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194420043Washington D.C.: U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office 1944. Lightly tinted mostly black and white map; evidently produced for use during World War II with a Navy Department stamp to left margin dated 1945 indicating corrections noted map with a few extra dots of color for this; land features including the Liverpool Creek and Basilisk Range at the south to Cairns harbor at the northern part the coastline of this area of Queensland Australia as well as the off-shore reef systems Noggin Passage more; approx. 30" x 42" total size; light wear very clean and in very good condition. . Very Good. U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office unknown books
180229606London: Printed for W. Peacock and Sons 1802. The Third edition Correceted and Considerably enlarged. Embellished with Maps including thoe of Australia and Polynesia. 1 vols. 24mo. Bound in full contemporary red morocco a.e.g. Fine. The Third edition Correceted and Considerably enlarged. Embellished with Maps including thoe of Australia and Polynesia. 1 vols. 24mo. With a fine folding map of New Holland and New Zealand and a separate one of Polynesia including the Sandwich Islands. Not in Ferguson Printed for W. Peacock and Sons unknown books
1902513161902. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 vols. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 vols. Digest of Victorian Cases 1895-1932 Australia. Victoria. A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court Court of Insolvency and Courts of Mines of the State of Victoria. From 1895 to 1932. Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell G. Partridge & Co. London: Sweet & Maxwell 1902-1933. 7 Vols. Complete set. Original cloth gilt titles to spines some shelfwear soiling and minor spotting internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines notes in pencil to front pastedowns small stamps to title pages. $500. Only editions. These volumes were issued serially and are often catalogued as independent titles. No complete sets on OCLC. Sweet & Maxwell omits the 1895-1901 volume but it is listed in the Harvard Law Catalogue. See Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:17. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:590. unknown books
1977221898Sydney: Communist Party of Australia 1977. 23p. pamphlet 8.25x11.75 inches paper toned horizontal crease else good condition. Communist Party of Australia unknown books
1693319626London: for John Dunton 1693. First edition in English. 10 88 97-186 6 pp. Ad leaves in the rear. 12mo. Period calf rebacked. Early inscription on the front endpaper "Sale at King's Jan. 1806 2.6 3/6. First edition in English. 10 88 97-186 6 pp. Ad leaves in the rear. 12mo. The First Appearance of the Words "Australia" and "Australians" in Print. The rare first English edition of the most famous of all the fictitious accounts of Australia. <br/><br/>This amusing and entertaining imaginary voyage of Jacques Sadeur to the Congo and thence to 'Australia' recounts his multiple shipwrecks and being dropped on the western shores of Australia after being saved by a winged creature. He gives an imaginative description of 'Australian' laws and customs the region's hermaphroditic culture Sadeur being an hermaphrodite himself the natural history mineral resources religion and language. The book ends with a highly fanciful description of Madagascar.<br/><br/>First published in French in 1676 the author Foigny was a defrocked and exiled Franciscan and the work was banned by the Church. Of particular note is that John Dunton the translator and publisher of the present first Engish edition anglicises the name "Terre Australe" into Australia and the inhabitants into Australians -- the first such usage of the words in print.<br/><br/>The first edition in English is very rare with only a handful of institutional holdings in Great Britain North America and Australia. Wing F1395; ESTC R20648; Friedrich p. 16ff; Spate p. 83; Davidson A Book Collector's Notes pp. 41-42 for John Dunton unknown books
1983728Canterbury: Five Mile Press 1983. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Fine. Approximately 60 pp with frontispiece 27 color illustrations. Pictorial boards show minor sheldwear internals clean and sound. Minimal wear to dust jacket. A collection of works by Australian artist Jack Absalom one of a group of five artists who exhibit under the moniker Brushmen of the Bush. Five Mile Press hardcover books
1867518751867. Early Parliamentary Acts of South Australia Australia. South Australia. Acts of the Parliament of South Australia 1867 1869-70 1874 1876-81. Adelaide: Nine volumes in all. 1881 volume: later three quarter cloth over paper boards typewritten paper title label to spine. Some shelfwear internally clean; other volumes: Quarter cloth over stiff printed wrappers. Moderate shelfwear spine ends worn internally clean. All 9 volumes: ex-library. Location labels to spines stamps to front covers and preliminaries. $750. South Australia's origin is unique. Established by an act of Parliament in 1834 it was a planned British province rather than a convict settlement. It was the first place in the world to grant universal suffrage and to allow women to run for parliament. It was one of the states that formed the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. These volumes are from a series that ran from 1837 to 1957. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:81. unknown books
192519958Wellington: New Zealand Government Publicity Department 1925. Stapled brochure 4.5 x 9 inches in illustrated cardstock wrappers. 32 pp with many illustrations from photographs. Slight edgewear; near fine. Promoting New Zealand as "The Great Britain of the South Seas" this brochure seeks to attract farmers on the basis of its climate soil quality and quality of life as well as the availability of financing for land and equipment agricultural education and practical research and advice from experts at the Department of Agriculture. Illustrations show bountiful crops and harvest scenes a view of the State Experimental Farm at Ruakora a warehouse where wool is being sorted for export and many handsome prize cattle and sheep. New Zealand Government Publicity Department unknown books
