South Australia
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# 39647
DAVID, Lindsay
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2.
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder G.C.M.G. for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia … Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 1999. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue buckram, pp. 207. Facsimile of the 1893 original edition. Accompanied by the two large folding maps in separate buckram folder. Together with : …
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# 39477
DAILEY, S. J.
Timber cutting scene, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, circa 1890.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 210 mm; verso with the wet stamp of ‘S. J. Dailey, Photographic Artist, 151 Franklin Street, Adelaide’, and a fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Timber cutting, Kangaroo Island, S. A.’; the print has a few short edge tears and some loss at the corners; nevertheless, it is an exceptionally …
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# 39428
MARCHANT, Philip James (1846-1910)
Two portraits of elderly couples, one taken in a garden, the other in the studio. Gawler, South Australia, late 1890s.
I. Couple seated in a garden. Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 112 mm; recto of round-cornered mount with silver-embossed imprint of ‘Marchant’s Studio, Gawler, S.A.’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. II. Couple in a studio with elaborate painted backdrop. Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet …
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# 38848
Photographer unknown.
Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia.
[Circa 1914]. Handmade photo album, 80 x 210 mm, original textured brown paper wrappers with manuscript title in white ink to front ‘Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia’; containing [5] silver bromide prints, in uniform panoramic format 54 x 155 mm, mounted individually on the rectos of [5] leaves, each with a ms. caption in …
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# 36836
[VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS]
Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.
Group of 50 (fifty) gelatin silver print photographs, all printed on postcard stock (as was customary in this period) in uniform format 140 x 90 mm (approximate); 49/50 have studio imprints, and in some cases the sitters are identified on the back; a couple with corner wear and one with light marks, but overall the …
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# 37699
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Kangaroo hunting. Aboriginals of Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia, August 22nd 1889.
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,175 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 250 x 300 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, Copyright’ and printed caption in black; the print is in excellent condition; some light marks to margins of …
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# 37694
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Benny Roy’s camp, Worturpa. (Aboriginal miner).
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900; the original photograph may have been taken as early as ca. 1890]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,145 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 270 x 370 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, S. A.’ and printed caption in …
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# 37211
MURRAY, A. S.
Twelve hundred miles on the River Murray
With facsimile illustrations in colours by the author. Australia : George Robertson, and London : J. S. Virtue, 1898. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth, lacking the front free endpaper, pp. 36, 15 tipped-in colour plates, corners torn on the frontispiece plate, else a very good copy. Murray’s oversized illustrated folio on the Murray, retracing the route …
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# 37412
WHITE, Capt. S.A.
The cruise of the Avocet : in search of skuas and other things (presentation copy)
Reprinted from ‘The Register’. Adelaide : W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, [1917]. Duodecimo, lettered wrappers (chips to spine), photographic frontispiece, presentation inscription from the author to the title page, dated 1917, pp. 68, photographic plates, a very good copy. An account of a bird-watching expedition at the entrance to the St Vincent and Spencer’s Gulfs in …
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![[AVIATION] Basil Watson "Official Souvenir / Australian Aerial Mail" picture postcard. Mount Gambier-Melbourne, 15 February, 1917.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/29164832/2022_DSFB_5876.jpg)
# 37091
[AVIATION] Basil Watson “Official Souvenir / Australian Aerial Mail” picture postcard. Mount Gambier-Melbourne, 15 February, 1917.
Lithographic postcard, 90 x 140 mm; recto with winged propeller above ‘Official Souvenir Australian Aerial Mail‘ and address space, with ‘This card was carried to Melbourne by aeroplane from …‘ on left; verso with vignette portrait of the pilot (“The Aerial Postman”, Basil G. Watson) surmounting a facsimile of his signature, with advertisement for Shell Benzine …
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# 36586
SOLOMON, Saul (1836-1929)
Three children (one with skipping rope, another with cricket bat). Adelaide, South Australia, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 113 mm; verso of mount with the decorative back mark of ‘S. Solomon, Adelaide School of Photography, 51 Rundle St. Adelaide, S.A.’; both the print and mount are in superb condition.
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# 36856
PARIS PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY (W. J. LOTT)
Studio portrait of a young boy posing next to a rocking horse. Adelaide, South Australia, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm; verso with gilt imprint of ‘Paris Photo. Compy. W. J. Lott, Manager. Photographers, Miniature & Portrait Painters. 164 Rundle St., opposite York Hotel, Adelaide’; both the print and mount in fine condition.
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# 36822
GEORGE A. ROGERS
Studio portrait of a Salvation Army couple, Mr. and Mrs Thomas Seabrook. Adelaide, South Australia, circa 1920.
Gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock, 81 x 132 mm; verso wet-stamped ‘Geo. A. Rogers, 120 Rundle St., Opp. Pav. Pictures’, and inscribed ‘To Dear Ada from Tho. and M. Seabrook’; a very sharp image in excellent condition.
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# 36849
DURYEA, Townsend (jun.)
Studio portrait of a clergyman. Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, early 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, By Appointment to H.R.H., Ryan St., Moonta’; both the print and mount are in flawless condition.
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# 33404
HALE, Mathew Blagden (1811-1895)
The Aborigines of Australia, being an account of the institution for their education at Poonindie, South Australia.
Founded in 1850 by the Ven. Archdeacon Hale, a Missionary of S.P.G. / by the Right Rev. Bishop Hale. Published under the direction of the Tract Committee. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1889]. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial green cloth over boards (rubbed, corners bumped), upper board lettered in gilt …
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# 35447
[HEYSEN, Hans]
Sir Hans Heysen O.B.E exhibition “Historic Hahndorf”
To honour the occasion of his 90th birthday and the opening of the Hahndorf Academy 8th October 1967, opened by His Excellency Dr. J. F. Ritter K.C.V.O. Adelaide : s.n., 1967. Octavo, lettered wrappers with tipped in colour plate, pp. 12, foreword by Colin Thiele, four colour plates, one black & white plate (photographic portrait), …