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Cuffley Peter
Oil and Kerosene Lamps in Australia. Pioneer Collecting Antiques Series
Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio. 1982. 271pp hundreds bw ills colour plates index bibliography . Or brown boards in jacket. Very light foxing to top edge. Revised and greatly expanded from its first incarnation as A Complete Catalogue and History of Oil and Kerosene Lamps in Australia published in 1973. . The history and development of kerosene lighting is traced in great detail and illustrated extensively. The lamps are presented in chronological order. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Pioneer Design Studio. Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040097 ISBN : 0909674191 9780909674199
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Chalmers James.
Adventures in New Guinea.
London: The Religious Tract Society 1886. 192pp 6 bw engravings. Or decorative brown cloth. Lacks blank front free endpaper front hinge cracking Sunday School prize label dated 1887 on front pastedown rear board alittle spotted spine a little sunned. Hole in p57/58 causing loss of 3 words. Scarce little volume on New Guinea by probably the best known of the Paific missionaries. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 12mo. The Religious Tract Society Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040112
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Idriess Ion L
Back O'Cairns.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1958. x 310pp bw ills pictorial endpapers. Or red cloth in jacket. Jacket with several tears and small chips a few tape stains and slight fading to spine. Some toning to page edges 2 prev owner stamps at front and brief gift note dated 1961 on front free endpaper. No date but c1958- Frontier Edition stated on title page. North Queensland and its inhabitants as experienced by Idriess when he went there prospecting. Frontier Edition . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040123
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Idriess Ion L
The Tin Scratchers.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1959. xii 260pp bw ills endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket with long tear at top of front panel with associated creasing several very short tears. Prev owners stamp on front free endpaper and title page. Second issue lacking the silver compass to front board. A glimpse into the mineral rich tip of Cape York Peninsula where Idriess went to live and work among the pioneers of the tin fields. Second Issue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040122
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Idriess Ion L
Opals and Sapphires. How to Work Mine Class Cut Polish and sell Them.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1967. 231pp index maps bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket spine slightly faded price clipped small bookseller label on front pastedown. A particularly nice copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040124
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The Government of Queensland.
Our First Half Century. A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information. Jubilee Memorial Volume.
Brisbane: Anthony J. Cumming Government Printer 1909. xxvii 257pp appendices bw ills maps. Or full morrocco leathertitled and decorated in gilt all edges gilt. Spine a bit faded some minor rubbing at edges sporadic light foxing throughout. Ex-Mackaness collection with his bookplate on front pastedown. Includes chapters on pastoral agriculture and sugar industries mining inc gold copper coal and opal as well as history governance and much more. Nice colonial history. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Anthony J. Cumming, Government Printer Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040128
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Barton EJT. editor E. J.
Jubilee History of Queensland; A Record of Political Industrial and Social Development from the Landing of the First Explorers to the Close of 1909.
Brisbane: H.J. Diddams & Co. 1090. xii 388pp chronology num bw plates and text ills 1 col plate. Or decorative wraps. No date but late 1909. Light stain on half-title page light edge wear spine a little worn with short tear at foot. Scarce in any condition and extremely so in it original state and this state of preservation. Commemorative of the Jubilee of Brisbane - 6th September 1909 and of the state of Queensland. 10th December of the same year. Printed in double column. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. H.J. Diddams & Co. Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040129
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Tudor Judith editor
The Handbook of Papua and New Guinea Sixth Edition.
Sydney: Pacific Publications. 1964. 416pp index gazetteer advertisements bw ills maps folding map list of residents in each electorate. Or card covers with cloth spine. Faded at spine and lightly rubbed on covers prev owners name inside front cover first blank page silverfished at top edge page edges toned. Includes geography history people government law and justice finance and taxation commerce industries communications transport land policy agriculture leath and medical services tourism education public service religion and missions along with numerous district maps and one large folding map at front. Useful reference to pre-Independence Papua New Guinea. Fourth Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Pacific Publications. Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040141
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Boyd AJ. editor A. J.
