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212950Adelaide South Australia Genealogy.Society 1987-1989. 8 volumes. 8vo. c220pp. per volume. . Original wrappers name on title-pages a very good set. . First editions. Adelaide, South Australia Genealogy..Society, 1987-1989. unknown
1986BIB190431Adelaide: South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society. 1986. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in original green cloth with gilt lettering. Mild age-toning to page edges. Small neat owners name to front free endpaper of each volume. This is a heavy set and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 1762 pages 127 page cross reference listing. Published in South Australia's Sesquicentenary-Jubilee 150 Year The Biographical Index of South Australians contains biographical information of all people who lived in South Australia during the first fifty years of colonisation. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society hardcover
187123255Sydney: Caxton Steam Machine Printing Office 1871. Wraps. Very good - condition. Scarce biographical booklet the only one on Ristori published in Sydney describing the life of the Italian actress Adelaide Ristori renowned as a tragedienne. Ristori visited Australia with a large Italian entourage for 4 months in 1875 performing in Ballarat Melbourne and Sydney and this booklet was likely published as a promotional piece for the tour.<br /> <br /> This Australian booklet is not dated although Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia assigns a date ca. 1871. It was translated from Italian into English to be used as an advertising piece for Ristori's 1875 Australia tour. It was published at the Caxton printing office which was functioning under that name until 1876.<br /> <br /> Adelaide Ristori 1822 - 1906 toured widely including Paris 1855 1856 London Madrid 1857 and the United States 1866. The booklet describes Ristori's American visits: the first tour was mainly in the North the events of the Civil War making a stop in New Orleans impossible. Ristori did eventually visit there reciting pieces at the grand bazaar following which she "had to accept a sumptuous supper which was attended by the leading people of the South headed by the generals Beauregard and Lee". p19.<br /> <br /> In 1875 after one of her American tours she traveled to Australia where her company's lavish productions of historical drama were performed in Italian. Ristori performed the roles of Medea Mary Stuart and the title role in Elizabeth Queen of England written especially for her by Paolo Giacometti. Such was Ristori's popularity that in Victoria a company working several gold mines on the rich Berry Lead near Allendale north of Ballarat was named Ristori after her. This led to an adjoining town being named Ristori Town.<br /> <br /> 8vo 29pp. Printed glossy paper wrappers the title printed in black at front wrapper with "Adelaide Ristori" in an elaborate type font. Staplebound. The wrappers slightly dusty the rear wrapper with two small areas where the gloss surface of the wrapper has been rubbed away; small amount of fox spotting to final leaves. Libraries Australia ID 5200078. OCLC: 219812323 locates 4 copies at Monash NLA SL NSW and SL Victoria. Ferguson 14938. Caxton Steam Machine Printing Office paperback
186929221London: by the author printed by Richard and John E. Taylor 1840-_ 1869. First edition. A FINE COPY OF GOULD'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK which was issued in 41 parts over 30 years and occupied more than half of his career. In the original publishers' full morocco gilt stamped binding.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Presented to the Right Reverend Mathew Blagden Hale by the members of the Church of England and other Denominations of Christians of Western Australia Perth October 28th 1876. With large presentation label printed in gold dated in each volume. Mathew Blagden Hale 1811-1895 was the first Bishop of Western Australia and founder of Hale School.<br /> <br /> Gould started work on the Birds of Australia in 1837 but ceased this effort when he found he did not have enough material to work from in England. He and his family departed for Australia where his wife had two brothers and remained there for 18 months collecting new specimens in New South Wales and Tasmania. John Gilbert was sent to collect specimens from Western Australia Queensland and South Australia. As Gould had introductions to the explorers working at the time he also received contributions of specimens from Sturt and Grey. As a result of this intensive effort 300 new species were claimed by Gould. <br /> <br /> AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS' CONTRIBUTION TO GOULD'S BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA<br /> <br /> In May 1838 Gould his wife Elizabeth John Gilbert their zoological collector one of their sons a nephew & two servants sailed for Australia. On their 27 montsh stay in the Colonies they received assistance from all sides ~ the Colonial Governors and most importantly the early explorers of Australia's interior.