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1910114269Adelaide: Gawler Institute 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Gawler Institute 1910. Large octavo iv 450 xxv advertisements pages with numerous illustrations and likely to cause collation discrepancies most of the pages from 427 are unnumbered illustrations mainly portraits printed on the versos of the advertisements. Original quarter cloth and papered boards lightly rubbed at the extremities and a little worn at the corners with the boards a little marked; spine sunned; light tidemark and cockling to a thin strip along the bottom margin of the last fifteen leaves; a very good copy. A substantial history of a town with a substantial history; a feature of the book is a detailed biographical register running to more than 80 pages. Provenance: Charles E. Cameron Wilson with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page. Gawler Institute hardcover
1880104186Adelaide: Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced 1880. Octavo 182 30 advertisements pages plus 6 lithographed plates of farm machinery by James Martin & Co. and 17 albumen paper carte de visite photographs individually mounted on tipped-in captioned leaves. Blind-decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities a little marked and bubbled and lightly sunned on the spine; some mounts lightly creased a production flaw; a few trifling signs of use; a very good copy but internally fine with the photographs in superb condition. Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative although the photographs may vary slightly between copies. The photograph facing page 17 in this copy is of the 'Gawler Institute' showing the Institute building and Town Hall rather than 'Frankel's Hotel' as called for in Holden. These variations notwithstanding two separate editions were produced: one in wrappers with advertisements on the verso of the front cover and on both sides of the rear cover without photographs but with the lithographs not noted by Ferguson; the other in gilt-lettered cloth without the cover advertisements containing 17 mounted photographs plus the lithographs. Both contain 30 pages of advertisements at the rear. Rare in any state and in our view the version on offer is one of the more important and interesting photographically illustrated books produced in Australia. <p>'The handbook is illustrated with a number of views by Mr J. Taylor the local photographic artist representing the most important edifices and establishments in town' Holden quoting a contemporary review. The frontispiece is a portrait of John McKinlay 1819-1872; there are 14 pages devoted to him he married a Gawler woman in the early 1850s and was based in the town until his death. Justice is not done to the other photographs in describing them prosaically as 'the most important edifices and establishments in town'. Without exception signs of life and day-to-day activities flesh out the images and most of the businesses - butcher shop photographic studio cordial factory furnishing warehouse music emporium - feature well-stocked windows or yards and numerous staff members or customers. Holden reproduces two interesting ones including perhaps the best the butcher shop captioned merely 'Hodgson & Clements' but there are wonderful vignettes in many others. <p>Not least of these are the horse-drawn tram in front of the 'Commercial Bank' and the ornate hearse outside 'F. Fowler's Furnishing Warehouse'. While we are on the subject of death one chapter stands out. Among those to be expected say on 'Horticultural and Agricultural Progress. Gardens around Gawler' or 'The Humbug Society. Flam! Bam! Sham!' or 'The Streets - Number of Businesses - Description of Hotels' there is Chapter XI: 'The Neville and Adamson Tragedy'. Its thirteen pages describe in great detail the events surrounding the double suicide 'and its romantic accomplishment' of Neville and his partner Adamson. 'It is universally believed that Neville was the leading spirit in the suicide and so strong was Adamson's affection love friendship or whatever it may be termed for his companion that he consented to take that final leap in the dark in the wine cellar with him to visit that "bourne whence none return"'. Provenance: J. Cluny Harkness Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s according to Trove with his pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced] hardcover
1924102211Tanunda: Printed at Auricht's Printing Office 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda Printed at Auricht's Printing Office 1924. Octavo 64 pages. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated within an ornamental border on the front cover; wrappers slightly marked staples slightly rusty; an excellent copy. The edition in German; although the title page and front cover state that an 'English Copy of this Report is also available' neither version has yet found its way into Trove. Printed at Auricht's Printing Office paperback
190515579Adelaide: Sudaustralischen Distrikts der Ev.luth Synode in Australien 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sudaustralischen Distrikts der Ev.luth Synode in Australien 1905. Octavo 76 pages. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated within an ornamental border and with the addition of the price of 9 pence on the front cover; wrappers a little marked creased and lightly chipped with a light tidemark to the rear one; trifling signs of handling and use including a few annotations; a very good copy. Printed by Oscar Muller and Company at Hochkirch in the Western District of Victoria. The town was renamed Tarrington in March 1918 as a response to anti-German sentiments. Sudaustralischen Distrikts der Ev.luth Synode in Australien paperback
