The author was a member of the South Australian Mounted Police Force from September 1840 to January 1846. This issue also contains articles on the memorial to Captain Collett Barker (12 pages), the destruction of Stuart's tree at Chambers Bay (6 pages), and recollections of various old SA colonists (27..... More

Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More

Melbourne, Melbourne Invitation Committee, [1948]. The book is essentially a photographic introduction to Melbourne. It is offered together with a companion publication of the same vintage, with the first page of text commencing 'Hereby the Melbourne Invitation Committee renews with cordiality its invitation ...' (quarto, light blue cloth with a...... More

Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Inscribed on an early blank, in what we know to be the hand of Charles Todd, to 'Mr Edwd Stirling Junr / Xmas 1865'; with the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling. Ferguson 16245; Holden 103. We have previously sold a copy..... More

The imagery suggests pantomime - perhaps it was artwork for a poster - but any attempt at description falls far short of the boldly carved object itself. More

The expedition was the culmination of several varying investigations over the previous decade: Madigan's first aerial reconnaissance in 1929, Colson's crossing (practically along the 26th parallel) in 1936, and a journey by truck around the northern end of the desert in 1937. This pioneering scientific expedition, of nine men and..... More

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889) left Alice Springs for Western Australia in April 1873 with six men and seventeen camels. The party 'endured long periods of extreme heat with little water, and survived only by killing the camels for meat. They reached the..... More

'Situated west of the Stuart highway about halfway between Port Augusta and Woomera, Yudnapinna can trace its pastoral origins to mid nineteenth century. The property was established by Thomas McTurk Gibson and was one of the largest sheep stations in South Australia, with peak shearing of 100,000 sheep in the..... More