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2006141176Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd Melbourne 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd Melbourne 2006. Large square quarto x 214 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper very lightly scuffed. The book was released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd, Melbourne hardcover
2006142723Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd Melbourne 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd Melbourne 2006. Large square quarto x 214 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Papered boards; rear bottom corner slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. The book was released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, in association with Bloomings Books Pty Ltd, Melbourne hardcover
1876109636Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer 1876. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer 1876. Octavo 16 pages. Original green wrappers with the full title page details repeated within a decorative border on the front cover; slight damage to and traces of adhesive on the spine the item has been removed from a bound volume of pamphlets; tiny tear 2-3 mm deep to one point on all leading edges; trifling signs of use; later State Library of South Australia stamp on the verso of the title page but an unobtrusive pencilled annotation to the front cover notes that it is a duplicate; a very good copy. We successfully tendered for a large quantity of duplicate pamphlets from the SLSA in 2001; this is one of them which we are finally getting around to processing. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer paperback
188628275Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1886. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of Glenelg a panoramic view of the creek with many fishermen and the town with two other views. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color 37.5 x 48.3 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
184116578London: Thomas M'Lean 1841. Very good condition. A lovely mezzotint engraved portrait of the Queen 1792 - 1849 dressed in widow's garb following the death of her husband King William IV of England. The capital city of the Australian state of South Australia was named in honor of the Queen when it was founded in 1836. South Australia was formed under the Act for the Colonization of South Australia of 1834 and was intended to be a haven of civil and religious liberties. The portrait of the Queen is a charming one; she gazes steadily out her hair in braids with a black lace veil over her head and around her shoulders. Engraved by Henry Thomas Ryall 1811 - 1867 engraver to Queen Victoria and based on the painting by William Charles Ross 1794 - 1860. 13 1/2 x 17 1/2". Image printed and laid on to thicker paper; with very slt toning to thicker paper at outer edges o/w very good. Thomas M'Lean unknown
186428246Adelaide 1864. First printing. Photography. Good overall. An early stereoscopic view of Adelaide by B. Goode. The SLSA website catalogs this photograph as 1864. In September 1864 Goode moved his premises from 155 Rundle St. to number 69. He also built up a lucrative trade in photographic material including chemicals that were "made to his special order and suitable for use in a hot climate". "In September 1865 Goode took his camera to the top of the partly-constructed Albert Tower. and the "following month Goode again went to the top of the Albert Tower but this time he had a stereoscopic camera." SLSA. <br /> <br /> Stereoscopic view albumen photograph sunned. Photos 6.8 x 14 cm on white card 8.7 x 17.5 cm. With a label on the verso “From B. Goode's Photographic Establishment 69 Rundle Street Adelaide. Importer of Pure Photographic Chemicals &c." Two hand written inscriptions on "King William Street" the other the same with "Adelaide - Australia" in addition. Cream card with a little foxing and edge browning.<br /> <br /> The State Library of South Australia copy of the photograph B1157 is mounted on yellow card with the measurements 7.4 x 15.4 cm. unknown
188928276Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page with eight views of the ship Kintore's arrival including the HMS Orient the Governor Musgrave HMS Protector steaming down the Port River; Yachts saluting and swearing in at the Town Hall. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Lithograph with one tint with center fold as issued. 40 x 50.8 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or at the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
188928274Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of the impressive large corner building in Adelaide. The subtitle "E. J. Woods Esq. Architect. James Shaw Contractor." The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color 39 x 51 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
188628273Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1886. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of images in Adelaide and at Port Adelaide in total thirteen views of the port the dock and buildings in the city. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. The mayor S. Malin Esq is also pictured. Wood engraving with printed color 38.7 x 50 cm. Libraries Australia ID 7837384. Pictorial Australian unknown
