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1871144375Adelaide: The Author and 'Sold by All Booksellers' 1871. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide The Author and 'Sold by All Booksellers' 1871 second edition revised and enlarged/ 1843. Duodecimo 180 × 106 mm viii last blank 134 23 advertising section including the rear pastedown pages. Flush-cut plum-coloured cloth with the short title on the front cover in gilt within a gilt frame with a double-line border in blind around the margins; lettering a little indistinct; cloth discoloured and stained and a little worn at the extremities; front joint cracked with the hinge later reinforced with a narrow strip of paper; small light waterstains to the margins of the front endpaper; minor signs of age and use including an annotation in red ballpoint at the foot of the title page 'First published 1843'; notwithstanding this is a very presentable copy of a book designed to be used in the field. See Crittenden 12 for mention of this revised edition of only 'the fourth in the line of Australian gardening books'. McEwin notes in his preface to this edition the addition of a chapter on the 'Formation of the Flower Garden and Shrubbery with Monthly Calendar of operations' calendars are now also included 'for the Vineyard Fruit Garden and Kitchen Garden. There has also been added to the catalogues of fruits and vegetables a list of the most esteemed varieties of each . An Appendix has also been added on Fruit-drying'. [The Author] (and 'Sold by All Booksellers') hardcover
1929138109Adelaide: Hunkin Ellis & King Printers and Publishers Pirie Street 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hunkin Ellis & King Printers and Publishers Pirie Street first published 1929; suggested third issue with minor differences as detailed below. Octavo 16 pages with 2 illustrations from photographs on pages 6 and 12; the colophon at the foot of the last page states 'Hunkin Ellis and King Ltd. Printers Pirie Street Adelaide'. Pale green wrappers with a portrait of the author on the front cover plus text on the inside rear cover 'An Aboriginal Pleads for His Race' by David Unaipon; wrappers foxed and lightly used with the spine expertly stabilised on the inside; unrelated text written in ink on the blank outside rear cover and in the blank bottom quarter of the last page quoting Sir Stanton Hicks on soil health; overall a very good copy. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian see Michael Richards: 'People Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia 1788-1988' National Library of Australia 1988 - item 48 with 1929 as the date of publication. Both the Australian National Bibliography and Greenway are unclear confused and confusing on this point but a review copy with this date in Sir Will Sowden's hand has been sighted and that should settle it. Variant issues of both the first and later editions of this seminal work exist: obvious changes to this edition include the page count commencing with the first page and not the second; the removal of the lizard illustration from the fourth page and the addition of the text on the inside rear cover. Subtle changes indicate that the book was partially reset: these include the variant colophon on the last page the Pirie Street address no longer includes the number 113; a variant font for the captions; and variant spacings between the headings and text. <p>It is worth enumerating the other variants we have identified and our suggested order of issue. There are two different cover illustrations: the portrait of the author as with this copy and a portrait of a young Indigenous woman Clara and each appears on at least two variant colour wrappers. In the first issue the outside rear cover carries a small advertisement within a thin border: 'The Narrinyeri Their Customs and Traditions By David Unaipon Is in Course of Preparation'. This advertisement appears to have been removed from all subsequent issues most likely because the proposed publication did not appear under the advertised title and not even under Unaipon's name if it is the book we think it is. In early 1927 after an unfortunate breakdown in communications between David Unaipon and Angus and Robertson the publishers sold the copyright of Unaipon's manuscript 'Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines' to Dr William Ramsay Smith. In 1930 in a slightly edited form not least with Smith now claiming full authorship the manuscript was published in London as 'Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals'. The full account of this unhappy story was published in 'Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines' edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker Miegunyah Press 2001. <p>What we believe to be the second issue contains two rather than three illustrations to the text the lizard illustration from the fourth page is removed; the printer's street number 113 and the name of the city are lacking from the colophon; and there is no advertisement on the rear cover. The third issue as in the present copy is similar to the second but can be distinguished by corrected pagination the page count commences with the first page and not the second; another variant colophon with 'and' instead of an ampersand and Adelaide reintroduced; captions set in different type; and the addition of text to the inside rear cover 'An Aboriginal Pleads for His Race'. Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street paperback
