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1914051337London: Martin Secker 1914. 320pp index 41 bw ills endpaper maps. Tan cloth no jacket. Light rubbing to cover. Page edges toned moderate foxing throughout. Travels and observations in Australia and New Zealand New Caledonia and New Hebrides in the early 20th century. Includes chapters on Sydney Queensland Darling Downs Capricornia Northern Rivers of NSW Blue Mountains Tasmania and more. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Martin Secker Hardcover
1975037451Melbourne: Marsh Taylor & Walsh. 1975. 54pp table folding map. Or full leather. Lacking the slipcase. The book itself in excellent condition-light crease to top of map adjacent to one of the folds. Limited to 350 copies of which this #313. . Limited Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Marsh Taylor & Walsh. Hardcover
19751709079Melbourne: Marsh Walsh Publishing 1975. Very Good. And a List of the Civil and Military Establishment. To Which is Added an Historical Narrative of the Discovery of New Holland or New South Wales. A very neat bright copy of the numbered limited edition of 350 copies. Facsimile of edition published in London 1789. Octavo bound in full calf raised bands gilt embossed ship device to front and rear panels leather title label to spine with spare in pocket at rear board 54 pages including folding chart. An important book; the earliest authentic eyewitness account of the first settlement of Australia. Attractive copy perfect gift. <br/><br/> Marsh Walsh Publishing hardcover
137300Fine. Octavo 4 pages a bifolium on the crested notepaper of Parliament House Melbourne in the original envelope marked 'Personal' and addressed in Deakin's hand to 'The Honourable Sir J. Langdon Bonython C.M.G. Carclew Adelaide' contemporary Melbourne postmark; stamp removed. Letter folded in half for posting; apart from a couple of ink blotches in fine condition; envelope with flap detached and with some pencilling on the verso. Deakin was sworn in as Prime Minister on 2 June 1909 after being elected leader of the Liberal Party which had recently formed from the 'Fusion' of his Protectionist Party with the Anti-Socialist Party. Sir Langdon Bonython a fellow Protectionist had sat with Deakin in the inaugural Parliament of Australia as a member for the Division of South Australia later for the Division of Barker. In this letter Deakin reflects on the difficulties confronted by his new government including preselections in South Australia but is generally optimistic about its progress. However his government would soon suffer a resounding defeat at the hands of Andrew Fisher's Labor Party in the federal election of 13 April 1910. <p>The letter reads in full 'Aug 11.09. My dear Sir Langdon Cockburn's very interesting description of the prose of our press delegates in England though possibly a little coloured by his natural disgust at their doctrines is obviously & substantially true. It defines their attitude of old & new always the same as is proper in a party that does not change. He very clearly perceives their policy of playing to both sides & sees when they have obtained encouragement. Your allusion to the Division of Wakefield is obscure. I have not been asked to assist & have not assisted in any way in the selection of a candidate. He has been chosen entirely on your side & by your associations. When Paddy Glynn got in he found the whole matter so far advanced in making the selection in the constituency that nothing could be done. Up to date I have not been asked to endorse Foster though no doubt we shall have to do so if required. You must be aware of this though you poke fun at me. The time has not yet come for getting into touch with the constituencies. We have not discovered whom we can rely upon or at all events how far. We are making good progress here & in NSW but the other states are still out of hand or rather none have been in order. It is a long task to attempt to get an effective control of Australia. We are gradually getting it within our immediate spheres of influence. But this is written at the table during the debate to which I have to listen with one ear & half my attention. Kind regards. Yours very truly Alfred Deakin'. <p>Deakin's entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' gives some important context to these final months of his political career. 'In May 1909 he agreed to the fusion of anti-socialists Liberal-Protectionists and Forrest's "corner" group. A bewildered Fisher was curtly dismissed. Close friends still believed in Deakin's integrity but to many others his actions seemed nothing but a naked grab for power a base move to regain office at any price by a man who thought he was indispensable. The political confusion produced some of the most dramatic scenes in Federal parliamentary history. Lyne - never a friend of Deakin and now a foe - denounced his former leader as a "Judas" a charge which the vindictive Billy Hughes believed slandered the disciple. Deakin was sworn in for the third and last time as prime minister on 2 June 1909. The Fusion government given its short span of life and the few points of agreement between the uniting parties was remarkably active . The Fusion government entered the election of April 1910 confident of victory but in the event it was routed. In a heavy poll Labor gained absolute majorities in both the House and Senate. Deakin who campaigned on a mainly negative anti-Labor platform barely escaped defeat in Ballarat. Only a handful of his personal followers survived.' <p>Sir John Langdon Bonython 1848-1939 was an important South Australian editor newspaper proprietor philanthropist and parliamentarian. 