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187017145Colchester England: Oldham & Angle Photographers 1870. Photography. Very good overall. Carte de visite showing the Australian General Tom Thumb aka John David Armstrong who made his debut in Melbourne in 1870 and performed world wide. An uncommon image with Tom Thumb standing next to an ornately carved chair and dresser dressed in coat and tails and holding a sheaf of papers. The visit of the American Charles Stratton "Tom Thumb" and his wife Lavinia to Australia in the late 1860s as part of the PT Barnum round the world tour resulted in a huge fascination with little people worldwide. With the title below the photograph. Text on the verso: "this photograph is from the studio of G. A. Graham 8 Mersea Road. With photographers imprint: Oldham & Angle Photographers 11 Queen St. & 8 Mersea Rd. Colchester". Below the stamp: "The higher class photographs only taken by Sydney B. Angle 11 Queen St.". 2 1/2 x 4". Slt faded. Oldham & Angle Photographers unknown
1883208551883. Very good overall. An interesting hand painted and roneoed ship's musical program. Produced for an Australian ship voyage 29th November 1883 with the proceeds of the performance "devoted to the relief of the suffering of a destitute and invalided steerage passenger". <br /> <br /> The evenings proceedings are roneographed inside the fold. It lists 15 performances including arrangements for violin and piano; a "letter song: Rip Van Winkle"; other songs a recitation; "Italian boat song"; and a vocal duet. The performers include Mr. & Mrs. Rignold and Signor Steffani. Mr. & Mrs. G. Rignold are recorded as having traveled from Adelaide to Sydney on 29th January 1883 on the ship "Birksgate" and in October 1886 they traveled on the ship "Hanroto" from Hobart to Melbourne with Mr. & Mrs. Lohr all of them described as "Theatrical". Signor Steffani is listed in the Sand's Sydney Directory for 1883 at 129 Phillips St. and in 1895 as a "teacher of singing" at 56 Elizabeth St. ancestry dot com. In fact the performances by "professionals" were most likely money making efforts for the performers who traveled repeatedly between various ports in Australia. One wonders if the money collected actually went to relieve the suffering of "a destitute and invalided steerage passenger" unless that is Mr. Rignold or Mr. Steffani. <br /> <br /> The R. M. S. John Elder made voyages between London and Australia see article in the Sydney Morning Herald referring to arrival from London on 15 July 1885 just 6 months after this voyage on the NLA website. It seems possible that this voyage was only in Australian waters as the Rignold's were already in Australia in January 1883. <br /> <br /> The cover of the program is hand painted with a background design of gingko leaves daffodils and a dragon fly with a tropical island view superimposed. On blue coated paper folded with the number 1 penciled at lower left of the front. In some spots the text of the reproduction is faded and it has been re-written by hand in purple ink. Short closed tear bottom edge. Folded folio 8 3/4 x 13 1/2". The paper is speckled with white dots akin to some unusual sort of bleaching perhaps related to the paper making process as it skirts the cover illustration. <br /> <br /> An unusual survival. unknown
1880005774Liverpool: Wm Potter 1880 blue cloth lightly rubbed and soiled gilt to cover spine split at head of lower joint glue action discolours endpapers faint foxing mainly to endpapers lacks half title and spine edge of title is adhered to the fep short tear up from bottom of title near the spine edge leaf of pp 15/16 is detached and a little chipped to edges 181pp blank at rear memoirs of time spent in Queensland and other places in the 1860s rare title. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Wm Potter hardcover
1866010848Melbourne: John Ferres 1866. Books measures 33x22.cm. Collation first part 403pp followed by Agriculture and Live Stock Statistics of Victioria 1865 108pp. Then Statistics for 1866 in 8 parts. Part 1. population 18pp part 2. Aqccumulation 12pp part 3 Finance 48pp part 4 Law Crime etc 43pp part 5 Vital Statistics 81pp part 6 Interchange 165pp part 7 Religious Moral and Intellectual Progress 23pp part 8 Production followed by Agricultural and Live Stock Statistics of Victoria for the year ending 31st March 1866; with preliminary Statistical Notes 97pp some folding tables. Bound in period or early cloth. Cloth worn defective library label on cover. Binding holding. Internally very occasional library stamp about 10 in all some dust marking heavy in a few places. Pages in good condition. A good copy. . Good Plus. John Ferres hardcover
