Catalogue 114 March 2006 Settlement and History of the Australian States (other than Victoria)

Including … ~ Trout fishing in ~ Lycett’s view of the Heads at Port Jackson ~ Life on the Kimberley goldfields ~ Life in the law in 1840s ~ The Canberra Annual, 1934 ~ First publication of ’s 1813 ~ Earl’s settlement at Port Essington natural history drawings ~ Hamilton’s 1839 journey from Port Phillip to ~ Attractive limited editions, fine printings, South regional histories, ephemera, and maps

(5 cont.) Arthur, R. N., with a Flock of 400 sheep, also, an 1. W. E. ANDREWS (Editor). The People's Advocate and account of the Difficulties they experienced during a Sojourn of Weekly Political Adviser, Saturday, March 2, 1822 : Vol. 1, No. 6 Twenty Months, which ended in the Total Failure of their : Dr. Stoddart aspiring to the Professorship of Ethics in Botany Enterprise. , Sullivan's Cove, 1975 . Small octavo, cloth Bay ... 1822 . Octavo, pp. (181)-216, in later plain wrappers, with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $90 the article on Stoddart being the leading article in this issue. $70 One of 150 numbered copies initialled by the publisher.

6. John ASKEW. A Voyage to Australia & New Zealand including a visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, , Hunter's River, Newcastle, Maitland, and Auckland, with a summary of the progress and discoveries amde in each colony from its founding to the present time. London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., Cockermouth, D. Fidler, 1857 . Octavo, uncut in original cloth, Ferguson 6151. First edition: scarce. $750

7. Ian AUHL and Denis MARFLEET . Journey to Lake Frome 1843; Paintings and Sketches by Edward Charles Frome and James Henderson. Adelaide, Lynton Publications P/L, n.d. Oblong octavo, full-page plates in colour and black & white, pp. 111, a very good copy, boards with dust-wrapper. $45

8. [Australia Council of National Trusts ] Historic Places of Australia. Sydney, Cassell Australia, 1978 & 1979 . Two volumes, quarto, illustrated, boards with dust-wrappers. $70

2. George French ANGAS . Description of the Barossa Range 9. James BACKHOUSE & C. TYLOR. The Life And Labours and its Neighbourhood, in South Australia, by "Agricola"; Of George Washington Walker, Of Hobart Town, Tasmania. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings London, A. W. Bennett, 1862 . A mint copy, partly unopened, in made on the spot ... Facsimile edition, Adelaide, Government original grained cloth, gilt, Ferguson 6473. $250 Printer, 1979 . Folio, pp. 20, six tipped-in plates in colour, two Contains extracts from Walker's diaries during his remarkable maps (one folding), a mint copy in full calf : the de-luxe issue, one journeys with James Backhouse, visiting the convict settlements of 100 in the edition of 500 numbered copies. $250 in Van Diemen's Land, (including at that time Facsimile edition of one of Australia's rarest view books. ) and . Special accounts are also given of visits to aboriginal missions and settlements. Ferguson . 3. George French ANGAS . Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand; Being an Artist's Impressions of Countries and 10. Edmund James BANFIELD. Tropic Days. London, People at the Antipodes. London, Smith, Elder, second edition, T.Fisher Unwin Ltd., second impression 1919 . Octavo, 37 black 1847 . Two volumes octavo, twelve lithographic plates, & white plates, original black cloth, with the scarce dust-wrapper illustrations, a couple of plates lightly foxed, handsome later half slightly chipped at head of spine, a fine copy with a few pale spots calf, the original free end-paper recording contemporary dates and of foxing along fore-edges. $165 names, spines gilt, contrasting labels (one chafed), marbled edges Further anecdotes and nature writing from Dunk Island. Banfield and endpapers, armorial bookplate of Henry Hampden Dutton in includes a series of sketches and stories on the north Queensland each volume, Ferguson 4456. $660 native, and a number of chapters on pearls.

4. R. T. APPLEYARD and Tony MANFORD. The Beginning; 11. E. J. BANFIELD. Last Leaves from Dunk Island. Sydney, European Discovery and Early Settlement of Swan River Western Angus & Robertson, 1925 . Octavo, plates, a little foxing, original Australia. Perth, University Western Australia Press, 1979. cloth, a very good copy. $75 Octavo, cloth, illustrated. $55 12. Joseph BANKS. The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 5. Edward and Fortescue ARTHUR. Journal of Events, from 1768-1771 edited by J. C. Beaglehole. First edition, Public Melbourne, Port Phillip, to Mount Schank, in the District of Library of NSW in association with Angus and Robertson, 1962 . Adelaide, , a Distance of 400 Miles, undertaken in Two volumes, illustrated with plates in colour, upper panel of one 1843 by Messrs Edward and Fortescue Arthur, sons of Captain dust-wrapper with minor adhesion damage, a very good set. $550

21. Nehemiah BARTLEY. Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences 1849-1894. Sydney, John Ferguson, 1978 . Octavo, pp. 424, original cloth with dust wrapper. $35 (21 cont.) Bartley migrated to Tasmania in 1849. He roamed throughout Australia until 1854 when he settled in Queensland and became a real estate developer between Brisbane and Bowen.

22. Herbert BASEDOW. Physical Geography And Geology Of The Western Rivers' District, Northern Territory Of Australia. Adelaide, The Advertiser, 1916 . Octavo, pp. 76 (last blank), six plates, folding map, a fine copy, original printed wrappers. $150 Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch.