19203La Trobe's letter from Clapham House Lewes Worcester; 26 December 1870. Harington's from Whitbourne Court Worcester; 29 May 1872. La Trobe took up the lease of Whitbourne Court in 1858; Clapham House was his final residence and place of death. The recipient of this letter was the future twelfth baronet. His father the eleventh baronet had married the daughter of the local vicar Robert Biscoe in 1860 and would purchase Whitbourne Court in 1877. La Trobe had made Whitbourne Court his home on return from Australia no dounbt leading to the acquaintance of these parties.ONE: Letter from La Trobe to Richard Harington 1861-1931 the future twelfth baronet written on account of his blindness by a secretary possibly his daughter Nelly who often performed this role. 3pp. 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition on lightly-aged paper. A touching letter beginning: 'My dear Dicky for tho' I am told you are now a schoolboy & mean to be a “man†you will remain my Dicky to the end of the world. I wish to send you a little remembrance but find that my bookseller cannot supply all I had selected as some books are out of print.' He says a little more on this present before continuing: 'Give my love & the good wishes of every member of my family to your father & mother & little brothers & assurances of our constant remembrance. I am too old to make or to wish to make new friends and I cling to the remembrance of the past. I wish I could tell your mother how constantly my thoughts & sympathies are with the dear family to which she belongs but I really hardly have heart to write to any one of them lately.' The letter signs off but not with La Trobe's signature 'Ever dear Dicky your affte old friend C. J. La Trobe'. TWO: Letter to the same recipient from his father Sir Richard Harington 1835-1911 eleventh baronet. 4pp. 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition on lightly-aged paper. The letter contains the following brief reference to La Trobe: 'Mr. La Trobe is staying at Broadwas: he dined with us on Monday night & asked after you.' Other topics include: the son's gift of 'a very nice artificial minnow' Bobby's whooping cough a present for Charly and presents of stamps from uncles Vincent and Henry. From the Harington family papers. La Trobe's letter from Clapham House, Lewes, Worcester; 26 December 1870. Harington's from Whitbourne Court, Worcester; 29 May 1 unknown
8vo [20.5 x 13 cm]; 2 volumes, xxiv, 288, 32 [publisher's ads dated April 1847]; xii, 278, [ii, ads] pp. original cloth with blind-stamped design on covers and spines, gilt lettering on spine, rear joint of volume I with crack but holding firm, light wear at spine ends and corners, covers a little faded, but a clean very good set. A picture of this book is a Sabin 17143. Howes C802. Cowan 145. Hill I, 70: 'The early materials on California and Melanesia are of importance'. A detailed and interesting account, with much on Pacific island life, the native peoples, the first chapter describes a whale chase. This copy has both the half title pages and the ads in each volume, often lacking.
8vo [22.5 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 461 pp, 4 maps including foldout frontis map, music notation in text, tables. later red cloth, which is a little faded and stained, interior is clean and near fine with only light offsetting from maps, and a few corners bent, overall quite good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. There is considerable detail on Singapore including the economy with tables of imports and exports and number of ships over three years, as well as details on government, politics, people. The author, noted for his linguistic abilities, describes the Dayak (Dyak) people, their customs, head-hunting, and the geography of the area. There are appendices on the commercial resources of the Indian Archipelago and observations on the unexplored parts of north and north-western Australia. Hill 411. National Maritime Museum 458 (their copy has only 3 maps).
small 8vo [17.5 x 12 cm]; xiii, 321 pp, map frontispiece, text illus. contemporary half calf, raised bands, decorated in gilt and blind, red title labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, rubbed at edges, a very good copy, clean throughout. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. BAL 13655, with the 'P' at p. 209, as signature mark, showing top half only, no priority of states. The London edition preceeded the US edition by several weeks. Hill 196: "This work deals with Melville and his part in the mutiny aboard the Julia, called in this book, Lucy Ann. Melville then spent about three months wandering in various parts of Tahiti and Imeeo (Moorea) as a beachcomber and was able to make extensive observations on the social conditions of the natives. This work is also a true story." The author has been described as "the most important of all the great American writers" and later wrote Moby Dick. This is the author's second book.
in-8, pp. 371, (5), + 1, bella elegante leg. mod. m. pelle con doppio tass. con tit. oro al d. con nervi, piatti in carta dec., angoli. Bross. orig. conservata all’interno. Con una carta rip. dell’Australia. Interess. opera inerente storia, usi, costumi, lingua, cucina, caratteristiche razziali degli australiani, etc.. Prima traduz. italiana. Bell’esempl. in barbe.
