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194223536Australian Red Cross Society 1942. Otherwise very good condition. Two-page circular on thin salmon colored paper. The circular lists 10 directions for sending letters including one-page only and of a strictly personal character typed or clearly written. ". any person may send a letter to a prisoner of war In Japanese hands but in view of difficulties of transmission it is urged that until information is received from the Japanese as to prisoners of war and their places of internment letters should be sent only once a month and by close relatives only." <br /> <br /> The Central Red Cross Bureau based in Melbourne was the go through organization for such mail. Letters could be posted the sheet gives instructions on how to address such a letter at any post office and they would be forwarded post free by ordinary mail without stamps. "Upon arrival in Melbourne the Red Cross will arrange with the proper authorities for their onward dispatch." The piece is coded at upper front right 10 M / 30 / 6 / 42 indicating that 10000 were printed on June 30 1942. The circular measures 8 ¾" x 5 ½"; 2 ¾"; closed tear coming down from top; fold mark; upper right corner dinged. Australian Red Cross Society unknown
1962138335Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1851. Octavo ix 50 pages. Synthetic cloth; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned; leaves uncut; an excellent copy. Peade SA27: one of only 48 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library 'reproduced . using the xerographic process' with the text bound from concertina-fold paper printed on one side only uncut and unopened along the leading edges. <p> The text is in German. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
1937124445Renmark: W. Gilmore Taylor 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Renmark W. Gilmore Taylor 1937. Quarto 48 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Colour-decorated wrappers; tiny chip to the head of the spine; a few early leaves lightly creased with a few tiny chips; an excellent copy. Loosely inserted are two 1954 tourist pamphlets 'Renmark on the Murray' and 'The Upper Murray in South Australia' both 4 pages octavo and in fine condition. 3 items. W. Gilmore Taylor paperback
187458351Adelaide: Government Printer 1874. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1874. Foolscap folio 1 page. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now disbound; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1874. A highly critical report compiled by Thomas Reynolds on his official trip to the Northern Territory as Commissioner of Crown Lands the previous year; he was in the Territory from 17 May to 11 June 1873 and this report is dated 16 July of that year. His paper hits the table with a bang - "there is not a building belonging to Government that can be considered creditable except the Telegraph offices and they are facing the wrong way" - and gets louder. Government Printer unknown
98784An attractive calligraphic testimonial visible image size 390 × 260 mm in blue ink on a two-tone blue background within a decorative gilt border was signed by nine senior members of the congregation and presented to the outgoing Honorary Secretary. It is surmounted by a large ornamental scroll a mass of wattle blossom and a large vignette illustration of a paddle steamer towing a heavily-laden barge on the River Murray. The copious amounts of dirty smoke belching forth are starkly realistic - an unexpected bonus on an otherwise routine production. The work is signed 'Niehuus & Lucy Adelaide'; we are unsure when they commenced work together but the partnership was dissolved four months after this commission was completed. Minimal foxing and light surface blemishes do not detract from this charming period piece recently mounted and matted ready for framing. unknown
191280313Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1912 and 1913. Foolscap folio 66 pages plus a folding chart 3 large folding plans or charts describing a typical plan of a lock and weir and charting the effects of certain reservoirs on navigation and a large folding map of the Murray 555 × 910 mm the 'section between Swan Reach and Wentworth . showing locations of lock-sites' with a very large inset map of the entire length of the river and 32 pages plus a folding map 'Proposed improvements in the vicinity of the mouth of the River Murray' 537 × 518 mm. Contemporary full morocco lettered in gilt on the front cover 'Captain Johnston's River Murray Reports'; the original spine is missing and has been replaced with a fairly pedestrian piece of cloth giving it a quarter cloth look; extremities rubbed bumped and a little worn; title pages a little marked with the second one a little foxed along the top margin; neat repairs to a few trifling tears to the folding plans with a tape-stain to an old repair along one fold of the last