His discoveries, romantic life, and tragic disappearance. Pp. xii+172(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, text maps (1 double page), appendices, index; boards slightly marked; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; free endpapers lightly offset, a little faint foxing; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1952. First edition. *Signed by the author on... More about GEORGE BASS, 1771-1803
The Men and the Mutiny. Pp. 320, 15 plates (1 double page), title page vignette, text illustrations (some full page), decorative headpieces, text maps, endpaper chart, chronology, notes on sources, index; med. 8vo; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of short... More about CAPTAIN BLIGH & MR. CHRISTIAN
[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
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
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
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
Convict, bushranger, explorer. Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled; occasional faint soiling; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber, lived for five years among Aborigines in... More about CLARKE OF THE KINDUR
Botanist and explorer. Pp. x+148(last blank), 4 plates, full page maps, references, bibliography, index; cloth a trifle flecked; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, backstrip faded, edges lightly rubbed; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. More about ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
Pp. 76, frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, text illustrations (one full page), tipped-in folding facsimile of a manuscript page from The Origin of Species, map, bibliography; small demy 4to; printed card wrappers, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; occasional slight soiling; Burndy Library, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1960. Burndy Library Publication No. 17. More about DARWIN OF THE BEAGLE
The life of Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer and Governor of Jamaica, 1815-1901. Pp. 416, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, 3 full page maps plus endpaper map, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; upper board faintly scratched, bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges red, slightly damp marked; dust... More about THE HERO AS MURDERER
The Portuguese discovery of Australia. Pp. xx+140, printed in brown & black, numerous text figures (including maps, some full page, a few tinted), endpaper maps, index; impl. 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards, a trifle sprung, edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges slightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves faintly foxed;... More about JAVA LA GRANDE
With the contribution of Phillida Stephens. Foreword by Max Cramer. Pp. [ii]+332, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full or double page), maps, bibliography, index; demy 4to; a couple of tiny bruises to edges of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly creased, with a tiny indentation to front... More about THE FIRST AND LAST VOYAGE OF THE BATAVIA
The story of the epic of exploration by Hume and Hovell, with party, October - December, 1824. Pp. [32](last blank), title page vignette, text illustrations and maps; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, the backstrip slightly faded, small surface chip to fore-edge of upper wrapper, ownership sticker on verso of upper... More about OVERLAND TO PORT PHILLIP BAY
The Lives and Association of John Hunter (1728-1793), The Surgeon; James Cook (1728-1779), The Navigator; and Joseph Banks (1743-1820), The Naturalist. Foreword by Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt. Pp. 80, 4 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece and text illustrations, endpaper map, appendices, notes, index; small cr. 4to; dust wrapper... More about FELLOWSHIP OF THREE
Birds & Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788,89 & 90 By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. General editor John Calaby. Pp. [x]+252(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full page), references, glossary, index; wide demy 4to; qr. beige... More about THE HUNTER SKETCHBOOK
from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. Pp. xx+544, frontispiece, plus 6 plates (one folding), 7 text illustrations; later half calf, (new spine, earlier corners), with gilt lettered and decorated maroon leather title label on the spine, fore-corner tips neatly... More about JOURNAL OF AN OVERLAND EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA
The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. Drawings by Walter Stackpool. Pp. [x]+212+[2](last blank), text illustrations, 4 text maps (1 double-page), endpaper map, bibliography; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, laminate lifting, edges slightly creased and split; small marks to fore-edges of leaves, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Doubleday, Sydney... More about FROM MAUI TO COOK
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G., for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia, and placed under the control of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia - South Australian Branch. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [ii]+208(last blank), vocabularies; navy cloth, lettered in..... More about JOURNAL OF THE ELDER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1891-2
Pp. x+222, 22 plates (one coloured), pictorial headpieces, one full page text map plus endpaper map, note, index; spine cloth faintly bruised; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper (designed by Sidney Nolan), lightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a few small chips; some light foxing, mainly to edges... More about COOPER'S CREEK
Pp. 176, 24 plates, several tailpiece illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; Terence Dalton Limited, Lavenham, Suffolk, 1975. First edition. *David Blackburn, of Norfolk Island descent, was Master of H.M.S. Armed Tender Supplywhen it joined the fleet to sail from Portsmouth to Botany Bay in 1787. A.... More about BLACKBURN'S ISLE
Edited with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping. Pp. 94+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus 2 full page illustrations, the title and headpiece decorations printed in red, bibliography, index; navy papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed, the pages slightly discoloured;Queensberry... More about A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE IN H.M.S. CALCUTTA, 1803-1804
Pp. xxiv+372+[2](colophon, verso blank), text illustrations and maps (some full page), endpaper map printed in blue, notes, index; roy. 8vo; navy cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered in gilt, large coloured pictorial onlay on upper board; within navy cloth slipcase with printed title label on spine, the cloth slightly..... More about THE SPANISH LAKE
Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Mackaness. Part I. Pp. xiv+42, frontispiece plus 4 full page illustrations, notes & commentary; Part II. Pp. [iv]+43+[5](advertisements, last blank), frontispiece plus 4 full page illustrations; printed stiff wrappers, stapled; Review Publications, Dubbo, 1979. Australian Historical Monographs Volume XLII, New Series... More about THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF WILLIAM STRUTT, A.R.A., 1850-1862
to ascertain the position of the 141st degree of East Longitude, being the boundary line between New South Wales and South Australia. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. 16(last blank)+xx(appendix), 2 folding tinted maps in pocket at end; roy. 8vo; qr. brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, Cockerell marbled papered boards; Queensberry Hill..... More about REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION
landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. in 1801-1803. Edited by T. M. Perry and Donald H. Simpson. Pp. [viii]+72(last blank), 2 coloured plates plus black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous plates following the text, 1 text illustration, 9 maps..... More about DRAWINGS by William Westall