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1960rif. 147642Adelaide: Directories Aust. Ltd 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Directories Aust. Ltd. 1960. Quarto viii lettered A-H 20 index 176 classified section 88 alphabetical section pages plus advertisements on all surfaces of the covers. Pink thin card covers slightly marked at the front; paper tanned throughout; an excellent copy. The second annual issue; the guide ceased publication after the fourth one for 1963. Directories (Aust.) Ltd paperback
1880rif. 131626Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blind-decorated red cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and its Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little flecked with minimal loss to silverfish on the spine and rear cover; edges slightly marked; an excellent copy internally fine. Provenance: the contemporary surname signature 'Benny' is written in ink on the front flyleaf. Reverend James Benny 1824-1910 farmer lawyer then 'minister of the Free Presbyterian Church at Morphett Vale' from the early 1850s; an account of his jubilee celebrations appeared in 'The Advertiser' 16 September 1903. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
1880rif. 10740Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blue cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and its Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed bumped and worn at the extremities; stitching just starting to loosen; a very good copy with the signature stamp of E. Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. Edward Angas Johnson 1873-1951 was an Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles; his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
1961rif. 147643Adelaide: Directories Aust. Ltd 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Directories Aust. Ltd. 1961. Quarto xvi lettered A-P mainly the index 112 classified section 80 alphabetical section pages plus advertisements on all surfaces of the covers. Pink thin card covers; small light stain and a few chips near the head of the rear joint; paper tanned throughout; minimal signs of age and handling; overall an excellent copy. The third annual issue; the guide ceased publication after the fourth one for 1963. Directories (Aust.) Ltd paperback
rif. 21346Adelaide: Robert A. Thompson & Co./Melbourne: Robert Jolley: n.d. [c. 1900]] Osboldstone & Atkins, Printers, Melbourne. Photos by SJ Dailey, Adelaide. Dec. wrs plus pp. 24 of captioned views, printed on art paper (185 x 250mm) Cover Title: Adelaide Illustrated. Inner Title: A Photographic Souvenir of Adelaide: Containing 44 Views of the principal Streets, Buildings, &c. Near mint condition. Rare
rif. 0666575967.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1857rif. 108971Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printer 'Register' Office for The Author 1857. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printer 'Register' Office for The Author 1857. A broadside on thick paper 510 × 328 mm printed recto only. Three horizontal creases; trifling chips creases and marks to the blank left and right margins; an excellent copy. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of this 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857. Some years later he released an 'Address to the Electors of Sturt'; apart from the change of place-name it is identical in content to this item. W.K. Thomas, Printer, 'Register' Office [for The Author unknown
1951221p. Hardcover Good condition, covers darkened
rif. 141155First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Foolscap folio; gilt-lettered binder's red cloth containing the reproduced leaves of fifteen Acts of Parliament; a fine copy. Of the fifteen Acts contained in the volume the five most significant are: 'An Act to Regulate the Post Office Department in South Australia' 7 pages; Number 2 1941; 'An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Law for Conveyance and Postage of Letters' 9 pages; Number 4 1853; 'An Act to Regulate the Post Office Department in South Australia 10 pages; Number 4 1861; 'An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to the Post Office in South Australia' 24 pages; Number 5 1866; and 'An Act to repeal 'The Post Office Act 1866' and to make other provisions in lieu thereof' 28 pages; Number 49 1876. The remaining ten Acts are: Number 7 1839; Number 10 1843; Number 8 1846; Number 6 1857; Number 10 1862; Number 49 1876; Number 207 1881; Number 214 1881; Number 370 1886; Number 374 1886 and Number 535 1891. With the ink ownership details of W. Barton Sparrow November 1992 and inscribed 'Acts collected and copied by Martin Walker and bound by Tony Presgrave'. Martin Walker and A.D. Presgrave are both noted Australian philatelic historians. hardcover
1867rif. 518751867. Early Parliamentary Acts of South Australia Australia. South Australia. Acts of the Parliament of South Australia 1867 1869-70 1874 1876-81. Adelaide: Nine volumes in all. 1881 volume: later three quarter cloth over paper boards typewritten paper title label to spine. Some shelfwear internally clean; other volumes: Quarter cloth over stiff printed wrappers. Moderate shelfwear spine ends worn internally clean. All 9 volumes: ex-library. Location labels to spines stamps to front covers and preliminaries. $500. South Australia's origin is unique. Established by an act of Parliament in 1834 it was a planned British province rather than a convict settlement. It was the first place in the world to grant universal suffrage and to allow women to run for parliament. It was one of the states that formed the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. These volumes are from a series that ran from 1837 to 1957. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:81. unknown books
1881rif. 136694Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1881. Quarto 8 pages last blank and 52 separately-paginated Acts in all approximately 500 pages. Contemporary full morocco; spine tooled in gilt; front cover extensively stamped in gilt with the design repeated in blind on the rear cover; all edges gilt and lightly marked; slight wear to the extremities now expertly conserved; marbled endpapers and adjacent leaves a little creased and marked; paper a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; in excellent condition. The elaborate binding was likely executed by Emanuel Spiller the South Australian Government Printer at the time. Spiller's name appears as exhibitor and jury-member of competitions and exhibitions of binding and printing throughout the 1880s. The 'Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 March 1880 carries a lengthy article by John Plummer on colonial bookbindings displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition noting that '. in the South Australian Court Mr. E. Spiller the Government printer of Adelaide occupies the foremost rank'. Although offered primarily as a fine example of colonial binding the Acts contained in this volume numbers 196 to 238 as well as nine Private Acts are not without interest. There are numerous railways and tramways acts as well as acts on subjects as diverse as Chinese immigration the Adelaide Synagogue mining inebriates and the substantial 'No. 237. Marine Board and Navigation Act' 143 pages. E. Spiller, Government Printer hardcover
1867rif. 518751867. Early Parliamentary Acts of South Australia Australia. South Australia. Acts of the Parliament of South Australia 1867 1869-70 1874 1876-81. Adelaide: Nine volumes in all. 1881 volume: later three quarter cloth over paper boards typewritten paper title label to spine. Some shelfwear internally clean; other volumes: Quarter cloth over stiff printed wrappers. Moderate shelfwear spine ends worn internally clean. All 9 volumes: ex-library. Location labels to spines stamps to front covers and preliminaries. $500. South Australia's origin is unique. Established by an act of Parliament in 1834 it was a planned British province rather than a convict settlement. It was the first place in the world to grant universal suffrage and to allow women to run for parliament. It was one of the states that formed the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. These volumes are from a series that ran from 1837 to 1957. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:81. unknown
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rif. 005492Newport Victoria: Australian Sports Publications 22 of 24 issues. 4to. original stapled printed paper wraps. All VG or better condition. Lacking issues for August/Sept 1984 Vol. 1 No. 4 & Dec/Jan 1985 Vol. 1 No. 6. A near fine set of this shortlived Australian outdoor publication containing much of rock climbing and mountaineering interest. Not in Neate. Postage costs will be high for the set - please email for details. First Edition. Australian Sports Publications paperback
1925rif. 62085London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 3 York Street St. James 1925. Thick 8vo. 311 1 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates map. Green ribbed publisher’s cloth blue ruling & lettering minor foxing to fore-edges of textblock & endpapers very minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art photo of “Desert” Country near Newcastle Waters minor chipping & tear head of spine closed tear front cover minor creasing still VG/G- copy. First edition of this excellent account of the pioneering 1923 automobile explorations by Michael Terry through Northern Australia as he pioneered the route while driving a 1913 Model T dragging a trailer behind loaded with supplies. Although they managed to secure food and fuel most of the way they ran out at the Western Australia border stumbled through the desert with no water and no fuel but were luckily found by some Aboriginal stockmen and eventually reached Broome. Exceedingly scarce in the original dustjacket. See: Ron Moon The Last Explorer: Michael Terry WhichCar July 20 2015. Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., 3 York Street St. James, hardcover
19128vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xiv, 254; xvii, [255] - 515, [iv, ads] pp, 7 color plates (including 4 natural history), 2 folding maps, 365 plates and illus. original pictorial gilt cloth, spines faded and worn, good set, interior with minor foxing on some pages but clean, mounted hand colored map of New South Wales, eastern coast dated 1835 on endpaper from other work. A picture of this book is available upon
1953rif. 140739Adelaide: RGSSA 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA December 1953. Octavo pages 35-41 with a map plus 2 plates. Original wrappers; a fine copy. An account by George Lindsay of a trip undertaken with his brother the explorer David Lindsay from Dalhousie to Lake Nash; it is essentially a letter written by George Lindsay to his mother after the trip and it is here extensively annotated by his son the well-known naturalist and bush-survival expert. This issue also contains FINNISS H.J.: The Murray Mouth pages 1-21 with a facsimile of a log entry plus 2 plates; and RENDELL Margaret P.: The Chinese in South Australia before 1860 pages 23-33. RGSSA paperback
