Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: 'Lieut.-Colonel Olden is well qualified to undertake the work, as, joining the Regiment on its inception, he served with it throughout the War, and, though twice wounded, was never long away from duty. He..... 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
Norman Brearley founded Western Australian Airways in 1921 (called West Australian Airways from 1926). In 1929, WAA 'won a five-year contract for mail flights between Perth and Adelaide ... which it commenced that year using the much larger DH-66 Hercules aircraft. Reflecting the more leisurely pace of air operations in..... More
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Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Fremantle, Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology, 2000. Not least, the Batavia Mutiny. Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology Special Publications Number 5. More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 2013. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1973 [first edition]. More
Perth, Lamb, [circa 1967]/ 1954. Loosely inserted is the four-page pamphlet (slightly creased) 'St John the Evangelist, Albany', circa 1960s. 'The Personal Diary of an Observant, Educated Early Settler in Western Australia'. Introduction by Malcolm J.L. Uren. 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, 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
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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
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 1989 (facsimile)/ 1898. Lacking the large map found in the original edition. More
Fremantle, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970 [first edition]. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 25, Linguistics Series Number 10. More
Perth, E.S. Wigg and Son Ltd., 1916. 'Published for the 70th Anniversary, May 28-31, 1916'. More
[Parkville], The Editor, 2004. 'Joseph Johnston (1814-1892), Congregational minister ... At a time when the Congregational Church in Perth had frequent changes of ministers Johnston was a stabilizing influence to Congregationalism in the colony. He was a mover towards Congregational Union in Western Australia and became its first chairman' ('Australian..... More
Kalgoorlie, 'D. Falconer, Photo Artist', [between August 1894 and 1896]. The most readily-accessible, extensive (and accurate) information on Davidson is to be found in the lengthy introduction by Valmai Hankel to the new edition of 'Journal of Explorations in Central Australia ... 1898-1900'. The journal was first published as South..... 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
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Canberra, The Australian National University Press, 1983. More
Albany, The Author, 1988. Signed by the author - described as 'Ex-Detective Inspector and Deputy Chief of the CIB' on the title page, Inspector Douglas was acting chief of the CIB in Victoria in 1966 ('The Age', 28 November 1966). 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
Perth, The 'Sunday Times' Publishing Company, 1908. 'Dryblower' (or 'Dryblower Murphy') was Australian journalist and poet Edwin Greenslade Murphy (1866-1939). Following the 1892 gold rush of 1892 Murphy arrived in Coolgardie in 1894; later that year he 'helped Billy Clare to launch his "Coolgardie Miner", contributing a weekly gossip column..... More
London, Constable, 1969. A history of missionary endeavour in the Kimberley region in Western Australia. More
Burnside, The Author, 1988. Not least, the four-panel folding map. The author's address (to obtain further copies) has been amended in ink, presumably by the author. More
