South Australia

  • # 15811 DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888); "W.S.E." Carte de visite with an acrostic laudatory poem to Tasmanian newspaper publisher and editor John Campbell Macdougall

    # 15811

    DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888); "W.S.E."

    Carte de visite with an acrostic laudatory poem to Tasmanian newspaper publisher and editor John Campbell Macdougall

    Albumen print photograph of a lithographed poem titled ‘An Acrostic’, dated and initialled in the image ‘Hobart Town, 9th August 1848 / W.S.E.’, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Artist & Photographer, by Appointment, 66 & 68 King William St., Adelaide / Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’; both the …

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  • # 15802 WYATT, William (1838-1872) Somewhere in the Hills

    # 15802

    WYATT, William (1838-1872)

    Somewhere in the Hills

    [South Australia], 1862. Title from artist’s caption. Ink wash on wove paper, 90 x 160 mm; signed and dated lower right ‘Wm. Wyatt J[unior] d[epinxit]. 1862.’; in good condition, with a tiny spot of restoration to the outline of the hill at upper left; mounted in a recent glazed timber frame. William Wyatt, sketcher, watercolourist and lithographer, was …

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  • # 15745 ORIENT LINE Orient Line of Royal Mail Steam-ships to Australia. First class ticket, London to Sydney, 1895.

    # 15745

    ORIENT LINE

    Orient Line of Royal Mail Steam-ships to Australia. First class ticket, London to Sydney, 1895.

    [London : Orient Line, 1895]. Quarto sheet, 270 x 205 mm, printed on both sides in sepia and blue, manuscript entries recording payment of £128 by the Hon. F.S. O’Grady [Frederick Standish O’Grady, 6th Viscount Guillamore, 1847-1927] and Hon. Mrs. O’Grady, for First Saloon passage on RMS Cuzco, departing London 6 September 1895, for Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, being a …

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  • # 15796 [FLINDERS, Matthew] The family Bible of the great navigator Matthew Flinders of Donington, Lincolnshire

    # 15796

    [FLINDERS, Matthew]

    A Holy Bible for children, shared by the great navigator Matthew Flinders and his younger siblings.

    A highly significant bibliographic treasure, with an association to one of the most important figures in the history of Australian exploration, Captain Matthew Flinders, RN (1774-1814), the navigator and cartographer who led the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.  The Holy Bible, adapted to the Use of Schools and private families: Containing all …

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  • # 15838 PÉRON, François, 1775-1810; FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842; LESUEUR, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846; PETIT, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804 Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goélette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804.

    # 15838

    PÉRON, François, 1775-1810; FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842; LESUEUR, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846; PETIT, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804

    Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goélette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804.

    Rare complete set, in contemporary bindings, of the official account of the Baudin voyage. One of the most important and famous descriptions of Australia ever published, it also contains the first published complete and fully detailed map of Australia, Freycinet’s Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande, along with many significant charts of the southern Australian coastline (“Terre Napoléon”), superb …

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    # 15021

    LINGWOOD SMITH, William Thomas, 1860-1933

    An important archive of photographs of Aboriginal subjects by police photographer W.T. Lingwood Smith, South Australia and Central Australia, circa 1900.

    William Thomas Lingwood Smith was a Detective Photographer in the South Australian Police Force from 1888 until his retirement in 1922. As early as 1894 he also pioneered fingerprinting in Australia, becoming an expert in the Criminal Investigation Branch of the South Australian Police Department. The quality of his little-known, non-commercial photographic portraits of indigenous people …

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  • # 15801 WYATT, William (1838-1872) Natives Encamped

    # 15801

    WYATT, William (1838-1872)

    Natives Encamped

    [South Australia], 1862. Title from artist’s caption. Ink wash on wove paper, 80 x 180 mm; initialled and dated lower right ‘W.W. 62’; in fine condition, mounted in a recent glazed timber frame. William Wyatt, sketcher, watercolourist and lithographer, was born in the Colony of South Australia in 1838, the son of William Wyatt (Senior), surgeon, …

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  • # 15297 Artist unknown [after ANGAS, George French; HAINSSELIN, Henry] Four early watercolour portraits of Australian Aborigines after lithographs by George French Angas and Henry Hainsselin.

