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All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. We issued Antique Bookshop Catalogue One - Australiana, in October Payment is due on receipt of books. 1978, having opened our physical book shop over two years earlier. I had misplaced my own copy of this catalogue and only this week a No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. collector who had received one at the time found his and I was able to Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. peruse it. He purchased books from that catalogue, purchased from our most recent catalogue and also from many in between. The catalogue was a roneoed production on A4 paper, produced on a CONTENTS second-hand roneo machine I had purchased at auction. I wrote the catalogue entries on cards and my wife Maureen typed it onto PROFESSOR R.IAN JACK LIBRARY 1 - 80 the skins to attach to the roneo machine to enable printing. There was a BOOKS OF THE MONTH 81 - 110 simple black and white line illustration of an emu on the front cover. It POPULAR MUSIC - With SIGNATURES 111 - 123 was collated by hand, stapled and posted out, or handed to callers. ABORIGINAL ART & CULTURE 124 - 161 Back then there were no mobile phones, no personal computers and no BOOKS 162 - 188 internet. The advance of technology means that it is now much easier AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 189 - 291 MISCELLANEOUS 292 - 390 to produce catalogues beautifully typeset and with glorious colour il- BIRDS 391 - 405 lustrations, something not possible then without great expense. There were 463 books in the catalogue, mostly under $50, though a few were higher. The most expensive book was a copy of the original edi- Front cover items: tion of Gould’s Synopsis for $2,000. A copy sold at auction in 2018 for 83, 50, 84, 99, 98 / 6,500 pounds, about the same taking inflation into account. We sold a 91, 94 (12 vols), 115, 107 set of Bean’s WWI history then for $95; the set in this catalogue is $750. We sold Leichhardt’s Journal of an Overland Expedition for $500. A October 2020 similar copy would cost about $5,000 today. Some of the other books though have not changed so ISSN 2209-850x much in value. (Cover image on inside back cover) Please enjoy our catalogue 350.
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Books from the library of the 488pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Late Professor R.Ian Jack 1st ed. Lazy, lawless, drunken & in debt is the image of the ex-convict settlers at the early Hawkesbury settlement. Painstaking research reveals 1 ATKINSON, Louisa. EXCURSIONS FROM BERRIMA. And another story, with the story of one ex-convict, Sarah Cooley. $49 a trip to Monaro and Molonglo in the 1870’s. Canb. Mulini Press. 1980. wrapps. 38pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Limited to 600 copies. $33 8 BIRMINGHAM, Judy. JACK, Ian. & JEANS, Dennis. AUSTRALIAN PIONEER TECHNOLOGY. Sites and Relics. Richmond, 2 ATKINSON, Louisa. GERTRUDE THE EMIGRANT; A Tale VIC. Heinemann Australia 1979. 4to. Or.bds. of Colonial Life. Edited by Elizabeth Lawson. Dustjacket. 200pp. Profusely illustrated in Canberra, ADFA & Mulini Press. 1998. Col.Ill. colour and black & white. Very good copy. wrapps. 376pp. b/w ills. Fine. A scholarly edition 1st ed. Australia may not have a Parthenon, of the work first published in 1857, this edition Coliseum or Versailles for archaeologists is only its second printing. This work was the to study, but it does have a rich source of first Australian novel written by a native-born pioneering relics of often disastrous industrial woman, and the first to be illustrated by its activity to explore. $60 author. Colonial Texts Series. $40 9 BIRMINGHAM, Judy; JACK, 3 ATTEWELL (HARRIS), Fay. UPON A STATE Ian & JEANS, Dennis. INDUSTRIAL UNKNOWN. Family roots from Colonisation to ARCHAEOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA. Rural Federation. Terrigal. The Author. 1988. Or.bds. Industry. Melb. Heinemann Publishers. 1983 261pp. b/w ills. Colour decorated endpapers. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 191pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black Fine. 1st ed. No.535 of 1,000 numbered copies. & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at the sites, buildings & relics Loose addendum and error sheets loosely inserted. $90 of Australia’s pioneering industries including flour mills, brick making 4 AUSTRALIA BEAUTIFUL. April and October Numbers 1929. factories, building industries, transport & early farming machinery. Bound in one volume. Syd. 1929. 4to. Or.cloth- $45 backed boards. Margaret Preston woodcut 10 BLAINEY, Ann. IF GOD PROSPERS ME. A Portrait of on title of April issue. 56,56pp. Col.plates of Frederick John Cato. Melb. Chandos Publishing. 1990. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Australian art and b/w photographic plates 150pp. b/w plates & ills. Fine. 1st ed. Fred Cato was co-founder of the (some by Cazneaux) Insc. on ffe & the boards Moran and Cato grocery chain. $35 sl.worn else a Good copy. Scarce. $60 11 BRADSHAW, F.Maxwell. SCOTTISH SECEDERS IN 5 BAGLIN, Elaine & Douglass. AUSTRALIAN VICTORIA. A history of those Scottish Seceders who came to Victoria, CHIMNEYS AND COOKHOUSES. Syd. Australia, in the early days of the colony and there established themselves Murray Brown. 1979. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. as a separately organised group. Lond. Robertson & Mullens. 1947. Or.cl. 80pp. Numerous Col. photographic plates. Very 192pp. Folding table. Foredge of cloth moisture affected else a Good copy. Good copy. 1st ed. $30 1st ed. Scarce. $30 6 BAILLIERE, F. F. BAILLIERE’S NEW 12 BROGDEN, Stanley. THE SUDAN CONTINGENT. Melb. SOUTH WALES GAZETTEER AND ROAD GUIDE 1866. Containing The Hawthorn Press. 1943. Ill.wrapps. 70pp. A the most recent and accurate information very good copy of the scarce 1st ed. Limited to 750 as to every place in the Colony. Compiled copies. Printed at the Hawthorn Press. A sketch by Robert P. Whitworth. Syd. F. F. Bailliere. of the Australian involvement in the Sudan in 1866. Or.blind-stamped cloth. 664pp. + Ads. 1885. $40 Folding map of New South Wales. The cloth sl.worn and a tear and old tape repair on the 13 BURLEIGH, J.H.S. A CHURCH map else a good copy. F.6521. A geographical HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Lond. OUP. 1960. dictionary of the Australian Colonies as Or.cl. Dustjacket. 456pp. Folding diagram. Very they were in 1866. Designed to be used in good copy. 1st ed. $30 conjunction with a map, it contains the 14 CAMERON, Judith. various social, physical & geographical WOOLSHEDS AND STORIES WITH A GRAIN statistics. $250 OF SALT. Wee Waa. The Author. 2003. Foolscap 7 BARKLEY-JACK, Jan HAWKESBURY SETTLEMENT folio. Ill.wrapps. 180pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st REVEALED. A new look at Australia’s third mainland settlement 1793 ed. Inscribed by the author at the launch. $45 - 1802. Dural. Rosenberg Publications. 2009. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
