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1954112451Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. Quarto xx 302 pages with 5 maps illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus a two-colour leaf of advertisements one for Coca-Cola after page 280. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; small light tidemark to the foot of the spine; top corner lightly bumped towards the rear of the book; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1855109635Adelaide: Hussey Shawyer and Gall Printers 1855. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey Shawyer and Gall Printers 1855. Octavo 14 pages. Title-wrappers; outer pages lightly marked and tanned; light vertical crease and an inoffensive light tidemark to the bottom margin throughout; two Public Library of South Australia blindstamps a small accession stamp with a pencilled date in 1921 and an unobtrusive pencilled annotation to the front cover noting it is a duplicate; a very good copy. Hussey, Shawyer, and Gall, Printers paperback
55378The signatures are Lloyd Captain Ali Baichan Boyce Fredericks Gibbs Greenidge Holder Holding Julien Kallicharran possibly Murray Richards Rowe and Clive Walcott the Manager. On a conjugate leaf are the signatures of eight members of the Test team for Australia: Gilmour Jenner Lillee Mallett Marsh McCosker Turner and Walker. These were probably collected at the time of the First Test in Brisbane in which case the Australians not to have signed are Ian Chappell Captain Greg Chappell Redpath and Thomson. Leading edges of the leaves slightly silverfish-nibbled; all edges slightly discoloured; two small light marginal spots; in very good condition. unknown
1927110188Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paris Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils 1927. Duodecimo 80 pages with 16 illustrations. Printed wrappers; minor conservation work to the spine; corners of most leaves lightly bumped; a very good copy. One of the Petite Bibliotheque Agricole series. Written in ink at the head of the front cover is the contemporary ownership signature of John Rothwell Seppelt a fourth-generation member of the famous Seppelt winemaking dynasty. Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils paperback
1819162103Tokyo.: Tōseisha. Showa 18 1943. Folding colour map of Australia 54.2 x 76.4cm. Some foxing particularly along folds and upper right margins a few repaired tears and small holes at folds.With original sleeve. The 15th map in the Standard Maps of Greater East Asia series of 20 maps. Shows the natural resources such as sheep gold pearl diary regions opals etc. Tasmania appears as an inset in the bottom right corner. Text in Japanese. . Tōseisha. unknown
1890108120Adelaide: Gresham Studio 1890. Very Good. Adelaide Gresham Studio 1890s. A gelatin silver photograph 135 × 93 mm including a facsimile signature of the subject mounted on textured card with the small inkstamp of 'Gresham Studio Adelaide' on the verso. Mount slightly marked at the foot of the recto; in excellent condition. 'The South Australian Register' 2 November 1891 featured a review of the recently published biography of George Fife Angas by Edwin Hodder London Hodder and Stoughton. It is described as having an 'etched portrait by H. Manesse'. We have identified several variant portraits used as the frontispiece; this unattributed one similar to Manesse's could well be another example. However this cabinet card was clearly produced as a stand-alone portrait. Gresham Studio unknown
1910104167Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1910. Octavo 20 pages. Pink wrappers with the full title page details reprinted on the front cover; a fine copy. Special Intelligence Bulletin Number 17 issued by the South Australian Intelligence Department. R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer paperback
1990144316Adelaide: A.B. Caudell Government Printer 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide A.B. Caudell Government Printer 1990 first edition. Quarto 182 pages with maps and numerous illustrations plus colour plates featuring 229 species. Colour-pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and lightly bumped on the rear joint; an excellent copy. One of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks series. The head of the title page of this copy is inscribed 'With compliment sic to dear friend Ralph from Joe Z. Weber AD 1991'. A.B. Caudell, Government Printer paperback
1988138745Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities 1988. Folio xii 347 pages with 36 plates and maps and some 300 plates many in colour in the descriptive catalogue. Silver-decorated cloth ruled in blind; covers slightly marked with the front cover very slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. 'Until recently the important geographical and scientific investigations carried out by the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands led by Captain Nicolas Baudin between 1800 and 1804 has received little attention in either France or Australia. In particular the significance of the drawings and the gouache and watercolour paintings executed by two young artists of the expedition Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit has hitherto been known only to a small number of specialists. 'Baudin in Australian Waters' brings these works to the notice of a wider public for the first time in the form of an illustrated descriptive catalogue of these drawings and paintings of Australian subjects .' from the dustwrapper blurb. The illustrations include Petit's sympathetic portraits of the Aboriginal people encountered by the expedition. Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities hardcover
