Cobargo, Croft Press (for the Author), 1993. Number 81 of 220 signed copies (with only 100 for sale); this copy is inscribed and signed in ink by the author (Harry Muir's widow). More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson (under the Sirius imprint), 1984. Inscribed and signed 'to Christopher, cicerone of wisdom and excess - Les': to Christopher Pearson (1951-2013), publisher, editor and newspaper columnist. More

Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1886. 'Prepared specially for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition'. More

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1923. Newland devotes the first 14 pages of his address to the Aborigines of Encounter Bay, and a further 26 pages to whaling in South Australia. The address also includes a lengthy and important contribution by fellow-member (and Government Geologist of SA) Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, on Central..... 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

Tokyo, Kodansha International Ltd., 1980 (one volume), 1981 (four volumes), and 1982 (six volumes), and London, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980 (one volume)/ 1974 to 1979 (original limited edition of 12 volumes). The 12-volume set was originally published as a bilingual edition (Japanese and English) limited to 300 sets. Volume 6..... More

Sydney, Craftsman House, 1985. One of only 50 copies bound thus, with a small certificate of limitation signed by the authors mounted on the verso of the title page. More

Melbourne, Melbourne Publishing Company, 1918. Esther Paterson (1892-1971) was a Melbourne-born painter and illustrator, and the wife of the naval historian George Hemon Gill (1895-1973). The foreword is just that (forward!), and the captioned illustrations are in the same vein ... 'It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to provide a foreword..... More

New York, Museum of Primitive Art, 1967. 'With his ethnographic notes and photographs made among the Asmat people during two expeditions in 1961. Documented by a pictorial and descriptive catalogue of the objects he collected. Edited with an introduction by Adrian A. Gerbrands' (subtitle). The objects in the annotated catalogue..... More

Sydney, Australian Museum, 1993, 1996 and 2003. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Numbers 10, 12 and 17. Dr Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), 'physician, anthropologist and protector of Aborigines [the first northern protector of Aboriginals] ... published eighteen ethnographic bulletins, based on his official reports, on various aspects of Aboriginal..... More

New Haven, Yale University Press/ University of East Anglia, 1997. The prospectus (a little creased, with a tiny ink annotation) is loosely inserted. 'Specialists from European, American and Japanese universities and museums have contributed entries for this catalogue, which provides a research resource for art historians, anthropologists and archaeologists, as..... More

New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1965 (facsimile edition)/ 1897. This volume contains Series 20: Lieder and Songs for One Voice (Part 3). More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1891. The author was a missionary of fourteen years standing in the region at the time the article was written (in German; this translation, from the manuscript, is by J.G.O. Tepper). This issue also contains CHEWINGS, Charles: Geological Notes on the Upper Finke River Basin (pages 247-255 plus..... More

Jakarta, Elf Acquitaine Indonésie, 1989. 'This book, entirely devoted to Borneo (and the whole of it) displays some 550 photographs and 100 ink drawings and provides a comprehensive overview of traditional cultures and their arts' (dustwrapper blurb). The 110 monochrome illustrations to the English text are repeated for the Indonesian..... More

London, British Museum Publications/ The University of Durham Publications Board, 1988. Includes 'a detailed inventory of 169 artifacts ... Until recently the Wola in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea lived in self-sufficient isolation, satisfying their own material needs using a stone technology. This book is a thorough and comprehensive..... More

London, Printed by J.C. Hailes, 1843. The first section comprises a 'Statement of the Proceedings of the Directors for the Information of the Proprietors', with the final unpaginated section consisting of a statement of accounts for the surveys of the River Light and the River Murray. This copy has the..... More

Sydney, Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street, [1888]. This informal group portrait features the Governors of each of the Australian colonies, along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. It was taken on 25 January 1888, the day before the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet at..... More

Charlotte, Herb Eaton Historical Publications, and Marceline, Walsworth Publishing Company, 1983. The foot of the title page is inscribed ('Best Wishes') and signed by the author. More