Queensland.
London: Queensland Emigration Office 1882. 96pp printed in double column. Or blue cloth covered card. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover as well as initial in ink small bookseller stamp on front free endpaper. Minor crease and slight edge wear to covers. Rare early colonial gazetteer to inform potential emigrants to Queensland. Content includes agriculture railways steam navigation education and land laws. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Queensland Emigration Office Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040149
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Union Steamship Co. Of New Zealand.
A Day in Suva.
New Zealand: Union Steamship Co. Of New Zealand. 1921. 24pp bw ills. Or pictorial wraps. Several very small tears less than 1cm to edges/margins. No date c1920/22. Scarce early tourist guide to Suva Fiji. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Union Steamship Co. Of New Zealand. Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040148
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Coulter Mr. Joseph.
Randwick Asylum. An Historical Overview of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children from the Year 1852 Up to the Time of Requisitioning of the Society's Buildings and Lands in 1915 By the Federal Authorities for Military Hospital Purposes.
Sydney: Randwick Asylum Board of Directors 1916. xiii 144pp documents in facsimile at rear; bw ills tables. Or gray bevelled cloth. Prev owner name on front free endpaper a few light marks to cloth light toning to endpapers bookseller stamp on front pastedown spine title faded. Scarce history of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children which provided lodging for abandoned and destitute children of both sexes under 8 years of age. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Randwick Asylum, Board of Directors Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040133
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Universal Business Directories.
Universal Street Directory for Brisbane City and Suburbs First edition
Brisbane: Universal Business Directories. 1955. 28pp 47 col maps ads. Or pictorial card boards with green cloth spine. Bottom front corner creased some minor edge wear and rubbing. Clpth spine a little spotted some toning to pages. Scarce first printing of the Universal Brisbane Street Directory- NOT the facsimile reprint!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 4to. Universal Business Directories. Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040170
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Idriess Ion L; Woolnough W G
Prospecting for Gold from the Dish to the Hydraulic Plant and from the Dolly to the Stamper Battery with Chapters on Tin Osmiridium Platinum Opals and Oil
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1966. Introduction by F S Mance. x 296pp b/w ills glossary index. Or cloth boards in jacket Offset toning to endpapers page edges toned. Jacket a bit rubbed creased at btoom front and 3mm tear at bottom of front flap fold. Prospecting for gold and other precious minerals and gems in Australia. Includes a chapter on oil by Dr WG Woolnough. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040160
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Kennedy EB. E. B.
Four Years in Queensland.
London: Edward Stanford 1870. viii 246pp publishers catalogue at rear folding map frontis. Or maroon cloth. Spine very slightly faded with approx 1.5cm split at front edge of spine tiny chip from top of spine prev owner name in pencil on title page. Folding map present and in excellent order though slightly misfolded. A very nice copy. Ferguson 11090. Colonial Queensland including flora and fauna the Gympie gold diggings agriculture squatters and more. Rare. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Edward Stanford Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040152
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Petrie Constance Campbell
Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland Dating from 1837.
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1904. xvi 319 pp. with errata slip frontis portrait 15 bw plates folding plan at rear. Original green pictorial cloth. Numerous tiny white flecks to cloth prev owners name and date 1905 on front pastedown along with small bookseller label light toning to page edges and some margins bottom corners worn scuff to top edge of rear cover. Important early source book for Queensland history with much on aborigines and vividly describing life in the Moreton Bay penal colony from the 1830s. Petrie 1831-1910 arrived in Queensland in 1837. Later he accompanied or acted as messenger for many early explorations and was intimately acquainted with the local aborigines on whom he was considered an expert. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040150
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Chalmers J. & Gill W. Wyatt.
Work and Adventure in New Guinea 1877-1885.