190029494Norfolk Island 1900. Oblong small folio. 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 42 carbon prints on 42 cream card album leaves each mounted within ruled frame with printed caption below the photographs measuring approximately 6x8 inches. Contemporary red morocco upper cover titled in gilt within a gilt border marbled endpapers gilt edges<br/> <br/>Provenance: Hon. B.R. Wise Attorney General lettered in gilt on upper cover<br/> <br/>Early photographs of a remote Pacific Island.<br/> <br/>Norfolk Island a largely autocratic dependency of Australia was first sighted by Captain James Cook on his second voyage and settled by the First Fleet in 1788. For the first half century of the 19th century the island was largely used as a penal colony with many of the worst offenders transferred from Australia to the remote island. In the 1850s after use of the island as a penal colony was abandoned the island was settled by the Pitcairn Island descendents of the Bligh mutineers. In the 1860s the Anglican church established a large Melanesian mission on the island. The present images by an unknown but likely Australian photographer comprise views of Kingston various lagoons and bays landscape scenes featuring the island's iconic pine tree and other vegetation images at the Melanesian Mission and group portraits of the island's inhabitants presumably including Bligh mutineer descendents. The original owner of this album was Bernhard Ringrose Wise 1858-1916 whose name appears on the upper cover; Wise served as the Attorney General of Australia from 1899-1904. unknown books
1799716781799. Four 1799 Parliamentary Acts Relating to Penal Transportation to Australia Australia. Transporation. An Act for Making Perpetual So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty. An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation Imprisonment And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders As Relates to the Punishment of Burning in the Hand of Certain Persons Convicted of Felony within the Benefit of Clergy drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 437-438 2 pp. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. With An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty Chapter Seventy-Four Videlicet On the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight Intituled An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to Transportation Imprisonment And of the Punishment of Certain Offenders As Relates to the Lodgings of Judges at County Assizes drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 441-442 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. And An Act for Continuing Until the Twenty-Fifth Day Of March One Thousand Eight Hundred And Two Several Laws Relating to the Transportation of Felons and Other Offenders to Temporary Places of Confinement in England and Scotland Respectively drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 461-462 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. And An Act for Continuing Until the Twenty-Fifth Day of March One Thousand eight hundred and two So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty Chapter Seventy-Four. Videlicit On the the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight Intituled An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation Imprisonment And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders As Relates to Penitentiary Houses drop-head title. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1799. 465-466 2 pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. Four disbound items 12-1/2" x 8." Light toning and edgewear light soiling to edges small chi. unknown books
19942278403Images Australia 1994. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lower jacket wrinkled. 1994 Large Hardcover. An overview of the Architectural firms and interior designers of Australia and New Zealand. Images Australia hardcover books
1986255361Melbourne Australia: Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland 1986. A rare full run of issues 1-130. Nos. 1-5 were published as mimeographed copies on legal size paper. Nos. 6 through 130 were published on tabloid size newsprint. Various pagination from 8 or 12 pages. Comes in professional level archive box. Shelf worn else in good condition. Focusing on areas of Australia and New Zealand some analysis and news from other Asian nations. Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland unknown books
1986260736Melbourne Australia: Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland 1986. A rare full run of issues 131-212. Issue 136 is a xerographic reproduction of the is tabloid. Various pagination from 8 or 12 pages. Includes a bonus pamphlet letter sized newsletter size "For a Worekrs Repubic in Australia Part of a Socailist Asia!" collection comes in a professional level black archive archive box. Shelf worn else in good condition. Focusing on areas of Australia and New Zealand some analysis and news from other Asian nations. Spartacist League of Australian and New Zeland unknown books
185257668New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. Publishers 1852. First edition. Handcoloured folding mapat front. iv 5-154 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth. Spine ends chipped else Fine. Ex-library stamps on map and title page card pockets removed. First edition. Handcoloured folding mapat front. iv 5-154 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ferguson: "At this time the author was conducting an 'Australian Emigration Office' at 120 Wall Street New York." Ferguson 10892 2 copies P.L. N.S.W. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers unknown books
199458946Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press 1994. Second revised edition. xx 260 pp w/index. Spine sunned else fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. World Bibliographical Series Volume 46. Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press hardcover books
