Hawker James C (6 results)

leatherette. Facsimile Edition. Two volumes in one, original red synthetic leather boards, b&w author portrait frontis, pp 83, 22. Near fine condition. James Collins Hawker (1821-1901) was an English-born explorer, surveyor, diarist and pastoralist[1] of South Australia. Hawker compiled diaries over much of his life, originally publishing them as articles that appeared in the South Australian Register and the Adelaide Observer. He subsequently published them in two books, Early Experiences in South Australia, and Early Experiences in South Australia. Second Series. Both are rare, particularly the second. Both are reproduced in facsimile here, in two coloumn text.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1975 (facsimile edition)/ 1899 and 1901. Octavo, [ii], 83, [1] (colophon), [2] (blank), 22 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Synthetic red cloth; a fine copy. Peade A197: one of only 501 copies. The original 1901 edition of the Second Series is impossibly rare (we have seen only one in nearly 50 years in the trade in Adelaide), thus making this short print-run facsimile edition somewhat more important than the average reprint.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1899. Octavo, 84 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little rubbed and marked; free endpapers offset; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The author's memoirs, dating back to 1838, first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 (noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1899. Octavo, 84 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark brown cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; edges and corners of the boards lightly bumped; endpapers offset; a near-fine copy. The author's memoirs, dating back to 1838, first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. Loosely inserted is an original cutting from the 'Register' of 22 July 1899, containing the last article in the book (where it is #26, not #25 as in the cutting). An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 (noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1899. Octavo, 83, [1] (colophon) pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark brown stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; free endpapers heavily offset (the pastedowns lightly so); short tear to the inner margin of one leaf expertly sealed; mild signs of age and use (but see below); an excellent copy. These memoirs of James Collins Hawker (1821-1901) date back to 1838, when he arrived with Governor George Gawler. They first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 (noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours). This is a presentation copy, inscribed and signed in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper to 'J. Tomkinson | from James Collins Hawker | Feby 22. 1900'. The later inkstamp signature of A. Grenfell Price is on the front pastedown, his marginal emphases in pencil are on 40 pages, and his annotations in pencil appear on four pages. In the most significant annotation, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, has written at the head of page 12, with reference to an underlined section on rammed-earth or 'pise' houses: 'I used this account of pisé houses in Foundation and Settlement ['The Foundation and Settlement of South Australia, 1829-1845', published in 1924]. Although the information was incorrect I knew it rested on an early authority. AGP'.…

Original wood engraving of workers in a vineyard, signed in the block, printed on japanese vellum. Image size 6.1 x 8 cms. Together with a proof of the front cover design of the card with the wood engraving in the middle surrounded by a vine border designed and engraved by JBW and printed in green, plus a copy of the final card printed on the outside 2 pages and without the internal greeting. James Hawker & Son was wine merchant in Plymouth dating from the 1820s, after William Hawker created a recipe for Sloe gin in the 1790s. The company was bought in the late 20th century by Allied Domeqq. …