‎Australia‎

‎WILLIAMSON, James Alexander (1886-1964).‎

‎The Ocean in English History. [The Discovery of America; English Enterprise in the Atlantic; The Propagandists of the Tudor Period; The Eastern Seas; The National Interest in Oceanic Enterprise; The Opening of the Pacific; The Oceanic Factor in the Shaping of Modern England]. Being the Ford Lectures.‎

‎Oxford, at The Clarendon Press, 1941. 4to. mayor; 3 hs., 208 pp. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.‎

‎WILLS Neville P. -‎

‎L'industrializzazione dell'Australia.‎

‎Milano, 1953, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 211/224 con una cartina, 2 figure e numerose fotografie. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.‎

‎WILLS Neville R. -‎

‎Australia in cammino.‎

‎Milano, 1959, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 145/156 con illustrazioni. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.‎

‎WILSON C L‎

‎The History of a Family the Wilsons and Richardsons in England Australia and New Zealand‎

‎Blenheim New Zealand: Express Printing Works 1965 Titled on upper board "Our family History" Blue leatherette hardbound 72pp SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR on end paper as well as some ink annotations/corrections by author in the text. Genealogical information on the Wilsons and Richardsons descendants of the Cowley's of Birmingham. slight chipping to leatherette at bottom edge of boards. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Express Printing Works hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 000024

‎WILSON WR 'Bill' W R‎

‎A Force Apart A History of the Northern Territory Police Force 1870-1926. NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE FORCE‎

‎Pecock Academic Press Hong Kong 2001. 8vo. First Edition with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Pecock Academic Press, Hong Kong, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 24800

‎Wilson, H.W.: Editor‎

‎The Great War Magazine - Part 11: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (World War 1/One)‎

‎Cover photo of Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies. Centerfold devoted to the contributions of New Zealand and Australia. Topics: How Germany Attached our Commerce, and 'Russia's Stupendous Task and her Stupendous Army." Photos and illustrations include: Interesting German Naval Units; With a British Cruiser in the North Sea; Austrian seige guns; Modern artillery practice; Cossacks; Russian Howitzer training; Russia rols west; The Tsar and his military chiefs (montage); Russian mobilisation; The 'Three Emperors' Corner'; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Front cover almost detached. Book‎

‎Wilson, Kim (Wenona School, Australia)‎

‎Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years Wilson identifies and explores a p paperback‎

Bookseller reference : ria9781138547520_inp ISBN : 1138547522 9781138547520

‎Wilson, Ronald (prep.)‎

‎Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia. No. 31, 1938.‎

‎Canberra, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1938. 8vo. Includes several maps, graphs and diagrams. XXXII, 1038 (1) p., half-cloth binding of a library. - Contains statistical data on several topics such as land tenure, population, forestry, roads and railways, ommerce, shipping, state finance, defence, public hygiene etc. The maps depict for example Geology, Rainfall Distribution, Railways systems, orography etc 4 stamps of a library and 1 label of a library on the title page and the preliminaries. Apart from that in good condition.‎

Bookseller reference : 21465

‎Wilton, James‎

‎Golden Threads. The Chinese in Regional New South Wales 1850-1950.‎

‎Armidale: New England Regional Art Museum with Powerhouse Publishing 2004. 132pp index bibliography notes num bw & col ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. Sticker remnant on title page otherwise near new. The story of the Chinese people who came to and sometimes settled in New South Wales from the first arrivals in the early 1800s through the turbulant gold rush years and into the 20th century. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. New England Regional Art Museum with Powerhouse Publishing Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 056133 ISBN : 186317107x 9781863171076

‎WIMMER (G. A.)‎

‎Neuestes Gem?lde von Australien, oder Beschreibung der Lage, des Klimas, der Naturprodukte, Landeskultur, merkw?rdigsten St?dte, Gegenden, Kunstwerke, Ruinen und Denkm?ler; dann der Einwohner, deren Lebensart, Kleidung, Handel, K?nste, Wissenschaften, Religion und Staatsverfassung.‎

‎8vo (190 x 120 mm), [2], 409, [3]pp., engraved frontis., and 5 further plates, cont. cloth, leather label to spine, a very good copy. The work was published as volume 30 of Sch?tz's series Allgemeine Erdkunde, the only volume relating to the Pacific in that series.‎

