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1900134834Adelaide: W.C. Rigby for the Royal Society of South Australia 1900. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Rigby for the Royal Society of South Australia 1900 to 1913. Large quarto eight parts issued as and here bound in two volumes; full details of each part are listed below. Later binder's cloth retaining the original wrappers; cloth slightly scuffed and rubbed; both volumes a little bumped at the foot of the spines; small cancelled library stamp on each front wrapper 'College of Advanced Education Library Adelaide. 7 June 1973'; small light tidemark to the top inner corner of Volume I Part 3; minimal signs of age and use; in excellent condition. All four parts of the first volume are by STIRLING E.C. and A.H.C. ZIETZ: Fossil Remains of Lake Callabonna. An interesting note from the editor is printed on the verso of the front wrapper of the first part: 'For the purpose of presenting the descriptions of the "Fossil Remains ." in a more suitable form than is permitted by the size of the "Transactions" the Council has decided to publish in royal octavo a series of "Memoirs" . This issue is the first Fasciculus of the first Volume . of which other parts will appear as circumstances permit'. Individual subtitles are as follows. <p>Volume I Part 1. Description of the Manus and Pes of 'Diprotodon Australia' Owen. 1900. 40 pages plus 18 plates. <p>Volume 1 Part 2. Genyornis Newtoni. A New Genus and Species of Fossil Struthious Bird. and The Physical Features of Lake Callabonna. Circa 1900. iv 41-80 xv pages plus 7 pages of plates 3 of them folding. <p>Volume 1 Part 3. Description of the Vertebrae of Genyornis Newtoni. 1905. ii 81-110 pages plus 11 pages of plates. <p>Volume 1 Part 4. Description of Some Further Remains . 1913. vi 111-178 pages plus 23 pages of plates. Loosely inserted in the first part is a colour transparency of a watercolour illustration of a diprotodon. <p>Volume II Part 1. ETHERIDGE Robert: The Cretaceous Mollusca of South Australia and the Northern Territory. 1902. iv 54 pages plus 7 pages of plates and a publisher's slip tipped in at the first page 'The remainder of Vol. I of these Memoirs has been reserved for further descriptions of the "Fossil Remains of Lake Callabonna"'. <p>Volume II Part 2. TAYLOR T. Griffith: The Archaeocyathinae from the Cambrian of South Australia. An Account of the Morphology and Affinities of the Whole Class. Edited by Walter Howchin. 1910. vi 55-188 pages with 51 illustrations plus 15 pages of plates a large folding chart and a large 'Index Slip' tipped in at the contents page. <p>Volume II Part 3. MAWSON Douglas: Chiastolites from Bimbowrie South Australia . Edited by Walter Howchin. 1911. iv 189-210 pages with a map and 12 illustrations plus 11 pages of plates including one colour plate. <p>Volume II Part 4. MAWSON Douglas: Geological Investigations in the Broken Hill Area . Edited by Walter Howchin. 1912. viii 211-319 pages plus 26 pages of plates containing 81 plates and an illustration 5 pages of illustrations containing 3 maps and 4 sections and a very large folding colour geological map 525 × 680 mm 'Geological Sketch Map of the Olary-Broken Hill Area. In all instances each page of plates is accompanied by a leaf of text. The first part of the first volume and the first two parts of the second volume must be considered rare if our experience is any guide. 2 items. W.C. Rigby (for the Royal Society of South Australia) paperback
130931Melbourne: Australian Post Office 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Melbourne Australian Post Office 1972. An oblong folio album approximately 300 × 390 mm containing 51 original gelatin silver photographs each approximately 165 × 200 mm mounted individually on both sides of 26 ring-bound card leaves most with captions printed on slips mounted below the plate. Original padded imitation leather aka vinyl lettered on the front cover; in fine condition inside and out. The photographs show the official centenary celebrations at Alice Springs on 22 August 1972 46 photographs including the reopening of the restored Old Telegraph Station and in Adelaide on 21 and 22 August 5 photographs. Dignitaries present include Sir Alan Hulme Postmaster General Sir Arthur Petfield Commissioner of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and descendants of Sir Charles Todd and others who had worked on the construction of the line or in the telegraph station. Included in the latter and featured prominently in two photographs is an elderly Indigenous woman Mrs Amelia Kunoth an 'employee late 1800s'. <p>Offered together with a large-format commemorative publication with the same title as the album containing seven facsimiles of newspaper articles relating to the Overland Telegraph Line Australian Post Office 1972; folio; saddle-stapled overlapping wrappers; in excellent condition. <p>Bound in at the rear of the album is a booklet for the 'Alice Springs Telegraph Station National Park Northern Territory Reserves Board 1969; quarto; saddle-stapled colour pictorial wrappers; 24 pages; a little creased. 3 items. Australian Post Office hardcover
