Archaeometry : An Australasian Perspective
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1982. Small 4to, pp. vi, 391, b/w photos and ills., maps, wraps, very good condn. Papers presented at the Australasian Archaeometry conference.
Results
Art of the Australian Aboriginal
Melbourne: Bread & Cheese Club, 1943. 1st ed., quarto, original printed grey wrappers, colour frontis (painting by Albert Namatjira), b&w illus, pp 94, rear eps lightly foxed, dust-jacket chipped and rubbed. Clean and in very good conditioin. Includes images of Wandjinas (opp. pages 40-41) and a chapter by C. P......
Research in Shark Bay, Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1990. Royal 8vo, pp. viii, 325, colour plates, b/w photos and maps, wraps, nr fine. Results of the joint France-Australia expedition to Shark Bay in 1988. Covers geology, biology, ecology, and conservation of the region.
Survey of the marine fauna of the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, and Christmas Island, Indian Ocean
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 2000. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, map, pp 127. Fine condition. Records of the Western Australian Musuem, Supplement No. 59.
Have You Forgotten Yet?, The First World War Memoirs of C.P. Blacker
London: Leo Cooper, 2000. Edited by John Blacker. pp xii, 321, Index, b/w plates, orig boards, fine in like d.j. Thoughts and recollections of a Guards officer, including previously unpublished letters by George Bernard Shaw and Rudyard Kipling.
The Great Ride, The Diary of a Light Horse Brigade Scout, World War I
Perth: Artlook, 1982. 8vo, cloth boards, dustwrapper, colour and b&w plates, maps, pp. 232 plus publisher's ads. Small bookshop label ffep, no other marks, near-fine condn.
The Great Ride, the Diary of a Light Horse Brigade Scout, World War I
Perth: Artlook, 1982. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, colour frontis, colour plate, maps, pp 232. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. A pencilled inscription shows that it was presented to the owner by Rosemary Foulkes-Taylor, and makes reference to the photograph in the book of Lieutenant Charles Foulkes-Taylor (preseumed to.....
The Great Ride, the Diary of a Light Horse Brigade Scout, World War I
Perth: Artlook, 1982. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, colour frontis, colour plate, maps, pp 232. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. Fine condition in very slightly edgeworn d.j. West Australian author's account from his diary and a Kodak pocket camera of his adventures from 1915 to 1919 as a scout.....
A Handbook of Elementary Bird Study
Perth: Paterson Brokensha, 1955. 1st ed., 8vo., pp. xvi, 172, Index, col. Plates, b/w ills., top edges spotted, orig cl bds., fishing to spine and rear edges, mark to front fore-edge, edges rubbed, in torn d.j. Ecology and behaviour of Australian birds.
Navigator's guide to Rottnest Island
Perth: 1979(1982). 1st ed., folio, illustrated wraps with cloth spine, pp (iv) 61, typed format, maps, b&w illus and diagrams. Stamped with a publication date of November 1979, although the reverse side of the first page mentions WA marine regulations of 1982. No publisher stated. Very good condition. Uncommon. "This.....
R.U.R. A Play (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue
London: Humphrey Milford/OUP, 1942. Repr., translated from Czech, original black wraps with red lettering front wrap, pp 102, i, Previous owner's blind stamap front wrap, bookseller ticket inside. Small mark last (blank) page, otherwise clean. Small chip foot of backstrip. Very good condition. Science fiction play by the Czech writer.....
The Blackwood: A Valley In Transition
Perth: Forests Department of Western Australia, 1981. Royal 8vo, pp. 55, col and b/w photos, b/w ills., wraps, nr fine. Developments along the south-western Blackwood River over the past 150 years. Special Focus No. 2.
The Blackwood: A Valley In Transition
Perth: Forests Department of Western Australia, 1981. Large 8vo, wraps, colour and b&w illus, pp 54. Near-fine. Well-illustrated history of the Blackwood Valley.
The Blackwood: A Valley In Transition
Perth: Forests Department of Western Australia, 1981. Large 8vo, wraps, colour and b&w illus, pp 54. Library stamp cover and title page. Well-illustrated history of the Blackwood Valley.
The Biology of Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837, and Macropus eugenii (Desmarest, 1817) in relation to fire
WA: Forests Department of Western Australia, 1980. Quarto, wraps, colour illus, b&w illus, maps, folding plates, pp ix, 90. Previous owner's signature. Very good condiion. Study of the woylie and the tammar wallaby in relation to fire in their natural bush habitat. Presented as a thesis for the degree of.....
Australia's Secret War
Sydney: Quadrant, 2019. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 340. Related newspaper article loosely inserted. Near-fine in like d.j. Argues that Australia's war effort during WWII was 'sabotaged' by trade unionists.
Australian Postage Stamps
Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1965. 4to, pictorial boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp. 112. Very good condition in worn and rubbed dustjacket. Reference book on Australian philately. Includes history of stamps in Australia, and reproductions of over 500 stamps.
Sedimentological studies on the Stairway Sandstone of central Australia.
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1972. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, folding plates, folding maps in rear pocket, pp 73. Very good condition in good d.j.
Over the Top with the Third Australian Division
London: Charles H Kelly. Introd. Major-General John Monash. Illus Neil McBeath. 8vo, original decorated cloth boards, b&w text illus and plates, frontis portrait Monash, portrait plate the author, pp 139. N.d. (1918). Very good condn. The Third Division was raised in February 1916 and fought in major battles on the.....
Enderby Settlement Diaries. Records of a British Colony at the Auckland Islands Diarists: William Augustus Mackworth. William John Munce
Wellington: Wild Press and Wordsell Press, 1999. Royal octavo, illustrated wraps, b&w illus, colour illus, map, pp xviii, 266. Number 79 of a limited edition of 1000. Small previous owner's bookplate Diaries of the Auckland Island settlers in the 1850s, published for the first time, with illustrations and detailed commentary.....
Oceania: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea And Islands of the Pacific Ocean
Sydney: Australian National Research Council, 1941. Volume XI, No 4. June 1941. 4to, paper wraps, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 313-410, iv (approx 100 pages, complete). Some browning to edges of wraps, small chip top of spine, text clean, good condn.
Aboriginal Men of High Degree
St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press, 1977. 8vo, original cloth boards, dutstjacket, map, endpaper maps, pp 185. Boards lightly rubbed, very good in like d.j., protected. A study of Aboriginal medicine men.
Aboriginal Men of High Degree
St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press, 1977. Octavo, original cloth boards, dutstjacket, map, endpaper maps, pp 185. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Gift inscription half-title page. Very good condition in very good d.j. A study of Aboriginal medicine men.
Wanted - A Charter For The Native Peoples of The South-West Pacific
Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company, 1943. Original stiff wraps, endpaper maps, pp 64. Spine faded, very good condn.
Oceania: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea And Islands of the Pacific Ocean
Sydney: Australian National Research Council, 1940. Volume XI, No. 1, September 1940. 4to, paper wraps, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 120. Some browning to edges of wraps, two small chips to edges, small chip to foot of spine, text clean, good condn.