Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1947. Provenance: the front flyleaf carries the early ownership details of the Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope (1920-2018), Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus, 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' (LCA obituary). More about Aranda Traditions
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1971. The detailed four-colour map of Aboriginal Central Australia is based on information from Strehlow's field note books, 1932-1969; an extensive index is printed on the verso. 'The first complete account of the poetic heritage of the aboriginal people of Central Australia; an analysis of aboriginal... More about Songs of Central Australia
The albumen paper photograph, on the original plain card mount, is in excellent condition. We presume it to be 'somewhere in England', and some time in the 1860s. More about A carte de visite of a large Victorian-era family group on a croquet court. Various members are...
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1988. More about The Art of the First Fleet and Other Early Australian Drawings
Melbourne, MUP at the Miegunyah Press, 1992. A companion volume to the author's classic, 'European Vision and the South Pacific' ... an examination of 'how European artists and scientists travelling in the Pacific during the time of Cook's voyages were stimulated to see the world in new and creative ways'. More about Imagining the Pacific. In the Wake of the Cook Voyages
Sydney, Harper and Row, [1984] (second edition)/1960. More about European Vision and the South Pacific
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1960. More about European Vision and the South Pacific
This albumen paper photograph is in excellent condition, on the original plain mount; details of the subjects are written in pencil on the verso. The Magri wedding took place on Easter Monday, 6 April 1885 in New York City; this image would appear to be contemporary, and (the negative at... More about A carte de visite of Count Primo Magri (1849-1920), an Italian dwarf, and his wife, Lavinia...
The letter (quarto, 2 pages on one sheet, 'The Mill House, 26 X 1942') is nothing if not memorable for this priceless (albeit over-the-top) understatement: 'And I can never forget his quiet bravery on the day when Italy so basely attacked Greece: not even did he postpone our luncheon'. Apart... More about An autograph letter of condolence signed by Sir Ronald Storrs to the widow of Charalambos John...
London, Folio Society, 1995/ 1983. First edition in this binding. More about The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edited and with an Introduction by Betty...
New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. More about Enemies and Neighbors. Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. More about Napoleon in Italy. The Sieges of Mantua, 1796-1799
New York, Random House, 1992 (second impression)/ 1992. More about Mapplethorpe. Prepared in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Essay by Arthur...
Port Melbourne, Heinemann, 1994. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. More about The Hawke Memoirs
Adelaide, Rigby, 1970. More about Kennedy of Cape York
London, Caliban, 1984. This is the first (and only) edition, from the original manuscript: edited and introduced by Jill Waterhouse. More about Autobiographical Narrative of Residence and Exploration in Australia, 1832-1839
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979. AIAS New Series Number 3. More about Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York. An Ethnographic Reconstruction based on the 1848-1850...
Apart from a small portion left for the addressee's details (Mrs C.R. Briggs, in suburban Adelaide), the entire front panel is covered with a well-executed black ink and watercolour drawing of four New Guineans carrying a wounded Australian soldier through the jungle. The artwork is signed 'VX29347 R. Morrow'. The..... More about A standard letter-size envelope apparently sent by an Australian soldier on active service in New...
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1993 (second impression)/ 1990. More about The Riches of Ancient Australia. An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2009 (first edition). More about Possession. Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
Balmain, Quadrant Books, 2016. 'The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain 'sovereignty' and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states ... recognition will not make our nation complete; it will divide it permanently'. More about The Break-up of Australia. The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition
Sydney, Macleay Press, 2004. More about The White Australia Policy
Honolulu, The University of Hawaii, 1974. 'The data reported in this book were gathered in the course of a series of expeditions, extending over some ten years, to remote communities' (including Yuendumu, Kalumburu, Lake Nash and Mornington Island). More about Medicine is the Law. Studies in Psychiatric Anthropology in Australian Tribal Societies
Ringwood, Viking, 1999 (first edition). More about Why Weren't We Told?
Ringwood, Viking Penguin, 2001 (first edition). More about An Indelible Stain? The Question of Genocide in Australia's History
