‎Australie‎

‎Henderson Kent‎

‎The Masonic Grand Masters of Australia‎

‎Melbourne: Ian Drakeford Publishing 1988. xix 418pp illustrated with b/w photos appendices. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book is in sections: Australian Freemasonry and its leadership; the Grand Masters of Australia The Grand Masters of the United Lodge of Victoria the Grand Lodge of Tasmania the Grand Lodge of Western Australia the United Grand Lodge of Queensland The Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand as an appendix. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Ian Drakeford Publishing Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016447 ISBN : 1862800049 9781862800045

‎McLintock A H‎

‎The History of Otago: The Origins and Growth of a Wakefield Class Settlement‎

‎Otago NZ: Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1949. HEAVY. xxiii 829pp frontispiece: folding map of the region in 1948 b/w plates maps bibliography index. Quarter bound decorative cloth. Leather at spine head and foot and by rear board rubbed heavily in places with insect damage to a 40mm section by the front board. From the Preface the work is in four phases: 'the pre-1848 era which goes back to the Maori occupation of the land of Murihiku sealing and whaling; the Scottish background wherein is found the genesis of the Otago scheme; the provincial era deals with the efforts of afew hundred Scottish settlers to conquer their environment and to give practical effect to those ideals which had been incorporated in the Articles of Settlement; and the beginning of the modern era with Otago bestowing upon New Zealand as a whole those ideas of land settlement education and the like which were a part of the provincial heritage of the south'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Otago Centennial Historical Publications Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016482

‎Fletcher Andy‎

‎Diary of NX 20365‎

‎Walcha NSW: A C Fletcher 143pp illustrated throughout with b/w photos end-paper maps: North Africa. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. A war diary or summary of events from June 5 1940 when the author enlisted for the A.I.F. to his discharge in Sydney on 15 November 1945. The author was present at Lae Red Beach Finchafen Scarlet Beach Brunei Bay and Miri. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. A C Fletcher Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016498 ISBN : 0731655958 9780731655953

‎Stewart Douglas‎

‎Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier‎

‎Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1941. 29pp with Norman Lindsay frontispiece. Pages unevenly toned with heavily toned edges. Prelims and end-pages but not frontispiece foxed with occasional light foxing throughout. Prev owner's lightly-written signature on the front flyleaf. Cloth-backed papered boards with gilt titles on the front board. The book includes: Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier; Men who know the Mountains; The Presences; The Dreaming World A sonnet sequence; and The New Zealanders. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Square 12mo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016525

‎Roderick Colin Introduction‎

‎Henry Lawson: Illustrated Stories‎

‎Adelaide: Rigby 1981. 79pp. Introduction to page 13 followed by 20 of Henry Lawson's short stories illustrated with full-page coloured paintings index tinted end-papers. Cloth boards chipped at the lower edge in dust-jacket. Lawson's stories are 'a gallery of verbal representations both grave and gay of the Australian spirit in action'. The stories include The Drover's Wife; The Loaded Dog; Bill the Ventriloquial Rooster; Two Dogs and a Fence; Going Blind; and The Green Lady. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Peter Lawson. Oblong 4to. Rigby Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016588 ISBN : 0727014382 9780727014382

‎Graves Richard H‎

‎Bush Campcraft: 63 Illustrated Bushcraft Ideas. The Bushcraft Handbooks Series‎

‎Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade No date. 40pp illustrated with diagrams. Illustrated stapled wrapper rubbed at the spine. The book includes many useful hints for bush campcraft without equipment. An invaluable handbook for Scouts Bushwalkers and Servicemen. See also Bush Hutmaking in the same series of books. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Dymock's Book Arcade Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 016578

‎Potts E Daniel and Potts Annette‎

‎Young America and Australian Gold: Americans and the Gold Rush of the 1850s‎

‎St Lucia: University of Queensland Press 1974. xi 299pp index. Upper page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. In studying the American exodus from California once gold had been discovered in Australia the authors look at the reaction to the news of the Australian discoveries trying to ascertain how many and who came and with what objectives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. University of Queensland Press Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016589 ISBN : 0702208949 9780702208942

‎Howe E W‎

‎Travel Letters from New Zealand Australia and Africa‎

‎Topeka: Crane & Company 1913. 476pp b/w plates. Front hinge slackening by the title page. Decorative cloth boards with some wear at the corners. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Crane & Company Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016711

