Sir James Hurtle Fisher, First Resident Commissioner In SA. His Life And Times: MORPHETT, Geo. C.

Griffin Press [for the Author], Adelaide, 1955.

Fisher was also Adelaide’s first mayor and the first resident South Australian to be knighted. This volume was compiled by his great-grandson. $100

 

Phoenix – 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 [selling as set]

Adelaide University Union, Adelaide, 1935-39.

A rare solid run from 1935 to 1938 encapsulating a prominent era in South Australia’s history. Precursing Angry Penguins, Phoenix was a remarkable magazine which brought students from varying disciplines together at a crucial juncture in world and Australian history. That so many areas of endeavour should consistently overlap in one magazine is remarkable. Some contributors were children of high-achieving intellectuals, apparently equally determined to make their mark on the world. The 1935 issue features two Rex Wood illustrations – Wood went on to a successful artistic career; John Dowie, who designed the ironically Germanic cover piece and was later a ‘Rat of Tobruk’, also enjoyed a significant artistic career to name but two of the litany of significant contributors represented in these issues. $360

Cyclopedia of South Australia [two volumes]: BURGESS, H.T. (editor)

Austaprint, Hampstead Gardens SA, 1978. The Cyclopedia is a vast resource of historical and biographical information, with wonderful photographs of old towns, factories, shops and shopping centres. This facsimile of the 1907 and 1909 editions is a must for genealogists. $300

 

Across The Centre; John McDouall Stuart’s Expeditions (1860-62): STOKES, Edward

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Scarce exploration history by respected author/photographer Edward Stokes who recreates McDouall Stuart’s three expeditions across the centre and on to the north coast of Australia. $195

 

South Australians 1836-1885: THOMAS, Jan (editor)

SAGHS, Adelaide, 1990. Supplementary volumes to the four-volume Biographical Index of South Australians, 1836-1885. Eight quarterly Bicentennial Bulletins were published between 1987 and 1989; they ‘contained new biographies and also substantial amendments to entries published in the previous work’.

This two-volume set ‘includes, alphabetically sorted, all entries published in the Bicentennial Bulletin series, many of which contain substantial additional information, and a further 2,500 entries’. $225

 

Biographical Index of South Australians: STATTON, Jill

South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, Adelaide, 1986

$450

 

Hotels and Publicans in South Australia: HOAD, J.L.

$250