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101125A colour linocut on paper image size 151 × 230 mm; paper size 165 × 243 mm with the edition number 85/100 title and artist's signature in ink in the lower margin. The paper is moderately foxed but this is really only noticeable in the narrow margins because of the black olive green and brown colours of the print; in excellent condition unmounted as issued. 'In the late 1930s Warner designed a series of linocuts which were cut by his daughter and printed by his son. These works were signed "The Warners"' from the introduction by Roger Butler National Gallery of Australia to the catalogue of works by Warner published by Josef Lebovic Gallery in 2009. unknown
1900128024Unley: Chas P. Scott 1900. Very Good. Unley Chas P. Scott circa 1900s. A sepia-toned postcard-format gelatin silver photograph 139 × 88 mm with the caption inkstamped at the head of the recto and the verso printed for use as a postcard. Tiny crease to the bottom left-hand corner-tip; in excellent condition. We purchased this item with a similar portrait of a young Indigenous boy captioned 'Jacky - Oodnadatta' blindstamped with the photographer's details 'Chas P. Scott Unley S.A.'. The Art Gallery of SA dates that image '1903-04'. We have no hesitation in attributing this uncredited image and vintage print to him. Charles Scott 1878-1928 is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street Adelaide in directories from 1909 to 1915 his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street Goodwood Park' Photohistory SA website. We presume Scott worked from the address in Unley an Adelaide suburb near Goodwood Park prior to his relocation to Waymouth Street. Chas P. Scott unknown
1972109072Adelaide: Rigby Limited 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Rigby Limited 1972. Octavo viii 222 pages plus 16 pages of plates 30 images. Papered boards; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine. Inscribed and signed 'with much regards Monty'. Loosely inserted is a small quantity of interesting related ephemera: an invitation to the launch of this book and a newspaper review clipping; a photograph captioned 'Monty's Hon Ph.D Investiture Melbourne Uni' it was an honorary Litt.D. in 1973; his funeral notice clipped from a newspaper; and a remembrance card from Mountford's funeral inscribed in ink 'With special remembrance to you CPM's fellow worker'. Rigby Limited hardcover
180219812London: M. Jones 1802. Very good condition. An eagle wings outspread attacking a dog in a beautiful period hand colored copper engraving by V. Woodthorpe from Barrington's 'The History of New South Wales'. The book was very influential in building up the British public's impressions of the New Colony. Slightly marked right edge of print. Closed tear into margin restored from back. Page measures approximately 5 x 8 1/4". OCLC: 220785202. M. Jones unknown
101127An etching printed on card image size 237 × 184 mm; size of card 304 × 255 mm signed and dated in reverse in the plate 1935 with the edition number 10/50 title and artist's signature in pencil in the lower margin. A couple of spots of foxing to the lower margin otherwise in fine condition unmounted as issued. From the 'Australia at Work' series. unknown
1907122957Adelaide: English & Soward Architects Cowra Chambers Grenfell Street 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide English & Soward Architects Cowra Chambers Grenfell Street 1907. A series of 13 architectural drawings 11 of them hand-coloured and several rough pencilled sketches overall visible image size 540 × 975 mm matted and behind glass in a later wooden frame external dimensions 755 × 1190 mm. The thick cartridge paper has a short 28 mm closed tear to the left-hand edge a semi-circular onlay of opaque drafting cloth over a large chip to the top edge covering most of the word 'Committee' and a few pinholes top and bottom; trifling signs of handing; overall a very attractive item in excellent condition. The main drawings in black ink and up to six different watercolours comprise the Front Elevation West South Elevation Ground Plan Back Elevation and Cellar; there are also four sections and a number of minor details. It has been signed by the contractor A.E. Kauffmann and dated 8 July 1907 and witnessed by Adelaide architect George Klewitz Soward who has also added elsewhere 'English & Soward Architects Cowra Chambers Grenfell Street Adelaide'. The fine building still stands in Tanunda today serving the same purpose for which it was constructed. <p>The Tanunda Club dates back to the last months of 1891 when 'there was a move to initiate discussion on how the local townspeople could best achieve convivial society as well as promote the products of the region. From its very beginning the club was a social centre for people from all walks of life where its members could relax partake of refreshments and enjoy discussions in the company of others. By May 1906 the Club's finances were in a