Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs / AGPS. Canberra. 1981. 1st Ed. (2), 30 PP with 3 maps, 3 tables, 3 b/w and 40 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642068577
An outline of what has been done for and by aboriginals since the Federal Government took charge of Aboriginal affairs in 1968.
55097 A. H. DICKINS & Company ROBE RIVER LIMITED - PROSPECTUS
$10.00 AUD
Robe River Ltd. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed., 6th July 1970. 38 PP with 1 location map Robe River Area.
Prospectus of an issue of 9,999,995 ordinary shares.
74038 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 41, No. 1, 2019
$25.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2019. Edited by Michael McCarthy. VI, 136 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
Articles: Success to the "Borrowdale", by Gary L. Sturgess. HMAS Diamantina- Oceanographic Research, by Ian Jempson; The taking possession of part of New Guinea by the Dutch in 1828, by Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns. The Life and Times of the Merchant Schooner "Supply", 1832 to 1861, by Peter H. King. The First Masses in Australia at Botany Bay in early 1788, by Frank Carleton.
74040 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 42, No. 1, 2020
$25.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2020. Edited by Erika Techera. VIII, 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
Articles: John Marshall and the peopling of Australia, by Liz Rushen. Captain Anthony Steel (1796-1842) - A Free Mariner, by Myra Stanbury. The Melbourne Sailor's Home 1865-1963, by Mark Howard. Destruction of the Whaleship Harriet of London at Kosrae in 1843, by Rhys Richards.
74041 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 42, No. 2, 2020
$25.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2020. Edited by Erika Techera. VIII, 104 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
Articles: Carl August Nielsen (1849-1919): Developer of Commercial Otter Trawling (pages 21 to 41) / Pioneerr of the Australian and New Zealand trawl fisheries (pages 42 to 63), both articles by Trevor Kenchington. Willem JansB of Amsterdam legacy of Australian Discoveries in 1606 and 1618, by Adriaan de Jong.
74042 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 43, No. 1, 2021
$25.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2021. Edited by Erika Techera. VIII, 97 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
Articles: John Minor Maury on the Island of Nuku Hiva, by Michael Lee Wittig. English / Dutch Rivalry in Eastern Indonesia and Australia, by Jeroen Overweel. Chasing the Tale of the Mermaid and other Kimberley Tales, by Peter A. Gunn. In the wake of the Steam Tug "Escort", by Heather Campbell.
74043 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 43, No. 2, 2021 - Submarines
$25.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2021. Special Issue; Submarines. Edited by Erika Techera. VIII, 98 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
5 articles by Peter Hooker, Ian Chambers, Michael McCarthy, Sally R. May and Ronald A. Sulman.
47127 ABBOTT, J. H. M. OUT OF THE PAST
$10.00 AUD
The Currawong Publishing. Sydney. c. 1944. 1st Ed. 72 PP. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with short closed tears and small pieces missing. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.2 x 13.
A brief history of Australia.
64422 ABRAHAMS, Audrey BROTHERS OF BRIBIE HERITAGE
$10.00 AUD
Author. Brisbane. 1999. 1st Ed. 84 PP with b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, maps, photos). Inside covers: Map of Bribie island. Pictorial soft cover with a small light crease, otherwise a fine copy. Oblong: 21 x 29.5. 064637026X
Early history of Pumicestone Passage and Bribie island. ... Commercial fishing, cannery, oystering, shipping and shipowning...
76032 ADAMS, L. & G. THE TALE OF THE KANGAROO and other Australian stories
$100.00 AUD
Collins. Sydney. 1984. Reprint of 1979 original. Volume V of this beautifully illustrated series. Laminated pictorial boards with a few cracks in the laminate on front cover and lightly sunned near back of spine, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 28.5 x 21.5. 0001012487
The Tale of the Kangaroo, illustrated by Chris Riordan (27 pages). The Secret of The Cockatoo, illustrated by Frank Lopez (29 pages). The Tale of The Platypus, illustrated by Murray McKenzie (29 pages). The Tale of The Wombat, illustrated by Chris Riordan ( 27 pages).
61680 ADLER, Peter, RUBINSTEIN, Prof. W. D. & COHEN, Michael WITHOUT PREJUDICE, An Australian Journal concerned with issues of Prejudice and Human Rights - No. 1
$10.00 AUD
Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs. Melbourne. 1990. Issue No. 1, September 1990. Preface, by Isi J. Leibler. 64 PP. Soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 14.5.
... Combating Racism: is Legislation the Answer ? - A Symposium. ...
59960 AHA HISTORY AUSTRALIA - Journal of the Australian Historical Association
$75.00 AUD
Australian Historical Association / School of Historical Stidies, Monash University. Melbourne. 2003 / 2009. Run of 6 Volumes (14 issues). Volume 1, No. 1, (December 2003) to Volume 6, No. 2, (August 2009). 6 volumes, edited by: Marian Quartly. A total of around 2300 PP with occasional b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover in colour. Volume 5, No. 3 with signs of water damage. Set in an otherwise very good condition. Format: 24 x 16.
59284 AIDAB AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION - STATISTICAL SUMMARY 1991/92
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1993. 1993 edition. V, 124 PP with graphs and tables. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7. 0644272724
59285 AIDAB AUSTRALIAN OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION - STATISTICAL SUMMARY 1992/93
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1994. 1994 edition. IV, 130 PP with graphs and tables. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7. 064432936X
59286 AIDAB AUSTRALIAN OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION - STATISTICAL SUMMARY 1993/94
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1995. 1995 edition. VI, 96 PP with graphs and tables. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7.
59405 AIMA THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 25, 2001
$35.00 AUD
AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2001. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Pearl shelling in the Torres Strait, by E. McPhee. Polynesian fishing implements from HMS Pandora, by T. Fallowfield. ... Heritage and Tourism ...
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1980. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. No pagination, 54 PP with tables and 5 figures. Soft cover, title on front board, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.
74102 ALLEN, J. K. & CORRIS, P. (editors) THE JOURNAL OF JOHN SWEATMAN - A Nineteenth Century Surveying Voyage in North Australia and Torres Strait
$45.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1977. 1st Ed. XXXIV, 208 PP with 12 b/w plates, 2 maps and 4 pages of figures. Fp: HMS "Bramble" off Sydney Heads. Eps: Page from original Journal. Hard cover, dj. A hint of foxing on top outside page edge, o/wise a fine copy. 25.5 x 18.3. 0702214418
Expedition in the years 1849-1850 with the history of Torres Strait discoveries, settlements in Northern Australia ...
12879 AMBROSE, W. & DUERDEN, P. (editors) ARCHAEOMETRY : AN AUSTRALASIAN PERSPECTIVE
$45.00 AUD
Forty-two papers dealing with broad areas of interest to archaeologists: material analysis, environmental studies & dating systems.
74026 ANGELO, Denise, COLEMAN, Carolyn, .... AUSTRALIAN PHRASEBOOK
$10.00 AUD
Lonely Planet Publications. Melbourne. 1998. 2nd edition of original. 254, (1 publication) PP with c. 10 maps and some drawings. Stiff covers. Fine. 13.8 x 9.2. 0864425767
Understanding Aussies & their Culture.
73470 APPLETON, Richard & Barbara The Cambridge DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN PLACES
$25.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1992. 1st Ed. XII, 356 PP with over 26 maps. Eps: Map of Australia, with "Index of Maps". Hard covers, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edges and inside dust jacket. Fine. 25.5 x 17.8. 9780521395069
73332 APTHORPE, Graham THE MAN INSIDE ... The Bloodiest Outbreak
$25.00 AUD
Big Sky Publishing. Newport, NSW. 2019. 1st Ed. Foreword by Professor Peter Stanley. X, 183, (1) PP, plus 16 pages with 12 b/w illustrations (1 plan and 11 photos) and 8 colour illustrations (1 map with location map and 7 colour photos). Pictorial soft covers. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.2. 9781922265463
Breakout from Cowra Prisoner of War Camp on 5th August 1944 resulting in the death of 234 Japanese escapees.
74823 ARAGO, J. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD in the URANIE and PHYSICIENNE Corvettes, Commanded by CAPTAIN FREYCINET, during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820; on a Scientific Expedition Undertaken by Order of the French Government
$130.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Bibliotheca Australiana No. 45. Facsimile reprint of the 1823 English edition. In Two Parts. Part I: VI, (2), XXVII, (5), 285 PP plus 22 pages with 14 full-page b/w illust. Fp: Planisphere. Part II: (2), 297 PP, (2), with 1 illust. in text & 20 pages with 11 b/w full-page illust. Simile vellum with gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine) with a clear jacket. A fine copy. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.2. 9060720369
A series of 164 letters to a friend: Mascarenes (P.42-52), Australia (P.53-57 & P. 136-151), Marianas (P.76-103), Hawaii (P.104-131).... Vocabularies of some of the people visited (Part II, P.269-294).
74867 ARCHER, William Henry FACTS AND FIGURES: or Notes of Progress, Statistical and General
$50.00 AUD
Queensberry Hill Press. Melbourne. 1977. 1st edition limited to 500 hand numbered copies (No. 178 / 500) of the 1858 original.. No continuous pagination, (16), 88, (2) PP. Fp: Portrait of William Henry Archer. Cloth cover. Fine (as new condition). 29.5 x 24.3. 0909174067
11 issues: Vol. I, No. 1 (June 15 , 1857) to Vol. II, No. 3 (November 15 1857).
71368 ARMSTRONG, Barrie & SARGENT, John (compilers) BELLERIVE / KANGAROO BAY: Historic Snapshots - Students Challenge
$20.00 AUD
67800 ARMSTRONG, David, REID, Campbell, CURTIN, Jennie (editors) "The Australian" RECORD OF THE OLYMPICS
$20.00 AUD
The Australian / Nationwide News Limited. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 page "Country Codes", 7 pages "Roll of Honour" and 120 pages of colour photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21.
SYDNEY 2000 - Games of the XXVII Olympiad.
62686 ARMSTRONG, Diane THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE - The Story of the SS DERNA and its Passengers
$20.00 AUD
Flamingo / HarperCollins. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XII, 484 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 facsimile of crew list, 5 newspaper clippings and 61 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 07322686265
75307 ARMSTRONG, John W. PIPELINES AND PEOPLE
$100.00 AUD
The Hunter District Water Board. / Halstead Press. Newcastle, NSW. 1967. 1st Ed. Foreword by F. K. Duncan, President. XVI, 241 PP with over 90 b/w illustrations (maps and plans, sketches and prints, photos and portraits), plus 9 folded colour plates (1 Diagram and 8 maps). Fp (in colour): Newcastle , NSW. Eps: colour map "The Board's Water Interests". Cloth covers, gilt device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edges, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 25.5 x 19.
The History of the Hunter District Water Board, Newcastle, New South Wales.
71500 ASHLEY, Peter THE INDOMITABLE CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS, ROYAL NAVY
$40.00 AUD
Pierhead Press. Clanfield, UK. 2005. 1st Ed. XXII, 86 PP 9 b/w and 16 colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Matthew Flinders by de Chazal. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 095508170X
41131 ATKINSON, Ann (editor) TIME OF OUR LIVES - The story of what happened in Australia from 1945 until the present
$15.00 AUD
Fairfax Library. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed., with introduction by Daniel O'Keefe. 204 PP with over 500 photographs (23 of them in colour). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 31.7 x 25. 1862900019
A photo documentary of Australia from 1945 to 1988.
58567 ATTWOOD, Harold & KENNY, Geoffrey (editors) REFLECTIONS ON MEDICAL HISTORY AND HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA - Third National Conference on Medicine and Health in Australia, 1986
$15.00 AUD
Medical History Society, AMA (Victorian Branch) & Medical History Unit, University of Melbourne. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed. XII, 227 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8 0858396931 & 094953529X
21 papers and 3 abstracts.
74514 AUROUSSEAU, M. (editor) THE LETTERS OF F. W. LEICHHARDT (in 3 Volumes)
$60.00 AUD
The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1968. 1st Ed. Vol. I: XVI, 424 PP with 4 maps (1 to 4). Fp: Portrait of Leichhardt in 1847. Vol. II: V, 425-820 PP with 4 maps 5 to 8), plus 1 large folded map (figure 9). Vol. III: VI, 821-1175 PP with 2 family trees and 2 maps (10 & 11). Cloth covers, gilt decoration "Victoria" on front boards, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, with foxing spots on outside edges. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22 x 15.
66034 AUSTIN, Brigadier M. & LEVER, Major Geoff THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY... A Brief History
$10.00 AUD
Australian Army History Unit. Canberra. 2011. 4th edition, updated from the 1987 original by the late Brigadier M. Austin. 96 PP with 11 maps in colour, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 9781921941153
74680 AUSTIN, K. A. PHILLIP ISLAND SKETCHBOOK
$20.00 AUD
Rigby. Adellaide. 1977. Reprint of the 1972 original. 64 PP with 30 drawings by Don Angus. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0851794351
14701 AUSTIN, K. A. (editor) MATTHEW FLINDERS - On the Victorian Coast April-May 1802
$20.00 AUD
Cypress Book. Melbourne. 1974. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w illust. (charts, coastal views, paintings & photos). Fp: Flinders as a boy. FEP: Aerial view of the Shire of Flinders. REP: Surveyors at work. Pictorial stiff cover. Very good. 23.8 x 18.3. 0909807132
75416 [AUSTRALIA] MOUNT GAMBIER & District South Australia
$10.00 AUD
Mt Gambier District. 1960s. Pictorial guide. No pagination, 24 PP with colour illustrations/ 1 plan inside back cover and 44 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 24.5 x 18.5.
11641 AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES BICENTENNIAL Issue - The Australian Way
$10.00 AUD
Australian Airlines. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 140 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Bonaparte Map circa 1695). Near fine. 29.7 x 22. 008189161
Special issue for the passengers of Australian Airlines (calendar for the bicentennial year). A vision of Eden, by Manning Clark. The next 200 years by Phillip Adams... Scientific beginnings by Robyn Williams...
74650 AVELING, Marian LILLYDALE - The Billanook Country 1837 - 1972
$25.00 AUD
Gray Hunt & Associates. Melbourne. 1972. 1st. 130, (2 index) PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 2 plates: Map L-66 (plan of Lillydale) and folded map: Map Lodden 25 by T.H. Nutt. Title spread: Lillydale scene by Louis Buvelot, about 1970. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing on top outside edge and on verso of title-spread, o/wise a fine copy. 29 x 26.3.
57536 BACH, John SEA COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE BEFORE 1860 (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS - Volume 41, Part 1, July 1955)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1955. 48 PP. Contains article by M.A. BACH between P.1 and 22 with 2 charts, plus a double folded plate with 2 charts. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21.3 x 13.8.
Other article: Australia: In French Geographical Documents of the Renaissance by R. Hervé, translated by J.M. Forsyth. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
74573 BAILEY, John INTO THE UNKNOWN - The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt
$30.00 AUD
Macmillan. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. XIV, 396, (6 publications) PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations (7 of them portraits). Pictorial stiff covers. Signed by the author on title page. Remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Near fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 9781742610450
56250 BAILYN, Bernard THE PEOPLING OF THE BRITISH PERIPHERIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY - ESSO Lecture 1988
$5.00 AUD
The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Canberra. 1988. 1st Ed. Occasional Paper No. 5. (2), 28 PP. Soft covers a little rubbed, o/wise fine. 21 x 13.5. 0642140324
20084 BAKER, Sidney J. MY OWN DESTROYER - A Biography of Matthew Flinders, Explorer and Navigator
$20.00 AUD
Currawong. Sydney. 1962. 1st Ed. XIII, 146 PP plus 8 pages with 7 b/w illust. Fp: Portrait of Capt. Matthew Flinders, R.N. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is a little rubbed/soiled around edges, o/wise a fine copy. 24.1 x 16.
His achievements as explorer & navigator, his tragedies (shipwrecks, detention at Ile de France for 7 years).
47897 [BANKNOTES] AUSTRALIAN AND WORLD BANKNOTE RARITIES - Banknote Listing Number 2
$30.00 AUD
John Pettit Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1998. 56 PP with 110 colour photos of banknotes. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
76428 BANKS, R.E.R., ELLIOTT, B., HAWKES, J.G., KING-HELE, D. LUCAS, G.Ll (Editors) SIR JOSEPH BANKS: A Global Perspective
$30.00 AUD
Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew. 1994. 1st Ed. (4), ii, 235 PP with b/w illustrations and an Index. Pictorial soft covers. Bookplate of Prof. Adrian Horridge on inside front cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5. 0947643613
13762 BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS EARLY FRENCH VOYAGES TO AUSTRALIA - LES PREMIERES EXPEDITIONS FRANCAISES VERS L'AUSTRALIE (A portfolio of reproductions)
$450.00 AUD
Banque Nationale de Paris. Melbourne. 1981. Limited edition of 2300 copies. Special folder containing: An 8 PP text book with a preface by Rodney Davidson, 2 colour reproductions of invitations to attend State banquets marking the Centenary of Settlement in NSW (1888) and the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament (1901) and on title page (protected by tissue guard): Frontispiece of "Atlas du Voyage de La Pérouse, 1797". As well as 17 facsimiles of plates (4 of them on double page) from the atlases from Bougainville's Voyage until that of Dumont d'Urville's Second Voyage. Original blue stiff folder. Letter from Banque Nationale de Paris to previous owner loosely inserted. Fine. French & English text. Large folio (47.3 cm x 65.6cm). This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.
67869 BARKO, Ivan THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF SYDNEY BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS, A STUDY IN LEADERSHIP (in Explorations No. 55)
$10.00 AUD
Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2013. Australian Summer 2013-2014. 82PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 27. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
72718 BARR, Jim and Mary THE SOUTHERN CROSS FLIES AGAIN
$20.00 AUD
ANZ Banking Group (New Zealand) Ltd. Wellington. 1990. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 18 b/w illustrations: 1 adverisement, 2 cartoons and 15 photos. Soft covers, iluustrated front, staples. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 21.2 x 14.5. 0472009064
Trans Pacific Flight: Oakland, California (31st May 1928) - Honolulu, Hawaii - Suva, Fiji - Brisbane, Queensland - then Sydney (10th June 1928)..
60621 BARRETT, Margaret. FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE PACIFIC, 1995-1996, and its fallout for French Australians (in Explorations No. 44)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2009. June 2008 (issued January 2009). 56 PP. Contains article from P. 25 to 50. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
Issue also contains: Félicité Cochard and the foundation of the Sydney French Benevolent Society, by Ivan Barko (pages 53 to 550).
31931 BARRINGTON, George A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES
$35.00 AUD
View Productions. Sydney. 1985. Reprint. 120 PP with 5 b/w & 7 col. illust. Fp: Unfriendly reception by original inhabitants. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing on endpapers, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 21.7. 0908240988
Life story of a notorious pick-pocket who was sentenced to 7 years' transportation and who became superintendent of convicts.
51238 BARTLETT, Norman & MEEKING, Charles (editors) PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AT WAR 1939-45 - 5 Volumes
$115.00 AUD
Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial. Canberra, ACT. 1959 Reprint of the 1957, 1958 original. General Introduction by J. McGrath. Vol. I: 256 PP. Vol. II: 255 PP. Vol III: 256 PP. Vol. IV: 256 PP. Vol. V: 256 PP. Set with hundreds of b/w photos. Cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine slightly dulled. Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpapers. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25. 4 x 18.
From a collection of 250 000 photographs taken between 3rd September 1939 and 15th August 1945.
58326 BARTON, David WANGEERA - The Story of a Wandering Albatross (Diomedes Exulans)
$15.00 AUD
Marine History. Geelong. c. 1970. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 1 drawing at centrefold and 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.3 x 14
33705 BARTON, G. B. (editor) HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FROM THE RECORDS - Volume I: Governor Phillip 1783-1789
$25.00 AUD
Hale & Iremonger. Sydney. 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1889 original. LXXXV, (3), 625 PP, plus 11 plates (1 map, 1 plan, 3 folded maps and 6 engravings). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 0908094639
48939 BARTON, G. B. (editor) HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES
$15.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1886 original. 159 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Note at top of front endpaper. Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 0701813458
42948 BASSETT, Jan GREAT EXPLORATIONS: An Australian Anthology
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1996. 1st Ed. XVIII, 317 PP with 1 map on double page and 3 head pieces. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.3 x 14.2. 0195537416
62139 BASSETT, Jan THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1993. 1st Ed. VI, 304 PP with b/w illustrations (24 head pieces, engravings, plans, photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing (outside edges and inside of dust jacket). Very good. 26 x 20. 0195532430
from: Aboriginal Flag and Aborigines ... to Wybalenna and Zeehan.
67703 BASTIAN, Maurice PERIPLE AUSTRALIEN
$30.00 AUD
Author. Genève. 1970. 1st edition limited to 400 copies. Preface by André Siegfried. 235 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map and 12 drawings on full page by Jean de Castella). Soft cover. Title on front cover and spine. Covers soiled with front part rubbed, o/wise very good. French text. 24.8 x 19.
21465 BATESON, Charles GOLD FLEET FOR CALIFORNIA, Forty-Niners from Australia and New Zealand
$20.00 AUD
Ure Smith. Sydney. 1963. 1st Ed. 172 PP, plus 14 pages with 16 bw illust. Eps (folded): Deserted ships in San Francisco Harbour. Hard cover, gilt decorated covers, dj. Light foxing, mostly on the outside front page edges o/wise fine. 24.4 x 16.2.
A contribution to Australian maritime history, depicting the crossing of over 7000 Australians & New Zealanders who sailed to the Californian gold fields.
49351 BATESON, Charles THE CONVICT SHIPS 1787-1868
$35.00 AUD
Library of Australian History. Sydney. 1983. Reprint of the 1974 paperback Australian edition (original of 1959). X, 421 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Spine slightly sunned and with 2 creases. Very good. 21 x 14. 0908120516
The strange and often macabre story of the transport of prisoners from Britain to Australia between 1787 and 1868.
21189 BAUDIN, Nicolas LE VOYAGE AUX TERRES AUSTRALES 1800-1804
$10.00 AUD
Musée Eugène Boudin / Ville de Honfleur. Honfleur. 1996. 4 PP in the form of a newspaper with 1 map in colour, 2 b/w & 10 colour illustrations. Compiled by Ann-Marie Bergeret. French text. Fine. 35 x 25.
Journal of an exhibition held from 4th May to 24 June 1996 at Honfleur, the birth place of Emmanuel Hamelin who was the Captain of the Naturaliste, one of the two vessels of Baudin's expedition to Australia (1800-1804). Preparations and the voyage itself. The exhibition was held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Contains a short biography of Admiral Emmanuel Hamelin and two of the artists of the voyage (Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas Martin Petit).
70561 BAUDIN, Nicolas REFLECTIONS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL VOYAGER: Nicolas Baudin Letter to Philip Gidley King, 24 December 1802
$30.00 AUD
Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 2016. 1st edition. Edited and Translated by Jean Fornasiero. 46, (2) PP. Stiff covers, illustrated front. French and English text. Fine. 23.5 x 18. 9781876154912
... Supposed claims by the French Government on Van Diemen's Land ... Relations in Sydney between the English and the Aborigines... On the name given to King Island...
51803 BAXTER, Carol AN IRRESISTIBLE TEMPTATION. The Story of Jane New and a colonial scandal
$35.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed. (10), 422 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and outside page edges, o/wise fine. 23 x 15.4. 174114924X
Transported in 1824 on the convict ship Henry. Arrived Hobart 8th February 1825...
44627 BEALE, Bob & FRAY, Peter THE VANISHING CONTINENT - Australia's Degraded Environment
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. Sydney. 1990. 1st Ed., with foreword by Rick Farley & Phillip Toyne. XII, 196 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, sketches and photos). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.2 x 18.6. 0340541229
38849 BEATTY, Bill HERE IN AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1959. 1st Australian edition. 200 PP, plus 24 pages with 40 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj (rubbed). Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Tells of the famous, infamous, preposterous personalities in Australia's folklore; tribal customs, buccaneers, gem-buyers, missionaries, ...
72020 BECKE, Louis & JEFFERY, Walter (editors) A FIRST FLEET FAMILY - A hitherto unpublished Narrative of certain remarkable adventures compiled from the papers of Sergeant William Dew of the Marines
$75.00 AUD
T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1896. 1st Ed. XVI, 271 PP. Fp: folded chart "part of the Sea Coast of New South Wales". Cloth covers a little soiled with light wear, gilt title on spine. Bookplate of previous owner "Tremearne" on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. Scarce. 20.5 x 13.5.
72220 BECKETT, Pat & MAREE, Piet RE-DISCOVERING TASMANIA - The North-West Coast
$40.00 AUD
The Advocate. Burnie & Devonport, Tasmania. 1955. 1st edition of October 1955. Introduction, by Ian Harris (editor) and Foreword by Tourism Minister Hand. 184 PP with 12 pages of advertisements and b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches, 6 maps or plans, photos). Stiff covers, illustrations on recto and verso, spiral bound. Light wear to covers. Name of previous owner on title page. Contents near fine. 21 x 14.
Pat Beckett, better known as Patsy Adams-Smith wrote other books on Tasmania and her experiences at sea.
74515 BECKLER, Hermann A JOURNEY TO COOPER'S CREEK
$50.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press & State Library of Victoria. Melbourne. 1993. 1st edition, No. 13 in the Miegunyah Press series. Translated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz. Editor's Preface and Introduction by Stephen Jeffries. XLV, 205 PP with 9 drawings & 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 2 b/w and 2 colour illustrations and 1 large folded map tipped in on rear endpaper. Hard covers, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy. 24.2 x 15.5 9780522844849
NewSouth Publishing. Sydney. 2021. 1st Ed. 194 PP, plus 8 pages with 5 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781742237091
12023 BERNARD, Michel HISTOIRE DE L'AUSTRALIE (de 1770 à nos jours), Naissance d'une Nation du Pacifique
$10.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed. 136 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. French text. 21.5 x 13. 2738429289
History of Australia from 1770 to the present day up to the return to power of the Labor Party (Hawke Government) and towards a multicultural society.
13744 BERNARD, Michel L'AGE D'OR AUSTRALIEN, La ruée vers l'or et ses conséquences 1851
$20.00 AUD
l'Harmattan. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed. 254 PP with 5 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. French text. Near fine. 24 x 16. 2738451306
The Gold Rush of the mid-19th century to Australia, consequences and aftermath. P.187 to 214: documents and narratives, including one of 1897-1899 by the future US President Herbert Hoover. P.215 to 227: glossary of Australian terms and icons.
35599 BERNARD, Michel LA COLONISATION PENITENTIAIRE EN AUSTRALIE 1788-1868
$40.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed. in Collection Chemins de la Mémoire. 272 PP with 1 graph and 3 maps. Card cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 15.7. 2738481337
Penal settlements and the colonisation of the Australian continent.
59988 BESSANT, Judith, CARRINGTON, Kerry & COOK, Sandy CULTURES OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE - The Australian Experience
$15.00 AUD
La Trobe University Press & Victorian Law Foundation. Melbourne. 1995. Special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, No. 43. (10), 221 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 1863244174
18 papers.
15767 BEWLEY, Christina MUIR OF HUNTERS HILL
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1981. 1st Ed. XI, 212 PP with 15 b/w illust., 1 b/w chart of the Pacific. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.4 x 14.7. 0192117688
A Scottish patriot's adventures around the world, escape from Botany Bay, across the Pacific and return to Europe.
76016 BIALOGUSKI, Michael THE PETROV STORY
$15.00 AUD
William Heinemann Ltd. Melbourne. 1955 1st Ed. XVI, 247 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with chips and repaired tears, now in a protectice sleeve. Signature of previous owner on FFEP, otherwise near fine. 22.3 x 14.5.
64022 BLACKBIRDING DOSSIER DE PRESSE: EMBARQUEMENT POUR LE QUEENSLAND: DES LOYALTIENS EN TERRE AUSTRALIENNE
$20.00 AUD
Bibliothèque Bernheim. Nouméa. 2001. Press release for the Exhibition. Discours / Speech by Mme Sally Mansfield, Consul General of Australia. No pagination, 28 PP (recto only) with b/w illustrations and 19 b/w photos in the section "Photos du Vernissage / Photos of the Launch", plus the poster for the exhibition. Clear plastic front, spiral bound. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
File with photocopies of pages published in "Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes", "Télé 7 Jours Nouvelle-Calédonie", "Challenge Magazine", "Le Gratuit". Loyalty Islanders and blackbirding to Queensland.
53075 BLACKBURN, Julia THE WHITE MEN - The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man
$10.00 AUD
Times Books. London. 1979. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dr. Edmund Carpenter. 192 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title spread: White European Officer carried by Congolese soldiers. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25 x 19. 0812908260
A tribute to the will to survive the impact of European arrivals, a reflection of our civilization seen through indigenous people's eyes (reproduced on engraved bamboos, wall paintings, carvings, ...).
11607 BLAINEY, Geoffrey THE BLAINEY VIEW
$10.00 AUD
ABC & Macmillan. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 156 PP with numerous b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket slightly sunned, otherwise fine. 28 x 21.5. 0333338855
History of Australia and its people. Chapter 1: Footprints (Australian Aborigines). Chapter 4: Yellow Dragon (Chinese, yellow peril and White Australia Policy)... Chapter 7: Invasion (World War II on doorstep)...
75192 BLAINEY, Geoffrey THE RUSH THAT NEVER ENDED - A History of Australian Mining
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1993. 1st paperback printing of the 4th edition (original 1963). XIV, 414 PP with 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos. Pictorial card covers with light wear and spine lightly sunned, otherwise near fine. 22.9 x 15.2. 9780522845570
75457 BLAINEY, Geoffrey THE RUSH THAT NEVER ENDED - A History of Australian Mining
$25.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1964. Reprint with corrections of the 1963 original. X, 369 PP with 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Australia showing the chief mining districts. Hard covers, gilt title on spine. dj (price clipped). Light foxing, o/wise a fine copy. 22 x 14.5.
51538 BOLDREWOOD, Rolf (BROWNE, Thomas Alexander) ROBBERY UNDER ARMS
$10.00 AUD
Budget Books & Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1979. Reprint in the Australian Classics series, of the 1881 original. 447 PP. Hard cover, illustrated boards, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 090850506X
74074 BOLLEE, Laurent Frédéric & NICLOUX, Philippe TERRA AUSTRALIS
$75.00 AUD
Editions Glénat. Grenoble, France. 2013. 3rd Ed. in the Collection 1000 Feuilles. 508, (4) PP. Pictorial hard covers with a ribbon page-marker. French text. Fine. 27.2 x 20. 9782723452579
An illustrated saga of the prehistory and British settlement of Australia.
75750 BOLT, Andrew (editor) OUR HOME FRONT 1939-1945
$20.00 AUD
Wilkinson Books / Herald Sun. Melbourne. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. Afterword by Joan Kirner. 287 PP with b/w illustrations: front page and extracts of Melbourne daily newspapers "The Sun" and "The Herald", plus 16 pages with colour illustrations (artworks by Roy Hodginkson, comic strips ("Bib and Bub" and "Ginger Meggs"), and 8 pages of "War Posters". Laminated pictorial boards. Fine (as new condition). 34.2 x 24.5. 9781863502030
74035 BOND, G. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE Colony of PORT-JACKSON
$100.00 AUD
Edition Renard. Melbourne. 2005. 8th edition of the 1803 original, limited to 200 hand numbered copies (No. 139 / 200). (VI), 40, (2 colophons) PP. Cased in cream paper boards with printed title on white label pasted down on front cover. Copy dated and signed by Julien Renard (editor & publisher) on preliminary page. Note signed by Julien Renard, loosely inserted. Fine (mint condition). 21.8 x 13. 1920738118
38287 BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline (editor) MON VOYAGE AUX TERRES AUSTRALES - Journal personnel du Commandant Baudin
$140.00 AUD
Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 467, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (2 sketch-plans, 2 maps, 4 charts and 10 facsimile of original manuscript), plus 96 colour plates with 195 illustrations (6 of people, 5 of insects, 5 of animals, 98 on ocean fauna...) many relating to Australia: 3 views, 10 portraits of aborigines and 50 coastal views. Pictorial card cover. French text. Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 24 x 16.5. 2743303840
Journal of Nicolas Baudin kept during his voyage of discovery to Australia. Journal starting 7/8 March 1800, prior to the departure from Le Havre. Passports issued by the British Admiralty, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Portugal and USA. Call at Ile de France (Mauritius). West coast of New Holland (Australia), 27 May 1801. Leewin, 20 June 1801. Endracht, 22 July 1801. Kupang (West Timor) 22 August 1801. Sailing for D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Maria Island (Tasmania) on 13 November 1801. Journal ends on 30 December 1801 while closing on the South West corner of Western Australia.
19736 BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline & BRACONNOT, Jean-Claude LES TUNICIERS PELAGIQUES: SALPES ET PYROSOMES ETUDIES PAR FRANCOIS PERON ET CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR AU DEBUT DU 19e SIECLE (in Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre)
$40.00 AUD
Editions du Muséum du Havre. Le Havre. 1986. Volume 73, part 3, 3rd term 1986 of Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre. 73, (3) PP. Contains article P. 45 to 75 with 7 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 20.8.
The Tunicata and the Salpidae collected and described by Péron and Lesueur.
34515 BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline & BRACONNOT, Jean-Claude CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ET DES DESSINS DES CTENOPHORES OBSERVES PAR F. PERON ET C.A. LESUEUR - Collections du Muséum du Havre: Dossier 67 (in Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Museum du Havre)
$30.00 AUD
Editions du Muséum du Havre. Le Havre. 1986. Volume 73, part 4, 4th term 1986 of Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre. 46, (2) PP. Contains article P. 31 to 41 with 2 b/w plates. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 29.5 x 20.8.
The Ctenophora collected and described by Péron and Lesueur.
37920 BONNER, Senator N.T., et al.. THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF ABORIGINES AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS AND THE PRESERVATION OF THEIR SACRED SITES
$10.00 AUD
The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia / A. G. P. S. Canberra. 1974. 1st Ed. XIV, 134 PP with 10 tables. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0642005729
Second progress report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment.
74677 BONWICK, James WESTERN VICTORIA: Its Geography, Geology, and Social Condition - The Narrative of an Educational Tour in 1857
$50.00 AUD
William Heinemann Australia Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 1970. 1st edition with Introduction and Commentary on the 1858 original, by C.E. Sayers. XXXII, 196 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.2. 0855610166
65010 BOWD, D. G. MACQUARIE COUNTRY: A History of the Hawkesbury
$20.00 AUD
Library of Australian History. Sydney. 1979. Edition limited to 1500 copies of the revised edition of 1973 (original 1962). Foreword by Ronald B. Walker. (12), 242 PP, plus frontispiece and 16 plates with 26 b/w illustrations. Fp: A portrait of Governor Macquarie. FEP: Map Hawkesbury c. 1810. REP: Map of Hawkesbury district 1968. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 25.2. x 16. 090812032X
58045 BOWDEN, Keith (editor) MATTHEW FLINDERS' NARRATIVE OF TOM THUMB'S CRUISE TO CANOE RIVULET
$25.00 AUD
South Eastern Historical Association. Brighton, Vic. 1985. 1st Ed., with foreword by Ann Flinders Petrie. XVII, 34 PP with 6 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers. Manuscript letter from the SEHA / Southe Eastern Historical Association addressed to Professor Anderson, Latrobe University, loosely inserted. Fine. 24.7 x 17.7. 0950091510
75153 BOWDEN, Tim ONE CROWDED HOUR - Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman 1934-1985
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1994. 1st paperback edition in the A&R Classics series. XII, 436 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (1 map and 1 newspaper cutting), plus 16 pages with 56 photos (including mementos of Foreign Correspondent and 20 portraits of "Children of the Dust"). Soft covers, pictorial front. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Very good reading copy. 19.8 x 13. 9780207187636
Combat cameraman / photographer, born in Tasmania ... Killed in Thailand while filming an attempted Coup (September 1985).
75995 BOWRY, Christine E. A GRAND SPORT - GOSFORD SAILING CLUB 1932-2002
$25.00 AUD
Gosford Sailing Club. Gosford, NSW. 2003. 1st Ed. (6), 138 PP with b/w illustrations (1 sketch map, newspaper clippings, regatta programmes, portraits, photos), plus 12 pages with 21 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Front cover with a light crease, otherwise near fine. 23.4 x 16. 9781740110228
74518 BOYES, Rosemary (Mrs. Frank Boyes) OVERLAND TO PORT PHILLIP BAY - The story of the epic exploration by Hume and Hovell, with party. October-December, 1824
$15.00 AUD
The Albury and District Historical Society. Albury. c. 1973. 2nd edition of the 1972 original. Foreword by the Reverend Bruce L. Clark. No pagination, 32 PP with 6 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 3 sketch maps and 2 photos). Library binding, retaining original soft covers (laminated). Stamp on verso of title page & library number on front cover. Very good. 22 x 14.
54088 BRADBURY, Bevan (editor) TOURISM SHOPPING IN AUSTRALIA - Report of the Committee of Inquiry 1988
$15.00 AUD
Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories / AGPS. Canberra. 1988. 1st Ed. VIII, 89 PP with graphs, tables and 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Water stain on front cover. Sticker of travel agency and stamp of previous owner on pages 40 and 77. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644084340
15776 BRADDON, Russell THOMAS BAINES AND THE NORTH AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION
$20.00 AUD
Collins / Royal Geographical Society. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Wickham River. FEP: Net fishing. REP: Messenger's longboat. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 27 x 27. 0002175452
North Australian Expedition led by Augustus Gregory: sketches, watercolours & oil paintings executed by Thomas Baines.
71592 BRAND TASMANIA TASMANIA - AUSTRALIA: A World apart for living, working, learning and investing
$10.00 AUD
Hobart. Brand Tasmania Council. c. 2012. 1st Ed. 16 PP with colour illustrations: sketch map of Tasmania and location map, 5 portraits and 34 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
37370 BRAND, Ian ESCAPE FROM PORT ARTHUR
$15.00 AUD
Regal Publications. Launceston, Tasmania. c. 1990. Reprint of the 1978 original. VIII, 63 PP with 2 maps and 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 0949457345
The thrilling true life account of escape, in February 1839, by sea, from Australia's most infamous penal colony.
11604 BRANDER, Bruce, HARRELL, M.A. & HOLTHOUSE, Hector AUSTRALIA
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1968. 1st Ed. 220 PP with maps, drawings & num. colour illust. Cloth covers somewhat soiled, gilt title on front cover and spine. Internally very good. 25.8 x 18.
A discovery and story of Australia at the end of the 1960's.
76331 BRASH, Nicholas SYDNEY - A Pictorial Contrast
$25.00 AUD
Golden Press Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1986. 1st Edition. Forewords by David McNicoll & Bridget Adams. 160 PP with b/w and colour photos (contrast: b/w on upper part of page and colour on lower part). All colour photos by Phil Gray either on full page, double page or and folded pages with 3 or 4 folds. Title spread (in colour): Sydney Harbour from the Shore Scool Tower. Hard covers, simile vellum, dj. Fine. 33 x 24.8. 0949220000
55804 BRENNAN, Frank TAMPERING WITH ASYLUM: A Universal Humanitarian Problem
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. XVIII, 234 PP with 16 cartoons. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 07022341268
74307 BRENNAN, Niall A HISTORY OF NUNAWADING
$25.00 AUD
The Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1972. 1st Ed. (10), 150 PP with 5 maps (1 on double page), plus 12 pages with 22 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Parish of Nunawading. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 22 x 14.3. 0725600756
74728 BRENNAN, Niall CHRONICLES OF DANDENONG
$20.00 AUD
The Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1973. 1st Ed. (10), 142 PP with b/w illustrations (2 facsimile of documents, 3 graphs and 6 plans), plus 16 pages with 41 b/w illustrations (prints & photos). Eps: Map with location of early schools & churches of the Dandenong. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22 x 14.3. 0725600756
19740 BRETON, Gérard CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR (1778 - 1846), L'ART AU SERVICE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES
$20.00 AUD
Editions du Muséum du Havre. Le Havre. 1977. Part No. 8, May 1977 of the Annales du Muséum du Havre. 12 PP with 7 b/w illust. Inside front cover: musical score on indigenous songs from Timor Island. Illustrated soft cover (stapled). French and Russian text. Fine. 29.6 x 21
Catalogue produced for the exhibition on C.-A. Lesueur organised by Le Havre and held at Leningrad in June-July 1977.
67496 BREWER, Bob FIRST FLEET - BIRTH OF A NOBLE NATION (in Gold Coast Bulletin)
$5.00 AUD
Gold Coast Bulletin. Surfers Paradise. 2001. Weekend Bulletin, January 20-21, 2001. Pages 53, 56 & 57 with 2 colour photos.
First Fleet voyage and names of all those who made the historic voyage and launched a new Nation.
66065 BRIER-MILLS, Margery THE ROMANCE OF THE BREMER
$25.00 AUD
Historical Society of Ipswich. Ipswich, Qld. 1982. 1st Ed., in a Heritage Publication - Ipswich series. 74 PP with 1 map and 3 plans of the river, and b/w illustrations (drawings, paintings, photos), plus a double folded plate with 1 aerial view of Ipswich in 1870 (on the inside) and 6 b/w photos. Title page: vignette with S.S. Experiment, 1846. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.7. 0959333509
74523 BROCK, Daniel George TO THE DESERT WITH STURT - A Diary of the 1844 Expedition
$30.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. Adelaide. 1975. 1st Ed. Preface and Introduction by Kenneth Peake-Jones. XXI, 222 PP, plus 1 colour plate and 4 facsimile pages of 2 of diaries (John McDouall and Daniel Brock). Fp (in colour): Daniel Brock at Poole's Grave. Eps: Map of Sturt's Journeys. Cloth covers, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 22 x 14.5. 0909112002
74675 BRODRIBB, William Adams RECOLLECTIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN SQUATTER 1835-1883
$50.00 AUD
John Ferguson / Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1978. 1st edition. A facsimile reprint of the 1883 edition, with an Introduction by A.G.L. Shaw. (6), (4), 237 PP. Eps: Painting by W. Hatherell. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 21.8 x 14. 090913412X
74520 BRODRIBB, William Adams & BENNETT, Lavinia Hasell RECOLLECTIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN SQUATTER by William Adams Brodribb & ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY TO GIPPS LAND by Lavinia Hasell Bennett
$130.00 AUD
Queensberry Hill Press. Melbourne. 1976. Edition limited to 350 copies hand numbered (No. 90/350). XIV, 202, (2 errata), (2) PP with 13 hand-tipped facsimile reproductions of Diary pages, plus 1 folded map of New South Wales (1844), and 3 half-tone plates tipped in / pasted down. Quarter bound Kanpur Calf, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt name of authors, enclosed in a decorated slipcase. Folded flyer by Peter L. Marsh, publisher loosely inserted. Fine. 31 x 22. 0909174008
47386 BRODSKY, George (editor) COLLINS ALL SERVICES POLYGLOT DIARY
$100.00 AUD
Collins Bros & Coy. Ltd. Sydney. 1945. 1st Ed. (8), 180, (2 calendars 1944, 1945 &1946) PP, plus diary part (80 notes), (16 cash account), (14 index) PP. Outside edges marbled. Hard covers, cloth spine. Covers rubbed. Note on front endpaper. Ageing of paper. Very good. Scarce. 17 x 10.
Services: issued for the Australian forces fighting in South East Asia. Polyglot sections: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese and Malayan.
62707 BROOK, Stephen THE WHY OF HOWE - Lord Howe Island (in The Australian WISH)
$5.00 AUD
The Australian Wish / Nationwide News Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2013. Issue 02 / 2013. 76 PP. Contains article pages 50 to 55 with 16 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 33 x 27
Lord Howe, subtropical island off the New South Wales coast.
34212 BROOKES, Mabel RIDERS OF TIME
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan of Australia. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. XIV, 217 PP with 36 illustrations by Harold Freedman, and 39 b/w photos. Fp: Building the Briars Homestead. Cloth covers a little rubbed, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good clean copy. 24 x 16.8.
Australia: exploration, settlement...
72764 BROOKES, Mabel RIDERS OF TIME
$20.00 AUD
Macmillan of Australia. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. XIV, 217 PP with 36 illustrations by Harold Freedman, and 39 b/w photos. Fp: Building the Briars Homestead. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good clean copy. 24 x 16.8.
Australia: exploration, settlement...
73643 BROWN, Susie & WARNER, Margaret LONE PINE - Centenary Edition
$60.00 AUD
Little Hare Books / Hardie Grant. Melbourne. 2014. Centenary Edition of the 2012 orginal. No pagination. 32 PP with colour illustrations by Sebastian Ciaffaglione. Pictorial hard covers. Illustrated book plate pasted down on free fly of front endpaper, with signed dedicatory note by both authors. Fine (as new condition). Rare. 25 x 25. 9781742978703
.. Pine cones collected at the end of this battle on Gallipoli Peninsula and planted in Cardiff, NSW, then transplanted in Canberra and Inverell.
67971 BROXAM, Graeme ADMIRAL - The History, Recovery and Restoration of Tasmania's Oldest Commercial Vessel
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2009. Revised edition (Post Relaunch of November 2009). 64 PP with b/w illustrations : 1 plan, sketches and 30 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. As new. 21 x 14.8., 9780975133163
69290 BROXAM, Graeme THOSE THAT SURVIVE, Vintage & Veteran Boats of Tasmania
$50.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1996. 1st Ed. No. 49, in the Roebuck series. XIV, 146 PP with 208 b/w photos in text. Pictorial card cover. Signed by the author on title-page. A near fine copy of a scarce title. 24.8 x 17.5. 0958656126
Yachts, fishing vessels, ocean sailing ships, river steamers, harbour craft. Hulks and wrecks.
41844 BRUNTON, Paul (editor) MATTHEW FLINDERS - Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life
$30.00 AUD
Hordern House & State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2002. 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. No. 1 in The Mitchell Heritage series. Preface by Sir Alastair Goodlad. (XII), 262 PP with 19 colour-printed illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, RN, 1774-1814, by Toussaint Antoine de Chazal. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in burgundy cloth with illustrated boards, gilt title on spine. Faint foxing. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 1875567321
51221 BRUNTON, Paul & BURNINGHAM, Nick THE DUTCH EXPLORERS (in Australian Heritage No.2)
$15.00 AUD
Hallmark Editions. BNrighton, Vic. 2006. Issue No.2, Autumn 2006. 96 PP. Contains 2 articles between P.48 and 55 with 3 b/w and 5 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Australia and the Dutch East India Company: The final phase of the Age of Discovery, by N. Burningham. Abel Tasman: Navigator of the unknown, by Paul Brunton.
75138 BRYSON, Bill DOWN UNDER
$15.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. (12), 319 PP with b/w illustrations by Neil Gower: 4 maps and 19 headpieces. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Discreet note on front endpaper. Very good. 24 x 16. 9780385408172
71515 BUCKBY, Pauline DAVID HOWIE, Devil or Saint
$50.00 AUD
Jamala Press. Smithton, Tasmania. 2003. 1st Ed. 186 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 plan, 1 sketch map of King Island and 38 engravings & photos. Illustrated stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 23.5 x 15.5. 1876913088
68594 BUCKBY, Pauline Yvette THE FRENCH CONNECTION
$35.00 AUD
Author. Hobart. 2014. 1st Ed. 118 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 14.8..
Story of 3 families who settled in Tasmania : De Jersey from the Channel Islands, Golding from Berkshire and Read from Norfolk.
The University of Queensland. Brisbane. 2001. Volume 8, No. 1, May 2001. VI, 96 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5.
Contains article from P. 21 to 30 by Steve Mullins "KASTOM, Synchretism and Self-Determination: the Reconciliation of Bipotaim and Pastaim in the Church of Torres Strait".
71946 BULL, Tas FORE AND AFT (mostly sea stories)
$35.00 AUD
Halstead Press. Sydney. 2005. 1st edition with a foreword by Greg Combet (ACTU) & Padraig Crumlin (MUA). 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Name of previous owner on title page, otherwise a fine copy. 27.8 x 22. 978192031325
Life at sea and on the waterfront of this seafarer and union representative, hailing from Tasmania. Family history of his forebears from Norway.
75919 BURCHETT, Wilfred MEMOIRS OF A REBEL JOURNALIST: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett
$100.00 AUD
University of New South Wales. Sydney. 2005. 1st edition. Prefaces by George Burchett and Nick Shimmin (editors). Original introduction by Wilfred Burchett. Foreword by Phillip Knightley, AM. (XXVI), 785 PP. Hard covers, dj. 1 newspaper clipping and 3 newspaper articles/reviews loosely inserted. Near fine. 24 x 16.
Born in Poowong, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia in 1911 ... died in Sofia, Bulgaria on 27th September 1983. Newspaper clipping: "Mort d'un Communiste qui aimait la Caledonie" in Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes, 30 September 1983 (his first book: "Pacific Treasure Island - New Caledonia"). 3 articles in "The Australian": 23-24 December 2006: "History's faithless scribe", by Brendon O'Connor, 22-23 March 2008, "Writing Wrongs of Wilfred", by Tibor Meray, and 27-28 July 2013, "His Paymaster's Voice sets record straight", by Robert Manne.
15826 BURKHARDT, Frederick CHARLES DARWIN'S LETTERS, A Selection 1825-1859
$10.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1996. 1st Ed. Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. XXVI, 249 PP. Fp: Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1840. FEP:Darwin and Wedgwood family tree. REP: Map of voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.3. 0521562120
51624 BURNINGHAM, Nick ENDEAVOUR AND AUSTRALIA'S OTHER 'FIRST SHIPS' (in Signals No. 74)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2006. No. 74, March-May 2006. Contains article from P. 26 to 30 with 2 b/w and 4 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Ships (bamboo rafts to Cook's Endeavour) and Peoples (aborigines, Indo-Malay, Europeans) who discovered and settled the Australian continent.
A. N. M. Hobart. 1988. Commemorative book, with a letter dated July 25 1988, signed by G. F. Gibson, Managing Director. No pagination, 56 PP with 38 b/w and 29 colour photos. Inside covers with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with flaps, title on front cover and spine, contained in a decorated box. Box with slight scratch and rubbed edges. A near fine and scarce item. 30. 26.
48938 BURT, Jocelyn SCENIC AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1978. 1st Ed. 80 PP with over 65 colour photos. Fp: Ord River, Western Australia. Eps: Sketch map of Australia. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 28.7 x 21.8. 0727006460
51239 BUTLER, Richard 258 DAYS TO SYDNEY COVE
$25.00 AUD
CCH Australia Limited. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (8), 118 PP with 21 b/w illustrations. Title page: Governor Arthur Phillip raises the Union Jack at Sydney Cove on 26th January 1788). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.5. 0869036343
Australian history written with novelisation as part of the CCH Education series, Conflict in Australian Society.
75055 BYARD, Ian and McBAIN with DICK, H.W. THE AGENCY - Macdonald, Hamilton, & Co., AUSN, P&O and Inchcape in Australia, 1915-2015
$60.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia, Inc. Melbourne. 2023. 1st Ed. XVI, 304 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Brisbane River with tug boat "Forceful" and "Coringa" with AUSN cargo ship Mallina. Half title page and title page with House-Flag. Pictorial stiff covers. New. 25 x 17.5. 9780975689660
Agency established by Lord Inchcape in 1915 ...
65052 BYRNE, Dianne A TRAVELLING PHOTOGRAPHER IN COLONIAL QUEENSLAND - The Work of William Boag
$75.00 AUD
Brisbane. 1994. State Library of Queensland. 1st Ed., with a preface by W. Ross Johnson. IX, 118 PP with b/w ilustrations (2 maps, 5 newspaper clippings and 9 photos) and 104 b/w plates. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 30 x 25. 0724258833
72710 BYRNES, Paul QANTAS BY GEORGE ! The Remarkable Story of George Roberts
$30.00 AUD
The Watermark Press. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by James Strong. 196 PP with over 150 b/w illustrations (drawings, ephemera, 10 headpieces, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.3 x 18. 9780949284525
50111 CABLE, Kenneth FOURTEEN EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. 1951. July reprint of the March 1951 original. 16 PP with 14 maps and portraits. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 24 x 15.5.
Abel Tasman, James Cook... John Stuart, John Forrest.
50641 CABLE, Kenneth SIXTEEN EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
$5.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. 1963. September 1963 reprint of the 1957 (4th) edition, of the 1951 original Fourteen Explorers of Australia. 18 PP with 16 maps and portraits. Illustrated soft cover. Good. 24 x 15.5.
Abel Tasman, James Cook... John Stuart, John Forrest.
75290 CAIRNS, Joan & JOHNSTON, W. T. PORT DOUGLAS - "A Born Again Port"
$20.00 AUD
Joan Cairns & W.T. Johnston / Tableland Printing Service. Atherton, Qld. 1986. 1st Ed. 28 PP with b/w illustrations (1 location map and and 28 sketches). Soft covers, illustrated front. Near fine. Oblong: 17 x 24.5. 1862525072
A History-Sketch Record.
73641 CALLIL, Carmen BAD FAITH - A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
$30.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2006. 1st Ed. XXX, 607, (3) PP with 2 Family Trees, 4 maps and 17 text illustrations, plus 32 pages with 70 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.2 x 17. 9780375411311
... and Tasmania. At the time, the motto of France under Marechal Pétain, was: Travail / Famille / Patrie (Work / Family / Fatherland).
11707 CAMBITOGLOU, Alexander RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA AND CONTACTS WITH EUROPE, An Archaeologist's Viewpoint
$5.00 AUD
Australian Humanities Research Council / M.U.P. Melbourne. 1964. 1st Ed. Occasional Paper No. 5. 8 PP. Soft cover. Fine. 24.2 x 18.3.
The need to cooperate between Australian and European institutions. Paper read to the Annual Meeting of the Australian Humanities Research Council, Canberra, 6 November, 1963.
