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1820201111820. An intriguing item. The image seems to be inspired by the anecdote related in James Boswell's book "Life of Johnson" where he describes Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1793 hopping around the room to explain to people how a kangaroo moved. The hand-penned caption below entitles it "Shade of a Dandy" the caricature poking fun of the ridiculousness of the gentleman with his frizzy hairstyle pointed nose and chin holding a monocle. He stands in the corner of a room and the shadow he casts on the wall looks like a kangaroo with a suggestion of a halter. The room has flower-decorated floor covering a border around the wall which also has a framed landscape hanging and a window with drapes behind him. Kangaroos have held a long fascination for the Northern hemisphere particularly after their arrival on English shores with Joseph Banks fresh from Cook's first voyage in 1769. The man's cut of coat and slim trousers suggest an early 19th century style. 7x10" on paper 8 x 10 3/8". With some later faintly bizarre coloring on the figure of the man in either pastel or crayon. Mounted on a larger sheet of blue paper perhaps from an early album. Blue backing sheet with a closed tear otherwise in very good condition. unknown
1889206601889. Very good condition. An original pen and ink drawing showing Sir Edgar Boehm's 1834 - 1890 statue 'Young Bull and Herdsman' on a large plinth at the foot of the grand staircase at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888. <br /> <br /> A stylishly-dressed Victorian crowd of exhibition viewers strolls about the great hall with the statue on a large plinth highlighted with white accents. With the title penned below the image. Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm 1834 - 1890 is recognized for his colossal statues including one of Queen Victoria executed in marble 1869 for Windsor Castle the monument of the duke of Kent in St. George's Chapel the statue of Carlyle on the Thames embankment at Chelsea and the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. Boehm is also listed as a British exhibitor in the Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Centennial International Exhibition at Melbourne 1888 p111.<br /> <br /> The Young Bull and Herdsman was acquired by the Melbourne Art Gallery and Museum and was then gifted to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria where it is today outside the RASV offices in the show grounds.<br /> <br /> Unsigned with a small circular mark roughly at center of drawing and a closed tear through the caption but not affecting the drawing; mounted on an album page. 9 3/4 x 8 1/2" 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. $750. South Australia's origin is unique. Established by an act of Parliament in 1834 it was a planned British province rather than a convict settlement. It was the first place in the world to grant universal suffrage and to allow women to run for parliament. It was one of the states that formed the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. These volumes are from a series that ran from 1837 to 1957. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:81. unknown books
1862116508London: Richard Bentley 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Bentley 1862 first edition first issue. Octavo two volumes viii 289 and x 322 pages. Original navy blue textured cloth blocked in gilt and blind with the large kangaroo illustration on the front covers particularly striking; all edges uncut; covers a little bumped and marked with slight wear at the extremities and the spines a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; overall an excellent set with the armorial bookplate of Edward Bennett on both front pastedowns and a very small inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of both title pages. An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s 'A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia including station properties social conditions travel aborigines etc.' according to Ferguson but there's much more . In the second volume pages 233-50 Jessop records meeting two men at Wilpena 'on their way back to Adelaide with the results of a private exploration. The leader or scout was named Giles who was engaged by Mole a man of more energy than money to assist him in opening up some new part . They finally left the known country at Angipena and entered upon the unknown in the direction of north-west . They were absent about a month from Angipena and altogether going and coming passed over 1200 miles'. <p>The meeting is recorded in some detail not least regarding contact with the Aborigines 'Giles said he was the first person in the Colony that vaccinated a black and that it happened on this occasion'. Wantrup notes that this expedition 'does not appear to be elsewhere recorded and dates at least ten years before Giles's career became a matter of public record. Jessop supplies no precise date but from the context it is clear that the expedition took place in the first half of 1859. Constituting the first appearance in print of the last of the great Australian explorers it is well worth adding to an exploration library'. <p>Wantrup 2023 pages 346-7; not in McLaren; see Ferguson 10938-41. 2 items. Richard Bentley hardcover
