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141099Original sepia-toned albumen paper photograph 158 × 210 mm unmounted as issued; in fine condition. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>'Sweet Adelaide ' is inscribed in the negative the three-digit reference number is cropped but it appears to be 442 or 443; 'Poonindie native mission school' is written in pencil on the verso. The Art Gallery of South Australia and the State Library of Victoria also have an example of this print. There are several differences between all these three examples: they are different enlargements; the AGSA example does not have the photographer's credit in the negative; the SLV example does but the negative is printed in reverse. <p>'Captain Sweet's Colonial Imagination - The Ideals of Modernity in South Australian Views Photography 1866-1886' by Karen Magee a 2014 University of Adelaide doctoral thesis accessible online records that Sweet visited Poonindie in 1884. Magee reproduces the AGSA photograph in her extensive catalogue see number 820. unknown
127212Very Good. An albumen paper photograph 159 × 205 mm; tiny quarter-round indentations to the bottom corners a legacy of having been tipped in on a mount at some stage; slight fading around the edges; now unmounted and in excellent condition. The photograph shows the eastern side of a fairly quiet King William Street; the clockless tower of the Town Hall has a prominent position to the right of the image. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
127215Very Good. An albumen paper photograph 158 × 208 mm mounted on card a little tanned; in excellent condition. The photographer's credit and reference number 'Sweet Adelaide 526' is scratched in the negative. The photograph was taken from on top of the Kent Town Brewery looking west along Rundle Street across the parklands taking in all to the right north as far as the old Royal Adelaide Hospital and the dome of the Palm House in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
115751George Taplin 1831-1879 missionary and teacher began his work with the Ngarrindjeri in April 1859; the 'site he chose for a settlement on the shores of Lake Alexandrina was a traditional camping ground called Raukkan The Ancient Way known to Europeans as Point McLeay. Keenly interested in Ngarrindjeri culture and society he learned their language used it in preaching and translated and published Bible tracts. He published invaluable anthropological studies which were much superior to contemporary work on South Australian Aboriginals. Despite his sympathy with the people and their traditions Taplin adhered to the contemporary view that Christianity and Europeanization should be adopted and Ngarrindjeri civilization abandoned; as a result he assisted in undermining their government and social structure further weakened traditional discipline and morale within the confederacy and provoked strong opposition from conservative tribal members. But they had been dispossessed and persecuted before his arrival and by helping them become literate and numerate and to acquire trades he enabled them to survive and flourish briefly in European society. Today hundreds of their descendants remain in various districts of Australia; their durability can largely be attributed to Taplin. He was a compassionate Christian and a courageous fighter. Exhausted he died of heart disease at Raukkan on 24 June 1879 survived by his wife and six children. He was buried in the village cemetery' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>The photograph 163 × 220 mm shows the newly-installed headstone which was 'Erected By The Aborigines'. It is on the original mount captioned along the bottom margin 'S.W. Sweet Photo. Flinders Street Adelaide'. The acidic mount is discoloured lightly stained and unevenly trimmed; the top right-hand corner is broken away taking with it a small triangular piece of the photograph approximately 10 × 45 mm of the sky; the sepia-toned print is a little speckled confined mainly to the left and right margins but overall it is a very arresting image. <p>The only example recorded in Trove in the State Library of SA appears to be of better quality but it is not for sale and more importantly the photographer is not identified. This significant fact may now be added to the record. <p>Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
