London, H. Bailliere, 1842. The plate comes from 'Dr Pritchard's Natural History of Man'. More about Patêt: Australians of King George's Sound [Western Australia

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 about Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemens [sic] Land, and Settled parts of Australia....

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, 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 about Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places belonging to the Northern Aranda Tribe of...

Adelaide, RSSA, 1938. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Message Sticks from the Nullarbor Plains (5 pages with 10 small illustrations). More about Prupe and Koromarange. A Legend of the Tanganekald, Coorong, SA. [Contained in] Transactions of...

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 about Notes on the Sign-Language of the Jaralde Tribe, of the Lower River Murray, South Australia....

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 about Twelve Hundred and More Place Names in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory

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 about Concerning Aboriginal Marriage and Kinship. (Contained in) Transactions of the Royal Society of...

[New Norcia], Abbey Press, 1958. A Golden Jubilee Publication (1908-1958). More about Kalumburu 'Formerly Drysdale River' Benedictine Mission North-Western Australia

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

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 about Cobba-Cobba

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964/ 1841. Peade A8: 608 sets. More about Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia