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1879123653Adelaide: E. Spiller Acting Government Printer 1879. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Acting Government Printer 1879. Octavo 31 pages. Flush-cut card with the full title page details reprinted within a decorative border on the front cover; new plain paper spine; covers a little marked chipped and creased; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy internally excellent. The Adelaide 'Advertiser' of 10 June 1890 makes reference to a recently published 'Marine Board Directory . a mercantile navy list containing the names of masters and mates of the Mercantile Marine of South Australia'. We find no record of that edition nor of the much earlier one we have for sale in Trove. E. Spiller, Acting Government Printer unknown
1872121218Adelaide: J. Williams 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams 1872. Octavo vi x 138 Alphabetical Directory ii iv 82 Official Ecclesiastical Legal Banking and Mercantile Directory ii iv 180 Trades Directory pages plus a tipped-in leaf listing the new House of Assembly members. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover and extensively decorated in blind front and rear; textblock expertly recased with minor conservation to the ends of the spine; front free endpaper creased; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy. J. Williams hardcover
1885129679Adelaide: Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Carey Page & Co. Printers 'Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision' 1885. Octavo viii 288 24 local advertisements pages plus 17 lithographs a frontispiece view after J.M. Skipper 15 individual portrait illustrations and one plate containing three portraits and 2 mounted albumen paper portrait photographs. Mid-brown stippled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine; cloth a little marked and lightly worn at the corner tips; spine sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers offset with the leading half of the rear flyleaf neatly excised; name-stamp or signature on four early pages with an old price in ink on the flyleaf and initial blank; a very good copy internally excellent. The photographs are of Captain Samuel White Sweet 130 × 71 mm presumably a self-portrait and George Loyau 98 × 58 mm credited in the negative to George & Walton: he is facing the camera with his head turned a little to the left. This is another variant see Holden 71 of an item usually found with the author's photograph only and to further complicate matters the latter occurs in at least three variant forms as well!. In our experience this issue with the portrait of Samuel Sweet is most uncommon. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 sea captain surveyor and photographer took command in January 1869 'of the two-masted schooner "Gulnare" which was later bought by the South Australian government for the Northern Territory survey expedition'. Between February 1869 and April 1872 he made five trips to the Northern Territory. 'In September 1870 in Darwin he photographed the official party at the ceremonial planting of the first pole of the overland telegraph; he also took pictures of the township the men at work and forest scenery.' He spent the next three years as a master mariner based in Adelaide until 11 May 1875 when 'his ship the "Wallaroo" with his wife aboard ran aground in a gale on Office Beach Wallaroo. An inquiry attributed it to Sweet's error of judgment and he was censured. He retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision') hardcover
1872131493London: Edward Stanford 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Edward Stanford 1872. Octavo xvi 415 pages plus a frontispiece Government House Perth. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and extensively decorated in blind all edges uncut; cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; spine tanned with minor wear to the ends and the front bottom corner; front endpaper slightly marked with the hinge cracked but firm; first and last pages offset; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant and pastoralist was a son of Rosetta French Johnson later Hannay eldest daughter of George Fife Angas 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Edward Stanford hardcover
1890141871Adelaide: Education Department 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Education Department 1890. Octavo originally viii 303 pages plus a map: this copy lacks the map the title leaf and its conjugate pages i-ii and vii-viii and the last leaf 303-4 last page blank. Original full black roan lettered in gilt on the front cover; leather slightly rubbed and bumped; last leaf a little torn; signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. We presume this is a publisher's deluxe or presentation binding; the standard binding is grey cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover. Samuel Albert White 1870-1954 ornithologist and conservationist: 'His most arduous and important work as a naturalist occurred when he collaborated with Gregory Mathews on "The Birds of Australia" London 1910-27. To this end White mounted major collecting expeditions often accompanied by his wife. He travelled with camels to Alice Springs and beyond 1913 with a government team to the Musgrave and Everard ranges 1914 and with the South Australian Museum expedition to Cooper Creek 1916; he also went to the Nullarbor Plains 1917-18 with Sir Edgeworth David and Professor Walter Howchin to the Finke River 1921 and in 1922 led the great adventure from Adelaide to Darwin and back using three Dort motor cars supplied and serviced by Adelaide mechanics Cyril and Murray Aunger. <p>White's outstanding achievement lay in completing an ornithological survey of the whole of South Australia and much of the Northern Territory. He was the first European to see several species and regarded the Princess Alexandra parrot as the world's most beautiful bird. A keen conservationist he was a central figure in the declaration of national parks in the State and was a noted spokesman on insects birds and botany' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>In this copy of the book 'A Classified List of the Native Species' pages 204-272 is extensively annotated in ink in what we know to be the hand of Captain S.A. White; there are slight annotations or emphases on numerous other pages. Although his name does not appear anywhere in the volume we purchased this item among many others direct from the White family home 'Weetunga' at Fulham a couple of decades ago. Loosely inserted is a ticket to an 'Exhibition of Wild Flowers' by the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of SA annotated on the verso by White; undated but 1920s. Education Department hardcover
