Australian Reminiscences Illustrated with her own Watercolours and Contemporary Drawings and Sketches. Foreword by Ronald Howell. Introduction by Morton Herman. Pp. xxii+222(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full or double page), appendix; narrow cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle worn; dust wrapper, the backstrip..... More about ANNABELLA BOSWELL'S JOURNAL
Pp. xiv+270, frontispiece, title page vignette, text illustrations and maps, endpaper plan, appendices, notes, index; roy. 8vo; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, top edges lightly creased; Box Hill City Council, Box Hill, 1978. First edition. *With loosely inserted single fold leaflet 'City of Box Hill. An Explanation of the Coat of Arms'. More about BOX HILL
Ben Boyd in Australia. Pp. xiv+254, 8 plates, 2 text figures, full page map, appendix, notes, select bibliography, index; dust wrapper, back panel a trifle soiled; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. *Ben Boyd was Chairman of the Royal Bank of Australia, which he founded in London. By 1844... More about THE SEA HORSE AND THE WANDERER
. Shipping magnate; merchant; banker; pastoralist and station owner; Member of the Legislative Council; town planner; whaler. [cover title]. Pp. 48, text illustrations, decorative initials; printed paper wrappers, stapled, the backstrip faded, wrappers vertically creased, bookplate on verso of upper wrapper; a little light foxing and a few small damp... More about BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849
[Facsimile sketchbook] Pp. [110], containing over 50 sketches, the title and brief text within decorative borders printed in red, grey & black, floral patterned endpapers; small oblong 8vo; gilt lettered black cloth with rounded fore-corners, a trifle scuffed; all edges red; within floral papered slipcase; The Australian National Gallery, Canberra... More about EMMA MINNIE BOYD
Volume I: 1820-1832. Edited by Peter Chapman. Pp. xxviii+692, 16 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and text illustrations, endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. *The first publication in full of the diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes..... More about THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF G. T. W. B. BOYES
RECENTLY IMPORTED. On sale by Waugh and Cox, 111, George Street. Pp. [4]; Brandywine Press & Archive, Beecroft, 1987. One of 200 copies. *Reprinted from The University of Sydney Magazine, No. 3 (July 1855). Early Australian bookseller's list. More about VALUABLE AND STANDARD WORKS
![A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BREAD & CHEESE CLUB MELBOURNE. [cover title]. Bread, Melbourne Cheese...](/pictures/thumb/104164.jpg?v=1563603003)
8 page pamphlet, stapled; leaves lightly browned, with a couple of short closed tears from fore-edges; printed by J. Roy Stevens Print, Melbourne, 1940. First edition. *Issued as a Souvenir of the Club's Australian Art & Literature Exhibition held at Tye's Velasquez Gallery, 100 Bourke Street Melbourne, 1940. More about A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BREAD & CHEESE CLUB MELBOURNE. [cover title
[cover title]. Pp. [16], text illustrations; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled and faintly creased, with small ownership label on verso of upper wrapper, the staples a trifle rusted; Kyneton Guardian Pty. Ltd., [Kyneton], 1969. *Thomas Livingston Mitchell crossed and named the Campaspe River near present-day Kyneton, Victoria, during... More about HISTORY OF THE FIRST EXPLORER AND SQUATTER IN THE KYNETON DISTRICT: MITCHELL AND EBDEN
An illustrated history. Pp. 360, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, index; med. 4to; tiny bruise to top edge of upper board; dust wrapper; Currency Press, Sydney, 1991. First edition. More about ENTERTAINING AUSTRALIA
by William Adams Brodribb & ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY TO GIPPSLAND by Lavinia Hasell Bennett. Pp. xiv+202+folding map at end, 3 tinted hand-tipped plates, plus 13 small mounted facsimiles, sources, indices; impl. 8vo; qr. dark brown leather, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, beige cloth boards; within matching cloth slipcase... More about RECOLLECTIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN SQUATTER
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In three volumes: Volume I: ARRIVING. By Richard Broome. Pp. xiv+258, illustrated in colour and black & white, text and endpaper maps, index; Volume II: SETTLING. By Tony Dingle. Pp. xiv+274, illustrated in colour and black & white, text and endpaper maps, index; Volume III: MAKING THEIR MARK. By Susan... More about THE VICTORIANS. [Series title
