London, Dolman, 1842. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year, and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet, 'Evidences of an Inland Sea, collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' (Dublin, 1837). More

London, T. and W. Boone, 1845 (first edition). Provenance: the contemporary signature 'R. Keppel Craven' is written in ink at the head of the first title page (presumably The Honorable Richard Keppel Craven, 1779-1851, British traveller, author, and long-time resident of Naples and Salerno). The blind-stamp of 'The Durdans, Roseberry..... More

London, Royal Society of London, 1868. 'From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, No. 102, 1868' is printed at the head of the title page. Neumayer here seeks support for an expedition to search for Leichhardt and to complete his ambitious plans; he was unsuccessful in his attempt..... More

Perth, Government Printer, 1881. Western Australian Legislative Council Paper Number 23 of 1881. McLaren 13156. More

Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1884. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 22 of 1884. The last convicts transported to Australia arrived in Fremantle on the 'Hougoumont' in January 1868. This body of correspondence begins with the request to the Convict Department in WA for 'a complete list of those buildings..... More

Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892. The original work appeared in 1834. The appendix new to this edition contains eight pages on the grammar of the language of Western Australia abridged from an article in the Western Australian Almanac for 1842 and here 'adapted ... to present uses'. Ferguson 17144..... More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1898. Keartland's field notes make this far more interesting than the 'List of Birds' title suggests. For example, he concludes his account of the Nankeen kestrel thus: 'I took four eggs from a tree near our camp, and was surprised to find the nest lined with pellets of..... More

Perth, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92..... More

Perth, Government Printer, 1913. More

Prahran, Fraser & Morphet, Printers and Publishers (for the Author), 1918. Two corrections in ink (pages 7 and 45) are presumably in the author's hand. The entry for Sir Edward Albert Stone (1844-1920), judge, in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', might whet your appetite for this slightly longer and rarer..... More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1922. With the bookplate of J.O. Randell. John Lewis (1844-1923), 'explorer, bushman, drover, roughrider, pastoralist, business man, legislator, historian' (from the foreword by Ernest Whitington); with much on the Northern Territory in the 1860s-70s. His father James accompanied Charles Sturt in 1844-45; one of his..... More

London, Herbert Jenkins, February 1926 [second impression]/ November 1925. Signed and dated (12 December 1928) by the author on the title page, with a contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown (T.W. Adams, 4 January 1929). An account of eighteen months spent driving an ancient tin lizzie from Winton to..... More

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927. With the large pictorial bookplate of William A. Crowle (with the later ownership details of 'C. Evanoff, May 22nd, 1958' written in ink on it). McLaren 15920. More

London, Putnam, [1930]. The account of Terry's third planned expedition: the 1928 seven-month journey with two six-wheel Morris trucks commenced in Port Hedland and went through Broome, Halls Creek, Tanami, the Granites and Alice Springs, then on to Adelaide and Melbourne. 'The total distance finally covered was 5,500km in this..... More

Perth, Imperial Printing Company, 1933. The author wrote from personal experience dating back to the 1860s. The frontispiece has inscribed beneath it 'Presented to Mrs D. Richardson by the Author. J.E. Hammond, 25-5-35'. This copy has the ownership details of three later owners, including the Western Australian authors Lyndall Hadow..... More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1937. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places in South-Western Central Australia (15 pages) and Examples of Aboriginal Art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour, North-Western Australia (11 pages); TINDALE, N.B.: Two Legends of the Ngadjuri Tribe from the Middle North..... More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1938. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Message Sticks from the Nullarbor Plains (5 pages with 10 small illustrations). More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1940. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Stone Structures (9 pages with 2 maps and 2 illustrations plus 8 plates). More

Sydney, NSW Bookstall Co, 1943. With 79 pages on South Australia and the Northern Territory and 26 pages on Western Australia; many adapted from Aboriginal words. More

Perth, Western Australian Naturalists' Club, 1950. More

[Perth, Western Australian Department of Lands & Surveys], 1955. The author was the leader of the North Kimberley Survey and Mapping Expedition, 1954; his report has some interesting Aboriginal content. Not in McLaren; not in Greenway. More

Adelaide, RSSA, 1957. This issue also contains FRY, H.K.: Concerning Aboriginal Marriage and Kinship (15 pages plus a folding genealogical chart). More

London, 1959. 'The 16th Battalion, originally recruited in Western Australia, suffered heavy casualties, and eventually, through reinforcements, represented a wide cross-section of the typical Australian citizen-soldier'. More

Adelaide, Rigby, 1961. The story of the author's day-to-day life as a nurse and teacher at La Grange Aboriginal Depot south of Broome. More

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964/ 1841. Peade A8: 608 sets. More