very healthy state. It was perhaps with a sense of pride in the Club's achievements that Mr Adolph Schulz addressed a general meeting and mentioned that "according to the financial standing of the Club we might build a substantial front and proposed that a general meeting be called to test the feeling of the members". There was a spirit of prediction in Schulz's words. By October rough sketches for the proposed edifice had been prepared and were quickly approved - the grand new Clubhouse was underway! In January 1907 tenders for the proposed building were accepted after Mr Juncken had explained every detail of the work from the materials to be used to the dimension of the rooms. By December 1907 new furnishings for the rooms were being purchased. <p>The building itself was to be a credit not only to the Club but to the whole town of Tanunda. It was of fairly simple rectangular design topped by a roof with Dutch gables. The MacDonnell Street facade was plain yet superb. A steeply pitched verandah ran the entire length. It had turned wooden posts beautiful lacework at the timber joins and an impressive low fence and magnificently worked wrought-iron gateway. Above this verandah running like a ribbon down the facade was a rendered parapet. It had gables at either end and a central rounded feature with the words CLUBHOUSE inserted in large gold letters. The building's substantial size prominent position and fine construction made it one of Tanunda's outstanding features. It could be looked upon as an enormous asset. In one sense it changed the face of both the Club and its importance in the community' Rob Linn: 'The Tanunda Club - a Centenary History' 1991. English & Soward, Architects, Cowra Chambers, Grenfell Street hardcover
127206An original drawing in black and red pencil mounted and matted visible image size 332 × 197 mm; in fine condition signed and captioned in pencil along the bottom edge. The drawing features the central portion of the facade of Roseworthy Agricultural College Hall 'the most impressive building on campus. It was built between 1883-1884 to a design by Edward J Woods Chief Architect from the Department of Public Works and constructed of Tarlee stone and red brick with freestone mouldings and brick quoins and chimneys. It cost £7625 and contained accommodation for residential students a lecture room dining hall reading room staff room and offices. In front of the College Hall stands a bust of John Ridley 1806-1887 the man who invented the Ridley Stripper which was hugely important to the wheat industry. The bust was sculpted by Barsanti of Pisa Italy' Aussie Towns online. <p>Robert Emerson Curtis 1898-1996 English-born Australian artist architectural draftsman camouflage officer and official war artist emigrated to Queensland in 1914. In 1922 he 'travelled to the USA with his great friend the pioneer filmmaker Charles Chauvel. There he developed what was to become a lifelong interest in industrial modernism and on returning to Sydney in 1928 he set about documenting the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He painted murals and did industrial illustration in 1932-38 including the series "Australia at Work" which was syndicated in Australian newspapers. During WWII Curtis recorded working life in the Commonwealth Munition factories 1939-41 worked as Camouflage Officer in Australia and with the RAAF in New Guinea 1941-43 until he was finally appointed an official war artist to record the nation's industrial war-time production 1943-45. More than 200 works are in the Australian War Memorial AWM collection' Design & Art Australia Online. unknown
1868142860Adelaide: Townsend Duryea 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Townsend Duryea 1868. A large quarto album approximately 415 × 365 mm containing 18 albumen paper portraits each approximately 280 × 210 mm mounted on the rectos of cloth-hinged thick card leaves interleaved with guards plus one leaf of letterpress see below. Contemporary half roan and cloth lettered and tooled in gilt with a binder's ticket on the front pastedown 'Bound at the "Register" Office Grenfell Street Adelaide'; covers slightly worn; leaves slightly cockled; one guard missing; most photographs lightly discoloured near the right-hand edge; a few light spots of foxing mainly to the guards and the versos of the mounts and some minor signs of age and handling but overall in excellent condition. The subjects include some of the most prominent figures in early colonial South Australia. In order of appearance the portraits depict John Morphett President Henry Ayers Charles Hervey Bagot John Henry Barrow Charles George Everard John Baker William Wedd Tuxford Thomas Elder William Peacock William Morgan Thomas Hogarth John Tuthill Bagot Thomas English Henry Mildred John Crozier William Parkin John Hodgkiss and Emanuel Solomon. <p>The 'South Australian Advertiser' for 20 August 1868 records that: 'Mr. Duryea is preparing a parliamentary group containing the members of both