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1984014963Carlton Victoria Australia: Queensberry Hill Press 1984. 191pp. plus unpaginated Bibliography and Index. Tipped-in b/white frontis ditto b/white illustrations and portraits throughout. Book clean. Spine firm slightly canted white title there-on minor rubbing to foot. Edition is limited to 225 copies. Penned number 122 and editor signature to limitation page else leaves clean and unmarked. White title and b/white illustration to front panel of gilt decorated cloth boards which have a tiny in-production blemish to rear panel. Text-printed dustjacket has mild creasing plus sunning and a lightly abraded patch to spine. Attached yellow ribbon bookmark creased and shortened. Contents include: Introducing Frances Perry. Restoring the Journals and Letters. The Voyage Out. The Arrival at Port Phillip. Melbourne in 1848. The Environs of Melbourne. An Excursion to Geelong . . . and Port Fairy. Portland. A Tour in Gipps Land. The Bush. A Visit to Albury. Black Thursday. The Gold Discovery. A Visit to the Gold Fields. Melbourne in 1852. Biography. Bibliography. Index. Book weight approx. 720g. . Signed by the Editor . Limited Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo - approx. 23.5cm x 16cm. Limited Edition. Queensberry Hill Press Hardcover
1994038910Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press 1994. HEAVY. xxi 539pp index bibliography bw ills col plates. Or blue cloth in jacket. Near new. Number 17 in the Miegunyah Press series. Baron von Hugels journal of his time in Swan River Van Diemens Land Norfolk Island and New South Wales in 1833-4 translated into English for the first time. Von Hugel was an Australian diplomat. He records encounters with convicts and ex-convicts bushrangers shanty-keepers and common folk as well as hobnobbing with notables wherever he went. His observations of Australian plates greatly influenced Ferdinand von Mueller. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Small 4to. The Miegunyah Press Hardcover
1988032864Brisbane: Archaeology Branch Department of Community Services 1988. vii 171pp bibliography tables bw ills maps. Or comb-bound card covers with plastic front protector. Traditional cultureof the Aborigines of the Leichhardt Gilbert region of Queensland. Includes organization and personal nomenclature; subsistence and material culture; inter-tribal contact and trade; social ceremonial and spiritual life; welfare crime and punishment; a an introduction to the history of Aboriginal occupation of the region. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Archaeology Branch, Department of Community Services Paperback
1994019231Canberra: CSIRO 1994. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographic plates large octavo pp xviii 360 the top edge slightly foxed otherwise very clean internally brown cloth in excellent condition a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. From the library of the RHS botanist Alan Leslie with his bookplate opposite the half-title. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. CSIRO Hardcover
1999295894Melbourne: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 095982717X . A nice bright copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 10.2 X 7.3 X 1.3 inches; 474 pages . Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand hardcover
198710040528Fairfax Syme & Weldon Associates Australia 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fairfax Syme & Weldon Associates Australia 1987. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in dust jacket. wrong Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Australiana; ISBN: 0949288136. ISBN/EAN: 9780949288134. Inventory No: 10040528. 9780949288134 Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates hardcover
1968490Canberra: A. J. Arthur Commonwealth Government Printer 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 8vo. Pp. 231 followed by appendices. Brown buckram with gilt titling and rules on spine. With Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania presiding as chairman over the hearings Explores reports of drunkenness and episodes of heavy drinking and drunkenness by Executive Officer Peter Thomas Cabban of the H.M.A.S. Voyager during a Far Eastern cruise. A handsome hardbound copy with no detracting qualities whatsoever. Bookseller inventory A09052L. A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer hardcover