    # 15297

    Artist unknown [after ANGAS, George French; HAINSSELIN, Henry]

    Four early watercolour portraits of Australian Aborigines after lithographs by George French Angas and Henry Hainsselin.

    [Australia? : c.1846]. Four individual watercolour head-and-shoulder portraits, each approximately 110 x 90 mm, on sheet 400 x 325 mm, paper watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1846; the artist’s captions in pencil beneath each portrait read (anti-clockwise from top right): Kertamaroo / King John; Mocata (his wife); Native of Gipps Land, Victoria; Yonki Yonka, Native of Western …

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  • # 15636 DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888) [ADELAIDE; WINE] Photographic portrait of Sarah and Ann Jacob, circa 1866

    # 15636

    DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888)

    [ADELAIDE; WINE] Photographic portrait of Sarah and Ann Jacob, circa 1866

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63, verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Photographer to His Excellency, 66 King William St., Adelaide’, and an inscription in a contemporary hand ‘Sarah Jacob / Born April 21st 1851 / Anne (sic) Jacob / Born Dec. 17 1853’; both the albumen print and mount are …

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  • # 15401 WOOD, Rex (1906-1970) Portrait of a young woman

    # 15401

    WOOD, Rex (1906-1970)

    Portrait of a young woman

    [Adelaide : probably between 1930 and 1935]. Watercolour and gouache on paper, sheet 280 x 190 mm, signed lower right ‘Rex Wood’; laid down on original board mount, removed from a frame at some point; in very good condition. Rex Wood was born in Laura, in the Mid North of South Australia in 1906, and …

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  • # 15000 [THOMAS ADAMS HILL]; GLENNY, Henry (1835-1910) Photographic portrait of the explorer Robert O’Hara Burke $3,300.00

    # 15000

    [THOMAS ADAMS HILL]; GLENNY, Henry (1835-1910)

    Photographic portrait of the explorer Robert O’Hara Burke

    Mid-1860 [but probably published early 1863]. Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, amount 105 x 63 mm, vignetted image 50 x 50 mm, recto of mount inscribed in contemporary hand ‘Bourke’ (sic), and verso inscribed in the same hand (with the correct spelling) ‘Burke’; no studio imprint; albumen print with faint …

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  • # 15037 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER Photographic portrait of an Aboriginal elder, Murray River, South Australia, circa 1920 $175.00

    # 15037

    SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER

    Photographic portrait of an Aboriginal elder, Murray River, South Australia, circa 1920

    Gelatin silver photograph, 150 x 103 mm, verso with contemporary inscription in pencil ‘River Murray Tribe. Govt. Photog.’; in fine condition (the tiny white scratch in the upper section is in the negative).

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  • Photographs of the Everard and Musgrave Ranges Expedition, South Australia, June-September 1914 WHITE, Samuel Albert (1870-1954) # 15012

    # 15012

    WHITE, Samuel Albert (1870-1954)

    Photographs of the Everard and Musgrave Ranges Expedition, South Australia, June-September 1914

    A highly important record of early European contact with the Yankunytjatjara people. Eight gelatin silver print photographs, each 100 x 127 mm, unmounted; versos with the photographer's pencilled captions and sequence numbers; all of the prints are in fine condition. Although principally an ornithologist, by the early 1900s Adelaide-born Samuel White 'had earned a reputation …

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  • Oh Australia! STANTON, Don E. # 14882

    # 14882

    STANTON, Don E.

    Oh Australia!

    Bermagui Sth., N.S.W. : Maranatha Revival Crusade, [1979]. Series: Monthly Message, no. 26. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with stain), stapled, 112 pp, illustrated; a couple of annotations in biro, otherwise a very good copy. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (title page). Christian religious pamphlet written by an …

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  • Report of the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party of South Australia, June 1978. COCKS, C.H. # 14883

    # 14883

    COCKS, C.H.

    Report of the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party of South Australia, June 1978.

    Adelaide : Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party of South Australia, 1978. Folio, pcloth backed printed wrappers, 130 pp, [4] leaves of maps; a very good copy. 

