Adelaide, A. Simpson and Son Ltd, 1954. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed 'Dr A. Grenfell Price, with compliments from Robert Simpson, 31 July 1961'. Simpson was a director of his family's eponymous manufacturing firm (the subject of this history), and Sir Archibald Grenfell Price was a prominent South Australian..... More
Adelaide, A. Simpson & Son Limited, 1954. A history of A. Simpson and Son Limited. More
Adelaide, Beaumont Press, 1986. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. Offered together with two companion volumes by the same author: 'Beaumont House. The Land and its People' (1993; quarto, viii, 168 pages with numerous illustrations; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper); and 'The..... More
Canberra, Pandanus Books in association with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, and Pacific Linguistics, 2002. More
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Adelaide, RGSSA, 1923. Newland devotes the first 14 pages of his address to the Aborigines of Encounter Bay, and a further 26 pages to whaling in South Australia. The address also includes a lengthy and important contribution by fellow-member (and Government Geologist of SA) Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, on Central..... More
Adelaide, Burden & Bonython, 'Advertiser' Office, 1887. A journey by coach from the end of the railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs, with the object of 'throwing some light upon a subject nearly affecting the welfare and advancement of South Australia'. Newland is blunt about the 'very unsatisfactory' black-white..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1889. The last page and a half are a 'Vocabulary of Aboriginals of the Upper Darling', also by Newland. This is a separately-paginated offprint of two articles read before the Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, on 29 September 1887 and first published in..... More
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Adelaide, RGSSA, 1921. This issue also contains the annual address of the President, the Honorable John LEWIS (67 pages, comprising a detailed account of the voyage of Matthew Flinders, concentrating on South Australia west of Port Lincoln); and MAWSON, Sir Douglas: Macquarie Island. A Sanctuary for Australasian Sub-Antarctic Fauna (70-85..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1895. A separately-paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch), Session 1894-5. 'In this paper I shall not dilate upon the treatment of the aboriginal by the European in the past or dwell upon the course that..... More
The expedition was the culmination of several varying investigations over the previous decade: Madigan's first aerial reconnaissance in 1929, Colson's crossing (practically along the 26th parallel) in 1936, and a journey by truck around the northern end of the desert in 1937. This pioneering scientific expedition, of nine men and..... More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. Number 83 of the deluxe edition, limited to only 150 copies signed by Charles Simpson and 'printed on Arnold & Foster hand-made paper, with two extra illustrations in colour'. With the Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor. More
New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1966. More
Adelaide, Beaumont Press, 1993. Signed by the author. More
Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1853 (third edition). Loosely inserted is an 'In Memoriam' bookplate noting that this book had been presented to the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh by Sir Alexander Russell Simpson (the author's nephew). The bookplate has been stamped 'Withdrawn'. More
Rockhampton, Central Queensland University Press, 2001. The story of sheepclasser, kelpie breeder and wool industry figure Gordon McMaster. More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1958. Loosely inserted is a 16-page pamphlet about the castle (slightly creased), and a postcard of the castle. Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper; 'From | Michael | XXI hereditary Captain | & Thane Dunstaffnage'. In 1958, Michael John Eadon Campbell, 21st hereditary Captain..... More
Boston, Department of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, 1992. [2 items]. More