South Australia
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# 27925
[KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.
Adelaide : Adelaide Festival of Arts Executive Committee, 1960. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (some light staining to lower wrapper), staple bound; inside wrappers with colour advertisements, pp 71 [1], photographic illustrations, mostly b/w but including a double-page of colour plates of Louis Kahan’s costume designs for Rigoletto, a full-page colour plate …
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# 27913
BASEDOW, Martin Peter Friedrich (Frederick) (1829-1902) (editor)
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Australische Deutsche Zeitung. No. 27. 9 Jahrg. Tanunda, den 7. Juli 1871.
Tanunda, S.A. : Australische Deutsche Zeitung, 1871. Folio newspaper (495 x 340 mm), 8 pp; complete; printed in German in Gothic type; includes news reports from the Australian colonies and on the Franco-Prussian war, plus two full pages with many dozens of advertisements for Adelaide and Barossa Valley businesses; subscriber’s name in pencil J. Koithan …
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# 27513
ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY; MARSHALL, Samuel (publisher)
Adelaide Philharmonic Society’s Concert. Thursday, June 26, 1873. Haydn’s oratorio, “The Creation”, part 1. Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Elijah”, part 1.
Adelaide : Published by S. Marshall, Music Seller, &c., Rundle St., … Printed by Webb, Vardon, & Pritchard, King Wm. St., 1873. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), original printed yellow wrappers (light staining, bottom corners dog-eared), stitched; 10 pp; contains the libretto for each work; lower wrapper with illustrated advertisement for S. Marshall; a good …
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# 27509
BOOTHBY, Guy (1867-1905); SHARP, Cecil (1859-1924); [GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ADELAIDE]
The lyric of “Dimple’s lovers” : an original operetta in one act / by Guy Boothby and Cecil Sharp.
At head of title: Government House, Adelaide. Adelaide : Government House, 1890. Octavo (205 x 130 mm), original printed buff wrappers (top corner a little dog-eared), stapled; 10 pp; a very good copy; loosely enclosed – presumably as issued – is the souvenir of the concert given at Government House, Adelaide on 12 August 1890 …
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# 27507
ROOT, G. F. (1820-1895) {GROTE STREET MODEL SCHOOL, ADELAIDE]
The Flower Queen : a tonic sol-fa cantata by G. F. Root, Esq. : Given in aid of the Blind and Deaf and Dumb Asylum, by Alexander Clarke, Esq., and the children of the Grote Street Model School.
[Cover title]. Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices, 1880. Duodecimo (155 x 100 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, pp 16; contains the complete libretto for this work, including printed synopsis and “Personifications” (list of characters) on inside upper wrapper; two marginal annotations in pencil noting the surnames of soloists; a fine …
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# 27515
ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
Adelaide Philharmonic Society’s Concert. Thursday, December 24, 1871. Handel’s “Messiah”.
Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices, 1871. Octavo (212 x 135 mm), original printed blue wrappers, stitched; 11 pp; contains the libretto for Handel’s Messiah; lower wrapper light creasing, else a fine copy. Rare. Trove locates no copies.
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# 27514
ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY; MARSHALL, Samuel (publisher)
Adelaide Philharmonic Society’s Concert. Thursday, March 20, 1873. Handel’s ode, “Alexander’s Feast”.
Adelaide : Published by S. Marshall, Music Seller, &c., Rundle St., … Printed at The Advertiser Office, King Wm. St., 1873. Octavo (208 x 133 mm), original printed pink wrappers, stitched; 8 pp; contains the complete libretto for George Frideric Handel’s Alexander’s Feast; lower wrapper with advertisement for S. Marshall; a very good copy. Rare. …
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# 27508
LECOCQ, Charles (1832-1918); [THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE]
Lecocq’s opera bouffe in 3 acts of “La Fille de Madame Angot”, as performed by The Soldene Opera Company, under the management of Mr. C. A. Chizzola.
At head of title: The opera libretto. Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser Office, King Wm. Street, 1878. Small octavo (175 x 120 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, pp 40; contains the complete libretto for this work; a fine copy. Rare programme produced for the series of concerts given at Adelaide’s Theatre Royal in …
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# 27506
BIRCH, W. H. (1826-1888); ADELAIDE AMATEUR MUSICAL UNION.
Adelaide Amateur Musical Union. President: His Excellency the Governor. Libretto. The Merrie men of Sherwood Forest; or, Forest days in the olden time. A pastoral cantata.
[Cover title]. Adelaide: J. Williams, printer, 54 King William Street, [1874]. Small octavo (180 x 115 mm), original printed brown wrappers, stitched, pp [2], 10; a fine copy. This rare survivor was produced for the Adelaide Amateur Musical Society’s second-ever concert, given at White’s Rooms on the evening of 21 July 1874. The second half …
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# 27543
JONES, Philip and SUTTON, Peter
Art and land : Aboriginal sculptures of the Lake Eyre Region
By Philip Jones and Peter Sutton ; with special assistance by Kaye Clark. Adelaide : South Australian Museum in association with Wakefield Press, 1986. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue including detailed description of toas and dog models collected by J.G. Reuther from Diyari people at Killalpaninna Lutheran Mission; includes detailed assessment …
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# 27552
BISHOP, Tony
Sculpture : Tony Bishop
Adelaide : Adelaide Festival Centre, 1980. Oblong octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. [16], illustrated, catalogue sheet enclosed. Scarce.
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# 27148
[GUGK] SERGEEV, S. I. (ed.)
Атлас мира. Австралия и Океания Антарктида / Atlas mira. Avstralii︠a︡ i Okeanii︠a︡ Antarktida
Moskva : Glav. upr. geodezii i kartografii pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR, 1982. Folio (335 mm), publisher’s pictorial laminated wrappers, pp 24; table of contents, symbols, abbreviations etc. (3-5), full-page colour maps with differing scales (6-15), index (17-24); text in Russian; a good, clean copy. Second edition (first published 1980) of this official Soviet government atlas …
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# 27109
BLACKS LIMITED.
Blacks Limited. Catalog No. 49. Spring and Summer 1931-1932.
[Adelaide : Blacks Limited, 1931]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (short tear to fore-edge), 42 pp, illustrated in black and white. A scarce catalogue issued by Adelaide shoe retailers, Blacks, that includes men’s and boys’ apparel.
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# 27128
SIDDALL, J.B.
H.M. Special Service Squadron. Visit to South Australia, March 10 to 15, 1924 : memento
Cover: With compliments and Greetings from the Citizens. Adelaide : J.B. Siddall, [1924]. Small octavo (180 x 117 mm), pictorial wrappers printed in sepia (mild foxing), lower wrapper with street map of Adelaide, inner wrappers with [2] sepia photographic plates; contains a concertina foldout with [18] black and white photographic views and [1] reproduction of …
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# 26965
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Vignette portrait of an unidentified boy. Adelaide, circa 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 61 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The Adelaide Photographic Company, Neales’ Buildings, King William St.’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A superb vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of a strikingly handsome youth, no doubt a scion of one of Adelaide’s elite families. The …
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# 26571
MITFORD, Eustace Reveley (1810 - 1869)
Pasquin : the pastoral, mineral, and agricultural advocate
Volumes I., II. and III. January, 1867 to November, 1869. London : Judd and Co., 1882. Quarto, half-roan over cloth (worn and marked), spine lettered in gilt, hinges weak, photographic portrait frontispiece, ownership inscription from date of publication to title page, pp. [ii]; 979, internally clean. Eustace Mitford emigrated to South Australia in 1839 and …