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réf. 1528584651.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1527971686.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1898réf. 144827London: Longmans Green and Co 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longmans Green and Co. 1898. Octavo viii 238 pages with 5 illustrations plus 3 plates and a frontispiece with a tissue-guard. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine decorated in black on the front cover and in blind at the rear; top corners and the foot of the spine a little bumped; all edges uncut; endpapers and first and last pages a little tanned; pencil annotation on one page; mild signs of age and use; an excellent copy. 'With the Compliments of The South Australian Company. Adelaide 14th. July 1898.' is inkstamped on the recto of the frontispiece. Provenance: Charles Glover 1870-1936 several times Lord Mayor of Adelaide with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover
1898réf. BIB328802London: Longmans Green and Co. 1898. Octavo Size. Very Good in original brown cloth with gilt title on spine. Black & white illustrations. "With the Compliments of The South Australian Company Adelaide 14th July 1898" stamped to rear free endpaper. Previous owner's name inked to bottom edge and top corner of title page clipped. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 238 pages. The formation of the company followed considerable lobbying by the South Australian Association a group consisting of philanthropists radical thinkers dissenters and merchants. After a years of negotiation false starts changes and amendments to suggested charters the British Parliament finally gave approval and passed the South Australian Foundation Act on 15 August 1834. The founding Board of directors were George Fife Angas Chairman; Raikes Currie; Charles Hindley M.P.; James Hyde; Henry Kingscote; John Pirie Alderman; Christopher Rawson; John Rundle M.P.; Thomas Smith; James Ruddell Todd; and Henry Waymouth; with Edmund John Wheeler Manager; Samuel Stephens Colonial Manager; and Edward Hill Secretary pro tem. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
1997réf. BIB295374Adelaide: 1903. 1997. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Fine condition - an excellent like new copy. Blindstamped burgundy cloth boards. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. x 74 pages. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 214. Introduction by Valmai Hankel. . Facsimile. Hardback. 1903] hardcover
1986folio [30 x 22 cm]; xii, 237 pp, numerous illustrations and plates, mostly in color from early sources, detailed bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, pictorial endpapers, dj (not price clipped), fine and clean copy, unused and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of the discovery of the unique fauna such as the Kiwi, Moa, Takahe and the Tuatara beginning with the voyages of Captain Cook to the end of the Victorian era. Attractive illustrations include those of Parkinson, Forster, Lear, Gould, Wolf, Martyn, Keulemans and Donovan cover all aspects of animal, bird, marine and insect life.
1986folio [30 x 22 cm]; xii, 237 pp, numerous illustrations and plates, mostly in color, detailed bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, pictorial endpapers, dj, fine and clean copy, unused. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of the discovery of the unique fauna such as the Kiwi, Moa, Takahe and the Tuatara beginning with the voyages of Captain Cook to the end of the Victorian era. Attractive illustrations include those of Parkinson, Forster, Lear, Gould, Wolf, Martyn, Keulemans and Donovan cover all aspects of animal, bird, marine and insect life.