1928141359Adelaide: The Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1928. Oblong quarto 220 × 290 mm 39 captioned full-page plates printed rectos only. Cord-bound overlapping wrappers lettered in gilt on the front cover; short split to the head of the front joint expertly sealed; overlapping edges a little creased with a few tiny closed tears; overall an excellent copy of this unusual pictorial work rare in our experience. The last 12 plates depict playgrounds: the Glover Playground South Terrace 4; the Glover Playground North Adelaide 3; the West Terrace Playground 3; and the East Terrace Playground 2. Clearly visible at the entrance to the charming North Adelaide precinct are signs prohibiting both dogs and men. The Corporation of the City of Adelaide paperback
1928131611Adelaide: The Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1928. Oblong quarto 220 × 290 mm 39 captioned full-page plates printed rectos only. Cord-bound hole-punched overlapping wrappers with the edges expertly stabilised; trifling blemish to the top corner-tip of four consecutive leaves; an excellent copy of this unusual pictorial work rare in our experience. The last 12 plates depict playgrounds: the Glover Playground South Terrace 4; the Glover Playground North Adelaide 3; the West Terrace Playground 3; and the East Terrace Playground 2. Clearly visible at the entrance to the charming North Adelaide precinct are signs prohibiting both dogs and men. The Corporation of the City of Adelaide paperback
1878108965Adelaide: Robert Kyffin Thomas Printer 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Robert Kyffin Thomas Printer 1878; William Kyffin Thomas Printer 1879 1880 and 1881; and Sands & McDougall Printers 1882. Octavo 158 3 blank; 95 1 blank; 145 1 blank; 145 1 blank; 151 viii 1 blank 129-144 additional reports ix-xiv index pages with overall about a dozen graphs and numerous tables 3 folding plus 3 tipped-in errata or explanatory slips. Early but not contemporary blind-stamped full purple calf unlettered but with the spine gilt in compartments gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges dyed red; covers a little rubbed and scuffed; spine a little sunned; trifling signs of age and use; in excellent condition. A consecutive run of five annual reports of the City of Adelaide from the 27th to the 31st. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature and acquisition details 'Purchased at Becks Book Shop on Friday 13/11/36. Personal Property'. Robert Kyffin Thomas, Printer hardcover
105523The gloss-paper prints are each approximately 150 × 200 mm. The three streetscapes have the title and studio credited in the negative. The first two items are slightly foxed and there is a tiny hole in the sky in the first one; the gloss surface is lightly scuffed; overall the condition is very good. According to information supplied by the family see State Library of South Australia B 71188/2 Hobart-born Alfred Augustus Stump trained as a photographer under J.W. Beattie before moving to Adelaide and setting up his own studio. Davies and Stanbury list Stump and Co. at various addresses in King William Street and Rundle Street in the city from 1888. A short paragraph in the 'Narracoorte Herald' on Friday 13 July 1894 contains the following: 'A fire occurred in the premises of Messrs. Stump and Co.'s photographic studio Hindley-street at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning. The place was completely gutted nearly everything being destroyed'. The studio was in fact at 35A King William Street on the northern corner with Hindley Street. These photographs come from an incomplete and damaged loose-leaf album purchased at auction in Adelaide in August 1971: the purchaser pencilled in 'supposed to be c.1890'. The album has the appearance of a studio stock book with numbers on the captions of the remaining plates ranging from 10 to 218. One of the photographs Number 179 showed the studio at 35A King William Street presumably taken some time between its establishment in 1892 and the fire in July 1894 giving the supposed date of the album some basis in fact. unknown
197198008Adelaide: Adelaide City Council 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Adelaide City Council 1971. Oblong folio ii front cover 32 1 inside rear cover pages with numerous illustrations a few in colour. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Forty-three years later they've just had another stab at it. Adelaide City Council paperback
1890113419Adelaide: Printed by Hussey & Gillingham 1890. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Hussey & Gillingham 1890s. Oblong octavo 143 × 230 mm comprising an introductory leaf a leaf of descriptive captions and 15 leaves of plates all printed rectos only containing a total of 79 images. Flush-cut quarter cloth and decorated card covers printed in gold and light and dark blue; covers lightly marked with a few small light pink stains to the front cover; notwithstanding an excellent copy. All plate leaves depict one or more illustrations from photographs against a watercolour pictorial background with calligraphic titles. There is only one full-page plate proper. Trove records copies in four institutions as well as what appear to be later editions: 'Gall's Glimpses of Adelaide and South Australia: 80 Viewlets' circa 1902 and 'Gall's Glimpses of Adelaide and South Australia: 100 Viewlets' circa 1904. Ferguson 9808 described as having '15 plates'. Printed by Hussey & Gillingham paperback
