California Jubilee
Culver City: Murray & Gee, 1948. 8vo., pp. 272, foxing to top edges, or. cl. bds., some stains to lower rear, v.g in frayed, chipped, worn d.j. with small pieces missing at spine and edges, protected.
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Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
London: Routledge, 2004. 8vo, cloth boards, pp xxiii, 613. Near-fine condn.
Herbert Spencer: Structure, Function and Evolution
London: Michael Joseph, 1971. 8vo., pp vii 257, Index, or. cl. bds., v.g in clipped d.j., marks to rear.
In the Age of Mabo. History, Aborigines and Australia
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996. pp. xxxviii, 193, Index, wraps, good.
In the Age of Mabo. History, Aborigines and Australia
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996. Octavo, wraps, pp. xxxviii, 193. Some pencil marks / annotations, generally in chapter 7. Good condition. Writers assessing the ways that the Aboriginal past is represented in a range of national discourses, after the Mabo decision.
The Letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt (3 Volumes)
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1967-1968. Collected and newly translated by M. Aurousseau. 3 volumes 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt decoration, pp xvi, 423; vi, 425-819; vi, 821-1175. Maps plus a folding map to volume II. Vol I published 1967, vols II and III 1968. Vol III lacks dustwrapper. Dustwrappers slightly.....
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Large octavo, cloth boards with facsimile signature stamped in gilt, dustjacket, b&w frontis, b&w facsimile title pages, pp lxxxvi, 738. A small previous owner's inscription removed, sticker to rear paste-down, some light wrinking along upper title-page, otherwise, very near fine in like d.j. Very clean.....
Australia's ever-changing forests VI : proceedings of the eighth National Conference on Australian Forest History
Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 2012. Octavo, pictorial wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp vii, 376. Slight egewear, very clean, near-fine condition. 18 academic papers on Australian forests and forestry, on a variety of related topics.
Gobra. The story of an Indian life from the memoirs of Gobardhan Das Chowdhury. [First Edition]
Benares: Rameswar Pathak, the Tara Printing Works, 1929. Royal octavo, halfbound in black cloth with burgundy patterned sides, title and author blindstamped upper board, pp 190, plus 10 page Indian glossary. Boards rubbed, pages toned, binding becoming fragile. Good condition. Memoirs. An interesting account of an Indian life, including his.....
The Bligh Notebook: 'Rough account - Lieutenant William Bligh's Voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor' 28 April to 14 June 1789, with a draft list of the Bounty mutineers
Sydney: Allen & Unwin in association with the National Library of Australia, 1987. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour frontis, double-page colour plate, b&w plates (two folding), pp xiv, 336. With a signed greeting card from the editor loosely inserted. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine in like d.j. Transcription and facsimile of.....
Captain Cook. Navigator and Scientist. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1970. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, endpaper maps, colour frontis, colour plates, b&w illus, pp 143. Small previous owner's bookplate, remains of sticker to ffep, very good condition in very good d.j.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With original Omissions restored. Edited with Appendix and Notes by his Grand-Daughter Nora Barlow.
London: Collins, 1958. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w frontis portrait plate, b&w plates, pp 253.Few minor marks boards, top of spine bumped, very good condition. First edition, second impression of the first complete edition of Darwin's autobiography.
Gold in Australia
Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1951. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 100. Dustjacket slightly chipped, protected, very good condn.
Great Southern Landings : An Anthology of Antipodean Travel
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth boards with gilt title, dustjacket, pp xvi, 325. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Australia from a wide variety of viewpoints, dating from 1605 to the 1990s. Includes travel accounts by Jules Verne, Francois Pelsaert, William Dampier, Sydney Parkinson, Mary Ann Parker, Rose Freycinet.....
Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants
Perth: Society for Growing Aust. Plants. 8vo, wraps, colour plates, pp 122. N.d., c. 1960s. Good condition.
The Tracks We Travel
Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1961. 8vo, pp. xvi, 181, prev. owner's inscr., orig cl bds., good, in d.j top edge frayed, chipped head of spine. Australian short story collection.
Language planning for Australian Aboriginal languages : papers presented at the Workshop to Develop Aboriginal Leadership in Language Planning, Alice Springs, 16-20 February, 1981.
Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1981. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, pp 134. Sticker to lower front and spine, Some very faded highlighting, and pencilled underlining one section. Good condition. Scarce,
Aboriginal Sites, Rights and Resource Development
Nedlands: University Of Western Australia Press, 1982. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xii, 253. Near-fine condition. Proceedings, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fifth Academy Symposium, 1981. A variety of papers on land resources, Aboriginal land use, and the mining industry.
A Nyoongar Wordlist : From the South-West of Western Australia
Perth, W.A. Western Australian Museum, 2011. 2nd ed., large octavo, original stiff illustrated wraps, endpaper map, references, pp viii, 476, previous owner's stamp and date to upper front free endpaper otherwise in very good condition. A Nyoongar Wordlist brings together in a single volume several separately published word lists for.....
In His Own Words. John Curtin's Speeches and Writings.
Bentley W.A. Paradigm Books Curtin University, 1995. Original wraps, pp xiv, 273, b&w illus. Near fine condn.
Pioneers of the Preston : the story of Thomas George Chapman and Selina Gardiner and their family, settlers of the south west of Western Australia
Perth: D. Black, 2010. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps with light crease to front, b&w illus, colour illus, maps, pp x, 359. Signed by co-author Janet Holman (great-great granddaughter of Thomas George Chapman and Selina Gardiner), with presentation inscription. Near-fine condition. Thomas George Chapman arrived in the Swan River Colony in.....
Government in Australia. Selected Readings
Sydney: Government Printer, 1944. Large 8vo, cloth boards, pp liv, 761. Spine and top edge faded, o/w very good condn. Francis Armand Bland (1882-1967), public servant, academic and politician.
A Soldier's View of Empire, The Reminiscences of James Bodell
London: Bedley Head, 1982. pp. (8) - 216, b/w plates, owner' stamp, or. bds., v.g. in like d.j. The life of an English soldier in Ireland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia.
Cathedrals, Abbeys, And Churches Of England And Wales. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial. Volumes I and II.
London: Cassell & Co, 1891. Two volumes, quarto, original cloth boards decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, many b&w engraved illustrations, pp xxvii, 1 - 404; xvi, 405 - 838. Complete as published. Ex-library, previous owner's signature, rubbed to eddges, fore-edge of the spine of Vol I fraying, fair condition.....
King of the Wa-kikuyu
London: Methuen, 1911. Octavo, half-leather boards with gilt to spine, b&w frontis portrait plate of the author, b&w plates, map, pp xv, 320. Lacks three plates: the map of Wa-Kikuyu land is present. Ex-library with fairly minimal markings, spine rubbed, good condition. Scarce.