‎Winnecke, C.‎

‎Mr. C. Winnecke's Last Explorations in the Northern Territory, South Australia.‎

‎8vo. 4 pages, plus a folding colour map which measures 11.5 inches x 8 inches and shows details of Winnecke's survey work in Central Australia from August to December 1883. This is a complete issue of the Royal Geographical Society, published October 1884, in excellent condition, containing the above narrative, and historically valuable map. Item is in original condition, with blue wrappers, as issued, complete with all the ads. A succinct and informative account accompanies the map, revealing that this territory, near the western Queensland boundary, was previously unknown, indicated only as a vast blank space on maps. Winnecke quickly found the task of exploring and surveying the region was most onerous, yet persevered to success - the map here being the first of the area. The text makes specific reference to notes in Winnecke's diary, in one instance being forced to dig a deep well, due to the extreme scarcity of water for the camels. As well as charting the land, Winnecke names peaks, collects plenty of flora, and observes fauna. Still in the midst of exploring while this account was published, Surveyor-General G. W. Goyder of the Australia colony submits the paper for dispatching, thus published here.‎

‎Wireless Institute Of Australia, WIA‎

‎Wireless Men and Women at War‎

‎Wireless Institute Of Australia 2017. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 180 pages. 11.69x8.27x0.41 inches. Wireless Institute Of Australia paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 2-0995445001 ISBN : 0995445001 9780995445000

‎Wise's Directories‎

‎The Tasmania Post Office Directory Wise's for 1902. Contains Street Directories of Hobart & Launceston; Seperate Alphabetical Directories of All the Remaining Cities Towns Townships and Districts of Tasmania; an Alphabetical Directory for the Entire‎

‎Hobart: Wise's Directories 1902. Contains Street Directories of Hobart & Launceston; Seperate Alphabetical Directories of All the Remaining Cities Towns Townships and Districts of Tasmania; an Alphabetical Directory for the Entire State; A trade Directory for the Whole State; together with Banking and Finance Public Companies Legal Ecclesiastical Insurance Educational Marine Mining Medical Municipal Agricultural Pastoral and Local and General Government Official Directories. vi xx xxi 630 iv pp. Or red cloth with title and crest in gilt to front and spine decorated in blind and printed on fore-edge. Spine faded and some very minor silverfish damage to cloth boards.Possibly lacking a final leaf of the red advertisement section at front. Toned oblong on title page approx 6.5 x 4.5cm. Otherwise a tight clean example of extremely scarce early Tasmanian Directory. Some wonderful advertisements throughout as well as a goldmine of genealogical information. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Sml 4to. Wise's Directories Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 013606

‎Wladyslaw Mielczarski, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia (Ed)‎

‎Fuzzy Logic Techniques In Power Systems‎

‎Springer 1998. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : Star-9783790810448 ISBN : 3790810444 9783790810448

‎Woldendorp R. (Fotografie di).‎

‎Western Australia. Looking West. (G. Bolton: History - K. Ward: Social - D. Lipscombe: Economy - P. Bodeker: Nature).‎

‎Perth, Day Dawn Press, 1977, in-4, cartone editoriale con sovraccoperta, pp. 226. Con belle illustrazioni a colori.‎

