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1997146612Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Corkwood Press 1997 facsimile edition/ 1906. Octavo xvi 384 pages with 6 illustrations plus 14 pages of plates 5 maps 4 in colour and 2 large folding colour maps in an endpocket. Full kangaroo leather with a pictorial paper onlay on the front cover; a fine copy. Number 25 of only 50 copies of the deluxe issue from a total print run of only 250 copies. Gregory's expedition was the first comprehensive scientific survey of the Lake Eyre Basin. Corkwood Press hardcover
1916026991Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. 160pp few b/w plates. The spine binding is slackening although no pages seem to be detached. Endpapers toned. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's name with ownership statement on the front paste-down another prev owners name torn from top of title page. Decorative cloth boards. The boards are heavily silverfished with the decoration on the front board almost the only undamaged part of the original binding. Most of the spine title is still legible. Somewhat ugly but an extremely scarce first edition. An account of the author's time at Gallipoli and in the trenches as a rank and file soldier. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
1976050389Adelaide: Rigby 1976. 246pp index bibliography notes bw ills endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Light foxing to top edge otherwise as new-the best copy I have seen. The thousands of the Barkindji people who once lived in the Darling River region of New South Wales have dwindled to a mere handful mostly part-Abroriginals. This volume is an appalling case history of the relationship between white man and black man in Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
1997108091Mitcham: The Author 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Mitcham The Author 1997. Small quarto xvi 210 pages with numerous illustrations; loosely inserted is an addendum/corrigendum leaf for pages 151 and 154. Pictorial card covers; essentially a fine copy. Two issues of the newsletter of the Antique and Historical Arms Association of SA numbers 325 and 356 from 2000 and 2003 respectively are also loosely inserted. The Author paperback
1899138187Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. Octavo 84 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little rubbed and marked; free endpapers offset; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The author's memoirs dating back to 1838 first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
20021709020Milsons Point: Knopf 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A neat bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original charcoal boards with gilt title and credits to spine map endpapers. 818 pages including 32 black & white photographic plates bibliography and index. A highly engaging biography of the passionate controversial interpreter of Aboriginal culture. A major work of scholarship. A very nice copy of this scarce edition. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover
1893142574London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Octavo two volumes xii 391 and viii 400 pages plus a large folding colour map 850 × 590 mm in Volume I and a large folding 'Diagram shewing Lands sold between the Years 1835 and June 1892' in Volume II. Slate-blue cloth the secondary binding very lightly marked; hinges cracked but firm; tiny sealed tear and short crease to the leading edge of one front free endpaper; short sealed tear to both the folding map and diagram adjacent to the stub; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent set. The useful chronology extends over 228 pages. 2 items. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover
1947115337Adelaide: The Author 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1947. Octavo 94 pages. Wrappers; a few trifling blemishes near the foot of the spine; essentially a fine copy. 'The comments and collection of incidents in this Book are intended as a brief defence on behalf of a section of the South Australian people who had to endure much odium during two Wartime periods' introductory note. Sixty years on it's still an uneasy read. Hermann Robert Homburg 1874-1964 was a South Australian-born lawyer and politician. 'In 1906-15 and 1927-30 he was a non-Labor member for Murray in the House of Assembly and from 1933 to 1941 was a member of the Legislative Council Central No. 2. He was attorney-general under Peake in 1909-10 and minister for industry as well in 1912-15 and attorney-general and minister for industry in 1927-30 in the R.L. Butler ministry' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. He was also 'interned on 25 November 1940 but released after appeal on 21 December under open conditional arrest one condition being that he moved interstate. In January 1941 he was taken to Melbourne and in February moved to Ballarat whereupon he retired from parliament and did not recontest his seat. On 18 December 1942 he was allowed to return to Adelaide reporting to the police three times a week for the next eighteen months. None of the evidence presented against Homburg was more than circumstantial unsubstantiated or inconsequential. He recorded his experiences in both wars' in this publication. [The Author] paperback