1880108150Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1880s. Duodecimo 170 × 113 mm a cased leporello comprising 12 original albumen silver photographs each approximately 95 × 150 mm mounted on cards captioned and bordered in red joined together with cloth hinges. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in black and blind; cover lightly marked plain spine a little sunned; an excellent copy the contents are in fine condition. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet Adelaide' and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar item in blue cloth entitled 'Photographic Views of Adelaide South Australia. Series '; only two of the images are the same 'Rundle Street & The Arcade' and 'Coast Natives' Wurlie'. <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'. <p>'Coast Natives' Wurlie' was clearly taken at the same time as the scene in the frontispiece to Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' published in 1879 and illustrated with original photographs by Samuel Sweet. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1880141137Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1880s. Duodecimo 170 × 113 mm a cased leporello comprising 12 original albumen silver photographs each approximately 95 × 150 mm mounted on cards captioned and bordered in red joined together with cloth hinges. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and decorated in black and blind; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; card mounts uniformly tanned; a near-fine example with the contents in fine condition. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Three of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet Adelaide' albeit an attempt has been made in two of them to mask these details and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar item in red cloth entitled 'Photographic Views of Adelaide South Australia. Series II'; only two of the images are the same 'Rundle Street and The Arcade' and 'Coast Natives' Wurlie'. <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'. <p>'Coast Natives' Wurlie' was clearly taken at the same time as the scene in the frontispiece to Taplin's 'The Folklore Manners Customs and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' published in 1879 and illustrated with original photographs by Samuel Sweet. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1921124266Adelaide: The Associated Publishing Service Aust. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Associated Publishing Service Aust. 1921. Large octavo 129 3 pages with 32 plates views of Adelaide and 73 portraits many of them 'with suitable embellishments by pen and ink artists' - more often than not Oswald Pryor. Full leather attractively gilt-lettered on the front cover a little rubbed at the extremities; and lightly scuffed; endpapers offset; an excellent copy. At the rear there is a 27-page biographical dictionary of citizens not featured in the illustrated section. The Associated Publishing Service (Aust.) hardcover
1867142991Adelaide: E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1867. Duodecimo ii viii 126 iv 23 23A 24 24A-132 South Australian Directory iv index 36 36A-B 37-60 60A-B 61-88 88A-B 89-112 112A-B 113-138 South Australian Almanack Advertiser pages with several wood-engraved illustrations but lacking the folding inland mail table originally tipped onto the front free endpaper. Later nineteenth century quarter calf and papered boards; covers moderately rubbed; edges a little tanned and spotted; occasional chips and marks internally; some early annotations to the text; one leaf of the first section pages 75/6 supplied in facsimile; two sections of four leaves each lacking from the 'Advertiser' section pages 71-78 and 123-130 apparently discarded when rebound; slight loss to the final leaf an advertisement; mild signs of age and use; notwithstanding a presentable copy of a very rare item. Provenance: Sir Thomas Meek Ramsay 1907-1995 of Kiwi boot polish fame with his blindstamp on the front free endpaper. E.S. Wigg, J. Howell, and W.C. Rigby 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
186880705Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and J. Howell 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg and J. Howell 1868. Duodecimo viii 124 4 index 148 South Australian Directory 4 index 177 South Australian Almanack Advertiser pages including the rear endpaper advertisements plus front endpaper advertisements and rear cover advertising - but this copy lacks pages 169-76 of the advertising section and the folding map originally tipped ìn at the title page a small portion of the first panel remains as proof. Flush-cut cloth boards rebacked with the bulk of the original spine retained; cloth a little marked with minor silverfish damage; a few trifling marks to some pages; a very good copy rare in any condition. Our current average rate of handling copies of this item is one every 20 years. Not least of its many attractions is 'The Farmers' Gardeners' and Vignerons' Calendar' revised by George McEwin 13 pages. E.S. Wigg and J. Howell hardcover
