[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. More

The earliest image, dated June 1926, shows the site on North Terrace before the commencement of construction; two show the station platforms (in October 1926 and March 1927); two show the railway yards at the approach to the station (one before construction, one in December 1927); and four show the..... More

London, The Folio Society, 2008 (all first thus). [3 items]. More

Farnham, Ashgate, 2015. 'John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's "post-colonial period"' (rear cover blurb). The author is an Associate Professor of Music in the School of Music, The University of Western Australia. More

London, The Aquila Press Limited, 1930. Number 83 of only 150 copies signed by the author. The two poems are 'Simultaneous' (1924) and 'In Provins' (1925). The cover design is by the painter Elliott Seabrooke, the book's dedicatee. Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) was a poet, activist, heiress, and founder of the..... More

Canberra, The British & Foreign Bible Society in Australia, November 1969 (first edition thus). 'The Four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, Ephesians, James and First John in Pitjantjatjara', a dialect of the Western Desert language of central Australia. While the title can be translated as 'The Good News of..... More

Maitland, Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association Inc., 2006. The Narungga people of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. More

Melbourne, The Colony Press, 1993. Number 101 of only 150 copies. Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Banks; with 'many documents which are published for the first time, including correspondence of Arthur Phillip, William Bligh and Banks himself'. More

Richmond, Greenhouse Publications, 1988. More

Adelaide, Nature Lovers' League, [1931]. An interesting posthumous miscellany of autobiography and nature studies by the early conservationist Thomas Paine Bellchambers (1858-1929). More

Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987. In 1944 the Australian Investment Agency (part of the Vestey property empire) commissioned Ronald and Catherine Berndt to conduct a survey of the welfare and conditions of Aboriginal workers on its pastoral properties in the Northern Territory, including Wave Hill, Waterloo and Limbunya..... More

South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2005/ 2004. One of the Australian Army History series. More

London, The Folio Society, 1991 [all volumes, first thus]. The volumes contain wood engravings by Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, Harry Brockway, Ian Stephens, Peter Forster, Howard Phipps and George Tute respectively. [7 items]. More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. George Brown (1835-1917), a Methodist missionary, had his headquarters in Sydney from the early 1880s. More

London, Harrap, 1926 [first UK edition]. More

Adelaide, Blodwen Thomas, [circa early 1950s]. In addition to her (contemporary) ink signature on the print, Buttfield has inscribed and signed the verso at a later date in ballpoint pen ('7 | Nancy Buttfield | Daughter of E.W.H.'). Nancy Buttfield (1912-2005) served as senator for South Australia for over sixteen..... More

Dural, Rosenberg, 2007. 'This book is the result of thirty years' research by Dr R.J. (Bob) Chinnock, the world authority on the family Myoporaceae. He has produced a new classification of the family resulting in the delimitation of three new genera, 95 new species and 46 new subspecies, and a...... More

Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1995. 'In a deliberate challenge to the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register [of massacre sites] reveals that violence was widespread ... Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and..... More