Houses of the Legislature which promises to be an effective affair. The members of the Council have already given him sittings and a fine series of portraits is the result'. In the subsequent months Duryea exhibited the photographs at his King William Street studio but most accounts refer to them assembled as a group around Morphett. This photo-collage with the portraits all heavily cropped is almost certainly the basis for a contemporary carte de visite published by Duryea see SLSA B 9258. However most of the images in this album appear to be rare or even unrecorded in their uncropped form; indeed the only other examples we located were of Henry Ayers and Charles Hervey Bagot. It is also rare to find photographs of early colonists at all let alone of this size quality and quantity. <p>The guard leaves for the portraits of Morphett Hogarth J.T. Bagot and Mildred contain manuscript biographical details in a single hand. Although we have not identified the writer it is likely to be one of the eighteen MLCs as he refers to 'our chamber' in the entry for Morphett. The portrait of C.H. Bagot is accompanied by a similar short biography but this time in letterpress and misspelling his middle name as 'Harvey'. C.H. Bagot English Mildred Crozier Parkin and Solomon are identified in another hand on the mounts beneath the image. Townsend Duryea] hardcover
189564096Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1895. Octavo 15 pages. Title-wrappers sewn as issued; spine starting to split at the head and foot; an excellent copy. A separately-paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Session 1894-5. 'In this paper I shall not dilate upon the treatment of the aboriginal by the European in the past or dwell upon the course that in my opinion ought to be adopted in future. That some amends should be made some attempts to wipe out the dark stain on Australia's fair escutcheon is alike due to the few of the unfortunate people remaining and to the fame of our county and race.' Provenance: Tom Austen Brown with his pencilled ownership initials. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
1991145726Tanunda: The Author 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda The Author 1991. Foolscap folio ii 52 leaves of processed typescript printed rectos only with a full-page map and numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs. Tape-backed pictorial wrappers as issued; a fine copy. A detailed history of the early German settlements in the Rhine River Valley in the Barossa Ranges south of Sedan. The Author paperback
1889206601889. Very good condition. An original pen and ink drawing showing Sir Edgar Boehm's 1834 - 1890 statue 'Young Bull and Herdsman' on a large plinth at the foot of the grand staircase at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888. <br /> <br /> A stylishly-dressed Victorian crowd of exhibition viewers strolls about the great hall with the statue on a large plinth highlighted with white accents. With the title penned below the image. Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm 1834 - 1890 is recognized for his colossal statues including one of Queen Victoria executed in marble 1869 for Windsor Castle the monument of the duke of Kent in St. George's Chapel the statue of Carlyle on the Thames embankment at Chelsea and the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. Boehm is also listed as a British exhibitor in the Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Centennial International Exhibition at Melbourne 1888 p111.<br /> <br /> The Young Bull and Herdsman was acquired by the Melbourne Art Gallery and Museum and was then gifted to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria where it is today outside the RASV offices in the show grounds.<br /> <br /> Unsigned with a small circular mark roughly at center of drawing and a closed tear through the caption but not affecting the drawing; mounted on an album page. 9 3/4 x 8 1/2" unknown
110463The photographs are a little uniformly faded with some unobtrusive tiny dark spots and minimal silvering-out; they are attractively presented in the original wooden frame with a gilt fillet behind the glass. The frame is lightly scuffed in places; it has a new hanging wire and backing tape but retains the original framer's label on the verso 'From K. Cameron Picture Framer and Mount Cutter Leigh St. Adelaide'. Two of these images heavily cropped to show only the horse were reproduced in 'The Observer' Adelaide 24 June 1905. The photographer is not identified. The Suffolk is a breed of draught horse nicknamed Punch because of its stocky appearance and power Hendricks: 'International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds' 2007. unknown
