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1938056090Brisbane: David Whyte Government Printer 1938. 56pp bw ills map. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover prev owner name inside front cover. A most attractive early publication on Lamington National Park. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. David Whyte, Government Printer Paperback
2006018524TASMANIA Australia: Self Published 2006. Illustrated laminated boards. Usual lbrary stamps. 163 pages with colour frontispiece and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Self Published Hardcover
191114297Adelaide; Printed at Frearson's Printing House 1911. 1911. First Edition. Octavo pp. 9 of ads 3 prelims 294. Ads to paste-downs. Original publisher's red cloth vignette of a woman cooking with a kookaburra and titled in black to upper board; ads printed in black to lower board titled in black to spine. Spot of soiling to upper board edges lightly shelf-worn upper hinge cracked spine lightly sunned. A few light spots of soiling to margins of a few pages but contents generally clean and rather bright. A very good copy. A rare and charming book of recipes and domestic tips all of which are attributed to the various members of the Ladt Victoria Buxton Girls's Club. The recipes within range from French haute cuisine such mouton a la chasseur and chaudfroid of chicken to West Indian curries and soups to Australian classics such as an early version of fairy toast Sally Lunn damper lamingtons kangaroo tail soup Billy tea and rissoles. A fascinating insight into early Australian cuisine. Rare. Jisc locates no copies of this edition and WorldCat locates one copy only at the State Library of South Australia. Adelaide; Printed at Frearson's Printing House, 1911. hardcover
1926139014Adelaide: Rigby Ltd 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Rigby Ltd. 1926. Small octavo viii 122 2 advertisements pages with an illustration and a map. Flush-cut pictorial cloth; a near-fine copy. The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders it appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' established in 1867 by the author. A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly realistic story written in South Australia in this period' Depasquale. Rigby Ltd hardcover
1974146408Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1974 first complete edition in English. Quarto xxii 609 pages with 2 maps several tables and a frontispiece illustration. Gilt-lettered green cloth somewhat flecked; edges slightly marked; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned; a very good copy. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. This is the first complete English translation of Baudin's personal journal during the 1800-1804 expedition to the Australian coast and provides an alternative perspective to the official account by Péron and Freycinet. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
199955054North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999/ 1880. Octavo vi 57 pages plus a folding map. Cloth; a fine copy. Reset from the first published edition of 1880 this edition was limited to only 400 numbered copies and quickly went out of print. Corkwood Press hardcover
1980011824Christchurch: Whitcoulls 1980 fine copies in fine dust wrappers of both volumes in the set excellent as new copies early journal kept by New Zealand politician in turbulent times of the founding of New Zealands Governmental bodies 510 371pp plates etc 2kg rate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Whitcoulls hardcover
2002136050Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2002. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2002 first thus. Octavo xxviii 63 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus a folding map based on Mary Quick's map from Webster's 1958 biography of Stuart. Quarter calf and cloth; a fine copy. Number 7 of only 99 copies of the deluxe issue from a total edition of just 300 copies. The first edition of the 'most complete account of the expedition to be published . the only one for which no manuscript diary or fair copy survives'. The twenty-four-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition. A publisher's note advising that publication had been delayed is loosely inserted. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1977050582Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1977. xxiv 511pp index appendix folding map bw ills. Brown boards no jacket as issued. Some foxing to page edges extending to margins on some pages. Facsimile edition taken from the Second Edition of 1865. Facsimile Edition Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Libraries Board of South Australia Hardcover
2002134891Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2002. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2002 first thus. Octavo xxxviii 63 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus a folding map based on Mary Quick's map from Webster's 1958 biography. Blind-stamped cloth; a fine copy. One of only 201 copies thus of a total edition of only 300 copies. The first edition of the 'most complete account of the expedition to be published . the only one for which no manuscript diary or fair copy survives'. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1991040672Melbourne: William Heinemann 1991. HEAVY. xii 16pp index glossary appendices notes few bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Near new. Traces the evolution of the Jewish community in Australia sine the end of WWII. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to. William Heinemann Hardcover
187898735Adelaide: George Robertson 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1878. Small quarto iv 138 pages. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover and spine and ruled in blind front and rear; cloth moderately flecked; an excellent copy internally fine. Printed and bound in Melbourne with the binder's label of George Robertson on the rear pastedown. Mrs John Crawford Woods was the wife of the first minister 1855-1889 of the Unitarian Christian Church in South Australia. This book 'was published in Adelaide at a time when novels of primitive Christianity were in vogue in Britain' and according to Paul Depasquale in 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930' enabled Mrs Woods to more than satisfy George Eliot's dictum about female authors: 'The inability of a lady novelist to describe actual life and her fellow men is in inverse proportion to her confident eloquence about God and the other world and the means by which she usually chooses to conduct you to true ideas of the invisible is a totally false picture of the visible'. George Robertson hardcover