<br /> <br /> In Tasmania the Goulds were looked after by the Governor Sir John Franklin of later Arctic fame and Lady Franklin who were greatly interested in the flora and fauna of the country. Gould and Gilbert explored much of Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. <br /> <br /> In February 1839 John Gilbert departed for an eleven month stay in the Swan River Colony. Gilbert made further explorations to the Northern Territory with Ludwig Leichhardt but during Leichhardt's overland expedition in 1845 from Brisbane to Port Essington was tragically killed by aboriginals. Book - Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia. 1847.<br /> <br /> In June of 1839 Gould began a journey with Captain Charles Sturt from Adelaide to "the Murray Scrubs" the Mallee returning to Adelaide in July from where he visited Kangaroo Island before returning to Hobart. Books- Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia. 1833 & Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia. 1849.<br /> <br /> Contributions of specimens & information came from all quarters. George French Angas contributed eggs and information about the Yellow- eared Black Cockatoo. Book- South Australia Illustrated one of the great Australian topographical view books. In the course of his hydrographical voyage on the H.M.S. Rattlesnake John MacGillivray contributed information about the Great Palm Cockatoo. Book- Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley. 1852 Cape York area. T.L. Mitchell surveyor general of New South Wales supplied descriptions of the Leadbeater's Cockatoo commonly known as the "Major Mitchell". Books- Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia.1838 & Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.1848. <br /> <br /> The last voyage of the "Beagle" was in Australian waters from 1837 to 1843. In 1841 Capt. Wickham suffering ill-health was relieved of his command by Lieut. John Lort Stokes Book - Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle In the Years 1837- 1843. 1846. The task of the expedition was to survey those parts of the northern coast of Australia not already charted by Flinders or King. Accompanying them on this trip was the young lieutenant George Grey whose duty it was to explore the land in Australia's northwest with a view to establishing a permanent settlement there. Book - Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia. 1841 The scientific appendices in volume two of Grey's "Journals" include one on birds by John Gould ~ " Mr. Gould kindly forwarded the following enumeration of the species which have come under his notice as inhabiting that part of the country Western Australia." There follows a 7 pp listing of birds of W.A. "Officers of the Beagle" are credited by Gould's "Handbook to the Birds of Australia" as supplying information on the Rose-breasted Cockatoo. <br /> <br /> To conclude the history of Australia's inland exploration is inextricably bound up with Gould's masterwork The Birds of Australia. It was an extremely fertile and productive time in Australia ~ Sturt Mitchell & Angas in eastern & southern Australia; Leichhardt MacGillivray Stokes & Grey in the north & west. Reading the letter-press that accompanies each color plate of Gould's Birds bears witness to the combined efforts of Gould and the explorers and settlers of Australia ~ Gould constantly refers to specimens and information on the birds' customs and habitat sent to him by various explorers. Many times this spirit of cooperation overflows into the naming of the bird itself. Gould was the touchstone who pulled together the contributions of Australia's explorers into the foundation work on Australia's ornithology. This combined with Gould's work with Darwin interpreting the specimens from the famous "Beagle" voyages takes Gould's Birds of Australia out of a strictly natural history realm and places it firmly alongside the great scientific discovery expeditions of the 19th century.