Birds of Australia. Illustrations by John Gould. Text by Abram Rutgers
London, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967. More
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Cameos of Commandos. Memories of Eight Australian Commando Squadrons in New Guinea and Queensland
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during World War 2. More
Province of South Australia. Land Grant under Preliminary Sales in England and Partial Purchase in the Province. Country Section... [A printed document, with manuscript insertions]
Land Grant Number 639 is for 'Eighty-two acres numbered "903" in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'James Warland and George Warland of Adelaide' for the sum of £2. Elizabeth Warburton, in 'The Paddocks Beneath. A History of Burnside from the Beginning' (1981), makes short work of locating the land in..... More
Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants, both Indigenous and Naturalised, to which are added, where known, the Aboriginal and other Vernacular Names ... and Copious Notes on the Properties, Features &c. of the Plants
Brisbane, A.J. Cumming, Government Printer, 1909 (revised second edition)/ 1890 (under the title 'Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland'). More
Plants reputed Poisonous and Injurious to Stock
Brisbane, James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1887. More
A Thousand Men at War. The Story of the 2/16th Battalion AIF
London, Heinemann, 1959. 'The 16th Battalion, originally recruited in Western Australia, suffered heavy casualties, and eventually, through reinforcements, represented a wide cross-section of the typical Australian citizen-soldier' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Cameos of Commandos. Memories of Eight Australian Commando Squadrons in New Guinea and Queensland
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during World War 2. More
Cameos of Commandos. Memories of Eight Australian Commando Squadrons in New Guinea and Queensland
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during World War 2. Loosely inserted in this copy is the official AMF 'Certificate of Discharge' certifying that VX102581 Trooper Robert Alexander Cyril Davis, 2/7 Australian Commando Squadron, served on continuous full time war service..... More
Australia in the Korean War, 1950-53. Volume 1: Strategy and Diplomacy... Volume 2: Combat Operations
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1981 and 1985. More
Money-making Formulas. A Collection of Practical Formulas and Recipes for Use in Industry and the Home
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1949. 'In compiling the encyclopaedia of formulas and recipes, my object has been to make it of special value to people living in the Southern Hemisphere ... Selecting from the tens of thousands of formulas from many countries, I have chosen those that seem of greatest..... More
Television. Adelaide, 30th May - 2nd June. Souvenir of the Unique Occasion of the First Full Demonstration of Television in Adelaide. Sponsored by The Shell Company of Australia Limited [cover title]
[Adelaide], The Shell Company of Australia Limited, [1949]. This demonstration occurred over a decade before television was officially launched in Adelaide, on 5 September 1959. More
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Peoplestores Ltd... Winter Mail Order Catalogue [cover title]
Adelaide, Peoplestores Ltd., [circa 1960]. There is reference on page 44 to items 'as advertised on TV' in Adelaide, where it was launched on 5 September 1959. More
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Myer Mail Shoppers' Guide. Spring-Summer, 1933-4 [cover title]
Melbourne, The Myer Emporium Ltd., 1933. More
Select Extra-Tropical Plants, readily eligible for Industrial Culture and Naturalization, with Indications of their Native Countries and some of their Uses
Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, 1888 ('seventh edition, revised and enlarged')/ 1885. The front flyleaf is inscribed and signed 'To Professor Scott, &c Memb[er] of the Inter[nation]al Medical Congress of 1889, presented on behalf of the Vict. Government by Ferd von Mueller'. Later provenance: Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937), the..... More
The Surgions Mate. A Complete Facsimile of the Book published in 1617. Introduction and Appendix by John Kirkup
Bath, Kingsmead Press, 1978 (facsimile, first thus)/ 1617. With the ownership signature of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, this first reprinting since the seventeeth century is enlarged by the introductory essay (with biographical outline), an appendix, a map and plates. More
From the River to the Hills. Campbelltown - 150 Years
Campbelltown, City of Campbelltown, 1986. More
Robur Profit-sharing Catalogue. Fourth Edition [cover title]
Melbourne, Robur Tea Company, 1 April 1934 (see inside the front cover). More
Essays in the History of the Physiological Sciences
Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi B.V., 1995. 'Due to its unique richness and variety of facts, interpretations, theoretical models, and moreover unanswered questions, physiology remains a matter of considerable, historical and epistemological interest'. Clio Medica 33, the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. More
French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi B.V., 1994. Eleven essays which illustrate the richness, complexity and diversity of French medical culture in the nineteenth century. Clio Medica 25, the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. More
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Dallmeyer Lenses and Apparatus [cover title]
London, J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, [early 1920s]. J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, 'Manufacturers and Patentees of Photographic, Kinematograph Lenses and Apparatus', was established in 1860. The introduction mentions its high standards 'for the last 60 years' and refers to the 'Mount Everest Expedition' (presumably the first British attempt in 1922). Loosely inserted is..... More
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Dallmeyer Lenses. Lenses, Cameras, Projectors and Apparatus for Cinematography [cover title]
London, J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, [circa 1937]. J.H. Dallmeyer Limited, 'Manufacturers and Patentees of Photographic, Cinematograph Lenses, Cameras and Scientific Apparatus', was established in 1860. More
Forty-four vintage photographs (circa 1887-94) of indigenous life in the Bismarck Archipelago and German New Guinea are offered as a collection
Richard Parkinson (1844-1909) is usually considered to have been of German origin, although he was born in the Duchy of Schleswig when it was part of Denmark. Following Germanys establishment of its Pacific Island colonies in the late nineteenth century, Parkinson was officially recognized by the colonial authorities as being..... More
Lazarus of Bethany. The Story of His Life in Both Worlds
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1872. On the front flyleaf is a gift inscription from Albert Gard to his father, Melbourne, 9 May 1872. The author, a medical practitioner, records a discussion on the preservation of human bodies in the six-page preface to this 'quaint novel'; the only other publications attributed to..... More