Melbourne: Andersn, Gowan Pty Ltd., n.d. With Compliments | The British Imperial Oil Company Limited | Throughout Australia and New Zealand. Anderson, Gowan Pty. Ltd. 532-4 Lonsdale St., Melbourne. No date. Quarto, 16pp., illustrated, 4 colour (blue and grey). Illustrated paper wraps (grey with orange title), stapled. Advertising booklet aimed... More about The Pennant Fairies
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, The Strand, 1798. First Edition. Quarter calf. Quarto, xx xxxviii 617 pages, 27.5 x 22 x 5.2 cm, Half Title; Titlepage; Dedication to the Rt Hon. Thomas Lord Viscount Sydney; Preface dated London, May 25, 1798; Contents listing Introduction (3 parts)... More about An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales.; with remarks on the dispositions, customs,...
Sydney: Tuesday, February 25, 1845. No.2429. One broadsheet folded into four pages. Centre fold has been repaired with paper tape, corners creased, occasional stain and spot of foxing. A full but generally unremarkable day in colonial news but for the mention of the dalight robbery of the mail coach at Berrima. More about The Sydney Morning Herald 1845
Glasgow: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society:, 1967. Thick octavo, ccxxiv, 718pp, 17 maps, 64 illustrations. Half-title gives III as number within set. Admiralty instructions and the journal of the Third Voyage, with supplementary extracts from journals or logs by James King, Charles Clerke, James Burney, Richard Gilbert, Thomas... More about The Journals of Captain James Cook. Volume Three, Part One: The Voyage of the Resolution and...
![Archive] First Crossing of Australia's Simpson Desert by Ted Colson, 1936 [together with] photos...](/pictures/thumb/273_Ted_10.JPG?v=1535436283)
In mylar pockets. **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this archive contains images of people who have died. Small archive of thirteen photographs (12 x black and white, 1 x colour). Eight 1500 x 1600mm images (seven desert crossing images and one homestead image) and four 500x500mm taken... More about Archive] First Crossing of Australia's Simpson Desert by Ted Colson, 1936 [together with] photos...
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910. First Edition. Printed in Edinburgh, first edition, octavo 22.5 x 17 cm, hard cover, 220 pages, plus 75 full-colour plates facing text pages (total 295 pages, plus four pagers of book advertisements at rear). Contents, List of Illustrations, 15 Chapters, folding map before Index... More about Australia: Painted by Percy F.S. Spence, described by Frank Fox
Brisbane: J. W. Buxton, 1867. Octavo. Pp. xii, 88 (including Appendix). Frontispiece: Photograph of F. and A. Jardine (LACKING), view of Somerset (facing p.75), and folding map showing the orthern part of Queensland showing route of the explorers (at end). Ferguson 7747. Recased in leather with 'Overland Expedition' printed on the... More about Narrative of the Overland Expedition of The Mssrs. Jardine, From Rockhampton To Cape York,...
Sydney: Hordern House, 2007. Australian Maritime Museum Series No.6. One of 1000 copies bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled papered boards. Small quarto, frontispiece plate, pp 276; includes an introductory essay by Nigel Erskine, facsimile of original German Book followed by English translation. The German naturalist and philosopher Georg... More about Cook the Discoverer
Adelaide: South Australian Library Board, 1967. London: Richard Bentley, 1834). Hardcover, gold lettered spines, boards bound in blue vinyl. Vol. I: xv 441 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents , 21 Chapters, b&w diagrams in text, Note. Vol. II: viii 428 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents... More about Wanderings in New South Wales; Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China; being the Journal of a...
