South Australia
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# 47367
M. F. (Mabel Fitzgerald) & J. (Jean) B. S. (BARR SMITH); SWEET, Samuel White (photographer)
An Australian birthday book / compiled by M.F. and J.B.S. Printed for private circulation only. (Presented by Mabel Fairfax Barr Smith and Jean Balfour St Clare Barr Smith to their younger sister, Joanna Fitzgerald Barr Smith)
Adelaide : George Robertson, 1883. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), original brown calf, upper board ruled and lettered in gilt (re-backed, boards scuffed and lightly marked); all edges gilt; original floral endpapers; title-page with presentation inscription by the compilers ‘With Mabel & Jean Barr Smith’s Kind regards / March 2nd 1884’; dedication with ownership signature …
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# 33117
Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)
Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.
[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …
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# 48840
[Photographer unknown].
The foundation stone of the Robe Mechanics’ Institute, south-eastern South Australia, laid on 24 September 1868.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; no photographer’s imprint (but possibly attributable to the travelling Mt. Gambier-based photographer Ginnings); the print has lost some contrast, nevertheless all of the text in the inscription can be easily read (see below); verso blank. From a carte de visite album belonging to William …
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# 48048
JURY, C. R. (Charles Rischbieth)
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land : some annotations. A Lecture delivered to the Adelaide Branch of the English Association on July 29, 1932
Adelaide : F. W. Preece & Sons (for the Adelaide Branch of the English Association), 1932. Series: ‘Pamphlet no. 1’. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), recent custom leather binding by John Turner (NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders); bound with the original printed grey wrappers (chipped, upper wrapper with a closed tear), pp. 24; edges uncut; …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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# 48358
STREHLOW, T.G.H.
Songs of Central Australia
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1971. Quarto, pictorial dustjacket over cloth (price clipped), liv, 775 pp, colour illustrations, map in pocket inside back cover. A fine copy, with some mild foxing to the endpapers and light edge wear. One of only 500 copies printed. An extremely important study of the poetic and musical culture of …
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# 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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# 48610
HOWCHIN, Walter
The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines, now extinct.
Adelaide : Gillingham, 1934. Large octavo (250 x 188 mm), original blue cloth over boards lettered in gilt (some light flecking), pp v, 94; with numerous b/w photographic plates, bibliography: p. 92-94; contents very clean and sound, a good copy. An archaeological study of paleolithic tools found in the coastal region near Adelaide and southward …
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# 48433
HOWCHIN, Walter
The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines, now extinct. (Presentation copy inscribed by the author’s daughter)
Adelaide : Gillingham, 1934. Large octavo (250 x 188 mm), original blue cloth over boards lettered in gilt, I the publisher’s dust jacket (chipped and lightly marked); pp v, 94; with numerous b/w photographic plates, bibliography: p. 92-94; a good copy, inscribed by the author’s daughter on the front free-endpaper ‘To Miss Ellen Thornber, with …
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# 48372
TEICHELMANN, C. G. ; SCHURMANN, C. W
Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology of the aboriginal language of South Australia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide.
Adelaide : ‘Published by the authors at the native location’ [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], 1840. Octavo, fine period style half calf by Aquarius, spine tooled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, preserving the original plain blue paper wrappers (a little chipped), title leaf with a …
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# 48209
NICHOLLS, Christine
Yilpinji : love art and ceremony
Melbourne : Craftsman House, 2006. Square octavo, white boards with lettering in blind, dustjacket, pp 86. Illustrated exhibition monograph exploration the notion of Yilpinji, the ceremonies and arts of love as practiced by the Warlpiri and Kukatja people of the Central and Western Deserts of Australia.
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# 45539
TORRENS, Robert (1780-1864)
Colonization of South Australia. (Presentation copy)
/ By R. Torrens, Esq., F.R.S., Chairman of the Colonisation Commission for South Australia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. Second edition. Octavo (210 x 130 mm), contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (new front joint and inner hinge), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting title-pieces lettered in …
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# 44160
"AGRICOLA" (ANGAS, George Fife, 1789-1879) [ANGAS, George French, 1822-1886, illustrator].
Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.
By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. Quarto, recent half-calf over original embossed cloth-covered boards, original gilt-lettered title label to upper board; marbled endpapers; pp. 20, with six fine hand-coloured lithographed plates (tissue guards intact) …
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# 47623
MacDERMOTT, Marshall [c. 1791 – 1877]
A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P., of Adelaide, South Australia (signed presentation copy)
Written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends. Adelaide : William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1874. Octavo, flush cut yellow papered limp boards (corners chipped, a few stains and creases), cloth spine, with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Mrs. Barr Smith to the front free endpaper, pp. 53, light foxing to …
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# 47213
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer : autograph letter to a Captain Gowan, arranging a meeting at the Hôtel de Londres. Paris, c.1830.
1 page, quarto (260 x 200 mm). Manuscript in ink on fine wove paper with a monogram watermark; written entirely in the third person in French in Humboldt’s idiosyncratic scrawl, the letter is dated simply ‘a mardi’ (Tuesday) and is addressed (indirectly) to a Captain Gowan, whom Humboldt invites to a rendezvous at 2 o’clock the following …
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# 47205
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 220 mm format, mounted recto and verso of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, recto inscribed in pencil below the image by the album’s compiler ‘Banyan trees’, verso without caption; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, in fine condition; a few spots of foxing to …