Religion
Doubts and Desires. Some Chapters on Education and Religion
London, Skeffington & Son, Ltd., [circa early 1930s]. Inscribed and signed in red ink by the author on the front free endpaper, and with an ink correction; Dudley Symon was a nephew of Sir Joshua Symon. One of the Keble Books, issued in connection with the Centenary of the Oxford..... More
Zum Individual- und Geschlechtstotemismus in Australien
Wien [Vienna], Verlag Herold, August 1950. Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität Wien, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Number 1. The text is in German ('On individual and gender totemism in Australia'). More
Wullunnu-Wunia Mark Nunya. The Gospel according to St. Mark in Worora. Revised Edition
Perth, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1943 (revised edition)/ [1930]. James Robert Beattie Love (1889-1947), clergyman and missionary, was Superintendent of the Presbyterian mission at Kunmunya, north of Derby, from 1927 to 1940. More
From Patrons to Partners and the Separated Children of the Kimberley. A History of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley, WA, Second Edition
Fremantle, University of Notre Dame Australia Press, 2005 (second edition)/ 1994. Dated (July 2005), inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the first blank. 'The new section in the second edition developed from a remark of Bishop Christopher Saunders, Bishop of Broome, that a history of the Catholic..... More
Faith-cure. The Practice sometimes miscalled 'Divine Healing'. A Study of its Methods and an Appraisal of its Claims
Adelaide, The Lutheran Publishing Co., Ltd., [circa 1921]. Theodore Graebner, D.D. (1876-1950), 'served as pastor, editor of the Lutheran Witness, and as Professor of Philosophy and New Testament Interpretation at Concordia Seminary St Louis' ('Lutheran Library' website). More
Reunion by Destruction. Reflections on a Scheme for Church Union in South India: Addressed to the Laity
Westminster, The Pax House for The Council for the Defence of Church Principles, 1940. The Council for the Defence of Church Principles, Pamphlet 7. More
The Catholic Mission in Australasia
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile edition)/ 1837. Peade SA24: one of only 227 copies. More
Sex and Sex Worship (Phallic Worship). A Scientific Treatise on Sex, its Nature and Function, and its Influence on Art, Science, Architecture and Religion, with Special Reference to Sex Worship and Symbolism
St Louis, C.V. Mosby Company, 1922 (second edition)/ 1919. More
Central Australian Religion. Personal Monototemism in a Polytotemic Community
Bedford Park, Australian Association for the Study of Religions, 1995 (sixth printing)/ 1978. Australian Association for the Study of Religions, Special Studies in Religions Series, Volume 2. 'Sixth printing of 1000'. More
Kumarangk - Hindmarsh Island. Whose Truth?
Adelaide, The Uniting Church in South Australia, Commission for Mission, 1997. 'A reflection on the Uniting Church's attempt to support members of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress in South Australia and stand alongside Ngarrindjeri people in their journey'. Number 3 in the publisher's Occasional Papers series. More
A Spirituality of Catholic Aborigines and the Struggle for Justice
Brisbane, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Apostolate, 1993. More
Forward in Faith. A History of Selected South Coast Churches
Victor Harbor, South Coast Uniting Parish, 1985. More
The Spanish Inquisition. A Historical Revision
London, The Folio Society, 1999 (second impression)/ 1998 (first thus). 'This Folio edition is an abridgement by the author of the 1997 [second] edition'. More
Central Australian Religion. Personal Monototemism in a Polytotemic Community
Bedford Park, Australian Association for the Study of Religions, 1995 (sixth printing)/ 1978. Australian Association for the Study of Religions, Special Studies in Religions Series, Volume 2. 'Sixth printing of 1000'. More
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts [in three volumes]
Warminster, Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1973, 1977 and 1978 [all first editions]. A 'collection of religious utterances written inside the large rectangular wooden coffins used for interring the wealthy. They date from the Middle Kingdom, around the first quarter of the second millennium BC and thus help to fill the..... More
Religious Ritual at Abydos (c. 1300 BC)
Warminster, Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1973. A detailed study of the mortuary temple of Sethos [Seti] I at Abydos. 'From the surviving reliefs on its walls the author reconstructs the rituals which were once performed within the building, paying special attention to the Daily Temple Ritual, the Ritual of the..... More
The Historic Native Mission Church at Poonindie, renowned as the Church with Two Chimneys [cover title]
Port Lincoln, 'Times' Print, [circa 1976]. The verso of the front cover is signed by the author (Poonindie, 13 February 1976). Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by the author; in it, he refers to this and other books he has written. [2 items]. More
Manuale Missionariorum. 1953
Kokopo, Printed at the Catholic Mission Vunapope, 1953. A handbook for missionaries: not least, 'Cargo Madness' (pages 58-65). Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from a Sister M. John Baptist 'down from Rabaul for a holiday' in Adelaide, sent to a local friend in November 1962. More
Winds of Doctrine. Studies in Contemporary Opinion
London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1913. George Santayana, 'late Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University', here critiques the work of M. Henri Bergson and Bertrand Russell, among others. More
Measured Tones. The Interplay of Physics and Music. Second Edition
Bristol, Institute of Physics Publishing, 2002 (second, revised, edition)/ 1993 (corrected edition)/ 1989. 'In this new edition I have to talk about the handling of sound files, digital interfaces, fractals ... but the physics and the musical concepts will be the same. And they are what is important' (prologue to..... More
Oeuvres et lettres
[Paris], Gallimard, 1983. Part of the 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade' series; the text is in French. More
Augustus Short. First Bishop of Adelaide. The Story of a Thirty-Four Years' Episcopate
London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1888/ 1887 (first edition, published in Adelaide). Pages ix-304 (from the table of contents onwards) are the sheets of the 1887 Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration for this London edition differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype..... More
The Valois Tapestries
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975 (second edition)/ 1959. 'Dr Yates describes how the tapestries arose out of Catherine de' Medici's marvellous series of festivals at the court of the Valois in the sixteenth century which were intended to bring together hostile religious factions in an attempt at 'politique' conciliation..... More