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Gwen: A Romance of Australian Station Life

Gwen: A Romance of Australian Station Life

by Leslie Alfred Redgrave

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Self published, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Not Stated. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Heavy foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Illustrator: Not Stated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; Australian Literature; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13011. .
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Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in...
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Experiences of a Colonist Forty Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839; and A Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846. By an Old Hand

by [HAMILTON, George]

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Adelaide: J. Williams, Printer [for the Author], 1880. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer [for the Author], 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. Octavo, [viii], 84; 80; and 23 pages plus 3 albumen paper photographs of 5 drawings on 3 unnumbered leaves. Gilt- and blind-stamped blue cloth a little bumped and rubbed at the extremities, with minor wear to the corners; spine sunned, with a slightly lighter spot near the centre where a paper label (an old auction lot number) has been removed; front cover has some light stains on it where something has been spilt (removing some of the gilt from the top left-hand border); rear flyleaf removed, with offsetting to the final page; a very good copy (internally excellent). The particulars of the photographs match those given in Holden (where the discrepancy in the number of plates present as against listed is explained). The plates are of drawings by Hamilton; he contributed similar sketches to the published journals of Grey and Eyre. The… Read More
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Madman's Island: The Works of Ion L. Idriess (Volume 12)

Madman's Island: The Works of Ion L. Idriess (Volume 12)

by Idriess, Ion L.

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Sydney, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). National Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with green boards, dust jacket missing, National Edition, 508gms, 253 pages, illustrated map endpapers. This is Volume 12 of 'The Works of Ion L. Idriess' series. Book is signed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads 'To Mother and Dad from Alex. Cheerio and good luck, Ion L. Idriess, May 1941'. Book is in good condition with moderate general age-related wear and tear and moderate to heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout. Boards are in good condition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Attached picture is of actual book. Please see listings for the another 9 volumes in this series. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock… Read More
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Ghost Guide to Australia, The

Ghost Guide to Australia, The

by Davis, Richard

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Moorebank, NSW: Bantam Books, 1998. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover, first edition, 554g, 432pgs. Presented geographically for ease of reference, the stories cover all kinds of buildings and locations, both public and private. Where appropriate the author includes information about ghost tours you might want to join, and even gives advice about how to approach any spectre you might meet. Covering the entire period of European settlement, from colonial times right up to the presenrt day, this first-of-its-kind national guidebook makes delightful - if hair-raising - armchair reading, and is a must-have companion in your travels around the country. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Photo featured is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title your looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000… Read More
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLIV. For the YEAR M.DCCLXXIV [1774]....

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLIV. For the YEAR M.DCCLXXIV [1774]. Part I January-June 1774 and Part II July-December 1774.

by Urban,Sylvanus [pseudonym of publisher David Henry]

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London: Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. Henry, and sold by F. Newbery, 1774. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (5 of 10 called for in Vol 1, 10 of 11 in Vol 2. Plates present include Head of a New Zealand Chief curiously Tataowed, newly discovered frescoes at Herculaneum, portrait of Louis XV who has died (missing plates are mainly of planned Canals i. Two Volumes each containing 6 monthly issues, plus Supplement for the Year 1774 in Vol 2. Contemporary leather-spined marbled boards (spine leather worn bits missing, date & title neatly inked in). Text complete: iv (general titlepage for year & preface) +628pp +[16]pp index. Each monthly issue has a "titlepage" with a view of St. John's Gate. Very clean nice copies internally with paper strong & supple. *Includes detailed description of Lieut Cooke's Voyage round the World, arrival at Terra Australis incognita, favourable account of landing & circum-navigation of New Zealand (Originality of the Arts in that Country which no other People had ever… Read More
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Madman's Island

Madman's Island

by Ion Idriess

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FACSIMILE REPRINT OF FIRST EDITION
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Uralla, NSW, Australia: Idriess Enterprises Pty Ltd, 2002. 228 pages with b/w frontispiece. First published in 1927 this is a facsimile edition of 250 copies. . FACSIMILE REPRINT OF FIRST EDITION . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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A comprehensive collection of Parliamentary Papers pertaining to the explorations in South...
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A comprehensive collection of Parliamentary Papers pertaining to the explorations in South Australia of Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878)

by BABBAGE, Benjamin Herschel

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Babbage was 'engineer, scientist and explorer ... son of Charles Babbage, Cambridge professor of mathematics [and the first computer pioneer], and his wife Georgina, sister of W.W. Whitmore, a founder of South Australia.... In 1856 Babbage was sent north to search for gold as far as the Flinders Ranges. He found none, but discovered the MacDonnell River, Blanchewater and Mount Hopeful. He was the first to dispel the current idea of the impassability of the Lake Torrens "horseshoe" ... [In late 1857 he was] appointed leader of a northern expedition. Babbage left in February 1858 to explore the country between Lakes Torrens and Gairdner, and further to the north and west. His concept of exploration was based on thorough survey, mapping and examination of the country, ideals with which Francis Dutton, commissioner of crown lands, agreed in his instructions and early correspondence. With cumbrous and ingenious equipment Babbage carried out the first part, hampered by bad terrain and lack of water. But he… Read More
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The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines : Gathered from...

