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

Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and..... More

London, Scriptum, 1997 (third printing)/ 1997. More

[Broken Hill], Barrier Field Naturalists' Club, [1944]. More

Melbourne, Melbourne Publishing Company, 1923 [first edition]. A 'descriptive narrative of outback life including the work of the Australian Inland Mission. The hero, a muscular padre with war service, runs to earth a murderer playing two roles by means of disguises'. Although a novel, the author fits the description of..... More

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. The author was one of a small party of men, under Ralph Milner of Killalpaninna, which set out in December 1870 with 7000 sheep and about 300 horses, with the intention of claiming a South Australian Government reward for the first 1000 sheep or 100 head of..... More

Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1996 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1988. Signed by the author on the title page. More

Melbourne, Hill House Publishers, 1990. 'This text was first published in an archival issue of only five hundred copies'; this is the first trade edition. The origin of this work is Joseph Banks' eighteenth century engraved copper plate of 'The Great Pacific Ocean', which was discovered in 1974 in the..... More

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1932. This issue also contains ASHWIN, Arthur C.: From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71 (47 pages). More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1905. This issue also contains HEDLEY, C.: Report on the Mollusca collected by Mr H. Basedow on the South Australian Government North-West Expedition (5 pages plus a plate) and TEPPER, J.G.O.: Insects collected ... [on the same Expedition] by H. Basedow (9 pages). Herbert Basedow also contributes two..... More

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1914. An important expedition, scientifically and anthropologically, under the leadership of L.A. Wells; it filled in the gap 'linking together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions'. McLaren 5065 (this separate issue). Many of the photographs are of strong Aboriginal interest. More

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969/ (1800). Written in 1800 "to serve as guidance to some of the members of the Societe des Observateurs de l'Homme in an impending expedition to Australia (under the command of Captain Nicolas Baudin) ... Degerando's originality lies in his recognizing and stating that the..... More