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1925ref. 62085London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 3 York Street St. James 1925. Thick 8vo. 311 1 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates map. Green ribbed publisher’s cloth blue ruling & lettering minor foxing to fore-edges of textblock & endpapers very minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art photo of “Desert” Country near Newcastle Waters minor chipping & tear head of spine closed tear front cover minor creasing still VG/G- copy. First edition of this excellent account of the pioneering 1923 automobile explorations by Michael Terry through Northern Australia as he pioneered the route while driving a 1913 Model T dragging a trailer behind loaded with supplies. Although they managed to secure food and fuel most of the way they ran out at the Western Australia border stumbled through the desert with no water and no fuel but were luckily found by some Aboriginal stockmen and eventually reached Broome. Exceedingly scarce in the original dustjacket. See: Ron Moon The Last Explorer: Michael Terry WhichCar July 20 2015. Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., 3 York Street St. James, hardcover
1920ref. 59233Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1920-1930. Seven vols. 8vo. 4 365 1; 584; v 1 4 447 1 pp.; 2 22; 1; 2 57 1; 1 36 2 leaves. With 3 large folding colour maps numerous photo plates elevation views. Three uniformly bound in blue publisher’s buckram gilt lettering stamped on front covers & spines edgewear dustsoiling very slight uniform toning bowing to covers on vol. III some scuffing supplements all w/ self-printed softcovers edgewear rippling toning to fore-edges some predation still a G set w/ maps in bright condition. First editions stated of these uncommon coast pilot guides to Australian waters drawing upon British Royal Navy coast pilots Australian and U.S. Navy reports. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions. The maps outlines the available charts for the designated areas surrounding Australia as well as those for the East Indies Pilot. First editions of these Hydrographic Office pilots are quite scarce and seldom seen with the supplements. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
1890ref. 13800Australia 1890. Cabinet card views showing a group of men obviously enjoying their day out in the bush. The location is unknown but there is a rather large lake and the town has a goodly collection of stone buildings approximately sixteen properties with some two story homes and a couple of elongated buildings. There is a magnificent group shot of 4 men posing with their guns tent and dog. Their tucker bag is hanging in the tree and a lake with rowboat is behind them; the town view with a main street; a bush scene with a lake and a fellow standing beside his tent; a view of gum trees with a seated man taking aim a terrier & a lake behind him; a detailed view of the tent with two shotguns perched in front; two bush scenes and two beside the rather large lake. A bit of light scattered foxing otherwise quite bright. Nine cabinet cards images approx. 6 1/4 x 4 3/8" mounted on slightly larger stiff card no photographer listed. unknown
ref. 011588Victoria/ Canberra: H.J. Green/ L.F.Johnston for the Goverment of Australia. 1st Eds. . Hardcover. VG-/No jacket issued. 20 Cms x 33 Cm. Red cloth library binding. ex-Royal Institute of International Affairs Library with their plates to both pastedowns and small often faint stamps to top of title pages. The very first report is a brief 6 pp. on 'Administration of Naura during the Military Occupation and until 17th December 1920' which is followed by the first of the standard annual reports dated 1922 on year from that date to end of December 1922 No original front covers bound in if their were any but each report divided from next by blue card these often a little chipped perhaps end covers. Unfolding coloured maps at end of Reports for 1922 1924 and 1926 full page black & white map end 1928 photo-plate blocks ends of Reports from 1925-1928 after 1929 reports become far shorter. Full pagination and condition details of each report available on request to serious customers with details of contents if required. Covers bright and virtually unwon printed spine labels: Australia. Report to the Leage of Nations on Nauru 1920-1926 Vol.2: 1927-1936. H.J. Green/ L.F.Johnston for the Goverment of Australia hardcover
Folio, xvi, 195, [1]pp., stitched as issued, orig. blue printed wrappers, spine lightly chipped. Important transportation Government Blue Book, predominantly relating to Western Australia.
ref. mon0003309398Conservation Commission Northern. hardcover. Good. . Conservation Commission Northern hardcover
19048vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 180 pp, 15 plates from photos including frontis, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, cover lightly soiled, interior is clean, else a fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The first half of the book describes the author's journey in 1901 to Baghdad, Basra, Bahirin, Muscat, Sherpore, etc around the Persian Gulf where he visits some areas off the beaten track. The second half of the book describes his stay on several Pacific islands including Tonga, Haapai, Fiji, etc and is remarkable for its explicit illustrations of cannibals, including one entitled 'Cannibals dragging prisoners to the ovens', two others showing cannibals slaughtering their victims. The author didn't seem too concerned about becoming a victim. There have been only two copies at auction in the last 25 years, the last at Sotheby's in 1997 selling at US$782, although it wasn't in as good a condition as this copy.
1889ref. 147675London: Chaffey Brothers 1889. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Chaffey Brothers 1889 third edition/ 1888. Folio 395 x 285 mm xviii 130 pages including the free endpapers with numerous illustrations and illustrated advertisements plus advertisements on the pastedowns. Original gilt- and blind-decorated red bubble-grain cloth with a large advertisement for Pears' Soap in gilt on the rear cover; cloth a little wrinkled along the spine marked on the front cover and lightly worn at the extremities; hinges cracked but firm; endpapers tanned and with a few contemporary inkstamps with a printed label on the front free endpaper see below; minor signs of age and handling; overall a very good copy. A self-promotional prospectus on a grand scale as befits the scheme itself. At the foot of page xvii there are some interesting notes about the illustrations not least of which is that 'Our views of the River Murray are chiefly from drawings accurately made from nature by Mr J.M. Needham of South Australia'. Ferguson 17976 records only the first edition. This revised and augmented edition includes as an appendix 'Progress Reports 1888'; the latest date we noticed was on a quote from a journal dated 18 January 1889. The inkstamps are from 'Haynes & Boyden . Agents for Chaffey Bros. Irrigation Lands'; the small label is from 'Geo. H. Haynes Late Haynes & Boyden'. Loosely inserted are two pieces of printed ephemera relating to the Chaffey Brothers and the Australian Irrigation Colonies. The first one is a 'Form of Application . for parcels of land at Mildura' dated 1 July 1889 340 × 215 mm a bifolium first page blank last page printed as a docket. The second one is the 'Directors' Progress Report . 28th February 1890' 335 × 210 mm a bifolium last page blank; this is the fourth half-yearly report. 3 items. Chaffey Brothers hardcover
1959ref. 73294Adelaide: The Club 1959. Fine. Adelaide The Club 1959. Quarto one large sheet of card approximately 510 x 380 mm printed on one side only and folded twice down to size. An attractive menu card printed in red and blue throughout with the menu and toast list on the centrefold and the last page designed for autographs; in fine condition. And autographs there from this auspicious year in which the Club won the premiership in all three grades in the 1958-59 season. Sir Don Bradman proposed the toast to the Club and he is one of the signatories along with Clarrie Grimmett the Club coach. Among the more than fifty other signatures all but one in ink are the following Test and State players: Alec Barker Bert Bedford Leon Hill Alan Hitchcox Hitchcock Gil Langley Brian Leak Bob Lee Douglas McKay Roy Middleton 'Nip' Pellew Colin Pinch Ross Stanford Cecil Starr and Rolly Vaughton. The oldest former Club member A.P. May born in 1873 has also added his signature. The original owner of the menu has written his ownership details at the head of the first and last pages. The Club unknown
1834ref. 036639London: Richard Bentley 1834. 2 volumes-complete. xv 440; vii 428pp engraved frontis to each volume errata slip. Contemporary half red morocco on marbled boards marbled endpaper and edges. Ex Queensland Geological Survey library with their bookplate over an earlier personal bookplate both partially covered by card pocket minimal handwritten cataloguing information inside and paper label to spine of each volume. Heavy toning to frontispieces and margins of many pages. A very attractive set. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. Richard Bentley Hardcover
