South Australia
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# 47167
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
An informal cricket match in progress on the banks of the River Angas, Strathalbyn, South Australia, c.1880.
Albumen print photograph, 160 x 205 mm, laid down on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, the mount inscribed in pencil by the album’s compiler ‘Strathalbyn’; a strong print with excellent clarity, in fine condition; verso with a view of King William Street, Adelaide (also by Sweet), in good condition; a …
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# 29256
STUART, J. McDouall (1815-1866)
J. M’Douall Stuart’s explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 – 62.
Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart’s fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new grazing land and a passage …
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# 45848
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 47012
MICHAELS, Eric
The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed); pp. xxii, 159; a very good copy. “Report of the Fellowship to Assess the Impact of Television in Remote Aboriginal Communities”.
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# 47027
SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F.J. (Francis James)
The native tribes of central Australia
London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Second edition, with a preface by J.G. Frazer. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth boards, spine with gilt lettering, pp xxiv, 672, illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams (3 folding). [3] folding colour and black and white maps, [4] folding colour plates, contents clean and sound, a very …
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# 46807
SOLOMON, S. (Saul)
Studio portrait of a woman in summer dress, wearing a fancy hat decorated with flowers and holding a parasol. Adelaide, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm; verso of mount with the imprint of ‘S. Solomon, School of Photography, 51 Rundle St., Adelaide’; the print and the mount are both in very good condition.
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# 46806
MARCHANT, P. J. (Philip James)
Studio portrait of a lady in mourning dress holding a letter. Adelaide, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘P. J. Marchant, Waymouth Street, Adelaide, Photographer’; verso blank; the print is in very good condition; the mount has some very light foxing. The sitter, with her hand to her cheek, gazes wistfully past the camera, her thoughts obviously far …
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# 32167
HOWCHIN, Walter
The geology of South Australia. With notes on the chief geological systems and occurrences in the other Australian States. (With a presentation inscription by geologist and Antarctic explorer Sir T. W. Edgeworth David)
Adelaide : Walter Howchin (printed by Gillingham & Co.), 1929. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth over boards, spine lettered in black (sunned, frayed at head and tail), a significant association copy, the front pastedown inscribed in fountain pen by the distinguished Welsh-Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer …
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# 46579
BURNELL, George (1830-1894)
“Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).
[Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 75 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of pale green/azure card, 85 x 180 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso: ‘Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina’, with the original owner’s initials ‘M.A.H.’ and their collection number ’79’; the …
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# 45904
FARNDELL, Edward; DURYEA, Townsend; MARCHANT, E. W.; VON HARTITZSCH, Otto; RUSHTON & JUST; STUMP & CO., et al.
Alma Plains and Adelaide, South Australia : an important pioneer settlers’ photograph album with portraits of members of families associated with the Church of Christ. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 230 mm), embossed green leather decorated in gilt (upper board detached and lacking backstrip); title leaf with later family member’s inscription identifying the original owners of the album as ‘Janet and William Howard, Alma Plains – Dalkey’; containing a total of [82] albumen print photographs – [73] in carte de visite format, …
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![[WINE] Adelaide grapes - 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0849-300x300.jpg)
# 46333
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GOVERNMENT.
[WINE] Adelaide grapes – 5 bunches, total weight 67 lbs.
[Adelaide, SA : Government of South Australia, c.1905]. Lithographic postcard, 88 x 138 mm, verso imprinted ‘South Australia Post Card’ and with a handwritten message; in fine condition.
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# 46538
CARROLL, Alison and TREGENZA, John
Eugene von Guerard’s South Australia : drawings, paintings, and lithographs from journeys in South Australia in 1855 and 1857
Adelaide : Art Gallery Board of South Australia in association with the History Trust of South Australia, 1986. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. vi, 98, illustrated. Price label to lower panel. Scarce.
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# 43634
Photographer unknown.
Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …
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# 46152
DURYEA, Townsend, junior
Four studio portraits of a vaudeville performer named Jessie. Adelaide, late 1890s.
Four albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, 161 x 103 mm (mounts); rectos all with the embossed silver imprint of ‘T. Duryea, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; to the verso of one is a dedication inscription in ink written by the sitter which has been scratched out (possibly by a jealous later partner?), of which we …
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# 46108
BASEDOW, Herbert (1881-1933)
The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)
Adelaide : F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, upper board with gilt-stamped device depicting Wandjina spirit, spine lettered in gilt (a little sunned), colour frontispiece plate, pp xx, 422, illustrated with 55 photographic plates and line drawings in the text; edges slightly foxed, a very good copy. Loosely enclosed …
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# 46274
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.