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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
2000LFA01732Revue trimestrielle de l'Institut international de géopolitique : environ 100 pages, format 210 x 280 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs
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
1995139538Northbridge: Access Press 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Northbridge Access Press 1995. Large octavo xii 204 pages with 24 illustrations plus colour endpaper maps. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The title page is signed and dated 23 May 1995 by the author. Access Press hardcover
191382236Adelaide: Sharples Brothers 1913. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sharples Brothers 1913. Oblong duodecimo 20 pages with 10 illustrations. Overlapping pictorial red card covers with pink cotton binding; covers very slightly rubbed and a little creased with a corresponding light crease to the first leaf; an excellent copy. Sharples Brothers paperback
1918108521At Sea: The Societies as above 1918. Very Good. At Sea The Societies as above 10 August 1918. Duodecimo 172 × 107 mm 4 pages a bifolium last page blank comprising the title page and the toast list-cum-programme on the centrespread. Folded horizontally with a few light creases elsewhere and occasional light foxing; overall in very good condition. Not surprisingly we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith indicates that he hailed from the Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh enlisted on 8 February 1918 'Embarked for Active Service . HMAT "Orontes" Sydney 5-6-18 Disembarked Liverpool 11-8-18'. This Final Reunion must have been quite a party; all nine entertainments listed on the programme are preceded by a toast. This might be related somewise to the instruction printed at the foot of the first page: 'Guests are requested to bring the Lid of their Mess Tin with them'. The Societies, as above] unknown
1919120356Adelaide: 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase by J.L. Bonython & Co.' 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase by J.L. Bonython & Co.' 1919. Quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations mainly caricatures signed 'ESBEE' - possibly 68529 Private Edgar Stead Bailey listed in the nominal roll on page 28. Pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with some expert conservation sealed tears with minor loss to the edges filled in; bottom corner lightly stained throughout; signs of age and use; overall a presentable copy. A 'Chronicle of the doings of the last Australian troopship to reach South Africa and find that their services were not required as an Armistice had been signed but a few days previously' foreword. The extensive Nominal Roll pages 25-31 contains about 1200 names. The contents are a little more sobering than the usual troopship journal. The Honor Roll page 24 lists 29 men and women all but one of whom died from influenza after the ship had returned to Fremantle on 12 December this number includes four nursing sisters. A further three pages are devoted to accounts of the Spanish influenza that raged through the ship having been brought on board by infected local stevedores at Durban. 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.' paperback
193180489Adelaide: 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. Octavo 171 pages with the press mark on the title page. Flush-cut quarter cloth and plain papered boards with the title indistinctly printed along the spine; stitching loose; however it is probably pretty much an as-issued copy of a very indifferent private press production. Inscribed by the author who later released his hand-set and hand-printed items under the imprint of The Horace Walpole Press. Offered together with four other titles from the Press: 'Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1933; 'More Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1935 and 'Selections from Modern French Poetry' and 'Dips into the Classics' both translated by H.E. Ashley and F.E. Rogers. Although the last two mentioned are undated Farmer 'Private Presses and Australia' 1972 gives 1938 as the publication date of 'Selections from Modern French Poetry'. As this book lists all of the titles recorded by Farmer other than 'Memoirs of a Medico' 1941 it seems reasonable to suggest that the six undated titles in Farmer appeared not later than 1938. Of the four extra titles offered here only 'Occasional Verse' is not inscribed and signed by the author. Frederick Edward Rogers 1865-1947 was an English doctor. He recounts in his memoirs that 'In 1923 my health being indifferent my wife and I and two younger daughters set sail for Adelaide South Australia where we joined our second girl who had married a Digger'. 5 items. 'Printed and Published by the Author' hardcover
194179998Adelaide: 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' The Author 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' The Author 1941. Octavo v first two blank 5 last two blank 484 pages. Overlapping limp cloth with a paper title-label on the spine; covers slightly marked bumped and indented with marginal pinpricks to the front cover and the first 60 or so pages; endpapers offset with the rear one marked; overall a very good copy of an indifferent production meaning the pinpricks are probably 'as-issued'!. Inscribed 'To Eric & Jean McLaughlin with the Compliments & Best Wishes of F.E. Rogers Xmas /41'. The book was hand-set and printed by the author who apologizes in the preface for the many errors present. 'These errors are due I think mainly to composing much of the matter without an intervening manuscript stage' - no mean feat! Frederick Edward Rogers 1865-1947 was an English doctor. He recounts in his memoirs that 'In 1923 my health being indifferent my wife and I and two younger daughters set sail for Adelaide South Australia where we joined our second girl who had married a Digger'. We have previously sighted an obituary that mentioned that a second volume of memoirs was published in 1945; Farmer does not record this in 'Private Presses and Australia' 1972 and the supplement in 1976. 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' [The Author] hardcover
109232The Hundred of Kappakoola sic derived from Kappakoola Hill near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 information courtesy of Trove; apparently she photographed better than she raced. unknown
122044Two vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs image size 162 × 213 mm on original stiff card mounts external dimensions approximately 250 × 305 mm. The photographs and mounts are in uniformly excellent condition. The photographer is not identified but written in ballpoint pen on the verso of each mount is '1933 Probably funeral of Reg Player Fuller'. Reg Fuller one of 'the State's best riders over hurdles and fences' died as a result of injuries received when his horse 'fell with him in the steeplechase at Victoria Park' on Saturday 22 April 1933. Short articles on his death appeared in a number of Australian newspapers including the 'Sydney Morning Herald'; the most informative one is in the Adelaide 'Chronicle' on Thursday 4 May 1933. In part it states that Fuller 'had been riding at registered race meetings for about 12 years and during that time he had comparatively few falls in jumping races a tribute to his ability. Before the accident at Victoria Park he had broken his collarbone twice and had had several fractured ribs. It was a remarkable record as Fuller always a fearless horseman did not hesitate to ride horses new to jumping. He rode in hurdle races for three years before he had his first fall. Fuller has left a widow and one child'. 2 items. unknown
1994145658Kadina: The Author 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kadina The Author 1994. Quarto x 350 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and genealogical tables. Pictorial card covers a little creased and marked; ownership signature on the half-title; a very good copy. The Author paperback
187297606Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Flush-cut dark blue cloth over thin boards with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; very occasional foxing slightly heavier on the edges and endpapers; small light stain in the front gutter; an excellent copy. The name of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
187280725Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Original flush-cut dark green cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities with slight wear in a couple of places; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers a little marked with some scuffing and silverfish damage to the front flyleaf; small stain to the bottom edge bleeding very slightly into some bottom margins; very occasional foxing; three smallish areas on pages 167-70 lost to silverfish with two patches affecting some 25 words of text now supplied on an insert; a very good copy. A note dated January 1879 in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Provenance: P. Curzon Clement with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. Peake 'Australian Personal Bookplates' 983 recording John Shirlow as the artist. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
