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
South Brisbane, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. More
Brisbane, Pole, Outridge & Co., Printers and Lithographers, 1897. Ferguson 11749 (noting only mauve cloth boards, and not the publisher's full leather). 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, 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
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
Mansfield, R & J Marks, 1994. Dated (2 May 1995), inscribed and signed by the author in ink on the Contents page. 'An attempt to thoroughly address all of the WW2 airstrips of Queensland ... show where they were, what they became and how; what Units were 'there'; when and..... More
Kenmore, Sarah Hodges, 2012. More
This issue also contains ENRIGHT, W.J.: The Initiation Ceremonies of the Aborigines of Port Stephens, NSW (10 pages). More
Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2011. Robert Hamilton Mathews (1841-1918), surveyor and anthropologist. 'Mathews was one of many enthusiasts, mostly with little or no formal training in anthropology, concerned with recording Aboriginal culture. His reports on ceremonial life and language are invaluable, often the only record for large areas of..... More
Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1986. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2014. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1957. The book is based on the author's fieldwork carried out on Cape York Peninsula in 1927-31 and 1934. More
Another relevant article in this issue is GOSSE, Fayette: Sir Thomas Elder GCMG (17 pages). More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 [facsimile edition]/ 1848. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; one of only 501 copies thus. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters is new to this edition; publisher's brochure is loosely inserted. More
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 2015. Edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritchie. More
Cambridge, The Prehistoric Society, 1965. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Yuendumu, Warlpiri Literature Production Centre Inc., 1983. Text in Warlpiri and English. In the Warlpiri Culture series. More
Adelaide, Flinders University City Gallery, 2012. Exhibition catalogue. More
Brisbane, Frank Theatre Press, 2010. Inscribed and signed by the author and illustrator (to Alan Brissenden). 'This devil's logbook is a series of 25 provocations that poke further and deeper into the alchemical triggers and mechanisms that inform the one true actor training system originally devised by Tadashi Suzuki' (rear..... More
East Brisbane, Frank Theatre Press, 2016. Inscribed and signed by the author and Jacqui Carroll to Alan Brissenden. 'This is the last in the Toga trilogy, and much better value' (front cover). More
Diamantina, Diamantina Shire Council, 2003. Situated in central Queensland, Diamantina Shire borders Northern Territory and South Australia. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1987. Warmly inscribed, dated (23 April 1987) and signed 'to a fellow author'. Loosely inserted is a signed, typed letter from the author to Mr S.L. Ryan, Queensland State Librarian. With the launch pamphlet tipped in to the flyleaf. More