London: The Religious Tract Society 1984. 288pp publishers catalogue at rear; bw engravings. Or pictorial brown cloth. Presentation space filled in. States Special Presentation Volume on title page and London Missionary Society Presentation Copy at top of front cover. An excellent copy. Special Presentation Volume. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Religious Tract Society Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040176
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Idriess Ion L; Woolnough W G
Prospecting for Gold from the Dish to the Hydraulic Plant and from the Dolly to the Stamper Battery with Chapters on Tin Osmiridium Platinum Opals and Oil
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1943. Introduction by F S Mance. x 288pp b/w ills glossary index. Plain card covers in jacket which is attached at the spine. Covers evenly toned with darkening to spine a little minor rubbing to front near spine. Prospecting for gold and other precious minerals and gems in Australia. Includes a chapter on oil by Dr WG Woolnough. Eighth Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040161
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Idriess Ion L.
Fortunes in Minerals. Simple Tests and How to Make Them.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1941. Introduction by AN Graham. x 228pp index 2pp advertisements at rear for Cyaniding for Gold & Prospecting for Gold. Or gray cloth boards lacking jacket Page edges evenly toned faint damp mark at top corner margins not affecting text. Index pages misnumbered as pp126-128-should be 226-228. Advice for the prospector on where to look for mineral deposits how to recognize mineral-bearing rocks and how to identify the minerals they contain. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040163
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Chalmers James.
Pioneer Life and Work in New Guinea. 1877-1894.
London: The Religious Tract Society 1894. ix 255pp map 43 bw ills. Or blue-green cloth with gilt title and vignette to front and spine. Light toning to endpapers slight fading at edges. A very nice copy. Includes encounters with cannibals and travel on the Fly River. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Religious Tract Society Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040178
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Blainey Geoffrey
Black Kettle and Full Monn. Daily Life in a Vanished Australia.
Melbourne: Viking 2003. ix 484pp index sources bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Near new. How our forebears lived from the time of the first gold rush to WWI. Looks at a host of aspects of daily life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Viking Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040168 ISBN : 0670041327 9780670041329
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Sinclair J. R.
Behind the Ranges. Patrolling in New Guinea.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1966. xviii 230pp index bw ills map. Or green cloth in jacket. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper some light foxing. Jacket heavily rubbed with creases chips and tears. An account of the author's experiences patrolling the New Guinea highlands in the 1950s and 60s. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 8vo. Melbourne University Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040208
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Williams F E
Drama of Orokolo. The Social and Ceremonial Life of the Elema
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969. xxiv 464pp bw plates text-figures index appendix folding chart at rear. Or black cloth in jacket. Ex-library college with usual stamps inc cancelled stamp numbers etc label to spine. Tape stains to endpapers some foxing to page edges. The eighteenth in a series of anthropological reports published by the Papuan Government. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Near Very Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. Clarendon Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040251
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Williams F E
Papuans of the Trans-Fly
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969. xxxvi 452pp bw plates text-figures appendix by Dr L H Dudley Buxton folding sketch map at rear. Ex-library college with usual stamps inccancelled stamp numbers etc label to spine. Or black cloth in jacket. Tape stains to endpapers some foxing to page edges. The book gives an all-round account of a primitive people in the far west of Papua. The fifteenth in a series of anthropological reports published by the Papuan Government. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Near Very Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. Clarendon Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040249
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Williams F E
Orokaiva Society.
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969. xxiii 355pp bw plates text-figures index folding sketch map at rear. Or black cloth in jacket. Ex-library college with usual stamps inc cancelled stamp numbers etc label to spine. Tape stains to endpapers some foxing to page edges. The tenth in a series of anthropological reports published by the Papuan Government. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Near Very Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. Clarendon Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040250
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Williams F E
Orokaiva Magic.
London: Oxford University Press 1928. xii 231pp bw plates index glossary folding map at rear. Or black cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped with minor toning to spine. Prev owner name on front free endpaper. Anthropological reports 67 & 8 presented to the Papuan Government. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040259
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Hurley PJ. P. J.