1905ref. 142933London: Gay and Bird 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Gay and Bird 1905. Octavo xx 249 pages with an illustration plus 8 plates the frontispiece with a tissue-guard. Red cloth lettered in gilt; covers lightly sunned and rubbed; some light tanning internally heaviest on the half-title page; bottom corner of the last few leaves a little creased; an excellent copy. Sir James Penn Boucaut 1831-1916 besides being an Arab horse breeder was also a Supreme Court Judge and three-times Premier of South Australia. Gay and Bird hardcover
2005ref. 139603Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2005. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2005 first thus. Quarto 574 pages with 26 illustrations and a folding plan of London plus a frontispiece portrait 12 colour plates and a large folding map Flinders' 1804 map of Australia in an endpocket. Gilt-decorated quarter calf and blind-pictorial blue cloth; head of the front joint lightly bumped; a near-fine copy. Number 98 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue in a total edition of 850 copies; it was oversubscribed on publication. This is the first published transcription of the private journal kept by Flinders 'from the first day of his detention at Isle of France Mauritius in December 1803 and continues after his return to England in 1810. The final entry is dated 10 July 1814 nine days before his death. It has previously appeared as a facsimile of the handwritten original held by the Mitchell Library . The present volume is edited by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley both published Flinders scholars . It also contains eight appendices an introduction and notes by the editors and an index'. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1862ref. 80759London: Hall Virtue and Co 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue and Co. 1862. Duodecimo viii 167 pages. Blind-decorated dark green ribbed cloth lightly marked rubbed and bumped at the extremities; two trifling surface blemishes to the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the contemporary and thus very early blindstamp of the Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby on the front free endpaper. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men' author's preface although he showed the cut of his nib on the title page: 'Castigat ridendo mores'. Indeed nothing is sacred so it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing a note in the Petherick copy in the National Library of Australia. However in our experience and with the passage of time Petherick appears to have overstated the case. Hall, Virtue and Co hardcover
1976ref. 147220Adelaide: Rigby 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Rigby 1976. Quarto 628 pages with a frontispiece map 33 numbered line illustrations and 737 numbered 'plates' many from photographs plus 12 colour plates and a very large folding colour plate with an integral black and white key. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara sic of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara sic of the Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South Central and Western Australia Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40. The following caveat is printed on the verso of the dedication page: 'Where Australian Aborigines are concerned and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; and because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed'. Rigby hardcover
1876ref. 040006Glasgow: Napier James R. 1876. 96pp 4 folding maps 1 map in text 8 bw ills. Basic blue buckram library binding. Ex-UCLA library with bookplate stamps card pocket etc including appropriate discard stamp. Library name perforated in title page. A further private owner bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. A few tiny tears at edges of folding maps. Scarce privately printed account of a voyage from New South Wales to various destinations in Queensland and the Northern Territory and a side trip to Timor for water undertaken in 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. Napier, James R. Hardcover
ref. 129610The Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament 1914-1925. 33 Vols. 8vo's approx. 900pp per volume. A very good hardback set bound in navy cloth. Series III: Vol. 4 has had paper affixed to front board leaving residue. Originally planned to be published across seven total series only series I III and IV were ever produced by J. Frederick Watson. Watson effectively single-handedly delivered the first 33 volumes of the collection between 1912 and 1925 before resigning leaving the project unfinished. This set comprises all 33 volumes published between 1914 and 1925 including - Series I: Volumes 1 - 26 Series III: Volumes 1 - 6 published between 1914 and 1925 with the remaining volumes 7 - 10 later published in the late 1990s and early 2000s and Series IV: Volume 1 the singular volume in this series. The Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1914-1925 hardcover