15 CAMPBELL, J.F. “SQUATTING” ON CROWN LANDS IN leather. 103pp. With fold-out b/w ills & map. Very good copy. Whilst NEW SOUTH WALES. Edited & annotated by B.T.Bowd. Syd. RAHS. translating some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1762, 1968. Ill.wrapps. 68pp. Very Good copy. 1st ed. $33 Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple discovered that Luis Vaez de Torres had found New Guinea & the Torres Strait. $75 16 CHASSANT, Alph. PALEOGRAPHIE DES CHARTES ET DES MANUSCRITS DU XIe AU XVIIe SIECLE. Sixieme edition. Paris. 23 DANTE ALIGHIERI. LA DIVINA COMMEDIA. Col Auguste Aubry. 1867. Or.cl. (worn, the Comento del P.Pompeo Venturi. Tomo III. Prima Edizione Siciliana. spine detached) Gilt device on front Palermo Presso Salvatore Barcellona 1830. 12mo Old quarter calf & board. iv,1593pp. Ten folding plates. marbled boards. 466pp. Boards a little worn & some foxing else a good Small book label affixed to title page. copy. $60 Some underling of the text in colour 24 DENBIGHSHIRE. INDEX TO THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF pencil. Scarce. $75 DENBIGHSHIRE. LARGE FOLDING MAP. On the scale of six inches to 17 CHEW, V.K. TALKING one statute mile. Southampton. MACHINES, 1877-1914. Some Ordnance Survey Office 1883. Aspects of the Early History of the 860x610mm. Linen-backed. Gramophone. Lond. HMSO. 1967. Ill. Fine condition in a cloth folder wrapps. 81pp. Many b/w ills. Very which is a little worn. Appears Good copy. 1st ed. $30 to have been used for electoral purposes as it is annotated in 18 COLWELL, James. THE pen on blank areas of the maps ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF showing the number of electors METHODISM. Australia: 1812 to 1855. New South Wales & Polynesia: in various areas. Denbighshire 1856 to 1902. Compiled from official records and other sources. Lond. is a county in north-east Wales. Long inhabited, Neanderthal remains William Brooks. 1904. 4to. Half red morocco. 669pp. b/w plates & ills. from 225,00 years ago have been found there. $150 The binding a little rubbed else a goo ex-library copy. $90 25 DICKEY, Brian (Ed.) THE AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF 19 COSH, James & Janet; BARNSDALL, Stephanie. THE EVANGELICAL BIOGRAPHY. Syd. Evangelical History Assoc. 1994. LETTERS OF JAMES AND JANET COSH, 1866-1870. Killara. Or.bds. 417pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. $40 S.Barnsdall. 199? Foolscap folio. Wrappers. Spiral bound. Various pag. Very good copy. 1st ed. Letters written while they were in the New 26 EARNSHAW, Beverley. THE SHIPBUILDERS AND SHIPS Hebrides. Transcribed from Mitchell Library Mss. 1484. $35 OF GEORGES RIVER AND BOTANY BAY, 1810-1900. Kogarah. The Author. 2011. Col.Ill.wrapps. 48pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $30 20 CROSS COUNTRY. THE DOUGLASS DIRECTION. 2 vols. Vol.1. William (George) Douglass, 27 FIXED IN TIME. Photographs from another Australia, 1900- Sarah Douglass, Charles Douglass, Elizabeth 1939. Syd. Fairfax Library. 1985. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 175pp. Some col Douglass. Vol.2. Mary Ann, Joseph, George, & many b/w photographic plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of Christopher, Eleanor, Humphrey Taylor, photographs from the Boer War & Federation to the beginning of World Thomas Green, James, Henry. n.p. Windsor? War I. $40 Cross-Flood Family Ass 2005. Decorated 28 FORD, W. & F. (Publishers) SYDNEY COMMERCIAL wrapps. 337,339pp. A few b/w ills. A Fine set. DIRECTORY FOR THE YEAR 1851. Compiled with the greatest care up Scarce. $175 to 31st December, 1850. Facsimile edition. 21 CURTIS, Robert Emerson. BUILDING Syd. LAH. 1978. Or.cl. xlv,51,156pp. + THE BRIDGE. Fourteen Lithographs unpag. ads. b/w ills. Fine. Edition of 1000 celebrating the construction of the Sydney numbered copies. First published 1851. Harbour Bridge. Syd. Collins. 1982. (Rev ed.) Facsimile series No.16. $65 Folio. Or.qt.cl. & dec.bds. 14 full page plates with accompanying text. 29 GIBBS-SMITH, C.H. Very Good copy. A reprint of the 1933 first edition, to celebrate the 50th VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. Anniversary of the Bridge. $55 THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851. A 22 DALRYMPLE, Alexander. AN ACCOUNT OF THE Commemorative Album. Lond. HMSO. DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE SOUTH PACIFICK OCEAN. First 1950. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 142pp. printed in 1767, reissued with a foreword by Dr Kevin Fewster of the Many b/w ills. The wrappers torn & worn. Australian National Maritime Museum, and an essay by Dr Andrew Top of pages moisture affected. Fair copy Cook of the British Library. Syd. Hordern House. 1996. Or.bds. Qtr. only. $30 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