'He became a follower of Alfred Deakin who wanted him to give his full time to politics; their friendship survived a sharp disagreement over the composition of Deakin's ministry of July 1905 and his disappointment that Deakin's recommendation of him for a K.C.M.G. in 1908 was not accepted. Bonython did not contest the 1906 election although the Labor Party proposed to grant him and other Protectionists immunity from opposition; he suspected that his party would soon be out of power and travelling to Melbourne for parliamentary sittings was becoming irksome' ADB. The Cockburn referred to at the beginning of the letter is presumably Sir John Alexander Cockburn 1850-1929 former Premier of South Australia delegate to the Constitutional Conventions unofficial ambassador in Britain and friend of Sir Langdon's ADB. unknown
115301Very Good. Small octavo one page on the mourning stationery of his home on the Isle of Wight Farringford House Tennyson had lost one of his younger sons in action and would lose another before the end of the war. Folded twice for posting; a few tiny marks; in excellent condition. The letter is brief enough to quote in full: 'Dear Lady Glenconner I am deeply distressed not only for myself but also for all of you. Of course one cannot but be very sorry for both of them. I have spoken to L. fully and he takes a really serious view now I hope; and has promised not to see her during the war. L. ought to protect her against herself. I cannot write more for I feel the thing too acutely. It was kind in you to write to me. Ever yours Tennyson'. Lionel and Clarissa married in March 1918; she was still only 21 years old at the time. They had three children before their divorce in 1928. Each was to remarry and redivorce again. <p>Hallam Tennyson 1852-1928 eldest son of the poet laureate Alfred later 1st Baron 'had initially sought the governorship of South Australia but hesitated when it was offered to him in January 1899: Tennyson was influenced by speculation that after Federation the post might be subordinated to that of the governor-general or even abolished. He arrived in Adelaide in April and proved popular: the press and the people saw him as hardworking competent dignified and frugal. Appointed acting governor-general on 4 July 1902 after Lord Hopetoun's unexpected resignation Tennyson was confirmed in this position in January 1903 at his own request for one year only' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown
107917The five men four in butcher's striped aprons and one woman are standing on the unsealed road in front of the shop next to a horse-drawn delivery cart sign-written with the name 'A. Mount'. The vintage gelatin silver photograph image size 107 × 152 mm is on the original blind-stamped mount of 'McNeills 184 Rundle St Adelaide' 207 × 246 mm. Pencilled on the verso is '1907 A. Mount Woodside'; although we have been unable to verify these details most places in the Adelaide Hills in the Edwardian era probably did look like this. However what is decidedly most rare about this scene is that one of the butchers is of Indian or Afghan descent. unknown
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1980145347Adelaide: South Australian Department for the Environment 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Department for the Environment 1980. Oblong quarto xviii 278 pages with 37 figures 64 illustrations from photographs and 8 tables. Pictorial card covers a little rubbed; a few other minor signs of age and handling; a very good copy. With sections on the: climate; geology; water resources; landforms and soils; flora; fauna; population settlement and land use; and resource evaluation and mangement. South Australian Department for the Environment paperback
1988140158Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1988. Duodecimo 72 pages. Cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Number 147 of only 175 copies. 'The little-known diary and virtually unknown despatches of Major Warburton's 1866 fifth expedition'; previously unpublished apart from some contemporary observations reprinted here from the 'South Australian Register'. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
1889146562London: Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. London Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society 1889. Octavo pages 650-671 pages plus a folding colour map. The entire volume comprises iv 641-704 pages with 2 maps plus the folding map. Original printed wrappers; some trifling wear at the extremities; in near-fine condition. An account of Lindsay's private expedition of 1885-86 in which '. he took seven men and twelve camels from Hergott Springs to the Gulf of Carpentaria tracing the Finke River to its mouth and seeking information about Ludwig Leichhardt. Lindsay surveyed the country between the overland telegraph line and the Queensland border explored the MacDonnell Ranges made a brief foray into the Simpson Desert and spent six months in the country between Lake Nash and Powell's Creek' Australian Dictionary of Biography. The introduction to this section states that it is 'slightly abridged' but in fact it is more detailed than the narrative read before the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch on 29 June 1887 and published in Volume II of the 'Proceedings' of the Society 1888 and in an offprint the same year. In addition to a different text this publication also contains the colour lithographed map entitled 'Map of Explorations & Surveys in the Northern Territory of South Australia .' and a 'Vocabulary of the Language spoken by the Natives in Latitudes 23° to 28° S. as obtained by a Member of my Expedition 1885-6'. The vocabulary was compiled by the expedition's naturalist Lieutenant Hermann Dittrich and constitutes an early record of the Arrernte Aranda language spoken in the vicinity of Dalhousie Springs and the Finke River. <p>The other contributions to this volume are: <p>RAVENSTEIN E.G.: 'Geographical Co-ordinates in the Valley of the Upper Nile'; <p>FLINDERS PETRIE W.M.: 'Wind Action in Egypt'; and <p>'Explorations and Ascents in the Caucasus in 1889'. Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society paperback
