Burton. Snow Upon the Desert
London, John Murray, 1990/ 1990. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], and his inscribed date of purchase. A centennial biography, McLynn draws on new material from a wealth of untapped manuscript sources. More
London, John Murray, 1990/ 1990. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], and his inscribed date of purchase. A centennial biography, McLynn draws on new material from a wealth of untapped manuscript sources. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1898. Keartland's field notes make this far more interesting than the 'List of Birds' title suggests. For example, he concludes his account of the Nankeen kestrel thus: 'I took four eggs from a tree near our camp, and was surprised to find the nest lined with pellets of..... 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
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1902. More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1902. 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
Balcatta/ Carlisle, Kookynie/ Hesperian Press, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1897 [second edition]. More
London, Hakluyt Society, 2000. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Volume 4. More
Bologna, Tipi Gamberini e Parmeggiani, 1864. Principally geology and palaeontology, but with a chapter on the Omaha Indians for good measure. More
London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1898. The maps bound in show the 'Routes of Previous Exploration in the Interior of Western Australia' (410 Ă— 330 mm, with an archival tape repair to the stub panel); and the 'Country traversed by the Author, 1894-1895' (475 Ă— 400 mm, with archival tape..... More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1998 (facsimile edition)/ 1898. Number 209 of only 400 sets. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965 [facsimile edition]/ 1849. Peade A9: 817 copies. From the collection of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow (University of Adelaide, 25 November 1968), with these details on the flyleaf. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965 (facsimile edition)/ 1849. Peade A9: 817 copies. More
Sydney, Kemp and Fairfax, 1849. The account of Kennedy's disastrous expedition to explore Cape York in 1848, '... the most tragic of all Australian explorations, not least because he and his men were defeated at the outset. The bravery, skill, good humour and generosity of Kennedy, the loyalty and bravery..... More
Fairfield, Ye Galleon Press, 1972. Number 173 of only 300 copies. More
London, Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde, 1751 (second edition)/ 1749. Offered with a copy in similar condition of the first edition of a companion volume, 'The Works of that Ancient, Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Chalkley ... containing his Epistles and Other Writings' (London, Luke Hinde, 1751). London-born..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). An account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's disastrous final expedition to the South Pole. 'This is the single greatest book in the literature of polar exploration. There are others that are beautiful. There are others that are exciting. There are some that are..... More
Sydney, Doubleday, 1986. Loosely inserted is a printed acknowledgement slip from Project Blizzard (supporting the conservation of Sir Douglas Mawson's Huts). More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2010 (first thus)/ [1882 to 1930]. Number 93 of only 125 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 325 copies). A collected reprint of four journeys undertaken by Chewings in 1881-82, 1883, 1885 and 1909. 'Accounts of..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2019 (first thus). Albert Colson (1881-1950), 'explorer and bushman ... was cameleer and guide on Michael Terry's 1930 expeditions to the Petermann and Tomkinson ranges, and conducted A. P. Elkin on his anthropological investigations west of Charlotte Waters. Colson understood the..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1992 (first thus). More
Melbourne, Georgian House, by arrangement with The Heritage Press, 1958. Edited by A. Grenfell Price. More
London, W. and A. Strahan, 1784 [first edition]. The large folio atlas is not present with this set of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The first two volumes were written by James Cook, the third volume by James King. With the armorial bookplate of John Dixon..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Selected and introduced by Glyndwr Williams. More
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Selected and introduced by Glyndwr Williams. More