Gundarene (NSW): Felix Mermet, Glenelwyn Herbal Farm, 1955. Octavo, original wraps, pp 72. The two central pages (35 - 38) are loose. Includes loosely inserted Somerset Cottage Herb Catalogue, Dural NSW, and a related newspaper clipping. Good condition. Stated on the front and title page to be the 'First book.....
Perth: The Author, 1991. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 116. Near-fine condition. Detailed history of the Fleay family, from their first arrival in WA in 1831, including family trees and many photographs.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 2003. Octavo, wraps, colour illus, b&w illus, pp iv, 232. Near-fine condition. A comprehensive guide to the animals that inhabit our freshwaters. Contains an easy-to-use key to all macroinvertebrate grops, and over 350 colour photographs of live specimens.
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1984. Octavo, pp. xii, 108, colour plates, b/w maps, ep map, wraps. Related clippings loosely inserted. Near-fine condition. Comprehensive guide to the state's frog species, with colour photographs, drawings, and distribution maps.
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1986. 1st ed., royal 8vo, pp. ix 187, Index, colour plates, text figures and maps. Related clippings loosely inserted. Near-fine condition. A very good reference book on the subject with some 110 text figures and 72 colour images identifying snakes and showing their distribution...
East Perth: The Nine Club, 1978. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 63. Previous owner's signature. Near-fine condition. 'An illustrated instruction manual for use by hobby potters and teachers.' Published for 'Artlook'.
Longmans, 1961. Octavo, wraps, b&w plates, colour plates, pp 32. Very good condition. Pottery in Australia, with photographs, brief introduction and brief biographies of Australian potters.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 2009. 1st ed., octavo, stiff pictorial wraps, colour illus. distribution maps, pp xii, 204. Near-fine condition. Uncommon. The first book on Australian phasmids for nearly 200 years and covers all known stick and leaf insects in Australia. It includes photographs of all species, notes on their ecology and.....
London: Frances Lincoln, 2007. Small quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illustrations, pp 94. Fine condition. Selection from three centuries of haiku, including the work of classic poets such as Basho, Buson and Chiyo-Ni, illustrated with images from the renowned Japanese collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Dunedin, New Zealand: 'Evening Star' Company, 1906. Octavo, original printed wraps, pp (viii), 93. Previous owner's signature top edge of front cover, fraying to backstrip. Very good condition. Report on educational reform, with an introductiory essay by Truby King, the New Zealand doctor and health reformer.
Sydney: Fine Arts Press, 1995. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus. Includes 11 page illustrated article on Cressida Campbell. Also includes Harold Cazneaux, Bill Henson, Antony Hamilton, sound scuplpture. Worn to edges, good condition. Includes article by John McDonald "The Woodblock Pinting of Cressida Campbell"
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2020. 2nd ed., octavo, wraps, b&w plates, pp xiii, 136. Near-fine condition. History of the devastating Spanish flu post WWI.
London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1885. 1st ed., quarto, illustrated paper-covered cloth boards, illus endpapers, full-page colour illustrations throughout. Edgesand corners rubbed. Contents clean and bright. Very good condition. Scarce.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, text illus, map, illus endpapers, pp xxii, 173. Dustjacket chipped and silverfished with loss. Occasional light pencil marks. Very good condition in fair dust-jacket. Uncommon. Stories from Cape York Peninsula.
Bassendean: Access Press, 2002. 1st ed., Limited to 500 copies, octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xiv, 149. Near-fine condition. Moran's view of incidents in the north-west (Western Australia) involving Aborigines, pastoralists and police.
Secunderabad: Maranatha Revivival Crusade, c. 1978. Octavo, illustrated wraps, b&w illus, pp 184. N.d. (1978), worn along edges and lower front cover, two previous owners'stamps. Good condition. Prophecies about the end of the world.
Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press, 1964. Octavo, illustrated wraps, b&w illus, pp 39. Previous owner's signature, occasional pencilled notes, good condition.
Melbourne: J. Pollard, 1960. Revised and greatly enlarged, octavo, illustrated wraps, pp 223. Spine creased, very good condition.
Sydney: Collins, 1979. Illus. Allan Hondow; photography Stuart Goodman. Quarto, stiff pictorial card boards, colour illus, b&w illus, pp 128. Some rubbing to edges. Previous owner's bookplate front free endpaper, ownership signature facing title page. Very good condition. Stories of the Dreamtime, with many illustrations (drawings, paintings, photographs). Made into.....
Perth: LP Publishing, 2013. Quarto, pictorial boards, colour illus, pp 127. Fine condition. Many nostalgic images of twentieth-century Perth.
Perth: LP Publishing, 2013. Quarto, pictorial boards, colour illus, pp 118. Fine condition. Many nostalgic images of twentieth-century Perth.
Perth: Moon Books, 1992. 1st ed., octavo, pp. (x) 25, col. plates, dec eps. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Number 140 of 500 copies. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Verse inspired by outback Australia. Originally performed at Alice Springs, Watarrka (Kings Canyon), Gunbarrel Highway (near Warburton) and Merredin...
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Octavo, wraps, folding plates,text, pp ix, 389. Wraps worn. Previous owner's signature. Light pencil underlining first few pages of Introduction. Good condition. Papers on various aspects of African kinship.
Guildford (WA): DAS and CPdeR, 1985. Octavo, wraps, colour plates, b&w illus, map, pp 101. Related clipping loosely inserted. Near-fine condition. Describes and illustrates the birds of Rottnest, with notes on their habitatats and photos.
Maylands (Perth): The Author, 2003. Octavo, wraps, b&w and colour illus, pp vi, 170. Near-fine condition. Signed by the author. Includes many photographs of Perth in the early to mid-twentieth century, as well as more recent photographs.