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012720R. McDonell Australia Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Ships Captain. 26cm. Signed by Ships captain and dated 1990. Book is in very good condition with plastic sleeve for protection. The "Alma Doepel" was built of timber from the forests of the Bellinger Valley in northern NSW the design being sketched by Frederick Doepel on his kitchen table. The ship had a long history of trading in the waters of Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea as well as seeing the war out with the Australian Army. Rescued as a floating hulk in 1976 the Alma Doepel was restored to full seaworthiness and is used as a training vessel for Australia. Book includes many b/w photographs of historical interest and includes a list of crew Army Service Other ships mentioned in the book and an Index. Book is signed by Captain Michael R. Wood master of Alma Doepel and dated 1990. R. McDonell Australia Hardcover
56561aafLausanne, Georges Bridel, éditeur, 1878, gr. in-8vo, 62 p. ill. dont + 1 f. de publicité, qqs annotations, brochure originale ill., avec vue sur Lausanne,
Manuscript Signed Letter, dated 21 January 1897, discussing matters pertaining to the settlement era of Perth, Western Australia. 8vo. Two double-leafs, 5 pages. Very good condition. Fascinating content such as a poverty, drought, general health issues in Perth from the conditions, problems of the homeless, and in contrast the increase in land values, and prospects for youngsters, The writer also talks of the Music Society and of singing the Messiah at Christmas. Written by M. Barigh of Havelock Street, her home located on a hill above the central town, who may have been a relative of Richard Henry Barigh, an immigrant to Australia, possibly originally as a convict. Excerpts from the letter: "Lately we have had a water famine and all day long the water is cut off but we fill a tank and so it does not cause us much inconvenience... We do not like W.A. half so much as N.Z. it is too hot and dry and this town is not healthy." "The place must have grown half since we came and building is going on all the time and the values of property increasing - our land cost about four pounds a foot and a lady has just bought this piece adjoining ours and given over eleven pounds for it and thinks she has got it cheap." "There are scores of people here with nothing who a little while since in Melbourne were living in luxury." End Excerpts. Perth had only been established since 1829. In 1850, Western Australia was opened to convicts at the request of farming and business people looking for cheap labour. Queen Victoria announced the city status of Perth in 1856.
109827Canberra, Australien Institute Aboriginal Studies 1977, 250x175mm, 167pages, paperback. Book in good condition.
1462403247.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2012SONG1462403247Inspiring Voices 2012-10-01. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.00x0.81x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Inspiring Voices hardcover
4to., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Catalogue of a major exhibition touring to Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1987.
Features include: Modern Cypripedium Hybrids (V. Cypripedium villosum); Some Generic Comparisons in the Odontoglossum Group; Odontoglossum crispum, the Orchid with a Challenge; Miltonias; Miltonias and Odontoglossums in Australia; Some Observations on Odontoglossums Grown in a Photo-Thermal House; Odontoglossums in the Pacific Northwest; Odontoglossums in Florida; Book Review: "Les Orchidees" by Maurice Vacherot; and Miltonia Warscewiczii - Collectors' Item. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: Outstanding Cymbidiums of 1954; Cymbidiums in Sydney, Australia; An Early-Blooming Tetraploid Cymbidium; Spotting of Cymbidium Flowers; Modern Trends in Vandas; Cymbidiums on Kyushu; Bottom Heat for Cymbidium Back Bulb Propagations; For the Beginner: If I Were Starting an Orchid Collection; and Epidendrum elongatum - Collectors' Item. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: Outstanding Cymbidiums of 1955; 1955 Cymbidium Season in Australia; A Wish that Came True; Miniature Cymbidiums in Japan; Aneuploid Chromosome Numbers in Cymbidiums; Cymbidium Balkis 'Silver Orb'; Orchid Disorders, with Special Reference to Virus Diseases; Notes on Cymbidium Culture: Some Flowering Factors; The Use of Rooting Substances in Cymbidium Green Bulb Propagation; and Beginners' Handbook: Potting and Feeding. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: Scientific Method in Orchidology; Outstanding Cymbidiums in Australia - 1957; It's in the Bag; Book Review "Orchids for Everybody" by Lee Wickham; Cytogenetic Studies in the Genus Cymbidium: Pollen Formation in the Hybrids (Pt III); and Gravel Culture of Orchids. Average wear. Minor soiling due to water. Front cover soiled from water damage. A sound working copy. Book
(Codice VS/0444) In 4° (cm 36) 392 pp. Grande splendida volume, illustrato con moltissime foto e carte in gran parte a colori. Pregiata edizione, stampa a cura di De Agostini, su carta distinta, tiratura limitata numerata. Con bibliografia, indici dei nomi geografici e delle carte. Grande e bel volume, elegante legatura similpelle originale blu, con titolo e fregi oro. Freschissimo, come nuovo nel cofanetto editoriale. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
1980015863Canberra ACT Australia: Australian National University Press 1980. Light general wear to boards. Foxing to endpapers. 383 pages with b/w illustrations and two fold out maps at rear. Carl Lumholtz was an anthropologist and naturalist who spent 1880 to 1884 on an expedition to Australia during which he lived among the Aborigines of Queensland at a time when Aboriginal culture had only been minimally affected by European contact. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Australian National University Press Hardcover
1971024201Adelaide SA Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia 1971. Small mark to spine of volume one. Small previous owners name to top of front free endpaper in both volumes. Volume 1 = 617 pages. Volume 2 = 335 pages. With colour and b/w illustrations and a fold out map. An account of the English colony in New South Wales from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 : with remarks on the dispositions customs manners &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. To which are added some particulars of New Zealand; compiled by permission from the mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King; and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr Bass; by which the existence of a strait separating Van Dieman's Land from the continent of New Holland was ascertained. . FACSIMILE EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Libraries Board of South Australia Hardcover
1979140956Adelaide: Austaprint 1979. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Austaprint 1979 facsimile edition/ 1862. Octavo vi 99 pages plus a large folding map. Gilt-lettered quarter leather and cloth; a fine copy. Number 443 of only 500 copies. Austaprint hardcover
186259032London: Robert K. Burt 1862. First Edition. Paperback. London Robert K. Burt 1862. Octavo iv 96 4 catalogue pages plus a large folding map 740 × 635 mm. Early half morocco and marbled papered boards with the stamp of H. Sotheran & Co. on the front pastedown retaining the original wrappers; leather a little rubbed at the extremities with the front joint slightly cracked towards the head; moderate foxing to the endpapers wrappers and adjacent leaves with light foxing elsewhere and the paper is a little tanned throughout; wrappers slightly chipped and a little stained with a tiny inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of the front one; tiny dog-ears to the corners of the early leaves and a few margins are a little dusty; small light tidemark to the margin of the top corner of the last 15 leaves; minimal signs of age and use; notwithstanding overall a very presentable copy. Robert K. Burt paperback
1789P1-2LBasil, Tourneisen, 1789. In-8 (210x130mm), relié pleine basane époque, dos orné, pièce de titre, liseré or sur les plats, XVI-381pp. Grandes marges, , petits manques au plat . La relation se compose en partie d’entretiens avec Henry Wilson, capitaine de « Antelope » qui fut naufragé en août 1883 sur un récif près de Kotor.
