Leichhardt, the Dauntless Explorer. With an Appendix on his Last and Fatal Journey
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1988. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1988. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1980. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1986. Never before published, this short journal was written by Leichhardt after his overland expedition of 1844-45. More
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995/ 1988. The Institute Report Series. More
Rockhampton, Central Queenland University Press, 2007. Signed in ink by the author on the half-title. More
Timber Creek, Timber Creek Community Government Council, 1997. Provenance: With the Canberra ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (and his contemporary ink acquisition date). More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. 'Drawing on a wealth of new sources ... for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia' (rear cover blurb). Not least, B-25 Mitchells and B-24 Liberators. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2013. The most comprehensive story of the Darwin raid. More
Darwin, Tall Stories, 2007 (third edition)/ 1999. A comprehensive account, this third edition 'also contains and authoritative chapter analysing the rumours that many more people died than are given in most accounts' (rear cover). More
Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. One of the publisher's 'Studies in Ethnomethodology' series. Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his ownership signature (March 1996). More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1912. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 6 of 1912; only 950 copies printed. More
[Adelaide], Government Printer, 1884. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 239 of 1883-84; one of only 680 copies. Leaving Katherine in late July 1883, Lindsay 'led a Government expedition of six men into Arnhem Land. He followed the overland telegraph ... to Roper Creek. He travelled east to the Chambers River..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 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 this series of..... More
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
Adelaide, Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League, 1909. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The..... More
Perth, A.F. Lovell for the Trustees of the Western Australian Museum, 1975. Number 6 in the Western Australian Museum Information series. More
Yarram, Lonestone Press/ Oceans Enterprises, 1994. More
Alice Springs, IAD Press, 1995. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1944 [revised and enlarged edition]/ 1936. Rare with the dustwrapper (in any condition). 'An outline of the early exploration of Central Australia, and its political history, followed by an account of my own journeys in the regions'; these include important geological expeditions, the first aerial reconnaissance..... More
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
The article concentrates on the Wombaia tribe, 'which occupies a large area on Cresswell Creek and Burnett Downs in the Northern Territory'. More
[Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1986]. The catalogue, compiled by Janet Maughan, details 102 items (mainly paintings, but also a few other artefacts). The other contributions by Lois [Lowitja] O'Donoghue, J.V.S. Megaw, Jenny Zimmer, Geoffrey Bardon, Dick Kimber and others shed light on the early popularisation of the Papunya..... More
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1934. This issue also contains FRY, Dr H.K.: Kinship and Descent among the Australian Aborigines (8 pages) and CAMPBELL, Dr T.D.: Notes on the Aborigines of the South-East of South Australia (11 pages with a map). More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2014. More