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1908138935Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1908. Octavo iv 150 pages plus 4 plates. Olive-green papered boards decorated and lettered in black on the front cover and lettered on the spine; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities; joints just starting to split at the foot of both of them and the head of the rear one; spine a little darkened and lightly creased and slightly bumped at the foot; acidic text paper tanned as ever; an excellent copy of a notoriously poor production. Provenance: Dr Herbert Basedow 1881-1933 explorer anthropologist geologist and medical practitioner with a signed inscription to him from the author on the front free endpaper. The book later entered two other notable collections those of F.G. Coles and Sir Thomas Ramsay with the former's tipped-in pictorial bookplate and the latter's blind-stamp also on the front free endpaper. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers hardcover
1916040133Sydney: Randwick Asylum Board of Directors 1916. xiii 144pp documents in facsimile at rear; bw ills tables. Or gray bevelled cloth. Prev owner name on front free endpaper a few light marks to cloth light toning to endpapers bookseller stamp on front pastedown spine title faded. Scarce history of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children which provided lodging for abandoned and destitute children of both sexes under 8 years of age. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Randwick Asylum, Board of Directors Hardcover
195017707Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth a little scuffed and sunned; small erasure to an early page; a very good copy. Number 123 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 15 December 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
195095964Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth slightly sunned and flecked; an excellent copy. Number 84 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 20 November 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
1913007827London: Constable & Co 1913. xi 271pp index 8 bw ills folding map at rear. Or maroon cloth. Narrow strip of insect damage front cover top right plus few other small spots; moderate foxing throughout prev owners bookplate inside front cover WP Hurst. Very scarce title dealing with the early days of North Queensland especially in the 1860s. First 2 chapters deal with experiences in India including the seige of Lucknow. The balance of the book deals chiefly with various aspects of pioneering life in North Queensland including the aborigines gold and the goldfields at Palmer River sheep and cattle 'ranching' various natural disasters including bushfires and tornadoes and general remarks on the life laws climate etc of Queensland. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Constable & Co Hardcover
1876138384London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. Octavo xvi 432 pages plus 66 engraved plates a folding table a folding full-colour map of Australia 320 × 400 mm and a large folding map of South Australia 795 × 545 mm with minimal colour in an endpocket. Cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities with the rear top corner a little bumped; edges slightly marked or darkened; front free endpaper slightly cracked near the head of the hinge with a small piece snipped from the top corner; tiny splits at a few intersecting folds in the map; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An undervalued work: the plates wood engravings from photographs are a major pictorial record and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northern Territory I have incorporated some useful papers written by residents there and prepared for publication by Mr J.G. Knight'. <p>The chapter on Central Australia is even more important: 'Since the foregoing was in type the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. The entire chapter is devoted to the article which refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. Ferguson 10233 not recording the maps. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover
1893139228London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. London Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Octavo two volumes xii 391; and viii 400 pages plus a large folding map 850 × 590 mm in the endpocket of Volume I and a large folding diagram in the endpocket of Volume II. Original maroon cloth the primary binding very lightly flecked; top and leading edges uncut; a near-fine set. Ferguson 10474. The useful chronology extends over 228 pages. <p>Provenance: Tom Austen Brown 1925-2009 solicitor collector and philanthropist with his pencilled ownership initials on both half-titles. 2 items. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover
185580715London: Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Blackburn and Burt and Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1855. Duodecimo vi 174 pages. Original blind-stamped textured brown cloth; minimal wear to the joints; endpaper hinges lightly reinforced; rear free endpaper a sympathetic replacement; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Henry Hussey 1825-1903 'evangelist millenarian printer and historian' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' by 1850 was established as a printer. He later became a successful publisher and bookseller. He was secretary to George Fife Angas 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'. The 22 of 36 pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The title adequately describes the other stages of his journey. American conditions in several states are noticed'. Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg hardcover
1940049258Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1940. 199pp col frontis 21 bw ills in text. Or pictorial papered boards with blue cloth spine. Pages toned/browned as usual with this edition small gift note dated 1942 on front blank Boards rubbed/worn at edges. Blue cloth spine replaced and it a bit wider than the original. Also the endpapers appear to have been replaced. Only the first printing was in this larger format. There is debate as to whether this edition had a dust jacket but to date none has been sighted. The story of the Jardine expedition from Rockhampton to reach the settlement of Somerset on Cape York Peninsular. In ten months they travelled 1800 miles the last half in appalling unexplored country the only inhabitants of which were hostile Aboriginals. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small 4to. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1936101409Adelaide: Webb and Son 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Webb and Son 1936. Octavo viii 320 pages. Red papered boards lettered in black all edges speckled red; boards slightly bowed; first and last pages offset; essentially a fine copy. A little-known fact: black lettering on the cover denotes the second issue; the first issue is blocked in gilt. Dornbusch 332; Fielding and O'Neill page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211. Webb and Son hardcover
