The Long Dispute. Maori Land Rights and European Colonisation in Southern New Zealand
EVISON, Harry C. Christchurch, Canterbury University Press, 1997. Octavo, 399 pages with 2 documents in facsimile, 34 maps plus 8 pages of plates. Rebound in quarter morocco and cloth by W. Stook; spine lettered in gilt; a tiny blemish to the front cover and leading edge; in near-fine condition.- $69
- $69
A Woman of Courage. The Journal of Rose de Freycinet on her Voyage around the World, 1817-1820
[FREYCINET, Rose de] RIVIÉRE, Marc Serge (translator and editor) Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1996. Quarto, xxvi, 189 pages with numerous illustrations (some in colour). Pictorial papered boards; spine lightly sunned; an excellent copy.- $75
- $75
Some Annals of Adelaide. Letter, Essay, Pen-picture and Sketch, Rhyme Reminiscence and Rumination, Parody and Echo, Quip and Crank, Fact and Fun on Matters Grave and Gay
SADLER, James Adelaide, The Hassell Press, 1933. Octavo, [iv], 206 pages. Overlapping wrappers; bottom edge uncut; covers a little rubbed and creased; a few slight marks; an excellent copy housed in a custom-made clamshell box with a gilt-lettered leather spine label. James Sadler (1860-1935). 'After working as a clerk in the Education Department and as an inspector for the Savings Bank of SA he was involved in recruiting for the Adelaide Literary Society. He was also the London Correspondent for the SA 'Register'' (State Library of South Australia website).- $55
- $55
Kakadu People
SPENCER, Sir Baldwin and David M. WELCH (editor) Virginia, David M. Welch, 2008 [first thus]. Quarto, xiv, 272 pages with 2 maps and numerous illustrations, many in colour. Colour-pictorial card covers; a near-fine copy. With rock art by Kakadu people and their ancestors. Includes additional text and photographs by David M. Welch. Australian Aboriginal Culture Series Number 3.- $34
- $34
France Australe. The French Search for the Southland and Subsequent Explorations and Plans to found a Penal Colony and Strategic Base in South Western Australia, 1503-1826
MARCHANT, Leslie R. Perth, Artlook Books, 1982. Large octavo, xvi, 384 pages with numerous maps and illustrations plus 8 colour plates. Papered boards slightly rubbed; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. A few related newspaper clippings are loosely inserted.- $38
- $38
The Australian Girl’s Annual
London, Cassell & Company Limited, [1920s]. Quarto, 232 pages with numerous illustrations plus 4 colour plates. Brick-red cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black, with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; rear cover a little marked; early ownership details neatly erased from the front free endpaper and half-title; scattered light foxing; an excellent copy. Only two contributions of Australian relevance are apparent: 'The New Chum' by Mary Martin; and 'The Blue Hills of Whingarry' by Nancy M. Hayes. The main contribution is a 'Long Complete Book-length Story' by Ethel Talbot ('The Riddle of the Crimson Fez').- $45
- $45
Charles Darwin in Australia
NICHOLAS, F.W. and J.M. NICHOLAS Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Quarto, xiv, 175 pages with numreous illustrations plus endpaper maps. Papered boards slightly rubbed; free endpapers slightly marked; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper flaps slightly foxed, and a very short closed tear to the rear panel.- $38
- $38
The Science Museum of Victoria
PERRY, Warren Melbourne, Science Museum of Victoria, 1972. Small quarto, xx, 203 pages plus numerous pages of plates (totalling 81 illustrations). Papered boards lightly mottled; edges lightly foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper sunned about the spine, and slightly rubbed.- $21
- $21
Peopling the Cleland Hills. Aboriginal History in Western Central Australia, 1850-1980
SMITH, M.A. Canberra, Aboriginal History, Inc., 2005. Small square quarto, xii, 104 pages with a location map and 19 illustrations from photographs. Colour-pictorial card covers with flaps; a fine copy. Aboriginal History Monograph 12.- $51
- $51
Life History Album. Tables and Charts for recording the Development of Body and Mind from Childhood upwards, with Introductory Remarks
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 (second edition)/ [1884]. Small quarto, x, 178 pages plus 9 charts. Fawn cloth printed and decorated in red; head of the spine slightly bumped; red ribbon ties attached near the leading edge of the covers a little creased; endpapers unevenly tanned; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little stained, torn and chipped with minor loss. The rear endpocket is empty (presumably as issued), and no data have been recorded in this copy. The preface is very informative, and warrants being repeated in full here: 'The first appearance of "Life History Album" many years ago was due to the enthusiasm of the late Dr Mahomed, then a medical man of much promise, and apparently on the point of rising to considerable eminence in his profession. He had firmly persuaded himself that some such work would be favoured and promoted by medical men throughout the country if it were composed under the eyes of physicians growing into repute in the medical world, and if it were afterwards strongly recommended, as it probably would be, by the Collective Investigation Committee of the Medical Association, of which he was an active member. He made it a further condition that my name should appear as its editor, I being known at that time to be much occupied in such matters. To this I agreed with some reluctance, for I wished to bear the entire responsibility or none at all. So a small committee of medical men was formed who met frequently at my house, where the book was mostly composed. But the result did not at all satisfy myself, neither do I think that it satisfied the others. It was too bulky and ill arranged. In fact it was emphatically a case of too many cooks. Each had his own views, and I believe that any one of us acting alone would have produced a better balanced book than we did working together. Soon after it was in print Dr Mahomed contracted typhoid fever, the very subject of his own special studies, and he died, to the great regret of myself and many others. The tributes of affection to his memory from his colleagues at Guy's Hospital were remarkable for their warmth and high appreciation of his ability. He being gone, none of the remaining medical members of the committee concerned themselves much further with the work, and the main part of Dr Mahomed's scheme was never fulfilled. However, the book had a small circulation, until of late years it fell out of print. Being frequently urged by friends whose opinion I trust, to largely re-arrange and re-write it, I have at length done so - with what success those who may use it will judge'. An Account of an Archaeological Reconnaissance of Hunter’s Isles, North-West Tasmania, 1973-4
