Sydney, William Brooks and Company, [1907]. The early ownership details of Joseph A. Hill, 'Correa', Wakeham St, Stawell are on an early blank. On the pastedown is the wattle-blossom bookplate of horticulturalist, naturalist and author Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954); his ownership details are written at the head of the preface..... More
London, W. Dickinson, S. Hooper, J. Archer and R. White, 1791. The ownership signature 'Normanton' and an (earlier) armorial bookplate with the name scratched out are on the front pastedown. William Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist and caricaturist; his designs 'must be admitted to be inferior in humour to Rowlandson's..... More
London, The Bibliographical Society/ The British Library/ The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 2008. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1886. With the armorial bookplate of Dr Roger Angove. With an eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory (plus extra material in the appendix). Peade A200: only 518 copies. More
London, John Murray, 1906 [first edition]. With the bookplates of James Edge Partington (1854-1930) and Charles Richmond John Glover (1870-1936); the occasional pencilling, mainly to the bibliography, appears to be by Edge Partington. Loosely inserted is a contemporary review of the book, and a small sheaf of relevant newspaper clippings..... More
London, Folio Society, 1977 (fifth impression)/ 1969. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1957 (second impression)/ 1957. Tipped in on the front flyleaf is a typed aerogramme signed by the author to occultist Nicolas [Iovetz]-Tereshchenko. Tereshchenko's armorial bookplate is mounted on the front pastedown, and his small address label is mounted at the rear. The aerogramme (now trimmed of its..... More
London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of [Sir] Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, and the gift inscription (dated 8 September 1905) signed by prominent Melbourne surgeon Frederic Dougan Bird (1858-1929). More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1920. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover (1870-1936), several times Lord Mayor of Adelaide. More
Paris, Librairie de Hachette et Cie, 1863. Provenance: Richard Davies Hanson, with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. London-born Sir Richard Davies Hanson (1805-1876), author and judge (eventually Chief Justice of South Australia); he settled there in 1846. He had been very active in colonization schemes since the early 1830s..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Provenance: Sir John Hawkshaw, Hollycombe, with his name-plate on the front pastedown, and a pencilled inscription on the first blank page ('To Sir John Hawkshaw with Mr Sam Davenport's complts. Phila 30/6/76'). Sir John Hawkshaw (1811-1891) was a famous British civil engineer..... More
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1907. With the ownership signature and Helen Bakewell-designed bookplate of George S. Fowler (of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty). More
Albany, State of New York Department of Farms and Markets, 1925. State of New York, Department of Farms and Markets, Thirty-third Annual Report, Part 2. Report of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year ending June 30, 1925. More
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1845 (third edition)/ 1836 (first thus). Mounted on the front pastedown of each volume is a bookplate stating that 'This book was given by the Associates of the late Rev. Dr. Bray, to the Clerical Lending Library of Adelaide ... Australia ... 1846' (the last three..... More
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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, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845. These embellishments strongly suggest this copy comes from the collection of Charles Glover (erstwhile Lord Mayor of Adelaide) - some 2787 lots of his books were sold by auction over five days in late 1970. The first issue of this book, also published..... More
London, Chapman and Hall, Ld. 1892. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, and his pencilled ownership signature on the recto of the frontispiece. More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. With the armorial bookplate of P. Curzon Clement on the pastedown; the bookplate is listed in Peake (Australian Personal Bookplates, 2000), with John Shirlow recorded as the artist. A note (dated January 1879) in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the..... More
London, Bibliographical Society, 1997. More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1905 (second, revised and enlarged, edition). With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
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London, J. Cross, 1838. The unnumbered four-page postscript after page 208 provides a summary of Adelaide newspapers 'received up to the 14th July'; in it, mention is made of Eyre's overlanding expedition from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1838, during which he discovered and named Lake Hindmarsh. In the lengthy..... More
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1934. The armorial bookplate and pencil ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, are on the front endpaper (with two corrections and a rear endpaper note in his hand). More
London, George Harrap, 1930. With the amorial bookplate and signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
London, London Missionary Society, [circa 1895]. Warmly inscribed to fellow missionary Walter Hutley, and dated (19 March 1898) and signed by the author on page 5 (the Preface). With the later Rose Lowcay-designed bookplate of her husband, collector Harold Sheard mounted on the front pastedown. More
