South Australia

  • South Australian centenary celebrities : caricatures by Lionel Coventry

    # 29244

    COVENTRY, Lionel

    South Australian centenary celebrities : caricatures by Lionel Coventry

    Edited by N.E.J. Sewell and H. Wright Harrison. Adelaide : the artist, 1936. Quarto, decorated papered boards (light edge wear), pp. 106, illustrated with Coventry’s graphic caricatures of South Australian identities. Limited to 120 copies signed by the artist. Satrical lampooning of local celebrities in the centenary year of South Australia. Rare.

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  • Carl Wilhelmi, German naturalist in Australia: three autograph letters, signed, with significant content on Murray Aboriginal customs and botanical collecting. June 1860; September 1860; October 1871.

    # 28787

    WILHELMI, Johann Friedrich Carl (1829 - 1884).

    Carl Wilhelmi, German naturalist in Australia: three autograph letters, signed, with significant content on Murray Aboriginal customs and botanical collecting. June 1860; September 1860; October 1871.

    Carl Wilhelmi (1829-1884), German seedsman and botanical collector, arrived in Adelaide in March 1849, having been sent out to South Australia by the Dresden Lutheran Missionary Society. During his almost twenty-year sojourn in Australia, he made major contributions in the fields of both botanical science and anthropology. Early on, Wilhelmi collected botanical specimens extensively throughout …

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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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  • East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste

    # 29348

    BERKOFF, Steven (1937 - )

    East : elegy for the East End and its energetic waste

    [Adelaide : s.n., 1978]. Octavo (260 mm), illustrated wrappers, staple bound, [46] pp; printed on cheap newsprint paper; light foxing at edges, but a very good copy. Rare theatre programme for the 1978 Australian tour of Steven Berkoff’s controversial play set in London’s East End, containing the complete playscript as well as an interview with …

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  • Adelaide at a glance

    # 29162

    Adelaide at a glance

    [S.l. : s.n., circa 1900]. Octavo, gilt-lettered red wrappers (marked), leporello style concertina folding photographic images of Adelaide and South Australia, including North Terrace, a test match at Adelaide Oval, Glenelg Beach, a panorama of the city and a view of Port Lincoln aborigines.

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Wie ich Missionar wurde und meinen Weg nach Australien und Deutsch-Neuguinea fand.

    # 29217

    FLIERL, Johann (1858-1947)

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Wie ich Missionar wurde und meinen Weg nach Australien und Deutsch-Neuguinea fand.

    [=How I became a missionary and found my way to Australia and New Guinea]. Neuendettelsau : Verlag des Missionshauses, 1910. Second edition. Series: Neuendettelsau Verlag des Missionshauses Nr. 13. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial pink wrappers (a little darkened), stapled; pp 32, with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Flierl; text in German, in …

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  • Catalogue of the late Mr. W. Champion Hackett's library of valuable books including Rare Australiana .... ...

    # 28559

    THEODORE BRUCE & CO. (ADELAIDE)

    Catalogue of the late Mr. W. Champion Hackett’s library of valuable books including Rare Australiana …. …

    Adelaide : Theodore Bruce & Co., Fine Art Auctioneers, [1938]. Octavo (213 mm), printed brown wrappers (light central vertical fold), staple bound, 72 pp, with brief decsriptions of over 3250 lots; a good copy.

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  • [KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.

    # 27925

    [KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.

    Adelaide : Adelaide Festival of Arts Executive Committee, 1960. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (some light staining to lower wrapper), staple bound; inside wrappers with colour advertisements, pp 71 [1], photographic illustrations, mostly b/w but including a double-page of colour plates of Louis Kahan’s costume designs for Rigoletto, a full-page colour plate …

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  • Lecocq's opera bouffe in 3 acts of "La Fille de Madame Angot", as performed by The Soldene Opera Company, under the management of Mr. C. A. Chizzola.

    # 27508

    LECOCQ, Charles (1832-1918); [THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE]

    Lecocq’s opera bouffe in 3 acts of “La Fille de Madame Angot”, as performed by The Soldene Opera Company, under the management of Mr. C. A. Chizzola.

    At head of title: The opera libretto. Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser Office, King Wm. Street, 1878. Small octavo (175 x 120 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, pp 40; contains the complete libretto for this work; a fine copy. Rare programme produced for the series of concerts given at Adelaide’s Theatre Royal in …

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  • H.M. Special Service Squadron. Visit to South Australia, March 10 to 15, 1924 : memento

    # 27128

    SIDDALL, J.B.

    H.M. Special Service Squadron. Visit to South Australia, March 10 to 15, 1924 : memento

    Cover: With compliments and Greetings from the Citizens. Adelaide : J.B. Siddall, [1924]. Small octavo (180 x 117 mm), pictorial wrappers printed in sepia (mild foxing), lower wrapper with street map of Adelaide, inner wrappers with [2] sepia photographic plates; contains a concertina foldout with [18] black and white photographic views and [1] reproduction of …

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  • Vignette portrait of an unidentified boy. Adelaide, circa 1865.

    # 26965

    ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Vignette portrait of an unidentified boy. Adelaide, circa 1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 61 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The Adelaide Photographic Company, Neales’ Buildings, King William St.’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A superb vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of a strikingly handsome youth, no doubt a scion of one of Adelaide’s elite families. The …

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  • Photographic portrait of a mother and her young daughter. Adelaide, 1863-65.

    # 26683

    ANSON & FRANCIS

    Photographic portrait of a mother and her young daughter. Adelaide, 1863-65.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Anson & Francis, Adelaide Photographic Institution, 97 Rundle Street’; some scattered light foxing to the print and mount. Davies & Stanbury (The Mechanical Eye) list Anson & Francis at their 97 Rundle Street address between 1863 and 1868. This rather …

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  • Government House & part of N. Terrace. E view. 1880's

    # 26690

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    Government House & part of N. Terrace. E view. 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 74 x 219 mm (image); 260 x 280 mm (sheet), edge tears to margins touching image on the left, else very good. Lithograph by an unknown artist after an etching of Adelaide first published in Nixon’s Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. …

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  • Hindley Street looking west. 1880's

    # 26681

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    Hindley Street looking west. 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 98 x 218 mm (image); 215 x 285 mm (sheet), edge tears to margins, else very good. Lithograph by an unknown artist after an etching of Adelaide first published in Nixon’s Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. Little is known of these …

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  • The S.A. Cos' Mill on the Torrens. N. View. 1880's

    # 26689

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    The S.A. Cos’ Mill on the Torrens. N. View. 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 125 x 222 mm (image); 185 x 265 mm (sheet), edge tears to margins, else very good. Lithograph by an unknown artist after an etching of Adelaide first published in Nixon’s Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. Little is known of these …

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  • The Port (Mt. Lofty). 1880's

    # 26688

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    The Port (Mt. Lofty). 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 80 x 224 mm (image); 200 x 275 mm (sheet), edge tears to margins touching image on the left, else very good. Lithograph by an unknown artist after an etching of Adelaide first published in Nixon’s Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. …

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