76319 CAMERON, David W. AUSTRALIANS ON THE WESTERN FRONT - Volume Two: Spearheading the Great British Offensive
$20.00 AUD
Viking / Penguin Books. Sydney. 2018. 1st Ed. XIV, 541 PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 44 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 9780670078288
19303 CANNON, Michael PERILOUS VOYAGES TO THE NEW LAND
$50.00 AUD
Today's Australia Publishing Company. Melbourne. 1997 Revised and expanded "casebound" edition from the 1995 original. 272 PP with 5 tail-pieces, 25 head-pieces, and 131 b/w illust., plus 8 colour plates. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Name of previous owner on verso of front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. 30.2 x 21.8. 9780646240183
Experiences of Australian pioneer families on the high seas.
47113 CANNON, Michael AUSTRALIA, SPIRIT OF A NATION - A Bicentenary Album
$20.00 AUD
Viking O'Neil / Hallmark Diemasters & Engravers. Melbourne. 1988. Special edition of the 1985 original, published for The Australian Collection. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (picture research by Debby Cramer). Quarter bound, cloth boards, gilt device and "The Australian Collection" on front cover, gilt title on leather spine. All edges gilt. A hint of foxing on first and last pages, o/wise fine. 31 x 23. 0859022102
49475 CANNON, Michael THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Readers' Digest. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 304 PP with 77 maps & charts, and 476 b/w or colour illust. (paintings, photos, ...). Pictorial laminated boards. Dust jacket tipped in on endpapers. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.6. 0864380364
An authoritative reference and a stirring chronicle on the exploration of Australia: from the arrival of the aborigines to the exploration with modern technology.
58642 CANNON, Michael AUSTRALIA, SPIRIT OF A NATION
$10.00 AUD
Viking O'Neil. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (picture research by Debby Cramer). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 31 x 23. 0859022102
42577 CARACCIOLO, Lucio & KORINMAN, Michel (editors) AUSTRALIE - L'Occident des Antipodes (Limes, Revue Française de Géopolitique - No.5)
$10.00 AUD
Editions Golias. Villeurbanne. 2000. 1st Ed. 246 PP with tables and maps. Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14
Australia, Western World at / of the Antipodes. Australia, Oceania, South East Asia.
11964 CARNE, Derek LANDRIGHTS - A Christian Perspective
$10.00 AUD
Australian Council of Churches / Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. (4), 160 PP with 12 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.8 x 13.8. 0909188408
Landrights and Aboriginal culture, Europeans and the Church.
17280 CARROLL, J. R. HARPOONS TO HARVEST, The Story of Charles and John Mills, Pioneers of Port Fairy
$100.00 AUD
Warrnambool Institute Press. Warrnambool. 1989. 1st Ed. XV, 286 PP with 4 maps & 3 plans, plus 12 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Half-title page: Telescope. Eps: Genealogical tree. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. A very fine copy. Scarce. 24.5 x 15.5.
Early sealing followed by whaling in Bass Strait. Land-owner, Harbour Master,..
62776 CARTER, Annette I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME - The Qantas Story 1920-2005
$15.00 AUD
Focus Publishing. Sydney. 2005. 1st paperback edition. Foreword by Geoff Dixon. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations(ephemera, posters, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Lower corner of title page with a crease, o/wise fine. 29.5 x 24. 1920683615
Q.A.N.T.A.S. = Queenland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.
48581 CASTEJON, Vanessa LES ABORIGENES ET L'APARTHEID POLITIQUE AUSTRALIEN
$35.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 270 PP with 1 table and 4 annexes in English (pages 253 to 269) . Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 2747578488
58839 CAVEN, Pam, GULLAN, Rob & McLENNAN, Belinda WORK IN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY
$20.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1989. 1st Ed. VI, 346 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 19. 033347841X
71188 CAYLEY, Neville W. THE SOLVOL BIRD BOOK - 54 Australian Birds
$30.00 AUD
Solvol / J. Kitchen & Sons Pty. Ltd. Sydney. c.1940. 1st Ed. Foreword S.R. Thomas, Gould League of Bird Lovers and Director of Education N.S.W. No pagination, 28 PP with 54 colour illustrations by Neville W. Cayley. Pictorial soft covers a little soiled and chipped around edges, o/wise very good. Scarce. Oblong: 12 x 18.5.
15845 CHARLWOOD, Don SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$10.00 AUD
Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 1 map, 2 plans, 1 colour photo, and 43 bw illust. Inside back cover: tall ship. Pictorial soft cover. "Compliments Card" by Premier of Victoria loosely inserted. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
Published by the "Loch Ard Centenary Commemoration Committee". Sunk off on the reef of Mutton Bird Island, Cape Otway. .
15846 CHARLWOOD, Don SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$10.00 AUD
Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1991. Second edition of the 1978 original. VI, 49 PP with 1 map, 1 colour photo, and 44 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0724184325
17735 CHARLWOOD, Don SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$5.00 AUD
Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1980. Reprint of the 1978 original. 28 PP with 1 map, 2 plans, 1 colour photo, and 43 bw illust. Inside back cover: tall ship. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.7 x 20.8. 0724182314
65653 CHARLWOOD, Don SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$15.00 AUD
Burgewood Books. Melbourne. 2002. Fourth edition of the 1978 original. V, 49 PP with b/w illustrations throughout and 1 colour centrefold of Loch Ard Gorge circa 1980. Pictorial card cover (Flying Cloud by Jack Spurling). Fine. 25 x 17.5. 1876425067
The days of the sailing ship and the reconstruction of the wreck of the Loch Ard which foundered in sea mist off Mutton Bird Island, west of Cape Otway in 1878.
46834 CHAVANNES, Herminie UN JEUNE SUISSE EN AUSTRALIE
$80.00 AUD
Société des Livres Religieux. Toulouse. 1874. 3rd edition of the 1851 original. 215 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Decorated cloth cover, gilt title and engraving on front cover and spine. Spine sunned. Printed note To the Reader, pasted down on verso of free fly of front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18 x 11.8.
Journal of Daniel Viret, a young Swiss from Canton de Vaud, Switzerland, travelling to Australia in the 1850s. Historical fiction. (Re: Ferguson No. 8115 for 1852 original).
55695 CHEEL, Edwin & MORRISON, F. R. THE CULTIVATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN NUT (Macadamia ternifolia, F.v.M. and Macadamia integrifolia, Maiden et Betche)
$25.00 AUD
Sydney Technological Museum. Sydney. 1935. Bulletin No. 20. 23 PP with 1 table and 8 b/w photos. Soft cover. Staples removed. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24.4 x 15.
50115 CHISHOLM, A. H. SOME AUSTRALIAN BIRDS
$10.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. 1958. April 1958 reprint of the April 1957 original. 17 PP with 16 b/w illustrations. Illustrated (Kookaburra) soft cover. Fine. 24 x 15.5.
Black-Swan, Dollar-Bird, Jabiru... White Cockatoo.
70757 CHITTLEBOROUGH, Anne, DOOLEY, Gillian, GLOVER, Brenda & HOSKING, Rick ALAS, FOR THE PELICANS ! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond: Essays and Poems
$20.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2002. 1st edition. XVI, 222 PP with 52 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 11 colour plates. Inside front cover: Chart of Terra Australis. Inside rear cover: Carte Générale de Terre Napoléon. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.5. 1862546037
72214 CIRCULAR HEAD HERITAGE Committee THE CIRCULAR HEAD CHRONICLE - Year 200 "Commemorative Edition"
$20.00 AUD
Circular Head Heritage Centre. Smithton, Tasmania. 1998. Vol 1, No.1 "Special Edition", December 5th 1998. 4 PP (on 5 columns). Fine. 43 x 28.5. 0646466542
Historical and Heritage story of Circular Head following the "Bass & Flinders sight Circular Head - Dec 5, 1798 "... the NW corner of Tasmania.
72215 CIRCULAR HEAD HERITAGE Committee TIME LINE OF EVENTS IN CIRCULAR HEAD from 1798 to 2001
$25.00 AUD
Circular Head Heritage Centre. Smithton, Tasmania. 2001. 37 PP (photocopies). 29.7 x 21.
Circular Head and the NW corner of Tasmania since the sighting by Bass & Flinders of Circular Head - Dec 5, 1798, to the Centenary of Federation celebrations.
59962 CLARK, C. M. H. A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, Volume III : The Beginning of an Australian Civilization 1824-1851
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1980. Reprint of the 1973 original. XV, 491 PP with 9 maps, plus 9 plates with 30 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portraits of Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly soiled and with a closed tear. Faint foxing. Very good. 24.2 x 16. 052284054X
66354 CLARK, Rosemary, HOBAN, Mary, MADDOCKS, Hilary 2005 COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN STAMPS - Executive Edition
$120.00 AUD
Australian Postal Corporation. Melbourne. 2005. Executive edition of the 2005 Collection, limited to 8000 numbered copies (No. 4068/8000). 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 4 stock sheets with the 78 mint stamps (including 1 sheetlet & 3 miniature sheets issued for 2002 (face value 60.90 A$). Hard cover, brass corner protector on book, gold foil embossed black cover, gilt edged pages, contained in matching slip case. Fine (mint condition). 31 x 21.5.
25th Anniversary edition.
50702 CLARKE, Marcus FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1991. 7th reprint of the 1979 Australian Classics edition. Unabridged edition with introduction by Hilary Lofting. XV, (3), 657 PP with 45 full-page illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Marcus Clarke. Hard cover, dj. Ageing of paper, some foxing, o/wise very good. 22 x 14. 0207140731
The grim and tragic story of life in an Australian penal colony.
50703 CLARKE, Marcus FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE
$5.00 AUD
Budget Books & Lloyd O'Neil. Sydney. 1979. 1st edition in the Australian Classics series. 446 PP. Illustrated hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has old damp stain at bottom of rear cover, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.2. 0908505051
47999 CLENDINNEN, Inga DANCING WITH STRANGERS
$15.00 AUD
Text Publishing Company. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Ed. (XII), 324 PP with 1 map on double page + 2 insets (location maps), and 1 drawing (black swan), plus 8 pages with 1 b/w and 9 colour illustrations. Illustrated front endpaper. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 16. 1877008583
60254 CLEVERLEY, John & JONES, Phillip AUSTRALIA AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: Some Critical Issues (in Australian Education Review)
$5.00 AUD
ACER / Australian Council for Educational Research. Melbourne. 1976. Australian Education Review No. 7. 45, (3) PP with 2 tables (1 with 2 graphs). Pictorial soft cover. 5 pages with underlining in text and margin annotations. Very good. 21.5 x 14. 0855631449
55484 CLIFF, Paul (editor) 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY BUILDING (in National Library of Australia News - Vol. XVIII, No. 11, August 2008)
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2008. Issue: Volume XVIII, No. 11, August 2008. 24 PP with b/w and colour illustrations . Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7.
Staggering out of the Wilderness, by Christine Fernon. Being there: Opening of the building, by Carmel Maguire...Building the Art of the National Library, by Genevieve Carson.
51831 CLODE, Danielle VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS. In Search of Terres Australes
$35.00 AUD
The Miegunyah Press & State Library of Victoria. Melbourne. 2007. 1st Ed. No. 87 in the Second Numbered series. XVI, 315, (3) PP with headpieces (on double page), 37 portraits and facsimile of manuscripts, plus 32 pages with 32 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.5 x 13.5. 9780522852646
69627 CLOSE, Marguerite HISTORIC STANLEY
$15.00 AUD
Marguerite Close. Stanley, Tasmania. 1988. 3rd revised edition, of the 1975 original. Foreword by Frank Bolt. 68 PP with 35 b/w illustrations by the author. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author / artist on title page. Fine. 15.6 x 21.3. 0959851933
74037 COCHRANE, Peter (editor) AUSTRALIAN GREATS
$20.00 AUD
William Heinemann. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. X, (2), 244 with b/w or colour photos. Hard covers, title on front board and spine. Fine. 25 x 18.5. 9781741665925
Over 50 of Australian "Greats" by 50 contributors.
51337 COLEMAN, P. L. A CRITIQUE OF K. G. McINTYRE: The Secret Discovery of Australia (in The Victorian Historical Journal - 1979 - Vol.50, No.1)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1979. 195th issue, February 1979. 46 PP. Contains article from P. 8 to 17 with 1 map. Soft covers with light wear. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.8.
Other articles: ... A Baron under siege: Von Muller and the Press in the 1870s, by J.M. Powell. John Leadbeater (1831-1888), A Naturalist in Victoria, by D.H. Kemp.
68768 COLFELT, David 100 MAGIC MILES OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: The Whitsunday Islands
$20.00 AUD
Windward Publications. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w and colour illust. (maps and plans, drawings and photos, including aerial views of Islands), plus large folded map in colour of the Great Barrier Reef. Illustrated title spread, half title page and endpapers. Pictorial card covers with light wear. Name and address of previous owner on half-title page. Two brochures on the Whitsundays loosely inserted. Near fine. 27.8 x 21. 0959083006
First part: The Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef (resorts, camping, visiting, boating...). Second part: Anchorages of the Whitsundays with maps, plans...
53998 COLLIGAN, Mimi RUSH FOR GOLD, Australia 1851-1870
$10.00 AUD
Australia Post. Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed., in the Australia's Heritage in Stamps series. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 5 stamps at 41 cents and their folder in pocket inside front cover. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.2. 0642149879
53999 COLLIGAN, Mimi BOOMTIME, Australia 1871-1890
$10.00 AUD
Australia Post. Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed., in the Australia's Heritage in Stamps series. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 5 stamps at 41 cents and their folder in pocket inside front cover. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.2. 0642149809
70412 COLLINGRIDGE, George DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
$20.00 AUD
Golden Press. Sydney. 1989. 1st paperback edition. Reprint of the 1983 "Facsimile Edition" (original of 1895). XV, 376 PP with 87 maps & illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. 28 x 21.5. 073020586X
72663 COLLINS, David & CURREY, John A VOYAGE TO ESTABLISH A SETTLEMENT AT PORT PHILLIP
$25.00 AUD
Banks Society / Colony Press. Melbourne. 2002. 1st edited from the despatches of David Collins and John Currey. 40 PP with 4 b/w illustrations, plus 2 b/w plates. Fp: Camp at Port Phillip. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 15. 0949586145
74240 COLLINS, Wendy (Compiler) TASMANIA TO TARAKAN - Letters of World War II of S.J. Hopwood 1943 - 1945
$60.00 AUD
Don & Wendy Collins. Devonport. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by K. A. Smythe. 148 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map and 3 portraits and 23 sketches by Stephen John Hopwood, Leading Air Craftman. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 23.8 x 17.5. 0646340115
Enlisted in September 1943. Based in Townsville June 1944 to March 1945... Time as an Instrument Maker with the Royal Australian Air Force.
40234 COLWELL, Max THE JOURNEY OF BURKE AND WILLS
$20.00 AUD
Paul Hamlyn. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. 152 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: The statue of Burke and Wills, Spring Street, Melbourne. Fp: Portrait of Robert O'Hara Burke. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.5 x 21.7. 0600041379
40231 COLWELL, Max & NAYLOR, Alan ADELAIDE - An Illustrated History
$10.00 AUD
MCP. Adelaide. 1984. Reprint of the 1981 revised edition (original of 1974). 128 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.6. 0959439307
34016 CONNELL, John & HOWITT, Richard (editors) MINING AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN AUSTRALASIA
$15.00 AUD
Sydney University Press. Sydney. 1993. Reprint of the 1991 original. X, 205 PP with 2 graphs, tables and 12 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.7. 0424001772
66697 COOMBS, Anne & VARGA, Susan BROOMETIME
$10.00 AUD
Sceptre Book. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. X, 294 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 2 drawings and 32 photos), colour photos inside covers. Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner on first page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23.5 x 15.2. 0733609902
62485 COOPER, Ray LADY NELSON - Her Majesty's Colonial Brig of 60 Tons
$5.00 AUD
Mid North Maritime Museum. Port Macquarie, NSW. 1996. Published 18th January 1996. Clear plastic folder containing 9 pages (recto only) and a folded page: "Lady Nelson / Tasail". Fine. 30 x 21.5.
On the 175th anniversary of the Lady Nelson and the original settlement (17th April 1821) of Port Macquarie.
63675 COPPIN, Brigitte THE COMPASS - Steering towards the New World
$15.00 AUD
Viking. London. 1995. 1st English edition in the "History Through Objects" series. Translated from the 1991 French original by Patrick White. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 21.5 x 13. 0670855308
74735 COTTON, Bernard C. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA - PELECYPODA
$40.00 AUD
W. L. Hawes, Government Printer. Adelaide. 1961. 1st Ed., in the "Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia" series. Foreword by Mark L. Mitchell. 363 PP with over 350 figures (sketches, drawings and photos). Spine with small piece missing at foot (on 1.5 cms), o/wise a fine copy. 24.7 x 15.4.
74729 COULSON, Helen STORY OF THE DANDENONGS 1838 - 1958
$45.00 AUD
F. W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1968. Reprint of the 1959 original. Foreword by Lord Casey. XVI, 416 PP, plus 52 pages with 182 b/w illustrations (1 map, prints, photos & portraits). Fp: Timber splitters, Sherbrooke, 1894. FEP: map "Pastoral Runs - 1864". REP: map of "State Forests". Cloth cover, gilt stamp on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 25.3 x 19.
50836 Council for ABORIGINAL RECONCILIATION THE PATH TO RECONCILIATION. Renewal of the Nation
$5.00 AUD
AGPS / Commonwealth Information Service. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. (2), 18 PP with coloured drawings, 1 b/w and 9 colour photos. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 25 x 17.2. 0642258112
Australian Reconciliation Convention: 26-28 May 1997.
58676 COUTTS, Lynette THE LIVING AUSTRALIA - Bonus Issue
$5.00 AUD
Bay Books. Sydney. c. 1985. Bonus issue of this weekly series. 32 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Running the rapids, Lan Hill Creek, Queensland). Fine. 29 x 21.2.
Living Off the Land: 40 000 years ago. The Bilby, is it too late to call it endangered? ... Dr Bob Brown, the Dam Buster ... Dangerous Australian: Funnel-Web and Red-Back spiders. ... Lightning Ridge, NSW.
64441 COWELL, Joyce & BEST, Roderick WHERE FIRST FLEETERS LIE
$30.00 AUD
Fellowship of First Fleeters. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Peter G. Christian. XI, 220 PP with b/w illustration (24 maps or plans & 40 photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 21.8 x 15.5. 0731696654
Compiled from the Records of the Fellowship of First Fleeters.
72127 CRADOC ON BRUNY ISLAND - Weekly Courier 1914
$30.00 AUD
Mrs. Kathy Duncombe. Barnes Bay, Bruny Island. 1995. 1st Ed. Transcribed by Kathy Duncombe, of articles published in the Weekly Courier in April, May and June 1914. (4), 22, (2) PP (recto only) with 2 maps of Bruny Island (North & South), 1 map "The Neck" and 38 b/w photos (photocopy quality). Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 29.5 x 21. 064622686X
65249 CRITTENDEN, Victor THE VOYAGE OF THE FIRST FLEET 1787-1788 - Taken from contemporary accounts
$15.00 AUD
Milini Press. Canberra. 1981. 1st Ed., No. 1 in the First Fleet Books series. V, 105 PP with head & tail pieces, and 1 map. Fp: Map of the Voyage of the First Fleet, Ports of Call. Soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. Name of previous owner on half title page. Very good. 24.8 x 17.5. 094991004X
33693 CUMES, J. W. C. THEIR CHASTITY WAS NOT TOO RIGID - Leisure Times in Early Australia
$15.00 AUD
Longman Cheshire / Reed. Melbourne / Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. XI, 378 PP with 2 drawings and 51 figures. Fp: Cricket at Melbourne, 1841 (in colour). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0582714567
47387 CUMMING, Helen (editor) VIVE LA DIFFERENCE! - The French in NSW
$10.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. Introduction by Dagmar Schmidmaier and Marc Finaud. (2), 38 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 24 x 14. 0731371402
53045 CUMMING, Helen & WILLSTEED, Theresa (editors) NELSON MEERS FOUNDATION: Heritage Collection 2003
$15.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dagmar Schmidmaier. 52 PP with 10 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.2. 0731371240
Catalogue to an exhibition held in 2003. The Miranda map of 1707... Captain Cook: mementoes of a life. First Fleet journals... Robert Louis Stevenson
64421 CUMMING, Helen & WILLSTEED, Theresa (editors) NELSON MEERS FOUNDATION: Heritage Collection 2004
$15.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dagmar Schmidmaier. 52 PP with 10 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.2. 0731371356
Catalogue to an exhibition held in 2004. Joseph Banks's Endeavour Journal. First Fleet journals... The Colony's early coinage. ... Ludwig Leichhardt. ... Robert Louis Stevenson...
32409 CUMPSTON, J. H. L. AUGUSTUS GREGORY AND THE INLAND SEA
$20.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1972. 1st Ed. VIII, 146 PP, plus 41 pages with 12 maps, and 57 b/w photos & illustrations. Pictorial hard cover, dj (spine sunned). Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 25.3 x 17.5. 0950085847
68047 CUMPSTON, J. S. KANGAROO ISLAND 1800-1836
$20.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1986. 3rd edition. Publication No.1 in the Roebuck Society series X, 218 PP with 2 maps, plus 36 pages with over 65 b/w illustrations (6 maps, drawings, paintings and photos). FEP: Chart (part of Kangaroo Is.). REP: Kangaroo Is. Pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket rubbed around edges and is in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 24.2 x 17.3. 0909434026
72312 CUMPSTON, J. S. SHIPPING ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES, SYDNEY, 1788-1825
$30.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1977. 1st edition, No. 22 in the Roebuck Society Publication series. VII, 164, 66 (Index) and 3 (additions & amendments) PP with 1 illustration and 2 tail pieces, plus 4 plates (1 b/w illust and 3 maps). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine copy. 24.6 x 17.8. 0909434158
An altered edition of the 1963 original.
71480 CURREY, C. H. THE TRANSPORTATION, ESCAPE AND PARDONING OF MARY BRYANT (née Broad)
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1963. 1st Ed. (6), 62 PP. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few small rubs, o/wise a fine copy. 22.2 x 14.3.
Prisoner on the hulk "Dunkirk", transported on the "Charlotte" of the First Fleet, escape from Botany Bay on 28th March, 1791, 69 day voyage to Coupang (Timor).
16244 CURTIS, Brian THE SYDNEY-HOBART, My 21 Years
$15.00 AUD
Libra Books. Hobart. 1981. 1st Ed. No pagination, 94 PP with 165 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 18.8. 0909619077
A selection of 165 b/w photos of the Sydney/Hobart race between 1949 and 1979.
75104 CUSACK, Frank CANDLES IN THE DARK - A History of the Bendigo Home and Hospital for the Aged
$15.00 AUD
Queensberry Hill Press. Melbourne. 1984. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Foreword by H.L. Ward. (14), 232 PP, plus 20 pages with b/w illustrations (documents, photos and portraits). Fp: Bendigo Benevolent Asylum in the 1880s. Cloth covers, decoration and title on the front board, dj. Fine. 23 x 15.5. 0909174768
61311 CUTHBERT, Penny & SCHEDING, Stephen FISH IN AUSTRALIAN ART (in Signals No. 98)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2012. No. 98, March, April, May 2012. 64 PP. Contains articles from P. 4 to 17 with 1 b/w photo and 16 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (cat and fish, by William Buelow Gould). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
68482 CUTHBERTSON, Bern SMALL SHIPS THAT SHAPED MY LIFE
$35.00 AUD
Bern Cuthbertson. Hobart. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Captain David Cowles. (6), 196 PP with 1 map and 22 b/w photos, plus 24 pages with 71 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with 2 colour photos, clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
An autobiography containing memories of 70 years of exciting maritime adventures and tales of the Tasmanian fishing industry and its history.
74229 CUTHILL, William J. THE RIVER OF LITTLE FISH - A History of Traralgon
$20.00 AUD
The Traralgon & District Historical Society. Traralgon, Vic. 1970. 1st Ed. 106 PP, plus 32 pages with b/w illustrations (4 maps and 35prints or photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 22.2 x 14.2.
History written for girls and boys of the City.
35461 D'AUNET, Biard L'AURORE AUSTRALE - La Société Australienne - Le Socialisme en Australie - La Constitution Australienne et son fonctionnement - La valeur et la situation, matérielle de l'Australie - L'Australie vue du dehors
$55.00 AUD
Librairie Plon. Paris. 1907. 1st Ed. (8), 403 PP. Soft covers a little fragile with one small closed tear. Pages uncut. Near fine. Scarce. French text. 18.8 x 12.
Australia: Society, Socialism, Constitution... How others perceived Australia.
74593 DAKIN, William John, BENNETT, Isobel & POPE Elizabeth AUSTRALIAN SEASHORES, A guide for the beach-lover, the naturalist, the shore fisherman, and the student
$30.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1976. 1st edition in the Australian Natural Science Library series, of the 1969 "Revised Edition". XII, 372 PP with 23 figures, plus 96 b/w & 3 colour plates. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Library pocket on rear endpaper but no stamps. Dust jacket with short repairs and in a protective sleeve. Very good plus copy. 24.2 x 16. 0207133220
51255 DALE, Michelle TASMANIA A PLACE TO REMEMBER
$15.00 AUD
The Tasmanian Book Company. Launceston. 1996. Reprint of the 1994 edition. 160 PP with 1 map and over 110 colour photos by Dennis Harding. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19 x 14.3. 1876095032
75617 DALTON, Trent BY SEA & STARS - The Story of the First Fleet
$35.00 AUD
The Australian / Fourth Estate. Sydney. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Paul Whittaker, Editor-in-Chief, The Australian. XX, 140 PP with 1 portrait of the author, 1 map "Voyage of the First Fleet" on double page and 21 b/w illustrations (9 on full page and 12 on double page). Eps: Stars of the Southern Hemisphere. Pictorial hard covers. Fine. 20 x 14. 9781460757413
73724 DAMPIER, William A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
$300.00 AUD
The Argonaut Press. London. 1927. Reprint of the 1697 original, with an introduction by Sir Albert Gray. Limited edition of 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum (No. 703). XXXVII, (2), 376, (2) PP with 3 illustrations (2 facsimile of pages of Dampier's Journal), plus 1 portrait and 4 maps (3 of them folded). Quarter vellum, with gilt engraving on front cover and gilt title on spine, ribbon page-marker. Spine slightly soiled, with a small rubbed patch on fore hinge, and 2 short tears at head and foot. Still a very good copy. Scarce. 26.6 x 20.
A new voyage round the world describing the isthmus of America... the West coast of America between Tierra del Fuego and Mexico... New Holland, Sumatra...
67834 DANIELS, Kay CONVICT WOMEN
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st edition. XI, 276 PP, plus 8 pages with 1 facsimile of letter and 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 1864486775
Experiences of Australia's convict women.
74323 DARWIN, Charles THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE IN H.M.S. BEAGLE
$700.00 AUD
Genesis Publications Limited. London. 1979. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 409/500), signed by George Penber Darwin (great grandson of Charles Darwin). Foreword by Prince Charles. Introduction by Richard Darwin Keynes. (2 blank), 843, (8 blank) PP with 4 b/w plates, Journal in Facsimile between pages 31 and 834, Crew List between pages 835 and 840. Fp (in colour): painting by Roy Williams. Marbled endpapers. Half bound, green buckram, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt title and 4 gilt decorations, gilt decoration on front board, gilt signature of Darwin on the back cover, all outside edges gilt. Contained in a green cloth slipcase with title on a white vignette. Bookplate of previous owner on verso of the front endpaper. Head of spine worn on 6 cms. Slipcase with minor rubbing on the label, and a 5 cm worn patch close to the bottom. An excellent copy. Format: 28.5 x 20.5 and slipcase: 29.5 x 23.5. 0904351122
67865 DAUCHEZ, Fabrice & DUTTON, Jacqueline Ambiguous Australian Stereotypes in Contemporary French Literature: THE CASE OF NULLARBOR BY DAVID FAUQUEMBERG (in Explorations No. 47)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2009. December 2009. 64 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 21. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
70686 DAVEY, Richard THE SHIP THAT NEVER WAS, The Last Great Escape from Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour
$10.00 AUD
The Round Earth Company. Strahan, Tasmania. c. 1999. 1st Ed. 16 PP with illustrations by Simon Barnard and Phil Fitzpatrick in a comic strip format. Stapled card covers. Fine. 21 x 15.
18560 DAVIDSON, James ABORIGINAL AND OCEANIC DECORATIVE ART
$20.00 AUD
Nat. Gallery of Vic. Melbourne. 1980. 1st Ed. 56 PP with 3 maps, line draw. & b/w photos in text. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 22.8 x 21.8. 0724100652
The exhibition of the National Gallery which travelled throughout the state to present its collection to the people of Victoria.
70872 DAVIE, Jim LATITUDE FORTY - Reminiscences of Flinders Island
$30.00 AUD
National Press. Melbourne. 1980. 1st Ed. Foreword by Stephen Murray-Smith. 51 PP with 1 map in text. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Name of previous owner at top of half-title page. Very good. 21.5 x 14. 090947026
72740 DAVIES, Kate WHEN INNOCENCE TREMBLES
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1994. Reprint. XII, 186 PP, plus 16 pages with b/w illustrations (1 drawing, 2 newspaper clippings and 16 photos. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 21 x 13.5. 9780207184192
The Christian Brothers orphanage tragedy: a survivor story.
69892 DAVIES, Lynn & Margaret, & BOYLES, Warren (editors) MAPPING VAN DIEMEN'S LAND and the Great Beyond
$100.00 AUD
Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 2018. 1st hardback edition. Introduction by Michael Giudici, Surveyor General, Tasmania. VI, 138 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, maps and photos). Hard cover, pictorial boards. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. Fine. Oblong: 26.5 x 30.5. 9780648141334
Rare and Beautiful Maps from the Royal Society of Tasmania.
15517 DAY, David CONTRABAND AND CONTROVERSY, The Customs History of Australia from 1901
$30.00 AUD
Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra. 1996. 1st Ed. XXXIV, 558 PP with 112 b/w illustratrions, plus 24 pages with 44 colour plates. Eps. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on the inside of the dust jacket, o/wise fine. 25.9 x 18. 0644331518
Protection of the industry with tariffs, administration and implementation of the White Australia policy, censorship... war on drugs...
45181 DAY, David COMING SOUTH - Australia's days of sail
$20.00 AUD
Australia Post. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed. 40 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Special folder "The Romance of Sail" with 4 unused stamps loosely inserted. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0642281599
Early settlers: aborigines and Macassan. Explorers... Convict ships... Clipper ships.
49239 DAY, David SMUGGLERS AND SAILORS, The Customs History of Australia 1788-1901
$15.00 AUD
AGPS / Australian Customs Service. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. XXXVI, 528 PP with 9 maps or plans & 107 b/w illustrations, plus 24 pages with 49 colour illustrations. FEP: Queensland border Customs patrol on the Barwon River at Mungindi. REP: Passing the Customs at Wodonga, 1881. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped and now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 25.8 x 18. 0644247517
Story of European civilization carved onto the Australian continent as observed through the eyes of Customs officers.
37567 DE BLOSSEVILLE, Marquis HISTOIRE DE LA COLONISATION PENALE ET DES ETABLISSEMENTS DE L'ANGLETERRE EN AUSTRALIE
$200.00 AUD
Imprimerie de Auguste Herissey. Evreux. 1859. 1st Ed. (4), VIII, XXXII, VIII, (2), 569 PP. Marbled boards, cloth spine, gilt title on vignette on spine. Marbled endpapers. Ex library copy with discreet stamp of Bibliotheque Populaire du XIXe Arrondissement. Ageing of paper, some foxing. Still a very good copy. Scarce. French text. 21.5 x 13.7.
Early convict transportation to the Americas, choice of New Holland after the American War of Independence. Successive governors in Australia from Phillip to Brisbane and Darling. (Ferguson: 7152a). Based on the 1831 edition of Histoire des Colonies penales de l'Angleterre dans l'Australie (Ferguson: 1424).
22608 de CHABRILLAN, Céleste THE FRENCH CONSUL'S WIFE - Memoirs of Céleste de Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia
$20.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1998. 1st limited (1000) edition, No. 18 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. Translated with introduction and notes by Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen, from the 1877 French original 'Un Deuil au bout du monde'. XI, 304 PP, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.6 x 16. 0522847757
A former prostitute and courtesan from Paris married to the first French Consul sent to Melbourne, lived in Victoria between 1854 and 1856 giving an account of life in this state.
73287 DE LA CARRIERES, Capitaine A.C. VOYAGE AUX PAYS AURIFERES - Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie
$1200.00 AUD
Librairie De A. Courcier, Editeur. Paris. c. 1855. 1st Ed. (4), 328, (2) PP with 25 wood cut vignettes (including 1 on title page and 7 tail-pieces), plus 12 plates & tissue guard protection with duo tone engravings (illustrations by J.B. Arnout). Fp: "Un placer en Californie". Endpapers: shiny percaline. Leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt title. All edges gilt. Foxing throughout although not affecting legibility. A very good copy of a scarce item. French text. 23.5 x 15.5.
Sailed from Marseille in September 1850, to Gabon on the schooner "Le Bissagot"... Reached Rio de Janeiro on a Brazilian Corvette ... California ... Australia (pages 194 to 250): Sydney, Bathurst, Melbourne ... Return to Europe via the Red Sea and the Railway line; before the digging or opening of the Suez Canal.
73565 DE LA PEROUSE, Jean F.G. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787 AND 1788 BY THE BOUSSOLE AND ASTROLABE (Volume I, Volume II and ATLAS)
$300.00 AUD
N. Israel / Da Capo. Amsterdam / New York. 1968. Reprint of 1799 English edition. Translated from the French original published by order of the National Assembly and L. A. Milet-Mureau. Volumes Nos. 27, 28 & 29 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (2), VIII, LVI, 539 PP. Volume II: (2), VIII, 532 PP (14 Index), (2 errata). Atlas: (6), 69 plates (views, plans, charts, engravings). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue label on front board and spine of each volume. Labels on front board rubbed in parts, and on spine with gilt lettering sunned. Very light foxing. A near fine set. Vol. I & II: 26 x 20. Atlas: 40 x 27. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.
Voyage of exploration towards "What Captain Cook had not discovered". Calls: Easter Island, California, Alaska, Macau.. Botany Bay.
73280 DE LA RUE, Kathy PEARL SHELL AND PASTURES
$45.00 AUD
Cossack Project Committee. Cossack, W.A. 1979. 1st Ed. (4), VIII, 134 PP with 1 chart on double page, 2 maps and 34 b/w photos. Illustrated stiff covers. Dedicatory note to previous owner, dated and signed on title page by the author. Light rubbed patch on front cover, o/wise fine. 20.7 x 13.2.
The story of Cossack and Roebourne, and their place in the history of the North West, from the earliest explorations to 1910.
72042 DE RUE, Yolanda CIRCULAR HEAD
$10.00 AUD
Circular Head Heritage Centre. Smithton, Tasmania. 2005. 1st Ed. No.2 in the "Icons of Tasmania" series. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, photos). Pictorial soft covers, title on front. Fine. Oblong: 14 x 19. 0646466542
Historical and Heritage story of the NW corner of Tasmania.
59538 DELANO, Amasa A NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$30.00 AUD
Cat & Fiddle Press. Hobart. 1973. Facsimile extract of the 1817 original, limited to 500 copies. 58 PP. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, o/wise fine. 22.3 x 14. 0858530104
A facsimile extract from "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres comprising three Voyages round the World together with a Voyage of survey and discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands". Sealing in Bass Strait, calls of the ship Perseverance at Hobart and Sydney in 1804.
76322 DEMPSTER, Quentin WHISTLEBLOWERS
$30.00 AUD
ABC Books / Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. VIII, 251 PP. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780733305047
11 cases: 2 of them related to Australian Shipping. ANL & Dereliction of Duty / What happened to the BHP Petroleum FPSO? (Floating Production Storage and Offloading facility).
58477 DENHOLM, David THE COLONIAL AUSTRALIANS
$10.00 AUD
Penguin. Melbourne. 1980. Reprint of the 1979 original. XII, 202 with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly rubbed. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Very good. 24 x 18.8. 01407008111
41864 DERRIMAN, Phillip FIXED IN TIME - Photographs from Another Australia 1900 - 1939
$15.00 AUD
The Fairfax Library. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Manning Clark. 176 PP with 16 colour and 154 b/w photos. Title page: Pilots and crew of Vickers Vimy plane. Hard cover, dj. Brief note at top corner of half title page. Few spots on top outside edge, o/wise very good. 29 x 24.5. 0909558906
From the archives of the John Fairfax newspaper organisation.
32249 DEVANNY, Jean BY TROPIC SEA AND JUNGLE - Adventures in North Queensland
$35.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1944. 1st Ed. X, 230 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. Covers rubbed, ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.2.
50450 DIXSON, Sir William (editor) MADAME ROSE DE FREYCINET 'S VISIT TO SYDNEY - November 18 to December 26, 1819 (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S.)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1944. Contains article (translated from the French by Sir William Dixson) between P.326 and 330. Stapled soft covers. Browning of outside edges, o/wise near fine. 20.8 x 13.7.
Extract from Journal de Madame Rose de Saulces Freycinet d'après le Manuscrit Original accompagné de Notes, by Charles Duplomb. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
68338 DODSON, Cathy BASS AND FLINDERS
$35.00 AUD
Scholastic Press. Gosford. 2001. 1st juvenile edition by Scholastic Press. No pagination, 32 PP with colour illustrations by Roland Harvey. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 25.5. 1865041939
73575 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVII, No. 3
$10.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1952 Volume XVII, No. 3 (Spring 1952). No. 2: 74 PP with 36 b/w and duotone photos. No. 3: 74 PP with 47 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover with remnants of book shop sticker. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
No. 3: Last of the last, barque Garthpool, by A. J. Pazolt. In the land of Not-Quite, the seaport of Darwin, by Geoff Waye. ...
Könemann. Köln. 2000. 1st trilingual edition. 336 PP with colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Text in English, German and French. Fine. 29.7 x 25 3829040601
Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia: Geheime und Heilige Pfade der Ngarinyin, Aborigines in Australien: Chemins Secrets et Sacrés des Ngarinyin, Aborigènes d'Australie..
37489 DORRANCE, John C. (editor) AMERICA SALUTES AUSTRALIA'S BICENTENARY
$20.00 AUD
American Embassy. Canberra. 1988. 1st Ed. (2), 38 PP with 18 b/w and 24 colour photos. Pictorial soft wrappers. Fine. 27.4 x 21.
61377 DOUSSET, Laurent MYTHES, MISSILES ET CANNIBALES - Le récit d'un premier contact en Australie
$60.00 AUD
Société des Océanistes. Paris. 2011. 1st Ed. Publication de la Société des Océanistes 50. 196, (2) PP with 2 maps and 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24.5 x 16. 9782854300291
First contacts in 1956, anthropology and ethnography at the time of nuclear testing and rocket launchings.
21390 DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Henrietta VOYAGE TO DISASTER - The Life of Francisco Pelsaert
$30.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1982. Reprint in the Australian Classics series, of the 1963 original. XVI, 318 PP with 2 maps in text plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illust. Fp: Title page of the Joost Hartgers 1648 edition of "Ongeluckige Voyagie van't Schip Batavia". Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.5. 0207148414
Covering his report to the Dutch East India Company and the wreck of the Batavia in 1629...
12856 DUCHARME, Leon (Leandre) JOURNAL OF A POLITICAL EXILE IN AUSTRALIA (Translated by George Mackaness)
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of the 1944 original. Volume II in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 79 PP with 1 photo of Dr. Mackaness & 6 b/w illustrations. Stapled card cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.6.
A French Canadian patriot, exiled in Australia during the 1840's.
15813 DUCKER, Sophie C. HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN PHYCOLOGY: The Significance of Early French Exploration [in Brunonia]
$10.00 AUD
Brunonia. Melbourne. 1979. Volume 2, No.1. Extract from Brunonia magazine, P.19-42, with 1 map, 2 tables & 11 figures, plus an amendment page. Stapled. Foxing spots. Very good. 25 x 17.5.
Algae science in Australia and the French voyages of exploration.
73202 DUNCAN, Susan A LIFE ON PITTWATER
$50.00 AUD
Ebury Press / Random House. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (most of the photographs by Anthony Ong). Eps: Watercolour map of the bays by Gwyn Perkins. Laminated illustrated boards, dj. Near fine. 29.5 x 22.5. 9781741666694
65293 DUNLOP, Eric W. & PIKE, Walter AUSTRALIA - Colony to Nation
$15.00 AUD
Longmans. Melbourne. 1960. 1st Ed. (6), 250 PP with 40b/w illustrations (diagram, drawings, maps & plans, sketches). Hard cover, Title on font board and spine. Name of previous owners on front endpaper. Top and bottom outside edges inscribed "Australie". Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.
Chapter II: Winged boats and White strangers. Chapter III: Founding the convict colony. ... Chapter XI: Changes in Communication and Transport.
34735 DUNNINGHAM, Honourable J. M. (editor) AN HISTORIC RETROSPECT ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE FOUNDING OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council. Sydney. 1938. 1st Ed. No pagination, 32 PP with 2 b/w and 98 colour illustrations Pictorial soft cover (laminated). Staples removed, and copy stitched, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Book presented to the children of New South Wales by Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council.
71509 DURUZ, Rosamund THE HISTORY OF PORT MACDONNELL
$15.00 AUD
PAP Book Co. Warrnambool, Victoria. 1978. 1st Souvenir edition. (6), 71, (5) PP with 22 b/w illustrations. Stiff cover, pictorial front. Fine. 21.8 x 13.8. 0868250929
75960 DURUZ, Rosamund CAMPBELL COUNTRY - Sensational Story: Russian descent on coast / Invasion of Victoria
$20.00 AUD
Photo Art Printers. Warrnambool, Victoria. 1977. Reprint of the 1971 original. 80 PP with 27 b/w illustrations: drawings by Robert Ulmann and photos, and including the centrefold "Map of Port Campbell & Scenes of Wrecks". Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. Scarce. 19.7 x 14. 0959978909
75961 DURUZ, Rosamund (compiler) HISTORY OF TIMBOON 1875-1975 - Centenary Booklet
$20.00 AUD
Photo Art Printers. Warrnambool, Victoria. 1977. 1st Ed. Foreword by Cr. A. W. Drayton. 52 PP with 29 b/w illustrations (1 map of Timboon and district and 28 photos). Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0959978925
Heytesbury District Historical Society. Port Campbell, Vic. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 54 PP with 1 "Postmarker" and 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.2. 086825116X
Wreck of the Clipper Loch Ard, near Port Campbell, 1st June 1878. 2 survivors.
50751 DUTTON, Geoffrey PATTERNS OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Mobil Australia. Melbourne. 1980. Limited edition, with a foreword by Jim Leslie (Chairman, Mobil Oil Australia Ltd). 176 PP with 86 colour photos by Harri Peccinotti. Eps: Map of Australia. Cloth cover, dj, in a cloth slipcase. Fine. 25.4 x 25.4.
34029 DUYKER, Edward PRECIOUS AS GOLD (in National Library of Australia News - Vol X, No. 1, October 1999)
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1999. Volume X, No. 1, October 1999. Includes article P. 7 to 10 with 2 colour and 3 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 20.7.
Between 1852 and 1861 many women accompanied their husbands to the Australian goldfields.
40613 DUYKER, Edward THE WORD IN FRENCH (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XII, No. 1, October 2001)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2001. Includes article P. 7 to 10 with 6 b/w and 2 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 20.7.
The role of French books in Australian history.
44285 DUYKER, Edward CITIZEN LABILLARDIERE - A Naturalist 's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834)
$45.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2003. 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies. XX, 383, (3) PP with 12 maps, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.3 x 16.5. 0522850103
Naturalist with the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux expedition with calls in Van Diemens Land, New Holland, the Friendly Islands, New Caledonia...
66170 DUYKER, Edward TO GATHER AND GO WITH CHARLIE - Some Sources on the Jacobite Rebellion (in National Library of Australia News - 2000)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2000. Article pulled out from the January 2000 issue. Pages 15 to 17 with 5 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
The legacy of Bonnie Prince Charlie, as recorded in the Library's collection.
70464 DUYKER, Edward CITIZEN LABILLARDIERE - A Naturalist 's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834)
$75.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2003. 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies. XX, 383, (3) PP with 12 maps, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note to previous owner signed by the author on title page Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 24.3 x 16.5. 0522850103
Naturalist with the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux expedition with calls in Van Diemens Land, New Holland, the Friendly Islands, New Caledonia...
70465 DUYKER, Edward AN IMPETUOUS LIFE. François Péron, Naturalist and Voyager
$100.00 AUD
The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2006. 1st edition, No. 75 in the Second series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XXIV, 350 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Newspaper clipping, 19th August 2006, "Gifted French scientist's fatal flaw" by Robert Wilson, loosely inserted. A fine copy and scarce in this condition. 24.3 x 16.0. 0522852602
Naturalist with the Nicolas Baudin expedition to Australian waters 1801.
59515 DUYKER, Edward (editor) THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA, Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
$25.00 AUD
St.David's Park. Hobart. 1992. 1st Ed. XIV, 106 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial hard cover. Few foxing spots on covers and outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.4 x 16.8. 0724622411
Transcription & translation into English of the journal extracts from the first two European expeditions to Tasmania: the Dutch with Tasman & the French with Marion Dufresne, respectively in 1642 & 1772.
75724 DVA - Australian Government SHIFTING TIDES - Australia and the Pacific in the Second World War
$20.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2020. July 2020 edition. 52 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
Includes: Prime Minister John Curtin's speech to announce the war with Japan, 8 December 1941.
72709 EAMES, Jim COURAGE IN THE SKIES
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2017. 1st Ed. XIV, 336 PP with 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 48 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Slight ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 9781760293932
15518 EASTY, John MEMORANDUM OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF A VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO BOTANY BAY 1787-1793 - A First Fleet Journal
$45.00 AUD
Public Library of New South Wales / Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1965. 1st edition in the William Dixson Foundation publication No. 4. X, 182 PP (4). Fp: Facsimile of page 94 of John Easty's journal. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, a few small nicks to the dj, o/wise near fine. 29.2 x 20.8.
Voyage on the first fleet transport "Scarborough".
69328 EDGECOMBE, Jean FLINDERS ISLAND and Eastern Bass Strait
$15.00 AUD
Edgekirk. Sydney. 1986. 1st paperback edition. IX, 159 PP with b/w illust. (maps & plans, draw. & photos) plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. FEP: Chart of Southern Furneaux Is. by M. Flinders. REP: Chart of Bass Strait, 1806. Pictorial card covers. Front cover with light creases. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.6. 1862527849
Discovery & exploration, sealers.. The Furneaux Group and the group of islands South of Wilson's Promontory.
51195 EDWARDS, Brian THE MATILDA MISSION
$15.00 AUD
Coolindah. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Fred Chaney. X, 100 PP with 1 map on double page, 2 drawings and 30 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 1863022791
Solo flight on a 1943 Tiger Moth between England and West Australia. 2nd March to 13th May 1990.
55746 EISLER, William THE FURTHEST SHORE - Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook
$30.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. London. 1995. 1st Ed. XII, 180 PP with 81 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 20 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.2 x 21.6. 0521392683
Traces the pictorial imagery associated with the unknown and mysterious Southland. The invention of a Southern continent: in antiquity, the Middle-Ages, Java la Grande, Spanish vision (Torres, Prado de Tovar), then the Southern world in the age of Dutch expansion (1606-1756)...
10222 EISLER, William & SMITH, Bernard (editors) TERRA AUSTRALIS - The Furthest Shore
$30.00 AUD
Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 239 PP with b/w or colour drawings, paintings & charts. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Joseph Banks. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 31 x 22. 0642134642
Catalogue of an exhibition held for the Bicentennial celebrations of Australia. Visions of Terra Australis in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Helen Wallis. Crossing the Equator: The Historical Background to Portuguese Navigational Techniques in the Age of Discovery by Luis de Albuquerque. The Dutch and the Southern Continent 1569-1756 by Ernst van den Boogaart...
20154 ELDERSHAW, M. Barnard PHILLIP OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
The Discovery Press. Penrith. 1972. Reprint in the "Great Australian Lives" series of the 1938 original. 367 PP plus 11 b/w plates. Fp: Vice-Admiral Arthur Phillip. Hard cover, simile leather, title on spine, gilt decoration on front cover. Spine lightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 20.3 x 13.5.
65932 ELLIOTT, John (compiler) & DERRICK, Scott LETTERS TO BUNDALL 1872-1879, and Lena Cooper's Manuscript
$50.00 AUD
Southport, Qld. 1993. Gold Coast & Hinterland Historical Society / Boolarong Publications. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies (No. 509 / 2000) and signed by both authors. Foreword by Geoffrey Bolton. XV, 336 PP with b/w illustrations (maps & plans, photos & portraits). Laminated pictorial boards. Name of previous owners on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 16.5. 0646130269
64368 ELLIS, M. H. LACHLAN MACQUARIE - His Life, Adventures and Times
$50.00 AUD
Dymock's Book Arcade. Sydney. 1947. 1st edition. XIV, 697, (1) PP, plus 1 b/w and 7 coloured plates. Fp (in colour): Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Macquarie. FEP: Map "Macquarie's New South Wales". REP: Map "Macquarie's India. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, top edge tinted, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly soiled with repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine copy of the scarce first edition. 25.2 x 19.5.
48333 EMANUEL, Cedric THE ROCKS, Sydney 's Most Historic Area
$10.00 AUD
Cassell Australia. Sydney. 1979. Reprint of the 1974 original. No pagination, 64 PP with drawings by the author. Half title page: Argyle Place in the Early Days. Fp: Bust of Captain Arthur Phillip. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 21.6 x 26.2. 07269266655
Agar Steps. Argyle Place and Garrison Church. Argyle Place and Lower Fort Street. The Steps at Dawe's Point. Argyle Cut. Garrison Church and Argyle Cut.
47293 EMBERG, Buck and Joan, ORPWOOD, Pauk et al. COLLECTIONS - AUSTRALIA'S GOLD COAST
$10.00 AUD
Chavasse Media. Southport, Gold Coast. c. 1990. 1st Ed. 240 PP with P194-P240 in Japanese) with colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 27.2 x 21. 0646013947
Contents include: Surf Safety, Bond University, Gold Coast based Boat Builders, Shopping, Leisure, Dining Out, Day Trips...
75008 Endangered Species Advisory Committee An Australian National STRATEGY FOR THE CONSERVATION OF SPECIES AND HABITATS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. Canberra. 1989. Draft for public comment. Foreword by Graham Richardson. 28 PP with 52 colour photos. Card covers, with flaps. Near fine. 29.6 x 20.8. 0642141908
65285 Endeavour Reading BENNELONG
$10.00 AUD
The Jacaranda Press. Brisbane. 1983. Reprint of the revised edition of 1980 (original of 1970). Stage 9b in the Endeavour Reading Programme. 48 PP with 1 musical score and 24 illustrations by Victoria Sullivan. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.8 x 13. 0701613912
66357 ERICKSEN, Hilary, FOX, Paul, HOBAN, Mary ... 2008 COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN STAMPS
$100.00 AUD
Australian Postal Corporation. Melbourne. 2008. Edition of the 2008 Collection. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 5 stock sheets with the 123 mint stamps including the 4 miniature sheets issued for 2008 (face value 99.50 A$).. Hard cover, illustrated front board, with matching slip case. Fine (as new condition). 31 x 21.5.
Centenary of Scouting in Australia.
66358 ERICKSEN, Hilary, FOX, Paul, HOBAN, Mary ... 2009 COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN STAMPS
$100.00 AUD
Australian Postal Corporation. Melbourne. 2009. Edition of the 2009 Collection. 54, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 4 stock sheets with the 115 mint stamps including the 9 miniature sheets and 3 sheetlets issued for 2009 (face value 89.10 A$).. Hard cover, illustrated front board, with matching slip case. Fine (mint condition). 31 x 21.5. 9780642368393
Australia Post - 200 Years. Queensland 150 years.
66359 ERICKSEN, Hilary, FOX, Paul, HOBAN, Mary & MADDOCKS, Hilary 2010 COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN STAMPS - Executive Edition
$125.00 AUD
Australian Postal Corporation. Melbourne. 2010. Executive edition of the 2010 Collection, limited to 8,000 copies (No. 7653 / 8000). 56, (1) PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 2 stock sheets with the 85 mint stamps, 1 special sheetlet and 7 miniature sheets (for 28 mint stamps) issued for 2010 (face value 97.15 A$). Hard cover, brass corner protector on book, gold foil embossed black cover, gilt edged pages, contained in matching slip case. Fine (as new condition). 31 x 21.5.
73654 ERICKSON, Rica (compiler) DICTIONARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIANS 1829-1914 - Volume 2: Bond 1850-1868
$120.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Nedlands, W.A. 1979. August 1979 reprint of the 1979 original. XII, 607 PP with 1 table on 2 pages "Convict Ships". Eps: Map of the "Swan River Colony 1850-1868" with location map. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 15.7. 0855641622
Volume 2: from Thomas AARON to William YULE.
73655 ERICKSON, Rica (compiler) DICTIONARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIANS 1829-1914 - Volume 3: Free 1850-1868
$70.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Nedlands, W.A. 1979. October 1979 reprint of the 1979 original. X, 933 PP with 2 tables on 4 pages for list of "Immigrant Ships" and "Convict Ships". Eps: Map of the "Swan River Colony 1850-1868" with location map. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 22.2 x 15.7. 0855641630
Volume 3: from David ABBEY to Charles ZEDDI.