30 GILBERT, Lionel. A GRAVE LOOK 36 JALLAND, Pat. AUSTRALIAN WAYS OF DEATH. A Social AT HISTORY. Glimpses of a Vanishing Form and Cultural History 1840-1918. Melb. OUP. 2002. Wrapps. 378pp. Very of Folk Art. Syd. John Ferguson Pty Ltd. 1980. good copy. 1st ed. Describes how Australians in the past came to terms 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. Profusely with death within the constraints and cultural perspectives of their own illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. times. $60 1st ed. Graveyards are one of Australia’s great 37 JALLAND, Pat. CHANGING WAYS OF DEATH IN irreplaceable monuments to our past. Over the TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA. War, decades they have been destroyed through acts Medicine and the Funeral Business. Kensington. of individual & official vandalism. A look at a UNSW Press. 2006. Col.Ill.wrapps. 409pp. b/w vanishing folk art. $35 ills. Fine. 1st ed. $75 31 GOVETT, William Romaine. SKETCHES 38 KABLE, Paul & WHITTAKER, June. OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Written and DAMNED RASCALS. A Chronicle of Henry illustrated for the Saturday Magazine in 1836- & Susannah Kable, 1764-1846. Sutton, NSW. 37. Together with an essay on the Saturday Magazine by Gaston Renard Kable Pictorial. n.d. c.2007. Foolscap folio. Col. and an account of his life by Annette Potts. Melb. Gaston Renard. 1977. Ill.wrapps. 176pp. Some Col.plates & many b/w 4to. Or.illustrated cloth. 91pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Limited to 250 copies; ills. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. $75 this is no. 83 signed by Annette Potts and Gaston Renard. $60 39 KELSALL, D.F. & WOODCOCK, J.T. 32 GRAHAM, Gordon. THE INSTITUTION OF INTELLECTUAL MINERAL RESOURCES OF AUSTRALIA. VALUES. Realism and Idealism in Higher Proceeding of the Third Invitation Symposium, Education. Exeter. Imprint Academic. 2005. held in Adelaide on11th & 12th October, 1979.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 295pp. Fine. 1st ed. Parkville (Vic) Aust.Acad.Tech.Sci. 1979. Or.bds. Mylar dj. 289pp. b/w St.Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public ills. Fine. 1st ed. $35 Affairs. $50 40 KIERNAN, Colm. DANIEL MANNIX AND IRELAND. 33 GRONO-BOOKS ASSOCIATION. TWO Morwell (Vic) Alella Books. 1984. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 238pp. Fine. 1st HAWKESBURY SAILORS. An Illustrated Aust ed. $30 History of Capt.John Grono and Capt.Alexander 41 KINGSTON, Daphne. THE CHANGING HAWKESBURY. Books. 2nd edition. n.p. Sydney? Grono-Books A Selection of Sixty Drawings Assoc. n.d. (Inscription by Ted Books date 2009) of Nineteenth Century Houses Foolscap folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 168pp. col & b/w and Barns in the Hawkesbury ills. Fine. Considerably expanded from the 76 area recorded during the 1970’s. page 1st ed. of 1984. $75 With Chronology of recorded 34 HOSKYNS, Chandos Engravings, Etchings &c in the Wren. TALPA: O r t h e Hawkesbury 1788-1938. Syd. Chronicles of a Clay Farm. An Eureka Research. 1979. Oblong Agricultural Fragment. Fourth Folio. Faux leather binding. 84pp. Edition. Lond. Longman, 60 sepia illustrations. Fine. 1st Brown Green &c. 1857. Or.cl. ed. No 9 of 500 copies, signed by with gilt vignette of a mole Daphne Kingston. $75 on front board. viii,245pp. 42 KIRSOP, Wallace (Ed.) With Meredith Sherlock. THE Twenty-four b/w vignettes by COMMONWEALTH OF BOOKS. Essays and Studies in Honour of George Cruikshank. The cloth Ian Willison. Monash Uni. Centre for the Book. 2007. Or.bds. Dustjacket. worn, and with some internal 271pp. Colour frontispiece portrait and b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. “Ian soiling and browning. Scarce. A Willison, whose professional life was spent in the British Museum classic of English agricultural Library, played a leading part in the development of book history studies literature. The farm was subsequently identified as Wraxall Abbey in in the English-peaking world. $60 Warwickshire. $55 43 LANG, John Dunmore. THE FATAL MISTAKE AND TWO 35 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, AUSTRALIA. STATEMENTS ON THE SCOTS CHURCH, SYDNEY. Facsimile ed. TRANSACTIONS. VOLUME 1. Syd. The Institution. 1920. Or.wrapps. Published to mark the centenary of his death on August 8, 1878. Syd. 480pp. b/w ills. 21 plates, many folding. Very good copy. Scarce. $65 LAH. 1978. Or.cl. 51pp. b/w plates. Fine. First published 1875 & 1873. Edition of 500 numbered copies. $35 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
44 LISTON, Carol. SARAH WENTWORTH: MISTRESS OF 52 NEW SOUTH WALES & PORT PHILLIP GENERAL POST VAUCLUSE. Syd. Historic Houses Trust. 1988. Col.Ill.wrapps. 128pp. OFFICE DIRECTORY FOR 1839. Syd. Royal Australian Hist.Soc. 2000. Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by the author. $35 Sm.8vo. Or.bds. 178pp. Fine. 1st facsimile reprint. The first Australian 45 LOW, Francis. THE CITY OF SYDNEY DIRECTORY FOR directory to include names from Port Phillip. A detailed listing, with MDCCCXLIV-V. Containing names, places of business & residences of names, occupations & addresses. $85 the principal inhabitants etc etc. Facsimile ed. Syd. LAH. 1978. Tall 8vo. 53 THE NEWCASTLE DIRECTORY AND ALMANAC FOR Or.cl. 218pp. b/w plates. Fine. Scarce. Edition of 1000 numbered copies. THE YEAR 1880. Facsimile edition. Syd. LAH. 1978. Or.cl. 143pp. b/w $45 ills. Fine. First published 1879. Edition of 750 numbered copies. $55 46 METROPOLITAN WATER SEWERAGE & DRAINAGE 54 NEWMAN, John Henry. THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY. BOARD. SYDNEY WATER BOARD JOURNAL, Vols 3, 4 & 5. Three Defined and Illustrated. In nine discourses delivered to the Catholics of vols. Syd. The Board. 1953-1956. 4to. Cloth-bound. 128,128,128pp. Many Dublin. In occasional lectures and essays addressed to the members of b/w ills. Very good copies. The three vols for $120 the catholic University. Lond. Longmans Green. 1902. (New imp) Or.cl. 47 MITCHELL, Jean. A MITCHELL FAMILY ON THE 527,8pp. (a little foxing) The cloth sl.worn else a good copy. $30 HAWKESBURY RIVER. John and Jane Mitchell and Family, 1842-1992. 55 NICOL, Robert. FAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. The Story of Enfield, Researched by Nancy Mitchell & Jean Mitchell. Gerringong. The Author. Australia’s First Lawn Cemetery. Adel. 1992. Foolscap folio. Ill.wrapps. 118pp. + index. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Enfield General Cemetery Tr. 1997. Col.ill. $50 bds. 212pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $45 48 MOURITZ, J.J. THE PORT PHILLIP ALMANAC AND 56 OSSIAN. THE POEMS OF OSSIAN. DIRECTORY, FOR 1847. Facsimile edition. Syd. LAH. 1979. Sm.8vo. Originally Translated by James Macpherson, Or.cl. 150pp. Nice copy. First facsimile edition. Edition of 1000 numbered Esq. Attempted in English Verse by the late copies. $45 Rev.John Shackleton. Vol.1. only. Birmingham. 