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The principal collection of some 30,000 titles includes books published before 1840 (1900 for Australian works), fine and limited editions, works vulnerable because of their size or format, and selected publications of anticipated long-term research and reference value.
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Item Open Access Adelaide: Queen City of the South(Adelaide: Vardon & Sons, 1907) Curtis, Leonard Samuel"In launching this volume into the world of books, the Author's desire has been to present, in an artistic, clear and concise manner, a descriptive and illustrated narrative of the City of Adelaide - otherwise known as "The Queen City of the South" - as the heart centre of the great State of South Australia, emphasising its principal public buildings, its leading business houses and its tourists' attractions. Also to present in up to date authentic figures, and in plain brief language , the chief statistical conditions built up in the past history of the State, in its industrial, commercial, political, and civil development. All literary verbosity is excluded, and only such matter-of-fact language used as is in accord with a book whose absolute reliability is stamped upon every page by the unerring science of photography." -- Author's Preface.Item Open Access The Arab war, confidential information for general headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches reprinted from the secret "Arab Bulletin"([London] : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940) Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.; Cornwallis, Kinahan, Sir.Item Open Access Athlete : a weekly newspaper devoted to the interest and advancement of manly sport.(Adelaide, S. Aust. : Modern Printing Co, 1889- (Adelaide, S. Aust. : printed by Ridley, Wildy, and Cleveland), 1889)Athletic news : a weekly chronicle of cricket, football, cycling, rowing, yachting, lawn tennis, baseball, lacrosse, and pedestrianismItem Open Access Athletic news : a weekly chronicle of cricket, football, cycling, rowing, yachting, lawn tennis, baseball, lacrosse, and pedestrianism(Adelaide, S. Aust. : Hussey & Gillingham, 1892-, 1892)Athlete : a weekly newspaper devoted to the interest and advancement of manly sport.Item Open Access Aurora australis : [published at the winter quarters of the British Antarctic expedition, 1907, during the winter months of April, May, June, July 1908; illustrated with lithographs and etchings by George Marston ; [pref. by Sir E. H. Shackleton](Printed at the sign of ʻThe Penguins’ : by Joyce and Wild. Latitude 77⁰ 32ʹ South, longitude 166⁰ 12ʹ east. Antarctica, [1908], 1908)Printed in 1908 by members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09, the first book ever printed in the Polar regions; ed. by E. H. Shackleton. Loose sheets laced in wooden covers, made of packing-cases which contained the provisions. Estimated only about 90 copies printed; not a public ed.Item Open Access Australia confederated : a lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Adelaide(Sydney : George Robertson, [1880], 1880) Jefferis, James, 1833-1917.; Jervois, W. F. D., Sir, 1821-1897.Australia confederated : a lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Adelaide / by J. Jefferis ; with speeches on the occasion by...W.F.D. Jervois...[et al]Item Open Access An Australian birthday book / compiled by M.F. and J.B.S.(Adelaide : George Robertson, 1883 (Melbourne : Walker, May and Co., Printers), 1883)"Printed for private circulation only" - [Privately printed for the daughters of Robert Barr Smith] "This little book, a summer’s work, is dedicated to our dear mother, by Mabel and Jean" -- Dedication. With quotations for each day of the year. Illustrated with photographs of the daughters of Robert Barr Smith as the seasons, the Barr Smith family homes, and views of Adelaide.Item Open Access The Australian colonies : together with notes of a voyage from Australia to Panama in the "Golden Age", descriptions of Tahiti and other islands in the Pacific and a tour through some of the States of America in 1854 / by H. Hussey(London : Blackburn & Burt ; Adelaide : E.S. Wigg, [1855], 1855) Hussey, Henry, 1825-1903.Item Open Access The Australian Commonwealth Bill : observations by Mr. J.H. Symon, Q.C., in reply to Chief Justice Way’s attack upon the delegates and Mr. Chamberlain’s "compromise" as to clause 74.(Adelaide : W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1900., 1900) Symon, Josiah, Sir, 1846-1934Library copy in Symon’s pamphlets collection has title corrected by author to read: The Australian Commonwealth Bill : observations by Mr. J.H. Symon, Q.C., in reply to Chief Justice Way’s criticism of the delegates and Mr. Chamberlain’s "compromise" as to clause 74.Item Open Access The Australian Commonwealth Bill : the "Spectator’s" criticism : a reply(Adelaide : Hussey & Gillingham, Printers, 1900., 1900) Symon, Josiah, Sir, 1846-1934"In the literary supplement to the London "Spectator" of December 2, 1899, there appeared [a] short notice:-- "Advance Australia" by W.J. Galloway, M.P." Comprises Symon’s responseItem Open Access Australian federation : an address to the electors of South Australia([Adelaide : s.n.], 1897 (Adelaide : Scrymgour and Sons), 1897) Solomon, V. L. (Vaiben Louis), 1853-1908.Item Open Access The Australian household guide(Perth : E.S. Wigg & Son Limited, 1916, 1916) Buller-Murphy, Deborah, 1888-1965.Over 3000 recipes plus sections on most household activities including gardening and child rearing.Item Open Access [Block plan of Gawler Place to King William Street, Adelaide].(Adelaide, 1891) Jones, F. OliverItem Open Access The book of nature, or, The history of insects : reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances ... / By John Swammerdam ... With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave ... Translated by Thomas Flloyd ... Revised and improved ... by John Hill.(London : Printed for C.G. Seyffert, 1758) Swammerdam, Jan, 1637-1680.Item Open Access The Brabourne papers : (relating to the settlement and early history of the colony ; purchased from Lord Brabourne by Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General) ; a pamphlet containing a summary of the contents of these important papers.(Sydney : Govt. Printer, 1886., 1886)These papers contain correspondence relating to Australian affairs, received by Sir Joseph Banks, which came into the possession of the Brabourne family.Item Open Access Central Australian exploring rhymes and camel-back jingles(Adelaide : Frearson & Brother, Printers, 1893) Beetson, D. LandaleUnsigned lithograph depicting Laura Vale, the author(?) and camels. The author was a member of the two exploring expeditions into Central and Western Australia, organised by the Central Australian Exploring and Prospecting Association. The author describes the party as comprising "Three of us only - the leader, Teitkins, Warman, myself, Besides the black boy Billy ..." p. 8. This book of poems is dedicated to John Howard Angas, one of the directors.Item Open Access Christine Macgregor's Illustrated Private Press Books(Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, 2003) Prichard, MaureenItem Open Access Clarissimi viri Hyginii Poeticon Astronomicon Opus utilissimum foeliciter incipit : De mundi et sphere ac utriusque ptiu declarations(Venetiis : Impressum est presens opusculu per Erhardu Ratdolt de Augustus, 1485, 1485) Hyginus.Item Open Access The Crusader: Eighth Army Weekly(Cairo, etc.: Eighth Army H.Q, 1942)Item Open Access The devil's motor : a fantasy(London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1910) Corelli, Marie; Arthur Severn, R.I.