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co.Ltd. 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, brown boards with gilt title to front and spine, pp. Xiv 373, 11 leaves of plates (photographs, portraits) Head and tail of spine ever so slightly bumped. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed by the author to W. Lee. Robert Martin Collins (1843... More about Pioneering. The Life of the Hon. R.M. Collins, M.L.C
Sydney: William Brooks & Co., n.d. Cloth. Maroon boards with gilt titles , t.e.g., vi p., 1 (contents)., 277 p., 1 (colophon). Collation matches the first edition published in London by T.F. Unwin, 1898. Colophon reads "Printed at the Edinburgh Press, 9&11 Young St". Slight rubbing along the joints, corners bumped..... More about The Gladstone Colony
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969. Australian Facsimile Editions No. 33, in two volumes. Octavo, Vol. I: xii 521 pages, engraved Frontispiece, List of Charts, List of b&w Illustrations, Errata to Vols. I and II, three foldout maps, one two-colour, at end; Vol. II: viii 543 pages, engraved Frontispiece... More about Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press Hordern House, 1999. Edited From the Original Manuscripts. Three volumes in four; folio portfolio, 58 charts and views. The Hakluyt authorised reprints. Blue buckram with gilt blocked portrait of Cook on top panels, gilt titling on spines. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771, cclxxxiv, 696pp.... More about The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery
Sydney: Hordern House, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates. One of 2000 printed. More about The Australian Colonial House.; Architecture and Society in New South Wales 1788 – 1842
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Octavo, recased in blue boards, pp [vii] [351]; 3 pages of Statistics; 40 pp advertisements; 3 maps (4th map missing); 8 plates incl frontis. LACKS TITLE PAGE. In very good condition except for missing title page and fourth map. Last two pages of... More about Explorations in Australia
London: Addey and Co | George Routledge adn Co., 1861 | 1853. Three quarter calf. Jules Gérard. Lion Hunting and Sporting Life in Algeria. London: Addey and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden., 1861. Third Edition. BOUND WITH What We Did in Australia: Being the Practical Experience of Three Clerks, In... More about Lion Hunting and Sporting Life in Algeria BOUND WITH What We Did in Australia
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1952. School edition - adapted. Pamphlet. Stapled paper covered pamphlet, (dimensions18.4 x 12.3cm), pp. (6), 76, photograph frontispiece, map on p.35. Yellow wraps with red design and lettering. Signed on the front cover by Mountford. Horizontal tear across last page. Back cover has four more signatures... More about Brown Men and Red Sand.; Wanderings through wild Australia
Launceston: Albernian Press, 2003. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo 25 x 18 cm, xiv 575 pages, 33 chapters in four Parts; 36 colour Plates (some full page) in text and many scores of b/w photographs, maps and illustrations. Hard cover, black cloth over boards, gilt decoration on front cover and gilt... More about The Usefulness of John West: Dissent and Difference in the Australian Colonies
Brisbane/Sydney: Queensland Book Depot / Angus and Robertson, 1932. Second Edition. Octavo (22.2 x 14cm), xxvi, 324pp, 18 illustrations as called for (photographs, sketches, fold-out plan of Brisbane), original green cloth covers with lettering in gilt on the spine, unclipped tan paper dustjacket with lettering in red. Foot of spine... More about Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland; (Dating from 1837) / Recorded by his daughter
Katoomba: Phillips, n.d. Staplebound wraps. Oblong format, 23cm x 57cm, dun paper covers with blue illustration and title, stapled, 24pp, 90 black and white photographs. Covers are a little bent and bruised along the edges with a chip out of the head of the back cover at the fore-edge, soft... More about Blue Mountains Wonderland, N.S.W. 81 Views
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., 1921. First Edition. Royal octavo, Vols. 1 and 2: each 25.3 x 16.3 x 5 cm; Vol. 1: 50 Chapters, xv, pp. 1-366; Vol. 2: Chapters 51-99, xiv, pp. 367-768. With frontispiece portrait photograph, dated 1920, of RL Jack (1845-1921), pristine tissue guard... More about Northmost Australia: Three centuries of exploration, Discovery and Adventure in and around the...
Hobart: Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, 1828. Original manuscript Record in ink dated 1828 of a Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land case before the Chief Justice, signed by the solicitor and attorney Thomas Wood Rowlands acting for the Plaintiff, Sarah Smith, v. the defendants Sir John Owen and... More about Original 1828 Attorney’s Record
Hobart: Supreme Court of Van Dieman's Land, 1834. Original manuscript Record in ink dated 1834 of a Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land case before the Chief Justice, signed by the solicitor and attorney Thomas Wood Rowlands acting for the Plaintiff, David Barclay, v. the defendant John Bodry, unfolded size... More about Original 1834 Attorney’s Record
Sydney: Office of W.W. Billyard, Sol, 18th March, 1880. A five page hand-written attested copy of William Alexander Dumaresq granting Power of Attorney to his brother-in-law The Honouroble Sir Louis Hope. Five large mould-made leaves (41 x 33cm) bear the watermark “R. Barnard 1876” and the number “36”. The copy..... More about 1878 Power of Attorney (Attested Copy
Melbourne: Lothian Book Publishing Company, n.d. [1916]. First Edition, limited. 76pp + (4), 12 autochrome plates, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, green leather boards with sigle ruled gilt border and lettering in gilt. Signed on the limitation page by the author and Will J. Sowden, Federal and State President of the... More about Our Wattles