49 McHARDY, Cathy & Nicholas. SACRED TO THE MEMORY... Printed by J.Ferrall. 1817. Old half calf & A Study of Wilberforce Cemetery. Kurrajong. marbled bds, the front board detached. Cathy McHardy. 2003. Foolscap folio. Col.Ill. xiv,227pp. Insc. on ffe & boards worn else a wrapps. 144pp. Several leaves loose else a fair copy. $60 Good copy. Scarce. $60 57 PARRATT, Jean. FARNHAM PAST. 50 THE NEW SOUTH WALES CALENDAR Chichester (West Sussex) Phillimore & Co. AND GENERAL POST OFFICE DIRECTORY 1999. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 134pp. Many 1837. Syd. W.Moffit, 23 Pitt St. 1837. Or.cl., spine b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $33 chipped. xviii,370,149pp. uncut. Engraved title 58 PETRARC. LE RIME DI FRANCESCO PETRARCA. Vol.2. of page, frontispiece plate of the New Court a two volume set. Parigi. Apresso Marcelo Prault. 1768. 12mo. Old calf House, South Head Road Sydney. Four plates, (worn, the covers detached) Ex Surry Institution Library. Stamped “Surry of signals, one hand-coloured. Internally a very Institution” in gilt on front board. 328pp. Lacks all before engraved title. good copy. Very Scarce. F.2323. $1,250 Mss notes on verso of ffe. Bookplate of Dorothea Mackellar on ffe. 51 THE NEW SOUTH $60 WALES CALENDAR AND 59 PRESBYTER, A, of Twenty Years Standing. “FAITHFUL GENERAL POST OFFICE STEWARDSHIP”. An Appeal to the Members DIRECTORY 1832. Syd. of the Church of England and especially to the Stephens & Stokes. 1832. Lay Representatives of Synod of the Diocese of Or.cl., worn, the binding loose. Newcastle for a more faithful discharge of their vi,204pp. + unpag. calendar & Duties and Responsibilities. Syd. Joseph Cook & directory. Engraved title page, Co. 1876. 8vo. Sewn sheets. 46pp. (some foxing) folding map of the Town of Scarce. F.14319. $75 Sydney 1831, folding hand- 60 PURTELL, Jean. HAWKESBURY RIVER coloured code of signals leaf. A BOATS AND PEOPLE. Richmond. Jean good copy. Very Scarce F.1582. Purtell. 1982. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 102pp. Many Signature of John Fitzgerald, 1832 on front pastedown. He appears in the b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Edition of 1000 directory as being from Windsor. Handwritten notes on ffe and also the copies. Author’s inscription on title page. $45 binder’s ticket of William Moffit, King St. $1,250 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
70 SANKER, Ian G. QUEENSLAND IN THE 1860’s. The 61 RITZENTHALER, Mary Lynn et al. ARCHIVES AND Photographs of Richard Daintree. Brisbane. Queensland Museum. 1977. MANUSCRIPTS: ADMINISTRATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 120pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and COLLECTIONS. Chicago. Soc. American Archivists. 1984. Foolscap black & white. Fine. 1st ed. $40 folio. Ill.wrapps. 173pp. col & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $35 71 SEYFFERT, Dr.Oskar. A DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL 62 ROBERTSON, William. MY YEAR OF OFFICE. Syd. ANTIQUITIES. MYTHOLOGY, RELIGION, LITERATURE & ART. Christian World Office. 1926. Limp cloth. 185pp. Some foxing else a good From the German of the author. Revised & edited by Henry Nettleship copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The author was & J.E.Sandys. Lond. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1899. (4th ed.) Or.dec.cl. Ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. $30 716pp. (a little foxing) Over 400 b/w ills. The cloth spotted else a good 63 ROBIN, A. de Q. CHARLES PERRY, BISHOP OF copy. $75 MELBOURNE. The Challenges of a Colonial Episcopate, 1847-76. 72 SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE. XXIII SALON Nedlands. UWA. 1967. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 229pp. b/w plates. Very Good INTERNATIONAL D’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE PARIS 1928. copy. 1st ed. This study of Melbourne’s first bishop won the Hulsean Paris. 1928. Folio. Lettered wrappers. 11pp. Plus 48 b/w plates. The corners Prize for Church History at Cambridge. $28 a little rubbed else a good copy. $50 64 ROSS, Edgar. A HISTORY OF THE MINERS’ FEDERATION 73 STANBURY, Peter (Ed.) CONSERVING HISTORIC OF AUSTRALIA. Syd. Aust.Coal & Shale Federation. 1970. Or.bds. PHOTOGRAPHS. With an Appendix of historic photograph collections 528pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. “The struggles that brought the in New South Wales. Papers from the Conference at the National Trust Miners’ Federation into being, consolidated it & developed it..against the Centre, April 1981. University of Sydney. Macleay Mus. 1982. Foolscap background of the history of the Labor movement as a whole. $30 folio. Ill.wrapps. 86pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $35 65 ROSS, Valerie. MATTHEW EVERINGHAM. A First Fleeter 74 STEVEN, James. HARMONIA SACRA. A Selection of the most and his Times. Syd. LAH. 1980. Or.bds. approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes. Dustjacket. 165pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Glasgow. J.Brown. n.d. (c.1825) 12mo. Scarce. The first major work devoted to the life Old half calf. 168pp. Frontispiece plate and times of a first fleet convict. $225 of an organ. The biding sl.worn & with 66 ROSS, Valerie (Ed.) THE EVERINGHAM some soiling to the title else a good LETTERBOOK. Letters of a First Fleet Convict. copy. Scarce. Music scores principally Syd. Anvil Press. 1985. Or.bds. Dustjacket. in four parts. $90 183pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. $125 75 SUTTOR, W.H. AUSTRALIAN 67 ROYLANCE, Derek. AIR BASE STORIES RETOLD and Sketches of RICHMOND. The Story of the RAAF Base Country Life. Bathurst. 1887. 12mo. on the Hawkesbury. Richmond. RAAF Base Or.cl. 184pp. A good ex-library cop Richmond. 1991. Col.Ill.wrapps. 132pp. with col with a few stamps. Bookplate of Colin & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The story Berckelman by Sydney Long. 1st ed. of the airbase from the early days of European Scarce. F.16479. The author, an M.L.C., settlement, to its importance since 1912 as was the grandson of George Suttor an active airbase. From the pioneering days who was a friend of Sir Joseph Banks, of aviation through both wars, to the present and arrived in Sydney in 1800. $50 day. $35 76 TERENCE. PUBLII TERENTII, 68 RYAN, James T. REMINISCENCES AFRI, COMOEDIAE SEX, AD OF AUSTRALIA. Containing 70 years of his FIDEM EDITIONIS. Lond. In own knowledge and 35 years of his ancestors. Aedibus Valpianis. 