Australiana
THE SEA HORSE AND THE WANDERER.
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
BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849)
. 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
THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF G. T. W. B. BOYES.
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
A CENTURY OF SCHOOLDAYS 1877-1977.
[cover title]. Pp. [40], illustrated; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, faintly soiled, corners lightly rubbed; [the author, Castlemaine, 1977?]. First edition. *History of Yapeen Primary School, Victoria. More
LEMNOS LOOKS BACK.
Pp. 80, text illustrations and maps, index; tall post 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled; Lemnos School Council, Lemnos, Victoria, 1987. Burkhardt 904. More
VALUABLE AND STANDARD WORKS
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
![A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BREAD & CHEESE CLUB MELBOURNE. [cover title]. Bread, Melbourne Cheese Club, Harry Malloch.](/pictures/thumb/104164.jpg?v=1541067912)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BREAD & CHEESE CLUB MELBOURNE. [cover title].
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
MENZIES CREEK:
A History. [cover title]. Pp. 64, processed, numerous illustrations; impl. 8vo; pictorial textured paper wrappers, a trifle marked; n.p., n.d.[c. 1982]. *Published to celebrate the centenary of the Menzies Creek Primary School (1882-1982). Burkhardt 1016. More
HISTORY OF THE FIRST EXPLORER AND SQUATTER IN THE KYNETON DISTRICT: MITCHELL AND EBDEN.
[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
ENTERTAINING AUSTRALIA.
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
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN SQUATTER
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
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF B.H.P. DEVELOPMENT IN INDUSTRY.
Pp. 192, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the text printed in light brown & black, index; demy 4to; boards slightly canted and a trifle rubbed; a little faint foxing; Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., Melbourne, 1960. First edition. More
![THE VICTORIANS. [Series title]. Richard Broome, Tony Dingle, Susan Priestley.](/pictures/thumb/140300.jpg?v=1534917346)
THE VICTORIANS. [Series title].
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
LIFE OF JOHN BROXUP.
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
THE STORY OF TASMANIAN ABORIGINALS.
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
COLLINS.
The Story of Australia's Premier Street. Pp. xvi+256(last blank), 20 coloured plates (4 double page), black & white pictorial title page and text illustrations (many full or double page), street plan, coloured pictorial endpapers, notes, bibliography, index; roy. 8vo; dust wrapper; Arcadia, Melbourne, 2005. First edition. More
AUSTRALASIATIC REMINISCENCES OF TWENTY-THREE YEARS' WANDERINGS IN TASMANIA AND THE AUSTRALIAS;
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
BURKE & WILLS.
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
NEWSREEL IN 1862.
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
MENTONE: THE PLACE FOR A SCHOOL.
A History of Mentone Girls' Grammar School from 1899. Pp. xviii+174, numerous text illustrations (some full page), sepia pictorial endpapers, appendices, index; small cr. 4to; black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed, backstrip lightly faded; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. More
LIKE AS THE WAVES.
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
THE MEN THAT GOD FORGOT.
Pp. 256(last blank), endpaper map, bibliography; boards a trifle canted, edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly creased at head of backstrip; name in ink on verso of half-title page, edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *The story of the penal settlement of Sarah Island, in... More
MERRIMENT OF PARSONS.
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
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). 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