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107893The gelatin silver photographs image size 160 × 205 mm or the reverse in three instances are mounted on thick flush-cut cardboard; there are some chips and trifling imperfections around the edges and two have slight surface imperfections in background areas; overall they are in very good condition. The images cover a wide range of activities: two are at the quarry face; two show the light railway leading from the quarry; three are at or in the crushing plant; and two show the mine buildings surrounded by vineyards; workmen appear in all but two of them. 9 items. unknown
1870112789Adelaide: The Adelaide Photographic Company 1870. Adelaide The Adelaide Photographic Company circa 1870. An albumen paper photograph 94 × 61 mm mounted as issued on the printed card 104 × 63 mm of The Adelaide Photographic Company. A few tiny surface scrapes to the bottom millimetre or so of the photograph and slight surface loss to the plain section of the mount adjacent to it but overall the condition is excellent. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW a gift from a family member John Howard Johnson dated January 1870. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has this to say about Angas: 'although his prominence in the foundation of South Australia has been somewhat exaggerated . he deserves full credit for the capital and settlers that he introduced into the new colony'. He emigrated with his family in 1851 and spent the rest of his life in the colony. The Adelaide Photographic Company unknown
190727375Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1907. Foolscap folio 24 pages plus 4 folding colour maps 515 × 445 mm 390 × 330 mm 270 × 335 mm and 270 × 335 mm. Title-wrappers; a few needle-holes and tiny notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; in uncirculated condition. Northern Territory of South Australia Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1907; one of only 600 copies. A very detailed account of the expedition from the Petermann and Treuer Ranges to Tanami by camel from September 1905 to September 1906; F.R. George died of illness on the expedition. McLaren 8950 and 13940. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer paperback
1877126843Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1877 second edition/ 1871. Duodecimo 132 4 index 8 advertisements pages. Original yellow papered boards printed in black on all surfaces in red and black on the front cover with an advertisement for the publisher at the rear; covers a little worn and marked with slight loss to the rear top edge; endpapers marked especially the front one used as a watercolour palette by a child with a few numbers written later in ink; title page a little soiled; minor signs of age and handling but overall a very decent copy of a rare book meant to be used. This is only the fourth copy we have seen in 50 years and Trove records only five institutional holdings. We have noted two different bindings: papered boards as here in two instances and quarter contrasting red and green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover in another two instances. <p>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 five copies. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1924140487London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1924. Octavo xii 184 pages plus 90 plates on 41 pages and a folding map 325 × 275 mm. Gilt-decorated cloth lightly marked and rubbed with the spine slightly tanned; edges a little foxed and slightly marked; free endpapers tanned as often; an excellent copy. The 'country the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours east of Lake Eyre . For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines' haunts . Above all an incalculable debt of gratitude is due to Sir Baldwin Spencer who not once but several times read through and corrected the manuscript' author's preface. <p>Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton with his ownership signature February 1996 in ink on the front free endpaper. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
115301Very Good. Small octavo one page on the mourning stationery of his home on the Isle of Wight Farringford House Tennyson had lost one of his younger sons in action and would lose another before the end of the war. Folded twice for posting; a few tiny marks; in excellent condition. The letter is brief enough to quote in full: 'Dear Lady Glenconner I am deeply distressed not only for myself but also for all of you. Of course one cannot but be very sorry for both of them. I have spoken to L. fully and he takes a really serious view now I hope; and has promised not to see her during the war. L. ought to protect her against herself. I cannot write more for I feel the thing too acutely. It was kind in you to write to me. Ever yours Tennyson'. Lionel and Clarissa married in March 1918; she was still only 21 years old at the time. They had three children before their divorce in 1928. Each was to remarry and redivorce again. <p>Hallam Tennyson 1852-1928 eldest son of the poet laureate Alfred later 1st Baron 'had initially sought the governorship of South Australia but hesitated when it was offered to him in January 1899: Tennyson was influenced by speculation that after Federation the post might be subordinated to that of the governor-general or even abolished. He arrived in Adelaide in April and proved popular: the press and the people saw him as hardworking competent dignified and frugal. Appointed acting governor-general on 4 July 1902 after Lord Hopetoun's unexpected resignation Tennyson was confirmed in this position in January 1903 at his own request for one year only' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