23. Marnie BASSETT. Behind the Picture, H.M.S. Rattlesnake's Australia-New Guinea Cruise, 1846 to 1850. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo, pp. xii + 112, plates, folding panorama in colour, a good copy with dust- wrapper. $60

24. (John BATMAN) Eliza CALLAGHAN and John BATMAN. Van Diemen's Land 1825. Adelaide, Sullivan'sCove, 1978 . Folio, as new, original cloth with dust- wrapper, limited edition of 500 copies (No. 82). $65 Documents relating to the police search for the escapee Eliza Callaghan (later John Batman's wife) at Ben Lomond, and with other previously unpublished records of her at Geelong and 13. Joseph BANKS . Some Account of that part of New Holland elsewhere. now called New South Wales. Melbourne, The Banks Society, 2004. Octavo, frontispiece in colour, maps and plates, 64 pages, 25. J. S. BATTYE (Editor). The Cyclopedia Of Western publisher's stiffened pictorial wrappers, new . $35 Australia. In Two Volumes, An Historical and Commercial Review, Descriptive and Biographical Facts, Figures and 14. (Banks) Alan FROST. Sir Joseph Banks and the Transfer Illustrations, An Epitome of Progress. Perth, The Cyclopedia of Plants to and from the South Pacific, 1786-1798. First edition, Company, 1912 . Two volumes quarto, illustrated throughout, Malvern, The Colony Press, 1993 . Quarto, viii + 62 leaves, text inked inscription (and blot) on endpaper, publisher's half roan, on rectos only, 3 facsimiles, folded plan, stiffened wrappers of externally rubbed and chipped, internally clean and sound. $440 marbled paper, as new. $140 One of only 150 numbered copies (No. 38). 26. Nicolas BAUDIN. The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin Commander-in-chief of the Corvettes Geographe And 15. Mary Macleod BANKS . Memories of Pioneer Days in Naturaliste Assigned By Order of the Government to a Voyage Of Queensland. London, Heath Cranton Limited, 1931 . Octavo, Discovery. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974 . plates, pp. 80, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper. $100 Quarto, frontispiece and map, pp. xx + 609, a fine copy in publisher's green cloth gilt. $175 16. Geoffrey and James BARDON. Papunya, A Place Made After the Story; The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting 27. (Baudin & Peron) Susan HUNT and Paul CARTER. Movement. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2004. Quarto, Terre Napoleon, Australia through French Eyes 1800-1804. numerous colour illustrations, pp.527, boards with pictorial Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association dustwrapper, new. $120 with Hordern House, 1999 . Small folio, illustrated throughout in Containing extensive documentation of the early stages of the colour, pp. 148, boards with dust-wrapper, as new. $50 movement, and illustrations of over 500 paintings and drawings Reproduces from Le Havre some of the Lesueur and Petit including many not seen before. watercolours from the Baudin expedition.

17. Francis BARRALLIER . Journal of the Expedition into the 28. Annie BAXTER. Memories of Tasmania, and of the Interior of New South Wales, 1802, by Order of his excellency Macleay River and New England districts of New South Wales, Governor . Melbourne, Marsh Walsh and of Port Fairy in the Western District of Port Phillip, 1834-48. Publishing, 1975 . Octavo, folding map, limited to 750 numbered Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1980 . Folio, pp. 104, limited to 500 copies, cloth gilt, dust-wrapper (small spot on rear panel). $75 numbered copies, with dust-wrapper, fine. $100 A provocative little devil with a mischievous sense of humour, 18. Charles BARRETT. Around Australia. London, Cassell, gossips entertainingly about her adventures. H. M. Green. 1942 . Octavo, illustrated, cloth, a good copy. $40 29. William BAYLEBRIDGE. This Vital Flesh. Sydney, At 19. John Vincent BARRY. The Life and Death of John Price; The Tallabila Press, 1939 . Octavo, pp. ix, xix, 263, gilt red A Study of the Exercise of Naked Power. Melbourne University buckram, outer and lower edges uncut, rear hinge cracked. $65 Press, 1964 . Octavo, pp. xiv + 204, 8 plates, cloth, gilt, with Edition of 250 copies, this copy not numbered. dust-wrapper. $65 30. Edgar BEALE. Kennedy of Cape York. Adelaide, Rigby, 20. J. G. BARTHOLOMEW. The Royal Atlas & Gazetteer Of 1970 . Octavo, plates, boards with dust-wrapper. $60 Australasia. London, T Nelson & Sons, 1890. Octavo, 28 double page coloured maps, foxing to endpapers, gilt decorated pebble 31. Edgar BEALE. Kennedy. The Barcoo And Beyond 1847; grained red cloth, marked to boards and spine with wear to top The Journals of Edmund Besley Court Kennedy and Alfred and bottom of spine, maps and text clean and bright. $300 Allatson Turner, with new information on Kennedy's Life. Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1983 . Octavo, plates and maps, glassine wrapper, as new, limited to 750 numbered copies. $75

32. Peter BEER (Editor). Flinders Ranges Walks. (40 cont.) A study of social and medical conditions in South Conservation Council of South Australia, 1981 . Octavo, black & Australia, also of the geographical features and meteorological white illustrations and maps, pp. 63, pictorial wrappers, a fine conditions in their relation to certain diseases. Ferguson. copy. $20 41. Ian BOSS-WALKER. Peaks And High Places; Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park Tasmania. Hobart, Scenery Preservation Board, 1954 . Octavo, illustrated, original wrappers, a good copy. $30

42. William BRADLEY. A Voyage to New South Wales; The Journal of William Bradley RN of HMS Sirius 1786-1792. Reproduced in facsimile from the original manuscript. With a Portfolio of Charts. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1969 . Two parts, octavo, plates and maps, pp. 495, original cloth. $85

43. Thomas Henry BRAIM. A History of New South Wales from its settlement to the close of the year 1844. London, Richard Bentley, 1846 . Two volumes octavo, frontispiece to each volume, uncut in original cloth, small chips and snags on the spines, a very good set, first edition, Ferguson 4241. $540

44. Martin BRENNAN. Reminiscences of the Gold Fields and elsewhere in New South Wales, covering a period of forty-eight years' service as an Officer of the Police. Sydney, William Brooks, 1907 . Octavo, frontispiece portrait, pp. 340, original cloth, pale foxing to preliminary leaves (as usual), rear hinge split, a good copy. $85