189575096Adelaide: Government Printer 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1895. Foolscap folio 34 pages plus 7 plates photolithographs of scenes on the Victoria River 15 geological maps and sections 3 folding all with colour and a large folding map of the Territory 630 x 335 mm. Recent cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; drop-title; short split to a blank margin of the map along a fold expertly repaired; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 82 of 1895; one of only 620 copies. The results of four months' work in the latter part of 1894. 'I regret that I am able to present only a few photographic views the greater number of the dry plates I took with me having become spoilt through the action of the climate or some other cause'. McLaren 5400 recording the separate issue and incorrectly stating 'Not a Parliamentary Report'. Government Printer] hardcover
183980070London: The Author 1839. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Author 1839 third edition considerably enlarged/ 1837. Octavo iv 243 16 advertisements pages plus 3 folding maps 'District of Adelaide' with an inset 'Sketch of Encounter Bay' 310 × 312 mm; 'Maritime Portion of South Australia' 240 × 425 mm and 'The City of Adelaide' 162 × 198 mm a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding advertising slip with an engraved illustration. Original blind-stamped purple cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal expert restoration to the head of both joints; spine sunned to brown; first map lightly foxed; an excellent copy internally fine. With the armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Downshire most probably Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill 4th Marquess of Downshire 1812-1868. The preferred edition being more than twice as large as its predecessors of 1837 and 1838. Ferguson 2725. The Author hardcover
1839142403London: Smith Elder and Co 1839. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Smith Elder and Co. 1839 second edition/ 1839. Octavo viii 224 2 9 advertisements pages plus 4 lithographs 2 folding maps and a folding table. Original gilt- and blind-stamped black cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; front and rear hinges slightly open but very firm; minimal foxing to the plates; an excellent copy. The first edition was published anonymously under the title 'A Land of Promise'; apart from dropping this title 'on the ground sic of vagueness and liability to misconstruction' and outing himself as author only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. Ferguson 2851. Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
183979279London: Smith Elder 1839. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. London Smith Elder 1839 second edition/ 1839. Octavo viii 224 2 9 advertisements pages plus 4 lithographs 2 folding maps and a folding table. Original gilt- and blind-stamped light brown cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; spine a little sunned; minimal foxing to the plates; a most attractive copy. The first edition was published anonymously under the title 'A Land of Promise'; apart from dropping this title 'on the ground sic of vagueness and liability to misconstruction' and outing himself as author only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. <p>Ferguson 2851. Smith, Elder hardcover
1875BIB326045<p>London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle. 1875. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Very Good condition. Green gilt decorated cloth boards corners lightly bumped & a little rubbed. Spine edge also lightly rubbed - just light shelf wear. Bookplate to front pastedown and front hinge slightly cracked. A very nice solid and clean copy of this scarce title. Small gift inscription to top of Preface. Illustrated with eight black & white engravings and large fold-out map with neatly repaired tears at rear. 307 pages. Important account of the first expedition to cross from Alice Springs to Roebourne on the West Coast of Australia in 1872 Warburton left South Australia as leader of an expedition that included his son Richard and J. Lewis. It was financed and provided with seventeen camels and six months supplies by Sir Walter Hughes and Sir Thomas Elder and sought to link the province with Western Australia. After leaving Alice Springs in April 1873 they endured long periods of extreme heat with little water and survived only by killing the camels for meat. They reached the Oakover River with Warburton strapped to a camel. On 11 January 1874 they were brought to Charles Harper's de Grey station in northern Western Australia. They had conquered the formidable Great Sandy Desert to become the first to cross the continent from the centre to the west. Warburton was emaciated and blind in one eye; at a public banquet in Adelaide later he attributed their survival to his Aboriginal companion Charley. . 1st Edition. Hardback.</p> Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle hardcover
