Power and Prestige. The Arts of Island Melanesia and the Polynesian Outliers
Cambridge, Hurst Gallery, 1996. Hurst Gallery sale catalogue, with a loosely inserted price list. More
Cambridge, Hurst Gallery, 1996. Hurst Gallery sale catalogue, with a loosely inserted price list. More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), 'evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography') by 1850 was established as a printer. He later became a successful publisher and bookseller. He was secretary to George Fife Angas from 1865, and compiled his biography, which..... More
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, 1982. Royal Scottish Museum Studies series. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2022. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2018. Adelaide, Gawler, Mallala, Mount Gambier, Parafield, Port Pirie, Victor Harbor. 'At the start of the Second World War there was no permanent RAAF presence in South Australia, but within just two years there were several facilities housing thousands of personnel and hundreds of aircraft. The..... More
Canberra, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1985. Number 10 in the Terra Australis series. More
London, Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972 (facsimile edition)/ 1927. More
Auckland, The author, 1949 (third edition). With tipped-in and manuscript amendments etc by the author. 'The amendments and additions to this book have been inserted by the author, to bring it up to date'. More
Each sheet measures approximately 183 × 330 mm, inclusive of a sidebar of Japanese text; two have short edge tears (with slight evidence of earlier attempts at repair); the paper is foxed and a little discoloured; overall in very good condition. More
London, British Museum Press, 1998. More
Sydney, The Australian Board of Missions, 1921. More
London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910. Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), 'anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist ... as a young graduate, Wood Jones found medicine 'cramped and small when compared to biology' and jumped at the chance of a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. on the..... More
Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Number 65; an impressive catalogue prepared for the bicentennial of the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook (18 January 1778). More
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997 (first English language edition). 'The first major survey of Oceanic arts to be published in more than thirty years, this comprehensive volume brings together a vast number of important discoveries and the results of several in-depth studies of the subject, both past and..... More
Basel, Museum fur Völkerkunde/ Schweizerische Museum für Volkskunde, 1975. Text in German. More
Lakeland, Poor Richard's Print Shop, 2005. 'The 433rd Troop Carrier Group (USAAF) operated in support of the campaigns on New Guinea and the Philippines and moved parts of the Fifth Air Force to Okinawa' (History of War website). Not least, the C-47 Skytrain (Dakota) and the Curtiss C-46 Commando. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963 (first edition). Deluxe binding signed by the author on the title-page. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. From the collection of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow, with his inscription (University of Adelaide, 23 November 1968) and ownership signature. More
Sydney, Australian Documents Library, 1980. This 'journal does something no other First Fleet journal does; it gives us a day-by-day account of a colony's struggle for survival' in Norfolk Island. Not least, King's Maori vocabulary. A major First Fleet journal, this is the second in the Australian Documents Library series..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1981. More
New York, The Metropolitian Museum of Art, 2002. Exhibition catalogue. More
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, 1988. More
Leiden, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, 1986. Text in Dutch. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2012 (second edition)/ 2000. This edition has been lightly edited and has two pages of notes. More