South Australia. Its Progress and Prosperity
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' (from 1855 to 1864). More
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' (from 1855 to 1864). More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 104 of 1866. Not only the names (in two lists, those in England and those in South Australia) but also the number of sections purchased. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1866. New "Regulations under which Leases of Waste Lands of the Crown for Pastoral Purposes are to be granted under the 'Northern Territory Act'" More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 188 of 1866. Complete (and critical) details of the eleven tenders for the initial survey of 300,000 acres in the Northern Territory. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1866. Full details of the project: primarily a monthly service between Java, Brisbane and Sydney, via Torres Straits, but including proposals from "Colonel Finniss, Resident of the northern part of South Australia ... for establishing a steam service between..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 103 of 1866. Questions (with answers) relating to the legal position of holders of land orders in the event the Government survey was not completed on time (it wasn't). More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 128 of 1866. Primarily instructions for the guidance of surveyors (regretfully, the maps and charts are only for instructional purposes and have no Northern Territory relevance). More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 83 of 1866. Very detailed letters from Government Resident Boyle Travers Finniss to Chief Secretary Henry Ayers, written at Escape Cliffs between 19 June and 16 October 1865 (but before he had received Ayers' letter of 21 September recalling him to..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 55 of 1866. Mainly routine matters, but there is a page of information and 'Instructions to Botanical Collector' prepared by Dr Richard Schomburgk, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 145 of 1866. Fifteen unnamed members of the First and Second Northern Survey Expeditions were highly critical of their terms, conditions and treatment at Adam Bay under Boyle Travers Finniss, and sought various reimbursements. Among the petitioners were the crew of..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 134 of 1866. Transcripts of three letters written by Finniss at Escape Cliffs in late 1865: a short one dated 9 November, advising the members of the Northern Territory Expedition that he had been recalled, and that James Manton was replacing..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 80 of 1866. Primarily reports from Escape Cliffs Camp by James Manton, Acting Government Resident after the recall of Finniss; they include the complete journal of events at the camp from Manton's arrival on 13 November 1865 until 10 August 1866..... More
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' (from 1855 to 1864); he was also George Fife Angas's agent in SA from 1841 to 1844. This copy comes from the collection of the South Australian historian and bibliographer Thomas Gill..... More
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' (from 1855 to 1864). More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1866. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper 9-A of 1866. The Commission, headed by Commander Frederic William Sidney RN, was appointed to 'inquire and report on the present condition of the Harbour of Port Jackson, and particularly into the changes which have taken place in the..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1866. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper 194 of 1866. More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1866. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper 37-A of 1866. 'All Correspondence which has taken place, since the commencement of traffic on the River Murray, between the Governments of New South Wales and South Australia, on the subject of improving the facilities for Navigation offered by..... More
Adelaide, F.P. Bailliere, 1866. The map is a beauty; it is easy to understand why it is rarely found in copies of this book. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 177 of 1866. Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889), at this stage of his life also the Commissioner of Police in South Australia, 'examined the northern shores of Lake Eyre, searching unsuccessfully for Sturt's Cooper's Creek but finding instead a large river, now..... More
Adelaide, C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell and W.C. Rigby, [1866]. With the contemporary ownership inscription 'Official Assignee's Office' in ink on the front cover. More
London, Thomas Murby, [1866]. The editor notes that the work was 'chiefly dictated, with the help of materials recorded in the log-book of the journey, by Mr. Landsborough himself' during a four-month voyage from Australia. Ferguson 11330; Wantrup 175 (noting the edition in wrappers, but not recording that it has..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 79 and 80 of 1866. The first one, by Frederick Howard, gives a summary account of activities from 28 December 1865 to 26 August 1866. It contains numerous references to the McKinlay expedition; the 'Beatrice' was its support vessel. Most of..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1867. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 203 of 1867. The 'names of persons who have received payment from the Government since their return from the Northern Territory, the amount paid to each respectively, for what service or on what account; also, the names of all persons who..... More
Adelaide, David Gall, 1867. 'Storrie exhibits a keen sense of satire not only with regard to conventional tales whose perclivities are mercilessly ridiculed but also with regard to colonial society itself' (Depasquale: A Critical History of South Australian Literature, 1836-1930). Incidentally, this is the first novel published in Adelaide. See..... More
