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186669158London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. Octavo xii 474 2 16 catalogue pages plus a folding hand-coloured frontispiece map 370 × 325 mm. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities and slightly worn at the head of the front hinge; map very slightly chipped on the two bottom corners when folded with two short tears expertly repaired; a very good copy internally a fine uncut copy. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' from 1855 to 1864; he was also George Fife Angas's agent in SA from 1841 to 1844. This copy comes from the collection of the South Australian historian and bibliographer Thomas Gill with his signature on the flyleaf and the first contents page along with his attractive ownership stamp based on the letter G. His collection was bequeathed to the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia which later disposed of duplicates; this copy has the cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title page and the John Goodchild-designed Gill bequest bookplate on the front pastedown. Ferguson 9691 not recording the map. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
1880143815Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Foolscap folio two consecutive Parliamentary Papers 2 pages plus 2 folding plans; and 13 pages plus 5 folding plans. Six of the plans are approximately 280-290 × 420-435 mm or the reverse; one is 235 × 315 mm. Drop-title; needle-holes and small notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; plans a little tanned with a short sealed tear to the first one; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Numbers 161 and 161a of 1880. The seven folding plans show parcels of land in many areas of the colony including the Barossa Valley Eyre Peninsula Murraylands and the western suburbs of Adelaide. The text gives the area in square miles the location and a description of the country. E. Spiller, Government Printer unknown
1849115821London: John Murray 1849. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London John Murray 1849. Duodecimo xii 110 6 advertisements 16 'The South Australian Handbook Advertiser' pages but lacking the small folding map. Later binder's cloth retaining the original printed wrappers; all edges uncut; a short sealed tear to one preliminary leaf with a few tiny closed marginal tears elsewhere; light marginal tidemark to the front wrapper and title leaf; trifling signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Provenance: Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope 1920-2018 Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' LCA obituary; his signature in pencil appears on the front free endpaper. Ferguson 5248 not noting that the wrappers have the details and full catalogue of Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library' printed on the inside front and both rear surfaces. John Murray paperback
188628275Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1886. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of Glenelg a panoramic view of the creek with many fishermen and the town with two other views. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color 37.5 x 48.3 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
188928276Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page with eight views of the ship Kintore's arrival including the HMS Orient the Governor Musgrave HMS Protector steaming down the Port River; Yachts saluting and swearing in at the Town Hall. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Lithograph with one tint with center fold as issued. 40 x 50.8 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or at the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
188928274Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of the impressive large corner building in Adelaide. The subtitle "E. J. Woods Esq. Architect. James Shaw Contractor." The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color 39 x 51 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
188628273Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1886. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of images in Adelaide and at Port Adelaide in total thirteen views of the port the dock and buildings in the city. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. The mayor S. Malin Esq is also pictured. Wood engraving with printed color 38.7 x 50 cm. Libraries Australia ID 7837384. Pictorial Australian unknown
189122142Hobart: A.F. Basset Hull 1891. Paperback. Good overall. Six issues of this illustrated journal for Australian stamp collectors published quarterly from January 1890 to October 1891. Later absorbed by Vindin Philatelic Monthly. With illustrations and descriptions of stamps plus many advertisements. Includes a portrait of and one page article on Rev. P.E. Raynor '.We present our readers with a portrait of Rev. P.E. Raynor MA of St. Peter's College Adelaide the President of the Philatelic Society of South Australia.' <br /> <br /> Articles include many anecdotes from the avid collectors of the day providing very interesting and obscure historical facts on stamps of the Australian colonies. This run consists of April 1890 2 of January 1891 April 1891 July 1891 October 1891. 8vo tan paper wraps staple bound covers dusty chipped at edges both Jan. 1891 vols. covers detached but present interiors clean. Loose in first issue is a printed order form and a sheet of advertising rates. OCLC: 15171282; Trove 4841712. A.F. Basset Hull paperback
