3 315 résultats
63-3960Hawthorn Victoria Australia: Morris Lurie 1989. . Letter-Sized Sheet Typed with Inked Notes & Signature. Very Good. Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia: Morris Lurie, 1989. unknown
82561First Edition. Hardcover. Foolscap folio; uniformly and handsomely bound in quarter morocco and buckram with contrasting title-labels on the spines 'Early Port of Adelaide Parliamentary Papers 1869-1878' and 'Early South Australian Ports. Parliamentary Papers 1869-1880'; typed title leaves signed by Ingleton and lists of contents are bound in. The first volume contains eleven Parliamentary Papers in all 98 pages plus 7 plans or charts plus a printed broadside and 11 manuscript documents totalling 19 pages. The documents all dated 1878 include a proof copy of the Report of the Board of Advice one page foolscap folio signed in ink by the State Treasurer and third-time Premier James Boucaut with a few minor corrections in pencil by Captain Frederick Howard Chairman of the Board; a four-page draft report on Largs Bay - Semaphore Jetty Beach Boats with a cover note initialled by Boucaut; and a two-page draft 'Report on probable effect of sea outlet for sewerage sic of Adelaide' by Howard. It also contains a large broadside 570 × 295 mm printed in four columns recto only headed 'Outer Harbour at Marino. Public Meeting at Brighton. "South Australian Register" August 31 1878'. The most substantial Parliamentary Paper is 'Report of the Select Committee . on Holdfast Bay Pier and Railway Bill 1869-70 SAPP 209 of 1870; vi 53 pages plus a small plan of Sandridge Old Pier. The best of the maps are Goalen's 1875 'Port Adelaide' 610 × 870 mm and 'Plan of Proposed Harbour at Marino' 330 × 540 mm. <p>The second volume contains twelve Parliamentary Papers five of them duplicates of those in the first volume in all 216 pages plus 2 maps and a plan but lacking the 3 plans from one duplicated paper 'Ocean Steamer Accommodation' SAPP 108 of 1878; 3 pages plus an additional leaf printed later and not present in the first volume. The most substantial paper is 'Report of the Select Committee . into the Desirability of forming an Outer Harbor' SAPP 113 of 1876; viii 122 pages. The other maps are a folding 'Plan of Port Adelaide 342 × 251 mm and 'Marino Bay with Proposed Breakwater' 400 × 555 mm. Most of the maps and charts are detached and some have a few tears; there is sporadic foxing to the printed material but overall the condition is excellent. Further details are available on request. hardcover
125425Original sepia-toned albumen paper photographs both 158 × 208 mm unmounted as issued; short sealed tear to the bottom corner of the photograph of weapons; essentially 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>'Point McLeay Mission was founded on the shores of Lake Alexandrina in 1859 by the Aborigines' Friends Association for the Aboriginal people of the Lower Lakes. George Taplin the Congregational minister was its first administrator. Following Government administration from 1916 Point McLeay was returned to the Ngarrindjeri people in 1974 and renamed Raukkan in 1982' State Library of South Australia. <p>The group portrait depicts 55 Indigenous men women and children posed in five rows in front of one of the thatch-roofed residential cottages at Point McLeay. 'Sweet Adelaide 463' is inscribed in the negative; 'Native Mission Station Ponindie sic' is written in pencil and in error on the verso. <p>The photograph of weapons and artefacts is inscribed 'Sweet Adelaide 462' in the negative and has an early caption in pencil on the verso 'Native Ornaments & Weapons'. The objects numbered 1 to 17 in the negative are displayed against a whitewashed wall of one of the cottages. <p>We have traced only one example of the latter photograph in Trove in the National Library of Australia and none of the group portrait. '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 notes that Sweet visited Point McLeay in 1878 and 1880. She reproduces the latter photograph in her extensive catalogue see number 811 '"Ngarrindjeri weapons and hunting implements" 1878 Point McLeay. Private Collection' but does not record the group portrait. 2 items. unknown