1848056240Sydney: W. & F. Ford 1848. title continues: Statistics. Illustrated with Numerous maps and Drawings. xvi 438 2 pages 16 advertisements 4 plates 23 col maps 1 folding additional engraved advertising plate. Half leather titled in gilt to spine. Ferguson 4949. This copy with an additional engraved advertising plate for J. Goodwin Law & Fancy Book Binder Sydney and with a map of the Orient Steam Navigation Company routes with departures from London to Australia on verso loosely inserted at rear. Minor rubbing to spine some tanning and foxing. Bookplate of Peter Shand Kydd inside front cover. Signature of P.L. Simmonds and blindstamp of Simmonds & Co Agents Barge Yard London on title page. A very nice complete copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. W. & F. Ford Hardcover
20043978New Zealand: Blair Wakefield Exhibitions WBX 2004. First printing. Original Cloth. As New/As New. Westra Ans. Exhibition Curator: Luit Beiringer. Publication Editor: Lawrence McDonald. BWX Te Aro Both an exhibition and an accompanying publication 'Handboek.' provides an in-depth insight into the 45 year photographic journey by one of New Zealand's most persistent and gifted documenters comprising a gallery of Westra's most revealing and challenging documentary images. Presented here are many group and portrait photographs including Kiwi icons like James K. Baxter and Hone Tuwhare as well as many ordinary New Zealanders both Maori and pakeha significant historical events like the Maori Land March of 1976 and the protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour. Large format hardback. 32cms x 25.5cms. B/w photos on the dust jacket. Orange cloth with blindstamped lettering on the front board. Orange eps. 224pp including an Ans Westra chronology an extensive bibliography Ans Westra exhibitions and a Glossary. Profusely illustrated with colour / colour and b/w photos mainly full page. AS NEW in an AS NEW dust jacket - spine slightly faded. A heavy book weighed down with photoplates. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. <br/><br/> Blair Wakefield Exhibitions WBX hardcover
20051557New Zealand: Blair Wakefield Exhibitions WBX 2005. Reprint. Original Cloth. As New/new. Westra Ans. New book - I will lift it out of the original printer's box and carefully wrap it for you. Exhibition Curator: Luit Beiringer. Publication Editor: Lawrence McDonald. BWX Te Aro Wellington 2004. First printed in a very small run August 2004 and then reprinted May 2005 Both an exhibition and an accompanying publication 'Handboek.' provides an in-depth insight into the 45 year photographic journey by one of New Zealand's most persistent and gifted documenters comprising a gallery of Westra's most revealing and challenging documentary images. Presented here are many group and portrait photographs including Kiwi icons like James K. Baxter and Hone Tuwhare as well as many ordinary New Zealanders both Maori and pakeha significant historical events like the Maori Land March of 1976 and the protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour. Large format hardback. 32cms x 25.5cms. B/w photos on the dust jacket. Orange cloth with blindstamped lettering on the front board. Orange eps. 224pp including an Ans Westra chronology an extensive bibliography Ans Westra exhibitions and a Glossary. Profusely illustrated with colour / color and b/w photos mainly full page. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. A heavy book weighed down with photoplates 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. <br/><br/> Blair Wakefield Exhibitions WBX hardcover
1919011141Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs 1919 sheets folded once and stapled into olive paper wrappers with red titling colour plate on front cover some wear and tears to the ends of the spine corners worn some pages are worn to corners and with very minor watermaking to bottom corner small pencil price to top corner of first page unpaginated 32 pp there are two colour plates within the book one of which is repeated on the cover and one black and white plate as well as illustrations in line in the text fragile and loose as staples have pulled through but still in a good condition RARE EARLY illustrated Australian children's fairy tale poem Muir M. A bibliography of Australian children's books 2700. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harold Gaze. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Whitcombe & Tombs paperback
18431206T097London: Hamilton Adams and Co. 1843. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xviii 560 cxliv. Very Good Minus. 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22 cm. Recent half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands blind and gilt decoration red morocco title label. Fading to spin. Ex-library book with small stamp to top page edge title page and a few text pages. Text block strained at p270 but very securely bound. Complete with the 15 plates several illustrations within the text and three large fold-out maps. Foxing to plates clean text throughout. Maps have some tears creasing and light foxing. First map has a library stamp to upper margin. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22 cm. Hamilton, Adams and Co. hardcover
1998144086Kingscote: Gifford Chapman 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Kingscote Gifford Chapman October 1998. Large octavo v 772 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Silver-pictorial synthetic cloth; edges slightly marked; a few letters and numbers in blue ink on four early pages but mainly on the verso of the title page; light pencil erasures to the title page; nevertheless an excellent copy. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author 'Peter. Hope this book reminds you of the good memories of Kangaroo Island. All the very best. Gifford'; it is also fully signed and dated 9 June 2003 at the foot of the page. An extraordinary work long out of print and rarely seen on the open market these days. Gifford Chapman hardcover
185720665Smith Elder & Co. 1857. 8vo. First Edition with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps one folding; one full-page; original green cloth sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED primrose endpapers upper hinge cracked but binding entirely sound a remarkably well-preserved bright clean fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue dated July 1857 bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418. Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.
