Australian history, biography, natural history and other non-fiction books related to Australia and Australians.
All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars, and there is a minimum order required of NZD$20 excluding postage. Uranium and other radioactive minerals prospecting in the Australian outback.
ISBN 0851791522
mining, nuclear fuel, geology,
Good hardback with no jacket.
Reading copy.
Ex-library with stamps and slips and shelf mark to spine in white ink.
$10 C/B
Rigby 1971 first edition, 172pp + plates.
[#5341 ]
A true story of survival in which Rod Ansell struggled to survive on his own in one of the most isolated corners of Australia for two months before he is rescued.
ISBN 0868191620
Northern Territory, Kununurra, outback, survival, bush,
VG softback, spine slightly sunfaded
$10 C/B
Currency Press 1986, 144pp.
[#4995 ]
A history of Bass Strait, well illustrated with full colour full page photographs as well as historic paintings etc.
ISBN 0589071165
australasia, Broken Hill Propriety Company, BHP, Tasmania
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 B/C
Reed 1973 first edition 4to, 112pp
[#5378 ]
Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party built a network of roads stretching 4,000 miles across the almost unknown wilderness of Central Australia.
This book details his second road across Australia which was driven 1,000 miles from east to west through the heart of the Great Victoria Desert.
Construction took years, through the almost impenetrable mulga scrub and over sand ridges fianlly overcome by Beadell's bulldozer.
For five months his wife and infant daughter camped with him in the desert, commemorated by the Connie Sue Highway, a 400 mile stretch of road which extends from the Warburton Ranges to Rawlinna on the Nullarbor.
Beadell tells the story with an eye for the human and humorous details.
Beadell, one the last ot the true Australian explorers, was born on a farm at West Pennant Hills, NSW, in 1923.
As a surveyor and road builder he has worked all over the Australian outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert.
In 1958 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for his work in building the Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia.
ISBN 9780727015747
Australian engineering, transport, roadmaking, surveying, Maralinga, Serpentine Lakes,
VG softback
$25 C/B
Rigby Publishers Limited 1982, 163pp + plates.
[#4614 ]
A comprehensive reference covering a wide range of traditional Aboriginal societies and cultures on the Australian continent.
This draws together the threads of Aboriginal belief and practice in general terms, and brings together material from over 40 years of the authors' anthropological research and fieldwork from many parts of Australia, supplemented with comprehensive statements from other sources.
It concentrates on the past and present traditional life of Aboriginal Australians, and the changes that have overtaken them.
Covers: social organisation, economic adaptation, relationship to land and resources, growing up and getting married, religious belief, myth and ritual, forms of sorcery and magic, law and order, oral literature and visual art.
ISBN0855751843
VG softback
$30 B/D
Aboriginal Studies Press 1988 fifth edition reprinted with additions, 608pp.
[#3401 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor edge wear
$35 C/C
Melbourne University Press 1963, map endpapers, x 369pp + plates [#2597 australia, mining ]
The Story of Mount Isa Mines.
A history of this North West Queensland mining area south of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
metals, industry, mines, copper, gold, silver
VG+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with chipping and loss to spine ends and edges, name to fep.
$20 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1960 first edition, 242pp + plates.
[#4506 ]
A history of Melbourne's Wesley College, published for the centenary.
Australian School History, Education, Old boys, Wesley College Melbourne
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Top corner of half title removed, short inscription to the bottom corner.
$20 C/C
Wesley College, Melbourne 1967 First Edition, 240pp + plates.
[#5145 ]
A Sketch for the Sunday Telegraph.
Done on card board with ink, a caricature sketch of Professor Bland by F Broadhurst, signed with monogram at top and with a faded ink 'with compliments F Broadhurst".
The caption reads 'PROF. BLAND.- 10 1/2 ems w Sunday Tele' 'TODAY' DRAWN 3 TIMES UP.
It has been corrected in some places with white out over the ink to mask the black, no idea of date probably pre- 1967 though.
It will need mounting and framing.
Francis J. Broadhurst was an illustrator and designer who trained for five years at Melbourne s National Gallery School under Napier Waller.
He is best known for his illustrations to Rabelais and The Decameron.
Prof. Bland, Francis Armand Bland, CMG (1882-1967) was a member of the Australian Parliament, he died in 1967.