69211 ESSO WHEN WILL THE WELLS DRY ?
$10.00 AUD
Corporate Affairs Department, Esso Australia Ltd. Sydney. 1988. February 1988 edition. 8 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
21746 ESTENSEN, Miriam DISCOVERY: THE QUEST FOR THE GREAT SOUTH LAND
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. X, 286 PP with 17 head pieces and 10 b/w illustrations, plus 12 colour plates. Fp: Title page of Gerard and Cornelis de Jode's atlas, Speculum Orbis Terrae, 1597. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 20.3 x 12.4. 1864484977
50891 ESTENSEN, Miriam THE LIFE OF GEORGE BASS. Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed. XVIII, 259 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 6 colour and 5 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of George Bass. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket is a little sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.8 x 16. 1741141303
67554 ESTENSEN, Miriam THE LIFE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2003. 1st paperback edition of the 2002 original. XXII, 538 PP with 5 maps and 19 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 15 colour plates. Pictorial stiff covers. Front cover with 2 large creases, and spine lightly sunned. Faint foxing on outside edges. An otherwise very good clean copy. 23 x 15. 9781741141528
72401 ESTENSEN, Miriam DISCOVERY: THE QUEST FOR THE GREAT SOUTH LAND
$5.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1999. 1st paperback edition of the 1998 original. X, 286 PP with 17 head pieces and 10 b/w illustrations. Fp: Title page of Gerard and Cornelis de Jode's atlas, Speculum Orbis Terrae, 1597. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Foxing, o/wise near fine. 19.5 x 15. 9781865081397
76296 ESTENSEN, Miriam THE LIFE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. XXII, 538 PP with 5 maps and 19 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 15 colour plates. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of half-title page, dust jacket with light wear, otherwise a fine copy. 23.7 x 16. 1865085154
74526 EYRE, Edward John JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1 (in 2 Volumes)
$150.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1964. Facsimile Reprint of the 1845 original. No. 7 in the "Australiana Facsimile Editions" series. Volume I: (2), XVIII, (2), 448 PP, plus 11 plates (6 of them on some new animals), and 1 folded map of Australia inside pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Fp: Tenberry with wife and child. Volume II: (2), VI, 512 PP with 1 drawing, plus 11 b/w plates and 1 large folded "Map of Mr. Eyre's Routes in Central Australia" inside the pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Fp: Distribution of flour at Moorunde. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. A near fine copy. 21.8 x 14.5.
..Sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government, including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans.
75777 FACEY, A. B. The Illustrated "A FORTUNATE LIFE"
$30.00 AUD
Viking. Melbourne. 1986. Reprint of the 1984 edition (original of 1981). Afterword by Jan Carter. (10), 342 PP with b/w illustrations: 134 drawings & newspaper clippings in margin of page, and 46 photos and portraits. Fp: Portrait of A. B. Facey, aged twenty. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. A date stamp on FFEP, otherwise a fine copy. 26.5 x 20.5. 0670803073
Pages 239 to 284: World War I, 1914-1915 (Gallipoli: 258 to 283).
12872 FANKHAUSER, Barry L. & BIRD, J. Roger (editors) ARCHAEOMETRY: CURRENT AUSTRALASIAN RESEARCH
$45.00 AUD
ANU. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed., No. 22 in Occasional Papers in Prehistory series. (2), VI, 160 PP with tables, maps, sketches & graphs. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.5 x 20.8.
52536 FARNFIELD, J. COTTON AND THE SEARCH FOR AN AGRICULTURAL STAPLE IN EARLY QUEENSLAND (in Queensland Heritage)
$5.00 AUD
Oxley Memorial Library / Library Board of Queensland. Brisbane. 1971. Vol. 2, No. 4, May 1971 issue. 20-25 with 2 b/w portraits. Soft cover. Fine. 30.2 x 24.7.
... with the arrival of the first New Hebridean on the cotton plantation of Robert Towns in Logan district.
42199 FEEKEN, Erwin H.J. & Gerda E.E. & SPATE, O.H.K. THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA
$50.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed. VIII, 318 PP with 12 colour illust., 24 maps with exploration routes by discoverers & 146 b/w illust. (11 maps & plans). Title-page: Dutch vessel. Illustrated endpapers. Decorated hard cover, dj. Very light foxing on covers, outside edges, endpapers and few pages, o/wise a near fine copy. 29 x 21.4. 170018121
Discovery and exploration by sea and land with gazetteer of Australian place names and key to maps.
74329 FENNER, Frank (editor) THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE - THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Academy of Science. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. Sponsor's foreword by BHP Billiton. VIII, 549 PP with graphs, tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Signs of water damage (wrinkles) affecting the lower corner of pages close to the spine, without loss of text. Excellent reading copy. 25 x 17.5. 085847221X
59143 FERGUSON, John [editor] THE AMATEURS - The Second Century Begins 1972-1997
$20.00 AUD
Maritime Heritage Press / Sydney Amateur Sailing Club Ltd. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by His Excellency The Honourable Gordon Samuels. Introduction by Fred Bevis. VIII, 144 PP with b/w illustrations. Eps: Clubhouse in 1962. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29 x 22. 1876059028
The history and the spirit of the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club.
Les Editions de France. Paris. 1934. 2nd Ed. (4), 248 PP with 2 content pages. Rebound in modern cloth retaining orig. soft cover & spine. Paper browned somewhat with some foxing, o/wise very good. French text. 19 x 12.
Australia, a socialist paradise. The travels of a French political journalist in the early 1930's. A voyage of discovery through the country describing the political & union scenario. A very entertaining book.
60534 FIAT, Caroline UN TRAIN POUR LE BUSH / THE BUSH TRAIN (in Escales Australes, Le Magazine de la Compagnie Air Austral)
$15.00 AUD
Air Austral. Sainte Clotilde, Réunion Island. 2011. Issue No. 76, January/February 2011. 92 PP. Contains article between pages 20 and 29 with 19 colour photos. French text (page 28 with English summary). New. 29.7 x 21.
75291 FIGUEROLA, Carmen FAMILY ON PHILLIP ISLAND
$25.00 AUD
Whitcombe & Tombs Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. 1955 1st Ed. No. 576 in the "Whitcombe's Story Book" series. 128 PP with 4 b/w illustrations (family, Seals, Fairy Penguins, Koala) by Mahood. Soft covers a little browned around edges with light wear, illustrated front, staples. Date stamp and a number on half-title page, o/wise contents near fine. 18.2 x 12.
47807 FILIPPI, Orso, FARREN, Judith, et al... MELBOURNE (in Street Café Magazine - Issue No.5)
$10.00 AUD
SPAP / Streetcafe.org Nouméa. c. 2004. 1st edition. Issue No. 5. 82 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.8 x 21.
Melbourne, Victoria, for teenagers and young adults.
15084 FINCH, Alan and Valrie LORD HOWE ISLAND
$20.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 1st Ed. (12), 160 PP, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w photos (1 on double pzge). Eps: Location map off East Australian coast and map of Lord Howe Island. Hard cover, dj. Foxing on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2.
Discovery, settlement in the great days of whaling, palm-seed industry... the people.
21794 FINKEL, George THE DUTCHMAN BOLD, The Story of Abel Tasman
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1975. 1st Ed. VII, 151 PP with 2 maps and 3 line drawings. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with rubbed patch on lower part of front cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21.4 x 13.4. 0207131139
Voyage to Japan then voyages of discovery towards Australia & New Zealand.
74525 FINLAYSON, H. H. THE RED CENTRE - Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia
$25.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson Limited. Sydney. 1943. 5th edition of the 1935 original. Foreword by Frederick Wood Jones. 154 PP, plus 54 pages with 57 b/w photos. Fp: Creek Gums (Eucalyptus Rostrata). Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Foxing, war economy paper. Covers rubbed. Lacks the map of the South-western portion of Central Australia, called for.. Still a very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.8 x 17.
15818 FINNEY, C. M. TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET, Natural History in Australia 1699-1829
$20.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1984. 1st Ed. X, 206 PP with 54 b/w & 92 colour illust. Eps: Map of New Holland and plan around Sydney. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.2 x 23.5. 0727018817
Natural history from discoverers & explorers followed by scientific expeditions: with Matthew Flinders on the Investigator and with Baudin on the Géographe.
57144 FIRST FLEET BICENTENNIAL FIRST FLEET VISIT, Sanctuary Cove 14th to 22nd May 1988
$10.00 AUD
The Sunday Mail and The Gold Coast Bulletin. Brisbane. 1988. Bicentennial First Fleet - Souvenir Edition. Pages 15 to 34 with b/w and colour illustrations. Fine. 40.5 x 29
Bicentennial First Fleet Re-Enactment Voyage.
64844 FISHER, Rod & SCHIAVO, John (compiler) MORETON BAY IN THE NEWS: 1841 - 1860 / A Select Subject Index
$25.00 AUD
Brisbane History Group. Brisbane. 2000. 1st Ed. Brisbane History Group, Sources No. 9. 180 PP with 1 map of Moreton Bay and 4 b/w illustrations. Errata slip tipped in on title page. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0958625514
60198 FISK, E. K., HARDAKER, J. B. & THAMAN, R. R. FOOD PRODUCTION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
The University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1976. 1st Ed. Foreword by L. F. Brosnahan. The R.W. Parkinson Memorial Lectures edited by R.R. Thaman. (1), VII, 52 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 15.5.
3 lectures delivered in August / September 1974.
75681 FITZGERALD, Lawrence JAVA LA GRANDE, THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
$30.00 AUD
The Publishers Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 1986. Reprint of the 1984 edition. XV, (5), 140 PP with 79 maps & b/w illustrations. FEP: Dauphin map. REP: Desceliers map. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Small neat stamp of previous owner on title-page, otherwise fine. 27.8 x 20. 0949325007
The story of the Portuguese discovery of Australia, circa 1521.
72374 FITZGERALD, Robert D HEEMSKERCK SHOALS
$2500.00 AUD
The Mountainside Press. Fern Tree Gully, Victoria. 1949. Limited edition of 85 numbered copies. No pagination, 28 PP with 15 large illustrations and other fine decorations at top and bottom of each page with text, plus 1 coloured chart on double page (all illustrations by Geoffrey Ingleton). Finely printed on hand made Georgian semi-rag paper. Half leather, raised bands, gilt, marbled sides, gilt decoration and title on front cover. Contained in a clear perspex purpose made protective box. Copy hand numbered 37, signed by author and illustrator. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. Rare. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 56 x 38.5.
38785 FITZGERALD, Ross FROM 1915 TO THE EARLY 1980s - A History of Queensland
$45.00 AUD
Brisbane. 1984. University of Queensland Press. 1st Ed. XVIII, 653 PP with 109 b/w illustrations (maps, facsimile of newspaper and b/w photos). Fp (in colour): Autocratic Labor Premier William Forgan Smith, ca. 1939. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0702217344
54031 FITZHARDINGE, Verity RUSSIAN NAVAL VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA, 1862-1888 (in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society - Vol.52, Part 2)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1966. 81-168 PP. Article between pages 129 and 158. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.8.
Image of front cover lists other contents.
75752 FITZSIMONS, Peter VICTORY AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX - Why a French Town will Never Forget the ANZACS
$25.00 AUD
William Heinemann. Sydney. 2016. 1st Ed. XX, 737 PP with b/w illustrations: 2 sketch plans of British and German tanks and 44 maps, plus 16 pages with 35 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.8 9781742759524
76396 FITZSIMONS, Peter NANCY WAKE: A Biography of our Greatest War Heroine
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins Publishers. Sydney. 2001. 9th reprint of the 2001 original. X, 310 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.2. 9780732269197
41767 FLANNERY, Tim (editor) TERRA AUSTRALIS - Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Cirumnavigation of Australia
$20.00 AUD
Text Publishing Company. Melbourne. 2002. New edition of the 2000 original by Text Publishing. XXXIV, (4), 268 PP, (6 publications) plus 8 pages with 13 b/w or colour illust. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 19.8 x 12.7. 1876485922
50108 FLETCHER, Brian H. ENDEAVOUR AND ACHIEVEMENT - Highlights in the Story of Australian Development
$5.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. 1958. 6th edition (revised) of the 1952 original. (2), 30 PP with 30 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (HM Bark Endeavour). Near fine. 24.2 x 15.5.
From discoveries to the achievements up to 1957 bauxite discoveries at Weipa.
51976 FLETCHER, Brian H. ENDEAVOUR AND ACHIEVEMENT - Highlights in the Story of Australian Development
$5.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales Sydney. 1961. 7th edition (copletely revised) of the 1952 original. (2), 32 PP with 30 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (HM Bark Endeavour). Bookshop stamp on title page. Good. 24.2 x 15.5.
From discoveries to the achievements up to 1957 bauxite discoveries at Weipa.
38462 FLETCHER, C. Brunsdon AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC - 1788 to 1885 (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S. Volume XXVIII, Part III, 1942)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1942. P.129-192 with 3 b/w illustrations. Contrains article between P. 157 and 184 with 1 map. Stapled soft covers, browning around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
75233 FLINDERS GRAVE OF EXPLORER MATTHEW FLINDERS UNEARTHED NEAR LONDON STATION (in The Doningtonian, No. 62)
$15.00 AUD
The Doningtonian. Donington, UK. 2019 Issue 62 "Bring Him Home", Winter 2019. No pagination, 40 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page and article at centrefold (3 pages with 2 b/w illustrations and 9 colour photos) by Esther Addley. 2 Newspaper clippings (Daily Mirror, 25/01/2019 & Lincolnshire Free Press 12/02/2019) loosely inserted. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
71214 FLINDERS, Matthew OBSERVATIONS ON THE COASTS OF VAN DIEMEN's LAND, on Bass's Strait and its Islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales; Intended to Accompany the Charts of the Late Discoveries in Those Countries
$65.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1965. Facsimile reprint of the 1801 original. L.B.S.A. / Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 66. (2), (IV), 36 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. Image shows title-page. 32.5 x 25.
72744 FLINDERS, Matthew A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS... (in Two Volumes and a folio atlas)
$650.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1966. Facsimile edition of the 1814 original, No. 37 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (IV), X, (X), CCIV, 269 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Volume II: (IV), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Atlas (in a cloth-covered clam box) with 18 b/w folded plates [charts (plate XV, in 3 folded parts) and coastal views] and 10 b/w folded plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. Cloth covers, gilt titles on vignettes on the spines. More images available upon request. Faint foxing spots on the covers and outside edges of the volumes, o/wise a near fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 35 x 28.
A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island.
73657 FLINDERS, Matthew A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS... (in Two Volumes and a folio atlas)
$450.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1966. Facsimile edition of the 1814 original, No. 37 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (IV), X, (X), CCIV, 269 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Volume II: (IV), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Atlas (in a cloth-covered clam box) with 18 b/w folded plates [charts (plate XV, in 3 folded parts) and coastal views] and 10 b/w folded plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. This set had been water damaged affecting the covers and only the outer edges of pages. Rebacked copy. Full covers with "Oyster Book Cloth", renewed endpapers, and original labels pasted down on spine. Slight ageing of paper, and old water marks on outside edges of Volumes 1 & 2.. Complete. Contents fine and overall, a very good set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 35 x 27.5.
A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island.
74426 FLINDERS, Matthew A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS : A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator (in Two Volumes and an Atlas)
$1000.00 AUD
South Australian Government Printer. Adelaide. 1989. Facsimile reprint of the 1814 original. Limited edition of 500 hand numbered copies (No. 263 / 500), with a foreword by John Tregenza. Volume I: (6), VI, XX, CCIV, 269 PP, plus 1 colour plate (portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders by Toussaint Antoine De Chazal), and 4 b/w plates. Eps: Chart of Spencer's Gulf, Investigator's Strait and Gulf of St. Vincent. Volume II: (II), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Eps: Chart of Spencer's Gulf, Investigator's Strait and Gulf of St. Vincent. Atlas: No pagination 80 PP with 18 b/w plates (9 charts on double page, 7 on full page and 2 coastal views on double page) and 10 b/w plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. Eps: pencil drawing by R.T. Sexton, showing HMS Investigator. Half bound, gilt title on front cover and spine. Gilt lettering has been rubbed on the spines at top of the two volumes. Minimal foxing on the cover of the Atlas. A near fine set contained in a custom built red velvet lined box with a clear perspex cover. More images available upon request. Large format: Volumes: 37.5 x 28.5cm., Atlas: 70.5 x 53cm., Boxed set: 58 x 76 x 10. A very heavy item so please ask for best available postage rate. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Can be sold without the box if requested. 0724365400
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. (2), II, 150, 8 (index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing, mostly on first and last pages, o/wise near fine. Scarce. Image shows title-page. 30 x 21.5. 0731512936
19230 FLOWER, Cedric ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1981. 1st Ed. 223 PP with bw illustrations, plus 16 pages with 27 colour illustrations. Eps: Coaching party leaving Government House, 1877. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.7 x 19. 0727014056
From the first sightings by Captain Cook, to a modern and cosmopolitan state.
53069 FOLEY, Captain John C. H. REEF PILOTS - The History of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service
$15.00 AUD
Banks Bros. & Street. Sydney. 1882 1st Ed. Foreword by Norman Rogers. XIX, 202 PP, plus 64 pages with b/w and colour photos. Fp: Chart of Torres Strait. Title page: Seal of the Torres Strait Pilot Service. Eps: Charts of Queensland Coasts. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0959335803
History of the Queensland Coast & Torres Strait Pilot Service.
72993 FOLLEREAU, Raoul TOUR DU MONDE CHEZ LES LEPREUX
$25.00 AUD
Flammarion Editeur. Paris. 1953. 1st edition of May 1953. 251, (3) PP, plus 16 plates with 27 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front. Ageing of paper, not affecting the plates. Very good copy. 21.5 x 15.3.
Leprosy around the world.
73305 FOLLEREAU, Raoul DONNEZ-MOI DEUX BOMBARDIERS ...
$100.00 AUD
Ordre de la Charité. Paris. 1957. 1st edition. 60, (2) PP, plus 4 pages with 9 b/w photos. Inside back cover: Praise by General Weygand. Soft covers. Dedicatory note on half title page signed by Raoul Follereau. Occasional foxing. A very good copy of a rare item. French text 21.5 x 15.3.
In 1955, the amount needed to eradicate leprosy, was equivalent to the cost of building 2 modern bombers.
58934 FORELL, C. R. HOW WE ARE GOVERNED
$5.00 AUD
F.W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1968. 3rd revised edition of the 1964 original. (6), 146 PP with 1 organigram, 1 map and tables, plus 4 pages with 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 13.6.
73461 FORNASIERO, Jean & WEST-SOOBY, John (editors) 'ROAMING FREELY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE" - Nicolas Baudin's Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science
$50.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2021. 1st Ed. VI, 341, (5 publications) PP with over 6 tables and 24 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781743058275
4 subjects with 14 papers. ... The Pacific as a laboratory for Natural History, by John Gascoigne. ... 3 papers on "The Manuscripts of François Péron as Chronicler of the Sientific Voyage by: Gabrielle Baglione, Margaret Sankey ... Louis Freycinet at Port Jackson : Race, Colonialism and the figure of the French Scientific Traveller: 1803-1839, by Nicole Starbuck.
68348 FORNASIERO, Jean, MONTEATH, Peter & WEST-SOOBY, John ENCOUNTERING TERRA AUSTRALIS: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders
$50.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 412 PP with 2 head pieces and 130 b/w illustrations (maps and plans, charts and coastal views, drawings and engravings), plus 16 pages with 2 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Title page: Portrait of Ouriaga (Bruny Island). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.8 x 17.5. 9781862546257
74687 FORSTER, Harley W. WARANGA 1865 - 1965
$25.00 AUD
F. W. Cheshire Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 1965. 1st Ed. Foreword by John McEwen, Deputy Prime Minister. XVI, 148 PP with 2 tables and 5 maps, plus 12 plates with 22 b/w illustrations. FEP: Map of Waranga in the 1860s. REP: Map of Waranga Irrigation Areas. Hard covers, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
75963 FOSTER-HOLMES, Marilyn GERMAN CHARLIE - "Man of the Mallee"
$40.00 AUD
Marilyn Foster-Holmes. Forestville, S.A. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Allan R. Schiller. 80 PP with b/w illustrations: 2 sketch maps, 10 drawings by Mark Bailey and 14 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. Scarce. 20.2 x 14.5. 0958909903
AKA: Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von Worthmann: 1887 - 1970.
71204 FOWLER, R.M. THE FURNEAUX GROUP, Bass Strait: A History
$55.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1980. 1st Ed. Publication No. 28 in the Roebuck Society series. VIII, 394 PP, plus 36 pages with 8 charts & 60 b/w illust. FEP: Chart of Bass Strait. REP: "Stokes' Chart of the Furneaux Group. Decorated boards rubbed and worn around edges. Name of previous owner on verso of front endpaper. Contents near fine. Scarce. 23.8 x 16.5. 0909434204
75599 FRASER, Alan (editor) SABRETACHE - The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia (Volume XXVIII, No. 2 to Volume XXIX, No. 4)
$35.00 AUD
Federal Council of the Military Historical Society of Australia. Canbera. 1987 / 1988. 1st Ed. 7 issues (Vol. XXVIII, No, 2 to Vol. XXIX, No. 4), for a total of 300 PP with b/w illustrations. Bound copies of 7 issues with their original soft covers. Cloth covers, gilt title "Sabretache Volume 28-29" on spine. Fine. 25 x 18.
7 issues: Vol/ XXVII, No. 2, April / June 1987 to Volume XXIX, No. 4 , October-December 1988.
37831 FRASER, John Foster L'AUSTRALIE - Comment se fait une Nation
$25.00 AUD
Pierre Roger. Paris. 1911. 3rd French edition in Les Pays Modernes series, of the 1910 original Australia. Translated by Georges Feuilloy. (4), 255 PP, plus 1 folded map and 20 b/w plates. Illustrated soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. French text. 20.4 x 14.
15104 FREMANTLE, Admiral Sir C. H. DIARY & LETTERS OF ADMIRAL Sir C.H. FREMANTLE, G.C.B. RELATING TO THE FOUNDING OF THE COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1829
$15.00 AUD
Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle. 1985. Reprint of the 1979 edition based on the 1928 original edited by Lord Cottesloe. Introduction by Ruth Marchant James. (IV), 94 PP with 1 map. Fp: Portrait of Admiral Sir C.H. Fremantle. Card cover, dj. Fine. 21.5 x 15. 0909144192
Captain Charles Fremantle took formal possession of the West Coast of Australia on 2nd May 1829, and remained in the Swan River colony for 4 months. Facsimile of his diary.
60158 FROST, Alan BOTANY BAY: The Real Story
$20.00 AUD
Black Inc. Melbourne. 2011. 1st Ed. XIII, 276 PP with 1 sketch map. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 9781863955126
62643 FROST, Alan ARTHUR PHILLIP, 1783-1814, His Voyaging
$35.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed. XII, 320 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 31 colour illustrations (maps, drawings & paintings). Eps: The World with places sailed by Arthur Phillip. Hard cover, dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 25 x 19. 0195547012
Phillip's achievements in settling NSW and his previous voyages.
66747 FROST, Alan THE PRECARIOUS LIFE OF JAMES MARIO MATRA, Voyager with Cook, American Loyalist, Servant of Empire
$50.00 AUD
The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No.6 in the Miegunyah Press series. XIV, 264, (2) PP, plus 12 b/w plates (6 of them maps & charts). Cloth cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. 24.3 x 16. 052284667X
First voyage with Captain Cook and first account of this voyage with a concise vocabulary of the language of Otahitee. His proposals to establish a settlement in NSW. His diplomatic posting at Tangier...
40675 FROUDE, J. A. OCEANA - Travellers' Tales of Early Australia & New Zealand, the tempestuous voyage of J.A. Froude, 1884 & 1885
$25.00 AUD
Methuen Haynes. Sydney. 1985. Abridged edition of the 1886 original Oceana: or England and her Colonies, edited by Geoffrey Blainey. XX, 211 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Fp: Botanic gardens, Adelaide. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.2. 0454007329
72703 FYSH, Hudson QANTAS RISING:The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh; QANTAS AT WAR; WINGS TO THE WORLD: The Story of Qantas 1945-1966 (3 Volume Set)
$275.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1965, 1968 & 1970. 1st Ed. Vol. 1: XII, 296 PP with 1 map "Queensland & Northern Territory" on double page and 9 tables, plus 26 pages with 43 b/w photo. Fp: Lieutenants W.H. Fysh and P.J. McGinness. Vol. 2: XII, 244 PP with 1 drawing and 9 tables, plus 25 pages with 44 b/w illustrations (1 Certificate "Secret Order of the double sunrise" and 43 photos). Fp: Empire Flying Boat "Corio". Vol. 3: XII, 236 PP with 1 drawing, plus 24 pages with 45 b/w photos. Each volume with original hard cover, gilt title on spine, and dust jacket. Each volume has the ex-libris vignette of previous owner on inside front cover. Covers have light shelf wear as have the dust jackets. Dust jacket of Vol.1 is price clipped. Vol. 3 is an ex library copy, with erased stamp on title page and stamp on rear endpaper plus remnants of a library pocket. All volumes are in a protective archival sleeve. Occasional foxing. A very good clean set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 24.2 x 16.2.
71555 GARDEN, Donald S. SOUTHERN HAVEN - A History of the Port of Albany, Western Australia
$25.00 AUD
Albany Port Authority. Albany. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by Eric N. Stene. (VI), 70 PP with 4 maps and 21 b/w illust. (paintings, photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, dj. Neat stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0959634703
Published for the sesquicentenary of the State of Western Australia.
53001 GEARING, John S. & COCHRANE, Maurice B. (editors) THE BIG SWIM: 25 Miles across Australia's Port Phillip Bay (in BP Shield)
$10.00 AUD
The British Petroleum Company Limited. London. 1968. March 1968 issue. 36 PP. Contains article P. 23 to 25 with 1 map and 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (creases). Very good. 29.2 x 22.7.
January 1968 swim of former Australian Olympic Games representative Linda McGill, and Michael Kennedy.
51354 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [THE] THE AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER - Vol. II, No. 3, 1934
$10.00 AUD
The Geographical Society of New South Wales. Sydney. 1934. 52 PP with b/w illustrations. Bound copy, cloth cover protecting the soft cover issue. Slight ageing of paper, few foxing spots, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 19.
Articles: The Matapau Region, New Guinea, by G.A.V.Stanley, Land Utilization in the Lower Hunter Valley, New South Wales, by W.H. Maze, .. Image lists all contents.
51355 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [THE] THE AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER. Vol. IV, No. 3 - 1942
$15.00 AUD
The Geographical Society of New South Wales. Sydney. 1942. Pages 65 to 88 with 7 b/w illustrations (2 figures and 7 photos). Soft cover. Staples removed. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 24.8 x 18.5.
Articles: "The slotted Templet method of obtaining control from Mapping from aerial photographs", by J. Devery. "Water and soil problems in irrigation , Murrumbidgee", by E. W. R. Thorpe.
51356 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [THE] THE AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER. Vol. V, No. 4, November 1946
$15.00 AUD
The Geographical Society of New South Wales. Sydney. 1946. Illustrated soft covers. Staples removed. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 24.8 x 18.5.
Contains articles "The present position of mapping in Australia", by J. Macdonald Holmes. "A photographic series: Whyalla, Port Pirie and Murray Valley", by J. B. Rowe.
71510 GEORGE, Alex S. WILLIAM DAMPIER IN NEW HOLLAND - Australia's First Natural Historian
$25.00 AUD
Bloomings Books. Melbourne. 1999. 1st Ed. XX, 161 PP with 1 map and 176 b/w and colour illust. Fp: title page of A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier, 1703. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 1876473126
Voyages to the West Australian coast: 1688 on the Cygnet and 1699 on the Roebuck.
59136 GIBB, D. M. THE MAKING OF 'WHITE AUSTRALIA'
$10.00 AUD
Victorian Historical Association. Melbourne. 1979. Amended and reprinted from the 1975 edition (original of 1973). 139 PP with 2 cartoons. Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Signs of dampness affecting lower part of covers and lower margin of pages. Good reading copy. 21.8 x 14. 0950096776
63854 GILBERTAS, Bernadette L'AUSTRALIE, de Corail et de Brumes ... Queensland (in Le Figaro Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Le Figaro Magazine. Paris. 2013. No. 1720, Weekly issue of 11 October 2013. 160 PP with colour illustrations. Contains article pages 84 to 92 with 1 sketch map of Queensland and 11 photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 28 x 21.7.
Great Barrier Reef and tropical forests of Queensland.
74521 GILES, Ernest AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED:The Romance of Exploration, being a Narrative compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 (in Two Volumes)
$150.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. c. 1980. Facsimile limited deluxe edition of the 1889 original, (No.71/100). Front endpaper of Vol. I, with text and number of this limited edition. Volume I: LX, 320 PP with 11 b/w illustrations, plus 3 large folded maps and 11 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Ernest Giles. Volume II: X, (2), 363 PP with 12 b/w illustrations, plus 3 large folded maps and 9 b/w plates. Fp: View on Peterman Range. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj (glassine protection). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 23 x 15. 0868240168
75475 GILMOUR, Joanna ELEGANCE IN EXILE- Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia
$50.00 AUD
National Portrait Gallery. Canberra. 2012. 1st Ed. VI, 181 PP with 9 folded pages with 9 landscape paintings, 9 full page paintings and 51 portraits (2 of them b/w and 49 coloured). Fp (in colour): Jane Scott, c. 1842. FEP: Plan of Sydney, August 1822. REP: Plan of Hobart Town, 1854. Hard covers, decorated green cloth, dj and ribbon page-marker. Fine (mint condition). 23.8 x 16. 9780987073556
74205 GLEESON, James & HENSHAW, John COLONIAL PAINTERS 1788-1880
$10.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press / Australian Art Library. Melbourne. 1971 1st edition in the Australian Painting Studio series. 128 PP with 17 b/w and 75 colour plates. Hard covers, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.2 x 19. 0701803932
76084 GLEESON, James & HENSHAW, John AUSTRALIAN PAINTERS - Colonial Painters 1788-1880 / Impressionist Painters 1881-1930 / Modern Painters 1931-1970
$20.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press/Australian Art Library. Melbourne. 1976. New edition in the "Australian Painting Studio" series of the 1971 original published in 3 volumes. Colonial: 128 PP with 17 b/w and 75 colour plates. Impressionist: 128 PP with 11 b/w and 105 colour plates. Modern: 128 PP with b/w and 88 colour plates. Hard covers. Slight ageing of paper. Spine of dust jacket lightly rubbed at foot. Near fine. 25 x 19. 0701807318
55507 GODARD, Philippe & DE KERROS, Tugdual 1772: THE FRENCH ANNEXATION OF NEW HOLLAND: The Tale of Louis de Saint Aloüarn
$30.00 AUD
Western Australia Museum. Perth. 2008. 1st English edition. Translated from the 2002 French original, by Odette Margot, Myra Stanbury & Sue Baxter. (10), 269, (3) PP with 2 tables and b/w illustrations (18 head pieces, 17 facsimile of documents), plus 48 PP with 68 b/w or colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.6 x 15.3. 9781920843984
73189 GODARD, Philippe & STEPHENS, Phillida THE FIRST AND LAST VOYAGE OF THE BATAVIA
$40.00 AUD
Abrolhos Publishing. Perth. 1993. 1st Ed. 332 PP with over 400 b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, title engraved on spine & front cover, dj. Foxing on endpapers and prelim pages and on top outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 28.7 x 22. 0646105191
Construction, V.O.C. specifications, the voyage, shipwreck, mutiny,... to modern discovery of the wreck.
32496 GODDARD, Roy H. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMES MILSON
$30.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1955. 1st Ed. XII, 206 PP with 6 maps and plans and 21 head pieces by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, plus 22 pages with 26 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of John Milson. FEP: Map of the County of Cumberland, NSW. REP: Genealogical table. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Paper ageing somewhat around edges with light foxing, dust jacket with a few small chips and is in a protective sleeve, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 18.5.
Migrated on the 362-ton whaler Albion, 18th August 1806...
50185 GOOLD, W. J. THE NEWCASTLE LIFEBOAT (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S.)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1945. Volume XXXI, Part III, 1945. Contains article between P.164 and 195. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 20.7 x 13.5.
Read before the Newcastle and Hunter Historical Society on April 12, 1939. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
50822 GORDON, Harry BICENTENNIAL: AN AUSTRALIAN MOSAIC AND 1788 DIARY
$10.00 AUD
Sunshine Diaries Publication. Brisbane. 1987. 1st Ed. (16), 126, (112 diary) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.2 x 21.8. 0958771448
Diary with extracts from the diaries of Captain Phillip, Surgeon Bowes Smyth, Lieutenant Bradley, 2nd Lieutenant Clark...
76203 GRAEME-EVANS, Alex OF STORMS AND RAINBOWS: The Story of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. - Volume One: October 1939 - March 1942
$125.00 AUD
Southern Holdings Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Major-General C.A.E. Fraser. (6), VI, 258, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, 7 drawings and cartoons, 8 portraits and over 100 photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Birthday note at top of front endpaper. Contents near fine. 30.3 x 21.5. 0949089117
64981 GRAHAM, Marjorie WHAT'S ON THE MENU (in the Australian Antique Collector No. 40)
$10.00 AUD
Business Press International. Sydney. 1990. 40th edition, July-December 1990. Contains article from P.73 to 75 with 1 colour and 8 b/w illustrations Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.3 x 21.
Artists of the Bendigo Goldfields, by David Thomas. ... A Century of Colonial Cricketana, by Jrna Pullman and Kristen Thornton. ... Views in New South Wales - Australia's first topographical engravings, by Patricia R. McDonald.
73578 GRANT, James THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY'S VESSEL THE LADY NELSON, of Sixty Tons Burthen, WITH SLIDING KEELS, in the Years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to NEW SOUTH WALES
$120.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1973. Facsimile edition of the 1803 original. (10), XXVI, 195 PP, plus 6 plates on full page (1 colour & 5 b/w), a large folded plan, and a large folded map. Fp: A sketch of two boats and a cutter with sliding keels. Red cloth cover, gilt title on spine. A near fine copy. Image shows the title-page. 26.7 x 21.7. 0724300368
76224 GRAY, Howard THE WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER - Panulirus Cygnus - Book 1: A Natural History
$35.00 AUD
Westralian Books. Geraldton, W.A. 1992. 1st Ed. IX, 112 PP with 41 figures and 110 b/w & colour photos. Fp (in colour): Rock Lobster. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note on verso of front endpaper, dated and signed by the author. Fine. Oblong: 21.7 x 26.5. 095941052X
71243 GREAVES, Molly MEMOIRS OF FREYCINET, TASMANIA - A history in Images & Verse
$35.00 AUD
Author. Coles Bay, Tasmania. 2008. 1st Ed. Preface by Bertrand Cadart, Mayor. XXII, 138 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). 23.8 x 16.8. 9780980562729
75959 GREEN, R. W. W., RETALLICK, K. & TALBOT, Dr. F. (editors) THE AMATEURS - A documentation of the first 100 years of sailing on Sydney Harbour as seen by Sydney Amateur Sailing Club 1872-1972
$40.00 AUD
Sydney Amateur Sailing Club. Sydney. 1972. 1st Ed. 216 PP with many b/w photos, 10 facsimile pages of the Rules and Regulations of the S.A.S.C. instituted October 1, 1872. Fp: The Amateurs' first clubhouse on Bennelong Point. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dust jacket. Dust jacket is somewhat browned and rubbed and now laminated. Foxing, o/wise very good. 28.5 x 21.5. 0959882901
15814 GREENFELL-PRICE, A. FRENCH EXPLORATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1802-1803, A Review
$20.00 AUD
R.G.S.A. Adelaide. 1952. Extract from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Vol. 53. 4 PP (P.47 to 51) with 1 map, plus 1 plate with 2 b/w illust. Soft cover. Very good. 21 x 14.
Review of the book French Exploration in South Australia, 1802-1803, published privately by H.M. Cooper.
43224 GREGORY, Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas JOURNALS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONS 1846-1861
$15.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 2002. Reprint of the 1884 original published in Brisbane. (6), (4), 210 PP with 5 portraits and the frontispiece of the 1884 edition. Pictorial soft cover. Note: the 5 maps mentioned on the contents page were not printed at the time of the reprint. Fine condition. 24 x 16.2. 0859052583
53947 GREIG, A. W. (editor) THE VICTORIAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE - Vol. V, No. 1
$15.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1916. Vol. V, No. 1, March 1916. Issue 17. 48 PP, plus 3 plates with 1 map, 1 illustration and 3 portraits. Original soft covers a little browned around edges, light foxing mostly around page edges, o/wise contents near fine. 20.5 x 13.8.
The Liardets of "The Beach", by A. W. Greig. The First Settlement of the North-East of Victoria, by Arthur Andrews. The true story of the Hobart hulk Aladdin, by Marjorie Masson.
44842 GRUNDMANN, Pierre EN AUSTRALIE
$10.00 AUD
Hachette. Paris. 1981. 1st Ed., in Collection Guides Bleus. 252, (4 publications) PP with maps and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Back cover creased and rubbed. Very good. French text. 22 x 11.5. 2010077903
75974 GUILER, Eric R. GONE AND ALMOST FORGOTTEN - Jetties in Southern Tasmania
$130.00 AUD
Eric R. Guiler. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1998. 1st Ed. (10), 469 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: (1 plan, 22 sketch maps with insets for location of jetties). Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note to previous owner, dated and signed by the author on title page. Light crease on front cover with a small rubbed patch at bottom, otherwise a fine copy. Only 300 copies were printed so it has become a scarce item. 21 x 14.7. 0646348043
71532 GUILLAUMIN, Emile FRANCOIS PERON - Enfant du Peuple - Un Grand Voyage - Une Oeuvre - Une Vie
$200.00 AUD
Les Marmousets. Moulins, France. 1982. 1st edition limited to 450 copies (400 with cloth cover), with a preface by Jacques Lougnon. 154 PP with 61 b/w reproductions of original engravings. Half title page: portrait of François Péron by M. C. A. Lesueur. Title page: Canda, Jeune fille Malaise, Timor. Cloth cover, colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. French text. Near fine. 37.8 x 27.5. 2903886040
The life and the works of François Péron and his great voyage to Australia with the Baudin expedition.
65306 GUILLOU, Jean L'INDIAN PACIFIC: une Source d'Histoire Australienne
$10.00 AUD
Société d'Etudes Historiques. Nouméa. 1982. Reprint from Issue No. 52, (3rd quarter 1982). No pagination, 20 PP with b/w illustrations (5 maps and 14 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.
Crossing the Australian Continent on the Indian Pacific train.
65308 GUILLOU, Jean QUEEN EMMA, Reine des Mers du Sud
$10.00 AUD
Société d'Etudes Historiques. Nouméa. 1980. Reprint from Issue No. 44, (2nd quarter 1980). No pagination, 23 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps and 24 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.
42398 GUNN, A. S. AUSTRALIA 1788 - A mine of botanical novelty
$10.00 AUD
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside. Liverpool. 1987. 1st Ed. 36 PP with 1 sketch map, 1 map, 9 b/w and 18 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30 x 23. 0906367271
Exhibition for Australian Bicentenary, Liverpool Museum.
72698 GUNN, John QANTAS AIRWAYS: 1919 - 1970 (in 3 volumes). 1 - DEFEAT OF DISTANCE: Qantas 1919-1939 / 2 - CHALLENGING HORIZONS: Qantas 1939-1954 / 3 - HIGH CORRIDORS: Qantas 1954-1970
$180.00 AUD
University of Queensland / Qantas Airways Ltd. Brisbane. 1985, 1987 & 1988. 1st Ed. Vol. 1: XVI, 400 PP with 2 tables and 93 b/w illustrations (3 prospectus & 90 photos). Eps: Map in colour of Queensland ant the Northern Territory. Vol. 2: XIV, (2), 434 PP with 2 tables and 95 b/w photos. Eps: Cutaway in colour of an Imperial Flying Boat of Qantas Empire Airways. Vol. 3: XVI, 468 PP with 1 table and 92 b/w photos. Eps: Artwork of Super Constellation with boarding paasengers walking on the tarmac. Each volume with hard cover with title on front board and spine, and dust jacket. Top of the rear cover of Vol.2 (on 2 cm) has been rubbed with corresponding tear of the dust jacket and has been repaired. All volumes in a protective sleeve. Contents of all volumes in near fine condition. A scarce item. 25.4 x 18. 0702217077 / 0702220175 / 0702221287
74761 GUNSON, Niel & KEY, Leslie M. THE GOOD COUNTRY - CRANBOURNE SHIRE
$15.00 AUD
F. W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1968. 1st Ed. XVIII, 308 PP with tables and 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 39 b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, portraits and photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 21.5 x 15.
59147 GUTHRIE, Bruce & GILBERT, Jenni (editors) THE AUSTRALIAN WISH - December 2006 "The Summer Issue"
$5.00 AUD
The Australian / Nationwide News. Sydney. 2006. December 2006 Issue. 96 PP with colour illustrations. Fine. 33.2 x 27..
Pages 28 to 52: 90 days of summer (down under). Pages 54 to 58: The Lure of the Sea, by Philip Plisson.
59149 GUTHRIE, Bruce & GILBERT, Jenni (editors) THE AUSTRALIAN WISH - November 2006 - Great Drives
$5.00 AUD
The Australian / Nationwide News. Sydney. 2006. November 2006 Issue. 96 PP with colour illustrations. Fine. 33.2 x 27..
Pages 30 to 52: 12 magnificent drives from Perth to the Pacific, by Andy Baker.
36620 GUTHRIE, Margaret D. THE FIRST TOURIST - Commemorating the Bicentenary of Matthew Flinders Voyage in the Sloop Norfolk to Bribie Island and Moreton Bay
$10.00 AUD
Author. Bribie Island. 1999. 1st Ed. (8), 72 PP with 8 b/w illust., plus 16 plates with 30 colour illust. Verso of title page: Matthew Flinders, from the portrait by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal. Decorated card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646369776
45125 GWYNN-JONES, Terry HEROIC AUSTRALIAN AIR STORIES
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1981. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 6 maps and 80 b/w photos. Hard cover (lightly rubbed), dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 25.3 x 19.5. 0727014218
75864 HADDON, George GEORGE HADDON'S VICTORIA SKETCHBOOK
$50.00 AUD
Royal Auto. Melbourne. 2006. 1st Ed. 70 PP with colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial card covers, spiral bound. A fine copy. Oblong: 42cm x 29.7cm. 9780646464763
A selection of the author's monthly contributions to the Royal Auto magazine.
55800 HALL, Barbara PAT MOORE'S SWAMP - The Life and Times of Patrick Moore and his Family
$35.00 AUD
Author. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. 52 PP (recto only) with b/w illustrations (3 facsimiles of documents, 3 engravings and 6 plans). Soft cover, clear plastic, spiral bound. Fine. 29.5 x 21.5.
Patrick Moore of Moorefield: convict to.. much respected colonist.
72057 HALL, James, FRYKBERG, Ian & FOYLE, Lidsay (editors) THE BULLETIN (with Newsweek) - SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL EDITION - 1988
$20.00 AUD
The Bulletin / Australian Consolidated Press. Sydney. 1988. Bicentenary Edition, January 26, 1988. 338 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, as well as many advertisements (including 2 of 24 pages each on art paper for Hayman Island and BMW). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.
Methuen Australia. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 2 maps and 41 b/w photos. Hard cover. Ex library copy with dust jacket pasted down on boards (laminated), library stamps on half title page, verso of title page and rear endpaper. Pages 28 & 29 with some underlining of around 6 lines and short notes. Copy lacking the free fly of the front endpaper. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Good reading / working copy. 21.6 x 14.2. 0454006675
74689 HAMILTON, J. C. PIONEERING DAYS IN WESTERN VICTORIA
$75.00 AUD
Warrnambool Institute Press. Warrnambool, Vic. 1981. 1st Ed. in the Australia Felix series, with an introduction by Gordon Forth. Facsimile edition of the 1914 Australian original. XII, 110, (6) PP with 14 b/w illustrations. Eps: 2 maps of Western Victoria. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 18.8 x 12.8. 0949759023
A Narrative of Early Station Life.
76096 HAMILTON, Walter CHILDREN OF THE OCCUPATION - Japan's Untold Story
$20.00 AUD
NewSouth Publishing. Sydney. 2012. 1st Ed. XVI, 304 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 42 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Foxing throughout (not affecting the photograph section.). Very good reading copy. 23.4 x 15.3. 9781742233314
37048 HARCOURT, Edgar TAMING THE TYRANT - The first one hundred years of Australia's international communication services
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. XV, 405 PP with 1 graph , 5 maps and 73 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing, dedicatory short note on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 23.8 x 18.5. 0049940112
47323 HARCOURT, Rex SOUTHERN INVASION - NORTHERN CONQUEST: Story of the Founding of Melbourne
$15.00 AUD
Golden Point Press. Melbourne. 2001. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. X, (2), 247 PP with 50 b/w illustrations. Fp: Captain Charles Swanston. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.2 x 17. 0646403362
71438 HARDIE, Jenny NOR'WESTERS OF THE PILBARA BREED
$30.00 AUD
Shire of Port Hedland. Port Headland. 1981. 1st Ed. XVI, 264 PP with 12 maps, plus 136 pages with 264 b/w photos. Title spread: Condon, in 1897. FEP: Sergeant Smith and party after arrest of Aborigines, 1899. REP: Front verandah of the Pier Hotel, Port Hedland, 1930. Cloth cover, gilt title and crest on spine, dj. Dedicatory note on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 24 x 18.5. 0959415505
Story of the brave ancestors who pioneered the outback Pilbara in Western Australia.
73844 HARE, Rosalie & LEE, Ida THE VOYAGE OF THE CAROLINE: from England to Van Diemen's Land and Batavia in 1827-28 ...
$250.00 AUD
Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. London. 1927. 1st Ed. XIV, 308 PP, plus over 40 b/w plates (8 of them folded) with over 42 illustrations (manuscript pages, portraits, charts & maps, portraits and prints ...). Fp: Cover of the Journal. Blue cloth covers, rebacked with original spine pasted down. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. Contents are clean and overall, this is a very good copy of a scarce item. 22.8 x 14.5.
... with chapters on the Early History of Northern Tasmania, Java, Mauritius and St. Helena, by Ida Lee (Mrs Charles Bruce Marriott).
50904 HARRIS, Max, SMITH, Bernard, DUTTON, Geoffrey et al. (editors) AUSTRALIA'S HERITAGE: The Making of a Nation. Vol. 1: The Great South Land
$10.00 AUD
Hamlyn House. Sydney. 1974. Reprint of the 1971 original, with a foreword by Lady Alexandra Hasluck. Vol. 1: (8), 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated front cover (Endeavour). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 28.3 x 20.5.
65134 HARRIS, Max, SMITH, Bernard, DUTTON, Geoffrey et al. (editors) AUSTRALIA'S HERITAGE: The Making of a Nation. Vol. 2: The formative years
$15.00 AUD
Hamlyn House. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. Vol. 2: (4), 121-240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): John Macarthur. Hard cover, illustrated front cover (Whaling scene). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 28.3 x 20.5.
11708 HARRISON, Phil AUSTRALIA NOW - Bicentennial Edition
$10.00 AUD
Promotion Australia Publication / A. G. P. S. Canberra. 1988. Volume 12, No.4. 64 PP with b/w & colour illust. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
The shaping of a nation with a theme: living together in Australia. Decision time for this new generation, by Manning Clark. For Aboriginals, a time of hope, by Shirley McPherson...
52537 HART, Daniel. THE PETITION OF DANIEL HART (in Queensland Heritage)
$10.00 AUD
Oxley Memorial Library / Library Board of Queensland. Brisbane. 1975. Vol. 3, No. 2, May 1975 issue. 21-28 with 1 facsimile of document, 1 map and 2 plans. Soft cover. Fine. 30.2 x 24.7.
Petition sent in 1884. Opening the Mossman-Port Douglas area to European settlement.
72861 HARTCHER, Peter RED FLAG - Waking Up to China's Challenge (in Quarterly Essay)
$30.00 AUD
Quarterly Essay / Schwartz Books. Melbourne. 2019. QE76, Issue 76, 2019. (2), 114 PP. contains article pages 1 to 89. Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. 23.4 x 16.8. 9781863959704
71978 HARVEY, Roy C. (compiler) BACKGROUND TO BEECHWORTH from 1852
$15.00 AUD
Beechworth & District Progress Association. Beechworth, Vic. 1994. 9th edition of the 1952 original. 68 PP with b/w illustrations (3 tail pieces, 6 portraits and 43 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 22.5 x 17.5.
73518 HASLUCK, Alexandra NATIONAL TRUST OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA SKETCHBOOK
$15.00 AUD
Rigby Ltd. Adelaide. 1978. 1st Ed. 56 PP with 27 drawings (21 on full page) by Ross Shardlow. Eps: map of the southern part of West Australia. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0727008919
76256 HAWKINS, Cathy RETURN IN THE WAKE - The True Story of a Woman's Adventures at Sea
$100.00 AUD
John Ferguson. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 188 PP with b/w illustrations (2 headpieces, 2 sketch plans and 30 photos), plus 24 pages with 38 colour photos. Eps: Mappemonde with tracks and insert with British Isles. Hard cover, attractive device on front cover, dj. Name blocked at top of free fly of front endpaper and "best wishes" note on recto of FFEP, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. 23 x 15. 0949118222
Thousands of nautical miles logged, while racing in the trimarans "Twiggy" and "Balena". The difficulties in obtaining funds to realise her dreams...
60299 HEAD, Lesley CONSERVATION AND ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS: When Green is not Black (in Australian Natural History, Vol. 23, No.6, 1990)
$10.00 AUD
Australian Museum Trust. Sydney. 1990. Includes article P. 448 to 454 with 1 Graph and 8 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.2 x 21.
57815 HEALEY, Tim THE LAST ADVENTURE
$5.00 AUD
The Reader's Digest Association. London. 1999. 1st Ed., in The 20th Eventful Century series. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards. Fine. 29.8 x 23.5. 0957702302
Journeys to the Unknown, Under a Burning Sun, The Lure of the East, American Exploits, The Frozen Lands, Of Sea and Sky, Unusual Adventures, Timechart, ...
75334 HEALEY, Tim THE WORLD'S MOST MYSTERIOUS PLACES
$15.00 AUD
The Reader's Digest Association. Sydney. 1996 1st Australian edition, in "The Earth, Its Wonders, Its Secrets" series. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards. Fine. 29.8 x 23.5. 0864389612
Lost Realms, Fabled Treasures: ... Nam Madol, Pohnpei / Oak Island, Canada ... Strange Relics: Easter Islands. Ancient of Days: Angkor, Cambodia.
52918 HENDERSON, Graeme UNFINISHED VOYAGES - Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1622-1850
$60.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2007. 2nd edition of the 1980 original. XII, 340 PP with 4 location maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 29.2 x 25.2. 0920694883
74223 HENDERSON, Graeme, DE HOOP, Robert & VIDUKA, Andrew MISADVENTURES IN PARADISE - Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island during the Dutch Era
$65.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Publishing. Perth. 2020. 1st Ed. Introduction in "The Oceans Institute Monograph" series, by Peter Veth. XII, 242 PP with over 74 b/w or colour figures. Stiff covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781760802301
31552 HENDERSON, James SENT FORTH A DOVE - Discovery of the Duyfken
$35.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1999. 1st Ed. XIV, 218 PP with 8 sketch-maps, b/w and colour illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 1876268247
The story of the Dutch discovery of Australia in 1606 on the Duyfken (dove), and of the Duyfken 1606 Replica Project.
38231 HENDERSON, James SENT FORTH A DOVE - Discovery of the Duyfken
$20.00 AUD
Perth. 1999. University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1999. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 218 PP with 8 sketch-maps, b/w and colour illust. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear, otherwise fine. 24 x 17. 1876268255
The story of the Dutch discovery of Australia in 1606 on the Duyfken (dove), and of the Duyfken 1606 Replica Project.
54734 HENDERSON, Professor G. C. NATURAL AND RATIONAL SELECTION (in Syllabus of a Course of a Lecture)
$5.00 AUD
The University of Adelaide. Adelaide. 1912 1st Ed. 8 PP. Soft cover. Rusty staples. Very good. 18 x 12.5.
51386 HERALD & WEEKLY TIMES THE FIRST 80 YEARS. A Look at the 20th Century in Words and Pictures from THE HERALD and THE SUN News-Pictorial
$10.00 AUD
The Herald and Weekly Times. Melbourne. 1980. 1st Ed. 96 PP with hundreds of b/w photos. Inside back cover: For the Record. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed. Faint foxing. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 0909917329
73058 HERALD SUN MOMENTS IN TIME: Great Images of the 20th Century
$75.00 AUD
Herald Sun / Hardie Grant Books. South Yarra, Vic. 1999. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. XII, 307 PP with b/w pictures from the Herald Sun 1900-1999. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Near fine. 35.5 x 26. 9781864980585
Great News Events which have affected Melbourne, Victoria and Australia.
40713 HERMANN, Bernard & FITZPATRICK, Kate SYDNEY
$15.00 AUD
Century Hutchinson Australia. Melbourne. 1986. 1st Ed. 150 PP with colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 27.6 x 19.5. 091571901
58551 HEWAT, Tim THE ELDERS EXPLOSION - One hundred and forty years of progress from Elder to Elliott
$15.00 AUD
Bay Books. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 168 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.3 x 21.5. 1862563306
75611 HICKS, Zachary THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF ZACHARY HICKS, Lieutenant / 13 April 1770 - 22 August 1770; With notes by Frank Murcott Bladen
$100.00 AUD
Banks Society / Colony Press. Melbourne. 2006. Limited edition of 100 copies printed for private sale by John Currey. 23, (3) PP, plus 1 large folded chart "Point Hicks to Smoky Cape" and 2 b/w plates (1st page and entry for 22 August 1770). Fp: First page of Hick's Journal. Half title page with signature of Zachary Hicks. Soft covers, label with title pasted down on front cover. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 15.
Lieutenant Hicks was the first on board the "Endeavour" to sight the Australian coast, by 37° 48' S 149°16' E. Hence Point Hicks.
52110 HIDDINS, Les BUSH TUCKER MAN - Stories of Exploration and Survival
$25.00 AUD
ABC Books. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 8 head pieces, 10 maps, 1 facsimile, 5 colour and 81 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 38 colour photos. Title spread and endpapers with colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 28 x 21.5. 0733305466
Inland explorers of the Australian continent, known (Ludwig Leichhardt, Burke & Wills...), or unknown (Lieutenant Nixon, and the lost Dutch settlement in the Kimberleys)...
