The earliest printed accounts of the expedition of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, and the settlement at Sydney Cove appeared in issues of the 'London Chronicle' in early 1789. Important accounts appeared in the issues for 24-26 March (Number 5058) and 26-28 March (Number 5059). This particular issue contains..... More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1939 (one volume), 1940 (two volumes), 1941 (four volumes), 1942 (four volumes) and 1943 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, the others are mixed editions ranging from the eighth to the sixteenth (Volume 12). The Australian Government accepted Charles..... More

London, Basilisk Press, 1976. Number 494 of 515 copies. 'This volume reproduces 25 coloured drawings of Australian plants made in 1801-5 by Ferdinand Lukas Bauer when he was official Botanical Draughtsman' on the 'Investigator' under Matthew Flinders. The plates, selected from among 236 held in the British Museum, are published..... More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1936 (one volume), 1938 (one volume), 1941 (one volume), 1942 (four volumes), 1943 (four volumes) and 1944 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, the others are mixed editions ranging from the third to the thirteenth (Volumes 2, 3 and..... More

London, John Murray, 1848. For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia, and contains, from this source, detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer, on Agriculture, Stock Farming, Building, Gardening, Manufacturing in various branches ... and Mining and Mineral..... More

Sydney, 'Kerry Photo', [circa 1890s, but printed early in the twentieth century?]. Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928) 'turned a small portrait studio into the colony's largest photographic organization. Kerry sold albums of high-quality pictures ... and sold prints to the public. In 1885 he was asked to prepare an exhibit of..... More

The contract reads 'Bloemfontein | 13 Apl 1900 | I.O.U. Ten Pounds [with Ten crossed out in pencil, £15 written above it in ink, and 'Fifteen' in pencil, with both initialled in pencil by F.W. Belt] | F.W. Belt | Payable to H.C. Hawker or order'; H.C. Hawker has signed..... More

[No Place, The Author], December 1956. An explanation for the failure of this work to be published may be found in the following sequence of contemporary events. In 1958, Lady Paquita Mawson published the biography of her father, 'A Vision of Steel. The Life of G.D. Delprat CBE. General Manager..... More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1905 (third edition, preface dated 30 June)/ 1905. We presume the first edition to be the series of newspaper articles. We have not seen this third edition before; apart from the tipped-in leaf, it also contains an additional two pages of text..... More

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Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934 (one volume), 1935 (one volume), 1936 (two volumes), 1937 (three volumes), 1938 (two volumes), 1942 (one volume), 1943 (one volume) and 1944 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, the fifth volume is the first edition of 1937, the..... More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1921 ('From the SA "Register", September 2, 1899'). The frontispiece is inscribed and signed by Sir George Brookman (1850-1927), mining entrepreneur, businessman and politician. 'After news of promising gold finds in Western Australia, Brookman formed the Adelaide Prospecting Party (later Coolgardie Gold Mining and..... More

Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More