1882138714Perth: Richard Pether Government Printer 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Perth Richard Pether Government Printer 1882 and London L. Reeve & Co. 1879. Large quarto 28 pages last blank with several tables plus 2 tinted lithographs and 2 colour maps one folding 490 × 370 mm; and viii 30 pages plus 21 plates including 17 full-page uncoloured lithographs of eucalypts after drawings by R. Austen. Pebble-grain dark green cloth with a large title-label printed in gilt on black paper on the front cover; minor loss to the label removing two letters of one word; cloth a little marked with light wear to the extremities; small section 25 mm of the leading edge of the rear cover a little abraded; endpaper hinges neatly reinforced; light tidemarks to two small sections of the endpapers with a little foxing confined mainly to the inner surfaces of the free endpapers and the adjacent pages; one tear to the folding map expertly sealed; minimal loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of the small map; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting or leasing of timbered lands'. <p>The introduction to the combined work compiled under the direction of Malcolm Fraser the WA Surveyor General has this to say: 'In compliance with your instructions and so far as the information and means at my command allowed I have collected in a general way such information about our timber Forests as was available to me and I have endeavoured to weave this together somewhat in a connected form. <p>By including the valuable Report on the Forest Resources of Western Australia by Baron Ferd. von Mueller it will be brought more prominently before the public than it has hitherto been. the drawings give a very fair idea of the character of the Jarrah and Karri forests'. Richard Pether, Government Printer hardcover
185480666Adelaide: printed and published at the 'Register' and 'Observer' Office 1854. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide printed and published at the 'Register' and 'Observer' Office 1854. Duodecimo xii 244 42 Directory 36 advertisements pages with the hand-coloured plate featuring nine 'Signals used at the West Terrace Flagstaff'. Flush-cut quarter cloth and printed card covers repeating the title page details on the front with advertisements on the rear; covers rubbed marked and lightly tidemarked with some simple arithmetic on the front cover and front free endpaper; extremities of the covers lightly worn; minimal expert restoration to the foot of the front joint; title written in ink on the spine; minor signs of age and use; essentially a very good copy with the contemporary ownership details of Joseph Grivell 1854 on the flyleaf and indistinctly on the front cover. His name does not appear in the directory suggesting he lived outside Adelaide see below. In the preface dated 10 January 1854 the compiler apologises for the lateness of the appearance of the almanack the delay being 'occasioned by the extreme difficulty in obtaining compositors' - presumably all off to the diggings. He also apologises for the 'total omission of the Country Directory' for various reasons so the 42-page directory covers only Adelaide and suburbs. <p>Most of the balance of the book is given over to the usual statistics regulations and lists of assorted office-bearers. However the farmers' and gardeners' calendar runs to 18 pages and there is a lengthy and important contribution by E.W. Andrews: 'Navigation of the Murray. Being extracts from a journal kept on board the "Lady Augusta" during Captain Cadell's exploratory voyage from the Goolwa to Ganawarra' 51 pages. Fellow-passengers James Allen and Arthur Kinloch published their independent accounts of this pioneering trip in book form in late 1853. In any event Andrews' account was reasonably hot off the press; his last journal entry was dated 15 October 1853 less than three months before this almanack delayed in publication appeared. Ferguson 9829f. printed and published at the 'Register' and 'Observer' Office paperback
