Charles Kingsford Smith and those magniificent men.

By: FITZSIMONS, Peter.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, Harper Collins: 2009

Seller ID: 34908

680pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy, inscribed by the author. ISBN 0732284872 View more info

A Voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803 in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator…

By: FLINDERS, Matthew.

Price: $550.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia: 1966

Seller ID: 34105

(Australian Facsimile Editions, 37.) Two volumes and box of charts/plates. Large 4to. 269 & 613pp; 16 charts, 4 coastal profile sheets, 10 botanical plates - all folded and in the box. Canvas bookcloth with spine labels. Two slight indentations in the fore-edge of the lower board of Vol 2, otherwise a very good clean set. View more info

Convicts and Empire : a naval question 1776-1811.

By: FROST, Alan.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 7898

First edition. 240pp, 4 illustrations, 2 maps, endpaper map. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. View more info

Arthur Phillip 1738-1814 : his voyaging.

By: FROST, Alan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 7721

Small 4to. 320pp, illustrated in colour and b&w and colour, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A very good clean copy. View more info

The Journal of a Forgotten Expedition in 1875.

By: GILES, Edward : edited by James Bosanquet.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1979

Seller ID: 33200

#69 of 500 copies, initialled by the publisher.220 copies. 4to. xvi, 54pp, double-page maps, frontis, facsimile of the original title-page. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned,now in protective sleeve ). Head and foot edges of th boards a trifle silverfished, otherwise a very good clean copy. View more info

History of the Wedderburn Gold Fields.

By: GRAY, J.R. : edited by Frank Cusack.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press: 1981

Seller ID: 35992

Illustrated by Phillip Belfrage. De Luxe issue: #9 of 100, signed by the editor. 92pp, tipped in plate numbered and signed by Belfrage, folding map. Quarter leather, gilt, and cloth, pictorial device (a miner) printed to the upper board; with glassine wrapper and the cloth-covered slipcase (which repeats the pictorial device). A fine clean copy. View more info

Forest of Ash : an environmental history.

By: GRIFFITHS, Tom.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 35799

Large 8vo. 228pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0521012341 ***The story of the giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash. View more info

Discovering Monaro : a study of man's impact on his environment.

By: HANCOCK, W.K.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Cambridge University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 5721

8vo. 210pp, 8 plates, 15 maps, 4 figures. Brown cloth with dustwrapper (slightly rubbed along top edge, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. View more info

The Girl Who Stole Stockings : the true story of Susannah Noon and the women of the convict ship Friends.

By: HARDIE, Elspeth.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Australian Teachers of Media: 2015

Seller ID: 35588

Tall 8vo. 344pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. The outer corners of the front cover a trifle creased; otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 187646724X ***The ship Friends sailed from England in 1811 carrying 101 female convicts bound for New South Wales. The crimes of the women and girls on board ranged from pickpocketing to murder, but most were convicted of theft, including the teen-aged Susannah Noon who tried to steal four pairs of cotton stockings from a shop in Colchester, for which she received a sentence of seven years transportation. This study describes the fates of th... View more info

Nor' Westers of the Pilbara breed.

By: HARDIE, Jenny.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Perth, Hesperian Press for the Shire of Port Hedland: 1981

Seller ID: 35511

Small 4to. 264pp, well illustrated. Pictorial papered boards, spine a trifle sunned. Gift inscription in a child's hand on half title. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0859050874 *** 'The story of brave ancestors who pioneered the outback Pilbara in Western Australia.' View more info

Studies from Terra Australis to Australia.

By: HARDY, John and Alan Frost (eds).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities: 1989

Seller ID: 32250

(Australian Academy of the Humanities, Occasional Paper no 6.) Small 4to. 278pp, illustrated. Very good to fine. ***Papers presented to the 'Terra Australis to Australia' conference at the University of Sydney, 1988. View more info

They Came to a Plateau (The Stanthorpe Saga).

By: HARSLETT, Jean & Mervyn Royle.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Stanthorpe (Qld.), International Colour Productions: 2006

Seller ID: 36006

Fourth edition (reprint of revised edition). Small 4to. 214pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0867740027 View more info

The Government and the People 1939-1941. Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 4 (Civil), no I.

By: HASLUCK, Paul.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian War Memorial: 1965

Seller ID: 10402

(Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 4, Civil, no I.) Second impression. 644pp, b&w photographs, cartoons. Green buckram with dustwrapper (spine a little faded, a couple of light stains to the blurbs, now in protective sleeve). Top edges a little spotted, otherwise a very good+ clean copy. View more info

The Kon-Tiki Expedition : by raft across the South Seas.

By: HEYERDAHL, Thor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1963

Seller ID: 8135

Umpteenth impression. 235pp, b/w photographs, route diagram.Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Top corner of front free endpaper clipped away, edges spotted, otherwise a very good clean copy. View more info

The Voyage of Torres : the discovery of the southern coastline of New Guinea and Torres Strait by Captain Luis Baez de Torres in 1606.

By: HILDER, Brett.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Brisbane, UQP: 1980

Seller ID: 5917

194pp, 64 illustrations & maps, 5 colour plates (2 double-page). Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. View more info

Convict Society and its enemies.

By: HIRST, J.B.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Sydney, George Allen & Unwin: 1983

Seller ID: 21017

244p, illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info

Historical Records of Australia [I/9]. Series I. Governors' Despatches to and from England. Volume IX : January 1816 - December 1818.