Edited by Frances Brown, Dom Meadley & Marjorie Morgan. Pp. xii+100, bibliography, index+plus 12 page insert on different stock (Microform Collections) at centre, processed; printed paper wrappers, stapled; Custodians of Records, Blackburn, Vic., 1988. Third edition. More about FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORY SOURCES IN VICTORIA
Foreword by W. E. L. H. Crowther. Pp. 16, illustrated (one full page coloured); small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle creased, faintly soiled and browned, inked ownership inscription on verso of upper wrapper; a little faint creasing; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, n.d.[1960]. First edition. More about THE STORY OF TASMANIAN ABORIGINALS
including travels with Dr. Leichhardt in north or tropical Australia. Pp. [vi]+vi+216+[8](advertisements), frontispiece portrait of Leichhardt; post 12mo; pale green printed papered boards with pictorial advertisement on lower board, rebacked (not recently) with cloth tape (wider on lower board) and a grey/green calf spine lettered in gilt and ruled in..... More about AUSTRALASIATIC REMINISCENCES OF TWENTY-THREE YEARS' WANDERINGS IN TASMANIA AND THE AUSTRALIAS
From Melbourne to Myth. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. [vi]+50(last blank), illustrated in colour and black & white, map, notes, exhibition list of works; square 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002. First edition. More about BURKE & WILLS
The Grand Moving Diorama of the Victorian Exploring Expedition. Pp. [20], frontispiece, plus 1 text illustration, 2 tinted facsimiles, appendices, printed pastedowns; demy 4to; printed papered boards, lightly soiled, edges a trifle bruised; original glassine wrapper, creased and slightly torn; The Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, Sydney, 1966. Edition limited to... More about NEWSREEL IN 1862
Pp. viii+172, appendices, bibliography, endpaper maps; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the laminate slightly wrinkled, edges slightly worn; Marsh Walsh, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *The author traces the voyages of exploration to the South Seas and to Australia, from Marco Polo, Da Gama and Tasman through to James Cook. More about LIKE AS THE WAVES
Pp. 212(last blank), illustrations; dust wrapper, lightly worn; inscription on upper free endpaper; Neptune Press, Newtown, Victoria, 1982. Third printing. *Signed by author on title page. Being the reminiscences of a Tasmanian boyhood, and the remembrances of a Ministry within the Methodist Church in Tasmania, Victoria, and South Australia. More about MERRIMENT OF PARSONS
An Australian biographical dictionary and register of titled persons, with which is incorporated Johns's Notable Australians (first issued 1906). Compiled and edited by Kerith A. Cadman. Pp. 960, 4 coloured plates; green papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with... More about WHO'S WHO IN AUSTRALIA. XXVIth edition, 1988
An Australian biographical dictionary and register of titled persons, with which is incorporated Johns's Notable Australians (first issued 1906). Pp. [viii]+1720; black papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly marked; Information Australia Group, Melbourne, 1998. More about WHO'S WHO IN AUSTRALIA. XXXIVth edition, 1998
Edited by J. E. B. Currey. Pp. xvi+240(last blank), frontispiece (repeated before Part Two and Appendices), full page map, printed endpapers, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle split, the backstrip faintly faded; edge of leaves lightly foxed; Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1966. First edition. *Caley was one... More about REFLECTIONS ON THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
George Caley's journey to Mount Banks, 1804. Pp. [viii]+150, 12 plates, full page text illustration, title page vignette printed in green, pictorial endpapers, 10 maps (1 folding, 3 double page), appendix, notes and references, select bibliography, index; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a.... More about THE DEVIL'S WILDERNESS
Pp. 68, text illustrations (some full, one double page); pictorial glazed paper wrappers, faintly soiled, top fore-corner of lower wrapper lightly creased; upper hinge tender, a few leaves lightly creased; The Bourke Historical Society, [Bourke, New South Wales], 1978. More about BOURKE: A HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
'This folder contains twelve selected views of Canberra, which is situated at the base of the Southern Alps and, with its modern architecture, broad avenues, and beautifully planned gardens, is considered one of the finest capital cities in the world' [wrapper blurb]. 12 coloured plates loosely contained in a pocket... More about CANBERRA, Australian Capital Territory