Cartoon, Newspaper Caricature Portrait Illustration Original Artwork Professor Bland By F Broadhurst
VG sketch on board, 23x28 cm.
$125 B/B
circa 1960
[#4039 ]
Volume 1 only, facsimile of original .
crime, outlaws, colonial australia
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket, unclipped dust jacket has some chipping loss to head of spine and lower joint, small arae at top of book spine worn away.
$20 C/C
Lloyd O'Neil, 1970. First Thus edition, 385pp.
[#5606 ]
New Zealand West Coaster Paul Caffyn gives his own account of the first kayak circumnavigation of Australia.
Commencing in December 1981 it took him 360 days to complete the 9,420 mile journey.
First softcover printing of this rare book, complete with colour photos.
ISBN941679000259
exploration, kayak, canoe, australia, ocean kayak,
VG+ softback
$75 B/C
Kayak Dundee Press 1994 Second printing, 186pp.
[#4347 ]
A history of the Catholic Women's League in the Archdiocese of Sydney 1913-87.
ISBN 0868402583
religious organisations, Australia,catholicism, social history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light crease.
Inscription to half title, and errata slip.
$25 B/C
New South Wales University Press 1987 first edition, x 218pp
[#5351 ]
The men and the women of the Australian outback, both black and white and the lives they lead.
aboriginals, australian sociology, history
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Lacks free end paper otherwise tidy.
$15 C/C
Rigby 1966 first edition, 295pp + plates.
[#5336 ]
Photographs with informative captions of hundreds of historic Melbourne buildings, many now demolished.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket. Ex-library copy with some stamps and tape marks etc.
$15 C/C
Oxford University Press 1963 Second Edition, 184pp. Many photographs.
[#3350 ]
A history of Kapunda from earliest days in 1836 nd the discovery of Copper. Social and economic growth etc.
ISBN0731684168
VG- hardback with no dust jacket. Cancelled ex-library with a few stamps and a presentation plate.
$20 C/C
Lutheran Publishing House 1990, 170pp + plates.
[#3333 ]
History of the island settled by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian concubines, and the convict island where Australia's worst were sent.
Fully illustrated throughout in colour and line.
ISBN 0670815217
Fletcher Christian, Admiral Bligh, pacific islands
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 B/C
Viking 1986 first edition 4to, 189pp.
[#5379 ]
An anthology of Australian short fiction by 23 authors, taken from periodicals and other publications.
Includes "The Cooboo" by Katharine Susannah Pritchard, "Kulumburu" by Ida Mann, and "Dingo Pups" by Donald R. Stuart.
Australian Literature, Fiction, Short Stories
VG- hardback with no jacket except front fold in flap which is slipped in at front. Signed by Drake-Brockman to title page.
$15 C/B
Angus & Robertson 1959 first edition, 255pp.
[#3616 ]
Stories from the past of the Kimberley.
Kingsford Smith and the Atlantis aviators.
Aboriginal peoples.
Diamonds and gold.
Sandamara of the Bunaba.
ISBN0646050303
Fitzroy, Kimberley, Broome, Kununurra, Wyndham, Kalumbruru
VG softback
$20 B/C
Hugh Edwards 1991, 251pp+ colour plates.
[#4060 ]
Centennial commemorative history of the Australian city of Maitland with colour and black and white photos.
Lower Hunter Valley, New South Wales
VG- hardback with dust soiling to boards.
Has a tape stain to cover.
$30 B/C
Oswald Ziegler Publications 1963 first edition pictorial hardcover, 80pp.
[#5451 ]
Flying doctor in the Northern Territory and Indonesian archipelago.
medicine, outback doctor,
Good hardback with no jacket.
Worn and rubbed cloth, name to title page.
$15 C/C
Georgian House 1948 reprint, 261pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5342 ]
This Australian novel follows a colonial from the Scottish Highlands to Australia and then the South of New Zealand. Ferguson also penned Vicissitudes of Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand Pictorial cloth boards.
Australian, New Zealand, colonial, fiction
G+ hardback with rubbed joints, light foxing, name to paste down. Small split to lower joint.
$25 C/C
Hodder undated but foreword dated 1911, 509pp.
[#2981 ]
Late Victorian Australian young adults fiction.