1705PHO-2414A Paris, chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1705, in-12 (17x9,5cm), 8ff.-341pp.-1f., reliure recouverte de papier, dos à nerfs muet, coiffes arasées, mouillures.
1957MJ290351957-2004 Volume 1 bound in three cloth volumes, the remainder in issues. Started as: Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia and continued as Molluscan Research. Ex library Dr. A.C. van Bruggen (with his signature on first volume).Rare set of this important malacological journal.
1793PHO-2402Paris, Maradan, 1793. 2 volumes in-8 (20 x 12,5 cm), 2ff.-280pp. & 2ff.-272pp., veau porphyre, dos lisse orné avec titre et tomaison, triples filets aux plats, tranches jaspées. Petits frottements, 2 coins usés, 1 cahier bruni, déchirure au pli de la grande carte.
1839PHO-2300Paris, Pourrat frères, 1839. 2 volumes in-8 (24x16cm), 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, demi basane époque, dos lisse orné avec titre et tomaison, étiquette de bibliothèque, 2 feuillets détachés, quelques rousseurs, dos insolé, petits frottements.
18252452Paris, Anselin et Pochard, 1825. In-8 de VIII-63 pp., 1 tableau replié, demi-chagrin bleu, couverture imprimée et dos conservés (reliure moderne).
Litografia a colori in cornice originale in noce (cm 42x57). Diploma di ammissione alla società giovanile della Manchester Unity di Mr. Clark. Tra simboli massonici vengono raffigurati dei giovinetti in atto di ricevere l'attestato. Curioso notare che questa associazione si trasferì in Australia nel 1840 ed è attiva ancora oggi con numerose opere benefiche e forme associative nel paese. Ottimo esemplare di raro documento massonico australiano.. .
1850LBW-855London, George Cox, 1853. 405 x 684 mm.
GF242889 pages in8 - quelques ratures et corrections - Quelques petits accrocs marginaux sans manque de texte -
1795PHO-318Paris, Pougin, an III [1795]. In-8, basane racinée, roulettes et filets dorés en encadrement, dos lisse orné, tranches jonquille (Reliure de l'époque)coins et coupes frottés . Xii-256 pp , in-8 (230x130 mm)
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Devil-Stones - A strange story of West African "fetish" and its uncanny powers among the superstition-ridden natives; Too Many Bears - Experiences of a camp cook in Yosemite National Park, where bears are as plentiful as berries, and astonishingly bold - with great photos; Through the Guadalupe Wilderness - Photo-illustrated account by Carl B. Livingston of his exploratory trip into the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, perhaps the most inaccessible and least-known region in the United States; The Last Voyage of the "Joan" - W.E. Sinclair and a partner attempt to cross the Atlantic from England to Newfoundland - until disaster strikes in mid-ocean; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part I - After two years of preparation living in a Himalayan cave, Alexandra David-Neel sets out to become the first white woman to enter Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet - with photos; The Mare's Nest - an amusing photo-illustrated story from an Australian back-blocks medical practice; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part II - Two city-bred sisters continue their homesteading adventures in South Dakota; Eskimo Magic - E.W. Hawkes, who has spent considerable time among the Eskimos of the Bering Strait, recounts several uncanny instances of "native magic"; His Highness The White Elephant - Photo-illustrated article on this animal which is held in the utmost veneration in Siam; In Quest of Gold - Part III - Final part of the adventure faced by two young Americans seeking buried gold who were forced to turn back by the Savage Yaqui Indians; The Robbery At the Mine - Sundry exciting happenings at a gold mine in West Australia where the author worked; His Last Break - An unsuccessful prison escape attempt in South Africa; The Worm That Turned - A tale from Calcutta where a European official did not recognize one of his staff. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
18602301040018xbvkTe Amsterdam, bij de Wed. G. Hulst van Keulen, 1860. 3 blank sheets; VIII (halftitle-page 'Journaal van Tasman's Reize in den Jare 1642', titlepage, 'Voorrede', 'Inhoud'), 189 pages; 4 blank sheets. - Publisher's gilt-titled (frontpanel: 'Journaal van Tasman's Reis 1642') and gilt-illustrated (rearpanel: large allegory with flags, cannons, casks and Maori-armour) ornamental stamped blue cloth-binding; 8vo.(ca. 22 x 16 cm).
