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 about Progress of Australian Discovery. [Contained in] The Dublin Review, Volume XIII, 1842

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 about Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King...

[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 about Journal of an Expedition by the Messrs. Gregory in the Months of August and September, 1846....

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Ferguson 9681; Wantrup 200 ('Forrest's book includes full accounts of his two expeditions of 1869 and 1870 in addition to the main account of his victorious expedition from the west coast to the Telegraph Line.... a complete record of Forrest's adventurous exploring career'). More about Explorations in Australia. I: Explorations in Search of Dr Leichardt [sic] and Party. II: From...

Perth, Government Printer, 1881. Western Australian Legislative Council Paper Number 23 of 1881. McLaren 13156. More about Report by Mr Alex McRae, of a Trip to the Fitzroy River, from Roebuck Bay, in the year 1866

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 about Correspondence respecting the Transfer to the Colony of the Imperial Convict Establishment

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 (not noting the binding). More about An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near...

Melbourne, F.W. Niven & Co., 1897. The numerous portraits accompanying the 236-page biographical section are a significant pictorial record of the personalities of the time. More about History of West Australia. A Narrative of her Past, together with Biographies of her Leading Men

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 about Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7. Equipped at the Request and...

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 about On Pearl-Fishing in North-West Australia. (Contained in) Proceedings of the Royal Geographical...

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1913. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 43 of 1913; only 950 copies printed. An annual return (to 30 June 1913) regarding indented seamen: numbers and nationalities, arrivals and departures, deaths and convictions ('nationality of the convicted person, the offence, how disposed of, and name of employee'). The latter... More about Pearling Industry, Broome, Western Australia

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 about Kalgoorlie - Port Augusta Line [cover title

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 about Some Old-Time Memories. Being the Personal Reminiscences of Sir Edward Stone, K.C.M.G.,...

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 about Explorations .. between Fowler's Bay and West of the Head of the Great Australian Bight (since...

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 about The Amateur Settlers

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 about The Old Sixteenth. Being a Record of the 16th Battalion AIF, during the Great War, 1914-1918.....

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 about Gold Mining Leases on the Golden Mile, Croesus Group & North End at Kalgoorlie, and Boulder,...

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 about Notes on the Aborigines of the South-East of South Australia. [Contained in] Transactions of the...

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 about Native Songs of the South-East of South Australia. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal...

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 about Aboriginal Message Sticks from the Nullabor Plains. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal...

Adelaide, Thornquest Press, 1940. Foreword by local radio personality Tommy Hudson. More about For Freedom. A Collection of Poems

Perth, Government Printer, 1950. Geological Survey Bulletin Number 104. More about Some Economic Aspects of the Principal Tantalum-Bearing Deposits of the Pilbara Goldfield,...

Adelaide, RSSA, 1957. This issue also contains FRY, H.K.: Concerning Aboriginal Marriage and Kinship (15 pages plus a folding genealogical chart). More about A Dated Tartangan Implement Site from Cape Martin, South-East of South Australia. [Contained in]...

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 about A Thousand Men at War. The Story of the 2/16th Battalion AIF

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 about Illustrated Topical Dictionary of the Western Desert Language. Warburton Ranges Dialect, Western...