Perth: University Of Western Australia Press, 1999. Octavo, wraps, pp. xvi, 291, colour plates, b/w ills., maps. Related newspaper clipping loosely inserted. Near-fine condition, Field guide to Western Australian skinks. The revised and expanded edition, describing 173 species, and including colour photographs and distribution maps.
Perth: The Author, 1980. Oblong, wraps, title and author stamped in gilt, colour illus, pp 69. Faint pink mark to corner of last (blank) page. Near fine condition. Scarce. The author was an amateur entomologist with a life long interest in beetles, particularly jewel beetles. Includes many colour photographs...
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2005. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, maps, colour and b&w illus, frontis portrait, pp xxvii, 259. Near-fine condn. The life of the surgeon, navigator and adventurer. Bass's ship left Sydney in 1802 and disappeared in the Pacific.
London: Folio Society, 2012. Aafke Brouwer. Octavo, pp.270, b&w title page and plates illustrated by Aafke Brouwer, orig gilt orange pictorial boards in slip-case, appears to be unread. Near fine condition. Harper first published her novel in July 1960 with an initial printing of approximately 5,000 copies.
NSW: Rosenberg, 2008. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour frontis, colour illus, b&w illus, pp 191. Near fine condition in like d.j. Rare. Explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, most particularly in the nineteenth century,
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Fremantle Press, 2008. Oblong, pictorial bds, d.j., col illus, pp. 191. The second printing, which was the first hardcover edition (the 1999 edition was softcover). Near-fine condition in like d.j. The animals and plants of Australia's rocky landscapes. Beautifully illustrated by Nikulinsky.
Perth: University Of Western Australia Press, 1983. 1st ed., oblong quarto, pp xx, 244, b&w plates and family trees, sepia pictorial title-page, bookplate front paste-down with owner's initials in pencil, original boards, dust-jacket in proteced glassine. Near fine condition. This book provides an insight into the lives of the Aborigines.....
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1968. Quartto, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, endpaper maps, pp xii, 208. Very good condition in like d.j. Re-telling of south-east Australian Aboriginal myths, from the five Victorian Nations and the Murray River Tribes, and an anthropological discussion of the spirit world.
London: Plummer and Brewis for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1823. Three volumes (complete), full leather binding with gilt decoration to spine, b&w plates, pp xxx, 1-575, 2-120 (mis-pagination but continuous text and complete); 121-864; 1-648. Each volume with title page and engraved frontis portrait plate. Previous owner's bookplate. Boards.....
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. 1st ed., quarto, pictorial wraps with French flaps, colour illus, map, pp 314. Near-fine condition. Lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue. The story of Napoleon and a turbulent period in French history.
London: J.M. Dent, 1910. Introd. George Douglas. Original brown cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine, decorated title page, dec endpapers, pp xvii, 274. Second printing of this edition. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Very good condition. An autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859) about his.....
London: Journal of Horticulure and Cottage Gardener, 1863. 1st ed., original green cloth boards with gilt decoration and gilt borders, 18 hand-coloured plates,b&w text illus, pp 349,.some markings to page 61.Gift inscription dated 1863 largely erased by previous owner. Spine restored: original cloth laid over new. Corners rubbed. Very good.....
Lawrence Wilson Art Galley, University of Western Australia, 2012. Brief catalogue: folding, colour illus, total of six colour illustrated panels on stiff card (counting front and back, including cover). Fine condition. Accompanied exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in 2012.
Berndt Museum, 2013. Brief catalogue: folding, colour illus, total of six colour illustrated panels on stiff card (counting front and back, including cover). Fine condition. Accompanied exhinition at the Berndt Museum in 2013.
Lawrence Wilson Art Galley, University of Western Australia, 2015. Brief catalogue: folding, colour illus, total of six colour illustrated panels on stiff card (counting front and back, including cover). Fine condition. Exhibition catalogue. A Berndt Museum Exhibition in collaboaration with the Warmun Art Centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. 30 June.....
Perth: Museum Without Walls, 2017. Illus, Marion Duke. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus throughout, pp 36. Presentation inscription. Near-fine condition. The story of the Catalpa and the Fenians in Western Australia, written and illustrated for younger readers.First published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 2006.
Perth: Kimberley Society, 1997. Quarto, wraps, pp. 83, b/w photos & text illus. Top edge faded. Very good condition. Selection of papers exploring cultural, geological and environmental facets of rock art. Occasional paper No 1 of the Kimberley Society.
Yirrkala (NT): Yirrkala Community School, 1992. 2nd edition, 3rd printing. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pmap, p 28. Very good condition. Documents the Catalina flying boats at Melville Bay, which was a base for campaigns in the Pacific during WWII. Most of the photos shown are supplied by Jim Harrison: in.....
Yirrkala (NT): Yirrkala Community School, 1992. 2nd edition, 3rd printing. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pmap, p 28. Very good condition. Documents the Catalina flying boats at Melville Bay, which was a base for campaigns in the Pacific during WWII. Most of the photos shown are supplied by Jim Harrison: in.....
Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2003. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus, b&w illus, map, pp 83. Near-fine condition. Exhibition catalogue of south-west WA Aboriginal art, from an 1833 ink drawing by Gyallipurt to the twenty-first century. Scarce.
Sydney: Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre in association with Jennifer Isaacs Publishing, 2003. Quarto, pictoril wraps with French flaps. colour illus, pp 112. Fine condition. Bark paintings which relate to the sacred knowledge of the sea country in north-east Arnhem Land. The 'Saltwater' collection was acquired by the Australian National Maritime Museum.....
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996. Quarto, pictorial boards, colour and b&w illus, maps, illus endpapers, pp xxv, 189. Near-fine condition. In 1817 Rose de Freycinet stowed aboard the 'Uranie' to be with her husband and sailed around the world, including visiting the coast of Western Australia.
Perth: Government Printer, 1883. 1st ed., foolscap, pp.24, original green paper wraps with loss to lower front, light creasing to pages otherwise very good condition. Rare. Original 1883 report being a comprehensive list (pp.5 to 24) of plants in this region of Shark Bay, Western Australia published following John Forrest's.....
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Octavo, original cloth boards with decoration to spine, dustjacket, pp 190. Gift inscription halftitle page and ownership signature facing page. A little foxing. Very good condition in like d.j. The continued adventures of Mrs Harris the London char. The author's first novel in the series was.....