SOUTH AUSTRALIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Paris, 1930. Postcard. An art deco inspired postcard for the first international exposition of airmail, aviation and art. No. 6992, with a blue 1f 50c Post Aerienne stamp canceled four times. The red plane design includes the names of early aviators - Lindbergh, Byrd, Coste, Hawker, Mermoz and Ross Smith. Smith, of the South Australian outback, and W.W.I veteran,… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Penman & Galbraith, 1851. Print. An extraordinarily rare set of four of S. T. Gill's Adelaide views, no. 1-3, i.e.. Views in Adelaide No. 1. Hindley Street from King William St.; No. 2. Hindley Street Looking East; No. 3 Rundle Street Looking East; with a variant second copy of No. 3, which is black & white. The images… Read more about this item

[Adelaide]: Pictorial Australian, 1886. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of images in Adelaide and at Port Adelaide, in total thirteen views of the port, the dock and buildings in the city. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. The mayor S. Malin Esq is also pictured. Wood engraving with printed color, 38.7 x… Read more about this item

[Adelaide]: Pictorial Australian, 1886. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of Glenelg, a panoramic view of the creek with many fishermen and the town, with two other views. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color, 37.5 x 48.3 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or… Read more about this item

[Adelaide]: Pictorial Australian, 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page with eight views of the ship, Kintore's arrival, including the HMS Orient, the Governor Musgrave, HMS Protector, steaming down the Port River; Yachts saluting, and swearing in at the Town Hall. The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Lithograph with one tint, with center fold… Read more about this item

[Adelaide]: Pictorial Australian, 1889. Print. Very good condition. Double page spread of the impressive large corner building in Adelaide. The subtitle "E. J. Woods, Esq., Architect. James Shaw, Contractor." The Pictorial Australian is a rare periodical in the trade. Wood engraving with printed color, 39 x 51 cm image with large margins. Not recorded individually on Trove or… Read more about this item

Adelaide, 1864. First printing. Photograph. Good + overall. An early stereoscopic view of Adelaide by B. Goode. The SLSA website catalogs this photograph as 1864. In September 1864, Goode moved his premises from 155 Rundle St. to number 69. He also built up a lucrative trade in photographic material, including chemicals that were "made to his special order… Read more about this item

Paris: French Admiralty chart, 1846. Very rare early map of the south west coast of Western Australia, just 17 years after the founding of the colony. The map covers much of the Western Australian coast, from the Dampier Archipelago in the north, Broome, Exmouth Gulf, Shark Bay, Perth, Geographe Bay, Cape Leeuwin, Albany, all the way to Port Lincoln… Read more about this item

Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co, 1903. First edition. Pamphlet. Good + overall. A printed pamphlet unrecorded by Trove, committing to print the paper read by J. Griffiths before the Cambrian Society in Adelaide on Saturday 29 August 1903. It recounts Welsh history to 1485. It appeared as an article in The Evening Journal of the Adelaide, South Australian… Read more about this item

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1953. The Kimberley article pp 306-314. (+) Bonython, C. and B. Mason. The Filling and Drying of Lake Eyre. pp 321-330. Ills in text. Orig. blue wrps, a bit ruffled and marked o/w G+.

Bremen: G. Hunckel, 1843. Pamphlet. Very good overall. A scarce 1843 Almanac published in English in Bremen for German & Austrian immigrants to the US, with the original slipcase. The author was also active in immigration to the Australian colonies, and includes a portrait of Sir Robert Peel, whose cousin Thomas was given swathes of the best land… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Adelaide Philosophical Society, 1860. Ephemera. Mr. Jessup's scheme" was evaluated by a committee chaired by Thomas D. Smeaton. They passed 9 resolutions, the first being "That the adoption of a uniform system of notation in money, weights, and measures would of itself prove of incalculable benefit to the community". Yet, they later propose that the sovereign, the 'lb.… Read more about this item

London: Orr and Smith, 1836. Hardcover. Very good overall. Full yearly bound volume of 52 numbers, beginning with January 31, 1835, through January 23, 1836. Content includes the Mutiny of the Bounty, Halley's Comet, and Ross' s Expedition to the Arctic (p346 - 347). Folio, 416 pp, all edges marbled. Three quarter black gilt leather and marbled… Read more about this item

London: Fisher Unwin, 1890. Hardcover. Very good condition. Travel work on a visit to Australia by an English journalist, with descriptions of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, life at a sheep station, the "larrikin in Australia", Australian wine growing, and emigration information. 8vo, x, 235pp, [1] pp advertisements. Rebound in modern green gilt cloth, new… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low & Co, 1887. Good condition. Dissected map on canvas of South Australia. The right hand set of panels are detached; the map with scattered fox spotting, somewhat dusty, obviously well used, nevertheless presentable. Trove 7146934 locates a copy at the National Library of Australia in their Ferguson Collection, Map 292. The only Weller… Read more about this item

Australia, 1921. Very good condition. Two early glass negatives, one showing two Australian boxers, Micko Walsh and Fred Segar, and the second a portrait of their promoter, Will Young. Walsh (a.k.a. Welsh), a Melbourne resident, was born in 1871, debuted in 1892, and fought as a featherweight. He is listed as fighting 49 bouts and 286 rounds.… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley,, 1863. Hardcover. Good -. Financed by the Victorian government, the ill-fated expedition set out in competition w/ Sturt's SA expedition to become the first to reach the north coast. This is the most extensive of the contemporary accounts. 8vo, (xii) 396pp, (32)pp ads, F + 1 plt., fold. map. Embossed red cloth, covers… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Vardon & Sons, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. 8vo, 393pp, ads [2]pp. Green gilt cloth covers, slightly rubbed at spine ends.

Adelaide: Chas. Hodge, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 8vo, xii, 173pp, ills. Original olive cloth boards, title in black. Corners slightly rubbed, front board slightly marked along bottom edge.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1833. First edition. Hardcover. (A)n important book recounting discoveries of the highest consequence & being the 1st publication by one of Australia's most heroic explorers... is scarce & sought after." (Wantrup 118a). LACKS last page of prelims in both volumes & View of the Morumbidgee River & Palaeornis Melanura, or Black-Tailed Paroquet. … Read more about this item