Vineyards & Orchards of Sth Australia
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Ward, Ebenezer. The Vineyards & Orchards of South Australia: a descriptive tour. (facsimile of 1862 ed) Sullivan's Cove: Adelaide, Australia 1979. Folio (330x205mm) HC xxi,[1],76,[4 blank]pp. (Limited: No 253/750). VG/VG dj t.e verso small spotting
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WARD, Ebenezer. (1837 - 1917)
The Vineyards & Orchards of South Australia: a descriptive tour by Ebenezer Ward in 1862
Adelaide : Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Limited facsimile of a series of articles published in the South Australia Advertiser and Weekly Chronicle and in pamphlet form by the Government of South Australia in 1862. Number #253 of 750 copies. Printed by Griffin Press, Adelaide.
Folio (330x205mm) pictorial dust jacket, blue cloth boards, gilt titled spine, heavy cream paper, [2],xxi,[1],76,[4 blank]pp. Top edge of dust jacket verso and top edges, very small area of spotting/foxing, else near fine.
¶ Ward was a journalist and politician in colonial South Australia. He emigrated from Britain in 1859. In 1861 he wrote this series of articles for the Adelaide Advertiser. The articles provide an excellent primary resource for the history of the ownership and establishment of nearly fifty early and significant vineyards of South Australia including Auldana, Yealumba (sic), Clarendon, Pewsey Vale, and Reynella Farm. Ward presciently opined that South Australia would become "one of the most important wine countries of the world." The articles were then reprinted in pamphlet form, and 2000 copies were purchased by the Government for free distribution at the 1862 Great Exhibition in London.
Rare in the original, scarce in this format. A near fine copy.
§ OCLC records six holdings in the USA, twelve in Australia, two in the UK and one in Ireland.
§ cf Ferguson 18189; Gabler 42790, in note; Noling p.432; all referencing the original.
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