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The Northern Territory of South Australia. Accompanied with a Map

1863réf. 80169Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. Octavo 54 pages plus a large folding map and an errata slip tipped in on the contents page; the map 890 × 650 mm is of the Northern Territory itself and shows the 'exploration tracks' of Stuart Sturt A.C. Gregory McKinlay and Leichardt sic. Contemporary full morocco with decorative gilt borders front and rear and the title in gilt on the front cover a most attractive colonial binding; extremities slightly rubbed; leather slightly dusty; the map has tiny holes nibbled by silverfish along the fold of two blank panels and short splits to four intersecting folds insignificant blemishes; a fine copy. 'On 16 July 1863 the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and the relevant Acts and Regulations 20 pages together with lengthy extracts from Earl's 'Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia' printed earlier the same year at the 'Pinang sic Gazette' Press in the Straits Settlement 22 pages. The last section 'Interior of the Country' 12 pages is largely extracted from the journal of Stuart and the report of Waterhouse naturalist to his expedition. Ferguson 13458 the wrappers here are not stiffened and the title page is also printed within a border. Provenance: The Honorable Henry Ayers CMG with his armorial bookplate. Sir Henry Ayers 1821-1897 legislator and businessman was at the time South Australian Chief Secretary under whose command the 'Northern Territory Land Regulations' and 'Appointment of Officers' printed in the book were proclaimed. Ayers has underlined in ink six lines in the Northern Territory Act relating to land orders. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover

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KNIGHT, JG (editor) J GBiblio.com

The Northern Territory of South Australia

1880réf. 80145Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Octavo 55 pages. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers with the title page details repeated on the front cover; cloth a little flecked and slightly sunned and rubbed; card a little tanned mottled and lightly marked; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. At the time of publication the author was Chief Warden of the Goldfields of the Northern Territory. 'This pamphlet is published by permission of the Government of South Australia; but it is only proper to state that the recommendations herein made especially with reference to the formation of a railway have not yet been considered by the Ministry and must therefore be only regarded as the individual views of the author. A portion of the matter in the following pages was compiled by me' for Harcus's 'South Australia' published in 1876; it 'incorporated some useful papers written by residents there'. That book also contained an important chapter on Central Australia incorporated here with additional material. To quote Harcus: 'the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. Knight remarks that it 'affords an excellent insight into the vast tract of country'. The article takes up most of the 17-page chapter; it refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. It is augmented with a page of quotations from Charles Winnecke's 1879 Herbert River expedition reports. Ferguson 11231 pretty light on detail even to the extent of not recording the binding. E. Spiller, Government Printer paperback

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TIETKENS, William HenryBiblio.com

The Nullabor Plains and the West Boundary of the Province. Contained in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch. Sessions 1886-7 and 1887-8. Volume 2

1890réf. 29560Adelaide: RGSSA 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1890. Octavo 5 pages plus a very large and detailed folding map of the boundary line between South Australia and Western Australia 845 × 300 mm. Early half calf and cloth; leather rubbed at the extremities and a little worn at the head of the joints and three corners with slight loss to the surface of the spine; endpapers offset and a little discoloured at the corners by the leather; some foxing to the leaves at the front and rear and near the folding maps; the Tietkens map has two very short tears expertly sealed; a very good copy with the pencilled surname 'Cowlishaw' lightly erased from the title page possibly Leslie Cowlishaw 1877-1943 physician medical historian and bibliophile. Unquestionably rare and important with all but one of the numerous articles in this volume relating to North Australia or Australian Aborigines. They are WINNECKE Charles: Physical Features of Central Australia 8 pages; WORSNOP Thomas: The Pre-historic Arts of the Aborigines of Australia 25 pages plus 4 lithographs 7 chromolithographs and a small folding map; KRICHAUFF F.: The Customs Religious Ceremonies etc. of the Aldolinga Tribe of Aborigines in Krichauff Ranges Central Australia 5 pages plus 4 pages of further notes; CARRINGTON Captain: The Rivers of the Northern Territory of South Australia 22 pages plus a large folding map 405 × 515 mm; LINDSAY David: Explorations in the Northern Territory of South Australia 16 pages; SUTTON T.M.: The Adjahdurah Tribe of Aborigines on Yorke's Peninsula 3 pages; and NEWLAND S.: The Parkengees or Aboriginal Tribes of the Darling River 14 pages. The other article is ROBINSON Sir Wm.: The Physical Geography of the South-West of Western Australia 13 pages plus a large folding map 380 × 425 mm. RGSSA hardcover

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