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1759154745Canberra.: Government Printer. 1917-59. Collection of 11 reports for the years: <br> <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1916 - 8pp. <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1919 - 8pp. <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1920 - 4pp. <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1921 - 19pp. <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1935 - 11pp. <br>For the Year 1937-38 - 15pp. <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1952 - 14pp. <br>For the Year ended 30th June 1953 - 31pp <br>For the Years 1st July 1953 to 30th June 1956 - 34pp <br>For the Year 1956 - 57 - 27pp <br>For the Year 1957-58 - 24pp <br> <br>All in wrappers occasional light browning very good copies. 34 x 21cm. . Government Printer. unknown
1870114169London: Peacock Mansfield and Britton 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Peacock Mansfield and Britton 1870 extra-illustrated edition using the sheets of the 131st edition published by James Parker and Co. Oxford. Small octavo xii 383 pages plus a duplicate title leaf printed in gold list of illustrations 13 original albumen paper photographs one mounted on the duplicate title leaf 12 mounted on gold-bordered leaves. Full brown morocco with a gilt-edged red morocco onlay in the shape of a cross on the front cover; spine compartments and sides bordered in blind; all edges gilt; covers a little rubbed and marked; spine a little sunned; a very good copy. A deluxe edition of Keble's influential collection of poems extra-illustrated with 13 original photographs of important religious paintings. This copy comes from the collection of South Australian pastoralist Henry Dutton 1844-1914 and contains an additional albumen paper photograph portrait of him mounted on the recto of the frontispiece. A calligraphic inscription in red and black on an early blank reads: 'An Offering to Henry Dutton from the Chorister Boys of Christ Church North Adelaide October 1871'. Peacock, Mansfield and Britton hardcover
187983369Adelaide: W.K. Thomas 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas 1879. Octavo 29 pages plus a mounted albumen paper photographic frontispiece showing a grandiose structure its subsequent failure to be erected hinted at in its description on the title page as 'the proposed building'. Original blind-ruled blue cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities; endpapers and frontispiece mount a little foxed; title page offset; a very good copy. See Ferguson 15986 not noting this cloth-bound edition nor the frontispiece - we have previously handled a copy with a lithographic frontispiece - and not mentioning this photographically illustrated edition; see Holden 61. W.K. Thomas hardcover
2003131016Port Adelaide: Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Port Adelaide Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum 2003. Quarto 459 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour plus an errata page. Gilt-decorated full leather; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. A bookplate signed by both authors and mounted on an early blank indicates this is number 127 of a limited edition presentation of only 150 copies. Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum hardcover
187674030Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1876. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1876. Foolscap folio xxviii 138 xxii pages with 2 folding plans. Title-wrapper; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound with residual glue and backing paper along the spine; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1876. Detailed answers to 3897 questions; with much on contemporary manufacturing industries in their relation to public health. W.C. Cox, Government Printer unknown
1886142220Adelaide: A. Molineux 'Under the Patronage of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and of the Chamber of Manufactures' 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide A. Molineux 'Under the Patronage of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and of the Chamber of Manufactures' 1886 and 1887. Folio iv cumulative title leaf and index leaf the verso of the latter numbered 'vi' 144 pages plus the original wrappers replete with advertisements in all instances. Original publisher's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; expert conservation to the cloth on the spine and front panel with the original cloth a little marked and slightly worn along the bottom edges of the boards; front hinge cracked but firm; endpapers tanned with a few minor blemishes; a very good copy internally near-fine. A presentation copy with the front free endpaper inscribed to 'Mr F.A. Joyner With Editor's compliments Albert Molineux'. The journal commenced publication in August 1875 and continued until June 1940; at this stage it was still being compiled by the founder Albert Molineux 1832-1909 farmer editor and promoter of agriculture. <p>Provenance: Frederick Allen Joyner 1863-1945 an Adelaide solicitor photographer and plant breeder. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has information on both these interesting men. A. Molineux ('Under the Patronage of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia, and of the Chamber of hardcover
1857108971Adelaide: W.K. Thomas Printer 'Register' Office for The Author 1857. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas Printer 'Register' Office for The Author 1857. A broadside on thick paper 510 × 328 mm printed recto only. Three horizontal creases; trifling chips creases and marks to the blank left and right margins; an excellent copy. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of this 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857. Some years later he released an 'Address to the Electors of Sturt'; apart from the change of place-name it is identical in content to this item. W.K. Thomas, Printer, 'Register' Office [for The Author unknown