808351 A manuscript personal promissory note 90 × 167 mm dated Adelaide 24 October 1840 - 'Three months after date pay to my order Thirty Pounds value received. F.W. Allen. To C.W. Stuart Esqre'. Stuart has written across it 'Accepted Payable at the Bank of South Australia'. It was subsequently stamped by the Bank of South Australia Adelaide when it was paid on 27 January 1841. The verso is endorsed by F.W. Allen C. Crispe and 'For the Bank of South Australia Edwd Stephens Manager'. Apart from two vertical creases and a tiny spike hole it is in fine condition. <p>2 A printed Bank of South Australia cheque 80 × 180 mm printed by Batho and Bingley London with manuscript insertions - 11 February 1841 from C.W. Stuart to Harry Lechahdee for 3 pounds. A bank stamp on it indicates it was paid out in Adelaide on 15 February 1841. It is endorsed on the verso by Robert Champlay an indecipherable signature and three small Xs. It is lightly creased with a tiny spike hole; on the verso there is a discoloured band denoting the outer surfaces when the item was originally folded; basically in excellent condition. It goes without saying that these are utterly rare ephemeral items dating from when the colony was barely four years old. However because of this we are able to identify most of the signatories thus giving these trifles much greater weight. <p>Edward Stephens 1811-1861 was appointed cashier and accountant of the South Australian Company in 1836; he arrived in the 'Coromandel' on 17 January 1837 at Holdfast Bay. 'There he set up his office in a tent but at first business was slight. He was induced to sign a letter to Governor Sir John Hindmarsh asking for a public meeting to reconsider the site of Adelaide. Although in February the meeting decided in favour of Colonel William Light's choice Stephens did not hesitate to buy eight city acres 3.2 ha when they were auctioned and later became very friendly with Light. Stephens fell foul of Hindmarsh and was rebuked by George Fife Angas for dabbling in politics' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. In 1840 he became the Adelaide manager of the Bank of South Australia. Charles William Stuart ~1811-1891 arrived in the colony in 1836 and became Acting Police Commissioner during Alexander Tolmer's extended absences on overland gold escort duties in 1852-53. Tolmer's dismissal in November 1853 was in part due to his involvement 'in demeaning disputes with his subordinates' not least Stuart. Frederick William Allen 1813-1850 arrived on the 'Buffalo' and became a publican. Clement Crispe ~1804-1857 arrived in 1837 on the 'John Renwick' and was a butcher and farmer. Robert Champlay was married in Adelaide on 30 January 1840. Most of the biographical details have come from the 'Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885'. We have not yet traced Harry - there are some intriguing possibilities. 2 items. unknown
122044Two vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs image size 162 × 213 mm on original stiff card mounts external dimensions approximately 250 × 305 mm. The photographs and mounts are in uniformly excellent condition. The photographer is not identified but written in ballpoint pen on the verso of each mount is '1933 Probably funeral of Reg Player Fuller'. Reg Fuller one of 'the State's best riders over hurdles and fences' died as a result of injuries received when his horse 'fell with him in the steeplechase at Victoria Park' on Saturday 22 April 1933. Short articles on his death appeared in a number of Australian newspapers including the 'Sydney Morning Herald'; the most informative one is in the Adelaide 'Chronicle' on Thursday 4 May 1933. In part it states that Fuller 'had been riding at registered race meetings for about 12 years and during that time he had comparatively few falls in jumping races a tribute to his ability. Before the accident at Victoria Park he had broken his collarbone twice and had had several fractured ribs. It was a remarkable record as Fuller always a fearless horseman did not hesitate to ride horses new to jumping. He rode in hurdle races for three years before he had his first fall. Fuller has left a widow and one child'. 2 items. unknown
130007May's series was unpublished but dates from circa 1890; it was based on original sketches by Gill and Hamilton five each from upwards of fifty years earlier. May's ten plates were printed in brown ink on light brown arch-topped backgrounds printed surface 150 × 205 mm on uniform sheets of cream paper 200 × 275 mm; they were not coloured. Gill's titles are 'Cradling Forest Creek 1852' 'The Claim Disputed' 'Mustering Cattle' 'Native Sneaking Emus' and 'The Bushranger Pursued'. Hamilton's titles in which the horse naturally enough features prominently are 'The Lost Bushman' 'The Found Bushman' 'Bushmen in Danger' 'Australian Bushmen' and 'The Bushman'. <p>Offered here is one print after Gill 'The Bushranger Pursued' and one after Hamilton 'The Bushman'. <p>The invaluable 'Dictionary of Australian Artists. Painters Sketchers Photographers and Engravers to 1870' edited by Joan Kerr has only this to say: 'MAY E.C. lithographer signed nine lithographs celebrating life in the bush and on the goldfields c.1855-60 ML. He may have been the May who was in partnership with George Walker q.v. at Melbourne in the early 1870s'. At least he appears on their