1874121082Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered limp boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers lightly marked; head of the spine slightly chipped; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. That being said copies of this original printing are now rare nearly a century and a half later. <p>Marshall MacDermott 1791-1877 arrived in Adelaide in 1846 and after nearly three worthy and earnest decades here penned these memoirs decidedly brief when it comes to Australian content. Up until page 35 he reminiscences about his 22 years in the British army. He chose Western Australia as his future residence and arrived there in June 1830. Over the last eighteen pages he recounts his six years on the land and ten years in banking in WA then his eleven years 'as a bank manager three years as a merchant; four years in Parliament . and lastly over ten years administering the laws in Local Courts' in SA. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
1867056155London: Edward Stanford 1867. 87pp 3 col maps 1 folding. Green cloth titled in gilt with decoration bird in flight in gilt and bordered in blind. 3mm scuff to front cover label of prev owner inside front cover. INSCRIBED on title page " Mr With the Author's kindest tregards". Memoir of an English visitor to Queensland in the 1860s with chapters on the squatting system Aborigines Australian horses Ipswich and Brisbane. Frontis map of world showing route to Australia a map of Ceylon and a folding map illustrating March's route from Sydney to Brisbane. Attractive copy of a scarce title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Edward Stanford Hardcover
1966024480Adelaide SA Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia 1966. Set of three with cloth boards with title panel to spines. Light general wear and small marks to boards. Previous owners details to front endpaper of both volumes. Foxing to early pages. Volume I = 269 pages with b/w illustrations - Volume II = 613 pages with b/w illustrations. Charts = Fold over cloth box containing 18 loose fold out charts and 10 loose botanical drawings. Remainder of title = in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 37. Oversize heavy set please ask for postage quote. . FACSIMILE EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Libraries Board of South Australia Hardcover
1896114062London: John C. Nimmo 1896. Paperback. Very Good. London John C. Nimmo 1896 fifth edition. Large octavo four volumes xxxii 253; vi 180; ii iv 223; and vi 5-321 pages with 3 illustrations plus 132 hand-coloured plates. Bound from the original parts in contemporary binder's cloth with the wrappers from one of the parts bound in at the rear of each volume; cloth slightly marked and rubbed with minor wear to the head of the rear joint of the last volume; endpapers offset; an excellent set. Provenance: Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper 1841-1923 botanist schoolteacher and entomologist with the 1906 receipt for the binding and the address label to him at 'Room No. 3 Public Library North Terrace' from the Adelaide bookseller and bookbinder W.C. Rigby mounted on the first flyleaf. 'In March 1883 Tepper was appointed natural history collector at the South Australian Museum; in 1888 he was promoted to entomologist numismatist and librarian there' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. John C. Nimmo paperback
1978037520Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press 1978. 290pp index frontis portrait. Or cloth with black leather spine and corners half-leather in slipcase. Top edge gilt. Near new. Deluxe issue in half black Morrocco by Dove Bindery. #5 of only 7 copies. The experiences of a Victorian pioneer from 1842 originally published in 20 parts during the 1880s. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. 8vo. Queensberry Hill Press Hardcover
1887124223Adelaide: Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. Octavo 39 pages. Original printed wrappers slightly tanned at the extremities; front cover slightly marked; head and foot of the spine very slightly chipped; a near-fine copy. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white relations; there 'is too much namby-pambyism about the way we deal with the whole subject'. Ferguson 13317 noting only red cloth boards. Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office paperback
188780174Adelaide: Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Burden & Bonython 'Advertiser' Office 1887. Octavo 39 pages. Original printed wrappers slightly marked and very lightly chipped; an excellent copy with the early ink ownership signature of Sidney Plint at the head of the front cover. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white relations; there 'is too much namby-pambyism about the way we deal with the whole subject'. Ferguson 13317 noting only red cloth boards. Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office paperback
2015145664Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 2015. Oblong quarto 168 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs by Trent Parke several in colour. Pictorial papered boards; tiny red mark on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy. A substantial catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Art Gallery of South Australia March to May 2015. It was compiled by the photographer in association with curators Maria Zagala and Julie Robinson. The text accompanying the images is extracted 'from the fourteen artist's books that comprise "The Black Rose Diaries"'. <p>'"The Black Rose" represents the culmination of seven years of work by internationally renowned Adelaide photographer Trent Parke. The catalyst for the exhibition was a tragic incident in the artist's past which has led Parke to explore universal ideas from a deeply personal perspective - birth death love loss memory and the passing of time. Between 2007 and 2014 in an attempt to reclaim memories of his childhood Parke took thousands of photographs of his surroundings and of everyday objects and wrote down his dreams and observations in diaries' from the exhibition website. Art Gallery of South Australia hardcover