71015 HILDER, Brett PORTRAIT - ROSE THOMSON OF LORD HOWE ISLAND
$250.00 AUD
No date. Original signed unframed watercolour. 20 x 15cm.
71045 HILDER, Brett LANDSCAPE - DRIPSTONE - CASUARINA BEACH, DARWIN
$200.00 AUD
Dated 24.8.45. Original unframed watercolour. Oblong: 25 x 31cm.
Dated 28.5.1965. Original unframed signed watercolour. Oblong: 22 x 29cm.
Route 15, Warwick Road.
71113 HILDER, Brett LANDSCAPE - "AKARANA", LILYDALE, VICTORIA
$100.00 AUD
Dated 1968. Original unframed signed watercolour. Oblong: 24.5 x 35cm.
71132 HILDER, Brett LANDSCAPE - TOMEWIN AREA
$100.00 AUD
Dated 27-3-195. Original unframed signed watercolour. Oblong: 22 - 27.5cm.
34737 HILDER, Captain Brett EXPLORING A HAZARDOUS PASSAGE (extract from Australian Natural History, Vol 19, No.6, 1978)
$10.00 AUD
Australian Museum. Sydney. 1978. Special Issue, April-June 1978. Extract: pages 177 to 181 with 5 b/w illust. Soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.
Torres Strait exploration in 1606, by the Spaniard Luis Vaez de Torres.
64673 HILL, David THE GREAT RACE
$30.00 AUD
William Heinemann. Sydney. 2012. 1st Ed. XIV, 386 PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers: Flinders' unpublished map of Terra Australis, 1804. Pictorial soft cover. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781742751092
The Race between the English and the French to complete the Map of Australia.
72531 HILL, David FIRST FLEET SURGEON - The Voyage of ARTHUR BOWES SMYTH
$40.00 AUD
National Gallery of Australia. Canberra. 2015. 1st Ed. XII, 210 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. End papers: Maps of the voyages of the Lady Penrhyn (FEP: Portsmouth to Sydney Cove 1787/1788 / REP: Sydney Cove to Tahiti, Macau, St Helena, Ramsgate 1788/1789). Fine (as new condition). 25 x 22. 9780642278623
Lady Penrhyn, first fleeter, brought over 100 female convicts from England, returned home via Lord Howe, Kermadec, Tahiti (Chapter 12: Abundance and hospitality in Tahiti), ...
12323 HILL, Ernestine MY LOVE MUST WAIT - The Story of Matthew Flinders
$30.00 AUD
Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1971. Reprint of the 1941 original, in the Australian Classics series. (8), 463 PP (5). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14.6.
Historical novel centred on the life of Matthew Flinders, hydrographer & explorer, the first man to circumnavigate and to name the fifth continent: Terra Australis.
67788 HILL, Kendall BEFORE THE WIND, Cruising on SEA CLOUD II (in The Australian WISH)
$5.00 AUD
The Australian Wish / Nationwide News Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2015. Issue 02 / 2015. 80 PP. Contains article pages 56 to 59 with 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 33 x 27
33311 HILL, Marji & BARLOW, Alex (editor) BLACK AUSTRALIA - An annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
$20.00 AUD
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed., No. 7 in Bibliography series. XV, 200 PP. Decorated card cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 0855750731
Prehistory. Tradition-oriented culture. Languages. Art and material culture...
33312 HILL, Marji & BARLOW, Alex (editor) BLACK AUSTRALIA 2 - An annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1977-82
$20.00 AUD
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra. 1985. 1st Ed. XV, 200 PP. Decorated card cover. Fine. 28 x 21. 0855751568
Prehistory. Tradition-oriented culture. Languages. Art and material culture... Contemporary issues...
74679 HILLS, Edwin Sherbon THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF VICTORIA - An Introduction to Geomorphology
$30.00 AUD
Whitcombe & Tombs Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. 1951. 3rd edition. Foreword by Professor Ernest W. Skeats. XX, 292 PP with frontispiece, endpiece and 351 b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches and photos). Fp: Mt Bogong, the highest mountain in Victoria. Endpiece (Page 278): Sic Transit Gloria "Persepolis, Persia". Eps (maps): Simplified Geologiocal Map of Victoria / The Physiographic Divisions of Victoria. Cloth covers, title on front board and spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.8.
38340 HIRST, Warwick SOUTHERN DISCOVERIES (in The Bulletin)
$10.00 AUD
ACP Publishing. Sydney. 1996. Vol. 116, No. 6005, January 16, 1996. Contains article by Warwick HIRST between P. 42 and 44 with 1 map and 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Spanish Guns: A first-hand account gives a revealing insight into one of the first European expeditions into Australian waters. Don Diego de Prado y Tovar and Luis Vaes de Torres, through the Torres Strait: August / September 1606.
74427 HMSO AUSTRALIA PILOT - Volume II
$60.00 AUD
Hydrographic Department, Admiralty. London. 1929. 2nd Ed. Edited by Commander A.C. COLE & Commander G.C. GLEN. Advertisement to the 2nd edition by Rear-Admiral H. P. Douglas. (4 notices), XXVI, 390 PP with tables, plus 1 folded Index to Admiralty Charts S.D.49, 3 colour plates (Depth Signals, Weather Forecast Signals & Tidal Signals for Macquarie Harbour) and 9 b/w plates with 2 lighthouses and 11coastal views. Inside front cover: Caution when approaching British Ports. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
South and East coasts of Australia, from Cape Northumberland to Port Jackson, including Bass Strait and Tasmania.
43826 HOA THE STORY OF A HOA
$5.00 AUD
Immigration Museum. Melbourne. 2002. 1st Ed. Folded catalogue, 6 pages with 13 colour photos. English and Chinese text. 29.8 x 21.
Exhibition (21 August - 10 November 2002) : A celebration of Indo-China Ethnic Chinese Immigration & Settlement in Australia - 20 years on.
15085 HOARE, Merval THE DISCOVERY OF NORFOLK ISLAND
$10.00 AUD
AGPS. Canberra. 1974. 1st Ed. X, 23 PP with 2 charts and 6 portraits. Fp: Captain James Cook. Title page: Norfolk pine. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0642005737
46701 HOCKING, Geoff THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG. The First 100 Years
$25.00 AUD
The Five Mile Press. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. Oblong: 18.2 x 25.6. 1865035998
15717 HOOPER, Meredith DOCTOR HUNGER AND CAPTAIN THIRST - Stories of Australian Explorers
$20.00 AUD
Methuen. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w illust. Fp: Expedition horses & items of equipment. Eps: Map of Australia. Hard cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26 x 19.5. 0454003641
Account of some of the expeditions undertaken by John Eyre, John Lort Stokes, Burke & Wills, Sturt... faced with the threats of hunger and thirst.
59990 HOORN, Jeanette & GOODMAN, David VOX REPUBLICAE: FEMINISM AND THE REPUBLIC
$25.00 AUD
La Trobe University Press. Melbourne. 1996. Special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, No. 47. (6), I, 183 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 1863244204
14 papers.
68710 HOPKINS, David L. THE HISTORY OF THE D'ENTRECASTEAUX WATERWAY
$25.00 AUD
Peregrine Publishing. Kettering, Tasmania. c. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword by Will Hodgman, Premier of Tasmania. (10), 54 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780975716649
69432 HOPKINS, David L. TASMANIA'S GOLDEN YEARS REVISITED: from Boom to Bust and back in the Island State of Tasmania
$125.00 AUD
Peregrine Publishing. Hobart. 2013. 1st edition. Foreword by Eric Reece and Saul Eslake. (2), 420 PP. Design with over 1650 artworks and illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches and photos) by David Hopkins (3 in colour, others in b/w). Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Half title page with sticker of the "Printing Industries Gold Award Winner - 2013", and signed by the author. Mint condition. 31.5 x 24. 9780958709293
71310 HOPKINS, David L. THE HUON PINERS
$35.00 AUD
Taswegia Marketing. Hobart. 2014. 2nd revised edition of the 2004 original. (2), 52, (2) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0958709254
72068 HOPKINS, David L. ThE LIFE AND TIMES OF HENRY HOPKINS 1778-1870
$50.00 AUD
Peregrine Publishing. Hobart. 2020. 1st edition. X, 90 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. New. 29.7 x 21. 9780994639653
The man who built "Westella", the House on Potters Hill, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land.
70451 HORDERN, Lieutenant Commander Marsden C. AUSTRALIA'S DEBT TO STOKES AND BEAGLE
$30.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed., Monograph No. 55 of the Society. 15 PP (typescript on recto only) with 1 map, 2 charts and 4 b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Soft cover, illustrated front cover, clear plastic folder. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Transcript of a lecture given to the Society on 7 June 1996.
70869 HORDERN, Marsden MARINERS ARE WARNED ! John Lort Stokes & H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843
$100.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1989. 1st edition, limited to 1250 copies, No. 4 in the Miegunyah Press series. XXII, (2), 360 PP with 8 figures & 9 maps, plus 7 lift-out charts inside back cover, and 24 Pages with 43 plates (4 in colour). Newspaper clipping loosely inserted. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 052284376X
The third surveying voyage by the British Hydrographical Office around the coasts of Australia, undertaken on board the HMS Beagle.
74906 HORDERN, Marsden KING OF THE AUSTRALIAN COAST - The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822
$35.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2002. 1st paperback edition of the 1997 original published by Miegunah Press. XX, (2), 441 PP with 6 illustrations and 7 maps, plus 36 pages with 45 b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Crease on front cover, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 15.4. 052285043X
Australian-born marine surveyor, godson of Arthur Phillip the first governor of New South Wales. Phillip Parker King charted most of the north-west coast of Australia during voyages carried out between 1817 and 1822. A most interesting work.
34589 HORNE, Donald THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE
$10.00 AUD
Readers' Digest. Sydney. 1985. Revised, expanded and illustrated edition of the 1972 original. 320 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, engravings, paintings, photos). Pictorial laminated boards. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 28.7 x 20.8. 0949819670
74283 HORNER, David STRATEGIC COMMAND: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars
$55.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 2005. 1st edition in The Australian Army History series. XX, 452 PP with 10 maps, plus 32 pges with 58 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Fine (as new condition). 23.5 x 16. 978195552829
League of Nations and the Burma - China frontier, 1935-36. / Syria / Papua New Guinea ... Korean War / South Vietmam.
45793 HORNER, Frank THE FRENCH RECONNAISSANCE: Baudin in Australia, 1801-1803
$75.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 19876. 1st Ed. XVII, 461 PP with 26 b/w illustrations, plus 12 pages with 16 b/w plates. Hard cover, dust jacket with a small chip at top. Front endpaper with bookplate of Professor Adrian Horridge and his signature. Slight ageing and foxing on outside edges, otherwise contents are near fine. 24.2 x 16. 0522843395
The scientific voyage of the French explorer in Australian waters. One of its achievements: the first complete map of Australia.
39446 HOSKINS KEMBLA WORKS THE STORY OF GREATER WOLLONGONG
$10.00 AUD
Hoskins Kembla Works of Australian Iron & Steel Pty. Ltd. Wollongong. 1966. 1st Ed. 12 PP with 1 headpiece. Stapled card covers. Ingleton bookplate on inside front cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.3.
Small booklet prepared by the Council of the City of Greater Wollongong. Covers the development of the city, in particular, the important role played by the Hoskins Kembla Works.
65517 HOWARD, Patrick TO HELL OR TO HOBART
$30.00 AUD
Wellington Bridge Press. Kingston, Tasmania. 2012. Reprint of the 20012 paperback "Revised Edition" (original of 1993). 276 PP with over 6 tables and 55 b/w or colour illustrations. Fp: Stephen and Ellen Howard at Geeveston in the 1890s. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 14.8. 9781921767074
The story of an Irish couple transported to Tasmania in the 1840s.
46962 HOWAY, Frederic W. (editor) THE DIXON - MEARES CONTROVERSY
$20.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Reprint of the 1929 edition published by The Ryerson Press. No. 2 in the Bibliotheca Australiana Extra Series. XII,(2), 156 PP with 3 facsimiles of title pages, 7 maps and 1 illustration (the long boat of the Felice, one of Meares's vessel at the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in June 1788). Simile navy blue vellum, gilt title on white label on front cover and spine. Bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing spots on top outside edges. Near fine. 24.8 x 16.5.
Trading vessels on the Northwest coast of America late 1780's, in the early days of the maritime fur trade.
63671 HUDSPETH, Audrey & SCRIPPS, Lindy CAPITAL PORT: A History of the Marine Board of Hobart 1858-1997
$20.00 AUD
Hobart Ports Corporation Pty Ltd. Hobart. 2000. 1st paperback edition. XVIII, 462 PP with 1 map, 8 head pieces, 7 plans and 91 b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, plans & sketch plans, engravings & photos). Fp (in colour): Aerial view of Sullivan's Cove. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 17.5. 0957842805
73404 HUGHES, Robert THE FATAL SHORE, A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
$20.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1987. 1st US edition. XXVI, (2), 688, (2) PP with vignette on title page, and 3 maps on double pages, 3 maps and 2 insets, plus 32 pages with 72 bw illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket with a few rubs/chips and in a protective sleeve. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24 x 16. 0394506685
75895 HUGHES, Robert THE FATAL SHORE - A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
$20.00 AUD
Collins Harvill. London. 1987. 1st UK edition of the 1986 US original. XXVI, (2), 688 PP with 6 maps & 2 insets, plus 32 pages with 72 b/w illustrations Cloth covers, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Faint foxing on top outside edge. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0002173611
15782 HUGHES, Thea Stanley ARTHUR PHILLIP
$10.00 AUD
Movement Publications. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spine slightly rubbed. Whiteout mark on top of title page o/wise very good. 18 x 12.2. 0908076150
68061 HUGHES, Thea Stanley MATTHEW FLINDERS
$10.00 AUD
Movement Publication. Sydney. 2001. 5th impression of the 1984 original. Foreword by Donald A. Johnstone. 120 PP with 4 maps and 7 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Fine.. 18 x 12.2. 0908076215
37391 HUME, Bertram (editor) A VICTORIAN ENGAGEMENT - Letters and Journals of Walter Hume and Anna Kate Fowler during the 1860s
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1975. 1st Ed. XIII, 180 PP with 1 coastal sketch, plus 12 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 21 x 14. 0702209988
31772 HUNT, Susan & CARTER, Paul TERRE NAPOLEON - Australia through French Eyes 1800-1804
$10.00 AUD
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Jacqueline Bonnemains. (8), 148 PP with b/w and colour illust., and 46 plates in b/w and colour. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30 x 24. 0949753866
French exploration of Australian shores (1801 to 1803) led by Captain Nicolas Baudin. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Sydney from 27th February to 30 May 1999.
31773 HUNT, Susan & CARTER, Paul TERRE NAPOLEON - Australia through French Eyes 1800-1804
$25.00 AUD
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Jacqueline Bonnemains. (8), 148 PP with b/w and colour illust., and 46 plates in b/w and colour. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31 x 24.7. 0949753874
French exploration of Australian shores (1801 to 1803) led by Captain Nicolas Baudin. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Sydney from 27th February to 30 May 1999.
73801 HUNTER'S HILL Trust KEEPING HUNTER'S HILL ALIVE
$5.00 AUD
Hunter's Hill Trust. Sydney. c. 1981. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 6 colour and 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.
Guide to Restorations, Extensions, Car and Pool Accommodation, Gardens, Walls and New Buildings.
60680 HURST, Alastair & KIRSOP, Wallace A TRIBUTE TO JUDITH ROBINSON-VALERY / TRADITIONS: TYRANNY AND FREEDOM (in Explorations No. 36)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2005. June 2004 (issued March 2005). 40 PP. Contains 2 articles: pages 3 to 18 with 1 colour photo. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
37263 HUTCHINSON, Frank (editor) LA NOUVELLE-GALLES DU SUD, La Colonie-Mère des Australies
$250.00 AUD
Charles Potter, Imprimeur du Gouvernement. Sydney. 1896. 1st French edition, translated from the original New South Wales: The Mother Colony of the Australias by Albin Villebal. XIV, 338 (last blank) PP with 1 b/w photo, plus 1 folded panorama, 2 graphs (1 folded), 4 folded maps (2 of them Meteorological), and 48 plates with 53 b/w illustrations. 2 large folded maps (closed tears but complete) at rear of book (1 of them loose). Fp: Plate Le Conseil des Ministres with 10 portraits). Decorated endpapers. Very attractive bright gilt decorated red cloth cover and spine. Gift plate on front endpaper, hinges of endpapers starting. Few foxing spots on edges, o/wise near fine. French text. 25.5 x 16.
Geography and weather, by H.C. Russell... Constitution and Laws, by Professor Pitt Cobbett... Wool Industry, by Henry W. Wright... Federation, by Edward Dowling. Ref. Ferguson 10713.
74858 HUTTON, Ian LORD HOWE ISLAND - Discovering Australia's World Heritage
$25.00 AUD
Conservation Press. Canberra. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rodney Davidson. (XII), 157 PP with 3 graphs, 7 maps, 50 drawings, 19 b/w and 57 colour photos. Title spread (in colour): on Lagoon Beach. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Folded flyer on "Lord Howe Island Permanent Park Reserve, loosely inserted. Faint foxing. Near fine. 25.3 x 17.2.. 090819840X
73190 IDRIESS, Ion L. DRUMS OF MER
$35.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1944. 12th edition of the 1933 original. Foreword by W. H. MacFarlane. XVI, 342 PP. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Small ink stain on page VII (Foreword), affecting 3 words. Note on front endpaper. War economy paper. Very good.. 18.7 x 13.
15075 INGLETON, Geoffrey C. MATTHEW FLINDERS, Navigator and Chartmaker (In Two Volumes)
$750.00 AUD
Genesis Publications / Hedley Australia. London. 1986. De Luxe Edition limited to 500 copies and numbered (No. 249/550). Volume I: XXIV, 467 PP with 252 text illustrations plus 16 colour plates & 16 b/w plates. Fp: Flinders' Investigator and Baudin's Le Géographe, 8th April, 1802. Volume II: Matthew Flinders, Private Journal 1803-1814. VI, 366 PP. Fp: Chart of Isle of France or Mauritius. Handbound in quarter leather and master printed on archival paper, all edges gilt. Gilt decoration on front cover, spine with raised bands. The gilt lettering and gilt on decorations on spines have largely been lost. Cloth cover slipcase. Signed by the author. A near fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Large folio: 31 x 23. 0904351327
21467 INGLETON, Geoffrey C. MATTHEW FLINDERS, Navigator and Chartmaker
$100.00 AUD
Genesis. Guildford, UK. 1986. 1st Ed., with a foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. XXIV, 468 PP with 252 illustrations, plus 4 plate sections with 40 pages comprising 16 b/w plates and 16 colour plates. Fp: Flinders' Investigator and Baudin's Le Géographe, 8th April, 1802. FEP: Map of Terra Australis. REP: H.M. Sloop Investigator (profile & rigging plan). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, colour vignette on front cover, gilt device on back cover. Fine. 32.5 x 24. 0904351343
53572 INGLETON, Geoffrey C. FLINDERS AS CARTOGRAPHER
$5.00 AUD
Flinders University of South Australia. Adelaide. 1979. Chapter 6 of "Matthew Flinders: The Ifs of History" (published in 1979 by Flinders University of South Australia). 63 to 80 PP (recto only). Plastic cover, clear front, spiral bound. Near fine. 24 x 16.8.
Paper presented at the Matthew Flinders Bicentenary Symposium. Flinders as cartographer, by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, and read by Dr. R. L. Healthcote at the Symposium.
35845 INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman TRUE PATRIOTS ALL, or News from Early Australia, as told in a Collection of Broadsides
$20.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle. Rutland, Vt, USA. 1988. Reprint of the 1952 original, published for the year of Australia's bicentenary. VIII, 280 PP with b/w illustrations by author. Fp: A poster (in colour) for the aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, c. 1828, tipped in. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly faded. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 28 x 22. 0804815453
64310 INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman TRUE PATRIOTS ALL, Or News from Early Australia, as told in a Collection of Broadsides
$25.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1952. 1st Ed. VIII, 280 PP garnered and decorated by author. Vignettes and decoration on title page. Fp (in colour) : A poster for the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, tipped in. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, decorated front and back covers, dj. Signature and short note on front endpapers. Light foxing on endpapers, outside edges and dust jacket which has a few repaired tears. Very good. 28 x 22.2.
49498 INGLIS, K. S. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONISTS. An Exploration of Social History 1788-1870
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1974. 1st Ed. XXII, 316 PP with over 90 b/w illustrations (engravings, paintings, photos...). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine. 24.7 x 18. 0522840728
60631 INGLIS, Professor K. S. (editor) AUSTRALIA 1888 - A Journal for the Study of Australian History centred on the year 1888 (Bulletins Nos. 1, 2 & 3 - Year 1979)
$30.00 AUD
Department of History, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Canberra. 1979. No. 1, February 1979: 29 PP. No. 2, August 1979: 120 PP. No. 3: December 1979: 73 PP. 3 Issues with a total of 222 pages. Soft cover, staples. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Issue No. 3: Manning Clark and Australian Historiography - 8 articles
60632 INGLIS, Professor K. S. (editor) AUSTRALIA 1888 - A Bicentennial History Bulletin for the Study of Australian History centred on the year 1888 (Bulletins Nos. 4 & 5 - Year 1980)
$30.00 AUD
Department of History, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Canberra. 1980. No. 4, May 1980: 92 PP. No. 5, September 1980: 174 PP. 2 issues with a total of 266 pages. Soft cover, staples. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
40250 INGPEN, Robert ROBE - A Portrait of the Past
$30.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1975. 1st Ed. 63 PP with 2 plans, 10 b/w illustrations and 41 colour paintings. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 22 x 29.3. 0851797946
Robe Town, proclaimed in 1847. Important port in the mid 1850s...
49790 INGPEN, Robert AUSTRALIA'S HERITAGE WATCH. An Overview of Australian Conservation
$20.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1981. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations by the author. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 31.5 x 24. 0727015184
67446 INNISFAIL INNISFAIL, QUEENSLAND - An Australian Post Office History
$10.00 AUD
Innisfail Post Office. Innisfail. 1969. 18 PP (recto only), plus 11 pages with b/w photos. Plastic folder with clear front cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 30 x 21.
10084 ISAACS, Jennifer DESERT CRAFTS - Anangu Maruku Punu
$25.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. X, 149 PP with colour photos and illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 24.2. 0868244740
The traditional and contemporary craft and carvings of the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjara people.
73993 ISAACS, Jennifer (editor) AUSTRALIAN DREAMING - 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History
$30.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1980. 1st edition. Foreword by Wandjuk Marika. 304 PP with 192 colour photos. Half title page: Aboriginal oral tradition tells of their continued existence on this continent for over 40,000 years. Title spread: Knowledge of the location of fresh water springs passed on to children. Eps: Bark painting by Banapana Maymuru from Yirrkala, Northern Territory. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 26.8 x 25.5. 070181330X
The first Aboriginal History of the Australian continent and its people, as told by the Aboriginal story-tellers.
13935 JACKMAN, S.W. TASMANIA
$15.00 AUD
Wren Publishing. Melbourne. 1974. 1st Ed in "The Islands" series. 200 PP with 1 map on double page and 32 bw illust. in text. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 22.4 x 14. 0858850478
Short historical account, physical environment, economic life...
74742 JAMES, David KINDLY LIGHT: The Life and Times of Adolphus Summer Cloud James
$25.00 AUD
David James. Elanora, NSW. 1999. 1st Ed. (6), 113 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch of the iron clipper ship "Summer Cloud", and 13 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21.2 x 14.8. 0646373807
60210 JARRETT, Frank THE EVOLUTION OF AUSTRALIA'S AID PROGRAM
$10.00 AUD
National Centre for Development Studies, RSPAS / ANU. Canberra. 1994. 1st Ed. XI, 230 PP with 9 figures and 55 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.4 x 14.5. 0731519256
58838 JEANS, D. N. (editor) AUSTRALIA - A GEOGRAPHY , Volume 2: Space and Society
$15.00 AUD
Sydney University Press. Sydney. 1987. 2nd edition of the 1977 original. VIII, 436 PP with b/w illustrations. FEP: Physiography map (in colour). REP: Average Annual Precipitation map (in colour). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18. 042400125X
55989 JEFFERYS, Greg THE STRADBROKE ISLAND GALLEON. The Mystery of the ship in the swamp
$45.00 AUD
J.A.G. Publications. Brisbane. 2007. 1st Ed. (2), 189 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, plans, and photos by Cliff Rosendahl). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780980357004
11968 JENNINGS, J. N. & LINGE, G. J. R. (editors) OF TIME AND PLACE - Essays in Honour of O.H.K. Spate
$10.00 AUD
A.N.U. Canberra. 1980. 1st Ed. XXVI, 296 PP with 4 head pieces, 6 tables & 30 figures (maps, plans, engravings). Fp: Portrait of O.H.K. Spate. Title page: John Harrison's fourth timekeeper. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14. 0708114539
15 essays in honour of the progenitor of the Research School of Pacific Studies. ... Settlers in transit, by N. M. Wallace ...
63933 JOHNSON, Keith A. & SAINTY, Malcolm R. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH DIRECTORY - A Key Work for Worldwide Family History Research
$20.00 AUD
Library of Australian History. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. VIII, 243 PP, (21 advertisements). Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Near fine. 21.2 x 14. 0908120524
74031 JOHNSON, Keith A. & SAINTY, Malcolm R. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH DIRECTORY - National & International: 1991
$30.00 AUD
Society of Australian Genealogists. Melbourne. 1991. 1st Ed. 912 PP with 11 maps and 44 pages of advertisements. Hard cover, title on front board and spine. Ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 21.2 x 14. 0908120796
64869 JOHNSTON, W. R. & WILSON, P. D. QUEENSLAND HERITAGE - Volume 2, No. 6
$10.00 AUD
Oxley Memorial Library / Library Board of Queensland. Brisbane. 1972. Vol. 2, No. 6, May 1972. 36 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 30.2 x 24.7.
Sir James Cockle, by J. M. Bennett. Metropolitan Government in Brisbane, by J. R. Laverty. Redcliffe in 1824, by J. G. Steele. Marie Yamba, Bloomfield and Hope Vale: the Lutheran Missions, by Kay Elizabeth Evans.
64891 JOHNSTON, W. Ross THE CALL OF THE LAND - A History of Queensland to the Present Day
$25.00 AUD
Brisbane. 1982. The Jacaranda Press 1st Ed. VIII, 229 PP with b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimile of documents, maps, photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 26.2 x 20. 0701616555
40931 JONES, David J. A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION & DELIGHT - The buildings of the State Library of New South Wales since 1826
$15.00 AUD
Library Council of New South Wales. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 20.7. 0908449240
55457 JONES, Greg, BRYSON, Bill, ALEXANDER, Caroline & PATTERSON, Gareth READER'S DIGEST ENCOUNTERS: WALK A CROOKED MILE - DOWN UNDER - THE ENDURANCE ..
$15.00 AUD
Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed., with condensed version of the 2000, 2000, 1998 and 1994 originals. 542 PP with 96 b/w or colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 20.7 x 14.
60418 JONES, Hugh & DE KRESLER, Chris (editors) HERALD SUN - IMAGES OF THE 20TH CENTURY (in 15 parts)
$20.00 AUD
Herald Sun / Herald Sun Sunday. Sydney. 2000. 15 parts published between the 11th and the 25th of October 2000. A total of 360 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Commemorative binder. Fine. 32 x 24.5.
Photographic record in 15 parts. Milestones - Heroes - Villains - Movies - Entertainers - Disasters - Football - Crime - Sport (x 2) - The Car - Fashion - War - Flight & Space - On the Spot.
51667 JONES, John PORT ADELAIDE RIVER. Its First Reported Discovery
$10.00 AUD
The Mail Newspaper Limited. Adelaide. 1923. Reprint from the 22nd volume of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. 4 PP. Stapled wrappers. Initials on top of front cover, old watermarks at bottom of pages, o/wise good. 21 x 13.5.
14693 JOPSON, Debra CELEBRATION - Australia's Bicentennial Year in Pictures
$10.00 AUD
Robertsbridge Severn. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jim Kirk. 224 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 31 x 21.5. 0947178724
A pictorial retrospective of the bicentennial year.
53870 JOURNET, F. L'AUSTRALIE, Description du Pays, Colons et Natifs, Gouvernement, Institutions, Productions, Travaux Publics, Mines, avec une carte politique et géologique
$80.00 AUD
J. Rothschild. Paris. 1885. 1st Ed. VIII, 376 PP with head and tail pieces, plus 1 large folded map in colour. Rebacked copy, cloth cover with original front cover pasted down, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing and foxing. French text. A very good copy. 23.5 x 15.3.
Study of Australia in the 1880's by a French civil engineer. The inhabitants, government, resources, public works. Chapter XII (P.321-358) on aborigines with the ending: within a few years, none will be left, just a souvenir, as the supposedly best colonising nation in the world is that which has the least integration of the people they conquer.
57828 KARTTUNEN, Frances BETWEEN WORLDS: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors
$15.00 AUD
Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, NJ. 1994. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 364, (2) PP, plus 16 pages with b/w illustrations (2 drawings and 14 photos). Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 16. 0813520304
Including ... Two Australians Aborigines: Chloe Grant and George Watson.
73405 KEARNEY, Bob FISHING IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS - Was it really better?
$45.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2022. 1st Ed. 304 PP, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Aerial colour photo of Kingscliff Rocks, Northern New South Wales. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Signed by the author on title page. New. 23.4 x 15.3. 9780522879117
72044 KEENEY, John (editor) IN THE LIVING FOREST - An exploration of Australia's forest community
$20.00 AUD
ETN Communications Pty Ltd. Artarmon, NSW. 2005. 1st Ed. Foreword by Mike Archer. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 22. 9780958020770
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1967. 1st Ed. X, 412 PP with 1 map of Australia and 60 b/w illustrations. Cloth covers with light wear, gilt title and decoration on spine. Name of previous owner on FFEP. Covers lightly rubbed, o/wise contents near fine. 24 x 15.5.
An anthology on "The Australian Goldfields 1851 to the 1890s".
53933 KELLY, Frances FARM CRAFTS
$10.00 AUD
Rigby Limited. Adelaide. 1978. 1st Ed. A Rigby country book. (4), 59 PP with 30 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19 x 13.5. 0727003690
75223 KENERY, Russell CURIOUS VOYAGES - A Collection of Astoundingly True Tales
$50.00 AUD
Love the Pen. Red Hill, Vic. 2019 1st edition with forward by Simon McKeon, AO. 172 PP with colour illustrations: sketch maps by Robin Griffiths and paintings by Andrew Murray. Eps: 15 drawings of sailing crafts. Hard covers, illustrated back. Flyer loosely inserted. Signed by the author on page 1. Fine. 24 x 19.
15 of these "Tales". St Brendan, Batavia ... HMS Adventure and Tobias Furneaux ... On her Beam-Ends & Ice Bird, by David Lewis.
19052 KENNY, John BEFORE THE FIRST FLEET, Europeans in Australia 1606-1777
$20.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1995. 1st Ed. 184 PP with b/w illust. (maps, engravings, ...) plus 16 pages with 31 colour illust. Eps: Mappemonde, 1630. Hard cover, dust jacket. Minimal light foxing on prelims otherwise a fine copy. 24.7 x 18.6. 0864176457
Details of the early European contacts with Australia. Landfalls, exploration, sojourns. Thoughts of the explorers on the coastline, plants, animals... encounters with aborigines.
39890 KERR, Joan & FALKUS, Hugh FROM SYDNEY COVE TO DUNTROON - A Family Album of Early Life in Australia
$10.00 AUD
Victor Gollancz. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w & colour illustrations, plus 30 colour plates of the Flowers of Duntroon by Marrianne Campbell (many plates with description). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 27.6 x 22.4. 0575030399
40173 KERR, William (editor) KERR'S MELBOURNE ALMANAC, and Port Phillip Directory for 1841
$25.00 AUD
Lansdown Slattery & Company. Melbourne. No date. Facsimile reprint of the 1841 original. 261, (3), (28 adverts.) PP with many tables. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (spine faded). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.2. 0868330116
A compendium of useful and accurate information connected with Port Phillip... Shipping Arrivals and Departures 5th December 1839 to 11th December 1840...
71853 KERSHAW, R. C. & SUTHERLAND, F. L. QUARTERNARY GEOMORPHOLOGY OF FLINDERS ISLAND
$20.00 AUD
Queen Victoria Museum. Launceston. 1972. January 1972 edition by W.F. Ellis, Director of the Museum. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, No. 43. (2), 28 PP with 1 table, 1 folded "Geomorphological sketch map of Flinders Island" and 12 b/w photos. Soft cover, title on front cover, staples. Near fine. 24.7 x 18.7.
72988 KHOSA, Raspal AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE ALMANAC 2010-2011
$35.00 AUD
ASPI / Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Canberra. 2010. June 2010 edition. (4), 144 PP (6 of them with colour advertisements) with tables, 6 maps (2 in colour "World" & "Australia's Maritime Boundaries" and 5 of Australia in b/w (Major DefenceFacilities / Principal Navy Establishments / Major Army Bases / Major Air Force Bases / Defence Approved Capital Facilities Expenditure by State and Territory) and colour illustrations: "ADF Badges of Rank and Special Insignia", 7 head pieces and few figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
49614 KING, Hazel COLONIAL EXPATRIATES. Edward and John Macarthur Junior
$10.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 3 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in (see image) Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Very good. 21.7 x 13.5. 0864172540
18861 KING, Jonathan AUSTRALIA'S FIRST FLEET - The Voyage and the Re-enactment 1788/1988
$10.00 AUD
Fairfax / Robertsbridge & Australia Post Sydney. 1988. Reprint of the 1987 original. 248 PP with b/w sketches & colour illust. Hard cover, dj (Bounty with flag of Australia Post). Near fine. 30.7 x 22. 0947178562
Official story of the re-enactment setting the proper historical perspective against the events of 1788.
18862 KING, Jonathan AUSTRALIA'S FIRST FLEET, The Voyage and the Re-enactment 1788/1988
$5.00 AUD
Fairfax/Robertsbridge. Sydney. 1988. Reprint of the 1987 original. 240 PP with b/w sketches & colour illust. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 30 x 21.3. 0947178562
Official story of the re-enactment setting the proper historical perspective with the events of 1788.
72717 KINGSFORD-SMITH, C. E. & ULM, C. T. P. THE FLIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS
$45.00 AUD
McBride, Robert M. & Co. New York. 1929. 1st edition, January 1929. Foreword by His Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Stonehaven. XIVV, (2), 295 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 22 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: Outward Bound. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Covers with light shelf wear around edges, front hinge starting, occasional foxing. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 21 x 14.3.
Trans Pacific Flight: Oakland, California (31st May 1928) - Honolulu, Hawaii - Suva, Fiji - Brisbane, Queensland - then Sydney (10th June 1928)..
40964 KINNEAR, Bryce AUSTRALIA - LAND OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS
$10.00 AUD
Australian Publicity Council. Melbourne. 1957. 1st Ed. 152 PP with duotone illustrations, maps, crests of states... and photos (b/w and colour). FEP: Kangaroo and Emu. REP: Koamla and Lyre bird. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Spine sunned, short note on verso of FFEP. Small biro marks on page 150 and back cover. Very good. 29.5 x 24.2.
67860 KIRSOP, Wallace THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA AND THE FRENCH COLLECTIONS (in Explorations No. 33)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2003. December 2002 (issued December 2003). 28 PP. Contains article between pages 13 and 37. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
63612 KIRSOP, Wallace (Curator) KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PRINT: A Melbourne Perspective
$20.00 AUD
University of Melbourne. Melbourne. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Douglas Stewart and Acknowledgements by Pam Pryde. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 21. 9780734047847
An exhibition held in the Leigh Scott Gallery, Bailieu Library: 12 June - 2 September 2012.
44594 KNELLWOLF, Christa A TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH COLONIES - Empire expressed through Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture (in National Library of Australia News - Vol. XII, No. 4, January 2003)
$5.00 AUD
N.L.A. Canberra. 2003. Volume XIII, No. 4, January 2003. Contains article from P. 3 to 6 with 2 colour and 1 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Christa Knellwolf takes us round the British colonial world by way of games, puzzles and books.
44769 KNIGHTLEY, Phillip AUSTRALIA - A Biography of a Nation
$15.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 2000. 1st Ed. X, 373 PP. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 0224050060
51901 KOPITTKE, Eric and Rosemary (compilers) EMIGRANTS FROM HAMBURG TO AUSTRALIA: 1860/1
$20.00 AUD
Queensland Family History Society Inc. Brisbane. 1991. 1st Ed. X, 80, (1 bibliography) PP with 4 drawings. Soft cover, staples, cloth spine. Occasional foxing. Very good. 29 x 21. 0949577189
51903 KOPITTKE, Eric and Rosemary (compilers) EMIGRANTS FROM HAMBURG TO AUSTRALIA: 1864
$20.00 AUD
Queensland Family History Society Inc. Brisbane. 1991. 1st Ed. X, 39 PP with 4 drawings. Soft cover, staples, cloth spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 29 x 21. 0949577898
52653 KOSKIE, Jack L. SHIPS THAT SHAPED AUSTRALIA
$25.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1987. 1st edition with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. 132 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (drawings, paintings & sketches) by the author. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25 x 25. 0207155607
Description of 34 ships which played an essential part in the growth of Australia: details, highlight of career accompanying an oil painting.
14040 KUPKA, Karel PEINTRES ABORIGENES D'AUSTRALIE
$70.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme. Paris. 1972. 1st Ed. Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No 24. Preface by Jean Guiart. (14), 123, (5), CXXI, (3) PP with 1 map, 2 b/w illustrations, 52 figures and 240 b/w photos, plus 8 colour plates. Soft cover, dj. French text. Fine. 24.9 x 19.8.
Aboriginal painters of Australia. Based on the author 1968, Ph. D. thesis on Ethnology (Sorbonne 1968).
76182 LANE, Daniel THE DIGGER OF KOKODA - The Official Biography of Reg Chard
$25.00 AUD
Macmillan. Sydney. 2022 Reprint of the 2022 original. XVIII, 333 PP with 1 b/w photo, 1 location map, 1 map and 1 diagram of Kokoda Trail, plus 16 pages with 6 colour and 28 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise fine. 23 x 15.5. 9781761260278
62160 LARKINS, John & HOWARD, Bruce AS TIME GOES BY - Australia's Fabulous Century
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1979. New edition of the 1975 "The Great Australian Book of Nostalgia". (8), 295 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 58 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and with repaired tears. Very good. 32 x 24.5. 027011723
40193 LAUGHLIN, Greg THE USER'S GUIDE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COAST
$25.00 AUD
New Holland. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. X, 213 PP with tables, b/w and colour illustrations (graphics and Artwork by Jeremy Mears). Fp: Sea and sky. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 29.8 x 21.5. 0730105156
A practical guide to our currents, tides, waves, winds and weather for everyone who sails, fishes, hang-glides, surfs - or just sits on the beach.
42737 LAVERY, H. J. (editor) EXPLORATION NORTH - Australia's Wildlife from Desert to Reef
$10.00 AUD
Richmond Hill Press. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. 244, 6 index) PP with sketches, maps, b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Presentation plate by the Queensland Minister for Culture, National Parks and Recreation tipped in on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24.7 x 17.5. 0908157002
The Explorers by H.J. Lavery. The Mulga, Land of the Bulloo by M.J.S. Denny. The Bush by G. Gordon. The Rainforest by J. W. Winter. The Swamps, by J. G. Blackman. The Reef, Uncertain Land of Plenty, by C. J. Limpus.
73126 LAWS, Steve (editor) WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CRUISING
$60.00 AUD
Fremantle Sailing Club, Cruising Section. Fremantle. 2001. 2nd Ed. VI, 250 PP with b/w illustrations (diagrams, sketch maps, charts & 75 photos) and colour maps, insets & plans, plus 16 pages with 55 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
55950 LAWSON, Henry WHILE THE BILLY BOILS: 87 Stories from the Prose Works of Henry Lawson
$5.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1975. Paperback edition in the Seal Australian Classics series. VIII, 393 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18 x 11.3. 085179971X
74513 LEICHHARDT, Dr. Ludwig JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of upwards of 3000 Miles, during the Years 1844-1845
$25.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. c. 1980. Facsimile edition of the 1847 original. XX, 544 PP with 7 b/w engravings, 6 plates with engravings by H. Melville. Fp: Lagoon near South Alligator River. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.6 x 14. 0868240249
15769 LEROY-BEAULIEU, Pierre LES NOUVELLES SOCIETES ANGLO-SAXONNES, Australie - Nouvelle-Zélande - Afrique du Sud
$45.00 AUD
Librairie Armand Colin. Paris. 1901. New & updated edition of 1897 orig. XX, 488 PP, 4 adv. with many pages uncut. Rebound in contemporary cloth, with original front & rear covers pasted down. First & last page water stained, o/wise a very good copy of a scarce book. French text. 19 x 12.
The experiences gained in 1895 and 1896 by a political and economic journalist on the new Anglosaxon societies of the Southern Hemisphere, updated by the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia and the early stages of the Boer War.
75297 LESCHENAULT, Théodore THE FRENCH COLLECTOR - Journal and Letters of Theodore Leschenault, Botanist of the Baudin Expedition
$50.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Publishing. Crawley, W.A. 2023 1st Australian edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Paul Gibbard. X, 342, (4) PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map of "Leschenault travels, May 1801 - April 1802" and a portrait of Leschenault aboard the Géographe", by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Pictorial soft covers. Fine (as new condition), 23.5 x 15.7. 9781760802165
Biography of 28 of his shipmates. Chapter 3: Arrival on coast of New Holland, discovery of Geographe Bay... Chapter 5: Passage from Timor to D'Entrecasteaux Channel... Maria Island , Banks Strait and Western Port. ...
16805 LIND, Lew HISTORIC NAVAL EVENTS OF AUSTRALIA DAY-BY-DAY, Ships, Men, Battles and Great Moments
$15.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 272 PP profusely illustrated. Eps. Hard cover, dj (Action in the North Sea in 1917 between the Sydney and a Zeppelin). Dust jacket is laminated and pasted down on covers. A near fine copy. 28.5 x 21. 0589502956
Over 4000 entries concerning the role of the Navy in the discovery, settlement and defence of Australia. Loosely inserted is an article by Bob Darroch: The dying hours of the Sydney.
73276 LINDSAY, Norman NORMAN LINDSAY - PENCIL DRAWINGS
$75.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1969. 1st Ed. Foreword by A. D. Hope. No pagination, (VIII) PP, plus 45 plates. Hard covers, gilt title on spine. Near fine. Image shows title-page. 31 x 25.5. 0207952175
51067 LIPSCOMBE, Trevor ON AUSTRAL SHORES. A modern traveller's guide to the European exploration of the coasts of Victoria and New South Wales
$25.00 AUD
Envirobook. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed. X, 253 PP with 57 charts and maps, and 8 charts by Matthew Flinders. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0858812053
75715 LIVERMORE, John TRANSPORT LAW IN AUSTRALIA
$75.00 AUD
Wolters Kluwer. Alphen aan den Rijn, NL. 2023. 5th Ed. 256 PP with Selected Bibliography, Table of Cases, Table of Statutes and Index at rear. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 9789403513270
I - Background information on the Country. II - Maritime Law: Carriage by Sea / Shipping Law. III - Other transports: Road / Rail / Air.
41829 LOADER, Lisa EARLY EUROPEAN VISIONS OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA (in The World of Antiques & Art, No. 62)
$10.00 AUD
Antiques & Art in Australia. Sydney. 2001. Issue 62, December 2001 / June 2002. Contains article pages 22 to 28 with 14 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
42969 LOCK, A. C. C. RANDOM JOURNEY (Around the World)
$15.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1959. 1st Ed. 256 PP, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: A girl like Marana. Cloth cover, gilt title on a soiled spine. Faint foxing, o/wise very good. 21.8 x 14.2.
Voyage from Australia to England in late 1957, on board the liner "Southern Cross" of Shaw Savill (shipboard life, Tahiti, Panama...). His return to the battlefields of Pozières, Villers Bretonneux, Paschendale ..., where he had been fighting at the end of the Great War. Return trip by way of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan...
39536 LOCKWOOD, Douglas NORTHERN TERRITORY SKETCHBOOK
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 65 drawings by Ainslie Roberts. FEP: Map of the Centre. REP: Map of the Top End. Hard cover, dust jacket has a few chips and minor insect damage. Dedicatory note on title page, signed by the illustrator. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.2.
10331 LOGAN JACK, Robert NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA, Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland (in Two Volumes)
$800.00 AUD
Simpkin Marshall. London. 1921. 1st edition. Volume I: XVI, 366 PP with lists, plus 22 pages with 21 b/w plates with portraits and 9 folded maps (Index + A to H) in pocket on rear cover. Fp: Portrait of Robert Logan Jack, 1920 (with tissue guard). Volume II: XIV, 367-768 PP, plus 18 b/w plates with portraits, and 8 folded maps (K to R) in pocket on rear cover. Cloth covers, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges and margin of a few pages. Dust jacket with some light foxing and soiling. Handwritten neat dedicatory note "To Dear Len from Cora, July16th 1946" at top of FFEP of Volume I. Contents are near fine. A scarce set with the dust jackets. More images available upon request. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25.2 x 16.
71835 LONEY, J. K. & MORRIS, E. W. TWELVE DECADES - A Short History of Apollo Bay, 1850-1969
$15.00 AUD
J.K. Loney / Ken N. Jenkin. Geelong. 1970. 1st edition. 64 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 map & location map and 45 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper which is somewhat browned around the edges, o/wise near fine. 20.2 x 14.4.
17146 LONEY, Jack AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$5.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1989. Reprint of the 1985 original. 150, (10 blank for notes) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.8 x 17.5. 0909191344
Shipwrecks, escapes from disaster, Ben Boyd's shipping empire, ...
19248 LONEY, Jack WRECKS ALONG THE GIPPSLAND COAST
$25.00 AUD
Marine History. Geelong, Vic. 1994. 8th Ed. of the 1968 original. 114, (14) PP with Appendices, Indexes, and 54 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Spine lightly sunned. Fine. 20.3 x 14.5. 0909244278
39964 LONEY, Jack THE MAHOGANY SHIP
$10.00 AUD
Geelong. c.1975. Marine History Publications. 3rd edition. No. 2 in the "Famous Wrecks" series. 17 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 8 pages 2 maps and 5 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Front cover a little soiled, name of previous owner at top of first leaf. Near fine. 20.2 x 14. 0909244030
The wreck of a derelict wooden vessel observed near Warrnambool: a Portuguese or a Spanish vessel??
41459 LONEY, Jack TALL SHIPS AND SAILORMEN - A Concise Survey of Victoria's Early Maritime History
$15.00 AUD
Marine History Publication. Geelong. c. 1980. 3rd Ed. 60 PP, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.4. 0909244022
17150 LONEY, Jack (editor) JACK LONEY'S MARITIME AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Author. Geelong. c. 1980. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 7 b/w illust. (4 photos, 2 maps & 1 painting), plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illust. Title page: Barque Polly Woodside undergoing restoration at Melbourne. Pictorial soft cover. Some light foxing, o/wise very good. 21.5 x 14. 0868951048
Short tales of ships and men on the oceans bordering Australia and its island dependencies.
73829 LONEY, Jack & MORRIS, E.W. THE OTWAY: A Short History of Apollo Bay 1850 - 1968
$30.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1979. Reprint of 3 booklets: (1), 51 PP, 43, (3) PP and 42 PP, a total of 140 pages, plus 38 pages with 1 map and 49 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 20.3 x 13.8. 0909244219
62753 LOURDES, Julio Garcia AUSTRALIA REACHING OUT (in Revista Auge International)
$20.00 AUD
Auge International Publishing Company Ltd. Hamilton, Bermuda. 1987. Special edition. 396 PP with around 30 b/w illustrations and 1000 colour photos. Hard cover, pictorial boards. Spine lightly faded, o/wise fine. 35 x 26 0958773300
Published for the Bicentennial of Australia.
32294 LOWNDES, A. G. (editor) SOUTH PACIFIC ENTERPRISE - The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited
$25.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1956. 1st edition with a preface by E. R. Knox. XVIII, 500 PP with 11 b/w photos, 12 head pieces, diagrams, graphs, maps, and tables, plus 24 plates with 3 maps and 30 colour photos and 132 plates with 282 b/w photos. Fp: Sir Edward Knox. Eps: Map of Australia and surrounding seas showing the world of CSR. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket with chips, repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 24 x 16.
Historical background, by Alan Birch and J.F. Blaxland. The sugar industry of Fiji, by A.G. Lowndes. The Australian Sugar Industry by H.W. Herbert. Sugar in New Zealand, by A.C. Isaacs...
75787 LUBBOCK, Adelaide OWEN STANLEY R.N. 1811-1850, Captain of the "Rattlesnake"
$30.00 AUD
Heinemann. Melbourne. 1968. 1st Ed. (9), 298 PP with 4 maps, plus 1 large folded chart & 16 pages with 34 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper. Dust jacket with repaired chips/tears in a protective sleeve, small rub at top corner of front jacket, o/wise near fine. 21.3 x 13.5.
Surveying of the Northern part of Australia, Port Essington, Southern New Guinea, Coral Sea.
52156 LUCAS, Alan CRUISING THE NEW SOUTH WALES COAST
$10.00 AUD
Horwitz Grahame. Melbourne. 1982. 2nd edition fully revised. VII, 8-302 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, charts & photos), plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Spine lightly sunned. Very good. 24.8 x 15.5. 0725511761
From Mallacoota Inlet to Tweed Heads.
74971 LUCAS, Alan CRUISING THE NEW SOUTH WALES COAST
$20.00 AUD
Alan Lucas Cruising Guides. Sydney. 1995. 4th edition (now inludes Lord Howe Island). (4), 252 PP with b/w and coloured illustrations (plans, charts & photos). The 2 page "Update leaflet '97" loosely inserted. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear, o/wise fine. 29.7 x 20.7. 0646239791
52433 LUDLOW, Peter A CENTURY OF MORETON BAY PEOPLE - Volume Three
$10.00 AUD
Peter Ludlow. Brisbane. 1995. 1st edition of June 1995. 80 PP with 1 drawing, 1 map and 30 b/w photos. Stapled pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0646241958
62749 LUDLOW, Peter MORETON BAY LETTERS
$15.00 AUD
Peter Ludlow. Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. 151 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 095772604X
The sequel to Moreton Bay People.
64726 LUDLOW, Peter MORETON BAY LETTERS
$25.00 AUD
Peter Ludlow. Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. 151 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Note inside front cover signed by the author. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 095772604X
The sequel to Moreton Bay People.
72080 LUKE, Rosemary & BRISSENDEN, Alan (editors) BIBLIOFILE, Journal of Friends of the Library of South Australia. The Garden Issue: Volume 12, No. 4, 2010
$20.00 AUD
Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 2010. September 2010. 36 PP with 2 tables, 3 colour photos et 14 b/w illustrations (1 chart, 2 portraits, paintings, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 24.5 x 17.
An eighteenth-century French garden in Van Diemens Land, by Edward Duyker. Matthew Flinders "Investigator" garden, by Lance McCarthy...
50268 LUMB, R. D. THE LAW OF THE SEA AND AUSTRALIAN OFF-SHORE AREAS
$10.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1966. 1st Ed. (6), 86 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21.3 x 13.7.
58972 LUMHOLTZ, Carl AU PAYS DES CANNIBALES - Voyage d' Exploration chez les Indigènes de l'Australie Orientale 1880-1884
$350.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette et Cie. Paris. 1890. 1st French edition, translated from the Norwegian original by V. & W. Molard. XII, 499 PP with 3 musical scores, 4 tables and 152 b/w illustrations (27 on full page), plus 2 maps, inluding a folded map in colour at rear of book. Fp: Portrait of "Le Docteur Carl Lumholtz". Soft cover. Top corner of front cover chipped, o/wise near fine. French text. 28.5 x 19.2.
Ingleton: No. 226. Ferguson: No.: 11773 (by a different translator: C. & W. Nioland ??)
73092 LYCETT, J. VIEWS IN AUSTRALIA, or New South Wales, & Van Diemen's Land Delineated,in Fifty Views, with Descriptive Letter Press
$100.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. Sydney. 1977. Reprint of the facsimile edition of 1971 (original of 1825). (4), II, 15, (224) PP (with 2 maps and 48 coloured plates with descriptions of each on the opposite page). Title page with vignette (in colour): View in Bathurst Plain near Queen Charlotte Valley. Hard cover (simile leather), gilt title "Lycett's Views in Australia" and decoration on spine. Contained in an illustrated slipcase. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. A few tiny faint scuff marks on book covers, o/wise a near fine copy. Oblong: 27.7 x 37. 0170019659
59183 LYELL McEWIN, Hon. A., Minister for Mines MINING REVIEW, Department of Mines South Australia, No. 101 (for the Half-Year ended 31st December 1954)
$15.00 AUD
Department of Mines, South Australia / K. M. Stevenson, Government Printer. Adelaide. 1956. Issue No. 101. 129 PP with tables and figures (diagrams, drawings, graphs, maps), plus 6 pages with 7 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 15.5.
76155 LYNCH, E P. F. SOMME MUD: The War Experiences of an Infantryman in France 1916-1919
$15.00 AUD
Random House Australia. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed. Foreword by Professor Bill Gammage. Preface by Will Davies, editor. XVI, 347 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9781741665475
37966 LYNCH, Sam & TRUMAN, Mark COASTAL AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Sydney. 2000. Little Hills Press. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map and 33 colour photos. Fp: Shute Harbour, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 21;3 x 27.2. 1863151397
38961 MACINNES, Colin L'AUSTRALIE ET LA NOUVELLE-ZELANDE
$10.00 AUD
Collections Time-Life. New York. 1969. 1st French edition of the 1964 English original, translated by Françoise Cousteau, in the "Life autour du Monde" series. 156 PP with b/w and colour photos. Eps: Maps of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Pictorial hard cover. Near fine. French text. 28 x 21.5.
