Sydney, NSW Bookstall Company, [c.1900]. The folding panoramic view is 'Adelaide, from Exhibition, looking S.W.'; other photos include Exhibition Building, North Terrace, Victor Harbour, Victoria Square, 'University, Adelaide', King William Street, Currie Street, King William Street, Glenelg and Port River. More
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public LIbrary of New South Wales, 1963. More
Canberra, Royal Australian Institute of Archtects, 1972. More
Adelaide, AFA, 1949. Less of the usual miscellany of Aboriginal interest from around the country, more a series of longer articles, including ALBRECHT, F.W.: Building a Bridge across the Gulf that separates the White and Black Australian Race (5 pages) and Thinking Black - a Studious Survey of our Aboriginal..... More
Adelaide, AFA, 1969. The usual miscellany of paragraphs and short articles on Aboriginal matters from around the country. With the pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. More
Adelaide, Harrison Weir, Government Printer, 1928. 'This booklet is published at the request of a number of the General Public, who have from time to time sought copies of views and particulars in relation to the new Adelaide Railway Station.' The General Public got what they asked for. In addition..... More
Adelaide, Adelaide Teachers' College/ Education Department of SA, 1943, 1944 and 1945. Three Adelaide Gilbert and Sullivan programmes from WW2; the shows were put on at the Tivoli Theatre, Grote Street (which alert Adelaideans will recognise as Her Majesty's Theatre). More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1939. The period covered is 1 July to 31 December 1938. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 172 of 1937-38-39; only 810 copies printed. More
Sydney, The Union, 1946. Inscribed and signed by Joseph Archibald Cranwell (1889-1965), then Chairman of the A.E.U. (see pp 3-4 and Index for numerous references, or perhaps the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More
London, George Robertson, 1893 and 1894. The title leaves are laid down on fine blank paper to mask advertising on the verso; the contents leaves are numbered xxiii-xxiv and xiii-xiv respectively, with the running title 'The Antipodean - Advertisements' at the head of each page. Contributors include Rolf Boldrewood, Ernest..... More
[Sydney, Wrigley's, 1936]. Signed on the front cover by Don Bradman and Len Darling (who has also signed below his portrait near the centre of the booklet); Bill O'Reilly has signed the inside rear cover. More
Melbourne, The Proprietors of 'The Australasian', August 1873 and August 1874. More
Adelaide, Aborigines' Friends' Association, [late 1930s?, reprinted from the AFA Report]. The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives, living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives, who have come under mission influence', and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads..... More
The first three issues are the one-volume quarto reprint, uniform in size and binding with Number 10 onwards; Numbers 5 to 9 inclusive are stapled duplicate typescript in foolscap folio format (Numbers 5 and 6 are photocopied versions). With much on Australian Aborigines. More
Canberra, Department of Information, 1943 and 1944. The Australian Army at War series. More
Canberra, Defence Publishing Service, 2003. A well-produced snapshot of the Australian Army at the turn of the 20th Century. More
Melbourne, Victorian Artists Society. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1958 (first edition thus). This Angus and Robertson edition is superior in production and materials to the later, much more common, Grolier Society printings. More
[No Place, No Publisher], [1980s facsimile]/ 1914. The AIF commanders and officer corps in 1914; the first complete list after they sailed for Egypt in November 1914. The original, and this facsimile, remain surprisingly scarce, and an important snapshot of the AIF. With the binder's ticket of Norman J. Tyack..... More
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, ranging from adulteration of food, to hydatids and snake-bites. The Hon. William Bland MLC contributed 'Bites of the Venomous Snakes..... More
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1864. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including several short ones on snake-bite (approximately 6 pages), and a series of three important lectures on the heart by..... More
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1866. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including lengthy accounts (totalling 36 pages) of the recently concluded Beaney murder trials (the surgeon James George Beaney was acquitted..... More
Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1983; BFT Publishing Group, 1984-88 and Chevron, 1989. Volumes 4-7 are a slightly smaller format. An eighth volume appeared in 1990, after which the series may have ceased. More
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1988. This reference work bridges the gap between Sir John Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia, 1784-1900 and the National Library's Annual Catalogue of Australian Publications (now the Australian National Bibliography) which commenced publication in 1951. Approximately 50,000 titles are listed. More
