The Complete Guide to Australian Birds. Featuring 'in the Field' images from Australia's Best Wildlife Photographers
[North Sydney], Viking, 2018. More
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A cabinet photograph of an engraved portrait of George Fife Angas (1789-1879), 'Father and Founder of South Australia'
Adelaide, Gresham Studio, [1890s]. 'The South Australian Register' (2 November 1891) featured a review of the recently published biography of George Fife Angas by Edwin Hodder (London, Hodder and Stoughton). It is described as having an 'etched portrait by H. Manesse'. We have identified several variant portraits used as the..... More
A vintage carte de visite photographic portrait of George Fife Angas (1789-1879), merchant, banker, landowner and philanthropist, and a significant figure in the foundation, settlement and development of South Australia
Adelaide, The Adelaide Photographic Company, [circa 1870]. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW (a gift from a family member, John Howard Johnson) dated January 1870. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has this to say about Angas: 'although his prominence in the foundation..... More
Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England, incorporated with the Political Text of the late J.L. De Lolme ...
London, John Richards & Co., 1841 ('Third edition, revised and corrected to the present time'). Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context, the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of..... More
George Fife Angas. Father and Founder of South Australia
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. The background to this biography of George Fife Angas (1789-1879) is not without interest, and it is to be gleaned from the entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' on Henry Hussey (1825-1903), 'evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian ... Hussey's printing and publishing encouraged him..... More
![Item #133913 The Golwa [Goolwa] with Part of Hindmarsh Island and Mt Barker and Mount Magnificent...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/133913_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693189562)
The Golwa [Goolwa] with Part of Hindmarsh Island and Mt Barker and Mount Magnificent in the Distance
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 52 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
South Australia Illustrated
Sydney, Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Number 535 of 1000 copies of this fine facsimile. The Indigenous Australian content is considerable and significant: 22 of the 60 plates (and the accompanying leaves of text) are devoted exclusively to the state's Aborigines, and they are depicted in a further five plates..... More
George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist, 1822-1886
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1980. More
The Dead Seagull
New York, Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., [1951] (first American edition). Loosely inserted is the publisher's 'Book for review' slip with the inkstamped publication date of 20 July 1951. More
The Rev. J. Waterhouse superintending the Landing of the Missionaries at Taranaki, New Zealand
London, George Baxter, 1844. 'A scene connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society and the Maories [sic]. Mr Waterhouse, general superintendent of that Society's Missions in Australia and Polynesia, is seen introducing to the natives Mr Creed (their new missionary) and his wife. The detail is wonderful and the colouring beautiful..... More
A Life on the Ocean Wave. The Journals of Captain George Bayly, 1824-1844. [Voyages to Australia, India and the Pacific ... (dustwrapper subtitle)]
Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press, 1998. More
Constitutional Syphilis. Being a Practical Illustration of the Disease in its Secondary and Tertiary Stages
Melbourne, F.F. Bailliere, 1872. James George Beaney (1828-1891), surgeon, politician and philanthropist, settled in Melbourne in 1857, and 'after a period as locum tenens, acquired the practice of Dr John Maund when he died in 1858. Beaney rapidly established himself as a prominent surgeon, a position he maintained although he..... More
Luxury Trains. From the Orient Express to the TGV
New York, The Vendome Press, 1982. More
Chariots of Chrome. Classic American Cars of Cuba
Ontario, Boston Mills Press, 2004 (first edition). More
Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France, with beautifully finished Engravings, from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. [Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1834 (spine title)]
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in..... More
Flora Australiensis. A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory
Amsterdam, A. Asher & Co., and Brook (near Ashford), L. Reeve & Co., 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1863 to 1878. '"Flora Australiensis", still a classic, was the first to cover any large continental area and one of the very few entirely written by one author. It represents a prodigious intellectual effort..... More
The Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway, 1847-1902
London, The Locomotive Publishing Co., 1903. More
Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1760-1960
[London, Lloyd's, 1960]. With the ownership signature of maritime enthusiast Peter McBride. Illustrated by David Knight. More
Lavengro. Scholar, Gypsy, Priest
London, T.N. Foulis, 1914. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. More
Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History) [three volumes bound as two]
Codicote, Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd., and Weinheim, Verlag J. Cramer, 1965 (facsimile reprint)/ 1885 (second edition)/ [1845]. 'The first edition of the "Catalogue of Lizards," published in the year 1845, was based on a collection containing only one eighth of the number of specimens at present in the Natural History..... More
The Campaign in the Crimea. An Historical Sketch ... Accompanied by Forty Double Tinted Plates from Drawings taken on the Spot by William Simpson
London, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, 1855 [first series]. The plates in the text do not count in the pagination, but as we included the lithographic title leaf in the preliminaries total to make up the required number of pages, we suspect this rebound copy is possibly lacking a half-title or..... More
'Suffolk Punch Mares, Imported by Hon. George Brookman MLC'. A triptych of three original sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs in the original mount (with calligraphic captions in white ink) and frame (external dimensions 345 × 875 mm). Each image (visible size approximately 145 × 200 mm) shows Sir George Brookman (1850-1927, mining speculator, politician and philanthropist) holding the lead rope of one of the three Suffolk Punch mares he imported for his stud farm at O'Halloran Hill around the middle of 1905. The horses are identified as Beauty, Snowdrop and Molly
Two of these images (heavily cropped to show only the horse) were reproduced in 'The Observer' (Adelaide, 24 June 1905). The photographer is not identified. The Suffolk is a breed of draught horse nicknamed Punch because of its stocky appearance and power (Hendricks: 'International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds', 2007). More
South Australian Motor Cars, 1881-1942
Dover Gardens, The Vinall Family, 1987. One of 1000 copies. More
George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer. An Autobiography. A Narrative of Forty-eight Years' Residence and Travel in Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. George Brown (1835-1917), a Methodist missionary, had his headquarters in Sydney from the early 1880s. More
George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer. An Autobiography. A Narrative of Forty-eight Years' Residence and Travel in Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. George Brown (1835-1917), a Methodist missionary, had his headquarters in Sydney from the early 1880s. More