Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1986. Number 24 of 160 copies. A new edition of the rare 1875 first (and only other) publication (South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 215 of 1874 and Number 21 of 1875), here incorporating about fifty author's corrections. An account of Giles' first expedition from August to November..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000 (first thus)/ 1872 to 1876. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 2. This is number 7 of 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 600 copies. The parliamentary papers reprinted here are Number 21 of 1875, Number..... More
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1993 (facsimile edition)/ 1875. Number 184 of 220 copies. The account of Giles's first and second expeditions in Central Australia, during which he discovered the Gibson Desert, Lake Amadeus and Mount Olga (Kata Tjuta). More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999/ 1880. Reset from the first published edition of 1880, this edition was limited to only 400 numbered copies and quickly went out of print. More
[Broken Hill, The Author, 1937]. Reprinted from the 'Barrier Miner' (13 August 1937), which specifies that the text was delivered as a talk to the Field Naturalists' Club. It concerns a series of cave inscriptions carved by explorer Ernest Giles between 1861 and 1863 at Nootumbulla Creek (now in the..... More
London, Richard Bentley, 1862 (first edition, first issue). An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s ('A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia, including station properties, social conditions, travel, aborigines, etc.' according to Ferguson), but there's much more ... In the second..... More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1985. One of only 210 numbered copies; reprinted from 'The Adelaide Observer', 3 February 1883. 'Mr Ernest Giles, the explorer, has furnished us with the following notes of his late trip west of the Peake and neighbouring regions, which, although essentially a private expedition, will be seen..... More