1982034482Melbourne: James Flood Charity Trust. 1982. HEAVY. 272pp subscriber list index hundreds bw & col ills. Or beige cloth with laid on pictorial label in slipcase. A few light rubs marks to slipcase. Light foxing to limitation page. Some wrinkling of jacket laminate. Edition limited to 5000 copies of which this #1460. The fifth and last of this sought after series showcasing early motoring in Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Folio. James Flood Charity Trust. Hardcover
2001024817Self Published 2001. General wear to boards. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. 268 pages with b/w illustrations. . SIGNED. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Self Published Hardcover
2016BN190639Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2016. 2016. Softcover. The International Law of the Sea <br/><br/>The International Law of the Sea Donald R Australian National University Australia Rothwell Tim University of Sydney Australia Stephens Bloomsbury Publishing PLC paperback
1904025715Sydney: William Brooks and Co 1904. VERY HEAVY. Introduction by the Rev. George Lane. 669pp portrait frontis: John Wesley with tissue guard bw illustrations appendices index decorative endpapers. Front hinge cracked. Top edge gilt. Binding worn at leather spine and corners with loss of sections at the spine head and foot with some loss at the spine. Tape has been placed over joins between cloth and leather on the rear board. Or red cloth lightly worn rubbed stained and flecked. Internally the book is in good and clean condition. The book is in two parts: The Mission; and The Church. It was the first attempt to set out the beginnings of Methodism in Australia and Polynesia; and was the first history of any section of the Protestant Church in New South Wales. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fair to Good. Illus. by D H Souter. 4to. William Brooks and Co Hardcover
190927730London: R. H. Porter 1909. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Four issues of this journal of ornithology. The October issue has an article by W.R. Ogilvie- Grant with field notes by G.C. Shortridge on "On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia" Pages 650 to 689 to be continued includes a fine hand colored lithograph of Sericornis Balstoni and Malurus Bernieri fairy wren. Large 8vo printed paper wrapped issues of the journal housed in a slip box. Bright clean copies with some chipping of spines and one cover. R. H. Porter unknown
1999041102Portland Vic.: Mainsail Books 1999. HEAVY. 299pp index glossary appendices endnotes num bw & col ills endpaper maps. Or black boards in pictorial jacket. Near new. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Mainsail Books Hardcover
1999042679Portland Vic.: Mainsail Books 1999. HEAVY. 299pp index glossary appendices endnotes num bw & col ills endpaper maps. Or black boards in pictorial jacket. Spine slightly cocked leaning. SIGNED by author on title page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Mainsail Books Hardcover
1951143283Adelaide: The Advertiser Printing Office for Seppelt Wines 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide The Advertiser Printing Office for Seppelt Wines 1951. Octavo vi 52 pages with a colour frontispiece portrait plus 12 pages of plates 4 in colour. Gilt-decorated purple cloth very lightly marked; a near-fine copy. We have previously handled a deluxe edition bound in purple suede with the Seppelt coat of arms in enamelled metal mounted on the front cover and printed on better-quality paper than the standard version. This copy appears to be a hybrid of the standard binding albeit with much better gilt blocking on the deluxe contents. The Advertiser Printing Office [for Seppelt Wines] hardcover
2004010520Palmerston North: Dunmore Press 2004 2kg rate double standard shipping outside of New Zealand fine copy in same DW marker ribbon 390pp includes colour and b&w illustrations sized paper a heavy large quarto. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Dunmore Press hardcover
1996141170Kent Town: Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Kent Town Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal 1996 first thus/ 1930 abridged edition/ 1915. Octavo xxxii 438 2 'Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal' pages with illustrations and maps plus numerous plates reproducing 'over ninety original photographs'. Papered boards; spine slightly canted; top corners a trifle bumped; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine. Number 129 of only 500 copies in boards. This copy is signed in ink by Mawson's two daughters Patricia Thomas and Jessica McEwin with both signatures dated 1996. Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal hardcover
1996125829Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1996. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1996 fourth impression/ 1996/ 1930 abridged edition. Octavo xxxii 438 2 'Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal' pages with illustrations and maps plus numerous plates reproducing 'over ninety original photographs'. Pictorial card covers lightly marked and bumped; an excellent copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. This copy is signed by Mawson's two daughters Patricia and Jessica and one of his grandsons Gareth Mawson Thomas. This publication comprises a 'facsimile edition of the text of the 1930 abridged popular edition featuring original images from the Mawson Collection'. Wakefield Press paperback
1996140189Kent Town: Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal 1996. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal 1996 first thus/ 1930 abridged edition. Octavo xxxii 438 2 'Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal' pages with illustrations and maps plus numerous plates reproducing 'over ninety original photographs'. Papered boards slightly rubbed; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. Number 454 of only 500 copies in boards; this copy is signed in ink by one of Mawson's daughters Patricia Thomas. This publication comprises a 'facsimile edition of the text of the 1930 abridged popular edition featuring original images from the Mawson Collection'. Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal hardcover
2004145642Kingswood: Lothar Hoff 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Kingswood Lothar Hoff 2004. Quarto 144 pages with numerous illustrations mainly colour reproductions of manuscript notebooks. Colour-pictorial card covers slightly rubbed at the corners; a near-fine copy. 'The Koonibba Mission 35 km northwest of Ceduna South Australia was established in 1901. As Superintendent between 1920 and 1930. Pastor Hoff made an effort to become fluent in the local Aboriginal languages. A written record of the translation of local words into English was recorded in an exercise book notebooks and loose pieces of paper' foreword. These manuscripts are reproduced here. Lothar Hoff paperback