193463220Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1934. 12mo. xviii 378 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frntsp. numerous photo illusts. map endpapers. Red pubisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling minor shelfwear rubbing slight foxing w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art minor creasing edgewear slight chipping head of spine couple very small closed tears still VG/VG- copy. Sixth edition of this popular Idriess title set against the backdrop of head-hunting aborigine peoples and inter-racial relations in the Torres Strait Islands near the Great Barrier Reef and Papua New Guinea replete with many photos and illustrations of Indigenous artifacts. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
195020661Adelaide: South Australian Harbors Board 1950. Paperback. Very good overall. Full page color plates with artist's impressions and birds eye views by John C. Goodchild. Goodchild 1898 - 1980 was a South Australian painter noted for his pen and watercolors. He was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial board as an official war artist and then painted watercolors of RAAF aircraft. After the war he also produced oil paintings for Elder Smith & Co.<br /> <br /> Oblong 4to unpaginated 26pp 18 plates with tissue overlays many in color large color folding map. Compliments slip adhered to inside of upper wrapper stamped with the name of the firm Elder Smith & Co. Limited Adelaide. Illustrated thick wrappers cloth backed ribbon tied at spine. South Australian Harbors Board paperback
192028022Melbourne: Government of the State of Victoria 1920. Very good condition. Advertising targeted at Americans for emigration to Victoria Australia. "Some facts about Victoria UST. - A Country which is progressive and prosperous where Settlers are required and will be gladly welcomed." For further information "apply either personally or by letter to the Land Settlement Agent. c/o Peck Judas Co. 687 Market St. San Francisco Cal."<br /> <br /> "The Government invites Settlers to come to Victoria preference being given to those experienced in Irrigation and possessed of sufficient Capital to take up land say $1500."<br /> <br /> 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" b&w map image with steamship lines in red verso with "Facts about Victoria. "Trove image: 26643672271. Government of the State of Victoria unknown
1941158339np.: Australian Post Office 1941-1950. Nice copy. quarto. card covers c.200pp. text ills. diags. schematics Issued by the Chief Engineer The Postmaster-GeneralÕs Department. Hugely detailed document. Very scarce Australian Post Office unknown
194223536Australian Red Cross Society 1942. Otherwise very good condition. Two-page circular on thin salmon colored paper. The circular lists 10 directions for sending letters including one-page only and of a strictly personal character typed or clearly written. ". any person may send a letter to a prisoner of war In Japanese hands but in view of difficulties of transmission it is urged that until information is received from the Japanese as to prisoners of war and their places of internment letters should be sent only once a month and by close relatives only." <br /> <br /> The Central Red Cross Bureau based in Melbourne was the go through organization for such mail. Letters could be posted the sheet gives instructions on how to address such a letter at any post office and they would be forwarded post free by ordinary mail without stamps. "Upon arrival in Melbourne the Red Cross will arrange with the proper authorities for their onward dispatch." The piece is coded at upper front right 10 M / 30 / 6 / 42 indicating that 10000 were printed on June 30 1942. The circular measures 8 ¾" x 5 ½"; 2 ¾"; closed tear coming down from top; fold mark; upper right corner dinged. Australian Red Cross Society unknown
190327306Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1903. First edition. Pamphlet. Good overall. A printed pamphlet unrecorded by Trove committing to print the paper read by J. Griffiths before the Cambrian Society in Adelaide on Saturday 29 August 1903. It recounts Welsh history to 1485. It appeared as an article in The Evening Journal of the Adelaide South Australian newspaper on that date on page 5. <br /> <br /> 12mo 12pp staplebound cream paper covers with black title covers dusty foxing throughout still very readable. W.K. Thomas & Co unknown
194363177Sydney: Ure Smith Ltd 1943. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 56pp; illus. Tight square copy Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced 7'/6 at base of front flap lightly rubbed and edgeworn Verty Good. An attractive copy. <br /> <br /> Extracts from the field diary of Donald Friend written while he was a gunner with the Australian Imperial Forces in the south Pacific. Friend went on to become a highly-regarded artist whose late career was sullied by his own admissions of sexual predation of young boys. Ure Smith, Ltd unknown