1909110166Adelaide: Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. Quarto 64 pages with 37 illustrations all but 2 of them from photographs many of which are credited to familiar names: Bastard Foelsche Holtze Scott with 7 by Frank Gillen. The fourth page and the last four pages are advertisements although an illustration of 'Egyptian Cotton' pads out one of them. Salmon-pink wrappers with text and a large map on the front cover and advertisements on t he other three surfaces; spine lightly sunned and cracked with minimal expert conservation; very tiny cut to the bottom margin throughout maximum depth 5 mm; tiny tear to the leading edge of the rear wrapper expertly sealed; an excellent copy almost certainly uncirculated. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The Need for a Direct Transcontinental Railway. Can it be developed without Colored Labor Yes!'. The foreword to this prospectus aimed at the 'miner the agriculturalist and the pastoralist' is by Simpson Newland President of the Australian Railways and Territory League. Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League paperback
1984125461Gawler: Bunyip Press 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. Gawler Bunyip Press 1984/ 1863 and 1864. Quarto 133 pages with two illustrations from photographs one full-page and numerous period advertisements. Cloth very slightly marked; an excellent copy. Bunyip Press hardcover
1919108343Adelaide 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide circa 1919. A custom-made photograph album 190 × 200 mm containing 6 card leaves with an original gelatin silver photograph mounted on both sides of each leaf with interleaved tissue-guards. Each photograph is approximately 135 × 95 mm. Half leather and cloth lettered in full in gilt on the front cover with 'The Eucalypts' in gilt on the spine; leather discoloured and moderately rubbed with slight wear in a few areas; some tiny paint spots near the head of the front cover; tissue-guards a little foxed and offset; marginal silvering-out to five prints; overall in very good condition. All but the first portrait is signed and only the last one contains an additional inscription the date '10.1.19'. The State Library of South Australia has another example of this album enabling us to confirm the identities where the handwriting was unclear. Ministers of religion lawyers doctors and architects predominate. The subjects are Reverend A.H. Gifford possibly A.E. Gifford; Benjamin Benny 1869-1935 senator and solicitor; George McEwin 1873-1945 lawyer and philanthropist; Edward Erskine Cleland 1869-1943 barrister and judge; Alfred McBain Bonython 1865-1954 architect; Sir James Wallace Sandford 1879-1958 merchant and politician; Reverend Wilfred Harris Unitarian minister returned to England in 1918; Dr Herbert Frank Shorney 1878-1933 opthalmologist; Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier 1882-1976 later a SA Supreme Court judge; Harold Reid; Edward Warner Benham 1872-1948 lawyer and academic; and Francis Hedley Counsell 1864-1933 architect. <p>The subtitle is a misquote from 'Among the Sandhills' by Adela Florence Nicolson née Cory 1865-1904 an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope 'The scented orange bushes check the breeze Granting in tribute many waxen stars And aromatic Eucalyptus trees Defy the sun with grey-green scimitars'. We have saved the best until the end: we purchased this item decades ago and have postponed cataloguing it innumerable times not knowing who 'The Eucalypts' were. We have finally solved the puzzle by the simple expedient of spending untold hours on it. We eventually discovered the lengthy biographical sketch of Alfred Bonython compiled by Giles Walkley for the University of SA's database on architects accessible online. Among many other interesting details he records that 'At the age of 42 Bonython became the father of a fourth daughter . Determinedly reviving his literary activities he joined both at their outset in 1910 Lady Symon's Poetry Society and the "liberal Christian" discussion group The Eucalypts Club . SRG 252'. hardcover
1962140264Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962/ 1838. Octavo ii new preliminaries iv versos blank iv-31 pages plus a folding map of the fledgling colony. Synthetic cloth; front cover lightly scored; free endpapers tanned; an excellent copy. Peade SA34: one of only 91 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. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
100184An etching printed on card image size 210 × 270 mm; size of card 280 × 328 mm signed and dated in reverse in the plate 1935 with the edition number 25/50 title and artist's signature in pencil in the lower margin. A few spots of foxing to the margins otherwise in fine condition unmounted as issued. unknown
