South Australia

  • Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

    # 50718

    EYRE, Edward (1815-1901)

    Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

    Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested in Mr. Christy’s letter of …

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  • Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a black cravat. Adelaide, South Australia, c.1873.

    # 51038

    DURYEA, Townsend

    Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a black cravat. Adelaide, South Australia, c.1873.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm; verso with the elaborate back mark of ‘Townsend Duryea, Artist Photographer. By Appointment. 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide’, surrounded by the crests of the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir James Fergusson, Sir Dominick Daly, Sir R. G. MacDonnell, and Anthony Musgrave; both the …

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  • The native tribes of Central Australia

    # 50555

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, plain paper label to pastedown, pp. xx, 672 (last blank), [2 publisher’s advertisements]; illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; scattered foxing throughout, a good copy.

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  • The legend of Waijungari, Jaralde tribe, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, and the phonetic system employed in its transcription.

    # 50827

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    The legend of Waijungari, Jaralde tribe, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, and the phonetic system employed in its transcription.

    Adelaide : Hassell Press 1935. Reprint ‘From Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. V, No.3 September 30, 1935’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed wrappers; pp. 261-274; with one map; a fine copy.    

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  • Nomenclature of archaeological cultures and associated implements in Australia.

    # 50824

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Nomenclature of archaeological cultures and associated implements in Australia.

    Adelaide : A. B. James, Government Printer, 1968. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 4, November 5th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 615-640; with 21 line-drawn figures; a fine copy.  

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  • Tjukurpa Pulkatjara : the power of the law

    # 50768

    An̲anguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation (South Australia)

    Tjukurpa Pulkatjara : the power of the law

    Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated. Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law is an insight into 48 benchmark works by senior artists from the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands, featuring works from major private and public collections.

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  • South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1841,

    # 50509

    BENNETT, Jas. F.

    South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1841,

    being the first year after leap year. Calculated for the meridian of Adelaide. Adelaide : Robert Thomas & Co., [1840]. Duodecimo, modern calf, spine lettered in gilt, bookplate from Geoffrey Farmer collection to front pastedown, offset to free endpaper, all edges gilt, pp. 150, xix (advertisements); blank, a few spots of foxing, but a clean …

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  • [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    # 50408

    ROSSELL, Henry Norman

    [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’, three have the photographer’s pencilled sequence number, and one – showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land – is annotated (by Rossell?): ‘The trees in background are Mallee …

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  • [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    # 50409

    ROSSELL, Henry Norman

    [RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; workers in citrus fruit orchard. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

    Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in small format, each 75 x 100 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet ‘H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark’; all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell’s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: …

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  • David Driden

    # 50692

    RYMILL, Arthur

    David Driden

    Adelaide : the artist, 1972. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, illustrated dustjacket (lightly foxed), pp. [28]; foreword by Russell Drysdale, 34 colour and monochrome plates.

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  • The aborigines of Central Australia

    # 50649

    WILLSHIRE, W. H.

    The aborigines of Central Australia

    With vocabularies of the dialects spoken by the natives of Lake Amadeus and of the western territory of Central Australia. Adelaide : C. R. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Octavo, fine modern binding of half crushed morocco over marbles papered boards, pp. 51; [blank]. small chips to title leaf, with auction label of ‘Hackett’ sale, a …

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  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 50534

    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 (some flecking and light marks), spine lettered in gilt; bookseller’s label removed from pastedown; pp xxxv, 784, [2 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; front hinge cracked, lightly foxed, extensively annotated in pencil.

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  • Souvenir of Mount Gambier South Australia

    # 50148

    KANNENBERG, B. (publisher)

    Souvenir of Mount Gambier South Australia

    [Cover title : Mount Gambier Illustrated]. Mount Gambier : B. Kannenberg, circa 19Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, string bound, pp. [14], black and white illustrations. The cover indicated ‘Colour supplement of Blue Lake’, which is not present in this copy.

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  • Manuscript letters from a South Australian colonist to his two brothers in London. Adelaide, 17 April 1854.

    # 49939

    GLADSTONES, G. E.

    Manuscript letters from a South Australian colonist to his two brothers in London. Adelaide, 17 April 1854.

    I. Entire letter, [4] pp., octavo bifolium, manuscript in ink on watermarked wove paper; headed ‘Adelaide, South Australia, April 17th 1854’, addressed to ‘My dear Bob’, and signed ‘your affectionately attached Bro., G. E. Gladstones’; the letter is written in a very legible hand, and is complete and in fine condition; it is accompanied by …

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  • Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.

    # 49770

    [NIXON, J. H. or GINNINGS, J. T., attributed]

    Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Mount gambier Hospitle‘; the print has lost some contrast but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. This carte was sourced with others taken by travelling photographer J. T. Ginnings. However, the State Library of …

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  • An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools. (Inscribed by Mountford)

    # 49827

    MOUNTFORD, Charles P.

    An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools. (Inscribed by Mountford)

    Adelaide : Royal Society of South Australia, 1941. ‘From “Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,” vol. 65, (2), 1941’. Large octavo (240 x 185 mm), original printed wrappers (foxed, old vertical fold), the front inscribed by the author in fountain pen ‘With compliments from C. P. Mountford’; pp. 312-[317], with a full-page photographic …

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