Royal Geographical Society Illustrated
London, Scriptum, 1997 (third printing)/ 1997. More
Exploration
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
The Uranium Hunters
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. 'Uranium hit the news in a big way in August 1970, when the huge deposit of uranium ore found by a woman prospector in the Northern Territory of Australia was valued at many milions of dollars.... The hope of making such a lucky strike was what kept..... More
The Spell of the Inland. A Romance of Central Australia
Melbourne, Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1924 (second edition)/ 1923 [first edition]. Provenance: Captain Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), inscribed in ink with his name and, 'with the publisher's compliments' on the front free endpaper. A 'descriptive narrative of outback life including the work of the Australian Inland Mission. The hero, a muscular..... 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
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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
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company ('Printed at the Ballantyne Press, London & Edinburgh'), [1915] (first edition, first state). The superlative bibliography by Michael H. Rosove, 'Antarctica, 1772-1922. Freestanding Publications through 1999' (2001), contains much valuable information about the unusual circumstances surrounding the release of this work soon after the outbreak of..... More
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Sturt's Explorations in Australia. [Bound together with] Recent Explorations in Australia [both are extracts from the 'Cyclopaedia of Modern Travel']
[Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., circa 1856]. The first article deals with Sturt's journey along the Murray; the second one deals with Eyre, Mitchell and Leichhardt. More
A comprehensive collection of Parliamentary Papers pertaining to the explorations in South Australia of Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878)
Babbage was 'engineer, scientist and explorer ... son of Charles Babbage, Cambridge professor of mathematics [and the first computer pioneer], and his wife Georgina, sister of W.W. Whitmore, a founder of South Australia.... In 1856 Babbage was sent north to search for gold as far as the Flinders Ranges. He..... 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
Some Account of that part of New Holland now called New South Wales. Edited, with an Introduction, by John Currey
Malvern, The Banks Society, 2004 (first thus). More
Endeavouring Banks. Exploring Collections from the 'Endeavour' Voyage, 1768-1771
London, Paul Holberton Publishing/ University of Washington Press/ NewSouth Publishing, 2016. The catalogue developed from a celebratory exhibition held in Lincoln in 2014. A related newspaper clipping is loosely inserted. 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
A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales, comprising an Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts; the Progress of the Colony; an Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences and Executions that have taken place: a Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs &c. of the Natives, - as likewise Authentic Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Characters, and Notorious Convicts that have been transported to the Settlement of New South Wales
London, Printed and Published by C. Lowndes and sold by H.D. Symonds, 1800 [first edition]. An early chapbook relating to New South Wales, spuriously attributed to Third Fleet convict George Barrington. 'The first of these fraudulent "Barrington" accounts was published in London by the chapbook publisher H.D. Symonds in 1795..... 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
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Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 18, Session 1916-17
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
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Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 18, Session 1916-17
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Physical Geography and Geology of Western Rivers' District, Northern Territory of Australia. [An offprint from] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 16, Session 1914-15
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., Printers (for the Society), 1916. The Victoria, Fitzmaurice, Daly, Adelaide, McKinlay and Mary Rivers; among others. McLaren 5066 (this issue). More
Questions relating to Nicolas Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1800-1804
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965. A 'Thesis for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in History, at the University of Adelaide, 1964.' Provenance: Sir Archibald Grenfell Price: the front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell, In grateful recollection of your unfailing kindness, Christine Cooper [nee Cornell]..... 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
A Life on the Ocean Wave. The Journals of Captain George Bayly, 1824-1844. [Voyages to Australia, India and the Pacific ... (dustwrapper subtitle)]
Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press, 1998. More
Kennedy of Cape York
Adelaide, Rigby, 1970. More
Four Travel Journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
London, Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
Four Travel Journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
London, Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
Unexplored New Guinea. A Record of the Travels, Adventures, and Experiences of a Resident Magistrate amongst the Head-Hunting Savages and Cannibals of the Unexplored Interior of New Guinea
New York, AMS Press, 1979 (facsimile edition)/ 1920 (second edition)/ [1920]. Provenance: Anthony Crawford, anthropologist and publisher, with his contemporary ownership signature (1980) on the front free endpaper. The emphases, confined to pages 192-209 in the two chapters on the Girara tribes, are in his hand. More