South Australia
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# 45887
HEYSEN, Hans (1877-1968)
Gum trees, Ambleside
[Circa 1930]. Charcoal on paper with conte highlights, 175 x 240 mm (sight), signed lower left, framed. A charming rural study by Hans Heysen, one of a number he made in and around Ambleside, his property at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. The scenery is typically Heysen, featuring majestic gum trees in the landscape. Provenance: Private …
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# 47035
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (NIXON, Stephen Edward, 1842-1910)
View of part of the Moonta copper mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, c.1882.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); recto with fully contemporary inscription in ink to lower margin: ‘Part of Moonta Mines, S. Australia’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘The South Australian Photographic Association. Taylor Street, Kadina. Stephen Nixon (Artist), Manager’; the print is in good condition; the mount …
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# 47012
MICHAELS, Eric
The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed); pp. xxii, 159; a very good copy. “Report of the Fellowship to Assess the Impact of Television in Remote Aboriginal Communities”.
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# 46902
[Photographer unknown].
Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 71 x 116 mm; verso with later pencilled annotation ‘Nepabunna Mission area’ (this information was most likely copied from an album mount); fine condition. ‘The Adnyamathanha people were displaced from their traditional lands in the 1850s by pastoralists, no longer able to travel around their lands as before owing to the …
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# 47027
SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F.J. (Francis James)
The native tribes of central Australia
London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Second edition, with a preface by J.G. Frazer. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth boards, spine with gilt lettering, pp xxiv, 672, illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams (3 folding). [3] folding colour and black and white maps, [4] folding colour plates, contents clean and sound, a very …
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# 47024
SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)
The northern tribes of Central Australia
London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (edges lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, bookseller’s label to pastedown, pp xx, 672, illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; lightly foxed.
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# 46901
STUMP & CO. [STUMP, Alfred, 1860-1925]
“Native wurley”. South Australia, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; handwritten caption in negative ‘Native wurley’, along with ‘Stump & Co., Adelaide’; unmounted; a good print with excellent clarity, in fine condition.
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# 30697
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)
Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.
Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …
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# 46808
FARNDELL, Edward
Studio portrait of a lady in a taffeta dress. Adelaide, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 99 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘E. Farndell, Photographic Artist, Kent Town, Adelaide; the albumen print and the mount are both in good condition.
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# 46807
SOLOMON, S. (Saul)
Studio portrait of a woman in summer dress, wearing a fancy hat decorated with flowers and holding a parasol. Adelaide, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm; verso of mount with the imprint of ‘S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle St., Adelaide’; the print and the mount are both in very good condition.
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# 46806
MARCHANT, P. J. (Philip James)
Studio portrait of a lady in mourning dress holding a letter. Adelaide, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘P. J. Marchant, Waymouth Street, Adelaide, Photographer’; verso blank; the print is in very good condition; the mount has some very light foxing. The sitter, with her hand to her cheek, gazes wistfully past the camera, her thoughts obviously far …
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# 32167
HOWCHIN, Walter
The geology of South Australia. With notes on the chief geological systems and occurrences in the other Australian States. (With a presentation inscription by geologist and Antarctic explorer Sir T. W. Edgeworth David)
Adelaide : Walter Howchin (printed by Gillingham & Co.), 1929. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth over boards, spine lettered in black (sunned, frayed at head and tail), a significant association copy, the front pastedown inscribed in fountain pen by the distinguished Welsh-Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer …
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# 46579
BURNELL, George (1830-1894)
“Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).
[Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 75 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of pale green/azure card, 85 x 180 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso: ‘Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina’, with the original owner’s initials ‘M.A.H.’ and their collection number ’79’; the …
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# 45904
FARNDELL, Edward; DURYEA, Townsend; MARCHANT, E. W.; VON HARTITZSCH, Otto; RUSHTON & JUST; STUMP & CO., et al.
Alma Plains and Adelaide, South Australia : an important pioneer settlers’ photograph album with portraits of members of families associated with the Church of Christ. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 230 mm), embossed green leather decorated in gilt (upper board detached and lacking backstrip); title leaf with later family member’s inscription identifying the original owners of the album as ‘Janet and William Howard, Alma Plains – Dalkey’; containing a total of [82] albumen print photographs – [73] in carte de visite format, …
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# 46333
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT.
[WINE] Adelaide grapes – 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.
[Adelaide, SA : Government of South Australia, c.1905]. Lithographic postcard, 88 x 138 mm, verso imprinted ‘South Australia Post Card’ and with a handwritten message; in fine condition.
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# 46538
CARROLL, Alison and TREGENZA, John
Eugene von Guerard’s South Australia : drawings, paintings, and lithographs from journeys in South Australia in 1855 and 1857
Adelaide : Art Gallery Board of South Australia in association with the History Trust of South Australia, 1986. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. vi, 98, illustrated. Price label to lower panel. Scarce.