Gillen's Diary. The Camp Jottings of ...J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition across Australia, 1901-1902
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968. More
Online Catalogue #49
Highlights of our latest list include three striking prints by George Baxter relating to missionaries in the Pacific; Sturt's Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849), with the provenance of fellow-explorer George Woodroofe Goyder; significant books and photographs by Charles Pearcy Mountford; an impressive group of Wunderlich trade catalogues; and an interesting selection of military and shipping history, vintage photographs, and ephemeral printings.
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Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia ... during the Years 1844, 5 and ... Together with a Notice of the Province of South Australia, in 1847
London, T. and W. Boone, 1849 [first edition, slightly later issue]. Provenance: George Woodroofe Goyder, with the pastedown of each volume inscribed in his hand 'Hill Side Cottage | Medindie | April 1858'. George Woodroofe Goyder (1826-1898), South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty-three years, is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's..... More
Survey Department of South Australia. Field Service. Handbook for Government Surveyors
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1880 [first edition]. This work went through four editions under Harris (1880, 1887, 1897, and 1914). Provenance: F.S. Crawford, with his signature in pencil on the pastedown. Frazer Smith Crawford (circa 1829 - 30 October 1890) was photolithographer to the South Australian Government's Survey and..... More
Why the Laughing Jack Laughed. A Fairy Story. Illustrated by Esmond George
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., [1916]. One of 'The Bungalow Brownies' Series. Muir 3409 (calling for '36pp, dec. col. t.p., col. frontis. & 3 f/p col. illus.'). In spite of our pagination irregularity, we believe our copy is complete, and it conforms with the three other copies we have handled and catalogued..... More
The Part borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia, 1606-1765. [Het Aandeel der Nederlanders ... (Dutch title)]
London, Luuzac & Co. and Leiden, E.J. Brill (for the Royal Dutch Geographical Society), 1899. Published by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation. More
Nora Heysen
Sydney, Beagle Press, 1989. Nora Heysen (1911-2003), the fourth child of Hans Heysen and a fine artist in her own right, was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and the first Australian women to be appointed an official war artist. This copy is signed on the title page..... More
The Prodigal Sun. Homeward Ho! on HMAT 'Mahia' in Chronicle and Caricature
Melbourne, printed by Mason, Firth and McCutcheon, [1919]. Contributed articles, verse and illustrations, with an eight-page nominal roll of those on board. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam. Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War lost in Action, 1824-1962
London, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1969. [2 items]. More
A carte de visite portrait photograph of an Indigenous man and woman in a classic studio setting of the day
The caption written in ink on the well-thumbed plain verso of the mount states in full: 'Bob Black | Doley [or Poley] White | in rememberence [sic] | of his Brother | jack White | jiney my | wife give | my love | to all my | Brother, Sister'..... More
Memories of Kapunda and District by a Circle of Friends
Kapunda, 'Kapunda Herald' Print, 1929. 'This short account would have been impossible to put forth in book form but for the generous co-operation of Mr L.N. Tilbrook, our valued friend and fellow townsman, and the present-day proprietor and editor of the "Kapunda Herald". To him we owe our grateful thanks..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [circa 1903] (first thus?). More
Memories of an Old Police Officer
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co. [Printers], 1925. The title page is signed boldly by the author. These memoirs of 42 years in the South Australian police force first appeared as a series of articles published in 'The Register'. Le Lievre was stationed at Burra, Quorn, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Port..... More
The Last Battle
London, The Bodley Head, 1956 (first edition). The seventh and last volume of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series. More
Understanding Interaction in Central Australia. An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People
Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. One of the publisher's 'Studies in Ethnomethodology' series. Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his ownership signature (March 1996). More
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The Billy Book. Hughes Abroad. Cartoons by Low. [50 New Drawings by Low (cover title)]
Sydney, NSW Bookstall Co. Ltd., 1918. William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) became prime minister of Australia in October 1915. He travelled to England, arriving there 'on 7 March 1916. His public activity, in which he urged greater economic pressure on Germany and more co-operation with the dominions, was strenuous. Coming at..... More
The Gawler Handbook. A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added Memoirs of McKinlay the Explorer and Dr Nott
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. With the pictorial bookplate of J. Cluny Harkness (Federal President of the Chamber of Manufactures in the 1950s, according to Trove). Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative, although the photographs may..... More
Memoirs of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 2, Part ... Chiastolites from Bimbowrie, South Australia ... Edited by Walter Howchin
Adelaide, Rigby Limited (for the Royal Society of South Australia), 1911. This part-volume is complete in itself, and as published. Chiastolite is 'a variety of the mineral andalusite containing dark carbonaceous inclusions giving a cross-shaped appearance' ('Concise Oxford Dictionary'). 'The chiastolites herein described constitute, for the most part, a select..... More
