Aboriginal People and their Plants
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007. More
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007. More
Wien [Vienna], Verlag Herold, August 1950. Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität Wien, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Number 1. The text is in German ('On individual and gender totemism in Australia'). More
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1988. An 'extensive collection of the traditional stories of the Adnyamathanha people of the Northern Flinders Ranges and adjacent plains' (from the cover blurb). It was compiled 'in association with the Nepabunna Aboriginal School and the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges'. More
London, The Folio Society, 2009 (first thus). Translated from the Greek, and with an introduction, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Annotated by Fermor and Xan Fielding. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1957. The book is based on the author's fieldwork carried out on Cape York Peninsula in 1927-31 and 1934. More
Perth, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1943 (revised edition)/ [1930]. James Robert Beattie Love (1889-1947), clergyman and missionary, was Superintendent of the Presbyterian mission at Kunmunya, north of Derby, from 1927 to 1940. More
Woodville, The Editor, [1923 and 1935]. The articles are by John Stephens, William Wyatt, William Williams, C.G. Teichelmann and C.W. Schuermann, and M. Moorhouse. Both volumes were hand-set and printed by Thomas Parkhouse, who died before the completion of the second volume - his daughter Mary finished printing the page..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1987/ 1984. 'The first European chroniclers of Aboriginal Culture in Australia looked for the sensational, often neglecting its more significant features. In his fourth book on Queensland's early history, J.G. Steele corrects this imbalance with a detailed account of the Aborigines of the subtropical..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1984. 'The first European chroniclers of Aboriginal Culture in Australia looked for the sensational, often neglecting its more significant features. In his fourth book on Queensland's early history, J.G. Steele corrects this imbalance with a detailed account of the Aborigines of the subtropical coast..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1989. More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. An undervalued work: the plates (wood engravings from photographs) are a major pictorial record, and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northern Territory, I have incorporated some useful papers written by..... More
Adelaide, Register Newspapers Limited, Printers, 1929. The small calling card of the author - with his North Adelaide address, and his Upper Sturt address, 'Manoa' - is mounted on the front free endpaper. More
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1951. A study in assimilation in SA, based on field work carried out over a considerable period of time. 'Here we find in a relatively compact area aborigines in virtually all stages of contact with Europeans, from the "Bush" people to those in whom there is no..... More
Adelaide, Beaumont Press, 1986. More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1985. 'Over 400 Western Australian gold-bearing localities are described with 104 detailed location maps. [This book] is a major contribution to prospecting in WA.' This would account for its perennial desirability; as for its rarity, that's another story altogether. More
Jamestown, District Council of Jamestown, 1975. More
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. From the 2-page introduction by Richard Barnes (unique to this edition); Tietkens 'was invited by a wealthy Scot, Louis Leisler..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1963. More
Adelaide, Field Naturalists Society of South Australia, 1981 (enlarged edition)/ 1920. More
London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1843. The author lived in South Australia from March 1839 to March 1842; chapters include 'Sketch of Adelaide and Surrounding Villages - Colonial Life and Manners', 'The Native Inhabitants', and 'Information for Emigrants', plus an appendix bringing the information up to date to the end..... More
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1917 [first UK edition]. Provenance: Alex Melrose, Australian playwright and poet, with his pencilled ownership signature on the half-title, and his bookplate on the front pastedown (designed, and signed in pencil, by Adrian Feint). More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1970. The scarce first published collection by Australian counter-culture poet Michael Dransfield, who died in 1973 aged 24. Paperback Poets 2. More
Sydney, British Orphans Adoption Society, 1944. Inscribed, dated (1944) and signed in ink by the author on the verso of the front cover. Evelyn Douglas Darby (1910-1985), teacher and politician; 'medically unfit for war service, in 1939 Darby founded the British Orphans Adoption Society which sponsored the formation, in 1940..... More
Quorn, Lynton Publications for the Quorn Centenary Book Committee, 1978. More
Meningie, The Author, 1982. More