Red Cedar. The Story of the North Coast.
Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade 1948. x 219pp bw & col ills. Or red cloth lacking jacket. Spine faded edges somewhat edgeworn joint at title page worn. The story of the cedar-getters and their part in opening up northern New South Wales. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Dymock's Book Arcade Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040280
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Hassam Andrew.
No Privacy for Writing. Shipboard Diaries 1852-1879.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1995. xxviii 235pp sources appendices bw ills map. Or boards in jacket. Slightest of toning to page edges slightest of fading to spine. Eight shipboard diaries of British emigrants to colonial Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Melbourne University Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040247 ISBN : 0522844685 9780522844689
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Baglin Douglass & de Courcy Catherine.
The Jimi River Expedition 1950. Exploration in the New Guinea Highlands.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1988. x 93pp num bw photographs map. Or boards in jacket. Endpapers rippled. Some very light occasional toning. Expedition to the Jimi River in the Wahgi Valley of New Guinea's Highlands undertaken in 1950. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040219 ISBN : 0195548876 9780195548877
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Erskine James E.
Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the South-East Coast of New Guinea October to December 1884.
Bathurst: Robert Brown & Associates 1984. 9pp text 5 chromolithographs bw photographs inc some folding map. Or blue full leather titled in gilt bordered in black and gilt all edges gilt. Edition limited to 1000 copies of which this copy unnumbered. Loosely inserted certificate signing this off as a perfect copy. There is some dust marking to the slipcase but otherwise a beautiful copy of this wonderful volume. Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. Elephant Folio. Robert Brown & Associates Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040221 ISBN : 0909197911 9780909197919
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Williams F E Francis Edgar.; Schwimmer Erik editor
The Vailala Madness and Other Essays.
London: C. Hurst & Company 1976. 432pp bibliography bw ills index. Or red cloth in jacket. Bookseller label to front pastedown light foxing to top edge. The shorter writings of anthropologist Francis Williams who died in a plane crash in the Owen Stanley Ranges in 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. C. Hurst & Company Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040252 ISBN : 090398346x 9780903983464
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Spencer Margaret
Doctor's Wife in Papua
London: Robert Hale 1964. 176pp 8pp b/w photos map: the eastern island fringe of Papua. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped small bookseller label on front pastedown. The author describes not only Fergusson Island one of the D'Entrecasteaux group and its troubled history but also every aspect of the daily life of the hunters and fishermen. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Robert Hale Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040297
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Bartley Nehemiah.
Australian Pioneers & Reminiscences 1849-1894. Specially Bound Edition ltd to 100 copies
Sydney: John Ferguson in association with The Royal Australian Historical Society. 1978. viii 424pp index. Or green cloth with leather spine. Light toning to page edges minor bloom to leather on front. This specially bound edition limited to 100 copies of which this is #4. Contains much on early Brisbane and North Queensland chapter on early Sandgate and material on colonial New South Wales and Victoria plus a chapter on the Pacific Islands including Tahiti Eimeo the Marquesas and much more. Limited Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. John Ferguson in association with The Royal Australian Historical Society. Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040302
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Petrie Constance Campbell Petrie Tom.
Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland. Australian Classics
Melbourne: Lloyd O'Neil 1981. 319pp list of places names plants and trees; pictorial endpapers. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket spine very slightly faded. Top edge dusted very light edge wear to jacket. Second printing of this edition. 'This work of social history vividly describes life in the Moreton Bay penal settlement from the 1830s.' . Australian Classics Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Lloyd O'Neil Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040328 ISBN : 085558372x 9780855583729
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Petrie Constance Campbell Petrie Tom.
Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland. Australian Classics
Melbourne: Lloyd O'Neil 1975. 319pp list of places names plants and trees; pictorial endpapers. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket spine very slightly faded. Top edge toned very light edge wear to jacket. First printing of this edition. 'This work of social history vividly describes life in the Moreton Bay penal settlement from the 1830s.' . Australian Classics Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Lloyd O'Neil Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040327 ISBN : 085558372x 9780855583729
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Thomas Joan. Henning Annie & Amy.
