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186380169Adelaide: W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Cox Government Printer 1863. Octavo 54 pages plus a large folding map and an errata slip tipped in on the contents page; the map 890 × 650 mm is of the Northern Territory itself and shows the 'exploration tracks' of Stuart Sturt A.C. Gregory McKinlay and Leichardt sic. Contemporary full morocco with decorative gilt borders front and rear and the title in gilt on the front cover a most attractive colonial binding; extremities slightly rubbed; leather slightly dusty; the map has tiny holes nibbled by silverfish along the fold of two blank panels and short splits to four intersecting folds insignificant blemishes; a fine copy. 'On 16 July 1863 the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and the relevant Acts and Regulations 20 pages together with lengthy extracts from Earl's 'Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia' printed earlier the same year at the 'Pinang sic Gazette' Press in the Straits Settlement 22 pages. The last section 'Interior of the Country' 12 pages is largely extracted from the journal of Stuart and the report of Waterhouse naturalist to his expedition. Ferguson 13458 the wrappers here are not stiffened and the title page is also printed within a border. <p>Provenance: The Honorable Henry Ayers CMG with his armorial bookplate. Sir Henry Ayers 1821-1897 legislator and businessman was at the time South Australian Chief Secretary under whose command the 'Northern Territory Land Regulations' and 'Appointment of Officers' printed in the book were proclaimed. Ayers has underlined in ink six lines in the Northern Territory Act relating to land orders. W.C. Cox, Government Printer hardcover
1991145918Eden Hills: The Author 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Eden Hills The Author 1991 first edition. Octavo 368 pages with numerous maps and illustrations plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper lightly scuffed. The Author hardcover
188080145Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Octavo 55 pages. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers with the title page details repeated on the front cover; cloth a little flecked and slightly sunned and rubbed; card a little tanned mottled and lightly marked; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. At the time of publication the author was Chief Warden of the Goldfields of the Northern Territory. 'This pamphlet is published by permission of the Government of South Australia; but it is only proper to state that the recommendations herein made especially with reference to the formation of a railway have not yet been considered by the Ministry and must therefore be only regarded as the individual views of the author. A portion of the matter in the following pages was compiled by me' for Harcus's 'South Australia' published in 1876; it 'incorporated some useful papers written by residents there'. <p>That book also contained an important chapter on Central Australia incorporated here with additional material. To quote Harcus: 'the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. Knight remarks that it 'affords an excellent insight into the vast tract of country'. The article takes up most of the 17-page chapter; it refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. It is augmented with a page of quotations from Charles Winnecke's 1879 Herbert River expedition reports. Ferguson 11231 pretty light on detail even to the extent of not recording the binding. E. Spiller, Government Printer paperback
BIB331055Darwin: History Unit University Planning Unit. 19841882. Octavo Size approx 13x20cm. Near Fine Condition. Leather bound with gilt to front board. Gilt titles slightly dulled. Limited edition of 50 copies only - this is copy 31. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages Advertisements and Index. With an appendix containing reports on the general resources of the Territory by Professor Tate F.G.S. . Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. History Unit University Planning Unit hardcover
1984146035Darwin: G.L. Duffield Government Printer of the Northern Territory 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. Darwin G.L. Duffield Government Printer of the Northern Territory 1984 augmented facsimile edition/ 1882. Octavo vi 192 6 advertisements 17 index pages. Gilt-lettered leather unevenly sunned; gilt lettering a little rubbed; a few trifling marks on the spine; an excellent copy internally fine. Number 40 of 50 of a specially bound limited edition. The index by Elizabeth Estbergs is new to this edition. G.L. Duffield, Government Printer of the Northern Territory hardcover
188228524Adelaide: Thomas 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Thomas 1882. Octavo iv 192 6 advertisements pages. Original maroon cloth very slightly flecked; spine very slightly sunned; an excellent copy. With the contemporary ownership inscription 'W.S. Douglas 16/8/82' at the head of the title-page: this is probably William S. Douglas Adelaide estate agent auditor accountant and valuator 'Late Manager Bank S.A. Adelaide . Loans Negotiated on Freehold and Station Properties etc.' 1885 Sands and McDougall South Australian Directory page 58 of the advertisements. Thomas hardcover
