South Australia. Containing Hints to Emigrants; Proceedings of the South Australian Company; a Variety of Useful and Authentic Information ...
London, Robert Tyas, 1838 (second edition, 'considerably augmented')/ 1837. More
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Journal of Explorations in Central Australia, by the Central Australian Exploration Syndicate ... 1898 to 1900
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1905. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905; one of only 730 copies. McLaren 7723. The Murchison and Davenport Ranges in 1898 and 1899, and from the vicinity of Tennant Creek westward to within 30 miles of the Western Australian border and back by a circuitous..... More
Ern Malley's Journal. Volume 1, Number 1, November 1952 to Volume 2, Number 2, November 1955. [The complete run of six issues, published sporadically, and edited by Max Harris, John Reed and Barrie Reid]
Heidelberg, The Editors, 1952 to 1955. 'Six years ago Ern Malley lived and died in Australia. Child of the unintended creative act of two other Australian poets he became overnight the most significant figure in the current literary scene. Alike as poet and as a symbol of creative living ....... More
A glass paperweight featuring a photographic portrait of Fanny, an Indigenous Australian woman
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
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia
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
The Native Tribes of Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1899. The head of the title page is inscribed in indelible pencil, in an unknown hand, 'With Kindest Regards from': this is followed by the ink signatures of both authors (as W. Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen). A seminal work in the history of anthropology..... More
Nine vintage photographs of the Stonyfell Quarry and adjacent vineyards in the Adelaide foothills, circa 1915
The gelatin silver photographs (image size 160 × 205 mm, or the reverse in three instances) are mounted on thick flush-cut cardboard; there are some chips and trifling imperfections around the edges, and two have slight surface imperfections in background areas; overall, they are in very good condition. The images..... More
The Narrinyeri. An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs, also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay. By the Rev. George Taplin, Missionary to the Aborigines, Point Macleay, South Australia
Adelaide, J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. The frontispiece, a Townsend Duryea photograph, is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 (not identifying the photographer, and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite..... More
Outlines of a Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phraseology, of the Aboriginal Language of South Australia, spoken by the Natives in and for some distance around Adelaide
Adelaide, 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], 1840. A rare and important early Adelaide publication, and among the earliest and extensive works of its kind; the vocabulary and phraseology run to 76 pages. Ferguson 3102 (with slight variations..... More
'Sun' Foundry. Illustrated Catalogue. Second Edition. Vol. II. Architectural, Sanitary, and General Castings, and Wrought Ironwork. A.C. Harley & Co., General Ironfounders and Blacksmiths
Adelaide, A.C. Harley and Co., 1914. 'Notwithstanding the fact that we have more than doubled the number of illustrations, it has been found impossible to include all our patterns, as we are constantly adding to their number.' A rare, handsome and important catalogue of decorative ironwork; the very rare first..... More
Native Legends
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [1929 (first edition, first impression)]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia, 1788-1988', National..... More
Native Legends
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [1929 (first edition, later impression)]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition celebrating the Books of Australia, 1788-1988', National..... More
South Australia. Its Advantages and its Resources. Being a Description of that Colony and a Manual of Information for Emigrants
London, John Murray, 1848. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia, and contains, from this source, detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer, on Agriculture, Stock Farming, Building, Gardening, Manufacturing in various branches ... and Mining and Mineral..... More
The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri, by the Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe, by Dr. Wyatt, J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe, by the Rev. A. Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe, by the Rev. C.W. Schuermann; The Dieyerie Tribe, by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect (Northern Territory), by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett; with an introductory chapter by J.D. Woods
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1879. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy (34-page) introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Taplin's substantial contribution, The Narrinyeri (156 pages plus 6 preliminaries) is the text of the revised edition of 1878 (see..... More
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