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Adelaide, [The Author], 1980. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. More
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A History of H. Buring & Sobels Ltd [Quelltaler (cover title)]
Adelaide, H. Buring & Sobels Ltd, 1967. Number 927 of 1000 numbered copies. More
Catalogue No. 2900. Primus Soldering and Heating Apparatus, Etc. [Soldering & Heating Lamps (cover title)]
Stockholm, B.A. Hjorth & Co., 1929. Loosely inserted is price list (September 1932; quarto, 6 pages, folded down the centre), and a supplementary leaf advertising spare parts and novelties (1933; left-hand margin torn and crumpled). [3 items]. More
The NZR Steam Locomotive
Wellington, New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, 2011. More
Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872 to 1874
Melbourne, Printed for the Author by McCarron, Bird, 1875. More
The Stonyfell Vineyards, 1858-1958. Being the History of Stonyfell Vineyards and a Record of the One Hundred Years of Winemaking
Adelaide, [H.M. Martin & Son Ltd], 1958. One of a numbered limited edition (upper limit not stated); this unnumbered copy is out of series. We have previously sold copy number 449 (inscribed to Sir Hubert Mayo), and number 186 (inscribed to Keith Christie-Ling); we have also sold several unsigned and..... More
Pictorial History of Australia's Little Cornwall
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978. A history of the 'Copper Kingdom' or 'Copper Triangle' (Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo) and the Cornish mining families that settled there. More
South Australia Illustrated
Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Number 680 of 1000 copies of this high-quality facsimile. The illustrations comprise views of the fledgling city of Adelaide and outlying settlements, the topography, flora and fauna, and the Indigenous people and their lives. Some 22 of the 60 plates (and..... More
100 Years in the Good Earth. S. Smith & Son Ltd. Yalumba Vineyards, at Angaston, South Australia, 1849-1949
Adelaide, S. Smith & Son Ltd., 1949. More
Cabernet. Notes of an Australian Wineman
Adelaide, Rigby, 1977. More
Story of a Vineyard. Chateau Tahbilk
Melbourne, The Hawthorne Press, 1968 (new edition)/ 1960. More
A Naval History of South Australia and Other Historical Notes
Adelaide, The Hassell Press, 1950. Loosely inserted is a Mary Martin Bookshop 'Customer's Report' card inscribed and signed in ink by Max Harris, and the original purchase receipt (dated 14 June 1962). More
'Monty'. The Biography of C.P. Mountford
Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell and | Lady Price | with much thanks | and many regards | from | Monty | Charles P. Mountford' (the anthropologist Charles Pearcy Mountford, 1890-1976). The recipient, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, has..... More
The Red Centre. Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1936 (second edition)/ 1935. 'A popular and scientific account of that part of Central Australia enclosed within an oblong bestriding the boundary of South and Western Australia, and measuring about 350 miles north and south by 250 miles east and west. Written with first-hand knowledge and..... More
Winbaraku and the Myth of Jarapiri
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Lady Pauline and Sir | A. Grenfell Price | with much gratitude and | appreciation | fr[om] | Charles P. Mountford'. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult..... More
Supreme Federalist. The Political Life of Sir John Downer
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author, the popular South Australian Labor politician John Charles Bannon AO (1943-2015), the 39th Premier of South Australia, who resigned in 1992 in the wake of the State Bank collapse. A huge electoral defeat for Labor..... More
Private Journal. From 17 December 1803 at Isle of France to 10 July 1814 at London
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005 [first thus]. 'Edited and with an introduction by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley. Foreword by Witgar Hitchcock. Preface by Paul Brunton.' The title page is signed by Brown, Dooley and Hitchcock (the great-great-great-nephew of Flinders). This is the first..... More
Tracks of McKinlay and Party across Australia. Edited from Mr Davis's Manuscript Journal; with an Introductory View of the Recent Australian Explorations of McDouall Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough, etc., by William Westgarth
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 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..... More
Remarks upon the Proposed Establishment of Steam Communication with the Australian Colonies ...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Peade A26: only 208 copies. More
Sunny South Australia ... Its City-Towns, Seaports, Beauty-Spots, Fruit, Vineyards and Flowers: its Wheat, Wool, Wine, Sheep, Dairying, Copper, Iron, Phosphates, and other Progressive Industries from 1837 to 1908 ... 4,000 Miles of Travel
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
A Pioneer History of South Australia in the wake of Flinders and Baudin
Adelaide, Pioneers Association of South Australia Inc., 2001. 'An edited collection of articles published by the Pioneers Association of South Australia over the past 70 years' (dustwrapper). More
Heysen. Recollections of The Cedars
North Adelaide, The Author, 1991. The half-title is signed by the author, the wife of David Heysen, the eldest son of the artist Sir Hans Heysen (1877-1968). 'The Cedars' was the name of the family home at Hahndorf. More
Art of William Light
Adelaide, Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1987. The illustrations include all Light's known South Australian works. More
A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery of that Vast Country ... in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. Peade A37: 2150 sets [3 items]. More