Faraway and Beyond
Adelaide, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, 1980. The history of the McBride family and the family company, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, a major South Australian pastoral company controlling Wooltana, Teetulpa, Wilgena and Nepowie stations (among others). Number 41 of 350 copies signed by Phillip Affleck McBride, the Chairman of..... More
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The Exhibition Album of Melbourne Views [cover title]
[Melbourne, no publisher identified, circa 1880]. One of the panoramic views is 'The Melbourne International Exhibition' building (known as the Royal Exhibition Building today); the inaugural event was held there from October 1880 to April 1881. More
Patriotic Work in our Schools. A Report on the South Australian Children's Patriotic Fund ... showing Administration of Funds and Some Phases of the Work, Sept. 1915-17. [Memorial of the South Australian Children's National Service. 1915-17. Price 1/-' (title on secondary cover)]
Adelaide, Rigby, Limited (for the Committee of the South Australian Children's Patriotic Fund), [1917]. The very small number of copies in Trove (one of which we supplied nearly two decades ago) make no reference to the secondary title, which we have not seen before. Many of the illustrations depict children..... More
Arrival of the English Mail at Glenelg
Mounted behind a double window mat, framed and glazed; in fine condition. Irish-born Richard Ernest Minchin (1831-1893), 'painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director', emigrated originally to South Australia in 1851. He was employed with the Land Titles Registration Department for some 25 years from 1859, essentially as a draughtsman at..... More
Sir James Hurtle Fisher, First Resident Commissioner in SA. His Life and Times. Compiled by his Great Grandson
Adelaide, Griffin Press [for the Author], 1955. Number 143 of 250 copies initialled by the author; this copy also has his full signature on the title page. More
Australian Aboriginal Portraits
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
Australian Tree Portraits
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
Nomads of the Australian Desert
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1976. The magnum opus of Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), published the year he died. It is a seminal study of the Aborigines of the Mann and Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia, with much of it based on his own extensive field..... More
The Pitjandjara. Their Land and Beliefs... Department of Geography, University of Adelaide. Thesis submitted October 30th, 1962 [an unpublished thesis for the degree of Master of Arts]
Signed by the author on the declaration of originality page, with a further inscription on an initial blank 'To Ken and Peggy Mountford from Dad' (to his son and daughter-in-law). He has also written 'First Copy, Superseded' at the foot of the title page. Offered together with the revised version..... More
'A stone was once the head of a poisonous snake. The stone when rubbed causes sickness to one's enemies'
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
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An autograph letter signed ('Monty') to Rose and Harold [Sheard]; one page small quarto, undated but 1964 from the content
Mountford has been busy in the eastern states: 'Ayers Rock is in the hands of the publishers, the last volume of the Arnhem Land reports is almost complete, and I am going to get my M.A. Apparently the last examiner (undoubtedly Stanner) was much fairer in his criticisms than the..... More
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Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism. [Volume] 2: Anthropology and Nutrition. [Volume] 3: Botany and Plant Ecology. [Volume] 4: Zoology
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia. Founded and edited in 1939 by ...C. Mowle. Fifth Edition by ...M. Mowle
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978 (fifth edition)/ 1939. The edition was limited to 1001 copies; this copy is unnumbered and out-of-series. More
Christ, Christians and Christianity. Book ... Jesus an Essene
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., 1895. More
'One of the Wards in the Hospital at Scutari'
[London, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1856]. An original tinted lithograph showing Florence Nightingale tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. This print comes from William Simpson's important plate book 'The Seat of War in the East' (1855-6) Abbie 'Travel in Aquatint and Lithography' 237.75. More
Wesen und Bedeutung des Bumerangs
Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1986. Inscribed and signed by the author to Professor Henry Krips (son of the Austrian-Australian conductor and composer, Henry Krips). Veroffentlichungen zum Archiv fur Volkerkunde, Band 9. More
Souvenir of The Greatest War. Regimental Colours. Australian Commonwealth Military Forces 1914-1919
[Adelaide, Frederick George Goss, 1919]. The poster shows the colour patches of all units from the Light Horse, the 1st to 5th Divisions, and a number of other groups (from Signals to Dentistry via the Tunnellers), laid out in the Rising Sun motif with the English Crown as the centrepiece..... More
Guide to the Orchids of New South Wales
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1930. With the two-colour bookplate (by George Perrottet, dated 1942) of horticulturalist, naturalist and author Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954). Loosely inserted are some orchid-related newspaper cuttings, a postcard-format photograph of an orchid, possibly taken by Pescott (inscribed on the verso 'Dendrobium? H. Overall, NSW 1927. Rupp..... More
Richard Norman Shaw