‎Women's Studies Australia‎

‎THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA‎

‎Very good. A collection of reports campaign literature newsletters and other literature produced in the early 1970s as part of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia. Among the organizations represented are the Women's Electoral Lobby the Women's Liberation Center the Working Women's Group and the Women's Abortion Action Campaign. Suzanne Fairbanks senior archivist at The University of Melbourne Archives summarized this period: "In the midst of the social activism that characterized the late 1960s the women's movement in Australia regained the public visibility it had first achieved at the beginning of the 20th century. The energy of women's renewed campaigns was directed into strategies of which two stand out: work for equal civil rights through the courts and government; and actions for personal and social liberation through consciousness-raising direct activism and alternative arenas for self-expression. The fight for civil equality had a long tradition in the Australian women's movement but women were becoming frustrated. Following campaigns by unions and women in the post-war period in 1969 the Arbitration Commission awarded equal pay for women but only for strictly equal work. The commission's decision would have no impact on women who worked in predominantly 'female' jobs. Taking their lead from the early suffragists Zelda D'Aprano trade unionist and communist and teachers Thelma Solomon and Alva Geikie chained themselves to the door of the Arbitration Commission in a very public protest which attracted wide media attention. The success of direct protest action in gathering publicity and support led to these women's forming with Jessie 'Bon' Hull the Women's Action Committee WAC which engaged in further public protest such as insisting on paying only 75 per cent of the fare on trams as they received 75 per cent of a male wage. Most importantly in March 1972 WAC founded the Women's Liberation Centre in Melbourne to provide a meeting place and support centre for feminists. By 1972 women led by Beatrice Faust a University of Melbourne graduate and civil liberties campaigner established the Women's Electoral Lobby WEL which produced a form guide to all candidates in the December 1972 federal election. The results of WEL's Australia-wide survey of candidates' attitudes to child care equality in education and work and planned parenthood were published in newspapers in November 1972. In Victoria WEL targeted sitting members of parliament in marginal seats on polling day. When Gough Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to victory women's issues were firmly to the fore. In Melbourne the Women's Liberation Movement WLM was closely connected to trade unions and the workers' movement. By the early 1970s a Women's Liberation Group had become affiliated with the Student Union at the University of Melbourne. Just as universities provided a haven for anti-war and radical ideas they proved favourable for the ideas and activism of the women's movement. Indeed the women's movement grew when women active in trade unions the Communist Party anti-conscription and anti-war movements perceived that the talk of a new society mostly included the old sexism. At the University of Melbourne the University Assembly formed a Women's Working Group which first reported on the status of women at the university in 1975; this report was instrumental in forcing the university to adopt equal opportunity policies." This collection consists of 28 pieces including one duplicate along with five pages of holographic notes and a newspaper clipping. Among the highlights are: EQUAL PAY VERDICT an undated leaflet 5 1/4" x 8 1/8" issued by the Union of Australian Women in Melbourne criticizing the 1969 decision of the Arbitration Commission "For some women the judgement will result in true equal pay but probably one woman in five will miss out."; SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL No. 3 1972 mimeographed on both sides of a legal-size leaf this newsletter features a lengthy piece entitled "Women and the Environmental Crisis" "Since both the liberation of women and the rescue of the environment are essentially freedom-oriented pro-life movements they are inevitably inter-related."; WOMEN'S LIBERATION NEWSLETTER: March 1973 14 p. photomechanically reproduced on both sides of seven yellow legal-size leaves includes a report by co-editor Ky Barrett on the February general meeting a list of contacts the Manifesto of the Women's Liberation Movement event announcements etc.; JOIN HANDS. No. 2 - June 1973 an early publication of the Communist Party of Australia which was founded in 1971 this journal includes several pieces on the Women's Liberation Movement including "Towards a Science of Women's Liberation" by Isabel Larguia and John Dumoulin and "Historical Origins of Female Oppression" by Nola Cooper; SHOULD W.E.L. SUPPORT A MOTHER'S WAGE a nuanced discussion by feminist writer Elizabeth Windschuttle of the merits and shortcomings of the Department of Social Security's mother's wage proposal 1973 12 p. photomechanically reproduced on the recto of legal-size sheets of white paper and bound with a staple; and WOMEN'S INFORMATION SHEET circa 1973 includes the name and contact information for university action areas feminist organizations contraceptive services and child care as well as a feminist reading list produced by the Victorian Women's Liberation on two sheets of yellow legal-size paper and accompanied by another sheet listing the 45 Women's Liberation groups with contact information. The vast majority of the material in this collection is photomechanically reproduced on legal-size paper. Some have been hole punched along the left margin and a few bear holographic notations. There is some occasional toning and minor edgewear. Overall the material is in very good or better condition. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 71704

‎Wood, Jones Frederic;‎

‎Coral and Atolls. their history, description, theories of their origin both before and since that of Darwin, the influence of winds, tides and ocean currents on their formation and transformations, their present condition, products, fauna and flora.‎

‎London, Reeve, 1912. 8°. XXIII, 392 S. Mit zahlr. Karten, Tafeln und Abb. Orig.-Leinenband.‎

‎Papier zu Beginn etwas stockfleckig. Der Einbandrücken verblichen.‎

Bookseller reference : 7485CB

‎WOOD A H‎

‎A History and Geography of Tonga. IN MODERN BOARDS‎

‎Privately Printed Auckland 1942. 8vo. First Edition with 3 plates and double-page pedigree and several maps a number full-page in the text page edges browning label scar on title; modern boards upper board with printed paper label ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED a very good clean copy. VERY SCARCE. [Privately Printed], Auckland, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 19807

