Lothair. In Three Volumes
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870 (Volume I stated 'Second edition'; Volumes II and III first editions). More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870 (Volume I stated 'Second edition'; Volumes II and III first editions). More
Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis, [circa 1870s]. With the ink prize inscription 'for the best Original Illumination. Christmas 1878', signed in ink by Eliza Harcus, wife of William Harcus and principal of a private girls' school in Adelaide, later known as Dryburgh House School. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1871. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 54 of 1871. Primarily an itemized list of salaries, in categories of Euopeans, Natives and those on the 'Gulnare'. More
Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1871. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 11 of 1871. The legislations under consideration related to extradition of offenders, insolvency matters, and Supreme Court judgments. More
Adelaide, Printed and Published by David Gall, 1871 (thirty-second thousand). The outside rear cover lists nine titles (including this one) in Wickes' Educational Series for Australian Use. The works were 'specially compiled' by Edward Walter Wickes (1795-1868), 'formerly Secretary to the Board of Education', who had also conducted his own..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1872. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 60 of 1872; one of 950 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1872. The life of the pioneering South Australian Methodist New Connexion minister, after whom Maughan Church in Franklin Street is named (consult ADB Volume 5); with the (presumably) association signature of M. Maughan on the flyleaf. Not in Ferguson. More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. A note (dated January 1879) in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to..... More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. The name of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor, is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers..... More
Brisbane, A. Cleghorn, 1872 [revised edition]/ 1862. The revised edition of the Statutes of the German Hospital Association in Brisbane (in German). More
London, John Murray, 1872. Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore..... More
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1872. 'Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen' (Petermann's Geographical Communications), founded by August Heinrich Petermann in 1855, ceased publication only as recently as 2004. It was 'the oldest German-language journal for geography, in which all major geographical discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were published' (Wikipedia). About J.M. Gilmore..... More
Melbourne, F.F. Bailliere, 1872. James George Beaney (1828-1891), surgeon, politician and philanthropist, settled in Melbourne in 1857, and 'after a period as locum tenens, acquired the practice of Dr John Maund when he died in 1858. Beaney rapidly established himself as a prominent surgeon, a position he maintained although he..... More
Sydney, 'Lithographed by Gibbs, Shallard, & Co.', [1872]. A very rare early illustrated Australian children's book, in which a monstrous demon rampages through the streets of Sydney. Identifiable landmarks in the illustrations include the Hyde Park Obelisk, Woolloomooloo, North and South Heads, and Government House. Many more are mentioned in..... More
London, Edward Stanford, 1872. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title, and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson (1841-1902), accountant and pastoralist, was a son of Rosetta French Johnson, later Hannay, eldest daughter of George Fife Angas ('Australian Dictionary of Biography')..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1873. Alexander Walker Scott (1800-1883), the author of this uncommon and interesting work, was the father of the naturalists and botanical artists Harriet and Helena (later, Harriet Forde and Helena Morgan). In the lengthy preface, he explains why the publication of this, the second part..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1873. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper Number 181 of 1873. The attractive plates (two full-page and four half-page) are well-executed views of operational mining scenes or interesting landscape features ('granite outcrops and alluvial workings', as Trove succinctly puts it); artists identified are Wilkinson himself and..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1873. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 29 of 1873. An 'official and emphatic denial' of statements disparaging the stability of the line. 'I have, therefore, drawn up a brief report on the whole of the line ... Having personally inspected the line from Daly Waters southwards in..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1873. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 55 of 1873. Reynolds was away for approximately fifteen weeks, and his report is full of matters pertinent to his portfolio - land, its uses and people to use it. 'Any person visiting these islands, who considers the number of their..... More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1873]. Plate 1 from Volume I of John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' (1862-73). The Nile and two pyramids are visible in the background, depicting the natural habitat of the Egyptian Vulture. This wandering example made an appearance over England. More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1873]. Plate 12 from Volume II of John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' (1862-73). More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1873]. Plate 50 from Volume V of John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' (1862-73). More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1873]. Plate 4 from Volume II of John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' (1862-73). More
[London], Printed by Walter [for John Gould, 1873]. Plate 40 from Volume V of John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain' (1862-73). More
London, Houlston and Sons, 1873/ [circa 1860s]. More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1874. New South Wales Legislative Assembly Paper Number 46 of 1874. The House sought to repeal the Act, and called for the Report 'embodying the opinions and experiences of the Police in the various districts of the Colony respecting the working of the said Act'..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1874. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1874. A highly critical report compiled by Thomas Reynolds on his official trip to the Northern Territory as Commissioner of Crown Lands the previous year; he was in the Territory from 17 May to 11 June 1873 and this..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1874. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 232 of 1874. With all due respect, the 231 signatories - all residents of the Northern Territory - have had enough: "That while engaged in a struggle of no ordinary magnitude, with the object of forming a colony in and developing..... More
[Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer], 1874. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 67 of 1875; the subtitle is 'Memo. - This Journal and the Plan accompanying it, was placed at the disposal of the Government by the Hon. Thos. Elder MLC, at whose expense the exploration was made'. The 'Australian Dictionary..... More
Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1874 [second edition]/ 1872. 'This edition has been carefully revised, detailed tables of contents have been added to both volumes, and several minute errata which have remained, particularly in the notes, have been corrected'. More
Melbourne, [The Society], 1874. This issue also contains (among much else) FISON, Reverend Lorimer: The Classificatory System of Kinship (26 pages), and PAIN, H.E.: Abstract of a Paper on Aboriginal Art in Australasia, Polynesia, and Oceania, and its Decay (6 pages). More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed to 'Percival Randolph Stow, from his affectionate grandfather'..... More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed on the verso of the title page to..... More
Adelaide, J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. The frontispiece, a Townsend Duryea photograph, is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 (not identifying the photographer, and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1874. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 61 of 1874; one of 850 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1874. The only published book of poetry by this important South Australian novelist; the title work, of 130 pages, is subtitled 'A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition'. More
Melbourne, E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro. [1874]. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader".... The writer left Melbourne on 1st September, 1874, and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September, in which..... More
Adelaide, James Heath Lewis, Printer (first conference), and Wesleyan Book Depot (all other conferences), 1874 to 1886. Trove indicates that the only institutional holdings of any copies are the first three issues in the State Library of South Australia. More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author], 1874. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of having them printed'. That being said, copies of this original printing are now rare nearly..... More
Melbourne, E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro. [1874]. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader".... The writer left Melbourne on 1st September, 1874, and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September, in which..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1875. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 57 of 1875 (no text accompanied this map). McLaren 12530-31-32 are confusing (confused?): the first entry refers to this item by correct Parliamentary Paper number but the title is incorrect; the third entry shows the correct title for a map accompanying..... More
Leipzig, Paul Frohberg, 1875 and 1876 (both first editions). More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1875. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 26 of 1875; one of 850 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More
1875. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), public servant and local historian, with his signature on the flyleaf and index page, and his manuscript amendments on five pages. More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1875. Dr Moritz Richard Schomburgk (1811-1891) was the director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens at the time; in '1872 he was offered, but refused, the directorship of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The 'Handbook of South Australia' mentioned on the title page..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875 (fourth edition)/ 1834. [2 items]. More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889) left Alice Springs for Western Australia in April 1873 with six men and seventeen camels. The party 'endured long periods of extreme heat with little water, and survived only by killing the camels for meat. They reached the..... More
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1875 (second edition)/ 1866. Provenance: this copy was apparently in the collection of Zane Grey. Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed by one George A. Taylor, manager of Christies Auctions Limited, 196-8 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (general auctioneers, not the more famous international company). The..... More