This photograph was taken at Cape Hunter, 'a rocky promontory on the west shore of Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica ... 15 km west of Cape Denison. It was discovered in 1912 and explored the following year by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for John G. Hunter... More about 'Antarctic Petrels on the Nest, Cape Hunter'
Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson; by descent. More about Christmas Dinner on board the SY 'Discovery', 1930
The image shows three unidentified members of the expedition inside the Winter Quarters, each with his snow hood encrusted with ice. Mawson wrote of this phenomenon: 'In thick drifts, one's face inside the funnel of the burberry helmet became rapidly packed with snow, which, by the warmth of the skin... More about Three expeditioners with 'masks of ice'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (207 × 156 mm),...
Karoonda, District Council of Karoonda East Murray, 1986. More about Karoonda East Murray. A History to 1986
Christchurch, Capper, 1976 [facsimile edition]/ 1924 and 1928. More about White Wings. Volume 1: Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade, 1850-1900. [Together with]...
Melbourne, Australasian Authors' Agency, [1918]. The author was an Australian who was killed in August 1917 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. More about Letters of an Airman
Leicester, Brockhampton Press, 1965 [first edition]. Dustwrapper designed by Leslie Stead. More about Biggles and the Plot that failed
Sydney, 22 Squadron Association. More about A History of No 22 (City of Sydney) Squadron 1936-1946
Meningie, Meningie Historical Society, 1988 [first edition]. With considerable Aboriginal content. More about A Diverse Land. A History of the Lower Murray, Lakes and Coorong
Sydney, Australian Forest Industries Journal, 1986. Signed and dated (15 March 1988) by Ian Hudson, WW2 veteran and grandson of William Hudson, who established timber businesses in both New Zealand and Australia - one of his contracts was for 'the interior woodwork of the Great Hall at the University of... More about Gift of God, Friend of Man. A Story of the Timber Industry in New South Wales 1788-1986
Adelaide, Rigby, 1962. Signed by the author on the title page. Vic Hall (1896-1972) was an Australian writer. 'Wounded in one eye during the first Darwin air raid on 19 February 1942, this brought on total blindness by 1954, bringing his career as a painter to an end.' (rear flap). More about Namatjira of the Aranda
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1964 [first Australian edition - first published in London in the same year]. More about The World of the First Australians. An Introduction to the Traditional Life of the Australian...
St Lucia, University of Queensland, 1975. More about Brisbane Town in Convict Days, 1824-1842
Milton, Jacaranda, 1969. More about West of the Darling
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1965/ 1962. An important work, 'the first study of a Central Australian tribe since early in this century'. More about Desert People. A Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1946. An account of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition. More about Crossing the Dead Heart
Melbourne, Australasian Authors' Agency, (1918). The author was an Australian who was killed in August 1917 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. More about Letters of an Airman
London, Lovat Dickson, 1933 (Cheap edition)/ 1933 (fourth and revised edition)/ 1933. 'Without a tremor Rintelen sent British ships to the bottom - yet still his story commands respect' (review in the 'Evening News', quoted on the dustwrapper). More about The Dark Invader. Wartime Reminiscences of a German Naval Intelligence Officer
Adelaide, Diocese of Carpentaria, 1947. By horse from Laura (67 miles from Cooktown) to Charlotte Waters, via Camooweal, Darwin, Tanami. More about The Strenuous Saint. Being an Account of the Longest Journey of William Magney Wilkinson, Mission...
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1929. With the ownership signature of the Rev. J.C. Jennison, first (and short-lived) Minister of the Elcho Island Methodist Mission, and later of Dublin and Maitland (SA). More about A Pioneer of Papua. Being the Life of The Rev. Copland King, M.A. one of the two first...
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1948. With the armorial bookplate of James Harvey MacGregor-Dowsett (1899-1990), community leader and charity worker. 'on 1 July 1940 Dowsett transferred to the Australian Imperial Force and in the following February was posted to the Middle East with the 2/14th Field Company. He served in intelligence... More about The Second Fourteenth Battalion. A History of an Australian Infantry Battalion in the Second...
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1946. The flyleaf bears a gift inscription (dated Adelaide, January 1947) with the author's initials. In addition, the title page is signed by the author under his real name, John L. Preece (of the Adelaide bookselling family). The 'story of the little ships of the Royal Australian... More about My Ship is so Small