1933040077Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1933. x 285pp glossary bw ills endpaper maps. Or brown 'art leather' front panel of jacket bound in as issued. Light toning to edges endpapers toned occasional light to moderate foxing. SIGNED and numbered #167by author on limitation page. One of the rarest Idriess items. Issued in an edition of only 200 copies shortly after the first print run. Seldom seen on the market. . Signed by Author. Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Bound in as issued. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1846139553Adelaide: 'Printed and published for Government by George Dehane' 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Printed and published for Government by George Dehane' 1846. Octavo ii 15 pages. Later green binder's cloth lettered in black along the spine; title leaf a little marked with a light abrasion near the gutter; a few minor spots and marks; a very good copy. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840 and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on Ngarrindjeri "Vocabulary of the Language spoken by the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe South Australia". He lived at Encounter Bay until 1848 . Meyer was part of an Adelaide-based community of missionaries from the Dresden Missionary School which placed great emphasis on learning the language because it believed in the importance of communicating with the Aboriginal people in their own language . He also had continuing contact with other missionaries who were also involved in writing grammars such as Clamor Schurmann who had published a grammar of Kaurna the language to the North of Ngarrindjeri just before Meyer's arrival. This background as well as the assertion in his introduction to the 1843 grammar that the whole publication had been twice reviewed with different natives so that the meaning assigned to the words may be relied upon as correct . has resulted in a text that is considered to be a reliable reflection of the language at the time and a good grammar for its time' Corinne Bannister: 'A Longitudinal Study of Ngarrindjeri' online. <p>In this short but closely printed pamphlet Meyer in 'giving an account of these people . endeavours to trace the life of one from his birth upwards'. His extended period of living with the Encounter Bay people in these early years of white settlement adds authenticity to his detailed account of subjects such as hunting sorcery and burial customs. <p>Ferguson 4348; see also Ferguson 13095 WOODS J.D. editor: The Native Tribes of South Australia Adelaide Wigg 1879 which reprints this item; Greenway 6696. 'Printed and published for Government, by George Dehane' hardcover
0034897Sydney and Melbourne: Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand 1973-2011. Softcover Paperback. Very Good Condition. 43.5cm x 29cm. 236 volumes. Newsprint. A significant unbroken run of Australasian Spartacist: Organ of Revolutionary Marxism for the Rebirth of the Fourth International from No. 1 1973 through to No. 212 1986. Nos. 1 through 5 were published as mimeographed copies and here an original mimeograph of No. 3 together with 2 additional copies in facsimile and with Nos. 1 2 4 and 5 supplied as facsimiles in triplicate and also including the B versions of Nos. 2 and 5 the rest 6-212 as original tabloid newsprint except No. 125 and 136 supplied in facsimile. Also included is an original duplicate of No 143 and the original supplements for 7 June 1975 2 July 1975 24 June 1977 1 February 1980 8 September 1989 2 copies 2 September 1991 2 June 1993 December 1999 and November 2001 and A Spartacist Pamphlet: For a Workers Republic of Australia Part of a Socialist Asia! Sydney: Spartacist ANZ Publishing Co. 1998. In total Australasian Spartacist ran until No 240 2020 and in 2024 has re-emerged as Red Battler: Newspaper of the Spartacist League of Australia with 1 issue published to date. Old horizontal folds now having been stored flat for many years. Minor general wear and tanning a few issues around the 150s/160s with minor to moderate tanning to exterior. Occasional stamp of the New York Spartacist League. An extremely well preserved set of fragile newsprint. Category: Politics & Government; Inventory No: 0034897. BZDB407 Politics & Government; Unbranded Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand Australasian Spartacist No. 1 - 212 1973-2011 Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand paperback
1858114206Adelaide: Government Printer 1858. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1858. Foolscap folio 8 pages last blank plus a large folding map 'Country explored by John McDouall Stuart. June to September 1858'; 600 × 510 mm with lakes and coastlines hand-coloured in outline; 'Richd Jno. Loveday Litho'. Drop-title; minimal residual glue to the spine and a few needle-holes to the inner margin previously bound now disbound; tiny sealed tear to the stub of the map; essentially a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858. This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end of Lake Torrens and then turned north and north-west until they reached the present site of Coober Pedy. They then followed a southerly course to Lake Gairdner passing it on the west side. After a strenuous march they arrived