Australia and New Zealand.
20831 MACK, James D. MATTHEW FLINDERS
$10.00 AUD
The Discovery Press. Penrith. 1972. Reprint in the Great Australian Lives series of the 1966 original. XIV, 270 PP with 6 maps, plus 14 b/w plates. Fp: Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. Simile leather cover, gilt decoration on front. Spine lightly rubbed, Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 20.3 x 13.5.
33790 MACK, James D. MATTHEW FLINDERS 1774-1814
$15.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. Melbourne. 1966. 1st Ed. XIV, 270 PP with 6 maps, plus 14 b/w plates. Fp: Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.
64479 MACK, James D. MATTHEW FLINDERS 1774-1814
$15.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. Melbourne. 1966. 1st Ed. XIV, 270 PP with 6 maps, plus 14 b/w plates. Fp: Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on inside front cover & title-page, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
11651 MACKANESS, George SOME PROPOSALS FOR ESTABLISHING COLONIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
$15.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of 1943 Ed. Volume XI in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 62 PP with 5 b/w illust. Stapled card cover. Very good. 21.4 x 13.7.
35653 MACKANESS, George ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: His Associations with Australia
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of the 1935 original. Volume I in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 33 PP, (4 adv.) with 6 b/w illust. Stapled card cover. Very good. 21.5 x 13.9.
38463 MACKANESS, George A LINK WITH THE FRENCH-CANADIAN "PATRIOTES" TRANSPORTED TO N.S.W. AFTER THE PAPINEAU REBELLION OF 1838 (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS - Volume XXXV, Part VI, 1949)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1949. 305-352 PP. Contains article between pages 342 and 347 with 1 illustration. Stapled soft wrappers, browning of outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21 x 14.
Also contains an article from P.305 to P339 with 4 b/w illustrations: Port Jackson, its Romantic Growth, by A.B. Shaw. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61024 MACKANESS, George SOME PROPOSALS FOR ESTABLISHING COLONIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS, Vol XXIX, Part V, 1943)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1943. P. 261-336. Contains article pages 261 to 280 with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Read before the Society, April 27, 1943. Other articles: Lady Franklin's visit to New South Wales, 1839, by Olive Havard. Sydney's relics of H.M.S. Sirius, by G. A. King. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61185 MACKANESS, George EXILES FROM CANADA (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS, Vol 50, Part 6, 1964)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1964. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 413-492 PP. Contains article between pages 429 and 432. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Image lists all contents and illustrations.
64638 MACKANESS, George ODES OF MICHAEL MASSEY ROBINSON - First Poet Laureate of Australia (1754-1826)
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of the 1946 original. Volume IV in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 112 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Card cover with a small rubbed patch and faded near spine. Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.
64639 MACKANESS, George AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS: Their Discovery, Progress and Prospects
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of the 1956 original. Volume VII in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 48, (4) PP with 1 b/w illustrations at centrefold by R. S. Anderson. Card cover (faded near spine). Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.
64640 MACKANESS, George Murray's Guide to the Gold Diggings - THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS: where they are and how to get to them
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of the 1956 original. Volume VIII in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 56 PP with 1 b/w illustrations at centrefold. Card cover (faded near spine). Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.
64641 MACKANESS, George A Short Account of the Late Discoveries of GOLD IN AUSTRALIA, with notes of a Visit to the Gold District, by John Elphinstone Erskine
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of the 1957 Australian edition (original of 1851). Volume IX in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 53 PP with 1 map and 2 b/w illustrations. Card cover (faded near spine). Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.
74157 MACKANESS, George editor) THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN COTTON, Victorian Pioneer, 1842-1849 - in Three Parts - Part I, Part II & Part III
$30.00 AUD
Review Publications Pty. Ltd. Dubbo, NSW. 1978. New edition of the 1953 original, in the "Australian Historical Monographs" series. Volumes XXVIII, XXIX & XXX with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Mackaness. Part I (volume XXVIII): 1842-1844. 61 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Part II (volume XXIX): 1844-1847. 73, (4) PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Part III (volume XXX): 1847, 1849. 67 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled card covers, title on front cover. Fine set. 21.3 x 13.7.
74574 MACKLIN, Robert HAMILTON HUME - The Life and Times of our Greatest Explorer
$20.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2016. 1st Ed. XVIII, 318 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 29.5 x 15.3. 9780733634055
56255 MACLEAN, Roddy THE SPLENDOUR OF TASMANIA
$10.00 AUD
D & L Books. Launceston. 1989. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 5 maps and 118 colour photos by Dennis Harding. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.3 x 23.8. 01875240004
76017 MANNE, Robert THE PETROV AFFAIR
$20.00 AUD
Text Publishing Co. Melbourne. 2004. Revised edition of the 1987 original. XIV, 302 PP with a table and 1 b/w photo. Pictorial soft covers. Front cover with 2 light creases. Ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Very good. 19.7 x 13. 9781920885168
15807 MARCHANT, Leslie R. AN ISLAND UNTO ITSELF: William Dampier and New Holland
$30.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 1988. 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 208 PP with 5 graphs, 5 maps & 40 pages with b/w illustrations. Fp: Cygnet crew and aborigines filling water barrels in New Holland in 1688. Errata slip and folded table loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 085905120X
A comprehensive account of Dampier's scientific explorations in New Holland. 1688 on board the Cygnet, 1689 on board the Roebuck, ...
72741 MARCHANT, Leslie R. FRANCE AUSTRALE. A Study of French explorations and attempts to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826
$60.00 AUD
Artlook Books. Perth. 1982. 1st edition with a foreword by Jean-François Deniau, French Minister for Overseas Trade. XVI, 384 PP with 72 b/w illustrations (coastal views, drawings, sketches, paintings, facsimile of documents...), plus 8 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. A near fine copy. 24.2 x 16.2. 0864451040
50119 MARKHAM, R. H. & MILLS, A. E. AUSTRALIA COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS
$10.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. 1959. 4th edition (revised) in November 1959 of the 1955 original. 16 PP with b/w illustrations of 63 stamps. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 24 x 15.7.
60597 MARSDEN, Susan HISTORICAL GUIDELINES - South Australian State Historic Preservation Plan
$20.00 AUD
South Australian Department of Environment and Planning. Adelaide. 1984. December 1984 reprint of the May 1980 edition. (5), 167, (15, appendices) PP, plus 2 of the 7 ilustrations called for. Soft cover, staples. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 0724346929
51898 MARTIN, B. J. (editor) BUILT BENEATH THE BRIDGE: The History of the Shipbuilding Endeavours of Evans Deakin 1940 to 1976
$75.00 AUD
The Queensland Women's Historical Association Inc. Brisbane. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by M. Spinaze. IX, 48 PP with 3 b/w photos, plus 38 pages with 1 facsimile of document, 6 plans (2 of them folded) and 2 folded lists of vessels built by EDCO, and 83 photos (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover, cloth spine. Front cover rubbed and lightly soiled, otherwise near fine. Scarce. 29.7 x 21. 0959027157
Shipyard on the Brisbane River.
76332 MAWLAND Group FROM QUARANTINE TO Q STATION - Honouring the Past, Securing the Future
$25.00 AUD
Arbon Publishing Pty Ltd. Crows Nest, NSW. 2016. 2nd edition. Forewords by Mark Speakman and Max Player and Introduction by Simon McArthur. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 24.5 x 19.2. 9780994310736
North Head Quarantine Station.
74737 MAWSON, Sir Douglas THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD - The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
$10.00 AUD
Seal Books / Rigby Ltd. Adelaide. 1971. Reprint of the 1969 edition (original of 1913). (16), 273, (13 Appendices, glossary) PP with 22 b/w illustrations (maps, 11 plans & photos), plus 16 pages with 22 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Sir Douglas Mawson. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 18 x 11.5. 0851793347
Detailed account of the expedition daily subsistence on the icy continent, its scientific endeavours and Douglas Mawson's epic sledge journey in 1912-13 during which his companions Ninnis and Mertz both perished.
16600 MAWSON, Vivienne, TRANTER, David J. & PEARCE, Alan F. CSIRO AT SEA, 50 YEARS OF MARINE SCIENCE
$30.00 AUD
CSIRO Marine Lab. Hobart. 1988 1st Ed. (4), 216 PP with b/w illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine (as new condition). 25.5 x 18.2. 0643048359
Early years of marine science in Australia. The men and women who contributed to the fisheries research and oceanography.
60732 MAYER, Kurt B. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN TWO EQUALITARIAN SOCIETIES: AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES
$20.00 AUD
Social Research. 1964. Reprinted from Social Research, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 1964. 435-465 PP with 6 tables. Soft cover. Signed by Professor Ian Hogbin at top of front cover, and "Compliments" slip from Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Brown University, tipped in inside front cover. Very good. 23.3 x15.5.
20853 McCORMICK, Anne AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, the First Illustrations (in the Australian Antique Collector No. 44)
$10.00 AUD
Reed Business Publishing. Sydney. 1992. 44th edition, July-December 1992 issue. Contains article from P.31 to 35 with 4 b/w and 7 colour illustrations. Pictorial card covers a little rubbed with a small crease, otherwise near fine. 29.8 x 21.
Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during the voyage of the Endeavour...
73637 McCULLOCH, Alan THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN ART
$45.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1994. New US edition, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch. 879 PP with b/w and colour illust. throughout. Hard cover, dust jacket, ribbon page-marker. A fine copy. 26.5 x 19. 9780824816889
Major reference work on Australian art: 1770-1994.
37028 McDONALD, D. I. HENRY PARKES AND THE SYDNEY NAUTICAL SCHOOL (in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society - Vol.52, Part 3)
$20.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1966. Issue marking the "Centenary of the New South Wales Public Schools Act of 1966". Contains article from P. 212 to 227, plus 2 b/w plates (1 of the Training Ship "Vernon"). Card cover. Very good. 22.4 x 14.5.
Front cover image lists all articles.
63737 McDONALD, Ian M. & GORDON, Harry (editors) THE PERSONAL BICENTENNIAL DIARY - 1988
$15.00 AUD
Sunshine Diaries Pty. Ltd. Brisbane. 1987. 1st Ed. 236, (4), 125, (3 index) PP with hundreds of b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, engravings, paintings and photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Diary never used or written upon. Fine (as new condition). 28.3 x 21.5. 0958771421
Diary: pages 4 to 224. Australian wildlife: A portfolio by Steve Parish: pages 225 to 236. Bicentennial, an Australian Mosaic, by Harry Gordon: 1-125 PP.
39288 McFADYEN, Kerry PINETREES - LORD HOWE ISLAND 1842-1992 - A brief history of the Andrews - Nichols - Kirby families
$25.00 AUD
Pinetrees. Lord Howe. 1992. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Neville Wran. 76 PP with 1 genealogical tree and 55 duotone illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (colour paintings by John Allcot, 1937). Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21. 0646101897
74159 McGOREY, Cyril. NORTH OF CAPRICORN - A History of Aviation in Australia's Top End
$20.00 AUD
Department of Aviation / AGPS. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Peter Morris, Minister for Aviation.. (6), 30 PP with 8 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 064406187
74459 McGREGOR, Alasdair A NATION IN THE MAKING - Australia at the Dawn of the Modern Era
$30.00 AUD
Australian Geographic. Sydney. 2012. Reprint of the 2011 original. Foreword by Anne-Marie Van de Ven. (14), 210 PP with about 20 colour illustrations (ephemeras & post cards) and hundreds of b/w photos. Hard covers, illustrated front and back. Fine. 31 x 27. 9781742452265
75525 McGREGOR, Alasdair FRANK HURLEY: A photographer's life
$70.00 AUD
Viking / Penguin Group (Australia). Melbourne. 2004. 1st Ed. (VIII), 460 PP with 3 maps, 1 sketch plan of the "Snuggery", 25 head pieces, over 100 b/w photos and 15 colour plates. Fp: Russell waterfall, Mt Field National Park, Tasmania. Eps: entries of diary. Hard cover, dj. Review by Steve Meacham in "Sydney Morning Herald", 1/12/2007. Fine. 24.6 x 20. 0670888958
44629 McGUIRE, Paul AUSTRALIAN JOURNEY
$5.00 AUD
William Heinemann. London. 1946. Reprint of the revised edition of 1945 (original of 1942). XXII, 367 PP, plus 1 large folded map and 34 pages with 33 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed and repaired. Foxing. Good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.4.
35731 McINNES, Allan LIZARD ISLAND - Some of its History
$10.00 AUD
Author. Cairns. 1978. Reprint. 26 PP with 1 map & 10 b/w illust. Inside back cover: Aerial photo of Lizard Island. Pictorial soft cover a little sunned near smine, o/wise fine. 19.7 x 13.5.
History from the journals of Capt. Cook, Joseph Banks, J. Lort Stokes (HMS Beagle), J. Beete Jukes (HMS Fly), T.H. Huxley and the story of Mrs. Watson.
71336 McINNES, David (Department's Public Relation Unit) THE AUSTRALIAN HONOURS SYSTEM
$25.00 AUD
Official Secretary of the Governor-General / AGPS. Canberra. 1991. 1st edition with a foreword by the Governor-General of Australia, Bill Hayden. (1), II, 34 PP with 31 colour illustrations. Stiff covers, title embossed on front cover, lightly soiled dust jacket. Contents fine. 21 x 21. 9780644149037
75326 McINTYRE, Perry FREE PASSAGE - The Reunion of Irish Convicts and their Families in Australia, 1788-1852
$100.00 AUD
Irish Academic Press. Dublin. 2011. 1st Ed. XXIV, 344 PP with 24 tables and b/w illustrations: 1 drawing, 12 graphs, 7 documents (on 13 photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. Scarce. 24 x 16. 97800716531005
74019 McKENNA, Mark MOMENT OF TRUTH - History and Australia's Future (in Quarterly Essay 69)
$15.00 AUD
Quarterly Essay / Black Inc. Melbourne. 2018. Issue QE69. (4), 140 PP. Contains article page 1 to 86. Stiff covers, front cover with illustration and title. Near fine. 23.4 x 16.7. 9781760640507
38347 McLAREN, Ian F. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS BY SEA, LAND AND AIR 1788-1988 - Volume 2: References
$20.00 AUD
University of Melbourne Library. Melbourne. 1988. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. XVIII, 253 PP with 3 maps and 13 b/w illustrations. Illustrated soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 29.4 x 20.7. 0868399663
Bibliography recording and describing printed works by and about explorers and exploration of Australia and Antarctica.
62356 McLAREN, Ian F. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS BY SEA, LAND AND AIR 1788-1988 - Volumes 1 to 9
$200.00 AUD
University of Melbourne Library. Melbourne. 1988, 1990, 1991. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. Vol. 1: XVIII, 320 PP with 3 maps. Vol. 2: XVII, 254 PP with 3 maps and 13 b/w illustrations. Vol. 3: XVIII, (2), 304 PP with 4 maps and 15 b/w illustrations. Vol. 4: XVIII, 333 PP with 3 maps and 11 b/w illustrations, plus 2 plates with 3 colour illustrations. Fp: The Burial of Burke. Vol. 5: XVI, 306 PP with 2 maps. Vol. 6: XVI, 316 PP with 1 map and 1 b/w illustration. Vol. 7: XVI, 308 PP with 1 map. Vol. 8: XVI, 331 PP with 1 map. Vol. 9: XXXIII, 291 PP with 8 maps. Soft cover, illustration (Statue of Matthew Flinders, St Paul Cathedral, Melbourne) on front cover. Faint foxing. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 29.4 x 20.7.
Bibliography recording and describing printed works by, and about, explorers and explorations of Australia and its land. Volumes 1, 2, & 3: References and Index. Volumes 4 to 9: Bibliographical Register. 4: A - B. 5: C - F. 6: G - Legge. 7: Leichhardt - Mitchell. 8: Moir - Symonds. 9: T-Z. then Addenda & Corrigenda (pages 200 to 218) and Index (pages 219 to 291).
67607 MCLEOD, Roderick / MACKEN, the Honourable James THE STEAM YACHT "LUCINDA" / THE LUCINDA WEEKEND
$5.00 AUD
2 items - 1: Page.45 of issue No. 41, 1991 of "The Australian Antique Collector" with 1 colour plate of the Lucinda. 2 : Pages 14 & 15 of the June 1992 issue of the "Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society". Near fine. 29.8 x 21.
Brisbane. 1996. Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 13 b/w photos. Fp. Soft cover, pictorial front. Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0646290355
47141 MENDHAM, Dawn (editor) THE ANZAC TRADITION: Between The Lines - Australia's Heritage in Stamps
$15.00 AUD
Australia Post. Melbourne. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Edward ("Weary") Dunlop. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (photos, posters and images of stamps), plus stamp folder (containing 5 stamps value: 4 $) loosely inserted and 1 large folded map Arenas of War. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0642149461
67866 MENGLET, Katia & NETTELBECK, Colin CONFLICT OR SYMBIOSIS ? THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MELBOURNE AND FRENCH CULTURAL POLICY SINCE 1980 (in Explorations No. 48)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2010. June 2010. 64 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 20. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
72133 MESIBOV, Bob ('Spider') 48 SPIDER'S WRITINGS ON NATURE, from the "Circular Head Chronicle", 1980-82
$10.00 AUD
Bob Mesidov / Circular Head Chronicle. Smithton, Tasmania. 1982. 1st Ed. 104 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, graphs, maps photos). Inside front cover: sketch map of Tasmania. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 19.8 x 15.8. 0959296808
74160 MEYER, R. C. AERADIO IN AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Department of Aviation / AGPS. Canberra. 1985. 1st Ed. Foreword by J.D. Walker. (2), 27 PP with 15 b/w illustrations : 1 plan, 1 documents and 13 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 29.5. 0644039019
Development of Aeronautical Communications.
75129 MEYERS, Col TRAWL TALES & TRUE
$45.00 AUD
Col Myers & Rees Campbell / Print Domain. Burnie, Tas. 2016. 1st Ed. 205 PP with over 30 colour illustrations (1 prawn trawl rig, 2 maps and photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780980285314
Fishing for mackerel or trawling for prawns in Queensland waters, during the last quarter of the 20th Century.
44841 MICHAELS, Peter AUSTRALIE
$5.00 AUD
Editions du Seuil. Paris. 1981. New edition (April 1981), in Collection Petite Planète. 190, (2 publications) PP with b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: A gumtree. Inside rear cover: Sketch map of Australia. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. French text. 17.8 x 11.8. 2020001306
73349 MICHEL, Ernest A TRAVERS L'HEMISPHERE SUD OU MON SECOND VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE - Tome III: Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, Queensland, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie du Sud, Ile Maurice, Ile de la Réunion, les Seychelles, Aden, Palestine, Egypte
$225.00 AUD
Victor Palmé, Editeur. Paris. 1890. 1st Ed. Vol III: (4), XVI, 366 PP with 36 drawings, plus 30 b/w plates and 1 folded map. Cloth cover, gilt decorated covers, gilt title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. French text. Top part (6.5 cms) of the free fly of the blank front endpaper has been cut out. Occasional foxing. An otherwise fine copy. Scarce. French text. 22 x 14.5
Vol. III: New South Wales (pages 1 to 62), Queensland (pages 63 to 82), New Caledonia (pages 89 to 160), South Australia, Mauritius (pages 185 to 203), Reunion Island (pages 205 to 214), Seychelles (215 to 221), Aden, Palestine and Egypt. Ferguson: 12556c.
34214 MILFORD, G. D. GOVERNOR PHILLIP AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES
$30.00 AUD
The Harbour Newspaper. Sydney. 1935. 2nd edition (revised) in December 1935 of the July 1935 original. 92 PP. Red cloth cover, gilt title on front and spine, dj. Dust jacket is chipped/rubbed around edges and has a small piece missing on spine. Book is near fine. 21.8 x 14.
41039 MILFORD, G. D. GOVERNOR PHILLIP AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES
$10.00 AUD
The Harbour Newspaper. Sydney. 1935. 1st Ed. (July 1935). (2), 83 PP. Blue cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Very good. 21.8 x 14.
70606 MILLER, Barbara THE EUROPEAN QUEST TO FIND TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA: Quiros, Torres and Janszoon
$50.00 AUD
Barbara Miller. Cairns, Qld. 2014. 1st Ed. 332 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, paintings & photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 22 x 15. 9781925023824
44409 MILLS, Richard Charles THE COLONIZATION OF AUSTRALIA (1829-42) - The Wakefield Experiment in Empire Building
$20.00 AUD
Sydney University Press. Sydney. 1974. Facsimile edition with a note by S. J. Butlin, of the 1915 original with an introduction by Graham Wallace. In the Australian Historical Reprints. XX, 363 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14. 0424000040
60622 MITCHELL, Adrian 'A bit of a Froggie': GEORGE COLLINGRIDGE DE TROUCEY IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT (in Explorations No. 45)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2009. December 2008 (issued May 2009). 64 PP. Contains article from P. 3 to 29. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
Author of "Discovery of Australia", 1895, and "The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea", 1906
55104 MITCHELL, R. W. (editor) BHP JOURNAL - Winter 1972
$5.00 AUD
The Broken Hill Propietary Co. Ltd. Melbourne. 1972. Issue for Winter 1972. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.
Steamed up nostalgia. Twentieth century icon faces the seventies... Tailor-made fleet.
55105 MITCHELL, R. W. (editor) BHP JOURNAL - Summer 1972
$5.00 AUD
The Broken Hill Propietary Co. Ltd. Melbourne. 1972. Issue for Summer 1972. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.
I'm sure it was there yesterday (on resources), by Frank Fenner. Water invaluable resource in a dry continent, by R.T. Wheway.
55101 MITCHELL, R. W., NAIRN, D. J. (editors) BHP JOURNAL - Summer 1970
$5.00 AUD
The Broken Hill Propietary Co. Ltd. Melbourne. 1970. Issue for Summer 1970. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Rubbed patch on front cover, o/wise fine. 25 x 18.
Pages 6 to 9: Lords of their own backyards (illustrations by Les Tanner), by Donald Horne. Taking a steelworks to market.
74678 MOLLISON, Alexander Fullerton AN OVERLANDING DIARY
$30.00 AUD
Mast Gully Press / Kenneth Hince (Old and Fine Books). Melbourne. 1980. Limited edition of 300 copies hand numbered (No.158/300), edited with notes by J. O. Randell. XVIII, 91 PP, plus 4 pages with 3 b/w portraits. Fp: Portrait of Alexander Fullerton Morison (1805-1885), the 3rd settler in Northern Victoria. Eps: "sketch map shewing Alexander Mollison's Route from Uriara Station to Colliban Station in the Port Phillip District 1837". Coth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.2. 0908218015
April-December, 1837, from Uriara Station, on the Murrumbidgee, to Port Phillip, Victoria.
47138 MONIE, Jo (compiler) THE FIRST FLEET - Australia's Heritage in Stamps
$20.00 AUD
Australia Post. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed., Book 4 in the Australian Bicentennial Collection. 52 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, charts, engravings, painting photos and images of stamps), plus stamp folders in pocket inside front and back cover. Title spread: The Thames at Deptford. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 25. 0642119465
73212 MOORE, Clive (compiler) PACIFIC HISTORY JOURNAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
$200.00 AUD
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. (4), XIII, 445 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing, mostly on first and last pages, o/wise contents near fine. Scarce. Image shows the title-page. 30 x 21.5. 0731514874
58313 MOORE, Keith (editor / conference convenor) SOCIAL CHANGE, EDUCATION, AND HISTORY - Australia & New Zealand History of Education Society Conference Proceedings
$20.00 AUD
Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane. 2004. 1st Ed. (6), 151 PP. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 1741070821
73466 MOORE, Peter ENDEAVOUR - The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
$20.00 AUD
Vintage Books / Penguin Random House. Sydney. 2018. 1st paperback edition. XII, 420 PP with 2 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 7 b/w and 25 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780143780267
36667 MOOREHEAD, Alan DARWIN AND THE BEAGLE
$10.00 AUD
Penguin Books. London. 1978. Reprint of the 1st paperback edition of 1971. 224 PP with b/w illust., plus 48 plates with 1 map in b/w and 50 colour illus. Pictorial card covers with light wear. Signature of previous owner at top of title-page o/wise near fine. 24.8 x 18.8. 0140033270
76085 MORAN, Douglas (Doug) John PORTRAITS OF AUSTRALIA: The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Collection
$100.00 AUD
Tweed Shire Council. Murwillumbah, NSW. 1988. Deluxe edition, published to celebrate the Bicentenial of Australia. Forewords by Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor General / R.J.L. Hawke, Prime Minister / Douglas John Moran, Chairman of Moran Operations / Councillor Max R. Boyd, Chairman of Tweed Shire Council. Introduction by Josie Flett. 72 PP with 31 b/w illustrations (1 sketch of the Tweed River Gallery and 30 photos of the artists) and colour illustrations (11 portraits and 31 paintings (30 on full page). Title page (in colour): Portrait of Mrs Macnaughton, by Tom Roberts. Leather binding with gilt corner protection, gilt title on front cover and spine. Verso of front endpaper with c. 10, signed best wishes notes. Fine copy. Scarce. 28 x 24.5. 0959658963
70431 MOREMON, Dr. John BURMA AND INDIA 1941-1945
$20.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed., in the Australians in the Pacific War series. II, 82 PP with 1 map, 50 b/w photos and 12 b/w or colour art works. Pictorial soft cover. Fine (mint condition). 21 x 21. 1920720804
73705 MOREMON, Dr. John (editor) VIETNAM: Our War - Our Peace
$30.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. Foreword by Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia. X, (II), 140 PP with b/w and colour photos. Laminated boards, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). Oblong: 23.8 x 25.5. 1920720707
52876 MORGAN, Helen TROPICAL ISLAND TREASURE, The Mauritius Collection (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XVII, No. 10, July 2007)
$5.00 AUD
N.L.A. Canberra. 2007. Volume XVII, No. 10, July 2007. Contains article between pages 18 and 21 with 4 b/w illustrations and 2 colour photos. Pictorial (Dodo and Red Rarakeet, c.1773) soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Collection of books, journals and manuscripts from André Chapuiset Le Merle, in the National Library of Australia.
73172 MORGAN, Sally MY PLACE
$5.00 AUD
Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle. 1992. 19th reprint of the 1987 original. 357 PP with 1 b/w photo. Fp: Portrait of Sally Morgan. Stiff covers, pictorial front, laminated covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 19.7 x 13.8? . 9780949206312
Over 300 000 copies sold at the time of this 1992 reprint.
73173 MORGAN, Sally Illustrated - MY PLACE
$15.00 AUD
Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle. 1994. Reprint of the 1989 "Illustrated" edition. 358, (18 Family Album) PP with 37 headpieces (5 on full pages) by the author, and 31 b/w photo. Eps. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Short note at top of title-page, o/wise a fine copy. 25.7 x 18.. 9780949206312
71458 MORLEY, L. J. MEMORIES OF TASMANIA'S WEST COAST - A pictorial journey of road and rail vehicles of the past
$45.00 AUD
Wellington Bridge Press. Hobart. 2013. Reprint of the 2011 original. II, 208 PP with over 500 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Mint condition. 29.7 x 21. 9781921767036
West coast of Tasmania: Mining, Timber, Hydro Electricity, Ports, Railways ... Flight around the world by Harold Gatty in 1931.
42918 MORPHY, Professor Howard SALTWATER - YIRRKALA BARK PAINTINGS OF SEA COUNTRY (in Signals No. 60)
$15.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2002. No. 60, September-November 2002. Contains article from P. 4 to 9 with 10 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (Ancestral shark Mäna at Rorruwuy, Yirrkala). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Collection of 80 dazzling bark paintings by Yolngu artists to demonstrate their rights to land and sea.
38591 MORRIS, Delphine D. & BOCCARA, Michel (editors) REVE ET POLITIQUE DES PREMIERS AUSTRALIENS - L'ancien futur de l'Australie
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 315 PP, (6 publications) with 2 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738496512
16611 MORRIS, Keith (editor) WOODSIDE'S GUIDE TO FISHING ON THE DAMPIER ARCHIPELAGO
$15.00 AUD
Woodside Offshore Petroleum. Perth. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Peter Tapper. 80 PP with 1 large folded map, 7 colour photos, 26 sketches & 15 colour plates of fishes by Roger Swainson. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 20 x 23.8. -ISSN 08167311
73431 MORRIS, Kenneth GEORGE BASS IN WESTERN PORT, incorporating Geoge Bass & the convicts
$20.00 AUD
Bass Valley Historical Society. Bayswater, Vic. 1997. Hand numbered edition (No. 333). (2), 34 PP with 7 b/w illustrations by Libby Skidmore (1 portrait, 1 sketch and 5 maps). Stiff covers, illustration and title on front cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 14.8.. 0959178724
70873 MORRIS-MILLER, Professor E. (editor) A BRIEF PICTORIAL HISTORY OF TASMANIA
$25.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1959. New edition of the 1957 original. Foreword by Dr. W. Bryden. 20 PP with 1 sketch map of Tasmania and 19 b/w plates illustrated by Captain D. Colbron Pearce. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. Oblong: 18.6 x 25.3.
An illustrated history of the discoverers of Tasmania, and other notable people. Abel Tasman, 1642. Marion Du Fresne, 1772. Furneaux, 1773. Cook, 1777... D'Entrecasteaux, 1792 and 1793... Baudin, 1802...
63305 MORT, S. W. POINTS NORTH - Points of General Interest between Cairns and Torres Strait
$20.00 AUD
Torres Industries Pty. Ltd. Thursday Island. 1993. 1st Ed. VI, 70 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map "Explorers' Routes", 10 maps, 5 drawings and 9 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Discreet name of previous owner at lower corner of title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646134396
58323 MOSES, John & EARNSHAW, Arnold THE AUSTRALIAN - RETROSPECTIVE 1964 - 1984
$20.00 AUD
The Australian. Sydney / Melbourne. 1984. Special issue, 14-15 July 1984. 126 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Very good. 27.5 x 21.
1964-1965: The complacent years. 1966-1967: Years of change... 1984: Society starts to open up.
33979 MOYAL, Ann (editor) PORTRAITS IN SCIENCE
$15.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1994. 1st Ed. V, 203 PP with 12 portraits. Stiff cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine 24.6 x 17.7. 0642106169
12 Australian leading scientists speaking about their lives and their work.
15141 MULRENNAN, Monica TOWARDS A MARINE STRATEGY FOR TORRES STRAIT (MaSTS)
$20.00 AUD
North Australia Research Unit - A.N.U. & Torres Strait Island Coordinating Council. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. XII, 52 PP with 2 maps plus 4 pages Executive Summary, Marine Strategy for Torres Strait (MaSTS) loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 20.8. 0731515455
Conservation, environment, development... of the Torres Strait Islands.
35777 MULVANEY, D. J. EUROPEAN VISION AND AUSTRALIA'S HERITAGE (in Proceedings 1980-81, The Australian Academy of the Humanities)
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Canberra. 1982. 1st Ed. 213 PP with 13 b/w plates. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0909897069
Annual lecture delivered to the Australian Academy of the Humanities at its Eleventh Annual General Meeting at Melbourne on 12 July 1981.
72795 MUNDLE, Rob UNDER FULL SAIL
$35.00 AUD
ABC Books. Sydney. 2016. 1st Ed. (10), 374 PP, plus 33 b/w or colour plates (on superior gloss). Includes a Glossary and Index. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780733334696
How the majestic clipper ships transformed Australia from a convict outpost to a nation.
65729 MUNDLE, Robert BLIGH: Master Mariner
$25.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. XXXII, 368 PP with 6 maps (3 on double page), plus 8 pages with b/w and colour illustrations (facsimile of documents, etchings, paintings & watercolours). FEP: Point Venus, Tahiti. REP: The Providence and her tender Assistant. Hard cover, device and title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780733625060
72594 MUNDLE, Robert THE SYDNEY HOBART YACHT RACE
$15.00 AUD
ABC Books / HarperCollins. Sydney. 2019. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir James Hardy. (6), 410 PP with 2 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 16 b/w and 14 colour photos. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 9780733339820
The story of a sporting Icon.
13033 MURDOCH, Priscilla DUYFKEN AND THE FIRST DISCOVERIES OF AUSTRALIA
$20.00 AUD
Antipodean. Sydney. 1974. 1st soft cover edition. 64 PP with b/w & colour illustrations by various artists. Pictorial stiff covers. Ex Library copy with 2 stamps on lower margin, envelope on half title page and rubbed patch at foot of spine. Otherwise contents are clean and still a very good copy. 27 x 21. 0869440004
The 164 years of exploration/discovery, between the "Duyfken" of Willem Jansz and the "Endeavour" of James Cook.
62201 MURPHY, Robert K. THE ROMANCE OF ALUMINIUM - Discovery, Manufacture and Uses (in The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales Officer's Journal - Vol. IX, No. 9, February 1934
$5.00 AUD
M. S. B. Sydney. 1934. Edited by H. L. Gilmour. XX (advertisements), 44 PP. Contains article pages 21 to 26. Soft cover. Near fine. 18.3 x 12.5
62094 MURRANT, Jim ROYAL SYDNEY YACHT SQUADRON 1862 - 2000
$40.00 AUD
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. (10), 186 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 10 Heritage plans of the Clubhouse. Eps: Map in colour "Port Jackson & Middle Harbour", also "Parramatta & Lane Cove Rivers". Hard cover, crest and title on front board, gilt title on cloth spine. Fine. 28 x 21.8. 0646385631
34791 MURRAY, Bill CRISIS, CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS - Selected documents illustrating 200 years in the making of Australia
$20.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1984. 1st Ed. XI, 343 PP with 92 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.1 x 17. 0727018418
145 topics, starting with Captain Cook's description of his first landings...
Fremantle Prison. Fremantle, W.A. 2007 1st Ed. Foreword by Graeme Gammie. 60 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29 x 23. 9780980316209
Story of the escape of Irish Fenian from Fremantle in 1869 and in 1876. Travelling exhibition (21 September 2006 to 1st June 2008) curated by Sandra Murray.
58261 MURRAY-JONES, Sue & SHEPHERD, Scoresby (editors) THE 2004 EXPEDITION TO THE ALTHORPE ISLANDS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia)
$35.00 AUD
Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide. 2005. Special Issue - Volume 129, Part 2, 30 November 2005. (2), 85-280 PP with tables, 8 colour photos and b/w illustrations (graphs, maps, photos). Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2.
Althorpe Island, Investigator Strait (South of Eyre Peninsula), South Australia. 14 papers. Introductory narrative. Geology. Human settlement and lighthouse complex. Conservation. Flora. Fauna. Marine life ... Image shows list of contents.
58260 MURRAY-JONES, Sue, SHEPHERD, Scoresby & ROBINSON, Anthony (editors) ENCOUNTER 2002 EXPEDITION TO THE ISLES OF ST FRANCIS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia)
$35.00 AUD
Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide. 2003. Special Issue - Volume 127, Part 2, 28 November 2003. (2), 70-280 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (graphs, maps, photos), plus 1 plate with 4 colour photos. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2.
St Francis Island, Nuyts Archipelago, South Australia. 14 papers. Formation of the Islands. Geology and geochemistry. Settlement History. Conservation. Flora. Fauna. Marine life (9). Image lists all contents.
14688 N/A SOUTH AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed., with an introduction by David Tonkin, Premier of South Australia. 80 PP with colour illustrations (maps, engravings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing on the inside of the covers, o/wise near fine.. 32 x 23. 0724334572
A presentation of the State of South Australia.
40962 N/A ENDEAVOUR 200
$15.00 AUD
Australian Hoechst Limited / Oswald Ziegler Publications. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr. H. Von Pentz. 64 PP with 1 chart and 54 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 30.5 x 24.8.
A commemorative history of Australia's beginnings.
51938 N/A GOLDEN ERA
$5.00 AUD
Australian Publishing Co. Brisbane. c. 1970. Special edition. 123, (3) PP with 24 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, gilt title on front cover. Foxing on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 14.6.
History of gold in Australia from: Newspaper Reports, Court Documents, Ancient Letters...
54093 N/A THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA IN 2007
$5.00 AUD
N. L. A. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 5 b/w and 25 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (earliest surviving playbill printed in Australia, 1796). Fine. 26 x 21.
55106 N/A THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
$20.00 AUD
Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 1945. New impression of the 1943 original. 46, (2) PP with 30 b/w illustrations (1 drawing and 29 photos). Soft cover. Foxing spots on covers and outside edges. Inside front cover with Ingleton bookplate. Very good. 24 x 15.
A brief guide to the building.
58535 N/A QUEENSCLIFFE ! How to See It
$10.00 AUD
Queenscliffe Historical Society. Queenscliff, Vic. 1984. Facsimile edition of the 1876-77 original, with Introduction Historical Notes and a Postcript by D. A. Beavis and E. T. Raison. (8), 50 PP with period advertisements and b/w illustrations, plus 1 plan of "The Maze". Soft cover. Fine. Small format: 17 x 11.7. 0949583332
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover (The Cane Cutter). Covers with light wear, otherwise contents are near fine.. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: The Sugar Shield, by Ruth Ann Curtis. Melanesian Arcadia, by J. G. Coombs. Townsville by Emerson Curtis. ... Mountain of Iron, by George Farwell, Gnangara Pines by James Pollard, A Wooden Ship is Built, by John McPherson, The Quality of Mercy by M. Kathleen Woodburn, ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers ("Among the snow daisies" at Mt. Kosciusko). Near fine. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: The hidden crater of Wolf Creek, by Charles H. Holmes. Lord Howe Island today, by G. Scoresby Shepherd. Captain Cook Memorial at Tahiti, by S. G. Martin. Letter from Macquarie, by Norman Laird. ...
60579 N/A CARNET AUSTRAL / Bulletin of the Australian Society for French Studies - Nos. 1 to 4
$25.00 AUD
Australian Society for French Studies / Boombana Publications. Brisbane. 1994, 1995 & 1996. No. 1, September 1994: 26 PP. No. 2, March 1995: 32 PP. No. 3, September 1995: 32 PP. No. 4: March 1996: 28 PP. Edited by Timothy UNWIN, John WEST-SOOBY & Susan YATES. 4 issues for a total of 118 pages. Pictorial soft cover. Texts either in French or English. Compliments slip signed by Professor Jean-Claude Lacherez, loosely inserted. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
66827 N/A AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT HANDBOOK - Part 3: HOME OFFICE - Class and Piece List
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia / Library of New South Wales. Canberra. 1984. AJCP Handbook, Part 3. Reprinted with addenda of the 1974 original. 40 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642990220
66828 N/A AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT HANDBOOK - Part 4: WAR OFFICE - Class and Piece List
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia / Library of New South Wales. Canberra. 1984. AJCP Handbook, Part 4. 2nd edition. 40 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642104077
66829 N/A AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT HANDBOOK - Part 5: FOREIGN OFFICE - Class and Piece List
$20.00 AUD
National Library of Australia / Library of New South Wales. Canberra. 1984. AJCP Handbook, Part 5. Reprinted with addenda from the 1975 original. 117 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642990611
66832 N/A AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT Handbook - Part 9: Public Record Office, Personal Collections
$20.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1991. AJCP Handbook, Part 9. 1st Ed. IX, 42 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642154139
66833 N/A AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT Handbook - Part 10: Dominions Office - Class, Piece and File List
$25.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1991. AJCP Handbook, Part 10. Compiled by Margaret E. Phillips. 1st Ed. XI, 375 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642105170
69542 N/A A PRAYER FOR NEW SOUTH WALES
$30.00 AUD
"United Australia Party" / Marchant & Co. Ltd. Sydney. 1932. Colour illustrated prospectus / hand bill. Near fine. 11 x 15.2.
On May 13, 1932, Sir Philip Game sacked Jack Lang, as Premier. "A Prayer for New South Wales", was celebrating a great and glorious victory on the 11th of June 1932, with the election of the new Premier, Bertram Stevens of the United Australia Party.
69641 N/A AUSTRALIE - Histoire et Profil
$5.00 AUD
Ministere de l'Interieur, Canberra. Canberra. 1969. April 1969 edition. 24 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, staples. French text. Very good. 20.3 x 13.6.
73577 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 17, Nos. 1 to 12, 1951
$100.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1951. Monthly edition. No. 1, January 1951 to No. 12, December 1951, with a total of 576 PP with b/w illustrations. Each issue with original pictorial soft cover. Light soiling or wear to some issues, o/wise a near fine run. Format: 30.5 x 24.
Vol.17, No.1: In the Head-Hunters' Country in Dutch New Guinea (Donald F. Thomson), By Canoe down the Shoalhaven (J.W. Pearson), The Story of the Great Barrier Reef (William J. Dakin), The Petrified Aboriginal (H.A. Lindsay). Vol.17, No.2: Robert Louis Stevenson and the South Seas (David Gunston), The Aboriginal Rock Carvings of Eastern N.S.W. (John Meredith & Brian Loughlin). Vol. 17, No.3: The Golden Labyrinth (John Béchervaise), The Volcano at Tanna (Capt. Brett Hilder), Cannibal Country, The Savage Country of the Adelbert Range (Arnold M. Maahs). Vol 17, No.4: The Archipelago of the Recherche (John Béchervaise), The Story of the Boundaries (J.H.L. Cumpston). Vol 17, No.5: Savage Battles between Snakes (David Fleay), A Zoologist in the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), Prawning (D. Mercer), Vol. 17, No.6: Birds of the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), Volcanic Centres of New Guinea (N.H. Fisher), The Future of the Australian Tuna Industry (T.C. Rougley). Vol.17, No.7: Prawns from the Ocean (T.C. Roughley), Reptiles of the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), The Seafaring Manus Islanders (T.W. White), Valedictory - John Flynn (Ernestine Hill). Vol.17, No.8: Rabaul (Noël Lambert), Tin Dredging at Mt. Garnet (John K. Ewers), The Monte Bello Islands (Trevor Tuckfield), Noddies of the Abrolhos (Vincent Serventy). Vol.17, No.9: Fifty Years of Federation - and the Australian Way of Life (Dr. W.E.H. Stanner), Tasmanian Aboriginal Carvings (Jessie S. Luckman), Mining for Mica (Mary Holyoake), Heard Island (W.L. Crowther). Vol.17, No.10: The Story of the Hiri (Donald F. Thomson), Nature's Natural Penitentiary (Arnold M. Maahs), Slow Death of a Ghost Town - Borroloola (L.E. Kingsbury). Vol.17, No.11: The Atherton Tableland (John K. Ewers), Snakes and Aboriginal Lore (W.E. Harney), Men of the Cattle Country (Alan Marshall), Leper Colony (Stuart Gore). Vol.17, No.12: Spanish Mission - New Norcia (Stuart Gore), Bones of the Buangs (Arnold M. Maahs), Ships that Service the Lighthouses (Mary Holyoake), Wealth in Whales (Rowley Roberts), A Dam is Raised - Mundaring Weir (H. Drake-Brockman).
74791 N/A WALKABOUT- Journal of the Australian Geographical Society - Vol.13, No.3 - January 1947
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1947. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 52 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Australia's Water Resources (J.D. Lang), Suwarrow Gulf (R.O Burlinson), Melville Island (W.E. Harney), Pines of the Inland (Michael Sharland),....
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1949. 46 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers detached with part of back cover missing. Paper ageing around edges, o/wise very good. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Strange Mount Olga (John Béchervaise), The Cattle Dog (Robert Kaleski), Shipworms and Wood (G.L. Amos), Cradle Mountain (Margaret Chattaway).
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1950. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 30.5 x 24.3.
Articles include: Mt. Michael's Fortified Villages (Arnold M;.Maahs), Gold on the Pieman (Michael Sharland), Seals in New Zealand Seas (H. Walders), ...
74795 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Volume16, No.5 - May, 1950
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1950. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (A Gecko of North Australia). Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Sheep in the Wahgi Valley (Laurence Le Guay), Tonga - The Friendly Isles (Lex Halliday), Treasure Islands of the Great Barrier Reef (Gwyn Rogers), Wittenoom (Leslie and Coralie Rees), ...
74796 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 6, No.7 - May, 1940
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1940. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, o/wise contents near fine. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Port Moresby (Jack O'Neill), Lightning Ridge (Frank Hurley), Isles of the Coral Seas (Capt. C.A.S. Mansbridge), New Norcia Mission (James Pollard), Where the Murray Goes Down to the Sea (Wilkie Thomson)...
74797 N/A WALKABOUT- Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 11, No.3 - January 1945
$15.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (detached and back cover missing), otherwise complete and still a very good copy of an early edition. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Around Darwin Harbour (A.L. Lauder), Australia and New Guinea in Pictures, South-West Coast (Tasmania), by Fred Usher, Headlands of History (Ewen K. Patterson)...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Solomon Island Natives) are worn and partly detached. Paper ageing, staples removed, o/wise contents are complete. Still a very good copy of an early edition. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Sky-Lines in the Forest (H. Drake-Brockman), Coconut (Clive S. Priest), Across the Barkly Tablelands (Haliden Hartt), Oil of Tung (Tarlton Rayment), ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Cattle-Drafting at a Stockmen's Carnival, Queensland). A near fine copy. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Forests of the Territory (James Pollard), Bayonets of the Sea ("Creel"), Trout Fishing Thirty Years Ago (Helga Swinburne-Johnson), The Journey North (Jackson J. Doughty), ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Young Wallaby). Page 7 has a repaired tear without loss of text and otherwise, this is a near fine copy. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: With Eagles in the field (David Fleay), Fish Trapping in the Tropics (J. Hollis), Tea-Tree Bees of Port Phillip (Tarlton Rayment), New Caledonia (Gordon L. Clark), The Cape Leeuwin Water-Wheel (J.E. Try), ...
74804 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 17, No. 6 - June 1951
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1951. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover "Volcanic eruption, Mt. Lamington, New Guinea". Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Birds of the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), Volcanic Centres of New Guinea (N.H. Fisher), The Future of the Australian Tuna Industry (T.C. Roughley), The Genesis of Colac (John Russell), ...
74805 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 17, No. 7 - July 1951
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1951. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover "Winter Sport, Australian Alps". Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Prawns from the Ocean (John K. Ewers), Reptiles of the Recherche Archipelago (Vincent Serventy), The Seafaring Manus Islanders (T.W. White), Valedictory - John Flynn (Ernestine Hill), The Saksak Story (O.I. Speck), ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1951. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover "The New Canberra Jet Bomber". Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: The Story of the Hiri (Donald F. Thomson), Island Across the Bay (Gwyn Rogers), Burt Plain (M. Kathleen Woodburn), Slow Death of a Ghost Town (L.E. Kingsbury), ...
74808 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 17, No. 12 - December 1951
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1951. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover "Iceberg photographed from the Wyatt Earp during its southern cruise to Antarctica). Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Spanish Mission (Stuart Gore), Ships that service the lighthouses (Mary Holyoake), Wealth in Whales (Rowley Roberts), A Dam is Raised (H. Drake-Brockman), Seven Creeks (John Bechervaise), ...
74809 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 11, No.9 - July 1945
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Ski-ing, Mt. Bogong, Victoria). Near fine. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: The Captain Cook Dock, Sydney (Mary Durack), New Hebrides (Basil Hall), Grass Tree Resin (Myra J. Drummond), ...
74810 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 11, No.12 - October 1945
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Trout Fishing, New Zealand). Near fine. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Kite Fishing in the Solomons (A.E.Church), Ghost Worlds of the North (James Pollard), Surf Fishing (Cusec), Pioneering the Shoalhaven (Ray Harris), Coaching Days in Tasmania and NSW (William Wilson), ...
74811 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 11, No.11 - September 1945
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (HMS Illustrious in Captain Cook Dock, Sydney). Near fine. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Trees that grow shipshape (Noel Griffiths), Bentonite (Robert Archer), Birds of Paradise (A.W. Lauder), The Fairy Lamps of the Turpentine (Ka-vai), Sydney's Famous G.P.O. Clock (K.A.), ...
75163 N/A WALKABOUT Australia and the South Seas (Walkabout Magazine, Vol. 2, No.2, December, 1935)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1935. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Mountainering in the New Zealand Alps). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
With the Buffalo Hunters, Arnhem Land, by C. H. Holmes. Tasman Island, by E. K. Sinclair. On the road to Broken Hill, by A. B. Haines. Mutton-Birds of Bass Strait, by M. S. R. Sharland. Glory of the Islands, coast of West Australia, by Ernestine Hill. Levuka (Fiji), by G. Scoresby Shepherd.
75164 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas ( Vol. 2, No.4, February 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The Lace Lizard "Goanna"). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Articles include: Picnic Racing in the "Outback", by Jim McCarter. Islands in the Sun (Great Barrier Reef), by G. Rogers. Laying the Bass Strait Telephone Cable, by A. B. Haines. A Native Fish-Hunt in New Ireland, by William C. Groves. Water in the Desert (W.A.'s 350-mile Pipe-Line to the Kalgoolie goldfields), by John K. Ewers.
75165 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.5, March 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The "Joseph Conrad"). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
The "Joseph Conrad" A Full-Rigger in the South Seas, by A. J. Villiers. The Unveiling of a Continent (the Kennedy Expedition: 2nd part), by Russell S. Clark. Ambergris, by Richard Ross. A Nullarbor Sheep Station, by D. R. Nicholls. The Dugong, by G.H. Sunter.
75166 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.6, April 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Launching the Lifeboat at Queenscliff). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Australia's Flying Doctors, by Dr. George Simpson. Whaling at Point Cloates (700 miles North of Perth, W.A.), by John K. Ewers. Storm Warriors (shipwreck! Life-boat ...), by Lorenzo Robertson. The Unveiling of a Continent (Part 3) : with Burke and Wills to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Russell S. Clark.
75167 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.8, June 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (A Young Wedge-tailed Eagle). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Cape York Peninsula, (1) The civilised foreground, by Ursula H. McConnel. Below Zero, Life on a Ross Sea Whaler, by Henrik Brammall. Roving the Coral Seas, by C.B. Christesen. Unveiling of a Continent (Part 5): with Eyre along the Great Australian Bight, by Russell S. Clark. The Kanaka Mercantile Marine, by F. A. Hood. Headlands and History, by T. Dunbabin.
75168 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.10, August 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Mustering, Dargo High Plains, Victoria). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Hoof-Beats on Bogong, by Lorenzo Robertson. Does Lasseter's Reef Exist?, by Michael Terry. New Guinea Jewellery, by F. A. Hood. Cape York Peninsula (part 3): Development and Control, by Ursula H. McConnell. Native surgery in the South Seas Islands (Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain), by G. McLaren.
75169 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.12, October 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Competitor at the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Australia's Antarctic Dependency, by John K. Davis. Fighting the Prickly Pear, by Edward Samuel. Hobart, the City by the Mountain, by C. C. D. Brammall. A Native Feast in Melanesia, by W. C. Groves. "Wilgie-Mia": an Aboriginal Red Ochre Mine, by W. H. Kretchmar.
75170 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 3, No.1, November 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The "Cathedral", Tawong Station, Corryong). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Lazy Days in Crocodile Land (North Australia), by Ion L. Idriess. In Wild New Guinea, Up the Sepik River, by Brian Stirling. Water Conservation in Australia, by Lewis R. East. My Island Home,: Whitsunday Passage, Qld, by H. G. Lamond.
75171 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 3, No.2, December 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Turtle Riding at Heron Island, G.B.R.). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Heron Island, a Fairy Isle of Romance, by Colin Roderick. The River Murray Steamers, a Romance of Australian transport in the early days, by L. D. Mackay. New Zealand's Thermal Regions, by Edward Samuel. South Seas Withchery: notes from a Tahitian Journey, by J.K. Stone. Digging for Kauri Gum in New Zealand, by Ronald Vine.
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1937. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The Drover). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
FEZ (Morocco), by Adrian Brunel. Tending 113,000,000 Sheep, by Arthur Barclay. Rafting down the Markham (New Guinea), by B. U. Kay. The Palaces of London, by Peter Fenn.
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1941. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (A Student at the Longerenong Agricultural College, Victoria). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Life on a Sheep Station, by Helena Cass. Ayer's Rock (said to be the largest rock in the world), by Frank Clune. Rubber Production, by John Gibb. Australia's Great Gold Story, by C. R. Bradish.
75176 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 11, No.6 - April, 1945
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1945. 40 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (On Sydney Harbour). Paper ageing and foxing. Very good copy of an early edition. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: Aerial Postman, by Glen Francis. Taronga Park Experiment, by Tarlton Rayment. Sons of Head-hunters go to work, (New Guinea), drawings by R. Emerson Curtis. Gold, by H. Drake-Brockman. The Tasmanian North-West, Romance of the Arthur River, by Bernard Cronin. New Guinea hair styles, by G.M. Read. Merawke (Dutch New Guinea), by Owen Campbell Mortimer.
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (surf-boats, Sydney). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.
Articles include: Down the River Murray by Paddle-Wheeler (Kathleen E. Graves), White Men Diving for Thochus (Godfrey L. Gapp), Caves Beneath the Nullarbor (Arnold Wright)...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Town Hall, Melbourne). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.
Articles include: The Masked Dancers of I'Wai'i (Cape York) by Donald F. Thomson, Trout Fishing in Victoria (Basil Hall), Koala - Orphan of the Gum-Trees (Ellis Troughton ), ...
75764 N/A AS YOU WERE 1950
$10.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1953. Reprint of the 1950 original. 172 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, cartoons, photos...). Fp (in colour): Surrender Ceremony, Bougainville. Eps : Illustrated. Cloth cover with shelf wear around edges, title on front cover and spine. Back hinge split on 3cms at head of spine. Ageing of paper. 6 pages (138 to 143) with some scribbling by children, o/wise very good. 28 x 22.
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1955. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. 48 PP with b/w photos throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Northern Territory native with newly-acquired scissors and mirror). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: "The Charmed Spell" by Kathleen E. Graves, Harnessing River-side Lakes by L. Peacock, Aboriginal Rock Paintings at Emily Gap by K.A. Austin, Hart's Range by George Dickinson, ...
