London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. Provenance: A.R. Downer, with his armorial bookplate on an early blank page in the second volume. Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat, was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to..... More
London, Heinemann, 1965. Dame Enid Muriel Lyons (1897-1981), politician, was the first woman to enter the Australian Parliament and the first to become a member of Cabinet (in December 1949). In her introduction she states that 'This is not a biography. It is the story of a marriage; of two..... More
Sydney, New South Wales Government Railways, [1946]. The last four pages are a Roll of Honour of 'Railway Employees who Died on Active Service'. More
London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1843. The author lived in South Australia from March 1839 to March 1842; chapters include 'Sketch of Adelaide and Surrounding Villages - Colonial Life and Manners', 'The Native Inhabitants', and 'Information for Emigrants', plus an appendix bringing the information up to date to the end..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994/ 1992. More
Flemington, Hyland House, 2001. More
London, The Folio Society, 2004 [first thus]/ 1959. Lavishly illustrated plus different endpaper maps showing the advance - and retreat - of Nazi Germany. William Lawrence Shirer (1904-1993)was 'a foreign correspondent whose pioneering live trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts on the eve of World War II helped inform Americans about Nazi Germany..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. More
London, Academic Press, 1974. With the prospectus loosely inserted. More