1884143680London: James Imray and Son 1884. Very Good. London James Imray and Son 1884. A very large engraved chart in two sheets combined printed surface 1019 × 1270 mm overall total size 1040 × 1300 mm with minimal hand-colouring mounted together on the original blue backing paper with the publisher's title-label on the verso. Mild creasing and a little uneven tanning; bottom right-hand corner tip containing portion of the wide printed border and title-label on the rear expertly reattached; top left-hand corner-tip missing; a few short marginal tears sealed; a few chips to the edges; in very good condition. A large blueback chart of part of the coastline of New South Wales with eight inset charts: Port Jackson; Twofold Bay; Jervis Bay; Bateman Bay; Botany Bay and Port Hacking; Broken Bay; Newcastle Harbour; and Port Stephens. Lighthouses are highlighted with small spots of red and yellow colouring. <p>The imprint below the bottom border indicates that the chart incorporates corrections to November 1883; the publisher's 1884 inkstamp appears below the title. The title-label on the verso reads 'Chart No. 201. Australia. South-East & East Coasts. In Four Charts. Chart No. 3. Price 8s.'. James Imray and Son unknown
187280725Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Original flush-cut dark green cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities with slight wear in a couple of places; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers a little marked with some scuffing and silverfish damage to the front flyleaf; small stain to the bottom edge bleeding very slightly into some bottom margins; very occasional foxing; three smallish areas on pages 167-70 lost to silverfish with two patches affecting some 25 words of text now supplied on an insert; a very good copy. A note dated January 1879 in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Provenance: P. Curzon Clement with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. Peake 'Australian Personal Bookplates' 983 recording John Shirlow as the artist. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
185617670Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1856. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1856. Foolscap folio vi 20 xxxiv pages. Disbound four small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound; a few leading edges a little discoloured; a fine copy. SA Parliamentary Paper 171 of 1856; the inquiry stemmed from the demotion from Commissioner to Inspector in November 1853 of Alexander Tolmer 'partly from the disorganization of the police force as a result of his long absences on escort duty and partly from his character' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The replacement Commissioner Major Peter Warburton of exploration fame whose evidence forms the bulk of this report was himself dismissed from the position in 1867. W.C. Cox, Government Printer unknown
189810598London: Longmans Green 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longmans Green 1898 'New Impression'/ 1898. Octavo viii 238 pages with 5 illustrations plus 4 plates. Cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed; an excellent copy. Provenance: Charles Winnecke with his ownership signature 'Chas Winnecke' on the half-title below a 'With the Compliments of The South Australian Company' inkstamp. An unrelated gift inscription dated 1928 appears on a later blank page. <p>Charles Winnecke 1856-1902 surveyor and explorer 'entered the Government Survey Office in 1873 and went with the North Eastern Exploring Expedition to survey the border between South Australia and Queensland circa 1877-81' 'Encyclopedia of Australian Science'. He achieved lasting fame as the leader of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia in 1894. Longmans, Green hardcover
18751151361875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1875. Octavo vi x 362 10 196 advertisements pages plus endpaper advertisements. Original cloth and lightly worn; cloth on the front joint broken; slight loss to silverfish at the head of the spine and an old repair to the foot; cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title-page; a small section 60 × 160 mm on rainfall excised from one leaf; comparatively mild signs of handling; overall a very good copy. Provenance: Thomas Gill 1849-1923 public servant and local historian with his signature on the flyleaf and index page and his manuscript amendments on five pages. hardcover
1898030910Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain Government Printer 1898 12mo. original stapled printed sheets a little rubbed & marked longtiudinal crease where folded; pp. 32 last blank. This copy had been folded and mailed with the recipient's address Mr G. J. Langridge Auctioneer Queen Street Melbourne 'Treasurer of Victoria Frank Stamp' and postal cancel to rear cover. A very good copy. An interesting piece of Australian historical ephemera a copy of the first draft bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia put to the vote in Victoria in 1898. After an inconclusive return in NSW an amended bill was reintroduced and carried by all of the eastern colonies in 1899. Western Australia voted in 1900. The document lays out the terms for the formation of the Australian Parliament Judiciary Executive Government the Crown the States and other matters relating to the Federation of Australia in 1904. First Edition. Soft Cover. VG. Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer paperback