1998000172Sydney: Macmillan 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by author with a personal message to the book's previous owner. Macmillan Hardcover
1911050976Wellington NZ: Government Printer 1911. viii 1003pp index appendix tables maps. Brown cloth titled in gilt black decoration. Some pages towards rear bumped/creased at top corner. Ex-parliamentary library with few stamps. New Zealand statistics over a wide range of subjects. 20th year of issue. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Government Printer Hardcover
1982035142Auckland: J.M. Mcgregor 1982. VERY HEAVY. 335pp num bw & col ills. Full blue leather with silver image of statuette on front in sturdy slipcase. Slight rubbing to slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies of which this #85. Details winners from 1954 to 1981 plus the 1970-79 Sportsman of the Decade. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. Elephant Folio. J.M. Mcgregor Hardcover
1908050979Wellington NZ: Government Printer 1908. vi 892pp index appendix tables maps. Brown cloth titled in gilt black decoration. Minor flecking to cloth front hinge just starting small srinkle to cloth on front cover some foxing to prelims/edges small bump to top edge front cover. Ex-parliamentary library with few stamps otherwise a lovely copy. New Zealand statistics over a wide range of subjects. 17th year of issue. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Government Printer Hardcover
96 pages. Features: A Dream Grows in Brooklyn - In Carroll Gardens a rising wave of new Italian immigrants blends with the old; The Automated Battlefield - Smart Bombs/Map-Reading Missiles/Fighting Satellites/Battlefield Sensors; Why Zoos? - they not only educate and please, but save species rarer than Rembrandts from extinction - article with photos, including a 1907 Bronx-bred bison; After the Cyclone - Photos and article on destruction in Darwin, Australia; A Sense of Wonder - Photo-illustrated feature article on musican Stevie Wonder; Crazy Edmos fabric ad with man wearing yellow shirt illustrated with an electrical plug, and lady wearing yellow shirt illustrated with plug receptacle; Child-Woman Clothes; International Style Revisited - the architecture of Richard Meier is exemplified in this three-story Westchester house designed by architect Christopher H.L. Owen; Rare one-page color-photo ad for Teacher's Scotch Whisky features caveman photo of Mel Brooks and humorous text referencing his movies; Photos of female twins inside back cover. Average wear. Small faint library stamp on each cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
0265016398.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0260637459.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
188928274Adelaide: Pictorial Australian 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of the impressive large corner building in Adelaide. The subtitle "E. J. Woods Esq. Architect. James Shaw Contractor." The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color 39 x 51 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or the State Library of South Australia. Pictorial Australian unknown
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Sold from an institution wits neat stamp on title. A volume in the Official History of Australia in WWII.
1999051605Broadbeach Waters: Pacific Press 1999. 359pp index appendices nominal roll bibliography bw ills col plate endpaper maps. Or pictorial laminated boards in jacket Near new. The story of the volunteers who led the defence of New Guinea in the Pacific War. Between January and May 1942 the 500 men of the NGVR were the only armed force in the path between the Japanese forces and Port Moresby. They also contained the advancement of the Japanese from the coastal areas of Lae and Salamaua. They rescued 217 soldiers from Lark Force as well as civilians not captured by the Japanese in New Britain. The only Australian unit to be awarded the US Distinguished Unit Citation. Their full story is told here for the first time. An important Australian WWII Unit history. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Pacific Press Hardcover
1987128533Melbourne: Hyland House 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Hyland House 1987. Quarto viii 368 pages with numerous illustrations and maps. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and sunned on the spine. Hyland House hardcover
194324016Melbourne: Navy Office 1943. 1st edition. Very Good. small octavo. card covers 216pp. Fascinating & valuable reference. Covers every Officer of the RAN & its various auxillieries. Navy Office unknown
12mo [21 x 14 cm]; 6 [ads], [i], xiv, 239, [ii] pp, 5 tinted lithographed plates including plates with orig hand-coloring & color frontis, one foldout plate, 2 folding maps, table including foldout table of 11 dialects, other engraved illus. original red blind-stamped cloth, with gilt spine title lettering, spine ends chipped with tear, corners a little worn, lightly foxed on few leaves but clean copy, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ferguson 9339. The author describes the peoples of New Guinea, the Arru Islands, Ceram, the Moluccas, the Philippines, Mindanao, Sulu, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, the Adamans, the Sunda Chain as well as Melville Island and North Australia, Port Essington, Carpentaria (Australian aboriginees).
