![Progress of Australian Discovery. [Contained in] The Dublin Review, Volume XIII, 1842. Western...](/pictures/thumb/75315_00.jpg?v=1550893409)
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
![Patêt: Australians of King George's Sound [Western Australia]. Indigenous Portraiture](/pictures/thumb/110368.jpg?v=1550894492)
London, H. Bailliere, 1842. The plate comes from 'Dr Pritchard's Natural History of Man'. 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
![Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemens [sic] Land, and Settled parts of Australia....](/pictures/thumb/100536_00.jpg?v=1550893911)
London, James Wyld, Charing Cross East, [circa 1847-48]. Possibly Tooley 1417 ('Revised, Corner Basin, Port Albert and Albert Town &c inserted'; these are near Wilson's Promontory). A large and detailed map, with insets featuring Adelaide, Sydney, and Van Diemens [sic] Land, and a very large and detailed inset of the..... More
[London, Royal Geographical Society], 1848. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Royal Geographical Society', Volume 18, 1848. McLaren 9356 (Gregory) and 9765 (Helpman), but not noting the folding map or the corrigenda. 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, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1879. 'For the Information of Gentlemen of the Medical and other Scientific Professions' is printed at the head of the front cover. Circumcision, tattooing and nose-piercing, but primarily sub-incision. More
Perth, Government Printer, 1881. Western Australian Legislative Council Paper Number 23 of 1881. McLaren 13156. More
Brisbane, James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1884. Ferguson 10075 (calling in error for illustrations); Wantrup 190a; McLaren 9271 and 9272. Explorations in the 'Western, Northern and Central portions of Australia' between 1846 and 1858; the first collected edition. 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
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890. All but one of the other articles in this issue relate to North Australia or Australian Aborigines. They are WINNECKE, Charles: Physical Features of Central Australia (8 pages); WORSNOP, Thomas: The Pre-historic Arts of the Aborigines of Australia (25 pages plus 4 lithographs, 7 chromolithographs and a...... 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, Government Printer, 1893. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical, but one has added chromolithographic geological features, and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 (the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here, because McLaren..... 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, 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, 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
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1906. An enquiry on behalf of the South Australian Government. Other articles include EITEL, E.J.: Social Life in China (20 pages) and the Journal of John Ainsworth HORROCKS (fatally wounded in 1846 on an expedition that "would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored..... More
![Kalgoorlie - Port Augusta Line [cover title]. Railways](/pictures/thumb/113996_01.jpg?v=1553665761)
Melbourne, Albert J. Mullet, Government Printer (for the Department of Home Affairs), 25 September 1915. This copy possibly lacks the last leaf, but we cannot locate a copy in Trove to confirm our suspicions. More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1916. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 321 of 1914-15-16: only 755 copies printed. A series of spurious charges brought by a disgruntled employee, with detailed rebuttals; the Royal Commissioner was J.G. Eagleson. 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, RGSSA, 1919. The first publication in book form of this account, which originally appeared in the South Australian Register, 26 December 1860. McLaren 16513. Offered together with a fine copy of Volume 21 of the Proceedings; together they contain approximately twenty articles (totalling 107 pages plus 16 plates and..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1919. The first publication in book form of this account, which originally appeared in the SA Register, 26 December 1860. This volume contains eight other articles on the exploration and history of the Nullarbor. Articles include a translation of Purry's 1718 Memoires, detailing the first proposal to establish..... 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, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. Not least, there is a lengthy well-illustrated account (88 pages) of their travels through the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia; Michael Terry figures prominently. 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
Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929. On the front pastedown is the ballpoint-pen ownership name 'E.C. Longbottom'. This is possibly 5372 Private Edward Charles Longbottom (mentioned in the nominal roll), who received serious injuries to the face and eyes from a shell-blast in France in September 1916..... 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
Adelaide, Printed by Halliday Bros. Ltd for S.C. Ward and Co., 1933. Despite its prosaic title and relative youth, this is an item of great charm, printed in two-toned blocks in fifteen different colours. Suitably framed, it would create a magnificent panorama well over a metre and a half wide..... 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, 1934. This issue also contains FRY, Dr H.K.: Kinship and Descent among the Australian Aborigines (8 pages) and MAWSON, Sir Douglas: The Arltunga and Karoonda Meteorites (6 pages). 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, 1937. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places belonging to the Northern Aranda Tribe of Central Australia (12 pages); Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places in South-Western Central Australia (15 pages) and Examples of Aboriginal Art from Napier Broome Bay and..... 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, 1938. This issue also contains TINDALE, N.B.: Prupe and Koromarange - a Legend of the Tanganekald, Coorong, SA (7 pages with a map and an illustration plus a plate). 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
Adelaide, Thornquest Press, 1940. Foreword by local radio personality Tommy Hudson. 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, Government Printer, 1950. Geological Survey Bulletin Number 104. More
Braunschweig, Albert Limbach, 1954. 'The dying world in northwest Australia'. Text in German. 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 TINDALE, N.B.: A Dated Tartangan Implement Site from Cape Martin, South-East of South Australia (15 pages with a map and 8 illustrations). More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1957. This issue also contains FRY, H.K.: Concerning Aboriginal Marriage and Kinship (15 pages plus a folding genealogical chart). More
[New Norcia], Abbey Press, 1958. A Golden Jubilee Publication (1908-1958). More
London, Heinemann, 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
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
Perth, United Aborigines Mission - Language Department, (1959). Loosely inserted are a supplementary Pronunciation Sheet (one page quarto, produced in the later 1960s) and a receipt signed by the author. 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
Perth, Paterson Brokensha, 1964. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964/ 1841. Peade A8: 608 sets. More
