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8vo [21 x 14 cm]; xv, 272 pp, frontis, double page colored chromolithograph of the Queensland flowering cotton tree, 15 other plates, one illus, folding colored map. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt lettering, small ink mark on top of spine, light foxing on some leaves, else very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Rowan was both a fine botanical and wildlife artist and an explorer, acclaimed internationally for her wildflower paintings. "Flower Hunter is a book of travel and adventure, the type of book then fashionable, because the world knew less of its far places than it does today. . . Ellis knew how to hold her audience, her breathless adventures are tinged with fantasy. . ." (Hazzard in Australia's Brilliant Daughter). This is Rowan's only book on her travels, based on two journeys to Queensland in northern Australia and to New Zealand. Most of the plates in the book are from her paintings.
200124800Pecock Academic Press Hong Kong 2001. 8vo. First Edition with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Pecock Academic Press, Hong Kong, unknown
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
A short history of Australia. 237pp. Light foxing and browning on first and last twenty pages
1995x-1857285530Routledge 1995. Paperback. New. 1st new edition. 156 pages. 8.27x5.51x0.39 inches. Routledge paperback
28857310-nnew. unknown
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A9781138166608Hardback. New. hardcover
1997IG440681997 vi, 177 p, numerous figures & photographs (many coloured), paperbound. Very good copy.
1999VD315171999 South Tweed Heads, Australian Birdkeeper, 1999 : In-8 Carré, Broché. 109 pp., 193 photos couleurs, un excellent guide sur l'élevage des cacatoés blancs australiens Etat du neuf, Couv. remarquable, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.
1987W30072Adelaide, South Australian Museum 1987 67pp.with numerous ills., in the "Special educational bulletin series" nr.8
In-8 p. (211x128), pieno vitellino coevo, decorazione con titolo oro su tassello al dorso, pp. VIII,503, con 1 carta geografica. Viaggi di: Commodore <Byron, Capitan Wallis, Capitan Carteret. Con lievi fioriture, peraltro ben conservato (slightly foxed, otherwise good condition).
In-8 p. (211x128), pieno vitellino coevo, decorazione con titolo oro su tassello al dorso, pp. VI,508, con 1 carta geografica. Viaggi di: Loui De Bougainville. Con lievi fioriture, peraltro ben conservato (slightly foxed, otherwise good condition).
In-8 p. (211x128), pieno vitellino coevo, decorazione con titolo oro su tassello al dorso (piatti staccati, boards detached), pp. VIII,514, con una carta geografica. Viaggi di James Cook. Con lievi fioriture, peraltro ben conservato (slightly foxed, otherwise good condition).
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
190327306Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1903. First edition. Pamphlet. Good overall. A printed pamphlet unrecorded by Trove committing to print the paper read by J. Griffiths before the Cambrian Society in Adelaide on Saturday 29 August 1903. It recounts Welsh history to 1485. It appeared as an article in The Evening Journal of the Adelaide South Australian newspaper on that date on page 5. <br /> <br /> 12mo 12pp staplebound cream paper covers with black title covers dusty foxing throughout still very readable. W.K. Thomas & Co unknown
1977032145London: Cambridge University Press 1977. xxiii 563pp index vocabulary diagrams. Or blue cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket with several very short edge tears and associated creases. Extensive and technical study of the Yidijn language a dying language of North Queensland aboriginal people near Cairns and the Atherton Tableland. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large 8vo. Cambridge University Press 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
102439Fine. Ten gelatin silver photographs each approximately 110 × 160 mm stamped on the versos 'The Advertiser . Adelaide . Krischock Photos copyright'. In fine condition. Locomotive 506 'Sir George Murray' entered service in October 1926; it was withdrawn in June 1959 and scrapped three years later. We have been able to trace a couple of relatively minor derailments involving this locomotive but not this particular incident. The terrain and surrounding vegetation suggest to us the mallee country between Tailem Bend and the border; the clothing on the bystanders especially the two boys in their long woollen socks thick overcoats and school caps brings back childhood memories from the early 1950s. But the train wreck is the story and this series of photographs serves graphically to confirm the official SAR estimates of the total weight of the engine and tender at more than 220 tons . 10 items. unknown
2014BIB328572Goolwa SA: Radio Goolwa. 2014. Quarto Size approx 21x30cm. Very Good condition - some minor creasing to covers. Black and White Photographs to inside of covers. Part One - Southern Fleureiu in World War One. Part Two Northern Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island in World War One. This is a heavy set and will cost more to ship. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Unpaginated. The author former Magistrate Richard Kleinig’s quest to identify and record all service personnel from the Fleurieu Peninsula who died in battle in World War One. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Radio Goolwa paperback
Large quarto/small folio in multicolored DJ; 152 p, illus. (part col.); 29 cm. Uncommon in the U.S. || Cheese -- Australia.
