Arcadian Adelaide
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1985 (facsimile)/1905. With "Thistle Anderson in Edwardian Adelaide" by Derek Whitelock: pages 11-28. More
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Dives' Wife and Other Fragments
Paisley, Alexander Gardner, 1908. Ten short prose works by the author of 'Arcadian Adelaide' (a venomous invective against the self-satisfaction and dullness of Edwardian Adelaide); the last page collects press notices for both 'Arcadian Adelaide' and its sequel, 'The Arcadians'. 'These fragments spell the idle moments of a restless life..... More
The Diaries of John McConnell Black. Volume I: Diaries One to Four, 1875-1886. With selected extracts from his "Memoirs". Edited by his granddaughters ...
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1986. John Black (1855-1951), was a reporter who turned to botany relatively late in life; he emigrated to South Australia in 1877. More
City & Glenelg. The Municipal Tramways Trust Glenelg Tram Line
Clunes, Full Parallell Productions, 2014. More
The Wide World Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative: Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport. Volume V: April, 1900 to September, 1900
London, George Newnes, Ltd., 1900. With the armorial bookplate of James Howard Johnson, great-grandson of George Fife Angas (and the local binder's ticket of F. Binns & Co., Charles Street, Adelaide). Not least, Western Australia (pages 63-66). More
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
The albumen paper photograph (94 × 61 mm) is mounted on the printed card (104 × 63 mm) of The Adelaide Photographic Company. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW (a gift from a family member, John Howard Johnson); it is dated January..... More
The Practice of the New County Courts ...
London, Shaw, 1852 (fifth edition)/ 1847. Provenance: George Fife Angas, with his ownership signature ('G.F. Angas') in pencil at the head of the title page. The book has the (later) inkstamp of 'Herbert Angas Parsons, Solicitor, Adelaide' on the front endpaper; the name of George Fife Angas in pencil on..... More
Popular Manual of Phrenology
London, George Philip and Son, 1860. 'George Fife Angas' is written in pencil on the front endpaper; we know this to be in a later secretarial hand, indicating that the book came originally from his personal library. 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
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
Description of the Barossa Range and its Neighbourhood in South Australia by ... Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas
Adelaide, South Australian Government Printer/ State Library of South Australia, 1979 [facsimile edition]/ 1849. One of 400 numbered copies of the trade edition; 100 copies in full calf were also produced. More
George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist, 1822-1886
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1980. More
John Howard Angas. Pioneer, Pastoralist, Politician, and Philanthropist
Adelaide, Vardon & Pritchard, 1905. John Howard Angas (1823-1904) was the second son of George Fife Angas. 'In 1841 he entered G.F. Angas & Co. His father's affairs in South Australia were then causing him great financial difficulties. That year he told John that he was to go to the..... More
John Howard Angas. Pioneer, Pastoralist, Politician, and Philanthropist
Adelaide, Vardon & Pritchard, 1905. John Howard Angas (1823-1904) was the second son of George Fife Angas. 'In 1841 he entered G.F. Angas & Co. His father's affairs in South Australia were then causing him great financial difficulties. That year he told John that he was to go to the..... More
Mining, Medicine and Winemaking. A History of the Angove Family, 1886-1986
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press Pty Ltd, 1986. Signed in ink on the title page by the author. More
History of the Women's Australian National Services, South Australia
[Kingswood, Women's Australian National Services of South Australia, 1981]. More
In Pursuit. A Selection of Editorial Writings
Sydney, The Author, 1947. Number 88 of only 150 copies 'prepared for presentation' and signed in ink by the author, who has also inscribed this copy to Professor Andrew Abbie, then occupying the Elder chair of anatomy and histology at the University of Adelaide. ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). '... some..... More
Back to Ardrossan. Easter Celebrations
[Adelaide, 1955]. The dustwrapper also contains the text 'A small town with a big future ... Ardrossan, 1873 to 1955'. More
A Biological Survey of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia 2000-2001
Adelaide, Department for Environment and Heritage, 2003. More
Waikerie and District. A Pictorial History
Waikerie, Waikerie and District Council, 1989. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. A relevant newspaper clipping is taped to the verso of the flyleaf; loosely inserted is another relevant clipping. Loosely inserted are 2 photographs depicting the author. More
The Book of Bulbs
London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1901. With the pencilled inscription (dated 4 September 1936) of a member of the Reynell family. Volume V. in the Handbooks of Practical Gardening. More
Public Library, Museum & Art Gallery of South Australia. Cels Art Collection. Exhibited by the Public Trustee, the Administrator of the Estate of the late Paul Jean Cels ... [cover title]
Adelaide, Public Library ... 1918. Cels 'was an art connoisseur, recognized in Europe and England as an authority on Flemish and Dutch art of the 16th and 17th centuries.... His health having been undermined by the war was his reason for making South Australia his home. He brought his pictures..... More
Alison Ashby's Wildflowers of Southern Australia. Edited by John K. Ling
Adelaide, South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board, 1981. Number 123 of 750 copies. More
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From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 32, 1932
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. The author was one of a small party of men, under Ralph Milner of Killalpaninna, which set out in December 1870 with 7000 sheep and about 300 horses, with the intention of claiming a South Australian Government reward for the first 1000 sheep or 100 head of..... More