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1988146394Sydney: Bay Books 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sydney Bay Books 1988. Quarto 168 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Gilt-lettered padded navy leather; small indentation to the first few leaves; a fine copy. The deluxe leather-bound issue. Bay Books hardcover
188118727London: Her Majesty''s Sationery Office 1881. Very good condition. Circular providing information to those emigrating to Australia with an Addendum inserted at the front listing important changes in eligibility requirements recently imposed by the Agent General for New South Wales. <br /> <br /> The addendum states the changes which will take effect following June 1 1881: "Emigrants will be required to pay a moiety of the passage money. Only married couples not exceeding 35 with our without children and single women will be eligible." The circular provides descriptions of New South Wales resources including gold mining: "The Government is empowered to proclaim Crown lands to be gold fields and to grant what are called "miners' rights on the payment of a small fee which enables any person to search or dig for gold. Leases of auriferous tracts of alluvial ground . for limited periods may be granted at annual rents under special conditions as regards labour and machinery". Also includes current price lists of clothing & food principal trades and rates of wages railways telegraphs and customs duties. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo circular 12pp with color folding map. Color map showing the counties in color as well as established railways and those in progress. Map by J. Bartholomew FRGS. Trove 2385679. Her Majesty''s Sationery Office hardcover
192028022Melbourne: Government of the State of Victoria 1920. Very good condition. Advertising targeted at Americans for emigration to Victoria Australia. "Some facts about Victoria UST. - A Country which is progressive and prosperous where Settlers are required and will be gladly welcomed." For further information "apply either personally or by letter to the Land Settlement Agent. c/o Peck Judas Co. 687 Market St. San Francisco Cal."<br /> <br /> "The Government invites Settlers to come to Victoria preference being given to those experienced in Irrigation and possessed of sufficient Capital to take up land say $1500."<br /> <br /> 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" b&w map image with steamship lines in red verso with "Facts about Victoria. "Trove image: 26643672271. Government of the State of Victoria unknown
2019161628BartonACT: Engineers Australia 2019. new edition. As New. oblong quarto. laminated boards 236pp. colour & b/w plates text ills. glossary index Engineering Heritage Australia has produced a book of 100 significant Australian engineering achievements from the Stump Jump Plough to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Snowy Mountains Scheme. A celebration of our rich engineering heritage these stories will appeal to engineers and non-engineers alike and are accompanied by an array of remarkable images. Engineers have taken often visionary ideas and turned them into practical realities and the pages of this book highlight the combination of toil and genius which have shaped the Australia we live in today. Engineers Australia hardcover
14523The Oval cricket ground London 1948. A nice piece of cricket memorabilia. The match which Australia won is remembered as Bradman's last test in which he was bowled for a duck in the second innings denying him a three-figure average. On a 16 x 11 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. In very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Presented portrait-style with 'ENGLAND - OVAL - 1948' neatly written at the head. Beneath this in two irregular columns are the signatures of the players with the exception of the signature of Eric Hollies bowler of the ball which dismissed Bradman in the Australian second innings the signature of substitute Reg Simpson present instead. The signatories are in the first column: Jack Crapp John Dewes Allan Watkins Jack Young Alec Bedser Reg Simpson substitute for Eric Hollies; and in the second column: Norman Yardley Bill Edrich Denis Compton Len Hutton captain Godfrey Evans wicket-keeper. See signatures of the Australian Cricket Team 1948 #14522 above The Oval cricket ground, London, 1948. unknown
195588622Sydney: A.H. Pettifer 1955. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Blue flexible cloth covers; 484pp. Covers slightly rubbed; text mildly tanned but not brittle; solidly bound and unmarked. Very Good. Report of the Commission assembled to investigate Soviet espionage activities in Australia prompted by the revelations of defected spy Vladimir Petrov. The investigation concluded that the Soviets had been actively spying on Australian targets since WW2. A.H. Pettifer unknown
1935107885Eudunda: Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Eudunda Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee 1935. Oblong octavo 64 pages with 36 illustrations from photographs. Overlapping title-wrappers a little creased along the leading edges; later gift inscription on the front cover; neatly sealed tear to one leaf; an excellent copy. Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee paperback
1931105047Adelaide: Printed by The Hassell Press 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by The Hassell Press 1931. Octavo 136 pages with a few illustrations of exhibits and numerous advertisements many of them illustrated plus rear cover advertisements. Pictorial wrappers featuring a striking design by Rex Wood on the front cover; wrappers slightly creased with trifling loss to the corner-tips of the front cover and minor loss to the head of the spine; opening date pencilled at the head of the front cover; corners of the first dozen or so leaves lightly creased or curled; occasional pencilled check-marks; minor signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. The catalogue contains 1776 entries each containing a short description of the item and frequently the name of the lender. Printed by The Hassell Press paperback
