Gipps-La Trobe Correspondence, 1839-1846
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989. Number 5 in the Miegunyah Press Series. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989. Number 5 in the Miegunyah Press Series. More
London, Bodley Head, 1955. More
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803, 1803 and 1804 [revised third edition]/ 1784. Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835), first president of the Board of Agriculture and voluminous writer. This work was 'a standard treatise, which was long one of the chief authorities on the subject' ('Dictionary of National Biography'). More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1978 [first thus]. A Limited Edition; the 42-page index is derived from the Edwin Cannan edition. More
London, The Author, 1766 ['second edition, corrected and enlarged'; the first two tracts were first published in 1758 and 1759 respectively]. Important early works on the corn trade, which earned the praise of Adam Smith in his 'Wealth of Nations'. More
Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 2006. More
Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 2006. More
In chronological order, the governors and administrators (A) present are Hindmarsh, Stephen (A), Gawler, Grey, Robe, Young, Finniss (A), MacDonnell, Daly, Hamley (A), Hanson (A), Musgrave, Cairns (A), Jervois, Robinson, Boucaut (A), and Kintore. The only one not represented is Sir James Fergusson (16 February 1869 to 18 April 1873)..... More
Adelaide, various Government Printers (or printers acting under authority), 1844 to 1848 (but possibly early. The balance of the volume contains another 65 separate Acts or Ordinances: 1845 (17 items); 1846 (17 items); 1847 (19 items plus the title page and index leaf); and 1848 (12 items plus the title..... More
Adelaide, printed at the 'Times' and 'Dispatch' Office (first volume) and 'The Advertiser' and 'Chronicle' Offices (second and third volumes), [1858 and 1859]. The first volume has all references to, and contributions by, John Bristow Hughes marked in the margins with pencil; his signature in ink is partially erased from..... More
Sydney, Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street, [1888]. This informal group portrait features the Governors of each of the Australian colonies, along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. It was taken on 25 January 1888, the day before the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet at..... More
London, Hutchinson, 1936. In his thirty years in the Colonial Service, the author 'has been stationed out east in the islands of the Pacific; south in the Falklands ... and west in the islands of the Caribbean'. More
Adelaide, [Government Printer], December 1995. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1947. Provenance: With the bookplate of Sir Paul Hasluck (1905-1993), who was (among many other things) Minister for Territories from 1951 to 1963 and author of several books on the Australian Aborigines. More
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1934. With the ownership signature (and place and dated 1934-5) of Sir Walter Crocker, his annotations on the rear flyleaf and his occasional marginal pencilling. Crocker spent two years at Stanford from June 1928 as a Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund. He studied demography, specialising (in..... More
As Baron Sydney he 'was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay. He chose Arthur Phillip as governor; on 26 January 1788, Phillip named Sydney Cove in honour of Sydney and the settlement became known as Sydney Town..... More
London, Skeffington & Son, Ltd., [circa early 1930s]. Inscribed and signed in red ink by the author on the front free endpaper, and with an ink correction; Dudley Symon was a nephew of Sir Joshua Symon. One of the Keble Books, issued in connection with the Centenary of the Oxford..... More
Aldershot, Avebury, 1996. More
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1952 (fourth edition, revised and with a new chapter)/ 1938 (third edition, substantially revised)/ 1931 (revised second and cheaper edition)/ 1931. Initially the Halley Stewart Lectures for 1929; this is the fourth revised edition, with a new chapter. More
Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Creative Arts, University of Auckland, 2015. 'Dr Tom Fookes (1943-2013) 'was one of the few New Zealanders whose career encompassed the full gamut of planning roles; practitioner, policy analyst, researcher, teacher, mentor and public advocate' (New Zealand Planning Institute website). More
Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1946. One of only 500 copies. One of the Australian Heritage Books series. More
Adelaide, Printed for the Proprietor and Publisher, A. Timmann, at the 'Pioneer' Office, 1890 and 1891. The recto of the large folding supplement to Number 10 contains the text, with three line illustrations, of an article that 'appeared originally in the "SA Register" in six short letters': 'Protection or Freedom..... More
London, Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd, 1906. One of The Native Races of the British Empire series. Provenance: With the ink ownership signature of John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962), South Australian senator, lawyer and pastoralist (dated 4 December 1906, London). More
Kyoto, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2011 (first English language edition). Nichibunken Monograph Series Number 12. More