Aboriginal Art
[Perth], Western Australian Art Gallery Board, 1975 (first edition). The collection of Aboriginal art in the WA Gallery. More
Western Australia
The Poison Plants of Western Australia
Perth, Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, 1921 [first edition]. Western Australia Department of Agriculture Bulletin Number 96. 'Up to the present no publication dealing with the whole of the known poison plants of Western Australia has been written. This Bulletin contains the collected accounts of various authors and correspondents which..... More
Western and Southern Australia. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 29 May 1838; for, No. 1, Return of all the Expenses defrayed by this Country in the Colony of Western Australia during the Last Three Years, ending 5 April 1838, in each Year respectively ...
[London], 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed', 1838. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 685 of 1838. The bulk of this important paper (pages 4-19) is given over to 'Nos. 5, 6, 7. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir James Stirling, bearing Date 15 October..... More
Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7. Equipped at the Request and Expense of Albert F. Calvert ... for the Purpose of exploring the Remaining Blanks of Australia
Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, 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..... More
The Amateur Settlers
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
Souvenir Brochure of the Back to the Goldfields Celebrations. 1st July to 31st December, 1950
[Kalgoorlie, Back to the Goldfields Celebrations, 1950]. An attractive souvenir with much of Western Australian mining interest, as well as short local histories of goldfields towns such as Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Broad Arrow, Norseman. More
Amazing Career. The Story of Western Australia's First Surveyor-General
Perth, Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd., [1962]. John Septimus Roe (1797-1878), naval officer, surveyor and explorer. Roe 'was recuperating from a severe illness when he was offered the post of surveyor-general at the new settlement to be established at Swan River ... From the time he arrived in the transport 'Parmelia'..... More
An Australian Parsonage, or, the Settler and the Savage in Western Australia
London, Edward Stanford, 1872. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title, and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson (1841-1902), accountant and pastoralist, was a son of Rosetta French Johnson, later Hannay, eldest daughter of George Fife Angas ('Australian Dictionary of Biography')..... More
The Native Tribes of Western Australia. Edited by Isobel White
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. Provenance: Roslyn Poignant's copy. Signed and warmly inscribed in ink to Roslyn by the publisher's editor (Sally McCann), and signed in ink by the editor, on the title page. Roslyn Poignant (1927-2019) [was] 'trained as an anthropologist and historian; she was also a masterful..... More
Hidden Gold. The Central Norseman Story. An Account of Structural Geological Studies and Ore-search at Norseman, Western Australia
Parkville, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1990. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Monograph 16. More
New Holland Journal. November, 1833 - October 1834. Translated and edited by Dymphna Clark. Botanical Index by Roger Hnatiuk
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of New South Wales, 1994. Number 17 in the first numbered Miegunyah series. More
The Great Victoria Desert. North of the Nullarbor - South of the Centre
Chatswood, Reed Books, 1995. Inscribed and signed by the author, and with the ink ownership signature and details of the recipient, Dr Barbara Hardy AO. More
The Great Victoria Desert. North of the Nullarbor - South of the Centre
Chatswood, Reed Books, 1995. More
James Stirling. Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia
Crawley, University of Western Australia Press, 2003. More
Western Australian Timber Tests, 1906. The Physical Characteristics of the Hardwoods of Western Australia. [Together with]: Supplement ...
Perth, Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, 1908 (second edition)/ 1906 and 1908/ 1907. More
Walker in the Wilderness. The Life of R.J. Anketell
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1998. Number 30 of only 500 hardcover copies. This copy is dated (October 1998), signed and warmly inscribed in ink on the title page by the author. More
3 Barrack Street. The Weld Club, 1871-2001
Wahroonga, The Helicon Press, 2003. More
The Hillman Diaries, 1877-1884. The Personal Diaries of Alfred James Hillman, from 21st December 1877 to 24th April 1884. With a Foreword by Bentley Hillman
Applecross, F.V. Bentley Hillman, 1990. 'A meticulous diarist, methodically reporting and commenting upon every event and every person in the young Colony. Births, deaths, marriages, fires, altercations, murders, sports, theatre, shipping and shipwrecks, parliament, building the first railway... founding of newspapers ... all are recorded along with critical appraisal on..... More
Charles Court. I Love This Place
Osborne Park, St George Books, 2011. More
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Group Settlement. Part 1. Its Origins, Politics and Administration. [Together with] ... Part 2. Its People, their Life and Times - an Inside View
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1988. More
Unfinished Voyages. Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1851-1880
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1988. Inscribed and signed by both authors on the half-title. More
Murray and Mandurah. A Sequel History of the Old Murray District of Western Australia
[Pinjarra], Shire of Murray and City of Mandurah, 1993. More
Rottnest Island. A Documentary History
Perth, Centre for Migration and Development Studies, University of Western Australia, 1995. Signed and warmly inscribed in ink by Louise Hoffman on the title page. More
The Beginning. European Discovery and Early Settlement of Swan River, Western Australia
Nedlands, University of Western Australia, 1979. More