1897144087Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham 1897. Octavo viii 504 pages with 13 illustrations and numerous head- and tail-pieces plus a frontispiece portrait. Gilt-decorated tan cloth a little flecked and lightly sunned on the spine; endpapers and frontispiece lightly foxed with a few minute tears to the leading margin of the latter; a very good copy. Inscribed dated 17 December 1915 and signed by the author's nephew Geo. F. Hussey. Henry Hussey 1825-1903 'evangelist millenarian printer and historian' arrived in South Australia in 1839 and by 1850 was established as a printer. He later became a successful publisher and bookseller so his autobiography is not least an account of printing in colonial Adelaide. He was George Fife Angas's secretary from 1865 and compiled his biography which was edited by Edwin Hodder and published in 1891 under Hodder's name as was the 1893 two-volume 'History of South Australia'. <p>'Hussey's achievements in history and biography though somewhat filtered were more enduring than his adventism though his evangelical career was long and enthusiastic' and the work highlights 'the remarkable religious climate in South Australia in the nineteenth century'. If put off by the title read Gerald Fischer's engaging account of Hussey in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' first - it may change your mind. Bibliographers may be interested to learn that we have identified slight variations in copies. This copy with the posthumous inscription is overall 194 mm high with the publisher's name in sans serif type with all letters of uniform size. We have also handled a copy with a contemporary inscription by the author; it was 190 mm tall with the publisher's name in much smaller serif type using both large and small capitals on the first line. Both copies contained the paper binder's label of Hussey & Gillingham so presumably this is the sort of thing that can be done when the family firm prints binds and publishes one's autobiography. <p>Provenance: Captain Samuel Albert White 1870-1954 South Australian ornithologist and conservationist not identified as such but we purchased the book from the White estate 'Weetunga' in suburban Fulham many years ago. Hussey & Gillingham hardcover
1980139307Adelaide: Rigby 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Rigby 1980. Large quarto xii 888 pages with '1550 black and white illustrations'. Simulated half leather and parchment lettered in gilt; a fine copy with the fine original plain celluloid dustwrapper in the original cardboard mailing carton. The 'trade' edition limited to 990 copies this fact is not noted in the book. A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. Rigby hardcover
1927022941Berlin: Schliessen Verlag 1927. 239pp appendices 28 bw ills 2 folding maps. Or light brown cloth. Place/year written on front free endpaper bookplate on front pastedown-otherwise excellent. Extremely scarce first edition of this account of the Gallipoli camapign from the 'other side of the hill' by the Prussian and Turkish Major-General. Text in German/auf Deutsch. Printed in Gothic type. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Schliessen Verlag Hardcover
192589752Adelaide: W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1925. Small quarto 64 pages with a full-page frontispiece portrait and 9 in-text illustrations mostly portraits. Flush-cut plain quarter cloth and printed papered boards; front cover a little marked with a small light stain near the top edge; first and last pages heavily offset as ever there are no endpapers as issued; a very good copy internally fine. The title page is signed boldly by the author. These memoirs of 42 years in the South Australian police force first appeared as a series of articles published in 'The Register'. Le Lievre was stationed at Burra Quorn Port Augusta Port Pirie Port Germein Redhill Nairne and Henley Beach among other places. W.K. Thomas and Co. [Printers] hardcover
1996054495Brisbane: Rodney Liddell 1996. viii 276pp bibliography chronology maps bw ills.Or pictorial glossy boards. Minor foxing to page edges and prelims-otherwise excellent. Somewhat controversial look at Aboriginal history in particular on Cape York greatly enlarged from the 96 page edition of five years earlier. Looks at a supposed Aboriginal 'invasion' of Australia and extermination of the original Papuans less than 1000 years ago savagery among the native tribes of Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands last century and violent confrontations of native tribes and massacre of hundreds of Europeans including men women and children cast ashore from numerous shipwrecks. 'The history many authors were afraid to write for fear of being branded as racist by biased and prejudicial views'. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Rodney Liddell Hardcover
1890BIB327888Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company. 1890. Quarto Size approx 24x29cm. Very Good condition. Gilt to page edges. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White lithographs portraits scenes plates. Repaired tear to one blank plate cover. Volume 1 only. 384 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback. The Aldine Publishing Company hardcover
1889136199Adelaide: H.F. Leader Government Printer 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide H.F. Leader Government Printer 1889. Octavo 16 pages. Saddle-stapled title-wrappers; first page lightly marked; an excellent copy. The last page and a half are a 'Vocabulary of Aboriginals of the Upper Darling' also by Newland. This is a separately-paginated offprint of two articles read before the Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch on 29 September 1887 and first published in Volume 2 of the Society's Proceedings. Ferguson 13320 'Sewn' not stapled. We recently noticed for the first time Ferguson 13320a 'The Same. fo.; pp. 7. N.t.p. Sewn. Copies: P.L. Vic' an edition we had not seen nor even heard of before. Trove makes short work of a solution: the paper was first read before the Society on 29 September 1887; it was then printed in the 'Adelaide Observer' on 3 and 10 December 1887. 13320a comprises uncorrected proofs of these newspaper articles. H.F. Leader, Government Printer paperback
191780144Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for the Author 1917. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for the Author 1917. Octavo 112 pages. Original wrappers with the title page details repeated within a border on the front cover slightly rubbed creased and marked with minimal wear to the head of the spine; very light cockling to the front bottom corner throughout; overall an excellent copy. 'For private circulation'. Provenance: Frederick Fred Johns 1868-1932 journalist and biographer with his signature in pencil at the head of the front cover. In '1906 Johns compiled and published a biographical dictionary that was to become a national institution "Johns's Notable Australians". Three features characterized this and later editions: painstaking accuracy information obtained directly from the individuals concerned and apolitical factual entries with no comment or eulogy. It was republished in 1908 and in 1912-14 appeared as "Fred Johns's Annual". The series revived in 1922 as 'Who's Who in the Commonwealth of Australia' and in 1927 as "Who's Who in Australia"' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers [for the Author] paperback
