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South Australia Local History

128695
BRADLEY, J. F.

Glorious Kangaroo Island. Its Caves and Beauty Spots.
Reprint; Oblong Demy 8vo; pp. 82; profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images; original stiff stapled printed wrapper, very good copy.
Naracoorte; PaperWorks; 2000. Click here to Order
AUD$30

128634
COOPER, H. M.

French Exploration In South Australia. With Special Reference to Encounter Bay, Kangaroo Island The Two Gulfs And Murat Bay 1802-1803.
Limited First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xi, 200; b/w frontispiece, 22 b/w illustrations or maps, index, bound in original patterned boards with green cloth spine, boards lightly faded and browned, otherwise a very good copy.
Adelaide; The Author; 1952.
Limited edition of 200 numbered copies this is number 44 and the patterned board edition is scarce. Written from accounts by Peron, Freycinet, Francois Michel Ronsard, and Baudin including many parts unpublished at the time. Mathew Flinders account of their meeting at Encounter Bay and extract from Investigators Logbook. Includes entries from the log book of the Geographe and Casurina. Interesting account of Kangaroo island natives. Illustrations include native burials and bark canoes from Tasmanian Aboriginals. Click here to Order
AUD$200

128556
EDWARDS, ROBERT.

Five Pamphlets on Aboriginal Relics: - Aboriginal Relics - A Former Camp-site on the Sturt River at Marion, South Australia - The South Australian Ethnographic Collection - An Aboriginal Bone Sheathed point from Fromm's Landing, South Australia - Aboriginal Camp-Site on the Sturt River at Coromandel Valley, South Australia. Reprints from various issues of Records of the South Australian Museum, Mankind Journal of the Anthropological Societies of Australia, and South Australian Year Book,
Reprints; Cr. 4to; pp. (26 pages in total); text illustrated with several b/w. photographs and drawings, each in its original stapled wrapper as issued, very good copies.
Various; 1964 to 1969. Click here to Order
AUD$60

128449
HARRIS, C. H.

Survey Department of South Australia. Field Service. Handbook for Government Surveyors.
Fourth Edition; Cr, 4to; pp. 152; 17 folding plates (maps and charts and tables) at rear, numerous text tables, bound in original pebbled green cloth, title lettered in gilt on upper board, two small name stamps on first couple of pages, one small school stamp on title page, very good copy.
South Australia; R. E. E. Rogers, Government Printer; 1914. Click here to Order
AUD$125

128610
HURLEY, FRANK; Photographs by.

South Australia: In Natural Colour by Frank Hurley.
First Edition; Oblong Cr. 4to; pp. (28) unpaginated including wrapper; numerous colour and b/w. photograph illustrations, bound in original stiff illustrated stapled wrappers; a very good copy.
Adelaide; John Sands Pty. Ltd; n.d. (c-1960's). Click here to Order
AUD$40

128441
PEAKE-JONES, K.

Handbook of Instructions for the Guidance of the Officers of the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition to the Unknown portions of Australia. Together with A Study of Incompatibles by K. Peake-Jones.
Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [vi], 68; large fold-out map, 8 b/w. photographic illustrations, bound in original printed wrappers, fine copy.
Adelaide; Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch; 1991. Click here to Order
AUD$60