South Australia

  • The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields

    # 34180

    SIDNEY, Samuel

    The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields

    London : Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered plum cloth (edges rubbed), pp. 427, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings. History of the Australian colonies with a section on the gold rush. Ferguson 15679

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  • Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.

    # 33741

    SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

    Waterfall Gully (near Adelaide), circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century French traveller’s album, inscribed in ink below the image ‘Une cascade’; the print has excellent clarity and is in good condition (the small spot of discolouration at lower right is from the developing process). Held: AGSA (Accession number …

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  • Beatrice Darbyshire

    # 34351

    CHAPMAN, Barbara

    Beatrice Darbyshire

    Perth : Cygnet Books, 1990. Quarto, faux leather boards with dustjacket, 112pp. A biographical art monograph of South Australian draughtsman and etcher Beatrice Darbyshire.

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  • Ngayulu-latju palyantja = We made these things : from the Ngaanyatjarra lands

    # 34171

    PROCTOR, Gary

    Ngayulu-latju palyantja = We made these things : from the Ngaanyatjarra lands

    Catalogue, design concept and compilation, Gary Proctor. Alice Springs : WAP Press, 1999. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine lightly sunned), pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Lorna Jennings, Belle Davidson, Fred Ward, Tjingapa Davies, Ngipi Ward and others.

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  • The Aborigines of Australia, being an account of the institution for their education at Poonindie, South Australia.

    # 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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  • The River Murray South Australia. Australia's noblest waterway. From Renmark to the mouth. 100 magnificent views.

    # 33622

    H. R. JAMES & COMPANY (publisher)

    The River Murray South Australia. Australia’s noblest waterway. From Renmark to the mouth. 100 magnificent views.

    [Cover title]. Also titled: 100 magnificent views illustrating the River Murray, South Australia. Adelaide : Published by H. R. James & Coy., [circa 1930]. Oblong quarto, original printed wrappers (sunned at edges, lower wrapper with ink marks at top corner), stapled, inside front wrapper with map and text, [24] b/w plates; first leaf with gift …

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  • Heysen of Hahndorf

    # 34112

    THIELE, Colin

    Heysen of Hahndorf

    Adelaide : Rigby, 1968 (1976 reprint). Octavo, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. [xii]; 320, tape marks to endpapers, illustrated.

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  • South Australia Illustrated

    # 33512

    ANGAS, George French (1822-1886)

    South Australia Illustrated

    London : Thomas M’Lean, 1847. Imperial folio, gilt-decorated half morocco over calf (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate from the Davidson Collection to front pastedown, lithographed title page, engraved title page, dedication leaf (foxed), pale waterstain to top margin of two leaves of preliminary text, list of subscribers, preface, General Remarks …

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  • [LEPORELLO] Album of Adelaide

    # 33264

    Anon.

    [LEPORELLO] Album of Adelaide

    [Germany] : s.n., [circa 1880]. Leporello album. Octavo (190 x 142 mm), red pebbled cloth over boards elaborately decorated in gilt (worn), original cloth spine, containing concertina foldout with [12] panels, with many lithographed views of Adelaide, including its principal public buildings, a fine view looking north from Victoria Square, Hawker’s residence, Unley Park, Glenelg, …

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  • Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler's publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    # 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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  • Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien. (Baldwin Spencer's copy)

    # 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, …

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  • The Innkeeper's wife

    # 16170

    SIMONS, Marian

    The Innkeeper’s wife

    Illustrations by Mary P. Harris. Adelaide : Rigby, c. 1941. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with silver detail (sunned), string-bound, presentation inscription to front blank, pp. 12, with line-drawn illustrations; contents fine. Children’s book based on the nativity. Muir 6750

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  • Beyond the Pale : Contemporary Indigenous Art

    # 33435

    CROFT, Brenda L. (curator)

    Beyond the Pale : Contemporary Indigenous Art

    2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia. Quarto, lettered wrappers (marked), pp. 112, illustrated. Includes works by Ian W. Abdulla; Destiny Deacon; Julie Dowling; Lola Greeno; Gordon Hookey; Gertie Huddleston; Kitty Kantilla/Kutuwalumi Purawarrumpatu; Yvonne Koolmatrie; Abraham Mongkorrerre; Clinton Nain; Rosella Namok; Mitjili Napurrula; Jimmy Njiminjuma; Lena Nyadbi; Kathleen Petyarre; Rea; Ginger …

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  • Tjukurrpa : desert paintings of Central Australia

    # 32252

    PREMONT, Roslyn and LENNARD, Mark

    Tjukurrpa : desert paintings of Central Australia

    Alice Springs : Centre for Aboriginal Artists, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Photography by Claude Coirault. Exhibition catalogue; desert art of central Australia; artists description of their paintings; contemporary art; dot painting; Don Tjungurrayi; Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi; Big Dave Oldfield Tjupurrula; Colin Dixon Tjapanunga; Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa; Leslie Tjampitjinpa; Young Timothy Dempsey Tjungurrayi; …

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  • 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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  • Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 - 2011 (deluxe edition)

    # 32130

    WEIGHT, Greg and MCGREGOR, Ken

    Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 – 2011 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, blind embossed ochre cloth in cloth slipcase with draw ribbon, pp. 199, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies, specially bound, with an original signed etching by Mrs Bennett (Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa), numbered in an edition of 50 and signed with her monogram ‘X’. A book of portrait …

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