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Brisbane, T.P. Pugh, 1862. Statutes and Laws of the German Hospital Association (in German). More
Brisbane, T.P. Pugh, 1862. Statutes and Laws of the German Hospital Association (in German). More
Melbourne, Printed at the Herald Office, 1862. 'The "Firefly", chartered by the Government of Victoria to convey stores, &c., for the exploration party sent in search of the ill-fated explorers, Burke and Wills, left Melbourne on July 29th, 1861, under orders to proceed to Brisbane, to take those who undertook..... More
Paris, Librarie Militaire J. Dumaine ... et chez l'Inventeur, 1862. Auguste Chevallier's ingenious photographic plane-table produced a disc-shaped horizontal panorama by means of a rotating lens. Comparing images taken at different vantage points allowed the surveyor accurately to calculate distances and heights as with a regular plane table, but with..... 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
[Melbourne, Bailliere, 1863]. The full text of the advertisement is: 'Will be Published, shortly. Stuart's Journal of Exploration through the Interior of Australia and Across the Continent. F.F. Bailliere, 85 Collins Street East, Publisher in Ordinary to the Victorian Government, and Publisher and Importer of British and Foreign Medical and..... 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, Government Printer, 1863. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 133 of 1863. "On or before the first day of February, 1864, the officers appointed for the purpose in London and Adelaide shall announce, by public advertisement, that on the first day of March, 1864, they will be prepared to receive..... More
Sydney, Sherriff & Downing, [1863]. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995), Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, with his signature in pencil at the head of the title page. Ferguson 15645 (supplying the date; the advertisement on the rear flyleaf contains testimonials dated January 1863, and suggests those wishing to 'be supplied in..... 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
Melbourne, Clarson, Shallard & Co., Printers & Publishers, 1863. The only edition and rare (and one can imagine the attrition rate of the pictorial wrappers among extant copies is significant). 'Although Foster's 16-page pamphlet glances at the work of earlier explorers it is principally of interest for its connection with..... More
London, Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1863. 'John Davis was a member of the South Australian relief expedition, led by John McKinlay, to search for Burke and Wills. The expedition travelled to Cooper Creek and north almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria ... [They then] made for Port Denison (Bowen)..... More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel and Walton [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 48 from Volume III of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel and Walton [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 47 from Volume III of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel and Walton [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 8 from Volume II of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
Milano [Milan], Tipografia di Gaetano Bozza, 1863. A curious medical pamphlet giving details details of the wounds sustained by Giuseppe Garibaldi at the Battle of Aspromonte (La Giornata dell'Aspromonte) on 29 August 1862. Among much purple prose advocating Italian unification and a short personal account of the battle (Ripari fought..... 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
[London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 4 from Volume III of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
[London], Printed by C. Hullmandel [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 30 from Volume II of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 18 from Volume III of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1863]. Plate 47 from Volume II of John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' ([1843]-1863). More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1864. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 36A of 1864. 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
Bologna, Tipi Gamberini e Parmeggiani, 1864. Principally geology and palaeontology, but with a chapter on the Omaha Indians for good measure. More
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist who was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated with his details..... More
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 (second edition)/ 1859. More
Melbourne, T. Harwood (Fergusson and Moore, Printers), 1864. 'It is the object of the present work to direct the attention of those who feel interested in the question - "Which was the primitive alphabet of man?" - to a discovery made by the author in the year 1848.... he perceived..... 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 84 of 1865. A comprehensive report (dated 9 September 1865 on HM Surveying Schooner 'Beatrice' at sea) of Howard's activities since his last letter, which internal evidence suggests was around 13 May 1865, when he embarked the Government Resident, Boyle Travers..... More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1865. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 89 of 1865. An extraordinary collection of material, commencing with the 'Corrected List of Stores for the Northern Expedition shipped on board the "Henry Ellis"' dated 12 July 1864, and ending with the details of the stock purchased and shipped to..... 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, Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co., after 1865]. The complete series comprises twelve views of the Australian goldfields in the manner of S.T. Gill; the set 'was probably issued loose, without any title or wrapper' (Wantrup, page 327). The two plates on..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1865. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 15 of 1865. The correspondence is dated from 16 December 1864 to 21 September 1865, and most of it relates to the debate over the suitability of Escape Cliffs as the site of the capital - Finniss v. Stow, Stuckey and..... More
London, Hatchard and Co., 1865 (the first title); London, William White, 1856 (the second title); and Boston, Otis Clapp, 1860 (the third title). The contemporary blindstamp of the Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby is on the front flyleaf. More
London, The Author, and printed by Taylor and Francis, 1865. [2 items]. More
Paris, E. Dentu, 1865 (first French edition)/ 1821. Translated by Charles Bernard Derosne from the revised edition of 1865. 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 104 of 1866. Not only the names (in two lists, those in England and those in South Australia) but also the number of sections purchased. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 127 of 1866. New "Regulations under which Leases of Waste Lands of the Crown for Pastoral Purposes are to be granted under the 'Northern Territory Act'" More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 188 of 1866. Complete (and critical) details of the eleven tenders for the initial survey of 300,000 acres in the Northern Territory. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1866. Full details of the project: primarily a monthly service between Java, Brisbane and Sydney, via Torres Straits, but including proposals from "Colonel Finniss, Resident of the northern part of South Australia ... for establishing a steam service between..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 103 of 1866. Questions (with answers) relating to the legal position of holders of land orders in the event the Government survey was not completed on time (it wasn't). More
[Adelaide, Government Printer], 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 128 of 1866. Primarily instructions for the guidance of surveyors (regretfully, the maps and charts are only for instructional purposes and have no Northern Territory relevance). More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 83 of 1866. Very detailed letters from Government Resident Boyle Travers Finniss to Chief Secretary Henry Ayers, written at Escape Cliffs between 19 June and 16 October 1865 (but before he had received Ayers' letter of 21 September recalling him to..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 55 of 1866. Mainly routine matters, but there is a page of information and 'Instructions to Botanical Collector' prepared by Dr Richard Schomburgk, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 145 of 1866. Fifteen unnamed members of the First and Second Northern Survey Expeditions were highly critical of their terms, conditions and treatment at Adam Bay under Boyle Travers Finniss, and sought various reimbursements. Among the petitioners were the crew of..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 134 of 1866. Transcripts of three letters written by Finniss at Escape Cliffs in late 1865: a short one dated 9 November, advising the members of the Northern Territory Expedition that he had been recalled, and that James Manton was replacing..... 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