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10 Aust Light Horse Regt (AIF) Scrap Book, 1944 [cover title]
Perth, The Regiment, 1944. A few pages are devoted to the regiment's WW1 precursor, the 10th Light Horse. A rarity; not in the standard bibliographies. More
Western Australia
Westralian Cavalry in the War. The Story of the Tenth Light Horse Regiment, AIF, in the Great War, 1914-1918
Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: 'Lieut.-Colonel Olden is well qualified to undertake the work, as, joining the Regiment on its inception, he served with it throughout the War, and, though twice wounded, was never long away from duty. He..... More
The Old Sixteenth. Being a Record of the 16th Battalion AIF, during the Great War, 1914-1918... With Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash ...
Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929. Dornbusch 324; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 219. More
The Old Sixteenth. Being a Record of the 16th Battalion AIF, during the Great War, 1914-1918... With Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash ...
Swanbourne, John Burridge, [1983 (facsimile edition)]/ 1929. Number 153 of 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 219 (giving 1983 as the date of this facsimile edition). More
Anthropos. Revue Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Linguistique... International Review of Ethnology and Linguistics ... Band IV, 1909 [and] Band V, 1910
Wien [Vienna], Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1909 and 1910. A multi-lingual journal, with the majority of articles in either English, French, or German. There are 22 articles relating to Oceania and Australia, and many more on Asia, Africa and the Americas. Provenance: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, SA Branch, with occasional inkstamps. [2..... More
Coasts and Tidal Wetlands of the Australian Monsoon Region. A Collection of Papers presented at a Conference held in Darwin, 4-11 November 1984
Darwin, Australain National University, North Australia Research Unit, 1985. With ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. More
Commandant of Solitude. The Journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992. The journals cover Barker's period of command of 'the isolated settlement at Raffles Bay (near modern Darwin) for just over a year and ... King George Sound (Albany)', ending with his untimely death at the mouth of the Murray River. Number..... More
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Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 18, Session 1916-17
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
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Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 18, Session 1916-17
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Abrolhos Islands Archaeological Sites Interim Report
Fremantle, Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology, 2000. Not least, the Batavia Mutiny. Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology Special Publications Number 5. More
The Native Tribes of Western Australia. Edited by Isobel White
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. The thirty-five page introduction by the editor is essential reading. The original manuscript of half a million words 'was written during Mrs Bates's period of service with the Western Australian Government from 1904 to 1912'; most of the information on the Aborigines of north-west..... More
The Native Tribes of Western Australia. Edited by Isobel White
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. Signed by the editor on the title page, with a further inscription on the half-title (signed 'Sally' and dated June 1987). The thirty-five page introduction by the editor is essential reading. The original manuscript of half a million words 'was written during Mrs Bates's..... More
Colliding Worlds. First Contact in the Western Desert, 1932-1984
Melbourne, Museum Victoria and National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Tandanya, 2006. 'This book accompanies an exhibition that has been developed by the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Tandanya and Museum Victoria, first showing as part of the Adelaide Festival' (from the foreword). Includes essays by Dick Kumber, Jeremy Long and John Kean..... More
The History of the North West of Australia embracing Kimberley, Gascoyne and Murchison Districts. Illustrated... With Descriptive and Biographical Information compiled by Matt. J. Fox, F.S.S
Perth, V.K. Jones & Co., 1915. A rare and important work of perennial interest and value, with extensive details of approximately 230 North West pioneers and early settlers and their families, and about 100 pastoral properties. Provenance: 'Mr John Heydon | Cue 1922' is written in pencil on the front..... More
Plant Life of Western Australia
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1990. More
Wullunnu-Wunia Mark Nunya. The Gospel according to St. Mark in Worora. Revised Edition
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
Fungi of Southern Australia
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1998. Signed by the illustrator Katrina Syme (and dated 4 March 1998). More
Narratives from the North-West of Western Australia in the Ngarluma and Jindjiparndi Languages
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970. Volume 1: Narratives 1-36; Volume 2: Narratives 37-60 and Volume 3: Glossary, Index and Record. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 35, Linguistic Series Number 14. More
Orchids of Western Australia
Crawley, University of Western Australia Press, 2008. 'Information on each species, including who named them and where they were first collected, habitat, distribution, flowering period, size and distinguishing features ... species placed in taxonomic groupings making it easier to differentiate between those that are closely related ... illustrations of the..... More
Packhorse and Waterhole. With the First Overlanders to the Kimberleys
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1934 (second edition)/ 1933. More
Wollaston's Albany Journals (1848-1856), being Volume 2 of the Journals and Diaries (1841-1856) of Revd. John Ramsden Wollaston, M.A. Archdeacon of Western Australia, 1849-1856
Perth, Lamb Publications Pty. Ltd., 1954. Loosely inserted is the four-page pamphlet (slightly creased and torn) 'St John the Evangelist, Albany', circa 1960s. 'The Personal Diary of an Observant, Educated Early Settler in Western Australia'. Introduction by Malcolm J.L. Uren. More
List of Birds collected by the Calvert Expedition in West Australia. With Field Notes by G.A. Keartland, Naturalist to the Expedition. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 22, Part 2, 1898
Adelaide, RSSA, 1898. Keartland's field notes make this far more interesting than the 'List of Birds' title suggests. For example, he concludes his account of the Nankeen kestrel thus: 'I took four eggs from a tree near our camp, and was surprised to find the nest lined with pellets of..... More
Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7. Equipped at the Request and Expense of Albert F. Calvert ... for the Purpose of exploring the remaining Blanks of Australia
Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder..... More
Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7. Equipped at the Request and Expense of Albert F. Calvert ... for the Purpose of exploring the remaining Blanks of Australia
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1902. More