Pp. [x]+318, 16 plates, full page map, appendices, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pale blue boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper; text block browned; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010. First edition. More
Text by Lucy Bennett. Foreword by Sir Guy Green, Governor of Tasmania. Pp. 64, brief text, plus numerous illustrations in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers; med. 4to; grey cloth, lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Good Intent Enterprises Pty Ltd, Kingston, Tasmania, 1997. First edition. More
Late Convict at Van Diemen's Land. Pp. 20+[2](colophon, verso blank); f'cap. 8vo; red stiff paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, the backstrip faintly faded upper wrapper a trifle scuffed; Sullivan's Cove, Hobart, 1973. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. *Originally published in 1850. 'The author was convicted..... More
Pp. 256(last blank), endpaper map, bibliography; demy 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Hutchinson of Australia, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *The story of the penal settlement of Sarah Island, in Macquarie Harbour on the south-west coast of Van Diemen's Land, which..... More
Convict, bushranger, explorer. Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, backstrip faded; bookplate on upper pastedown; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber,lived for five years among Aborigines in New South Wales..... More
A study of a one-in-twenty sample. Pp. viii+104, processed, frontispiece; post 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip a trifle faded and browned, bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper;The Wentworth Press, Sydney, 1965.Edition limited to 500 copies. Studies in Australian and Pacific History - No. 3..... More
Pp. 96, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, notes, selected bibliography, glossary; oblong 4to; edges of boards slightly rubbed; dust wrapper; a little light foxing; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1978. Second impression. More
Pp. xvi+270(last blank), 8 plates, text figures, appendices, select bibliography, indices; cr. 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1988. First Australian edition. *'The first guide for family historians wishing to follow the movements and destiny of an ancestor who was transported to..... More
Pp. 200(last blank), frontispiece, plus 16 plates, appendix, notes, bibliography, index; tall demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in white, bottom edge of boards a trifle shelf worn; dust wrapper; outer leaves faintly offset; Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1993. First edition. *Irish convict history. 'In 1843 Stephen Howard from Limerick was..... More
From quarterdeck to gallows. Including the narrative written by himself in Darlinghurst Gaol, 23rd January-13th February 1844. Now first published from the original manuscript, with retrospect of his life. Pp. [x]+278, 16 plates, references, bibliography, index; boards rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges chipped and split; edges of leaves a...... More
Translated from the original, with an Introduction and Notes by George Mackaness. With six illustrations. Pp. 140+[4](advertisements), text illustrations; printed textured paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; bottom fore-corner of several leaves lightly creased; Review Publications Pty. Ltd., Dubbo, 1976. Australian Historical Monographs Volume VI (New Series). *Originally published..... More
Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, South Australian Branch, Session 1951-52. Introduction by Douglas Pike. Pp. [12](numbered 53-64); rebound in qr. maroon cloth, with gilt lettered red papered boards, two small indents to surface of lower board; original printed paper wrappers bound in; small tape mark to first..... More
fprq2fcharset0 Garamond;}{fnilfcharset0 Garamond;}} {*generator Riched20 6.3.9600}{*mmathPrmdispDef1mwrapIndent1440 }viewkind4uc1 dbfs24 Tipping (Marjorie) CONVICTS UNBOUND: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia. Pp. xiv+354(last blank), numerous illustrations (some full or double page), endpaper map, notes, biographies, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; Viking O'Neil, Melbourne, 1988. First edition..... More
Pp. [x]+146(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and(mainly) black & white, pictorial endpapers, index; oblong 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in tan, edges of boards slightly faded and rubbed; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, back panel lightly faded at edges; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981. First edition. *The story..... More