Harcus William Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dark green-cloth octavo with gil to spine, sewn binding; xv, 432 p, front b&w plate, few b&w plates, maps, & tables; 23 cm. Folding map in pocket at rear. Color map included. South Australia; History. Handsome front b&w plate of post office & town hall. A legitimate deaccessioned ex-library book with normal markings (blind stamp to front free frontis & title page, card pocket to rear pastedown, number stamp to dedication page), very little wear to spine head & foot, moderately bumbed corners, few faint chips and tears to rear pastedown map pocket; else overall about very good. Handsome color map is clean (aside from institutional blindstamp), but has a few fold cracks at fold creases.

pp. xii, 312(last blank); 1 folding table giving statistical view of the province since its foundation, original quarter cloth and stiffened boards with title page repeated on front board. Mechanics institute label on upper board. A very good copy. Ferguson. 10234. . Includes supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia.

8vo; pp. xviii, 432; 24pp publishers list, b/w frontispiece, 65 b/w plates, 1 foldout table giving statistical view of the province since its foundation, original brown cloth a bit flecked, edgeworn, inside hinges shaken, old ink name on verso of flyleaf, otherwise a very good copy. Lacks maps. Includes supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 432 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. A pocket at the back contains large fold-out maps of australia. Page edges are darkened. Purple cloth on bevel boards with gilt and black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Faded on the spine. VG/- -. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Octavo, xvi, 432 pages plus 66 engraved plates, a folding table, a folding full-colour map of Australia (320 × 400 mm), and a large folding map of South Australia (795 × 545 mm, with minimal colour) in an endpocket. Cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities, with the rear top corner a little bumped; edges slightly marked or darkened; front free endpaper slightly cracked near the head of the hinge, with a small piece snipped from the top corner; tiny splits at a few intersecting folds in the map; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An undervalued work: the plates (wood engravings from photographs) are a major pictorial record, and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northern Territory, I have incorporated some useful papers written by residents there, and prepared for publication by Mr J.G. Knight'. The chapter on Central Australia is even more important: 'Since the foregoing was in type, the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia, along the line of telegraph, has appeared in the "Register". The writer, Mr J.A. Giles, is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. The entire chapter is devoted to the article, which refers on occasion (and thus eliminates any misattribution) to Alfred Giles, the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. Ferguson 10233 (not recording the maps).

Harcus, William, editor. SOUTH AUSTRALIA: ITS HISTORY, RESOURCES, AND PRODUCTIONS. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. 1st edition. Illustrated with sixty-six engravings, two attached fold-out maps, and one large fold-out map in rear pocket. Bound in publisher's original green cloth. The frontispiece is missing, otherwise very good condition.