Adelaide, 1838 and 1839. George Fife Angas's personal copies of three early issues of South Australia's second newspaper, with his name and London address in ink at the head of the first page of each issue. These details are not in his hand; as the newspapers were posted to him..... 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
London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792. The revised, official account of the voyage of the 'Bounty', including the mutiny and Bligh's subsequent voyage in the ship's launch with eighteen loyal crewmen. 'In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half..... More
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
Perth, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92..... More
London, Robert Tyas, 1838 (second edition, 'considerably augmented')/ 1837. More
London, Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1931(first edition, first impression, the primary variant with the horizontal spine lettering). Provenance: Lesley Kilmeny Symon (1885-1969), one of the daughters of Sir Josiah Symon (1846-1934), South Australian lawyer and politician; he was a member of the Australian Senate in the First Australian Parliament, and an..... More
Guildford, Genesis Publications and Adelaide, Rigby, 1977 [first edition thus]. Number 311 of only 500 copies. The bulk of the book (approximately 380 pages) comprises a facsimile reproduction of the Admiralty copy of Cook's journal, considered by the Cook authority J.G. Beaglehole as 'the best and most careful, as it..... More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 (first thus). The first two parts of the book (pages 29-389) were first published in 1929; the balance of the work is published here for the first time. More
York Beach, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1998 (first thus). This work is 'the record of Aleister Crowley's exploration of the 30 AEthyrs of the Enochian system of magick developed by the Elizabethan magicians Dr John Dee and Edward Kelly. Crowley obtained these visions in Mexico in 1900, and in Algeria in..... More
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842 (new edition)/ 1800+ ('appeared in parts, commencing in the year 1800', according to the preface in the new edition). 'At the period when the first edition of this work was presented to the public, the study of exotic insects, and indeed the science of Entomology..... More
Evans was second officer of the 'Morning', the ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society in 1904 to the relief of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second-in-command of his second expedition and captain of the 'Terra Nova'. He accompanied Scott in..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1907. Northern Territory of South Australia Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1907; one of only 600 copies. A very detailed account of the expedition from the Petermann and Treuer Ranges to Tanami by camel from September 1905 to September 1906; F.R. George died of illness on the..... More
!['The Happy Man's Pedigree' [title of a copperplate engraving]. Samuel GURNHILL](/pictures/thumb/122291.jpg?v=1612252716)
Gainsborough, Samuel Gurnhill, [circa 1800s]. Offered with another engraving by Samuel Gurnhill (as Gurnill), 'Hercules fighting the Hydra' (printed surface approximately 225 × 210 mm, presented as above, external dimensions 540 × 470 mm; in fine condition). Interestingly, this engraving was executed on recycled copperplate, imperfectly polished smooth. Faint traces..... More
London, Lockwood, 1870 [third edition, carefully revised and considerably enlarged]/ [1857]. All of the plates in the second volume relate to specific bridges: one double-page plate gives details of the 'Bridge over Salt Water River, Melbourne and Williams Town Railway, Victoria' (and one of the diagrams in the first volume..... More
The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More
London, printed for G. and W. Nichol [and numerous others], 1816 (first thus). [9 items]. More
The party consisted of Missionaries Johann Goessling and Ernst Homann, and two lay-helpers, Hermann Vogelsang and Johann Jacob. They set out from Langmeil [Tanunda] church on Tuesday 9 October 1866 with two large covered wagons and seven horses. This image, along with the full details of the epic journey and..... More
Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1859 (first edition). Henry Kingsley (1830-1876), the younger brother of the novelist Charles Kingsley, migrated to Australia in December 1853. 'Little is securely known of his Australian years. He tried gold-mining on such fields as the Caledonia, Ararat and Omeo without success and there is fairly..... More
Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 1911 [enlarged edition]. Number 31 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the Proceedings of the RGSSA in the same year. The..... More
Adelaide, 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane', 1846. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840, and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on..... More
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
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
![Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1: Art, Myth...](/pictures/thumb/102270_00.jpg?v=1550894016)
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
