South Australia

  • 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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  • St. John's Church. 1880's

    # 26686

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    St. John’s Church. 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 94 x 216 mm (image); 185 x 285 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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  • Part of Adelaide, from the N.W. (Mt. Lofty). 1880's

    # 26685

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    Part of Adelaide, from the N.W. (Mt. Lofty). 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 110 x 224 mm (image); 1985 x 280 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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  • Frame Bridge. 1880's

    # 26684

    NIXON, Frederick Robert (1817 - 1860)

    Frame Bridge. 1880’s

    Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 124 x 214 mm (image); 190 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 Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.

    # 26003

    ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

    The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.

    London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …

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  • Photographic portrait of Carl Gaden of Mt. Gambier, South Australia, mid 1880s.

    # 26026

    HAMMER & CO. (ADELAIDE)

    Photographic portrait of Carl Gaden of Mt. Gambier, South Australia, mid 1880s.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); verso of mount with imprint of ‘Hammer & Co., Photographers, 172 Rundle Str., Adelaide’, and old identifying caption in pencil ‘Carl Gaden (Mt. Gambier)’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. The Adelaide studio of German-born photographer William H. (Wilhelm Heinrich) Hammer was …

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  • [GOLD RUSH] Portrait of traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker.

    # 22961

    [GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich, 1816-1872]; WILLIAMS, Sophus (photographer); HADER, E. (artist)

    [GOLD RUSH] Portrait of traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker.

    Albumen print photograph of a painted portrait, carte de visite format, 107 x 67 mm (mount), recto of mount with facsimile autograph of the famous writer, along with the artist’s details: ‘E. Hader pinxit’, the publisher’s copyright statement: ‘1882. Gesetzlich geschützt’, and the imprint of the photographer and publisher: ‘Photographie und Verlag v. Sophus Williams, …

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  • The Australian Captive; or, An Authentic Narrative of fifteen years in the life of Wm. Jackman. In which, among various other adventures, is included a forced residence of a year and a half among the cannibals of Nuyts’ Land, on the coast of the Great Australian Bight. Also including, with other appendices, Australia and its Gold, from the latest and best authorities...

    # 22229

    CHAMBERLAYNE, I. (Israel) (1795-1875)

    The Australian Captive; or, An Authentic Narrative of fifteen years in the life of Wm. Jackman. In which, among various other adventures, is included a forced residence of a year and a half among the cannibals of Nuyts’ Land, on the coast of the Great Australian Bight. Also including, with other appendices, Australia and its Gold, from the latest and best authorities…

    New York : C. M. Saxton, 1859. Third edition. Small octavo, original blind blocked black coth over boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine slightly rolled, front joint with short split in cloth); 2 lithographed frontispiece portraits of Jackman depicted in western clothing and as a naked “captive” (the first with small portion of loss at …

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  • [ZIONISM] The emancipation of the Jews, indispensable for the maintenance of the Protestant profession of the Empire ; and most entitled to the support of the British Nation.

    # 24589

    GAWLER, George (1795-1869)

    [ZIONISM] The emancipation of the Jews, indispensable for the maintenance of the Protestant profession of the Empire ; and most entitled to the support of the British Nation.

    London : T. and W. Boone, New Bond Street, 1847. Octavo, disbound, pp iv, 30; title with offsetting at corners and left margin, else a very good copy. Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler (1795-1869) served as the second Governor of South Australia from October 1838 until May 1841. After his retirement in 1841, Gawler returned to England and devoted himself …

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