radar . We have established the following facts. Edgar Charles May 1867-1920 was born at North Adelaide on 27 May 1867; his name later appeared in the local Sands and McDougall's directories with his occupation listed as artist. One published example of his work not noted at all by Kerr and not attributed to May by Ferguson is '14 Views of Old Adelaide from Sketches in 1840-1849 by S.T. Gill F.R. Nixon S. Calvert and O. Korn' Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1890; oblong quarto 19 leaves all rectos blank comprising the gilt-pictorial title page signed in the image by E.C. May 14 full-page tinted lithographic views with tissue-guards the 3-page list of 181 subscribers and the key to plate 5 between plates 4 and 5'. This is Ferguson 9924e which is essentially the same item as Ferguson 9807 apart from the different publishers. We have inspected numerous copies of 9924e the Wigg version and the odd Galbraith one and it is clear that the original Galbraith imprint is masked by the gold blocking carrying the later Wigg imprint. The nature of the contents reworked material from well-known earlier artists the medium tinted lithographs printed in brown and the style of the work leave us in no doubt that May is responsible for all the material in '14 Views of Old Adelaide'. <p>We suggest that the full series of ten lithographs was prepared by him with the intention of putting out a companion volume to '14 Views of Old Adelaide'. The change of publisher after that book was printed leads us also to suggest that Galbraith or May or both lost money on the venture and who knows perhaps the Wigg issue was not a commercial success either. In any event one could see how enthusiasm for a sequel might be considerably diminished. Complete sets of these plates are exceptionally rare on the open market even Kerr's dictionary refers to only nine of them; until now they have been poorly documented in the literature. Individual plates are rarely offered for sale either. These two uniformly matted framed and glazed have been professionally hand-coloured at a later date but probably five decades or more ago which serves to present May's work to best advantage. 2 items. unknown
1934144537London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1.: Lenare 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1. Lenare 1934. Two large-format gelatin silver photographs each 351 × 264 mm signed by the photographer in the negative with his studio inkstamp and manuscript reference number on the versos. Some silvering-out mainly around the edges; tiny creases to the corners of the white margins of one print; overall in excellent condition loosely inserted in the original cloth portfolio lettered in gilt on the padded front panel in excellent condition albeit with a spot of surface wear near the middle of the spine. Clarrie Grimmett the NZ-born Australian Test cricketer was one of the finest leg-spinners of his time. He is photographed in two different poses: head-and-shoulders from the side wearing his cap and blazer; and three-quarter length from the front wearing pullover and blazer with cap in hand. Lenare was the professional name of Leonard George Green 1883-1946; he specialised in society portraits at his London studio. <p>Provenance: Clarrie Grimmett originally purchased at the Christie's auction of the Clarrie Grimmett Collection sold in Melbourne on 13 May 1998. Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936 taking 216 wickets at an average of 24.21. His record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests achieved in his 36th match stood for 82 years and was broken only in 2018. His first-class record of 1424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941 includes 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931 along with Don Bradman. He was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members and in 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. 2 items. Lenare hardcover
1999140188North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 first thus/ 1834. Octavo xlvi 298 pages with a frontispiece plus a colour map and 14 plates 4 in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine colour-pictorial dustwrapper. One of the 'Les Hiddins Series of Explorers' Journals'. Corkwood Press hardcover
1963141195Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1963 facsimile edition/ 1833. Octavo two volumes iv lxxx 219 and iv vi 271 pages plus plates and maps one folding. Full leather pigskin - a presentation binding; boards slightly bowed; endpapers and the margins of the first and last few leaves in each volume slightly tanned; an excellent set. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 4. Peade A4: 1117 sets. A personal bookplate is mounted on the front free endpaper of the first volume; a short letter relating to the gift of these volumes is loosely inserted. 2 items. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
