Aus: S.A.
Narrative of Shipwreck of the "Admella"…
Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.
Iconic Australian shipping disaster
Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'. Only edition: the harrowing tale of the...
Price (AUD):
$3,000.00
Ref: #3311994
Report of Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the Loss of the "Admella"…
Adelaide: W.C.Cox, Government printer, 1859.
The tragic wreck of the Admella
Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed. Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4108165
The South Australian Almanack and General Colonial Directory, for 1849.
Adelaide: Andrew Murray, 1849.
With map of the "Settled portions" and details of mines
Octavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period). A...
Price (AUD):
$1,150.00
Ref: #4107200
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanac
Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac. The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George...
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4107206
Promotional booklet; drop-title "South Australia"… "By an Old Colonist".
Adelaide: no publisher, circa 1858.
'England in miniature - England without it's poverty'
Duodecimo pamphlet, as issued without wrappers, 12 pp. (last blank), blue tinted paper stock. Scarce pamphlet printed to promote the colony. Anonymously compiled 'by an old Colonist', the booklet comprises various parts gleaned from several sources. First...
Price (AUD):
$625.00
Ref: #4107388
Pioneer Difficulties in Founding South Australia. A lecture delivered to the Australian Natives Association…8th June, 1891.
Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., 1891.
In original tinted wrappers
Octavo, 20 pp. (last blank), original green titling wrappers. Uncommon booklet on the early years of South Australia, broaching topics such as the formation of the South Australian Company, speculation and investment schemes, the foundation of Adelaide and the...
Price (AUD):
$240.00
Ref: #4107444
University of London Certificate of Honour
London: 1834-, 1835.
Charles Babbage's son at university before moving to Australia
Engraved Certificate, 265 x 366mm, fine. Decorative document certifying that Babbage diligently attended the lectures in the Senior Mathematical Class during the session of 1834-35, and was presented with the First Certificate.
Price (AUD):
$250.00
Ref: #4108217
University of London Certificate of Honour
London: 1833-, 1834.
Charles Babbage's son at university before moving to Australia
Engraved Certificate, 265 x 366mm. Decorative document certifying that Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878; Charles Babbage's son) diligently attended the lectures in the Second Class of Mathematics (1st Division) during the session of 1833-34; as well as a First...
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #4108218
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
London: Charles Knight, 1832.
Babbage's most successful work
Small octavo, engraved title-page, original maroon cloth. Second edition of Charles Babbage's most successful work: there were four editions between 1832 and 1835 and the book was translated into at least six European languages. Babbage wrote this at the time he was...
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #4107488
British Colonization and Coloured Tribes.
London: William Ball, 1838.
Scarce work by former Attorney General of NSW
Small octavo, neat blind-stamp to title-page, bound without the 4 pp. advertisements noted by Ferguson; half green morocco by Sangorski, spine lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of a surprisingly scarce work, written by a former Attorney General...
Price (AUD):
$1,200.00
Ref: #4107187
Carte Générale de la Terre Napoléon.
Paris: Gravé par Tardieu, 1808.
French designs for South Australia.
Engraved chart; 580 x 850 mm. Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedition in Australian waters during 1802. As the title "Terre Napoleon"...
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #3912509
Queen Adelaide.
London: Colnaghi, 1831.
The reigning queen for whom Adelaide was named
Engraved oval portrait, 29 x 24 mm. Sir William Beechey, well known English portrait painter, was elected A.R.A. in 1793. In the same year he painted a portrait of Queen Charlotte which procured him the appointment of portrait painter...
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #3111081
Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia…
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1843.
Between slander and praise.
Octavo, later orange cloth; Tristan Buesst bookplate. Handbook for prospective emigrants from a former resident (Bennett lived in South australia from 1839-1842). The book offers 'a plain unvarnished statement of facts, as to the character and capabilities of a Colony...
Price (AUD):
$475.00
Ref: #4107235
Lights and shadows of church-life in Australia including thoughts on some things at home.
London: Jackson & Walford, 1860.
Reflections upon the Colonial Missionary Society
Octavo, appendix, advertisement leaves; in original blind-stamped cloth. With the stamp of Arthur W Piper, South Australian Supreme Court Jurist, Federationist and son of the long-serving pastor of the Adelaide district, Thomas Piper. Thomas Binney, a fervant Congregationalist minister...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #4108108
The Decisions of the Right Hon. Evelyn Denison, Speaker of the House of Commons… and of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand…
Adelaide: C. E. Bristow, 1892. Octavo, contemporary ownership inscription tot title page, contemporary full roan with gilt lettering. With the ownership inscription of Edwin Gordon Blackmore (1837-1909), formerly of the Taranaki Rifle volunteers who later served as a South Australian parliamentary clerk.
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108093
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia…
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891. Slim octavo, 64 pp, three tables; publisher's red cloth, flecked. From the collection of the Western Australian Historical Society Library Moss Collection of Australian Books, with bookplate to front endpaper.
Price (AUD):
$180.00
Ref: #4108115
Panorama of Australia and America…
England: 1851.
"Positively for 2 nights only"
Broadside, halved at central rule to form two sheets measuring 330 x 255 mm. & 330 x 260 mm., illustrated with four dramatic woodcut scenes. Rare and significant broadside advertising a panoramic lecture show on the Australian colonies that toured England in 1850...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3910334
Echoes from Coondambo.
Adelaide: Hutchison, Craker, & Smith, 1893.
South Australian Pastoral History.
Octavo, portrait frontispiece; original green cloth with gilt title, inscription on title page to W.C.M. Finniss from W.P.Auld May 1912. Gift from William P Auld, (vigneron & a surveyor on the 1861-2 McDouall Stuart expedition to traverse the continent, and.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4107511
Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia…
Sydney: Australian Medical Gazette, 1888. Octavo; in original green cloth. An exhaustive guide to over 200 health resorts in Australia and New Zealand, with analyses of mineral waters, services and therapeutic indications. Also includes activities available to patients, such as Killarney, Queensland, "Very pretty scenery, and dry, bracing climate. Shooting...
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #2811885
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria, in search of Burke and Wills.
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1862.
First edition, first issue
Octavo, engraved frontispiece and large folding map of Australia; original linen-backed pink printed card boards; bookplate of Captain Frederick Aarons; quarter morocco box. First edition, first of several issues, of the first public printing of Landsborough's journals from the Burke and...
Price (AUD):
$1,365.00
Ref: #4504374
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition… with portraits and biographical sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke, and William John Wills.
Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861.
A pristine copy in the original wrappers: with the frontispiece portraits of Burke and Wills
Octavo, iv, 36 pp. (last blank), with a striking lithographic portrait frontispiece of both explorers (later portrait of Wills pasted to rear of frontispiece), well preserved copy in original green...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4106096
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.
Letters and journals of Burke and Wills
Octavo, title-page with engraved portrait of Burke, detailed folding map; early (contemporary?) dark green half calf. First edition, first issue. Jackson, who knew Burke personally and was an officer in the same regiment as Burke's father, published...
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4504432
Burke and Wills Commission. Report of the Commissioners…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
'A far greater amount of zeal than prudence…'
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., printed on light blue paper, edges uncut; half calf. Official report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the Burke and Wills disaster: 'now very scarce and of high interest' (Australian Rare...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #4504502
Burke and Wills Commission…
Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862.
'A far greater amount of zeal than prudence…'
Foolscap folio, 104 pp., a fine and clean copy, edges rough-trimmed only, in quarter blue morocco by Sangorski. Official report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the Burke and Wills disaster: 'now very scarce and...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #4504375