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  • Stone implements of the Australian Aborigine. Guide to the classified collection KENYON, Alfred Stephen # 14911

    # 14911

    KENYON, Alfred Stephen

    Stone implements of the Australian Aborigine. Guide to the classified collection

    in the Australian Room, National Museum, Public Library Buildings, Melbourne, arranged for the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Melbourne : Arnale and Jackson Press, 1914. Octavo, printed green wrappers, staple bound, 16 pp; a good copy. The collection is comprised mainly of artefacts from southeastern Australia, but also includes stone …

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  • New states for Australia : The Australian Institute of Polictical Science ; PARKER, R.S. (Robert Stewart) et al. # 14904

    # 14904

    PARKER, R.S. (Robert Stewart) et al.

    New states for Australia : The Australian Institute of Polictical Science ;

    Spring Forum ; 1955 ; Proceedings. Sydney : Australian Institute of Polictical Science, 1955. Quarto, original card covers, roneo printed, 90 pp, 1 folding table, 3 folding maps; a very good copy. Contains four papers delivered at the Armidale forum by R.S. Parker (New states for Australia : why new states?), J. MacDonald Holmes (The proposed …

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  • # 15280 [SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Completion of Parliament House $75.00 AUD

    # 15280

    [SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Completion of Parliament House

    [Adelaide] : [Government of South Australia], 1936. Octavo, navy leather boards with gold inlay and text, very minor chipping on spine, pp 43, with compliments card. Published for the unveiling ceremony of the commemoration stone by Governor Sir Winston Dugan. Transcribes broadcast messages associated with the ceremony.

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  • South Australian vineyard VALENTINE'S # 14801

    # 14801

    VALENTINE'S

    South Australian vineyard

    [Great Britain : Valentine's, circa 1905]. Chromolithographic postcard, 88 x 139 mm, postally used; in fine condition.

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  • Tribal aborigines ... an educated people. PENNY, H. H. # 14842

    # 14842

    PENNY, H. H.

    Tribal aborigines … an educated people.

    Some thoughts on the meaning of education for Aborigines and other Australians. Adelade : Aborigines Advancement League Inc., S. A., 1965. Octavo, lettered wrappers (small stain), pp. 7. 

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  • The Northern Territory of South Australia : its development : proposals of the government, JENKINS, John Greeley (1851-1923) # 14755

    # 14755

    JENKINS, John Greeley (1851-1923)

    The Northern Territory of South Australia : its development : proposals of the government,

    as announced by the Premier and Minister controlling the Northern Territory. Adelaide : J. L. Bonython & Co., 1904. Tall octavo pamphlet, original printed orange wrappers, staple bound, 11 pp, a fine copy.

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  • Painted photographic portrait of a wealthy lady in mourning, Adelaide, circa 1864 HOOD, John 1839-1924; DURYEA, Townsend 1823-1888 # 7904

    # 7904

    HOOD, John 1839-1924, colourist (attributed); DURYEA, Townsend 1823-1888, photographer (attributed)

    Painted photographic portrait of a wealthy lady in mourning, Adelaide, circa 1864

    Albumen print photograph overpainted in oils, 123 x 116 mm, laid down on its original wood mount; in fine condition; unfortunately the original frame is now lost, the back of which, according to the previous owner, bore the printed label of the photographic studio of Townsend Duryea, 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide. The …

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  • The new counties, hundreds, & district atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory, 1876. CARROLL, H. S. # 14690

    # 14691

    [GOYDER, G. W.]

    Plan of the southern portion of the province of South Australia :

    as divided into counties and hundreds, showing the most important settlements, post towns, telegraph stations, main roads, railways, &​c . Compiled from official documents in the the Office of the Surveyor General 1877. [Cover title : Atlas of principal portions of settled districts in the province of South Australia 1877 – 8]. Adelaide : Surveyor General's Office, …

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  • The new counties, hundreds, & district atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory, 1876. CARROLL, H. S. # 14690

    # 14690

    CARROLL, H. S.

    The new counties, hundreds, & district atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory, 1876.