1833BIB329093<p>Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. 19631833. Octavo Size approx 15x22cm. Near Fine condition - an excellent set. Beige marbled faux leather boards with gilt title to spine - as issued. Colour and black & white illustrations. Maps. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 4. Facsimile edition of the 1833 Smith Elder edition. Peade A4 - 748 copies. Although there was a later reprint of another 389 copies. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 220 272 pages. Captain Charles Sturt was a British explorer of Australia and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent starting from both Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers establishing that they all merged into the Murray River. He was searching to determine if there was an "inland sea". . Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Hardback.</p> Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
1999146555North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 new edition reset/ 1833. Octavo xlvi 298 pages plus 17 pages of plates including a colour double-page map and 4 illustrations in full colour. Full black calf lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; a fine copy. Number 15 of only 30 copies of the deluxe issue all inscribed dated September 1999 and signed by Les Hiddins who provided the introduction new to this edition. Corkwood Press hardcover
198273994Lane Cove: Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lane Cove Doubleday 1982 facsimile edition/ 1833. Octavo two volumes ii lxxx 219 and ii vi 271 pages plus 18 plates and a folding map. Synthetic cloth; a fine set with the fine dustwrappers. Doubleday hardcover
1988141109Berri: The Bonum Research Centre Pty. Ltd 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Berri The Bonum Research Centre Pty. Ltd. 1988. Quarto 127 pages with numerous illustrations mostly in colour from artworks by Robert Pope and Robert Todonai plus pictorial endpapers. Quarter contrasting gilt-decorated cloth; spine very slightly sunned; a near-fine copy. The Bonum Research Centre Pty. Ltd hardcover
194557740Melbourne NT: Georgian House 1945. 8vo. 144 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Blue publisher’s cloth dark blue lettering on spine minor rubbing edgewear faint tidemark to upper right corner first few leaves w/ d.j. wraparound cover art edgewear rubbing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this oral memoir as told to Elisabeth George describing the efforts of Bill & Henriette Pierce Canadian ex-pats in the Northern Territory tin mines and later in Marranboy before opening their store at Daly Waters. They detail the growth of the airways the impact of World War II and a substantial amount of positive interaction and appreciation of the local aborigines. Georgian House, hardcover
1996100257Lyndoch: Pump Press 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Lyndoch Pump Press 1996. Octavo 5 1 colophon pages with a tipped-in photograph. Overlapping cord-bound card covers; titling label; a fine copy. With a 4-page ALS from Gerald Fischer to Sir Walter Crocker loosely inserted. Pump Press Pamphlet Number 22. One of only 65 copies. Pump Press paperback
1916026991Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. 160pp few b/w plates. The spine binding is slackening although no pages seem to be detached. Endpapers toned. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's name with ownership statement on the front paste-down another prev owners name torn from top of title page. Decorative cloth boards. The boards are heavily silverfished with the decoration on the front board almost the only undamaged part of the original binding. Most of the spine title is still legible. Somewhat ugly but an extremely scarce first edition. An account of the author's time at Gallipoli and in the trenches as a rank and file soldier. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
1898136660Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. and London J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne George Robertson & Co. and London J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited 1898. Oblong folio 330 × 450 mm 36 pages plus 15 tipped-in chromolithographs by the author each with a paper guard now with associated offsetting. Dark green pebble-grain cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover all edges gilt; cloth lightly flecked with slight bumps and minimal wear to the extremities; frontispiece mount a little foxed; an excellent copy and probably as nice as they come given the age and large format of the volume. 'Captain Sturt discovered and followed this river down. My friend and I went over the same water after an interval of many years but the greater portion of its scenery remains unchanged the population is so sparse; so in effect this illustrates his exploration. I have confined myself almost entirely to the natural scenery' the preface. George Robertson & Co. and London, J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited hardcover
