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1880131626Adelaide: 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
188010740Adelaide: 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
1880011886Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1880. Book measures 34x22.cm. 1881-1875. In parts Collation 1119 3042 158 48 15 64 34 11 13 xxxvii 89 11. Collation for 1875 10 13 19 151 70 38 16 41 31 x 72 33pp. Bound in period cloth with gilt lettering paper label. Cloth rubbed nicked worn. Internally occasional library mark or stamp some dust or dirt marking. Page in good condition. I HAVE A FEW OTHER VOLUMES/DATES FROM THIS SERIES IN STOCK ENQUIRES WELCOME. Cloth. Good Plus. Large 8 Vo. John Ferres, Government Printer Hardcover
1880011884Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1880. Book measures 34x22.cm. 1879-1880. In parts Collation 16 1011032 14 4244 62 173 14 33 39 14 122 15 42 154 47 16 14 37 61 11 xxxix 86pp. Bound in period cloth with gilt lettering paper label. Cloth rubbed nicked worn. Internally occasional library mark or stamp. Page in good condition. I HAVE A FEW OTHER VOLUMES/DATES FROM THIS SERIES IN STOCK ENQUIRES WELCOME. Cloth. Good Plus. Large 8 Vo. John Ferres, Government Printer Hardcover
18869478White and Pike Birmingham 1886. Roy. 8vo. First and Sole Edition small relatively unobtrusive damp-mark at lower outer blank margin nowhere affecting text; strongly bound in modern grey boards paper label lettered and ruled in black on upper board original printed wrappers preserved uncut a good sound copy of a scarce work. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S WIFE WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With publisher's advertisement leaf bound in at end. Scarce. Ferguson 16696. White and Pike, Birmingham, hardcover
1888219319Melbourne.: Robt. S. Brain Government Printer. 1888. Parliamentary Paper xvi 101pp missing the original title wrappers a little age -toned but a very good crisp copy preserved in recent blue-card wrappers. Parliamentary Paper compiling correspondence and proceeding of public meetings relating to the restriction of Chinese immigration culminating in the the Intercolonial Conference on the Chinese Question held in Sydney from June 12 to 15 1888. The resolutions there had a profound and blighting influence on Australian immigration and directly lead to the formulation of the White Australia Policy following Federation in 1901. . Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer. unknown
185420130London: The Religious Tract Society 1854. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. The two parts bound together fly title only on the second part. Original red stamped cloth by Davison Binder London with tag at back gilt decoration and edges. Minor discoloration to front lower edge of front cover front free endpaper and all preceding title removed remains of pasted paper on endpapers else a very good copy. Sold as is. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields a segment on the Aborigines a section for each on New South Wales Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Ferguson "Bibliography of Australia" 6298 The Religious Tract Society unknown
189622304Kempten Germany: Jos. Kosel'schen Buchhandlung 1896. Paperback. Good overall. A German emigration guide of agricultural & mining conditions along with the voyage to Australia through the Suez Canal and stops in Sri Lanka. No emigrant seems to have used it as it is unopened and uncut. 8vo v 156pp 13 printed photograph illustrations. Illustrations include a fantastical image of Cook landing at Botany Bay dressed in Spanish explorers garb arriving on a mountainous coastline to the wonderment of a passive group of aborigines; wool bags in a Sydney the railway between Bundaberg & Gladstone Queensland. Publishers tan wrappers printed in red and black with decorative border. Front wrapper a little marked and rubbed loose. Ferguson 5759; Trove 8830372; OCLC 633998056. Jos. Kosel'schen Buchhandlung paperback
182922252London: Baldwin and Cradock 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. Highly important early Western Australia content with report by Captain Stirling on his expedition to the Swan River undertaken in the year prior to the first settlement. A 7 page report from Captain Stirling's despatches describes the results of his 1827 expedition. <br /> <br /> Other topics include: The Netherlands: Progress of the Insurrection in Java; Russia: Hostilities with Persia renewed; Russia declares War against Turkey; Piracies in the West Indies; Account of Franklin's Second Journey to the shores of the Polar Sea; Present State of the Jews; Steam Boat; American Great Western Canal; and the First English Newspaper established in China.<br /> <br /> Single 8vo volume in two parts. The article appears at pp 510-517. Part I: viii 1 - 267pp 1; Part II: 545pp Index 11. Rebacked with the original leather spine laid down still quite rubbed and worn. Part of the original label loosely inserted inside paper label laid down at top of front board. Text clean and bright. Hard copy not found in Trove. Baldwin and Cradock hardcover
187929187Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1879. Octavo 30 pages plus a frontispiece an original albumen paper photograph 159x85mm of an artist's impression of the proposed building. Original gilt-lettered watered cloth; ink blemish on one page a trifling production flaw; essentially a fine copy. Holden 61; Ferguson 15986 noting only an edition in wrappers without the frontispiece. W.K. Thomas hardcover
187780794London: Elliot Stock 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Elliot Stock 1877. Octavo iv 187 pages. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black on the spine and front cover and decorated in blind at the rear; cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; inner hinges neatly reinforced; endpapers and title page a little offset and foxed; Xmas 1886 'Ciphering Prize' presentation inscription on the front pastedown and an early ownership signature on the title page; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. An 'evangelical novel . which gives a most favourable impression of Adelaide as a pleasant place in which to live. One need not linger over the religious and psychological crudities in the novel - cards liquor dancing the theatre all are condemned in the customary dogmatic but dramatically unconvincing manner' Paul Depasquale: 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'. Elliot Stock hardcover