Plates by Percy F. S. Spence.
VG- decorated cloth, upper joint split, corners frayed, internally clean.
$20 C/C
Blackie undated, 288pp +6 plates and 32pp adverts.
[#5330 ]
A background history of Canberra and details of the design and construction of the new Parliament House buildings in the 1980s.
ISBN0701814810
canberra, ACT, architecture, government
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly sun-faded.
$10 B/C
Lansdowne Press 1983, 111pp.
[#3439 ]
A collection of historic photographs of Alice Springs, Stuart Town from 1870 upto 1960s.
From the Guth and Laver collections.
Northern Territory, photography, pioneer
VG softback.
$20 C/B
Privately published June 1985 first edition, 147pp
[#5449 ]
Australian Church history.
With black and white photos.
NSW, Methodist Church in Australia
VG stapled wraps with light soiling and fading.
$30 C/B
Randwick 1973 stapled sheets in card wrapper, 47pp.
[#5440 ]
This revised edition issued to commemorate the golden jubilee of the Dried fruits industry in Australia. The pioneers of the Murray River Valley in N.S.W. and S.A. Includes George (1848-1932)., William Benjamin and the Chaffey family. Agriculture and irrigation along the river. Renmark, Mildura etc. Maps on end papers. Includes index.
Tenth edition
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Robertson and Mullens 1954, 334pp + plates.
[#3331 ]
An account of Australia's far north.
The story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and settlement in the tropic north, based on first-hand knowledge and experience.
Cattle-droving over wilderness, encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were inevitably covered by the relentless growth of vegetation, the first crossing of the continent, the building of the Overland Telegraph Line, and the incredible lives of men and women of three generations.
VG- cloth hardback, with no dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951 first edition, 454pp.
[#5344 ]
A journalists reports of travel about the entirety of Australia, from coast to 'red centre', tropics to the south.
Australian travel, history, first edition, outback
Good hardback with no dust jacket.
Rubbed cloth, lightly foxed throughout, mainly to margins, binding open at frontis, name to fep.
$25 C/C
Jarrolds 1937 first edition, buckram 8vo, 334pp +64pp adverts, plates and map end papers.
[#5340 ]
Mainly black and white photos of famous places and the bohemian set in Sydney's suburb of Paddington in the late 1960s period.
ISBN 0725400234
sydney, artists, architecture
VG hardback in VG dustjacket.
Publisher applied label to title crediting the editor as Jannie Southan.
$20 B/B
Ure Smith 1970 first edition, 96pp
[#5450 ]
Autobiography and local history of the Lower Hawkesbury area to the north of Sydney.
Holland lived there in the 1930s and 1940s, and recollects the people and places he knew.
There are details of life on the rivers, social life and notable characters.
ISBN0958744106
Berowra, Cowan, Brooklyn, Marramarra, Mooney mooney, Spencer
VG+ softback
$20 B/B
Deerubbin Press 1998, 78pp with photographs.
[#4500 ]
A memoir and general history based on Idriess' experiences of growing up in Broken Hill. Mining history etc.
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, short splits, chip from lower corner of rear panel, name in pen to reverse of frontis.
$25 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1956 first edition, 214pp + plates
[#1602 ]
VG- hardback with no dust jacket. Spine has patches of sunfading. Former owner stamp to fep, and the list of other works has pen ticks and crosses. Gift inscription to half title.
$10 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1956 first edition, 214pp + plates
[#3195 ]
The Story of John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission in the great outback of Australia.
ISBN
A.I.M.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge tears, chipping, creasing, some loss, and faded spine.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1959 reprint of the New Edition, xii 244pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#5331 ]
VG- hardback with no jacket, spine minor lean, small patch sunfading at head of spine, internally clean.
$20 C/B
Angus and Robertson 1946, xii 306pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#5685]
G+ hardback rubbed and soiled, book internally clean, no jacket.
$15 C/B
Angus and Robertson 1948, xii 306pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#1615]
VG hardback with no jacket.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951, xii 242pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#1747]
The importance of water in the outback, and how in some places it is scarce where in others overabundant.
australia, history
VG- soiled cloth, spine leans, neat inscription to fep.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson June 1949 cloth, 253pp + plates.