75784 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Volume 15, No.5, May, 1949
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1949. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photos throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Brer Rabbit by Ray Bean) Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: Victoria's Great Power Development Undertakings by G.G. Jobbins, The Vermin Fences of Western Australia by Arthur W. Upfield, Environment and Health in Australia by J.H.L. Cumpston, "Migration Time is here again" by P.H. MacFarlane, Flying Doctors in Remote South Australia by E.J. Stretton, ...
75806 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Volume 14, No. 6, April, 1948
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Young Reef Herons) Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Everything is temporary in Post-War Moresby by Sean Keogh, Where the Darling Ends by George Farwell, The Whistling Eagle by David Fleay, Water for Mallee Lands by Michael Sharland, The Island where time stands still by Mrs. Harry Bonney, This Jealous Land by Arthur W. Upfield, ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (The Pilot - Ray James on "Journal"). Covers with light wear otherwise near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Police Patrol in the "Never-Never" by A.F. Anderson, Droving through the Sea by Fred Lord, Boydtown by C. Mervyn Archdall, Makatea by S.G. Martin, Fasciola Hepatica by M. Kathleen Woodburn, People of the Centre by Bertram Keith, ...Queensland Nuts by Ian Desmond.
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1949. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Goannas or Monitors). Covers have a repaired spine and a few chips, otherwise contents are near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Sea Waves and Surf Beaches by W.J. Dakin, More than meets the eye by J. Bechervaise, The Reefs of Wrecks by N.K. Wallis, Alpine Flowers by Hilda Walders, ....
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Federation Peak in Tasmania). Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Tasmania's Modern Explorers by Michael Sharland, Islands of Torres Strait by R. Raven-Hart, Debris of the Tides, by W.A. Harney, The Australian Deserts by M. Kathleen Woodburn, Bird Islands off the Swan River by James Pollard, Tragedy of Lizard Island by Fred Lord, ...
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1946. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (The Chalet, Mt. Kosciusko). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: Norfolk Island by Stewart Cockburn, Weird Rocks of Chillagoe by Robert Archer, Kowmung Country by Hugh Henry, Maranboy by W.E. Harney, River of Destiny by Mary Durack, Nursery of the Pines by Robert Archer, Robbins Island by Cath Lott, Sidelights on Fijian Custom by Helen D. Cato, ...
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1946. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Arnhem Land Fisherman). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: The Story of Arnhem Land by Dr. Donald F. Thomson, "The River is Rising" by Marie Bronson, Damming the Country by M. Kathleen Woodburn, Where Roads End by John Béchervaise, "In Memory of the Pioneers", by A.A. Burns, Peanuts by Una Roseby, British Author Plans Canoe Trip Down the Darling, ...
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1946. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Fixing Australia's Time). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: Niuafoou, by M. Kathleen Woodburn, Scheelite from King Island, by William Nolan, Fixing Australia's Time by Stewart Cockburn, Vale of Rasselas by Norman Laird, Sisters of the Outback by Blanche Maynard, The Valued Pituri, by Tarlton Rayment, Sidelights of Polynesian Life, by Laurence Maine, ...
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1946. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (The Coco-Nut Mask). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: Broken Hill Today, by George Farwell, Romantic Cape Barren, by N.C. Johnston, Forgotten Shores, by Y.F. Smith, New Holland, Early Dutch Explorations in Australia, by Myra Drummond, The Striated Grass-Wren, by L.G. Chandler, ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1941. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (The Young Farmer) with light wear, reinforced spine, otherwise contents are near fine. 30 x 24.
Articles include: Life on a Sheep-Station by Helena Cass, Ayer's Rock (Said to be the largest rock in the world), by Frank Clune, Rubber Production by John Gibb, Islands of the River Murray, by Tarlton Rayment, Angling - The Papuan Way, by H. Ward Nolan, Perth, by R. Emerson Curtis with 3 of his illustrations, ...
45341 NACCI, Dominique AUSTRALIAN ANTI-COLONIALISM...
$20.00 AUD
Playground. Canberra. 2002. 1st Ed., in Critical Theory and Australian Studies series. Preface by Emeritus Professor W. F. Mandle. XVI, 222 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0958032106
Chapter 1: Worshipping race relations in OZ. Chapter 3: Colonial heritage or the ontology of the present. Chapter 6: The (dis)order of the post colonial discourse.
55100 NAIRN, D. J. (editor) BHP JOURNAL - Summer 1969
$5.00 AUD
The Broken Hill Propietary Co. Ltd. Melbourne. 1969. Issue for Summer 1969. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover . Fine. 25 x 18.
Pages 6 to 9: semi-submersible derrick barge Choctaw. Pages 19 to 23: Radio Astronomy, science in which Australia is a Pioneer, by Professor B. Y. Mills.
56884 NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW - December 1973
$5.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1973. December 1973 issue. Edited by Lewis J. LIND. 36 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 24.3 x 18.5.
Captain Joseph Burnett R.A.N. (of HMAS Sydney II), by Cdr. P. R. Burnett. Farewell to old (HMAS) Sydney (III) forever. Australian Naval Aviation (Part 2), by Group Captain Keith Isaacs.
70805 NELSON, Lieutenant Commander Annette HMAS HARMAN : 1943 - 2013 / A History of HMAS Harman and its people
$50.00 AUD
HMAS Harman. Canberra. 2013. 1st Ed. Forewords by CMDR Lisa Batchler. (8), 81 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft covers with light wear, title and crest on front cover, spiral bound. Dedicatory note to previous owner on title page signed by Commander Batchler. Near fine. 30 x 21.5.
RAN establishment in Canberra.
48519 NELSON, R., MARGAN, F. et al.. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIANS AT WAR
$15.00 AUD
Paul Hamlyn. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. 323 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj (spine lightly sunned). Near fine. 28 x 20.5. 0600396560
22734 NEPEAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE PENINSULA STORY, SORRENTO AND PORTSEA - YESTERDAY - Book I
$30.00 AUD
The Nepean Historical Society. Sorrento, Victoria. 1966. 1st Ed. Introduction by C. N. Hollinshed. 64 PP with 1 map , 1 plan, 1 facsimile of letter, and 15 bw photos. Pict. card cover ("Lady Nelson"). Very good. 21.4 x 13.7.
First landings and explorations and the first settlement under Governor Collins. The grazing, lime burning, and fishing industries...
49480 NEVILLE, Derek BLACKBURN'S ISLE
$10.00 AUD
Terence Dalton. Lavenham. 1975. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 7 tail pieces, plus 24 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped on rear endpaper. Covers lightly soiled. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.6. 0900963409
A story of the convict settlements at Botany Bay and Norfolk. Discovery of Lord Howe through the letters of David Blackburn, master of the HMS armed tender Supply of the first fleet.
64380 NEVILLE, Derek BLACKBURN'S ISLE
$15.00 AUD
Terence Dalton. Lavenham. 1975. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 7 tail pieces, plus 24 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 22.2 x 14.6. 0900963409
A story of the convict settlements at Botany Bay and Norfolk. Discovery of Lord Howe through the letters of David Blackburn, master of the HMS armed tender Supply of the first fleet.
15746 NEWMAN, Charles THE SPIRIT OF WHARF HOUSE. Campbell Enterprise from Calcutta to Canberra 1788-1930
$35.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1961 1st Ed. XVI, 260 PP, plus 16 pages with b/w illustrations (photos, line drawings, sketches & maps). Fp (in colour): Robert Campbell, Merchant 1769-1846. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5.
Story of Robert Campbell and his descendants.
56232 NEWS LIMITED THE AUSTRALIAN 40 YEARS (Special 13-Part Anniversary series)
$30.00 AUD
News Limited & Commonwealth Bank. Sydney. 2004. 13 parts. A total of 228 pages with colour illustrations. Each issue with pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 30 x 22.
THE AUSTRALIAN: The First Truly National Newspaper, and its 40th anniversary. Part 1: 40 people of Influence, 40 Big Ideas, 40 Years of Change. Part 2: The Sexual Revolution. Part 3: Knowledge. Part 4: Politics. Part 5: World Events. Part 6: The Culture. Part 7: Cartoons. Part 8: Sport. Part 9: Identity. Part 10: Business. Part 11: The Land. Part A2: Heroes and Villains. Part 13: News in Pictures.
76378 NEWTON, Gael PICTURE PARADISE: Asia - Pacific Photography 1840d - 1940s
$20.00 AUD
National Gallery of Australia. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ron Radford. 88 PP with 1 map "Asia-Pacific Region" (on double page), and 73 b/w & 7 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 27 x 22. 9780642541758
... from the collections (albums & photographs) of the National Gallery of Australia.
62093 NICHOLAS, F.W. & J.M. CHARLES DARWIN IN AUSTRALIA
$30.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. London. 1985. 1st Ed. XIV, 175 PP with 117 b/w or colour illustrations. Fp: Charles Darwin age 31. Eps: Route taken by Beagle. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Faint foxing. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Very good. 28 x 22. 0521343585
Extensive notes on the geology of the country through which he travelled and natural history studies on the Australian flora and fauna.
46648 NICHOLS, Freda SHIPPED TO BOTANY BAY
$15.00 AUD
Ginn and Company. London. 1969. 2nd impression of the 1967 original. Young adult edition in The Active Readers: Second Series. VI, 186 PP with 1 map and 51 b/w illustrations by John Sergeant. FEP: Route of transports to New South Wales showing prevailing winds. REP: Plan and elevation of a transport of 1802. Decorated hard cover. Very good. 18.3 x 13. 602200237
56312 NOBLE, Capt. John AUSTRALIAN LIGHTHOUSES
$25.00 AUD
Nelson Doubleday.(Australia). Sydney. 1967. 1st Ed., in the Around Australia Program series. 64 PP with 1 map on double page, 8 coloured drawings, 21 b/w photos and 22 colour plates pasted down. Pictorial soft covers (slightly rubbed). Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 21 x 14.
Informative booklet on the lighthouses around Australia.
64624 NOLAN, Carolyn BRISBANE'S NORTH EASTERN SUBURBS
$10.00 AUD
State Library of Queensland. Brisbane. 1995. 1st edition in Our Heritage in Focus series. 96 PP with 1 map and 90 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on top of title-page, o/wise very good. 24.8 x 17.5. 0724265848
52142 NOLAN, Carolyn & LONGHURST, Robert BRISBANE'S MORETON BAY
$10.00 AUD
State Library of Queensland. Brisbane. 1996. 1st edition in Our Heritage in Focus series. 96 PP with 1 map, 2 engravings and 85 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 0724271767
66835 NUM, Cora WEB SITES FOR GENEALOGISTS
$10.00 AUD
Author. Canberra. 1999. 3rd edition of the 1997 original. (6), 81 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front (lightly soiled). Near fine. 29 x 21. 0958523541
38359 NUNN, Harry W. (editor) SELECT DOCUMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Two volume set]
$30.00 AUD
National Australia Bank Limited. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. Volume 1: XI, 780 PP with 55 b/w illustrations. Volume 2: XI, 764 PP with 55 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 25.5 x 17.6. 090987347X
Volume 1: 1834-1872. Volume 2: 1872-1900. Eyewitness account of Australian history since the establishment of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney in 1834: pioneer outback, bushrangers, Eureka stockade, miners, leading Bankers... Publication covering select Parliamentary Committees, Royal Commissions and the origins of financial and currency legislation we live by today.
39110 O'BRIAN, Patrick JOSEPH BANKS - A Life
$15.00 AUD
Collins Harvill. London. 1988. Paperback reprint of the 1987 original. 328 PP with 1 family tree and 1 map "Bank's Voyages". Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 9780002723404
The biography of Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist, explorer and one of Australia's founding fathers.
40202 O'BYRNE, Dennis ALICE SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK AND TELEGRAPH STATION - Historical Photographs
$10.00 AUD
Conservation Commission, Northern Territory. Darwin, N.T. c. 1970. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 5 maps and 32 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine . 25 x 17.8.
71675 O'CONNELL, James F. A RESIDENCE OF ELEVEN YEARS IN NEW HOLLAND AND THE CAROLINE ISLANDS
$30.00 AUD
A.N.U. Canberra. 1972. 1st Ed., No. 4 in the Pacific History Series. Foreword by H. E. Maude, Introduction and annotations by Saul H. Riesenberg. XIV, 232, (2) PP with 10 b/w illust. Eps: Map of the island of Ponape. Cloth cover, dj. Few foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14. 0708105386
Account of the early days of Australia (1820-1826) then life in Ponape where he lived for 5 years (1826-1831).
41168 O'FARRELL, Patrick THROUGH IRISH EYES - Australian & New Zealand Images of the Irish 1788-1948
$15.00 AUD
Aurora Books / David Lovell. Melbourne. 1994. 1st Ed. (12), 132 PP with b/w illustrations (contemporary photographs by Richard O'Farrell). Pictorial soft cover. Small bump on top righthand corner, o/wise fine. 28 x 21. 1863550429
47840 O'KEEFE, Daniel (editor) THE YEAR THAT WAS - 1986
$10.00 AUD
Fairfax Library. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. No pagination, 80 PP with 16 cartoons, over 100 b/w and 6 colour photos. Title spread: USS Missouri firing his guns. Pictorial soft cover (peace protester grabbing the bow of USS destroyer Oldendorf). Fine. 31 x 24.6. 0949054429
Australia and the World... 75th anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy.
72565 O'SHAUGHNESSY, Peter, INSON, Graeme & WARD, Russel THE RESTLESS YEARS: Being some Impressions of the Origin of the Australian (with 12" stereo mono L.P.)
$35.00 AUD
Jacaranda Press. Brisbane. 1969. Reprint of the 1968 original. (6), 138 PP with 62 colour and 124 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Teamsters' Christmas Eve. Eps: illustrations (in colour). Cloth cover, title on front board and spine, LP record with plastic protection and original protective cover loosely inserted. Book and record contained in an illustrated slipcase. Edges of slipcase with small tears. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 32 x 38.5. 0701601973
62202 OCEANIC S. S. Coy: Mariposa and Monterey PASSENGER AND MAIL SHIPS FOR SERVICE BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND SYDNEY (in The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales Officer's Journal)
$5.00 AUD
M. S. B. Sydney. 1930. Vol. V, No. 9, February 1930. Edited by H. L. Gilmour. XX (advertisements), 36 PP. Contains article pages 5 to 8. Soft cover with light soiling. Contents near fine. 18.3 x 12.5
A Description of the Oceanic Steam Ship Coy's latest additions: Mariposa and Monterey, sister ships launched 1931.
66486 OLDHAM, Charles (editor) 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
$15.00 AUD
Fair Count Media Asia Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. Messages from: Quentin Bryce, Governor of Australia / Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia / Stephen Smith, Minister for Defence. ... 296 PP with advertising material and b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 folded plate (4 folds) "Chronology of the RAN", and 1 large folded plate (Recto: World map "Campaign and Battles Honours" / Verso: Map "Maritime Australia 2011", loosely inserted . Pictorial stiff cover. Near fine. 27.8 x 21.5.
70797 OLIVER, W. S. (Bill) SUGAR IN THE BLOOD
$15.00 AUD
Bill Oliver. Grafton, NSW. 1997. 1st Ed. VI, 138 PP with 38 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25 x 17.7. 0646325434
A lifetime (1944 to 1980) with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. (CSR).
70242 OLVER, Stuart THE SCENIC RIM
$35.00 AUD
Dawn to Dusk Publishing. Moorooka, Qld. 2005. 1st Ed. (XII), 102, (10) PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. As new. Oblong: 21 x 26. 0975762702
Scenic Rim: Chain of mountains south and west of Brisbane. Fauna, flora, ... fragile heritage.
44730 PAGE, Michael & INGPEN, Robert THE MAKING OF AUSTRALIANS
$10.00 AUD
J. M. Dent. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed. 304 PP with b/w and colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Hard cover, dj. Shelf wear and some insect damage on the edges of covers, o/wise very clean and bright copy. 29.4 x 22. 0867700513
Multi-dimensional portrait of Australians over 2 centuries.
59395 PARKER, Derek ARTHUR PHILLIP: Australia's First Governor
$35.00 AUD
Woodslane Press. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. XVI, 296 PP, plus 8 plates with 5 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 9781921203992
71537 PARKIN, Ray H. M. BARK "ENDEAVOUR" - Her place in Australian History. With an Account of her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770.
$100.00 AUD
The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1999. Reprint of the 3rd edition (with revisions) of 1999. Original of 1997. No. 13 in the Second numbered series of the Miegunyah Press. XII, 468 PP with 2 reproductions of original drawings by Parkinson, as well as plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Together with 15 folded detailed ship drawings and plans (80 x 58) by author contained in a cloth folding case. The set contained in a decorated slipcase. Fine. 31.5 x 21.2. 0522847161
Not only on the Bark "Endeavour", but the description of Australia by the participants to this voyage of discovery (Cook, Banks, Parkinson, Pickersgill...), while following the East Coast from Cape Howe to Cape York.
74470 PARKIN, Ray H. M. BARK "ENDEAVOUR" - Her place in Australian History. With an Account of her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770.
$200.00 AUD
The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1997. 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies. No. 13 in the Second numbered series of the Miegunyah Press. XII, 468 PP with 2 reproductions of original drawings by Parkinson, as well as plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, ribbon page-marker. Folded flyer and Newspaper review loosely inserted. Together with 15 folded detailed ship drawings and plans (80 x 58) by author contained in a cloth folding case. The set contained in a decorated slipcase. Foxing spots on outside edges of the book, otherwise a fine copy. More images available on request. 31.5 x 21.2. 0522847161
Not only on the Bark "Endeavour", but the description of Australia by the participants to this voyage of discovery (Cook, Banks, Parkinson, Pickersgill...), while following the East Coast from Cape Howe to Cape York.
67960 PAULL, Raymond OLD WALHALLA - Portrait of a Gold Town
$5.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1964. 1st Australian Paperbound reprint of the 1963 original. XI, 147 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Light crease on front cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.8
64994 PEARN, John & O'CARRIGAN, Catherine (editors) AUSTRALIA'S QUEST FOR COLONIAL HEALTH. Some Influences on Early Health and Medicine in Australia
$25.00 AUD
Department of Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital. Brisbane. 1983. 1st Ed. (2), XII, 304 PP with 4 head pieces, 1 map, 1 plan and 18 b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, photos, portraits). Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly soiled. Signed by both authors / editors on title page. Near fine. 21.2 x 15. 0877760796
Chapter 1: the medical men of the First Fleet, by Noel Dan. Chapter 2: Medical aspects of the Second Fleet, by Mervyn Cobcroft... Chapter 5: French Doctors at Sydney Cove. Gallic contact in the second decade after Phillip....
71528 PEMBROKE, Michael ARTHUR PHILLIP: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
$20.00 AUD
Hardie Grant Books. Melbourne. 2013. 1st Ed. (12), 354 PP. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781742705088
55694 PENFOLD, A. R. & MORRISON, F. R. TUNG OIL (Chinese Wood Oil), from Australian Grown Trees of Aleurites Fordii
$25.00 AUD
Sydney Technological Museum. Sydney. 1940. Bulletin No. 12. 4th edition of the 1926 original with a note on A. Montana. 34 PP with 6 b/w photos, plus 1 large folded photo Mr. A. H. Woolcott's Tung plantation at Bargo, NSW, tipped in at centrefold. Soft cover. Staples removed. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24.4 x 15.
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Regina A. Sutton. IV, 12 PP with 1 b/w and 10 colour illustrations (1 map at centrefold, 2 paintings & 7 watercolours). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 14. 0731371852
Exhibition at the State Library: held 5th May to 10th August 2008.
66740 PERKINS, Mandaley TROPIC TIDE: An Adventurer's Life
$25.00 AUD
Bantam Books. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. XVI, 396, (4 publications) PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23 x 15.3. 9780733802041
Biography of a shipowner based in Darwin, who arrived from Malaya prior to independence. His shipping line "VB Perkins" (Victor Bruce), opened new routes in far north Australia and in Asia.
47216 PERON, François & DE FREYCINET, Louis VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE SOUTHERN LANDS - Volume II
$150.00 AUD
The Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 2003. 1st edition limited to 400 copies, translated from the second French edition of 1824 by Christine Cornell. Foreword by John Ling and Introduction by Anthony J. Brown. XXXVIII, 278 PP, plus 12 plates (1 folded map, 1 chart, 1 b/w and 9 colour plates), and 1 folded chart in pocket at rear of book. Fp: Portrait of François Péron. Cloth cover, blind-stamped boards, gilt title on spine. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 1876154381
Book IV, comprising chapters XXII to XXXIV.
58958 PERRON D'ARC, H. AVENTURES D'UN VOYAGEUR EN AUSTRALIE - Neuf Mois de Séjour chez les Nagarnooks
$55.00 AUD
Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. Paris. 1869. New edition of the 1869 original. (4), 351 PP, published without the 24 vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. 5 library stamps. Some offsetting and foxing. French text. Very good. 18.3 x 12
Ferguson: No. 14035.
75979 PERRY, Roland SAILING TO THE MOON: The Biography of Rolly Tasker, Australia's greatest all-round yachtsman
$35.00 AUD
Pennon Publishing. Port Melbourne. 2008. 1st paperback edition. 340 PP with c. 65 b/w photos, plus 40 pages with 10 b/w illustrations and 38 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Note to previous owner signed by the author on half title page. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5 9781920997069
50887 PETERS, Nonja (editor) THE DUTCH DOWN UNDER: 1606-2006
$60.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2006. 1st Ed. XIX, 2-422 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.8 x 22. 1920694757
75636 PHILLIP, Captain Arthur THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of PORT JACKSON & NORFOLK ISLAND; compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments
$125.00 AUD
Georgian House / Australiana Society. Melbourne. 1950. Facsimile reprint of the 1789 edition. Volume I in The Australiana Facsimiles edition limited to 1000 hand numbered copy (No. 524/1000). (2 colophon), (4), VIII, (8 subscribers), X, 298, LXXIV, (2 publications) PP, with vignette on title page, plus 54 b/w plates (including frontispiece and 8 folded charts). Fp: Head of Governor Phillip. Hard cover, gilt decoration and title on spine, top edge gilt. Explanatory note "Aboriginal design on spine", by Norman B. Tindale, Ethnologist, tipped in on front endpaper. Foxing spots on front and bottom outside edges. A near fine copy. Scarce. 29 x 22.
...To which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries.
69255 PHILLIPS, Bronwyn & HOCK, Peter 100 YEARS TOGETHER - The Commonwealth Bank of Australia
$25.00 AUD
Focus / CommStrat. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. Foreword by David J. Turner, Chairman. (6), 234 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, title in blind on front board, dj. Fine. 30 x 24.5. 9781921156632
51974 PHILLIPS, Valmai, DRURY, Susan, LATTA, David & SMITH, Ruth Gurnani NEW WAYS IN AN ANCIENT LAND. Australia from penal colony to prosperous nation, 1778-1900
$10.00 AUD
Bay Books. Sydney. 1990? 1st Ed. 279 PP with bw & colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Presentation plate on front endpaper. Fine. 26.5 x 18.5. 0858359138
A series of articles written by researchers & authors specialising in Australian history.
48850 PHILP, Jude PAST TIME: TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER MATERIAL FROM THE HADDON COLLECTION, 1888-1905
$25.00 AUD
National Museum of Australia. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. X, 54 PP with 6 maps, 23 b/w and 28 colour photos. Title page: Titui-titui (sea-star ornament). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 20 x 27. 187694403X
70658 PINKUS, Margaret (compiler) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GEEVESTON TOWN HALL
$20.00 AUD
Geeveston Archives & History Society. Geeveston, Tasmania. 2019. 1st edition, by Charles Rich & GAHS. 40 PP with b/w illustrations (11 portraits, 5 adverts, 25 photos). Soft covers, illustrated front, staples. Fine. 21.2 x 14.7.
Story of the Geeveston Town Hall and the Community spirit: Tahune Air Walk, Forest & Heritage Centre, Wooden Statues ...
34902 PIRANI, Leila THE OLD MAN RIVER OF AUSTRALIA - A Saga of the River Murray
$15.00 AUD
John Sands. Sydney. c. 1950 2nd edition. Foreword by L. R. East. 40 PP with illustrations by Walter Cunningham (1 sketch map showing the course of Old Man River Murray, 1 endpiece, 9 tailpieces and 24 in the margin of pages). Illustrated boards. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Neat stamp of previous owner on title page. A very good clean copy. 24.5 x 18.5.
20780 PITTARD, Brenda, HOWARD, Ann, LEAVER, Jane & RUSSELL, Roslyn AUSTRALIA COMES OF AGE. Rebellion, independence, war and the worker
$15.00 AUD
Bay Books. Sydney. 1990? 1st Ed. 280 PP, with bw and colour illustr. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26 x 18. 0858359146
68915 PIZZEY, Graham CHURCHILL ISLAND
$10.00 AUD
Victoria Conservation Trust. Melbourne. 1976. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 12 drawings (4 duotone and 8 colour) by Robert Ingpen. A 2 pages information "Churchill Island", by Shire of Phillip Island and Department of Conservation, Forests & Lands (revised August 1988) loosely inserted. Pictorial soft covers with a light crease. Very good. 27.2 x 23.
36803 POINTET, Richard AUSTRALIE - L'envers du décor
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed. 365 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738485596
Adventures and tribulations of a French speaking Swiss who migrated to Australia in the 1970s.
11554 PONS, Xavier A SHELTERED LAND
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. XVI, 350 PP with 12 tables in text and 1 table in the endnotes section. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 1863736395
Australia: Creation of a no risk society built behind a wall of protection, either militarily (UK, then USA) or with tariffs and trade barriers. Attempts at a welfare state, which have not wiped out poverty and inequalities... Sweeping reassessment of Australia's past - a new vision of Australia's future.
22607 PONS, Xavier LE MULTICULTURALISME EN AUSTRALIE, Au-delà de Babel
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. (6), IX, 414 PP with 20 tables. Soft cover. French text. Faint foxing. Fine. 21.4 x 13.5. 2738443338
Tolerant is the word for the Australian approach to the Integration of various communities of migrants. From the White Australia Policy to the dawn of multiculturalism in 1972 and how it works.
46706 PONS, Xavier L'AUSTRALIE, entre Occident et Orient
$40.00 AUD
La Documentation Française. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 133, (3) PP with 1 map, 1 organigram (Australian Government) and 3 tables. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2110045426
Australia Post. Melbourne. 2002. Poster in colour. Fine. Format: 84 x 59.5.
Flinders - Baudin, Encounter Bay 1802.
59599 POWELL, J. M. & WILLIAMS, M. (editors) AUSTRALIAN SPACE, AUSTRALIAN TIME: geographical perspectives
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1975. 1st paperback edition. XII, 256 PP with 15 tables and 51 figures. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 24 x 15.5. 0195504631
Geographical perspectives in Australia, 1788-1914.
52409 PRETYMAN, E. R. SOME NOTES ON MARIA ISLAND AND ITS PENAL SETTLEMENTS
$15.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1970. 1st Ed. Foreword by W. Bryden. 29, (3) PP with 9 b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 plan, 3 engravings and 4 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner at top of front cover, o/wise fine. 24.7 x 18.5.
69165 PRIDMORE, Walter B. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND TO TASMANIA ... 1642-1856
$20.00 AUD
Walter B. Pridmore. Murdunna, Tas. 2008. 1st Ed. (4), 67 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (including 7 watercolours by Rose Solomon). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9780980533200
Explorers, Administrators ...
72275 PRIDMORE, Walter B. PORT ARTHUR ... as it was
$25.00 AUD
Walter B. Pridmore. Murdunna, Tas. 2002. 1st edition, November 2002. VI, 81 PP with 1 drawing and 43 watercolours by Rose Solomon. Inside covers: plan of Port Arthur & Location map. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 064642078X
12922 PRIEUR, Francois Xavier NOTES OF A CONVICT OF 1838 (Translated by George Mackaness)
$10.00 AUD
Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of 1949 origlnal. Volume VI in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 140 PP, (4 advert.) with 1 photo & 6 b/w illustrations. Card cover, spine a little sunned, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.6.
A French Canadian patriot, exiled to Australia in the 1840's.
76333 PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR & PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES THE CRUISE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP "BACCHANTE". 1879-1882 (in two volumes)
$375.00 AUD
Macmillan and Co. London. 1886. 1st edition with Preface and Additions by John Neale Dalton. Volume I: XXVIII, 676 PP with tables, 27 charts and maps and 25 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded chart and 9 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): folded map of the Cruise of H.M.S Bacchante, 1879-82. Volume II: XII, 803 PP with 34 charts, maps, and plans, and 26 b/w illustrations, plus 6 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front covers and spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Henry L. White of the "Australian Ornithology Philately and Bibliography". Lower edge of covers rubbed at fore corners and foot of spine. Occasional foxing . Small bump of cover at top corner of Volume I. Gutter of endpapers starting, otherwise a very nice set. Scarce. 23 x 16.
Volume I: The West and the South - The Mediterranean, Teneriffe, West Indies, Bermudas, Vigo, Ferrol, St. Vincent, the Plate, Falkland islands, Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Fiji. Volume II: The East - Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Egypt, Palestine, the Mediterranean. Ferguson: 5795 - Ingleton: 12181.
70829 PRINGLE-JONES, Jennifer & JOYCE, Ray TASMANIA'S HERITAGE An Enduring Legacy
$25.00 AUD
St David's Park Publishing. Hobart. 1991. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Phillip Bennett, Governor of Tasmania. 144 PP with b/w illustrations and 288 colour photos by Ray Joyce. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly sunned on spine and top corner of front part. Near fine. 32 x 23. 072462161X
74389 PRUNSTER, Ursula THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE 1932-1982 - A Golden Anniversary Celebration
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson & Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney. 1982.. 1st Ed. Foreword by Edmund Capon. 134 PP with 89 b/w and 25 colour illustrations (drawings, paintings, photos, posters...). Eps: Coat Hanger. Hard covers, decorated boards (Coat Hanger), dj. Dust jacket has a few chips/closed tears, o/wise a fine copy. 29.2 x 21. 0207146187
58623 PUBLIC HERITAGE CAROUSELS TO COURT HOUSES: Public Heritage Program
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. c. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Hon. John Thwaites and Introduction by Catherin Heggen. 32 PP with 1 graph, tables and 42 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
40941 PULLAN, Robert (editor) READER'S DIGEST GUIDE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COAST
$20.00 AUD
Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. 479 PP profusely illustrated in colour (including aerial photos & maps). Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. 27.7 x 23.7. 0909486972
Comprehensive work with superb photography.
74699 PULLAN, Robert (editor) READER'S DIGEST GUIDE TO THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES
$20.00 AUD
Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated in colour (including aerial photos & maps). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 27 x 23.2. 9780864380098
Comprehensive work with superb photography.
74700 PULLAN, Robert (editor) READER'S DIGEST GUIDE TO THE COAST OF VICTORIA, TASMANIA & SOUTH AUSTRALIA
$25.00 AUD
Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 208 PP profusely illustrated in colour (including aerial photos & maps). Pictorial stiff covers. Signs of dampness (no apparent damage) on front cover and first 10 leaves. Very good. 27 x 23.2. 9780864380104
Comprehensive work with superb photography.
48046 PYBUS, Cassandra & MAXWELL-STEWART, Hamish AMERICAN CITIZENS, BRITISH SLAVES: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850
$30.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2002. 1st Ed. XVI, 270 PP with 6 figures (3 maps and 3 drawings / plans), plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.4 x 15.5. 0522850278
Almost 100 American Patriots were deported to Van Diemens Land, for helping French Canadian (Upper Canada) fight British oppression.
75939 PYM, Richard RICHARD PYM'S VOYAGE TO DESTINY
$15.00 AUD
Pathfinder Holdings Pty. Ltd. Lane Cove, NSW. c. 1994. 1st Ed. Book I. 275 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, drawings & prints, portraits...). Pictorial stiff covers with light wear. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9780646192130
Historical novel.
69896 QUARRELL, Avis THE TWELVE APOSTLES - VICTORIA
$10.00 AUD
Covell Publications. Warrnambool. 1988. 12 PP with 1 map inside back cover, and 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 15 x 15. 0949068078
74682 QUARRELL, Avis PORT FAIRY - Past and Present
$20.00 AUD
Covell Publications. Warrnambool. 1983. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map inside back cover, and 33 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 15 x 15. 0959366717
64939 Queensland Environmental Protection Agency HERITAGE TRAILS OF THE GREAT SOUTH EAST
$20.00 AUD
Brisbane. 2000. State of Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. 1st Edition. 168 PP with 9 maps in colour and over 500 b/w or colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 22.5 x 23.8. 073451008X
67934 QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE - Vol. LI, No. 100, November 1890
$20.00 AUD
James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1890. Vol. LI, No. 100, Saturday, 29th November 1890. Pages 1085 to 1118. Issue (complete) pulled from a bound copy. Paper fragile and has1 a few chips. Very good. Folio: 32.2 x 20.8.
75089 RAAF THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE OF AIR POWER / ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
$50.00 AUD
Air Power Development Centre. Canberra. 2013. 2nd Edition of the 2007 original. Australian Air Publication AAP 1000-H. Foreword by Air Marshall Geoff Brown. X, 220 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Signed by Air Marshall Chief of Air Force on title page. Fine (as new condition). 21 x 14.5. 9781920800925
75090 RAAF THE AIR POWER MANUAL / ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
$50.00 AUD
Air Power Development Centre. Canberra. 2013. 6th edition of the 1990 original. Australian Air Publication AAP 1000-D Foreword by Air Marshall Geoff Brown. VIII, 245 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Signed by Air Marshall Chief of Air Force on title page. Fine (as new condition). 21 x 14.5. 9781920800901
72279 RACKHAM, Sarah HYDRO CONSTRUCTION VILLAGES - Volume 2: Butlers Gorge / Bronte Park / Trevallyn / Wayatinah
$40.00 AUD
Public Relations Department, The Hydro-Electric Commission. Hobart. 1982. Edited by Joan Woodberry. 76 PP with 1 sketch map in colour and 40 b/w illustrations: 5 maps and 35 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 23.4 x 17.5. 0724610367
38386 RAHS THE FIRST HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA (In RAHS - Volume 79, Parts 1 & 2, 1993)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1993. Contains article by Colin FORSTER from P.115 to 134. Soft cover. Fine. 22 x 13.8.
On the first history of European settlement in Australia, published in 1831 in Paris under the title: Histoire des colonies pénales de l'Angleterre dans l'Australie. Image lists all articles.
38517 RAHS CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP MEMORIAL, Unveiled at West Circular Quay, Sydney (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS - Volume XL, Part 1, 1954)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1954. Contains article between P. 48 and 53 with 2 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers with a few marks. 21.2 x 13.8
Other article: The Grand Days of Sail by Finlay Murchison, .. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
42514 RAHS LA PEROUSE AND THE FRENCH MONUMENTS AT BOTANY BAY (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS, Volume IV, Part VII, 1918)
$25.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1918. Contains article by Henry SELKIRK between P.329 and 361, plus 6 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of La Pérouse, by Pigeot. Soft covers, part of spine missing and reinforced. Ageing and light foxing of paper, first 2 leaves with a small hole (not affecting text), o/wise very good. 20.7 x 13.8.
Read before the Society, 28th May 1918. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
50460 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. XX, Part III, 1934
$25.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1934. P.129-208 with b/w illustrations. Soft covers. Dedicatory note to Geoff C. Ingleton by the author at top of title page. Manuscript notes by G. C. Ingleton loosely inserted. Staples removed, o/wise very good. 20.7 x 13.5.
Contains an article between P.129 and 163 and signed by Francis J. Bayldon on the History of the Pilotage Service of Port Jackson. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
54039 RAHS JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Vol. 51, 1965, Parts 1 to 4
$30.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1965. Edited by K.J. CABLE & Hazel KING. 360 PP with diagrams, figures and tables, plus 10 b/w plates with 12 illustrations. Soft cover, staples. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.
Part 2: Russian Ships in Australian Waters, by Verity Fitzhardinge... Part 3: The Court-Martial of Captain Edward Edwards, by George Mackaness... Part 4: Sydney in 1863, by Pavel Mukhanov of the Corvette Bogatyr (translated by Verity Fitzhardinge)... Image shows list of contents for each part.
54169 RAHS MUCH WRITING, MANY OPINIONS. The making of the Royal Australian Historical Society 1901 to 2001
$20.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 2001. Edited by Alfred JAMES. (4), 187 PP with 37 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 17.5.
The RAHS and the writing of Australian history, by Brian H. Fletcher... Biographical notes on the Fellows of the RAHS (with 14 portraits), by Anne-Maree Whitaker...
54202 RAHS JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Vol. 53, Part 2, June 1967
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1967. Edited by K. J. Cable, Hazel King & D. S. MacMillan. 101-170 PP plus 6 b/w plates. Soft covers. Fine. 22.5 x 14.7.
Part 2: Henry Lawson: the middle years, 1893-1896, by Colin Roderick. David Buchanan: chartist, radical, republican, by R. B. Walker... Image shows front cover listing all articles.
54203 RAHS JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Vol. 53, Part 3, September 1967
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1967. Edited by K. J. Cable, Hazel King & D. S. Macmillan. 173-276 PP , plus 3 b/w plates. Soft covers. Fine. 22.5 x 14.7.
Part 3: Barron Field: his association with New South Wales, by K. G. Allars. Archibald Clunes Innes, by Frank O'Grady... Image of front cover lists all articles.
54204 RAHS JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Vol. 54, Part 1, March 1968
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1968. Edited by K. J. Cable, Hazel King & D. S. MacMillan. 112 PP , plus 6 b/w plates. Soft covers. Fine. 22.5 x 14.7.
Part 1: The British Naval Officer and the Australian Colonies, by Philip M. Cowburn. Solomon Levey, from convict to Merchant Prince (part II), by George F. J. Bergman... Front cover image lists all articles.
54205 RAHS JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Vol. 54, Part 4, December 1968
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1968. Edited by Brian Fletcher & Hazel King. 329-424 PP , plus 2 b/w plates. Soft covers a little soiled/browned, otherwise fine. 22.5 x 14.7.
Part 4: The fate of Colonial Conservatism on the eve of the Gold-Rush, by Barrie Dyster... Front cover image lists all articles.
58484 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. V, Part II, 1919
$20.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1919. Edited by W. H. Tietkens & J. P. McGuane. 45-104 PP, plus 3 b/w plates. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 20.8 x 13.
2 papers read before the Society: Experiences in the Life of an Australian Explorer... mainly in Central Australia,1859 to 1887, by W. H. Tietkens, read 24 September 1918. A Hundred Years Ago, by J. P. McGuanne, read 25 July 1916. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
58486 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings:- Vol. VII, Part II, 1921
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1921. P. 57-104 with 9 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
3 papers read before the Society: Odd bits of Old Sydney, by Mrs. A. G. Foster, read 30 November 1920. The Discovery of Mudgee, by Rev. W. G. Machonochie. Notes on Australian Artists, Part III, by William Dixson. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
58487 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: - Vol. VIII, Part IV, 1922
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1922. P.177-224 plus 1 folded map. Stapled soft covers. Front cover and spine are repaired. Stamp and signature on front. Contents are near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
3 papers read before the Society: Convicts, by Professor G. A. Wood, read 30 August 1921. Australia in Czechoslovak Literature, by Dr. J. V. Danes, read 30 May 1922. Early Settlement of the upper Macleay, by John Weingarth. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
58488 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. IX, Part II, 1923
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1923. P.49-112 with 9 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers with signature at top of front cover. Contents are near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
2 papers read before the Society: The Origins of Canberra, by H. Selkirk, read 29 August 1922. The Reverend Samuel Marsden: his Life and Work, by J. A. Ferguson, read 26 September 1922. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
58489 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. IX, Part IV, 1923
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1923. P. 177-224 with 1 plan, 1 map on double page and 2 portraits, plus 12 b/w plates. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21.2 x 14.2.
Journey from Sydney to Bathurst in 1822 by Mrs Elizabeth Hawkins, by H. Selkirk. Some Early Pictures of Sydney, by Wm. Dixson. The Genesis of Blackheath, Blue Mountains 1813 to 1880, by J. F. Campbell. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
58490 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. IX, Part V, 1923
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1923. P. 225-276. Stapled soft covers a littled browned around edges, otherwise a fine copy. 21.2 x 14.2.
2 papers read before the Society. The Discovery and First Settlement of Newcastle, and genesis of the Coal Industry, by D. J. Ryan, read 27 March 1923. The Early struggles of the Wheat Farmers of New South Wales, by H. W. Potts, read 31 July 1923.
58509 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XI, Part II, 1925
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1925. P. 57-134 with 4 maps, plus 1 folded map at rear of journal. Soft covers, staples removed and spine reinforced. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21.2 x 13.6.
The Establishment of New South Wales in 1788, by Leila Thomas, read before the Society 25 November 1924. The dawn of rural settlement in Australia, by J. F. Campbell... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58510 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XI, Part V, 1925
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1925. P.251-316 with 4 b/w illustrations including 2 maps. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed. Very good. 21.2 x 13.6.
D'Albertis' Exploration of the upper Fly River, by Leo Austen. The Gold-Diggers, by C. B. Newling, read before the Society 30 June 1925. Shepherds and Shepherding in Australia, by R. H. Gennys. Some Early Homes and Epitaphs, by Mrs. A. G. Foster, read before the Society, 30 September 1924. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58511 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: - Journal and Proceedings Vol XII, Part I, 1926
$20.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1926. 72 PP with 1 map, plus 2 folded maps. Soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed. Very good. 21.2 x 13.6.
Explorations under Governor Phillip, by Professor G. A. Wood, read before the Society, 25 August 1925; and Notes by J. F. Campbell. Some Early Legal Celebrities (Third Series), by Audrey Halloran, read before the Society, 24 November 1925. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58515 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XIV, Part I, 1928
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1928. 56 PP, plus 1 folded map at rear of journal. Soft covers soiled and with chips. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
History of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, by the late J. H. Maiden, edited and presented by R. H. Cambage, read before the Society, 25 October 1927. The wild Cattle of the Cowpastures and the village of Cawdor, by J. F. Campbell. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58516 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings:- - Vol XIII, Part IV, 1927
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1927. P.209-256 with 1 portrait. Soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed. Very good. 21.3 x 14.
Sidelights of the War on Australian Character, by C. E. W. Bean, read before the Society, 31 May 1927. Edward Charles Close, Pioneer of Morpeth, and Father of the Hunter, by J. H. Collinson Close, read before the Society, 29 March 1927. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58518 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: - Vol XIV, Part V, 1928
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1928. P. 245-300 with 1 chart and 4 b/w photos. Soft covers with signature on top left of front cover. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
Balmain: the Man and the suburb, by S. Elliott Napier, read before the Society, 31 July 1928. Forby Sutherland's grave at Kurnell, by W. A. Mcdonald. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58519 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: - Vol XIV, Part VI, 1928
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1928. P.301-368 with 3 b/w photos. Soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed, spine reinforced. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
Australia - A greater Britain in a Southern World, by K. R. Cramp, read before the Society, 26 June 1928. Australian Nationalism, by Miss Persia C. Campbell, read before the Society, 11 September 1928. Governor Hunter, by late Professor G. A. Wood, read before the Society 28 August 1928. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58751 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part VI, 1931
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P.337-396. Staped soft covers (chipped). Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
The Australian Wool-Trade in the 'Forties, by Professor S. H. Roberts. ... Ben Boyd, by Captain J. H. Watson. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58752 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XIX, Part I, 1933
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney 1933. 72 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Some Historical Memorials and Buildings, by K. R. Cramp. ... Who founded Melbourne, by Charles R. Long. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58753 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXVI, Part III, 1950
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1950. Volume XXXVI, Part III, 1950. By C. Price Conigrave. 129-176 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Public education in N.S.W. before 1848 (Part III), by Vernon W.E. Goodin. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
58810 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS- Vol XXIII, Part III, 1937
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1937. P. 153- 228 with 3 sketch plans and 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Some fictitious voyages to Australia, by George Mackaness. Notes on Sydney Ferries / Reminiscences of Parramatta and Lane Cove Steamers, by M. E. Deane. ... On Sir Henry Parkes, by K.R. Cramp and Joseph Jackson. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58814 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: - Vol XXV, Part I, 1939
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1939. 88 PP. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
The First Grain, by I. K. Sampson. Historic Wattamola, by B. T. Dowd and W. L. Havard... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
58864 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXVI, Part VI, 1950
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1950. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 297-392 PP with 1 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Rural Port Phillip (Part II), by A. J. Hopton. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61011 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXVI, Part V, 1940
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1940. P. 361-440 with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
James Busby, Prophet of Australian Viticulture, by Eric Ramsden. Thomas Alison Scott and the genesis of the Sugar Industry, by James Jervis. The Administration of Governor Hunter, by Peter C. Gibbon. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61012 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings:- Vol XXVI, Part VI, 1940
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1940. P.441-524 with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers, front cover soiled. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Contents: See image, but primarily: Captain Thomas Raine of the "Surry", by Eric Ramsden. Captain John Piper, by Flora Eldershaw... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61018 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXVII, Part IV, 1941
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1941. P.245-308 with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
In search of Dawes' Mount Twiss, by Frank A. Craft & R. Else Mitchell. Settlement in the Picton and Oaks District, by James Jervis ... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61022 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXIX, Part V, 1943
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1943. P. 261-336 with 7 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Proposals for establishing Colonies in the South Seas, by George Mackaness. Lady Franklin's visit to New South Wales, 1839, by Olive Havard. ... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61027 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXIX, Part VI, 1943
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1943. P. 337-440 with b/w illustrations (1 cartoon and 24 portraits). Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
The Legislative Council of New South Wales, 1843-1943 - Constitutional changes: attempted and achieved, by C.H. Currey. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61029 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXIX, Part II, 1943
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1943. P.69-132 with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Captain Henry Steel and the N.S.W Corps (part II), by Watson A. Steel. Mrs Felton Mathew's Journal, by Olive Havard. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61030 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXIX, Part I, 1943
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1943. P.1- 68 with 1 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
The study of World History from the Australian angle, by A. H. Mcdonald. Captain Henry Steel and the N.S.W Corps (part I), by Watson A. Steel. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61031 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXX, Part III, 1944
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1944. P.157- 220 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Simeon Lord, A Merchant Prince of Botany Bay, by E. C. Rowland. Captain Charles Sturt's expedition into the interior, by K. R. Cramp.
61032 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXX, Part VI, 1944
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1944. P.345 - 460 with 7 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Read before the Society, 0ctober 31, 1944. Rev. W. B. Clarke, "The Father of Australian Geology" by James Jervis. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
61034 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXI, Part I, 1945
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1945. Volume XXXI, Part I, 1945. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 1-64 PP with 7 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Sydney College and Sydney Grammar School - Beginnings of Education in New South Wales, by Keith Lumsdaine. Matthew Flinders: Memorial at Mauritius by R. Lincoln. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61036 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXI, Part IV, 1945
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1945. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 203-284 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
William Bede Dalley, 1831-1888: Scholar, Orator, Patriot and Statesman, by B. T. Dowd. Numantia, by Alfred E. Stephen. Matthew Flinders Memorial at Mauritius. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61038 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXII, Part I, 1946
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1946. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 1-88 PP with 26 tables. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The Beginnings of Savings Banking in Australia, by S. J. Butlin.
61039 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXII, Part II, 1946
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1946. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 89-144 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The Life and Writings of Charles Harpur, Cecil W. Salier. Settlment in the Marulan-Bungonia District, by James Jervis. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61040 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXII, Part IV, 1946
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1946. Volume XXXII, Part IV, 1946. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 218-272 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The Journals of William Edward Riley, by James Jervis. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61041 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXII, Part V, 1946
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1942. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 273-340 PP with 10 tables and 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Governor Macquarie and the "Rum" Hospital, by M. H. Ellis. The pattern of population change in Australia, by A. T. Gover.
61042 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXII, Part VI, 1946
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1946. Volume XXXII, Part VI, 1946. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 273-320 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The Political Economy of David Syme, by J. A. La Nauze. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61050 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXIII, Part II, 1947
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1947. Volume XXXIII, Part II, 1947. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 56-116 PP with 6 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Daniel Henry Deniehy, gifted Australian Orator, Scholar and Literary critic, by B. T. Dowd. The story of Megalong Valley, by A. J. Quilty. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61052 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXIII, Part V, 1947
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1947. Volume XXXIII, Part V, 1947. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 265-316 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Who First Discovered payable Gold in Australia, by K. R. Cramp. Early Schools in New South Wales, by E. C. Rowland. Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, by T. S. Champion. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61057 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXIV, Part V, 1948
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1948. Volume XXXIV, Part V, 1948. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 261-324 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Notes on the lives of Augustus Morris and Eugene Dominique Nicolle. Notes on the History of Cremorne Point, by James Jervis. The Diary of Thomas Callaghan, District Judge in New South Wales (Part I), by Alfred E. Stephen. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61058 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXIV, Part VI, 1948
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1948. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 327-392 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Brisbane Water District: A Century of History, by James Jervis. The Diary of Thomas Callaghan, District Judge in New South Wales (Part II), by Alfred E. Stephen. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
61061 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXV, Part III, 1949
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1949. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 145-208 PP. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
A Wine Merchant in Gaiters: Thomas Hobbes Scott, Archdeacon of N.S.W. (part I), 1824-1829, By Ransome T. Wyatt. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61062 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXV, Part V, 1949
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1949. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 257-304 PP. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
A Wine Merchant in Gaiters: Thomas Hobbes Scott, Archdeacon of N.S.W. (part III), 1824-1829, By Ransome T. Wyatt. The Gippsland Lakes, Victoria and the Lakes Entrance, by K. G. Allars. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61064 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXVII, Part III, 1951
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1951. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 145-216 PP with 1 b/w illustration. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
W. M. Hughes in New South Wales Politics 1890-1900, by L. F. Fitzhardinge. The Golden 'Fifties' - The Influence of the Gold Discoveries in Australia in the 1850's (part III) by Eric W. Dunlop. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61065 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXVII, Part IV, 1951
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1951. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 217-256 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
The story of the South Arm: Watson's Bay, Vaucluse and Rose Bay, by E. C. Rowland. Bass's Land Explorations, by R. Else Mitchell. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61066 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXVII, Part VI, 1951
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1951. Volume XXXVII, Part VI, 1951. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 313-356 PP with 9 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine.. 21 x 14.
British Military Regiments in Australia, by M. H. Ellis. The Battle of Pinjarra: an early incident in Western Australia, by Frank H. Goldsmith. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61067 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings, Vol XXXVIII, Part II, 1952
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1952. Volume XXXVIII, Part II, 1952. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 57-104 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Ellis Bent - Australia's First Lawyer, by David J. Benjamin. Manus Island Trials: Japanese War Criminals Arraigned, by George Dickinson. The Western Riverina (part II), by James Jervis. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61071 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXIX, Part II, 1953
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1953. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 49-96 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers with light wear. Sight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
The Life and Times of Henry Dangar, by E. C. Rowland. Sir George Reid's place in the Federal Movement, by K. R. Cramp. Australian Naval Board's Flag, by G. A. King. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61076 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 41, Part 2, 1955
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1955. Volume 41, Part 2, 1955. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 49-96 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. . 21 x 14.
An Australian Historian (Professor Sir Keith Hancock), by John M. Ward. ... Barrallier's Exploration of Christy's Creek, by Ernest Moxley. ... Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61078 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 41, Part 3, 1955
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1955. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 97-144 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
The First crossing of the Blue Mountains by Governor Macquarie... on May 1815, by C. H. Currey. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61080 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 41, Part 5, 1955.
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1955. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 196-244 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine.. 21 x 14.
Australia and the formation of the United Nations, by Paul Hasluck. The History of David Jones Limited, by Sir Charles Lloyd Jones. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61082 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 42, Part 3, 1956
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1956. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 97-152 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little creased, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The Centenary of Responsible Government in New South Wales, by C H. Currey. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61083 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 42, Part 4, 1956
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1956. Volume 42, Part 4, 1956. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 153-204 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
John William Lewin - A Memoir, by Phyllis Mander Jones. Democracy in New South Wales, by P. Loveday. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61084 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 42, Part 5, 1956
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1956. Volume 42, Part 5, 1956. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 205-256 PP with 6 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Police Administration in New South Wales, 1825-1851, by Hazel King. History of Parliament House, Sydney, by Brigadier R. J. Stevenson. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61085 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 42, Part 6, 1956
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1956 Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 257-320 PP, plus large folded map. Stapled soft covers with a crease on front, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Responsible Government, by W. J. V. Windeyer. Oxley's Expedition down the Lachlan, by A. K. Weatherburn. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
61086 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Volume 43, Part 1, 1957
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1957. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 1-48 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Searching Eastwards for Gold in Western Australia, by G. Spencer Compton. Image shows back cover with all contents and illustrations.
61087 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Volume 43, Part 2, 1957
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1957. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 49-96 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
The Sydney Railway Company, 1848-1855, by Alan Birch. Image shows back cover with all contents and illustrations.
61088 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 43, Part 3, 1957
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1957. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 97-152 PP. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges. Near fine. 21 x 14.
The History of the Bank of New South Wales, by R.F. Holder. Electoral contests in Yass and Queanbeyan, by A. W. Martin. Image shows back cover with all contents and illustrations.
61155 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 45, Part 1, 1959
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1959. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 1-56 PP. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Charles Lilley, by Allan A. Morrison. The founding of Cairns, by G. C. Bolton ...
61157 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 45, Part 5, 1959
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1959. Volume 45, Part 5, 1959. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 225-288 PP with 7 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Foundations of the Australian Gas Light Company, by J. Ginswick. The Folk Museum Movement in New England, by E. W. Dunlop.
61158 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 45, Part 6, 1959
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1959. Volume 45, Part 6, 1959. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 289-352 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
The Public Service Board of New South Wales since 1895, by Wallace C. Wurth. The Diary of Edward Hufton, An Assisted Immigrant, by Clarice Morris.