1848123412London: John Murray 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1848. Octavo xii 392 4 advertisements pages with several tables plus a small folding map 215 × 170 mm. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in blind on the spine and both sides later rebacked retaining the original backstrip but with replacement endpapers; cloth a little rubbed marked and scuffed with the corners a little worn and bumped; occasional foxing; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia and contains from this source detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer on Agriculture Stock Farming Building Gardening Manufacturing in various branches . and Mining and Mineral Productions'. There are chapters on overlanding 31 pages and Aborigines 52 pages. Significantly this copy contains numerous contemporary annotations in pencil on 25 pages. Many of the comments are highly critical. A fine example is the first one in the book at the foot of the second page of the preface below the author's remarks about the 'capacities and kindliness of the new home which may await all who are desirous to emigrate to the splendid country and exquisite climate of South Australia'. Excuse me what about the 'Drawbacks - Scorching sun and hot winds clouds of dust millions of flies and fleas and moschettos and ants swarms of rogues and lying rascals plenty of Thieves - also high Rents and high price of food and a deprivation of luxuries & sometimes of the necessaries of life'. Several of the complaints relate to prices especially of food; one of them is dated 'vegetables we find very dear. Mar 1849'. The author finishes a few pages about fires thus: 'In a large plain covered with such materials and on fire there would be little chance of escape; and few lamentations would be allowed as death would be too instantaneous. From this danger however so formidable in America the Australians are happily relieved'. The man on the spot retorts: 'Black Thursday is a witness that the Australians are not always so happily relieved'. Provenance: Harold Sheard with his bookplate designed by his wife the artist Rose Lowcay. John Murray hardcover
1850DEMO014460IPhiladelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1850. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Good. 64 excellent steel-plate engravings with 12 of 13 maps Samoa map apparently never inserted many vignettes and woodcuts. Octavos half brown calf blue marbled boards edges and endpapers; vol. 1 rebacked retaining original back and leather labels scuffing and wear to other spines corners worn. <br/><br/>Wilkes' expedition was the first American scientific exploring expedition by sea voyage. His six ships sailed south around South America along Antarctica causing Wilkes to decide that Antarctica was indeed a separate continent. Other stops were at the Pacific islands of Tahiti the Samoas Australia and New Zealand. Maps of Tahiti & Australia and New South Wales Along the way they charted the coasts of California Washington and Oregon. Howes W414; Palau 375505; Sabin 103994 note; see Cowan p.683; Taylor PACIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY p.13. "Wilkes' spectacular Antarctic and South Sea explorations - Goetzmann ARMY EXPLORATION IN THE . WEST p.61" 64 excellent steel-plate engravings many vignettes and woodcuts. Unlike the 1844 edition the following Sherman editions did not have a 6th volume - the Atlas but have 3 Tables and 11 maps Printed by C. Sherman hardcover
186025848Paris Arthus Bertrand 1860 in-8 de 80 pp., br., couv. imprimée beige, rouss
1837PHO-2143Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1837, 1 volume (3) grand in-4° (30x24,5cm), VIII pp., 742 pp., demi basane époque, dos lisse avec auteur, titre et tomaison, frottements au dos, quelques rousseurs, défaut à la coiffe sup., de la bibliothèque de Cayrol avec son cachet et signature manuscrite.
1887PHO-1969Rio de Janeiro, Lombaerts & Cie, 1887, grand in-4° (32x23cm), pleine percale époque, titre au dos, petits frottements aux mors, quelques rousseurs. Texte en portugais avec sa traduction française en regard, complet de ses illustrations sous serpentes.
1885PHO-1499Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1885, 2 volumes grands in-4, couverture éditeur, Introduction et Zoologie 576pp., Botanique 23pp., Géologie 180pp., Planches 32pp.-2ff. et son Atlas de 2ff. et 68 planches en lithographie, d'études géologiques et zoologiques (55 planches de zoologie sur fond crème et 13 planches de géologie dont 10 d'observations microscopiques de roches, en couleurs), dos cassé à l’atlas.
