Australia
The Story of an Old Gold-Diggings Town. Dunolly
Glen Waverley, The Poppet Head Press, 1980 [second edition, revised and expanded]/ 1956. 'The first edition of this book appeared in 1956 and was rushed into print. [The] lavishness in the way of coloured plates [as per the first edition is] not possible unfortunately today, but the ... major errors..... More
Wegweiser nach Südaustralien, oder Südaustralien in seiner jetzigen Gestalt. Nach eigener Anschauung während eines mehrjährigen Aufenthalts besonders für Auswanderer geschildert. [A Guide to South Australia, or South Australia as it is. From personal observation during a stay of several years, described especially for emigrants]
Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1962 (facsimile edition)/ 1849. The text is in German; no translation appears to have been published to date. Peade SA26: one of only 48 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library, 'reproduced ... using the xerographic process', with..... More
Roonka. Fugitive Traces and Climatic Mischief
Adelaide, South Australian Museum, 2009. Inscribed and signed by editor and contributor Dr Keryn Walshe to Greg Carver, and with the ink signatures of contributors Helen Tolcher and Rebekah Candy, on the half-title. 'Aboriginal skeletal remains and artefacts had been eroding out from a dune north of Blanchetown, along the..... More
From Patrons to Partners and the Separated Children of the Kimberley. A History of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley, WA, Second Edition
Fremantle, University of Notre Dame Australia Press, 2005 (second edition)/ 1994. Dated (July 2005), inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the first blank. 'The new section in the second edition developed from a remark of Bishop Christopher Saunders, Bishop of Broome, that a history of the Catholic..... More
Only a Madman. The Story of a Small Boy, the History of a Small Town, a Memory from the Flinders Ranges
Willaston, The Author, 2004. The small town is Gordon. More
Crossing the Dead Heart. [The Story of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition (dustwrapper subtitle)]
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1948/ 1946. An account of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), geologist and explorer 'planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting..... More
R.M.C. Harnessing Australia's Greatest River. The Work of the River Murray Commission
Melbourne, J.J. Goubley, Government Printer [for the River Murray Commission], 1946. More
Mallee Musings
[Melbourne, Salvation Army, 1939]. At the time of publication the author was a Major in the Salvation Army. More
A collection of 114 signatures of (mainly) Australian authors, many of them household names of the 1950s and 1960s
The signatures are written on the front endpaper and verso of the front free endpaper of 'Ships in Australian Waters. A Pictorial History from the Days of the Early Explorers to the Present Time' by Peter Williams and Roderick Serle (Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1968: cloth lightly rubbed, with a...... More
Aborigines of the West. Their Past and their Present
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1979. In the Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series. Another copy we have handled was one of only 300 copies; the half-title of this copy neither has the printed limitation details nor the number-stamp. More
Kingfishers and Related Birds. Volume 1: Alcedinidae - Ceryle to Cittura. Volume 2: Alcedinidae - Halcyon to Tanysiptera
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1983 to 1985. Both volumes are numbered 104 of 1000 copies signed by the author and the artist. This important series eventually ran to six volumes published between 1983 and 1994. [2 items]. More
The Australian Race. Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the Routes by which it spread itself over that Continent... In Four Volumes
Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886, 1886, 1887 and 1887. Accounts of over 200 tribes (but primarily their vocabularies) that 'have been drawn up by the writer from replies sent by his correspondents to a series of questions circulated in print'. Contributors are named; well-known figures include Foelsche, Gason, Gillen..... More
A portrait photograph inscribed and signed 'Hello Dolores | Errol Flynn'
We have not identified the photographer, but the photograph clearly comes from the same session that produced the image used on the front cover of 'Errol Flynn - an Epic Life' by Kevin McAleer (2018). It is undated, but from comparison with numerous other photographs of Flynn, we suggest circa..... More
Papunya Tula. Genesis and Genius
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula Artists, 2000. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 August to 12 November 2000. More
Australia's Dying Heart. Soil Erosion in the Inland
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1942. Introduction by Robert H. Croll. More
Die Tasmanischen Sprachen. Quellen, Gruppierungen, Grammatik, Wörterbucher. [The Tasmanian Languages. Sources, Groupings, Grammar, Dictionaries]
Utrecht-Anvers, Spectrum, 1952. Comité International de Linguistes, Publications de la Commission d'Enquéte [sic] Linguistique, Volume 5. Greenway 8326 (recording 'Sprachen' as 'Sprache'). More
Flora of the Perth Region
[Perth], The Western Australian Herbarium, 1987. 'Illustrations and cover paintings by Margaret Menadue'. [2 items]. More
Fungi of Southern Australia
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1998. Signed by the illustrator Katrina Syme (and dated 4 March 1998). More
Winbaraku and the Myth of Jarapiri
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult and totally untravelled territory ... the only complete record in Australian literature of an entire aboriginal myth' (dustwrapper blurb). Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), anthropologist and photographer. More
Aboriginal Rock Carvings of Great Antiquity in South Australia. [Contained in] The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume XLIV
London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. The volume contains another 22 articles, including Daisy M. BATES: A Few Notes on some South-Western Australian Dialects (pages 65-82); R.J.A. BERRY and others: The Craniometry of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (pages 122-126); Elsdon BEST: Ceremonial Performances pertaining to Birth, as..... More
The Heritage of Namatjira. The Watercolourists of Central Australia
Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia, 1992 [first and only edition]. 'Twelve contributors - anthropologists, historians, art critics and collectors - review the history and stylistic developments of the Hermannsburg watercolourists' (rear cover blurb). More
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
Toowong, Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, in association with The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 2000. The title page is signed and dated (December 2000) by the author. An unparalleled 'visual record of ancient Kimberley rock art, dealing specifically with periods predating the Ice Age', and a work of lasting significance..... More
Orchids of Western Australia
Crawley, University of Western Australia Press, 2008. 'Information on each species, including who named them and where they were first collected, habitat, distribution, flowering period, size and distinguishing features ... species placed in taxonomic groupings making it easier to differentiate between those that are closely related ... illustrations of the..... More
Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974 [first US edition]/ 1974. The 'bibliography and the information on a wide range of ecological, geographic and linguistic facts are particularly valuable and worthwhile ... an essential reference work' (Hill and Barlow). It was first published earlier the same year by the Australian National..... More