The story of how I became a priest and of the Rockhampton Diocese which I served for over fifty years. Pp. 170, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations; demy 8vo; printed brown paper wrappers, faintly soiled, the backstrip (which is titled in ink by hand) slightly faded, top fore-corners lightly creased; text..... More
Pp. xx+202, coloured frontispiece map, 16 coloured plus 48 black & white plates, text illustrations, coloured endpaper map, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, lower right corner of upper board lightly stained, bottom edges worn; dust wrapper, edges worn and browned, with corresponding damp stamp..... More
With a study of the narratives of all explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents, thirty-nine illustrations, and sixteen specially prepared maps. In two volumes. Volume I: Pp. xvi+366+[2](blank), portrait of the author as frontispiece, tissue guard, 20 portraits of..... More
Pp. [vi]+250(last blank), full page map; boards a trifle canted and faintly scuffed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; a couple of spots of foxing; Hart-Davis, MacGibbon/Granada, London, 1978. First edition. *Autobiography of a Queensland vet with a practice of over 150,000 square miles. More
Pp. iv+380, title page vignette, text illustrations, pictorial headpieces, text and endpaper maps, references, appendices, selected bibliography; med. 8vo; cream papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards, dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; The Jacaranda Press/The Longreach Shire Council, Brisbane, 1987. First edition. *The..... More
Compiled by Mamie O'Keeffe (Oxley Librarian). Pp. [iv]+12(processed, last blank), full page map, sources; tall post 4to; red tape backed printed brown paper wrappers, slightly creased, the upper wrapper a trifle glue marked; Oxley Memorial Library of Queensland, [Brisbane], 1974. First edition. More
Introduction by N. G. Butlin and J. N. Jennings. Pp. xxiv+56(last blank), full page coloured maps; oblong folio; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and rubbed, edges slightly split; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Business Archives Australian National University, in association with The Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1970. First edition..... More
Photography by Ray Joyce. Pp. 128(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, patterned endpapers, further reading list, glossary, index; tall med. 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in white, lower fore-corners lightly bruised, lower edges slightly worn; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; Lansdowne, Sydney, 1994. Reprinted. More
Pp. viii+132, illustrated title-page, text illustrations (some full page) appendix, notes, illustrations of ships, index of ships, bibliography; demy 4to; blue boards, lettered in black; dust wrapper; Estate of William Torrance, Brisbane, 1988. First edition. *More stories of Brisbane River traders. More
Pp. xiv+278, frontispiece, title page vignette, numerous text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, bibliography, appendices, index to illustrations of ships; narrow med. 4to; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; the author, Brisbane, 1986. First edition. *'An..... More
Pp. xviii+206(processed, last blank); narrow impl. 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled and worn, bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper; name and date (1972) in ink at head of half-title page, outer leaves and edges a trifle soiled; Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972. First edition. *'Covers all..... More
Pp. 68, appendices, bibliography, folding map of North Queensland WWII 1942-1945 loosely inserted in a pocket at end; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, title-page a trifle foxed, edges slightly worn; Department of Geographic Information, Brisbane, 1988. First edition. More