at Ceduna . By now the men had run out of provisions. They travelled along the coast to Streaky Bay and from there to the settled districts at Mount Arden in a state of semi-starvation' Feeken Feeken and Spate 1970. <p>Offered with South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 114 of 1858 'Explorations of Mr Stuart. Correspondence relative to Explorations . to the North of Port Augusta and West of Lake Torrens' foolscap folio 2 pages. The paper reprints three letters each from Stuart and Francis Dutton Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration written between 27 October and 2 November 1858. McLaren 15449 not recording the map and 15448. The first paper was reprinted by the Victorian Government see McLaren 15457; not only was the text reset the map was newly lithographed and issued without additional hand-colouring. The visual comparisons between the two versions are striking. 2 items. Government Printer unknown
127784First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong small folio 215 × 345 mm a bespoke shooters' register with each page ruled in blue with red columns headed 'Date' 'Place' 'No. of Guns' 'Names of Guns' 'Ducks' 'Swans' 'Plover' 'Stilts' 'Turkeys' 'Quail' 'Sand Piper' 'Hares' 'Rabbits' 'Snipe' blank 'Total' and 'Remarks'. The label of the manufacturer J.H. Sherring & Co. Adelaide is mounted on the front pastedown. On an early blank the following warning is written in ink: 'No shooter to have a drink after dinner until this book is entered up for the day. 9.11.97'. Full calf lettered in gilt on the front cover 'Game Book Buckland Park'; leather slightly marked and a little scuffed; in excellent condition. The gelatin silver portrait photograph 197 × 143 mm is on the original thick card mount 295 × 245 mm with the caption 'George V at Buckland Park' and the name of the photographer J. Gazard in white ink at the foot of the mount. Minor surface damage and creasing to the right-hand side of the mount; the photograph is in excellent condition. The Duke is pictured with Lord Richard Nevill private secretary to the Governor of South Australia. Buckland Park is a pastoral property near Port Gawler South Australia. George Frederick Ernest Albert The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V 1865-1936 was the second eldest son of King Edward VII who ascended the throne on Queen Victoria's death in January 1901. With the first Parliament of Australia set to open in early May the mourning King sent George now next in line to the throne to Australia as his representative. The Duke and his Duchess Mary 1867-1953 left England on 15 March aboard an Orient steamship specially chartered for the voyage. Two days after arriving in Melbourne on 9 May the royal couple drove through streets lined with cheering crowds to the Exhibition Building where the Duke declared the Parliament open before thousands of guests. 'The Duke and Duchess were kept busy with a program ranging from dinner and a University Commencement to the presentation of prizes to public schools. They also managed to visit briefly country Victoria. Nevertheless during their 10-day visit they still managed to fit in a day's shooting. The tour also included visits to other states New Zealand South Africa and Canada' Museums Victoria website. The official party made a short visit to South Australia 10-15 July not least to take up an invitation for another day's shooting . Alice Foster tells the story in the 'Salisbury and District Local History Newsletter' December 2019: 'Mr Leonard Browne the owner of Buckland Park and at the time in England invited the Royal party to a shooting excursion to his property. The Royal party consisted of HRH The Duke of Cornwall Prince Alexander of Teck Lord Wenlock Sir Charles Cust The Hon. Derek-Keppel Commodore Winsloe and Commander Faussett. On 3rd July 1901 a special meeting was held in the Salisbury Institute to make arrangements for welcoming their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall who were to make a short stay on their journey to Buckland Park on Friday 12th July. There was a large attendance and Mr J.P. Swann was elected chairman on the motion of Dr E. Brookes seconded by the Rev. S. Moncrieff. It was decided to form a committee who were empowered to make the necessary arrangements. As Salisbury was the only town in South Australia to be visited by the Royal party there was great enthusiasm from the residents with suggestions for decorating the railway station. An orange arch consisting of branches blossoms and fruit would be formed and extended from the station gate to the spot where his Royal Highness's carriage would stand. The scholars of Salisbury and neighbouring schools would constitute a guard of honour to the Duke. The Royal train left North Terrace station a few minutes after 9 am driven by Mr Thomas Youll