1947009205Christchurch 1947 typescript bound in scarlet cloth boards typed to recto only affixed are actual developed photographs pasted onto the pages anonymously issued with "Code Number: 144" to title this will have been the item submitted for examination 84pp the photographs include what appear to be some taken aerially includes Heathcote Horotane Avoca St. Martins and Bowenvale areas. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Privately Printed. hardcover
1969WA6798Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo 194 pages blue cloth front free endpaper removed <br/><br/>Brenton's account of his voyage in a canoe from Chicago via the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean across to West Africa to climb into a balloon and float across to South America. Inscribed twice on the flyleaf by Brenton. Henry Regnery Company hardcover
1962002984Christchurch: Privately 1962 first edition by Ed C Chandler privately printed 1962 paper wrappers over 158 stapled pages some photos. 120 x 185mm Reefton / Inangahua quartz mining a full on personal and general history of the Waiuta area and the mining and miners. this is the original edition in VG condition just a little dust soiling to the wrappers . First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Privately paperback
197799711<p>Melbourne Australia: Christie Manson & Woods Australia Ltd. 1977. 1977. Very good. - Small quarto 9-5/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Softcover bound in light violet printed wraps. The corners of the front cover are creased. 150 2 pages & 25 full-page black & white illustrations on glossy paper bound in at the end with a few additional full-page black & white and color illustrations interleaved throughout the text. Very good.</p><p>The catalog lists 1468 items offered for sale at the auction which opened on March 3 1977.</p> Melbourne, Australia: Christie, Manson & Woods (Australia), Ltd., 1977. paperback
1971013274Wellington: Government Printer 1971 stapled foolscap sheets with cloth spine printed cover with library shelfmark and stamp spine gilt titled with shelf mark. 190pp pocket at rear with numerous folding maps. September 1971 map by Dept Lands And Survey. ex library with minimal stamps. a local government report on the proposed changing of counties in the province of Canterbury New Zealand. . First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Government Printer paperback
1955013392Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1955 brown papered boards dust jacket intact unclipped with some edge wear and some tears along folds etc quite tidy book tidy except name stamp to title pageand blank verso of rear map endpaper 288pp illustrated in line. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Angus & Robertson hardcover
1962009166Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1962 book clean price clipped DW minor handling lightly rubbed 244pp plates Australian Northern Territory. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Angus & Robertson hardcover
19250006197London: Hakluyt Society 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. folding map in rear pocket 3 plates. Octavo; cxi 250 pages blue cloth untrimmed unopened head of spine frayed. <br/><br/>With Samuel Patterson's Narrative of the Wreck of the "Eliza" in 1808 Journal of the Missionaries put ashore from the "Hibernia" on an islet in the Fiji Group in 1809 and Captain Richard Siddon's Experience in Fiji in 1809-1815 with Appendices. Issued as vol. 52 in the second series of The Hakluyt Society. Folding map in rear pocket 3 plates Hakluyt Society hardcover
193714346Melbourne: Printed and Published by the Mining Standard for the Tasmanian Government 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. 148 pp with b/w illustrations maps and ads. A scarce promotional work with text offering descriptive and statistical information on tourist attractions hydro-electric development mining timber resources agriculture fruit sheep hops dairy honey tobacco shipping and ports fisheries shipbuilding and whaling railways and scenery recreational opportunities etc. Spine has been covered with clear tape which extends about two inches onto each cover and covers are somewhat edgeworn. Binding is sound and text clean. Printed and Published by the Mining Standard for the Tasmanian Government unknown
1983013452Canberra: Australian institute of Aboriginal Studies 1983 light rubbing to spine edges viii 264 pp Jack Sullivan known as Banggaiyerri by his Djamindjong people was a half caste who lived amongst the cattle men of Western Australia includes Sullivan's family tree a glossary of colloquialisms and Aboriginal and Pidgin words and expressions etc. Shaw wrote this from taped conversations . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Australian institute of Aboriginal Studies paperback
196331199Gallimard Jaquette en bon état Couverture rigide toile Paris 1963