148 p. + Frontis portrait of Muir engraved by John Scoles. 8vo. 210 mm. Early Henry family autograph ownership. ExLib stamp of the Lancaster Mechanic's Society. Age stain, but still good. Thomas Muir [the Younger of Huntershill](1765-1799) was a Scottish political reformer. As a student he embraced controversy, and he soon developed a reputation as a lawyer who was willing to appear in court on behalf of poor clients who could not afford to pay a fee and was a fierce critic of a legal system that he believed was biased in favor of the rich. As a young Whig he helped form Friends of the People branches were formed throughout Scotland. Muir was arrested January, 1793, and charged with sedition. After being interrogated for several hours he was released on bail. Muir now traveled to London where he had talks with other leaders of the Friends of the People. The leaders of the movement were concerned about the violence taking place in France. Muir agreed to go to France and join Tom Paine in his attempts to persuade the leaders of the revolution to abandon the plan to execute Louis XVI. Muir was unsuccessful and after having talks with the Girondist leaders, he returned to Scotland, and was promptly arrested. Edinburgh he was tried for sedition before Lord Braxfield and a hand-picked jury of anti-reformers. Muir was found guilty and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. Afraid that Scottish reformers would attempt to rescue Muir, he was quickly removed to London. Radicals in the House of Commons immediately began a campaign to save the men now being described as the Scottish Martyrs. Attempts to stop the men being transported failed and in May 1794, the ship Surprise left Portsmouth and began its 13,000 mile journey to Botany Bay. The men arrived on 25th October to join the Colony of 1,908 convicts. As a political prisoner, Muir was given more freedom than most convicts and he was allowed to buy a small farm close to Sydney Cove. After two years at Port Jackson, New South Wales, Thomas Muir escaped with the help of Francis Peron, the chief mate of the American ship, the Otter of Boston. Muir reached Vancouver Island but after being offered help by a Spanish captain, he was arrested and taken on board the Ninfa. While on the way to Cadiz the Ninfa was attacked by the British warship Irresistible. During the battle Thomas Muir was hit by a glancing blow from a cannonball which smashed his left cheekbone and seriously injured both his eyes. For several days Muir's condition was so bad he was expected to die. When the French government heard about what had happened to Muir they tried to persuade the Spanish authorities to release him. The Spanish eventually agreed and Muir arrived in Bordeaux in November 1797. Muir joined up with Tom Paine in Paris where they continued the fight for parliamentary reform in Britain. However, Muir had never fully recovered from the wound he received on the Ninfa and his health began to deteriorate at the end of 1798. He was taken to Chantilly where he died on 26th January, 1799. First American Edition. Evans 27633. EVANS2
1799716781799. Four 1799 Parliamentary Acts Relating to Penal Transportation to Australia Australia. Transporation. An Act for Making Perpetual So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty. An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation Imprisonment And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders As Relates to the Punishment of Burning in the Hand of Certain Persons Convicted of Felony within the Benefit of Clergy drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 437-438 2 pp. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. With An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty Chapter Seventy-Four Videlicet On the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight Intituled An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to Transportation Imprisonment And of the Punishment of Certain Offenders As Relates to the Lodgings of Judges at County Assizes drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 441-442 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. And An Act for Continuing Until the Twenty-Fifth Day Of March One Thousand Eight Hundred And Two Several Laws Relating to the Transportation of Felons and Other Offenders to Temporary Places of Confinement in England and Scotland Respectively drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 461-462 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. And An Act for Continuing Until the Twenty-Fifth Day of March One Thousand eight hundred and two So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty Chapter Seventy-Four. Videlicit On the the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight Intituled An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation Imprisonment And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders As Relates to Penitentiary Houses drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 465-466 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. Four disbound items 12-1/2" x 8." Light toning and edgewear light soiling to edges small chi. unknown books
18638788George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty 1863. Sm. folio single leaf fine woodblock arms of Victoria at head; a very good crisp clrean copy ideal for framing and display. 26 Victoriae Cap. 23 granted Royal Assent 8 June 1863. [George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, unknown
8vo. 6 pages, plus 2 large folding diagrams. A rare separate offprint printed for the Royal Geographical Society. Publisher's blue titled wrappers, string-tied and bearing the society's crest. Some light foxing, otherwise in very good and original condition. The author, a respected astronomer and well-known authority on comets, renders praise to the primary research and calculations of Major S.C.N. Grant in 1896, which forms the basis for his dissertation. With meticulous and detailed instruction Crommelin presents a simplified method to predict and decipher the instantaneous and momentary occultation of stars which greatly simplifies the detremination of Longitude at Sea. He further introduces the application to the Solar Eclipse phenomenon. Exceedingly rare dissertation by an important nineteenth century astronomer. Six years prior to Crommelin's study, Grant published a six page report and illustration, titled "Diagram for Determining the Parallaxes in Declination and Right Ascension of a Heavenly Body, and its Application to the Prediction of Occultations." Crommelin was famed for his computations of cometary orbits. He took part in expeditions to observe total solar eclipses in 1896, 1900, 1905, 1912, and 1927. In 1919 he participated in the solar eclipse expedition to Brazil which aimed to determine the amount of the deflection of light caused by the gravitational field of the Sun. The results from these observations were crucial in providing confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity, which Albert Einstein had proposed in 1916.