and sped swiftly on its way reaching Salisbury at 9.25 am. A crowd of townsfolk had assembled and church choirs and state school children united in singing the national anthem. The Hon. J. Stirling MLC drove His Royal Highness from Salisbury to Buckland Park arriving at 11 am. A good morning's sport was obtained in the swamps near the sea and luncheon was prepared in two marquees. A facsimile of the pigeongram sent by His Royal Highness follows: "We only got about 325 this should read 35 ducks this morning hope to get some peacocks this afternoon. G." . The special train left Salisbury at 6.08 pm and arrived in Adelaide at 6.20 pm' with all on board tired but happy. The game book saw little use with only the first three pages filled in. The first entry is dated 29 January 1898 and there are 20 separate entries in that year. There are ten parties in 1901 one in 1902 two in 1907 and the final one in 1936. However 1901 is the stellar year with numerous old South Australian names manning the guns: these include Baker Belt Hawker Jacob Matheson Phillipson Rounsevell and Stow. The names of the Duke's party are listed in a scribe's hand; only 40 peafowl were added to the aforementioned ducks and the remarks column has nothing remarkable to say 'One hour at ducks in morning only'. A fortnight later Messrs Hawker Phillipson Belt Belt Stow and Matheson had better luck bagging 41 ducks 2 stilts 1 avocet 1 sandpiper and 2 rabbits and reporting it was 'Cold & wet. Birds fairly plentiful but wary of new hides. Meat pies good'. 2 items. hardcover
1891114267Adelaide: Government Printer 1891. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1891. Octavo ii 84 pages plus a very large folding colour geological chart 340 × 1060 mm and a folding map 340 × 620 mm. Original blue printed wrappers very slightly chipped or rubbed at the extremities; a few small light marks to the wrapper and geological map; one tear to each map and the rear wrapper expertly sealed; an excellent copy. Ferguson 17169; Wantrup 207 noting that James Dally had established a print run of only 600 copies. Government Printer paperback
1888324991Hobart: William Thomas Strutt Government Printer 1888. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover with morocco and gilt spine titles. Looks like an older rebind.in tan cloth. Preface contents bibliography extensive 408ppfolding map of Tasmania torn numerous illus. including 57 lithographs of fossils elevations including one in colour. Some wear to edge of this foldout. Paper shows some tanning <br/> <br/> William Thomas Strutt Government Printer hardcover
pp. [12], 915, (41) [Index] + Engraved frontis title page (drawn by Joseph Mulder and engraved by Willem de Broen) showing an enormous globe, the author and allegorical figures; Plus + Folding engraved map of the Old World (31 x 42 cm.) - "Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Tabula" by Christoph CELLARIUS, showing not only Europe, Africa and Asia, but also Australia; and four woodcut decorated initial letters. Regular title printed in red and black with the Wetstein's engraved whetstone publisher's device. Latin text in roman types, with extensive passages in italic and Greek, and occasional Hebrew and fraktur. 4to. 205 mm. Old damp stain on the first few leaves. The early full leather binding is quite worn. ** The front pastedown bears an early autograph ownership - apparently that of Noel Antoine Pluche (1688-1761), noted French naturalist and writer. Full Title: Nicolai Gurtleri Origines Mundi & in eo Regnorum, Rerumpubl. Populorum; horumque Duces, Migrationes, Dii, Religio, Mores, Instituta, Res gesta, civiles, sacra, bellica. Referuntur omnia ad loca & tempora sua, & ex ipsis fontibus, fereque propriis Historicorum verbis ad modum Historiae Universalis, cum maxime Ecclesiasticae reprasentantur. Cum Indicibus necessariis, iisque locupletissimis. First and only edition of a detailed history of the ancient world, covering and comparing the cultures, religions, governments, (civil and ecclesiastical) legal systems, etc. of societies throughout the Old World. After a brief discussion of the pre-diluvian world, it covers the ancient Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe country by country or region by region, citing both biblical and classical sources. The Cellarius map appears to be based on the 1664 map of the same title by Johannes Strubius (Shirley 434, in the same projection and showing the same regions, but not including Australia), but its more accurate and up-to-date cartographic data appears to have been taken from one of the world maps in two hemispheres that were common from at least 1658 (Visscher's, Shirley 406). As in those maps, the coast of Australia shows a small break at 30 degrees south latitude. Cellarius (1638-1707) had produced a series of historical maps for his Notitia Orbis Antiqui, first published at Leipzig in 1701, and the present map may be based on one from that book. A detailed ancient history, with an attractive and unusually accurate folding map of the Old World. SCARCE. NCC (5 copies); OCLC WorldCat (7 copies); STCN (1 copy). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W153
