Handbook of South Australia. [Progress and Resources (cover subtitle)]
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1908 [first edition]. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1908 [first edition]. More
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, 1841-1911; barrister, pastoralist and influential South Australian politician. Baker was one of the founding fathers of Federation and the first President of the Senate in the first Commonwealth Parliament. One of the Spanish Series..... More
London, Methuen, 1908. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard [Chaffey] Baker (1841-1911, barrister, pastoralist and politician); and the ownership signature of his son, John Baker (dated 1909). More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 (first edition). Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), the South Australian historian and bibliographer; later, the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. The John Goodchild-designed bookplate on the pastedown records these facts; there is a cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title page. Loosely inserted..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1908. A paper contributed by the author, 'Government Poultry Expert, for presentation to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science' in Brisbane, 11 January 1909. 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
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1908. More
Adelaide, Stevenson [Brothers, Jewellers], 1908. Norman Claxton (1877-1951), sportsman and businessman: by the late 1890s he 'was showing promise as a batsman in the Adelaide Electoral (district) cricket competition. An elegant right-hander, he scored over 500 runs in 1900 and again in 1904, at averages of 48 and 72. After..... More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 [first edition]. The book went through four editions in five years, with a limited edition facsimile appearing in 1979; copies of the first edition (where, on page 184, the author admits - in error, I hasten to add - to breaking the Seventh Commandment)..... More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 [first edition]. The book went through four editions in five years, with a limited edition facsimile appearing in 1979; copies of the first edition (where, on page 184, the author admits - in error, I hasten to add - to breaking the Seventh Commandment)..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1908. Provenance: Dr Herbert Basedow (1881-1933, explorer, anthropologist, geologist, and medical practitioner), with a signed inscription to him from the author on the front free endpaper. The book later entered two other notable collections, those of F.G. Coles and Sir Thomas Ramsay, with the..... More
(Adelaide, Government Printer), 1909. An overview of the affairs of the Territory by the Government Resident, Charles E. Herbert (12 pages) plus appendices on pastoral and mining matters and the like. More
[Melbourne], Government Printer, 1909. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 21 of 1909: only 950 copies printed. Alfred Deakin and Thomas Price (South Australian Premier) figure prominently in the correspondence; with 12 pages detailing the estimated and actual expenditure and revenue for the period 1907-08. More
Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, [circa 1909?]. 'Henry Jones (1826-1911), professional photographer ... his best-known works [are] photographs of 500 pioneer couples who attended Solomon's 'Banquet to the Pioneers'. These were made up into two mosaics, one of the men and one of the women' (Kerr: The Dictionary of..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1909. A lavish souvenir produced to commemorate the opening of the new building in Grenfell Street on 3 April 1909. The substantial pile, near the corner of King William Street, has since been demolished. More
Adelaide, Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League, 1909. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The..... More
Adelaide, Teakle Photo, [circa 1909]. The date, partially obscured on the captioned mount, is suggested by an article in the Adelaide 'Daily Herald', Wednesday 9 March 1910, under the headline 'Sturt II Club': 'The fourth annual meeting of the above club was held on Tuesday evening in the bowls clubhouse..... More
Melbourne, Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1909. More
Adelaide, printed by E.S. Wigg [for the Author], 1910. Poems structured loosely as a play. The third scene of the first poem, 'Vive l'Australie!' (3 pages) features 'Blacks in Pheasant plumage, assembled to celebrate the feast of Nyarrin; which marks the first appearance of that group [the Pleiades] on the..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1910. More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. Special Intelligence Bulletin Number 17, issued by the South Australian Intelligence Department. More
Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. A substantial history of a town with a substantial history; a feature of the book is a detailed biographical register running to more than 80 pages. Provenance: Charles E. Cameron Wilson, with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page. More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. A Special Bulletin issued by the South Australian Department of Intelligence. 'The purpose of this book is not to catalogue or to scientifically describe our native birds; but to bring prominently before the public, the police, and others in authority, and more especially the..... More
London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910. Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), 'anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist ... as a young graduate, Wood Jones found medicine 'cramped and small when compared to biology' and jumped at the chance of a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. on the..... More
Melbourne, The Swiss Studios, 1910. The balance of the title is 'Match played North Melbourne Ground, 18th June. Result of Match - Victoria - 9 Goals 12 Behinds. South Australia 8 Goals 6 Behinds'. The Melbourne 'Argus' (Friday 17 June 1910) reported that 'All Association premiership matches are suspended tomorrow..... More