‎Firkins Peter‎

‎Of Nautilus and Eagles: History of the Royal Australian Navy‎

‎Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia 1983. viii 279pp illustrated with b/w plates maps six appendices bibliography index illustrated end-papers. Blue cloth boards in dust-jacket. This book was 'the first history of the Australian Navy published describing the growth of Australian sea power from the time of the Royal Naval squadrons baed on Sydney the development of the colonial navies and finally the establishment of the RAN in 1911'. The book covers all the major actions in which units of the RAN have been involved including the coast-watchers in the south-west Pacific campaign of WWII. New Updated Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Hutchinson of Australia Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016734 ISBN : 0091482909 9780091482909

‎Amos Keith‎

‎The Fenians in Australia 1865-1880‎

‎Sydney: New South Wales University Press 1988. xi 330pp b/w ills appendix bibliography index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book provides new insights into the Fenians and an international dimension into this chapter of Australian history. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. New South Wales University Press Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016769 ISBN : 0868401706 9780868401706

‎Ell David editor‎

‎Australian Antiques: First Fleet to Federation‎

‎Sydney: The Golden Press in Association with The National Trust of Australia NSW Women's Committee 1977. 144pp illustrated throughout in full colour bibliography index illustrated end-papers. Cloth boards in protected dust-jacket. Prev owner's stamp with ref no on the otherwise blank recto of the reaf flyleaf. This volume 'is the first comprehensive picture of Australian antiques to be published and includes objects of the useful and decorative arts made in this country from the time of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and the beginnings of European settlement until the federation of the Australian colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs by John Delacour. 4to. The Golden Press in Association with The National Trust of Australia (NSW) Women's Committee Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016805

‎Degeus Marijke‎

‎Weeds Don't Die: An Autobiography‎

‎Nerang Qld: The Author 1993. 159pp illustrated throughout with colour and b/w plates exhibitions collections bibliography. Illustrated light card cover. 'The author of this autobiographical novel is a distinguished award-winning painter and potter. Her story is about one woman's determination to make the best of life's bad as well as good times.'. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to. The Author Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 015992 ISBN : 0646147390 9780646147390

‎Hutchinson Garr text‎

‎Wiregrass: A Mythical Australian Town: The Drawings of Percy Leason‎

‎Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Company 1986. 80pp Introduction 8pp b/w ills throughout. Prev owner's signature by the upper corner of the inside front cover. Illustrated light card cover. The book covers the artist's creation of a mythical town and his endowment of it with a host of characters and comic situations. 'Wiregrass' flourished in Table Talk magazine from 1926 to 1937 when Leason moved to America. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Lothian Publishing Company Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 015997 ISBN : 0850912490 9780850912494

‎Lehmann Geoffrey‎

‎Australian Primitive Painters‎

‎St. Lucia Qld: University of Queensland Press 1977. 99pp28 col plates 7bw ills. Or red faux-leather boards lacking dust jacket. Very light foxing to preliminaries. Looks at primitive painters of Australia and includes Irvine Homer; Charles Callins; James Fardoulys; Sam Byrne and Henri Baston. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to. University of Queensland Press Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 015984 ISBN : 0702210390 9780702210396

‎Campbell David G Songs and Poems‎

‎The History of Australia‎

‎The Macleay Museum/The University of Sydney 1976. Number 107 of 125 numbered and SIGNED copies by the Curator of The Macleay Museum Peter Stanbury; poet David Campbell; and artist Keith Looby of a limited edition of 1000. Unpaginated c114pp with full-page drawings on page rectos key to the drawings. Illustrated light card cover rubbed. The 51 drawings were intended as part of Looby's history a project entitled A Fairytale History of Australia. There are no formal explanations of the drawings but a key at the end of the book covers the five sections: Sun and Moon; Coming of Man; Aboriginal People; Thunder and Lightning; and Abuse of Privilege. David Campell's six 'Looby Songs' which were inspired by some of the earlier drawings are included as are some poems from Campbell's rock carving series. Signed by Author & Illustrator. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Drawings By Keith Looby. Oblong 4to. The Macleay Museum/The University of Sydney Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 015993 ISBN : 0909635064 9780909635060

‎Done Ken; Drury Nevil editor‎

‎Ken Done. Paintings Drawings Posters and Prints.‎

‎Sydney: Craftsman House 1986. 128pp numerous col plates decorated endpapers. Slight of edge wear to card covers. Representative collection of the graphic design art of Australian artist Ken Done. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio. Craftsman House Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 015989 ISBN : 095934487x 9780959344875

