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

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]. 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

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, 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, 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

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

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, Heinemann, 1908. More

London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910. With the ownership signature of Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated 1927. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson' The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to her..... 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, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. More

Sydney, Australian Board of Missions, 1921. More

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 (second impression, reset)/ 1900. More

Sydney, Cornstalk, 1924. Includes 8 pages on cannibals. More

London, Epworth, 1925. 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

London, Thomas Nelson, 1926. More

London, William Heinemann, 1930. Some Australian content. More

London, Routledge, 1932 (second impression)/ 1922. Rare with the dustwrapper. 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

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

Paris, Payot, 1935. Text in French. Collection D'Etudes, de Documents et de Temoignages pour sevir a L'Histoire de Notre Temps. More