Dublin, Maunsel and Company, Limited, 1910. With the pencilled ownership details of a member of Adelaide's prominent Finlayson family. The contents of the set comprise: Volume 1: Plays; Volume 2: Plays, Poems and Translations; Volume 3: The Aran Islands; and Volume 4: In Wicklow West Kerry, Etc. More
Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. The superior full-cloth binding; most copies were bound in quarter cloth and printed papered boards. Provenance: James Loutit, with his signature in pencil on the title page. We presume him to be a brother of Thomas Flett Loutit, who was an early partner in the well-known..... More
Adelaide, Australian 'Garden & Field', 1910. A rare South Australian pastoralists' who's who. More
[No Place, Imperial Japanese Navy], 1910. The pre-printed covers (with the name of the 'Aso' inserted later in ink), contain a bifolum headed 'Menu. Luncheon Du 22, Vendredi, April, 1910. Port Adelaide' [sic]. The 'Advertiser' for Saturday 23 April 1910 contains a report of the event: 'A luncheon was on..... More
(Melbourne), Government Printer, 1911. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 14 of 1911; only 950 copies printed. Topics include the powers and functions of the Administrator, leases for tin dredging and the establishment of a Supreme Court for the Territory. 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
[Melbourne], Government Printer, 1911. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1911: only 950 copies printed. More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker (1841-1911), barrister, pastoralist and politician. Baker was 'the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature, being elected at the head of the poll for Barossa in the House of Assembly ... [and] became..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1911 [a new work - see footnote]. Reprinted from The Register and The Observer; a selection of some of the most educative and interesting articles from the 'Man on the Land' column. A pamphlet with the same title but containing a different selection of material was published..... More
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, General Printers, [1911]. More
London, Augener, 1911 [first edition]. With the presentation inscription (dated Christmas 1911) to Kendal, Archer and Dorothea [Kyffin Thomas] from 'Auntie Charles'. More
Melbourne, J. Kemp for the Department of Agriculture, 1911 [first edition]. With the ownership signature of a member of the Mayo family. More
Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (and printed by R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer), 1911 [enlarged edition]. Number 31 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the..... More
Angaston, 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide), 1911. A very rare item of local history: we have handled only two other copies since 1976, and both were in worse condition than this one. The content is far more substantial than its title suggests; there are thirteen pages..... More
Sydney, George B. Philip & Son, 1911. Offered with copies of the Students' Handbooks for the Universities of Melbourne (The Atlas Press - E. Newlands, 1910; full leather), and Adelaide (Vardon & Sons, 1913; cloth), presented by the respective University Christian Unions. They are both in excellent condition and in..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited (for the Royal Society of South Australia), 1911. This part-volume is complete in itself, and as published. Chiastolite is 'a variety of the mineral andalusite containing dark carbonaceous inclusions giving a cross-shaped appearance' ('Concise Oxford Dictionary'). 'The chiastolites herein described constitute, for the most part, a select..... More
Adelaide, Matters & Co., [circa 1911]. Advertising for this subdivision began in earnest in late 1911, and an article in 'The Mail' (Saturday 17 August 1912) contains the following information: 'The land in the vicinity of the Outer Harbour is being extensively sought after. The pioneer of the district (Capt..... More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, for the Education Department of South Australia, 1911 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ [circa 1909]. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his contemporary ink ownership and library details on the front free endpaper, and his ink annotation (on..... More
Adelaide, Vardon & Sons, Printers [for the RGSSA], 1912. The head of the title page is inscribed by the author to 'E.W. Hawker Esqre MA LLM East Bungaree'. Edward William Hawker (1850-1940), barrister, grazier, politician and metallurgist, was born on 14 January 1850 at Bungaree near Clare, South Australia, eldest..... More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1912 [and] 1913. The ownership signature of Arthur Searcy (1913) is written in pencil on each title page. Arthur Searcy (1852-1935) was Controller of Harbors from July 1911 and Chairman of the Harbors Board Committee until his retirement at the age of 65 (information from..... More
Adelaide, Hussey and Gillingham, 1912. Muir 6266 (not identifying the author). The dedication to this pseudonymous work is by 'Aunt Sissie', whom we have identified as Lavinia Mary Scammell (1859-1915), the second of twelve children of Luther Scammell of Fauldings fame. This attribution appears not to have been made before..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. 'This book contains newspaper reports, reproduced without elaboration, of addresses uttered by the white native of Australia whose name is printed on the title page' (author's introductory 'explanatory'). Sir William John Sowden (1858-1943), journalist and newspaper editor, was associated with the major daily, the..... More
Sydney, The Bookfellow, 1912. Number 2 of only 15 copies of this deluxe edition 'marginally illustrated by the author' and signed by him. It was priced at 'half-a-guinea'; the balance of the edition (in papered boards, printed as per the wrappers in the deluxe edition) comprised 'one hundred and eighty-five..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. Presentation copy. Inscribed, dated (Adelaide, 28 October 1912) and signed by the author to Evan Kyffin Thomas at The Register Office, Adelaide. Sowden has over-written the first part of his dedication; 'from his Distinguished Co-Worker & Friend'. 'This book contains newspaper reports, reproduced without..... More