Perth, Colortype Press, 1921. In the bottom left-hand corner of the frontispiece portrait of Captain Longmore, he has written in ink 'With compliments from C. Longmore 12.1.22'. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of...
Nedlands, University of Western Australia, 1979.
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...
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...
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.
Adelaide, RSSA, 1940. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD, C.P.: Aboriginal Stone Structures (9 pages with 2 maps and 2 illustrations plus 8 plates).
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1973 [first edition].
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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).
Perth, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1995. Inscribed and signed by John and Sheila Cruthers to Greenhill Gallery's Russell Starke.
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970 [first edition]. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 25, Linguistics Series Number 10.
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.
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.
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1867. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 137 of 1867. Reports by E.A. Delisser of his surveys in the Eucla area, and by Captain B. Douglas of HM Colonial Schooner 'Flinders' on Delisser's proposed anchorage and landing-place. The accompanying 'Plan showing surveys and exploration, by Mr E.A. Delisser...
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).
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1893, 2002 (first thus) and 2003 (first edition). The deluxe issue of this fine facsimile edition; each volume is one of 50 copies (from a total edition of 400) bound in full leather (with the exception of the Confidential Report, which was issued...
