Abel Janszoon Tasman. A Bibliography
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public LIbrary of New South Wales, 1963. More
Exploration
The Australian Medical Journal .. Volume VI, 1861
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
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego
New Haven, William Reese and Sydney, Hordern House, 2004 [second edition, revised and enlarged]/ 1974, 1982 and 1983 [originally published in three volumes]. An extensively annotated catalogue of the important collection amassed by Kenneth Evan Hill - 'the most extensive gathering of books that document early voyages of exploration and... More
The Northern Territory of South Australia. Accompanied with a Map
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
Queensland Geographical Journal (New Series) including the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland). Volume 49, 1944-1945 to Volume 58-59, 1957-1958-1959 (an unbroken run of 10 issues bound as two volumes)
Brisbane, RGSQ, 1945 to 1959. Besides the mandatory Queensland material, there are excellent articles on Papua New Guinea, the Northern Territory, Aborigines and exploration. These include CUTLACK, Morley: The Wealth of Central Australia (17 pages with 5 illustrations); CONNELLAN, E.J.: Population Potential of the Northern Territory (23 pages); TOWNER, Major... More
Royal Geographical Society Illustrated
London, Scriptum, 1997 (third printing)/ 1997. More
Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. Volume 1, 1885-86 to Volume 92, 1992 (an unbroken run)
Ninety-one numbers (Volumes 23 and 24 were issued as one volume) plus the separately issued paper envelopes of maps for Volumes 18 and 19 (the second envelope is a little worn and stained); nine early numbers are bound as five volumes in publisher's half morocco, and Volume 4 is bound... More
Sturt, 1844-1944 [cover title]. Souvenir of the Sturt Centenary commemorated at Broken Hill, August 1944
[Broken Hill], Barrier Field Naturalists' Club, [1944]. More
Stapylton. With Major Mitchell's Australia Felix Expedition, 1836, largely from the journal of Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton
Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1986. Number 33 of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the editor. 'The settlement of the hinterland of the State of Victoria was preceded by two great land explorations, that of Hume and Hovell in 1824, and that dealt with here... In this most significant of his... More
The Spell of the Inland. A Romance of Central Australia
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
Yermak's Campaign in Siberia. A selection of documents translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman, and edited, with an introduction and notes, by ..
1975. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Number **. More
From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 32, 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 cattle delivered from... More
From South Australia to Port Darwin with Sheep and Cattle in 1870-71. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 32, 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 cattle delivered from... More
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
London, William Heinemann, 1915. The first volume contains a frontispiece portrait of the author, signed in ink 'Douglas Mawson' in the lower margin. More
The Explorers of the Pacific
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1996 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1988. Signed by the author on the title page. More
The Albert N'yanza. Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1962/ 1866. More
Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares .. and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. Zoology. Volume XXII: Report on the Deep-Sea Fishes collected by HMS 'Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. By Albert Gunther
London, HMSO, 1887. Offered together with four other volumes of reports from this most important research expedition, namely 'Summary of Scientific Results' (Parts 1 and 2, 1895), and 'Zoology', Volumes 28 and 32 (1888 and 1889). These four volumes are also large quarto, uncut and unopened in the original dark... More
![Explorations in Central Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society...](/pictures/thumb/18651_00.jpg?v=1550893254)
Explorations in Central Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 32, 1932
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
Journal of Mr Barclay's Exploration, 1878
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 209 of 1878. Barclay and his small party left Alice Springs on 31 January 1878; before turning back on 4 June, they had almost reached the Queensland border. Lack of food and water was the main problem, exacerbated on their return... More
Geological Report on the Country traversed by the South Australian Government North-West Prospecting Expedition, 1903. By Herbert Basedow, Prospector to the Expedition. [Contained in] Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 29, 1905
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
Journal of the Government North-West Expedition (March 30th - November 5th, 1903). [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 15, Session 1913-1914
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'. This volume also contains the annual address of the President, John LEWIS, with lengthy sections on Eyre, Sturt and... More
Journal of the Government North-West Expedition (March 30th - November 5th, 1903). [An offprint from] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 15, Session 1913-1914
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
The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Geographe' and 'Naturaliste'. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. The first complete translation into English. More
The Observation of Savage Peoples
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
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French Eyes, 1800-1804
Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales/ Hordern House, 1999. A sumptuous catalogue from an exhibition (at the Museum of Sydney, on the site of the first Government House) of manuscripts, drawings and watercolours from the rich Lesueur collection of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle du Havre, France. More