1921129501Adelaide: Lonnen & Cope 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Lonnen & Cope 1921. Octavo 228 pages with 12 illustrations and 16 maps plus 13 pages of plates and the printed front endpaper. Expertly rebound retaining the colour-pictorial cloth now cut into three panels and mounted on the new matching plain cloth with replacement endpapers closely matched in colour with the front one a photocopy of the original printed version; slight blemishes to the retained original cloth; acidic text paper tanned as ever; top corner tip of most leaves rounded off; a tear across one leaf expertly sealed; small and inoffensive stains and tears to some leading margins; minor signs of age and use; overall a very good copy of a book notoriously difficult to find in halfway decent condition because of the poor quality of the materials used in its production. Provenance: 2280 Corporal Victor Clarence Sidney McGrath a member of the battalion with his ownership details written in ballpoint pen on the title page. <p>Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. Lonnen & Cope hardcover
1937144807Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth a little stained and marked; a very good copy internally fine. The book includes a five-page Honor Roll and a preface by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter DSO 1885-1963 the Battalion's Commanding Officer from August 1916 to the end of the war. The editor was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. He states in the introductory paragraph to his foreword that he is 'keenly sensible of the fact that probably a book three times larger could have been written had it been possible to get in touch with the men of the Battalion who were in a position to know well the activities of their various Companies. <p>The story such as it is is correct as to salient facts and this is entirely owing to the fact that Colonel Carter soon after his return to Australia wrote a complete Diary of the Battalion's movements and operations from the early days in Egypt to the Armistice'. Herbert Gordon Carter was a very interesting man: consult the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1866144419Adelaide: C. Platts E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide C. Platts E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1866. Duodecimo ii viii including the index to the Almanack 128 iv index to the Directory 122 vi index to the South Australian Almanac sic and Directory Advertiser 70 70a-71a 71-98 98a-99a 99-144 pages plus advertising on the pastedowns. Some of the advertisements contain woodcut illustrations; the two 'a' leaves and an adjacent one in each case are printed on orange paper. Flush-cut blue cloth with the full title page details repeated on the front cover and advertising on the rear one; cloth a little mottled and marked with minimal fraying at the edges; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. The very large oval blindstamp of 'Howell Bookseller Rundle Street Adelaide' appears at the head of the first leaf of the first index. C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell, and W.C. Rigby hardcover
1911144775Angaston: 'Barossa News' Limited printed by Hussey and Gillingham Adelaide 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Angaston 'Barossa News' Limited printed by Hussey and Gillingham Adelaide 1911. Quarto 120 pages extensively illustrated including many pictorial advertisements. Three-colour pictorial title-wrappers with additional advertising on the other three surfaces; expert conservation to the wrappers small chips infilled and discoloured tape removed albeit leaving behind some stains; later ownership name on the front cover; minimal signs of age and use elsewhere; overall in very good condition. A very rare item of local history with content that is far more substantial than its title suggests: for example there are thirteen pages of well-illustrated text devoted to the fruit and vine industries. 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide) paperback
1881136694Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1881. Quarto 8 pages last blank and 52 separately-paginated Acts in all approximately 500 pages. Contemporary full morocco; spine tooled in gilt; front cover extensively stamped in gilt with the design repeated in blind on the rear cover; all edges gilt and lightly marked; slight wear to the extremities now expertly conserved; marbled endpapers and adjacent leaves a little creased and marked; paper a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; in excellent condition. The elaborate binding was likely executed by Emanuel Spiller the South Australian Government Printer at the time. Spiller's name appears as exhibitor and jury-member of competitions and exhibitions of binding and printing throughout the 1880s. The 'Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 March 1880 carries a lengthy article by John Plummer on colonial bookbindings displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition noting that '. in the South Australian Court Mr. E. Spiller the Government printer of Adelaide occupies the foremost rank'. <p>Although offered primarily as a fine example of colonial binding the Acts contained in this volume numbers 196 to 238 as well as nine Private Acts are not without interest. There are numerous railways and tramways acts as well as acts on subjects as diverse as Chinese immigration the Adelaide Synagogue mining inebriates and the substantial 'No. 237. Marine Board and Navigation Act' 143 pages. E. Spiller, Government Printer hardcover