map; slight nicks to the bottom edge of some leaves in the first paper; overall in very good condition. The ownership signature of Arthur Searcy 1913 is written in pencil on each title page. Arthur Searcy 1852-1935 was Controller of Harbors from July 1911 and Chairman of the Harbors Board Committee until his retirement at the age of 65 information from the Searcy scrapbooks in the State Library of South Australia. He was the older brother of the more well-known Alfred 1854-1925. <p>Loosely inserted are retained duplicate typescripts of two letters in all four pages foolscap from Searcy as Chairman of the Board to the Minister of Marine regarding proposed works at Victor Harbor one page and Goolwa three pages. The letters are signed and dated at the head by Searcy August and September 1922 respectively; the one on Goolwa raises numerous objections to Johnston's scheme. Three related contemporary newspaper cuttings one printing a lengthy letter from Simpson Newland are also present. The September 1928 ownership signature of E.H. Bakewell is written in pencil on the recto of the front free endpaper. Bakewell was managing director of the South Australian Reinforced Concrete Company which makes sense in this context. R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer hardcover
1853100379Adelaide: W.C. Cox Printer 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Printer 1853. Octavo 46 pages. Relatively recent quarter morocco and buckram by the Law Bindery Melbourne; title leaf a little foxed with minimal light scattered foxing to a few other leaves; an excellent copy with most interesting provenance see below. The author Clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia was on board the vessel; this is his account of the first successful navigation of the Murray as far as Swan Hill by Captain Francis Cadell. Fellow-passenger James Allen also published his version of events. Captain William Randell and his paddle-steamer 'Mary Ann' left Goolwa at the Murray mouth ahead of Cadell and travelled much farther up the Murray but Cadell overtook him en route and reached Swan Hill first. However both men deservedly earned the bonus of 2000 pounds offered by the South Australian Government 'for each of the first two steamers to travel up the Murray as far as the Darling junction' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. We have noted previously the manuscript correction page 5 line 4 'largest' to 'longest' river and presume it is in Kinloch's hand. At the head of the title page of this copy is the pencilled ownership name possibly his signature of Robert Wadsworth over-written in red ink by the subsequent owner 'John Shillinglaw from Robert Wadsworth 1854'. Shillingworth has annotated the text in both pencil and red ink three and seven pages respectively. The pencilling identifies the 'gentleman's son' working as a shepherd as 'old "Bigodd Macdonald"' and asks elsewhere of a sentence nine lines long 'what does this wretched twaddler mean' he's got a point too!. Robert Wadsworth was eventually Clerk of the Victorian Executive Council from 1875 to 1889; of passing interest to bibliophiles his son Arthur 1864-1931 was the first Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian having 'charge of the Commonwealth library for over twenty-six years while also being titular head of the Victorian State parliamentary library' ADB. <p>John Joseph Shillinglaw 1831-1905 public servant and historian was the eldest son of the librarian of the Royal Geographical Society. 'He was to study under Captain John Washington eminent maritime surveyor and in 1852 he migrated with his father and brothers to Victoria arriving in October. From November he was chief clerk of petty sessions at Williamstown and in 1854 was appointed inspector and sometime acting superintendent of the Water Police. He was also secretary to the Steam Navigation Board until December 1857. In 1856-69 he was shipping-master for the Port of Melbourne and registrar of seamen; he helped to found the first Sailors' Home and did much to improve the working conditions of seamen'. It is hardly surprising that he should be given a copy of this book soon after its publication. He held various public service positions over the years; from 1885-94 he 'was secretary to the royal commission on vegetable products. He was also secretary to the Board of Viticulture. Shillinglaw was an enthusiast in whatever department he worked; however he is remembered for his association with colonial literature and history'. He was the author of numerous books and on his death his estate 'included a vast collection of papers and rare books' presumably including this item ADB. Ferguson 11196. W.C. Cox, Printer hardcover