45. [H.Y.L. BROWN]. Northern Territory of South Australia, North-Western District ... Reports (Geological and General) 33. Ronald & Catherine BERNDT. From Black To White In resulting from Explorations made by the Government Geologist South Australia. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1951 . Octavo, plates, pp. and Staff during 1905. Adelaide, Government Printer, 1906 . 313, a fine copy in slightly chipped dust-wrapper. $150 Foolscap folio, pp. 42, 54, 2 plates, folding geological map, recent Study of assimilation of Aborigines in South Australia. binder's cloth, the first few leaves with slight damage at lower inner margin. $500 34. John BLACKET. The Early History Of South Australia; A Brown, accompanied by L.C.E. Gee and Herbert Basedow, had Romantic Experiment in Colonisation. Adelaide, 1907 . Octavo, instructions to make a geological exploration of the coastal and illustrations, pp.393, green cloth, gilt, very slight foxing to edges, inland districts, to choose sites for boring for gold reefs and coal, good copy. $125 and to obtain general information on mines and minerals.

34. F. M. BLADEN. Public Library of N.S.W.; Historical Notes. 46. Keith Macarthur BROWN. Medical Practice in Old Second edition, Sydney, Government Printer, 1911 . Octavo, ; An historical review of village doctoring in the colony plates, illustrations, and facsimiles, pp. 100, some outer margins of New South Wales. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1937 . rippled, a good copy in cloth-backed papered boards, slight Octavo, plates, pp. xvi + 136, a couple of small faults. $120 adhesion marking. $50 47. P. L. BROWN (Editor). Clyde Company Papers, Volumes I 35. Geoffrey BLAINEY. The Peaks Of Lyell. New edition, – VII. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1952-1977 . Seven revised, Melbourne University Press, 1959 . Octavo, pp. 310, volumes, cloth, with dust-wrappers (a couple with a few small plates, owner's name in ink, a good copy with dust-wrapper. $55 spots of pale foxing), a very good set. $500 Volume I reprinted in 1977, the remaining volumes in first 36. Geoffrey BLAINEY. A History of the AMP 1848-1998. edition. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1999. Quarto, illustrations, pp.352, dustwrapper, as new, signed b y the author. $60 48. C. Wade BROWNE. Overlanding in Australia. Melbourne, Mason, Firth & Co., (1868) . Small octavo, pp.82, endpapers and 37. . Account of the Rebellion of the New a couple of leaves with pale spots of foxing, original limp cloth South Wales Rum Corps. Melbourne, The Banks Society, 2005 . cut flush, printed paper label chipped, Ferguson 7535. $1650 Octavo, frontispiece and plate in colour, folding plates, 64 pages, A rare account of droving and its development. publisher's stiffened pictorial wrappers, new. $30 49. F. E. D. BROWNE. The Recapture and Trial of Martin 38. James BONWICK. The Lost Tasmanian Race. London, Cash, MDCCCXLIII, Edited. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1992. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884. Octavo, Octavo, pp. 113, with dust-wrapper, as new : one of 115 plates, pp. 216, original pictorial cloth varnished, Ferguson 7253. numbered copies. $95 $200 Text from the Hobart Town Advertiser, supplemented by This is the cheap edition of Bonwick's earlier Last of the omments from other papers and from the notes of the trial judge. Tasmanians . 50. Harrison BRYAN. John Murtagh Macrossan; His Life and 39. Josiah BOOTHBY. Statistical Sketch Of South Australia. Career. Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1958 . Adelaide, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1876 . Octavo, pp. 62 (last blank), wrappers as issued. $30 Octavo, 2 folding maps and 1 folding table, cloth gilt. $100 51. John Wrathall BULL. Early Experiences of Life in South 40. Thomas BORTHWICK. A Contribution to the Australia, and an extended colonial history. Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, Demography of South Australia. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891 . 1884 . Small octavo, pp.416, pictorial boards, front board scraped, Octavo, a good copy in original cloth, hand-lettered on backstrip, partly unopened. $175 uncommon, Ferguson 7288. $185 The second and much-expanded edition, covers also the early history of the Northern Territory.

52. F. D. BURDETT. The Odyssey Of A Digger, Edited by C. 63. (Canberra) E. F. PITTMAN. Reports on the Geology of the R. Long. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936 . Octavo, plates, pp. Federal Capital Site. (Melbourne), Government Printer, 1911. 316, spotted pale foxing along upper and outer edges, a fine copy Foolscap folio, large folding coloured geological map, pp. 8 in original cloth, with scarce dust-wrapper (slight chipping and stapled, title spotted. $50 small repairs). $330 Burdett emigrated from England at the age of fifteen in 1878. 64. Patricia CLARKE. Life and times of a Colonial Woman: After working in Goulburn, Wilcannia and Eulo he joined an Mary Braidwood Mowle. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1987. exploring party to the Kimberley in 1885, searching for gold and Octavo, illustrated, pp.311, with dust-wrapper. $45 overlanding stores to the Ord River Cattle Station. Life on the Kimberley goldfields is described in rich detail. On his way home 65. John COBLEY. 1789-1790. Sydney, Angus to England he called at Broome and joined a pearling fleet. & Robertson, 1963. Octavo, plates, cloth, dust-wrapper, fine. $40 Daily events in Sydney. 53. Fred D. BURDETT and Percy J. KING. The Odyssey Of A Pearl Hunter. London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931 . 66. David COLLINS. An Account of the English Colony in Octavo, plates, recased in original cloth, new endpapers, a very New South Wales, from its first Settlement in January 1788, to good copy. $250 August 1801 : with remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, An adventures story that sweeps from gold digging in the Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that country. To which Kimberleys to pearl poaching in the Dutch Indies. are added, some particulars of New Zealand. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971 . Two volumes quarto, plates and 54. T. E. BURNS & J. R. SKEMP. Van Diemen's Land maps, original cloth, a very good set. $250 Correspondents; Letters from R.C.Gunn, R.W.Lawrence, Jorgen Facsimile edition. Jorgenson, Sir and others to Sir William J. Hooker, 1827-1849. Launceston, Queen Victoria Museum, 1961 . Octavo, pp. xx + 148, illustrations and folding map, boards. $60 Edition limited to 1200 copies.

