Australiana

T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 320 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Australia; 1900-1920; Travel & Places. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 1654. .

F. J. Thwaites, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Quarto. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Australia; Ships & the Sea. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 5933. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). 3-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Australia; Australian History; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 0949288004. ISBN/EAN: 9780949288004. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 9055. . 9780949288004 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises, 1995. Small quarto. xiv, 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. No.471 of the limited edition of 1500 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

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. .

Tallis, John: South Australia. London. [ca.1851]. From the Montgomery Martin Illustrated Atlas. Map engraved by Rapkin. Size approx 360 x 260mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring and decorative border. 5 vignettes include Australian Dog, Natives on a Catamaran and Adelaide. Single page unfolded map in excellent, clean condition. Associated text page of the Montgomery Martin Atlas included. A good Tallis Map.

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

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

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.

Perth: Perth: Richard Pether, Government Printer 1901 First Edition xiii, 578, 32, 31pp, 1901 Near Fine original blue boards, half-calf, slightly worn, with former owner's name in gilt to front board, now rubbed, corners and spine in calf, with raised titles, internally Fine throughout except for a little mild age-toning, with hand-written emendations. This volume contains the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, in which Western Australia agrees to become part of the Commonwealth of Australia. Very Scarce.

London: James Knapton, 1703. First Edition . Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 162 pages, followed by index and five pages of publishers' ads. Folding map at frontispiece, plus four tables/maps and ten natural history plates. Vol. III in Captain William Dampier's adventure series stands alone, though a continuation of this work was published six years later. This is a particularly lovely, sound, and complete copy of the scarce first edition. Later full calf binding in contemporary style. Covers show very light rubbing, mostly on lower edges. Map is bright and crisp with strong water mark. Two older inked names are seen at the top of the title page, one dated 1877. Mostly light foxing, though a little heavier on the first six leaves. Otherwise, contents remain crisp and clean.

Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863. Octavo, [vi], xvi, 408 pages plus 15 plates and a large folding map. Quarter leather and cloth, lettered in gilt and stamped in blind; a fine copy. 'John Davis was a member of the South Australian relief expedition, led by John McKinlay, to search for Burke and Wills. The expedition travelled to Cooper Creek and north almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria ... [They then] made for Port Denison (Bowen), some 960km away in Queensland.' Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 211. This is number 96 of only 99 numbered copies of the deluxe issue, from a total edition of 600 copies. The four-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition.

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

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.

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