<br /> <br /> GOULD'S CONTRIBUTION TO DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION<br /> <br /> Before the Goulds' plans for the work on the Birds of Australia came to fruition John Gould became involved in a co-operative project with another scholar - Charles Darwin. In October 1836 Darwin returned to England from his 5 year circumnavigation on the H.M.S. Beagle on which John Lort Stokes served for 18 years- rising from midshipman in 1825 to commander in 1841. Darwin needed expert help in the description & identification of the preserved birds insects rocks shells & insects for his production of the Zoology of the Voyages of H.M.S. Beagle. Darwin had heard of Gould's books from Thomas Campbell Eyton a naturalist friend from Cambridge days who had bought Gould's Toucan prints. They were expensive he wrote but of good value as he had since been offered a higher price! Through the Zoological Society where Gould had established his reputation as a premier taxidermist Darwin initially made contact with Gould about a special Rhea seen during his travels in Northern Patagonia. This Rhea was an ostrich of dark mottled color with shorter legs than the Common Rhea. Conrad Martens the artist on the Beagle expedition shot one for food and it was cooked and eaten before Darwin realized that it was a less-known species. Fortunately the head neck feathers & skin had been preserved and were sent to the Zoological Society where it was put together and a nearly perfect specimen made for display. Gould classified the Rhea as a new species "Rhea Darwinii". <br /> <br /> The third volume of the "Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" contained fifty bird plates which was advertised by Darwin as "taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself and executed on stone by Mrs. Gould". When Gould & Darwin were examining the birds brought from the Galapagos Islands they were fascinated by a group of about thirteen finches of the same species which had curiously different-sized beaks. These modifications occurred on different islands and it was the investigation of this and other scientific data accumulated over a long period that led to Darwin's theories of evolution by adaptation formulated many years later. Frank Sulloway Harvard University 1982 has investigated Gould's part in Darwin's theory of evolution and shows that Gould astutely realised the basic peculiarities of these birds thus paving the way for Darwin's first notes on the "Transmutation of Species". Gould presented descriptions of the Galapagos finches and mockingbird specimens at the Zoological Society in January 1837. However he was unable to finish his work for Darwin. Due to the rush before the Goulds' departure to Australia parts of his manuscript were left unresolved and the work was completed by George Robert Gray of the British Museum.<br /> <br /> As Gould only published 250 sets of "The Birds of Australia" the number of complete copies which could possibly come on the market is significantly diminished by many factors ~ the work was issued in parts and not all copies were bound which would contribute to their demise over time. Many of the sets that survive are in institutional hands and unlikely to come onto the market. Over the last 20 years at least 10 copies have been "broken up" and sold as plates. This loss of a number of complete sets will certainly lead to a complete and undisturbed Gould attracting a premium by virtue of its increasing scarcity. <br /> <br /> 8 imperial folio volumes including supplement 2 pp list of subscribers 681 hand-colored lithograph plates including 3 double-page by John and Elizabeth Gould or by Gould and H.C. Richter. Printed by Hullmandel and Walton. Occasional minor spotting. Uniformly bound in publisher's green period full green morocco sides with gilt borders spines gilt in 6 compartments gilt edge by Clyde. The books are presently in the UK. <br /> <br /> Nissen IVB 370; Anker 174 and 179; Fine Bird Books p. 78; Wood p. 365; Zimmer pp 255-6 and 259; Sauer 9 and 18; Ferguson 4773 & 10032a. <br /> <br /> Bibliography: Lambourne Maureen Wm. McEvoy & Dr. Gordon Sauer. "John Gould - BIRD MAN" London 1987 Wantrup Jonathan "Australian Rare Books 1788-1900" Sydney 1987. by the author, printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, (1840-_ unknown
188916673Richmond Virginia: Allen & Ginter 1889. First printing. Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. Chromolithographic illustrations of Australian birds in tobacco advertising picture book from Richmond Virginia cigarette manufacturer. Lovely illustrations of birds including the apteryx cassowary kingfisher bird of paradise and lyre bird. Oblong 8vo not paginated 10 leaves with 50 striking bird images Tobacco advertisment in inside rear cover. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers with ornate tilte in blue at front cover surrounded by birds of Paradice and humming birds; AG logo on back cover with more humming birds. String bound. Few chips at edges of covers o/w very good. Allen & Ginter unknown
1910009685Wellington: Whitcombe and Tombs 1910 green buckram gilt decorated with birds and title viii 196pp 77 numbered plates "with publishers compliments" written in copperplate india ink to verso of fep corners rubbed a little bit of soiling to upper board. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Whitcombe and Tombs hardcover