185420130London: The Religious Tract Society 1854. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. The two parts bound together fly title only on the second part. Original red stamped cloth by Davison Binder London with tag at back gilt decoration and edges. Minor discoloration to front lower edge of front cover front free endpaper and all preceding title removed remains of pasted paper on endpapers else a very good copy. Sold as is. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields a segment on the Aborigines a section for each on New South Wales Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Ferguson "Bibliography of Australia" 6298 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1999235676Surry Hills NSW: the Party 1999. Two issues of the staplebound journal no. 37 and 41; minor handling wear; 67 and 85 pages respectively. Includes discussion of racism in Australia. the Party unknown books
196111984London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First English edition. Translated from the French by John and Patricia Russell. 178 pp of text plus approximately 50 photographs some color. Previous owner's name on front pastedown else a fine copy in a clean dust jacket with minimal wear. Reflections on two years' residence in the New Hebrides now Vanuatu with much on the people and culture of the island's native villages. Oliver and Boyd hardcover books
198134978Pinnacle Creek Kimberley: S.i. 1981. Original photo-illustrated broadside xeroxed on a single sheet of white stock measuring 28cm x 21.5cm 11" x 8.5". Mild even toning with two small pinholes at upper corners; Very Good. Superb photographic broadside related to the struggle surrounding the Aboriginal Land Rights Act originating from the Walmajarri Tribe of Pinnacle Creek in Kimbereley Northwest Australia. The Act sought to grant Indigenous ownership and the right for Aboriginal tribes to claim royalties from the mining and farm companies to whom the Australian government had leased the land. While different states passed the Act as early as the late-1970's it was not passed in the Kimberlies until the mid-1980's. Not separately listed in OCLC. S.i. unknown books
1973113401973. Softcover. VG. Green wraps. 156 pp. 126 bw plates. Five-page introduction by James Gleeson catalogue of 126 annotated works each illustrated by a fine plate. unknown books
189119168London: Truslove & Shirley 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 148 pp with eight photogravure plates folding plan of outrigger canoe folding chart and other illustrations. Number 291 of 500 copies issued. Spine lean rubbed and bumped corners old tape repair to verso of chart otherwise clean and sound. First English translation of Crozet's account of the South Pacific voyage of Marion du Fresne with Crozet as second captain which had two objectives: to return a Tahitian native who had been taken to France by Bougainville in 1769 and to seek the great southern continent" Terra Australis" which the French hoped to use as a base on the route to India and a strategic position to cut off British shipping lanes in wartime. The expedition discovered the Crozet islands in the southern Indian Ocean and visited Tasmania. Hill 401 402: "Reaching New Zealand a party put ashore in the Bay of Natives where Marion du Fresne and twenty-one of his men were massacred by the Maori. Crozet became captain and they sailed homeward via Guam the Philippines and Mauritius. An excellent description of New Zealand its products its natives and their customs is given. An extract from Jean de Surville's earlier voyage to New Zealand is added to this account." Truslove & Shirley hardcover books
1998158025Sydney: Spartacist ANZ Publishing Company 1998. 23p. very good in wraps 8x11.5 inches. Spartacist ANZ Publishing Company unknown books
183633829Paris: Paulin 1836. First Edition. 14 394 4pp. folding table. Contemp. marbled boards with leather spine gold stamped with 5 panels of decoration. Ferguson 2165a. Important work on this penal colony with material on Norfolk Island Van Diemen's Land Sydney Brisbane Creoles Bush Rangers etc. Paulin hardcover books
19372891London: Oxford University Press 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 348 pp illustrations from photographs with index illustrated endpapers. Light shelf wear including lightly bumped upper corners; text clean binding sound. No dust jacket. Hatfield was born in Britain but decided to migrate to Australia at the age of 20 working his passage as a steward and landing at Port Adelaide in January 1912. "Hatfield soon became a first-rate bushman. For many years he worked in the north of South Australia Central Australia the Northern Territory and Queensland as a station-hand stockman drover cook horse-breaker kangaroo-shooter dingo-trapper book-keeper seaman miner fruit-picker painter and timber-worker. In 1915 he attempted to join the Light Horse but was rejected because of injuries. Over the years he sympathetically studied Aboriginal languages and customs" Dictionary of Australian Biography. Oxford University Press hardcover books
192113800London: William Heinemann 1921. First Edition. First UK edition. 380 pp illustrated with 48 black and white photographs. Signed "Lewis R. Freeman Grand Canyon 1923" on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Lower corners rubbed some offsetting to endpapers otherwise minimal wear. Binding tight and square. Laid in are the front flap of the original dust jacket and a prospectus/order form for the book. Freeman who was raised in California traveled extensively all over the world and wrote a many engaging works about his adventures. His publisher touted the journey that forms the subject of this book as "the most successful from a yachtsman's standpoint of any of the South Sea pleasure voyages including those of Lord Brassey in the Sunbeam Stevenson in the Equator and Casco Lord Crawford in the Valhala and Jack London in the Snark." William Heinemann hardcover books