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The Florilegium of Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia, 1768-1771.

By: EBES, Hans.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Ebes Douwma / Sotheby's: 1988

Seller ID: 35278

4to. 200pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. WITH: the 20pp Sotheby's booklet of information for buyers (the centre sheet of estimates is loose and most of the first 337 lots have had pencilled realised prices added); and an invitation to the auction and a press review of the event. ***The catalogue for the auction of 26 June 1988 (Sydney) and 2-3 July 1988 (Melbourne) in which 650 of the 738 engravings (all then published), printed in colour, from the original plates - and some other related prints - were offered.
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The Furthest Shore. Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook.

By: EISLER, William.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 7716

4to. 180pp, profusely illustrated in b/w and colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good to fine. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down.
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A Living Force : Andrew Inglis Clark and the Ideal of Commonwealth.

By: ELY, Richard (editor, with Marcus Hayward and James Walden).

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Hobart, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies: 2001

Seller ID: 14011

420pp, 6 illustrations. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy.
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A Living Force : Andrew Inglis Clark and the Ideal of Commonwealth.

By: ELY, Richard (editor, with Marcus Hayward and James Walden).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies: 2001

Seller ID: 14012

420pp, 6 illustrations. Soft covers; spine and adjecent strips faded. A good clean copy.
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History of Australian Discovery. Part I : from the earliest times to the foundation of the colony of New South Wales.

By: Exploration:

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Alburgh, England, Archival Facsimiles: 1987

Seller ID: 7674

A reproduction of the copy in the British Library. Small 8vo. 120pp, 4 plates. Bound in blue buckram with title labels. Fine. ISBN 1852970022 ***Facsimile of The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation, published by Hanson and Bennett, Sydney, 1865. Covers the pre-settlement maritime exploration of the continent, and the First Fleet.
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Northern Territory Centenary of Exploration 1860-1960. Souvenir Booklet.

By: Exploration:

Price: $20.00

Publisher: n.p., Dept. of Territories: nd

Seller ID: 9118

Oblong 4to. 28pp, b/w illus incl maps. Wrappers (rubbed, lighly creased). Very good.
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Report of the Expedition to King George's Sound 1841 and the Death of Baxter.

By: EYRE, Edward John.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1983

Seller ID: 35037

#44 of 155 copies. Small 8vo. 48pp. Hand-set and printed by the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Full brown cloth, paper title label on the upper board, with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Australian Furniture : pictorial history and dictionary 1788-1938.

By: FAHY, Kevin & Andrew Simpson.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Sydney, Casuarina Press: 1998

Seller ID: 8182

#974 of 2000 numbered copies, signed by the authors. Large 4to. 516pp, over 1000 illustrations, 600 in colour. Cloth with dustwrapper, in cloth-covered slipcase. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646229990 ***Described by the publishers as a companion volume to the authors' Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture (1985).
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The Story of John Fairfax : commemorating the centenary of the Fairfax Proprietary of the Sydney Morning Herald 1841-1941.

By: FAIRFAX, J.F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, John Fairfax and Sons: 1941

Seller ID: 9957

Illustrated by Adrian Feint. Small 4to. 169pp, colour frontis, b&w plates, line illus. Quarter leather (head and tail of spine rubbed) with parchment d/w (spine sunned, a couple of small chips, verso spotted). A few light spots on eps. Very good.
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Mostly Australian.

By: FENNER, Charles

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Georgian House: 1945

Seller ID: 18085

With 12 drawings by John C. Goodchild. 2nd edition, revised. 181pp, line illus. Original cloth-backed papered boards (back lower corner bumped) with dustwrapper (price clipped, small chip from head of spine). Small clip from top corner of ffep. Very good to good.
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Bushrangers.

By: FINGER, Charles J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride: 1924

Seller ID: 31546

Illustrated with woodcuts by Paul Honore. xvi, 216pp, frontis & 7 other two-colour woodcut plates, pictorial endpapers. Black cloth, gilt gun device and title on the upper board, spine a little faded, extremities a little rubbed. Slight printer's crease to inner top corners of a few early leaves, otherwise a good to very good clean copy.
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The Wild Men of St Helena.

By: FINGER, Jarvis.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Brisbane, Boolarong: 1987

Seller ID: 33663

46pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers (slight rubbing to extremities). A good to very good clean copy.
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Journey of Freedom.