1839PHO-1319Paris, Pourrat frères, 1839. 2 volumes in-8 (220x150), demi-basane maroquinée à grain long fauve , 2ff.-510pp.-1f. , 2ff.-547pp.-2ff. , illustré d’un frontispice et de 36 planches dont 19 en couleurs d’époque représentant des animaux, des poissons et des oiseaux, frottements aux plats , coins usés, très peu de rousseurs .
1841104249London: John Richards & Co 1841. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Richards & Co. 1841 'Third edition revised and corrected to the present time'. Octavo ii title leaf xviii 476 civ appendix and index pages. Early half tan calf and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; covers a little rubbed and scuffed with the head of both joints slightly cracked but firm; endpapers and adjacent leaves offset mainly from the leather turn-ins; minimal scattered light foxing; early marginal emphases in pencil and rarely in ink in particular to the later sections relating to the institutions and processes of government; related annotations on several pages; overall an excellent copy. Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of 'J.F. Burton Adelaide 1850' appears at the head of the title page and on the front free endpaper without the place-name. The latter is also signed in pencil 'J.H. Fisher' James Hurtle Fisher around which George Fife Angas has written 'Sept 21 1853. Presented by JHF to G.F. Angas'. The full name of George Fife Angas is also written there in pencil in what we recognize as a later secretarial hand indicating in our experience that the book came originally from Angas's library. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia': a lawyer he was appointed first Resident Commissioner of South Australia and arrived in the colony on the 'Buffalo' with the Governor's party. He eventually became a leader of the South Australian Bar 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Angas needs no introduction; suffice to say the provenance takes some beating. We know little about Burton other than that he was an Adelaide solicitor; he is mentioned as such occasionally in the local newspapers of the day. John Richards & Co hardcover
189929277London: Reinhold Thiele and Co. 66 Chancery Lane 1899. London Reinhold Thiele and Co. 66 Chancery Lane possibly 1899. A vintage albumen paper photograph 250 × 195 mm laid down on the printed mount of the photographer. The photograph has slight surface silverfish damage not affecting the figure; original mount slightly foxed; recently matted ready for framing visible image size 335 × 280 mm. This full-length portrait features Howell with a cricket ball grasped firmly in his right hand standing alongside a wicket in the practice nets at Lord's in 1899. Displayed in a window cut into the rear of the modern mount is his bold ink surname signature. Howell toured England in 1899 1902 and 1905: he took all 10 for 28 against Surrey in his first match in England in 1899. A rare and impressive item. Reinhold Thiele and Co., 66 Chancery Lane unknown
1882112707Adelaide: Printed by Webb Vardon and Pritchard for the Author 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Webb Vardon and Pritchard for the Author 1882. Octavo ii title page verso blank vi preface last blank 9-343 pages. Original olive-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and ruled and decorated in blind on the sides; cloth a little marked flecked and rubbed with light wear to the extremities and minimal conservation to the spine; front board slightly bowed; edges a little marked; textblock reinserted in the binding with the original endpapers retained and reinforced along the inner hinges with cloth of a similar colour; the front flyleaf has a short sealed tear and some residual glue on the recto it had been stuck fast to the pastedown and now has a tendency to curl a little and there are a few numerical annotations and the early ownership signatures of Carl D. and C.O. Lundberg; minimal signs of use and age internally; a very good copy of a great rarity. 'Essential; an important regional novel and nearly a comic masterpiece' states Depasquale 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'; 'a rambling episodic undisciplined novel part romance part satire part detective novel and . part didactic religious novel'. The five-page introduction by the anonymous author is instructive as are the five pages Depasquale devotes to the work. The novel is set in the mid-north of South Australia; the author notes that Emu Flat the place at which the story begins is 'about four miles S.W. of Clare'. The verso of the front flyleaf carries the later inkstamp of Tyrrell's Bookshop Gawler Place Adelaide. Printed by Webb, Vardon, and Pritchard [for the Author] hardcover