185378787Adelaide: W.C. Cox Printer 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Printer 1853. Octavo 46 pages. Antique-style quarter calf and marbled papered boards; title page slightly dusty and a trifle marked with two tiny closed tears to the top edge; a few pencilled emphases to the margins; light vertical crease down the centre of the last six leaves; an excellent copy. The author Clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia was on board the vessel; this is his account of the first successful navigation of the Murray as far as Swan Hill by Captain Francis Cadell. Fellow-passenger James Allen also published his version of events. Captain William Randell and his paddle-steamer 'Mary Ann' left Goolwa at the Murray mouth ahead of Cadell and travelled much farther up the Murray but Cadell overtook him en route and reached Swan Hill first. However both men deservedly earned the bonus of 2000 pounds offered by the South Australian Government 'for each of the first two steamers to travel up the Murray as far as the Darling junction' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. W.C. Cox, Printer hardcover
1935141019Adelaide: The Hassell Press for the Author 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Hassell Press for the Author 1935. Octavo 16 pages with 6 illustrations. Saddle-stapled overlapping textured wrappers with a reproduction of the illustration on page 9 tipped in on the front cover; essentially a fine copy. Loosely inserted is a small slip of paper with the typed message 'All Souls' Tide'; this was also present in the only other copy of this booklet we have seen. The Adelaide newspaper 'The Advertiser' has a comprehensive account of the work on 10 January 1936 in an article headed 'Pioneer Memories Told In Rhyme'. 'Memories of pioneer personalities told in rhyme and rhythm have been revived by Miss Eva Roach under the nom de plume of "Cousin Silvia" in an attractively illustrated booklet "Homing." In nine short poems Miss Roach has told of some of the men and women who came from England nearly a century ago; of Grandpa Lovegrove who "was alive in eighteen hundred and thirty-five" and the story of the map in Grannie's house introduced by a reproduction of a quaint cottage in Berkshire where Ann Nightingale and all her ancestors and their descendants have lived since 1560 and Ann worked the map as "a child of 10 when George III ruled Englishmen." Pleasant Cottage at Penwortham revives memories of "Great Grandpa Lee and Horrocks the Explorer" while a picture of the last house at Land's End Cornwall illustrates the poem on the Cornishmen's lucky find "at Burra in 1845." Other short poems introduce the Duke of Edinburgh's visit in 1867 and Nilpena the home of Grandpa Lee'. The Hassell Press [for the Author paperback
197957393Hackney: Urban and Environmental Planning Group 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Hackney Urban and Environmental Planning Group 1979. Folio two volumes vi 88 and 89-181 pages with numerous plates drawings and maps plus a large folding map in a rear pocket. Plastic comb bound card covers with clear plastic front covers; a fine set. Urban and Environmental Planning Group paperback
193375181London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1933 first edition. Octavo 317 pages. Pictorial cloth a little marked and sunned and slightly bumped at the corners; a very good copy. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller; Percival Charles Rodda's twelfth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym Loder. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Aunt Rick and Ken with love Perce. Leaden Roding 5th May 1933' from the South Australian-born author to relatives in Adelaide. Hodder & Stoughton Limited hardcover
193175180London: Hodder and Stoughton 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. London Hodder and Stoughton 1931 first edition. Octavo 320 pages. Cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges and a few leading margins slightly marked; endpapers offset; top margin slightly cockled throughout a little more pronounced in the first third of the book; overall still a better-than-good copy. Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick with love Perce. Leaden Roding 15 Jan. 1932' from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda to relatives in Adelaide. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller with a visit to Australia in passing; the author's eighth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym Loder. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
197180600Adelaide: The Commission 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Commission 1971. Quarto 267 pages rectos only of processed typescript with 2 maps and 3 original mounted photographic prints each approximately 103 × 150 mm. Plastic comb-bound plain card covers a little tanned rubbed and bumped; a very good copy. In 1970 Sir Charles Hart Bright 1912-1983 judge 'was appointed royal commissioner to inquire into the anti-war demonstration organised by the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign which held in Adelaide in September of that year ended in a violent confrontation with police. His recommendations formed the basis for an enlightened system of regulating assemblies and demonstrations in public places that was implemented through the Public Assemblies Act 1972 of South Australia' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The Commission paperback