1988144496Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1988. Duodecimo 72 pages. Cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover; front cover a little mottled and flecked; a very good copy internally fine with the fine dustwrapper. Number 41 of only 175 copies. 'The little-known diary and virtually unknown despatches of Major Warburton's 1866 fifth expedition'; previously unpublished apart from some contemporary observations reprinted here from the 'South Australian Register'. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
1962138338Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1839. Octavo vii 50 2 advertisement pages. Synthetic cloth; endpapers slightly tanned; an excellent copy. Peade SA19: one of only 47 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. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
2012025779Schmidt Family Publications 2012. Illustrated laminated boards with light general wear and minor dings. Volume one has been affected by water or damp and the pages are 'wavy'. A total of 1392 pages with b/w illustrations plus 66 page index in each volume. Very heavy set approximately 7.2kg. Please ask for postage quote. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Schmidt Family Publications Hardcover
2012024954Schmidt Family Publications 2012. Illustrated laminated boards. Pages 697 to 1392 with b/w illustrations plus 66 page index. VOLUME 2 ONLY. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Schmidt Family Publications Hardcover
1875217697London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1875. Fourth edition. Large folding map. xv 461; xv 523 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Some very light foxing else Fine. Fourth edition. Large folding map. xv 461; xv 523 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle hardcover
1993262679PN. New. 1993. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
98784An attractive calligraphic testimonial visible image size 390 × 260 mm in blue ink on a two-tone blue background within a decorative gilt border was signed by nine senior members of the congregation and presented to the outgoing Honorary Secretary. It is surmounted by a large ornamental scroll a mass of wattle blossom and a large vignette illustration of a paddle steamer towing a heavily-laden barge on the River Murray. The copious amounts of dirty smoke belching forth are starkly realistic - an unexpected bonus on an otherwise routine production. The work is signed 'Niehuus & Lucy Adelaide'; we are unsure when they commenced work together but the partnership was dissolved four months after this commission was completed. Minimal foxing and light surface blemishes do not detract from this charming period piece recently mounted and matted ready for framing. unknown
133136No Place: No Publisher. Very Good. No Place No Publisher No Date but circa 1860s. A lithograph on tinted paper artificial plate mark size 305 × 233 mm; paper size 430 × 318 mm mounted on slightly larger thick card; the caption 'Edward John Eyre' is printed in the margin below the image. Minimal foxing to the margins; slight marks around the edges of the paper a legacy of prior framing easily matted out; a superb portrait in excellent condition. 'Edward John Eyre 1815-1901 explorer and administrator emigrated to New South Wales from England when he was seventeen. Settling in Adelaide after pioneering expeditions with sheep and cattle he made several attempts to find an overland stock route from the city to the west. In January 1840 he learned that a committee was organising an expedition to find a way west. Eyre persuaded them to refocus the expedition on the north agreeing to pay for half of this bid to 'discover the inland of Australia'. Many gruelling months into the trip one of his party was murdered and the rest disappeared. Eyre and his Aboriginal colleague Wylie staggered into Albany more than a year after they had set out. <p>In 1844 after having served as Protector of Aborigines in South Australia Eyre 'served as lieutenant governor of New Zealand 1846-53 and governor of St Vincent 1854-60. Appointed governor of Jamaica in 1864 he was recalled in 1866 after his suppression of an Afro-Jamaican uprising with over 400 executions' History Trust of South Australia. Returning to England he found the intelligentsia divided on his actions; court proceedings were three times brought against him but dismissed. In the early 1870s the government paid all his legal costs and awarded him a governor's pension; he lived in seclusion near Tavistock Devon for the rest of his life' National Portrait Gallery of Australia. <p>The NPGA has a similar portrait a less-accomplished engraving captioned 'Edward John Eyre. Late Governor of Jamaica. Engraved by J. Brown from a Carte de Visite by H. Hering. London Richard Bentley 1867'. The State Library of South Australia has a contemporary photograph of the lithograph; the online version of the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' reproduces it in its entry on Eyre. An example of the carte de visite by Henry Hering 157 Regent Street London on which all these versions are based is available online in The Caribbean Photo Archive reference 4892686740 where it is catalogued as 'Published by Marion & Co London UK circa 1860'. This lithograph appears to be rare if searches in the usual places are any indication. No Publisher unknown