1984141142Adelaide: South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies 1984. Oblong folio viii 337 pages with 18 maps 14 tables and numerous illustrations many from photographs. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. The cover subtitle is 'A heritage survey carried out for the South Australian Department of Environment and Planning by the South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies'. The Adelaide Hills town of Birdwood was formerly know as Blumberg; the German name was changed to a more patriotic one under the Nomenclature Act of 1917. South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies paperback
1909000005Christchurch New Zealand: Whitcombe and Tombs 1909 Life of Bishop Harper from his early life and work at Eton to his travels and missions in the Canterbury settlement in New Zealand. Red cloth gilt titled upper cover and spine. Some wear lower spine. Ink inscribed free end-paper edges untrimmed. xiii253frontis13plates. A few notations to the appendix. Second Revised Enlarged. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Whitcombe and Tombs hardcover
1994018619Ayr Queensland Australia: Council of the Shire of Burdekin 1994. Illustrated laminated boards with light general wear. Minor marks to front free endpaper. 320 pages with b/w illustrations. From first contact of Europeans with Aborigines analysing the development of the pastoral agricultural secondary and service industries including sugar cane growing and milling from Inkerman to Giru on the Haughton River rice tobacco mango and horticultural production irrigarion schemes leading to the construction of Burdekin Dam the establishment of the twin towns of Ayr and Home Hill sea road rail and air transport local government health services social religous and sporting activities and the impact of Melanesian Chinese Italian Spanish and other immigrants. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Council of the Shire of Burdekin Hardcover
1967BIB316171Adelaide: Rigby. 1967. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some light edgewear and is now protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Bookplate to preliminary pages. Inscribed and signed by the author to previous owner on verso of half-title page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and drawings. Maps to endpapers. xi 212pages. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Rigby hardcover
1976HISAUS901Adelaide SA Australia: Rigby Limited 1976. Book. Good. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Softcover reprint 210g 212pgs. An entertaining and characteristic account of the search for and preparation of a site for the explosion of the first atomic bomb in Australia. Book is signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads "To Joan & Bill Best wishes from the author Len Beadell Mar 77". Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Rigby Limited Paperback
1950124286Adelaide: Bleasdale Wines 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Bleasdale Wines 1950. Quarto vi 21 pages plus 26 illustrations by Max Ragless and plates. Cloth a little flecked and unevenly sunned; a slight mark to the front board; edges front endpapers and adjacent leaves slightly foxed; flyleaves offset; a very good copy. Compiled in part 'from facts supplied by members of the family of Frank Potts 1815-1890'; the author is 'one of his 21 grandsons'. The half-title is inscribed and signed 'To Reg as a small token of appreciation for many services rendered. A.B. Potts Xmas 1950' Arthur B. Potts one of the third generation - see the plate opposite page 19. [Bleasdale Wines hardcover
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1988029824Sydney: Child & Associates 1988. 208pp index bibliography num bw ills maps. Or red cloth in jacket. Some minor edge wear to jacket several tiny scrapes to bottom of boards. Describes all the major massacres from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the final massacres in the Northern Territory and Western Australia in the 1920s. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large 8vo. Child & Associates Hardcover
1996025229Canberra: 6th Canberra Merchandising & Publishing 1996. Book. Very Good . Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. VG Edgewear creases indentations. 'A compilation history'. Large format softcover illustrated with photographs. 200 pages. Expanded condition report/scan on request. 6th Canberra Merchandising & Publishing Paperback
OTF-S-9780642335036National Gallery of Australia. New. BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER! National Gallery of Australia unknown
