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189937817ABBerlin, Mittler & Sohn 1899. 8°. XIV, 407 S. HLwd der Zt mit Rückentitel in Gold. Zart gebräunt; wenige Ecken mit geringfügiger Knickspur; Exlibris. (=Die Europäischen Kolonien. Dritter Band).
189585DxParis Lecène Oudin 1895 In8 - cartonnage demi toile - titres dorés - 266 pages - rare ouvrage sur les systèmes de bannissement et de transportation dans les colonies de différents pays .Envoi autographe signé d'un des auteurs en page de garde .
189585DxParis Lecène Oudin 1895 In8 - cartonnage demi toile - titres dorés - 266 pages - rare ouvrage sur les systèmes de bannissement et de transportation dans les colonies de différents pays .Envoi autographe signé d'un des auteurs en page de garde .
1880131626Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blind-decorated red cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and its Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little flecked with minimal loss to silverfish on the spine and rear cover; edges slightly marked; an excellent copy internally fine. Provenance: the contemporary surname signature 'Benny' is written in ink on the front flyleaf. Reverend James Benny 1824-1910 farmer lawyer then 'minister of the Free Presbyterian Church at Morphett Vale' from the early 1850s; an account of his jubilee celebrations appeared in 'The Advertiser' 16 September 1903. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
188010740Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blue cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and its Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed bumped and worn at the extremities; stitching just starting to loosen; a very good copy with the signature stamp of E. Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. Edward Angas Johnson 1873-1951 was an Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles; his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
1862136982London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. Octavo xviii 404 pages with 32 illustrations plus 5 pages of plates and a map. Gilt- and blind-stamped green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine all edges uncut; cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities with trifling wear to a spot along the rear joint; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Ferguson 18805. This copy contains a series of interesting albeit relatively unimportant early marks of ownership from William Charles Rigby's early blindstamp with premises at 55 Hindley Street to the ink signature of a policeman 'Frank Karuth Kadina S.A. 13/8/64' ruled out on the title page and the pencilled signatures of vigneron and publican Francis Robert Hunt Hahndorf twice and subsequently his son Leonard who died in 1919. The first of many significant and original contributions to Australian geology palaeontology and zoology by Father Tenison-Woods 1832-1889. These days he is perhaps more widely known for the fact that with 'Mother Mary MacKillop he helped to found the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover
187898735Adelaide: George Robertson 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1878. Small quarto iv 138 pages. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover and spine and ruled in blind front and rear; cloth moderately flecked; an excellent copy internally fine. Printed and bound in Melbourne with the binder's label of George Robertson on the rear pastedown. Mrs John Crawford Woods was the wife of the first minister 1855-1889 of the Unitarian Christian Church in South Australia. This book 'was published in Adelaide at a time when novels of primitive Christianity were in vogue in Britain' and according to Paul Depasquale in 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930' enabled Mrs Woods to more than satisfy George Eliot's dictum about female authors: 'The inability of a lady novelist to describe actual life and her fellow men is in inverse proportion to her confident eloquence about God and the other world and the means by which she usually chooses to conduct you to true ideas of the invisible is a totally false picture of the visible'. George Robertson hardcover
1879138110Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original green ribbed cloth; spine and front cover blocked in gilt with the cover design repeated in blind on the rear cover; covers lightly rubbed and flecked with some short splits at the head and foot of the spine; infrequent light foxing; a few minor signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An early compendium here in the preferred binding of elaborately gilt-blocked green cloth of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879123987Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original publisher's half morocco and watered cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments; edges and endpapers marbled; leather moderately rubbed at the extremities; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. <p>Provenance: John Harris Browne 1817-1904 expeditioner and pastoralist with his contemporary ownership signature 'J.H. Browne 1879' on the front flyleaf. 'In 1844-45 he went as medical officer with Charles Sturt's expedition into Central Australia. Unusually observant and intensely practical he was probably the most useful member of the party and although he suffered like the others from scurvy his courage and professional skill certainly brought Sturt back alive' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant pastoralist and a grandson of George Fife Angas is mounted on the front pastedown. The marginal annotation in pencil on page 212 alongside text relating to body painting of the 'Port Lincoln Tribe' may be in his hand: 'The White paint is Gypsum the Black is the Black Oxide of Manganese the Red is Hematite viz Red Iron ore'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879144282Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Full russet morocco extensively tooled in gilt; all edges gilt; spine lightly sunned; joints slightly cracked but firm; a few minor signs of age and handling internally; overall in excellent condition. The handsome colonial presentation binding has the ticket 'Bound at Government Printing Office Adelaide S.A.' on the rear pastedown; it was almost certainly executed by Emanuel Spiller the South Australian Government Printer at the time. An early binder's blank