An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales ...
Adelaide, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1975/ 1798 and 1802. More
Exploration
Late Cainozoic History of Vegetation, Fire, Lake Levels and Climate, at Lake George, New South Wales, Australia
London, The Royal Society, 1985. An offprint from 'The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Volume 311'. With the colour pictorial bookplate of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
A substantial number of important articles on exploration and Indigenous Australia, mainly relating to Northern Australia, contained in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 2 (Sessions 1886-7 and 1887-8) and Volume 3 (Sessions 1888-9 to 1897-8)
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890 and 1899. An impressive, important and unquestionably rare compilation. The contents of Volume 2 include: 1. TIETKENS, W.H.: The Nullabor Plains and the West Boundary of the Province (5 pages plus a very large and detailed folding map of the boundary line between South Australia and Western..... More
In Search of Edward John Eyre
South Melbourne, The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1982. More
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Explorations in Australia: I.- Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt [sic] and party. II.- From Perth to Adelaide, around the Great Australian Bight. III.- From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969 (facsimile)/ 1875. Peade A20: only 474 copies printed. More
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as told by Selections of his Own Journals, 1768-1779
Melbourne, Georgian House, by arrangement with The Heritage Press, 1958. Edited by A. Grenfell Price. More
Private Journal. From 17 December 1803 at Isle of France to 10 July 1814 at London
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005 [first thus]. Number 136 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of 850 copies); it was oversubscribed on publication. This is the first published transcription of the private journal kept by Flinders 'from the first..... More
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831..
Lane Cove, Doubleday, 1982 [facsimile edition]/ 1833. More
Journal of the Central Australian Expedition, 1844-5. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jill Waterhouse
London, Caliban Books, 1984. An important work, being the first publication of Sturt's manuscript journal written for his wife Charlotte (approximately 100 pages); in addition, it contains a facsimile reprint of 'An Account of the Sea Coast and Interior of South Australia ...' (an appendix to the 1849 published account..... More
South by Northwest. The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
Autobiographical Narrative of Residence and Exploration in Australia, 1832-1839
London, Caliban Books, 1984. Edited by Jill Waterhouse from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. More
Untold Miles. Three Gold-hunting Expeditions amongst the Picturesque Borderland Ranges of Central Australia
London, Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd, [1932]. McLaren 15922 (quoting Barnard on the date). Provenance: Norman Lewis, former head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership details on the front flyleaf, and occasional emphases and relevant annotations in pencil and ballpoint pen to the text and..... More
The Journal of HMS 'Endeavour', 1768-1771
Guildford, Genesis Publications and Adelaide, Rigby, 1977 [first edition thus]. Number 100 of only 500 copies. The bulk of the book (approximately 380 pages) comprises a facsimile reproduction of the Admiralty copy of Cook's journal, considered by the Cook authority J.G. Beaglehole as 'the best and most careful, as it..... More
The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Géographe' and 'Naturaliste'. Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery
Netley, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. With the ink ownership details of Sir Walter Crocker on the front free endpaper, and a relevant newspaper clipping with a couple of Crocker's ink annotations. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. The first complete edition..... More
Central Australia
London, Oxford University Press, 1936. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink library details on the front free endpaper, his ink ownership details on the half-title, and his (often critical) ink and pencilled annotations. 'An outline of the early exploration of Central..... More
Journey across the Western Interior of Australia
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1875. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper, and an occasional ink annotation. A few relevant newspaper clippings are loosely inserted in a manila pocket mounted..... More
Australia Twice Traversed ...
Sydney, Doubleday Australia, [1979, facsimile edition]/ 1889. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his contemporary ink ownership signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. More
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 (facsimile edition)/ 1820. The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, considered to be 'the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup: 'Australian Rare..... More
Sand and Sun. Two Gold-hunting Expeditions with Camels in the Dry Lands of Central Australia
London, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1937. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership details and library details on the half-title and his occasional pencilled annotations (one of which is initialled). More
A Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. From the journals and letters of William John Wills. Edited by his father, William Wills
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 208; one of 500 copies (and only 425 thus). Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has been reprinted. More
Peter Dillon of Vanikoro. Chevalier of the South Seas
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1975. Edited by O.H.K. Spate. More
The Observation of Savage Peoples
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969 (first thus). 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..... More
Hell's Airport and Lasseter's Lost Legacy
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1981 ('third and edited edition')/ 1934. 'Account of author's exploits as a member of Harold Lasseter's gold prospecting expedition 1930-31 [with] reference to Aranda, Luritja, Eumos and Wongapitcha (Pitjantjatjara) people in text and photograph captions' (Trove). Foreword by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. More
Identifying Wood Charcoal Remains as Palaeo Evidence for Regions of Central and Northeast Australia
Canberra, ANH Publications, RSPAS, The Australian National University, 1998. With the ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History, Number 28. More
Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612
London, Hakluyt Society, 2000. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, Number 5. Translated and edited by J.D. Fleur. 'The present edition offers for the first time an English translation of those parts of Van Den Broeke's manuscript which describe the four trading voyages he made to Africa ... he was among the..... More