Kangaroo Island as a Mail Station. Report by Harbor Master on the Practicability of the Mails by Ocean Steamers being landed at Nepean Bay
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1857. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1857. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1857. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1857. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, Printer, 'Register' Office [for The Author, 1857]. A fascinating retrospective account of Townsend aka Waxend and his 'delightful spreadeagling' appeared in the Adelaide newspaper 'The Register' on Saturday 11 April 1914. The article includes the full text of this 'Address to the Electors of Onkaparinga' in 1857..... More
Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1857 (second edition)/ [1854 (first German edition)/ 1853 (second edition)/ 1852]. A German-language edition of 'The Three Colonies of Australia. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold Fields'. Provenance: the Nuriootpa Institute library, with its contemporary 'Extracts from Rules' paper label on..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. The seventy-seven petitioners were the promoters and subscribers of the Camel Troop Carrying Company, 'established in the City of Adelaide to facilitate the organized introduction of camels into South Australia ... [We] are satisfied that the exploration of Australia will only be profitably accomplished by the..... More
Adelaide, printed at the 'Times' and 'Dispatch' Office (first volume) and 'The Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices (second and third volumes), [1858 and 1859]. The first volume has all references to, and contributions by, John Bristow Hughes marked in the margins with pencil; his signature in ink is partially erased from..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858. This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1858. Douglas, the Harbor Master of South Australia, refers regularly to the observations of Flinders, the French (under Baudin) and Eyre in this survey from 'the western boundary of this province, and the west end of Kangaroo Island'. More
Adelaide, Printed by David Gall [for John Howell, bookseller and manufacturing stationer], 1858. The Adelaide directory (listing name, occupation and address) runs to 47 pages; the Port Adelaide one is seven pages long. Considering the colony was founded barely two decades earlier, it is an extensive yet unpretentious list. For..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1859. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1859. The report contains a detailed list of all species of plants collected, although it included only three new genera and seventeen new species: the complete index 'would convey a more comprehensive idea of the vegetation which clothes the barren..... More
London, Jackson and Walford, 1860. Contains much on South Australia when Adelaide was the City of Churches. More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, 1860. The newspaper came out Monday to Saturday, and accordingly it contains a never-ending, ever-changing fascinating miscellany of local, national and international news, with the large parochial components being far and away the most instructive and entertaining. The issues for the second half of this year..... More
London, George Philip and Son, 1860. 'George Fife Angas' is written in pencil on the front endpaper; we know this to be in a later secretarial hand, indicating that the book came originally from his personal library. More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1860. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 25 of 1860. The steamer sank without loss of life after having initially struck on the eastern bank of the Channel after leaving Goolwa. A re-survey of the mouth of the Murray was organized; the accompanying chart is overprinted..... More
London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1860. The front free endpaper is signed by John McDouall Stuart, at the foot of the following inscription: 'Presented to me Henry Nathaniel Phillips by John McDouall Stuart on board of the Ship "Indus" on her pasage [sic] from South Australia to London..... More
London, George Philip, [late 1861]. Philips' Authentic Maps of the Australian Colonies, Number 6 (according to the information printed on the front pastedown). Tooley 974 (basic details of the map only, not noting the Travelling Maps series). Pertinent details printed on the map that provide evidence of the date of..... More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, 1861. The newspaper came out Monday to Saturday, and accordingly it contains a never-ending, ever-changing fascinating miscellany of local, national and international news, with the large parochial components being far and away the most instructive and entertaining. The issues for this year are especially rich in..... More
London, Hall, Virtue, 1862. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia, strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which..... More
London, Hall, Virtue and Co., 1862. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia, strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1862. The despatches, from the Duke of Newcastle, the incumbent Secretary of State for the Colonies, concern whether 'the northern part of Australia should be formed into a new Colony, or that a portion of the territory in question should be annexed to Queensland'. Newcastle's..... 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
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862. Ferguson 18805. This copy contains a series of interesting (albeit relatively unimportant) early marks of ownership, from William Charles Rigby's early blindstamp (with premises at 55 Hindley Street), to the ink signature of a policeman ('Frank Karuth | Kadina S.A. 13/8/64', ruled..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1863. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1863. The most important item of correspondence reprinted here is Governor Dominick Daly's long letter of 23 December 1862 to the Duke of Newcastle, informing him of the successful return the previous month of John McDouall Stuart and his..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and..... More
Adelaide, C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, G. Dehane (and others), 1863. In the preface, the author states that 'About four months were occupied in visiting the Mines and collecting information, and during this time I travelled about 1,800 miles, chiefly on horseback'. 'First Edition of Three Thousand' and 'Illustrated by a...... More
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson, 1864. Sir Samuel Davenport (1818-1906) was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ('Australian Dictionary..... More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Almost half the book (58 pages) is given over to verse by Stephenson, who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. With a contemporary inscription (in Charles Todd's hand?) to 'Lizzie Todd 4th Decr 1865' in ink on an early blank; the..... More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1865. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 79A of 1868. The correspondence ranges in dates from 13 February 1864 to 4 September 1868; it includes good contributions by Francis Cadell (a half-page interim report on his expedition) and John Robertson, business partner of the explorer J.G. Macdonald (a..... More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Inscribed on an early blank, in what we know to be the hand of Charles Todd, to 'Mr Edwd Stirling Junr / Xmas 1865'; with the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling. Ferguson 16245; Holden 103. We have previously sold a copy..... More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. With the contemporary ownership details of 'Revd Henry Pollitt, Woodville, 4th Decr 1865' on the flyleaf. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs (see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' [Sydney, 1988]), where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text..... 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 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 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, 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
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, Townsend Duryea, [printed circa 1866; original negative circa 1863]. 'Townsend Duryea began making cartes de visite in late 1862 or early 1863, and was advertising his "new" style of carte in May 1863' (Bob Noye, AGSA website). The portrait, taken in Duryea's Adelaide studio, shows Stuart after his epic..... 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
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 81 of 1868. More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1868. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 81 of 1868. More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995, Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide), with his bookplate. 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
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, 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