188590523Perth: Government Printer. 1885. Foolscap 4 pp. Near-fine condn. "Presented to the Legislative Council His Excellency's Command." <br>"No. 30." Government Printer unknown
1890109514Adelaide: Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher A. Timmann at the 'Pioneer' Office 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher A. Timmann at the 'Pioneer' Office 1890 and 1891. Octavo 13 issues bound in one volume 148 pages continuous pagination plus the large folding supplement to Number 10 March 7 1891 a broadside 455 × 335 mm with illustrations. Contemporary flush-cut quarter leather and stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; neat repairs to the leather at the head and foot of the spine; acidic newsprint used for the last two numbers uniformly tanned; overall in excellent condition. The recto of the large folding supplement to Number 10 contains the text with three line illustrations of an article that 'appeared originally in the "SA Register" in six short letters': 'Protection or Freedom Our Manufactories Our People and Our Land Values'. The verso of the broadside is devoted entirely to advertisements some illustrated with large engravings. The final issue of the journal was Volume 5 Number 5 24 December 1892. Although the Single Tax League of South Australia figures prominently throughout a notice printed at the foot of the last page of the first issue suggests the journal had a broader platform. 'The publication of "The Pioneer" is undertaken solely with a view to stimulate thought and promote discussion and if approved of it is hoped will find the ready support of all Friends of Reform. The labor involved is given voluntarily and gratuitously; any profits made will go entirely towards extending its range of operations.' The journal ran for 57 issues ceasing publication with Volume V Number 5 24 December 1892. Provenance: Arthur W. Piper 1865-1936 a South Australian Supreme Court judge with his small name-stamp and personal library number 677 on the front pastedown. Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher, A. Timmann, at the 'Pioneer' Office hardcover
1878108965Adelaide: Robert Kyffin Thomas Printer 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Robert Kyffin Thomas Printer 1878; William Kyffin Thomas Printer 1879 1880 and 1881; and Sands & McDougall Printers 1882. Octavo 158 3 blank; 95 1 blank; 145 1 blank; 145 1 blank; 151 viii 1 blank 129-144 additional reports ix-xiv index pages with overall about a dozen graphs and numerous tables 3 folding plus 3 tipped-in errata or explanatory slips. Early but not contemporary blind-stamped full purple calf unlettered but with the spine gilt in compartments gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges dyed red; covers a little rubbed and scuffed; spine a little sunned; trifling signs of age and use; in excellent condition. A consecutive run of five annual reports of the City of Adelaide from the 27th to the 31st. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature and acquisition details 'Purchased at Becks Book Shop on Friday 13/11/36. Personal Property'. Robert Kyffin Thomas, Printer hardcover
1898139452London: Sampson Low Marston and Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. London Sampson Low Marston and Company 1898. Octavo 239 pages plus 2 plates a frontispiece portrait and 'Mr Gouger's Tent and Hut' opposite page 203. Cloth very lightly rubbed and bumped; acidic text paper discoloured mainly around the margins as ever; a near-fine copy. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 noting only the frontispiece portrait. Provenance: James Angas Johnson 1875-1947 a great-grandson of George Fife Angas with his armorial bookplate. A couple of marginal notes in pencil are presumably in his hand. Sampson Low, Marston, and Company hardcover
188456107Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1884. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne John Ferres Government Printer 1884. Foolscap folio vi 77 pages. Title-wrappers stab-sewn as issued all edges uncut; edges slightly foxed; half a dozen leaves near the centre are foxed or stained; a very good copy but in fact uncirculated. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 41 of 1861-2. The Select Committee also enquired into the treatment of the lunatics in the Melbourne Gaol. This progress report contains the detailed answers to 1832 questions: two of them should suffice . '672: What was Coates's conduct towards the other patients - Very irritating; he argued with them on religious matters and he was very nearly killed by one patient for calling the Virgin Mary a wh--e. 673: You have no doubt he was insane - I think he must have been insane when he made that remark'. John Ferres, Government Printer paperback