The Sea Journals of Annie & Amy Henning.
Sydney: Halstead Press 1984. vi 142pp index notes bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Bookplate of A McInnes on front pastedown slight toning to top edge-otherwise excellent. The journals of Annie and Amy Henning sisters of Rachel Henning of their voyage to Australia in 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by McKay Lee. 8vo. Halstead Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040352 ISBN : 0909134685 9780909134686
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Cuffley Peter.
Buggies & Horse Drawn Vehicles in Australia.
Melbourne: The Five Mile Press 1988. 208pp index num bw & col ills. Or green/gray papered boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket front free endpaper creased. Traces the development of road transport from the boom period of coachbuiling to its decline in the 1950s. Each vehicle style is fully described and illustrated showing the influences and construction variations and the restoration techniques are approached step by step. Finding collecting restoring makes models accessories origins uses and social history of buggies and horse drawn transport in Australia. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. The Five Mile Press Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040349 ISBN : 0867881895 9780867881899
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Brett Henry.
White Wings. Founding of the Provinces and Old-Time Shipping. Passenger Ships from 1840 to 1885. Volume II.
Auckland: The Brett Printing Company 1928. 259pp index bw ills. Or blue cloth lacking jacket. Toning to endpapers and edges small bookseller label on front pastedown. Second volume of the author's writings on New Zealand shipping published posthumously. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo. The Brett Printing Company Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040356
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Brett Henry.
White Wings. Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900. Volume I.
Auckland: The Brett Printing Company 1924. 368pp index bw ills. Or blue cloth rebacked with darker cloth lacking jacket. Minor edge wear to covers white title rubbed toning to endpapers and edges prev owner stamp on front pastedown hinge/join at title/frontis starting to crack. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. The Brett Printing Company Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040357
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Specht Jim; Fields John.
Frank Hurley in Papua. Photographs of the 1920-1923 Expeditions.
Bathurst: Robert Brown & Associates 1984. HEAVY. vi 193pp bibliography 100 bw plates map. Or black cloth in jacket. Some toning to endpapers. Presents 100 of Hurley's photographic plates from his 1920-23 expeditions along the Papuan coast and hinterland. In the Western Division he was the first to record on glass plates the tribal life and forbidding customs of the Lake Murray natives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Hurley Frank photography. 4to. Robert Brown & Associates Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040371 ISBN : 0909197903 9780909197902
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Derrick RA. R. A.
The Fiji Islands. A Geographical Approach.
Suva Fiji.: Government Printing Department 1951. xviii 334 xix pp; index appendix numerous bw ills maps. Or cloth backed stiff card. Some toning to covers and endpapers prev owner name on front free endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small 4to. Government Printing Department Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040376
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Sinclair James.
KIAP. Australia's Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea.
Sydney: Pacific Publications. 1981. 295pp index glossary bw ills maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Some foxing to jacket endpapers and edges. The story of Australia's patrol officers in post war Papua New Guinea. From the uncertain years after the war to independence in 1975. The author served almost the whole 30 years as a kiap- the pidgin term for field officers of the Department of District Administration- first as an inexperienced cadet and finally as the last white District Commissioner for the Eastern Highlands. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Pacific Publications. Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040369 ISBN : 0858070529 9780858070523
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Brett Henry.
White Wings. Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900. Volume I.
Auckland: The Brett Printing Company 1924. 368pp index bw ills. Or blue cloth lacking jacket. Minor edge wear to covers white marking to rear cover probably from paper adhesion toning to endpapers and edges prev owner Capt J Cowper on front free endpaper dated 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. The Brett Printing Company Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040355
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Scholes SE. S. E.
Fiji and the Friendly Isles: Sketches of Their Scenery and People.
