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, 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

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

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890. Unquestionably rare, and important, with all but one of the numerous articles in this volume relating 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..... 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

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, 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 with a fine copy of Volume 21 of the Proceedings (xviii, 136, [1] pages with illustrations plus plates and folding maps); together they contain..... 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. 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). The 'Heart of Northern Australia' in the title is misleading. Terry and his companions drove two 'one-ton model Guy-Roadless..... 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

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

Perth, Fred William Simpson, Government Printer, [1934]. 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 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, Thornquest Press, 1940. Foreword by local radio personality Tommy Hudson. More

Perth, Government Printer, 1950. Geological Survey Bulletin Number 104. 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, 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