Neuendettelsau, Freimund, 1961, 1963 and 1962. The history of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in New Guinea. Volume 1 carries a gift inscription (September 1962) from Pastor Max Lohe, 'President of U.E.L.C.A. [United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia], Lutheran Church House, North Adelaide' to Pastor L. Grope. Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope... More about Band 1]: Die Geschichte der Neuendettelsauer Mission in Neuguinea. Band 2: Die Mission zwischen...

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. The ownership signature and address of Frederick Roy Vyse (1895-1957) are written in ink on the front flyleaf of each volume. His collection of Aboriginal artefacts was said to be the best outside the South Australian Museum: 'he knew the history and meanings of... More about The Arunta. A Study of a Stone Age People

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. 'The only names of Australians which are at all familiar to the general run of Englishmen are those of cricketers, rowers, and prize-fighters. If the individualities of merely the Australian public men who, like many of these others, have visited England, were half as familiar... More about The Australians. A Social Sketch

Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, [1819]. Attractive woodcut illustrations of 104 trades and professions of the day, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text: pharmacist, cooper, pastry-cook, turner, carpenter, organ -builder, vinegar-maker, butcher, glazier, hatmaker, huntsman, tinsmith ... and that's just the first dozen. Johannes Andreas Christian Lohr (1764-1823) was a.... More about Die Kunste und Gewerbe des Menschen. Zum Behuf nutzlicher Kenntnisse in 104 Abbildungen [The Arts...

Toowoomba, Printed by Robertson & Provan Ltd. [for the Author? circa 1920]. More about The Early History of Warwick District and Pioneers of the Darling Downs

London, Dent, 1929. Uncommon with the dustwrappers (in any condition). More about Australian Discovery By Sea [and] By Land

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852. More about Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia; the Right of the Colonies and the...

London, SPCK (for the National Missionary Council of Australia), 1935. The bulk of the work is by the editor, with lengthy contributions (25 pages each) by A.P. ELKIN (Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal) and J.W. BLEAKLEY (The Aborigines - Past and Present Treatment). Reverend John Stafford Needham (1875-1942) was, for... More about White and Black in Australia

Milsons Point, Knopf/ Random House, 2002. More about Broken Song. T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession

Adelaide, Preece, 1926. More about Memoirs of Simpson Newland CMG, sometime Treasurer of South Australia

Wahroonga, Turton and Armstrong, 1992. Number 80 of only 200 copies of this deluxe edition; a trade edition in papered boards with a dustwrapper was also issued. The posthumously-published autobiography of the Australian automotive engineer (1903- January 1992) 'whose 60-year international career included the creation of landmark designs for both... More about An Autobiography

Adelaide, Hussey and Gillingham, 1915. More about Yorke's Peninsula Aboriginal Mission Incorporated. A Brief Record of its History and Operations

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969. The account of the last journey, in October 1922, of the author's desperately ill father, the Reverend Carl Strehlow, overland from Hermannsburg to the railhead at Oodnadatta; Horseshoe Bend was where he died and was buried. The author, who made the trip with his father... More about Journey to Horseshoe Bend