1882040149London: Queensland Emigration Office 1882. 96pp printed in double column. Or blue cloth covered card. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover as well as initial in ink small bookseller stamp on front free endpaper. Minor crease and slight edge wear to covers. Rare early colonial gazetteer to inform potential emigrants to Queensland. Content includes agriculture railways steam navigation education and land laws. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Queensland Emigration Office Paperback
1876138384London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. Octavo xvi 432 pages plus 66 engraved plates a folding table a folding full-colour map of Australia 320 × 400 mm and a large folding map of South Australia 795 × 545 mm with minimal colour in an endpocket. Cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities with the rear top corner a little bumped; edges slightly marked or darkened; front free endpaper slightly cracked near the head of the hinge with a small piece snipped from the top corner; tiny splits at a few intersecting folds in the map; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An undervalued work: the plates wood engravings from photographs are a major pictorial record and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northern Territory I have incorporated some useful papers written by residents there and prepared for publication by Mr J.G. Knight'. <p>The chapter on Central Australia is even more important: 'Since the foregoing was in type 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'. The entire chapter is devoted to the article which refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. Ferguson 10233 not recording the maps. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover
1893139228London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. London Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Octavo two volumes xii 391; and viii 400 pages plus a large folding map 850 × 590 mm in the endpocket of Volume I and a large folding diagram in the endpocket of Volume II. Original maroon cloth the primary binding very lightly flecked; top and leading edges uncut; a near-fine set. Ferguson 10474. The useful chronology extends over 228 pages. <p>Provenance: Tom Austen Brown 1925-2009 solicitor collector and philanthropist with his pencilled ownership initials on both half-titles. 2 items. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover
185580715London: Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. Duodecimo vi 174 pages. Original blind-stamped textured brown cloth; minimal wear to the joints; endpaper hinges lightly reinforced; rear free endpaper a sympathetic replacement; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Henry Hussey 1825-1903 'evangelist millenarian printer and historian' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' by 1850 was established as a printer. He later became a successful publisher and bookseller. He was secretary to George Fife Angas from 1865 and compiled his biography which was edited by Edwin Hodder and published in 1891 under Hodder's name as was the 1893 two-volume 'History of South Australia'. The 22 of 36 pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The title adequately describes the other stages of his journey. American conditions in several states are noticed'. Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg hardcover
1874121082Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered limp boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers lightly marked; head of the spine slightly chipped; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. That being said copies of this original printing are now rare nearly a century and a half later. <p>Marshall MacDermott 1791-1877 arrived in Adelaide in 1846 and after nearly three worthy and earnest decades here penned these memoirs decidedly brief when it comes to Australian content. Up until page 35 he reminiscences about his 22 years in the British army. He chose Western Australia as his future residence and arrived there in June 1830. Over the last eighteen pages he recounts his six years on the land and ten years in banking in WA then his eleven years 'as a bank manager three years as a merchant; four years in Parliament . and lastly over ten years administering the laws in Local Courts' in SA. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
1867056155London: Edward Stanford 1867. 87pp 3 col maps 1 folding. Green cloth titled in gilt with decoration bird in flight in gilt and bordered in blind. 3mm scuff to front cover label of prev owner inside front cover. INSCRIBED on title page " Mr With the Author's kindest tregards". Memoir of an English visitor to Queensland in the 1860s with chapters on the squatting system Aborigines Australian horses Ipswich and Brisbane. Frontis map of world showing route to Australia a map of Ceylon and a folding map illustrating March's route from Sydney to Brisbane. Attractive copy of a scarce title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Edward Stanford Hardcover