1978146447Adelaide: D.J. Woolman Government Printer 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Adelaide D.J. Woolman Government Printer 1978. Quarto 90 pages. Wrappers a trifle rubbed at the corners; occasional highlighting; in good condition. The official report of the Royal Commission chaired by Justice Roma Mitchell which found that South Australian Police Commissioner Harold Salisbury had misled the state government with regard to personal files maintained by 'Special Branch' and that his dismissal was justified and legal. Offered together with a copy of the report of Acting Justice White which prompted the dismissal 'Special Branch Security Records. Initial Report to the Honourable Donald Allan Dunstan Q.C. LL.B. M.P. Premier of the State of South Australia' South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 145 of 1978; 82 pages; stapled as issued; some tanning and highlighting. <p>'For years questions had been raised as to whether some files kept by the Special Branch were political and sexual in nature. A January 1978 report found that they were. The crux of the matter was that Salisbury misled Dunstan twice about the files who in turn misled the parliament. Salisbury denied his accountability to the government and refused to resign. Dunstan's sacking of him was constitutionally justified though done so quickly that it sparked public outcry and demonstrations. A June 1978 royal commission report found that the dismissal was justifiable. While Dunstan was vindicated the criticism took a political and personal toll. In February 1979 he collapsed in the House during question time and resigned on the advice of his doctor' Australian Dictionary of Biography. D.J. Woolman, Government Printer paperback
187674030Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1876. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1876. Foolscap folio xxviii 138 xxii pages with 2 folding plans. Title-wrapper; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound with residual glue and backing paper along the spine; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1876. Detailed answers to 3897 questions; with much on contemporary manufacturing industries in their relation to public health. W.C. Cox, Government Printer unknown
1980146643Hahndorf: Fox Publishing 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hahndorf Fox Publishing 1980. Octavo 104 pages with maps family trees and numerous illustrations from photographs. Card covers slightly worn; minor insect damage to the front cover about the leading edge; a very good copy nevertheless. Designed by Anni Luur Fox. Fox Publishing paperback
1930143563Adelaide: Boy Scouts Association South Australian Branch 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Boy Scouts Association South Australian Branch 1930. Octavo 4 pages. A bifolium; slightly marked and creased; later saddle-stapled into plain brown paper wrappers resulting in two small tears at the fold where the staples have pulled through; a very good copy. The third World Scout Jamboree was held between 29 July and 12 August 1929 at Arrowe Park near Birkenhead United Kingdom. The 'Menu a la Arrowe' features Salad au Jamboree and the programme includes a 'Response' from Chief Commissioner for South Australia Captain S.A. White. Boy Scouts Association, South Australian Branch] paperback
1996135149Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1996. 1st edition. As New. small quarto. stiff wrappers 248pp. col. & b/w pls. text ills. maps sources index Please note that there is no CD with this book Wakefield Press unknown
1951143283Adelaide: The Advertiser Printing Office for Seppelt Wines 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide The Advertiser Printing Office for Seppelt Wines 1951. Octavo vi 52 pages with a colour frontispiece portrait plus 12 pages of plates 4 in colour. Gilt-decorated purple cloth very lightly marked; a near-fine copy. We have previously handled a deluxe edition bound in purple suede with the Seppelt coat of arms in enamelled metal mounted on the front cover and printed on better-quality paper than the standard version. This copy appears to be a hybrid of the standard binding albeit with much better gilt blocking on the deluxe contents. The Advertiser Printing Office [for Seppelt Wines] hardcover
2023145281Cherry Gardens: Historical Consultants Pty Ltd for the Seymour family 2023. Hardcover. Near fine. Cherry Gardens Historical Consultants Pty Ltd for the Seymour family July 2023 second impression/ October 2022. Large quarto viii 180 pages with maps numerous illustrations some in colour and a double-page genealogical table. Colour-pictorial papered boards; trifling production blemish to the front cover; a near-fine copy. Historical Consultants Pty Ltd for the Seymour family hardcover