1818. Sm.8vo. Facsimile edition. Syd. Macarthur Press. n.d. Old full tree calf, worn. 232pp. Some (c.1996) Or.bds. 456pp. Frontispiece portrait. pencil & ink annotations. Signature Fine. Edition of 2000 numbered copies. Ryan’s “R.M.Fitzgerald, June 16th, 1853” on grandfather arrived in Australia with the first ffe. $60 fleet, and their son Robert was the first white 77 WAUGH, James. W. THE STRANGER’S GUIDE TO SYDNEY. male child born in Australia. $45 Arranged in a series of walks; with a map of the city, & directory of the 69 RYAN, Simon. THE CARTOGRAPHIC EYE. How Explorers various streets & public buildings. Favourite pleasure excursions in the Saw Australia. Cambridge Uni Press. 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. 235pp. b/w neighbourhood, coach & steam info &c. Syd. LAH. 1978. Or.cl. 71,34pp. ills. Fine. 1st ed. $55 Fine. With b/w ills & fold out map of Sydney as it was in 1861. Edition THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
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105 ROWLING, J.K. HARRY POTTER 109 WATSON, James D. THE DOUBLE HELIX. A Personal AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. Illustrated Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Lond. Weidenfeld & by Jim Kay. Lond. Bloomsbury. 2016. Illustrated Nicolson. 1968. Or.bds. Dustjacket. xvi,226,8pp. 19 half-tone illustrations edition. Large folio. Or.dec.cl. with gilt design on & 11 diagrams. Good copy. 1st Eng. ed. Sl.tears to dj else a very good copy. front board. 259pp. a.e.g. Filled with Jim Kay’s Scarce. An important first-hand account of a major scientific discovery splendid illustrations & decorations. Many full- for which Watson won the Nobel Prize. $150 page colour illustrations. With a loose inserted 110 ZHOU, Qiliang. (Late Qing). fold-out panorama of Diagon Alley North Side, ZHOU QI LIANG PAINTINGS. with illustrations by Jim Kay. Marker ribbon. (Text in Chinese). No Imprint Fine in the gilt-decorated cloth slip-case and in (Peking?) n.d. (early 20th century) the original card box. A sumptuous edition. Oblong. Rice paper, bound in the $250 Asian style. 12 leaves of plates, 106 STEPHENS, George. THE OLD- each leaf with two delicate hand- NORTHERN RUNIC MONUMENTS OF coloured illustrations describing SCANDINAVIA AND ENGLAND. Now first local businesses, so 24 hand- collected and deciphered. With many coloured illustrations in total. hundreds of facsimiles and illustrations, Fine and rare. $1,500 partly in gold, silver, bronze and colours; runic alphabets; introductions; appendices; POPULAR MUSIC - WITH SIGNATURES wordlists etc. 3 vols. Lond. John Russell 111 (ABBA) VINCENTELLI, Elisabeth. ABBA. Treasures. A Smith. 1866-67. All Folio. Binder’s cloth Celebration of the Ultimate Pop Group. with leather titling labels. lxx,362,676,508pp. With Removable Memorabilia. Lond. Colour plates, many b/w ills. and runic Omnibus Press. 2010. Folio. Col.ill.bds. symbols. A very good set. A monumental 176pp. Profusely illustrated in colour work on the subject. The set $450 and black & white. With removable 107 TENCH, Captain Watkin. A memorabilia. Very good copy. 1st ed. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO In the slip-case. With separate signed BOTANY BAY. With an account of New photos each of Benny, Bjorn & Frida. South Wales, its productions, inhabitants, The Swedish pop supergroup ABBA &c. To which is subjoined, a List of the formed in Stockholm in 1972, & after Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson. By winning the Eurovision Song Contest Captain Watkin Tench, of the Marines. Dublin. Printed in 1974 they went on to become one of for H.Chamberlaine. 1789. Modern half calf & marbled the most successful acts in popular music history. $450 boards. ix,146pp. A very good copy of the very scarce 112 BARNES, Jimmy. WORKING CLASS MAN. A memoir Dublin printing of the first authentic account of settled of running out of time. N.Y. Harper Collins Publishers. 2017. Or.bds. Australia to appear in print. Published in the same Dustjacket. 490pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by year as the first edition. Dame Mabel Balcombe Brookes Jimmy Barnes. Jimmy Barnes recounts the hard rocking & living lifestyle bookplate. F.51. $3,000 he survived with Cold Chisel & a solo career that produced 17 No. 1 108 WALTON, Isaac & COTTON, Charles. THE singles, & 14 albums with Cold Chisel as well as 13 solo albums. $85 COMPLETE ANGLER. Or Contemplative Man’s 113 BASIE, Count. COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA. Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish Count Basie Tour 1979 Tour Program of Australia & New Zealand. Syd. and Fishing. With the Lives of the Authors and Notes Aust Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1979. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 14pp. b/w Historical, Critical, Supplementary and Explanatory ills. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a very good copy. Signed by Count Basie & by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Lond. Printed for Samuel Trumpeter Peter Minger. Together with ‘The World of Count Basie’ by Baxter. 1808. Full dark green calf with raised bands & gilt Stanley Dance. N.Y. Da Capo Press, Inc. 1980. Col.Ill.wrapps. 399pp. b/w piscatorial emblems in the spine panels. vi,512pp. a.e.g. ills. Very good copy. With small inserted card signed by Lionel Hampton. Frontispiece portrait of the authors, engraved half-title The pair $95 and 17 engraved plates by Audient. 19 ills in the text. The spine a bit faded 114 BERRY, Chuck. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Lond. Faber and else a very good copy. The 7th edition and the first Baxter edition. Scarce. Faber. 1988. Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 346pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. A classic work, a celebration of fishing through prose, verse & art. $350 1st UK ed. With an inserted card signed by Chuck Berry & a 45 RPM vinyl record featuring 4 Chuck Berry Hits - Johnny B.Goode, Nadine, THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
No Particular Place To Go, by a talent scout & became a top charting American pop singer in the & Memphis Tennessee. Chuck late 1950s & early 1960s with hits like ‘Stupid Cupid’. $45 Berry, nicknamed the ‘Father of 119 LAINE, Cleo. CLEO. Lond. Simon & Schuster Ltd. 1994. Rock and Roll’, took the blues & Or.bds. Dustjacket. 352pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. With a added rhythm to it. His first hit small b/w photo signed by Cleo Laine & her jazz composer husband was ‘Maybellene’. $175 & saxophonist, John Dankworth. Offered with John Dankworth’s 115 (BRUBECK, Dave) autobiography ‘Jazz in Revolution’. Lond. Constable & Co., Ltd. 1998. HALL, Fred M. IT’S ABOUT Or.bds. Dustjacket. 229pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. With a 2 TIME. The Dave Brubeck Story. Track John Dankworth CD. $55 With a Foreword by Gene Lees. 120 LAUPER, Cyndi. CYNDI LAUPER - A MEMOIR. Cyndie Fayetteville. Uni of Arkansas Lauper with Jancee Dunn. Lond. Press 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. 182pp. b/w ills. Very Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. 2012. good copy. 1st paperback ed. With a white card Or.bds. Dustjacket. 338pp. col & signed by Dave Brubeck inserted. American jazz b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st pianist Dave Brubeck is considered one of the UK ed. With a large signed colour foremost exponents of cool jazz. In 1951 he formed photo of Cyndi Lauper. Cynthia the Dave Brubeck Quartet which became the Lauper left home at 17 to pursue leading exponent of the West Coast Jazz scene. her passion for music, working a $90 series of day jobs & performing 116 (DURHAM, Judith) SIMPSON, Graham. with her band Blue Angel. Her first THE JUDITH DURHAM STORY. Colours of My album ‘She’s So Unusual’ was an Life. Forewords by the Duchess of York, Lynn instant hit with punk teenagers. Redgrave and Shelley Bovey. Lond. Virgin Books $150 Ltd. 2003. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 384pp. col 121 (LEWIS, Jerry LEE) BRAGG, Rick. JERRY LEE LEWIS. His Own & b/w plates. Dj with light scratching Story. N.Y. Harper Collins. 2014. to back cover else a very good copy. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 498pp. Col & 1st ed. With an inserted card signed by b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st Judith Durham. Also National Portrait ed. With a colour photo of Jerry Gallery ephemera Judith Durham was Lee Lewis with actor Dennis Australia’s first international female Quaid signed by both Lewis & pop star. Her extraordinarily powerful Quaid. Quaid played Lewis in yet pure voice led her folk band The the movie “Great Balls of Fire”. Seekers to pop chart domination in the Lewis travelled to Memphis, 1960s rivalling The Beatles. $65 Tennessee in 1956 to audition for 117 FLEETWOOD, Sun Records. In-house engineer Mick. & BOZZA, Anthony. PLAY Jack Clement recorded Lewis & in 1957 he had his first worldwide hit ON. Now, Then, and Fleetwood ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’. $250 Mac. The Autobiography. N.Y. 122 LYNN, Vera. SOME Little, Brown & Company. 2014. SUNNY DAY. Dame Vera Lynn. My Or.bds. Dustjacket. 344pp. Col & Autobiography. Lond. Harper Collins. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st 2009. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 311pp. Light ed. With a signed card by Mick bumps to bottom corners. col & b/w Fleetwood obtained in London in plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. With 1996. Offered with ‘My Twenty- a large signed photograph of Vera Five Years in Fleetwood Mac’ Lynn. Dame Vera Lynn began singing by Mick Fleetwood. Col.ill.bds. 199pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. publicly from the age of seven, & is British drummer Mick Fleetwood on life in Fleetwood Mac $135 famous for her wartime contribution 118 FRANCIS, Connie. WHO’S SORRY NOW? N.Y. St. Martin’s which began by singing to people Press. 1984. Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 332pp. b/w plates. Very good who were sheltering from the Blitz in copy. 1st ed. With an inserted card signed by Connie Francis. Concetta London tube stations. $125 Rosa Maria Franconero was advised to change her name to Connie Francis THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
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Foredge lightly stamped DREAMPOWER. Art of contemporary ‘Misbound’ which is presumable due to lack of title page. b/w ills. Very Aboriginal Australia. A Travelling good copy. Second Revised Edition. Social anthropologist Ronald Berndt Exhibition Proudly Presented by & his wife Catherine spent five decades living & working among the Gallerie Australis. Nth Adelaide. Museum Art International 1997. 4to. Aboriginal peoples at Oooldea in the Northern Territory. This work was Col.Ill.wrapps. 32pp. Light wear to corners. & spine edge. Profusely first published in 1952. $25 illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Dreampower was an exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art from the desert region 125 BOULTER, Michael. THE ART OF UTOPIA. A New of central Australia that was organised by the Australia-Indonesia Direction in Contemporary Aboriginal Institute & exhibited at the Hyatt in Adelaide. $24 Art. Roseville East. Craftsman House. 1991. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 180pp. 131 DONALDSON, Ian. & Tamsin. (Ed). SEEING THE FIRST Dustjacket covered in plastic. Inscription AUSTRALIANS. Syd. George Allen & Unwin. 1985. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. opposite title page. col & b/w ills. Very 216pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. This book explores some of the good copy. 1st ed. Utopia is a region many ways in which the Aboriginal people have been seen by Europeans north-east of Alice Springs where & their Australian descendants. $35 indigenous peoples have been able to 132 EDWARDS, Robert. ABORIGINAL BARK CANOES OF return to a traditional way of life. Here THE MURRAY VALLEY. Adelaide. Rigby Limited. 1972. 4to. Or.bds. traditional arts & crafts are passed Dustjacket. 80pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. down the generations. $55 1st ed. Along the Murray River in NSW it was once possible to find old 126 BRADLEY, John. YANYUWA gum trees that carried the mark of canoe shaped scars where Aboriginal COUNTRY. The Yanyuwa people of peoples had fashioned boats out of bark to fish the Murray River. Borroloola tell the history of their land. $38 Translated and Illustrated by John Bradley. Richmond, VIC. Greenhouse 133 GAPPS, Stephen. THE SYDNEY WARS. Conflict in the Publications 1988. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. col & b/w ills. Very good early Colony, 1788-1817. Syd. NewSouth copy. 1st ed. The Yanyuwa people of Borrolooa are all part of the Publishing. 2018. Ill.wrapps. 319pp. b/w Dreaming. The Dreamings are their ancestors, no matter if they are ills. Fine. 1st ed. Describes the history of fish, birds, men, women, animals, wind or rain. A look at the Yanyuwa military engagements between Europeans and Dreaming. $30 Aboriginal Australians around the greater 127 BRODY, Annemarie. THE FACE OF THE CENTRE. Papunya Sydney region. $38 Tula Paintings 1971 - 1984. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 1986. 4to. 134 GRIFFITHS, Owen. DHIDGERRY Col.Ill.wrapps. 51pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. 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150pp. Some bowing to boards. b/w ills. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. This is the Exhibition Catalogue of a collection 1st ed. The folklore & legends collected in this book intended for younger of Aboriginal art & artifacts that have been made by John Mawurndjul readers, have been collected from Australia, New Guinea, Borneo, Fiji, from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory that travelled to Basel & Tonga, the Solomon Islands, & Micronesia. $24 Hanover. $30 136 HENDERSON, Kenneth Russell. FROM EARLIER FLEETS. 143 MORGAN, Sally. THE ART OF SALLY MORGAN. With Hemisphere - An Aboriginal Anthology 1978. Woden. Aust Government an introduction by Jill Milroy. Ringwood. Viking. 1996. Folio. Or.bds. Publishing. 1978. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in Dustjacket. 170pp. Dj unevenly faded. Profusely illustrated in colour. colour and black & white. Very good copy. The articles in this booklet Very good copy. 1st ed. Sally Morgan is one of Australia’s most dynamic first appeared in previous issues of Hemisphere magazine, an Asian- Aboriginal artists. Her work is bold, vibrant & provocative. Art has Australian monthly journal published by the Department of Education, always been at the core of Aboriginal culture. $30 & feature aspects of Aboriginal life $30 144 MOSSGREEN AUCTIONS. ABORIGINAL ART FROM 137 HENDERSON, Kenneth Russell. (Ed). ‘FROM EARLIER THE COLLECTION OF JOHN W. KLUGE. Sold to Benefit Columbia FLEETS’ - II. HEMISPHERE - An Aboriginal Anthology 1981. Canberra. University, USA. Melbourne, 6 June 2012. South Yarra. Mossgreen Curriculum Development Ctr 1981. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Light wear Auctions. 2012. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 72pp. Profusely illustrated in colour to corners. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. The Curriculum Development and black & white. Very good copy. Auction Catalogue. John W. Kluge Centre, the Aboriginal Arts Board, & the staff of Hemisphere Magazine was named by Forbes magazine as the richest man in America on 3 got together to produce this anthology on Aboriginal culture. Prepared occasions. His art collection was vast & he auctioned off a portion of for Aboriginal Studies courses. $22 his Aboriginal art to fund university scholarships. $30 138 KURUWARRI. YUENDUMU DOORS. Warlukurlangu 145 MUSEUM VICTORIA. BUNJILAKA. The Aboriginal Centre Artists. Canb. Aust Inst Aboriginal Studies. 1987. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. at Melbourne Museum. Melb. Museum Victoria. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 143pp. col & b/w ills. Wrapps a little rubbed else a very good copy. The 64pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Bunjilaka is a special part Warlpiri peoples of the Northern Territory began experimenting with of Museum Victoria’s new Melbourne Museum. Opened in October 2000, acrylic paint in the early 1980s, & began painting Dreaming symbols it provides a dedicated & special space for Aboriginal cultural activities on doors of a local school, which soon became a tradition. $35 to be on permanent display. $40 139 MANDINGRIDA ARTS & CULTURE. & ANNANDALE 146 MacKENZIE, Andrew. ALBERT NAMATJIRA, 1902-1959. GALLERIES. SPIRIT IN VARIATION. The art of Maningrida. Bark A Biographical Sketch. Famous Australian Art Series. Brisbane. Oz Paintings, Ceremonial Poles, Yawkyawks, Minihs, Woven Forms, Publishing Co. 1988. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 52pp. Bookplate on front pastedown. Video Installation. The Power of Rarrk. Syd. Annandale Galleries. 2007. Col ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Albert Namatjira was the first Australian Col.Ill.wrapps. 36pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Aboriginal artist to be recognised internationally as an artist. He spent Exhibition Catalogue. Mandingrida Arts & Culture from Arnhem Land most of his artistic career around the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in the Northern Territory is witnessing the rise of a younger generation in Alice Springs. $27 of artists who were exhibited at the Annandale Galleries in November 147 McCARTHY, F. D. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STONE of 2007. $35 IMPLEMENTS. Including Bone, Shell and Tooth Implements. Second 140 MARAWILI, Djambawa. DJAMBAWA MARAWILI - Edition Revised. Syd. The Australian Museum Trust. 1976. 4to. Col.Ill. SOURCE OF FIRE. 2003 - 2005. Annandale. Annandale Galleries. 2005. wrapps. 107pp. b/w ills. A few small spots on front wrapper else a Col.Ill.wrapps. 21pp. col ills. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. good copy. 2nd edition. Stone implements were first seen by the early Yolngu artist Djambawa Marawili has been making art for over thirty navigators around Australia such as Dampier & Cook. The Australian years at Yirrkala, in eastern Arnhem Land. The underlying theme of his Museum Trust has preserved many early examples of stone tools & art is Baru, the crocodile, the bringer of fire. $22 implements in Australia. $35 141 MARSHALL, Alan. PEOPLE OF THE DREAMTIME. 