contains the inscription 'The South Australian Institute to Dr. Francis Reuleaux; Privy Councillor and Royal Professor; Chief Commissioner for the Empire of Germany at the Melbourne International Exhibition. Adelaide 1881'. Franz Reuleaux 1829-1905 was an influential German mechanical engineer who oversaw German machinery exhibits at the Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions 1879-81. He is best known as the father of modern kinematics. His armorial bookplate with manuscript inventory number is mounted opposite the inscription. <p>Spiller's name appears as exhibitor and jury-member of competitions and exhibitions of binding and printing throughout the 1880s. The 'Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 March 1880 carries a lengthy article by John Plummer on colonial bookbindings displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition noting that '. in the South Australian Court Mr. E. Spiller the Government printer of Adelaide occupies the foremost rank'. <p>The book itself is an important early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879106051Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages. Original dark green cloth decorated in black on the front and rear boards and decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth lightly flecked; a fine copy. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time of publication; the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods is new to this edition. This is a variant edition as issued we purchased several copies some years ago from the publisher's archive; it does not contain the eight tinted lithographs normally found in this collected reprint. These plates were new to the reprint. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting variant bindings but not noting this unillustrated edition. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
184920650Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover
184920650Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover books
1848123412London: John Murray 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1848. Octavo xii 392 4 advertisements pages with several tables plus a small folding map 215 × 170 mm. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in blind on the spine and both sides later rebacked retaining the original backstrip but with replacement endpapers; cloth a little rubbed marked and scuffed with the corners a little worn and bumped; occasional foxing; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia and contains from this source detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer on Agriculture Stock Farming Building Gardening Manufacturing in various branches . and Mining and Mineral Productions'. There are chapters on overlanding 31 pages and Aborigines 52 pages. Significantly this copy contains numerous contemporary annotations in pencil on 25 pages. Many of the comments are highly critical. A fine example is the first one in the book at the foot of the second page of the preface below the author's remarks about the 'capacities and kindliness of the new home which may await all who are desirous to emigrate to the splendid country and exquisite climate of South Australia'. Excuse me what about the 'Drawbacks - Scorching sun and hot winds clouds of dust millions of flies and fleas and moschettos and ants swarms of rogues and lying rascals plenty of Thieves - also high Rents and high price of food and a deprivation of luxuries & sometimes of the necessaries of life'. Several of the complaints relate to prices especially of food; one of them is dated 'vegetables we find very dear. Mar 1849'. The author finishes a few pages about fires thus: 'In a large plain covered with such materials and on fire there would be little chance of escape; and few lamentations would be allowed as death would be too instantaneous. From this danger however so formidable in America the Australians are happily relieved'. The man on the spot retorts: 'Black Thursday is a witness that the Australians are not always so happily relieved'. Provenance: Harold Sheard with his bookplate designed by his wife the artist Rose Lowcay. John Murray hardcover
184810550London: John Murray 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1848. Octavo xii 392 4 advertisements pages plus a folding map 215 × 170 mm. Original blind-stamped cloth slightly bumped at the edges and very slightly rubbed at the head and foot of the spine; front joint slightly split; an excellent copy and rare thus in our experience as the original cloth is prone to wear. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia and contains from this source detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer on Agriculture Stock Farming Building Gardening Manufacturing in various branches . and Mining and Mineral Productions'. There are chapters on overlanding 31 pages and Aborigines 52 pages. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown 1925-2009 solicitor collector and philanthropist with his pencilled ownership initials. 'In 2011 the University of Sydney used his substantial bequest to establish both the Tom Austen Brown Chair in Australian Anthropology the first such chair at an Australian university and the publication series Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology' 'Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation' online. John Murray hardcover
1849115821London: John Murray 1849. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London John Murray 1849. Duodecimo xii 110 6 advertisements 16 'The South Australian Handbook Advertiser' pages but lacking the small folding map. Later binder's cloth retaining the original printed wrappers; all edges uncut; a short sealed tear to one preliminary leaf with a few tiny closed marginal tears elsewhere; light marginal tidemark to the front wrapper and title leaf; trifling signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Provenance: Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope 1920-2018 Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' LCA obituary; his signature in pencil appears on the front free endpaper. Ferguson 5248 not noting that the wrappers have the details and full catalogue of Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library' printed on the inside front and both rear surfaces. John Murray paperback
1850DEMO014460IPhiladelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1850. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Good. 64 excellent steel-plate engravings with 12 of 13 maps Samoa map apparently never inserted many vignettes and woodcuts. Octavos half brown calf blue marbled boards edges and endpapers; vol. 1 rebacked retaining original back and leather labels scuffing and wear to other spines corners worn. <br/><br/>Wilkes' expedition was the first American scientific exploring expedition by sea voyage. His six ships sailed south around South America along Antarctica causing Wilkes to decide that Antarctica was indeed a separate continent. Other stops were at the Pacific islands of Tahiti the Samoas Australia and New Zealand. Maps of Tahiti & Australia and New South Wales Along the way they charted the coasts of California Washington and Oregon. Howes W414; Palau 375505; Sabin 103994 note; see Cowan p.683; Taylor PACIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY p.13. "Wilkes' spectacular Antarctic and South Sea explorations - Goetzmann ARMY EXPLORATION IN THE . WEST p.61" 64 excellent steel-plate engravings many vignettes and woodcuts. Unlike the 1844 edition the following Sherman editions did not have a 6th volume - the Atlas but have 3 Tables and 11 maps Printed by C. Sherman hardcover
1871115341Adelaide: Printed and Published by David Gall 1871. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Adelaide Printed and Published by David Gall 1871 thirty-second thousand. Duodecimo 36 pages plus the pictorial title-cover and rear cover advertisement. Flush-cut card covers blue paper mounted on plain card originally sewn onto the text thread now missing; minor signs of use and age but nonetheless a decent copy with the contemporary ownership details of young 'Friedrich Busch 1873' in ink on the inside front cover. The outside rear cover lists nine titles including this one in Wickes' Educational Series for Australian Use. The works were 'specially compiled' by Edward Walter Wickes 1795-1868 'formerly Secretary to the Board of Education' who had also conducted his own school in North Adelaide in the 1840s and 1850s. A lengthy testimonial to him appeared in the 'South Australian Weekly Chronicle' 12 October 1867. In part it noted that 'he essayed to benefit the children of the working classes by the introduction of very cheap school books which he accomplished for he published books so cheap that the poorest were not debarred from purchasing them'. Despite the large numbers printed clearly there were at least 32000 of our title by 1871 and it appears to have still been published as late as 1891 copies of any edition are very scarce. Trove records a grand total of only five copies ranging from 1858 to 1891 with none from the 1870s. Printed and Published by David Gall paperback
185720665Smith Elder & Co. 1857. 8vo. First Edition with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps one folding; one full-page; original green cloth sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED primrose endpapers upper hinge cracked but binding entirely sound a remarkably well-preserved bright clean fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue dated July 1857 bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418. Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown books
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown
1848056240Sydney: W. & F. Ford 1848. title continues: Statistics. Illustrated with Numerous maps and Drawings. xvi 438 2 pages 16 advertisements 4 plates 23 col maps 1 folding additional engraved advertising plate. Half leather titled in gilt to spine. Ferguson 4949. This copy with an additional engraved advertising plate for J. Goodwin Law & Fancy Book Binder Sydney and with a map of the Orient Steam Navigation Company routes with departures from London to Australia on verso loosely inserted at rear. Minor rubbing to spine some tanning and foxing. Bookplate of Peter Shand Kydd inside front cover. Signature of P.L. Simmonds and blindstamp of Simmonds & Co Agents Barge Yard London on title page. A very nice complete copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. W. & F. Ford Hardcover
18976791Melbourne: George Robertson and Co 1897. viii 248 pages. Original light brown cloth with titling and rules on upper board and spine. Front free endpaper is price clipped. A very attractive and crisp copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. George Robertson and Co Hardcover
1892032604Sydney: Charles Potter 1892. 67pp 43 bw plates at rear many folding and large folding map at front. Contemporary brown cloth titled in gold. Front hinge cracked 6cm tear to map some minor foxing. Scarce early title on Australian timbers published under authority of the NSW Commissioners for the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. Charles Potter Hardcover
1862140418Adelaide: Printed and published at the 'Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices 1862. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed and published at the 'Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices 1862. Octavo 78 xxii advertisements pages plus advertisements on both sides of the rear wrapper. Original green wrappers with the title page details repeated within a different border on the front cover; wrappers a little marked and creased with some slight wear at the corners affecting also the bottom corner-tip of the last few leaves; spine a little cracked but sound with minimal loss at both ends; minor signs of age and use but overall an excellent copy of a rarity seldom found in any condition - let alone as pleasing as this - now housed in a fine mid-green morocco Solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Descriptions 'are given of most of the most important vineyards and of some of the less important of them having due regard to age extent and quality of produce. South Australia will without doubt become one of the most important Wine countries of the world. The experiments of the past twenty years have proved the advantage of its soil and climate and enough practical knowledge has been acquired to enable its Vignerons to guard against the common errors which so frequently produced discouragement in the earlier days of the Colony'. The original articles are here supplemented 'by revision and some trifling annotations'. <p>Ferguson 18189 noting only green cloth boards. Printed and published at the 'Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices paperback
