South Australia
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# 51286
SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)
Ngarrindjeri weapons, ornaments and baskets. Point McLeay Mission, 1880.
Albumen print photograph, 140 x 215 mm, mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card; inscribed in negative at lower centre Sweet Adelaide 462; a number is also scratched into the negative beside each object (these numbers refer to a key that is known to exist which names and describes the objects); a very …
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# 51283
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
Studio portrait of an Aboriginal man holding his hat. Adelaide, 1864-65.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 62 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Anson & Francis, Adelaide Photographic Institution, 97 Rundle Street’; the albumen print with dark tones; some very light foxing, bottom corner of mount chipped. A striking full-length portrait of an unidentified sitter posing shirtless, but with European trousers, boots …
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# 51558
STORRIE, A. L. and KETTLEWELL, J. W. (compilers)
The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd. Tourist Guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania
Sydney : William Dymock, 1899. Small quarto, gilt-lettered red cloth (marked, recessed), advertisement for David Jones to lower board, advertisements to endpapers, pp. xvi; 288, extensively photographically illustrated and with several two tone maps, a few marks, some bleeding from red boards to lower few leaves, a very good copy. A very scarce tourists guide …
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# 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. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State …
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# 51578
DURYEA, Townsend (1823-1888)
Profile portrait of a woman with bottle curls and wearing a striped dress, seated at a writing desk with her hand on an open book. Adelaide, mid 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, Photographer to His Excellency, 66 & 68 King William St. Adelaide’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. The detail in this image is incredibly sharp: not only is the aristocratic-looking woman’s wedding ring clearly …
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![[SIGNED BY HERMANNSBURG MISSION STAFF] Galtjindinjamea-pepa : Aranda-Wolambarinjaka.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5098-300x300.jpg)
# 51150
STREHLOW, Carl (1871-1922)
[SIGNED BY HERMANNSBURG MISSION STAFF] Galtjindinjamea-pepa : Aranda-Wolambarinjaka.
/ nana intalelamala C. Strehlow, Galtjindanindanala. [Stories from the Bible, hymns, prayers, and catechism, translated from German into Arrernte by C. Strehlow]. Tanunda [South Australia] : Printed at Auricht’s Printing Office, 1924. A significant association copy signed on the front free-endpaper by several prominent figures from the Lutheran Hermannsburg Mission: Hilda Wurst (Headmistress of the Mission …
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# 51525
GREENHAM, C. G. (Charles George) (1853-1925)
“Nangwarry” homestead, southeast South Australia, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, in very large 220 x 290 mm format; on the photographer’s mount, 330 x 400 mm; manuscript caption ‘NANGWARRY’ in the negative lower left, and with the photographer’s pencilled signature ‘C. G. Greenham’ below the image at right; verso wet-stamped ‘The “Herodotus” Studio, C.G. Greenham, Photographer, Hawthorn’; both the print and the mount …
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# 51396
GINNINGS, J. T.
William Savage Cottage, Robe, southeast South Australia, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 102 mm; verso with wet stamp of ‘J. T. Ginnings, Photographer’; the print has lost a fair amount of contrast; the mount is clean and stable. From a carte de visite album belonging to William Savage (1817-1890) and later his son Henry Savage (1857, Robe, S.A. …
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# 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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# 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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# 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.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3544-300x300.jpg)
# 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 …