Gould books gumeracha (8 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x24cm]. Near Fine condition. Sepia illustrations and photographs. Loosely included is "150th Anniversary of Murray Shipping" by Frank Tucker [20 page chronology of Murray shipping]. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 28 pages. William Richard Randell, paddle-steamer owner and politician, was born in Devon, England and with his family he migrated with free passages to South Australia in the Hartley and arrived at Glenelg on 20 October 1837. The family lived near Hackney Bridge. He later held land with his father along the banks of the Murray and it was here, while minding cattle, that he "became determined to be the first man to put a steamboat on the river". With his brother John he rented his father's flour-mill and in 1852, aware of the gold-diggings, he "thought it time to start the steamboat" though he had never seen one. Carpenters and his brothers cut the timber for the hull at Gumeracha and the frame was carted by bullocks over the hills to Mannum. The engine was built in Adelaide by a German engineer and a blacksmith made the boiler to Randell's novel design. The hull, 56 feet [17m] long, was completed in February 1853 and in March the steamboat Mary Ann, having cost about £1800, made a successful trial run. Randell's first trading voyage began on 25 March but low water below Lake Bonney forced him to return to Mannum.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. 3rd Edition Revised. Small Quarto Size [approx 17x24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. This book records details of approximately 550 vessels that have operated on the Murray-Darling river system - from 1853 to 1986.…

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. Third Revised Edition. 176pp, index, fleet lists, num bw ills. Or pictorial card. Slight edge wear to cover. Size: 4to.

1st edition stiff wrappers Fine octavo 28pp..

Paperback. Condición: Fine. First Edition. Gumeracha, Gould Books, 1986. Folio, [x], 129 pages. Cloth-backed wrappers; a fine copy. Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995) was the first Anglican archbishop of Adelaide.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Gumeracha, Gould Books for Forreston Community Centre Inc., 1989. Quarto, 256 pages with numerous maps and illustrations. Colour-pictorial papered boards a little unevenly sunned; a very good copy. Not least, much on the pioneering families of the area.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. Gumeracha, Gould Books for Forreston Community Centre Inc., 1989. Quarto, 256 pages with numerous maps and illustrations. Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. With detailed histories of the pioneering families of the area.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. Soft covers are lightly at the corners, head and tail of spine too. Some minor scuff marks and moderate discolouration of page edges. Simple binding is neat and tidy. Spine well sunned and a little discoloured. Previous owner's invoice for the book laid in. Pages discoloured due to age. Otherwise this book is in fair condition. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously - they often present better than they sound.…