‎WOOD, G. Arnold.‎

‎The Discovery of Australia.‎

‎in-12, XV-391 pages, maps, index, stitch., ill. cover. Libr. stamp. [GE-3]‎

‎Wood, William Maxwell‎

‎Wandering Sketches of People and Things in South America Polynesia California and Other Places Visited During a Cruise on Board of the U.S. Ships Levant Portsmouth and Savannah‎

‎Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20650

‎WOODCOCK, George‎

‎South Sea Journey‎

‎8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 341 pp, maps, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering, dj (price clipped, bit rubbed), near fine, clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Covering Samoa, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands and Fiji, the author took the trip as a basis for a television documentary series. Engrossing and well written, both personal and highly informative, combining the historical background of the area with present conditions.‎

‎WOODFORD, Charles M.‎

‎On Some Little-Known Polynesian Settlements in the Neighborhood of the Solomon Islands.‎

‎29 pages, including 2 in-text sketch maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating travel report recounting the history of the Polyesian immigration from Asia into the Pacific and the developing changes of this culture as it was influenced by invasions and growth. Mr. Woodford was recognized for his extensive study of the Polynesians and Malenesians. He provides intricate details on the tattooing procedure and nostril piercing for men, on the construction of canoes which were beginning to be replaced by European boats and half-decked cutters, and on the tools and weapons used.‎

‎WOODS, James Dominick (editor)‎

‎The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri by the Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe by Dr. Wyatt J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe by the Rev. A. Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe by the Rev. C.W. Schuermann; The Dieyerie Tribe by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect Northern Territory by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett; with an Introductory Chapter by J.D. Woods‎

‎Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original publisher's half morocco and watered cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments; edges and endpapers marbled; leather moderately rubbed at the extremities; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. <p>Provenance: John Harris Browne 1817-1904 expeditioner and pastoralist with his contemporary ownership signature 'J.H. Browne 1879' on the front flyleaf. 'In 1844-45 he went as medical officer with Charles Sturt's expedition into Central Australia. Unusually observant and intensely practical he was probably the most useful member of the party and although he suffered like the others from scurvy his courage and professional skill certainly brought Sturt back alive' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant pastoralist and a grandson of George Fife Angas is mounted on the front pastedown. The marginal annotation in pencil on page 212 alongside text relating to body painting of the 'Port Lincoln Tribe' may be in his hand: 'The White paint is Gypsum the Black is the Black Oxide of Manganese the Red is Hematite viz Red Iron ore'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 123987

‎WOODS, James Dominick (editor)‎

‎The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri by the Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe by Dr. Wyatt J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe by the Rev. A. Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe by the Rev. C.W. Schuermann; The Dieyerie Tribe by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect Northern Territory by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett; with an Introductory Chapter by J.D. Woods‎

‎Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages. Original dark green cloth decorated in black on the front and rear boards and decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth lightly flecked; a fine copy. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time of publication; the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods is new to this edition. This is a variant edition as issued we purchased several copies some years ago from the publisher's archive; it does not contain the eight tinted lithographs normally found in this collected reprint. These plates were new to the reprint. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting variant bindings but not noting this unillustrated edition. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 106051

‎WOODS, Mrs John Crawford‎

‎The Jew and the Roman. A Story of the First Century‎

‎Adelaide: George Robertson 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1878. Small quarto iv 138 pages. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover and spine and ruled in blind front and rear; cloth moderately flecked; an excellent copy internally fine. Printed and bound in Melbourne with the binder's label of George Robertson on the rear pastedown. Mrs John Crawford Woods was the wife of the first minister 1855-1889 of the Unitarian Christian Church in South Australia. This book 'was published in Adelaide at a time when novels of primitive Christianity were in vogue in Britain' and according to Paul Depasquale in 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930' enabled Mrs Woods to more than satisfy George Eliot's dictum about female authors: 'The inability of a lady novelist to describe actual life and her fellow men is in inverse proportion to her confident eloquence about God and the other world and the means by which she usually chooses to conduct you to true ideas of the invisible is a totally false picture of the visible'. George Robertson hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 98735