Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] (slightly marked) of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] (slightly marked) of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1880. The expedition ran from February to September 1879. This facsimile was limited to 400 copies, this is number 61 of 75 deluxe copies 'bound in half leather'. With a three-page introduction by Dr W. Peasley new to this edition. More
London, Melville & Mullen, 1906. Not least, reflections on the Horn Scientific Expedition (which the author organised, equipped, and accompanied for the early stages). Provenance: Edward Charles Stirling, with his pictorial bookplate ('Gang forward') on the front pastedown. Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, was..... More
[Darwin], G.L. Duffield, Government Printer for the History Unit of the University Planning Authority, [1984] (augmented facsimile edition)/ 1882. The index by Elizabeth Estbergs is new to this edition. More
Bundaberg, Corkwood Press, 1993 (facsimile edition)/ 1891. Copy number 69 of only 220 numbered copies. More
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2014. Inscribed, dated (2 October 2014) and signed by the author, Stuckey's great-granddaughter. More
London, John Murray, 1820. The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, 'arguably the most handsome of all Australian exploration journals [and] the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup). The..... More
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1985. With the ownership details of Honor and Shirley Cameron Wilson. More
Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1921. This issue also contains MAWSON, Sir Douglas: Macquarie Island - a Sanctuary for Australasian Sub-Antarctic Fauna (15 pages with a map plus a map and 6 plates after photographs by Hurley, Mawson and Blake); and NEWLAND, Simpson: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life (22 pages). More
New York, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1977 (first American edition). The author's last book, documenting three voyages: a circumnavigation of Spitsbergen, and two eventful voyages around Greenland. More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Number 246 of 500 copies initialled by the publisher. Giles' third expedition, to the west of South Australia; it is reset from the first (and only other) edition of 1880, with minor corrections, plus 'the accounts of the expedition, brief though they are, recorded by his..... More
Chatswood, Reed Books, 1995. The title page is inscribed and signed in ink by the author (the recipients' name and address stamp is at the head of the page). More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. The first leaf in the first division (headed 'This leaf not to be bound with the Volume') contains a short printed note: 'Conditions of Publication. This edition, specially prepared for subscription only, will be completed in Twenty-two parts, at 2s. each, or..... More
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1908. Rare with the dustwrapper (in any condition). More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1945. Number 91 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author; this copy bears the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of one P.E. Johnstone, of the majestic Adelaide Steamship Company building on Currie Street (built in 1903, demolished in 1986). "The story deals with the development..... More
Portland, Timber Press, 1998. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria Jose Nemry von Thenen de Jaramillo-Arango. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. Peade A185: 1,144 copies. More
This issue contains another five main articles, including PURVIS, Mrs A.V.: This Township named Stuart, now Alice Springs. A History of Early Settlement within the Central MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia (22 pages plus a plate). More
Blackwood, Lynton, [1978]. From his 'first official field work - defining the Northern Territory and Queensland boundary in 1883, to his last exploit on a private prospecting expedition in 1933'. McLaren 16641. More
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979. Giles' third expedition, to the west of South Australia. Number 141 of 500 numbered copies, reset from the first (and only other) edition of 1880, with minor corrections plus 'the accounts of the expedition, brief though they are, recorded by his companions Tietkens, Young and Ross'..... More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1980. The overlanders who pedalled around and across Australia. More
London, Thomas Murby, [1866]. The editor notes that the work was 'chiefly dictated, with the help of materials recorded in the log-book of the journey, by Mr. Landsborough himself' during a four-month voyage from Australia. Ferguson 11330; Wantrup 175 (noting the edition in wrappers, but not recording that it has..... More
London, Dulau, 1896. The purpose of this scientific expedition, sponsored by mining magnate and philanthropist William Austin Horn, and with Charles Winnecke as commander and surveyor, was to examine the MacDonnell Ranges on the not unreasonable premise that 'when the rest of the Continent was submerged the elevated portions of..... More