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19818vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, blue back lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. The AIF in WWII.
1882réf. 112707Adelaide: Printed by Webb Vardon and Pritchard for the Author 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Webb Vardon and Pritchard for the Author 1882. Octavo ii title page verso blank vi preface last blank 9-343 pages. Original olive-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and ruled and decorated in blind on the sides; cloth a little marked flecked and rubbed with light wear to the extremities and minimal conservation to the spine; front board slightly bowed; edges a little marked; textblock reinserted in the binding with the original endpapers retained and reinforced along the inner hinges with cloth of a similar colour; the front flyleaf has a short sealed tear and some residual glue on the recto it had been stuck fast to the pastedown and now has a tendency to curl a little and there are a few numerical annotations and the early ownership signatures of Carl D. and C.O. Lundberg; minimal signs of use and age internally; a very good copy of a great rarity. 'Essential; an important regional novel and nearly a comic masterpiece' states Depasquale 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'; 'a rambling episodic undisciplined novel part romance part satire part detective novel and . part didactic religious novel'. The five-page introduction by the anonymous author is instructive as are the five pages Depasquale devotes to the work. The novel is set in the mid-north of South Australia; the author notes that Emu Flat the place at which the story begins is 'about four miles S.W. of Clare'. The verso of the front flyleaf carries the later inkstamp of Tyrrell's Bookshop Gawler Place Adelaide. Printed by Webb, Vardon, and Pritchard [for the Author] hardcover
1941Minor rubbing and a bit of fraying to DJ; Book club edition. ; 8vo; 499 pages
1991réf. 144165Adelaide: The Authors 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Adelaide The Authors 1991. Folio xvi 624 pages with 'over 800 photographs reproductions and detailed drawings'. Cloth; short ballpoint pen mark to the bottom edge; ownership details on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. Number 917 of 1000 copies signed in ink by both authors; this copy is further inscribed and signed by Pamela Oborn to the former owners of the book. Torrens Park Estate is a 'large mansion and its surrounding grounds set in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges six kilometres south of Adelaide in South Australia. The stately home was built in 1853 for Robert Richard Torrens and later owned by Walter Watson Hughes and Robert Barr Smith. It is now the centrepiece of Scotch College' introduction. The Authors hardcover
1991réf. 139284Adelaide: The Authors 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide The Authors 1991. Folio xvi 624 pages with 'over 800 photographs reproductions and detailed drawings'. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper in the original mailing carton. Number 675 of 1000 copies signed in ink by both authors. A copy of the original prospectus is loosely inserted. Torrens Park Estate is a 'large mansion and its surrounding grounds set in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges six kilometres south of Adelaide in South Australia. The stately home was built in 1853 for Robert Richard Torrens and later owned by Walter Watson Hughes and Robert Barr Smith. It is now the centrepiece of Scotch College' introduction. The Authors hardcover
1991réf. BIB178966Adelaide: Published by the Authors. 1991. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Near Fine copy with dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine a little sunned. Comprehensively illustrated with over 800 photographs reproductions and detailed drawings. A limited edition of 1000 numbered copies this being copy number 707. Signed by both authors. 624 pages. The history of a very important part of South Australia's past together with the growth and scholastic development of Scotch College since 1919. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Published by the Authors hardcover
1990réf. 051228Melbourne: Boroondara Press 1990. 64pp references bw ill. Light card in light blue jacket. Minor foxing and light edge wear to jacket. SIGNED by Wantrup on limitation page. Edition limited to 200 copies of which this #29. First printing in English of this account of early colonial New South Wales originally published in French in 1798. Signed by Translator . Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Boroondara Press 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
1794réf. 5947Edinburgh / London: J Robertson / C & G Kearsley 1794. First Edition /First Pub'd. Contemporary three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Very good crisp copy. 8vo I - 2 1 - 163 pp.; II - 2 3 - 256 pp. frontispiece portrait of Gerrald. Two important political trials. 1 Gerrald was one of the ' Scottish Martyrs ' in the cause of liberty. He was a member of the British Convention of the Delegates of the People. This group met in Edinburgh at the height of the French Terror for the avowed purpose of bringing about annual parliaments and universal suffrage. He was tried for sedition and sentenced to be transported. He died at Botany Bay. 2 The Rowan trial was for libel against the government of England. It first appeared in print as a self published account of his trial in Dublin. Rowan was a leading Irish radical and secretary of the Society of United Irishmen. He escaped jail and fled to France where he befriended Mary Wollstonecraft. DNB VII 1117 -' 18; DNB XVII 332 - ' 5; Ferguson #179; Goldsmith's #16149. J Robertson / C & G Kearsley hardcover books
1953réf. 029030London: British Museum Natural History 1953. HEAVY. 550pp index appendix check list 364 bw ills photographs and line drawings. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Ex-Queensland Museum library with several stamps card pocket and label to spine. Spine slightly darkened very light bump to top frotn cover minor shelf wear. Exhaustive study of the Trichoptera caddis fly species to be found in Australia and New Zealand. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Ex-Library. British Museum (Natural History) Hardcover
1907réf. 124220Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Printers 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Printers 1907. Octavo ii 78 pages. Wrappers with the title page details reprinted within a border on the front cover; small light stain near the foot of the spine; small ink reference number at the head of the front cover; pencilled annotations and corrections to one page; an excellent copy. Not least 'Agriculture and the Coloured-Labour Question' pages 41-61. Hussey & Gillingham, Printers paperback
