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, various Government Printers (or printers acting under authority), 1844 to 1848 (but possibly early. The balance of the volume contains another 65 separate Acts or Ordinances: 1845 (17 items); 1846 (17 items); 1847 (19 items plus the title page and index leaf); and 1848 (12 items plus the title..... More

London, T. and W. Boone, 1845 (first edition). Provenance: the contemporary signature 'R. Keppel Craven' is written in ink at the head of the first title page (presumably The Honorable Richard Keppel Craven, 1779-1851, British traveller, author, and long-time resident of Naples and Salerno). The blind-stamp of 'The Durdans, Roseberry..... 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, [The Society], 1874. This issue also contains (among much else) FISON, Reverend Lorimer: The Classificatory System of Kinship (26 pages), and PAIN, H.E.: Abstract of a Paper on Aboriginal Art in Australasia, Polynesia, and Oceania, and its Decay (6 pages). More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1874. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 61 of 1874; 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 76 of 1877; 1200 copies printed. The report comprises 2533 questions with answers, plus 35 pages of appendices. More

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1878. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 71 of 1878; 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, 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

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

Sydney, RSNSW, 1889. An Australia-wide survey, in which the author pulls no punches. He expresses special indebtedness to the work of E.M. Curr, 'although some of [the latter's] conclusions have been widely different from those enunciated in this essay'. This volume also contains STEPHENS, Edward: The Aborigines of Australia, being..... More

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

Adelaide, RSSA, 1891. The author was a missionary of fourteen years standing in the region at the time the article was written (in German; this translation, from the manuscript, is by J.G.O. Tepper). This issue also contains CHEWINGS, Charles: Geological Notes on the Upper Finke River Basin (pages 247-255 plus..... More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1891. The author was a missionary attached to the Finke River Mission (Hermannsburg); 'the vocabulary is that of the tribe inhabiting the River Finke, and is also, with only slight variations in the dialect, that of the tribes in the MacDonnell Ranges eastward to Alice Springs, but not..... More

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1894. With 28 pages on the Aborigines of South Australia and 32 pages on the Northern Territory. More

Adelaide, W.C. Rigby (for the RSSA), 1895. The author was 'formerly Accountant and Paymaster, SA Railways, Port Darwin'. This issue contains another nine articles, including Tepper, J.G.O.: 'New or Little-known Orthoptera from Lake Callabonna'; Howchin, Walter: 'New Facts bearing on the Glacial Features of Hallett's Cove'; and Verco, Dr Joseph..... More

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. More

London, Dulau, 1896. The set was withdrawn from the Public Library of New South Wales; the cancelled stamps are signed by Ida Emily Leeson (1885-1964), the second Mitchell Librarian (from 1932 until [officially] 1946). A pencilled note in each volume indicates the set entered the library on 16 March 1909..... More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1899. This issue also contains a nine-page address by the President of the Society, W.L. CLELAND; he concentrates on the Australian Aborigines, with particular reference to the recent publications of Roth, Spencer and Gillen. He concludes that the 'Australian is not degenerate but primordial ... A consequence of..... More