London, Sold by J. Gliddon, 3, Austin Friars, and W.H. Mason, Chichester, 1838 (second edition)/ [1838?]. A dozen pages are given over to the letters from emigrants, including nine from the brothers Hack, written between February and August 1837. The first one, from Glenelg on 20 February, less than two..... More

London, Dolman, 1842. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year, and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet, 'Evidences of an Inland Sea, collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' (Dublin, 1837). More

Adelaide, Andrew Murray, Printer, Rundle Street (Sold by C. Platts, Bookseller, Hindley Street ...), 1845. The State Library of South Australia has a copy of this item with the map (and it's a beauty - a hand-coloured lithograph, 322 × 213 mm, produced in 'Goodwood nr Adelaide' in 1845). However..... More

Adelaide, 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane', 1846. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840, and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on..... More

London, Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. Ferguson 9339 (not quite accurate regarding the illustrations, plates and maps): 'Chapter XII [52 pages and the folding plate] deals with Melville Island and North Australia. There are also many references to the Australian aborigines in other parts of the work, with ethnological comparisons'. The list..... More

Sydney, Government Printer, 1857. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper Number 120 of 1857. Seven items of correspondence relating to an incident on the Lower Condamine in 1852 - all pretty inconclusive. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1872. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 60 of 1872; one of 950 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More

Adelaide, J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. The frontispiece, a Townsend Duryea photograph, is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 (not identifying the photographer, and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite..... More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1875. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 26 of 1875; one of 850 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1877. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 62 of 1877; one of 825 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1878. The remainder issue, without the folding map at the end of each volume. More

Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1878. The first edition; it was reissued in 1879 as an addendum to Taplin's 'The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' and reprinted the following year with reset contents page and variant title page. Ferguson 16709. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1879. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1879; one of 775 copies. 'It is a painful fact that the aborigines throughout Victoria are rapidly decreasing in numbers, the total numbers being now probably not more than 800, including half-castes'. There is a very detailed report by the..... More

Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1879. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy (34-page) introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Taplin's substantial contribution, The Narrinyeri (156 pages plus 6 preliminaries) is the text of the revised edition of 1878 (see..... More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1880. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 29 of 1880; one of 875 copies. Detailed reports from the Government Aboriginal stations (Coranderrk, Lake Wellington, Lake Tyers, Lake Condah, Framlingham and Lake Hindmarsh) plus appendices listing distribution of stores, prison statistics and the like. More

Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1880/ 1878. First published as a separate pamphlet in 1878, it was reissued in 1879 as an addendum to Taplin's 'The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' and reprinted the following year with reset contents page and variant title page. The..... More

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1882. In his time, the author was Commissioner of Police in South Australia. More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1886. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 137 of 1886; only 700 copies printed. All "correspondence, telegrams and minutes relating to the dispensing with the services of Dr Morice as Protector of Aborigines and Health Officer". Morice was sacked for "insubordination, resistence of retrenchment, and litigious disposition"; his..... More

[London, The Victoria Institute, 1889]. More

Sydney, AAAS, 1889. The entire volume runs to xxxvi, 660 (last blank), viii (index, last blank), xviii (list of members) pages plus a number of folding tables and at least 50 illustrations, maps and plates (many of them folding). The 52-page Anthropology section contains several long articles on aspects of..... More

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890. All but one of the other articles in this issue relate 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 lithographs, 7 chromolithographs and a...... More

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

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, Printers, 1895. More

Brisbane, Gordon and Gotch (for the Executrix and Children), 1896. With much on Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and the relevant states; subjects include 'The Lady Augusta', the Constitution, the Anti-Transporation debate, 'The Incursions of the Blacks', Squatting, John Petrie and the Liberty of the Press. More

London, David Nutt, 1896 [first edition]. Andrew Lang, an anthropologist with a special interest in folk tales, correctly notes in his four-page introduction that 'till Mrs Langloh Parker wrote this book, we had but few of the stories which Australian natives tell'. The illustrations, 'from the sketch-book of an untaught..... More