1924118501Adelaide: Ellis Limited 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Ellis Limited 1924. 240 × 153 mm 16 pages with illustrations and 8 tipped-in colour plates. Overlapping colour-pictorial gate-fold card covers with panoramas of 'Early Adelaide' and 'Modern Adelaide' front and rear and with line illustrations of the site of the cafe then-and-now inside the respective covers; covers lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with surface loss to a tiny area of the front cover; bottom half of the front gate-fold hinge split but now expertly sealed; an excellent copy of a lavish brochure. 'The Ellis Cafe organisation was formed about 1917 as bakers pastry cooks caterers fruiterers and confectioners. The office and factory was at 120 Gouger Street Adelaide with a restaurant Covent Gardens at 50 later 68 King William Street the Arcadia Cafe in Bowman's Buildings King William Street the Maple Leaf Cafe at 21 Rundle Street and two others in the central business district. The Ellis Cafes ceased trading in 1952' State Library of South Australia B 72464/5. This attractive souvenir was prepared to celebrate the reopening of the cafe in late 1924 after extensive renovations. An article in the Adelaide 'News' on Saturday 20 December 1924 notes that the 'booklet is a triumph for its compilers and its illustrator Mr E. Grant Walsh who also designed the general scheme of furnishings and decorations'. Ellis Limited paperback
1916028058Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. Editor's Preface. 187pp portrait frontis map of Mesopotamia and 15 leaves of b/w plates. Book shop stamp by the lower edge of the front flyleaf. Eps toned. Prelims endpages and page edges foxed. Erratum slip laid down on dedication page verso. There is some wear at the hinge first and last few pages only affected. Or cloth boards flecked with a tear from the spine head. Spine titles heavily faded. This is a continuation of "Letters from a Young Queenslander" published in December 1915 for private circulation. Private letters between father and son and dedicated to Captain T J Mitchell. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
1945144275Sydney: Australian Medical Publishing Company Limited 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Australian Medical Publishing Company Limited 1945. Quarto 343 pages with a map and illustrations plus 3 plates. Original title-wrappers unevenly tanned and lightly chipped at the head of the spine; an excellent copy. 'Reprinted from "Oceania" June 1942 Vol. XII No. 4 . to March 1945 Vol. XV No. 3' where it originally appeared in 12 separate issues of the journal. Australian Medical Publishing Company Limited paperback
1993141489Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 1993. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Vancouver University of British Columbia Press 1993 first Canadian edition/ 1993. Quarto xxxii 624 pages with 36 illustrations 20 tables and 10 maps plus 20 pages of plates comprising 45 illustrations from photographs. Papered boards; bottom edge very lightly shelf-marked; bottom corner of the front free endpaper lightly creased; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. One of the Miegunyah Press series first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. University of British Columbia Press hardcover
127206An original drawing in black and red pencil mounted and matted visible image size 332 × 197 mm; in fine condition signed and captioned in pencil along the bottom edge. The drawing features the central portion of the facade of Roseworthy Agricultural College Hall 'the most impressive building on campus. It was built between 1883-1884 to a design by Edward J Woods Chief Architect from the Department of Public Works and constructed of Tarlee stone and red brick with freestone mouldings and brick quoins and chimneys. It cost £7625 and contained accommodation for residential students a lecture room dining hall reading room staff room and offices. In front of the College Hall stands a bust of John Ridley 1806-1887 the man who invented the Ridley Stripper which was hugely important to the wheat industry. The bust was sculpted by Barsanti of Pisa Italy' Aussie Towns online. <p>Robert Emerson Curtis 1898-1996 English-born Australian artist architectural draftsman camouflage officer and official war artist emigrated to Queensland in 1914. In 1922 he 'travelled to the USA with his great friend the pioneer filmmaker Charles Chauvel. There he developed what was to become a lifelong interest in industrial modernism and on returning to Sydney in 1928 he set about documenting the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He painted murals and did industrial illustration in 1932-38 including the series "Australia at Work" which was syndicated in Australian newspapers. During WWII Curtis recorded working life in the Commonwealth Munition factories 1939-41 worked as Camouflage Officer in Australia and with the RAAF in New Guinea 1941-43 until he was finally appointed an official war artist to record the nation's industrial war-time production 1943-45. More than 200 works are in the Australian War Memorial AWM collection' Design & Art Australia Online. unknown
2004054378Melbourne: Miegunyah Press 2004. ix 376pp index glossary bw ills maps endpaper maps. Blue boards in jacket. Review copy with review copy slip laid onto half-title page. Very light edge wear spine somewhat faded. Edition limited to 750 copies. Presents accounts of early European visitors- sailors missionaries soldiers beachcombers and whalers- to Fenua'enata the Marquesas Islands. The author explores the divide between land and water the beach that is both an exit space and an entry space where edginess rules. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to. Miegunyah Press Hardcover
1933029257Melb: Fourth Division A.M.C. Association 1933. 174pp index Honour Roll margin decoration bw ills. Or tan papered boards with cloth spine laid on illustration of painting of soldier by Leyshon White to front. Printed in brown throughout. Board edges lightly worn with small scuff to top of front board. Front end paper torn at staples light even toning throughout faint narroow marginal damp stain to several pages not affecting text. An 'acknowledgement by those who returned of their pride in the brave an faithful un-returned'. Rolls of Honour containing the names of 118 members of the Fourth Twelfth and Thirteenth Field Ambulance AIF who made the supreme sacrifice. Main content in verse with numerous illustrations mainly drawings by Digegrs. Border of most pages decorated with numerous faint vignettes of soldiers vehicles rising sun badge etc. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 4to. Fourth Division A.M.C. Association Hardcover