1893104614Adelaide: Government Printer 1893. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus the separately-issued very large folding map 680 × 1500 mm. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated on the front cover expertly stabilized around the edges with minor infill; an excellent copy now loosely inserted in the rear pocket of a custom-made book-form cover with the map with short tears along a few folds expertly sealed in the front pocket. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical but one has added chromolithographic geological features and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here because McLaren invariably - and frustratingly - measures the size of the sheet of paper not the printed surface. See also McLaren 12616 for the foolscap folio edition South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 45 of 1893. The folio edition has a stated print run of 750 copies; apparently only 500 copies of the octavo edition were printed. This copy has a small paper label mounted on the inside front wrapper: 'Publication No. 30. Permanent Record. 1938. Govt. Printer' with the signature in ink of Frank Trigg the incumbent. Lindsay's introduction hints at some of the personality problems that ultimately led to the abandonment of the expedition. This final report includes his own journal 'also a copy of Mr. Wells' journal kept during my absence from the party. Mr. Streich's journal having been in my possession I was enabled to place his geological descriptions on the map. Not having seen the journals or reports of Messrs. Leech Elliot and Helms I cannot in any way refer to them. I regret that Mr. Leech should have seen fit not to hand in the pencil sketches made by him'. Government Printer paperback
1838131290London: 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1838. Very Good. London 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1838. Foolscap folio 21 1 docket pages with numerous tables. Uncut and sewn as issued; outer pages slightly dusty; light foxing throughout; an excellent copy. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 685 of 1838. The bulk of this important paper pages 4-19 is given over to 'Nos. 5 6 7. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir James Stirling bearing Date 15 October 1835 forwarding a Memorial from the Inhabitants of Western Australia; together with a Copy of the Answer which has been returned thereto'. It is somewhat more than that. Stirling's covering letter explains that 'The signatures attached to this memorial . belong to about one-third of the adult male population of the settlement and represent also about one third of its property in land and capital. The grievances under which the memorialists consider themselves and their fellow colonists to labour are five in number'. The five grievances are well-aired; all signatories are identified; there are five pages of lists of lands reserved for public purposes individuals or 'Assigned to or Reserved for Civil Naval and Military Officers from commencement of the Colony in June 1829 to 6 October 1835'. The second and third lists provide name rank or situation where applicable number of acres district assigned or reserved - and when and remarks. A sample record for an individual is that pertaining to Robert Ramsay for whom an 'uncertain' number of acres was reserved at Plantagenet on 12 April 1831: 'Master of brig "Britannia". On south shore of Princes Royal Harbour reserved 18 months to form a whaling establishment and then resumed on failure of conditions'. The last four pages in this section contain Lord Glenelg's thoughts on the matter as of 7 March 1837. The limited information relating to the fledgling colony of South Australia occupies only pages 20 and 21. Ferguson 2511. <p>Provenance: the signature 'C.A.S. Hawker' is written in pencil at the head of the first page. Charles Allan Seymour Hawker 1894-1938 politician and pastoralist: his grandfather George Charles Hawker arrived in Adelaide with his brother Charles in September 1840. They settled on land at Bungaree near Clare in December 1841; C.A.S. Hawker he was born there. He was seriously wounded on several occasions at the Western Front losing one eye and 'his legs were in surgical irons to the end of his life'. He was a minister in the Lyons Government from 1932 until he 'was killed on 25 October 1938 when the aircraft "Kyeema" crashed into Mount Dandenong in Victoria. His untimely death was sharply felt. He had been an outstanding and respected figure in the Federal parliament whom some of his own party would have supported as prime minister. John Curtin the Opposition leader believed he had been on the threshold of great achievements' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed' unknown