1974réf. 104985London: Bodley Head 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Bodley Head 1974 first edition. Octavo; papered boards; foot of the spine slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the excellent slightly rubbed and sunned dustwrapper. Presentation copy inscribed to Lady Mary and Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE dated 24 August 1979 and signed 'Mary Mitchell' presumably the author's wife. Bodley Head hardcover
1953réf. 147341Tabor: printed by Hamilton 'Spectator' Print for the Parish 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tabor printed by Hamilton 'Spectator' Print for the Parish 1953. Quarto 11 pages with 15 small line illustrations and a portrait of Pastor Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann from a photograph. Saddle-stapled overlapping three-colour card covers very lightly marked and creased; an excellent copy. The pageant play was performed at the Hamilton Town Hall on 13 April 1953. While 'written with the limitations of a country congregation in mind' it traces the story of the early Old Lutheran settlers in south-western Victoria including the career of the congregation's first pastor C.W. Schürmann from Dresden to Tabor via Adelaide Port Lincoln and Portland. printed by Hamilton 'Spectator' Print [for the Parish] paperback
2011réf. BIB272092Adelaide: Barr Smith Press. 2011. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 177 pages. Describes the influence of architects and planners and the academics administrators and students whose lives were centred at the University of Adelaide. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Barr Smith Press hardcover
1912réf. 033344Sydney: William Brooks & Co. 1912. 94pp bw ills. Or thick card covers with green cloth spine title label laid on to front. Covers lightly toned light toning to page edges. No date c1912. Originally published in 1898 and reissued in four parts from 1911-1918. Very scarce Australian children's fairy stories. Muir 7975. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Lambert C.W. 12mo. William Brooks & Co. Hardcover
1911réf. 033343Sydney: William Brooks & Co. 1911. 101pp bw ills. Or thick card covers with green cloth spine title label laid on to front. Covers toned light toning to page edges. No date c1911. Originally published in 1898 and reissued in four parts from 1911-1918. Very scarce Australian children's fairy stories. Muir 7973. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Lambert C.W. 12mo. William Brooks & Co. Hardcover
1914réf. 147808Melbourne: Lothian 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Lothian May 1914 first edition. Octavo 228 12 publisher's catalogue pages plus 12 pages of plates including 7 pages of colour plates with tissue-guards. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in blind; top edge gilt others lightly foxed; cloth slightly marked and flecked and lightly sunned on the spine; tiny bump to the leading edge of both boards; endpapers unevenly tanned; first and last leaves a little foxed; minimal signs of age and handling; contemporary gift inscription in ink with a later one in pencil from George Holman an Adelaide antique dealer of note; overall an excellent copy. Not least 'The Black Opal' 11 pages plus 3 colour plates on two pages. Muir 8125 not recording the second edition of November 1914. 'Comprises travel letters written to children & natural history studies; includes some verse. Although addressed to children the letters are philosophical & reminiscent & the result is not a children's book'. Lothian hardcover
réf. 16546London, Mac Millan, 1896, in 8° reliure toile rouge deléditeur, 312 pages, cachets.
1923réf. 147538Adelaide: Theodore Bruce & Co. 'Printed at The Hassell Press' 1923. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Theodore Bruce & Co. 'Printed at The Hassell Press' 1923. Quarto 39 pages with 23 illustrations. Overlapping wrappers with a plate of lot 79 tipped in on the front cover; wrappers and plate a little marked and creased with a tiny tear to the plate; a very good copy internally excellent. The 280 lots from the collection of Dr Stafford Cox a long-term resident as a medical practitioner in China and 'an authority on Chinese Art' from the biographical sketch were prepared for sale by Tyrrell's. Theodore Bruce & Co. ('Printed at The Hassell Press') paperback
1977réf. 25080140Gumnut Press Australia 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 144 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Gumnut Press Australia 1977. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Numbered first edition 304 of 1000 copies Quantity Available: 1. Category: Genealogy & Local History; ISBN: 0908058004. ISBN/EAN: 9780908058006. Inventory No: 25080140. 9780908058006 Gumnut Press hardcover
1921réf. 59736Adelaide: RSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1921. Octavo 10 pages. Quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains HOWCHIN Professor Walter: On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Regions of Central Australia 25 pages plus 11 pages of plates and a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of Australia in the making of Stone Implements based on actual observation 2 pages. The implements were found in the vicinity of the Macumba Head Station "about 34 miles to the northward of Oodnadatta RSSA paperback
1970réf. 000589Wellington: Reed 1970 VG copy SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page 249pp many plates map end papers former owners name to fep tipped in newspaper cutting review of the book plus one page typescript giving some of 'Rakiura's' unwritten history mainly to do with the opening and ownership of the Oban hotel. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Reed hardcover