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Frederick Watson.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Canberra, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament: 1917/ 1971

Seller ID: 34445

Single volume. Reprint. 968pp. Navy blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt. A very good clean copy. ***During Governor Macquarie's time. View more info

Historical Records of Australia [complete set of the original issue in 33 volumes].

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Frederick Watson.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Canberra, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament: 1914-25.

Seller ID: 35874

Series I: Governors' Despatches to and from England (26 volumes, 1914-25). Series III: Despatches and Papers relating to the Settlement of the States (6 volumes, 1921-23). Series IV: Legal papers (1 volume, 1922). 33 volumes in total, all published (at the time, see note re Series III below). The projected Series II was never issued. This set is uniformly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles and rules on the spines - the later binding (1970s) using, for most volumes, the original sheets (a few volumes were reprinted in 1971). A very good clean set. ***Series III was resumed in 1997 with the pu... View more info

Orphans of History : the forgotten children of the First Fleet.

By: HOLDEN, Robert.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Text: 1999

Seller ID: 15503

220pp, b&w illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1875847081 View more info

The Wandering Islands.

By: HOPE, A.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Edwards and Shaw: 1956

Seller ID: 34586

Second impression. Tall 8vo. 74pp. Papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed; the printer has cut it a bit too tall). Head and tail of spine a little bumped, otherwise a very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Hope's first published collection. View more info

King of the Australian Coast : the work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst, 1817-1822.

By: HORDERN, Marsden.

Price: $285.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 1997

Seller ID: 31893

(Miegunyah Press Series 2, no 16.) First edition. 1500 copies. xxii, 442pp, 45 plates (16 colour), 6 illustrations, 7 maps, 9 folding maps in end-pocket. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 052284720X View more info

The French Reconnaissance : Baudin in Australia 1801-1803.

By: HORNER, Frank.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1987

Seller ID: 32145

First edition. 462pp, 16 plates, maps & line drawings. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0522843395 View more info

The Fatal Shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868.

By: HUGHES, Robert.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Collins Harvill: 1987

Seller ID: 10489

Reprint. 688pp, 6 maps (3 double-page), 16pp b&w illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0002173611 View more info

The Hunter Sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90 by Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet.

By: HUNTER, Capt. John : edited by John Calaby et al.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Canberra, National Library of Australia: 1989

Seller ID: 32029

#81 of 500 copies thus. 4to. 252pp, 100 colour plates and other illustrations. Quarter-bound in leather and papered sides, with the slipcase. Fine. View more info

Lightning Ridge : the land of Black Opals.

By: IDRIESS, Ion L.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1940

Seller ID: 32327

First edition. 252pp, frontis & 9 other plates. Original red cloth, spine faded, extremities a little rubbed. Spotting on edges and those pages adjacent to the plates, otherwise clean and in good+ condition. View more info

Over the Range : sunshine and shadow in the Kimberleys.

By: IDRIESS, Ion L.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: November,1937

Seller ID: 32188

Second edition [impression]. x, 316pp, [12]pp publisher's advertisements; frontispiece and further black and white photographs, map on both free endpapers. Orange cloth (spine faded, some tiny marks); slightly canted. Edges and endpapers spotted, light yellowing on margins of photographic plates, otherwise interior clean. Annotation on page 316 (end of text) relating to Tracker Larry. A good copy. ***The story of a patrol in the north-west Kimberley. View more info

The Vanished People.

By: IDRIESS, Ion L.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1955

Seller ID: 32325

First edition. xii, 210pp, frontis & 39 photographic illustrations on 14 plates, pictorial endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (poor - spine faded and many large chips, now in protective sleeve). Edges yellowed. Owner's name. Good in a poor d/w. View more info

Over the Range : sunshine and shadow in the Kimberleys.

By: IDRIESS, Ion L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1945

Seller ID: 34172

8th edition. Small 8vo. 316pp, frontis, endpaper map. Red cloth (no dustwrapper). The volume slightly canted, pages a little browned. A good clean copy. Owner's name. ***The story of a patrol in the north-west Kimberley. View more info

Business Lectures for Business Men : 1941 Session, lectures 5 and 6. 'War Time Wages Policy--its incidence and issues' / 'Democracy--the crown of freedom'.

By: ISLES, Professor K.S. [wages] and Dr A.H. Martin [democracy].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, Blennerhassett's Institute of Accountancy: 1941

Seller ID: 35508

36pp. Includes a list of the 1941 series of lectures. Stapled in wrappers, as issued. Some fading to wrappers, otherwise a very good clean copy. View more info

Where Have All the Flour Mills Gone? A history of W.S. Kimpton and Sons - flour millers 1875 to 1980.

By: JONES, W. Lewis.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 7964

199pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Clot-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine quite faded). Inkstamp and inscription from the (then late) author's family on verso of front endpaper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959112200 View more info

The Journal of Philip Gidley King : Lieutenant, R.N. 1787-1790.

By: KING, Philip Gidley : edited by Paul G. Fidlon & R.J. Ryan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australian Documents Library: 1980

Seller ID: 27129

Small 4to. 402pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a little faint silverfishing to the spine dulled, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0908219016 View more info

The Murray River : being a journal of the voyage of the 'Lady Augusta' steamer from the Goolwa, in South Australia, to Gannewarra, above Swan Hill, Victoria; a distance from the sea mouth of 1400 miles.

By: KINLOCH, Arthur.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia: 1997

Seller ID: 32317

(Australiana Facsimile Editions no 212.) 500 copies (401 thus). vi, 46pp, frontis, folding map. Green cloth, decorated in blind. Fine. ISBN 187615408X ***First published in Adelaide, 1853. View more info