67pp.with numerous ills., in the "Special educational bulletin series" nr.8
1910VV321611910 Launceston, chez l'auteur, 1910 : In-8 Raisin, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. xviii, 242 pp., 49 photos N&B hors-texte, quelques annotations au crayon en marge du texte, nom, date, cachet et étiquette libraire en page de garde, nom en page de titre qui a été découpée pour retirer un envoi sans affecter le texte, un bon exemplaire de travail de ce rare guide sur les oiseaux de Tasmanie Bon état, Couv. défraîchie, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs.
1878124850London: John Murray 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1878. Small octavo xii 80 568 66 'Handbook Advertiser 1880-81' pages plus 11 maps and plans 9 folding a rear endpaper map and a large folding map in a rear end-pocket. Gilt-lettered red cloth a little marked and flecked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; trifling signs of use and age; the end-pocket map has minimal siverfish nibbling along small sections of one fold; a very good copy. Provenance: 'given me from "Manoah" Library' is written in ink on the verso of the front flyleaf; a bookplate 'Words Words Words F A S' is mounted on the front pastedown. 'Manoah' was the name of the Adelaide Hills estate of Sir Josiah Symon 1846-1934; 'F A S' may be a Symon family member. Sir Josiah Symon 'was born in Scotland and migrated to South Australia in 1866. He was called to the South Australian Bar in 1871 and became Attorney-General in a conservative government when he won the state seat of Sturt in 1881. Sir Josiah was the acknowledged leader of the South Australian Bar for over 30 years through his understanding of the law and skill as an advocate. His major contribution to Australian politics was in the area of Federation. He was a prominent member of the 1897-98 Australasian Federal Convention. He saw the major issues of Federation as equal representation of the states in the Senate; the solution of deadlocks between the two Houses of Parliament; the Murray River; and the establishment of an Australian Supreme Court to replace the Privy Council. The first three issues are still topical today the fourth was resolved several years ago. Sir Josiah was a person of broad scholarship. He wrote "Shakespeare the Englishman" in 1929 and was a member of several literary associations. The library at Sir Josiah's Upper Sturt estate "Manoah" consisted of 10000 law and literature volumes reflecting his interests in Shakespeare travel history and biography. He bequeathed his collection excluding approximately 2500 law books to the State Library where it remains an excellent example of a "gentleman's library". The terms of the bequest were that the books should not be marked or rebound which makes it a useful source of examples of original bindings particularly in pictorial cloth' State Library of South Australia website. John Murray hardcover
1890141871Adelaide: Education Department 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Education Department 1890. Octavo originally viii 303 pages plus a map: this copy lacks the map the title leaf and its conjugate pages i-ii and vii-viii and the last leaf 303-4 last page blank. Original full black roan lettered in gilt on the front cover; leather slightly rubbed and bumped; last leaf a little torn; signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. We presume this is a publisher's deluxe or presentation binding; the standard binding is grey cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover. Samuel Albert White 1870-1954 ornithologist and conservationist: 'His most arduous and important work as a naturalist occurred when he collaborated with Gregory Mathews on "The Birds of Australia" London 1910-27. To this end White mounted major collecting expeditions often accompanied by his wife. He travelled with camels to Alice Springs and beyond 1913 with a government team to the Musgrave and Everard ranges 1914 and with the South Australian Museum expedition to Cooper Creek 1916; he also went to the Nullarbor Plains 1917-18 with Sir Edgeworth David and Professor Walter Howchin to the Finke River 1921 and in 1922 led the great adventure from Adelaide to Darwin and back using three Dort motor cars supplied and serviced by Adelaide mechanics Cyril and Murray Aunger. <p>White's outstanding achievement lay in completing an ornithological survey of the whole of South Australia and much of the Northern Territory. He was the first European to see several species and regarded the Princess Alexandra parrot as the world's most beautiful bird. A keen conservationist he was a central figure in the declaration of national parks in the State and was a noted spokesman on insects birds and botany' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>In this copy of the book 'A Classified List of the Native Species' pages 204-272 is extensively annotated in ink in what we know to be the hand of Captain S.A. White; there are slight annotations or emphases on numerous other pages. Although his name does not appear anywhere in the volume we purchased this item among many others direct from the White family home 'Weetunga' at Fulham a couple of decades ago. Loosely inserted is a ticket to an 'Exhibition of Wild Flowers' by the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of SA annotated on the verso by White; undated but 1920s. Education Department hardcover