1982146584Glengowrie: Johann Gersch Book Committee 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Glengowrie Johann Gersch Book Committee 1982. Quarto 456 pages with numerous illustrations and genealogical tables. Pictorial papered boards; a couple of trifling signs of age and handling; a near-fine copy. A detailed history of the family of Johann Gersch 1817-1890 who emigrated to South Australia in 1854 on the 'Steinwärder'. The family were Wendish Sorb/Lusatian Lutherans. Johann Gersch Book Committee hardcover
1862116508London: Richard Bentley 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Bentley 1862 first edition first issue. Octavo two volumes viii 289 and x 322 pages. Original navy blue textured cloth blocked in gilt and blind with the large kangaroo illustration on the front covers particularly striking; all edges uncut; covers a little bumped and marked with slight wear at the extremities and the spines a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; overall an excellent set with the armorial bookplate of Edward Bennett on both front pastedowns and a very small inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of both title pages. An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s 'A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia including station properties social conditions travel aborigines etc.' according to Ferguson but there's much more . In the second volume pages 233-50 Jessop records meeting two men at Wilpena 'on their way back to Adelaide with the results of a private exploration. The leader or scout was named Giles who was engaged by Mole a man of more energy than money to assist him in opening up some new part . They finally left the known country at Angipena and entered upon the unknown in the direction of north-west . They were absent about a month from Angipena and altogether going and coming passed over 1200 miles'. <p>The meeting is recorded in some detail not least regarding contact with the Aborigines 'Giles said he was the first person in the Colony that vaccinated a black and that it happened on this occasion'. Wantrup notes that this expedition 'does not appear to be elsewhere recorded and dates at least ten years before Giles's career became a matter of public record. Jessop supplies no precise date but from the context it is clear that the expedition took place in the first half of 1859. Constituting the first appearance in print of the last of the great Australian explorers it is well worth adding to an exploration library'. <p>Wantrup 2023 pages 346-7; not in McLaren; see Ferguson 10938-41. 2 items. Richard Bentley hardcover
1905144832Adelaide: Vardon & Pritchard Printers 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon & Pritchard Printers 1905. Octavo viii 161 pages with 37 illustrations plus 4 pages of plates including a map and a frontispiece with a tissue-guard. Original contrasting half cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; a number of ink stamps of the Gawler Institute throughout the text and on the three edges; mild signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. Provenance: Geoffrey Farmer the Australian private press bibliographer with his bookplate designed by Mary Quick this one printed in red on the front pastedown. Vardon & Pritchard, Printers hardcover
1883108948Adelaide: 'Advertiser' General Printing Offices 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Advertiser' General Printing Offices 1883. Small octavo xii 97 1 blank iv 54 advertisements pages plus an errata slip. Flush-cut cloth-covered thin boards lightly creased; cloth a little bubbled and lightly marked; two consecutive leaves a little discoloured by an old newspaper cutting still present; overall an excellent copy. Provenance: Alexander John Morison Town Clerk of Adelaide 1937-46 with his pencilled ownership signature 'Purchased at Coles Book Arcade'. 'Advertiser' General Printing Offices hardcover
185113408Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Evening Courant 1851. With an article on the back page column 3 entitled "Gold In Australia" measuring 13 column inches which states "The discovery of the fact by Mr. Hargraves that the country from the Mountain Ranges to an indefinite extent in the interior is an immense gold field" which has ignited "a universal rush to the diggings". The article goes on to describe the rapid rise in the cost of provisions; a description of miners returning to town with gold nuggets; the government geologist's visit to the site; and the need to appoint a "Commissioner over the gold regions. in which Mr. Hargraves being the discoverer. points him out as the most suitable and worthy person for the appointment." An article picked up by the Edinburgh Courant from the Sydney Morning Herald of May 20 which took it from The Bathurst Free Press of May 17th. Small chips at top edges a little browned. Single issue of four page newspaper disbound measuring 19" X 25" Saturday September 6 1851 Number 22168with red newspaper tax stamp at upper right hand corner and black Edinburgh Evening Courant stamp. The Edinburgh Evening Courant unknown