[Launceston], Queen Victoria Museum, 1974. Foolscap folio, [ii], 22 pages including covers. Printed wrappers lightly creased; rear cover lightly foxed; an excellent copy. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Number 54. Major Mitchell’s Map, 1834. The Saga of the Survey of the Nineteen Counties
Sandy Bay, Blubber Head Press, 1992. Octavo, xviii, 402 pages with 42 illustrations and 54 maps plus endpaper maps. Gilt-decorated full calf; gilt-lettered contrasting leather spine label; covers a trifle rubbed; signature bleeding slightly; an excellent copy. An account of the making of this important map, 'the basis upon which subsequent geographic knowledge and land settlement were built', produced during the years 1827-34 when Mitchell was Surveyor-General of NSW. This deluxe edition was limited to 30 copies bound in full leather (of which 25 were for sale) and signed in ink by the author; this copy is number 7. Life History Album. Tables and Charts for recording the Development of Body and Mind from Childhood upwards, with Introductory Remarks
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 (second edition)/ [1884]. Small quarto, x, 178 pages plus 9 charts. Fawn cloth printed and decorated in red; head of the spine slightly bumped and marked, with a few marks near the top edge of the front cover; red ribbon ties attached near the leading edge of the covers a little creased; endpapers unevenly tanned; an excellent copy. The rear endpocket is empty (presumably as issued), and no data have been recorded in this copy. The preface is very informative, and warrants being repeated in full here: 'The first appearance of "Life History Album" many years ago was due to the enthusiasm of the late Dr Mahomed, then a medical man of much promise, and apparently on the point of rising to considerable eminence in his profession. He had firmly persuaded himself that some such work would be favoured and promoted by medical men throughout the country if it were composed under the eyes of physicians growing into repute in the medical world, and if it were afterwards strongly recommended, as it probably would be, by the Collective Investigation Committee of the Medical Association, of which he was an active member. He made it a further condition that my name should appear as its editor, I being known at that time to be much occupied in such matters. To this I agreed with some reluctance, for I wished to bear the entire responsibility or none at all. So a small committee of medical men was formed who met frequently at my house, where the book was mostly composed. But the result did not at all satisfy myself, neither do I think that it satisfied the others. It was too bulky and ill arranged. In fact it was emphatically a case of too many cooks. Each had his own views, and I believe that any one of us acting alone would have produced a better balanced book than we did working together. Soon after it was in print Dr Mahomed contracted typhoid fever, the very subject of his own special studies, and he died, to the great regret of myself and many others. The tributes of affection to his memory from his colleagues at Guy's Hospital were remarkable for their warmth and high appreciation of his ability. He being gone, none of the remaining medical members of the committee concerned themselves much further with the work, and the main part of Dr Mahomed's scheme was never fulfilled. However, the book had a small circulation, until of late years it fell out of print. Being frequently urged by friends whose opinion I trust, to largely re-arrange and re-write it, I have at length done so - with what success those who may use it will judge'. Diamond Deposits. Origin, Exploration, and History of Discovery
Littleton, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2002. Large octavo, xviii, 374 pages with 13 tables and 103 figures (including numerous location maps). Colour-pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; an excellent copy. 'The is valuable resource provides reders witha a comprehensive look at the geology of diamonds to lead them from historical data and crystal structure to diamond deposits, methods of exploration, and marketing' (rear cover). A few related photocopies are loosely inserted. Yesterday. Being the Adventures of Us Three with the Early Colonists
Adelaide, F.W. Preece & Sons, 1936. Quarto, 70 pages with line illustrations (plus the colour dustwrapper design 'from hand-cut linoleum block' by Nora Young. Flush-cut plain card covers slightly bumped along the bottom edges; endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (very slightly chipped). The Lost Australia of Francois Péron
London, Nottingham Court Press, 1984. Octavo, [xiv], vi, 164 pages with 21 illustrations and 9 plates plus the erratum slip (taped to an early blank). Cloth; commercial bookplate on the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper. 'This book is the first in English on the life of Francois Péron, the first in any language to evaluate the comparative importance of his work and the first to draw extensively on a wide range of primary and secondary sources' (preface). A related newspaper clipping is loosely inserted.