By: FINLAY, Eileen.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Publishers Distributing Co.: 1950

Seller ID: 31384

First edition. 282pp. Original cloth with dustwrapper (some small chips from extremities, light stain on spine). Interior clean and fresh. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Very good.
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Distracted Settlement : New South Wales after Bligh. From the journals of Lieutenant James Finucane, 1808-1810.

By: FINUCANE, Lt. James : edited and introduced by Anne-Maree Whitaker.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 1998

Seller ID: 36089

(Miegunyah Press, Second Series, no 21.) 750 copies. xxxii, 150pp, 8 plates, 2 maps. Papered boards (faux quarter leather and marbled sides), with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0522847951 ***Finucane was secretary to Lt. Gov. Fouveaux who assumed command after Bligh's deposition.
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In The Days of Thunderbolt and Moonlight.

By: FITCHETT, W.H.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Fitchett Bros: nd

Seller ID: 26853

(Epic Pages from Australian's Story, No. 2.) 64pp. Stapled in the original illustrated wrappers. Owner's name. Margins a little spotted, otherwise very good. ****Wrapper adds 'The Dramatic Story of the Second Generation of Bushrangers'.
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Forty Years' Poems.

By: FITZGERALD, Robert D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1965

Seller ID: 9677

242pp. Original cloth (a little flecking). Owner's name on ffep. Good to very good.
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Matthew Flinders : personal letters from an extraordinary life.

By: Flinders, Matthew : edited and annotated by Paul Brunton.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hordern House/State Library of NSW: 2002

Seller ID: 26638

(Mitchell Heritage Series, no 1.) 2000 copies. 8vo. [x], 262pp, 19 coloured illustrations. Cloth-backed illustrated papered boards, silk place-ribbon. The last 30 pages have creasing across the top corner, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Signed by Paul Brunton. ISBN 1875567321
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Image for 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…

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.
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Image for Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798. Preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney [sic] Cove, &c. by Geoffrey Rawson, with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798. Preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney [sic] Cove, &c. by Geoffrey Rawson, with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

By: FLINDERS, Matthew.

Price: $220.00

Publisher: London, Golden Cockerel Press: 1946

Seller ID: 36398

#271 of 750 copies. Folio. 102pp, frontis & other engravings, full-page map. Printed on mould-made paper, edges uncut. Green buckram, gilt ship device on the upper board, extremities a little rubbed, a few touches of silverfishing. A good+ clean copy.
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Northern Frontiers.

By: FLYNN, Frank with Keith Willey.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, F.P. Leonard: nd

Seller ID: 14672

210pp, b&w photographs, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards (small marks) with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed). Very good.
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Joseph Furphy : the legend of a man and his book.

By: FRANKLIN, Miles (in association with Kate Baker).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1944

Seller ID: 9053

190pp, bibliography ('sources') sheet tipped in, b&w photographs. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (spine and adjacent strips browned). Related newspaper clipping loosely inserted, and responsible for offsetting on the front endpapers. A very good clean copy. *** The book being the great Australian novel, Such is Life, by 'Tom Collins'.
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A Glance at Australia in 1880: or, Food from the South...

By: FRANKLYN, H. Mortimer.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Melbourne, The Review Publishing Company: 1881

Seller ID: 36155

8vo. xxii (advertisments), xx, 414pp, [2], cviii (Pastoral and Agricultural Directory & advertisments);coloured endpapers also with advertisements (and the free eps included in the pagination. Original brown cloth, decorated and ruled in black, spine lettered in gilt. The endpapers have offsetting and light damp-staining (which does not extend to text pages) and the front paste-down has an owner's unsophisticated bookplate. A few spots of foxing on the edges, the pages clean and crisp. A very good clean copy. [title continues] Showing the present condition and production of some of its leading...
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The Early Canberra House : living in Canberra 1911-1933. An anthology.

By: FREEMAN, Peter (ed).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Canberra, Federal Capital Press: 1996

Seller ID: 36166

4to. 144pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Signed by Peter Freeman. ISBN 095986752X
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The Homestead : a Riverina anthology.

By: FREEMAN, Peter.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 18602

Oblong 4to. 304pp, many illustrations, maps and plans in colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A little light spotting on top edges, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0195542320
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The Woolshed : a Riverina anthology.

By: FREEMAN, Peter.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 18601

First edition. Oblong 4to. 232pp, numerous b&w illustrations, maps and plans in colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0195505689
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The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra : voyager with Cook, American loyalist, servant of empire.