1907réf. 114268Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Printers 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Printers 1907. Octavo ii 78 pages. Wrappers with the title page details reprinted within a border on the front cover; staples very slightly rusty; essentially a fine copy. Not least 'Agriculture and the Coloured-Labour Question' pages 41-61. Hussey & Gillingham, Printers paperback
1998réf. 123192Sydney: Faculty of the Built Environment University of New South Wales 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Faculty of the Built Environment University of New South Wales 1998. Foolscap folio xx 1006 pages with several illustrations. Colour pictorial card covers a little rubbed and creased; head of the spine slightly torn; edges slightly marked; a very good copy. Not stated as such but from the collection of conference contributor Donald Johnson a Frank Lloyd Wright scholar see page 429 with his partially-completed Registration Information booklet loosely inserted in his name. Not least Christine Garnaut's 'Colonel Light Gardens: Back to the Future'. Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales paperback
1998réf. 107966Sydney: Faculty of the Built Environment University of New South Wales 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Faculty of the Built Environment University of New South Wales 1998. Foolscap folio xx 1006 pages with several illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers a little unevenly sunned and slightly rubbed; a very good copy. Not least Christine Garnaut's 'Colonel Light Gardens: Back to the Future'. Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales paperback
1980réf. 053629Auckland: Richards Publishing and Phillips and Gilmour. 1980. HEAVY. 383pp num bw ills maps nominal roll. Maroon cloth in jacket. Jacket moderately edge-worn with some creases and fading at spine. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. The 24 NZ Battalion was formed at the start of WWII and served in Greece and Crete the Western Desert Tunis and Italy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Richards Publishing and Phillips and Gilmour. Hardcover
1918réf. 142216London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. 1918. Octavo two volumes xxxii 512 and xx 504 pages with 5 maps and numerous graphs and tables plus 2 maps printed in black and red. Cloth lightly bumped at the extremities slightly flecked and lightly sunned on the spines; top edges and endpapers foxed with the latter unevenly tanned; overall an excellent set. Provenance: South Australian ornithologist and conservationist Captain Samuel Albert White 1870-1954 with his ink ownership signature and details on the front free endpaper of the first volume 'Captain S.A. White Wetunga Fulham South Australia 1920'. 2 items. H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd hardcover
1938réf. 83754North Adelaide: Lutheran Book Depot 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. North Adelaide Lutheran Book Depot 1938. Octavo 336 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and maps and a large folding chart. Cloth; extremities slightly rubbed and bumped; slight amount of glue adhering to the leading edge of the rear cover a production flaw; an excellent copy. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow and inscribed 'University of Adelaide 23 March 1961'. An abridged version of the German-language edition published earlier the same year; the material not included in the translation tends to be documentary evidence. Lutheran Book Depot hardcover
1986réf. 131739Netley: Wakefield Press 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Netley Wakefield Press 1986. Octavo xvi 366 pages with numerous illustrations most from photographs plus endpaper diagrams. Gilt-decorated full brown morocco; top and leading edge a trifle marked; essentially a fine copy with the lightly rubbed clear plastic dustwrapper. Wakefield Press hardcover
1992réf. 256753PN. New. 1992. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
réf. 26502'Revised. September 1966.'. 21pp. foolscap 8vo. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. The document presents a mass of information. A 'Brief History' in the form of a chronology pp.2-4 is followed by a section setting out the conditions of 'Membership of the Victoria Police Force' pp.5 followed by a table of 'Ranks Insignia and Retiring Age' p.6. There follow various tables three full-page 'trees' sections on the Criminal Investigation Branch Information Bureau Communications Section and other departments and a final 'Miscellaneous' section p.21 ending with 'Finance - Police expenditure' from 1956-7 to 1964-5. From the papers of C. M. Baker Inspector of Police British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. No other copy or 'edition' traced except perhaps an item in the Monash University collections apparently the same title but fewer pages 1964 14pp. 'Revised. September, 1966.' unknown
1866réf. 513171866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. The Reichsgerichtsbibliothek Imperial Court of Justice Library was at its peak Germany's largest and most important law library with 170000 works in its collection before the outbreak of the First World War. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown
1984réf. 25020186Fairfax Syme & Weldon Associates Australia 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Softcover. 914 pages. 3-volume set complete. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fairfax Syme & Weldon Associates Australia 1984. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Covers are protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Australiana; ISBN: 0949288047. ISBN/EAN: 9780949288042. Inventory No: 25020186. 9780949288042 Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates paperback
1984réf. 19070007Fairfax Syme & Weldon Associates Australia 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. 914 pages. 3-volume set complete. Signed by Authors. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fairfax Syme & Weldon Associates Australia 1984. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Spine has slight fading. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: All three books are signed by their respective authors. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Australiana; ISBN: 0949288004. ISBN/EAN: 9780949288004. Inventory No: 19070007. 9780949288004 Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates hardcover
1866réf. 513171866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. The Reichsgerichtsbibliothek Imperial Court of Justice Library was at its peak Germany's largest and most important law library with 170000 works in its collection before the outbreak of the First World War. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown books
19698vo., First Edition, fore-edges lightly spotted; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, purple top, cream endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