1890109514Adelaide: Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher A. Timmann at the 'Pioneer' Office 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher A. Timmann at the 'Pioneer' Office 1890 and 1891. Octavo 13 issues bound in one volume 148 pages continuous pagination plus the large folding supplement to Number 10 March 7 1891 a broadside 455 × 335 mm with illustrations. Contemporary flush-cut quarter leather and stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; neat repairs to the leather at the head and foot of the spine; acidic newsprint used for the last two numbers uniformly tanned; overall in excellent condition. The recto of the large folding supplement to Number 10 contains the text with three line illustrations of an article that 'appeared originally in the "SA Register" in six short letters': 'Protection or Freedom Our Manufactories Our People and Our Land Values'. The verso of the broadside is devoted entirely to advertisements some illustrated with large engravings. The final issue of the journal was Volume 5 Number 5 24 December 1892. Although the Single Tax League of South Australia figures prominently throughout a notice printed at the foot of the last page of the first issue suggests the journal had a broader platform. 'The publication of "The Pioneer" is undertaken solely with a view to stimulate thought and promote discussion and if approved of it is hoped will find the ready support of all Friends of Reform. The labor involved is given voluntarily and gratuitously; any profits made will go entirely towards extending its range of operations.' The journal ran for 57 issues ceasing publication with Volume V Number 5 24 December 1892. Provenance: Arthur W. Piper 1865-1936 a South Australian Supreme Court judge with his small name-stamp and personal library number 677 on the front pastedown. Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher, A. Timmann, at the 'Pioneer' Office hardcover
1943102428Adelaide: Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia 1943. Quarto 52 pages with numerous illustrations mainly from photographs. Saddle-stapled pictorial textured wrappers; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy. The annual report for 1942 with directories of personnel committee members and churches for the two years ahead plus short articles on the history of the Congregational Church in South Australia and the Parkin Aboriginal Mission at Point McLeay. Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia paperback
2005044022Sydney: Crossing Press 2005. xi 484pp index bibliography appendices bw ills maps endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Slight damage to cloth at top edge of front cover light toned spot on fore-edge. Edition limited to 500 copies of which this #352. A remarkable accountof time spent in colonial Tasmania and at the same time 'one of the most striking personal documents in Irish history'. Offers fresh insights into the penal system and settler life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Crossing Press Hardcover
1954138007Adelaide: A. Simpson and Son Ltd 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide A. Simpson and Son Ltd 1954. Quarto viii 69 pages with several illustrations plus several pages of plates 2 in colour. Salmon pink decorated cloth; bottom edge slightly bumped; rear cover very slightly marked; an excellent copy. A presentation copy inscribed and signed 'Dr A. Grenfell Price with compliments from Robert Simpson 31 July 1961'. Simpson was a director of his family's eponymous manufacturing firm the subject of this history and Sir Archibald Grenfell Price was a prominent South Australian geographer historian educator and politician. A. Simpson and Son Ltd hardcover
184429219Prato: Tipografia Giachetti 1844. First Italian. Hardcover book. Very good overall. 'The entire volume is devoted to Mitchell's explorations in Australia. One volume of a set of voyages published in Italian by Francesco Marmocchi. Large 8vo 282pp ii frontispiece & 12 plates with illustrations in the text. Attractive publishers vellum spine and marbled boards. Gilt spine labels slt chipped board edges rubbed internally clean plates slt toned. Volume 16 of Australia ID 26206468. Tipografia Giachetti hardcover
1864142931Adelaide: The Author 1864. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1864. Eleven albumen paper photographs approximately 88 × 134 mm mounted on the recto of individual cards approximately 165 × 240 mm neatly captioned below the plate with the title at the head of the first one with all captions by George Hamilton himself. A few light spots and marks to some of the cards; essentially in fine condition with the photographs uniformly rich in colour. The Art Gallery of South Australia has all 11 original artwork - pen and ink with wash - in its collection. The 'Adelaide Observer' on Saturday 27 August 1864 contains a review of Hamilton's recently self-published book 'a well-conceived well-written neatly-printed and elegantly-illustrated brochure under the above title'. It describes at length the illustrations '11 in number photographed from the author's drawings by Colonel Biggs Mr. Baines and Professor Hall and they bear ample evidence of the artistic taste as well as the correct judgment displayed in the spirited originals'. <p>Robert Holden 'Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book' 1988 describes this book and one other Molesworth Jeffrey's 