1884056002Brisbane: James C. Beal Government Printer. 1884. 210 pages. Publisher's green cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt to front. Foxing to endpapers/prelims some foxing to page edges. A very nice copy with the binding in particular in superb condition-appears unread. The Journals of the Explorations by Messrs Gregory in the Western Northern and Central portions of Australia had previously only been partially published in a fragmentary form. This was their first appearance in toto and is scarce as such. Includes explorations in Western Australia what is now Queensland Victoria and New South Wales. Of note is the inclusion of papers concerning the expedition to determine the fate of Leichhardt. Ferguson 10075 listed in error as having illustrations Wantrup 190a correcting Ferguson's error. An attractive clean complete and entirely original copy that would grace any collection. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. James C. Beal, Government Printer. Hardcover
187524335Adelaide: Government Printer 1875. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1875. A large map 690 x 550 mm folding down to foolscap folio size. One edge very slightly chipped; one tiny marginal tear expertly repaired; a fine copy detached from a bound volume with the preceding one-leaf parliamentary paper retained for the time being for protection. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 57 of 1875 no text accompanied this map. McLaren 12530-31-32 are confusing confused: the first entry refers to this item by correct Parliamentary Paper number but the title is incorrect; the third entry shows the correct title for a map accompanying the journal published the following year as SAPP19 of 1876. Feeken Feeken and Spate comment on the fact that although Lewis reported his arrival at Beltana on 12 July 1875 after completing his surveys 'Curiously the map of his surveys was signed by Surveyor-General Goyder already on 15 July'. We have not inspected the map issued in 1876 but the present copy contains a lithographed note that may explain the apparent anomaly: 'Copied from Plan forwarded by J.W. Lewis Esq. in the Office of The Surveyor General by Edwin S. Berry and H.C. Talbot . June 15th 1875'. Little is known about J.W. Lewis not to be confused with John Lewis of 'Fought and Won' fame but he accompanied Warburton across the Great Sandy Desert in 1872-73. 'Warburton admitted that Lewis had several times saved the party from perishing on that epic journey' Feeken. An abridged account of Lewis' Lake Eyre expedition will be found in Threadgill along with a reduced facsimile of a later version of the map which includes 'a detailed examination of the course of the Barcoo as far as Innamincka'. Government Printer unknown
An English translation by Dr. C. F. Fisher, from the Scientific Publications of the Novara Expedition, comprising important and fascinating observations and survey work by German-Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter at the onset of British settlement in the region. 8vo. 113 pages, plus table of contents, title page. Red cloth boards titled in gilt to front. Volume measures approximately 14 x 21 cm. Faint blemish to boards, otherwise very good condition, clean and bright. An early work presenting discoveries made in New Zealand, specifically in Auckland and Nelson, during the Austrian Imperial Novara Expedition. It includes two important lectures delivered by esteemed geologist and expedition leader Ferdinand von Hochstetter. A principal member of the expedition, Hochstetter was involved in its planning from the onset. His surveys were used in the making of the first geological map of New Zealand, created the bases for future geological research. The Novara Expedition (1857-1859) was the first large-scale scientific, around-the-world mission of the Austrian Imperial navy. In 1859, during the expedition, Hochstetter was funded by the government of New Zealand to make a rapid geological survey of the islands. Over 150 years later, his work is regarded as an authoritative primary source still today. the volume's content centers largely on Hochstetter's survey of Auckland, beginning with his lecture on the region's geology. Subjects further include its extinct volcanos, Lake Rotomahana and its hot springs [Te Tarata thermal springs], and three inlets on North Island - Whaingaroa [now known as Raglan], Aotea, and Kawhia. Approximately one quarter of the text is devoted to his geological work in the Province of Nelson.
