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
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
. 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
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
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
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
[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
One hundred and twenty-five years of Primary School 1117 Briagolong. Pp. [ii]+26, text illustrations, bibliography, footnotes; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, fore-corners a trifle creased; Briagolong Primary School, Briagolong, Victoria, 1996. First edition. More
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
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
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
Late Convict at Van Diemen's Land. Pp. 20+[2](colophon, verso blank); f'cap. 8vo; red stiff paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, upper wrapper faintly scuffed; Sullivan's Cove, Hobart, 1973. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. *Originally published in 1850 [see Ferguson 5303: 'The author was convicted on a.... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
An Essay on the Importance of a National Literature. Pp. 30; printed paper wrappers over card, a trifle soiled and foxed, edges slightly rubbed and browned, faint fracture to upper board near bottom edge; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers offset (heavier on lower free... More
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