Lost Islands. The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts
Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1984. More
Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1984. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. South Australian Facsimile Editions Number 4 (an early xerographic reproduction). Peade SA4: a total of 526 copies printed. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 210. This is number 81 of only 99 copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 500 copies. The three-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition; the book..... More
Adelaide, Townsend Duryea, [printed circa 1866; original negative circa 1863]. 'Townsend Duryea began making cartes de visite in late 1862 or early 1863, and was advertising his "new" style of carte in May 1863' (Bob Noye, AGSA website). The portrait, taken in Duryea's Adelaide studio, shows Stuart after his epic..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1977/ 1975 (facsimile edition)/ 1865 (second edition)/ 1864. A198: 904 copies. More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1983. The first intended transcontinental expedition; Central Mount Sturt [Stuart], the geographical centre of Australia was climbed and named on 23 April 1860, but insurmountable problems caused the party to turn back two months later, near the Tennant Creek area. From the original manuscript; the first separate..... More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1983. With the ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). The first intended transcontinental expedition; Central Mount Sturt [Stuart], the geographical centre of Australia was climbed and named on 23 April 1860, but insurmountable problems caused the party to turn back two..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2001 (first thus)/ 1858 to 1863. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 3; one of only 500 copies. 'This work republishes the five ... papers published soon after the end of each of Stuart's journeys' (with the exception of the second expedition from..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2001 (first thus)/ 1858 to 1863. Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 3; one of only 500 copies. The prospectus is loosely inserted. 'This work republishes the five ... papers published soon after the end of each of Stuart's journeys' (with the exception..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2002 [first thus]. One of only 201 copies thus (of a total edition of only 300 copies). The first edition of the 'most complete account of the expedition to be published ... the only one for which no manuscript diary or..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2002 [first thus]. Number 7 of only 99 copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of just 300 copies. The first edition of the 'most complete account of the expedition to be published ... the only one for which..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858. This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end..... More
The first nine pages, closely written in ink in a single hand which we know to be that of pastoralist Alfred Barker (1812-1880), contain a version of Stuart's journal for the period from 31 March (the beginning of the expedition) to 17 May 1859, with some significant variation from the..... More
London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1860. The front free endpaper is signed by John McDouall Stuart, at the foot of the following inscription: 'Presented to me Henry Nathaniel Phillips by John McDouall Stuart on board of the Ship "Indus" on her pasage [sic] from South Australia to London..... More
[Melbourne, Bailliere, 1863]. The full text of the advertisement is: 'Will be Published, shortly. Stuart's Journal of Exploration through the Interior of Australia and Across the Continent. F.F. Bailliere, 85 Collins Street East, Publisher in Ordinary to the Victorian Government, and Publisher and Importer of British and Foreign Medical and..... More
New York, Greenwood Press, 1969 (facsimile edition)/ 1849. This facsimile edition was published without the separately issued maps. Loosely inserted is a portrait of Charles Sturt clipped from an unknown source. Provenance: pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), with his small ownership label on both front flyleaves..... More
London, Caliban Books, 1984. With the small ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. An important work, being the first publication of Sturt's manuscript journal written for his wife Charlotte (approximately 100 pages); in addition, it contains a facsimile reprint of 'An Account of the Sea..... More
Lane Cove, Doubleday, 1982 [facsimile edition]/ 1833. More
Lane Cove, Doubleday, 1982 [facsimile edition]/ 1833. More
Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, February 1855. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 53a of 1854-5. Copies of correspondence concerning the intended expedition of the Gregory brothers; with letters from Stokes (2 pages) and Sturt (6 pages). More
London, The Hakluyt Society, 2002 (first thus). Hakluyt Society, Third Series, Number 10. More
[Adelaide, RGSSA, 1944]. Five articles, including two by George Pitt and one by F.L. Parker and J.D. Somerville. More
[Adelaide, RGSSA, 1944]. Loosely inserted is a mimeographed copy of a letter to Mr Macklin (then President of the Chamber of Commerce) from F. Kenneth Milne of the Charles Sturt Memorial Museum Trust (dated November 3, 1966), 'seeking funds to ensure the proper restoration of Captain Sturt's home at the..... More
[Adelaide], Sullivan's Cove ('set and printed entirely by hand at the Nag's Head Press in Christchurch'), 1985. One of only 175 copies initialled by the publisher (James Dally). This is the first publication of these expeditions (from the original manuscripts in the Archives Office of Tasmania). They are 'To the..... More