1933107014Adelaide: Rigby Ltd 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Rigby Ltd. 1933. Small oblong folio 40 pages including the covers with illustrations on 24 pages 16 full-page and the front cover. Two-colour pictorial card covers recently reattached with the spine reinforced on the verso; an excellent copy of an absolute rarity. 'The Book has been written for the new regime of cricket; the batter bruise and bust cricket which has been thrust upon us. This travesty of an erstwhile noble sport demands new techniques to master it . We find after years of research that all previous books on cricket dealt mainly with batting bowling fielding and records. It is not now sufficient to wield a polished bat to execute a classic leg-glance or a neat on-drive' - you get the drift. The delicious irony is that this copy has the contemporary ownership details of a young Jeff Pash 1916-2005 then aged about 17. A few years later in 1939 he was awarded the Magarey Medal as the 'Fairest and Most Brilliant' player in the South Australian National Football League. Rigby Ltd paperback
2018056055Brisbane: Comicoz 2018. HEAVY/OVERSIZE-will require additional postage to most destinations. Pictorial boards in jacket. Pictorial endpapers bw comic strip style illustration throughout. Minor creasing to jacket with small repaired cut to front panel. Collects for the first time Monty Wedd's iconic Bold Ben Hall weekly adventure strips that were syndicated in various Australian newspapers from 1977-1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Wedd Monty. Oblong Folio. Comicoz Hardcover
196060174London: Heinemann 1960. 8vo. 208 pp. Black tweed boards silver lettering on spine slight bumping to corners minor shelfwear w/ d.j. variant issue cover art by Fratini of masked figure holding a revolver price-clipped NF/VG copy w/ Boans Book Salon Perth label on front pastedown. First edition of this Australian mystery featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte hunting for a murder amidst the Cork Valley Irish community in New South Wales. Heinemann, hardcover
1959040762Grafton N.S.W: Daily Examiner 1959. 104pp num bw ills/ads. Lovely pictorial wraps. Small chip from bottom of rear cover and top front corner light crease to bottom front cover small chip and small area lifting on spine. A very nice fresh copy of this scarce centenary history of Grafton in northern NSW. Some great ads too!. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Daily Examiner Paperback
1919120356Adelaide: 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase by J.L. Bonython & Co.' 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase by J.L. Bonython & Co.' 1919. Quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations mainly caricatures signed 'ESBEE' - possibly 68529 Private Edgar Stead Bailey listed in the nominal roll on page 28. Pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with some expert conservation sealed tears with minor loss to the edges filled in; bottom corner lightly stained throughout; signs of age and use; overall a presentable copy. A 'Chronicle of the doings of the last Australian troopship to reach South Africa and find that their services were not required as an Armistice had been signed but a few days previously' foreword. The extensive Nominal Roll pages 25-31 contains about 1200 names. The contents are a little more sobering than the usual troopship journal. The Honor Roll page 24 lists 29 men and women all but one of whom died from influenza after the ship had returned to Fremantle on 12 December this number includes four nursing sisters. A further three pages are devoted to accounts of the Spanish influenza that raged through the ship having been brought on board by infected local stevedores at Durban. 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.' paperback
2009054913Brisbane: Boolarong Press 2009. HEAVY. vi 298pp index sources 400 bw ills. White pictorial card with integral flaps. Near newtiny dark spot to bottom edge. SIGNED by author on title page. How colonial Brisbane was shown to the world before photography. Hundreds of line drawings from Brisbane's early years. Includes Moreton Bay Ipswich and the Darling Downs as well as Brisbane prior to 1870. Signed by the Author. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Boolarong Press Paperback
2009055030Brisbane: Boolarong Press 2009. HEAVY. vi 298pp index sources 400 bw ills. White pictorial boards in jacket. Near new. SIGNED and numbered 43/100 by author on title page. How colonial Brisbane was shown to the world before photography. Hundreds of line drawings from Brisbane's early years. Includes Moreton Bay Ipswich and the Darling Downs as well as Brisbane prior to 1870. Signed by the Author. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Boolarong Press Hardcover
ria9780415280686_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Dorothy Watts examines archaeological evidence to give us a unique assessment of women and their place in the Romanization of Britain. hardcover
0642366128.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback