A Queensland Pioneer. Pp. xii+254(last colophon, blank),16 plates, decorative initials and tailpieces, addenda; dark green cloth, the gilt lettering rubbed (heaviest on spine), boards a trifle flecked and faintly scuffed, lower joint starting, the bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; hinges cracking, outer leaves browned, a couple of..... More
A changing landscape. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, index; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Darling Downs Institute Press, Toowoomba, 1985. First edition. *Includes sections on aboriginal art, J. J. Hilder, Conrad Martens, and Lionel Lindsay. More
Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. 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a study of the narratives of all explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents.... In two volumes. Pp. xvi+366+xiv+367-768, 29 plates (including frontispiece with..... 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. [vi]+26, coloured frontispiece and 9 plates within pagination, the title page vignette and head & tailpiece decorations printed in pale grey/green, black & white text figures, pictorial endpapers printed in brown; small cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, foot of spine and top fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper..... 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
Pp. viii+172, pictorial title page and decorative headpieces; med. 8vo; bottom edge of boards lightly shelf worn; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; a little light foxing; Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 1982. First edition. *Account of the prison system in Queensland. More
Reminiscences of the Shearers' Strike, Queensland 1891 from the pen of Julian Stuart (1886-1929), with a foreword on the man and his times by Lyndall Hadow. Pp. viii+168(last blank), 4 plates; the spine extremities and fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges rubbed and creased, with small..... More
A history of the Darling Downs, 1859-93. Pp. x+310, 8 plates, text maps (mostly full page), appendices, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1968. First edition. More