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
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.....
Nedlands, University of Western Australia, 1979. More about The Beginning. European Discovery and Early Settlement of Swan River, Western Australia
Several photographs that suggest an approximate date clearly show other unique aircraft; one of these is VH-UZX. There were in fact two aircraft registered VH-UZX in Australia. The first one, a DH84 Dragon, crashed at Croydon in the UK on 26 February 1938 before delivery to Australia. The second one... More about A large cloth-bound album (300 x 385 mm) containing 478 original vintage gelatin silver...
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 about A vintage gelatin silver photograph (254 x 318 mm) of the West Australian Airways De Havilland...
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 about Abrolhos Islands Archaeological Sites Interim Report
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1924. Provenance: Dr George Mackaness, with his 'Bountiana' bookplate (featuring a design by Geoffrey Ingleton) on the front flyleaf. More about Western Australia. A History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth
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....
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1973 [first edition]. More about Not Slaves Not Citizens. The Aboriginal Problem in Western Australia, 1898-1954
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 about Wollaston's Albany Journals, 1841-1856. Being Volume 2 of the Journals and Diaries of Revd. John...
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 camel dung. This... More about List of Birds collected by the Calvert Expedition in West Australia. With Field Notes by G.A....
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...
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...
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, 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...
Perth, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1995. Inscribed and signed by John and Sheila Cruthers to Greenhill Gallery's Russell Starke. More about In the Company of Women. 100 Years of Australian Women's Art from the Cruthers Collection
Fremantle, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988. More about To All My Dear People. The Diary and Letters of Private Hubert P. Demasson 1916-1917
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970 [first edition]. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 25, Linguistics Series Number 10. More about A Grammar of Ngarinjin, Western Australia
Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Western Australian Museum, 1968. The author was Curator of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum; the book is based on information gathered by the author (accompanied by Aboriginal guides and a professional photographer) on five expeditions through the Kimberley. More about The Art of the Wandjina. Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia
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
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 about Wool to Stolen Gold. A Life on the Land and in the Law in WA
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...
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 about Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay....
The map is in fact a superb chromolithographed 'Map showing the Route travelled by the Elder Exploring Expedition' and measures 370 x 990 mm, with a chromolithographed 'Sketch Section from Warrina to Annean Station' (180 x 990 mm) printed below it on the same sheet. The map gives detailed routes... More about The Scientific Results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. [Contained in] Transactions of the...
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 [facsimile edition]/ 1893, 2002 [first thus] and 2003 [first thus]. Each of the three parts is limited to 400 numbered copies; the three were published at different times and the volumes offered here do not carry the same edition number. The two maps accompanying the... More about Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2. Under command of D. Lindsay....
