South Australia
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# 22115
GILL, Thomas
Bibliography of South Australia
Adelaide : E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1886. Octavo, lithographed green wrappers signed in the image LEO (lower wrapper lost), lithographed title page, pp. 118, internally fine. Prepared for distribution at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition of 1886 in London. The wrapper features charming vignettes of Australian wildlife, indigenous people, and a steam train.
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# 21246
Photographer unknown.
Views of Turner’s homestead, clearing the land and planting lemon trees near Renmark, South Australia, 1892-93.
Three silver albumen print photographs (160 x 110 / 160 x 110 / 90 x 135 mm), laid down on individual sections cut from the pages of a disbound nineteenth century album, with undidentified photographer’s manuscript captions beneath each image: ‘Camp, Renmark. Sept. 92 (after clearing)’; ‘Block at Renmark shewing young lemons, Oct. 92’; ‘Turner’s. Renmark. …
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# 20785
DURYEA, Townsend (senior) (1823-1888)
Photographic portrait of Townsend Duryea (junior), taken by his father, 1871-72.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm, recto of mount inscribed in ink in lower margin ‘Jnr. Duryea’; verso with the Townsend Duryea (senior) back mark advertising his firm as ‘By Appointment to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinboro [sic]’ and ‘By Appointment to H.E. Sir Jas. Ferguson [sic], Bart.’; the albumen …
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# 19165
Photographer unknown.
Premises of F. Fox, Butcher. South Australia, early 1860s.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 63 x 65 mm (rounded corners), on original flat mount of white card, 80 x 175 mm; the albumen prints are somewhat faded and lightly marked, as is the mount. This early Australian stereoscopic photograph shows a two-storey colonial brick building with a shop sign that reads ‘F. Fox, Butcher’. …
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# 18053
WAHLEN, Auguste
Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,
em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …
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# 17899
CATLOW, Edward J. (composer); CATLOW, Augusta M. (lyricist)
[SHEET MUSIC] The tender moonlight : original colonial song with pianoforte accompaniment.
/ words by Augusta M. Catlow ; music by Edward J. Catlow. Adelaide : printed and published by Walter C. Sims and Joseph Elliott, 1869. Series: Musical supplement to the Adelaide miscellany ; no. 10. Cover: “April 22, 1869”. Folio, letter press printed, [2] pp music notation, rear cover with advertisements for Adelaide businesses; scattered pale foxing, …
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# 16917
TAPLIN, George, Rev. (1831-1879)
The Narrinyeri : An account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs, also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay.
Adelaide : J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. Octavo, original flushcut limp cloth (somewhat sunned) with printed title label to front (loss to top left corner of label), front pastedown with bookplate of John Calaby, frontispiece tipped-in albumen print photograph with montage of head-and-shoulder portraits of identified Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) men and women by Townsend Duryea, pp. iv, [ii], …
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# 15021
LINGWOOD SMITH, William Thomas, 1860-1933
An important archive of photographs of Aboriginal subjects by police photographer W.T. Lingwood Smith, South Australia and Central Australia, circa 1900.
William Thomas Lingwood Smith was a Detective Photographer in the South Australian Police Force from 1888 until his retirement in 1922. As early as 1894 he also pioneered fingerprinting in Australia, becoming an expert in the Criminal Investigation Branch of the South Australian Police Department. The quality of his little-known, non-commercial photographic portraits of indigenous people …
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# 15882
[HAMILTON, George]
Experiences of a colonist forty years ago; a journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839 and a voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846.
By an old hand. With illustrations. Adelaide : J. Williams, 1880. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, blue endpapers with previous owner’s name neatly inscribed, photographic frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 84; 79; [1]; 23; two photographic plates reproducing four painted scenes, Second edition, the first with photographic illustrations. Ferguson 10184; Holden 49
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# 15037
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER
Photographic portrait of an Aboriginal elder, Murray River, South Australia, circa 1920
Gelatin silver photograph, 150 x 103 mm, verso with contemporary inscription in pencil ‘River Murray Tribe. Govt. Photog.’; in fine condition (the tiny white scratch in the upper section is in the negative).
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# 14673
Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide.
Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide,
by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, on Thursday, May 24, 1849 … Adelaide : Printed by George Dehane, King William Street, 1849. Quarto, printed wrappers, 6 pp, mild vertical fold line and some corner creasing; ex Webster Collection, with small red stamp and manuscript collection number (2657) to last page; a good copy. Ferguson, 5160. …
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# 13061
Photographer unknown.
Wedding portrait of an Aboriginal couple, Koonibba Mission, west coast South Australia, circa 1925
Private [i.e. non-commercial] photograph on Velox paper, 101 x 75 mm; verso with paper adhesions from an old album page, but with the violet wet stamp “Velox” still visible; in fine condition. The plaque on the stone building behind the unidentified couple is the foundation stone of the Lutheran Children’s Home, Koonibba, which was opened …
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# 13101
HENRY POOLEY & SON.
Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, 1887. The only Gold Medal for weighing machines has just
been awarded to Henry Pooley & Son. 21st September, 1887. [Title from overstamp in red ink]. London : Henry Pooley & Son, 1887. Octavo sheet, printed one side only, advertising Henry Pooley & Son's many successes at international and British exhibitions, including the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition and the Highland & Agricultural Society's Show, Perth …
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# 11436
WATSON & WEDD
Scotch Church, Mount Gambier
Late 1860s. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 95 x 62 mm, verso imprinted 'Photographed by Watson & Wedd, Mount Gambier' and with contemporary inscription in ink 'Scotch Church, Mt. Gambier'; the albumen print lightly rubbed, the verso of the mount with mild foxing and slightly trimmed at top and bottom edges. Davies & …
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# 10126
WYLD, James
Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land, and Settled parts of Australia.
Respectfully dedicated to Major Sir T.L. Mitchell K.t D.C.L. F.G.S. &c Surveyor General of New South Wales …. London : James Wyld, [c.1848]. Engraved map with hand colouring, 620 x 1000 mm, dissected and laid on linen and edged in green silk, as issued, folding to 210 x 130 mm, in original card slipcase with …
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# 7159
SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)
Aboriginal camp, Point McLeay, South Australia, 1880
Albumen print photograph, 170 x 210 mm, mounted on a contemporary album page of thick card, inscribed in negative at lower left Sweet Adelaide 455, a very strong print in excellent condition with rich tonal range, small section of loss to surface of the paper at right edge. The National Library of Australia's copy of …