1840PHO-1421Gayet et Lebrun, Paris, 1840. 4 tomes en 2 volumes in-8 (220x142) ,2ff-400pp ,2ff-417pp, 4ff-399pp ,3ff-451 pp , illustré de 56 (60) gravures colorisées et gommées, et de deux portraits en noir de Jacques et François Arago ,petit dictionnaire du dialecte des différents peuples rencontrés à la fin du quatrième tome . Relié demi cuir époque ,dos lisse avec auteur , titre et tomaison, frottements au plats , coins , coupes et coiffes usées ,début de fente aux charnières, peu de rousseurs , qlqs planches brunies, titre tome 1 et feuillets détachés , certains avec marge abîmée .
1841PHO-2141Paris, Gide, 1841-1846, 10 tomes en 9 volumes in-8 (22,5x14cm), demi basane, dos lisse orné avec auteur, titre et tomaison, ex-libris manuscrit au faux titre du tome 1 et cachet répété « ex-libris de Cayrol », frottements aux reliures, quelques coiffes abimées, rousseurs, papier bruni, complet des 9 cartes dépliantes in fine.
195211532John Murray 1952-57. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with title-vignettes several illustrations in the text and 2 maps one double-page on green stock; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco sides with gilt frame borders backs with raised bands second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt tops hand-made endpapers ribbon markers original backstrips and upper board images preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front custom-made slip-case an elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation. Bright set of Grimble's classic travel-autobiography set in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Central Pacific John Murray, hardcover
118411All portraits are albumen paper photographs approximately 140 × 103 mm mounted on cabinet cards 165 × 107 mm with the first 16 uniformly presented as oval vignettes 68 × 48 mm on plain black gilt-edged cards with the subject's name and period in office printed in gilt in the margin below the photograph; the last one ninth Earl of Kintore in office from 11 April 1889 to 10 April 1895 is on a white card of Stump & Co. Gresham Gallery Adelaide with only 'Earl Kintore' written in ink on the verso. It seems likely that the uniform series was produced during this period. Two photographs have minimal loss to one edge; a number are a little scuffed or marked; five have a marginal stain well clear of the portrait proper; a bottom corner of one card is cracked but firm; one card Lieutenant-Colonel F.G. Hamley had broken in two a few millimetres above the portrait proper and was held together with clear tape now removed by our conservator leaving only a light residual stain. In chronological order the governors and administrators A present are Hindmarsh Stephen A Gawler Grey Robe Young Finniss A MacDonnell Daly Hamley A Hanson A Musgrave Cairns A Jervois Robinson Boucaut A and Kintore. The only one not represented is Sir James Fergusson 16 February 1869 to 18 April 1873. 17 items. unknown
1898BIB329903London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1898. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Good condition. Decorated brown boards. Gilt top edge and Gilt title to spine. Four 4 folded maps - two to text block and two in pocket at rear. Maps are worn but complete and some have repairs done by previous owner. Hinges professionally repaired with strengthening tape. Black & white illustrations - all present. Fergusson 7959 refers. 454 pages. The Hon. David Wynford Carnegie 23 March 1871 - 27 November 1900 was an explorer and gold prospector in Western Australia. In 1896 he led an expedition from Coolgardie through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts to Halls Creek and then back again. . Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd hardcover
1997mon0002967061National Library of Australia 1997-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . National Library of Australia hardcover
Splendida carta intelata incisa su rame, confini acquarellati, cm. 135x156 composta da 35 riquadri. In grande formato rivela il fascino dell'India e dell'Asia Orientale a fianco della vasta regione australiana. Al margine inferiore, in due riquadri raffigurate "The Colony of New Zealan" e "Continuation of Australia on the same scale as the Map". Figlio di un grande cartografo John Cary (1791-1852), prosegu? il percorso del padre e fu attivo a Londra nella prima metà dell'800. Bella conservaz.