1983HISAUS68Lightning Ridge Australia: Gan Bruce 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with black boards with gold writing title and author and pictorial dust jacket First Edition 775gms 192 pages red coloured endpapers. Gan Bruce completes the picture with legends and tales of the almost unbelievable characters who toiled and fought in their lust for the Black Opal- the Queen of Gems. Book is in good condition with no visible general wear and tear some minor page discoloration. Dust jacket is in good condition with mild shelf wear otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30000 books in stock we can't list them all!. Gan Bruce Hardcover
189980010Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. Octavo 84 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark brown cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; edges and corners of the boards lightly bumped; endpapers offset; a near-fine 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'. Loosely inserted is an original cutting from the 'Register' of 22 July 1899 containing the last article in the book where it is #26 not #25 as in the cutting. 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
1941040163Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1941. Introduction by AN Graham. x 228pp index 2pp advertisements at rear for Cyaniding for Gold & Prospecting for Gold. Or gray cloth boards lacking jacket Page edges evenly toned faint damp mark at top corner margins not affecting text. Index pages misnumbered as pp126-128-should be 226-228. Advice for the prospector on where to look for mineral deposits how to recognize mineral-bearing rocks and how to identify the minerals they contain. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
016722Leather spine with raised bands. 415 pages. First published in 1904. . Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover
188376280Adelaide: The Author 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1883. Small octavo xii 98 iv 54 advertisements pages plus an errata slip. Flush-cut blue cloth lightly marked flecked and bubbled with a small piece in the rear top corner a modern replacement; a very good copy internally fine. A rarity; in over forty years this is the first copy we have had in stock. [The Author] hardcover
185775605Adelaide: Government Printer 1857. Near fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1857. Foolscap folio 1 leaf printed recto only plus a folding map 'Map of the Country N.E. of Fowler's Bay. Explored by Mr. F. Miller October 1857' 425 × 362 mm. Drop-title disbound with discreet pinholes in the left-hand margin and slight traces of dried glue on the edge; a near-fine copy. The cover letter is reasonably short but not without interest containing observations such as 'The hole opened by Mr Eyre in 1840 Miller now says is a spring bubbling over'. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 192 of 1857. McLaren 13394. Government Printer unknown
1988082069Carbondale: National Library of Australia 1988. In four volumes. Volume One: Main Sequence 1-23665. Pp. x1000; Volume Two: Main Sequence: 23666-49436. Pp. vi1001-2092last blank; Volume Three: Author/Title/Series index. Pp. vi1792; Volume Four: Subject index. Pp. vi662last blank; all volumes tall demy 4to; dark green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt boards occasionally slightly marked; National Library of Australia Canberra 1988. Lists books or pamphlets of 5 or more pages in all subject areas which were published in Australian between 1901 and 1950 inclusive. National Library of Australia unknown
1979037534Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press 1979. HEAVY. vi 644pp index glossary appendices num bw ills maps. Or pictorial boards with decorative leather spine quarter leather in clear plastic jacket in slipcase. Near new. Facsimile of the first edition of 1869. #15 of an unstated limitation . Limited Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. 4to. Queensberry Hill Press Hardcover
188228524Adelaide: Thomas 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Thomas 1882. Octavo iv 192 6 advertisements pages. Original maroon cloth very slightly flecked; spine very slightly sunned; an excellent copy. With the contemporary ownership inscription 'W.S. Douglas 16/8/82' at the head of the title-page: this is probably William S. Douglas Adelaide estate agent auditor accountant and valuator 'Late Manager Bank S.A. Adelaide . Loans Negotiated on Freehold and Station Properties etc.' 1885 Sands and McDougall South Australian Directory page 58 of the advertisements. Thomas hardcover
1940056459Toowoomba: Toowoomba Tourist Bureau 1940. 177pp index bw ills map ads 1 full page col. Pale orange wraps. Minor edge wear to cover with chip at bottom of spine and minor tear at top of spine top front corner creased paper bookshop label to front minor foxing. A substantial centenary history of Queensland's Darling Downs with numerous contributors. The somewhat flimsy cover makes this a scarce survivor. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Toowoomba Tourist Bureau Paperback
1993054375Kalgoorlie: City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder 1993. VERY HEAVY >4.5KG-additional postage required to most destinations. xv 1070pp index sourcesreferences num bw ills endpaper maps. Or blue faux-leather in jacket. Very small tear 5mm on front flap fold with tiny associated bump to edge of boards 2 tiny scuffs to same fold very small bump to top corner of approx 25 pages very light foxint to page edges. A massive comprehensive well researched and well presented local history of Kalgoorlie-Boulder over its first century. As to be expected there is a vast amount of history of the goldfields. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Hardcover