55. (Bushranging) Michael Howe. The Last And Worst Of The Of Van Diemen's Land. Hobart, Platypus Publications, 1966 . Small octavo, pp. 36, cloth-backed boards (a little marked). $50 Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 489).

56. Henry BUTTON. Flotsam and Jetsam; Floating fragments of life in England and Tasmania, an autobiographical sketch. Launceston, A. W. Birchall & Sons, [1909] . Octavo, pp. x + 480, illustrated, gilt and decorated cloth, a touch of rubbing and flecking externally, a very good copy. $160

57. G. L. BUXTON. The Riverina 1861-1891; An Australian Regional Study. Melbourne University Press, 1967 . Octavo, illustrated, pp. xi + 338, original cloth in dust-wrapper,dust- wrapper clipped and small stain on front. $70

58. James CALDER. Rambles on Betsy's Island, Tasman's Peninsula, and Forestier's Peninsula in Fenruary 1848. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1985 . Small octavo, pp. 56, with dust-wrapper, as new, one of 175 numbered copies, first edition.. $50

59. James Erskine CALDER. Topographical Sketches of Tasmania 1845 and 1847. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1987 . Small octavo, pp. 78, with dust-wrapper, as new, one of 175 67. David COLLINS. Account of the Settlement at Sullivan numbered copies. $65 Cove; Edited from the despatches of Lieutenant Governor David Collins to Governor Philip Gidley King by John Currey. 60. Albert F. CALVERT. The Aborigines of Western Australia. Melbourne, The Banks Society, 2003 . Octavo, coloured portrait, [Second edition], Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1894 . 6 plates, 60 pages, publisher's stiffened pictorial wrappers, new. Small octavo, a fine copy in original cloth, Ferguson 7816. $185 $25

61. Canberra And The Territory For The Seat Of Government Of 68. David COLLINS. Letters to Sir Joseph Banks, London & The Commonwealth; Brief Review of History, Features, and the Derwent 1798 – 1808; Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, Progress. Canberra, 1925. Octavo, original wrappers, by John Currey. Melbourne, The Banks Society, 2004. O ctavo, illustrated, insect wear to wrappers (only). $50 2 folding facsimiles, 4 plates (2 in colour), 52 pages, publisher's Includes 18 pages of photographs and a map. stiffened pictorial wrappers, new. $30 Collins was well aware of Banks' interest in the natural science 62. The Canberra Annual no. 1, 1934. Canberra, Federal and commercial potential of his colony, and sent Banks a series of Capital Press, 1934 . Small folio, plates, pp. 56 stapled in reports on the progress of his settlement. These were often decorated wrappers, slight creasing and chipping, cover design accompanied by specimens, and among the living specimens were and several contributions by Malcolm Moir. $110 a Tasmanian devil and three pairs of black swans. This collection Walter Burley Griffin contributes an article in which he reviews of letters is here published for the first time. the occupation of Canberra in the light of his original plan. Other articles deal with William Farrer's new strains of wheat, the future 69. (Collins) John CURREY. David Collins; A Colonial Life. of radio, the fight against cancer, and the gold revival in Australia. Melbourne University Press, 2000 . Octavo, illustrated, with dust- The Annual contains, in addition to illustrations in text, two four- wrapper, as new. $66 page sections of plates, one of which shows scenes quite unrelated The life of David Collins - judge, historian and governor. to Canberra (Tasmania, Northern Territory and New Zealand). 70. J. W. COLLINSON. Early Days Of Cairns. Brisbane, W. (78 cont.) Rockhampton, he bought Lake Nash, a huge property R. Smith & Paterson, 1939 . Octavo, seven maps, pp. 157, on the Queensland-Northern Territory border, and later also leased pebbled boards, gilt, fine. $100 2000 square miles in the Northern Terrritory stretching from the Edition limited to 500 signed copies (No. 141): a further four McArthur to the Roper River. volumes in the series were issued. 79. A. J. COTTON. With The Big Herds In Australia. 71. Max COLWELL. The History of the Noarlunga District. Brisbane, Published by the author, 1932 . Octavo, pp.213, Adelaide, Scrymgour & Sons, 1972. Octavo, illustrated, cloth original brown boards, gilt, missing front endpaper, black & white gilt. $25 frontispiece, minor foxing to endpapers, shelf wear to edges. $350 72. John Fairfax CONIGRAVE. South Australia. Its History Cotton migrated to Australia in 1882 and ran cattle stations in And Resources; A Handbook compiled for the Colonial and Queensland for four decades. Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. Adelaide, 1886 . Octavo, 39 full page plates & 1 folding colour map, pp. 176, lacks rear free 80. Philip COX and Wesley STACEY. Historic Towns of end-paper, a bright copy, Ferguson 8593. $400 Australia. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1973 . Oblong quarto, pp. Includes many illustrations of aborigines and their way of life. 248, with dust-wrapper, very good. $70

73. [Convicts]. The Kains; Female Convict Vessel. Adelaide, 81. Clifford CRAIG. The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land. Sullivan's Cove, n.d. Octavo, pp. 55, cloth with dust-wrapper, an (Launceston), Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961 . edition of 165 numbered copies (No. 25), mint. $65 Quarto, pp. 172, illustrated, decorated cloth with a touch of pale foxing, a good copy. $450 One of 1000 signed and numbered copies.

82. Clifford CRAIG. More Old Tasmanian Prints: A Companion Volume to the Engravers of Van Diemen's Land and Old Tasmanian Prints. Launceston, Foot and Playsted, 1984. Octavo, pp. xiv + 389, cloth with dust-wrapper, fine. $45 The final part of a published record of every important print made in Tasmania from 1788 to Federation. Limited to 1000 copies (# 644).

