Life at Cordeaux River, New South Wales. Compiled and Edited by John L. Herben
Mount Kembla, J.L. McNamara, 2000. Inscribed, dated (13 February 2001) and signed by the author. More
New Arrivals
Forman's Guide to Third Reich German Awards .. and their Values. Second Edition. [Together with] Forman's Guide to Third Reich German Documents .. and their Values. Volume 1 [and] .. Volume 2
San Jose, R. James Bender, 1993 (second edition), 1995 and 1996 [first editions]. More
Uniforms, Organization and History of the Waffen-SS. Volume 1
San Jose, R. James Bender Publishing, 1986/ 1969. More
Queensland Frontier
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978. More
Half a Century in Arnhem Land
One Tree Hill, SA, Ella and Harold Shepherdson, 1981. Pioneering missionaries (from 1928) at Milingimbi and Elcho Island. More
The Artist's Lunch. At Home with Australia's Most Celebrated Artists
Millers Point, Murdoch Books, 2008. Signed by the author, photographer, and artists Mirka Mora, Margaret Olley and Fred Cress, and three others (including publisher Pat Corrigan). Loosely inserted is the personally inscribed invitation to the book launch. More
Ladies' Legs and Lemonade
Adelaide, Rigby, 1979. Warmly inscribed, dated (August 2007) and signed by the author, influential contemporary Australian art dealer and much else besides. More
Australian Artists. Portraits .
Neutral Bay, Chapter and Verse/ Patrick Corrigan, 2004. Signed by the photographer, and warmly inscribed, and signed (twice) by the publisher on the title page, and hand-numbered 131 of 300 copies, and signed a third time by the publisher. More
South Australia in 1837, in a Series of Letters. With a Postscript as to 1838. Second edition, with additional information
London, Harvey and Darton, [1838], second edition/ 1838. The map, 'Part of South Australia from the Surveys of Colonel Light', with an inset map of Australia, appears only in this second edition. Ferguson 2498 (noting dark green or brown cloth). More
Finlayson. A Family History of Scottish Pioneers of South Australia.
Holdfast Bay, The Finlayson Book Committee, March 1987. William and Helen Finlayson and their known descendants, 1987 being the 150th Anniversary of their arrival at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg), South Australia. More
Economic Development of Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory. A Study in Two Parts. 1. Impact of mining roylaties 2. Self-sufficiency (with land rights)
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1980. More
Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2007. More
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
New York, Weathervane Books, [1970s, facsimile edition]/ 1931 [first edition thus]. More
The 36th Australian Infantry Battalion, 1939-1945. The Story of an Australian Infantry Battalion and its Part in the War against Japan
Sydney, 36th Battalion Association, 1967. Inscribed 'To Jamie from Uncle Rex' above a pasted-in sepia-toned photograph (a later reproduction) of a young Aboriginal serviceman, presumably a member of the battalion. More
Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria, and other Australian Districts; with Parallel Translations and Familiar Specimens in Dialogue, as a Guide to Aboriginal Protectors, and Others engaged in ameliorating their Condition .. Second edition
Geelong, Thomas Brown, 1859 ['second' but actually the third edition]/ 1856/ 1851. Ferguson 7665 (noting that this is in fact the third edition, the second having been published by Slater, Williams and Hodgson in Melbourne in 1856 - see Ferguson 7663). More
The Discovery of the Adelaide River. Being Extracts from the Manuscript Journals of Benjamin Francis Helpman, a Master's Mate of HM Sloop 'Beagle'. Edited by E.M. Christie. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 47, 1946
This issue also contains PURVIS, Mrs A.V.: This Township named Stuart, now Alice Springs. A History of Early Settlement within the Central MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia (22 pages plus a plate). More
Report on the Geology of the Northern Territory
Melbourne, Commonwealth Government, 1912. Bulletin of the Northern Territory Number 4, November 1912. More
Report and Plans of Explorations in Central Australia
Melbourne, Department of External Affairs, 1916. Bulletin of the Northern Territory, Number 20, December 1916. An account of two expeditions between April and September 1915 and May and October 1916. 'The first expedition left Oodnadatta on the 23rd March, travelling by way of Macumba, Dalhousie, and Arina Water, on the... More
Souvenir of Egypt. 70 Illustrations of Lower and Upper Egypt, including all the principal views of places of interest on the Nile
Bolton, Tillotson, [no date, circa 1900]. More
Patrolling in Papua
London, Fisher Unwin, July 1923 (second impression)/ April 1923. The dustwrapper is printed on acidic paper, with a tendency to brittleness; surviving examples in any state must be rare. 'With twenty-five natives, most of whom were persons convicted of cannibalism, the author, without a white companion, made a journey right... More
Rabbit Destruction - Dr Danysz's Experiments. Second Progress Report on Experiments made with the Danysz Virus for the Destruction of Rabbits, by Dr E. Angas Johnson and W.J.P. Giddings, Honorary Commissioners for the South Australian Government
Melbourne, J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria (for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia), 1907. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1907; one of 950 copies. Jean Danysz (1860-1928), microbiologist, 'spent much of his working life at the Institut Pasteur in France and isolated a.... More
Golden Miles
London, Jonathan Cape, 1948. Sequel to 'The Roaring Nineties', and the second in the trilogy. More
Golden Miles
London, Jonathan Cape, 1948. Sequel to 'The Roaring Nineties', and the second in the trilogy. More
Lucky Alphonse
Melbourne, Reed & Harris, 1944. Cynthia Nolan's first book. More
A Mother's Offering to her Children, by a Lady Long Resident in New South Wales
Milton, Jacaranda Press, 1979 [first thus]/ 1841. Marcie Muir's pamphlet, 'Charlotte Barton: Australia's First Children's Author' finally solved the mystery of the identity of the author, long misattributed by Ferguson (based on information pencilled in the Petherick copy in the National Library). The thirteen stories in the book are drawn... More