The Wreck of the Barque Stefano off the North West Cape of Australia in 1875
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 1990. Signed by the author. More
Western Australia
European-Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1984. Studies in Western Australian History VIII, December 1984. More
100 Not Out. A History of Country Week Cricket in Western Australia 1907-2007
[Perth, The Author], 2006. More
Rigby Sixty Four [cover title]
Perth, West Australian Newspapers, 1964. More
March of Australian Women. A Record of Fifty Years' Struggle for Equal Citizenship
Perth, Paterson Brokensha, 1964. More
Report .. upon Certain Peculiar Habits and Customs of the Aborigines of Western Australia. To accompany the Collection of Weapons, Implements, etc, sent to the Exhibition at Sydney, N.S.W., 1879
Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1879. 'For the Information of Gentlemen of the Medical and other Scientific Professions' is printed at the head of the front cover. Circumcision, tattooing and nose-piercing, but primarily sub-incision. More
My Way. W.H. (Bill) Rourke's 50 years adventure in education
[Perth, The Author], 1980. Signed by the author on the verso of the half-title. More
For Freedom. A Collection of Poems
Adelaide, Thornquest Press, 1940. Foreword by local radio personality Tommy Hudson. More
On Pearl-Fishing in North-West Australia. (Contained in) Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 8, 1904-06
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1906. An enquiry on behalf of the South Australian Government. Other articles include EITEL, E.J.: Social Life in China (20 pages) and the Journal of John Ainsworth HORROCKS (fatally wounded in 1846 on an expedition that "would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored..... More
A Survey of Western Australian Art from 1696
Perth, Arthur Spartalis Fine Art, 2008. Signed and dated (June 2009) by the author. More
The Barque Eglinton - wrecked Western Australia 1852. The history of its loss, archaeological excavation, artefact catalogue and interpretation
Fremantle/ Adelaide, Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology/ Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, 2003. Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology Special Publication Number 6, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Special Publication Number 13. More
James Stirling. Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia
Crawley, University of Western Australia, 2003. More
Some Old-Time Memories. Being the Personal Reminiscences of Sir Edward Stone, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia. Edited by Frank Henty
Prahran, Fraser & Morphet, Printers and Publishers (for the Author), 1918. Two corrections in ink (pages 7 and 45) are presumably in the author's hand. The entry for Sir Edward Albert Stone (1844-1920), judge, in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', might whet your appetite for this slightly longer and rarer..... More
Defence '87 Down Under [The America's Cup - Australia 1987]
Netley, Samaria, 1986. Inscribed and signed by James Hardy (yachtsman, etc, etc) on the flyleaf, and inscribed, dated (1986) and signed by the artist on the half-title. More
Across Unknown Australia. [A Thrilling Account of Exploration in the Northern Territory of Australia (cover title)]
London, Herbert Jenkins, February 1926 [second impression]/ November 1925. Signed and dated (12 December 1928) by the author on the title page, with a contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown (T.W. Adams, 4 January 1929). An account of eighteen months spent driving an ancient tin lizzie from Winton to..... More
Hidden Wealth and Hiding People
London, Putnam, [1930]. The account of Terry's third planned expedition: the 1928 seven-month journey with two six-wheel Morris trucks commenced in Port Hedland and went through Broome, Halls Creek, Tanami, the Granites and Alice Springs, then on to Adelaide and Melbourne. 'The total distance finally covered was 5,500km in this..... More
Through a Land of Promise. With Gun, Car and Camera in the Heart of Northern Australia
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927. Signed and dated (12 December 1928) by the author on the title page, with a contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown (T.W. Adams, 4 January 1929). The 'Heart of Northern Australia' in the title is misleading. Terry and his companions drove two 'one-ton model Guy-Roadless..... More
Through a Land of Promise. With Gun, Car and Camera in the Heart of Northern Australia
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927. With the large pictorial bookplate of William A. Crowle (with the later ownership details of 'C. Evanoff, May 22nd, 1958' written in ink on it). McLaren 15920. More
The Amateur Settlers
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. Not least, there is a lengthy well-illustrated account (88 pages) of their travels through the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia; Michael Terry figures prominently. More
Bindibu Country
Melbourne, Nelson, 1975. An account of the 1957 and 1963 expeditions into the area north and west of Lake McKay, 500 miles west of Alice Springs, home of the Bindibu, 'the last of the Aborigines living a traditional life in the desert. [Thomson] was the last person to observe their..... More
An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales). Being an Account of their Language, Traditions, and Customs: by L.E. Threlkeld. Re-arranged, condensed, and edited, with an appendix, by John Fraser
Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892. The original work appeared in 1834. The appendix new to this edition contains eight pages on the grammar of the language of Western Australia abridged from an article in the Western Australian Almanac for 1842 and here 'adapted ... to present uses'. Ferguson 17144..... More
Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain, February 1879 to January 1880
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1998 [first thus]/ 1961. Number 30 of only 400 numbered copies; first published from the original manuscript in 1961 by the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, SA. Tietkens 'was invited by a wealthy Scot, Louis Leisler, to mount an expedition, the subject of this diary, into the..... More
Private Journal of W.H. Tietkens on an Expedition to the Nullarbor Plain, February 1879 to January 1880
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1998 [first thus]/ 1961. Number 234 of only 400 numbered copies; first published from the original manuscript in 1961 by the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, SA. Tietkens 'was invited by a wealthy Scot, Louis Leisler, to mount an expedition, the subject of this diary, into the..... More
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The Nullabor Plains and the West Boundary of the Province. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. Sessions 1886-7 and 1887-8. Volume 2
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890. Unquestionably rare, and important, with all but one of the numerous articles in this volume relating to North Australia or Australian Aborigines. They are WINNECKE, Charles: Physical Features of Central Australia (8 pages); WORSNOP, Thomas: The Pre-historic Arts of the Aborigines of Australia (25 pages plus 4..... More
A Dated Tartangan Implement Site from Cape Martin, South-East of South Australia. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 80, 1957
Adelaide, RSSA, 1957. This issue also contains FRY, H.K.: Concerning Aboriginal Marriage and Kinship (15 pages plus a folding genealogical chart). More