South Australia

  • William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    # 32325

    WESTALL, William (1781-1850)

    William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 75 x 180 mm; dated ‘Oct. 31st 1826’, the document is written in Westall’s hand and is worded: ‘Recd. of G. J. Robson Esqre. Ten Guineas for a Drawing for Mrs. Haldimand. [Signed] W. Westall. / £10.10’; blind stamped at left margin ‘Receipt Three Pence’; clean and complete. Rare …

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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  • Ngurra (camp/home/country)

    # 32986

    MOSEY, Anne et al.

    Ngurra (camp/home/country)

    Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels and Anne Mosey. Underdale, S. Aust. : University of South Australia Art Museum, [1994]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated. Catalogue accompanying the exhibition, ‘Ngurra(camp/home/country)’ a collaborative installation by two women from different cultures who explore their particular histories and relationships to home and country; includes essay and interviews with the artists.

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  • Vignette portrait of a woman. Adelaide, circa 1864.

    # 31934

    FREEMAN, George John

    Vignette portrait of a woman. Adelaide, circa 1864.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Geo. J. Freeman, Photographist. 97, Hindley Street, Adelaide, S. A.’; both print and mount are in very good condition. A rare early example of a carte de visite studio portrait by George J. Freeman. From Gael Newton’s excellent …

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  • Studio portrait of Aretas William Charles Young dressed as a Native American. Adelaide, late 1870s.

    # 32126

    MANNING, Charles H.

    Studio portrait of Aretas William Charles Young dressed as a Native American. Adelaide, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘C. H. Manning, Late T. Duryea, 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide. Prize Medal, Universal Exhibition 1867’, and inscription in blue ink in a nineteenth-century hand ‘Aretas William Charles Young, son of Sir Henry Fox Young’; …

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  • For the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Hahndorf Gallery incorporated presents an exhibition of oil paintings, water colours and drawings by Sir Hans Heysen

    # 32134

    HEYSEN, Hans (1877 - 1968)

    For the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Hahndorf Gallery incorporated presents an exhibition of oil paintings, water colours and drawings by Sir Hans Heysen

    in the Hahndorf Gallery 13th March to the 26th March, 1960. Small folio, lettered wrappers, pp. 4, catalogue.

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  • Police Station, Goolwa. - Murray River. No. 59.

    # 30764

    BURNELL, George (1830-1894) & COLE, E.W. (1832-1918)

    Police Station, Goolwa. – Murray River. No. 59.

    [Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 74 x 70 mm, on original flat mount of buff-coloured card, 83 x 177 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso; each albumen print has a few tiny marks, and the mount is a little dusty but otherwise clean and stable. …

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  • [SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Beaumont House, residence of Sir Samuel Davenport. Beaumont, Adelaide, late 1870s.

    # 30364

    Photographer unknown.

    [SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Beaumont House, residence of Sir Samuel Davenport. Beaumont, Adelaide, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, 157 x 210 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with a fully contemporary inscription in ink beneath the image on the mount: ‘Beaumont – Sir Samuel Davenport’s residence’; a strong print with lovely tones, in very good condition. For a biography of Sir …

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  • 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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