"Marianne North was one of those intrepid Victorian Lady Travellers, most renowned for her brilliant botanical paintings, displayed in specially designed Gallery in the Botanical Gardens at Kew. This book uses extracts from her autobigraphical account of her travels ("Recollections of a Happy Life. Being the Autobiography of Marianne North". Edited by Her Sister Mrs. John Addington Symonds. Two volumes. 1894) and is beautifully illustrated with her paintings, many reproduced for the first time. The book was published in collaboration with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Preface by J P M Brenan, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Foreword by Anthony Huxley. Biographical note by Brenda E Moon. 240p. illus (col) maps on endpapers. A nice book to send as a gift ! Book
1962138331Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1846. Duodecimo v viii 188 pages with several illustrations. Synthetic cloth; endpapers lightly tanned; edges a little marked; an excellent copy. Peade SA22: one of only 49 copies of this xerographic facsimile published with the text bound from fan-fold paper printed on one side only uncut and unopened along the leading edges. Pages 73-134 relate to South Australia. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
189464343Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co. 'The Advertiser' Office 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide J.L. Bonython & Co. 'The Advertiser' Office 1894. Octavo iv 147 pages. Original wrappers acidic and brittle slightly marked and a little chipped and cracked with a little loss lacking most of the spine three corners and small pieces near the hinges; title-page and the last page discoloured; a very good copy. The author was 'Professor of Laws at the University of Adelaide'; perhaps not surprisingly this copy has the small circular rubber-stamp of then-Chief Justice Sir Samuel Way on the front cover and the title-page. J.L. Bonython & Co., 'The Advertiser' Office paperback
1962144061Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition but see our footnote/ 1844. Octavo 212 pages this edition printed one side only on leaves uncut along the leading edge. Synthetic cloth slightly marked; edges endpapers and first leaf a little foxed; an excellent copy. Peade SA40: one of only 51 copies. Rare even in facsimile form and not generally recognized as being an important variant. Not even the authorised bibliography by Peade records the fact that the original from which this facsimile edition was produced contained often on interleaved blanks extensive manuscript additions attributed to Schurmann. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
1998037457Sydney: Hordern House 1998. 37pp bibliography bw ills 164pp. Or marbled boards with leather spine quarter leather. White mark along leather on front. Edition limited to 950 copies of which this one of 900 hand bound in quarter cherry Scottish calf. Originally published in 1793. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Hordern House Hardcover
1991037454Sydney: Hordern House 1991. 149pp bw ills. Or marbled boards with leather spine quarter leather. Edition limited to 750 copies of which this one of 675 hand bound in quarter maroon Scottish calf. Mary Parker was Australia's first tourist and this the first published account of the colony by a woman. Originally published in 1795. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Hordern House Hardcover
4to [30.5 x 23.5 cm]; xxix, [ii, errata, directions leaf], 360, 47 pp, 22 plates and maps including 6 folding maps and charts, tables, with the half title page (often lacking). contemporary leather backed marbled boards, gilt spine title lettering, joints rubbed, corners worn round, some light staining to about 5 plates at rear, mostly marginal, generally clean and unmarked, very good, a tall copy with wide margins. A picture of Two ships, the King George commanded by Portlock and the Queen Charlotte, commanded by George Dixon, visited the Falkland Islands, made a long stay at Hawaii, then proceeded to survey the American coast, to more accurately map the coast and to establish a British presence in the region's fur trade. National Maritime Museum 140: 'Dixon discovered Queen Charlotte Island, named after his ship'. Buck 35. Sabin 20364. Howes D365. Wickershaam 6574. Lada-Mocarski 43. Hill 352: 'This expedition set out to establish a trade in furs in North America. Dixon visited Hawaii three times in the course of the voyage. . .discovered Queen Charlotte Islands, Port Mulgrave, Norfolk Bay, Dixon Entrance and Archipelago while continuing down the coast and trading with the Indians.. . . Dixon's contribution to the work also includes the valuable maps. The accounts of this expedition relate to the geography, ethnology, and natural history of the American coast from Nootka Sound northward'. The fine plates including many views, birds, portrait, etc. One of the detailed appendices is on the natural history encountered. Dixon had earlier sailed with Cook on the Resolution