83. Clifford CRAIG. Launceston General Hospital; First Hundred Years 1863-1963. Tasmania, Board of Management of Launceston General Hospital, 1963. Octavo, pp.138, illustrated, a good copy with dust-wrapper. $60 Craig was formerly Surgeon-Superintendent of the hospital.

84. J.S. CUMPSTON. First Visitors To Bass Strait. Canberra, Roebuck Publications, 1973 . Octavo, cloth. $95 History of early discovery and exploration of Bass Strait.

85. Peter CUNNINGHAM. Two years in New South Wales; comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history. London, Henry Colburn, second edition, 1827 . Two volumes octavo, uncut in recent half calf and marbled boards, with the large folding map of New South Wales, Ferguson 1110. $600 Cunningham made four trips to New South Wales as Surgeon- superintendent of convict ships. 75. (Captain James COOK) The Landing of Lieutenant James Cook, R.N, Commander at Botany Bay 1770. Sydney, 86. Winifred CURTIS. Endemic Flora of Tasmania; painted by W.A.Gullick, 1901 . Small octavo, 6 black & white plates, pp. 32, Margaret Stones. London, Ariel Press, 1967 – 1978 . A pictorial wrappers, slight foxing, a very good copy. $70 complete set in six volumes folio, illustrated with 254 full-page plates in colour by Margaret Stones, a fine set in decorated and gilt silk cloth, with dust-wrappers. $185 76. James COOK. Journal of Proceedings at Endeavour River. Melbourne, The Banks Society, 2005 . Octavo, plates and folding 87. (R. DAINTREE) G. C. BOLTON. Richard Daintree; A charts, 64 pages, stiffened pictorial wrappers, new. $30 Photographic Memoir. Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1965 . Octavo, pp 90 (last blank), with dust-wrapper. $70 77. Frederic de Brebant COOPER. Wild Adventures in A unique record of the first years of contact between squatters and Australia. London, James Blackwood, 1857 . Octavo, Aborigines, the birth of a gold-rush, and the infancy of Brisbane frontispiece, pp. 168 + advertisements, red cloth covered boards, and the country towns of the North. quarter morocco, gilt spine, Walsh & Hooton 49. $450 88. () Brian FLETCHER. Ralph Darling; A 78. Michael J. COSTELLO. Life Of John Costello; Being the Governor Maligned. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984 . Adventures of a Pioneer, Pastoralist and Explorer in Queensland Octavo, illustrations, pp. 472, cloth boards, dust-wrapper, a fine and the Northern Territory. First edition, Sydney, Dymock's Book copy. $45 Arcade, 1930 . Octavo, portraits and plates, one with a small Biography of the Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to mark, pp. xii + 268, bookplate of Fred Smith, a good copy in 1831. original green cloth, spine mellowed. $220 Born at Yass, Costello spent his early life at Goulburn. Through 89. David DAVIES. The Last of the Tasmanians. London, his sister's marriage to Patrick Durack he developed a partnership Frederick Muller, 1973 . Octavo, plates, fine copy. $70 which took up land in south-west Queensland, eventually establishing Thylungra and Kyabra homesteads on a tributary of Cooper's Creek. After a period on a racing stud near 90. Robert DAWSON. The Present State Of Australia; A Description Of The Country, Its Advantages And Prospects, with Reference to Emigration and a Particular Account of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of its Aboriginal Inhabitants. Second edition, London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1831. Octavo, secondary moire cloth, rebacked, a clean copy, Ferguson 1427. $600

91. Amasa DELANO. A Narrative Of A Voyage To New Holland And Van Dieman's Land. Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press, 1973. Octavo, boards with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $30 Facsimile extract from the 1817 publication.

92. Oscar de SATGE. Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1901, ANB 12498 . Octavo, frontispiece portrait, plates, two folding maps in colour, original cloth gilt, upper board with traces of flecking, one corner bruised, a fine copy with the bookplates of James Angas Johnson and Charles R. J. Glover, uncommon. $850

93. Jean DEVANNY. Travels In North Queensland. London, Jarrolds, 1951. Octavo, black and white plates, pp. 251, endpaper maps, black cloth boards, dust-wrapper, a very good copy. $55 Devanny spent several months on islands in the Great Barrier Reef, and journeyed extensively in the Gulf country.

