London, Macmillan, St Martin's Press, 1971. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title ('- the guilty party. Lionel Robbins'). Loosely inserted is an original photograph (203 × 253 mm, folded down the centre) of the author standing next to his portrait. Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, CH, CB... More about Autobiography of an Economist
Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1879. 'For the Information of Gentlemen of the Medical and other Scientific Professions' is printed at the head of the front cover. Circumcision, tattooing and nose-piercing, but primarily sub-incision. More about Report .. upon Certain Peculiar Habits and Customs of the Aborigines of Western Australia. To...
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1871. With the bookplate of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Stow Memorial Library, noting that the book was presented by Elizabeth E. Labatt, in memory of her brothers (C.B., S.B., and J.B. Labatt). A short article in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' for 20 December 1938... More about Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution
[Melbourne], Commonwealth Government Printer, 1924. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 133 of 1923-24; only 960 copies printed. The journey of the famous Arctic explorer 'as the guest of the Commonwealth Government was by train from Adelaide to Oodnadatta, and by motor car from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs and back' with side... More about Central Australia. Report
Cremorne, Talkarra Press, 1954. Number 13 of only 225 copies. The limitation page is inscribed and signed in ink to Jean, the wife of the publisher Walter Stone, by him ('For Jean: her copy of a book she watched grow. from Wal. 1.2.54') and by the author ('and from P.R.... More about Kookaburras and Satyrs. Some Recollections of The Fanfrolico Press
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the... More about Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia .. Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored...
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858. This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end... More about Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia .. Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored...
London, John Murray, 1867 (translated from the third German edition of 1865 by Walter C. Perry). With the bookplate of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Stow Memorial Library, noting that the book was presented by Elizabeth E. Labatt, in memory of her brothers (C.B., S.B., and J.B. Labatt). A...... More about History of the French Revolution
London, Putnam, [1930]. The account of Terry's third planned expedition: the 1928 seven-month journey with two six-wheel Morris trucks commenced in Port Hedland and went through Broome, Halls Creek, Tanami, the Granites and Alice Springs, then on to Adelaide and Melbourne. 'The total distance finally covered was 5,500km in this... More about Hidden Wealth and Hiding People
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927. With the large pictorial bookplate of William A. Crowle (with the later ownership details of 'C. Evanoff, May 22nd, 1958' written in ink on it). McLaren 15920. More about Through a Land of Promise. With Gun, Car and Camera in the Heart of Northern Australia
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. Not least, there is a lengthy well-illustrated account (88 pages) of their travels through the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia; Michael Terry figures prominently. More about The Amateur Settlers
Wellingborough, Aquarian Press, 1973. 'The Secret Rituals of the Golden Dawn in the Outer ... are now published in their original form as taken from manuscripts dated 1899. This means the manuscripts were compiled before the split in the Order which caused its disintegration and the alteration of its teachings... More about The Secret Rituals of the Golden Dawn
London, Mappin & Webb (1908) Ltd., [1908]. The selection of jewellery and timepieces runs out by page 73; the balance of the catalogue contains everything else the well-heeled Edwardian might desire, especially for the table, writing desk and boudoir. More about Mappin & Webb (1908) Ltd. Manufacturing Goldsmiths and Silversmiths, Jewellers and Watchmakers