28223New York: The Mechanical Gold Extractor Co. 1893. Paperback. A scarce imprint not recorded on Trove. Page 11 refers to "Instances of Success" recounting the "Australian ore from the Ravenswood Mine which fails to yield more than 25 per cent. of its Gold at an ordinary stamp mill yielded upward of ninety per cent to the Crawford Mill and this without roasting or chemical treatment of any kind." Mount Morgan is also mentioned. Canadian gold pp 13. P 15. reprints written testimonials from Helena Montana; Nova Scotia the Irish Geological Society & New Mexico. "Testimonials": pp 20-27; "Statement of gold ores treated at the works of the Mechanical Gold Extractor Co. . N.Y. City": pp 14-17 lists metals treated of ores from Virginia Georgia North Carolina Colorado New Mexico Arizona Oregon Wyoming Kansas S. Dakota Iowa San Salvador Nicaraugua sic and Columbia sic. <br /> <br /> This edition not cited on OCLC. OCLC: 932851574 cites 2 copies in Canada of 27pp. The "computer file" at OCLC: 1062073568 states it is 32pp. 8vo 32pp peach printed wrappers. Removed from an album with some staining and slt. loss at back cover covers slt. marked and a small stain lower part of page 20 through 32. <br /> <br /> A scarce imprint. The Mechanical Gold Extractor Co. paperback
1983137054Adelaide: The Authors 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide The Authors 1983. Oblong quarto 103 pages with 40 illustrations 8 in colour. Pictorial papered boards; bottom edges slightly rubbed; an excellent copy with the lightly scuffed and creased dustwrapper very slightly sunned on the spine. Number 466 of 1000 numbered copies signed in ink by the authors. The Authors hardcover
1983139510Adelaide: The Authors 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide The Authors 1983. Oblong quarto 103 pages with 40 illustrations 8 in colour. Pictorial papered boards; edges a little foxed; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. Number 404 of 1000 copies signed by the authors. Provenance: Dr Robert Edwards 1930-2023 'curator researcher administrator planner museum director and positive force for change' Creative Australia online. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter to him from a friend dated June 2010 with content relevant to the book. The Authors hardcover
1983124910Adelaide: The Authors 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide The Authors 1983. Oblong quarto 103 pages with 40 illustrations 8 in colour. Pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Number 399 of 1000 numbered copies signed by the authors. The Authors hardcover
1898139452London: Sampson Low Marston and Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. London Sampson Low Marston and Company 1898. Octavo 239 pages plus 2 plates a frontispiece portrait and 'Mr Gouger's Tent and Hut' opposite page 203. Cloth very lightly rubbed and bumped; acidic text paper discoloured mainly around the margins as ever; a near-fine copy. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 noting only the frontispiece portrait. Provenance: James Angas Johnson 1875-1947 a great-grandson of George Fife Angas with his armorial bookplate. A couple of marginal notes in pencil are presumably in his hand. Sampson Low, Marston, and Company hardcover
1849119606London: T. and W. Boone 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. London T. and W. Boone 1849 first edition slightly later issue. Octavo two volumes x iv 5-416 8 publisher's advertisements pages with 12 illustrations plus 8 plates 2 tinted 2 hand-coloured a folding map with rivers and Sturt's tracks in three colours and an advertising slip for Stokes tipped in after page x; and vi 308 92 4 prospectus for Siborne 8 publisher's advertisements pages with 6 illustrations plus 8 plates 2 hand-coloured and an advertising slip for Leichhardt tipped in on page 1. The woodcut illustrations on page 158 in the first volume and on pages 195 and 195 in the second volume are not noted in the plate list; the hand-coloured plates three of birds and one of Mus conditor 'The Building Rat' are from original artwork by John Gould and Henry Richter. Original blind-stamped green ribbed cloth the primary binding rebacked not professionally but more than adequately retaining the original backstrips and endpapers; cloth a little worn at the extremities stained and sunned on the spines with minor loss at the foot of the second one; the first volume has the front inner hinge reinforced the bottom corner of the free endpaper torn away slight loss near the foot of the front hinge the rear free endpaper removed and the rear pastedown stained; the second volume has slight loss to the restored front inner hinge and a few light stains to both endpapers; tidemarks to some plates not the hand-coloured ones and minor in all cases except the first frontispiece; brown stain to the bottom corner tips of some leaves in each volume most of them from pages 71-100 including a plate in the first volume and from pages 141-164 in the second volume but touching the text on one leaf only and rarely larger than a thumbnail elsewhere; short sealed tears to the leading margin of pages 27-52 in the appendix to the second volume; minimal signs of age and use including a partially erased word on one page and some words offset onto the last page of advertising in the first volume; overall a very decent set. Provenance: George Woodroofe Goyder with the pastedown of each volume inscribed in his hand 'Hill Side Cottage Medindie April 1858'. George Woodroofe Goyder 1826-1898 South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty-three years is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's Line 'the line of demarcation between that portion of the country where the rainfall has extended and that where the drought prevails' a line of reliable rainfall that separates agricultural from pastoral lands. 