1934réf. 108344Adelaide: Gillingham & Co. Ltd 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Gillingham & Co. Ltd. 1934. Quarto viii 94 pages with 19 illustrations from photographs featuring approximately 150 implements. Cloth a little scuffed and rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal wear; endpapers unevenly offset; a few mild signs of handling; a very good copy. Provenance: Stanley Robert Mitchell 1881-1963 ethnologist mineralogist metallurgist and businessman with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. 'In the 1930s and 1940s he belonged to a distinguished group of "amateur" ethnologists and collectors who gathered around Sir Baldwin Spencer. They collected massive numbers of Aboriginal implements and championed the value of field-work over "armchair theorists". They believed that the raw geological material was the dominant factor in determining the forms of stone implements and that these forms had not changed from earliest times to the period of European contact' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. One correction in ink 'lava' for 'land' near the end of the first paragraph on page 14 and some light marginal emphases in pencil are presumably by Mitchell. The original four-page prospectus a little chipped and torn at the edges is loosely inserted. Gillingham & Co., Ltd hardcover
1985réf. 147581Adelaide: St Peters College Foundation 1985. Very Good. Adelaide St Peters College Foundation 1985. Oblong folio 315 × 460 mm 28 leaves comprising 14 pages of text last page the colophon and 14 full-page illustrations reproductions of drawings done by Joseph Choate in the late 1940s plus the school crest in colour on the verso of the front flyleaf. A duplicate copy of the first plate 'Old School House' suitable for framing is loosely inserted. Blue buckram with the school crest in gilt on the front cover; corners slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the thin card slipcase a little worn and slightly damaged. 'Joseph Choate was the Art Master of St Peter's College from 1936 to 1955 prepared a comprehensive set of drawings and historical statements about the buildings of the school. These were to have been published as a book but his death precluded this from eventuating. His drawings and accompanying historical statements have survived and the majority have been gathered together by David Dridan' a student and colleague of Choate's and himself an accomplished artist. A limited edition upper limit not stated in full dappled blue morocco signed by David Dridan was also issued. St Peters College Foundation] unknown
1937réf. 144807Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth a little stained and marked; a very good copy internally fine. The book includes a five-page Honor Roll and a preface by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter DSO 1885-1963 the Battalion's Commanding Officer from August 1916 to the end of the war. The editor was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. He states in the introductory paragraph to his foreword that he is 'keenly sensible of the fact that probably a book three times larger could have been written had it been possible to get in touch with the men of the Battalion who were in a position to know well the activities of their various Companies. The story such as it is is correct as to salient facts and this is entirely owing to the fact that Colonel Carter soon after his return to Australia wrote a complete Diary of the Battalion's movements and operations from the early days in Egypt to the Armistice'. Herbert Gordon Carter was a very interesting man: consult the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1937réf. 132767Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth a little marked and rubbed and lightly bumped at the extremities; top edge and endpapers a little foxed; endpapers offset; trifling signs of handling; an excellent copy of a very rare book. The book includes a five-page Honor Roll and a preface by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter DSO 1885-1963 the Battalion's Commanding Officer from August 1916 to the end of the war. The editor was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. He states in the introductory paragraph to his foreword that he is 'keenly sensible of the fact that probably a book three times larger could have been written had it been possible to get in touch with the men of the Battalion who were in a position to know well the activities of their various Companies. The story such as it is is correct as to salient facts and this is entirely owing to the fact that Colonel Carter soon after his return to Australia wrote a complete Diary of the Battalion's movements and operations from the early days in Egypt to the Armistice'. Herbert Gordon Carter was a very interesting man: consult the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1937réf. 127709Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 large folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth lightly marked; endpapers offset; essentially a fine copy of a very rare book. The author was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1953réf. 144737Bordertown: Printed by the 'Border Chronicle' for the 'Back to Keith' and Hospital Building Committees 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Bordertown Printed by the 'Border Chronicle' for the 'Back to Keith' and Hospital Building Committees 1953. Octavo 68 pages plus 18 pages of plates including 2 maps and a plan. Overlapping pictorial wrappers with French flaps; wrappers unevenly tanned with a few small marks; edges slightly creased; tiny chips at the head of the spine; ownership signature on the half-title; a very good copy. Printed by the 'Border Chronicle' for the 'Back to Keith' and Hospital Building Committees paperback
1986réf. BIB329155Burra SA: The District Council of Burra Burra. 1986. Quarto Size approx 22x28cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Inscribed by the author to previous owner. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Maps. An uncommon title. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 475 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The District Council of Burra Burra hardcover