1887109242London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1887. Octavo xii 368 pages plus a folding colour map 435 × 190 mm. Original mustard yellow cloth with extensive brown and green floral decoration and attractive gilt lettering; all edges uncut top edge dusty; covers a little marked and discoloured and rubbed and bumped at the extremities; occasional foxing; trifling chips to a few uncut edges due to careless opening of the leaves; a few minor signs of handling; a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of Bernard Gore Brett on the front pastedown and an early address stamp on the dedication page. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April 1870 my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' and the rest of the family north. She spent the better part of the next three years in the Territory returning south for her marriage in 1871 to a nephew of the late Governor before leaving for good in 1873 when her father was dismissed for incompetence. Her chatty account based on her personal experiences concludes then at page 208; the rest of the book is written 'by means of researches in newspapers official reports and other documents'. Ferguson 8939 not noting the map. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington hardcover
1879009859London: Macmillan 1879. HEAVY. xvi 520pp; index; bibliography; 1 col folding chart; 2 colour plates; num bw woodcut ills. Rebound in modern burgundy textured cloth gilt title to spine edges red speckled. Single faint YMCA stamp at head of contents page prev owners name in pencil on ffep stain affecting first 14 pages to varying degrees- margin only on most pages including frontis. Ferguson 12883. Spence 820. British Museum Natural History Catalogue 1359. Wood 473. The Challenger expedition was one of the largest and most important natural history projects of the 19th century and traveled extensively in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The ship visited Antarctica and Austraia. Mosely's account is far more accessible to the reader than Wyville Thompson's far drier account of the same expedition. An important and lively account of the Challenger voyage. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. Macmillan Hardcover
1879BIB331768Adelaide: Government Printer. 1879. Octavo Size approx 14x22cm. Very Good Condition. Tan half-leather binding over papered boards with marbled endpapers and edges of text block. Front hinge lightly cracked started. Previous owners signature to preliminary page dated 1885. Ferguson 15637 refers. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 872 pages. Also includes "A Digest of Magisterial Law and forms in common use with notes and observations; and a copious index. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Government Printer hardcover
1896011806Christchurch: Glimpses of New Zealand Publishing Co. Ltd 1896 cloth boards with gilt to upper board rubbed fore edges and corners Cracked inner front hinge. Contents tight. Inscription on title in copperplate style but ball pen we have edited out the former owner details in the picture for privacy First Edition gilt embossed cover 192 black and white plates 22pp of descriptive text 250mm x 310mm published in Christchurch for the Glimpses of New Zealand Publishing Co. Ltd 1896 a few pages have short edge tears to the margins some mild foxing to the end papers many historic photographs of the whole country as well as portraits of traditional maori clothing wahine carvings etc includes many prominent civic buildings from various civic centres 2kg rate. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Landscape Folio. Glimpses of New Zealand Publishing Co. Ltd hardcover
189013800Australia 1890. Cabinet card views showing a group of men obviously enjoying their day out in the bush. The location is unknown but there is a rather large lake and the town has a goodly collection of stone buildings approximately sixteen properties with some two story homes and a couple of elongated buildings. <br /> <br /> There is a magnificent group shot of 4 men posing with their guns tent and dog. Their tucker bag is hanging in the tree and a lake with rowboat is behind them; the town view with a main street; a bush scene with a lake and a fellow standing beside his tent; a view of gum trees with a seated man taking aim a terrier & a lake behind him; a detailed view of the tent with two shotguns perched in front; two bush scenes and two beside the rather large lake. A bit of light scattered foxing otherwise quite bright. Nine cabinet cards images approx. 6 1/4 x 4 3/8" mounted on slightly larger stiff card no photographer listed. unknown
18531206T098London: Ingram Cooke and Co. 1853. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. 412 4 ads. Very Good Plus. 5.75 x 8.25 inches 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Revised second and best edition. Contemporary full black calf leather binding. Spine with five raised bands morocco title label gilt decorated compartments. Marbled page edges marbled endpapers. Double gilt fillet border to boards gilt decorated board edges blind tooled turn-ins. A little light marking to boards light rubbing to spine. Good solid binding with no cracking to joints. The large fold-out map has two short tears at the hinge but is otherwise excellent. Well illustrated. Very clean text throughout. Gift inscription to leading blank: 'Malcolm McNeill from his sincere friend T. Edward Bagge on his leaving Eton April 1854.'. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Ingram, Cooke and Co. hardcover
