Abel Janszoon Tasman. A Bibliography
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public LIbrary of New South Wales, 1963. More
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public LIbrary of New South Wales, 1963. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies. More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and..... More
Brisbane, RGSQ, 1945 to 1959. Besides the mandatory Queensland material, there are excellent articles on Papua New Guinea, the Northern Territory, Aborigines and exploration. These include CUTLACK, Morley: The Wealth of Central Australia (17 pages with 5 illustrations); CONNELLAN, E.J.: Population Potential of the Northern Territory (23 pages); TOWNER, Major..... More
London, Scriptum, 1997 (third printing)/ 1997. More
Ninety-one numbers (Volumes 23 and 24 were issued as one volume) plus the separately issued paper envelopes of maps for Volumes 18 and 19 (the second envelope is a little worn and stained); nine early numbers are bound as five volumes in publisher's half morocco, and Volume 4 is bound..... More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia, 1979. More
1975. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Number **. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. Bertram Armytage was the first Australian-born member of an Antarctic expedition. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. The author was one of a small party of men, under Ralph Milner of Killalpaninna, which set out in December 1870 with 7000 sheep and about 300 horses, with the intention of claiming a South Australian Government reward for the first 1000 sheep or 100 head of..... More
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1996 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1988. Signed by the author on the title page. More
London, HMSO, 1887. Offered together with four other volumes of reports from this most important research expedition, namely 'Summary of Scientific Results' (Parts 1 and 2, 1895), and 'Zoology', Volumes 22 and 32 (1888 and 1889). These four volumes are also large quarto, uncut and unopened in the original dark..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. This issue also contains ASHWIN, Arthur C.: From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71 (47 pages). More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 209 of 1878. Barclay and his small party left Alice Springs on 31 January 1878; before turning back on 4 June, they had almost reached the Queensland border. Lack of food and water was the main problem, exacerbated on their return..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1905. This issue also contains HEDLEY, C.: Report on the Mollusca collected by Mr H. Basedow on the South Australian Government North-West Expedition (5 pages plus a plate) and TEPPER, J.G.O.: Insects collected ... [on the same Expedition] by H. Basedow (9 pages). Herbert Basedow also contributes two..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1914. An important expedition, scientifically and anthropologically, under the leadership of L.A. Wells; it filled in the gap 'linking together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions'. This volume also contains the annual address of the President, John LEWIS, with lengthy sections on Eyre, Sturt and..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1914. An important expedition, scientifically and anthropologically, under the leadership of L.A. Wells; it filled in the gap 'linking together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions'. McLaren 5065 (this separate issue). Many of the photographs are of strong Aboriginal interest. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., Printers (for the Society), 1916. The Victoria, Fitzmaurice, Daly, Adelaide, McKinlay and Mary Rivers; among others. McLaren 5066 (this issue). More
Canberra, National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. Exhibition catalogue containing hundreds of rarely-seen Basedow images. Not least, many photographs of aborigines. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2004 [first thus]/ 1974. The prospectus is loosely inserted. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 222; one of only 201 copies thus (plus another 99 numbered and bound in quarter leather). The 1974 edition, essentially by the same publisher, was the first complete..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1970. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1970. More
Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1979. The systematic destruction of the Sturt legend (created mainly 'by his writings and posturings') and the synthesis of a man 'more credible, more human, of greater depth and complexity, but still brave and worthy, if in a different way'. More
London, Ashgate for Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More