The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines : Gathered from Inquiries Made By Authority of South Australian Government

by G. Taplin

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USA: Johnson Reprint Corporation , 1967. Previous owners details to front free endpaper. 174 pages with b/w illustrations plus 28 page addendum. First published in 1879. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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History of Australasia
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History of Australasia: From the first dawn of discovery in the Southern Ocean to the establishment of self-government in the various colonies.

by D.M Blair

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Settlement and history of NSW, Victoria, SA, Queensland, WA, Tasmania and NZ, with some account of Fiji and New Guinea. Leather embossed cover and spine in red, gilt title on edge and Advance Australia coat of arms on face. 711 pages complete with 24 illustrations, of which eight are coloured maps.Page edges lightly scuffed and rubbed with some small scratches to boards - otherwise good, plates bright but some foxing, bound well but beginning to work loose..Note: This book is heavy, 2.9kg, Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.
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An almost-lifesize vintage portrait photograph of Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875), 'one of...
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An almost-lifesize vintage portrait photograph of Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875), 'one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography')

by FISHER, Sir James Hurtle

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The very fine portrait (visible image size 545 × 395 mm, in its original ornate gilt frame, external dimensions 740 × 595 mm) is exquisitely hand-painted and signed by the famous colonial photographer, Townsend Duryea (1823-1888). His original label is affixed to the paper backing on the verso of the frame ('T. Duryea, Artist Photographer, 66 and 68 King William Street, Adelaide'), and in our opinion, he has created a masterpiece as both artist and photographer with this work. James Hurtle Fisher commenced practice as a solicitor in London in 1816 and 'was drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835.... [He] was selected as resident commissioner, one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act ... second only to the governor'. Fisher 'left England in July 1836 with the governor's party in the "Buffalo", arriving on 28 December 1836 at Holdfast Bay, where the official oaths were administered, a proclamation was read and a ceremony marked the beginning of settlement. In January 1837… Read More
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Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during...
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Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyages of H.M.S. 'Beagle', in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43... Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea

by STOKES, John Lort

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London: T. and W. Boone, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. London, T. and W. Boone, 1846. Octavo, two volumes, [2] (inserted advertising leaf for this work), xii, [ii] (list of charts, verso blank), [ii] (errata, verso blank), 522 (last blank), 8 (publisher's catalogue) pages [first volume], and [4] (inserted prospectus for Siborne's 'History of the War ... in 1815'), viii, [ii] (list of charts, verso blank), 544 (last blank), 8 (publisher's catalogue) pages [second volume], plus 26 engraved or lithographed plates and 7 (of 8) folding maps (lacking the chart of Bass Strait); all advertising leaves, and the slip for Eyre (at the end of the second volume), are present, but the one for Dutton is missing. Original cloth later rebacked, retaining the original backstrips, with new endpapers (but retaining all but the original front free endpaper as well); new endpocket in the second volume (containing five of the maps); cloth a little bumped and rubbed at the extremities; spine sunned, with a few blemishes;… Read More
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John Kinder's New Zealand
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John Kinder's New Zealand

by Ron Brownson

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Auckland, NZ: Auckland Art Gallery, 2004. First edition. Hard cover, no dust jacket as issued. Published Auckland, NZ: Auckland Art Gallery, 2004. Oblong folio, 12" x 9 7/8", 160pp., lavishly illustrated with color reproductions. When he died in 1903, Kinder left behind 400 watercolour paintings and as many photographs carefully preserved in albums. It’s this body of work that has exercised the minds of four art historians who contribute essays to this lavish production. Fine. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.
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Among Cannibals: an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the...
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Among Cannibals: an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the Aborigines of Queensland

by LUMHOLTZ, Carl

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1889 1ed Queensland Cannibals Lumholtz Australia Aborigine Illustrated Maps

The Norwegian, naturalist, anthropologist and explorer Carl Lumholtz spent four years in Australia from 1880. Lumholtz' expedition to Australia was partly paid at the expense of the University of Christiania, to collect zoological and zootomical material for the museums of the University, and research the manners and anthropology of the natives, and among the cannibals. Lumholtz succeeded in securing a large collection of zoological specimens and discovered four new mammals - a tree kangaroo and three opossums, which are depicted in the colored lithographed plates. He collected four new species of mammals with his account of his travels, Among Cannibals, containing detailed observations of Aboriginal life.
This 1889 first edition includes 2 folding colored maps, 29 plates including frontispiece portrait and 4 colored lithographs, and numerous in text illustrations.
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AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES and THE HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
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AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES and THE HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

by BARRINGTON, George.:

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London, printed for M. Jones, 1802-1803.. FIRST EDITIONS 2 volumes 1803 and 1802, by George Barrington Superintendent of the Convicts. To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES 1803. 8vo, approximately 210 x 125 mm, 8¼ x 5 inches, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved title page with hand coloured vignette of an aborigine fishing from a boat, a folding hand coloured map of NSW, 10 hand coloured plates including 4 views of Sidney, A Native Family, The Cape of Good Hope, The Peak of Teneriffe, Pinchgut Islands, Spotted Hyena and Camelopard, the last 2 on 1 plate, pages: (8), 1-467, (5 - index), lacking Directions to the Binder, not always included in this edition, bound in modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled sides, raised bands, gilt rules and gilt ship motif in compartments, 2 dark brown gilt lettered labels. Pale age-browning to text, occasional pale foxing to a… Read More
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The Land Beyond Time
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The Land Beyond Time: John Olsen with Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon

by John Olsen

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This spotless copy has been inscribed and signed by John Olsen with some additional freehand artwork added as a personal touch. (refer photos)
MacMillan, Melbourne, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition, inc. numerous illustrations, index, minimal shelf wear, dust jacket not price clipped, a unique copy in first class condition. Size: Large Folio. 312 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos.
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