1877111805Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1877 second edition. Duodecimo 132 4 index 8 advertisements pages. Original quarter contrasting red and green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; covers flecked lightly marked and lightly worn at the extremities edges lightly foxed front endpaper a little marked first and last pages offset; a very good copy internally excellent. A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne 1825-1881 botanist and horticulturist 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to the early development of the two colonies' of Victoria and South Australia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' making a rare error in not recording accurately this edition. Ferguson 10397; Crittenden 53 with a lengthy commentary on its importance. The first edition was published as 'The Fruit Flower and Vegetable Garden' in 1871 Ferguson 10396 recording only one copy; Crittenden 47 'not sighted'; Trove records four copies. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1877107647Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1877 second edition. Duodecimo 132 4 index 8 advertisements pages. Original quarter contrasting red and green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; covers a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minor restoration to the joints and slight wear to the head of the spine; cloth a little marked and flecked; front flyleaf a well-matched replacement; first and last leaves offset; occasional light scattered foxing; a very good copy. A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne 1825-1881 botanist and horticulturist 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to the early development of the two colonies' of Victoria and South Australia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' making a rare error in not recording accurately this edition. Ferguson 10397; Crittenden 53 with a lengthy commentary on its importance. The first edition was published as 'The Fruit Flower and Vegetable Garden' in 1871 Ferguson 10396 recording only one copy; Crittenden 47 'not sighted'; Trove records only 15 copies of all five editions from the first of 1871 to the facsimile reprint of the third of 1979. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
188063126Adelaide: Government Printer 1880. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1880. Foolscap folio 9 pages plus a large folding map 'Plan shewing Country north east of Eucla examined by Mr James W. Jones with the view to decide upon boring operations for water' 555 × 705 mm. Drop-title sewn as issued; minimal expert infill to the bottom corner of the first leaf; small blank corner piece of the map slightly creased; an excellent copy. The map embraces the entire extent of the Nullarbor Plain within South Australia covering 'an area of 16500 square miles . with a complete description of the country from the coast to the route taken by Mr Ernest Giles on his exploration trip to Perth'. It also includes 'Professor Tate's track shewn in red' presumably relating to Ralph Tate's travels there resulting in his lengthy paper The Natural History of the Country around the Head of the Great Australian Bight in the 'Transactions . of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide South Australia for 1878-9': see McLaren 15803. The journal 'gives a minutely detailed description of the country passed over . It will be seen that this hitherto comparatively unexplored country has been thoroughly examined. I found that in many important particulars the surmises in previous reports respecting this country were not borne out'. No less interesting is the account of the discovery of the waggon and last campsite of Fairie and Woolley who died of thirst north of Eucla two years earlier. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 191 of 1880; the quantity printed is not stated but around 700 copies was usual and this item is rarely encountered on the open market. McLaren 10540. Government Printer] unknown
187464356Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1874. Foolscap folio 5 pages plus a folding map 356 × 503 mm. Recent cloth with lettering on the front cover; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 67 of 1875; the subtitle is 'Memo. - This Journal and the Plan accompanying it was placed at the disposal of the Government by the Hon. Thos. Elder MLC at whose expense the exploration was made'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' gives details of Ross' interesting life: born in 1817 he joined Charles Bonney in the first cattle drive from the Goulburn River to Adelaide; after numerous adventures he was appointed leader of the advance exploration party for the overland telegraph line becoming in the process only the second to complete the crossing of the continent through the centre. 'At 57 Ross was engaged by Elder to lead an expedition to explore west of the Peake and to go on to Perth. Struggling against sandhills and mulga scrub he reached the South Australian border but barren country and brackish water forced him back'. His last words in this published account are: 'One drink or rain to give the horses one drink would have saved the expedition'. Ross died in poverty in Adelaide in 1903. McLaren 7953 and 14715 not noting the dimensions of the map. W.C. Cox, Government Printer] hardcover
