The Great Victoria Desert. North of the Nullarbor - South of the Centre
Chatswood, Reed Books, 1995. The title page is inscribed and signed in ink by the author (the recipients' name and address stamp is at the head of the page). More
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Our current catalogue contains some superlative material, not least a matching pair of contemporary hand-coloured portrait photographs of the ill-fated explorers Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills. A related rarity is Kirby’s Narrative of a Voyage from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1862), an account of the loss of the Firefly, wrecked while carrying stores for one of the expedition search parties. Other strengths include literature and private press material, including the boxed set of Sir John Tenniel's Illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, printed in 1988 for the first and only time from the original boxwood blocks engraved by the famous Dalziel Brothers, and limited to a mere 250 sets.
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Australien. Geschichte und Beschreibung der drei Australischen Kolonien: Neu-Süd-Wales, Victoria und Süd-Australien. Nach der 2ten Auflage des englischen Originals übersetzt von C. Volckhausen. Zweite Ausgabe
Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1857 (second edition)/ [1854 (first German edition)/ 1853 (second edition)/ 1852]. A German-language edition of 'The Three Colonies of Australia. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold Fields'. Provenance: the Nuriootpa Institute library, with its contemporary 'Extracts from Rules' paper label on..... More
The Beckoning West. The Story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route
[Perth], Wescolour Press, 1979 (facsimile edition)/ 1966. Inscribed, signed and dated (25 June 1980) by Wallace Vernon Fyfe (1894-1982), twice Surveyor-General of Western Australia (1938-1945 and 1948-1959), and Director of Land Settlement (1945-1948). 'Active in the Institution of Surveyors, Australia, Western Australian Division, he served as president in 1935-38 and..... More
Two volumes of nineteenth century South Australian Parliamentary Papers relating to ports and harbors, together with a small quantity of related manuscript material, collected by Geoffrey Ingleton
The first volume contains eleven Parliamentary Papers (in all, 98 pages plus 7 plans or charts) plus a printed broadside and 11 manuscript documents totalling 19 pages. The documents, all dated 1878, include a proof copy of the Report of the Board of Advice (one page foolscap folio, signed in..... More
A vintage photograph captioned 'Interstate - South Australia v. Victorian League. Played in Melbourne, July 1st, 1899'
Adelaide, Dimond Studio, Rundle St. 1899. Football matches between clubs and state teams from South Australia and Victoria were a regular event from 1879 and 1894, 'but in 1894 the concept of representative intercolonial football was once more called into question as the Vics registered an all time record win..... More
An Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee Year of South Australia (1886), with the Reminiscecnes [sic] of Early Settlers, the Names of the Pioneers who arrived in South Australia in the Year 1836, and other Interesting Information connected with the Foundation of South Australia
Adelaide, Old Colonists' Association, 1887. An important collection of memoirs. Ferguson 13579 (noting a variant binding). Provenance: Joseph Crompton (1840-1901), vigneron, manufacturer and exporter, with his ownership signature in pencil on the front cover. More
Report of Preliminary Scientific Expedition to the Northern Territory
Melbourne, Department of External Affairs, March 1912. Bulletin Number 1 in the important Bulletin of the Northern Territory series. 'The members of the expedition, consisting of Professor Baldwin Spencer, Professor Gilruth, Dr. Woolnough, and Dr. A. Breindl, reached Darwin on 15th June, 1911.' Before departing for Thursday Island on 7..... More
Some Old-Time Memories. Being the Personal Reminiscences of Sir Edward Stone, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia. Edited by Frank Henty
Prahran, Fraser & Morphet, Printers and Publishers (for the Author), 1918. Two corrections in ink (pages 7 and 45) are presumably in the author's hand. The entry for Sir Edward Albert Stone (1844-1920), judge, in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', might whet your appetite for this slightly longer and rarer..... More
A vintage nineteenth-century photograph of a group of men boating on 'Torrens Lake', Adelaide
The photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 344') is scratched in the negative. The background is surely the key to the contemporary viewer's interest: smoke pours from the industrial-scale chimney where the Festival Theatre complex and casino now stand. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), was a sea..... More
Vintage nineteenth-century photographs of the Bank of South Australia and the Royal Adelaide Hospital, mounted back-to-back on a card leaf detached from an album
The Bank of South Australia building still stands on King William Street, Adelaide. The photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 92') is scratched in the negative. The imposing hospital buildings, now demolished, are photographed from an elevated vantage point (probably the roof of the Botanic Hotel across..... More
Vintage nineteenth-century photographs of Victoria Square, Adelaide (featuring the Supreme Court), and the city from Montefiore Hill, mounted back-to-back on a card leaf detached from an album
The first photograph appears to be taken from the top of the (old) Treasury Building, looking south-west across the square at the imposing Supreme Court building, still extant. The second photograph is a panoramic view of the city skyline, centred on the towers of the Town Hall and the GPO;..... More
The Illusion of Life. Disney Animation
New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981. 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen [reproduced] drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.... In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually..... More
The Sea Fisheries of the Cape Colony from Van Riebeeck's Days to the Eve of the Union. With a Chapter on Trout and Other Freshwater Fishes
Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, 1913. More
Butler's Lives of the Saints. Edited, revised and supplemented by ...