188327755Perth: Goverment Printer 1883. Robert Fairbairn the prominent 19th century Western Australian magistrate is the appointee to whom this "Minute" is aimed. He would soon be in charge of the Kimberley district and Wrenfordsley was at the time of this writing the Acting Governor of Western Australia. Unusually this is not recorded on either Trove or the State Library of Western Australia. <br /> <br /> The "minute" advises Mr. Fairbairn on his duties which will involve ".those of the Judge the Collector of Customs and the Registrar". and he advises "the Magistrate to take his own notes of the evidence and not to trust to his clerk." It is most interesting for the directions of caution in meting out punishment to the aboriginal community. "As the dispenser of justice to an uncivilised race it is all important that he should appear to act with judicial calmness and deliberation." Settlers were to be discouraged from taking the law into their own hands. And the statues prohibiting the supply of liquor to natives were to be strictly enforced so that "in the remote and . peaceful wilds of the Kimberley country the white man's curse will long remain unknown." An early reader has commented at the top "This is good" and has also highlighted various sections of interest. <br /> <br /> At the time of this writing Wrenfordsley was Acting Governor of Western Australia however he had a long career in law as solicitor Attorney General of Jamaica Chief Justice of Western Australia and Chief Justice of Fiji. <br /> <br /> Foolscap folio 3pp black text on cream paper. At the end of page printed H.T. Wrenfordsley Administrator. 13-3-83." A notation on verso in ink "Notes of Wrenfordsley on Justice duties." Top edge ruffled small puncture top right pin mark two period folds overall very good. Goverment Printer unknown
1866513171866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. The Reichsgerichtsbibliothek Imperial Court of Justice Library was at its peak Germany's largest and most important law library with 170000 works in its collection before the outbreak of the First World War. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown
1866513171866. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 vols. Victorian Acts in Force in 1866 Australia. Victoria. The Victorian Statutes. Published by Authority. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres 1866. 4 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Modern cloth hardcover gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library with small stamps to title pages. $650. Only edition. A companion volume of imperial statutes in force in Victoria was published in 1868. The first three volumes contain general acts. Volume IV contains acts that relate to particular persons or localities or have a "special or limited operation." Both volumes are indexed have chronological tables and are digested alphabetically. OCLC locates 6 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:88. unknown books
1898007763Wellington: Government Printer 1898 SPECIMEN copy being only 111pp of the 'A' section of the Maori lexicon and 21 disconnected samples of the English lexicon cover titled in gilt 'Maori-English Lexicon of the New Zealand Tongue by the Rev. W. Colenso F.R.S. & F.L.S. Specimen' blind panelled cloth lightly handling bumped original black endpapers rear one has minor edge tear three small pen 'ticks' to half-title printed slip tipped onto title 'With Author's Compliments' xii 1-111 iv -21pp The complete lexicon was never issued pp 17-21 at rear are Colenso's letters to the General Assembly of the New Zealand Government concerning his work on the lexicon Bagnall C1195 scarce. association copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Government Printer hardcover
1935140879Adelaide: Adelaide University Union 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Adelaide University Union 1935 to 1948 and Adelaide University Students' Representative Council 1949. Large octavo 1939 and 1949 and octavo the other six volumes ranging from 60 to 110 pages with illustrations plus plates in the pre-war years and 1949. Overlapping black card covers printed in red and yellow 1935-48 and flush-cut three-colour wrappers 1949; minimal signs of age and use with a few minor blemishes 1935: front cover creased foot of the front joint a little split with trifling loss to the ends of the spine and rear top corner; 1938: head of the front joint split; 1946: covers rubbed at the extremities; overall in excellent condition. 'Phoenix' supplanted 'The Adelaide University Magazine'; in turn it was supplanted by 'Angry Penguins' during the war years. The post-war issues generally do not compare with those from the 1930s which contain illustrations often linocuts or woodcuts by Dorrit Black John Dowie May Voke and Rex Wood and literary contributions by Max Harris Flexmore Hudson Rex Ingamells Geraldine Jay Charles Jury Donald Kerr and Paul Pfeiffer among others. The issue for 1949 is the post-war stand-out with contributions by Andrew Abbie Brian Elliott Max Harris Charles Jury Hal Porter Orde Poynton Thorburn Brailsford Robertson and Geoff Wilson assorted artwork including the front cover. 8 items. Adelaide University Union paperback