1875ABC_48856Sydney 1875. Ca. 8 x 46.5 cm. Panorama photograph consisting of three albumen prints joined together with white bookcloth. A long folding panorama photograph of Sydney Harbour in the late 19th century. It prominently features the east side of Circular Quay which at the time was a commercial working wharf dominated by the wool trade. The many wool stores that were built here have since been demolished. The large wool store of Hill Clark and Co at the end of the wharf which was completed in 1883 cannot be found on the photograph which means it must have been taken in 1882 at the latest. The photograph is not signed but is reminiscent of the work of Australian photographers Charles Bayliss 1850-1897 and Francis Whitfield Robinson ca. 1819-after 1882 who made similar panorama photos of Sydney around this time.The photograph is slightly discoloured one of the bookcloth hinges is partly torn. Otherwise in good condition. hardcover
186880705Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and J. Howell 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg and J. Howell 1868. Duodecimo viii 124 4 index 148 South Australian Directory 4 index 177 South Australian Almanack Advertiser pages including the rear endpaper advertisements plus front endpaper advertisements and rear cover advertising - but this copy lacks pages 169-76 of the advertising section and the folding map originally tipped ìn at the title page a small portion of the first panel remains as proof. Flush-cut cloth boards rebacked with the bulk of the original spine retained; cloth a little marked with minor silverfish damage; a few trifling marks to some pages; a very good copy rare in any condition. Our current average rate of handling copies of this item is one every 20 years. Not least of its many attractions is 'The Farmers' Gardeners' and Vignerons' Calendar' revised by George McEwin 13 pages. E.S. Wigg and J. Howell hardcover
1858118485Adelaide: Printed by David Gall for John Howell bookseller and manufacturing stationer 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Adelaide Printed by David Gall for John Howell bookseller and manufacturing stationer 1858. 220 × 95 mm viii 108 36 advertisements pages plus an advertisement across each endpaper inner surfaces of the free endpapers blank. The 'Map of Adelaide to face Title' referred to in the list of contents is excised from this copy. Original plain cream cloth with an orange paper title-label on the front cover; cloth a little stained and a little worn at the extremities with minor loss to the corners and spine; four small areas of the rear cover a little indented each with two short parallel cuts to the cloth; two conjugate leaves pages 85/86 and 107/108 torn out and screwed up at some stage were later repaired and reinserted with clear tape which stained the paper and have recently been expertly restored; rear free endpaper torn away leaving just a small attached fragment; a few other minor signs of age and use; overall a decent copy with the contemporary ownership details of A.L. Young ink-stamped and as 'A. Lincoln Young' written in ink on the front cover front and rear pastedowns and front free endpaper and added to the foot of the Adelaide directory with his address 25 Royal Exchange written there and on the front cover. The Adelaide directory listing name occupation and address runs to 47 pages; the Port Adelaide one is seven pages long. Considering the colony was founded barely two decades earlier it is an extensive yet unpretentious list. For example the four entries under MANN in Adelaide are 'Joseph carpenter Brown street J. bonnet maker Brown street Elizabeth mangle woman Gouger street His Honour Judge Sturt street'. At the foot of the calendar page for each month there are notes under the headings 'Garden' 'Flower Garden' Fruit Trees' and 'Field' on average about 12 lines each month. Ferguson 10603 not noting the preliminaries or the map; not recording any details of the binding. The State Library of NSW has a copy on Trove not recording the presence of the preliminaries or the 36 pages of advertisements but noting the dimensions of the map as 220 × 100 mm. Printed by David Gall [for John Howell, bookseller and manufacturing stationer] hardcover
1874115380Melbourne: E. & D. Syme 'The Leader' Office and Adelaide Frearson & Bro 1874. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Melbourne E. & D. Syme 'The Leader' Office and Adelaide Frearson & Bro. 1874. Octavo iv second and last blank 59 pages. Maroon binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover retaining the original printed wrappers possibly lined with plain paper at an early date; front wrapper waterstained and a little marked with minor loss in two places along the plain top margin and with two short sealed tears; light marginal tidemarks to the rear wrapper; title page a little foxed; bottom corner edges a little marked bleeding very slightly into a few margins; a few top corner creases or missing tips to the first ten leaves; overall a decent copy. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader". The writer left Melbourne on 1st September 1874 and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September in which month the country round Adelaide is seen at its very best. The areas of Gawler Kapunda Kooringa Hill River Estate Clare and surroundings were visited during October and the return journey between Adelaide and Mount Gambier including Strathalbyn Willunga Goolwa Hindmarsh Island Narracoorte and the Drainage Country took place during November' preface. The critical comments on contemporary vine cultivation and wine production make interesting reading. Visits were made to properties and individuals well-known to this day: Davenport Boothby Crompton Auld Mrs Penfold Thomas Elder and Birksgate Thomas Hardie sic and Bankside and 'Clare - Seven Hills and St. Aloysius' College' with numerous 'Notable Wine Growers' in the region mentioned. Many areas significant in the modern vine and wine industry are conspicuously absent in this survey at least in this regard. Ferguson 9210. E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro paperback