1896114062London: John C. Nimmo 1896. Paperback. Very Good. London John C. Nimmo 1896 fifth edition. Large octavo four volumes xxxii 253; vi 180; ii iv 223; and vi 5-321 pages with 3 illustrations plus 132 hand-coloured plates. Bound from the original parts in contemporary binder's cloth with the wrappers from one of the parts bound in at the rear of each volume; cloth slightly marked and rubbed with minor wear to the head of the rear joint of the last volume; endpapers offset; an excellent set. Provenance: Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper 1841-1923 botanist schoolteacher and entomologist with the 1906 receipt for the binding and the address label to him at 'Room No. 3 Public Library North Terrace' from the Adelaide bookseller and bookbinder W.C. Rigby mounted on the first flyleaf. 'In March 1883 Tepper was appointed natural history collector at the South Australian Museum; in 1888 he was promoted to entomologist numismatist and librarian there' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. John C. Nimmo paperback
1887124223Adelaide: Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. Octavo 39 pages. Original printed wrappers slightly tanned at the extremities; front cover slightly marked; head and foot of the spine very slightly chipped; a near-fine copy. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white relations; there 'is too much namby-pambyism about the way we deal with the whole subject'. Ferguson 13317 noting only red cloth boards. Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office paperback
188780174Adelaide: Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. Octavo 39 pages. Original printed wrappers slightly marked and very lightly chipped; an excellent copy with the early ink ownership signature of Sidney Plint at the head of the front cover. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white relations; there 'is too much namby-pambyism about the way we deal with the whole subject'. Ferguson 13317 noting only red cloth boards. Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office paperback
1857131000Hamburg: Otto Meissner 1857. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hamburg Otto Meissner 1857 second edition/ 1854 first German edition/ 1853 second edition/ 1852. Octavo vi 410 last blank 6 index pages. Original half cloth and marbled papered boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt all edges marbled; covers slightly worn at the extremities; cloth on the spine a little marked with an old indistinct shelf number at the foot; inner endpaper hinge broken but the cover is still firmly attached by the cords; title leaf foxed with scattered foxing elsewhere; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy. A German-language edition of 'The Three Colonies of Australia. New South Wales Victoria South Australia. Their Pastures Copper Mines & Gold Fields'. Provenance: the Nuriootpa Institute library with its contemporary 'Extracts from Rules' paper label on the front pastedown with the reference number G363 and an inkstamp on both flyleaves with the reference number 172 in ink inside the front one. The Barossa Valley where Nuriootpa is situated attracted large numbers of German immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s fleeing religious persecution in their homeland. Otto Meissner hardcover
186259032London: Robert K. Burt 1862. First Edition. Paperback. London Robert K. Burt 1862. Octavo iv 96 4 catalogue pages plus a large folding map 740 × 635 mm. Early half morocco and marbled papered boards with the stamp of H. Sotheran & Co. on the front pastedown retaining the original wrappers; leather a little rubbed at the extremities with the front joint slightly cracked towards the head; moderate foxing to the endpapers wrappers and adjacent leaves with light foxing elsewhere and the paper is a little tanned throughout; wrappers slightly chipped and a little stained with a tiny inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of the front one; tiny dog-ears to the corners of the early leaves and a few margins are a little dusty; small light tidemark to the margin of the top corner of the last 15 leaves; minimal signs of age and use; notwithstanding overall a very presentable copy. Robert K. Burt paperback
1854GT875London: Society For The Promotion of Christian Knowledge 1854. 1st Edition . Hardback. Fine. 12mo. iv 161 iii pub. list; frontispiece. A very rare Mid -Victorian childrens book with no copy traced in Copac at auctiuon or on-line. Original cloth binding with black quarter leather spine and gilt embossed titles. A fine woodcut frontis. view of Maderia and a full page engraving of John Adam's house. A fine copy with no foxing wear marks or fading. The journey 'of a vessel called The Arrow'.with Captain Campbell. 14x10cms. <br/> <br/> Society For The Promotion of Christian Knowledge hardcover
188921991Sydney: Edwards Dunlop and Co. 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Good -. A classic Australian children's picture book showcasing the birds and animals of the country. 'In this little book my endeavour has been to describe as briefly and in as simple a manner as possible some of the most remarkable of the Australian Animals. . my chief object being to enlist the interest of my little countrymen and countrywomen in the natural history of the beautiful birds and other animals of their own "Sunny Land."' Features text and b&w illustrations by W. Anderson i.e. The Blackman Cockatoo Swan Talegalla Cuckoo Platypus Spotted Bower Bird Robin Magpie Dollar Bird Opossum Jabiru Kangaroo Lyre bird Coburra Kookaburra Australian Hedgehog Ibis Dingo Emu Finch Vampire Bat Crested Oreoica Warbling Grass Parrakeet Wombat Xerophila. <br /> 6 x 10" heavy tan card covers with black illustrated title cloth spine staple bound contents. Unpaginated 54 pp missing last few pp; 25 of 26 plates present per Trove. Boards are rubbed chipped at corners dusty. Boards and spine separated from interior cloth spine rubbed chipped at foot 1". Interior edges dusty minor pencil drawings on blank pp inscription on title page. Illustrations and text are clean. Ferguson 9622A; Muir 2549; Trove 56544440; OCLC: 21811500. Edwards, Dunlop and Co. hardcover