94. Devonport Tasmania. Tasmania is the Riviera of the Commonwealth. Tasmania, North Western Tourist Association, n.d . Small octavo, illustrations, pp. 64, pictorial orange wrappers, good copy. $50 101. G. W. EVANS). A. K. WEATHERBURN. George William Evans, Explorer. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1966 . 95. John DUNMORE (Editor). Fragmens du Dernier Voyage Octavo, pp. xvi + 138, plates and maps, cloth, gilt, with dust- de la Perouse; Facsimile edition in two volumes. Canberra, wrapper, a very good copy. $60 National Library, 1987 . Two parts, printed wrappers as issued, folding map, papered slip-case. $85 102. Edward . A Dinner for Mr Eyre in Adelaide, August 1841. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1984 . Octavo, pp. 28, 96. George Windsor EARL. Enterprise, Discoveries, and sewn in printed wrappers, limited to 175 numbered copies (#28), Adventures in Australia. London, Madden and Malcolm, no date as new. $35 (?1850s) . Octavo, two engraved plates, two folding maps, one The dinner followed Eyre's return from his Western expedition : with outline colouring and the second with a smal pale stain, it was chaired by in the presence of the new bookplate removed from pastedown, title creased along two edges Governor of South Australia, George Grey. and with a short tear neatly repaired, original red cloth, embossed and gilt, minor wear and fading, all edges gilt, Ferguson 4269. 103. Edward John EYRE. Reports and Letters to Governor $880 Grey from E.J. Eyre at Moorunde [1841-4]. Adelaide, Sullivan's Second issue, with the addition of two unrelated plates. Cove, 1985 [1988] . Large octavo, pp. 96, limited to 110 numbered copies (#6), with dust-wrapper, as new. $150 97. George Windsor EARL. Enterprise in Tropical Australia. Transcribed from Eyre's manuscripts : the details of his London, Madden and Malcolm, 1846 . Duodecimo, two folding expeditions up the Murray when resident Magistrate and Protector maps backed on linen, the frontispiece map with added hand- of Aborigines. colouring, blank corner of title neatly replaced, later binder's linen without lettering, edges marbled, Ferguson 4268 (this copy 104. William FAIRFAX (Editor). Handbook to Australasia; without publisher's 4-page catalogue). $550 Being a Brief Historical and Decriptive Account ... With a Map. Very scarce account of the second attempted settlement at Port Melbourne, William Fairfax and Co., 1859 . Octavo, with folding Essington in 1838-1849, from the pioneer and eye-witness who map, a good copy in the original embossed cloth, the head of the had promoted this trading centre for the islands of south-east Asia. backstrip chipped, Ferguson 9545. $200 During his stay Earl became Commissioner of Crown Lands for Ferguson notes that the List of Works on Australia, at pp. 229- Port Essington. 244, is the first serious attempt at a bibliography of Australia. This is the issue without the 30-pages of advertisements following the 98. Horace EARLE. Ups and Downs, or Incidents of Australian text. Life. London, A. W. Bennett, 1861 . Octavo, pp. 356 + adverts., uncut in original cloth. The only edition: rare. $600 105. George FARWELL. Down Argent Street; The Story of . Sydney, F. H. Johnston, 1948 . Octavo, pp. viii 99. (G. E. Dalrymple) Jean FARNFIELD. Frontiersman; A +123, original cloth, owner's inscription. $80 Biography of George Elphinstone Dalrymple. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1968 . Octavo, pp. xii + 172, plates, cloth, gilt, 106. Ernest FAVENC. The Explorers of Australia and their life- with dust-wrapper, a very good copy. $50 work. Christchurch, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1908 . Octavo, illustrations, pp. xiv + 304, cloth a little flecked, inscribed, a good 100. (Ephemera) Adelaide Steamship Company ; 50th. copy. $140 Anniversary of the Founding of the Adelaide Steamship Company Limited. A Souvenir to commemorate the Jubilee Year, with a 107. Erwin H.J. & Gerda E.E. FEEKEN and O.H.K. SPATE. narration of the origin and progress of the Company during the The Discovery and Exploration of Australia. Melbourne, Nelson, period 1875 to 1925. Adelaide, Sands & McDougall, n.d. 1970 . Quarto, pp. viii, 318, pictorial boards with dust wrapper, Quarto, text within decorative borders, illustrated with portraits pale foxing to endpapers, title page and edges, an inscribed copy. and views, tied in wrappers with coloured pictorial onlay. $160 $75

