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The First Hundred Years of the South Australian Museum, 1856-1956
Herbert M. Hale
Adelaide: Museum Board, 1956. -
Whose Homosexuality? Which Authority? Homosexual Practice, Marriage Ordination and the Church
Brian Edgar; Gordon Preece
Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006.Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World Vol. 9 Nos 1 & 2. A special double issue of this Australian theology journal focusing on homosexuality with contributions by Bryden Black, David Clarke, Denise Cooper-Clarke, Graham Cole, Keith Dyer, Brian Edgar, Debra Hirsch, Muriel Porter, Gordon Preece, Peter Sherlock, and Mark Thiessen Nation.
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The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay
F. C. V. Lane
Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1944.One of 375 numbered copies with 18 tipped in examples of the bookplate work of Australian artist Norman Lindsay, with checklist and bibliography.
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia (Volume One)
Phillip Parker King
Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2012.Facsimile copy of Captain Philip Parker King’s survey performed between 1818-1822 and originally published in 1827.Introduction by Marsden Hordern. Bibliographical note by Paul Brunton. Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set.
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Sparagmos
George Alexander
Adelaide: The Experimental Art Foundation, 1989.Experimental fiction by George Alexander with photography by Kurt Brereton and drawings by Piotr Olszanski. Sparagmos (from the ecstatic Greek ritual of dismemberment) brings together two texts: Ringing the Bell Backwards, an account of an artist friend’s suicide, and Roses for the Cutting, an analysis of love withdrawn – the love remembered, cauterized and remembered again.
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Australian Cycling in the Golden Days
H. (“Curly”) Grivell
Adelaide: Courier Press, No date.History of Australian cycling from the 19th century to the 1950s.
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The Pioneers of the North-West of South Australia, 1856 to 1914
Norman A. Richardson
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1980. -
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Vivien Johnson
Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2003. -
Zoology of New Holland
George Shaw
Adelaide: Friends of the Library of South Australia, 1998.Originally published in 1794, this the standard edition of the high quality Friends of the State Library of South Australia Facsimile. The Figures by James Sowerby. Introductions by Valmai Hankel and Ed McAlister.
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The Naturalised Flora of South Australia
J. M. Black
Adelaide: J. M. Black, 1909. -
Toadstools and Mushrooms and other Larger Fungi of South Australia (Parts I and II, 1934-1935)
John Burton Cleland
Adelaide: A. B. James, Government Printer, 1976.The photolitho reprint edition with the two parts in one with a new foreword and additional notes.
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Adrian Feint: Cornucopia
Adrian Feint; Richard Heathcote
Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2009. -
Augustus Short: First Bishop of Adelaide: A Chapter of Colonial Church History
Fred T. Whitington
Adelaide: E. S. Wigg & Son, 1887. -
Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen’s Land
W. C. Wentworth
Adelaide: Griffin Press, Doubleday Australia, 1978. -
Photographs. Presentation from the People of Australia to H.M.S. Commonwealth
South Australian Government Photolithographic Department
[Adelaide]: South Australian Government Photolithographic Department, No date.4 photographs mounted in a full leather presentation album showing a silver challenge shield and silver plate table piece of a model of Captain Cook’s ship, the Endeavour, which was gifted from The People of Australia to HMS Commonwealth, a King Edward VII-class battleship of the British Royal Navy at a naval review in 1911. The album contains the bookplate of lawyer, politician, and Federalist, Sir Josiah Henry Symon (1846-1934). Symon represented the Commonwealth Government at the review and made the presentation of the shield and table piece. Photographs by the S. A. Govt. Photolithographic Dept, A. Vaughan, Govt. Photolithographer. From the collection of J. B. Hawkins.
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Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
[FREEMASONRY]
Adelaide: Kodak Austral, 1956.Real photo post card of the officers, manuscript note on verso of the positions from left to right.
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One Day Geological Excursions of the Adelaide Region
A. J. Parker
Adelaide: Geological Society of Australia Incorporated, South Australia Division, 1986. -
Palya
Stewart Roper
Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2013.Palya is a word used frequently in Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara, and it can have a variety of meanings, essentially translating to ‘good’. This volume depicts images and recollections from two decades on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in north western South Australia.
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The Geology of South Australia (In Two Divisions)
Walter Howchin
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, 1918.Division I: An introduction to geology, physiographical and structural, from the Australian standpoint. Division II. The geology of South Australia, with notes on the chief geological systems and occurrences in the other Australian states. By geologist and clergyman Walter Howchin (1845-1937).
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His Naughty Young Niece
Jacob Brown
Adelaide: Oceana Press, No date.20th century Australian pulp smut fiction produced by the Australian Book Co., Medindie. An Orion Classic.