1854GT875London: Society For The Promotion of Christian Knowledge 1854. 1st Edition . Hardback. Fine. 12mo. iv 161 iii pub. list; frontispiece. A very rare Mid -Victorian childrens book with no copy traced in Copac at auctiuon or on-line. Original cloth binding with black quarter leather spine and gilt embossed titles. A fine woodcut frontis. view of Maderia and a full page engraving of John Adam's house. A fine copy with no foxing wear marks or fading. The journey 'of a vessel called The Arrow'.with Captain Campbell. 14x10cms. <br/> <br/> Society For The Promotion of Christian Knowledge hardcover
144538Adelaide: Government Printer 1989. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1989 facsimile edition/ 1814. Large quarto two volumes of text plus the elephant folio atlas containing 18 charts and 10 plates; some relevant ephemera is loosely inserted. Half dark blue calf and cream cloth; cloth on the front cover of the atlas slightly marked in one small spot; a near-fine set in the near-fine dark red felt-covered wooden storage box lightly scuffed and marked. A superb production limited to only 500 numbered sets this set is number 131. The storage box is designed with a matching two-door lid opening at the centre and attached to the base with piano hinges. About a third of the edition was issued in these boxes as originally advertised; this set is one of them. <p>Apparently the successful tender was paid in full before the job was completed - not all the lids were supplied or fitted - and the box-maker was last seen heading for the hills overseas with the money and a big smile! The problem with the majority of the boxes was 'solved' by commissioning clear perspex lids which fitted snugly over the custom-made bases. Government Printer hardcover
1966024480Adelaide SA Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia 1966. Set of three with cloth boards with title panel to spines. Light general wear and small marks to boards. Previous owners details to front endpaper of both volumes. Foxing to early pages. Volume I = 269 pages with b/w illustrations - Volume II = 613 pages with b/w illustrations. Charts = Fold over cloth box containing 18 loose fold out charts and 10 loose botanical drawings. Remainder of title = in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 37. Oversize heavy set please ask for postage quote. . FACSIMILE EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Libraries Board of South Australia Hardcover
4to [29 x 24.5 cm]; [ii], xxiii, [i, errata], 388, 13, [i, directions] pp, engraved frontis portrait, plus 32 engraved plates, maps and charts including 20 folding. orig full tree calf, rebacked with orig gilt decorated spine, gilt title lettering on orig red spine leather label, wear at corners & spine ends, armorial bookplate of Robert Austen, marbled endpapers, interior clean, crisp & fine with only slight foxing. Taylor 401. Cox i, 301. Hill p. 108: 'Forrest sailed from Balembangan, in the 'Tartar', a native prahu of about ten tons burden, with two English officers and eighteen Malays, towards the Moluccas. He pushed further east than any of his company predecessors, eventually reaching Geelvink Bay in New Guinea. The voyage was one of examination and enquiry . . . the tact with which he conducted his intercourse with the natives, and the amount of work done in a small boat, deservedly won him credit as a navigator'. They explored the Gilolo Passage between New Guinea and the Moluccas, then sailed to Mindanao, examining the Sulu Archipelago, Mandiolo, Batchian and Waygiou, and reaching the Malay peninsula A vocabulary of the Magindano tongue is added at the end of the book. There is much on the native people, their customs, manners, activities. The book is famous for its fine engraved plates and maps.
8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; xxxi, [i], 212 pp, frontis, 2 double-page plates, double page map, 2 facsimiles of title pages from original edition, table. original cloth, rubbed at edges, signature on endpaper, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Hill p 38; Sabin 9108, Borba de Moreaes p 133. The Voyage describes the loss of the Wager, a transport in Anson's squadron which was wrecked in the Golfo de Penas on the Chilean coast. Following the wreck, a mutinous split occurred, resulting in this voyage of one of the factions to Rio de Janeiro in the long boat. An account of the sufferings of the officers left behind was later published by John Byron. There were later editions published in 1752 and 1757. The introduction by Arthur D. Howden Smith provides an historical perspective. The first edition was 1743 with several printings in the eighteenth century. This is the third edition, and not reprinted since 1757.
