The First 100 Years of the Pichi Richi Railway
Port Augusta, Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society Inc., 1980. More
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A bound volume of four papers by David Riceman on his pioneering research into 'Mineral Deficiency in Plants on the Soils of the Ninety-Mile Plain in South Australia'
Melbourne, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Commonwealth of Australia, 1945 to 1949. The cover title is 'Mineral Deficiency | Ninety Mile Plain, S. A. | by D.S. Riceman, M. Sc., B. Agr. Sc.'; the contents are Reports 1, 2, 4 and 5, the first and last two being reprints..... More
Industrial Archaeology in Australia. Rural Industry
Richmond, Heinemann, 1983 (first edition). More
When Grass was Gold. South Australia's Reach to the Nullarbor
Port Lincoln, The author, 1996. More
The Story of the Camera in Australia
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1955. This deluxe edition consisted of only 100 numbered and signed copies; this out-of-series copy is unnumbered and unsigned. More
Sailing Ships of the Tasman Sea
Wellington, Millwood, 1984. More
A postcard of Jack Hobbs promoting Waterman's fountain pens, signed in ink (naturally)
This unused, albeit lightly foxed, advertising postcard (captioned '"I always use Waterman's" J.B. Hobbs') features a portrait of a late-vintage Jack Hobbs complete with blazer, cigarette and Waterman's pen, busily signing autographs for a couple of young lads. This example has been signed prominently in dark blue ink by Hobbs..... More
Price List. April First, 1937. Kande Quality Kitchenware. Manufactured by Kavanagh & English Ltd... [cover title]
Sydney, Kavanagh and English Ltd., 1937. Price List Number 326 of an unspecified upper limit. Loosely inserted is a processed circular letter on the company's letterhead (2 leaves, rectos only, folded for posting, the leading edges now creased with a few tiny sealed tears). The letter, dated 1 April 1937..... More
Great Central State. The Foundation of the Northern Territory
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2011. More
Hawks in Focus. A Study of Australia's Birds of Prey
Mildura, Jaclin [The Authors], 1981. More
Crusaders of the Southern Cross. The Australian Light Horse in the Middle East from the Letters of Colonel Jack Davies M.C., V.D
Leichhardt, Elsie Ritchie, 1998. Pastoralist Colonel Jack Rupert Cyril Davies, M.C., V.D. (1882-1956) of the 12th Light Horse was awarded the Military Cross in the field after the charge of Beersheba. Sometime member of General Chauvel's staff during WW1, he was also Deputy-Director Recruiting A.I.F. during WW2 ('Australian Dictionary of..... More
Tribal Rugs from Afghanistan and Turkestan
London, Franses of Piccadilly, 1973. 'A handbook to the exhibition presented at Franses of Piccadilly ... from 18 September 1973'. More
Polynesian Navigation. A Symposium on Andrew Sharp's Theory of Accidental Voyages
Wellington, Polynesian Society/ Reed, 1972 (third edition)/ 1962. The third edition, with a new foreword and supplementary bibliography. More
Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Acton, ANU Press, 2017. Inscribed and signed in ink on the title page by editor Jack Golson. 'Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m in the upper Wahgi Valley ... was found to be a complex area of valleys and basins inhabited by large populations of people and pigs..... More
Russell Lee, Photographer
Dobbs Ferry, Morgan & Morgan, 1978. Introduction by Robert Coles. With the pencilled ownership signature of Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019). More
Orchids. Flowers of Romance and Mystery
New York, Abrams, 1975. More
Palms and Cycads around the World. A Comprehensive Pictorial Description of Both Species
Cammeray, Horwitz Grahame, 1990. More
Cezanne. His Life and Art
London, Evelyn, Adams & Mackay Ltd, 1969. More
Fanfrolico and After
London, The Bodley Head, 1962. With the embossed ownership details of collector Sir Thomas Meek Ramsay (1907-1995), of Kiwi boot polish fame. More
The Loch Ard Disaster. Tenth Edition
[Portarlington], Marine History Publications, 1995 [updated]/ 1986. More
A Hawk for the Bush. A Treatise on the Training of the Sparrow-hawk and other Short-winged Hawks
London, Neville Spearman, 1973 [revised edition]/ 1960. More
Memoirs of the Pit
Highgate, Stockquest Ltd., 1984. More
Ticonderoga. Tales of an Enchanted Yacht
Mystic, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc, 1997. More
Primulas Old and New. Auriculas, Primulas, Primroses, Polyanthus
Newton Abbot, David & Charles, [1980s]. More
Whack 'im on a Charge
Coolangatta, Razorback Investments, 2005. A related compliments slip is loosely inserted. More