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
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
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
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
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
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1979. With the ownership signature (dated 1979) of Christabel Mattingley (1931-2019), award-winning Australian author. 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
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
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
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
Perth, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1995. Inscribed and signed by John and Sheila Cruthers to Greenhill Gallery's Russell Starke. 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
Sydney, Collins, 1975/ 1975. With a 'preponderance of species from the northern part of the country'. 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
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
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
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
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
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. This set contains the binder's copies, which helps explain some numbering anomalies: the journal is unnumbered, the confidential report is Number 126 and the..... More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1893. Number 31 of only 50 sets of this deluxe edition (in the total print-run of only 400 sets). More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1893. One of only 400 numbered sets. The map in the original edition is here in duplicate; the second copy is the geological map, overprinted in colour. Not previously reprinted (hence great value at the price). More