108. James FENTON. Bush Life in Tasmania Fifty Years Ago. 118. John FRASER. The Aborigines of New South Wales. Devonport, reprinted 1964 . Octavo, black and white illustrations, Sydney, Government Printer, 1892 . Octavo, photo-lithograph and pp. 203, original blue cloth boards, gilt, inscriptions, a good copy. heliotype plates (one folding), frontispiece folding map with a $60 couple of short tears, pp. 102, one gathering with pale foxing of margins, later half calf, marbled end-papers, Ferguson 9741 109. Eustace FITZSYMONDS (Editor). A Looking Glass for (omitting plates). $180 Tasmania; Letters, Petitions and other Manuscripts relating to Van Written at the request of the New South Wales Commission for Diemen's Land, 1808-1845. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1980. the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Folio, pp. 292, limited to 100 numbered copies, fine. $200 119. Donald FRIEND. A Collection of Hillendiana; Comprising vast numbers of facts and a considerable amount of fiction 110. [E. Fitzsymonds] Mortmain; A collection of choice concerning the Goldfields of Hillend. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1956 . petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the Octavo, cloth-backed boards with dust-wrapper, previous owners convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, written by divers persons. name inscribed, a very good copy. $85 Hobart, Sullivan's Cove, 1977 . Foolscap folio, pp. xvi + 262, illustrated with facsimiles, canvas, with dust-wrapper : one of 500 120. Alan FROST. Dreams of a Pacific Empire; Sir George numbered copies (#94), initialled by the publisher. $220 Young's proposal for a colonization of New South Wales (1784-5) : A parallel edition of the texts, together with an introduction discussing their historical background and foreground. Sydney, 111. Matthew FLINDERS. A Voyage to Terra Australis, Resolution Press, 1980 . Oblong, pp. 48, mounted photographic undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that frontispiece, folding table, endpaper maps, canvas with opaque vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in dust-wrapper : one of 250 numbered and signed copies. $125 His Majesty's ship The Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise. Adelaide, Government Printer, 1989. 121. Hudson FYSH. Round the Bend in the Stream. Sydney, Facsimile edition, 2 volume quarto text, plus elephant folio atlas Angus and Robertson, 1968. Octavo, plates, pp. x + 222, cloth, of 18 charts and 10 botanical plates, half blue leather and white gilt, the dust-wrapper sunned on backstrip, unrelated inscription, a cloth, in mint condition, with fitted felt box and perspex lid. very good copy. $100 $1100 Fine facsimile edition, limited to 500 numbered sets. 122. Don GARDEN. Builders to the Nation; The A. V. Jennings Story. Melbourne University Press, 1992 . Octavo, pp.417, 112. (Flinders) Keith BOWDEN (editor). Matthew Flinders' illustrated, with dust-wrapper, as new. $50 Narrative of Tom Thumb's Cruise to Canoe Rivulet. Melbourne, 1985 . Octavo, portrait and plates, pp. xvii + 34, stapled in stiff 123. Andrew GARRAN (Editor). Picturesque Atlas of wrappers. $30 Australasia. Sydney, Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, 1886 . Two volumes folio, tinted lithographed titles, maps in 113. (Flinders) H. M. COOPER. The Unknown Coast; Being colour, full-page engraved plates, publisher's hard-grained half the Explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the morocco, the boards with a couple of marks, Ferguson 9829g. shores of South Australia, 1802. Adelaide, 1953. Octavo, pp. $800 xvi + 174, illustrated, a very good copy in papered boards. $200 One of 500 numbered copies (No. 453). 124. Ernest GILES. A Trip West of the Peake. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1985 . Duodecimo, original cloth with dust- 114. (Flinders) Geoffrey RAWSON (editor). Matthew Flinders' wrapper, one of 210 numbered copies (#77). $60 Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis : 1798 ... with Notes from Ernest Giles' explorations in Central Australia. engravings by John Buckland Wright. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Narrow quarto, pp. [iv], 100, [6], nine 125. (Giles) Ray ERICKSEN. Ernest Giles; Explorer and engravings by Buckland-Wright, with a chart of Flinders' voyage Traveller 1835-1897. Melbourne, Heinemann, 1978 . Octavo, along the coast of Australia, printed in black and green on pp. xii + 307, boards with dust-wrapper, a very good copy. $60 Arnold's mould-made paper, edges untrimmed, top edges gilt, green canvas, gilt title on spine and ornament on upper board, 126. T. GILL. Bibliography Of South Australia; Colonial & Cockalorum 170. $750 Indian Exhibition, London 1886. Adelaide, Libraries Board of Published October 30 1946 in an edition of 750 copies. South Australia, 1976 . Octavo, plastic cloth. $35 Facsimile of 1886 publication. 115. (Flinders) Ernest SCOTT. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1914 . Thick octavo, 127. Thomas GILL et al. A Cruise in the Steamer "Governor frontispiece, plates, facsimiles and maps, scattered pale foxing, Musgrave" among the Islands in Spencer's Gulf, January 1907; stamps on endpaper and frontis. verso, bookplate, original cloth Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical gilt, a very good copy. $220 Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. Adelaide, J. L. Bonython & Co., 1909 . Octavo, pp. viii + 162, illustrated 116. John FORREST. Journal of the Western Australian throughout, with folding map, a good copy in recent quarter calf Exploring Expedition through the Centre of Australia, from and marbled boards. $600 Champion Bay to the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide The party included J. H. Maiden (who wrote the Botanical Notes, and Port Darwin. London, [Murray, 1875]. Octavo, folding Walter Howchin (the Geological Observations), T. Griffith map with outline colouring, pp. 249-298 extracted from the Taylor, Douglas Mawson, W. J. Clunies Ross, Thomas Gill (Notes Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, a little pale foxing, on the Aborigines), and J. W. Mellor (Ornithological Notes). later straight-grain morocco and marbled boards. $80 The text ends mid-sentence, with the final few words (from p. 128. Roy H. GODDARD. The Life and Times of James Milson. 299) supplied in pencil. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1955. Octavo, pp. 206, dust wrapper repaired. $45 117. George FRANKLAND. The Narrative of an Expedition to the Head of the Derwent, and to the Countries bordering the 129. (John and Elizabeth GOULD) Alec H. CHISHOLM. The Huon, in 1835. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1983 . Small octavo, Story Of Elizabeth Gould. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, pp. 48, as new, with dust-wrapper, limited to 155 numbered 1944. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, fine copy in original cloth copies. $75 gilt. First edition: limited to 350 copies. $350 First and only edition.

130. (Gould) Gordon SAUER. John Gould the Bird Man: A 142. James C. HAWKER. Early Experiences in South Chronology and Bibliography. Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, Australia. Adelaide, Wigg, 1899 . Octavo, pp. 83, portrait 1982 . Tall octavo, pp. xxiv + 416, illustrations including plates in frontispiece, original boards, gilt, a fine copy. $300 colour, several leaves creased or marked, a good copy in boards with dust-wrapper. $100 143. Alfred HAWKESWORTH. Australian Sheep & Wool; A The first comprehensive reference on Gould. Practical and Theoretical Treatise. Sydney, William Brooks, 1906 . Second edition, revised & expanded. $60 131. Richard A. GOULD. Yiwara; Foragers of the Australian Desert. London & Sydney, Collins, 1969 . Octavo, black & white 144. Dora HEARD [Ed.]. The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth, plates from the author's photographs, pp. xvi + 240, original Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement. Hobart, 1981 . boards with dust-wrapper (one tiny split), a very good copy. $60 Octavo, pp. xv, 298, plates, with dust wrapper, mint. $50

132. (W. B. GOULD) Garry DARBY. ; 145. John HEDGE. Trout Fishing: A Season On Monaro, Being Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land. Sydney, Copperfield the Experiences of a Fly-Fishing Enthusiast on the Rivers and Publishing Co., 1980 . Quarto, pp. 136, a very good copy, boards Lakes in Southern New South Wales. Sydney, Abbey Publishing, with dust wrapper. $70 1968. Octavo, illustrated, pp. 288, decorated end-papers, cloth with dust-wrapper, a very good copy. $220 133. A. C. GRANT. Bush-life In Queensland Or John West's Author's signed inscription to Bob Perry. Colonial Experiences. Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, new edition 1882 . Octavo, original decorated cloth, hinges 146. Rachel HENNING. The Letters of Rachel Henning; With repaired, corner of page 27 torn away, with author's presentation Forty Pen-drawings by Norman Lindsay. Sydney, The Bulletin, inscription to Lord Hopetoun. $550 1952 . Octavo, illustrations, pp. 126, stapled in decorated A novel. wrappers. $45

134. G. Nesta GRIFFITHS. Some Northern Homes of N. S. W. 147. Morton HERMAN. The Architecture Of Victorian Sydney. Sydney, The Shepherd Press, 1954. Octavo, pp. 151, plates, cloth Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1956 . Octavo, 242 black & white decorated in gilt, map printed on end papers. $75 photographs, 40 drawings, pp. 192, cloth boards, gilt, dust- wrapper chipped to edges with a small tear, good copy. $120 135. Gregory HAINES. The Grains And Threepenn'orths Of Pharmacy, Pharmacy in N.S.W. 1788-1976; A History to 148. Morton HERMAN. Georgian Architecture in Australia; Commemorate the Centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society of With some examples of buildings of the post-Georgian period, New South Wales. Kilmore, Lowden Publishing Co., 1976 . Photography by Max Dupain. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1963 . Quarto, Octavo, pp. xx + 335, plates, fine in cloth, gilt, with dust- pp. 148, boards with dust-wrapper, a very good copy. $120 wrapper. $40 First edition.

