State supply 1888-1988. The history of the South Australian Supply and Tender Board and State Supply Board.
[Adelaide], State Supply Board, 1988. More
[Adelaide], State Supply Board, 1988. More
Adelaide, Amalgamated Publishing Company, September 1936. Still a useful retrospective parochial biographical dictionary. More
Adelaide, Andrew Murray, 'South Australian' Office, 1849. The tenth issue of this early South Australian almanack. The directory itself - including Port Adelaide and Country areas - occupies 46 pages, with the bulk of the balance given over to the usual statistics, regulations and lists of assorted office-bearers. However, as..... More
Marden, South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1986. A perennially useful reference work. [4 items]. More
Marden, South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1986. A perennially useful reference work. [4 items]. More
Adelaide, F.P. Bailliere, 1866. The map is a beauty; it is easy to understand why it is rarely found in copies of this book. More
The consecutively numbered land grants (1037 to 1041) are for 'Eighty acres numbered 957 [to 961] in the Provincial Survey marked with the Letter C', purchased by 'George Frederick Dashwood Esquire, Royal Navy, Forest Lodge, Bracknell, Berks'. The purchase price of £80 per section is not shown; all five documents..... More
London, J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert, 1843. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore (and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank). Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly, the lithographs are by George French Angas from..... More
In August and September 1908 the American Grand Fleet (which included 16 white-painted battleships) visited Sydney and Melbourne during its 14-month world tour. 'George Rose visited both cities armed with his stereoscopic camera and went on board the USSs "Louisiana" and "Wisconsin" taking photographs. He produced exactly 100 views for..... More
Melbourne, UEA, [1937]. The prospectus is headed 'Why You Should Join The United Electors of Australia (Non-Party)'; it explains what the UEA is, and what is its object (it 'is the bringing together of voters in a non-party, non-sectarian, and non-sectional body', and the 'general object ... is to enable..... More
The invitation, issued to 'Mr R Burton' and initialled 'DGE' [D.G. Evan] is undated, but the English footballers arrived in Adelaide on 5 July 1888. The South Australian 'Weekly Chronicle', on Saturday 14 July 1888, under the headline 'International Football', has an account of the first match played the previous..... More
[Melbourne], The Vintage Sports Car Club of Australia, 1948 and 1949. The first number states it is 'the first issue ... in its new form'. Bound with 'NZ Sports Car Club Bulletin', Volume 3, Number 2, December 1945 to Volume 3, Number 8, December 1947. Octavo, seven issues, each 16..... More
An etching printed on card (image size 183 × 232 mm; size of card 253 × 279 mm), signed and dated (in reverse) in the plate (1935), with the edition number (7/50), title and artist's signature in pencil in the lower margin. In fine condition, unmounted as issued. More
A colour linocut on paper (image size 151 × 230 mm; paper size 165 × 243 mm), with the edition number (85/100), title and artist's signature in ink in the lower margin. The paper is moderately foxed, but this is really only noticeable in the narrow margins because of the..... More
An etching printed on card (image size 210 × 270 mm; size of card 280 × 328 mm), signed and dated (in reverse) in the plate (1935), with the edition number (25/50), title and artist's signature in pencil in the lower margin. A few spots of foxing to the margins..... More
An etching printed on card (image size 237 × 184 mm; size of card 304 × 255 mm), signed and dated (in reverse) in the plate (1935), with the edition number (10/50), title and artist's signature in pencil in the lower margin. A couple of spots of foxing to the..... More
The signatures are Lloyd (Captain), Ali, Baichan, Boyce, Fredericks, Gibbs, Greenidge, Holder, Holding, Julien, Kallicharran, (possibly) Murray, Richards, Rowe and Clive Walcott (the Manager). On a conjugate leaf are the signatures of eight members of the Test team for Australia: Gilmour, Jenner, Lillee, Mallett, Marsh, McCosker, Turner and Walker. These..... More
[London], 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed', 1838. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 685 of 1838. The bulk of this important paper (pages 4-19) is given over to 'Nos. 5, 6, 7. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir James Stirling, bearing Date 15 October..... More
London, C. Dolman, 1842. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year, and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet, 'Evidences of an Inland Sea, collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' (Dublin, 1837). More
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 1985 [facsimile]/ 1915. More
Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1882, and London, L. Reeve & Co., 1879. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas, from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting..... More
London, Edward Stanford, 1872. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title, and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson (1841-1902), accountant and pastoralist, was a son of Rosetta French Johnson, later Hannay, eldest daughter of George Fife Angas ('Australian Dictionary of Biography')..... More