The Gawler Handbook. A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added Memoirs of McKinlay the Explorer and Dr Nott
Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1880. More
Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1880. More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the author: James Dally was convinced], 1880. Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative, although the photographs may vary slightly between copies. The photograph facing page 17 in this copy is of the 'Gawler Institute' (showing the Institute building and..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1907. Northern Territory of South Australia Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1907; one of only 600 copies. A very detailed account of the expedition from the Petermann and Treuer Ranges to Tanami by camel from September 1905 to September 1906; F.R. George died of illness on the..... More
Amsterdam, Israel, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. Number 44 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1926. 'In 1870 Giles was engaged as second-in-command of John Ross's expedition to fix the course of the overland telegraph line' ('Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography'); this account describes the author's experiences over the following two years and..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1926. 'In 1870 Giles was engaged as second-in-command of John Ross's expedition to fix the course of the overland telegraph line' ('Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography'); this account describes the author's experiences over the following two years and..... More
Sydney, Doubleday Australia, 1986 [facsimile paperback edition]/ 1889. More
Sydney, Doubleday Australia, [1979, facsimile edition]/ 1889. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his contemporary ink ownership signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000 (facsimile edition)/ 1872 to 1876. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 2. This is number 7 of 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 600 copies. The parliamentary papers reprinted here are Number 21 of 1875, Number..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000 (first thus)/ 1872 to 1876. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 2; one of only 501 copies thus. The Parliamentary Papers reprinted here are #21 of 1875, #215 of 1874, #22 of 1876 and #18 of 1876, dealing with Giles' first, second..... More
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1995 (second facsimile edition)/ 1875. This new cheaper reprint (of 2000 copies) should ease the demand not fully catered for by the deluxe edition of only 200 copies several years ago. More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999/ 1880. Reset from the first published edition of 1880, this edition was limited to only 400 numbered copies and quickly went out of print. More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Giles' third expedition, to the west of South Australia. Number 141 of 500 numbered copies, reset from the first (and only other) edition of 1880, with minor corrections plus 'the accounts of the expedition, brief though they are, recorded by his companions Tietkens, Young and Ross'..... More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Number 246 of 500 copies initialled by the publisher. Giles' third expedition, to the west of South Australia; it is reset from the first (and only other) edition of 1880, with minor corrections, plus 'the accounts of the expedition, brief though they are, recorded by his..... More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Giles' third expedition, to the west of South Australia. Number 485 of 500 numbered copies initialled by the publisher. Reset from the first (and only other) edition of 1880, with minor corrections plus 'the accounts of the expedition, brief though they are, recorded by his companions..... More
London, Richard Bentley, 1862 (first edition, first issue). An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s ('A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia, including station properties, social conditions, travel, aborigines, etc.' according to Ferguson), but there's much more ... In the second..... More
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1968. Pacific History Series Number 1. More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1995. The first edition, edited from the original manuscript by the author's grandson; 'it records his experiences as a young man travelling along the Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Alice Springs - a journey which would form the basis of his later work'. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1874. The account of the South Australian Government Surveyor's attempted crossing from the centre to the west coast; not least, he discovered and named Ayers Rock in July 1873. The first separate publication in book form; it was originally published as..... More
London, T. and W. Boone, 1849 [first edition, slightly later issue]. Provenance: George Woodroofe Goyder, with the pastedown of each volume inscribed in his hand 'Hill Side Cottage | Medindie | April 1858'. George Woodroofe Goyder (1826-1898), South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty-three years, is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1803. Peade A28: one of only 511 copies. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1803. Peade A28: one of only 511 copies. More
Sydney, Government Printer, 1856. NSW Parliamentary Paper Number 294 of 1856. Addressed to the Colonial Secretary from Burnett District ('within the settled parts' of NSW), 17 December 1856, the letter contains a brief outline of the proceedings of the Expedition. Probably McLaren 9282. More
The complete journal of the expedition from its departure from Sydney on board 'Tom Tough' and 'Monarch' on 18 July 1855 until its safe return to the same port on 26 December 1856. In the intervening sixteen months, the party 'had journeyed over 2000 miles by sea and 5000 by..... More
Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1997 (facsimile edition)/ 1906. Number 10 of only 50 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of only 250 copies). More