The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, etc., of the Aborigines of Australia. Compiled and collated by Thomas Worsnop, Town Clerk, Adelaide
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897. An Australia-wide survey. Ferguson 18888. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897. An Australia-wide survey. Ferguson 18888. More
[Adelaide, RGSSA, 1899]. Bound together with another article by Magarey: 'Tracking by the Australian Aborigines. Read October 29th, 1897' (pages 119-126). Both items are extracted from 'Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia,' South Australian Branch, Volume 3, 1888-9 to 1897-8. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1899. This issue also contains a nine-page address by the President of the Society, W.L. CLELAND; he concentrates on the Australian Aborigines, with particular reference to the recent publications of Roth, Spencer and Gillen. He concludes that the 'Australian is not degenerate but primordial ... A consequence of..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1899. The address concentrates on the Australian Aborigines, with particular reference to the recent publications of Roth, Spencer and Gillen. He concludes that the 'Australian is not degenerate but primordial ... A consequence of this is, that no longer protected by isolation, he must shortly entirely disappear from..... More
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
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1900. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 45 of 1900; only 650 copies printed. An overview of the affairs of the Territory (4 pages, including a page on Aborigines) by the Government Resident Charles Dashwood, plus appendices on mining (4 pages, with numerous comments on Chinese miners), stock..... More
Adelaide, Vardon and Pritchard, Printers, 1900. The contents are what one would generally expect to find - a potted history of the association, lists of new publications, reviews, a 'useful list' of books, numerous period advertisements - but there are two topical contributions. The first (a little over two pages..... More
[Unley, Chas P. Scott, circa 1900s]. We purchased this item with a similar portrait of a young Indigenous boy (captioned 'Jacky - Oodnadatta'), blindstamped with the photographer's details ('Chas P. Scott | Unley S.A.'). The Art Gallery of SA dates that image '1903-04'. We have no hesitation in attributing this..... More
Unley, Chas P. Scott, [circa 1900s]. Charles Scott (1878-1928) is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street, Adelaide, in directories from 1909 to 1915+, his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street, Goodwood Park' (Photohistory SA website). The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image..... More
London, Sands & Company, 1900. A contemporary review from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' of 26 May 1900 gives a summary of the book: 'The late Mr Thomas Major, who was at one time "Inspector of Runs for the New South Wales Government," has left behind him in "Leaves from a...... More
London, Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1901. Inscribed by the author to 'E.C. Stirling | ex dono Warrigalis | May 1901' - from one significant South Australian identity to another. William Austin Horn (1841-1922) was a mining magnate, pastoralist, politician - and occasional poet. 'In 1894 he organized and equipped the Horn..... More
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. 'This book deals only with the institutions of races certainly totemistic, and mainly with the Australian and North American tribes' (introduction). James Jasper Atkinson died in 1899; his 86-page contribution to the book has been edited and annotated by Lang. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown..... More
[Strathalbyn, Unknown Photographer], 'About 1903-4'. Most of the players are identified in pencil in a later hand on the verso of the mount; the date 'About 1903-4' and one name are in ink in an earlier hand; alas, both scribes took it as read that the team itself needed no..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1904. This issue also contains articles by Professor W.H. Bragg, Walter Howchin, J.G.O. Tepper, and Dr J.C. Verco, among others. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1904. This issue contains a further 14 articles, including another one by Basedow, and half a dozen from household names like Bragg, Howchin, Tepper, Verco and Woolnough. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1905. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 29 of 1905; one of 700 copies printed. The four plates relate to Point McLeay Mission Station. More
Adelaide, Vardon Pritchard, Printers, 1905 (second edition)/ 1905. The first page (the verso of the frontispiece) is inscribed in ink to 'Jack Rowan from the author Harry Driscoll 10.5.09'. Henry John Driscoll was born in Adelaide in 1857; his obituary appeared in 'The Advertiser' on 4 September 1916. This novel..... More
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1905. 'A natural sequel of "Social Origins and Primal Law", published three years ago'; with much on the Arunta (Arrernte) and other Australian Aboriginal tribes. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1906. An enquiry on behalf of the South Australian Government. Other articles include EITEL, E.J.: Social Life in China (20 pages); and John Ainsworth Horrocks' Journal (Horrocks was fatally wounded in 1846 on an expedition that 'would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1906. 'In 1846 Mr Horrocks organised what proved his last exploring party, and but for the fatal accident which so unhappily terminated the expedition, he would doubtless have left a high record in the history of exploration, and would probably have traversed a great deal of the country..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1906 [first edition]. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. One of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series. Of considerable North Australian interest. More
London, Melville & Mullen, 1906. Not least, reflections on the Horn Scientific Expedition (which the author organised, equipped, and accompanied for the early stages). Provenance: Edward Charles Stirling, with his pictorial bookplate ('Gang forward') on the front pastedown. Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, was..... More
London, Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd, 1906. One of The Native Races of the British Empire series. Provenance: With the ink ownership signature of John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962), South Australian senator, lawyer and pastoralist (dated 4 December 1906, London). More