London: C.H. Kelly 1900. viii 96pp 32pp catalogue at rear bw ills. Or blue cloth titled in black with art nouveau design in green to front. Spine and edges of boards sunned prize ceritificate dated 1907 on front free endpaper. No date-c1900. Apparent First. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. C.H. Kelly Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040375
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Sinclair James
Wings of Gold. How the Aeroplane Developed New Guinea.
Bathurst: Robert Brown & Associates 1984. HEAVY. 326pp indexbibliographyglossary bw ills maps pictorial endpapers. Or black cloth in jacket. Minor foxing to edges bottom corners slightly bumped. The story of the aeroplane in New Guinea beginning in 1922 and ending in 1942. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Robert Brown & Associates Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040370 ISBN : 0909197385 9780909197384
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Various
The B.P. Magazine Burns Philp. Vol. I. No. 1. December 1928.
Sydney: Burns Philp & Co 1928. 72pp bw & col ills ads. Or wraps featuring image of Witu New Guinea by Charles Bryant ROI. A couple of tiny 1-4mm tears to edge of front cover. A beautiful copy of the first issue of Burns Philp's promotional magazine. Includes material on the New Zealand glaciers South Sea Islands Solomon Islands New Guinea yachting on Sydney Harbour the Melbourne Cup bush honey movies poster development and more. Full page colour plate of Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper in Love Never Dies plus several other colour movie star plates. Also some great ads. Very scarce and rare in this condition. Periodical. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to. Magazine. Burns, Philp & Co Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040377
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French Dorothy.
To Queensland in 1867. an Account True and Human of a Young English Girl Who Made Queensland Her Adopted Country.
Place Not Stated: The Author 1977. xii 93pp bw ills. Or card. Some light toning of covers. SIGNED by author on title page. The author draws heavily on the writings of her grandmother Jessie Sarah Berry endeavouring to maintain much of the 19th century charm of Mrs Berry's original style of expression. The book tells of travelling to Queensland life in and near Brisbane and the western towns of Cunnamulla and Charleville. Signed by Author. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Author Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040382
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Meadows Maureen C.
I Loved Those Yanks.
Sydney: George M. Dash 1948. 336pp. Or pictorial wraps with integral flaps with attractive image of emus looking at a group of GIs being driven in a jeep by a pretty Australian girl. Spine chipped at top and botton some toning to covers endpapers and edges. Sticker shadow at top left of front cover. Drawing on her diaries written while working throughout WWII with American forces based in Queensland the author tells the story of the work of many Australian girls with the "Yanks down under". . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Towers Winifred cover. 8vo. George M. Dash Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040383
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King Stephanie.
From the Ground Up. Boral's First Fifty Years.
Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press 1996. 104pp index num bw & some col ills. Or pictorial card with integral flaps. Near new. 50 year history of Boral which started with the opening of the first Australian owned bitumen and oil refinery in 1947. The company has grown to operate in more than 20 countries with annual turnover of $5billion. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to. State Library of New South Wales Press Paperback
Ссылка продавца : 040379 ISBN : 0731066030 9780731066032
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Marika Wandjuk introduction; Australia's Aboriginal Children.
The Aboriginal Children's History of Australia.
Adelaide: Rigby 1977. 149pp num col ills. Or ochre cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket light foxing to top edge. Australia's history as told and illustrated by Aboriginal children. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Australia's Aboriginal Children. 4to. Rigby Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040397 ISBN : 0727002368 9780727002365
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Parsons Ronald H.
Australian Coastal Passenger Ships. The details and Career of Every Steam and Motor Ship That Carried Passengers on the Australian Coast.
Adelaide: The Author 1981. 196pp ondex bw ills. Or blue leather titled in gilt. Internally a somewhat crude production with a stenciled appearance. Some fading to leather. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. The Author Hardcover
Ссылка продавца : 040402 ISBN : 0909418209 9780909418205
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