At Work and Play: Our Past in Pictures
State Library of New South Wales, 1989. Oblong 8vo, wraps, b&w photographs, pp 128. Previous owner's personal ex-libris stamp, o/w very good condn. Photographs of Australian life, pre-1839.
State Library of New South Wales, 1989. Oblong 8vo, wraps, b&w photographs, pp 128. Previous owner's personal ex-libris stamp, o/w very good condn. Photographs of Australian life, pre-1839.
North Ryde (NSW): Methuen Haynes, 1987. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, Autobiography of the politician.
Sydney: The Author, 2011. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 222. Ex-library number to spine, some damage to wraps with areas of loss. Internally very good. Uncommon. The 1808 petitions in Sydney to have Bligh removed as Governor, with copies of the petitions and almost one hundred biographies of the wives.....
Melbourne: Melbourne Savages Club, 1947. Limited edition, number 660 of 1000. Quarto, original cloth boards with facsimile handwritten title, b&w frontis, b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 256. Boards heavily marked. Part of a social letter tipped in reverse of front free endpaper, with an inscription underneath it, and names inscribed.....
Sydney: Trustees of Public Library of NSW/Angus and Robertson, 1965. 1st ed., 4to, pp. x, 182, b/w frontis, few small marks latter blank leaves, minor foxing edges, original cloth boards, botom edge slightly discoloured and rubbed, in d.j. edges and spine yellowed, head spine chipped with minor loss, edges rubbed.....
Sydney: Trustees of Public Library of NSW/Angus and Robertson, 1965. 1st ed., 4to, pp. x, 182, b/w frontis, few small marks latter blank leaves, minor foxing edges, original cloth boards, bottom edge slightly discoloured and rubbed, in d.j. edges and spine yellowed, chipped with minor loss, edges rubbed, good condn.....
London: Grant Richards, 1931. 8vo, cloth boards, b&w frontis port, b&w plates, bibliography, pp 285. Spine panel of dustjacket loosely inserted. Corners rubbed, previous owner's inscription, some foxing, good condn. Defends the reputation of Henry Kingley, the novelist.
London: Heinemann, 1972. 8vo, pp. v, 193, glossary, b/w photos & maps, orig. clth bds, very good in like d.j. In 1967 Ericksen bought a Landrover and set out to discover his country. Here he recounts his experience of seven solitary months of travel.
Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove, 1985. Tall royal octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, decorated title page, pp 94. Number 42 of a limited edition of 100. Ex-library, markings to front free endpaper and reverse of title page. Good condition. Reports from Eyre written 1841-1844, describing his expeditions.
Melbourne: Colorgravure, 1951. Roy 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, pp 240. In the original cardboard box, which is in poor condition. Dustjacket torn to rear panel, book in very good condition. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Federation.
Brisbane: Tara Shire Council, 1960. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket with tears and loss, b&w plates, pp 161. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Near-fine condition in good d.j. Scarce. Detailed history of the town of Tara and the surrounding region, in the Western Downs area of Queensland. With photos of local.....
Melbourne: E.W. Cole, 1917. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, pp 416. Boards worn and lightly rubbed. Contents clean, very good condition. The author was an early sheep rancher in New South Wales and Queensland.
Sydney: Royal Australian Historical Society, 1987. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 40. Very good condn.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, map, pp 172. Very good in like d.j. Fictionalised biography. Light travelled widely and later surveyed and planned the city of Adelaide.
Adelaide: The Author, 1989. Illus Margaret Raymon. 8vo, original pictorial boards, b&w text illus, pp 67. Near-fine. Life on a small farm.
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1867. Folio, bound in half-leather, pp (i) viii, 33 with one page report bound in 'Resignation of John L. Foster, Return to Address - Mr Snodgrass'. Very good condn. John Leslie Fitzgerald Vesey Foster (1818-1900) was Colonial Secretary in Victoria. He was appointed in 1853 and was.....
Sydney: Institution of Surveyors, NSW, 1985. Limited ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, maps, pp vii, 594. Limited edition, number 66 of 250. Signatures of R. Foster and Ian Marshall (President of the Institution of Surveyors NSW). With the blindstamp of the Institution of Surveyors. Fading to dustjacket. Near-fine.....
Hahndorf: Fox Publishing, 1979. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 96. Includes loosely inserted colour prints of photographs of Hahndorf and a leaflet on the Hahndorf Copper Workshop. Near-fine condition.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1956. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 238. Very good condition in good dustjacket, protected.
Sydney: Hordern House, 2001. Translated from the French by Thomas Cullity. Limited edition, sm. quarto, pp. xxii, 670, Index, colour and b&w plates, maps, marbled endpapers, bound in half leather, gilt titled, decorated sl. sunned spine. One of only three copies specially bound in slip-case. Presentation copy with additional inscription.....
NSW: Narrandera Shire Council, 1986. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, b&w illus, maps, pp xiv, 265. Photocopied review lightly inserted. Very good condition in like d.j. History of Narrandera in the eastern Riverina, including a discussion of Australian history more generally, and a focus on Aboriginal-European relations...
ACT: Brian Clouston, 1981. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, colour plate, folding plate, (family tree), pp 224. Very good in like d.j.
Australia: Spencer Scott Sandilands/Antique Print Room, 1986. Oblong 4to, pp. (14) unpaginated, wraps, stapled spine, slightly creased and scuffed, good. Complimentary catalogue of Gould's lithographs. Saturday 14th June - Saturday 21st June 1986, Ansett International Hotel, Caroline Room, Perth, WA.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1895. 8vo, pp. (ii) 16, printed in double column, bookplate (Dr George Mackaness), all pages foxed particularly prelims., light central crease where previously folded, original wraps, rear top cnr chipped, bound into boards, gilt title spine.
Sydney: Alpha, 1970. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 165. Biography of the politican and chief justice.