The story of Mount Isa Mines. Pp. [vi]+256; coloured frontispiece, 30 black & white plates at end (1 double page), endpaper maps, appendices, index; boards a trifle canted; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, back panel scuffed, the backstrip slightly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a.... 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a study of the narratives of all explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents....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
[cover title]. Pp. 48(last blank), text illustrations; demy 4to; printed paper wrappers, stapled, lightly soiled and creased with light water staining to lower corner of upper wrapper, edges slightly rubbed; some light foxing (mainly to outer leaves & recto of lower wrapper), tiny split to bottom edge pp. 31-32; printed... More
Pp. 246, 16 plates, text illustrations, erratum slip laid on title page; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper; Envirobook, Sydney, n.d.[1996?]. First one volume edition? *Bernard O'Reilly (1903-1975) is best known for his discovery of the 1937 crash site of a Stinson Model A airplane, and for organizing rescue crews... 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
A Handbook on the Corals, Shells, Crabs, Larger Animals and Birds, with some remarks on the Reef's place in History. Pp. [viii]+88(last blank), 32 plates (8 coloured), upper pastedown map, index; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips, back... 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
The Coastal Playgrounds of Queensland. Pp. 88, 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and maps, index; tall cr. 4to; boards a trifle sprung, edges slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, back panel slightly scuffed; A. H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1982. First edition. More