1931127583Adelaide: The Hassell Press Printers 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Hassell Press Printers 1931. Octavo 136 pages with a few illustrations of exhibits and numerous advertisements many of them illustrated plus rear cover advertisements. Pictorial wrappers featuring a striking design by Rex Wood on the front cover slightly marked; essentially a fine copy. The catalogue contains 1776 entries each containing a short description of the item and frequently the name of the lender. The Hassell Press [Printers] paperback
1950137446Adelaide: Printed by The Mail Newspapers Ltd for the author 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by The Mail Newspapers Ltd for the author 1950. Octavo 192 pages first leaf blank plus a plate a portrait of the author from a photograph. Flush-cut pale blue papered boards; covers unevenly sunned and a little marked with slight wear to the extremities; endpapers browned; hinge cracked at the front with the binding sound but tender; a very good copy. Including the original Indigenous inhabitants colonisation pastoral pioneers and more. Printed by The Mail Newspapers Ltd [for the author] hardcover
1927140425Adelaide: 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers . Wholly set up Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers-Limited' 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Adelaide 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers . Wholly set up Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers-Limited' 1927. Octavo 208 pages with numerous illustrations advertisements and tables plus 12 pages of inserted advertisements an 8-page section on green paper and two separate leaves on red paper and an errata slip tipped in at page 61. Three-colour pictorial wrappers a little marked and lightly worn at the extremities; bottom half of leaf 81/82 torn away removing part of a form for recording stock purchases and an advertisement respectively; leading edge a little stained bleeding slightly into the margin; minor signs of handling and use including some calculations in ink and pencil on four general expenditure pages with a short internal tear to one leaf; overall a decent copy. Copies in Trove and further details about this publication are scarce. The first volume was published in December 1925 at least one more volume appears to have been published and there is some variation in the titles. 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers ... Wholly set up, Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers paperback
1918117018Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for The College 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for The College 1918. Octavo 16 pages. Title-wrappers a little creased marked and rubbed; a very good copy. 'First Speech Day. HRA' is written in pencil at the head of the front cover; we presume this is a later inscription by the H.R. Adamson who was awarded third prize in Junior A at the Preparatory School that year. These traditional Speech Day lists of successes gained and prizes awarded are overshadowed by the lengthy Honour Roll of Old Collegians 'who were sent overseas or who expected to be sent at the time of the armistice' 7 pages. This is followed by a list a page and a half of those awarded military distinctions including Captain Hugo Throssell VC and a full page of those who did not return. Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers (for The College) paperback
182580009London: William Darton 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London William Darton circa 1825. Octavo xii 64 pages plus 64 engraved portraits with tissue-guards. Early gilt-decorated half calf and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; corners and the rear leading edge a little worn; 'Vol III' label missing from the spine; occasional scattered foxing and offsetting; a very good copy. Provenance: James Hurtle Fisher with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown and his signature in ink at the head of the engraved title page. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. He commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835. He was selected as resident commissioner one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act . second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo" arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay where the official oaths were administered a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. In January 1837 Fisher erected his reed hut and Land Office near the survey camp of Colonel William Light at the north-western corner of the new capital site; the destruction of these temporary buildings by fire on 23 January 1839 caused both men serious loss. <p>Fisher had been allowed to draft his own instructions which were not shown to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Disputes between the two men over their respective powers had begun on the voyage and were soon revived in the new Council of Government and more violently outside and led in February 1837 to the Resident Magistrate's Court binding the participants over to keep the peace towards each other. The new governor George Gawler was appointed both governor and resident commissioner a radical departure from the principles on which the colony had been founded'. Fisher returned to his profession and became a leader of the South Australian Bar. In October 1840 he was elected first mayor of Adelaide; in 1860 he became the first resident South Australian to be knighted. The destructive fire referred to above is described in detail in the biography of Light Dutton and Elder 1991. <p>Light was living 'in the wood and reed surveyor's hut alongside Fisher's equally combustible house in the parklands on North Terrace. In his own account ". we discovered Fisher's house to be on fire. At the same time the breeze freshening up the destruction to both houses became inevitable. In less than ten minutes both houses were burnt to the ground mine catching fire at the roof by a lighted piece from Fisher's. We saved nothing of value"'. Accordingly personal mementoes such as this presumably brought by Fisher to South Australia on the 'Buffalo' must be of the utmost rarity. William Darton hardcover