1878124850London: John Murray 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1878. Small octavo xii 80 568 66 'Handbook Advertiser 1880-81' pages plus 11 maps and plans 9 folding a rear endpaper map and a large folding map in a rear end-pocket. Gilt-lettered red cloth a little marked and flecked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; trifling signs of use and age; the end-pocket map has minimal siverfish nibbling along small sections of one fold; a very good copy. Provenance: 'given me from "Manoah" Library' is written in ink on the verso of the front flyleaf; a bookplate 'Words Words Words F A S' is mounted on the front pastedown. 'Manoah' was the name of the Adelaide Hills estate of Sir Josiah Symon 1846-1934; 'F A S' may be a Symon family member. Sir Josiah Symon 'was born in Scotland and migrated to South Australia in 1866. He was called to the South Australian Bar in 1871 and became Attorney-General in a conservative government when he won the state seat of Sturt in 1881. Sir Josiah was the acknowledged leader of the South Australian Bar for over 30 years through his understanding of the law and skill as an advocate. His major contribution to Australian politics was in the area of Federation. He was a prominent member of the 1897-98 Australasian Federal Convention. He saw the major issues of Federation as equal representation of the states in the Senate; the solution of deadlocks between the two Houses of Parliament; the Murray River; and the establishment of an Australian Supreme Court to replace the Privy Council. The first three issues are still topical today the fourth was resolved several years ago. Sir Josiah was a person of broad scholarship. He wrote "Shakespeare the Englishman" in 1929 and was a member of several literary associations. The library at Sir Josiah's Upper Sturt estate "Manoah" consisted of 10000 law and literature volumes reflecting his interests in Shakespeare travel history and biography. He bequeathed his collection excluding approximately 2500 law books to the State Library where it remains an excellent example of a "gentleman's library". The terms of the bequest were that the books should not be marked or rebound which makes it a useful source of examples of original bindings particularly in pictorial cloth' State Library of South Australia website. John Murray hardcover
1870114169London: Peacock Mansfield and Britton 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Peacock Mansfield and Britton 1870 extra-illustrated edition using the sheets of the 131st edition published by James Parker and Co. Oxford. Small octavo xii 383 pages plus a duplicate title leaf printed in gold list of illustrations 13 original albumen paper photographs one mounted on the duplicate title leaf 12 mounted on gold-bordered leaves. Full brown morocco with a gilt-edged red morocco onlay in the shape of a cross on the front cover; spine compartments and sides bordered in blind; all edges gilt; covers a little rubbed and marked; spine a little sunned; a very good copy. A deluxe edition of Keble's influential collection of poems extra-illustrated with 13 original photographs of important religious paintings. This copy comes from the collection of South Australian pastoralist Henry Dutton 1844-1914 and contains an additional albumen paper photograph portrait of him mounted on the recto of the frontispiece. A calligraphic inscription in red and black on an early blank reads: 'An Offering to Henry Dutton from the Chorister Boys of Christ Church North Adelaide October 1871'. Peacock, Mansfield and Britton hardcover
187983369Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1879. Octavo 29 pages plus a mounted albumen paper photographic frontispiece showing a grandiose structure its subsequent failure to be erected hinted at in its description on the title page as 'the proposed building'. Original blind-ruled blue cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities; endpapers and frontispiece mount a little foxed; title page offset; a very good copy. See Ferguson 15986 not noting this cloth-bound edition nor the frontispiece - we have previously handled a copy with a lithographic frontispiece - and not mentioning this photographically illustrated edition; see Holden 61. W.K. Thomas hardcover
187674030Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1876. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1876. Foolscap folio xxviii 138 xxii pages with 2 folding plans. Title-wrapper; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound with residual glue and backing paper along the spine; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1876. Detailed answers to 3897 questions; with much on contemporary manufacturing industries in their relation to public health. W.C. Cox, Government Printer unknown
1886142220Adelaide: A. Molineux 'Under the Patronage of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and of the Chamber of Manufactures' 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide A. Molineux 'Under the Patronage of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and of the Chamber of Manufactures' 1886 and 1887. Folio iv cumulative title leaf and index leaf the verso of the latter numbered 'vi' 144 pages plus the original wrappers replete with advertisements in all instances. Original publisher's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; expert conservation to the cloth on the spine and front panel with the original cloth a little marked and slightly worn along the bottom edges of the boards; front hinge cracked but firm; endpapers tanned with a few minor blemishes; a very good copy internally near-fine. A presentation copy with the front free endpaper inscribed to 'Mr F.A. Joyner With Editor's compliments Albert Molineux'. The journal commenced publication in August 1875 and continued until June 1940; at this stage it was still being compiled by the founder Albert Molineux 1832-1909 farmer editor and promoter of agriculture. <p>Provenance: Frederick Allen Joyner 1863-1945 an Adelaide solicitor photographer and plant breeder. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has information on both these interesting men. A. Molineux ('Under the Patronage of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia, and of the Chamber of hardcover
1857108971Adelaide: 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
189980010Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. Octavo 84 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark brown cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; edges and corners of the boards lightly bumped; endpapers offset; a near-fine copy. The author's memoirs dating back to 1838 first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. Loosely inserted is an original cutting from the 'Register' of 22 July 1899 containing the last article in the book where it is #26 not #25 as in the cutting. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