[#4741 ]
Wandering in Northern Australia, encountering Crocodiles, Buffalos, and Aboriginals in the Northern Territories.
G+ hardback with rubbed joints and edges, inscription to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1952, ix 241pp + plates.
[#5337 ]
An account of the early days of Opal Mining at Lightning Ridge, north of Sydney/
gemstones, mining, history
VG- hardback with no jacket.
Spine leans, bumped corners.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson April 1948 reprint, 234pp+ plates
[#5347 ]
The story of the white police and aboriginal trackers in the North West territories.
Idriess rode with the men he writes about, as well as the aboriginal criminals they were hunting.
crime, judiciary, mounted police, aboriginal trackers
VG hardback with name to paste down, light foxing to prelims.
$35 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1936, 9th edition cloth, 330pp + plates and adverts.
[#5345 ]
VG+ hardback with no jacket.
Faint name to closed fore edge of pages.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1956, reprint of new edition, 272pp + plates.
[#5343 ]
The old times in Derby, cut off by the wet season on the Indian Ocean coast.
Kimberleys, Myalls Well, Mungatty, Oobagooma Station, Fitzroy
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Inscription to half title.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951, 272pp + plates, map endpapers
[#4928 ]
VG- hardback, blue cloth lightly soiled and lightly rubbed to spine ends, age toned endpapers, small light yellow grease mark to fore edge of a few pages (probably from butter).
$45 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1916 third edition, 200pp + colour plates. [#2598 ]
A history of the Birdsville Track, commemorating the Centenary of Marree 1883-1983.
Photographic illustrations throughout.
Kujani aboriginal tribal territory.
ISBN 0959173900
Dulkaninna, Eradunna, Mulka, Mungerannie, Cowarie, Kalamurina, Mirra Mitta, Clifton Hills, Pandi Pandi, Callanna, Muloorina, Finnis Springs, Innamincka, Moomba, Nappa Merrie
VG laminated pictorial covers.
$30 B/C
Privately Published 1983 second printing, x 198pp
[#5434 ]
First hand stories of overseas postings in the words of Australian diplomats wives.
It offers an eye opening journey through the early decades of the diplomatic service, starting with the experiences of Australia s first wife of a Head of Mission in Washington, and continuing to the likes of Beirut, Moscow, Rangoon, Cairo, Tokyo, Dili and Saigon.
Continuing to more recent times, it traces the evolution of a young foreign service as it became better organised and increasingly professional, and the evolving role of women within it.
Adventure, hardship, war, opportunity, these are the fish-out-of-water stories of intelligent, dedicated women raising families in far-flung corners of the globe.
Illustrated and indexed.
ISBN9781925043006
Jakarta, Malaysia, australian diplomacy
VG softback, with author's gift inscription inside front cover.
$55 C/C
Halstead Press 2013 first edition, 255pp.
[#4302 ]
A history of Bunnings Limited, the Western Australian timber and hardware merchants.
ISBN 0958910804
Bunning Brothers Limited, Robert and Arthur Bunning, company history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Bunnings Ltd 1986 first edition, xii 296pp.
[#5441 ]
Being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma.
Morrison travelled upriver to Chungking, then walked overland 1,500 miles to Burma, then via Mandalay and Rangoon to Calcutta.
ISBN 0207124620
china, nineteenth century, imperial, chinese history, 19th century, travel writing
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with faded spine and minor corner wear.
$30 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1972 first thus facsimile, 299pp + plates and folding map at rear.
[#4893 ]
The story of an early twentieth century 'pioneering' couple, Greta and Clarrie Hutchens, in the Adelaide River Murray area. The author, a New Zealander, writes the story of an Australian women she befriended.
Tooperang, Tintinara
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some edge wear. SIGNED BY AUTHOR
$20 C/C
Christopher E Dawson 1966, 197pp + plates.
[#3126 ]
The O'Reilly family used axes and wagons to access the Lamington Plateau, building a remote Guest House in the mountains which still functions over 100 years later.
This family history shows how they have continued to contribute to the local and national community.
ISBN9780646496016
O Reilly s Rainforest Retreat, australian family history, Lamington National Park, Queensland, McPherson Range
VG- softback, with author's gift inscription to first page.
$30 C/C
Peter O'Reilly 2008 First Edition, 269pp.