By: FROST, Alan : with the assistance of Isabel Moutinho.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 1995

Seller ID: 27699

Miegunyah Press second seies, number 6. 1000 copies. 8vo. 264pp, illustrated, place ribbon. Canvas cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 052284667X
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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.
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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.
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A Biographical Register 1788-1939. Notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography - Volume I: A-K. Volume II: L-Z.

By: GIBBNEY, H.J. & Ann G. Smith (eds)

Price: $44.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian Dictionary of Biography: 1987

Seller ID: 28313

2 volumes. 403 & 429pp. Soft covers, spines slightly faded. Very good. ISBN 0731501047
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A Frenchman's Walk across the Nullarbor : Henri Gilbert's diary, Perth to Brisbane 1897-1899.

By: GILBERT, Henri : translated and edited by Colin Dyer

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Melbourne University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 14077

Small 8vo. 196pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0522849164 ***First publication of the journal kept by the French adventurer, who sent out to walk not just across Australia, but around the world.
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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.
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A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands.

By: GOULD, John.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press: 1979

Seller ID: 36170

Facsimile. #228 of 387 copies. 4to. Unpaginated, 74 colour plates, descriptive text on the facing page. Half green morocco and buckram sides, raised bands, gilt titles and decorations (by the Dove Bindery). Clear dustwrapper and papered slipcase. A fine clean copy. ***Gould's first book on Australian birds, first published in 1837-38.
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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.
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Daddy We Hardly Knew You.

By: GREER, Germaine.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1989

Seller ID: 31374

312pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Edges a little yellowed, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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Sweers Islands Unveiled. Details from Abel Tasman and Matthew Flinders' explorations of Australia.

By: Høgenhoff, Carsten Berg, et al.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Oslo, Høgenhoff Forlag: 2006

Seller ID: 21426

In co-operation with Lyn & Tex Battle, Bob Forsyth & Annette Sweerts. Foreword by Paul Brunton. 44pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Stapled in wrappers. New copy. ***Follows the paths of Tasman and Flinders, investigating the places they named after Salomon Sweers (1612-1674), Councillor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia in the 1640s.
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Death or Liberty : the convicts of the 'Britannia', Ireland to Botany Bay, 1797.

By: HALL, Barbara.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sydney, Author: 2006

Seller ID: 24408

258pp. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0958149925 ***Traces the lives (and crimes) of the 200 convicts transported to Australia on this ship.
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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.
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Sir Thomas Phillipps and Australia.

By: HANKEL, Valmai.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1987

Seller ID: 36236

#34 of 185 copies. Small 8vo. 50pp. Blue cloth, paper title-label on the upper board, with the dustwrapper (spine a little sunned). ***An address by the Fine Books Librarian at the State Library of South Australia, to the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand in 1982; now expanded, and published for the first time. Sir Thomas Phillipps has been referred to as the world's greatest book collector.
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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...
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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.'
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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.
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POETIC GEMS.

By: HARRIS, Max.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Mary Martin Books: 1979

Seller ID: 13417

50pp. Soft covers. Light spotting on first few leaves, rear fep and edges. Very good.
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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
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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.
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Australia's Brilliant Daughter : Ellis Rowan, artist, naturalist, explorer 1848-1922.

By: HAZZARD, Margaret.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Greenhouse: 1984

Seller ID: 15101

Small 4to. 160pp, b&w and colour illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0909104735
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Air War Against Germany and Italy 1939-1943.

By: HERINGTON, John.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian War Memorial: 1954

Seller ID: 24619

(Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 3, Air, no III.) First edition. 732pp,illustrated in b&w, maps. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (faded in places, quite rubbed, some closed tears, now in protective sleeve). A touch of silverfishing on the upper board, edges yellowed and offsetting on endpapers, owner's small ink stamp on the paste-downs; otherwise a good clean copy.
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John Shaw Neilson : a life in letters.

By: HEWSON, Helen.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 2001

Seller ID: 36348

xxiv, 504pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0522849202
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Journal of the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society, numbers 1-3. [1] Some Men of Wagga Wagga [2] More Men - and Women - of Wagga Wagga [3] People and Events of Wagga Wagga and District.

By: HEYDON, P.R., John Hurst and K.J. Swan.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Wagga Wagga, The Society: 1968

Seller ID: 30435

64/56/56pp, black & white illustrations, maps. Stapled in stiff wrappers, owner's name on cover of Number 3. Very good.
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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.
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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...
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Category: Australia