South Australia
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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), …
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# 34936
[VON HARTITZSCH, Otto] or [SOLOMON, Saul]
Studio portrait of an Aboriginal woman wearing a kangaroo skin cloak, carrying her young child on her back. Adelaide, 1869-75.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 85 x 56 mm; unmounted; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition. Another example of this carte de visite, on a mount bearing the imprint of Otto Von Hartitzsch & Co., 113 Rundle Street, Adelaide, was sold at Charles Leski Auctions (Melbourne) in September 2010. …
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![[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] The Hayward brothers of McLaren Vale and Aroona Station : a small archive of correspondence (chiefly from 1854) and family-related documents and ephemera (1823-1890s).](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/01130249/2022_DSFB_1907-300x300.jpg)
# 34594
HAYWARD, Martinus Peter (1817-1904); HAYWARD, Johnson Frederick (1822-1912); HAYWARD, Joakim Cooper (1782-1864)
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] The Hayward brothers of McLaren Vale and Aroona Station : a small archive of correspondence (chiefly from 1854) and family-related documents and ephemera (1823-1890s).
Biographical notes: Martinus Peter Hayward (1817-1904) was the son of Joakim Cooper Hayward (1782-1864) of Hayward’s End, Stonehouse [in Gloucestershire]. A qualified doctor, he emigrated to South Australia on the Rajasthan in 1839-40. He was declared insolvent in the depression of 1843 and went back to England. He returned to Adelaide in 1846, serving as surgeon on …
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# 34367
NIESCHE, Charles (publisher); DURYEA, Townsend, (photographer)
Portrait of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 60 mm (mount); captioned in the image ‘Sir Anthony Musgrave / Melbourne copy’; verso with the lithographed back mark of ‘C. Niesche, Photographer and Picture Frame Manufacturer, 97 Rundle St., Adelaide’; in good, clean condition; the corners of the mount have been trimmed so the carte …
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# 34566
F. HUMPHRIS & SONS LTD. (Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia)
Mandarin Phosphates
Adelaide and Jamestown, South Australia : F. Humphris & Sons Ltd., [after 1902, and probably before 1920]. Chromolithographed bottle label, 71 x 94 mm; a fine example. Frederina Humphris (née Gotte, 1841-1925), the widow of Edmund Humphris, continued her husband’s Jamestown enterprise, known as “The Emu Factory”, after his death in 1880. The Emu Factory …
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# 33207
ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)
Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)
Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …
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# 31717
EYLMANN, Erhard (1860-1926)
Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien. (Baldwin Spencer’s copy)
Berlin : Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1908. First edition. Thick small quarto (280 x 195 mm), publisher’s half black morocco over marbled papered boards (cornerpieces worn, boards silverfished), spine lettered and decorated in gilt (leather scuffed and worn along joints and spine ends), Baldwin Spencer’s copy, with his pencilled initials to front free-endpaper, pp. 28, …