2010034697Tully Qld: Helen Pedley 2010. HEAVY. vi 246pp bibliography bw ills. Or pictorial laminated boards. Near new. Tully was surveyed in the mid-1920s and Cardwell Shire named the streets to honour the servicemen and women from the shire who served in the war of 1914-18 as a lasting memorial. Later streets were also named for ex-servicemen- many of whom paid the ultimate price. This book relates the stories of the poeple and families honoured through Tully's street names and also provides a look at the surveys land sales and photographic portrayals of the early town. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to. Helen Pedley Hardcover
1918008846London: T. Fisher Unwin 1918 lacks fep toned endpapers light handling wear light foxing mainly to closed edges 313pp plates. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
19957663Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1995. Small quarto. xiv 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
19955884Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1995. Small quarto. xiv 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. No.1370 of the limited edition of 1500 copies. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
19955899Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1995. Small quarto. xiv 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. No.471 of the limited edition of 1500 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
1976053265Cairns: Cairns Post 1976. 515pp index bibliography bw ills maps loose folding map. Green cloth in jacket. Jacket faded at spine rubbed at folds and with several tears light toning to page edges. Includes the often missing loosely inserted map.The definitive history of the discovery establishment and progression of Cairns and district. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Cairns Post Hardcover
1976054997Cairns: Cairns Post 1976. 515pp index bibliography bw ills maps loose folding map. Green cloth in jacket. Jacket with 2 very short <1cm tears-1 with associated crease. A bright fresh copy. Includes the often missing loosely inserted map.The definitive history of the discovery establishment and progression of Cairns and district. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Cairns Post Hardcover
186024334London: Printed by W. Mitchener 1860. Hardcover. Very good overall. Instructions from the Commissioners of Audits approved by Queen Victoria's Commissioners of the Treasury which were provided to the Agents General of British colonies. <br /> <br /> Among the "Supplies" procured and forwarded to the colonies are included "Sub-Marine Telegraph Cables Steam Vessels Dredging Vessels" showing a keen involvement with advancing telegraph capabilities after the successful launching of the first telegraphic cable across the Atlantic by the Great Eastern in 1858. <br /> <br /> The instructions include two types of colonies "Crown" and "Representative" seemingly related to the application of the instructions which are "Strictly Applied" in Crown Colonies and "Applied when Practicable" in Representative Colonies. The Crown Colonies include many islands of the Caribbean - Bermuda Jamaica Grenada St. Lucia Bahamas Turks Islands and Trinidad. Bermuda is unusually listed "Convict Service only partly representative. Other Crown colonies are Ceylon Mauritius Western Australia the only Australian state so designated Gibraltar Malta Natal Labuan Sierra Leone Gambia Gold Coast Hong Kong British Guiana British Columbia British Kaffraria St. Helena Falkland Islands Heligoland. <br /> <br /> Representative colonies include Victoria Tasmania and New Zealand Cape of Good Hope New Brunswick Newfoundland Vancouver's Island and St. Kitts. Also included are lists of supplies to be procured and forwarded and incidental duties. <br /> <br /> 8vo 24pp. Brown gilt calf presentation binding with gold gilt title border and royal crest. Deaccessed from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library with their stamp at the front end paper. Rubbed at spine paper "Duplicate" label partially present at front cover title page detached. Binding slightly separated but firm. <br /> <br /> Trove cites digital copies only. OCLC: 276298293 cites 2 copies at the Archives of Canada and Auckland Libraries. Printed by W. Mitchener hardcover
