Rex Battarbee. Artist and Founder of the Aboriginal Art Movement in Central Australia
Sydney, Legend Press, 1956. The half-title is signed and inscribed by the author ('Rex Battarbee | '"Tmara-mara", | Alice Springs | NT 5750 | 22-8-1969'). More
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Wild Rivers. Franklin/ Denison/ Gordon
Sandy Bay, Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. A singular copy: the title page is signed by Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996), Bob Brown and Alan Missen, 'Senator for Victoria' (1925-1986), who 'spoke out against the building of Tasmania's Franklin River dam' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More
From the Ochres of Mungo. Aboriginal Art Today
West Heidelberg, Dorr/ McLeod Publishing, 1984. 'Overview of traditional themes, forms and styles from earliest archaeological evidence, including body painting, woodcarving, sculpture, basketry, baobab nut carving, stone arrangement, to modern innovations in pottery, painting in European tradition; and silk screen printing' (Trove). More
Arts of the Dreaming. Australia's Living Heritage
Sydney, Lansdowne, 1984. Loosely inserted are a pair of single-page ALS on the author's letterhead (both folded four times, slightly marked and still in their orginal envelopes) to noted aboriginal art collector Milton Roxanas, as well as a pair of newspaper clippings. More
Tjukurrtjanu. The Origins of Western Desert Art
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 2011 (first edition). Exhibition catalogue produced by the NGV in collaboration with the Papunya Tula Artists. Loosely inserted is a printed 2-page letter dated 4 October 2011 on NGV letterhead (creased at the top) inscribed and signed by Judith Ryan (then Senior Curator of Indigenous..... More
Windows on the Dreaming. Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery
Chippendale, Australian National Gallery/ Ellsyd Press, 1989. With some related ephemera loosely inserted. More
Dancing Up Country. The Art of Dorothy Napangardi
Circular Quay, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. Exhibition catalogue. More
Wallumedegal. An Aboriginal History of Ryde
Ryde, City of Ryde, 2005. More
Antarctica. A Biography
North Sydney, Knopf, 2012. An account of 'two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics ... in fascinating detail' (dustwrapper blurb). More
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Early Adelaide Architecture, 1836 to 1886. [A Photographic Record]
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. The book contains '191 photographs of buildings erected before 1887 in the City of Adelaide. These photographs were all taken by S.H. Gilbert and are supported by full captions giving wherever possible details of the design, construction, ownership and tenancy of the buildings illustrated'. Many..... More
The Confidential Clerk. A study of Charles Flaxman in South Australia and his relationship with George Fife Angas
[Adelaide], Elizabeth H. Bright, 1983. Foreword by Sir Walter Crocker. More
Gipps-La Trobe Correspondence, 1839-1846
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989. Number 5 in the Miegunyah Press Series. More
Wild Flowers of Australia
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1939. Uncommon with the dustwrapper (in any condition). More
The Bell's Ringing, 1879-1979. A Centenary History of Wirrabara Public School
Wirrabara, Wirrabara Public School Centenary Committee, 1979. More
Unemployed Workers. A Social History of the Great Depression in Adelaide
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1978. Examines 'the everyday lives of the unemployed during the Great Depression against the broader historical setting [where] from 1890 to 1940 severe unemployment was the norm in Australia' (dustwrapper). More
Governor, William & Julia Sorell. Three Generations in Van Diemen's Land
Eastlands, The Author, [1987]. More
Merchant Campbell, 1769-1846. A Study of Colonial Trade
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1965. More
Australia's Colonial Culture. Ideas, Men and Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957. With a Foreword by C. Hartley Grattan. More
W.H. Gray. A Pioneer Colonist of South Australia. His Life and Times (1808-1896) and His Estate (1896-1975)
Adelaide, The Author, 1977. More
W.H. Gray. A Pioneer Colonist of South Australia. His Life and Times (1808-1896) and His Estate (1896-1975)
Adelaide, The Author, 1977. More
Wilson Transformer. 50 Years of Achievement
[Glen Waverley], Wilson Electric Transformer Co. Pty. Ltd., 1983. Dated (16 December 1987), signed and warmly inscribed by Robert Wilson, the company's managing director. More
Ruby Davy. Academic and Artiste. A Biography of Australia's First Woman Doctor of Music
Salisbury, Salisbury and District Historical Society, 1995. More
Eloquent Witnesses. Bookbindings and their History. A Volume of Essays dedicated to the memory of Dr Phiroze Randeria
London and New Castle, The Bibliographical Society of London, The British Library/ Oak Knoll Press, 2004. '... demonstrates the change in direction the study of bookbinding history has taken. Much of the work ... here is based on minute observation of details of structure, techniques and materials ...'. (dustwrapper). More
The Military Revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988/ 1988. The Lee Knowles Lectures 1984. With 44 illustrations and 2 maps. More
We Will Remember Them. AIF Epitaphs of World War I
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1995. More