‎Dundas Douglas introduction‎

‎Kenneth Jack. Australian Artist Editions‎

‎Sydney: Collins No date 1972. Foreword by Sir William Collins. 28pp illustrated throughout with full-page plates of the artist's works in watercolours acrylics mixed media pen and pastel and pencil in colour and b/w biographical notes by David Dridan. Stapled illustrated light card cover with acetate jacket. This record of Kenneth Jack's recent work to the early 1970s reveals the starkness and loneliness of the Australian outback. In the series Australian Artist Editions. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Collins Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 016005 ISBN : 0002114275 9780002114271

‎Rudd Steele‎

‎Pen Drawings By Lionel Lindsay‎

‎Reader's Digest. 1990. Folder 230 x 160mm containing six plates by Lionel Lindsay together with a 4pp leaflet promoting Reader's Digest editions of On Our Selection and Our New Selection by Arthur Hoey Davis. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Reader's Digest. Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 016004

‎Nicholls Max.‎

‎A History of Lord Howe Island.‎

‎Hobart: Mercury Press 148pp bw ills map. Or pictorial card covers. Light toning to covers small black spot of rear cover. No date c1950- Copyright Applied For on title page. Nice copy of this history of Lord Howe a small island some 420 NE of Sydney in the Pacific Ocean. Much on the early whaling industry. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Mercury Press Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 016033

‎Baxter John‎

‎Who Burned Australia‎

‎London: New English Library 1984. 192pp index bw ills map. Or pictorial card covers. Slight fading at and adjacent to spine page edges and margins lightly browned. A gripping accopunt of the horrendous Ash Wednesday fires of February 16th 1983 which wiped out hundreds of homes in Victoria and South Australia. Until the recent Victorian bushfires it was the worst bushfire disaster in Australia. Also examines the reasons for the fires and presents a damning indictment of official complacency and inadequate services. Of particular interest with the recent increase in catastrophic bushfire activity. First NEL Paperback Printing . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. New English Library Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 016051 ISBN : 0450057496 9780450057496

‎Condliffe J B‎

‎New Zealand in the Making‎

‎London: George Allen & Unwin 1963. 316pp maps diagrams index end-paper maps. Underlining on one page Preface to the Second Edition. Prev owner's signature by the upper edge of the front flyleaf map not affected and small bookseller sticker by the lower edge of the front paste-down. Or cl boards in price-clipped dust-jacket which has a nick at the spine head. From the blurb this is a 'fascinating study of the organised settlement growth and development of a new country and tells how after exploring many avenues the settlers finally discovered where their economic prosperity lay namely in the development of their pastures for sheep-raising and later dairying'. Second Impression of Revised Second Ed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. George Allen & Unwin Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016073

‎Nash Walter‎

‎New Zealand: a Working Democracy‎

‎Melbourne: George Jaboor 1944. 310pp maps appendices index. Or blue cl boards in edge-worn dust-jacket which has some loss at the spine head and by the spine foot and a long 7.5 cm closed tear from the spine head. The book was written by New Zealand's then 1944 Minister to the United States. It gives a complete picture of war-time New Zealand the people resources history and life the nation at war and its hopes for the future. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. George Jaboor Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016075

‎Campbell Harry F and Owen Anthony D‎

‎The Economics of Papua New Guinea's Tuna Fisheries‎

‎Canberra: The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research ACIAR 1994. viii 269pp figures tables references. Illustrated light card cover lightly worn at the corners with wrap-around illustration. The publication represents the output of the project which emerged from a workshop held in Hobart in 1989 ACIAR Proceedings No 26. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 016117 ISBN : 1863201149 9781863201148

‎Evans Susanna‎

‎Historic Brisbane and Its Early Artists: a Pictorial History‎

‎Brisbane: Boolarong Publications 1982. 119pp illustrated throughout in b/w index illustrated end-papers. Previous owner's notes scattered liberally throughout the book affecting both text and illustrations. Or cl boards faded at the upper edge in dust-jacket which is unevenly faded particularly at the upper edge and spine creased with several long tears and some loss. The book comprises paintings and drawings that record the development of Brisbane from early convict settlement to the end of the Victorian era with biographies of their artists. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 4to. Boolarong Publications Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016119 ISBN : 0908175280 9780908175284

‎Begg A Charles and Begg Neil C‎

‎James Cook and New Zealand: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775; The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780‎

‎Wellington: A R Shearer Government Printer 1970. Foreword by J C Beaglehole. 171pp illustrated throughout with colour and b/w photos maps reading list index end-paper maps: the three great voyages. Prev owner's five-line stamp on an otherwise blank prelim. Short line blue biro line probably made accidentally on the Contents page. Illustrated boards rubbed at the spine and edges and possibly with a trace of damp by the lower spine corner of the rear cover. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. A R Shearer, Government Printer Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 016116