South Australia

  • The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines, now extinct.

    # 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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  • The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines, now extinct. (Presentation copy inscribed by the author's daughter)

    # 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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  • 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. 

    # 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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  • Yilpinji : love art and ceremony

    # 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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  • Colonization of South Australia. (Presentation copy)

    # 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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  • Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.

    # 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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  • A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P., of Adelaide, South Australia (signed presentation copy)

    # 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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  • Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer : autograph letter to a Captain Gowan, arranging a meeting at the Hôtel de Londres. Paris, c.1830.

    # 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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  • Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870

    # 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 …

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  • An informal cricket match in progress on the banks of the River Angas, Strathalbyn, South Australia, c.1880.

    # 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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  • J. M'Douall Stuart's explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 - 62.

    # 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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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 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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  • The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    # 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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  • The native tribes of central Australia

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of a woman in summer dress, wearing a fancy hat decorated with flowers and holding a parasol. Adelaide, late 1870s.

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of a lady in mourning dress holding a letter. Adelaide, c.1875.

    # 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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