Leichhardt, the Dauntless Explorer. With an Appendix on his Last and Fatal Journey
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1988. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1988. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1980. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1986. Never before published, this short journal was written by Leichhardt after his overland expedition of 1844-45. More
Sydney, ABC/ William Collins, 1979. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1875. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 57 of 1875 (no text accompanied this map). McLaren 12530-31-32 are confusing (confused?): the first entry refers to this item by correct Parliamentary Paper number but the title is incorrect; the third entry shows the correct title for a map accompanying..... More
[Adelaide], Government Printer, 1884. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 239 of 1883-84; one of only 680 copies. Leaving Katherine in late July 1883, Lindsay 'led a Government expedition of six men into Arnhem Land. He followed the overland telegraph ... to Roper Creek. He travelled east to the Chambers River..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1888. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883', but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition, 'a private one, fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about this series of..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer [for the RGSSA], 1888. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883', but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition, 'a private one, fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about..... More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. This book was published to wide critical acclaim. Lindt was awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 'with special mention for his ethnological photographs, landscapes and photographs from shipboard; they are simply unique. From a technical point of view the..... More
Adelaide, South Australian Government Printer, 1989. More
Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1962 (facsimile edition)/ 1846. Peade SA22: one of only 49 copies of this xerographic facsimile published, with the text bound from fan-fold paper printed on one side only, uncut and unopened along the leading edges. Pages 73-134 relate to South Australia. More
Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1969 (facsimile)/ 1688. With an introduction by David K. Wyatt. More
Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1880. More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. A rare and desirable item, attested to by the provenance of this copy: it has the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover on the pastedown, and the blind-stamp of Sir Thomas Ramsay on the flyleaf ('T.M.R. |..... More
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1994 (facsimile edition)/ 1865. Number 193 of 250 copies (the first 30 of which comprised a deluxe issue). More
London, T. & W. Boone, 1852 (first issue). The 'Rattlesnake' expedition was an important hydrographical survey, and accordingly has a place in a collection of coastal voyages. Significantly, however, most of the second volume is given over to accounts of Edward Kennedy's tragic expedition (by Carron, Jackey-Jackey and others), as..... More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1944 [revised and enlarged edition]/ 1936. Rare with the dustwrapper (in any condition). 'An outline of the early exploration of Central Australia, and its political history, followed by an account of my own journeys in the regions'; these include important geological expeditions, the first aerial reconnaissance..... More
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1948/ 1946. An account of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), geologist and explorer 'planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting..... More
[Flinders University, Flinders Press for the Author, 1997]. The author, the daughter of Dr. C.T. Madigan, lived from 1919 to 1999 with much of her childhood at Blackwood, South Australia, and 'gives an insight into the personality of Dr Madigan...'. More
London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander, quickly suppressed]. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and..... More
London, Sands & Company, 1900. A contemporary review from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' of 26 May 1900 gives a summary of the book: 'The late Mr Thomas Major, who was at one time "Inspector of Runs for the New South Wales Government," has left behind him in "Leaves from a...... More
London, Hakluyt Society, 2001, 2003 and 2004. Hakluyt Society Series 3; Volumes 8, 11 and 13. Edited by Andrew David, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Novi and Glyndwr Williams. [3 items]. More
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1872. 'Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen' (Petermann's Geographical Communications), founded by August Heinrich Petermann in 1855, ceased publication only as recently as 2004. It was 'the oldest German-language journal for geography, in which all major geographical discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were published' (Wikipedia). About J.M. Gilmore..... More
[Paris, 'Levé par Lesueur., J. Milbert direx., Cloquet sculp.', 1824]. A handsomely-presented example of this early French map of Sydney, from the published account of the Baudin expedition of 1800-3. This version comes from the atlas to the second edition of 1824. It contains significantly more detail than the version..... More
London, Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, 2012. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Volume 25. Translated by J.F. Moran; annotations and introduction by Massarella. More