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Murray Bridge, [The Author, 1920s]. A rare regional imprint. More
Murray Bridge, [The Author, 1920s]. A rare regional imprint. More
[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. The frontispiece photographic portrait of James Cant is signed and dated (1970) by him; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. James Montgomery Cant (1911-1982) was married to fellow-Australian artist, Dora..... More
Adelaide, TV Week, 1964 to 1967. The specific dates are 1 February ('Exciting Beatles Offer - see inside'), 14 March ('The Beatles in Paris! 16-page Picture Souvenir'), 28 March, 23 May, 13 June ('Beatles Special!'), and 19 September 1964; 30 January 1965 ('Beatles New Film! Full Story Inside'); and 30..... More
Provenance: the personal collection of David Lovatt, proprietor of Bank Street Records, Adelaide (1985-1994). He had the photograph signed by George Harrison at the Hilton Hotel, Adelaide when he was in town for the Australian Grand Prix in 1986. More
[No Place, No Publisher, No Date]/ 1936. Undated, but possibly produced in 1986, the year of South Australia's sesquicentenary. More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, 1898. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 (noting only the frontispiece portrait). Provenance: James Howard Johnson (1875-1947, a great-grandson of George Fife Angas), with his armorial bookplate. A couple of marginal notes in pencil are presumably in his hand. More
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. 'Shortly after the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870, my father was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory'; 16 year-old Harriet accompanied William Bloomfield Douglas (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography') and the rest of the..... More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. This sumptuous catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the AGSA in early 2002 to commemorate the bicentenary of the historic meeting of the two expeditions in Encounter Bay. More
Netley, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974 (first complete edition in English). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. More
Adelaide, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium, 1997. Produced in association with the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks Committee. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1980. The 'trade' edition, limited to 990 copies (this fact is not noted in the book). A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1924. Peade A57: 524 copies. Australiana Facsimile Editions number 57. More
[Adelaide], The Authors, 1991. Number 675 of 1000 copies signed in ink by both authors. A copy of the original prospectus is loosely inserted. Torrens Park Estate is a 'large mansion and its surrounding grounds, set in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges six kilometres south of Adelaide in..... More
[Adelaide, The Authors, 1980]. Extensive, if not definitive. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. More
Modbury, Gould Books, August 2006 (third impression, with minor corrections)/ June 2006 (expanded edition)/ 1990. 'An extension and revision' of Manning's important work on the nomenclature of South Australia. More
Adelaide, San Giorgio la Molara Community Centre Inc., 2004. 'It is the story of some hundreds of people who decided to leave their home, San Giorgio la Molara, a village in the Campania region of southern Italy, and to migrate progressively over the last century to Adelaide, South Australia' (from..... More
The 'Petersburg Times' on Friday 12 May 1893 contained a short article under the headline 'Photography'. 'It will be noted by our advertising columns that Mr Edwin C. Thomas has commenced business at Petersburg as a Photographer, and thus another long felt local want has been filled. The Studio, which..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, [1880s]. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet | Adelaide', and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886) was a sea captain, surveyor and photographer..... More
[Littlehampton?], Thomas Sladdin, [circa 1892?]. Davies and Stanbury record 'Thomas Sladden (Sladdin)' working as a photographer at three locations in SA: Littlehampton (1890-91); Sedan, 1892-94; and Lyndoch, 1895-1900 (with his brother John). Littlehampton is the closest of the three to Murray Bridge. 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
Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing, 2000. More
[Darwin], G.L. Duffield, Government Printer for the History Unit of the University Planning Authority, [1984] (augmented facsimile edition)/ 1882. The index by Elizabeth Estbergs is new to this edition. More
Adelaide, Rigby for the South Australian Museum, 1972. The title page is signed by the author; the colour plates and 13 of the illustrations are from his field photographs. More