Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1843 (second edition)/ 1842. More
London, George Baxter, 1844. 'A scene connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society and the Maories [sic]. Mr Waterhouse, general superintendent of that Society's Missions in Australia and Polynesia, is seen introducing to the natives Mr Creed (their new missionary) and his wife. The detail is wonderful and the colouring beautiful..... More
Manchester, J. Gadsby, Newall's-Building [Printer and Publisher], 1845. Dawn Island is 'one of the small tropical islands of the Pacific' (page 7). 'This Tale, written for the purpose, is my offering to the Bazaar of the National Anti-Corn-Law League. However small its value, this contribution is made by me without..... More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. The contemporary ownership details of E. Barlow, Adelaide are written in ink on the front pastedown. Henry Hussey (1825-1903) arrived in South Australia in 1839, so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 (of 36) pages on..... More
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903) arrived in South Australia in 1839, so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 (of 36) pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The..... More
Leipzig, Paul Frohberg, 1875 and 1876 (both first editions). More
London, Macmillan and Co., 1883. Newspaper clipping of the author's obituary pasted on the verso of the front free endpaper. Inscribed, dated (9 November 1886) to one Frederick Williams and signed by James Johnston (the author's father). Tipped-in to page 206 is a small newspaper clipping regarding King Ihakombay, as..... More
London, Religious Tract Society, [c.1885]. A presentation plate from the Snow Hill Congregational Sunday Schools, presented to Amy Shufflebotham on the front flyleaf is dated Febuary 14, 1886. More
London, Street, 1886. The verso of the flyleaf carries a warm presentation inscription from the author to E. Paris Nesbit QC. The recipient was Edward Paris[s] Nesbit (1852-1927), 'lawyer, libertine, lunatic' - read the Australian Dictionary of Biography and be suitably amazed. More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. Not least, India (pp 44-87), Papua New Guinea (pp88-122), Fruit as a Factor in Colonial Commerce (pp123-160) and The Mineral Wealth of South Africa (pp216-251). More
London, Frederick Warne, [1892?]. Prince Alfred College prize binding with the 1899 prize plate signed by the Honorable President John D. Langsford and the Headmaster [Frederic] Chapple (1876-1914), and presented to one H.L. Bowen. More
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. 1898. More
London, Ibister, 1899. More
Berlin, Alfred Schall, [1899]. The text is in German. The other contributors are noted on the title page: 'mit Beiträgen von Professor Dr A. Freiherrn von Danckelman, Professor Dr F. von Luschan, Kustos Paul Matschie und Professor Dr Otto Warburg mit Unterstützung der Kolonial-Abteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes, der Neu-Guinea-Kompagnie und..... More
London, Isbister, 1900. With the ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide; loosely inserted is a four-page leaflet (dated May 1900) appealing for funds for a new mission ship, and a Melanesian Mission stamp (depicting 'Reef Islanders'). The latter is unpriced, so presumably it is not..... More
Melbourne, Pater, 1902. An independent account by the American evangelist of the whole missionary field "of Heathendom... in its actual condition, operations, modes of organization, instruction, and efforts, its different peculiarities, its needs, its difficulties..." Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Thursday and Friday Islands, New Guinea, the Phillipines and (naturally) Australia..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. More
London, Heinemann, 1908. More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1910. Provenance: Harold Sheard, with his bookplate (designed by his wife, the South Australian artist Rose Lowcay). More
London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910. Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), 'anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist ... as a young graduate, Wood Jones found medicine 'cramped and small when compared to biology' and jumped at the chance of a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. on the..... More
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913 (second impression)/ 1912. With the pencilled ownership signature of J.M. Napier (possibly Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier [1882-1976], Chief Justice of South Australia). More
London, London Missionary Society, 1913. With 63 illustrations from photographs by the author (4 in colour). More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1915. This issue also contains a major paper by Captain Samuel Albert WHITE (and others): Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 2 maps and 25 pages of plates). White supplied the lengthy introductory narrative and section on birds, and..... More
London, Macmillan, 1917 (tenth printing of the fourth edition)/ 1898. Burma, where the author lived from the mid-1880s. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. More
London, Thorton Butterworth, 1921 [first edition]. Fiction set in Polynesia. More
Sydney, Australian Board of Missions, 1921. More
London, John Murray, 1924. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last 18 pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. Two contemporary John Murray brochures are loosely inserted. More
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 (second impression, reset)/ 1900. More
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 (second impression)/ 1898. More
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1924. Includes 8 pages on cannibals. More
London, John Murray, 1924. Review copy, with the embossed stamp 'With Mr. Murray's Compliments' on the title page. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last eighteen pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. More
London, Epworth, 1925. More
London, Cassell, 1925 (second printing)/ 1924. More
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925 [first edition]. Not least, life in New Guinea after ANMEF (the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force) had removed the Germans in 1914, and some of the problems facing Australian colonisation in NG (Australia received a mandate from the League of Nations to govern PNG in 1921)..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1925. More
London, Thomas Nelson, 1926. More
London, Harrap, 1928. More
London, William Heinemann, 1930. Some Australian content. More
Guetersloh, Bertelsmann, 1931. Part 1 of Volume 5 of a history of German missions. More
London, Routledge, 1932 (second impression)/ 1922. Rare with the dustwrapper. More
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Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., 1932. Inscribed and signed by the translator, an Australian missionary. According to the foreword, this book is 'unique in being the first autobiography of a New Britain native, and possibly of any native of the Pacific'. The author was an early convert to Christianity, and..... More
Dunedin, Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd and A.H. Reed for the Otago University Council, 1932 (first edition). Number 302 of 1000 copies, signed by the editor, John Rawson Elder. More
Hamburg, Advent-Verlag, [1933?]. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1933. 'This book gives a short account of the cosmic beliefs of the natives of Central Polynesia, and discusses in detail their ideas as to the nature of the soul and its various fates and destinations after death' (from the dustwrapper blurb). More
Sydney, Thwaites, (1934 and 1936). More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934. With the ownership signature of Baron Sandford, and the loosely inserted original publisher's prospectus (folded once, and slightly torn at one corner). More
