Seed of the Coolibah. A History of the Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka People
Adelaide, The Author, 2003. More
Queensland
Alternative Interventions. Aboriginal Homelands, Outback Australia and the Centre for Appropriate Technology
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2014. More
Cameos of Commandos. Memories of Eight Australian Commando Squadrons in New Guinea and Queensland
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during the Second World War. There is a lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper from 'Des C. Smith, Chaplain, 43 Batt. RSAR, 1967 - ?, 10/9/72'. Text on the both flap of the..... More
The Return of Steam Locomotive C17, Number 45
Corella, The Degener Timms Publications, 2000. The story of the restoration of a locomotive in Gympie, Queensland. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Nanna's Memoirs
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, [1976]. Offered together with a companion volume by the author from the same publisher: 'Nanna's Travels and Stories of the Outback' (1977; 99 pages with numerous illustrations; pictorial paperred boards; a fine copy). An 'insight into pioneering days in the outback cattle country in Australia' (foreword);..... More
Biting the Clouds. A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction on the Sale of Opium Act, 1897
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2020. 'Biting the Clouds - a euphemism for being stoned on opium - combines historial, personal and cultural imagery to reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative' (rear cover blurb). The Badtjala are indigenous to K'gari (Fraser Island). More
An impressive presentation album of 'Views of Warwick and District, Queensland. 1897'
Dedicated 'To His Worship The Mayor and the Aldermen of Warwick, England, from the Mayor and the Aldermen of Warwick, Queensland'. All photographs are captioned (mainly in the negative). Scenes of and in the town (193 × 243 mm) are 'Warwick from Free Stone Ck. Road'; 'Warwick from Waterworks'; Warwick..... 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). A few sheets of related ephemera are loosely inserted. Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has been reprinted. 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
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1848. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220. This copy is number 7 of only 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 600 copies; with the prospectus and original purchase receipt loosely inserted. The 14-page..... More
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2014. Catalogue of Works [cover title]
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast City Gallery/ The Arts Centre Gold Coast, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. More
Well Beaten Paths. Aborigines of the Herbert Burdekin District, North Queensland. An Ethnographic and Archaeological Study
[Townsville], James Cook University of North Queensland, 1990. Provenance: With the Canberra ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. Number 10 in the Studies in North Queensland History. More
![Item #135561 Desert Walker. My Adventures Relived. [Outback Adventures: cover subtitle]. Simpson...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135561_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693808215)
Desert Walker. My Adventures Relived. [Outback Adventures: cover subtitle]
[Banksia Beach], The Author, 2012. 'Of seventy plus Simpson Desert crossings, these are my six most memorable' (caption for map 2). More
![Item #135544 Rock Art and Regionalisation in North Queensland Prehistory. [Contained in] Memoirs...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135544_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692089988)
Rock Art and Regionalisation in North Queensland Prehistory. [Contained in] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Volume 37, Part 2
South Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1994. More
![Item #135543 Customary Exchange across Torres Strait. [Contained in] Memoirs of the Queensland...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/135543_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692167379)
Customary Exchange across Torres Strait. [Contained in] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Volume 34, Part 2
South Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1994. More
Thomas Baines. Exploring Tropical Australia, 1855-1857
Canberra, National Museum of Australia, 2012. 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. With the small ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 208; one of 500 copies (and only 425 thus). Surprisingly, this is the first time this important work has..... More
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 [facsimile edition]/ 1848. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; one of only 501 copies thus. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters is new to this edition; publisher's brochure is loosely inserted. More
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of upwards of 3000 Miles, during the Years 1844-1845
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1849. With the ink ownership details (National Museum, 20 January 1997) and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. One of the Les Hiddins series of facsimiles; the six-page introduction by Hiddins and three of the plates are new..... More
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition: an Account of the Crossing of the Continent of Australia, from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria, with Biographical Sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies. More
Seed of the Coolibah. A History of the Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka People
Adelaide, The Author, 2003. More
Catalogue of the Roth Collection of Aboriginal Artefacts from North Queensland [Volumes 1 to 3]
Sydney, Australian Museum, 1993, 1996 and 2003. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Numbers 10, 12 and 17. Dr Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), 'physician, anthropologist and protector of Aborigines [the first northern protector of Aboriginals] ... published eighteen ethnographic bulletins, based on his official reports, on various aspects of Aboriginal..... More
![Item #129546 Souvenir. Australia Day, August 28th, 1915. Charters Towers [cover title]. Charters...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129546_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685328028)
Souvenir. Australia Day, August 28th, 1915. Charters Towers [cover title]
Charters Towers, 'Presented to the Charters Towers Patriotic Committee, by the Staff and Proprietary of "The Northern Miner"', 1915. An advertisement for the souvenir appeared in the local paper, 'The Northern Miner' on Thursday 2 September 1915: 'Patriotic Day Souvenir.... To be sold for one shilling each.... a rare production..... More
Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
Sydney, B. Jackson & Co., [1919]. Unusually, the biographical entries in the book are grouped together by the places the men came from (although this is useful in a parochial sense), and there are many family groups. With very few exceptions, all the men commemorated here appear to come from..... More