Melbourne, Charlwood and Son, Booksellers, Stationers, and Printers, [July 1867]. Trove has enabled us to established beyond doubt the date of publication - Saturday 20 July 1867 - according to the advertisements in the 'Argus' on that and the previous day. Ferguson 9927 (noting a curious variant, with the four..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 100 of 1868-69. It contains full details of the nine tenders for the survey of 420,000 acres of land in the Northern Territory, together with a report on them by George Goyder, the Surveyor-General. He saw fit to consider seriously only..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. A discursive report based on observations made by Dr Millner and Jacob Bauer in the neighborhood of Adam Bay between April 1865 and December 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 114 of 1868-69. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1868-69. In short, there were no records kept; part of the return relates to McKinlay's expedition. "As permitted, the explorer availed himself of the stock and stores at the Settlement in completing his equipment" More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 101 of 1868. George Goyder's detailed proposal, dated 5 October 1868, for a Government party to complete the survey and select a site for the capital, under the terms of the public tender of 2 September (which closed on 8 October)..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 83 of 1868. 'Tenders will be received until noon of Thursday, October 8th, from persons willing to Contract for the Survey of 420,000 Acres of Land in the Northern Territory of this Province, north of latitude 18 degrees south, in localities..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 81 of 1868. More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 81 of 1868. More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and J. Howell, [1868]. Not least of its many attractions is 'The Farmers', Gardeners', and Vignerons' Calendar', revised by George McEwin (13 pages). More
Melbourne, Fergusson and Moore, 1868 (second edition)/ 1867. The front flyleaf is inscribed to 'The Hon. W.M.K. Vale with the Author's kind regards'. Provenance: William Mountford Kinsey Vale (1833-1895), politician and bookseller. As 'a liberal with a keen interest in protection, Vale represented Ballarat West in the Legislative Assembly from..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1869. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 148 of 1869-70. Francis Dutton, the Agent-General for South Australia in London, certainly earned his salary that year; if nothing else, the correspondence is VERY detailed. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1869. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 175 of 1869. A letter dated 23 December 1868 from Wentworth Cavenagh, Commissioner of Crown Lands, to George Goyder - essentially routine matters. More
London, 1869. With the ownership signature of the explorer Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889) in pencil on the preface page and his armorial bookplate ('Virtuti non armis fido') on the front pastedown; subsequent events suggest he may have lived to regret these sentiments. His entry on page 288 records that he..... More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1869]. Plate 31 from John Gould's 'Birds of Australia Supplement' (1869). This species is now known as the Lord Howe Island Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus vinitinctus). More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1869]. Plate 48 from John Gould's 'Birds of Australia Supplement' (1869). This species, now known as the Robust White-eye or Lord Howe White-eye, was endemic to, and relatively common on, the island, but was declared extinct by 1923, following the accidental..... More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1869]. Plate 1 from John Gould's 'Birds of Australia Supplement' (1869). This species is now known as the Australasian Grass-owl (Tyto longimembris). More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1869]. Plate 29 from John Gould's 'Birds of Australia Supplement' (1869). This species is now known as the Papuan Pitta or Red-bellied Pitta. More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1869]. Plate 26 from John Gould's 'Birds of Australia Supplement' (1869). More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 210 of 1869-70. With the exception of the identity of the Government Resident, this short paper gives the position, name and salary of all 44 members of the first Northern Territory Resident Party (the estimated net cost per annum was 7777..... More
Adelaide, Sud-Australische Zeitung, 1870, 1871 and 1873. Bound volumes of weekly issues of the literary supplement to the long-running Adelaide German-language newspaper 'Sud-Australische Zeitung'. Offered here are the complete run of the 52 weekly issues of the twelfth year (1870), issues 27-52 of the thirteenth year (4 July to 26..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 29, 30 and 30A of 1870. More
[Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870]. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 32 of 1870 (surprisingly, the date is not printed on the item, but 1870 is correct). The descriptive notes by surveyor George McLachlan for Section 1681 in the Hundred of Ayers are typical: 'Light brown loamy soil, generally covered with nodulous..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1870. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1870. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 56 of 1870. More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1870. The areas under discussion are near Kingscote. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 216 of 1870. More
[South Australia? Unknown Photographer, circa 1870s?]. The group comprises seventeen men and a boy dressed in typical bush garb of the period (two of the men and the boy are Indigenous), and two white children (a lad on a horse, and a young girl, both a little less casually attired)..... More