1988143012Adelaide: Michael Williams and Associates for the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Services 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Michael Williams and Associates for the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Services 1988. Quarto ii xx 382 pages with 59 tables 51 figures 21 folding and 7 plates. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Michael Williams and Associates (for the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Services) paperback
2000143109Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Crawford House Publishing 2000. Octavo xx 512 pages with 12 maps plus 59 plates 34 in colour. Full reconstituted leather lettered in gilt on the spine all edges gilt; small scratch to the leading edge; paper slightly tanned as usual; a fine copy. Number 9 of only 100 copies of the deluxe edition signed by the author. Crawford House Publishing hardcover
192153948Adelaide: RGSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1921. Octavo pages 1-67. Original wrappers slightly discoloured; a fine copy. This issue also contains MAWSON Sir Douglas: Macquarie Island. A Sanctuary for Australasian Sub-Antarctic Fauna 70-85 pages with a map plus a map and 6 full-page plates after photographs by Frank Hurley Douglas Mawson and Leslie Russell Blake; and NEWLAND Simpson: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life pages 89-110. RGSSA paperback
1989146567Gumeracha: Gould Books for Forreston Community Centre Inc 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gumeracha Gould Books for Forreston Community Centre Inc. 1989. Quarto 256 pages with numerous maps and illustrations. Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. With detailed histories of the pioneering families of the area. Gould Books for Forreston Community Centre Inc hardcover
1920243371920. Very good condition. 11 b&w real photographs printed titles on the back including a great view of South Beach with a view over the wharves and a crowd in their holiday best crossing the railway line looking towards the Indian Ocean and a view of Convict Bridge with automobiles crossing over.<br /> <br /> The other images are: the War Memorial panorama of the wharves the Town Hall and High Street High Street showing the store front of Samuel's "The Big Tailors the Swan River another view of High Street the Post Office shipping on the Harbour and Round House Arthur's Point. These were perhaps the majority of a set of photographs issued for tourists. Photographs measure 3 1/2 x 2 1/2" unknown
1985144162Adelaide: Gillingham Printers 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Gillingham Printers 1985. Large quarto xiv 209 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations mainly from historical sources plus a folding plan 'Plan of the Green-Hills. Special Survey . by J.R. Burslem Jan. 1841' and pictorial endpapers. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover; edges speckled red; a fine copy in the original clear acetate dustwrapper a little chipped and torn at the foot of the spine. The first and only edition of these memoirs; number 34 of 260 copies signed by Peter Cotton Managing Director of Gillingham Printers. 'Frost's reminiscences recount his experiences as a labourer gardener shepherd cowherd drover miner house-repairer builder contractor and ultimately architect with such well-known buildings to his credit as Brougham Place Church and Whinham College now the Lutheran Seminary. He had tendered for the construction of the Overland Telegraph his tender being rejected apparently unfairly . There is an artlessness about his reminiscences but this is due to his truthfulness and sincerity' from the foreword by Sir Walter Crocker. Gillingham Printers hardcover
1985142315Adelaide: Gillingham Printers 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Gillingham Printers 1985. Large quarto xiv 209 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations mainly from historical sources plus a folding plan 'Plan of the Green-Hills. Special Survey . by J.R. Burslem Jan. 1841' and pictorial endpapers. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover; edges speckled red; a fine copy. A presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author to historian Iris Nesdale: 'If this book was to have a dedication it would read - "For Iris Nesdale who prompted and inspired the editing and compilation." My sincere thanks for your generous assistance. Geoff Manning. August 1985'. <p>The first and only edition of these memoirs; number 27 of 260 copies signed by Peter Cotton Managing Director of Gillingham Printers. 'Frost's reminiscences recount his experiences as a labourer gardener shepherd cowherd drover miner house-repairer builder contractor and ultimately architect with such well-known buildings to his credit as Brougham Place Church and Whinham College now the Lutheran Seminary. He had tendered for the construction of the Overland Telegraph his tender being rejected apparently unfairly . There is an artlessness about his reminiscences but this is due to his truthfulness and sincerity' from the foreword by Sir Walter Crocker. Gillingham Printers hardcover
1949143064Adelaide: The Company 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Company 1949. Quarto 36 pages with numerous illustrations and a colour frontispiece by Ian McBain. Cream cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in brown on the front cover; cloth slightly foxed; boards slightly bowed as often; an excellent copy. A 'With the Compliments' slip from the company is loosely inserted. A small pressed metal plaque celebrating the company's 100th anniversary is mounted on the half-title; we have not seen this before in the numerous copies we have handled. The Company hardcover