1908BIB224005Gawler SA: The Gawler Insitute. 19081910. Large octavo size 16x25cm approx. Very Good condition. Blue cloth spine over papered boards. Boards are a little age toned and the spine a bit speckled. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Tightly bound. Advertisements to rear. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 427 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The Gawler Insitute hardcover
1936118163Adelaide: 'Published by the Artist Lionel Coventry 15 Fashoda Street Hyde Park South Australia' 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Published by the Artist Lionel Coventry 15 Fashoda Street Hyde Park South Australia' 1936. Quarto xvi pages plus 106 full-page caricatures rectos only with brief biographical details of each subject on the facing verso. Eight leaves are printed on matte green paper; all others are printed on gloss white paper. Three-colour pictorial cloth a little rubbed scuffed and lightly sunned and bumped; a very good copy internally in fine condition. Number 73 of 120 copies numbered and initialled by the artist. 'Published by the Artist, Lionel Coventry, 15 Fashoda Street, Hyde Park, South Australia' hardcover
127205Very Good. An original pencil drawing mounted and matted visible image size 178 × 288 mm initialled 'R.E.C.' and captioned in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner. The drawing is slightly foxed with a short closed vertical crack approximately 60 mm barely visible in the sky above the tree; the mat is slightly bumped at one top corner; overall in very good condition. An article in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' on tourism in the 'Picturesque Northern Towns' Monday 16 December 1929 refers to 'Watervale with its fine gums and wealth of undulating vineyards is another of the show places of the locality and the well-known Springvale winery and distillery is situated in this locality'. <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
2004146178Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2004. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2004 first thus/ 1905. Octavo xl 230 pages with a table and 4 illustrations new to this edition plus a folding map and 2 extremely large folding colour maps presented as 5 maps in the separate map case in this edition. Pictorial cloth; a fine set. The original and only other edition was South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905 limited to 730 copies McLaren 7723. This new reset edition is one of the FSLSA's Australian Parliamentary Editions series limited to only 300 copies with the first 99 copies numbered and bound in quarter leather. The lengthy introduction by Valmai Hankel 'reveals for the first time details of his busy and adventurous life and includes the first photographs of him to be published'. 2 items. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1996024111Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1996. xvi 408pp cold frontis map ills index. Or blue cloth with gilt vignette black leather spine quarter leather. Edition limited to 600 copies of which 99 were numbered and bound in quarter leather- this copy #41 of the deluxe edition of 50 copies. Facsimile of original 1863 edition. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. Friends of the State Library of South Australia Hardcover
1957138362Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd 1957. Octavo iv 52 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Cloth slightly flecked; endpapers expertly renewed; an excellent copy. A memoir of Sir William Macewen 1848-1924 former Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University by one of his students the well-known 'Doctor among the Aborigines'. The author has inscribed and signed the title page and amended one of his qualifications from FRFPS to FRCS. A short autograph note on his letterhead dated 12 October 1971 is loosely inserted: 'I hope this my first book will give you some pleasure. It was written from my heart'. A wonderful head-and-shoulders portrait photograph 180 × 125 mm of Dr Charles Duguid 1884-1986 is also loosely inserted. Dr Duguid was 87 when he wrote the short letter so he can be forgiven for not remembering that more than half a century earlier he had pseudonymously published 'The Desert Trail. With the Light Horse through Sinai to Palestine. By Scotty's Brother'. The book was written in honour of 'Scotty' his brother William George Duguid an original member of the 8th Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli; he had transferred to the 3rd Light Horse when he was killed in action on 19 April 1917 near Aseifiyeh. The author's foreword recounts in pathetic detail the circumstances of his death. This classic war memoir went through four editions in less than six months. 3 items. Oliver and Boyd hardcover
1906109139Adelaide: Goodwin & Co. for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Goodwin & Co. for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1906. Octavo xvi advertisements 216 pages with numerous mostly full-page illustrations from photographs plus a folding colour map of Adelaide pictorial printed wrappers and advertisements mounted on the pastedowns. Original full red leather attractively lettered in gilt on the front cover retaining the original printed wrappers; head of the spine neatly restored; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities; many of the illustrations offset; notwithstanding an excellent copy. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature dated 1906. Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide) paperback
1938056090Brisbane: David Whyte Government Printer 1938. 56pp bw ills map. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover prev owner name inside front cover. A most attractive early publication on Lamington National Park. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. David Whyte, Government Printer Paperback