61170 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 46, Part 2, 1960
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1960. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 69-122 PP with 3 b/w illustrations, plus 2 folded maps. Stapled soft covers. Very good. 21 x 14.
The First Federal Referendum, by W. G. McMinn. Exploration of the Jervis Bay, Shoalhaven and Illawarra districts, 1797-1812, by A. K. Weatherburn. ... Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61171 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 46, Part 3, 1960
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1960. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 123-186 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a littled browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The later life of Henry Lawson (1910-1918), by Colin Roderick. The Scottish Martyrs' Farms, by James Scott. Robert Campbell - His Scottish Background, by Miss M. Steven. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61174 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 47, Part 4, 1961
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1961. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. (2), 195-254, (2) PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine.. 21 x 14.
Parliament and the Trade Unions, by Brian Dickey. A Dissertation on Almanacks, by George Mackaness. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61175 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 47, Part 5, 1961
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1961. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 255-316, (2) PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Neaer fine.. 21.5 x 14.
Education in New South Wales under Governor Sir Richard Bourke, by William Foster. Samuel Terry, by P. E. LeRoy. William Carron, Botanist and Explorer (1821-1876), by L.A. Gilbert. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61176 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 47, Part 6, 1961
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1961. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 317-378, (2) PP with 1 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
From the Acorn Grows the Oak - A short history of The Royal Australian Historical Society, by Allan E. Bax. An Australian Legend, by Russell Ward. The Early "Volunteer" Association in New South Wales..., by Duncan MacCallum. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61180 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 49, Part 4, 1963
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1963. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 241-320 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.
Edward Butler, Q.C., 1823-1879, by B. T. Dowd. G.H. Reid and Federation, by W. G. McMinn. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61183 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 50, Part 2, 1964
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1964. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 81-160 PP with 1 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Richard Windeyer, by J. B. Windeyer. Yes-No Reid: A Case for Prosecution, by L. E. Fredman. Sir Peter Nicol Russell, by P. H. Russel. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61188 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 48, Part 2, 1962
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1962. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 81-160 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
J. C. Watson in New South Wales Politics (1890-1894), by N. B. Nairn. Andrew Thompson (1773-1810) Part I, J. V. Barnes. The Journals of Captain James Cook, by C. H. Currey. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61190 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 48, Part 3, 1962
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1962. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 161-240 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine.. 21 x 14.
Andrew Thompson (1774-1810) Part 2, J. V. Barnes. Australian Aboriginal and White Relations - A Personal Record, by A. P. Elkin. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61191 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 48, Part 4, 1962
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1962. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 241-320 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
The Emancipists, Edward Eagar and the Struggle for Civil Liberties, by Paul E. Le Roy. Old Miller's Point, Sydney, by J. S. N. Wheeler. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
61192 RAHS JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol 48, Part 5, 1962
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1962. Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. 321-404 PP with 1 b/w illustration. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
James Hardy Vaux: Convict and Fatalist, by Mrs Averil Fink. Robert Campbell and the Bligh Rebellion, 1808, by Miss M. J. E. Steven. August Alt, First Surveyor-General of New South Wales, by B. T. Dowd. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
71950 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. V, Part VI, 1919
$20.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1919. Edited by W. S. Campbell & William Dixon. 249-300 PP. Soft cover. Covers repaired at spine. Slight ageing of paper. Hand-written note at top of front cover. Very good. 20.8 x 13.
1 paper read before the Society, 27th May 1919: Parramatta River and its Vicinity, 1848-1861, by W.S. Campbell. Other article: Notes on Australian Artists (Part II), by William Dixon.
72776 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 45, Parts 1 to 7
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1959. Edited by A.G.L. Shaw & K.J. Cable. 352 PP with 18 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: 33 pages "Annual Report 1959" and "Index Volume 45: 23 pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
Part 1: The founding of Cairns, by G. C. Bolton... Part 2: Newcastle Miners and Colliery proprietors, by Robin Gollan... Part 3: The Australian Navy, by G. Hermon Gill. Part 4: Sir John Monash, by Rabbi Dr. R. Brasch. Part 6: The Diary of Edward Hutton, an assisted immigrant,1879, edited by by Clarice Morrice. Image lists contents for each part.
72778 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXI, Parts 1 to 7 - 1945
$45.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1945. 408 PP with 41 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: XXXIV pages "Annual Report 1945" and "Index Volume 31: LXIII pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72779 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXIV, Parts 1 to 7 - 1948
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1948. 392 PP with 33 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: L pages "Annual Report 1948" and "Index Volume 34: XV pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72780 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXVI, Parts 1 to 7 - 1950
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1950. 392 PP with 9 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: XXXV pages "Annual Report 1950" and "Index Volume 36: XXII pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72781 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXVII, Parts 1 to 7 - 1951
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1951. 392 PP with 23 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: XXXIX pages "Annual Report 1951" and "Index Volume 37: XVIII pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72782 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXVIII, Parts 1 to 7 - 1952
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1952. 296 PP with 14 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: XXVIII pages "Annual Report 1952" and "Index Volume 38: 12 pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72784 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 41, Parts 1 to 7 - 1955
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1955. 292 PP with 34 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: 27 pages "Annual Report 1955" and "Index Volume 41: 10 pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72785 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 42, Parts 1 to 7 - 1956
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1956. 320 PP with 24 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: 28 pages "Annual Report 1956" and "Index, Volume 42: 10 pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72786 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 43, Parts 1 to 7
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1957. 320 PP with 22 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: 34 pages "Annual Report 1957" and "Index, Volume 43: 12 pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72787 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 46, Parts 1 to 6
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1960. 66 PP with 30 b/w illustrations, plus ("Index, Volume 46": 34 pages). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72788 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXIX, Parts 1 to 7
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1953. 296 PP with 14 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: XXVIII pages "Annual Report 1953" and "Index Volume XXXIX": 11 pages). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72789 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. XXXII, Parts 1 to 6 - 1946
$45.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1946. 408 PP with 41 b/w illustrations, plus "Index Volume XXXII": XLIV" pages. Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72791 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 47, Parts 1 to 7 - 1961
$40.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1961. 380 PP with 16 b/w illustrations, plus (Part 7: 36 pages "Annual Report 1961" and "Index, Volume 47: 24 pages"). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
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72904 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. VI, Part I, 1920
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1920. P. 1- 68 plus 4 plates with 5 b/w illustrations (1 map and 4 photos). Stapled soft covers with light wear, otherwise near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
Exploration beyond the Upper Nepean in 1798, by R.H. Cambage. The Plan of a Colony in New South Wales by Professor G.A. Wood. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72906 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. VII, Part III, 1921
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1921. P.105-160 with 5 b/w illustrations (1 chart and 4 photos). Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
Australian Roadside Inns, by Frank Walker. Mount Wingen, by B. J. H. M. Abbott. Notes on Australian Artists (part IV), by William Dixson. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72908 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. VII, Part V, 1921
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1921. P. 217-288 with 1 map and 4 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
Exploration between the Wingecarribee, Shoalhaven, Macquarie and Murrumbidgee Rivers, by R.H. Cambage. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72909 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. VII, Part VI, 1921
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1921. P. 289- 380. Stapled soft covers. Back cover has a small nick. Very good. 21.6 x 13.5.
Hume and Hovell's Journey to Port Phillip by Professor Ernest Scott. Journal kept on the Journey Lake George to Port Phillip, by Captain W.H. Hovell. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72910 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. IX, Part III, 1923
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1923. P. 113-176 with 2 maps. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
The first decade of the Australian Agricultural Company 1824-1834, by J.F. Campbell. Discovery and Early Settlement of New England, ... Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72911 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. IX, Part VI, 1923
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1923. P.277-332 PP. Stapled soft covers with light soiling and chipped, some pages a little dog-eared, otherwise contents are near fine. 21.2 x 14.2.
Police Establishments in NSW, by Thomas O'Callaghan. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72912 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Volume X, Part IV, 1924
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1924 P. 169-232 with 1 plan of Orange. Stapled soft covers. Rust marks on staple holes, o/wise near fine. 21.2 x 13.5.
Rare pictures relative to Australasia, by William Dixson. Sydney and district in 1824, as described by a French visitor on board "La Coquille". Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72913 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Volume X, Part III, 1924
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1924. P.121-168 with 5 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Rust marks on staple holes, o/wise very good. 21.2 x 13.5.
Cook's Attitude to Australia, by F. S. Adrian. James Mario Matra - The father of Australia, by Captain J.H. Watson. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72914 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Volume X, Part II, 1924
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1924. P. 57-120 with 8 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Rust marks on staple holes, o/wise near fine. 21.2 x 13.5.
The Valley of the Tank Stream, by J. F. Campbell. First British Flag Unfurled at Sydney, .. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72915 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XI, Part IV, 1925
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1925. P.195- 250 with 8 b/w illustrations. Soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, staples removed. Very good. 21.2 x 13.6.
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72918 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part V, 1931
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P.289- 336 with 1 map of New Britain. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Notes and Comments on "New Light on the Discovery of Australia", by Henry N. Stevens, by William Dixon. William Dampier on New Britain, by Bertram Calcutt. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72919 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part II, 1931
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P. 89-144 with 2 plans. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Centenary of the Sydney Morning Herald. Historical Notes on Government House Domain, Sydney . History of Sydney Botanic Garden, by J.H. Maiden. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72921 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVIII, Part II, 1932
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1932. P.49-100 plus 1 map. Soft covers are fragile and reinforced. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Development of an Australian Social Type. The Kunderang Ravines of New England, by J.F. Campbell. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72922 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVIII, Part V, 1932
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1932. P. 209-272 with 4 b/w photo, plus 1 folded map. Stapled soft covers a littled browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Hartley - The Gateway to the West, by William Foster. Early Settlement on the Lower Nepean River - Penrith to the Hawkesbury River by J.F. Campbell. Excursion to Cockatoo Island.. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72923 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXI, Part III, 1935
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1935. P.141-208 with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Pages 141 to 196: The Rise of Newcastle by James Jervis. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72925 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXVII, Part VI, 1941
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1941. P.373- 444. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Macquarie's Administration of the convict system, by Frank Driscoll. The route to the North , by James Jervis ... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72926 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part III, 1931
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P.145-208 with 2 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded map. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
History of Sydney Botanic Garden, by J.H. Maiden. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72927 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXVIII, Part I, 1942
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1942. 64 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Cardinal Moran's part in public affairs (with 1 b/w illustration), by Eric O'Brien. ... Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72928 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXVIII, Part VI, 1942
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1942. P.353-476 with 1 b/w illustration. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Governor Lachlan Macquarie, by M.H. Ellis. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
72929 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXXIII, Part III, 1947
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1947. Edited by C. Price Conigrave. 117-188 PP with 7 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Anthony Trollope: Travels and Impressions in Australia, by G. R. S. Reid. The Parramatta Observatory, by Vernon W. E. Goodin. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
72930 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol 44, Part 5, 1958
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1958. 61-324 PP. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21.4 x 14.
George Crossley, by K.G. Allars. The Alleged Russian Plans for the Invasion of Australia, 1864, by Duncan MacCallum. Image of back cover lists all contents and illustrations.
72931 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol 44, Part 3, 1958
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1958. 117-184 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21.4 x 14.
The Valley of the Richmond, by James Jervis. The Australians in London, by David S. Macmillan. Image of back cover lists all contents and illustrations.
72932 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. 47, Part 3, 1961
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1961. Edited by A.G.L. SHAW. 131-194 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Neaer fine. 21.5 x 13.8.
The Macarthur family and the pastoral industry, by Jill Ker. Image lists all contents and illustrations.
76131 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XV, Part VI, 1930
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1930. P. 309-384 with a folded map. Stapled soft covers. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
Early Visitors to Moreton Bay by Dr. Ernest Sandford Jackson. The Vaucluse Estate from 1793 to 1829, and those connected with it by Philip H. Morton. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
76132 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XI, Part VI, 1926
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1926. P. 318 - 380 with b/w illustrations or photos. Stapled soft covers with light wear. Very good. 21.2 x 13.6.
Memorials to Captain James Cook, R.N., Dr. William Bland by Norman J. Dunlop. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
76136 RAHS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. XXXI, Part III, 1945
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1945. P. 133 to P.200 . Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21.6 x 13.5.
The Great Australian Administrator - Sir Hubert Murray by Dorothy E.M. Cubis. The Newcastle Lifeboat by W.J. Goold. Image of back cover lists all articles and illustrations.
58245 RAISON, E. T. (Ray) QUEENSCLIFF AS A FISHING PORT
$10.00 AUD
Queenscliff Historical Publications. Point Lonsdale. c. 1990. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 3 plans and 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.6. 0731616715
62108 RAN AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP REVIEW - Vol. No. 1
$10.00 AUD
Australian Warship Review. Sydney. 1998. Volume No. 1 (Aug/Sept/Oct 1998). 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Centrefold: HMAS Warramunga past Garden Island, in the late 1950s. Pictorial soft cover (DDG 65, USS Benfold). Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781876270377
Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers. Collins Class submarines: a brief history. ... Battle of the Java Sea, by Joe Straczek. ... Naval Photograph Album: Australian and Allied Warships. The Bathursts, by Jack Williams. ...
72743 RAWSON, Geoffrey MATTHEW FLINDERS' NARRATIVE OF HIS VOYAGE IN THE SCHOONER FRANCIS 1798: Preceded and Followed by Notes on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c.
$600.00 AUD
The Golden Cockerel Press. London. 1946. Limited Edition (No.517/750). 100, (2 "map and colophon") PP with 1 map and engravings (frontispiece, vignette on title page, six head-pieces and 1 tail piece) by John Buckland Wright. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Fine condition. 31.8 x 19.2.
Title dedicated: "To Captain John King Davis, Explorer and Navigator". The 4 page flyer and order form by Angus & Robertson, loosely inserted.
50854 RAYMOND, Robert AUSTRALIA THE GREATEST ISLAND
$10.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1986. Reprint of the 1979 original. 352 PP with 1 map, 9 sketch maps, and colour photos by Reg Morrison. Title spread: Ribbon Reef, near Lizard Island. FEP: Sea plane. REP: Map of Australia. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket with closed tears and foxing spots on the inside. Very good. 37 x 26. 0701813695
An aerial exploration of Australian coastline.
45101 REDONNET, Jean-Claude & GARNER, Steve THE DEBATE ON A REPUBLIC FOR AUSTRALIA
$25.00 AUD
Didier-Erudition / CNED. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 1 cartoon and 2 tables. Stiff cover. Fine. 23 x 15. 02864603217
50261 REED, A. W. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Reed Education. Sydney. 1970. Juvenile edition. No. 2 in Pageant of the Pacific - Australian series. 24 PP with 39 b/w illustrations by Colin Archer. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 18.7. 0589090187
38561 REES, Sian THE FLOATING BROTHEL - The extraordinary story of the Lady Julian and its cargo of female convicts bound for Botany Bay
$10.00 AUD
Hodder. Sydney. 2001. 3rd printing of the 2001 original. (8), 248 PP with 1 map and 1 vignette, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Vignette on title page: Lady Julian, 1782. Inside covers: colour illustration Men of War, bound for the Port of Pleasure. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0733613047
Voyage of the Lady Julian, July 1789 to June 1790.
53382 REES, Sian THE SHIP THIEVES
$15.00 AUD
Hodder / Hachette. Sydney. 2006. 2nd edition of the 2005 original. (8), 232 PP, plus 16 pages with 4 maps and 20 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12.7. 0733620817
The amazing tale and unfortunate life of James Porter - Australian convict, pirate and master mariner.
72225 REID, Alan THE POWER STRUGGLE
$15.00 AUD
Shakespeare Head Press. Sydney. 1969. Reprint of the 1969 original. 203 PP with 13 b/w photos. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed with a few chips. Contents near fine. 21.8 x 13.5.
The succession to the late Harold Holt.
49138 REILLY, Dianne & CAREW, Jennifer SUN PICTURES OF VICTORIA: The Fauchery-Daintree Collection - 1858
$30.00 AUD
Library Council of Victoria / Currey O'Neil Ross Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 1983. 1st Ed. 143 PP with 11 b/w illustrations and 53 b/w plates. Hard cover, gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine, dj. Faint foxing on top outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 29.3 x 26. 0859023524
Antoine Fauchery born in Paris in 1823: Artist, Writer, Adventurer (Spy ???). Victorian goldfields and Melbourne: 1852 to 1856. Returned from Paris in 1857 then left in 1959 for the Philippines, China... Died in Yokohama in April 1861.
75789 RENOUF, Phil JAMES CRAIG
$15.00 AUD
Australian Heritage Fleet. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed., September 2003. 16 PP with 1 plan at centrefold, and 6 b/w photos. Inside front cover: 5 colour photos. Inside back cover: watercolour by P. Renouf. Pictorial soft cover. Letter to members of Australian Fleet, signed by Chris Stannard, President, loosely inserted. Near fine. 23 x 16.
Paper first published in the 2002 Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, International Conference. Design and Management Challenges in returning the 1874 barque James Craig to commercial operation.
31336 RETTER, Catharine & SINCLAIR, Shirley LETTERS TO ANN - The Love Story of Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. IX, 150 PP with 7 b/w illust. Eps: flowers. Hard covers, decorated front cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14. 0207196966
Married 14th April 1801, 3 months before his departure for New Holland. Surveying the coast of the continent and naming it Australia. 6 years detention at Isle de France (Mauritius). Return to Britain 24th October 1810.
64332 RETTER, Catharine & SINCLAIR, Shirley LETTERS TO ANN - The Love Story of Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle
$5.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 2001. 1st Paperback Ed. IX, 150 PP with 7 b/w illust. Eps: flowers. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. Fine. 22 x 14. 9780207197420
Married 14th April 1801, 3 months before his departure for New Holland. Surveying the coast of the continent and naming it Australia. 6 years detention at Isle de France (Mauritius). Return to Britain 24th October 1810.
71914 REYNOLDS, John (editor) THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA 1642 - Selections from Dr. J. E. Heeres' translation of Tasman's Journal Aug.-Dec. 1642
$50.00 AUD
H.H. Pimblett, Government Printer. Hobart. 1942. 1st edition of November 12th, 1942. Prefaces by Robert Cosgrove, Premier of Tasmania and John Madden, Minister for Lands and Works, and in Charge of Tasmanian Tercentenary Celebrations, 1942. (2) 43, (3) PP with b/w illustrations: 2 portraits and a facsimile of the signature of Abel Tasman, plus 1 facsimile of the first paragraph entry for December 2nd 1642 and 2 facsimile of folded charts. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Front cover with repaired short tear. Near fine and scarce in this condition. 24.3 x 18.5.
Selections and extracts from the Journal of Abel Janszoon Tasman (from translation of the original manuscript in the Colonial Archives at The Hague, by Professor J.E. Heeres) and facsimiles of original maps.
58615 RICHARDSON, John CLIFTON SPRINGS: Past - Present
$15.00 AUD
Bellarine Historical Society. Geelong. c. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by W. W. Nairn. 23 PP with b/w illustrations (1 plan at centrefold, 1 Share Certificate, 2 drawings and 10 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing on covers. Near fine. 21.2 x 16.8.
64933 RICHARDSON, Nick & BESTER, Damian (editors) HERE WE COME - THE GREAT WAR: 100-Year Anniversary (in Sunday Tasmanian)
$10.00 AUD
Mercury / Sunday Tasmanian. Hobart. 2014. A "Mercury" special feature, August 2014. 16 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft wrappers (Troopship S.S. Geelong, leaving Hobart 20th October 1914). Near fine. 38 x 27.5.
How Australia answered the call to arms.
51682 RICHARDSON, William A. R. WAS AUSTRALIA CHARTED BEFORE 1606 ?: The Jave la Grande inscriptions
$20.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. XII, 132 PP with 36 figures and 9 colour plates (5 on double page). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 22. 0642276420
56158 ROBERTS, Bev TREASURES OF THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
$30.00 AUD
Focus Publishing Book. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sam Lipski. Introduction by Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. (2), 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 27 x 25. 01920683100
State Library of Victoria, 1854-2004: 150 years.
46131 ROBERTS, Shirley CHARLES HOTHAM. A Biography
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 201 PP with 1 Family Tree and 41 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.7. 0522842879
Naval officer (squadron of the Plata Estuary), suppression of the transatlantic slave trade... and Governor of the colony of Victoria (at the time of the Eureka Stockade).
58183 ROBERTS, Y., BIBROWSKA, Hania, HOUGH, Don, MILES, I. (editors) MARINE AND COASTAL SPECIAL INVESTIGATION - VICTORIA: Descriptive Report
$20.00 AUD
Land Conservation Council. Melbourne. 1993. 1st Ed., with a foreword by David Scott. X, 354 PP with boxes, tables and b/w illustrations (graphs, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Copy without the 5 maps (back pocket) called for, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 20.7. 0724192808
Resources report: Atmospheric and Ocean Systems ... Biology ... Marine and Estuarine fish resources ... Defence ... Coastal engineering...
71369 ROBERTSON, Jill A GIFT TO THE PEOPLE - The Story of BELLERIVE SOCIAL INSTITUTE 1867-1997
$45.00 AUD
Bellerive Historical Society. Bellerive, Tasmania. 1997. 1st Ed. IV, 98 PP with b/w illustrations (newspaper clippings, plans, paintings & photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0646317946
Institute for "the moral and intellectual well-being of the inhabitants" of Bellerive.
75304 ROBERTSON, John SEALED SOULS - A Colonial History of Sealing and Whaling on the Southern Coasts of Australia, 1798 to 1852
$80.00 AUD
Sealed Souls Pty Ltd. Cuballing, W.A. 2022 1st Ed. (22), 540 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations: location maps, portraits, drawings, sketches ..., including 19 maps in the "Atlas of Maps".. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Dedicatory note on half title page dated and signed by the author. Fine (mint condition). 24 x 17. 9780645132700
69642 ROBINSON, Charles PROGRES ET RESSOURCES DE LA NOUVELLE GALLES DU SUD
$20.00 AUD
Thomas Richards, Imprimeur du Gouvernement. Sydney. 1878. 1st French edition, translated by E. Marin La Meslée. 24 PP. Soft cover, sewn. French text. Very good. 21 x 13.8.
The Progress and Resources of New South Wales. Ferguson: No. 14992.
65054 ROBINSON, J. S. ARMS IN THE SERVICE OF QUEENSLAND 1859-1901
$100.00 AUD
J. S. Robinson / S.F.R. Enterprises. Brisbane. 1997. Special Presentation Edition limited to 20 hand numbered copies (No. Ten). 240 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Fine. 24.6 x 18.7. 0949749346
50980 ROBINSON, Paul HOWE GOOD IS THIS - LORD HOWE ISLAND (in Qantas Magazine)
$15.00 AUD
Qantas Airways Ltd. Sydney. 2004. Issue for October 2004. 208 PP. Contains article between pages 110 and 115 with 12 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.
... the perfect hassle-free island getaway.
58542 ROBSON, L. L. (editor) AUSTRALIAN COMMENTARIES - Select Articles from the Round Table 1911-1942
$10.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1975. 1st Ed. XI, 221 PP. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 22.4 x 15. 0522840779
Round Table, a quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire.
56253 ROBSON, Lloyd THE TASMANIAN STORY
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1988. Reprint of the 1987 original. 122 PP with 1 map and 64 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.8. 0195547780
54540 RODERICK, Colin T. A. SCOTT AND HIS WORK AT PORT MACQUARIE, 1823-8, With an Account of the Career of James Williams per Neptune 1820 (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S. - Vol. 44, Part 1, 1958.)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1958. 48 PP with 1 facsimile of letter and 2 portraits. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. . 21.2 x 13.5.
Read before the Society, 27th August 1957. T.A. Scott: father of the Australian Sugar Industry. Image of back cover lists all contents and illustrations.
72129 ROE, Dr. Michael A History of the THEATRE ROYAL - Hobart, from 1834
$30.00 AUD
National Theatre and Fine Arts Society of Tasmania. Hobart. c. 1970. 1st limited edition. Preface by J.N.D. Harrison. Foreword by Dame Sybil Thorndlike. 48 PP with 18 b/w illustrations (plan, poster, photos of buildings and performers) and advertisements. Stiff covers, illustrated front (etching by Sir Lionel Lindsay). Label for the limited edition hand numbered (No. 164) and signed by the author, tipped in on title page. Fine. 23.5 x 18.2. .
50814 ROE, Michael AN IMPERIAL DISASTER: the wreck of George the Third
$35.00 AUD
Blubber Head Press. Hobart. 2006. 1st Ed. X, 294 PP with 2 pages of maps, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Broadsheet Report to Britain's Populace I. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24.3 x 16.5. 0908528329
75966 ROGERS, Keith C. ACROSS MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN - Writings of an East Gippsland Field Naturalist
$20.00 AUD
Bairnsdale Field Naturalist Club. Bairnsdale, Vic. 1980. 1st Ed. Foreword by J.H. Willis. 84 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map at centrefold and 4 photos (Captions of photos pasted down on page 4). Photo of a brush tailed rock-wallaby pasted down on inside front cover. Stiff covers, illustrated front "Mountain Gentian". Near fine. 20.7 x 13.5.
35484 ROSE, Ronald THIS PECULIAR COLONY
$15.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1981. 1st Ed. 179 PP with 48 drawings by Robert Ingpen. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0727014102
A slightly irreverent look at Australia's beginnings.
61023 ROWLAND, E. C. THE LIFE AND WORK OF LIEUTENANT JOHN OXLEY, R.N. (in Journal and Proceedings - Vol XXVI, Part IV, 1940)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1942. P. 193-272 with 8 b/w illustrations. Contains article between pages 249 and 272 with 4 portraits and 4 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
Read before the Society, 30 June 1942. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
76180 ROWNTREE, Catriona CATRIONA'S AUSTRALIA - My Favourite Aussie Locations
$25.00 AUD
Jamie Durie Publications. Crows Nest, NSW. 2006. 1st Ed. (8), 200 PP with colour photos. Inside covers: location map and sketch map of Australia with the favourite locations on the flaps. Stiff covers with flaps. As new condition. 24 x 22. 9780975735596
92 of them.
66364 ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS DOCTORS AND AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE
$20.00 AUD
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sydney. 1980. 1980 edition, with a preface by Alison Holster, and introduction by Michael Hoare. 40 PP, plus 1 page "Addenda and Corrigenda" tipped in on page 5. Soft cover, staples. Covers with slight insect damage and some ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 17.8. 090978308X
Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, 24-29 February 1980. 70 items: manuscripts, books, periodical articles, photographs and medals.
64953 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - JOURNAL - Vol. IV, No. 5
$25.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Queensland (Inc.). Brisbane. 1952. Journal Vol. IV, No. 5, December 1952. 591-738 PP with 2 b/w plates. Soft covers with browning around edges and spine, tape repair at top near spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise internally near fine. 21.4 x 13.7.
8 papers read to the Society in 1952 by: Allan A. Morrison, Arthur Laurie ... Thomas Welshby, by C. G. Austin. ... Port of Brisbane, by E.V. Stevens. Image shows list of all contents.
64954 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Year-book of Proceedings : Vol. V, No. 2
$25.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1954. Journal Vol. V, No. 2, 1954. 867-1003 PP with 1 b/w photo. Soft covers, faded around edges and spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5.
9 papers read to the Society in 1954 by: Raphael Cilento... J.W. Collinson ... Kennedy Expedition, by Glenville Pike. The History of the A.U.S.N. Co. Ltd and its Predecessors, by Commander N. S. Pixley.
64958 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Year-book of Proceedings : Vol. IX, No. 5
$15.00 AUD
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1973-74. Vol. IX, No. 5, 1973-74. 163 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 21.3 x 13.7. 0858810123
9 papers. "Consuls in Queensland", by Norman S. Pixley. History along the Waterways - The abandoned hulks of the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay", by G. Roderick McLeod. ...
64964 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Vol. XII, No. 2
$20.00 AUD
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1985. Vol. XII, No. 2, September 1985, edited by John D. Kerr. 165-284 PP with b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 20.7 x 13.8. 0858810123
9 papers. ... Captain Foster Fyans and Mrs Eliza Fraser, by Professor J. S. Ryan. The last voyage of "Firefly" and Captain Kirby, by Allan McInnes.
54571 ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FOR 1908
$50.00 AUD
Royal Society of New South Wales. Sydney. 1908. 1st Ed. Vol. XLII. XXII, 342, CXXIV, XXIII-XXX PP with b/w illustrations, plus 49 b /w plates. Edited by J.H. MAIDEN , F.B. GUTHRIE & W.H. WEBB. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers slightly rubbed and worn. Slight ageing of paper. Foxing. Fold of both endpapers split. Complete, in need of rebacking. Very good. 22 x 15.
Records of Australian Botanists. Vocabulary of the Ngarrugu Tribe, N.S.W., by R. H. Mathew.
75619 RUSDEN, G. W. THE DISCOVERY, SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP
$150.00 AUD
George Robertson. Melbourne. 1871. September 1871 edition. (III-VIII: Dedication to Anthony Trollope, Esq.), 56 PP. Colophon: Walker, May and Co., Printers, 99 Bourke Street West, Melbourne. Pages stitched without the original wrappers. Slight ageing of paper. A very good copy of a scarce item. 22 x 14.2.
Address delivered 22nd July, 1869, at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, at a performance in aid of the Old Colonists' Homes. Dedication dated September 1871. Ferguson Ref: 15214.
Australian Antarctic Division / Commonwealth of Australia. Hobart. 2005. 1st ed. Folded brochure : 5 folds with 2 colour photos and 33 b/w illustrations (including 13 portraits). Near fine. Oblong format: 14 x 85 / Folded: 14 x 17.5.
73193 SACKS, Margaret A. (Editor) THE WAY 79 "WHO IS WHO" - Synoptic Biographies of Western Australians
$40.00 AUD
Crawley Publishers Pty Ltd. Nedlands, W.A. 1980. 1st Ed.. Foreword by G.C. Mackinnon. (10), 437 PP (on 2 columns) with hundreds of portraits. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Old sellotape marks on endpapers, o/wise contents near fine. 25 x 19. 094984800X
Published at the time of the 150th Anniversary of Western Australia.
15774 SAMPSON, A. & S. EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
$5.00 AUD
Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1983. Reprint of the 1979 original. 60 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title spread: Exploring party in NSW, by J. Cross, 1826. Pictorial (South Brisbane from North Shore) laminated boards. Back hinge at head of spine with a 1 cm tear. Small rub on title page. Very good. 28.5 x 21. 0855508248
The sea & land explorers of Australia.
45732 SAMPSON, A. & S. EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Budget Books / Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Ed. 60 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title spread: Exploring party in NSW, by J. Cross, 1826. Pictorial (The Founding of Australia) laminated boards. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 0908505175
The sea & land explorers of Australia.
68092 SANDIFORD, Libby RUGGED MOUNTAINS, JEWELLED SEA: The South Coast Heritage Trail Network
$15.00 AUD
Western Australian Heritage Committee & Department of Conservation and Land Management. Perth. 1988. 1st edition, a CALM Publication. (4), 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.5.
71367 SARGENT, John BELLERIVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: A Photographic Celebration
$20.00 AUD
Celebration of the 30th year (1990-202) of the Bellerive Historical Society "Preserving the Past for the Future"
67197 SARGENT, John R. 'A HEAD OF STEAM' - Hobart Town to Kangaroo Point Ferry Service
$20.00 AUD
John R. Sargent. Bellerive. Tas. 1999. 1st Ed. (2), 18 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (sketch of Kangaroo Bay by Emily Bowring at centre fold, and cut-away of a Paddle Steamer). Soft cover, illustrated front. Dedicatory note on title page, signed by the author. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0958528411
The arrival of the first steamships in Australian service and their impact on the Trans-Derwent service.
71366 SARGENT, John R. 'A HEAD OF STEAM' - Hobart Town to Kangaroo Point Ferry Service
$25.00 AUD
J. R. Sargent. Hobart. 2010. Limited edition of the 1999 original. (2), 18 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Laminated stiff covers, , illustrated front. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0958528411
The arrival of the first steamships in Australian service and their impact on the Trans-Derwent service. Limited edition celebrating 150 years of Clarence.
67676 SAUNDERS, Bill DISCOVER NEW ZEALAND THE GLORIOUS ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press & Beckett Sterling Ltd. Auckland. 1982. 1st edition. 207 PP with colour illustrations (1 map, 10 sketch maps, and photos by Ray Joyce). Eps: Lillies in a pond. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (rubbed). Foxing spots on covers and inside the dust jacket. Still a very good clean copy. Large format: 37 x 26.
An aerial exploration of Australian coastline.
71929 SCHAFFER, Irene DERWENT RIVER EXCURSION on board the "Lady Nelson" - Volume 1; Sandy Bay - Battery Point - Hobart
$30.00 AUD
Irene Schaffer. New Town, Tasmania. 2001. 1st edition, June 2001. (4), 15, (28 plates) PP (recto only) with 43 b/w illustrations: sketch map, plans, drawings and paintings, photos. Soft covers, pictorial front, cloth spine. Covers a little soiled with a small light crease, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 21.
72095 SCHAFFER, Irene (compiler) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LADY NELSON 1799 - 1825
$10.00 AUD
Lady Nelson / The Tasmanian Sail Training Association. New Town, Tasmania. 1997. 1st edition. No pagination, 12 PP with 3 b/w illustrations and 1 colour photo pasted down on page (9). Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 15. 0958648999
.
72128 SCHAFFER, Irene & McKAY, Thelma Profiles of Norfolk Islanders to Van Diemen's Land: "LADY NELSON" 1807 - Volume 1
$40.00 AUD
Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay. Hobart. 1989. Updated edition of the 1987 original. V, 34 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (vignette on front cover and title page), plus 1 plate " View of the Lady Nelson in the Thames" and 1 page " Additional Research 1989". Soft cover, illustrated front. Foxing spots on front cover and outside edges. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 0958792615
75704 SCHAFFER, Irene & McKAY, Thelma EXILED! THREE TIMES OVER. Profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land 1807-13
$50.00 AUD
St. David's Park. Hobart. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Barbara Valentine. XII, 244 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (HMS Lady Nalson, & HMS Porpoise). Laminated hard covers, illustrated boards. Stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on endpapers, o/wise near fine. 25 x 18. 0724621695
33303 SCHAPPER, Henry P. ABORIGINAL ADVANCEMENT TO INTEGRATION - Conditions and plans for Western Australia
$20.00 AUD
ANU Press. Canberra. 1970. 1st Ed., No. 5 in Aborigines in Australian Society series. XXII, 196 PP with 47 tables, plus large folded map at rear of book. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 070810391X
67989 SCHILDER, Gunter (editor) VOYAGE TO THE GREAT SOUTH LAND, Willem de Vlamingh 1696-1697
$50.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society / The Australian Bank. Sydney. 1985. 1st English edition of the 1976 Dutch original, translated by C. De Heer. X, 259 PP, plus 28 pages with 38 b/w & colour illustrations. Fp (folded): Outline chart of the Western Coast of the South Land. FEP: Atlantic & Indian Ocean with route of Willem de Vlamingh in 1696-97. REP: First printed chart referring to De Vlamingh's Voyage, 1753. Hard cover (simile leather), gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 16.5. 0909954097
Last large scale voyage of exploration undertaken by the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) to Tristan da Cunha, St. Paul, Amsterdam and the West Coast of Australia.
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. (2), II, 822, 48 (index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 30 x 21.5. 0731512928
72694 SELKIRK, D. R. & P. M. and SEPPELT, R. D. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MACQUARIE ISLAND
$25.00 AUD
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions / Antarctic Division. Kingston, Tas. 1986. 1st Ed. Anare Research Notes 38. IV, 133 PP with 1 map of Maquarie Island and a location map. Soft covers, staples, cloth spine. Fine (as new condition). 24.7 x 17. 0642099928
693 + 17 entries.
49956 SERVENTY, V. N. THE ARCHIPELAGO OF THE RECHERCHE (Part 2 - Birds)
$20.00 AUD
Australian Geographical Society. Melbourne. 1952. 1st Ed., No. 1 in Australian Geographical Society Reports. 24 PP with 9 b/w photos, plus 1 folded map tipped in on inside back cover. Soft cover. Fine. 24.7 X 15.2.
2: Birds
46391 SERVENTY, Vincent IN PRAISE OF AUSTRALIAN TREES
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1979. 1st Ed. 80 PP with over 100 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31 x 25.2. 0727005359
52522 SHARMAN, R. C. GUNS FROM THE 'ENDEAVOUR' (in Queensland Heritage)
$10.00 AUD
Oxley Memorial Library / Library Board of Queensland. Brisbane. 1971. Volume 2, No. 5, November 1971. Contains article pages 23 to 31 with 2 maps, 3 plans and 2 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 30.2 x 24.8.
Recovery operation mounted by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1969...
68993 SHAW, A. G. L. THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Faber & Faber Ltd. London. 1972. Revised edition of the 1955 original. 336 PP with 1 map (plus 3 inserts) on double page and 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, pictorial front. Very good reading copy. 19.8 x 13. 0571068774
62710 SHEARER, J. D. BOUND FOR BOTANY BAY: Impressions of Transportation and Convict Life
$10.00 AUD
Summit Books. Sydney. 1976. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Olaf Ruhen. 71 PP with 30 drawings and 30 colour plates. Title page with vignette (in colour): Hulk used for incarceration. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 20.5. 072710084X
64871 SHEEHAN, C. G.. & WILSON, P. D. QUEENSLAND HERITAGE - Volume 3, No. 5
$10.00 AUD
Oxley Memorial Library / Library Board of Queensland. Brisbane. 1976. Vol. 3, No. 5, May 1976. 28 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 30.2 x 24.7.
Education at Hightville and Ballara, by Ruth S. Kerr. The Queensland Badge, by Mamie O'Keeffe. Brisbane First Bishop the Right Reverend Edward Wyndham Tufnell, by H. J. Richards.
70826 SHEPPARD, Trish AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURERS
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson Publishers. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (6), 225 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, head pieces of chapters) by Iain Finlay, b/w and colour photos. Title page: "Ice Bird" sailing in Antarctic waters. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.4 x 22. 0207149518
20 of these adventurers: Ann Gash: A grand mother sailing solo around the world. Dick Smith: flying a helicopter around the world. Paul Caffyn: canoeist around Australia. ... Ron and Valerie Taylor: Underwater photographers. Nancy Wake: Resistance fighter in occupied France, known as the White Mouse to the Allied forces and the Germans. ... David Lewis: Antarctic Sailor.
David Ell Press. Balmain, NSW. 1989. 1st edition of 2500 copies. (X), 134 PP with 38 b/w and 114 colour illustrations, photos by Douglas Baglin. Half title page: St Clare (2 Wylalena Road). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots inside dust jacket. Signed by the author on verso of half title page. Near fine. 31.2 x 22. 9780949290892
72727 SHINEBERG, Dorothy CAPTAIN EDWARD WOODIN AND THE SANDALWOOD TRADE OF THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC (in Papers and Proceedings Volume 13, No. 4)
$5.00 AUD
Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Hobart. 1966. Volume 13, No. 4, August 1966. 101 - 147 PP. Contains article pages 133 to 144. Stapled card covers. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Paper read to the Association on 8 December 1964. Other article: Of Ships and Sealing Wax: the Montagu, the Navy and the Law, by P.A. Howell
73412 SIEVERS, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm & KÜKENTHAL, Prof. Dr. Willy AUSTRALIEN, OZEANIEN und POLARLÄNDER
$100.00 AUD
Bibliographischen Institut. Leipzig & Wien. 1910. 2nd edition of the 1902 original. XII, 640, (4 publications) PP with 198 b/w illustrations in text, plus 14 plates with maps in colour (4 on single page, 10 on double pages for 21 maps and 13 insets), 9 plates in colour with tissue guard, and 15 b/w plates with 22 woodcuts. Illustrated endpapers. Quarter bound, cloth boards, title on front board, gilt title and decoration on leather spine. Outside edges marbled. Covers soiled, hinges of spine rubbed, some rust marks in the gutters and a few loose pages where staples have rusted in the first few pages and the last few pages of the gathering. Nota: from the 1880s, wire staples were used as a substitute to stitching: a habit which luckily did not last long. Very good. Complete. Gothic German text. 25.7 x 18.5.
49491 SIGMOND, J. P. & ZUIDERBAAN, L. H. DUTCH DISCOVERIES OF AUSTRALIA - Shipwrecks, Treasures and Early Voyages off the West Coast
$40.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1979. 1st English edition of the 1976 original Dutch title "Nederlanders Ontdekken Australie". 176 PP with b/w illust. Fp: Chart of the Pacific by Hessel Gerritsz. Hard cover, dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 25.5 x 18. 0727008005
Also contains relevant newspaper cuttings and articles loosely inserted.
56139 SIMPKIN, Julie (editor) CHARLES DARWIN: An Australian Selection
$30.00 AUD
National Museum of Australia. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Craddock Morton. Introduction by Michael Pickering. XII, 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 23.7 x 17.5.
Pages 1 to 81: Extract from Darwin's Beagle Diary, transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. Pages 83 to 13: Three essays. Great Expectations by Tom Frame. A Daring Theory, by Nicholas Drayson. Insights & Origins, by Robyn Williams.
52513 SINCLAIR, John FRASER ISLAND - The world's greatest sand island (in Heritage Australia)
$5.00 AUD
Australian Council of National Trusts. Canberra. 1984. Volume 3, No. 2, Summer 1984 issue. Contains article from P. 9 to 15 with 2 b/w and 6 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.5 x 23.
61033 SINCLAIR, John FRASER ISLAND AND COOLOOLA
$15.00 AUD
Ure Smith Press. Sydney. 1991. Reprint of the 1990 original, in the Australia's Wilderness Heritage series. 256 PP with 1 map in colour, 14 b/w illustrations and 232 colour photos by Reg Morrison. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Neat name stamp of previous owner on verso of the FFEP. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 9780725408411
75489 SINGE, John CORAL SEA STORY - An Epic Tale of Adventure on the Queensland Frontier (1859-70)
$35.00 AUD
John Singe / Xlibris Corporation. 2012. 1st paperback edition. 296, (6) PP. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 9781477109670
Tale inspired by historical events and characters.
39352 SLESSOR, Kenneth (editor) AUSTRALIAN PROFILE
$10.00 AUD
Commonwealth Government of Australia. Canberra. 1960. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour photos, 4 pages of appendix with maps, graphs and tables. Fp (in colour): In the Snowy mountains. Eps: Construction site. Cloth cover, illustrated slipcase. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Text in English, French and German. 31 x 23.3.
Published for the Australian pavilion at the Comptoir Suisse, Lausanne: Tomorrow is everywhere in Australia / En Australie le futur est partout / Australien hat überall eine Zukunft.
72167 SLOT, B. J. ABEL TASMAN, en de ontdekking van Nieuw-Zeeland
$40.00 AUD
Otto Cramwinxckel Uitgever. Amsterdam. 1992. 1st Ed. 126, (2 colophon) PP with 20 b/w and 25 colour illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Presentation plate from the Municipality of Grootegast, signed by the Mayor and Town Clerk, loosely inserted. Dutch text. Fine. 24.2 x 17.3. 9071894398
Chapter 5: Expedition on board "Heemskerk" and "Zeehan", to the Great South Land (Tasmania, New Zealand)
35434 SMART, Ted & GIBBON, David (editors) AUSTRALIA - The Timeless Continent
$15.00 AUD
Colour Library Books. Godalming, Surrey. 1988. 1st Ed. 384 PP with colour photos. Title spread: The Olgas. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 29.5 x 23.2. 0862831598
64014 SMITH HALL, Edward (proprietor) SYDNEY MONITOR No. 862
$10.00 AUD
The Sydney Monitor Office. Sydney. 1836. Vol. XI, Number 862, Satuday January 9, 1836. 4 PP. Format: 58.6 x 41.5.
Published each Saturday and Wednesday.
14110 SMITH, Bernard & WHEELER, Alwyne (Editors) THE ART OF THE FIRST FLEET & other early Australian drawings
$140.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 243 b/w or colour plates and appendixes, notes, bibliography & index. Original cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edges. Folded flyer loosely inserted. Fine. 35 x 25.5. 0195548884
A collector's item.
64843 SMITH, John Greig (editor) BRISBANE TOWN NEWS, from the Sydney Morning Herald 1842-46
$25.00 AUD
Brisbane History Group. Brisbane. 1989. 1st Ed. Brisbane History Group, Sources No. 3. (4), VI, 178 PP with 1 map of Moreton Bay and 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples, cloth on spine. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0958782636
96 entries between 10th March 1842 and 28th December 1846.
15763 SMITH, Robin THE BIRTH OF A NATION - Australia's Historic Heritage from Discovery to Nationhood
$15.00 AUD
Viking O'Neil/Penguin. Melbourne. 1987. Reprint of the 1981 The Birth of Australia. 223 PP with 265 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 23.5. 0670900184
Pictorial history of Australian daily life, from the first settlers to Federation with comments by some distinguished historians.
63754 SMITH, Roff AUSTRALIA: Journey Through a Timeless Land
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1999. Deluxe edition. 304 PP with 1 b/w photos and 150 colour illustrations (1 map & 149 photos by Sam Abell). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt device (map of Australia) on front board, gilt title on spine, all edges gilt. Foxing spots on free fly of the front endpaper and first leaf, otherwise a near fine copy. 31 x 24.2. 0792275799
34925 SMITH, Stephen & KEENEY, John (editors) THE AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE - The Explorer's Guide to the Island Continent
$20.00 AUD
Australian Adventure Publications Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 530, ( 100 adv.) PP with maps, colour photos and advertising. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 30.8 x 23.2. 0731600894
72817 SMITH, Ure EARLY AUSTRALIAN ENGRAVINGS - Facsimile Historical Plates by Artists and Engravers of the 1870s
$30.00 AUD
Ure Smith Publication. Sydney. 1975. 1st Ed. No pagination, (10), 14 frameable plates with coloured mounts, (2) PP. Illustrated stiff covers ("The Quay, Hobart Town"). Covers are a little soiled with a few rubbed patches and wear around edges, o/wise contents are clean and near fine. Large format: 38 x 27.5. 0725402784
14 frameable prints selected from the 120 steel engravings published in Edwin Carton Booth "Australia Illustrated" between 1873 and 1875.
71959 SMYTH, Dacre VIEWS OF VICTORIA, in the Steps of Von Guérard - A Fifth Book of Paintings, Poetry and Prose
$30.00 AUD
Dacre Smyth. Melbourne. 1984. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir William Dargie. 119 PP with 102 colour plates: 51 by Eugen Von Guerard anf 51 by Darge Smyth. Eps: sketch map of Victoria with geographical position of each plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Discreet name of previous owner on front endpaper. Signed by the author / artist on title page. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 22.5. 0959519858
60860 SOUTH AUSTRALIA EDITHBURGH MUSEUM - Collection of Historic Information and Stories
$20.00 AUD
Edithburgh Museum. Edithburgh, S.A. c. 1986. No continuous pagination. 72 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Protective plastic folder. Fine. 30 x 22.
Edithburgh and Troubridge Island, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
75472 SPAIN, Edward THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD SPAIN - Merchant Seaman and sometimes Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy describing the conditions of life at sea during the American Revolution and the wars with France
$145.00 AUD
The St. Mark's Press. Sydney. 1989. Limited edition of 104 numbered copies (hand number 17 and signed by the publisher). Introduction by Charles Fitzhardinge-Bailey, Printer and Publisher. (6), 89, (2 colophon) PP on Cambewarra Shoalhaven all rag hand-made paper. Vignette on title page: engraving by Richard Stafford. Bound in specially designed paste papers at the Press, cloth spine with gilt title on label. Dedicatory note to previous owner at top of front endpaper signed by Charles Fitzhardinge-Bailey. Scarce. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0947346015
Chapter IV: "Captain Phillip, R.N., and Mr Brewer" (his clerk). Experience with Captain Phillip on HMS Salisbury, of 50 guns, on a crossing from Portsmouth to Madras with calls at San Iags, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Ioanna /Anjouan, Comoro Islands. . ...
12951 SPATE, O. H. K. LET ME ENJOY - Essays, Partly Geographical
$20.00 AUD
Australian National University. Canberra. 1965. 1st Ed. XII, 304 PP with b/w illust. Eps: Map of 1602. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Essays by Prof. Spate of the Chair of Geography, ANU. Under two laws (Fiji). Geography & racism. Manuel Godinho de Erédia: Quest for Australia. Terra Australis - Cognita?
71961 SPEIGHT, D. L. AUSTRALIA'S SPANISH KNIGHT/ Fourteen Months, Sixty One Years
$15.00 AUD
D.L. & K.L. Speight. Seacliff, S.A. 2004. 1st edition. X, 251, (3) PP with 5 maps and 5 b/w photos. Fp: 1 erratum slip, tipped in on verso of title page. Pictorial soft covers with light wear on corners. Near fine. 21 x 15. 9780646441238
14 months (pages 1 to 176) : Experiences as an ambulance driver with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. 61 years (pages 177 to 237): WWII, Palestine... migrating to Australia. Last Chapter: 22 " Spain Remembers": Spanish nationality and Knight of the Order of Civil Merit of Spain.
37999 SPENCE, Beatrice THE OFFICIAL IMAGE: Print Culture in Early Colonial Australia (in National Library of Australia News - Vol X, No. 8, May 2000)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2000. Volume X, No. 8, May 2000. Contains article from P.3 to 6 with 2 b/w and 2 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.9 x 21.
Work of early colonial printmakers.
71948 SPENCE, S. A. (editor) THE MUTINY & PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF THE CONVICT-BRIG "CYPRUS", when on a voyage from Hobart-Town to Macquarrie Harbour during August 1829.
$125.00 AUD
S.A. Spence. Mitcham, Surrey. 1968. Edition limited to 75 copies. Unusual pagination: (8), 74 PP (recto only for most of the pages), plus frontispiece: "Woodcut by artist convict Wm. B. Gould" and folded map "Approximate track of the Cyprus from Recherche Bay to Whampoa" at rear of book. Soft cover, title on front cover, cloth spine. Brief note tipped in on front endpaper. Signed by the editor. Near fine. 27.4 x 19.5.
... being the apprehension, trial, sentence of the mutineers, as reported by "The Times" of 14, 16, 18, 19 & 21 October, 5 November and 14 December 1830.
73087 SPROD, Dan (editor) THE TREGURTHA LOG, Relating the Adventurous Life of Captain Edward Primrose TREGURTHA: Napoleonic Wars / Whaling in the South Seas / Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District
$40.00 AUD
Blubber Head Press. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1980. 1st edition limited to 600 copies hand numbered (No. 97) and signed by the Editor. 165 PP with 3 maps (FEP, text, REP), 3 illustrations pasted down (frontispiece and 2 headpieces in colour), and 6 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 map of Port Phillip, 3 headpieces and 1 tailpiece). Fp: Portrait of Capt. Tregurtha. FEP: Map of Australia & South Seas. REP: Map of Europe & the East. Cloth covers, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket slightly sunned. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 32 x 20. 0908528035
73444 STACKHOUSE, John ... FROM THE DAWN OF AVIATION. THE QANTAS STORY 1920-1995
$30.00 AUD
Focus Publishing / Qantas Airways Ltd. Sydney. 1995. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Qantas first aircraft, the Avro 504K. REP: Jumbo Jet. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 30.2 x 24.7. 1875359230
75 years of Qantas Airways.
75635 STANNARD, Bruce THE BLUE-WATER BUSHMEN - The Colourful Story of Australia's Best and Boldest Boatmen
$60.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. VIII, 42 PP with 2 photos, plus 134 pages with 130 full-page b/w photos. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note to Peter Campbell dated and signed by the author on title page. Address of previous owner on verso of front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 28.5. 0207146411
Photos of the open boats (Six-Footers, Canvas Dinghies, Twelve & Fourteen-Footers) and boatmen on Sydney Harbour, from 1880 to 1940.
73653 STATHAM, Pamela (compiler) DICTIONARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIANS 1829-1914 - Volume 1: Early Settlers 1829-1850
$100.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Nedlands, W.A. 1979. August 1979 reprint of the 1979 original. Preface by Rica Erickson. VIII, 375 PP. Eps: Map of the "Swan River Colony 1850 with location map. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 15.7. 0855641592
Volume 1: from Abraham AARON to Thomas YULE.
19989 STEELE, J. G. CONRAD MARTENS IN QUEENSLAND - The Frontier Travels of a Colonial Artist
$45.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1978. 1st Ed. XX, 150 PP with 5 tables and 111 bw illust., plus 8 pages with 16 colour plates. Eps: The Heifer Station, Canning Downs, 11th March 1852. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Dated and signed by author on half-title page. Near fine. 28.6 x 25.7. 070221065X
74541 STEELE, Wilfred and Christopher THE GREAT GULF - The Surveys and Explorations of L. A. WELLS, Last Australian Explorer 1860 - 1938
$25.00 AUD
Lynton Publications Pty. Ltd. Blackwood, S.A. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by G.H.C. Kennedy. 144 PP with 7 maps and 102 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of "Queensland and Northern Territory Boundary survey, 1884-1886". Laminated boards, illustrated front cover. Spine and top of front cover lightly sunned. Fine. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 0869463128
15748 STEVEN, Margaret FIRST IMPRESSIONS, The British Discovery of Australia
$10.00 AUD
British Museum. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on endpapers, o/wise near fine. 22 x 22. 0565010662
Catalogue of an exhibition which travelled Australia at the time of its bicentennial. European exploration of the Pacific, the voyage of the Endeavour, ...
47209 STEVEN, Margaret FIRST IMPRESSIONS, The British Discovery of Australia
$5.00 AUD
British Museum. London. 1988. 1st soft cover edition. 96 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 21.5. 0565010239
Catalogue of an exhibition which travelled Australia at the time of its bicentennial. European exploration of the Pacific, the voyage of the Endeavour, ...