1970142152Adelaide: 'Privately printed by A. & E. Lewis' for the Author 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Privately printed by A. & E. Lewis' for the Author 1970. Small octavo 177 × 112 mm iv 20 pages with a few illustrations plus a loosely inserted postscript leaf dated 1 May 1971. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly flecked; an excellent copy. Number 18 of only 30 copies signed by the author. A personal account of where Paul Gauguin was in January and February 1903. 'Privately printed by A. & E. Lewis' (for the Author) hardcover
1955127459Adelaide: RGSSA 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA December 1955. Octavo pages 1-10 plus a frontispiece portrait. Original wrappers; a fine copy. The Presidential Address of George William Symes MC and Bar 1896-1980 sometime commander of 70th Division second-in-charge to Major General Orde Wingate's Special Force and commander of the South Burma District; and secretary to governors Sir Robert George and Sir Edric Bastyan 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. This issue also contains EDWARDS Robert: St Mary's-on-the-Sturt pages 35-46 plus 2 plates; MARSHALL Ann: Climate and Housing pages 11-33 with a table 8 graphs and 10 floor plans plus a plate with 6 illustrations from photographs; and THOMSON Keith W.: The Changes in Function of Former Mining Settlements in the Wallaroo Copper Belt pages 47-58 with a map a graph and 2 tables plus a plate with 2 illustrations from photographs and a folding map. RGSSA paperback
120374Folio approximately 353 × 232 mm a single leaf trimmed from a standard form a bifolium with the centrefold blank and the last page merely docketed now mounted on plain paper 360 × 228 mm with a small hand-coloured diagram of the block showing the orientation of the land and a paper-over-wax impressed seal signed by George Gawler as Resident Commissioner 19 January 1841. Other signatories are the Private Secretary George Hall; the Treasurer John Alexander Jackson; and Alfred Reynell brother of John patriarch of the eponymous wine family. The document has a few horizontal creases where originally folded; the mounted document has been rolled up at some stage and is a little curled; a short sealed tear to the right edge; a few minor blemishes near the top edge and the bottom portion of the seal and some light overall fading these are possibly a legacy from having been framed at some stage overall a very presentable example of a very rare colonial document. Land Grant Number 639 is for 'Eighty-two acres numbered "903" in the Provincial Survey' purchased by 'James Warland and George Warland of Adelaide' for the sum of £2. Elizabeth Warburton in 'The Paddocks Beneath. A History of Burnside from the Beginning' 1981 makes short work of locating the land in question in this leafy suburb about eight kilometres from the Adelaide GPO and paying the brothers Warland their due. 'There can hardly be a family with deeper roots in Burnside than the Warlands who settled there in 1838. <p>James Warland 1796-1875 with his brothers from Wimborne in Dorset took assisted passages to South Australia in 1837. Their first leaseholding was on Section 904 Clifton; then in 1840 having paid two pounds down they were in nominal possession of Section 903 on the other side of Greenhill Road bounded on the west by today's Wyatt Road. After his retirement Henry Warland built here on land inherited from his father George a pleasant stone farmhouse named "Wimborne" which his grandson Eric Warland maintains at 6 Wyatt Road' page 24. <p>George Gawler 1795-1869 was South Australia's second governor. 'Disputes between the first governor Captain Sir John Hindmarsh and the resident commissioner Sir James Fisher over their respective jurisdictions had retarded the colony's development so the two offices were combined in Gawler. Thus as governor he became representative of the Colonial Office in the province and as resident commissioner representative of the non-governmental Colonization Commission which was responsible for the control of land sales for applying the proceeds to the emigration of labourers and for raising loans until such time as the colony had sufficient revenue to support itself. On 12 October 1838 Gawler with his wife and five children arrived in Adelaide in the "Pestonjee Bomanjee" and found conditions far worse than he had been led to expect. The most urgent necessity he believed was to promote rural settlement. <p>He persuaded Charles Sturt to accept the post of surveyor-general and until he could assume office Gawler himself took charge of the Survey Department reorganizing it and conducting preliminary explorations. He also hired every available surveyor including some of Light's former officers. In October 1839 to his dismay he was ordered to dismiss them. The commissioners had appointed Lieutenant Edward Frome as surveyor-general and sent him out with a party of sappers. Gawler solved the problem by amalgamating the two forces feeling justified by the increasing volume of land sales. In 1839 over 170000 acres 68797 ha were sold'. Gawler produced results: within twelve months 200000 acres had been surveyed and by May 1841 mapping of 7000 square miles had been completed and over 500000 acres divided into sections. This rare land grant is evidence of Gawler's energy and zeal. Unhappily for him history was about to repeat itself: his 'major weakness was his complete failure to understand political realities. His recall and his successor Captain Sir George Grey arrived together on 10 May 1841' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
1984125461Gawler: Bunyip Press 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. Gawler Bunyip Press 1984/ 1863 and 1864. Quarto 133 pages with two illustrations from photographs one full-page and numerous period advertisements. Cloth very slightly marked; an excellent copy. Bunyip Press hardcover