    Together with map of South Australia indicating roads, distances, relative position of counties &c., &c. Showing — All Boroughs, Post-towns, Villages, Hamlets, Road Boards, Roads, Railways, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, Mountains, Stations, the Area of County and Station, (the Names, Occupiers, Grazing capabilities and Area of each), the Population of each Town in the Colony, Height …

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  • Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide, Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide. # 14673

    # 14673

    Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide.

    Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide,

    by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, on Thursday, May 24, 1849 … Adelaide : Printed by George Dehane, King William Street, 1849. Quarto, printed wrappers, 6 pp, mild vertical fold line and some corner creasing; ex Webster Collection, with small red stamp and manuscript collection number (2657) to last page; a good copy.  Ferguson, 5160. …

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  • Great suffragette demonstration in London. The Australian section ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO. # 14528

    # 14528

    ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.

    Great suffragette demonstration in London. The Australian section

    forming up on the Thames Embankment. Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,954, printed title beneath the images; recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs Melbourne ; Sydney …

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  • South Australia. Land Order Warrants of the value of £20 are granted by the Agent-General AGENT-GENERAL FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA # 14475

    # 14475

    AGENT-GENERAL FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    South Australia. Land Order Warrants of the value of £20 are granted by the Agent-General

    for South Australia, to all persons approved as suitable who are in sound health, and have not previously resided in Australia. They must pay their own passages and proceed DIRECT to ADELAIDE, South Australia, and reside in the Colony for two years. London : Agent-General for South Australia, [c.1875]. Broadside, 430 x 280 mm, printed …

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  • The Narrinyeri. An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines TAPLIN, Reverend George # 14508

    # 13871

    SPENCER, Baldwin; GILLEN, F.J.

    The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1904. First edition. Octavo, gilt decorated cloth boards (rubbed and marked), endpaper with bookplate, inscription, and pencil notes 784 pp. An important anthropological and ethnographical publication surveying the Indigenous Australian tribes of what is now the Northern Territory, with a wealth of observations on the culture, art, and traditions of …

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  • Manuscript map of Australia, dated 1835 Gourié, E. # 14233

    # 14233

    Gourié, E.

    Manuscript map of Australia, dated 1835

    Ink and wash on paper, 350 x 455 mm (sheet); laid down on modern backing sheet; some loss along the early vertical fold line (mainly at the extremities) and in bottom left corner of sheet. A relatively early manuscript map showing Australia and Van Diemen's Land, as well as New Guinea and parts of the …

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  • Colonel William Light : founder of Adelaide (deluxe edition) GILL, Thomas # 14062

    # 14062

    GILL, Thomas

    Colonel William Light : founder of Adelaide (deluxe edition)

    Sailor : soldier : artist, and the first Surveyer-General of South Australia. Adelaide : R. E. E. Rogers for the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, 1911. Octavo, gilt-illustrated vellum over bevelled boards, top edge gilt, other edges uncut and unopened, marbled endpapers, pp. [vi]; 108; [4]; 85; photographic plates, folding maps, facsimile …

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  • Cinderella’s party. A fairy story LISTON, Maud Renner; O. HARRIS, Pixie # 14048

    # 14048

    LISTON, Maud Renner; O. HARRIS, Pixie

    Cinderella’s party. A fairy story

    Adelaide : Rigby Limited, [1923]. Quarto, original wrappers (stained), pp. 31, child’s name written inside front wrapper, illustrated in black and white by Pixor O. Harris. Muir 4319. First edition. Scarce

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  • Three facts discovered by Imants Tillers, quite close to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. TILLERS, Imants (1950 - ) # 13707

    # 13707

    TILLERS, Imants (1950 - )

    Three facts discovered by Imants Tillers, quite close to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

    Melbourne : Double Vision, 1981. “Standard edition”. Square duodecimo, 205 x 205 mm, pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), pp 95, 95; illustrated; text in English and Chinese (parallel Chinese text translated by Keith Fung); a good copy.   

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  • Three facts discovered by Imants Tillers, quite close to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. TILLERS, Imants (1950 - ) # 13706

    # 13706

    TILLERS, Imants (1950 - )

    Three facts discovered by Imants Tillers, quite close to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

    Melbourne : Double Vision, 1981. “Small edition”. Square duodecimo, 105 x 105 mm, pictorial wrappers (marked), pp 95, 95; illustrated; text in English and Chinese (parallel Chinese text translated by Keith Fung); accompanied by the publisher's prospectus for both the small and standard editions of this work, a 6-page duodecimo folding pamphlet, illustrated (creased and …

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  • Mechanics’ Institute building, far southwest Victoria or southeast South Australia, circa 1868 GINNINGS, J.T. # 13471

    # 13471

    GINNINGS, J.T.

