Rare books from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle. 1875. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Green gilt decorated cloth boards, corners lightly bumped & a little rubbed. Spine edge also lightly rubbed - just light shelf wear. Bookplate to front pastedown and front hinge slightly cracked. A very nice, solid and clean copy of this scarce title. Small gift inscription to top of Preface. Illustrated with eight black & white engravings and large fold-out map [with neatly repaired tears] at rear. 307 pages. Important account of the first expedition to cross from Alice Springs to Roebourne on the West Coast of Australia in 1872 Warburton left South Australia as leader of an expedition that included his son Richard and J. Lewis. It was financed and provided with seventeen camels and six months supplies by (Sir) Walter Hughes and (Sir) Thomas Elder, and sought to link the province with Western Australia. After leaving Alice Springs in April 1873, they endured long periods of… Read More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. 1823. Octavo Size. Good++ condition. Half leather, marbled boards, title patch to top of spine. Bookplate to front paste-down. Leather lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Rear board has a small chip to leading edge. Plate 1 - the general map, is a copy (sympathetically copied) tipped in as original plate torn out. All other maps/plates are present and original. Some foxing throughout. A very clean, tight copy of this important work. 472 pages. An account of a voyage in which several weeks were spent in whaling and in the exploration of the Scoresby Sound region, in a search for Eskimo settlements and in quest of magnetic and other scientific observations. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Littleton, CO: Amozen Press. 2000. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition. Illustrated with over 250 rare B/W photographs. 283 pages A unique and frank first hand account of The Beatles in early Liverpool & the major contribution made by African Americans to the British music scene. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Heinemann. 1959. Octavo Size. Very Good in a Good Dustjacket. Age-toned DJ has some minor edgewear with a very small piece missing to top edge near spine - now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. 237 pages. The third novel in Burgess's Malayan Trilogy 'The Long Day Wanes'. The trilogy was a comic fictional exploration of the impact of the Malayan Emergency which started in 1948. Burgess wrote the Malayan trilogy with the ambition to become a fictional expert in Malaya as he spoke and wrote excellent Malay and the trilogy was based on much of his own experience. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Australasia) Limited. 1925. Small Quarto Size. Very Good Condition. Lovely deep brown boards with copper-look embossing to face. The light coloured patches behind the ship are a little rubbed on some volumes. Each book is a little worn at corners and spine ends. Some volumes are also a little rubbed at edges. All volumes have previous owners bookplate stuck to front pastedown. Several volumes are lightly cracked between the half-title and title pages - the binding is solid otherwise. Gilt to top-edge now dulled Illustrated with black and white plates. Still a very attractive set. This is a heavy set so please contact us for a shipping quote. Volume 1: Searching for a Continent; Volume 2:Exploring the Continent; Volume 3: Settling a Continent; Volume 4: Developing a Continent; Volume 5: Governing a Continent; Volume 6: The Pioneers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Melbourne: The Montfort Press. 1903. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Green cloth boards. Corners lightly bumped. A single ink "tick" to ffep. Black and white frontispiece. Tiny piece missing from top corner of "Synopsis" page. Light scattered foxing to fore and top edges and inside edges of covers. 200 pages The story of the Elphington family and their life in the Mallee country of Victoria during the 19th century. Whilst fictional it is a very good representation of life at that time in that place. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: The Cyclopedia Company. 1907& 1909. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Good+ condition in original half-leather binding. Gilt to page edges. Corners, top and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Gilt to spine still clear. Gilt page edges. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations. Overall a very nice set. This is a very heavy item [weighs 6.25kg unpacked] and will require substantial additional postage costs for an international sale. 630 pages. The Cyclopedia contains a vast resource of historical and biographical information on South Australia - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more. The volumes include thousands of illustrations, the larger number of these being portraits of those whose biographies are included. These are not just the wealthy and influential, but include quite a number of "ordinary citizens". . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Amsterdam/New York: N. Israel & Da Capo Press. 1967[1770]. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good+ condition. Minor stain to the very bottom edge of boards. Bound in cream faux vellum with blue/gilt title patches to face and spine. Glassine wrapper. Bibliotheca Australiana #11. Four [4] fold-out maps. Eleven [11] Black & white illustrations [four fold-out]. xxx, 204, 124, 20 pages + 60 pages. Alexander Dalrymple was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty. He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific - Terra Australis Incognita. He produced thousands of nautical charts, mapping a remarkable number of seas and oceans for the first time, and contributing significantly to the safety of shipping. Whilst translating some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1752, Dalrymple had found Luis Váez de Torres' testimony proving a passage south of New Guinea now… Read More

Silver Spring, Maryland: Old Line Graphics. 1991. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket has some very minor wear [creasing] to base of spine & is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Endpaper maps. Uncommon. 128 pages The contents include Freight Routes and Schedules; The East and Tide Subdivisions, The Hanover and York Subdivisions; The Lurgan Subdivision; Hagerstown and The West Subdivision; Cumberland and The Connellsville Subdivision; Cumberland and The Thomas Subdivision; and The Durbin and GC&E Subdivisions,. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: William H. Colyer. 1843[1841]. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Full leather binding, black title patch to spine. Boards attached but leather spilt - so held by stitching only . Fold-out map to front - complete but with a couple of small tears to edges. Illustrated with Black & White woodcuts. Some staining to pages - age related and mostly to page edges. Two page catalogue of books by the publisher at rear. Small, and aged, ink date to front free endpaper. In need of re-binding. 418 pages . Reprint. Hardback.

Scotch Plains, NJ: Morning Sun Books Inc.. 2002. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 128 pages. Tour the fabled Missabe Road from the 1950s when it was "discovered" as a last bastion of steam into its diesel years. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Canberra: Department of National Development. 1970. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Six [6] large folded coloured maps to rear pocket. Quite scarce. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 100. 222 pages. The Amadeus Basin is a large sedimentary basin in central Australia, lying mostly within the southern Northern Territory, but extending into Western Australia. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1966. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Green morocco leather spine with bright gilt title; canvas boards with gilt decoration. Contained in a very good, albeit marked slipcase. Limited edition of 150 of which this is no. 54 - signed by Norman Lindsay. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs by Quinton F. Davis and black & white drawings by Norman Lindsay. Foreword by Douglas Stewart. x, 98 pages. In two parts. Part I: An examination of 11 of Lindsay's ship models from a Greek Galley to the Joseph Conrad. Part II: Details from working drawings. The Preface by Lindsay discusses what made him a 'ship model addict' . . Limited Edition. Hardback.

London: Thames & Hudson. 1967. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good copy in Very Good Dust jacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Bookseller stamp/label to front paste-down. Signed by Arthur Boyd on half-title page. Illustrated with 44 colour and 134 black & white reproductions. 288 pages. Arthur Boyd, AC OBE was one of the leading Australian painters of the late 20th Century. A member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, his relatives included painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. No Date[1913]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Tan boards with gilt and blue decorations. Light rubbing to spine ends and corner. Mild offset to free endpapers. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Nineteen 189 pages. Ten full page tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards intact. Nineteen inlaid small colour plates and numerous line illustrations in blue introduce each quatrain. Each quatrain is printed on a single page. The full-page colour plates are bordered with gold decorations and the inlays with black or blue decorations. All plates are present and in lovely condition. Rene Bull was a talented artist and cartoonist and was noted for his great abilities as a comic draughtsman and a brilliant illustrator of fairy tales. . 1st Trade Edition. Hardback.