1923138537Woodville: The Editor 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodville The Editor 1923 and 1935. Octavo two volumes viii 176 and iii-vi 47 pages. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers a trifle rubbed at the extremities; edges very slightly marked; marbled endpapers of the first volume a little mottled on the plain inside surface as usual; an excellent set. The articles are by John Stephens William Wyatt William Williams C.G. Teichelmann and C.W. Schuermann and M. Moorhouse. Both volumes were hand-set and printed by Thomas Parkhouse who died before the completion of the second volume - his daughter Mary finished printing the page he was working on. Norman Tindale in his preface to the second volume states that 100 copies of the first volume were produced but we have sold a copy containing a 1934 letter to the amateur anthropologist Harold Sheard from Parkhouse wherein he claims to have printed 80 copies. Either way sets are scarce. 2 items. The Editor hardcover
1985052258Melbourne: The James Flood-Harold Paynting Charity Trust. 1985. VERY HEAVY. 532pp subscriber list chronology numerous monochrome & col ills inc several panoramas. Full maroon/burgundy leather titled in gilt in slipcase no jacket as issued. Some minor wear to slipcase very light foxing to page edges.Total edition limited to 6000 copies which includes those with cloth bindings and the blue leather deluxe binding- this copy being in the rare presentation binding and unnumbered as is the copy held by the NLA. A white certificate printed in gilt stating this to be a presentation volume is laid inside the front cover and is SIGNED by both editors and several other contributors. A lovely volume. First Edition Signed Presentation Copy. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. 4to. The James Flood-Harold Paynting Charity Trust. Hardcover
1857131000Hamburg: Otto Meissner 1857. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hamburg Otto Meissner 1857 second edition/ 1854 first German edition/ 1853 second edition/ 1852. Octavo vi 410 last blank 6 index pages. Original half cloth and marbled papered boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt all edges marbled; covers slightly worn at the extremities; cloth on the spine a little marked with an old indistinct shelf number at the foot; inner endpaper hinge broken but the cover is still firmly attached by the cords; title leaf foxed with scattered foxing elsewhere; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy. A German-language edition of 'The Three Colonies of Australia. New South Wales Victoria South Australia. Their Pastures Copper Mines & Gold Fields'. Provenance: the Nuriootpa Institute library with its contemporary 'Extracts from Rules' paper label on the front pastedown with the reference number G363 and an inkstamp on both flyleaves with the reference number 172 in ink inside the front one. The Barossa Valley where Nuriootpa is situated attracted large numbers of German immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s fleeing religious persecution in their homeland. Otto Meissner hardcover
186259032London: Robert K. Burt 1862. First Edition. Paperback. London Robert K. Burt 1862. Octavo iv 96 4 catalogue pages plus a large folding map 740 × 635 mm. Early half morocco and marbled papered boards with the stamp of H. Sotheran & Co. on the front pastedown retaining the original wrappers; leather a little rubbed at the extremities with the front joint slightly cracked towards the head; moderate foxing to the endpapers wrappers and adjacent leaves with light foxing elsewhere and the paper is a little tanned throughout; wrappers slightly chipped and a little stained with a tiny inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of the front one; tiny dog-ears to the corners of the early leaves and a few margins are a little dusty; small light tidemark to the margin of the top corner of the last 15 leaves; minimal signs of age and use; notwithstanding overall a very presentable copy. Robert K. Burt paperback
1926021194London: Fanfrolico Press 1926. 75pp collotype woodcut & copper engravings by Norman Lindsay. Or light tan boards with title frame and vignette in gilt to front frame in blind to rear title in gilt to spine. Spine darkened a few tiny spots of foxing to front endpaper minor toning to page edges. Edition limited to 425 copies of which this #112. Limited Edition of 425 Numbered Copies. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Lindsay Norman. 4to. Fanfrolico Press Hardcover
127216Albumen paper photographs each approximately 157 × 207 mm; the road scene has been printed from a broken negative and a hairline crack and small fingerprint are visible in the central portion of the sky; the top margin of the mount on this side has some spots of residual glue and the bottom edge of the mount on the other side has a few trifling surface chips; overall the condition is excellent. The photographer's credit and reference number 'Sweet Adelaide 335' is scratched in the negative of the City Bridge the second bridge built over the Torrens at that spot in 1877. Oarsmen in four boats in the foreground have clearly paused for the event as have the numerous pedestrians on the bridge. The second photograph shows Adelaide's twin towers - the Town Hall and the GPO - in the distance but the most prominent features of the scene are the tall eucalypts lining the road and the cart-horses drinking at a shaded trough. <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'. unknown
1971143445South Australia: Tolerable Publishers 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. South Australia Tolerable Publishers December 1971. Oblong quarto 195 × 266 mm 36 photocopied leaves printed rectos only with numerous illustrations by Vern Tolcher; the text on all but the first four leaves is typescript. Pictorial card covers with the contents bound in with an Arnos fastener; covers a little rubbed scuffed and lightly unevenly sunned; an excellent copy. A presentation copy with the first page inscribed and signed 'To Tony - best wishes Helen Tolcher'. The dedication page is headed 'Interpreted by Helen Tolcher' and the work is 'Dedicated to all who worked in the Field and the Laboratory with the Roonka Team' in 1971. Tony we know to be the anthropologist Anthony Crawford who is recorded on the last leaf as being the inspiration for Tonni in the legend of 'Tonni The Whirlwind'. <p>The six-page preface by Loyd and Joy Chilman is followed by 14 myths and legends. The Ngaiawang or 'Ngayawang' were 'one of the group of smaller tribes along the lower Murray River known to early settlers as Meru' SA Museum website. <p>Trove records only two copies in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of South Australia; the online cataloguing details could be improved. Tolerable Publishers paperback