19927666Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1992. Small quarto. xi 220 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Limited edition of 1200 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
19926900Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1992. Small quarto. xi 220 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. No.283 of the limited edition of 1200 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
BIB331055Darwin: History Unit University Planning Unit. 19841882. Octavo Size approx 13x20cm. Near Fine Condition. Leather bound with gilt to front board. Gilt titles slightly dulled. Limited edition of 50 copies only - this is copy 31. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages Advertisements and Index. With an appendix containing reports on the general resources of the Territory by Professor Tate F.G.S. . Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. History Unit University Planning Unit hardcover
1907124812Adelaide: Printed by Vardon and Sons for the State Children's Council 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Vardon and Sons for the State Children's Council 1907. Small octavo i 147 pages plus 6 plates. Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine lightly flecked and marked; endpapers offset; an excellent copy. 'This book is a labour of love. It was written by Miss Spence as a recognition of the services to the children of the State rendered by her friend Miss C.E. Clark. The two ladies have been friends for fifty years and were associated in the beginning of the Boarding Out of State Children in South Australia. Miss Spence wrote the book and the Council and other friends have subscribed to print and publish it . It is sent forth to assist any fellow-workers among children to whom its pages may bring encouragement stimulus or information' from the preface by James Gray Secretary of the State Children's Council. Printed by Vardon and Sons [for the State Children's Council] hardcover
190780054Adelaide: printed by Vardon and Sons for the State Children's Council 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide printed by Vardon and Sons for the State Children's Council 1907. Small octavo ii 148 pages plus 6 plates. Flush-cut decorated wrappers a little rubbed creased and sunned; two pinholes in the front cover and frontispiece; an excellent copy. 'This book is a labour of love. It was written by Miss Spence as a recognition of the services to the children of the State rendered by her friend Miss C.E. Clark. The two ladies have been friends for fifty years and were associated in the beginning of the Boarding Out of State Children in South Australia. Miss Spence wrote the book and the Council and other friends have subscribed to print and publish it . It is sent forth to assist any fellow-workers among children to whom its pages may bring encouragement stimulus or information.' This copy comes from the collection of W.J. Sowden with his ownership signature and shelving details in pencil inside. Sir William Sowden 1858-1943 was a journalist and the influential editor of the 'South Australian Register' from 1899 to 1922. The front cover is inscribed in ink by James Gray the secretary of the State Children's Council: 'The "Register" with Compliments from the Author. To be offered at this Dept . 1/3 paper 2/- cloth'. printed by Vardon and Sons [for the State Children's Council] paperback
1918138479Adelaide: Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum 1918 to 1921. Quarto pages 105-156 plus 10 colour plates featuring 322 objects in vi 419 pages with 11 charts and 67 figures plus 42 plates. The colour plates reproduce 'drawings by H.J. Hillier and Rosa C. Fiveash'. Contemporary half roan and cloth containing all four numbers of the first volume bound together without the original wrappers; leather rubbed at the extremities and slightly worn at the foot of the spine; endpapers a little discoloured; front inner hinge lightly cracked; a very good copy internally excellent. Other major articles in this volume include CILENTO R.W.: Observations on a Series of Artificially Distorted Skulls pages 325-346 plus 9 plates; RAINBOW W.J.: Arachnidae from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands pages 229-272 plus 4 plates; and nine on snakes lizards fishes and coleoptera. Provenance: James Howard Johnson 1875-1947 a great-grandson of George Fife Angas with his armorial bookplate. Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum paperback
2001146556North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 2001. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 2001 new edition reset in one volume/ 1849. Octavo xvi 504 pages plus a colour map and 16 plates 6 in colour. Full black calf lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; a fine copy. Number 5 of 50 copies of the deluxe edition. The six-page introduction by Nicolas Rothwell is new to this version which does not include the large maps originally published separately. Corkwood Press hardcover
1999146555North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 new edition reset/ 1833. Octavo xlvi 298 pages plus 17 pages of plates including a colour double-page map and 4 illustrations in full colour. Full black calf lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; a fine copy. Number 15 of only 30 copies of the deluxe issue all inscribed dated September 1999 and signed by Les Hiddins who provided the introduction new to this edition. Corkwood Press hardcover
127212Very Good. An albumen paper photograph 159 × 205 mm; tiny quarter-round indentations to the bottom corners a legacy of having been tipped in on a mount at some stage; slight fading around the edges; now unmounted and in excellent condition. The photograph shows the eastern side of a fairly quiet King William Street; the clockless tower of the Town Hall has a prominent position to the right of the image. 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'. unknown