1862ref. 136982London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. Octavo xviii 404 pages with 32 illustrations plus 5 pages of plates and a map. Gilt- and blind-stamped green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine all edges uncut; cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities with trifling wear to a spot along the rear joint; minimal signs of age and handling; an excellent copy. Ferguson 18805. This copy contains a series of interesting albeit relatively unimportant early marks of ownership from William Charles Rigby's early blindstamp with premises at 55 Hindley Street to the ink signature of a policeman 'Frank Karuth Kadina S.A. 13/8/64' ruled out on the title page and the pencilled signatures of vigneron and publican Francis Robert Hunt Hahndorf twice and subsequently his son Leonard who died in 1919. The first of many significant and original contributions to Australian geology palaeontology and zoology by Father Tenison-Woods 1832-1889. These days he is perhaps more widely known for the fact that with 'Mother Mary MacKillop he helped to found the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover
ref. 110607aafParis, Mme Vve Turgis, et a Toulouse, 1851, 62x82 cm, carte gravée dans une cadre typographique, aux frontières coloriées, Océanie avec Australie, la Nouvelle Hollande, la Nouvelle Zélande et la Corée et le Japon au Nord, 1 feuille,
1931ref. 62087London & New York: Putnam 1931. Thick 8vo. xv 1 350 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 3 folding maps 1 large 1 colour 1 large folding chart. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor foxing to upper fore-edges of textblock very slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. wraparound photo cover art of 2 6-wheel Morris trucks minor closed tears closed tear & creasing front cover w/ repair on verso minor edgewear still VG/G copy. First edition of this uncommon third automobile/truck expedition which equipped with two 6-wheel Morris trucks started in Port Hedland May 1928 and then drving via De Grey Pardoo and Wallal homesteads north to Broome. After Broome they pushed onto Fitzroy Crossing and Hall Creek hunting gold and then reached the Tanami goldfields and then prospected along the Lander River visiting Brooks’ Soak a traditional Warlpiri Soak which Fred Brook was illegally appropriating. Their mining expedition overlapped the subsequent tragic Conniston Massacres of Australian Warlpiri Anmatyerre and Kaytetye Indigenous Peoples in retribution for the killing of Fred Brooks. Terry’s party quickly moved on and headed to Alice Springs followed the Finke River to Horseshoe Bend Oodnadatta Hawker Adelaide and later Melbourne. Terry was quite taken with the Morris trucks which averaged 5-18 mpg every 250 miles and the lead truck only suffered 41 flat tires in their Dunlop tires. See: Ron Moon The Last Explorer: Michael Terry WhichCar July 20 2015. Putnam, hardcover
1879ref. 26072Paris-Lyon Lecoffre s.d. [1879] in-8 broché
1772ref. PHO-1360Paris , Saillant & Nyon, 1772 , 2 volumes in-8 (195x130) relié demi toile moderne sous emboîtages , dos lisse avec pièces de titre , auteur et tomaison , initiale en pied , 2ff. xliii , 336pp-2ff.453pp,1ff-1ff. , sans les cartes et planches, ex-libris (famille Kerchove).
1980ref. 3627254Canberra, National Library of Australia, (1976-1980). Gr.-8vo. Mit einigen Abbildungen. OLwdbde (mit OUmschlag) (Umschläge teils etwas verblaßt und mit kleinen Randläsuren).
1883ref. 19306Paris E. Plon et Cie 1883 in-8 br., couv. grise impr., non rogné, dos fendu, tache sur le second plat, quelques piqures et trace de mouillure en début de volume
ref. 26502'Revised. September 1966.'. 21pp. foolscap 8vo. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. The document presents a mass of information. A 'Brief History' in the form of a chronology pp.2-4 is followed by a section setting out the conditions of 'Membership of the Victoria Police Force' pp.5 followed by a table of 'Ranks Insignia and Retiring Age' p.6. There follow various tables three full-page 'trees' sections on the Criminal Investigation Branch Information Bureau Communications Section and other departments and a final 'Miscellaneous' section p.21 ending with 'Finance - Police expenditure' from 1956-7 to 1964-5. From the papers of C. M. Baker Inspector of Police British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. No other copy or 'edition' traced except perhaps an item in the Monash University collections apparently the same title but fewer pages 1964 14pp. 'Revised. September, 1966.' unknown
1997ref. x-0749421894Routledge 1997. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 140 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
