South Australia

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50676

Anon.

Men of South Australia : representatives of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of South Australia as existant in the year 1933. Private edition

Adelaide : Men of South Australia, 1933. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (light edge wear); name stamped on upper board V. M. Newland, patterned gilded endpapers, , [106] leaves of plates, being photographs of the subjects with satirical drawings and biographical captions; a very good example …

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50767

RYAN, Judith et al

Across the desert : Aboriginal batik from Central Australia

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. A fine copy.

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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