1839PHO-1704Paris, Pourrat frères, 1839. 2 volumes in-8 (220x150), plein veau raciné époque, dos lisse orné avec pièces de titre, auteur et tomaison, frises aux plats et aux coupes, , 2ff.-510pp.-1f. , 2ff.-547pp.-2ff. , illustré d’un frontispice et de 41 planches dont 19 en couleurs d’époque représentant des animaux, des poissons et des oiseaux, un cahier (tome 2) dérelié, 1 planche volante, petits frottements, 1 coin usé, quelques rousseurs .
1839674191839. together 7 items. together 7 items. Parliamentary Documents Relating to the Penal Colony of Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales 1839-1855 Australia. Transportation. Van Dieman's Land. Van Dieman's Land. Copies of Despatches from the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's Land Relative to Transportation and the Assignment of Convicts. London: Ordered By the House of Commons To be Printed 12 August 1839. 4 pp. With An Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land 30th July 1842. Running title. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1842. 833-850 pp. And An Act to Explain and Amend the Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land 6th August 1844. Running title. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1842. 577-580 pp. And South Australia. Convicts Van Dieman's Land. Copies of All the Correspondence Between Any Person or Persons Interested in South Australia and the Colonial Office Respecting the Effect Upon that Province of the Official Notice of the Comptroller General of Van Dieman's Land Of the 21st Day of June 1845 Relative to Convicts in that Colony Who were Holders of Conditional Pardons. London: Ordered By the House of Commons To be Printed 26 August 1846. 9. 1 pp. And Transportation. Van Dieman's Land. Copy of a Communication upon the Subject of Transportation Addressed to Earl Grey by the Lord Bishop of Tasmania. Viscount Mahon. London: Ordered By the House of Commons To be Printed 23 July 1847. 11 1 pp. And Van Dieman's Land. Copies of Despatches With Their Enclosures Relating to the Cases of Mr. Justice Montagu and Chief Justice Pedder With Other Documents. London: Ordered By the House of Commons To be Printed 29 July 1848. 112 2 pp. And An Act to Enable Her Majesty to Assent to a Bill As Amended Of the Legislature of New South Wales "To Confer a Constitution on New South Wales And to Grant a Civil List to Her Majesty 16th July 1855. Running title. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1855. 401-422 pp. 7 items in all ranging in size from 12" x 7-1/2" to 13" x 8." Disbound moderate toning occasional edgewear 4 items have small library marking of the Netherlands Foreign Office Van Dieman's Land. unknown
1841BOOKS0057972 Volumes: Volume I xiv412 pages with black and white frontispiece 5 color and 5 black and white plates 11 in text illustrations 2 maps in pocket. Volume II viii482 pages with color frontispiece 10 black and white plates 17 in text illustrations lacks four page prospectus for Gould's Birds of Australia. Royal Octavo " x 6" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. <i>Ferguson</i> 3228 First edition.<br /><br />Grey is best known for his expeditions in the north-west interior of the continent which resulted in the discover of the Glenelg River Stephen Range and Mount Lyell. As a young lieutenant he had made a proposal to the Colonial Office to mount an expedition to the north-west coast of Australia for the purposes of establishing a settlement there for starving Irish peasants. His plans were approved and he sailed for Australia in the Beagle in 1837. He wen on to mount two expedition in the north-west in 1838 and 1839 which yielded particularly important geographical discoveries: "His expeditions were the first to examine the previously ignored north-west interior of the continent and he discovered much useful territory. The inland explorations of Grey and Lushington his deputy complemented by the associated coastal explorations of Wickham and Stokes in the Beagle were a major advance in the discovery of the Australian continent" Wantrup p 206 <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased with original spines laid on scattered foxing corners bumped. Else a very good copy. T & W Boone hardcover