148 McCARTHY, Frederick D. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL Illustrated by Miriam-rose Ungunmerr. Melb. Hyland House Publishing. ROCK ART. Published by The Australian Museum, Sydney. Syd. The 1978 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 104pp. Col ills. Dj chipped at head of spine Australian Museum. 1979. (rep) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 92pp. Sl foxing to else a good copy. 1st ed. These beautiful Aboriginal folktales have been title page. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good gathered by writer Alan Marshall, & retold with colour illustrations copy. Rock art is an important & integral part of Australian Aboriginal by Miriam-Rose Ungunmeer, a member of the Moli tribe, & Aboriginal culture & is found throughout the continent in a rich array of originality artist. $33 & colour. 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and conflicts with proposals Syd. National Trust of Aust. (NSW). 1977. 205 COLEMAN, Peter & MCAULEY, James. 55 Foolscap pages bound with a plastic spiral ringbinder. Some wear to (eds). LINDSAY, Norman. QUADRANT. July, corners. Top binding ring loose. b/w ills & fold-out maps. Good co In 1975. No.96, Vol.XIX, No.4. Syd. H.R.Krygier. 1977 the National Trust commissioned Roland Breckwoldt to prepare a 1975. Ill.wrapps. 96pp. b/w ills. (sl foxing) else study of the land use of the Wolgan Valley with a grant provided by the a good copy. Contains a portfolio of Norman Australian Government’s National Estate Programme. $75 Lindsay illustrations from the magazine 198 BREWER, Ron. RON BREWER: FARMER, SOLDIER, “Vision”. $25 PARLIAMENTARIAN. Volume 1. 1921 - 1946. Edited by Rosemary 207 COLLIS, Ian. OLD SYDNEY. A Pictorial Turner & Emily Armitt. Goulburn. Salmant. 2010. Col.Ill.wrapps. 314pp. History. Syd. New Holland Publishers. 2008. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. 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Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1991 the RAAF celebrated its Radford. Melb. Ancora Press. 1988. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. (sl foxing) 70th anniversary & to celebrate the Chief of the Air Staff commissioned else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Presentation inscription on title the writing of this history of the service, which had its formative year page. $75 in 1921. $45 201 BURSTALL, Terry. THE SOLDIERS’ STORY. St Lucia. Uni of 209 COULTHART, Ross. THE LOST DIGGERS. Fully Revised Queensland Press. 1990. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 188pp. b/w plates. Wrapps and Expanded Edition of the Bestseller. Lond. Harper Collins Publishers. sl.rubbed and crease to front wrapper else a good copy. Terry Burstall 2016. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 397pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. was a horsebreaker & drover before enlisting in the army in 1966 & Very good copy. 1st fully revised & expanded edition. Investigative posted to Long Tan in South Vietnam. 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The steam yacht story of his training to field missions in East originally known as HMAS Sleuth Timor, Afghanistan & Iraq. $35 was commissioned during WWI & sent on patrol in the Torres Strait, then 223 FORD, Edward. THE LIFE AND WORK OF WILLIAM decommissioned she became a fishing REDFERN. The Annual Post-Graduate Oration, delivered on April 29, vessel in Tasmania known as the 1953, in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney Syd. Aust.Medical Aurore. $40 Publishing Co. 1953. Wrapps. 36pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $22 217 DONOVAN, Roseanna. JOE 224 FORNASIERO, J. MONTEATH, P & WEST-SOOBY, J. GAZAL. The Story of a Migrant, a ENCOUNTERING TERRA AUSTRALIS. Family and a Company. Banksmeadow. The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin Judith Gazal. 1998. Col.ill.bds. bound in quarter cloth. col & b/w plates. and Matthew Flinders. Kent Town. Wakefield Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. Joe Gazal opened his Press. 2010. (New edition) Or.bds. 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Inside A Labor Tragedy. Crows 241 JARVIS, Tim. MAWSON. Life and Death in Antarctica. Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2005. wrapps. 246pp. (a little foxing) else a good Carlton. The Miegunyah Press. 2008. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 239pp. Profusely copy. 1st ed. A biography of Mark Latham during the year he was Leader illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. Tim of the Australian Labor Party. $23 Jarvis retraced Sir Douglas Mawson’s footsteps in Antarctica for a 250 LASSETER, Harold Bell. LASSETER’S DIARY. Lond. Channel 4 documentary to attempt to answer some of the questions & ANGUS & Robertson. 1986. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. b/w ills. Good copy. controversies surrounding Mawson’s tragic expedition in 1910. $35 Facsimile reprint of the original held in the Mitchell Library. Harold Bell 242 JOHNSTON, George. MY BROTHER JACK. A novel. Lond. Lasseter’s diary were originally purchased by Ion Idriess for his book, Collins. 1964 Or.cl. 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Curated by Luke rigours of Australian conditions & in 1861 Parker and Ann Stephen. Syd. The University of Sydney. 2012. 4to. Bound the Wanganella Merino sheep breed changed in linen. 100pp. col & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Exhibition Catalogue. The the world of commercial wool. $60 University Art Gallery is delighted to present the art of Narelle Jubelin. Vision in Motion spans three decades of Jubelin’s work, from her sewn 252 LEHMANN, Geoffrey. LEEWARD. renditions to recent video & installation works. $30 A Memoir. Syd. NewSouth Publishing. 2018. Col.Ill.wrapps. 417pp. Fine. 1st ed. Australian 245 KENEALLY, T. HOMEBUSH BOY. A Memoir. Melb. Minerva. poet & children’s author Geoffrey Lehmann 1995. Col.Ill.wrapps. 180pp. Fine. 1st paperback ed. Inscribed by Tom reflects on his life as both a writer & a corporate tax lawyer. He was the Keneally. An autobiography of the young Keneally. 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