48847 STEVENS, Peter THE VOYAGE OF THE CATALPA - A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Escape to Freedom
$50.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History. London. 2003. 1st UK edition. VIII, 328 PP, plus 8 pages with 21 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16.3. 1842126512
69256 STEWART, Douglas (editor) VOYAGES TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE & VOYAGES ... Continuing the Journey
$30.00 AUD
Douglas Stewart Fine Books. Melbourne. 2011. 2 catalogues: Voyages ...: 68 PP. Oblong. Voyages ... Continuing the Journey: 24 PP. Both items with b/w or colour illustrations. Fine. Format: 29.7 x 21.
Exhibition at the 38th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair of 2011. Voyages...: 51 items. Voyages ..., continuing the Journey: 98 items.
44595 STONE, Patricia A PARDON FOR MR ROBERTSON (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XIII, No. 6, March 2003)
$5.00 AUD
N.L.A. Canberra. 2003. Volume XIII, No. 6, March 2003. Contains article from P. 18 to 21 with 5 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Patricia Stone examines the text of an important convict document.
45686 STRINGER, Michael SYDNEY HARBOUR - A pictorial history from the first settlers to the present day
$25.00 AUD
Rankin Group. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. Fforeword by Captain S. J. Costelloe, Harbour Master, Sydney Ports. 240 PP with b/w & colour illust. Half-title page: Campbell Wharf 1877. Title-page: Circular Quay in 1983. Eps: Sydney & foreshores in 1874 (by S. Calvert). Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.5 x 21.8. 0959019707
Story of the Harbour: aborigines and the arrival of Europeans. Tall ships, pilots, police, patrols, shipwrecks, the War, recreational harbour/foreshores. Very informative.
74498 STUART, John McDouall J. McDOUALL STUART'S EXPLORATIONS, across the Continent of Australia with charts: 1861-62
$150.00 AUD
Public Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 1963. Facsimile reprint of the original c. 1863.. No. 4 in the "South Australian Facsimile Editions" series. (2), (II), 97 PP, plus 1 large folded map at rear of book. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Minimal light foxing and mostly on top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy. Image shows title-page. 21 x 14.
Diary of J. McDouall Stuart's exploration from Adelaide (South Australia), across the continent of Australia, December 1861 to December 1862.
74506 STUART, John McDouall THE JOURNALS OF JOHN McDOUALL STUART during the Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, & 1862, when he fixed the Centre of the Continent and successfully crossed it from Sea to Sea
$100.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1975. Facsimile reprint of the 1865 edition. No. 198 in the "Australiana Facsimile Editions" series. Edited by William Hardman. (2), (XXIV, 511 PP, plus 14 plates with b/w illustrations (1 photo, 1 map and 12 engravings) and a large folded "Map of Stuart's Discoveries" at rear of book. Fp: Photographic Portrait of Mr. Stuart. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Minimal light foxing, mostly on top and fore outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 22.7 x 15. 072430049X
74538 STUART, John McDouall FOURTH EXPEDITION JOURNAL MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1860
$75.00 AUD
Sullivan's Cove. Adelaide. 1983. 1st "Sullivan's Cove" edition limited to 220 hand numbered copies (No. 74). 92 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots (faint) on top outside edge, spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 25.5 x 18.5.
74499 STURT, Captain Charles NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, performed under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6 (in 2 Volumes + Maps)
$150.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1965. Facsimile Reprint of the original c. 1849.. No. 5 in the "Australiana Facsimile Editions" series. Volume I: (2), X, IV, 5-416, (13 publications) PP with 12 drawings, plus 1 large folded map and 8 plates (4 coloured and 4 b/w). Fp (in colour): Chaining over the Sand Hills to Lake Torrens. Vol. II: (2), 308, 92 (appendix), (2 & 12 (publications) PP with 7 drawings, plus 7 plates (2 in colour and 5 b/w). Fp: View from Stanley Range. Vol. "Maps": 2 large folded maps. Hard covers, simile velum, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Light soiling of covers. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 15.
74522 STURT, Charles JOURNAL OF THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION, 1844-5
$25.00 AUD
Caliban Books. London. 1984. 1st edition with an Introduction and Notes, by Jill Waterhouse. VIII, 264 PP with 25 b/w illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 22 x 14. 0904573311
33094 SUTHERLAND, Bruce (editor) WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Australia's Face on the Indian Ocean
$10.00 AUD
Department of Commerce and Trade / Government of Western Australia. Perth. 1995. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 2 maps, 12 graphs & diagrams, and 67 colour photos. Inside front cover: Map of the Nations of the Indian Ocean Region. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0730964663
W.A: economy, business environment...
72535 SWAINSTON, Roger SWAINSTON'S FISHES OF AUSTRALIA
$80.00 AUD
Viking / Penguin Books. Sydney. 2020 New edition in a soft covers form, of the 2010 original. (10), 822 PP with 9 figures (4 in b/w and 5 in colour) and over 1500 colour illustrations by Roger Swaintson. Limp covers. New. 27 x 23.2. 9781761040542
74524 SWAN, Keith & CARNEGIE, Margaret IN STEP WITH STURT
$20.00 AUD
Graphic Books. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Ed. XII, 115 PP with 21 figures [ 8 maps (3 on double pages), 2 copies of letters, 4 documents, and 7 pages of Journal] and 36 illustrations. Hard covers, illustrated front, dj. Foxing on top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 19. 0959636552
11639 SWAN, R.A. TO BOTANY BAY .. if Policy Warrants the Measure
$10.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1973. 1st Ed. II, 189 PP plus 20 pages with 32 b/w illust. & 2 charts. Eps: World map of the areas open to ships of the Southern whale fish. Cloth cover. Near fine. 25.2 x 17.6. 0950085871
Reasons in 1786, leading to the establishement of a settlement in Botany Bay.
33692 SWEENEY, Christopher TRANSPORTED: IN PLACE OF DEATH - Convicts in Australia
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1981. 1st Ed. XIV, 185 PP with 45 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 22 x 18.8. 0333337514
The offences, ... the voyage to Botany Bay. Arrival on the fatal shore...
73540 SWINTON, Stuart P.G. TAYLOR - The Last of the Great Air Pioneers
$25.00 AUD
Australian Military History Publications. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. X, 116 PP with b/w illustrations (7 maps and 40 documents & photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 9781876439415
38333 SYDNEY GAZETTE THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER - Volumes four & five March 16, 1806 to August 30, 1807
$35.00 AUD
Public Library of New South Wales / Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1968. 1st facsimile edition. The William Dixson Foundation, Publication No. 8. No pagination (8), (200), (42 index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 37.5 x 25.
Volume 4 & 5 - No. 157 (Sunday, March 16, 1806) to No. 227 (Sunday, August 30, 1807).
74865 SYDNEY HARBOUR TRUST THE PORT OF SYDNEY, N.S.W. - Official Handbook
$750.00 AUD
The Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners. Sydney. 1919. 1st edition. 68 PP with 7 tables and 28 b/w illustrations (1 drawing "Captain Phillip's Sirius" and 27 photos (13 of them on full page), plus 8 large folded plates. (3 aerial photos of the Port and 5 "Bird's eye view" maps in colour). Of the 5 plates, 4 are in excellent condition with no repaired tears and one has 2 creases and 2 repaired tears on the fold of the "tip in". Original cloth covers with only minimal wear, gilt engraved title and device on front cover. Renewed endpapers. A near fine copy of this rare item. 22.6 x 14.5.
On the folded plates - 3 aerial photos: Entrance to the Port of Sydney / Circular Quay, Sydney Cove / Darling Harbour, Port of Sydney. 5 maps in colour "Birds Eye View", viz: The Port of Sydney (tipped in on FEP), showing new wharfage Scheme in course of construction "Walsh Bay" (tipped in on REP), Map of the Wharf Accommodation of the Port of Sydney, New Wharf and approaches Jones Bay and Pyrmont, Proposed Terminal Grain Elevator and Cargo Berths, Glebe Island, Port Jackson.
58759 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Centenary Supplement 1831 - April 18th - 1931
$100.00 AUD
Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney. 1931. Centenary Supplement: Saturday, April 18, 1931. 32 PP with b/w illustrations (4 headpieces, 10 portraits, 41 photos, 51 drawings or engravings, period advertisements). Plus facsimile reprint of the first issue of "The Sydney Herald", Monday, April 18, 1831 (4 PP, 48 x 33). Some pages with chips and tears. First and last page (fragile) and repaired at one of the folds (with loss of few words of text on the page 2). Ageing of paper and foxing. Rare. Format (Centenary Supplement: 66.5 x 53 cms) & Facsimile: 48 x 33 cms).
75305 SYME, Marten A. SEEDS OF A SETTLEMENT, A Perspective of Port Fairy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century through the Surviving Buildings and their Inhabitants
$25.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Melbourne. 1991 1st Ed. Publication No. 43. XII, 158 PP with 1 map and 95 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded plan at rear of book. Pictorial soft cover, sunned at spine, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 0646058770
74534 TAPP, E. J. EARLY NEW ZEALAND: A Dependency of New South Wales 1788-1841
$20.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1958. 1st Ed. XI, 192 PP with 2 maps, plus 6 b/w plates. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Name and addresss of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.
17106 TAPP, P. & ANDREWS, A. (Compilers) HOBART
$5.00 AUD
Corporation of the City of Hobart. Hobart. c. 1985. Reprint. 28 PP with over 80 colour Photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, The Treasure Island.
72149 TASMAN ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN - A Bibliography
$25.00 AUD
The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 1963. 1st edition with a preface by G. D. Richardson & J. A. Ferguson. 80 PP with 1 colour and 3 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Tasman with his second wife. Soft cover, front with device and title. Covers lightly soiled and with light insect damage. Very good. 24 x 15.
248 entries.
30325 TASMAN, Abel Janszoon THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA (24 November 1642)
$25.00 AUD
Government Printer. Hobart. 1985. Facsimile reprint of the 1942 original, in a limited edition of 3000 copies. (8), 43, (8) PP with 2 colour and 2 b/w illust., plus 3 plates (facsimile of Tasman's journal entry for December 1642 and 2 folded maps). Title page: vignette "Flag of Tasmania" (in colour). Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 25.8 x 18.8. 0724622232
Extracts from the Journal of Abel Janszoon Tasman (from translation of the original manuscript in the Colonial Archives at The Hague, by Professor J.E. Heeres) and facsimiles of original maps.
Tasmania Media Centre, Education Department. Hobart. 1975. 1st Ed. Clear plastic folder with pictorial cover, containing an 8 page booklet (staples removed) and 16 plates. Fine. 33.5 x 28
72048 [TASMANIA] CIRCULAR HEAD
$10.00 AUD
Circular Head Heritage Centre. Smithton, Tasmania. 2005. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 16 b/w photos fom the Circular Head Historical Society. Fine. Format "wall calendar", Oblong: 20.5 x 24.5. 0646466542
The Nut at Stanley was first known as Circular Head.
70876 TASMANIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY HUON PINE
$20.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. Hobart. 1977. 1st Ed. Introduction by D. R. Gregg. Compiled and edited by the staff at TMAG. 24 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 set of 16 drawings by J.D. Hooker, 1 drawing and 13 photos). Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 27 x 19. 0724602658
Publication coinciding with an exhibition at TMAG, 28 June to 28 August 1977.
46375 TAYLOR, Jan EVOLUTION IN THE OUTBACK
$10.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Whaleback Creek. Hard cover, dj. A few old insect marks at bottom of the front board, o/wise contents near fine. 24.8 x 19. 0864171056
72010 TENCH, Captain Watkin A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAY
$200.00 AUD
The Australian Limited Editions Society. Sydney. 1938. Limited edition of 500 hand numbered copies (No. 307), with an Introductory Note, by C. H. Bertie. (4 blank), 2 ("limited edition"), XVIII, 114, (2 colophon "The Australian Limited Editions" designed by Perce Green) PP with facsimile of the title page of the 3rd edition of 1789, and 19 woodcuts & drawings (17 head pieces) by Adrian Feint. Decorated endpapers. Quarter bound, cloth covers, gilt decorations and title on leather spine, plain protective sleeve. Copy signed by Adrian Feint (illustrator) and Perce Green (designer) on the "limited edition" page. Occasional foxing. Fine. Rare. 24.5 x 17.
40237 TERRY, F. C. NEW SOUTH WALES ILLUSTRATED, The Sketches of F. C. Terry
$15.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1978. 2nd impression of the 1973 edition, first published in 1855 as The Australian Keepsake. 91 PP with 40 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears. Occasional foxing. Very good. Oblong: 25.5 x 29.7. 0701804963
15798 TERRY, Martin FINDING AUSTRALIA (in The Australian Antique Collector No. 35)
$5.00 AUD
Business Press International. Sydney. 1988. Volume 35, issue January-June 1988. 142 PP with article from P.38 to 43 with 3 bw and 5 col. illust. Pict. card cover. Very good. 29.5 x 21.
On Terra Australis and the exploration of Australia.
53320 TERRY, Martin COOEE, AUSTRALIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XVII, No. 9, June 2007)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2007. Issue: Volume XVII, No. 9, June 2007. 24 PP. Contains article P.7 to 9 with 3 colour and 6 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7.
Exhibition at the National Library of Australia June to September 2007.
11610 THIELE, Colin COORONG
$10.00 AUD
Barbara Leslie / Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 1986. 1st Ed. 63 PP with 1 map, 4 b/w photos, 27 b/w and 24 colour illustrations by Barbara Leslie. Eps: The painter at work. Folded plate with the 24 colour panels in its envelope loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 16.5. 0958870403
The ambience on the shores of the Coorong Lagoon.
58279 THIELE, Colin A WELCOME TO WATER
$10.00 AUD
Wakefield Press / The Engineering and Water Supply Department. Netley, S.A. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by The Hon. D. J. Hopwood. (6), 58 PP with 1 map in colour, 4 b/w and 65 colour photos by David Simpson and Ted James. Eps: River Torrens near Kangaroo Creek Reservoir. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.6 x 15.2. 094926884
43827 THOMAS, David (editor) WE ARE AUSTRALIAN
$20.00 AUD
Australian Multicultural Foundation. Melbourne. c. 2000. 1st Ed., with forewords by Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen, Evelyn Scott and the Hon Philip Ruddock. 97 PP with 292 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 23.6 x 17. 0646382101
Exhibition: a visual celebration of contemporary Australia with the artworks created during 1999.
35449 THOMPSON, John (editor) HURLEY'S AUSTRALIA - Myth, Dream, Reality
$25.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1999. 1st Ed. IX, 85 PP with 78 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0642107998
76041 THOMSON, Mark RARE TRADES: Making Things by Hand in the Digital Age
$30.00 AUD
HarperCollins / Australasian Institute of Backyard Studies. Sydney, NSW / Blackwood, SA. 2002. 1st Ed. (10), 226 PP with b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 15.3 x 23.5. 9780732269043
Around 49 of these. Stone trades: Quarrymen, Letter-cutter ... Timber trades: Coopers, Cricketbat-maker ... Bush Skills. Metal Trades. Marine Trades: Shipwright, Tall-Ship Rigger, Sail-Maker, Craypot-Maker. . ... Pennyfarthing-Maker ... Bookbinder.
76042 THOMSON, Mark (editor) STORIES FROM THE SHED
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney, NSW. 1996. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 15.3 x 23.5. 9780207190704
41382 THORNTON-SMITH, C. B. ANALYTICAL CHECKLIST OF FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS IN FRENCH OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA, with details of published English translations
$10.00 AUD
Department of English, Monash University. Melbourne. 1983. Photostat copy of the 1983 original. No. 1 in the Monash Bibliographical series. (2), 27 PP. Soft cover, plastic protected, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 20.5. 0908481233
69199 THRA TASMANIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Papers and Proceedings - Volume 64, No. 2
$25.00 AUD
Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Inc. Hobart. 2017. Volume 64, No. 2, August 2017. Edited by Alexander ALISON. 76 PP with b/w ilustrations. Inside back cover: colour map of the Scamander River. Pictorial soft cover. New. 24 x 15.5.
Tasmania's aeroplane, Morton Allport and his Legacy, by Tony Marshall and Marian Jameson. ...Bridging the Scamander - a most treacherous river, by Liese Fearman.
71258 THRA TASMANIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Papers and Proceedings - Volume 62, No. 3
$30.00 AUD
Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Inc. Hobart. 2015. December 2015. Edited by Alexander ALISON. 76 PP with b/w ilustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 24 x 15.5.
Two 1838 armed incursions of Upper Canada resulting in transportation to Van Diemen's Land, by John C. Carter. A Tasmanian Life: emerging from the Swamp, by John Honey ...
50790 TILEY, Robert THE MERMAID TREE. How a tiny unknown ship opened Australia's north and west to development, dreams and disappointment
$30.00 AUD
ABC. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed. XX, 298 PP with 2 tail and 3 head pieces (sketch of HMC Mermaid), 1 chart and 26 maps, and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Bookplate of Prof. Adrian Horridge on inside front cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15. 0733317014
74726 TILEY, Robert AUSTRALIAN NAVIGATORS - Picking up Shells and Catching Butterflies in an Age of Revolution
$20.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. XI, 244 PP with 29 head pieces, 8 charts and 17 maps, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Repaired tear on the free fly of the front endpaper, signs of old water damage on the lower margin of the verso of front cover and the first 6 and the last 18 pages (not affecting text). Very good copy. 23.5 x 18. 0731811186
De Surville, Du Fresne, Saint Allouarn, Bougainville, Cook, Lapérouse, Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Matthew Flinders...
22687 TIPPING, Marjorie CONVICTS UNBOUND - The Story of the "Calcutta" Convicts and their Settlement in Australia
$145.00 AUD
Viking O'Neil. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. XIII, 353 PP with b/w illust. Title spread: HMS Calcutta, off Rochefort, Bay of Biscay. Eps: Map of Van Diemen's Land. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29.2 x 21.7. 9780670900688
The lives and experiences of the 308 convicts transported on board HMS Calcutta in 1803.
74637 TIPPING, Marjorie AN AUSTRALIAN SONG - Ludwig Becker's Protest. With a Commentary and Free Translation into English Verse
$20.00 AUD
Greenhouse Publications. Melbourne. 1984. 1st Ed. 135 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise a near fine copy. 23.8 x 17.7. 0909104719
The tribulations of a German migrant to Australia: Sea journey, sojourn in Van Diemen's Land, gold digging in Bendigo ... settler. The author, a German artist and naturalist perished on the Burke and Wills Expedition in April 1861.
75653 TOGHILL, Jeff GHOST PORTS OF AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1984. 1st Ed. VI, 186 PP with b/w illust. (maps, plans & photos). Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket a little sunned, otherwise fine. 28 x 22.4. 0333380673
The forgotten stories of over 40 ghost ports dotting the seaboard and riverbanks of Australia.
60338 TOMPKINS, Robert (Bob) COMPENDIUM OF AUSTRALASIAN MERCHANT SHIPS 1831 - 2008
$70.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Inc. Melbourne. 2008. 1st Ed. 316 PP. Pictorial soft covers with some wear around corners and a little creased. Some pencil marks against a vessel in the margins with occasional hand written addition of a vessel at the bottom of a few pages. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 9780959907995
A listing of non-sail-powered Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific merchant ships.
72327 TOOLEY, R.V. THE MAPPING OF AUSTRALIA
$450.00 AUD
Holland Press Limited. London. 1979. 1st edition. Volume I Holland Press Cartographica. XX, 633 PP with 239 plates and an Index (pages 619 to 633) by Douglas Matthews. Eps: Francois Jacobsen Chart of Tasman's Voyages 1642-43 and 1644. Dark green cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little dulled on spine and with a few small chips, now in a clear plastic sleeve. Foxing spots on top outside edge. A near fine copy of a scarce item. 25.3 x 19.5. 0900470879
61460 TORRES STRAIT GELAM NGUZU KAZI / DUGONG MON FILS - Dossier de Presse
$15.00 AUD
Consulat d'Australie. Nouméa. 2007. Press release. No pagination, 9 PP (recto only) with a map of the Torres Strait. Plus: Poster for the exhibition held at the head office of the South Pacific Communities in Nouméa and a 16 pages booklet "Gelam Nguzu Kazi / Dugong my Son" with 1 map and 30 b/w or colour illustrations . Clear plastic front, spiral bound. Press release and poster in French. Booklet in English. Fine. Press release & poster: 29.7 x 21. Booklet: 20 x 20.
Travelling exhibition of Linocuts by the artists of Mualgau Minaral Artist Collective from Mua Island in the Torres Strait.
67215 TRANTER, Deborah USING A LOCAL MUSEUM AS A PLACE FOR LEARNING
$10.00 AUD
Queensland Museum & Department of Education, Darling Downs Region. Toowoomba. 1988. 1st Ed. Note "Looking Locally", by Jeffrey Black. (4), 20 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map of Qld, 1 plan of Toowoomba, 1 plan of the "Cobb & Co. Museum", 3 facsimiles of documents and 6 pages of figures). Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
72890 [TRAVEL] 50TH ANNIVERSARY - FIRST TASMAN FLIGHT SEPT 11TH 1928 from Richmond, SYDNEY to Wigram, CHRISTCHURCH
$50.00 AUD
Air New Zealand / Paparua County Jacee Inc. Christchurch / Wellington. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by D. A. Patterson, Director Air New Zealand. No pagination, 32 PP with 9 pages of advertising materials, 2 pages with 4 sketch plans of aircrafts, 40 duotone illustrations (1 painting by J.D. Carrick and 39 "period" photos) and at centrefold: location plan, programme of the "Sir Charles Kingsford Smith 50th Anniversary Pageant, Sept 9th and 10th 1978 " and Static Display guide. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 15.
Historical Souvenir Record.
40324 TROY, D. (editor) GUIDE TO THE STATE ARCHIVES OF NEW SOUTH WALES- THE GOVERNOR, 1787-1935- Record Group NG
$30.00 AUD
The Archives Authority of New South Wales. Sydney. 1969. 1st Ed. Guide No. 11. 136 PP. Soft cover, stapled. Foxing spots on few leaves and outside edges. Very good. 33.5 x 21.
60901 TURNBULL, Henry LEICHHARDT'S SECOND JOURNEY - A First-Hand Account
$15.00 AUD
Halstead. Sydney. 1983. 1st edition, with a foreword by Bruce Pratt, and illustrated by F. J. Broadhurst. (6), 58 PP with 1 map and 5 illustrations (on full page). Fp: Portrait. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.8 x 16.8. 0909134308
Exploration in the interior of Queensland 1846-47.
74053 TURNBULL, Malcolm THE SPY CATCHER TRIAL
$15.00 AUD
William Heinemann Australia. Melbourne 1988. 1st Ed. (8), 228 PP, plus 8 plates with 18 b/w illustrations (cartoons, drawings, photos).. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 24 x 15.3. 9780855610982
Reader's Digest Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1988. Revised edition of the 1987 original. 368 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page and title spread: Eyes of an Estuarine Crocodile. Eps: European Wasps "Vespula Germanica". Laminated pictorial boards with small bump on rear top edge, o/wise a fine copy. 28.5 x 21.5. 9780864380180
Understand / Identify / Avoid / Suirvive.
76035 UPTIN, Charles PORT MACQUARIE Growing Up ! - One 'L of a place' to ... Live, Learn, Labour, Love, Linger and Languish
$20.00 AUD
Uptin Femily. Port Macquarie, NSW. c. 1996. 1st Ed. (4), 247 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Very good. 24.5 x 17.5. 0646303627
57003 VAN SOMMERS, Tess SYDNEY SKETCHBOOK
$15.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1981. Revised edition of the 1965 original. 56 PP with 26 sketches by Unk White. Eps: plan of the city. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 22.4 x 14.5. 0851795285
72809 VANTOME, François, LE BOURSICOT, Bernard and DE LA JARRIETTE, Christian (editors) LE COURRIER AUSTRALIEN 1892 - 1945: Creating the French Australian Connection since 1892
$100.00 AUD
Le Courrier Australien. Sydney. 2019. 1st bilingual "Collector's Edition", of December 2019. Preface by Jacqueline Dwyer (née Playoust). Messages by David Hurley, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. 247 PP with 19 pages of advertisements, b/w and colour illustrations (photos and including 26 pages of "Le Courrier Australien": between No.1, of 30 April 1892 to No. 43/45, 52nd Year, of 26 October 1945). Hard covers, illustrated front. French and English texts. As new condition. 30.5 x 21.5. 9680648739203
71749 VEITCH, Michael SOUTHERN SURVEYOR: Stories from onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel
$40.00 AUD
CSIRO Publishing. Clayton South, Victoria. 2015. Original print edition. Foreword by Craig Johnson. XXIII, 242 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear Top corner of half title page clipped, otherwise near fine. 23.4 x 15.2. 9781486302642
75080 VEITCH, Michael THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA - The Forgotten Battle that Saved the Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2021. 1st edition. (VIII), 342, (2) PP with 1 map & location map, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Light crease on lower part of front cover, o/wise near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780733645891
1st to 4th March 1943.
76153 VEITCH, Michael AUSTRALIA'S SECRET ARMY - The Story of the Coastwatchers, the Unsung Heroes of Australia's Armed Forces during World War II
$20.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2022. 1st edition. (XII), 340 PP with 1 map "Papua New Guinea and British Solomon Islands Protectorate". Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on half-title page, otherwise fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780733648472
76183 VEITCH, Michael TURNING POINT: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's First Land Defeat in World War II
$15.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2019. 1st edition. (VIII), 342, (2) PP with 1 map & location map, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear, otherwise fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780733640551
1st to 4th March 1943.
67867 VERHOEVEN, Jana MELBOURNE FRENCH THEATRE: Thirty-Five Years of History (in Explorations "Special Issue")
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2013. Special Issue, September 2013. 55 PP with 16 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
74230 VERON, J. E. N. A REEF IN TIME - The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
$45.00 AUD
Belknap Press / Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2008. 1st Ed. IX, (3), 289 PP with over 45 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 57 colour illustrations.. Hartd cover, cloth spine, dj. Fine/as new condition. 24 x 16. 9780674026797
34646 VICKERS, Anna VOYAGE EN AUSTRALIE ET EN NOUVELLE-ZELANDE
$350.00 AUD
Librairie Ch. Delagrave. Paris. 1883. 1st Ed. (4), 462 PP with 52 illustrations (38 on full page), plus 1 large folded map of Australasia in colour. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt decorations and title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. Top and bottom of spine frayed, top of front hinge weak and worn on 3 cms, long closed tear on folded map, o/wise very good. French text. 27.2 x 17.2.
Voyage on the Orient. Departure from Plymouth on 6th November 1879, call at Saint-Vincent (Cape Verde Islands), Capetown. Arrival Sydney 20 December 1879. Travel to Adelaide on the Assam, to New Zealand on the Wakatipu... Return via San Francisco on the Australia with a departure from Auckland in June 1880. Ferguson 17716a.
44568 VICKRIDGE, Lieutenant Commander G. L. W. JAMES GOODENOUGH, Sailor and Humanitarian 1830-1875
$5.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 2002. Reprint of the 1993 original. Naval Historical Society Monograph No. 142. 8 PP with 10 b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.2 x 20.2.
Occasional paper delivered to the Western Australia Chapter, 20 October 1993.
58450 VICTORIA HISTORICAL RECORDS OF VICTORIA - Volume 3: The Early Development of Melbourne
$50.00 AUD
Victorian Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1984. 1st Ed., in the Foundation series compiled by the Public Record Office, Victoria. Edited by Michael CANNON & Ian MACFARLANE. Foreword by C. Hurley. XX, 670 PP with over 120 b/w illustrations, plus 6 folded plates with 12 colour and 6 b/w illustrations (2 of them on 4 folds). FEP: Melbourne in 1838. REP: View of Batman's Hill. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine lightly sunned. Faint foxing on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 26 x 18. 0724183035
75649 VICTORIA SAILING DIRECTIONS: VICTORIA, including Bass Strait
$30.00 AUD
Public Works Department - Ports and Harbors Division. Melbourne. 1970. New edition, with a Notice by A. J. Wagglen. 745 PP with 3 diagrams and 82 coastal views, figures, tables and b/w photos, plus 10 folded diagrams (2 with colours). Cloth covers, title on front board and spine. Ex Library copy with stamps on title page and last page. Renewed front endpaper. Very good. 25 x 15.8.
12912 VIGOUROUX, Louis L'EVOLUTION SOCIALE EN AUSTRALASIE
$50.00 AUD
Librairie Armand Colin. Paris. 1902. 1st Ed. (Bibliothèque du Musée Social). IX, (2), 441 PP, (2 adv.) with tables in text plus a very nice folded colour map of Australia and New Zealand at rear of book. Rebacked copy with original front and back cover pasted down. Old water stain on FFEP. Otherwise, apart from light foxing on prelims, very clean internally with pages largely uncut. French text. 18.5 x 12.
Includes sections on the penal settlements of New South Wales, the colonisation of South-east Australia and New Zealand, the squatters, the gold-rush, the labour movement, class differences, private enterprise and the states, unemployment... Even includes a chapter on the Colonie Ouvrière de Leongatha in Victoria. A very interesting and scarce book.
37237 VILLEMINOT, Jacques BOOMERANG - l'Australie Primitive
$10.00 AUD
René Julliard. Paris. 1954. 1st Ed. 213 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos. Soft cover. Very good. French text. 19 x 14.
Australia in 1953: perceived after a stay of 8 months - Primitive Australia.
18681 VILLIERS, Alan THE ALICE IN AUSTRALIA'S WONDERLAND (in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 129, No 2, February 1966)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1966. Contains article between P. 230 and 257 with 2 maps and 31 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine reinforced, o/wise very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Alice Springs, Northern Territory of Australia.
61874 VILLIERS, Alan VANISHED FLEETS, Sea Stories From Old Van Dieman's Land
$20.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1975. Reprint of the 1974 edition, (original of 1931, with a new introduction. (XIV), 297 PP, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w photos. Fp: Hobart, capital city of Tasmania. Eps: A chart of Tasmania. Cloth cover, gilt-engraved signature of Alan Villiers on front cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 14.5. 0684141124
73883 VILLIERS, Alan & FLEAY, David AUSTRALIA: Vigorous Young Nation & Strange Animals of Australia [National Geographic Magazine - Volume 124, No.3, 1963]
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1963. Volume 124, No. 3, September 1963. Contains 2 articles. No. 1: pages 309 and 387, in two parts: Part I: The West and the South, Part II: The Settled East, the Barrier Reef, the Center with colour illustrations (1 flag and 91 photos). No. 2: pages 388 to 411 with 4 b/w and 32 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Lacks the folded map called for. Very good. 25.5 x 17.5.
Australia: Tasmania, Cygnet, Wilson's Boatyard (Page 356 to 364).
63398 VINCENT, Thierry An ABORIGINAL NECKLACE rediscoverd in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle of Le Havre (in Explorations No. 53)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2012. December 2012. 80 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 21 with 3 b/w figures. Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.8 x 21.
72263 Von STIEGLITZ, Karl ENTALLY (1821) - Pageant of a Pioneer Family 1792-1912
$15.00 AUD
Scenery Preservation Board. Hobart. 1956. April 1956 reprint of the 1950 original. Foreword to 2nd edition by F. Miles and Michael Sharland. 46, (2) PP with 9 b/w illustrations. Stiff cover, front cover with title "Entally National House: A Short History". Lower corner of pages 33 to 40 clipped (about 1.5 to 2cm and not affecting illustration or text). An otherwise near fine copy. 21.5 x 14.2.
A History of the Reibey Family and Entally ..., Hadspen, with an account of its Former Owners.
61208 VOSSION, Louis L'AUSTRALIE NOUVELLE ET SON AVENIR
$100.00 AUD
Guillaumin et Cie. Paris. 1903. 2nd edition. 271 PP with 15 b/w illustrations (2 maps, 1 cartoon, portraits & photos). Image shows title-page. Bound copy of the original soft cover. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. French text. Occasional light foxing, o/wise fine. Scarce. 18.2 x12.5.
70426 WAHLERT, Lieutenant Colonel Glenn EXPLORING GALLIPOLI: An Australian Army Battlefield Guide
$20.00 AUD
Army History Unit. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. No. 4 in the Australian Army Campaign series. 136 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside front cover: clear plastic pocket with a CD. Inside back cover: map of Turkey and inset of Sea of Marmara / Plan of Gallipoli Peninsula. Pictoria stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780980475357
55268 WALKER, George W. A HISTORY OF ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWCASTLE, to commemorate One Hundred Years of Service on the Laman Street Site
$20.00 AUD
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Newcastle. 1989. 1st Ed. (2), VIII, 52 PP with 18 portraits, 25 b/w illustrations (1 facsimile of document, 2 plans and 22 photos) and 7 colour photos. 3 letters loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.
66201 WALKER, Peter Benson & ELLIS, Frank (editors) VENTURING WESTWARD - Accounts of Pioneering exploration in Western and North Western Tasmania by Messrs Gould, Gunn, Hellyer, Frodsham, Counsel and Sprent
$30.00 AUD
Government Printer. Hobart. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Robin Gray, Premier of Tasmania. VIII, 62 PP with b/w illustrations (1 facsimile of document, 2 maps and 14 headpieces). Pictorial soft covers a little sunned near spine and traces of an old sticker on front, o/wise a very good clean copy. 26 x 18.7. 0724623280
Published for "Tasmania Day", 1987.
76074 WALL, Don KILL THE PRISONERS!
$70.00 AUD
Don Wall. Mona Vale, NSW. 1997. 1st Ed. (2), VI, 392 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: 2 documents, 2 drawings, 3 plans, 5 maps (2 xith insets), 17 portraits and 29 photos. Laminated stiff covers. Spine sunned and with creases. A 2 page article: "Owen's final March to Farewell Mates", by Claire Harvey, The Australian, 19 March 1999, loosely inserted. Neaer fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 17. 9780646278346
44687 WALLACE, Colin THE LOST AUSTRALIA OF FRANCOIS PERON
$85.00 AUD
Nottingham Court Press. London. 1984. 1st Ed. (14), III, (3), 166, (18 bibliography, appendix, index) PP with 8 b/w illustrations, plus 10 pages with 9 b/w illustrations. Fp: François Péron. Cloth cover, dj. Fine/as new condition. 24.6 x 17.2. 0906691966
32192 WALSH, Anthony LADY ELLIOT, First Island of the Great Barrier Reef
$15.00 AUD
Boolarong. Brisbane. 1987. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 1 plan, 2 maps, 30 b/w illustrations, and 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.5. 0864390424
20418 WALSH, Dorothy (Editor) THE ADMIRAL'S WIFE, Mrs. Phillip Parker King: A Selection of Letters 1817-56
$50.00 AUD
Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. (XII), 147 PP plus 12 pages with 16 b/w illust. Fp: Miniature of Mrs. Phillip Parker King, née Harriet Lethbridge. FEP: Genealogical tree The King Pedigree. REP: The Lethbridge Pedigree - Launceston Branch. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine & front cover, dj. (price clipped). Fine. 24.8 x 17.5.
46377 WANNAN, Bill WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT. Australian Insults, Invective, Ridicule & Abuse
$5.00 AUD
Sun Books. Melbourne. 1978. Paperback reprint of the 1973 original. 128 PP with 19 drawings. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 072510273X
65294 WARD, D.J. SEA
$5.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. Sydney. 1981. Juvenile edition in the Hodder Australia / Communications series. 33 PP with b/w and colour illustrations by Bruce Taylor. Pictorial stiff cover. Near fine. 20.2 x 19. 34026658
11611 WARD, Russel AUSTRALIA SINCE THE COMING OF MAN
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1987. Revised and updated edition of the 1965 original. 263 PP with b/w illust., photos, paintings, maps, graphs, ... Title spread: The beached Endeavour. Eps: Hobartown. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 26.7 x 18.8. 0333450795
History of Australia: the Aborigines, the Navigators/Explorers, Settlement.
Warlpiri Literature Production Centre. Yuendumu, Northern Territory. 1983. Volume 4, No. 1, March 1983. No pagination, 24 PP with b/w illustrations. Text in English and Warlpiri. Soft cover, pictorial front, staples, cloth spine. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
70182 THE WATCHMAN THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE V
$40.00 AUD
Lord Mayor's "King George V Memorial Fund". Melbourne. 1936. 1st edition with a foreword by His Excellency Lord Huntingfield, K.C.M.G., Governor of Victoria. 22, (2) PP with facsimile of the original letter signed by Huntingfield, and 6 of the broadcasts relayed between 21st January and 28th January 1936. Stapled soft wrappers, title on front. Covers with chips and short closed tears, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.
A reprint of a series of wireless broadcasts made from 3LO, Melbourne and relayed through the National Network of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
19738 WATTE, Jean-Pierre & BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline REDECOUVERTE DE DEUX HACHES A GORGE RAPPORTEES DES ETATS-UNIS PAR LE PEINTRE-NATURALISTE CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR, DANS LE SECOND QUART DU XIXe SIECLE (in Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Museum du Havre - Volume 74, Part 1)
$20.00 AUD
Editions du Muséum du Havre. Le Havre. 1987. 1st term 1987 of Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre. 49, (3) PP. Contains article P. 41 to 49 with 1 colour and 3 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 20.8.
Two grooved axes collected in the USA between 1826 and 1827.
69377 WEBB, Martyn and Audrey EDGE OF EMPIRE
$75.00 AUD
Artlook Books. Perth. 1983. 1st edition. Foreword by Ellis Godwin. IX, 387 PP, (4 epilogue), (8 bibliography), (14 index) with b/w illustrations (engravings, maps, plans, photos and facsimile of documents. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top of outside edges. Note on page opposite title page and signed by both authors on title page. Fine condition. 26.7 x 19. 0864450281
Extensive history of Western Australia and in particular the Pilbara region (Onslow - Ashburton Shire) from early times including hostilities, station life... A massive work.
Bob Brown Foundation. Hobart. 2019. 1st edition. Forword and afterword by Bob Brown. 148 PP with colour illustrations: 2 Aboriginal Artworks, 1 sketch map, 3 cartoons, newspaper covers with articles and photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine (as new). Oblong: 20 x 28. 9780648364429
People Power against coal mining operations.
60417 WEBER, Thérèse (editor) CAPTIVATING & CURIOUS - Celebrating the Collection of the National Museum of Australia
$20.00 AUD
National Museum of Australia. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Craddock Morton. VII, 116 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30 x 24. 1876944374
The Investigator's anchor, by Mathew Trinca. ... Aboriginal breastplates, by David Kaus ...
55320 WEGE, Juliet, GEORGE, Alex, GATHE, Jan, LEMSON, Kris & NAPIER, Kath (editors) MATTHEW FLINDERS AND HIS SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN: The Expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801-05
$65.00 AUD
Western Australian Museum. Perth. 2005. 1st Ed. VIII, 184 PP with 90 b/w and colour illustrations. Decorated end papers. Vignette on title page (in colour): Matthew Flinders, ca. 1800. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 31 x 22.8. 1920843205
14 papers presented at the Investigator 200 Symposium held in Albany, W. A., in December 2001. Matthew Flinders: the man and his life, by Miriam Estensen. ... Flinders' place in the coastal exploration of Australia, by Robert T. Sexton... Robert Brown on HMS Investigator, by David T. Moore... Ferdinand Bauer..., by Janette Gathe & Ellen Hickman. William Westall, by Kay Stehn & Alex George. Peter Good, by Mark Webb ...
70354 WEIDENHOFER, Margaret MARIA ISLAND: A Tasmanian Eden
$20.00 AUD
Darlington Press. Melbourne. 1978. 2nd edition of the 1977 original. 64 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 4 pages with 10 colour photos. Eps: Chart of Marias Eyland. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned with a small chip at top, otherwise near fine. 24.6 x 19.5. 0959768905
44369 WENZ, Paul L'ECHARDE
$50.00 AUD
Les Editions de la Vraie France. Paris. 1931. 1st Ed., with a preface by Firmin Roz. IV, 242 PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining the original soft covers. Ageing of paper. Very good. French text. 19.3 x 12.4.
The author was born in Reims, France, in 1869. In 1892 he visited Australia where he spent two years as a jackaroo. He returned as a settler/grazier in 1898, purchasing a property on the Lachlan River in NSW. L'Echarde recounts his experiences as a grazier and relives his childhood memories.
44370 WENZ, Paul L'ECHARDE
$40.00 AUD
Les Editions de la Vraie France. Paris. 1931. 1st Ed., with a preface by Firmin Roz. IV, 242 PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining only the original soft rear cover. Ageing of paper. Some pencil underlining of text and marginal notes in the preface. Very good. French text. 19.3 x 12.4.
The author was born in Reims, France, in 1869. In 1892 he visited Australia where he spent two years as a jackaroo. He returned as a settler/grazier in 1898, purchasing a property on the Lachlan River in NSW. L'Echarde recounts his experiences as a grazier and relives his childhood memories.
44371 WENZ, Paul SOUS LA CROIX DU SUD
$50.00 AUD
Librairie Plon. Paris. 1910. 1st Ed. (6), 304, (4) PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining the original soft covers. Some pencil underlining of text and notes in the margins. Ageing of paper, and foxing. Very good. French text. 19.3 x 12.4.
Short stories set in Australia, by a French novelist who settled there in 1898.
44375 WENZ, Paul LE JARDIN DES CORAUX
$40.00 AUD
Calmann-Levy. Paris. 1929. 4th Ed., in Collection Le Prisme. (6), 168 PP. Cloth cover. Bound copy retaining the original soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. French text. 20 x 14.
French novelist born in Reims who settled in Australia in 1898 and died in Forbes in 1939. Novel set on an island of the Great Barrier Reef, close to Cape Palmerston... Arrival of an escaped convict from New Caledonia...
44376 WENZ, Paul REVUE FRANCE: Le Cocher de Reims - Le Caporal Jones - Entente Cordiale - Le Berger - La Dernière - R.F.C. - A la Campagne - D.S.O.
$70.00 AUD
Berger-Levrault. Paris. 1918, & 1919. 1st Ed., 4 issues bound together of Revue France. Issues 1st year, Nos. 1 (May 1918), 10 (October 1918) & 15 (December 1918), Issue 2nd year, No. 5 (March 1919). Total of 256 PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining the original soft covers of the 4 issues. Ageing of paper. Very good. French text. 23.5 x 14.5.
8 short stories written during the First World War, by a French writer / novelist who settled in Australia in 1898. The author was born in Reims, France, in 1869. In 1892 he visited Australia where he spent two years jackarooing. He returned as a settler/grazier in 1898, purchasing a property on the Lachlan River in NSW.
44377 WENZ, Paul CHOSES D' HIER - Le Berger - D.S.O. - La Dernière - R.F.C. - La Peur - Le Filleul - A la Campagne
$50.00 AUD
Berger-Levrault. Paris. 1919. 1st Ed., in Collection France. 64 PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining the original soft covers. Ageing of paper. Very good. French text. 19.8 x 14.5.
7 short stories written during the First World War, by a French novelist who settled in Australia The author was born in Reims, France, in 1869. In 1892 he visited Australia where he spent two years jackarooing. He returned as a settler/grazier in 1898, purchasing a property on the Lachlan River in NSW.
52212 WEST, A. L. ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY: Fibrecrafts
$10.00 AUD
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Canberra. 1998. Reprint. No pagination, 12 PP with 2 b/w photos, 9 diagrams and 19 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0642161658
35776 WEST, Francis BIOGRAPHY AS HISTORY (in Proceedings 1973, The Australian Academy of the Humanities)
$20.00 AUD
Sydney University Press / The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Canberra. 1973. 1st Ed. 104 PP, plus 1 b/w plate (Portrait of Alexander Boyce Gibson). Hard cover. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 0424067706
Annual lecture delivered to the Australian Academy of the Humanities at its Fourth Annual General Meeting at Canberra on 15 May 1973.
50798 WHEELER, Tony, & ARMSTRONG, Mark ISLANDS OF AUSTRALIA'S GREAT BARRIER REEF
$10.00 AUD
Melbourne. 1994. Lonely Planet. 2nd edition of the 1990 original. 287 PP, (5 publications) with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.4 x 12.6. 0864422229
49858 WHITAKER, Richard SYDNEYSIDE
$20.00 AUD
Gregory's Publishing Company. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Doug Sutherland. 214 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, plans, drawings & engravings, and photos). Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Occasional foxing with spots on front endpaper. Near fine. 31 x 23.5. 0949164097
Compares early photographs and maps with streetscapes of today.
51539 WHITE, Charles HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGING - Volume 2
$15.00 AUD
Budget Books & Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1979. Reprint in the Australian Classics series. Vol. 2: (6), 400 PP with 27 b/w illustrations . Hard cover, illustrated boards, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0908505043
59989 WHITE, Rob & WILSON, Bruce FOR YOUR OWN GOOD - Young People and State Intervention in Australia
$20.00 AUD
La Trobe University Press Melbourne. 1991. Special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies, No. 31. (4), 123 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.7 x 15.7. 1863240128
10 papers.
72628 WILCOX, Craig HOME FRONT - Australians in World War I
$20.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2011. December 2011 edition. 136 PP with 20 pages of colour illustrations (posters, photos, medals... ) and 85 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23.5 x 23.2. 9781877007729
15799 WILLIAMS, Glyndwr & FROST, Alan TERRA AUSTRALIS TO AUSTRALIA
$50.00 AUD
OUP. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. XIX, 242 PP with 143 b/w or colour illust. Fp: Matthew Flinder's first recorded use of the term 'Australia' 1804. Eps: Typus Orbis Terrarum. Cloth cover, dj. Dedicatory note signed by Alan Frost on title-page. A fine copy. 26.2 x 19.8. 0195549082
Describes the various stages of discovery and the significance of these for the European imagination. Examines the impact of early colonization on the Aborigines. A most comprehensive account of European discovery of Australia.
65917 WILLIAMS, Kerry NORTHERN TERRITORY / OUTBACK AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Barker Souvenirs. Darwin, NT. 1983. 1st Ed. Introduction by Wendy Kirke, on the inside of front cover. No pagination, 104 PP (4 pages loosely inserted), with 1 map on the inside of back cover, and colour photos, by Kerry Williams. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.5.
20942 WILLOUGHBY, Howard AUSTRALIAN PICTURES, Drawn with Pen and Pencil. A facsimile of the volume originally published in 1886
$10.00 AUD
Child, Henry & Page. Sydney. 1985. Reprint of the 1886 original published by the Religious Tract Society. (4), 224 PP, (8 adv.) with 107 b/w illustrations taken from sketches and engravings. Decorated endpapers. Simile leather covers (see image), gilt title and decoration on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 28.2 x 20. 0867770260
A facsimile of the volume published in 1886 (without the fold-out map contained in the original volume).
73769 WILSON, Andrew COAST - TASMANIA, Seascapes from the Roaring Forties
$90.00 AUD
Everything Everything & Fullers Bookshop Publishing. Hobart. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword, poem and chapter text by Finegan Kruckemeyer. 304 PP with b/w and colour photos by Andrew Wilson. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Copy with a signed dedicatory note by the author to previous owner on front endpaper, as well as signed on the title page. Fine. 30.5 x 39.5. 9780992303686
69893 WILSON, Barry SHARK BAY: Discover Monkey Mia & Other Natural Wonders
$10.00 AUD
CALM (Department of Conservation and Land Management) Publications. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 1 b/w illustrations (Portrait of William Dampier) and colour illustrations (1 map with location map and 46 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 21. 0730925323
40928 WINTERNITZ, Dr. Judith AUSTRALIA'S HIDDEN HERITAGE
$15.00 AUD
Office of Multicultural Affairs / AGPS. Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed. XVI, 106 PP with 78 colour photos by John Houldsworth. Stiff cover, dj. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 0644099186
20908 WOOD, G. Arnold THE VOYAGE OF THE ENDEAVOUR
$20.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1926. 1st Ed. VI, (4), 116 PP with 8 b/w illust. in text. Fp: The Endeavour. Covers with light shelf wear, page 107 has a small tear at bottom corner (margin), o/wise a very good clean copy. 18.5 x 12.5.
The author was a professor of history at Sydney University and the book has been written to appeal to both young people & adults.
72917 WOOD, Prof. G.A. GOVERNOR MACQUARIE (in JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. XVI, Part V, 1930)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1930. P.323-402 with 4 b/w illustrations. Soft covers are detached with small parts missing. Contents are intact and still a very good copy. 21 x 14.
Governor Macquarie, by Professor G. A. Wood.
53542 WOOD, Thomas COBBERS CAMPAIGNING
$5.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1940. 1st Ed. 160 PP with facsimile of a letter by the Duchess of Kent to Lady Gowrie. Fp: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Cloth covers rubbed and faded. Ageing of paper, foxing. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 20.5 x 13.5.
74886 WOOD, Thomas COBBERS, A Personal Record of a Journey from Essex, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and some of the Reefs and Islands in the Coral Sea, made in the years 1930, 1931 and 1932
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1936. 9th Impression. XIII, 3, 256 PP plus 9 b/w plates and Fp: Koala (Native Bear) and Cub. Eps: Map of Australia. Note with best wishes on half-title page. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers with light wear and soiling. Contents clean and overall, a very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 20.5 x 13.5.
67239 WORLAND, David G. L. (editor) NEWSLETTER of the Royal Australian Historical Society, No. 11
$5.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1982. Issue No. 11, October 1982. 12 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.5 x 21.
Issue No. 11 - The Sydney Nautical Schools and Vocational Training, by John Ramsland. Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany Bay. Chinese on the Turon Goldfields, by Matthew Higgins.
76422 WORSLEY, Frank FIRST VOYAGE in a Square-Rigged Ship
$65.00 AUD
Geoffrey Bles. London. 1938. 1st Ed. 288 PP. Cloth cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Front cover of dust jacket and blurb on Commander Worsley, pasted down on front endpaper. Foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy of the scarce first edition. 22.5 x 15.
The early experiences of Cdr. Worsley who was with Shackleton on the "Endurance". Pioneering days in New Zealand and first voyage as as apprentice on the "Wairoa", 3-masted sailing ship of the N.Z. Shipping Company.
75325 WORTHINGTON, Jan SCHOLARLY SCOUNDREL: Lauren Hynes Halloran
$25.00 AUD
Halstead Press. Sydney. 2015 1st Ed. Foreword by Keith A. Johnson. 256 PP with 4 family trees, tables and 90 b/w illustrations: 11 headpieces, documents, maps and plans, drawings and paintings, prints and photos, portraits. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 23.5 x 16. 9781925043198
Fake, Forger and Father, Australia's Pioneer Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School.
52927 YORK, Barry MIGRANTS' TALES (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XVII, No. 8, May 2007)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2007. Issue: Volume XVII, No. 8, May 2007. 24 PP. Contains article P.15 to 18 with 5 b/w and 3 colour illust. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7.
Evolution in publication of Migrant biographies and autobiographies.
54921 YORK, Barry REFRACTORY GIRLS (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XVIII, No. 6, March 2008)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2008. Issue: Volume XVIII, No. 6, March 2008. 24 PP. Contains article P. 7 to 10 with 2 colour and 4 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7.
Female factories in the early Australian colonies.
51615 YORK, Michael ALL HANDS ON DECK: The Restoration of the JAMES CRAIG
$65.00 AUD
Citrus Press. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed., with and introduction by Marsden Horden. Foreword by John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia XII, 164 PP with 42 portraits, 26 b/w and 45 colour photos. Title page: The James Craig, Recherche Bay, Tasmania. Eps: sails and rigging plan. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 23.7 x 21. 0975102370
58524 Yorke Peninsula Writers TOP TO TOE
$20.00 AUD
Yorke Peninsula Writers Group Inc. Yorketown, S.A. 1991. 1st Ed. Foreword by Max Fatchen. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. Oblong: 15.4 x 21.7. 0646060325
66834 YOUNG, Beryl (compiler) THE LIBRARY OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND: What's in it for you
$10.00 AUD
Genealogical Society of Queensland Inc. Brisbane. 1998. 1998 edition. (4), 116 PP. Soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
50997 YOUNG, G. F. MEMORIES OF MY MOTHER, And Other Memories
$15.00 AUD
Author. Colac, Victoria. 1944. 1st Ed. 162 PP. Fp: The Arabella loading wool at Condon, North-West Australia. Pictorial soft cover (the Arabella at Condon). Creases to front and back covers. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Home was Apollo Bay in Victoria, Australia.
74551 YOUNG, Jess RECENT JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AUSTRALIA; Its Deserts, Native Races, and Natural History
$40.00 AUD
Gaston Renard. Melbourne. 1978. Limited edition, No.78/200. 54 PP with b/w illustrations. Errata slip loosely inserted. Illustrated card covers a little faded around edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 14. 0959989935
Jess Young was the astronomer of the Giles Expedition and the account was first published in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society in 1878.
69186 YOUNG, Ruth THE PALAIS THEATRE: A Social History of Franklin's Town Hall 1912-2012
$60.00 AUD
Ashwood Books & Franklin Palais Management Committee. Franklin. 2013. June 2013 reprint of the October 2012 original. (6), 244 PP with b/w illustrations (documents, ephemera, plans, photos ...). Pictorial soft cover. Fine (mint condition). 29.7 x 21. 9780987411112
34926 YOUNGER, R. M. (editor) AUSTRALIA! AUSTRALIA!, A Pictorial History - Volume 2: MARCH TO NATIONHOOD
$15.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1977. 1st Ed. 296 PP with b/w and colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 32 x 24.2. 0727002430
72825 ZIEGLER, Oswald (editor) AUSTRALIA 200 - The Official Book of the New South Wales Celebrations commemorating the Bi-Centenary of the Landing of Lieutenant James Cook, R.N., at Botany Bay on 29th April 1770
$70.00 AUD
Oswald Ziegler Enterprises Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. Forewords by John Gordon, Prime Minister of Australia and R. A. Askin, Premier of New South Wales. 424 PP with over 500 illustrations maps, pictures, facsimiles of documents (250 of them in full colour). Cloth cover, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 30.5 x 25.
60211 ZIVETZ, Laurie, BROGAN, Kerry ... DOING GOOD, The Australian NGO Community
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1991. 1st Ed. Preface by Russell Rollason. XI, 288 PP with 3 figures and 26 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.4 x 14. 1863731407