    Mechanics’ Institute building, far southwest Victoria or southeast South Australia, circa 1868

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with the imprint of J.T. Ginnings Photographer Mt. Gambier & Portland; the albumen print with some toning, confined to the upper edges; the verso of the mount with a little foxing.  An unidentified Mechanics' Institute in far southeast South Australia or the far …

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  • [ADELAIDE EXHIBITION] One hundred and fifty pounds ... Gold and silver mining saving appliances. Royal Commission for South Australia. Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition. [PIZEY, Septimus V.] # 13598

    # 13598

    Royal Commission for South Australia. Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition. [PIZEY, Septimus V.]

    [ADELAIDE EXHIBITION] One hundred and fifty pounds … Gold and silver mining saving appliances.

    At head of sheet: Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, 1887. Adelaide : Royal Commission for South Australia, 1887. Folio, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, printed on the first and third sides only; a good copy. An information leaflet advertising the prizes at the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition for newly invented appliances capable of extracting gold from …

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  • One hundred years of education RUDALL, Hon. R. J. (foreword) # 13429

    # 13429

    RUDALL, Hon. R. J. (foreword)

    One hundred years of education

    Being a record of the development of the Education System of South Australia 1836 – 1936 with a supplementary section covering educational developments in the past decade. Adelaide : Printers Trade School, 1947. Quarto, gilt-lettered morocco (rubbed), pp.  [vi]; 27; colophon, [iv – appendix], presentation inscription to front free endpaper. Limited to 75 numbered copies. …

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  • East BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - ) # 13379

    # 13379

    BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )

    East

    [Adelaide] : 1978. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, staple bound. Theatre program from the Australian premiere of Berkoff’s controversial play about the East End of London. First performed in 1975, the 1978 Australian season resulted in a call for its ban by the Liberal Party; the Premier of South Australia refused, and the season was extended …

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  • [IMMIGRATION] Australia : its resources and production AUSTRALIA. DEPARTMENT OF MARKETS AND MIGRATION. # 13297

    # 13297

    AUSTRALIA. DEPARTMENT OF MARKETS AND MIGRATION.

    [IMMIGRATION] Australia : its resources and production

    /​ issued on behalf of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia under the authority of the Minister for Markets and Migration. Melbourne : Dept. of Markets and Migration, 1926. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers, 96 pp, black and white photographic illustrations, statistical tables; a fine copy. Copies of this edition are recorded in five …

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  • Wedding portrait of an Aboriginal couple, Kooniba Mission, west coast of South Australia, circa 1925 Photographer unknown. # 13061

    # 13061

    Photographer unknown.

    Wedding portrait of an Aboriginal couple, Koonibba Mission, west coast South Australia, circa 1925

    Private [i.e. non-commercial] photograph on Velox paper, 101 x 75 mm; verso with paper adhesions from an old album page, but with the violet wet stamp “Velox” still visible; in fine condition. The plaque on the stone building behind the unidentified couple is the foundation stone of the Lutheran Children's Home, Koonibba, which was opened …

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  • Tungarar Jehovald, Yarildewallin, extracts from the holy scriptures : in the language of the tribes TAPLIN, George (translator) # 5509

    # 5509

    TAPLIN, George (translator)

    Tungarar Jehovald, Yarildewallin, extracts from the holy scriptures : in the language of the tribes

    inhabiting the lakes and lower Murray, and called Narrinyeri / [from the translation of Mr. George Taplin, missionary agent of the Aborigines’ Friends’ Association at Point MacLeay]. [Adelaide] : South Australian Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1864. First edition. Octavo, original printed blue wrappers (upper wrapper marked, some paper loss at head …

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  • Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, 1887. The only Gold Medal for weighing machines has just HENRY POOLEY & SON. # 13101

    # 13101

    HENRY POOLEY & SON.

    Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, 1887. The only Gold Medal for weighing machines has just

    been awarded to Henry Pooley & Son. 21st September, 1887. [Title from overstamp in red ink]. London : Henry Pooley & Son, 1887. Octavo sheet, printed one side only, advertising Henry Pooley & Son's many successes at international and British exhibitions, including the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition and the Highland & Agricultural Society's Show, Perth …

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  • The inland saga : a sketch of the Australian Inland Mission through 60 years McANDREW, Harry # 11923

    # 11923

    McANDREW, Harry

    The inland saga : a sketch of the Australian Inland Mission through 60 years

    [Sydney : Australian Inland Mission, 1972]. Octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, 16 pp, illustrated map, a good copy.

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  • Memories and melodies PERRYMAN, C. Elliott # 11841

    # 11841

    PERRYMAN, C. Elliott

    Memories and melodies

    Adelaide : Hassell Press, 1927. Duodecimo, original pictorial stiff wrappers (small paper loss at head of spine, a tiny amount of foxing to front), a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title 'To Edna with best wishes from C.E. Perryman, 1/3/33', along with later ownership inscription and stamp of members of the Davies …

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  • [YORKE PENINSULA] Methodism in the Maitland district BRASHER, F.W. # 11794

    # 11794

    BRASHER, F.W.

    [YORKE PENINSULA] Methodism in the Maitland district

    : a lecture given by the Rev. F.W. Brasher to the South Australian Methodist Historical Society … on Friday, 21st February,1958. [Adelaide : South Australian Methodist Society], 1958. “Reprinted from The South Australian Methodist” — p. [1]. Octavo, original wrappers, 8 pp, a near fine copy. 

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  • South Australian grapes Photographer unknown. # 11537

    # 11537

    Photographer unknown.

    South Australian grapes

    Circa 1900. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm, captioned in the negative South Australian grapes; small contemporary manuscript label with sequence number E113; in fine condition.

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  • A photographic souvenir of Mount Gambier South Australia KANNENBERG, B. # 11476

    # 11476

    KANNENBERG, B.

    A photographic souvenir of Mount Gambier South Australia

    Cover title: Mount Gambier illustrated. Mount Gambier : B. Kannenberg, [c.1910]. Oblong quarto, publisher's stiff wrappers (sunned and lightly marked) with gilt lettering to front, original silk ties, short tear at top edge of title page, [20] pp, all half-tone photographic views, a very good copy.  This edition appears unrecorded in Australian collections; an edition …

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  • Scotch Church, Mount Gambier WATSON & WEDD # 11436

    # 11436

    WATSON & WEDD

    Scotch Church, Mount Gambier

    Late 1860s. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 95 x 62 mm, verso imprinted 'Photographed by Watson & Wedd, Mount Gambier' and with contemporary inscription in ink 'Scotch Church, Mt. Gambier'; the albumen print lightly rubbed, the verso of the mount with mild foxing and slightly trimmed at top and bottom edges. Davies & …

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  • Lady Musgrave MACLURE, A. # 11355

    # 11355

    MACLURE, A.

    Lady Musgrave

    Sepia lithographed portrait, 30 x 210 mm, sheet 400 x 275 mm, a separately issued supplement to The Whitehall Review, 20 June 1877; drawn by A. Maclure, lithographed by Maclure & Macdonald; verso blank; in good condition, with some faint foxing and creasing to the upper margin.  A half length portrait of Lady Jeannie Lucinda …

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  • [WINE] South Australian fruits Anon. # 11203

    # 11203

    Anon.

    [WINE] South Australian fruits

    s.l. : s.n., [c.1910]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, captioned in the image South Australian fruits; no publisher's imprint; not postally used, in fine condition. 

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  • South Australia, Adelaide and suburbs maps Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited. # 11193

    # 11193

    Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited.

    South Australia, Adelaide and suburbs maps

    Panel title: Travellers' guide to Adelaide and South Australia. 'With compliments A.N.Z. Bank'. [Adelaide : ANZ, c.1965]. Single sheet, 290 x 400 mm, folding to 170 x 100 mm, with three maps (Adelaide CBD; Adelaide suburbs; South Australia); fine.  

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