London, Burns & Oates, 1956 (second, revised, edition)/ 1926 to 1938. 'This second edition of the "revised Butler" in four volumes has involved a certain abbreviation of the 1926-38 text (one tenth was the proportion aimed at) ... On the other hand, room has been made for the very considerable..... More
A collection of rare real estate ephemera relating primarily to subdivisional sales of land in areas close to the centre of the city of Adelaide in 1913, and between 1919 and 1928
Internal evidence suggests the material emanates from the archive of John Wyles & Co., a company that 'specialised in estate management for trustees, sold houses and land throughout Adelaide and new sub-divisions' (State Library of South Australia). The firm was established in Adelaide in 1888, and sold to L.J. Hooker..... More
Geo. P. Harris, Scarfe & Co., Limited, Gawler Place, Adelaide. Price List of Cricketware, Tennisware, &c., &c. Season 1906-7 [cover title]
Adelaide, Geo. P. Harris, Scarfe & Co., Limited, [1906]. Cricket (9 pages), tennis (7 pages), golf (4 pages), croquet (2 pages), and 'sundry sports' (including lawn bowls, weights, and cycling: 2 pages). More
Universal Business Directory for Adelaide City and Suburbs, 1952-53. Eleventh Edition. Published Annually
Adelaide, Universal Business Directories (Australia), 1952. More
Musik-Impresionen. Künstler auf Weltreise. Skizzen aus australischen Konzertsälen... Music in Image. Artists travelling around the World. Sketches from Australian Concert Halls [by Ruth Tuck. Texts: Mark Smith]
Wuppertal, Dr Wolfgang Schwarze, 1981. Inscribed, signed and dated (8 August 1982) by Ruth Tuck (1914-2008), the South Australian artist, to Veda Swain at Greenhill [Galleries] in North Adelaide. 'I love music and go to concerts frequently; always with a sketchbook and pen. I do not attempt an exact portrait..... More
De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis
[London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts, London, and John Lane, New York] [Vale Press], 1901. One of only 310 copies. The Latin text of this famous tale of Cupid and Psyche from the 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius (often known as 'The Golden Ass') was edited by C.J...... More
A Lecture on South Australia; including Letters from J.B. Hack, Esq. and other Emigrants. Delivered before the Members of the Chichester Mechanics' Institution, Nov. 27, 1837 ... Second Edition, with an Appendix, containing the Regulations of the Commissioners, Dietary for Free Emigrants, &c
London, Sold by J. Gliddon, 3, Austin Friars, and W.H. Mason, Chichester, 1838 (second edition)/ [1838?]. A dozen pages are given over to the letters from emigrants, including nine from the brothers Hack, written between February and August 1837. The first one, from Glenelg on 20 February, less than two..... More
In the Far North-East. A Scientific Expedition... Reprinted from 'The Register'
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers [for the Author], [1917] (first thus). Provenance: 'E. Cantwell, March 25th [19]18' in ink on the title page; with the later bookplate of the Wilmar Library (the personal library of the Adelaide collector Glen Ralph). In September and October 1916, White accompanied Edgar Waite..... More
Into the Dead Heart. An Ornithological Trip through Central Australia... Reprinted from 'The Register'
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers [for the Author], 1914 (first thus). Provenance: with the later bookplate of the Wilmar Library (the personal library of the Adelaide collector Glen Ralph). The purpose of the expedition (of 1300 miles by camel) was ornithological research, resulting in many additions and corrections to..... More
A collection of 23 vintage photographs of Yardea Station and environs in the Gawler Ranges, South Australia, circa 1905
Yardea Station is a pastoral lease approximately 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide; it was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges, in the late 1850s. 'Lying on one of the main east-west corridors through the Ranges, Yardea became the main postal depot during the late 1860s. A stone..... More
Anders Zorn. His Life and Work
London, The Studio, 1921. Anders Zorn (1860-1920) was a famous Swedish painter, sculptor and etcher. More
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