'Various Exercises and Fragments in Metre by Divers Authors' Hobart 1864 as being the 'first recorded use of original photographs as illustrations in commercially produced and dated books' in Australia. His descriptive bibliography records that the published work indeed contains 'Photographs of eleven drawings . by Colonel Briggs sic from rough sketches by the author. It would appear that these images were printed eleven to a sheet and then arranged in random order throughout the text'. His collation of the three copies in the State Library of South Australia indicates the individual print sizes range from 20 × 35 mm to a maximum of 40 × 60 mm. <p>The present offering clearly predates the published use of these images and its presentation is much to be preferred. The first and most obvious difference is the superior size and quality of the prints. However the captions greatly enhance the images; when they are read and viewed in the intended order numbers 1-11 are lightly pencilled in the top right-hand corner of the cards this becomes a proto-photobook of the highest order . and far from being a prosaic account of how to look after a horse as the title might suggest it is a searing indictment of the widespread ill-treatment of horses. 'Mr. Hamilton proceeds with pen and pencil to describe and portray some of the trials a horse has to undergo from the time his liberty is first invaded in the bush until in the last scene of all that ends this painful history he is reduced to the drudgery of a hackney car'. <p>See Ferguson 10180b and 10181a; Holden 50 and 51 plus pages 13-21. Both bibliographies contain errors. 11 items. The Author] unknown
1929142560Adelaide: Harry Carew Nott 1929. Fine. Adelaide Harry Carew Nott 1929. A commercial photograph album oblong quarto 230 × 318 mm comprising 4 card leaves cord-bound in overlapping card covers with 21 gelatin silver photographs 84 × 136 mm or the reverse loosely attached with photocorners on both sides of the leaves and the inside surface of the covers; all photographs are captioned in white ink on the mount. Cord-bound commercial album stamped in blind 'Portraiture'; covers slightly marked and a little worn at the corners; the contents are in fine condition the last photograph is creased and cracked at one corner. A lengthy article related to this event appeared in 'The Advertiser' Thursday 23 May 1929: 'The Victorian section of the Australian Aero Club will conduct an aerial pageant at the Essendon Aerodrome near Melbourne on Saturday afternoon. The programme of events includes the Aerial Derby for which over 20 machines have been entered. Of these about eight will represent New South Wales and eight Victoria. South Australia will also have a strong representation. <p>Seven planes will leave the Parafield Aerodrome for Melbourne this morning at 9.30 if the weather permits. The following planes will comprise the formation: D.H. 60 Gipsy Moth G-AUIB D.H. Moth V-HUAM D.H. Moth V-EUAR D.H. Gipsy Moth G-AUIV D.H. Gipsy Moth G-AUKO Avro Avian G-AUSY and probably the De Havilland "Old Gold" passenger machine. The first three are Aero Club planes and the others are privately owned. <p>Flying-Officer J.A. Mollison Aero Club instructor will be leader of the formation and Mr. C.A. Hewitt will be deputy-leader. Others making the flight to Melbourne are Messrs. N. Birks J.A. Jukes A.H. Wilkins E.B. Lawson P. Knapman F. Wellington S. Hamilton L. Wood J. Churchill Smith secretary of Aero Club and Dr. H.C. Nott. The flight to Essendon will be made via Nhill Victoria. Friday will be spent by the airmen in tuning up engines for the races on the following day'. <p>The first eight photographs were taken at Parafield Aerodrome in outer-suburban Adelaide with portraits of Nott and Wood identified. These are followed by two at Nhill Aerodrome 'Mollison refuelling' and 'Lawson'; two at Ararat Aerodrome 'on Racecourse'; and eight taken at Rockbank 28 kms west of Melbourne. These are captioned 'Mollison taking off in "1B"'; 'Hewitt'; 'Nott in "A5"'; Lawson Mollison Hewitt & Wellington éxamining "A17"'; 'Hewitt Mollison Lawson & Wellington'; 'Nott Mollison Lawson & Wellington'; and 'Mollison Lawson & Hewitt'. <p>The last one taken from the air is captioned 'Crashed Aero at Nhill'. The Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre website records that on 23 May 1929 'J.A. Mollison arrived from Adelaide with 6 aircraft. One crash-landed at old Dimboola road aerodrome instead of landing at New site at Halpin Park'. The pilot was possibly Lin Wood. Harry Carew Nott unknown
193697765Adelaide: Amalgamated Publishing Company 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Amalgamated Publishing Company September 1936. Large octavo 352 pages with hundreds of portraits. Faux leather; covers marked and a little bowed; endpapers a little discoloured as ever; ownership details on the flyleaf; a very good copy. Still a useful retrospective parochial biographical dictionary. Amalgamated Publishing Company hardcover