188620650Adelaide: Rigby 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Rigby 1886. Octavo xii 610 pages. Original bright red cloth very slightly marked and lightly flecked; a near-fine copy. Rigby hardcover
1894109597Adelaide: School of Design Art Club 1894. Very Good. Adelaide School of Design Art Club 1894. Octavo 43 pages with a full-page illustration the author's monogram. Flush-cut card lettered in gilt on the front cover a little foxed and nicked with a chip to the foot of the spine; a very good copy. Harry Pelling Gill 1855-1916 art curator and teacher at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting Gill assumed control of all the board's art teaching activities. His growing authority in art matters his self-confidence and abrasive manner and his attitude toward other art schools led to criticism. Critics found Gill a vain man who controlled lucrative and influential art offices and who disdained the democratic brotherhood of art. His supporters admitted that he could be uncompliant and disagreeable but said that he had worked hard was a good judge of the monetary value of pictures saved the board expense and was a courageous and incorruptible curator. He supported and reorganized the South Australian Society of Arts and was its first president elected from the fellows 1909-11' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; this entry contains one of the few errors we have noted in the ADB - the title of this book is given as 'The Straight and Crooked Paths of Studentship'. School of Design Art Club unknown
188664090Adelaide: Government Printer 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1886. Octavo ii pictorial lithographic title page signed 'Leo' 118 pages. Original orange cloth with black lettering and a decorative border; flyleaves offset; a fine copy. Prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886; with a presentation inscription from the author to J.G.O. Tepper. 'It is to be regretted that some legislation was not passed in the early days of the colony enforcing the lodgment in the South Australian Institute of a copy of every colonial publication' from the author's preface. An eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory plus extra material in the appendix is included. With the later pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. J.G.O. Tepper 1841-1923 born in Prussia arrived in South Australia in 1847: school teacher natural history collector and entomologist. Government Printer hardcover
1994144176Largs Bay: The Author 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Largs Bay The Author 1994. Large octavo xxii 311 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus endpaper maps. Papered boards a little marked rubbed and bumped at the extremities; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy with the good dustwrapper slightly creased with the rear panel cockled and lightly stained in the top half and a little crushed along the bottom edge with a short tear sealed with tape on the verso. The title page is signed by the author. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by him written in 2002 in response to a request for the book. 'All the books have been sold I had only 1000 copies printed in June 1994 and within two years they were all sold. I have only one copy myself.' The letter is enclosed in a large gift card featuring the reproduction of 'The Encounter 1802' a watercolour by John Ford signed and captioned beneath the image by the artist. 3 items. The Author hardcover
96175Fine. An original etching 255 × 185 mm captioned within the image signed and editioned one of 60 in pencil below the image. In fine condition glazed within the original simple frame with the label of Richardson's Art Gallery 121 Liverpool St Hobart on the backing paper. Also mounted there is a gift label 'Presented to Mr J.M. Morris by Hobart Branch Staff Union Bank . 15th October 1934' signed by ten members of the staff with some silverfish damage to the signed portion of the label. unknown
1906106843Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1906. Large octavo viii 74 8 advertisements pages plus 25 plates many from photographs and 2 maps. Pictorial blue wrappers slightly rubbed and creased with expert infill to a small chip to the front leading edge; minimal foxing; an excellent copy. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
1982034482Melbourne: James Flood Charity Trust. 1982. HEAVY. 272pp subscriber list index hundreds bw & col ills. Or beige cloth with laid on pictorial label in slipcase. A few light rubs marks to slipcase. Light foxing to limitation page. Some wrinkling of jacket laminate. Edition limited to 5000 copies of which this #1460. The fifth and last of this sought after series showcasing early motoring in Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Folio. James Flood Charity Trust. Hardcover
1948146571Adelaide: Printed for private circulation at the Hassell Press 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed for private circulation at the Hassell Press 1948. Octavo vi 71 pages plus 2 plates from photographs. Quarter cloth and textured papered boards a little tanned; a few other minor signs of age and handling; an excellent copy. Geoffrey William Hassell was killed in action off the coast of Norway on 5 April 1945 at the age of 20 while piloting a RAAF Bristol Beaufighter. This private memorial volume printing a selection of Geoffrey's letters sent during training and on active service was produced by his parents Fred and Minnie Hassell at their Hassell Press. Their 'With Compliments' card is mounted on the front pastedown. Printed for private circulation at the Hassell Press hardcover