1972144806Adelaide: Second 43rd Battalion A.I.F. Club 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Second 43rd Battalion A.I.F. Club 1972. Large octavo xviii 283 pages with 11 maps and diagrams plus 84 plates and endpaper charts. Grey synthetic cloth lettered in red on the spine with the battalion's colour patch on the spine and front cover; top edge lightly foxed others slightly marked; an excellent copy internally fine with the excellent dustwrapper very slightly chipped and lightly rubbed at the extremities. We have previously catalogued a copy containing the original prospectus which stated that the book was to be published 'in a restricted edition'. We believe this to be not more than 600 copies; in any event the book is perennially scarce on the open market. <p>Trigellis-Smith 414. Second 43rd Battalion A.I.F. Club hardcover
1880108150Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1880s. Duodecimo 170 × 113 mm a cased leporello comprising 12 original albumen silver photographs each approximately 95 × 150 mm mounted on cards captioned and bordered in red joined together with cloth hinges. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in black and blind; cover lightly marked plain spine a little sunned; an excellent copy the contents are in fine condition. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet Adelaide' and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar item in blue cloth entitled 'Photographic Views of Adelaide South Australia. Series '; only two of the images are the same 'Rundle Street & The Arcade' and 'Coast Natives' Wurlie'. <p>Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>'Coast Natives' Wurlie' was clearly taken at the same time as the scene in the frontispiece to Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' published in 1879 and illustrated with original photographs by Samuel Sweet. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1880141137Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1880s. Duodecimo 170 × 113 mm a cased leporello comprising 12 original albumen silver photographs each approximately 95 × 150 mm mounted on cards captioned and bordered in red joined together with cloth hinges. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in black and blind; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; card mounts uniformly tanned; a near-fine example with the contents in fine condition. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Three of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet Adelaide' albeit an attempt has been made in two of them to mask these details and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar item in red cloth entitled 'Photographic Views of Adelaide South Australia. Series II'; only two of the images are the same 'Rundle Street and The Arcade' and 'Coast Natives' Wurlie'. <p>Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>'Coast Natives' Wurlie' was clearly taken at the same time as the scene in the frontispiece to Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' published in 1879 and illustrated with original photographs by Samuel Sweet. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
193397242Adelaide: South Australian Cricket Association 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Cricket Association 1933. Octavo 96 pages with numerous illustrations and advertisements plus cover advertisements. Attractive pictorial wrappers printed in green and gold; top corner of the outside rear cover lightly stained; centrefold scoring sheet completed neatly in ink with the final results for the last three Tests on the relevant page; short tear to one leaf expertly sealed; an excellent copy. A pre-match publication for the Test that saw bodyline tactics move from controversy to crisis. Padwick 4487. South Australian Cricket Association paperback
186578579Adelaide: Andrews Thomas and Clark 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Andrews Thomas and Clark 1865. Octavo ii frontispiece ii title leaf vi 118 vi book review pages with 2 mounted albumen paper photographs one is a frontispiece portrait of Stephenson 87 × 57 mm; the other is of a sketch presumably by Stephenson 103 × 57 mm. The book review reprinted from the 'South Australian Register' December 28 1865 has been folded down the middle before being bound in. Full morocco now expertly rebacked all edges gilt contemporary but probably not original - we have only seen blind-stamped cloth before; corners worn front and rear covers a little scuffed; overall a very good copy. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' Sydney 1988 where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text and index as Stevensen. The first essay the St Peter's Collegiate School Prize Essay of 1864 is entitled 'The Difficulties of Colonization in the Northern Territory' 17 pages; another two pages are devoted to the importance of the acquisition of the Northern Territory to South Australia. Almost half the book 58 pages is given over to verse by Stephenson who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. Inscribed on an early blank in what we know to be the hand of Charles Todd to 'Mr Edwd Stirling Junr / Xmas 1865'; with the pictorial bookplate 'Gang forward' of Edward Charles Stirling. Ferguson 16245; Holden 103. We have previously sold a copy inscribed by Todd to his daughter on 4 December 1865 in which the review was loosely inserted as an eight-page pamphlet. The Christmas inscription and the inclusion of the review not published until 28 December suggest that this morocco binding came after the event. Andrews, Thomas, and Clark hardcover
