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 about A Lecture on South Australia; including Letters from J.B. Hack, Esq. and other Emigrants....

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 about Progress of Australian Discovery. [Contained in] The Dublin Review, Volume XIII, 1842

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 about South Australia in 1844-45. A Description of the Actual State of the Colony, of its Sources of...

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845. 'A Memento from the Author London 14th May 1849' is inscribed on the retained original flyleaf. The author's preface explains that 'This "Description", comprehending the fruits of five years of continual labour, during a tour of 7000 miles, on foot, is divided into... More about Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, accompanied by a Geological Map,...

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 about Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia

Sydney, Government Printer, 1857. New South Wales Legislative Assembly Paper Number 400 of 1857. An estimate of expenses, listing localities, ranks and numbers employed, rates of pay plus contingencies (farriery, remount horses and the like). More about Native Police Force. (Amended Estimate

Geelong, Thomas Brown, 1859 ['second' but actually the third edition]/ 1856/ 1851. Ferguson 7665 (noting that this is in fact the third edition, the second having been published by Slater, Williams and Hodgson in Melbourne in 1856 - see Ferguson 7663). More about Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria, and other Australian Districts; with...

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 about Eighth Report of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria

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 about The Narrinyeri. An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country...

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 about Eleventh Report of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria

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 about Thirteenth Report of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines in the Colony of Victoria

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1878. The remainder issue, without the folding map at the end of each volume. More about The Aborigines of Victoria. With Notes relating to Habits of the Natives of other Parts of...

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 about Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines

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. Ferguson 13095 (noting variant bindings). More about The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri, by the Rev. George Taplin; The...

Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1879 [first thus]. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time of publication; the lengthy (34-page) introduction by Woods is new to this edition. This is a variant edition, as issued (we purchased several copies recently from the publisher's archive); it does... More about The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri, by the Rev. George Taplin; The...

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 about Report .. upon Certain Peculiar Habits and Customs of the Aborigines of Western Australia. To...

Melbourne, George Robertson, 1880. Eastern Victoria. More about Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Group-Marriage and Relationship, and Marriage by Elopement, drawn chiefly...

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'. This edition is the reprint of the following year with reset contents page and... More about Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1884 [second edition]/ 1883. In this second edition 'a few small inaccuracies are corrected, and one or two passages relating to the Jubilee Exhibition it was proposed to hold in Adelaide are omitted ... A few illustrations are added in connection with the chapters on the Aborigines... More about South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta...

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1887. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 53 of 1887; only 670 copies printed. An overview of the affairs of the Territory (9 pages) by the Government Resident J. Langdon Parsons - with much interesting material on mining, resulting from Tenison Woods' recent report - plus appendices on... More about Government Resident's) Half-yearly Report on Northern Territory to December 31st, 1886

London, RGS, [1889] and [1891]. Lindsay's article gives an account of several expeditions (two of them quite short). On the main expedition, from Dalhousie to the Gulf of Carpentaria between February and October 1886, 'he passed through a large tract of previously unexplored country in the Northern Territory ... a.... More about An Expedition across Australia from South to North, between the Telegraph Line and the Queensland...

Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1889. The last page and a half are a 'Vocabulary of Aboriginals of the Upper Darling', also by Newland. This is a separately-paginated offprint of two articles read before the Society on 29 September 1887 and first published in Volume 2 of the Society's Proceedings... More about Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch. The Parkengees, or Aboriginal...

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1891. Don't be misled by the generic title! This is the account of a first-hand visit in March-April 1888; it is an interesting and wide-ranging report, covering (among other things) mining, agricultural and pastoral matters, Aboriginal affairs and the local Chinese problem. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number... More about Report of the Minister of Education .. on the Northern Territory

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1894. With 28 pages on the Aborigines of South Australia and 32 pages on the Northern Territory. More about The Province of South Australia written for the South Australian Government. With a Sketch of the...

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, Printers, 1895. A separately-paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch), Session 1894-5. With the pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. More about 'Some Aboriginals I Have Known'