New Haven, Yale University Press (for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), 2010 (revised edition)/ 1976. 'Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile and immediately influential domestic architect of the late domestic period in England.... His most prolific period of practice saw the triumph of "Old..... More
The Savings Bank of South Australia. Souvenir of Opening of New Head Office Building, King William Street, Adelaide. 2nd February, 1943 [cover title]
Adelaide, The Savings Bank of South Australia, 1943. More
The Kirk Moose and Other Stories
Glasgow, William Maclellan, [circa 1951]. Lavinia Derwent was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Dodd (1909-1989), a Scottish broadcaster and author, mainly of works of fiction for children. 'Thousands of young people follow the comic strip adventures of Tammy Troot from day to day and know the other fascinating little Scots characters..... More
An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862... Together with a Catalogue of all the Products of South Australia exhibited in the South Australian Court of the International Exhibition
London, Robert K. Burt, 1862 [first thus]. Ferguson 15735. The Adelaide printing of the same year did not contain the map or the catalogue of exhibited products (see Ferguson 15734). Loosely inserted is a photocopy of an article from the Adelaide 'Observer' (18 January 1862), which states in part: 'it..... More
CGT's 'Ship of Light', 'Normandie'. From Concept to Disaster. Volume 1: Concept, Construction and Trials. Volume 2: Public Rooms and Accommodation. Volume 3: 1935 - Maiden Season
[Surrey], Maritime Publishing Concepts, 2006. The first three of five volumes on SS 'Normandie', published under the cumulative title '"Normandie". France Afloat. From Construction to Scrap'. More
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Secrets of the Aranda. [Contained in two issues of] 'People' Magazine. 3 August 1978 [and] 10 August 1978
Sydney, Sungravure, 1978. 'In March 1978 "Stern" magazine in Germany published a sumptuous sixteen-page spread on secret-sacred Aranda ceremonies [including] eight colour photographs displaying Aboriginal men in ceremony.... Strehlow had provided "Stern" with 211 colour slides and 78 black-and-white photographs. The selection from which the editors had made such a...... More
Address to the Electors of the Sturt
Adelaide, [The Author, 1860s]. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of Waxend's 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857; apart from the change of place-name..... More
A collection of catalogues issued by Wunderlich Limited, 'Manufacturers of Building Materials of Quality'
Sydney, Wunderlich Limited, 1927 to 1940. They are housed in the original quarto-format screw binder with 'Wunderlich Catalogues' impressed into the spine; the binder shows signs of use and age; the contents are in uniformly fine condition. There are 11 sizable catalogues (two with inserted supplements), and two four-page leaflets..... More
Operating Instructions and Parts List. Lawton Fork Truck, Model TFT 45 CC
Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Offered with 'Operating and Maintenance Instructions for Lawton Fork Trucks, Models PFT 45M, PFT 68M, TFT 45M, TFT 68M, and "Fluidrive" Models. 2nd Edition'. Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Quarto, approximately 170 leaves of duplicate typescript (printed rectos only) plus a...... More
Catalog 1927. The Road to Greater Growth. G & N Seeds. Reputation for Reliability ... [cover title]
Melbourne, Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd., 1927. More
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Distinguished Liners from 'The Shipbuilder'. Volume 1: 1906-1914. [Together with] ... Volume 2: 1907-1914
New York, Blue Riband Publications, Inc., 1995 and 1997. Compiled by the editor, with a new introduction in each volume. Between them they reproduce the text of 94 'passenger vessels of various size and importance that were originally published in "The Shipbuilder" prior to 1915'. These include the 'Titanic', 'Olympic'..... More
The Australasian Bakers', Pastrycooks' and Confectioners' Hand Book. A Comprehensive Collection of Reliable Recipes, with Complete Directions for Modern Methods of Manufacture under Australasian Conditions, with Scores of Useful Suggestions. 840 Recipes of Outstanding Value
[Melbourne, Henry Berry & Co. (A'asia) Ltd., [early 1950s?]. A revised edition of a work previously issued under a slightly different title, with W.J. Trevena the co-author. With this edition, confectioners have been added to the target audience, 'Revision has been keen', and there has been the 'Addition of many..... More
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[S.A.] Children's Patriotic Times. The Official Paper of the Children's Patriotic Fund. Number 3, May to Number 16, July-August [1918] (a near-complete run of 12 numbers)
Adelaide, Children's Patriotic Fund, May 1918 to July 1919. The run comprises Number 3 (May 1918), Number 5 (July 1918) to Number 11 (February 1919), and Number 13 (April 1919) to Number 16 (July-August 1919, the last number). The title of Number 3 is 'Children's Patriotic Times'; all other numbers..... More
An album of original vintage photographs of 'Blackboard Notices at the YMCA Rest Camp, Port Said', 1917-1919
The details of the contents are written on the front pastedown in ink in a neat calligraphic hand, decoratively laid out in shields linked with garlands. The Secretary and Assistant Secretary are identified respectively as Mr W.A. Hutchinson from WA, and Mr C.W. Smith from SA. The first photograph is..... More
Souvenir of Yorke's Peninsula. Reprinted from 'The Register' and 'The Observer'. History, Progress, and Resources [cover title]
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co. ('the Proprietors of "The Register"), 1926. A well-illustrated work with a substantial amount of text; the foreword, dated 1 November 1926, provides some context. 'In presenting this Souvenir of the Yorke's Peninsula districts, the Proprietors of "The Register" wish to tender thanks to all who..... More
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