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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
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The Reproof of Brutus [a Poem]
London, Printed for Hurst, Chance, and Co.... and Effington Wilson, 1830. Fortunately, the first paragraph of the lengthy preface to this very lengthy poetical work (replete with numerous footnotes) provides the context: 'Intending to compose a few lines to prefix a work* ["Hampden in the Nineteenth Century, or Colloquies on..... 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
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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
Universal Arithmetick, or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley's Method of finding the Roots of Equations arithmetically. Written in Latin by Sir Isaac Newton, and translated by the late Mr. Ralphson, and revised and corrected by Mr. Cunn. The Second Edition, very much corrected
London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')/ 1720 (first edition in English)/ 1707 (first edition, in Latin). The eight plates, normally found with a small folding section, are bound into this copy in an unfolded state by..... More
Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his friend, C. Todd ..
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Inscribed on an early blank, in what we know to be the hand of Charles Todd, to 'Mr Edwd Stirling Junr / Xmas 1865'; with the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling. Ferguson 16245; Holden 103. We have previously sold a copy..... More
The British Customs, containing an Historical and Practical Account of Each Branch of that Revenue, the Rates of Merchandize ... with the net duties payable in all circumstances of goods imported, exported, or brought coastwise, and the net drawbacks to be paid on due exportation: as also, the bounties payable out of customs ..
London, printed by Thomas Baskett ... for J. Nourse, 1757. More
An album of photographs relating to the town of Stawell, with numerous views of the Grampians
Stawell, 'From W.J. Chapman, Photographer, Stawell' (on a small printed label mounted inside each cover), [circa 1939]. The 'Horsham Times' (Friday 12 May 1939) contains a paragraph of information relevant to the album: 'A tower and clock, presented to Stawell by Mrs Norman Kelly, of Sydney, in memory of her..... More
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The Nullabor Plains and the West Boundary of the Province. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. Sessions 1886-7 and 1887-8. Volume 2
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890. Unquestionably rare, and important, with all but one of the numerous articles in this volume relating to North Australia or Australian Aborigines. They are WINNECKE, Charles: Physical Features of Central Australia (8 pages); WORSNOP, Thomas: The Pre-historic Arts of the Aborigines of Australia (25 pages plus 4..... More
The Sacred Beetle. A Popular Treatise on Egyptian Scarabs in Art and History
London, John Murray, 1902. With 'five hundred examples of scarabs and cylinders, the translations by F. Llewellyn Griffith'. More
As Dead as the Proverbial ... Designed and illustrated by Mike Hudson
Katoomba, The Wayzgoose Press, 1989. 'The text for this article on the Dodo first appeared in "The Penny Magazine" of June 1st 1833' (introductory note). What pagination there is appears in reverse order from number 10, and appears only on the recto of the leaves printed with the text of..... More
State of the Trade of Great Britain in its Imports and Exports, progressively from the Year 1697 [to 1773], also of the Trade to each particular Country, during the above Period, distinguishing each Year. In Two Parts. With a Preface and Introduction, setting forth the Articles whereof each Trade consists
London, G. Robinson [and others], 1776. Goldsmith 11428. More
A 1935 panorama of Yudnapinna Station, situated approximately 80km north-west of Port Augusta
'Situated west of the Stuart highway about halfway between Port Augusta and Woomera, Yudnapinna can trace its pastoral origins to mid nineteenth century. The property was established by Thomas McTurk Gibson and was one of the largest sheep stations in South Australia, with peak shearing of 100,000 sheep in the..... More