1841104249London: John Richards & Co 1841. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Richards & Co. 1841 'Third edition revised and corrected to the present time'. Octavo ii title leaf xviii 476 civ appendix and index pages. Early half tan calf and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; covers a little rubbed and scuffed with the head of both joints slightly cracked but firm; endpapers and adjacent leaves offset mainly from the leather turn-ins; minimal scattered light foxing; early marginal emphases in pencil and rarely in ink in particular to the later sections relating to the institutions and processes of government; related annotations on several pages; overall an excellent copy. Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of 'J.F. Burton Adelaide 1850' appears at the head of the title page and on the front free endpaper without the place-name. The latter is also signed in pencil 'J.H. Fisher' James Hurtle Fisher around which George Fife Angas has written 'Sept 21 1853. Presented by JHF to G.F. Angas'. The full name of George Fife Angas is also written there in pencil in what we recognize as a later secretarial hand indicating in our experience that the book came originally from Angas's library. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia': a lawyer he was appointed first Resident Commissioner of South Australia and arrived in the colony on the 'Buffalo' with the Governor's party. He eventually became a leader of the South Australian Bar 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Angas needs no introduction; suffice to say the provenance takes some beating. We know little about Burton other than that he was an Adelaide solicitor; he is mentioned as such occasionally in the local newspapers of the day. John Richards & Co hardcover
1891109227London: Hodder and Stoughton 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hodder and Stoughton 1891. Octavo xii 440 pages plus a etched frontispiece portrait by H. Manesse. Cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; spine lightly sunned and creased; uncut top edge and the leaves adjacent to the boards a little foxed; two tiny punctures near the head of the rear cover; an excellent copy. The background to this biography of George Fife Angas 1789-1879 is not without interest and it is to be gleaned from the entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' on Henry Hussey 1825-1903 'evangelist millenarian printer and historian . Hussey's printing and publishing encouraged him to literary endeavours and in 1862 his entry in the Gawler Institute competition for a history of South Australia won the prize. To compile this work he had access to government archives and to the private papers of G.F. Angas. Through this introduction and possibly some mutual religious sympathies Hussey became Angas's secretary in 1865. Angas later acquired Hussey's manuscript and with help from the Angas family it was edited in England by Edwin Hodder and published in 1893. Hussey supported Angas's opposition to Roman Catholicism and their propaganda included the distribution of 2000 copies of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and the organizing of a successful petition against precedence for prelates. This experience of public debate led Hussey to stand for Encounter Bay in the House of Assembly in 1874 but he incurred the displeasure of some of his religious followers and withdrew before the poll. After Angas died in 1879 Hussey was authorized to gather material for his biography which was also edited by Hodder and published in England in 1891. Hussey's autobiography refers to many diaries and private papers of Angas which do not seem to have survived'. Provenance: Geoffrey Ingleton with the G. & N. Ingleton bookplate and the Ingleton Collection catalogue stamp and number 1436 on the recto of the rear flyleaf. Ferguson 10473 noting an erratum slip. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1905131632Adelaide: Vardon & Pritchard 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon & Pritchard 1905. Octavo vi 309 pages plus 14 plates. Gilt-decorated purple cloth; uncut; covers flecked and mottled; spine and a small section of the front cover sunned; leading edge slightly marked; top edge a little foxed; verso of the front flyleaf and recto of the frontispiece slightly foxed; a very good copy. John Howard Angas 1823-1904 was the second son of George Fife Angas. 'In 1841 he entered G.F. Angas & Co. His father's affairs in South Australia were then causing him great financial difficulties. That year he told John that he was to go to the colony to manage his estate. Angas learned German land surveying and mapping to help him in his dealings with his father's German tenants and with the subdivision of his Barossa estate' the full 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' entry is worth reading in any event. Vardon & Pritchard hardcover
1955130653Adelaide 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide 1955. Octavo 32 pages with numerous illustrations. Saddle-stapled plain card covers; an excellent copy with the slightly marked dustwrapper. The dustwrapper also contains the text 'A small town with a big future . Ardrossan 1873 to 1955'. paperback
