From Wagon Tracks to Bitumen. The Evolution of the Stuart Highway
Hawthorndene, The Author, 2005. More
Catalogue 90
Unusual maps are some of the highlights of our latest catalogue: MacDonald Gill’s eye-catching poster maps of Australia and New Zealand issued during the Second World War are one thing; John Arrowsmith’s The District of Adelaide, South Australia from 1840, is something else again!
Signed items are in abundance, including an autograph letter signed by Edmund Dulac; two small signed drawings by Clifton Pugh; books signed by J.M. Coetzee, Nancy Cunard and Leon Carmen (aka Wanda Koolmatrie); signed photographs of Admiral Edward Evans, Dame Nancy Buttfield and Pelé; and autographs of Jørn Utzon and Gough Whitlam.
Accounts of voyages include Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes by Charles de Brosses (two volumes, 1756); and Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by François Péron, continued by Louis de Freycinet (three volumes, 2003-2008). This is one of only 400 sets of the first full edition in English of the official account of the 1800-03 French voyage of exploration to Australia under the command of Nicolas Baudin.
The Collected Works .... Edited by A.K. Thomson
Brisbane, The Jacaranda Press, 1967. Volume 1: Introduction; Schnappering; Early Moreton Bay. Volume 2: The Discoverers of the Brisbane River; Memories of Amity; Sport and Pastime in Moreton Bay; Bribie, the Basket Maker. [2 items]. More
Artesian Bores of South Australia. An Annotated Photographic Record, 1939-1948
Warradale, Pioneer Books, 1980. Number 14 of only 100 copies. More
A Compendium of Cattle Medicine; or, Practical Observations on the Disorders of Cattle and the other Domestic Animals, except the Horse. With a Series of Essays on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of Horned Cattle and Sheep, As communicated to the Bath and West of England Society
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. (and others), 1825 (fifth edition). This treatise is the fourth volume of the author's 'Treatise on Veterinary Medicine'. Provenance: Henry Metcalfe Esqr., with his appropriately bovine armorial bookplate featuring three calves passant sable (an example of canting arms, where the charges are a pun..... More
The Aunt's Story
New York, The Viking Press, 1948 (first edition, first issue). 'Viking did not intend to send proofs to White. White insisted and then proceeded to make 31 corrections. Fourteen of these were accepted and an errata slip was added to the first printing. In the second printing the errors were..... More
A signed portrait of Gough Whitlam (1916-2014, 21st Prime Minister of Australia)
The portrait reproduces a photograph of Gough Whitlam in the Oval Office with Richard Nixon, and is boldly signed by Whitlam with a black marker pen. Accompanying it is a leaf from 'The Monthly' (August 2012) giving an account of the visit, which took place on 30 July 1973. By..... More
Two Laws. Managing Disputes in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987. The Yolngu in Arnhem Land and their 'perceptions of Australian law during a critical period (1969-70)'. More
Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Volume 1
Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999. One of the Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series. 'This volume of essays arises from the first biennial Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, held at the University of Hull in July 1997' (dustwrapper blurb). More