William smillie (7 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1962/ 1838. Octavo, [ii] (new preliminaries), [iv] (versos blank), iv-31 pages plus a folding map of the fledgling colony. Synthetic cloth; front cover lightly scored; free endpapers tanned; an excellent copy. Peade SA34: one of only 91 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library, 'reproduced . using the xerographic process', with the text bound from concertina-fold paper printed on one side only, uncut and unopened along the leading edges. …

Zustand: Good. Engraving. 13.5 x 21 cm (sheet). Very Good, print affixed to another support sheet at the four corners.

Octavo, 31 pp., with a folding engraved map; stitch-sewn, in old wrappers binding, "Emigration to South Australia 1838" on manuscript label to front wrapper. First edition: rare Scottish-printed appeal to emigrants, showing the South Australian Company promoting emigration barely two years after the first South Australian settlement late in 1836. A second edition was published in London later in the same year. William Smillie (1810-1852) was a Scots lawyer who later emigrated to South Australia and became Advocate-General in the 1840s. The state's origins were unique in Australia as a freely-settled, planned, British province rather than a convict settlement. Following the 1834 South Australia Act, which enabled the province to be established, official settlement began on 28 December 1836, when the state was proclaimed at The Old Gum Tree by Governor John Hindmarsh. The book is based on articles which had appeared in the Stirling Observer in March 1838; it includes a short "advertisement by the publisher" printing a letter from John Hutt the Superintendent of Emigration, and also openly encourages the curious to apply directly to the South Australian Company in London. A 3-page postscript prints excerpts from Macarthur's Emigration to New South Wales, on the grounds that Sydney and Adelaide are "situated nearly in the same latitude." There is good evidence that Smillie's newspaper articles, gathered here together for separate publication, had some influence in persuading British would-be emigrants that the new colony of South Australia would be a fruitful place in which to settle. The other interesting inclusion is a later issue of the map of "Part of Southern Australia", based on that in the 1834 work South Australia. Outline of the plan of a proposed colony with the details of the Murray River. This issue of the map was printed by "J. Grieve, Zinco., 33 Nicholas Lane"; John Grieve was a lithographer and zincographer based in London, which is interesting because the Scottish publisher of the book must have been supplied with the maps from London, no doubt at the behest of the South Australian Company. It shows principally the coastal settlements round Spencer's Gulf, Gulf St. Vincent, Investigators Strait, Encounter Bay, and on Kangaroo Island. .…

No Binding. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 8 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (22.1 x 38.5 cm). etching & aquatint (trimmed to borders, thus, loss of title & dedication, remnants of cellotape to upper edge & lower corners of verso, old backing on verso of print). First State "[of] undoubtedly the finest Canadian sleighing scene printed in Canada". (Allodi p. 51) Spendlove (p. 87) calls this etching "[a] print of considerable rarity". Engraved by James Smillie from a drawing by William Wallace of the 71st Light Infantry, this view shows the Quebec Driving Club enjoying a winter excursion in front of the Place d'Armes. Contrasting local figures are shown in the foreground riding a horse drawn sledge and a dog sled (initialled 'G.S.'). There are many interesting details, including street signs, buildings, the shop sign of his father, 'D Smillie & Sons', and Holy Trinity Church. Provenance: British American Bank Note Company Ltd (Allodi refers to two impressions in the 'B.A. Bank Note' collection). Allodi & Tovell, An Engraver's Pilgrimage James Smillie in Quebec, pp. 49-50, No. 32. Spendlove, The Face of Early Canada, pp. 87-88. Allodi, Printmaking in Canada, pp. 50-51 (second state illustrated). Villeneuve, Lord Dalhousie Patron And Collector, pp. 84-85 & No. 107. Harper, Early Painters and Engravers in Canada, pp. 290 & 320.…