131661Very Good. A single leaf octavo printed recto only slightly marked with a marginal crease to a top corner; two light horizontal creases where folded for posting; in very good condition. The invitation headed '9th L.H.O.C.A.' 9th Light Horse Old Comrades Association invites members to give a hearty welcome to the old commanding officer Colonel William Henry Scott 1881-1960 who 'will be in Adelaide for a few days this month on a visit to his son'. The date for the event is not given but we suggest some time in the 1920s as Scott 'rose to brigadier in 1929' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Darley writes presumably as president of the association that 'it will be quite informal come along in your working clothes or anyhow you like and you need not get your hair cut for the occasion. If you clean your boots be sure to use NUGGET. Refreshments liquid only will be provided'. The ADB provides the answer to the unasked question: 'Scott contributed items to the "Bulletin" under the pseudonym of "Nugget" an ironic nickname considering his great height'. <p>Dornbusch 384; Fielding and O'Neill page 233; Trigellis-Smith 279. unknown
55088The seventeen signatures are Lawry Captain Ian Chappell Connolly Cowper Freeman Gleeson Hawke Inverarity Jarman Joslin Mallett McKenzie Renneberg Redpath Sheahan Taber and Walters. Very slightly creased; a fine copy. unknown
1925111854London: Cecil Palmer 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Cecil Palmer 1925. Octavo xii 252 pages with a map plus 16 pages of plates. Cloth sunned on the spine and a little mottled; top edge dusty others slightly foxed; early Argyllshire ownership details on the front pastedown; a very good copy. Loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from Harold Halewood on the letterhead of antiquarian booksellers Preston Book Company to a Mr Bonython: 'Regret each and every item you mentioned from our catalogues 177/178 had been sold: we take the liberty of sending fully on approval Griffin at 15/- Thomas at 30/- and have made an especial note to send you future catalogues by AIR. March 31'. <p>No year is given but the ballpoint pen suggests the 1970s to us. The extended Bonython clan in Adelaide contains a number of eligible recipients of the letter. Cecil Palmer hardcover
19126An original gelatin silver photograph 110 × 90 mm mounted on stiff card 220 × 170 mm inscribed in white ink on the mount beneath the photograph 'With Christmas Greetings from Dr and Mrs Ramsay Smith' stamped on the rear 'Photo. by Dr. W. Ramsay Smith' and captioned in his hand 'At Port Vila - New Hebrides'. Ramsay Smith describes 'picture-making' at Port Vila in detail in his 1924 book 'In Southern Seas' and this image contains all the elements referred to: one's wife 'for comparison and relief to the various objects in the picture' the harbour as background to the wooded heights the ship in the distance . The corners of the mount are slightly rounded and both the image and the mount are a little foxed; overall it is an attractive item with more than the usual amount of background information. <p>William Ramsay Smith 1859-1937 physician naturalist anthropologist civil servant soldier - and controversy was often never far away see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. His entry there states that 'Believing that tribal Aborigines were dying out he recorded their folklore in "Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines"' London 1930. Subsequent to this being published Dr Philip Jones has also recorded in the ADB that from the early 1920s David Unaipon 1872-1967 the Aboriginal preacher author and inventor 'studied Aboriginal mythology and compiled his versions of legends . Gathered before 1930 the legends are in his surviving manuscript in the Mitchell Library: they were commissioned and published by William Ramsay Smith without acknowledgment'. unknown
1924143019Adelaide: S.A. Ornithologist 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide S.A. Ornithologist 1924. Octavo 46 pages with one illustration from a photograph plus a folding map. Saddle-stapled flush-cut wrappers a little foxed and very slightly worn; rubbed; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. 'Reprinted from S.A. Ornithologist Vol. VIII Part 5 pages 118-130 1st January 1924'. The last two pages consist of another short paper from the same issue A.M. Morgan's 'The Nest and Eggs of Diaphorillas textilis myal' Eyre Peninsula Western Grasswren. S.A. Ornithologist paperback
1906011636Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1906 blue cloth rubbed to edges and joints starting to fray at spine ends lower joint starting to split at top lacks front free end paper half title is browned/ foxed faint foxing up to about pp10 32pp adverts at rear dated November 1906 First edition of this rare title by Banjo Paterson. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Angus & Robertson hardcover
1972146050Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1972. Quarto viii 68 pages. Card covers; spine lightly sunned and bumped; edges lightly foxed; a very good copy. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 48 Linguistics Series Number 20. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies paperback