[#4342 ]
A history of the historic Melbourne suburb of South Parkville and its predominantly Victorian architecture.
Details of the development and sale of the suburban lots, the builders, investors and buyers, and a special look at the decorative cast iron features.
Many photographs.
ISBN0959878609
Parkville suburb, architecture, historic buildings
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with minor wear and edge tears.
$20 B/C
Parkville Association 1974 first edition, 103pp.
[#4307 ]
Edited by Rosemary Pratt and John Millington.
The day-to-day record of a Catholic Mission to Aboriginals in remote North-Western Australia during the Second World War.
The Mission became a base for RAAF aircrews and suffered a Japanese bombing raid.
This diary covers 1942-1945 and is mainly about the Mission and the native community, but does have information about military duties.
ISBN0864450133
Drysdale Mission, No 58 Operational Base Unit, RAAF, Ft Lt F L Bragg, W.A.
VG softback
$25 B/C
Artlook Books 1981 first edition, 264pp.
[#4418 ]
A study of soil erosion and station management in the inland of the Australian outback. Second revised edition.
FAIR softback, reading copy, wrappers chipped with front wrapper part detached, internally Good
$8 A/ letter rate
Melbourne University Press October 1944, 119pp. Folding chart at rear. [PB1468 australia, ecology ]
A short history of Cooktown and the Cape York Peninsula areas of North Queensland. With accounts of early visitors, pioneers and settlement. Many historic photographs.
ISBN0959896058
VG+ softcover quarto
$15 B/B
Glenville Pike 2006 reprint, 154pp. [#2865 australia, australian history]
Twelve prominent Australian writers who struggled with censorship are treated by the author.
ISBN 0730102696
Edward Smith Hall/ Charles Harpur / J F Archibald / Miles Franklin / Henry Boote / Norman Lindsay / Brian Penton / Frank Hardy / Dorothy Hewett / Terry Hayes / Chris Masters / Brian Toohey.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 B/C
Reed 1990 first edition, 399pp with illustrations.
[#5438 ]
Letters between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune 1881 to 1884.
Letters pertain to the Cato, Bethune and Moran families of Melbourne, Australia and Invercargill, New Zealand.
Includes a folding family tree chart.
ISBN 090917427x 0909174288
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with short tear at head of lower joint taped to reverse.
$85 D/ 3kg so please ask for quote for overseas orders.
Privately Published 1981 first LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies. This is number 299. Red cloth folio, xvi 516pp + 3 tipped in colour plates
[#5446 ]
The Japanese air raid on Broome in March 1942 inflicted casualties on the Dutch and other Allied aircraft that were flying in refugees from the Dutch East Indies, which were under Japanese threat, as well as killing refugees and aircrew.
ww2, wwii, japanese air force, Carnot Bay
VG stapled softcover
$15 C/A
Royal Australian Air Force Association 1985, 32pp.
[#5100 ]
Probably intended for visitors to the island as a guide, this is a history and gazetter of the islands places and resources.
Reprint of 1940 edition.
Slipped in is a three page letter from a resident of the island.
VG softback with a few minor spots to some margins, foxing to wrappers.
$15 C/B
Australis 1972 edition, 54pp + plates.
[#5338 ]
The author's views and thoughts over seven decades of experience (1892-1969). His views on political and economic conditions and prospects in Australia.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket, signed to title page by Ralp Randell.
$10 B/C
R and G Publications 1969, 252pp.
[#3437 ]
Facsimile of two works bound as one, reprints original artwork as well.
humour, satire
Illustrated by Lionel Lindsay, Ben Jordan.
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket under library style plastic cover spine may be trifle faded.
$15 C/B
University of Queensland Press, 1969 reprint, 106+104pp.
[#5594 ]
Facsimile of two works bound as one, reprints original artwork as well.
humour, satire
Illustrated by A.J. Fischer, A.H. Fullwood, Norman Lindsay.
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket under library style plastic cover spine may be trifle faded.
$15 C/B
University of Queensland Press 1970 reprint, 110+100pp.
[#5595 ]
A collection of many photographs of the architectural antiquities of Tasmania, beautiful Georgian buildings etc.
Australian architecture historic buildings photographic
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Slight faint watermark top edge of a few pages at front, wear to spine ends.
