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Sydney, W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., 1919. Dornbusch 379; Fielding and O'Neill, page 232; Trigellis-Smith 277. More
Sydney, W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., 1919. Dornbusch 379; Fielding and O'Neill, page 232; Trigellis-Smith 277. More
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
The albumen paper photograph (94 Ă— 61 mm) is mounted on the printed card (104 Ă— 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
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
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
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
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
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 21 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 52 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847. '"South Australia Illustrated" is without question Angas's greatest and most accomplished work. His views of towns and scenery, of the Aborigines and of the flora and fauna offer an outstanding - if romantic - interpretation of the Australian landscape. It is a very scarce book ....... More
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 49 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
London, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 2005. With photocopied price estimates loosely inserted. More
London, Faber, 1957. With a contemporary review (from the New Statesman) loosely inserted. More
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
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
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
Ontario, Boston Mills Press, 2004 (first edition). More
London, The Folio Society, 2003 (first thus). Edited and introduced by Belinda Hollyer. More
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
London, The Locomotive Publishing Co., 1903. More
[London, Lloyd's, 1960]. With the ownership signature of maritime enthusiast Peter McBride. Illustrated by David Knight. More
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
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
London, William Edwin Rudge for the Author, 1931. '...this Souvenir...' of the Poet Laureat, Robert Bridges, was presumably issued as a Christmas present to Jones' 'many friends'...250 copies were printed, this copy is un-numbered. More