Adelaide, AAAS, 1907. This issue also contains HOWITT, A.W.: Personal Reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills Expedition (43 pages); KLAATSCH, Hermann: Some Notes on Scientific Travel amongst the Black Population of Tropical Australia in 1904, 1905, 1906 (16 pages plus 17 plates and a folding map) and..... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer [for the AAAS], 1907. Inscribed in ink on the front cover 'With the author's compliments'. More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1907. The author was 'Fourteen years Sub-collector of Customs at Port Darwin'. The six-page preface is by Ernest Whitington, an Adelaide journalist. Provenance: 'Stephen King "Calta Wurlie" | May 1908' is written in ink on the front free endpaper. Stephen King Jr...... More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1908 [first edition]. More
Adelaide, Vardon and Sons, 1908 (first edition). The front flyleaf is inscribed 'To Mrs Sumsion with the best wishes of the author, HJ Driscoll 14 July '09'. Henry John Driscoll was born in Adelaide in 1857; his obituary appears in 'The Advertiser' on 4 September 1916, and he was 59..... More
Wien [Vienna], Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1909 and 1910. A multi-lingual journal, with the majority of articles in either English, French, or German. There are 22 articles relating to Oceania and Australia, and many more on Asia, Africa and the Americas. Provenance: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, SA Branch, with occasional inkstamps. [2..... More
Perth, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1909 [first edition]. The scarce first edition of this important memoir of European settlement of the northern portions of Western Australia by pastoralist Alexander Robert Richardson (1847-1931). At the age of 18, he was one of a small group (including his brother) that left Portland..... More
[No Place (probably rural South Australia), Unknown Photographer, circa 1910s?]. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1911. This lengthy article is a real sleeper: apart from being a potted history of small-pox in Australia, it contains much local information from Mrs Louisa Karpeny (Kontinyeri), a Narrinyeri woman born around 1830. As Dr Stirling put it, 'Mrs Karpeny related her reminiscences with much dramatic vividness..... More
London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913 [deluxe illustrated edition]/ 1893. This edition was advertised as an 'edition de luxe' in November and December 1913. The new preface by the author, dated June 1913, is notable for his observations on the Aboriginal characters featured in the novel, their tribes and material..... More
London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913 [deluxe illustrated edition]/ 1893. This edition was advertised as an 'edition de luxe' in November and December 1913. The new preface by the author, dated June 1913, is notable for his observations on the Aboriginal characters featured in the novel, their tribes and material..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1914. Provenance: Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947, the influential motor-body builder whose business became a household name), with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. An excess of glue was applied when it was first mounted in the book; the free endpaper adhered to it and..... More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914. Provenance: Fergus Jago Smith (1843-1924), pastoralist, banker, politician and book collector, with his contemporary signature (17 December 1915) on the title page and pastedown (where his address, 'Hawthorne, Bathurst', is also written). More
London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. The volume contains another 22 articles, including Daisy M. BATES: A Few Notes on some South-Western Australian Dialects (pages 65-82); R.J.A. BERRY and others: The Craniometry of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (pages 122-126); Elsdon BEST: Ceremonial Performances pertaining to Birth, as..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1915. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 240 of 1914-15; only 950 copies printed. An overview of the affairs of the Territory by the Administrator, J.A. Gilruth (13 pages) plus detailed reports on agriculture, mining, railways and aborigines (5 pages). More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1918. This volume also contains numerous other papers, some of them lengthy, some of them well-illustrated, on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi (with 4 colour plates), Australian orchids, the geology of Ardrossan, and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum, 1918 to 1921. Other major articles in this volume include CILENTO, R.W.: Observations on a Series of Artificially Distorted Skulls (pages 325-346 plus 9 plates); RAINBOW, W.J.: Arachnidae from Lord Howe and Norfolk..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1919. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 129 of 1917-18-19; only 825 copies printed. An overview of the affairs of the Territory by the Administrator, J.A. Gilruth (10 pages) plus detailed reports on agriculture, mining, health and Aborigines (4 pages). More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1920. This issue contains numerous other papers, unrelated but of considerable interest, including some by eminent scientists such as Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson ('Observations on the Physiology of the Fly's Intestine', 13 pages), and Professor Frederic Wood Jones ('The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials', 13 pages..... More
Adelaide, Royal Society of South Australia, 1920 to 1924. Although not identified as such, the illustrations in every instance are by the author. These five volumes are offered with a matching copy of Volume 49 (1925), completing the important 18-part series, 'Flora and Fauna of Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1921. The implements were found in the vicinity of the Macumba Head Station, 'about 34 miles to the northward of Oodnadatta'. This issue also contains a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of Australia in the making of Stone Implements, based..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1921. This issue also contains HOWCHIN, Professor Walter: On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Regions of Central Australia (25 pages plus 11 pages of plates) and a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of..... More
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Provenance: Professor Archibald Grenfell Price, with his pencilled ownership signature (1939) on the front flyleaf. Beneath this is a 2003 inscription in pencil in another hand: 'Dear ... this year I had many hours of pleasure finding old books as Christmas Gifts. I liked..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1922. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 44 of 1922; only 827 copies printed. An overview of the affairs of the Territory by the Administrator, F.C. Urquhart (6 pages) plus lengthy reports on health, agriculture, mining and Aborigines (3 pages, including one on the Kahlin Beach Compound). More