Aboriginal Art, 23 + 24 November 2004
Sydney, Lawson Menzies, 2004. With the results of the sale (Number 3716) with the prices realised loosely inserted (with one sheet tipped-in to the first page) with a few ink annotations. More
Australia
Aboriginal Land Claim to Cliff Islands National Park. Report of the Land Tribunal established under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 to the Hon. the Minister for Natural Resource
Brisbane, Government Printer, 1996. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated June 1996). Aboriginal Land Claim number 6. More
Aboriginal Land Claims to Melville National Park, Flinders Group National Park, Clack Island National Park and Nearby Islands. Report of the Land Tribunal established under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 to the Hon. the Minister for Lands
Brisbane, Government Printer, 1994. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated 1994). Aboriginal Land Claim number 1. More
Aborigines' Friends' Association. 48 The Ninetieth Annual Report, 1948
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
Amalgamated Engineering Union Souvenir. A.E.U. Australia, 1920-1945
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
Anthropos. Revue Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Linguistique. Band IV, 1909 and V, 1910
Wien, Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1909 and 1910. Not least, Bird, W. H.: 'Some Remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie Language as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia'. 'Anthropos' was a 'leading journal in cultural anthropology; focussing on Anthropology of Religion, Economic and Social Anthropology, Culture History, Linguistics [and] cover[ing]..... More
![Item #70804 The Antipodean. An Illustrated Annual [1892]. Edited by George Essex Evans and John...](/pictures/thumb/70804_01.jpg?v=1587520831)
The Antipodean. An Illustrated Annual [1892]. Edited by George Essex Evans and John Tighe Ryan. [Bound with the Annual for 1893]
London, George Robertson, 1893 (second edition) 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..... More
Australasian Bibliography... Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library, Sydney, relating to, or published in, Australasia... Reference Library, 1869-1888. (Part I: Authors, Editors, or Reference. Part II: Colonies, &c. Part III: Classified Subject and Title)
Sydney, Government Printer, 1893. More
Australian Aborigines [cover title]. Australian Aborigines - a Study in Contrasts ...
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 Australian Army at War. Brochure Number 1: The Battle of Wau. [Together with]: Brochure Number 2: Jungle Trail; Brochure Number 3: Battle of the Ridges [and] Brochure Number 4: Salamaua Siege
Canberra, Department of Information, 1943 and 1944. The Australian Army at War series. More
The Australian Artist. Volume One, Part One to Volume Two, Part Two. (Six parts, all published)
Melbourne, Victorian Artists Society. More
The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX
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
B.O.B.'s Annual WHOOPEE. 'The Best Show in Town' (Slogan kindly lent by Parkside). [Cover title: The B.O.B.S. First Annual Christmas Dinner. Held at the Oriental Hotel, Adelaide, 18/12/30]
Adelaide, B.O.B.S., 1930. The Programme/ Menu is signed on the rear cover by some 35 local business identities. More
Balaklava. Change and Challenge. A History of Balaklava and Surrounding Districts
Balaklava, District Council of Balaklava, 1977. More
Balaklava. Change and Challenge. A History of Balaklava and Surrounding Districts
Balaklava, District Council of Balaklava, 1977. More
Batavia and Australia Steam Navigation Company. Letter ... relative to a project for establishing postal communication by means of steam vessels between Batavia and Australia
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1866. Full details of the project: primarily a monthly service between Java, Brisbane and Sydney, via Torres Straits, but including proposals from "Colonel Finniss, Resident of the northern part of South Australia ... for establishing a steam service between..... More
The Blackwood Magazine. The Official Organ of the B, C and B Club Literary Society. Volume 1, Number 1, January 1914 to Volume 1, Number 12, December 1914 (all published)
[Blackwood, Literary Society of the Blackwood, Coromandel and Belair Club], 1914. This elusive journal was 'devoted to the interests of [the Adelaide Hills suburbs] Blackwood, Coromandel Valley, Belair, and Eden Hills'. The editorial to what became the final issue commences thus: 'Many a good man has been hung for no..... More
The Broken Hill Mining Industry
[No Place, No Publisher, 1955]. More
Broken Hill. The Silver City
[Broken Hill, Broken Hill City Council, c.1957]. More
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition: an Account of the Crossing of the Continent of Australia, from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria, with Biographical Sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies. More
Colin Lanceley. With an Introduction by Robert Hughes and Interview by Colin Wright
Seaforth, Craftsman House, 1988/ 1987. More
The Con Camp Chronicle. Published by Permission of Lt. Col. H.L.W. Norrington DSO RAMC. Editors: Rev. H.F.S. Collier ... [and] Pte. William Farrow AIF. September, 9 1917, No 10 ... 1 Penny weekly [drop-title]
Rouen, The Editors, September 1917. Melbourne-born William Farrow described himself as a 'Black & White Artist' on his enlistment form in March 1916. He was in the 3rd Division Cyclists' Corps, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion and going to France in September 1916. His service records indicate that for..... More
Convict Discipline, 1833. A facsimile of the rare Colonial Circular No. 33-48 and other related documents
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1977. Number 475 of 750 numbered copies. More
The Corporation of the City of West Torrens Centenary 1953
[Keswick, The Corporation], 1953. More
The Corporation of the City of West Torrens. Centenary, 1953 [cover title]
[Keswick, The Corporation], 1953. With numerous illustrations. Original purchase receipt loosely inserted. More