1928056138Brisbane: The Read Press 1928. 210pp 4pp ads at rear map 52 bw ills. Pictorial card. Very small abrasion to front cover light even toning to page edges. No date but National Library suggests 1928. Account of a very early motor journey around Australia in an Overland car. Very scarce and the nicest I have seen. First Paperback. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. The Read Press Hardcover
83654First Edition. Hardcover. The prints 195 × 245 mm or the reverse in uniformly fine condition are tipped in on album leaves rectos only; these are cord-bound into the cloth-covered album now slightly rubbed and marked. They are all individually captioned and signed 'Hugo Keil ARPS' in pencil on the wide bottom margins; undated but we suggest the early 1940s. The Northern Territory Archive Service has an album containing the same twenty-five images captioned but apparently unsigned. The catalogue record for that album NTRS 3050 states that 'Hugo Keil was a photographer who worked at the Appropriation Ledger Section of the Allied Works Council in Alice Springs during the Second World War. Hugo gave this wonderful album of Central Australian images to Phyllis Prideaux later Johnson which has come into NTAS as part of the Phyllis Johnson collection. Hugo took many photographs of Central Australian scenes including images of Mount Gillen the Hugh River Palm Valley and the Spotted Tiger Mine at Harts Range'. <p>An article in the 'Barrier Miner' 28 October 1938 makes mention of a forthcoming 'exhibition of Bromoil Prints by Hugo Keil of the Crown Studios Adelaide' and a review in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' 21 August 1940 of The Adelaide Camera Club's exhibition of pictorial photography notes that 'Hugo Keil shows fine timber sharply etched in "Grandeur of the North"'. hardcover
108073The very fine portrait visible image size 545 × 395 mm in its original ornate gilt frame external dimensions 740 × 595 mm is exquisitely hand-painted and signed by the famous colonial photographer Townsend Duryea 1823-1888. His original label is affixed to the paper backing on the verso of the frame 'T. Duryea Artist Photographer 66 and 68 King William Street Adelaide' and in our opinion he has created a masterpiece as both artist and photographer with this work. James Hurtle Fisher commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835. He was selected as resident commissioner one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act . second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo" arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay where the official oaths were administered a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. <p>In January 1837 Fisher erected his reed hut and Land Office near the survey camp of Colonel William Light at the north-western corner of the new capital site; the destruction of these temporary buildings by fire on 23 January 1839 caused both men serious loss. Fisher had been allowed to draft his own instructions which were not shown to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Disputes between the two men over their respective powers had begun on the voyage and were soon revived in the new Council of Government and more violently outside and led in February 1837 to the Resident Magistrate's Court binding the participants over to keep the peace towards each other. The new governor George Gawler was appointed both governor and resident commissioner a radical departure from the principles on which the colony had been founded' ADB. <p>Fisher returned to his profession and became a leader of the South Australian Bar. In October 1840 he was elected first mayor of Adelaide; in 1860 he became the first resident South Australian to be knighted. Townsend Duryea was at the King William Street address from 1858 until his illustrious career as a photographer 'was cut short when his studio and entire collection of 50000 negatives were destroyed by fire on 18 April 1875' ADB. We suggest as a date for this magnificent portrait 'circa 1870'. unknown
1975141818Canberra: The Author 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Canberra The Author May 1975. Foolscap folio xvii 240 pages of processed typescript rectos only with 94 tables and 12 figures mostly plans but including a map plus 3 pages of plates totalling 6 illustrations from photographs. Quarter cloth and textured papered boards; an excellent copy. 'Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University'. The Author hardcover