189155171Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch 1891. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch 1891. Octavo 39 pages. Later half calf and cloth retaining the original pale blue-green wrappers with the title page details repeated on the upper one; a fine copy. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch paperback
1872109662Gotha: Justus Perthes 1872. Gotha Justus Perthes 1872. A three-colour map printed surface 246 × 424 mm mounted on plain paper with the two original vertical folds barely visible; minimal light foxing; in excellent condition. 'Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen. Jahrgang 1872 Tafel 22' is printed in the top margin outside the printed border. 'Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen' Petermann's Geographical Communications founded by August Heinrich Petermann in 1855 ceased publication only as recently as 2004. It was 'the oldest German-language journal for geography in which all major geographical discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were published' Wikipedia. About J.M. Gilmore we have unearthed nothing and when even such an indefatigable bibliographer as Ian McLaren doesn't record him you're definitely made a discovery. The map is much more informative. Gilmore made two trips in the Channel Country in south-west Queensland one in January to March 1871 the other in September-October 1871. The routes are marked in red on the map. Justus Perthes unknown
188358409Adelaide: Government Printer 1883. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1883 1883 1883 and 1884. Foolscap folio four reports 3; 4; 2; and 3 pages. Drop-title; small notches and tiny pinholes in the inner margins where bound now disbound; tiny nick to the top edge throughout with the top margin of the first page of the first report slightly discoloured; overall in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 53 53A 54 and 54A of 1883-84; only 670 copies of each of the last three reports were published. Although these reports are numbered consecutively the periods covered are the last quarter of 1882 and the last three quarters of 1883; there is no report for the first quarter of 1883 probably because of the departure of the long-serving Government Resident Edward Price in that period. <p>The usual pastoral mining and agricultural reports are enlivened in the last paper by Acting Government Resident Gilbert McMinn's detailed account of his success in finding Stuart's marked tree at his last camp near the mouth of the Mary River. This discovery removed 'the last shadow of doubt in connection with the great explorer's achievement' brought on by Stuart's mistaken belief that he was following the Adelaide River. Government Printer] unknown
188294719Adelaide: Morris Hayter & Barry 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Morris Hayter & Barry 1882. Octavo 377 ii-lxvi advertisements 378-588 pages with numerous advertisements in the last 100 or so pages plus numerous unnumbered advertising leaves printed one side only often on different coloured paper and endpaper advertisements. Original dark green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover and ruled in blind on the spine and both sides; cloth a little marked with slight wear to the corner tips; edges and front free endpaper a little marked; endpapers unevenly tanned; overall an excellent copy. 'First edition 3000' is printed at the foot of the title page but it is decidedly rare: this is the only copy we have seen or handled in nearly five decades of bookselling in Adelaide. Morris, Hayter & Barry hardcover
1896100007Adelaide: Government Printer 1896. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1896. Foolscap folio 16 pages plus a page of lithographic illustrations accompanying the Etheridge paper 4 folding geological maps and a large folding geological section all in colour. Salmon-coloured title-wrappers with drop-title contents; minimal expert stabilisation to the wrappers; light crease down the centre of the entire item; 'University of Adelaide School of Geology' stamp on the front cover; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1896; one of only 500 copies. Henry Brown the South Australian Government Geologist was in the Northern Territory from early April to early August 1896; this paper contains detailed reports and maps for each of his five journeys. Etheridge's four-page contribution is 'No. 9 - The Occurrence of Olenellus in the Northern Territory'. Government Printer paperback