1981127731Hawthorndene: Investigator Press Pty Ltd 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hawthorndene Investigator Press Pty Ltd 1981. Oblong small folio; pictorial papered boards; an excellent copy. Investigator Press, Pty, Ltd hardcover
1928133371Melbourne: Shell Company of Australia 1928. 1st ed. thus. As New. quarto. hardback with dust jacket 51pp. illusts. col. maps Lovely copy in like dust jacket Shell Company of Australia hardcover
1988145984Lake Hamilton: The Sheringa History Committee 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lake Hamilton The Sheringa History Committee 1988. Large octavo x 252 pages with numerous illustrations and several maps plus a loosely inserted errata slip. Pictorial papered boards lightly sunned and marked on the spine; front and rear hinges a little discoloured; an excellent copy. 'The township of Sheringa is situated on the Eyre Highway 129 kilometres north-west of Port Lincoln on Eyre Peninsula'. The Sheringa History Committee hardcover
1883208551883. Very good overall. An interesting hand painted and roneoed ship's musical program. Produced for an Australian ship voyage 29th November 1883 with the proceeds of the performance "devoted to the relief of the suffering of a destitute and invalided steerage passenger". <br /> <br /> The evenings proceedings are roneographed inside the fold. It lists 15 performances including arrangements for violin and piano; a "letter song: Rip Van Winkle"; other songs a recitation; "Italian boat song"; and a vocal duet. The performers include Mr. & Mrs. Rignold and Signor Steffani. Mr. & Mrs. G. Rignold are recorded as having traveled from Adelaide to Sydney on 29th January 1883 on the ship "Birksgate" and in October 1886 they traveled on the ship "Hanroto" from Hobart to Melbourne with Mr. & Mrs. Lohr all of them described as "Theatrical". Signor Steffani is listed in the Sand's Sydney Directory for 1883 at 129 Phillips St. and in 1895 as a "teacher of singing" at 56 Elizabeth St. ancestry dot com. In fact the performances by "professionals" were most likely money making efforts for the performers who traveled repeatedly between various ports in Australia. One wonders if the money collected actually went to relieve the suffering of "a destitute and invalided steerage passenger" unless that is Mr. Rignold or Mr. Steffani. <br /> <br /> The R. M. S. John Elder made voyages between London and Australia see article in the Sydney Morning Herald referring to arrival from London on 15 July 1885 just 6 months after this voyage on the NLA website. It seems possible that this voyage was only in Australian waters as the Rignold's were already in Australia in January 1883. <br /> <br /> The cover of the program is hand painted with a background design of gingko leaves daffodils and a dragon fly with a tropical island view superimposed. On blue coated paper folded with the number 1 penciled at lower left of the front. In some spots the text of the reproduction is faded and it has been re-written by hand in purple ink. Short closed tear bottom edge. Folded folio 8 3/4 x 13 1/2". The paper is speckled with white dots akin to some unusual sort of bleaching perhaps related to the paper making process as it skirts the cover illustration. <br /> <br /> An unusual survival. unknown
1888135488London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Wells Gardner Darton & Co. 1888/ 1887 first edition published in Adelaide. Octavo xxii 301 3 blank colophon blank 40 publisher's catalogue pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece 120 × 95 mm and an errata slip after page xiv not found in the Adelaide edition. Gilt-decorated cloth slightly rubbed; small paper label at the foot of the spine see below; edges and leaves adjacent to the boards a little foxed; overall an excellent copy. Pages ix-304 from the table of contents onwards are the sheets of the 1887 Adelaide edition. The first eight pages the cloth colour lettering and decoration for this London edition differ and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen paper photograph occasionally but not invariably found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 not noting the last point. <p>Provenance: Sir Henry Parkes 1815-1896 NSW politician and journalist with a commemorative bookplate on the front pastedown 'This book was one of a Collection associated with the name of Sir Henry Parkes and housed in the Chief Secretary's Department of New south Wales until 1956'. The inkstamp of the Colonial Secretary's Office is on the verso of the frontispiece and at the end of the author's preface; the inkstamp of the Colonial Secretary's Office Library is on the title-page and explains the small label on the spine. Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co hardcover