1926052360London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press 1926. vii 63pp index bw ills map. Orange pictorial stapled card. Minor edge wear to covers prev owner name inside front cover. Volume in series Native Races of the British Empire intended for use in schools. The 4 chapters are: Native Tribes of Australia; Magical Ceremonies of Australian Tribes; The Story of the Tasmanians and The Maoris of New Zealand. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press Paperback
191520405Adelaide: RSSA 1915. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1915. Octavo pages 494-706 with numerous line illustrations plus a map and 17 pages of plates. Original flush-cut quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains a major paper by Captain Samuel Albert WHITE and others: Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia 135 pages plus 2 maps and 25 pages of plates. White supplied the lengthy introductory narrative and section on birds and a smaller section on the Aborigines of the Everard Range; J.M. Black supplied a short account of their language as well as the section on botany. RSSA paperback
1899111095London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899. Octavo xx 671 pages with 12 unnumbered line illustrations of churingas a map and 130 illustrations mainly after photographs plus 2 folding maps 3 folding charts 4 folding chromolithographic plates and an erratum slip tipped in at page 1 noting that on page 570 the tassel should be 'pubic' not 'public'. Olive-green gilt-pictorial buckram a little flecked and rubbed with the spine a little sunned; all edges uncut; scattered light foxing; minimal chipping to some uncut leading edges; an excellent copy. The head of the title page is signed in ink by both authors as 'W. Baldwin Spencer' and 'F.J. Gillen'. Inscribed in indelible pencil before the signatures in an unknown hand is 'With Kindest Regards from'. <p>The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' makes short work of the significance of the book and by extension this signed copy in its entry on Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer 1860-1929: 'The 1894 Horn scientific exploring expedition to central Australia recruited Spencer as zoologist and photographer. Because of friction between members and their sponsor Spencer later combined mediation with editorship of all four volumes of reports. His own seminal contribution included his classic biogeographic interpretation of Australian faunal distribution. This expedition rekindled his anthropological interest when he met F.J. Gillen the Alice Springs postmaster Francis James Gillen 1855-1912 ethnologist. What began as his offer to assist in publishing Gillen's ethnological notes matured into an enduring partnership and a landmark in anthropological history. <p>In 1896 Spencer joined Gillen for the most intensive field-work then attempted in Australia. "The Native Tribes of Central Australia" 1899 which resulted was to influence contemporary theories on social evolution and interpretations of the origins of art and ceremonial. It impressed Sir James Frazer author of "The Golden Bough" who developed a lifelong friendship with Spencer'. Macmillan and Co. Limited unknown
1879138110Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original green ribbed cloth; spine and front cover blocked in gilt with the cover design repeated in blind on the rear cover; covers lightly rubbed and flecked with some short splits at the head and foot of the spine; infrequent light foxing; a few minor signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An early compendium here in the preferred binding of elaborately gilt-blocked green cloth of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879123987Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original publisher's half morocco and watered cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments; edges and endpapers marbled; leather moderately rubbed at the extremities; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. <p>Provenance: John Harris Browne 1817-1904 expeditioner and pastoralist with his contemporary ownership signature 'J.H. Browne 1879' on the front flyleaf. 'In 1844-45 he went as medical officer with Charles Sturt's expedition into Central Australia. Unusually observant and intensely practical he was probably the most useful member of the party and although he suffered like the others from scurvy his courage and professional skill certainly brought Sturt back alive' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant pastoralist and a grandson of George Fife Angas is mounted on the front pastedown. The marginal annotation in pencil on page 212 alongside text relating to body painting of the 'Port Lincoln Tribe' may be in his hand: 'The White paint is Gypsum the Black is the Black Oxide of Manganese the Red is Hematite viz Red Iron ore'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879144282Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Full russet morocco extensively tooled in gilt; all edges gilt; spine lightly sunned; joints slightly cracked but firm; a few minor signs of age and handling internally; overall in excellent condition. The handsome colonial presentation binding has the ticket 'Bound at Government Printing Office Adelaide S.A.' on the rear pastedown; it was almost certainly executed by Emanuel Spiller the South Australian Government Printer at the time. An early binder's blank contains the inscription 'The South Australian Institute to Dr. Francis Reuleaux; Privy Councillor and Royal Professor; Chief Commissioner for the Empire of Germany at the Melbourne International Exhibition. Adelaide 1881'. Franz Reuleaux 1829-1905 was an influential German mechanical engineer who oversaw German machinery exhibits at the Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions 1879-81. He is best known as the father of modern kinematics. His armorial bookplate with manuscript inventory number is mounted opposite the inscription. <p>Spiller's name appears as exhibitor and jury-member of competitions and exhibitions of binding and printing throughout the 1880s. The 'Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 March 1880 carries a lengthy article by John Plummer on colonial bookbindings displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition noting that '. in the South Australian Court Mr. E. Spiller the Government printer of Adelaide occupies the foremost rank'. <p>The book itself is an important early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