Dust jacket with sunned spine and loss of title and some staining to spine ends, tape rust to fold in flaps, closed edges dusty.
Internally tidy copy.
$30 B/C
OBM Hobart 1969 second edition, xii 78pp + plates.
[#5443 ]
An introduction to Australian history and culture. Part of the Stories of the Commonwealth series.
Illustrated throughout and with the dust jacket by B. Biro.
keywords
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Book has foxed endpapers and prelims, offset tape stains to boards (minor), light bumping to bottom edge of boards.
Jacket has tape stains to verso and tape residue to spine and fore edge folds where tape has dried and flaked off, better than it sounds!
$15 B/C
Ernest Benn 1959 first edition 4to, 64pp.
[#5376 ]
A booklet produced to promote the Snowy Mountains hydro electric scheme.
Includes photos of the construction etc.
Full colour throughout.
Kosciusko State Park, ephemera
VG in photographic stapled card wrappers.
$20 B/A
Nucolorvue undated 1960s Enlarged Revised Edition, 32pp.
[#5448 ]
ISBN 0851799124
Part of Rigby's pageant of Australia series.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with edge wear and small tears to corners.
$15 B/B
Rigby 1976 first edition, 63pp + 2pp col plates, black and white illustrations.
[#5435]
A History of Johann Gottlieb Thiele and Johann Gottfried Thiele and their descendants, 1849-1989.
A detailed family history and genealogical reference work for the Australian descendents of the Silesian Thiele immigrants.
ISBN0731648706
australia, family history, immigration, pioneers, colonial
VG- hardback with no dust jacket.
$45 B/C
Lutheran Publishing House 1988 first edition, 355pp.
[#4488 ]
A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic.
A Norweigan whaler recruits some Australian youths in Hobart, set for the Antarctic whaling grounds.
Winner of the Australian Children's Book Council Book-of-the-Year Award in 1949.
Illustrated with woodcuts.
novel, young adult, fiction.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Front free end paper removed.
$15 C/B
Angus and Robertson 1964 reprint, 248pp.
[#4417 ]
Opal lore and legend of Australia from discovery of opals by Johann Menge to the miners of Coober Pedy and Andamooka.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 C/B
Reed 1969 first edition, 165pp + plates. [#2684 australia ]
An annotated bibliography of original poems published in Australian newspapers, magazines and almanacks before 1850.
ISBN 0908094914
literature, georgian, victorian, ephemera
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/D
Hale and Iremonger 1982 first edition, 334pp + plates.
[#5436 ]
The Shipboard and Early Melbourne Diary.
An early Australian colonial diary in facsimile of original faced by type.
Illustrated.
ISBN 0646002287
australian colonial history, primary source, reference
VG softback
$25 C/B
J. B. Were 1990, xviii 309pp.
[#5335 ]
Commemoration Book
ISBN 0959636102
South Australia, Murray River, local history
VG+ hardback in laminated pictorial board.
$25 C/B
Morgan Centenary Committee 1977 first edition limited to 3000 copies, 136pp illustrated with black and white photos throughout.
[#5437 ]
Reminiscences from the Melbourne Zoo, with photogravures throughout the text, the reminiscences grouped by species.
Melbourne zoological gardens.
VG cloth hardback.
Minimal foxing, small tear fore edge title page.
$75 B/C
Whitcombe and Tombs nd (1918) printed red cloth, (xiv) 237pp + frontis.
[#5444 ]
The history of gold prospecting and mining in the Murchison goldfields of Western Australia.
Meekatharra, Peak Hill, Mt Magnet, Annean Station, Byrah Station
VG hardback in G but torn and chipped dust jacket.
Inscription to half title with a single 'cancelled' stamp.
$15 C/B
Rigby 1969 first edition, 169pp + plates.
[#5439 ]
Western Australian gold rush centred on Perth at the turn of Twentieth Century.
Also Gold and Opal mining.
ISBN 0851794920
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine.
$25 C/C
Rigby 1973 first edition, 185pp +plates.
[#5332 ]
Includes adverts, maps, photos.
NSW, tourism, ephemera
VG newsprint magazone with news-agent stamp to cover.
$20 B/A
Central Coast Tourist Directories 1969, 32pp + covers.
[#5447 ]