18731206T099London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1873. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xvi 304. Very Good Plus. 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22 cm. Half blue calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands red morocco title label gilt decorated compartments. Marbled page edges marbled endpapers. Very solid binding with no cracking to joints. Light rubbing to boards. A few patches of foxing but overall an excellent example. Complete with all plates and the fold-out map with a short tear and some creasing. Several of the in-text illustrations are repeated. Previous owner's name to leading blank. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14 x 22 cm. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle hardcover
186428246Adelaide 1864. First printing. Photography. Good overall. An early stereoscopic view of Adelaide by B. Goode. The SLSA website catalogs this photograph as 1864. In September 1864 Goode moved his premises from 155 Rundle St. to number 69. He also built up a lucrative trade in photographic material including chemicals that were "made to his special order and suitable for use in a hot climate". "In September 1865 Goode took his camera to the top of the partly-constructed Albert Tower. and the "following month Goode again went to the top of the Albert Tower but this time he had a stereoscopic camera." SLSA. <br /> <br /> Stereoscopic view albumen photograph sunned. Photos 6.8 x 14 cm on white card 8.7 x 17.5 cm. With a label on the verso “From B. Goode's Photographic Establishment 69 Rundle Street Adelaide. Importer of Pure Photographic Chemicals &c." Two hand written inscriptions on "King William Street" the other the same with "Adelaide - Australia" in addition. Cream card with a little foxing and edge browning.<br /> <br /> The State Library of South Australia copy of the photograph B1157 is mounted on yellow card with the measurements 7.4 x 15.4 cm. unknown
185228720Boston: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion 1852. Hardcover book. Good overall. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion a 19th century English newspaper/periodical well-known for its woodcut illustrations. The periodical ran from 1851 to 1859.<br /> <br /> This issue has articles and illustrations for Hawai'i Honolulu Cook's Monument and Sandwich Island dance 2pp; Niagara Falls A Valuable Series of Illustrated Views of Niagara Falls 2pp; West Point Second Series of Illustrated Views of West Point New York 2pp; Australia Departure of the Lizzie Webber the first Emigrant Ship to Australia from Sunderland UK 1pp; California A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California 2pp; Chicago 1pp and many other articles with a complete index. <br /> <br /> Folio 416pp No. 1 Vol. II Jan-June 1852; No. 1 Vol. III Jul-Dec 1852 3/4 black leather and brown cloth boards no title at spine covers detached but present some pages loose ruffled at edges but clean internally and complete. A view into the world in 1852. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion hardcover
188958003Port Augusta: D. Drysdale Printer 'Dispatch' Office 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Port Augusta D. Drysdale Printer 'Dispatch' Office 1889. Small octavo 16 pages including the wrappers last page blank. Original decorated titling-wrappers stapled into later plain card covers with hand-lettering; library stamp on the verso of the front cover; two-digit number in ink on the front cover; an excellent copy. Ferguson 14261 listing only one copy held by the State Library of South Australia. In the final paragraph of the pamphlet readers are asked to note a proposed railway link "as may be seen in the attached plan"; neither this copy nor Ferguson throws any light on the matter. D. Drysdale, Printer, 'Dispatch' Office paperback
186864421Adelaide: Government Printer 1868. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1868. Foolscap folio 12 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; uncut bottom edges very slightly chipped with a small light stain to one bottom margin; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 81 of 1868. Government Printer] unknown
1843138864London: Smith Elder & Co 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Smith Elder & Co. 1843. Duodecimo 152 pages. Early salmon-pink cloth a secondary binding lettered in gilt on the spine 'South Australia' and 'Bennett'; cloth sunned on the spine and slightly mottled; boards a little bowed; endpapers a little foxed and lightly marked; a very good copy internally in fine condition. The author lived in South Australia from March 1839 to March 1842; chapters include 'Sketch of Adelaide and Surrounding Villages - Colonial Life and Manners' 'The Native Inhabitants' and 'Information for Emigrants' plus an appendix bringing the information up to date to the end of 1842. Ferguson 3566 mentioning four different bindings but not noting this one the most commonly encountered one in our experience. Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover
184358807London: Smith Elder & Co 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Smith Elder & Co. 1843. Duodecimo 152 pages. Original plum-coloured unlettered cloth sunned on the spine with light stains elsewhere; extremities a little bumped with minor wear to the head of the spine; scattered light foxing; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The author lived in South Australia from March 1839 to March 1842; chapters include 'Sketch of Adelaide and Surrounding Villages - Colonial Life and Manners' 'The Native Inhabitants' and 'Information for Emigrants' plus an appendix bringing the information up to date to the end of 1842. Ferguson 3566 mentioning four different bindings but not noting a secondary binding of salmon-pink cloth the most commonly encountered one in our experience. Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover
