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1976145410Adelaide: Rigby 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adelaide Rigby 1976. Quarto 628 pages with a frontispiece map 33 numbered line illustrations and 737 numbered 'plates' many from photographs plus 12 colour plates and a very large folding colour plate with an integral black and white key. Papered boards; front top corner lightly bumped; top and bottom edges slightly marked; two items mounted on the front free endpaper see below; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper lightly scored with a short scrape along the front leading edge. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara sic of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara sic of the Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South Central and Western Australia Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40. The following caveat is printed on the verso of the dedication page: 'Where Australian Aborigines are concerned and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; and because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed'. <p>Provenance: Dick Kimber Richard Glyn Kimber AM 1939-2024 author and historian with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2001 for 'services to the community through research projects and the recording of information of national interest in the areas of history anthropology Aboriginal art ecology and land management practices in Central Australia'. Taped to this page is the original slip of mustard-colour paper 100 × 203 mm with the text of the disclaimer printed on it; the clear tape is now discoloured staining a little both the slip and the endpaper. The small three-colour label of 'Marron's Newsagency Alice Springs N.T.' is mounted at the foot of the page; the original retail price of $35 is pencilled in the top corner. Rigby hardcover
1976146545Adelaide: Rigby 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adelaide Rigby 1976. Quarto 628 pages with a frontispiece map 33 numbered line illustrations and 737 numbered 'plates' many from photographs plus 12 colour plates and a very large folding colour plate with an integral black and white key. Papered boards; top and leading edges slightly marked; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper lightly unevenly sunned on the spine with a very short tear to the foot of the rear hinge. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara sic of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara sic of the Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South Central and Western Australia Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40. The following caveat is printed on the verso of the dedication page: 'Where Australian Aborigines are concerned and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; and because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed'. Rigby hardcover
2007042595Paris: Flammarion 2007. HEAVY. 237pp bibliography notes num bw & col ills maps pictorial endpapers. Or pictorial boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Celebrates the exploits of 31 women travellers over a century crossing five continents and facing unimaginable dangers. From derserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs often armed with no more specialized equipment than an umbrella and a 'good thick skirt'. . First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Flammarion Hardcover
DADAX1786608111Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2018-08-31. paperback. New. 6.02x0.62x8.73. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers paperback
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SONG1786608103Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2018-08-31. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.22x0.90x9.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
SONG1786608111Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2018-08-31. paperback. Used: Good. 6.02x0.62x8.73. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers paperback
1985BIB324881Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 1985. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. A Near Fine copy. Half-leather binding. Still has fitted glassine jacket with some light chipping to spine ends. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 454 pages. A history of trade union movement in South Australia. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Deluxe Edition. Hardback. Wakefield Press hardcover
1985105636Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1985 first edition. Octavo xviii 454 pages with numerous plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. Not stated as such but from the collection of SA historian Ron Gibbs. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the official launch a handwritten memorandum to Gibbs from and signed by John Playford on University of Adelaide letterhead and his scathing - and highly entertaining 'mirror mirror on the wall who's the Marxist of them all' - review of the book one of four photocopies of the annotated typescript. Playford's 1958 thesis for his B.A. Honours was 'History of the left-wing of the South Australian Labor Movement 1908-36'; a more appropriate candidate to review this significant book can hardly be imagined. Wakefield Press hardcover
1908020978Auckland: Collins Bros & Co. 1908. 46pp 10 bw plates at rear. Or pictorial card featuring paper nautilus. 2mm damp stain at top edge otherwise only very light edge wea and tiny bump at top front corner. Extremely scarce early work on the shells of New Zealand. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Spencer C. photographer. 8vo. Collins Bros & Co. Paperback
1953029030London: British Museum Natural History 1953. HEAVY. 550pp index appendix check list 364 bw ills photographs and line drawings. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Ex-Queensland Museum library with several stamps card pocket and label to spine. Spine slightly darkened very light bump to top frotn cover minor shelf wear. Exhaustive study of the Trichoptera caddis fly species to be found in Australia and New Zealand. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Ex-Library. British Museum (Natural History) Hardcover
1879009859London: Macmillan 1879. HEAVY. xvi 520pp; index; bibliography; 1 col folding chart; 2 colour plates; num bw woodcut ills. Rebound in modern burgundy textured cloth gilt title to spine edges red speckled. Single faint YMCA stamp at head of contents page prev owners name in pencil on ffep stain affecting first 14 pages to varying degrees- margin only on most pages including frontis. Ferguson 12883. Spence 820. British Museum Natural History Catalogue 1359. Wood 473. The Challenger expedition was one of the largest and most important natural history projects of the 19th century and traveled extensively in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The ship visited Antarctica and Austraia. Mosely's account is far more accessible to the reader than Wyville Thompson's far drier account of the same expedition. An important and lively account of the Challenger voyage. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. Macmillan Hardcover
1978021378Carlton Victoria Australia: Queensberry Hill Press 1978. Minor stains to top edge. 290 pages with b/w frontispiece. . Limited Edition Number 165 of 350 . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Queensberry Hill Press Hardcover
1978037520Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press 1978. 290pp index frontis portrait. Or cloth with black leather spine and corners half-leather in slipcase. Top edge gilt. Near new. Deluxe issue in half black Morrocco by Dove Bindery. #5 of only 7 copies. The experiences of a Victorian pioneer from 1842 originally published in 20 parts during the 1880s. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. 8vo. Queensberry Hill Press Hardcover
2013050767Brisbane: The Author 2013. HEAVY. 521pp index bibliography nominal roll bw & col ills 2 col maps loosely inserted. Moderate edge wear to covers first approx 100 pages water affected at top corner. A comprehensive history of the 7th Australian Infantry Brigade in New Guinea. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to. The Author Paperback
1940138394San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Company 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. San Francisco Camera Craft Publishing Company September 1940 third printing/ March 1937. Octavo 262 1 publisher's advertisement with a tinted frontispiece and numerous illustrations most from photographs. Cloth a little rubbed and marked; extremities very slightly bumped; edges and endpapers slightly marked; leaves very slightly cockled; a very good copy. Provenance: Walter MacNeill with his original gelatin silver bookplate and his signature and address Springfield 1941 in pencil on the front endpaper. The attractive scene depicted in the image may be his residence in the leafy Adelaide suburb. We have previously handled professional photographs with the blindstamp of Walter McNeill 41 Rundle Street Adelaide. Camera Craft Publishing Company hardcover
1897142619Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1897. Very Good. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1897. Foolscap folio two consecutive Parliamentary Papers 12 last blank and 4 last blank pages. Both items drop-title with pinholes and small notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; in excellent condition. Full details of the acrimonious dispute between Dr Morrison and the Board of Management of the Adelaide Hospital. By late November he was threatening to bring the matter before the notice of both Houses of Parliament: 'The rules a copy of which I received for the first time two days ago inasmuch as they thrust upon me duties altogether beneath my status here as Assistant Physician are a distinct violation of the contract into which I entered with the Government on November the 20th of last year. Would you therefore at once kindly give the matter your attention since I trust you may be able in Cabinet to immediately restore me to my original position'. <p>This brought an immediate response from the Under-Secretary: 'I am also directed to inform Dr. Morrison that he must be aware that so long as he continues an officer of the hospital he is not allowed to communicate direct with Ministers and that the tone of his letter is one he will do well to avoid in future'. <p>South Australian Parliamentary Paper Numbers 126 and 127 of 1897; each paper is one of only 500 copies. 2 items. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer unknown
1890BIB327888Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company. 1890. Quarto Size approx 24x29cm. Very Good condition. Gilt to page edges. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White lithographs portraits scenes plates. Repaired tear to one blank plate cover. Volume 1 only. 384 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback. The Aldine Publishing Company hardcover
20117718Bexley: Sydney Technical High School 2011. Quarto. 624 pages. Many b/w photos and text illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Hard Cover. Fine. Sydney Technical High School Hardcover
1896114062London: John C. Nimmo 1896. Paperback. Very Good. London John C. Nimmo 1896 fifth edition. Large octavo four volumes xxxii 253; vi 180; ii iv 223; and vi 5-321 pages with 3 illustrations plus 132 hand-coloured plates. Bound from the original parts in contemporary binder's cloth with the wrappers from one of the parts bound in at the rear of each volume; cloth slightly marked and rubbed with minor wear to the head of the rear joint of the last volume; endpapers offset; an excellent set. Provenance: Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper 1841-1923 botanist schoolteacher and entomologist with the 1906 receipt for the binding and the address label to him at 'Room No. 3 Public Library North Terrace' from the Adelaide bookseller and bookbinder W.C. Rigby mounted on the first flyleaf. 'In March 1883 Tepper was appointed natural history collector at the South Australian Museum; in 1888 he was promoted to entomologist numismatist and librarian there' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. John C. Nimmo paperback
63-3955Hawthorn Victoria Australia: Morris Lurie 1989. . Letter-Sized Sheet with Inked Signature. Very Good. Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia: Morris Lurie, 1989. unknown
63-3960Hawthorn Victoria Australia: Morris Lurie 1989. . Letter-Sized Sheet Typed with Inked Notes & Signature. Very Good. Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia: Morris Lurie, 1989. unknown
1940037836London: Adam & Charles Black 1940. xi 427pp index 8 folding maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket spine darkened2cm tear at top front spine fold and a couple of tiny chips. Endpapers toned prev owners name writ small on front free endpaper. An very nice example in the sarce jacket. Covers gold rushes worldwide over a century- not just the well known ones like Ballarat Bendigo California the Klondike and the Rand but also the lesser known goldfields of the Rockies Brazil and Siberia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Adam & Charles Black Hardcover
1945139209Adelaide: The Author 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1945. Octavo viii 72 pages plus 20 plates including 4 folding panoramas. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; a fine copy. Number 3 of only 200 copies numbered and signed in ink by the author. Charles Brown Fisher 1818-1908 was the second son of James Hurtle Fisher; he arrived with his father the first Resident Commissioner of South Australia on the 'Buffalo' in December 1836. He became one of the biggest pastoralists in Australia and the book tells of the development of country from the Mt Schanck run in the south to Victoria River Downs and Port Darwin as well as properties along the Murray and Darling and in western and northern Queensland. 'Overcapitalization falling prices and six bad seasons forced Fisher into bankruptcy in 1895. His liabilities were nearly £1500000 against assets of £786000. Destitute he retired to Melbourne where in November 1896 friends took up a subscription which Franc Falkiner headed with £500. Later Fisher moved to Adelaide and died at Glenelg on 6 May 1908. Predeceased by his wife Agnes Louisa whom he had married in 1855 and survived by their only son he left an estate valued at £1600' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Provenance: Sir Howard Watson Lloyd 1868-1955 businessman and Chairman of the Bank of Adelaide with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. The book subsequently entered the collection of Harold Llewellyn Sheard 1890-1975 amateur anthropologist and dedicated Charles Mountford archivist with his bookplate designed by his wife Rose Lowcay on the front pastedown. [The Author] hardcover
1955119572Adelaide: Griffin Press for the Author 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Griffin Press for the Author 1955. Octavo x 154 pages plus 8 plates. Cloth lightly sunned and bubbled; boards slightly bowed; flyleaves a little offset; a very good copy. Number 143 of 250 copies initialled by the author; this copy also has his full signature on the title page. Griffin Press [for the Author] hardcover
