London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. The author was a South Australian pioneer, and he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. With the John Goodchild-designed bookplate of the Thomas Gill bequest to the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia..... 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

Paris, Société de Géographie, 1888. The second quarterly Bulletin de la Société de Géographie for 1888, devoted entirely to Lapérouse's expedition. Contents include an extensive bibliography (386 titles) and a detailed catalogue of the accompanying exhibition (173 items with 2 illustrations). We have handled a separately paginated variant edition of..... More

London, Ibister, 1899. 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

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. More

London, Macmillan, 1910. With the bookplate of Harold Sheard. More

London, London Missionary Society, 1913. With 63 illustrations from photographs by the author (4 in colour). More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1915 [first edition]. This issue also contains a major ornithological contribution by S.A. WHITE: Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the north-western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 26 plates). More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. More

London, Thorton Butterworth, 1921 [first edition]. Fiction set in Polynesia. 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, Epworth, 1925. More

London, Cassell, 1925 (second printing)/ 1924. More

London, Cassell, 1926. More

London, John Murray, 1927. A 1930 Murray catalogue is loosely inserted. More

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

Sydney, (The Heighway Family), 1932. The life of a pioneer missionary, by his family; this copy has the family inscription; 'From Sophie with Xmas greetings 1940'. More

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1932 [second impression of the third edition]/ 1929. Preface by Havelock Ellis. More

Hamburg, Advent-Verlag, [1933?]. More

Berlin, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, (1934). Solomon Islands, New Guinea and Bali; text in German. More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1935. Pieced together from 'the writings of naval officers, of missionaries, and of traders, the proceedings in the few cases in which massacres and other outrages by these men led to legal action against them, stray hints by travellers, stories in old newspapers or in official..... More

Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1935. More