer Mr Thomas makes a specialty of stereoscopic views in which he is very successful. The prices quoted for photographs are extremely moderate whilst good work is assured. We believe there is a good opening for a photographer in the town and we hope Mr. Thomas may be successful in working up a thriving business. Farmers and others who would like their residences taken should communicate with him'. Thomas merely appears on the 'List of Names' compiled by Robert Noye AGSA. Davies and Stanbury simply note 'Edwin Thomas Petersburgh sic Peterborough South Australia 1894'. Institutional holdings of his works are almost non-existent: if Trove is any indicator the State Library of SA is the only location of any of his photographs with a grand total of two examples one of which is a battered stereo view of 'Stoney Creek near Quorn' B 78542. The 'Evening Journal' and the 'South Australian Register' both carry the following snippet on Tuesday 18 October 1892: 'From Mr. Edwin C. Thomas travelling photographer we have received six stereo views of South Australian scenes: two of the Burra Burra Mines and one each of the Kooringa State School Botanic Gardens Parkside Asylum and King William street. The workmanship is good and the pictures are attractive'. Ten of the stereographs in this collection have short captions in ink: nine are on the verso four of which have the same caption on the recto with the other five having some variant of it; one is captioned solely on the recto 'Mr Crocker's Farm'. In the main they confirm what is apparent from the scene and apart from a number in Adelaide King William Street Adelaide Arcade Parkside Lunatic Asylum several in the Botanic Gardens they depict scenes in Clare the interior of the Catholic Church at Seven Hills Orroroo Port Augusta Quorn Saltia Pichi Richi Pass and unidentified rural settings. One identifying S.A. Blondin walking a high wire in Quorn enables us to date it to the month and year. The 'Manning Index of South Australian History' online records that 'A photograph of "Blondin at Quorn" is in the Pictorial Australian on Monday 1st October 1894 page 169'. It is a slightly different image - Blondin seems to have taken a step or two forward and is now balancing on one leg - and the caption states 'With a Country Photographer - Blondin at Quorn. From a Negative by Mr. E. Thomas'. 17 items. unknown

[Yardea Station]. [EVANS, WR] W RBiblio.com

A collection of 23 vintage photographs of Yardea Station and environs in the Gawler Ranges South Australia circa 1905

réf. 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

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BABBAGE, Benjamin HerschelBiblio.com

A comprehensive collection of Parliamentary Papers pertaining to the explorations in South Australia of Benjamin Herschel Babbage 1815-1878

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

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Victoria Australia Supreme CourtBiblio.com

A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court Court of Insolvency.

1902réf. 513161902. Melbourne Australia 1902-1933. 7 vols. Melbourne Australia 1902-1933. 7 vols. From the Goldfields to the Great Depression: A Scarce Serial Run of Victorian Common Law Mining and Insolvency Jurisprudence Victoria Australia. Supreme Court. A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court Court of Insolvency and Courts of Mines of the State of Victoria. Editors: Vol. 1 1895-1901 James G. Eagleson; L.F.S. Robinson and M.A. Brennan; Vol. 2 1901-1906 L.F.S. Robinson; Vol. 3 1906-1912 L.F.S. Robinson; Vol. 4 1913-1917 L.F.S. Robinson and J.W.S. Vroland; Vol. 5 1918-1922 J.W.S. Vroland and E.F. Healy; Vol. 6 1923-1927 E.F. Healy; Vol. 7 1928-1932 C. McC. T. Stafford. Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell G. Partridge & Co. 1902-1916; Australia: The Law Book Co. of Australasia Ltd 1917-1933. First editions. Seven volumes. Octavo. Complete serial run spanning cases from 1895 to 1932. Original publisher's black cloth spines lettered in gilt. Small paper shelf-location labels affixed to the head of each spine. Bindings show light shelfwear mild soiling and minor spotting to cloth. Internally clean with contemporary pencil notations on front pastedowns. A very good sound set. $850. From the prestigious Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts the library of the Supreme Court of the German Reich in Leipzig with their small circular institutional stamps on each title page. A remarkably complete unbroken consecutive set of this key Australian legal serial which was issued over three decades and is frequently found only as scattered individual volumes. Beyond its scarcity this legal digest provides a front-row seat to the development of early Australian jurisprudence from late-colonial times through the Great Depression. It provides an unbroken record of Victoria's highly specialized Courts of Mines critical to understanding the legal architecture of the Australian goldfields-and the Court of Insolvency documenting early corporate architecture and financial collapses across three decades of economic volatility. Crucially the volumes map how these state-level rulings interacted with the newly minted High Court of Australia est. 1903 and the Privy Council in London making it a cornerstone resource for comparative common law research. This specific set carries extraordinary provenance having served as a reference resource for the highest court of the German Empire and Weimar Republi. unknown