1886211931886. Very good condition. Very large albumen photograph of Sydney's harbor of the area now known as Farm Cove with the Charles Bayliss stamp at the lower left corner. Charles Bayliss 1850 - 1897 one of Australia's preeminent landscape photographers who worked for years with Merlin and Holtermann before setting up his own shop in Sydney in 1879. He established his studio at 348 George Street; then moved to 335a George Street advertising himself as a photographer of city and country views often with people and making views to be sold individually while also contributing images for albums. He also made remarkable 360 degree panoramas of the city of Sydney around this time.<br /> <br /> Mounted on a page from an album with handwritten caption in pencil. "C. Bayliss Photo Sydney". 10 3/4 x 8" 20 x 27cm print; album page: 16 x 12". Trove 41642848 cites a photograph of the same title but at a much smaller scale 20 x 15cm. unknown
1834036639London: Richard Bentley 1834. 2 volumes-complete. xv 440; vii 428pp engraved frontis to each volume errata slip. Contemporary half red morocco on marbled boards marbled endpaper and edges. Ex Queensland Geological Survey library with their bookplate over an earlier personal bookplate both partially covered by card pocket minimal handwritten cataloguing information inside and paper label to spine of each volume. Heavy toning to frontispieces and margins of many pages. A very attractive set. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. Richard Bentley Hardcover
186280759London: Hall Virtue and Co 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue and Co. 1862. Duodecimo viii 167 pages. Blind-decorated dark green ribbed cloth lightly marked rubbed and bumped at the extremities; two trifling surface blemishes to the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the contemporary and thus very early blindstamp of the Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby on the front free endpaper. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men' author's preface although he showed the cut of his nib on the title page: 'Castigat ridendo mores'. <p>Indeed nothing is sacred so it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing a note in the Petherick copy in the National Library of Australia. However in our experience and with the passage of time Petherick appears to have overstated the case. Hall, Virtue and Co hardcover
1876040006Glasgow: Napier James R. 1876. 96pp 4 folding maps 1 map in text 8 bw ills. Basic blue buckram library binding. Ex-UCLA library with bookplate stamps card pocket etc including appropriate discard stamp. Library name perforated in title page. A further private owner bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. A few tiny tears at edges of folding maps. Scarce privately printed account of a voyage from New South Wales to various destinations in Queensland and the Northern Territory and a side trip to Timor for water undertaken in 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. Napier, James R. Hardcover
1862136982London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. Octavo xviii 404 pages with 32 illustrations plus 5 pages of plates and a map. Gilt- and blind-stamped green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine all edges uncut; cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities with trifling wear to a spot along the rear joint; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Ferguson 18805. This copy contains a series of interesting albeit relatively unimportant early marks of ownership from William Charles Rigby's early blindstamp with premises at 55 Hindley Street to the ink signature of a policeman 'Frank Karuth Kadina S.A. 13/8/64' ruled out on the title page and the pencilled signatures of vigneron and publican Francis Robert Hunt Hahndorf twice and subsequently his son Leonard who died in 1919. The first of many significant and original contributions to Australian geology palaeontology and zoology by Father Tenison-Woods 1832-1889. These days he is perhaps more widely known for the fact that with 'Mother Mary MacKillop he helped to found the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover
183814492Albany NY 1838. Single issue of a New York newspaper with a long article entitled 'The Canada War' the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838 on the outcome of the Battle of Wind Mill Point which was fought by the Hunter Patriots to liberate the colony of Upper Canada from British rule. <br /> <br /> Many of the Patriots led by "a Pole Von Shulz" were captured and sentenced to be transported to Van Diemen's Land apparently 60 in all were convicted and transported to a penal colony. The names of the captured mentioned are William Johnson Johnston Gen. Birge and Capt. Sprague. Thos. J. Sutherland's capture is mentioned at the first page of the article. <br /> <br /> The article begins at page 2 declaring the "utter failure of the revolutionary expedition against Prescott" and measures 17.5 column inches. It continues on to page 3 in 2 columns for another 29 column inches. <br /> <br /> Also with an article on the Mormon War with action in Missouri described ". the instructions to Gen. Clark are to extirpate the whole fraternity of Mormons and drive them beyond the states". Slt. toned and ruffled at right edges; folded horizontally at center and vertically with slt. rubbing at folds; sml damp stain at lower left corner o/w very good. unknown
