Yesterday-Today. A Selection of Photographs taken in the Hundreds of Maitland and Kilkerran 1872-1972
Adelaide, Maitland and Kilkerran Centenary Committee, 1972. More
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A Salute to Quorn
Quorn, [The Author], 1993. Central Australian Railway and CWA Troop Hospitality in WW2. More
Bass Strait Crossing
Sandy Bay, Melanie Publications, 1986. More
The Streaky Bay. A History of the Streaky Bay District Council Area. Edited by Neil and Val Thompson
[Streaky Bay], History Committee of Streaky Bay and District/ The Streaky Bay District Council, 1988. More
Picture Palace Architecture in Australia
South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1976. More
Vertue XXXV
Southampton/ London, Robert Ross & Co/ George G. Harrap & Co, [c.1950] (second impression)/ [1950]. The endpaper maps show 'The Voyage of the 5-tonner 'Vertue XXXV' Westward across the Atlantic' from Lymington to New York. More
Hows and Whys of French Cooking. With a Chapter on Wine by George Rezek
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974 [first thus]/ 1970. A revised and expanded edition of 'Cooking a la Cordon Bleu'. More
Destroyers. 60 Years
Boston, Burdette and Company, 1962. Presentation copy. With the stamp of US destroyer U.S.S. 'Southerland' DDR 743; inscribed to Lady Rita Irene (Rene) McBride, dated (5 November 1963) and signed by the commanding officer. (Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate website). More
Full Steam Ahead. A Golden Age of Cruises
London, Scriptum Editions, 2013. More
The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch. Explorations in the Northern Territory of South Australia [cover title]
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer [for the RGSSA], 1888. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883', but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition, 'a private one, fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about..... More
The Cunard Royal Mail Twin-Screw Steamers 'Campania' and 'Lucania'
Sparkford, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1993 [enlarged facsimile]/ 1893. Originally published in 1893, this volume is a facsimile plus 'additional photographs and blueprint plans; a new Prologue outlining the history of major British and American steamships from 1819 to 1893; and a new Introduction describing the construction, launch, outfitting and history'..... More
British Tramps and their Peacetime Contribution to World Shipping History
Rockingham Beach, Ian Stewart Maritime Publications, 1997. More
Bremen & Europa. German Speed Queens of the Atlantic
[Surrey], Maritime Publishing Concepts, 2010. More
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Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 18, Session 1916-17
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Richard Norman Shaw
New Haven, Yale University Press (for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), 2010 (revised edition)/ 1976. More
Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam. Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War lost in Action, 1824-1962 [Two volumes]
London, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1969. With the contemporary ownership signature and details of maritime enthusiast Peter McBride to each volume. More
The French Line Quadruple-screw Turbo-electric North Atlantic Steamship 'Normandie'
London, Patrick Stephens, 1972 [revised and enlarged edition]/ 1935. Number 5 in the Ocean Liners of the Past series. This volume is mainly a facsimile reprint of a special Souvenir Number of 'The Shipbuilder and Marine-Engine Builder' (published to commemorate the maiden voyage of the vessel in June 1935), together..... More
Faraway and Beyond
Adelaide, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, 1980. The history of the McBride family and the family company, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, a major South Australian pastoral company controlling Wooltana, Teetulpa, Wilgena and Nepowie stations (among others). Number 41 of 350 copies signed by Phillip Affleck McBride, the Chairman of..... More
Faraway and Beyond
Adelaide, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, 1980. The history of the McBride family and the family company, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, a major South Australian pastoral company controlling Wooltana, Teetulpa, Wilgena and Nepowie stations (among others). Number 38 of 350 copies signed by Phillip Affleck McBride, the Chairman of..... More
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Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia. Vol. I [and] Vol. II. Reprinted from 'The Stock and Station Journal'
Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More
Universal Arithmetick, or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley's Method of finding the Roots of Equations arithmetically. Written in Latin by Sir Isaac Newton, and translated by the late Mr. Ralphson, and revised and corrected by Mr. Cunn. The Second Edition, very much corrected
London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')/ 1720 (first edition in English)/ 1707 (first edition, in Latin). The eight plates, normally found with a small folding section, are bound into this copy in an unfolded state by..... More
Physical Geography and Geology of Western Rivers' District, Northern Territory of Australia. [An offprint from] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 16, Session 1914-15
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., Printers (for the Society), 1916. The Victoria, Fitzmaurice, Daly, Adelaide, McKinlay and Mary Rivers; among others. McLaren 5066 (this issue). More
Gibraltar. The Greatest Siege in British History
London, Little, Brown, 2017. More
In Australian Tropics
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1907 (first edition). The author was 'Fourteen years Sub-collector of Customs at Port Darwin'. More
Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the Interior of Australia carried out by Captain S.A. White MBOU from July to October, 1913. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 38, 1914
Adelaide, RSSA, 1914. The purpose of the expedition (1300 miles by camel) was ornithological research, resulting in many additions and corrections to former bird lists and greatly assisting Gregory Mathews in his monumental work, 'The Birds of Australia'. The round trip from Oodnadatta went north by a zig-zag route to..... More
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