1838140755London: Harvey and Darton 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Harvey and Darton 1838 first edition. Duodecimo viii 136 pages. Original full dark green leather extensively decorated in blind on both sides recently rebacked in dark green calf retaining an early cloth backstrip and small leather title-label with slight loss; new marbled endpapers; leather worn at the extremities with the corners of the boards rounded off; all edges gilt; minor signs of age and use including some early pencilling most of it lightly erased; overall a very good copy. A presentation copy in a presentation binding inscribed on the flyleaf to 'The Revd. H.M. Villiers with the author's best regards'. <p>Robert Gouger 1802-1846 'Earnest persistent and practical . with a pleasant manner and a persuasive tongue but he was inclined to exaggerate his own republican views and the virtues of South Australia. With his youthful looks and boyish ardour he was often thought to be brash and reckless yet he was South Australia's most devoted promoter' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'The South Australian Act was passed in August 1834 and a month later Gouger presented his library of colonial books to the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association. After much delay and more hard work by Gouger the South Australian Colonization Commission was gazetted in May 1835. Its first appointment was Gouger as colonial secretary a recognition of faithful service that was affirmed even by the Colonial Office'. <p>He arrived on the 'Africaine' in November 1836. His young wife and new-born son both died five months later. He 'bought eight town acres 3.2 ha at Adelaide's first land sale and began to build a house but was soon entangled in the party factions that bedevilled the new settlement. He quarrelled with Osmond Gilles; after a public brawl they were both arrested and Gouger was suspended. By way of Hobart Town he left in November 1837 for England where he was reinstated by the Colonization Commission raised funds for a Congregational chapel in Adelaide and published "South Australia in 1837; in a series of letters with a postscript as to 1838". In October 1838 he married his cousin Sarah Whittem of Kenilworth. <p>Gouger returned to Adelaide in June 1839 and resumed office but his health began to fail. Soon after Governor Sir George Grey arrived he was appointed colonial treasurer. He bore the brunt of Grey's economic reorganization until August 1844 when he had to apply for leave because of mental affliction. He had also suffered in the depression but his claims for a pension and repayment of salary lost during his suspension were refused by the Colonial Office. Although Gouger had £1700 worth of securities the sale of his effects yielded barely enough for him to return to London with his family. He died at Kensington on 4 August 1846 survived by his widow two sons and a daughter'. Ferguson 2497. <p>Provenance: Henry Montagu Villiers 1813-1861 bishop of Durham fifth son of George Villiers 1759-1827 and younger brother of George William Frederick Villiers fourth earl of Clarendon . In 1836 he was ordained to the curacy of Deane Lancashire and on 25 Jan. 1837 was removed to the vicarage of Kenilworth Warwickshire. The lord chancellor Lord Lyndhurst gave him the wealthy rectory of St. George's Bloomsbury London in 1841 and it was as rector of St. George's that he made his reputation displaying great ability and untiring zeal in the management of his large parish. He was an extreme low churchman and especially appealed as a preacher to the poor. The dissenters in his vestry eagerly supported him and with men of every sect and stamp who belonged to the evangelical order he avowed the fullest sympathy. He introduced an admirable system of management into his parochial schools. From 26 March 1847 to 1856 he was a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. In June 1860 he was translated to the see of Durham. Great things were expected from his energy and tact in Durham where the spiritual provisions were very deficient; but he died at the Castle Bishop Auckland on 9 Aug. 1861' 'Dictionary of National Biography'. <p>The book later entered the collection of Sir Archibald Grenfell Price 1892-1977 geographer historian and educationist; his armorial bookplate has been remounted on the renewed pastedown. Harvey and Darton hardcover