1867518751867. 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
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown
187297606Adelaide: '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'. Flush-cut dark blue cloth over thin boards with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; very occasional foxing slightly heavier on the edges and endpapers; small light stain in the front gutter; an excellent copy. The name of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor is added in pencil on the title page. 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'. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
184275315London: C. Dolman 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London C. Dolman 1842. Octavo 27 pages in a total of ii 564 2 pages. Original ribbed cloth with a paper title-label on the spine; cloth a little marked and sunned; label a little chipped and sunned; small blank piece torn from the bottom corner of eight leaves not part of the relevant article; endpapers and first and last leaves foxed; an excellent copy. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet 'Evidences of an Inland Sea collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' Dublin 1837. C. Dolman hardcover
189675097Adelaide: Government Printer 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1896. Foolscap folio 16 pages plus a page of lithographic illustrations accompanying the Etheridge paper and 4 folding geological maps and a large folding geological section all in colour. Modern cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1896; only 500 copies printed. Brown was in the Northern Territory from early April to early August 1896; he gives detailed reports and maps for each of his five journeys. Etheridge's contribution is 'No. 9 - The Occurrence of Olenellus in the Northern Territory'. Government Printer hardcover
188080145Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Octavo 55 pages. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers with the title page details repeated on the front cover; cloth a little flecked and slightly sunned and rubbed; card a little tanned mottled and lightly marked; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. At the time of publication the author was Chief Warden of the Goldfields of the Northern Territory. 'This pamphlet is published by permission of the Government of South Australia; but it is only proper to state that the recommendations herein made especially with reference to the formation of a railway have not yet been considered by the Ministry and must therefore be only regarded as the individual views of the author. A portion of the matter in the following pages was compiled by me' for Harcus's 'South Australia' published in 1876; it 'incorporated some useful papers written by residents there'. <p>That book also contained an important chapter on Central Australia incorporated here with additional material. To quote Harcus: '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'. Knight remarks that it 'affords an excellent insight into the vast tract of country'. The article takes up most of the 17-page chapter; it refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. It is augmented with a page of quotations from Charles Winnecke's 1879 Herbert River expedition reports. Ferguson 11231 pretty light on detail even to the extent of not recording the binding. E. Spiller, Government Printer paperback
1888119346Adelaide: H.F. Leader Government Printer for the RGSSA 1888. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide H.F. Leader Government Printer for the RGSSA 1888. Octavo 16 pages plus the title-wrappers. Wrappers very lightly marked on the outside of the plain rear panel; essentially a fine copy. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883' but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition 'a private one fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about these series of explorations by David Lindsay: 'In 1883 the South Australian government commissioned him to explore the central and eastern part of Arnheim's Arnhem Land; his party survived fierce attacks by Aborigines one group numbering 300. In 1885-86 he took seven men and twelve camels from Hergott Springs to the Gulf of Carpentaria tracing the Finke River to its mouth and seeking information about Ludwig Leichhardt. Lindsay surveyed the country between the overland telegraph line and the Queensland border explored the MacDonnell Ranges made a brief foray into the Simpson Desert and spent six months in the country between Lake Nash and Powell's Creek'. <p>This account first appeared in the Proceedings of the RGSSA Volume 2 Third Session 1887-8; the title-wrappers and pagination are new to this separate issue. Ferguson 11653; McLaren 12608. H.F. Leader, Government Printer [for the RGSSA] paperback