'Goyder joined the Department of Lands as chief clerk in January 1853. In quick stages he rose from second assistant to assistant surveyor-general in January 1857. In April he took charge of an exploration to report on country north of pastoral settlement. He was amazed to find Lake Torrens full of fresh water and its flourishing eastern surroundings very different from the desert described by Edward Eyre in 1839. His exuberant report persuaded the surveyor-general Captain Sir Arthur Freeling to examine the area in September. No more rain had fallen but hot winds had killed the vegetation and turned the lake into a bed of mud. Freeling returned to criticize Goyder for mistaking flood for permanent water being misled by mirage and misconceiving the value of the northern country. Although Goyder had proved that Eyre's horseshoe of salt lakes was penetrable and thereby opened the way to further exploration he was too conscientious to ignore his blunder and in 1859 at his own request led survey parties to triangulate the country between Lakes Torrens and Eyre and to sink wells. When Freeling resigned Goyder was recalled from the north to become surveyor-general on 19 January 1861' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Goyder married in 1851; by 1856 the family with four children moved from rented accommodation in North Adelaide 'a short distance across the parklands to Medindie . into a "neat cottage" with six rooms a garden and a vineyard . Named Hillside the cottage was located on a private road now Hawkers Road close to Robe Terrace overlooking the parklands' Janis Sheldrick: 'Nature's Line. George Goyder - Surveyor Environmentalist Visionary' 2013. It is intriguing to discover that Goyder acquired a set of Sturt's account of his 1844-46 Central Australian expedition in search of an inland sea in April 1858 the year after his own expedition to Lake Torrens. 'The expedition started by following the Murray and Darling both to settle any doubt about the confluence of the two rivers and to avoid the "horseshoe" of Lake Torrens which had halted Eyre's progress a few years before' Wantrup and confounded Goyder himself in 1857. Wantrup 119 noting the point that distinguishes the first issue an inserted advertisement for Melville immediately following the text in the first volume: 'this leaf was suppressed shortly after publication of Sturt's book'. 2 items. T. and W. Boone hardcover
1969146641Adelaide: J.G. Graetz Reunion Committee 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide J.G. Graetz Reunion Committee 1969. Octavo 88 pages with numerous family trees and illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers lightly worn; a very good copy. Published on the occasion of the Graetz family reunion and thanksgiving service held at Tanunda 4 and 5 October 1969. J.G. Graetz Reunion Committee paperback
2006146212Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Oxford Oxford University Press 2006. Octavo xxxii 284 pages plus 14 pages of plates. Cloth; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly marked. 'Shortly before his death Percy Grainger 1882-1961 lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian museum. "Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger" draws exclusively from these sketches revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life' dustwrapper blurb. Oxford University Press hardcover
1987131355Adelaide: G. Gramp and Sons 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide G. Gramp and Sons 1987. Quarto 79 pages with numerous illustrations most in colour and many full-page plus colour pictorial endpapers. Pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. Signed in ink by K.J. Swann S.W. Gramp Colin R. Gramp and one more Gramp on the half-title. From Johann Gramp's first wine in 1850 'Messrs. G. Gramp & Sons Ltd. was to grow into one of the giants of the Australian wine industry by the 1930s' 'Pioneer Vignerons' website; today 'the winery continues under the label Jacob's Creek' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. G. Gramp and Sons hardcover
188080022Adelaide: J. Williams Printer for the Author 1880. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J. Williams Printer for the Author 1880 second edition/ 1879. Octavo viii 84; 80; and 23 pages plus 3 albumen paper photographs of 5 drawings on 3 unnumbered leaves. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine with both sides ruled in gilt and decorated in blind; covers a little bumped and rubbed at the extremities with minor wear to the corners; spine unevenly sunned; light stains to the front cover removing some of the gilt from the left-hand border; rear free endpaper replaced with near-matching paper tanning the last page a blank; overall a very good copy internally excellent. A presentation copy inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'From G. Hamilton to Capt Dashwood with the Author's best wishes 22 Dec 1880'. George Frederick Dashwood 1806-1881 arrived in South Australia in the early 1840s; in 1843 he 'was appointed one of the four non-official nominees in South Australia's first Legislative Council. From 1847 to 1852 he was commissioner of police' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. George Hamilton 1812-1883 succeeded him in that role in 1867 retiring the year before his death. He arrived in Adelaide in 1839 when he overlanded cattle along Charles Bonney's southern route. A most satisfying association copy presented from one significant pioneer to another in the twilight of their lives. <p>The particulars of the photographs match those given in Holden where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against listed is explained. The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals of Grey and Eyre. The first edition was not photographically illustrated. <p>Ferguson 10184 inadequately describing the plates; Holden 49. J. Williams, Printer [for the Author] hardcover
198624439Netley: Wakefield Press 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Netley Wakefield Press 1986. Quarto 108 pages with 81 plates 35 in colour. Cloth; a very fine copy with the original clear celluloid dustwrapper. One of 150 copies signed and numbered by the artist with an original signed and numbered etching 'Skipping' loosely inserted image size 211 × 146 mm sheet size 285 × 205 mm. Wakefield Press hardcover
1998142481St Lucia: University of Queensland Press 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. St Lucia University of Queensland Press 1998. Quarto xxiv 376 pages with a few illustrations plus 8 pages of plates from photographs 4 full-page. Quarter cloth and papered boards with a colour-pictorial inlay on the front cover; cloth lightly marked; top corners and the bottom edge of the front cover slightly bumped; textblock lightly tanned presumably as ever; occasional pencilling but see below; a very good copy. The hardback edition was limited to only 500 copies. The book comes from the collection of a well-known journalist whose pencilled annotations start on the half-title with 'Pathetic & heartbreaky'. Loosely inserted is the print-out of a contemporary email from a colleague regarding in the main the book: both parties are mentioned seven or eight times in the index. 'In life she alternated between being sweet as pie and utterly gangrenous about everyone' appears early in the text of that email; we'll leave the rest for the purchaser of this item. Several relevant newspaper clippings are also included; not least is a review by Samela Harris titled 'Diary of misery strips author of final dignity'. University of Queensland Press hardcover
1996100257Lyndoch: Pump Press 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Lyndoch Pump Press 1996. Octavo 5 1 colophon pages with a tipped-in photograph. Overlapping cord-bound card covers; titling label; a fine copy. With a 4-page ALS from Gerald Fischer to Sir Walter Crocker loosely inserted. Pump Press Pamphlet Number 22. One of only 65 copies. Pump Press paperback
195577952London: Old Vic Theatre 1955. First Edition. Paperback. London Old Vic Theatre 1955. Quarto 24 pages with numerous illustrations including 6 in colour. Wrappers a little rubbed marked and lightly stained with a tiny hole in the rear cover; ownership signature on the front cover with further details on the title page; still a very presentable copy. The tour ran from mid-May to mid-November 1955; during the Adelaide season October 3 to 22 the original owner managed to secure the ink signatures of Hepburn and Helpmann on their full-page portraits in this program. Both signatures are now quite faint but this is a rarity nonetheless. Old Vic Theatre paperback
1977130572Adelaide: Rigby 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Rigby 1977. Large quarto 159 pages with 72 colour plates. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine cloth slipcase in the original printed and numbered thin cardboard packaging very slightly marked and torn. Number 428 of 1001 copies signed by David Heysen the artist's son. Rigby hardcover
105589Two of the photographs are approximately 100 × 150 mm the other two are approximately 70 × 75 mm. All four have been removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; each one has a small number pencilled unobtrusively in the sky in the top right-hand corner. One photograph in each size depicts Higgins at his pastoral property at Currency Creek with the homestead 'Higginsbrook' figuring prominently in the smaller one. In the other two photographs Higgins is shown standing on rocks at the coast at Middleton the site was identified on the verso in pencil. The photographer is unidentified; the images are undated but we suggest the 1860s. Irish-born Thomas Walker Higgins 1810-1899 emigrated to South Australia in September 1839. The following year he and his wife and their only child 'journeyed to the South Coast where good land was plenty. They took up a run near Currency Creek and on Section 2147 in the hundred of Goolwa they built their home naming it "Higginsbrook" after his family's ancestral home back in Ireland. It was built on a side of a hill giving a scenic view over the valley towards the sea. In 1849 Thomas Higgins purchased what is now known as Middleton. In 1854 he had the land surveyed and made plans for the township of Middleton naming after his connection with Ireland' genealogical information sourced with many thanks from the Higgins family genealogy page on RootsWeb. 4 items. unknown