1st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/G++ (price clipped). 18083. eng
Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators .. History and Description of the Whole World... Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators..." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787
1914048471London: Methuen & Co 1914. viii 374pp 29pp publishers catalogue at rear; bw ills 3 maps. Or red cloth no jacket. Spine a bit faded prev owner stamp and name on front free endpaper bookseller label on front pastedown page edges toned. A woman's travels and observations in Australia New Zealand New Guinea Philippines China and on the Trans Siberian Railway in the early 19th century. Scarce title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Methuen & Co Hardcover
1993141489Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 1993. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Vancouver University of British Columbia Press 1993 first Canadian edition/ 1993. Quarto xxxii 624 pages with 36 illustrations 20 tables and 10 maps plus 20 pages of plates comprising 45 illustrations from photographs. Papered boards; bottom edge very lightly shelf-marked; bottom corner of the front free endpaper lightly creased; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. One of the Miegunyah Press series first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. University of British Columbia Press hardcover
1993141140Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1993 first edition. Quarto xxxii 624 pages with 10 maps 20 tables and 36 illustrations plus 20 pages of plates comprising 45 illustrations from photographs. Papered boards slightly bumped on the front bottom edge; small light mark to the leading edge of the text block; an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper lightly creased. One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. A copy of the publisher's original media release quarto one leaf printed recto only is loosely inserted. Melbourne University Press hardcover
1921BIB330805Melbourne: MacRobertson. 1921. Oblong Small Quarto Size. Quarter leather. Gilt title to cloth front board. Corners bumped and covers rubbed. Leather spine rubbed at edges and ends. Some rubbing to first page and the faint stamp to this page. It is possible that a flyleaf has been removed. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour Plates/Photographs most with tissue guards intact give vivid examples of the products and their packaging as well as the transport fleet and the interior of the factory. . A history of the Australian company MacRobertson's Chocolates. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. MacRobertson hardcover
È il diario di tre indimenticabili viaggi in Australia. È il racconto della vita vissuta in questa terra lontana, la descrizione dei luoghi esplorati e delle sensazioni provate dall'autore. Vuole essere spunto anche per i "viaggiatori" che intendono "perlustrare" sia posti conosciuti sia posti lontani dai flussi turistici, nel vero cuore dell'Australia. Vi sono sicuramente indicazioni utili e "dritte" per spendere nel miglior modo il tempo. Questa terra piena di misteri e di sogni rimane uno dei pochi posti al mondo dove spazi infiniti rapiscono l'occhio e dove la presenza degli uomini è spesso irrilevante, trascurabile, direi quasi insignificante. In questo continente dai colori talora violenti, talora soffusi, puoi ascoltare il silenzio delle foreste pluviali, vivere la solitudine dei grandi deserti, vagare nella natura incontaminata inebriandoti dei suoi profumi, nuotare in baie dai colori allucinanti, passeggiare lungo incredibili spiagge che si prolungano all'infinito, fare il nomade stregato dal continuo mutare dei paesaggi, riposare in posti dimenticati da Dio, guidare su piste al limite dell'impossibile, gustare fino in fondo il vero senso di libertà. Autori: Fabio Vidi.
ill., br. È il diario di tre indimenticabili viaggi in Australia. È il racconto della vita vissuta in questa terra lontana, la descrizione dei luoghi esplorati e delle sensazioni provate dall'autore. Vuole essere spunto anche per i "viaggiatori" che intendono "perlustrare" sia posti conosciuti sia posti lontani dai flussi turistici, nel vero cuore dell'Australia. Vi sono sicuramente indicazioni utili e "dritte" per spendere nel miglior modo il tempo. Questa terra piena di misteri e di sogni rimane uno dei pochi posti al mondo dove spazi infiniti rapiscono l'occhio e dove la presenza degli uomini è spesso irrilevante, trascurabile, direi quasi insignificante. In questo continente dai colori talora violenti, talora soffusi, puoi ascoltare il silenzio delle foreste pluviali, vivere la solitudine dei grandi deserti, vagare nella natura incontaminata inebriandoti dei suoi profumi, nuotare in baie dai colori allucinanti, passeggiare lungo incredibili spiagge che si prolungano all'infinito, fare il nomade stregato dal continuo mutare dei paesaggi, riposare in posti dimenticati da Dio, guidare su piste al limite dell'impossibile, gustare fino in fondo il vero senso di libertà.
Andrew Sayers Aborigenal Artists of the Nineteenth Century. Melbourne, Oxford University Press 1994 english, 162 This important volume brings together for the first fime the work of Aborigenal artists of the Nineteenth century - largely unknown field. Opera in lingua inglese con copertina morbida in brossura, immagini a colori e in b/n. slb20