136. Thomas HALL. The Early History Of Warwick District 149. Morton HERMAN. The Blackets; An Era of Australian And Pioneers Of The Darling Downs. No imprint (Toowoomba, Architecture. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1963 . Octavo, pp. x, the author, c. 1920) . Octavo, portraits and plates, a little pale + 222, illustrated with plates and in-text, envelope pasted to front foxing (more pronounced on endpapers), original cloth, a bright endpaper, a good copy with dust-wrapper. $100 copy, first edition. $200 Includes the first hand accounts of pioneer settlers in the region. 150. The Hobart Town Gazette And Southern Reporter; A Facsimile Reproduction of Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4, May 11, 1816 to 137. George HAMILTON. Experiences of a Colonist Forty December 25, 1819. Hobart & Sydney, Platypus Publications & Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in Public Library New South Wales, 1965 . Quarto, original cloth. 1839 and a Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846, by an $ 100 Old Hand. Adelaide, J. Williams, 1880 (second edition). Octavo, three leaves of original photographs from the author's 151. Morwell HODGES. Veil of Time; An Australian Family drawings, publisher's embossed cloth gilt, one corner bruised, Album. Melbourne, Southern Moon Publications, 1945 . small corner of free endpaper lost, inscribed from Geo. Hamilton Octavo, pp. 184, illustrated, cloth. $40 to H. Gurner, Ferguson 10184, Holden 49. $2000 152. Robert HOLDEN. Photography in Colonial Australia; The 138. George HAMILTON. Experiences of a Colonist Forty Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book. Sydney, Hordern Years Ago; A Journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in House, 1988 . Large octavo, pp. 172, illustrated, as new. $125 1839 and a Voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846; By An Edition limited to 1000 copies. Old Hand. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, facsimile edition 1974 . Octavo, plastic cloth. $80 153. Hector HOLTHOUSE. Ships In The Coral. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1986 .O Octavo, illustrated, original cloth in 139. Valmai HANKEL. Sir Thomas Phillipps & Australia. dustwrapper. $35 Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1987 . Small octavo, pp. 49, with dust Stories of the ships and men who have sailed along the Great wrapper, as new, limited to 185 numbered copies (No. 89). $50 Barrier Reef.

140. Alexander HARRIS. Settlers and Convicts, Or, 154. Mabel HOOKEY. The Chaplain; Being Some Further Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Account of the Days of Bobby Knopwood. Hobart, Fuller's Backwoods, by an Emigrant Mechanic. Melbourne University Bookshop, 1970 . Octavo, pp. vii, 204, pictorial boards, with dust- Press, 1954 (second Australian edition) . Octavo, plates, pp.245, wrapper. Edition limited to 765 copies. $50 original green cloth boards, offsetting to front endpapers, good copy. $45 155. Walter HOWCHIN. The Building Of Australia And The Succession Of Life, Parts 1-3. With Special Reference to South 141. Joseph HAWDON. The Journal of a Journey from New Australia. Adelaide, 1925 & 1928 . Three parts octavo, South Wales to Adelaide ... Performed in 1838. Melbourne, illustrated, wrappers as issued, a very good set. $60 Georgian House, 1952 . Octavo, pp.65, plates, folding map, as new, with dust-wrapper. $55 156. Walter HOWCHIN. The Stone Implements Of The The first overlanding of cattle from New South Wales to Adelaide Tribe Of Aborigines Now Extinct. Adelaide, Adelaide, with descriptions of the infant settlements of Melbourne Gillingham & Co, 1934 . Octavo, plates, original cloth. $165 and Adelaide. Inscribed by author's nephew. 157. Wilfrid Hugh HUDSPETH. Hudspeth Memorial Volume : An Introduction to the Diaries of The Rev. Robert Knopwood and 170. (Jorgenson) Dan SPROD. The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson G.T.W.B. Boyes. (Hobart, c. 1954) . Octavo, illustrated, cloth. and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780 – $65 1841. Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 2001 . Thick octavo, pp.718, illustrations, original cloth with dust-wrapper, new. $100 158. John HUNTER. The Hunter Sketchbook; Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788, 89 and 171. E. B. KENNEDY. Four Years In Queensland. London, 90 by Captain John Hunter RN of the ... [commentary Edward Stanford, 1870 . Octavo, mounted frontispiece by] John Calaby and Andrew Sayers. Canberra, National photograph, large foling lithographed map with added colour, pp. Library of Australia, 1989 . Quarto, plates in colour, publisher's 246, including Stanford catalogue, fine in original cloth, Ferguson quarter cream calf and marbled boards, slipcase, mint. $400 11090. $650 Edition limited to 500 numbered copies: a reproduction of Captain John Hunter's sketchbook with impressions drawn between 1788 172. Philip Gidley KING. Remarks on the Passage through and 1790 of the birds, flowers, fishes and people found in and Bass's Straits, from the Westward. Hobart, Sullivan's Cove, around Sydney and on Norfolk and Lord Howe islands. 1973 . Small octavo, pp. 12, sewn in wrappers, two tiny flecks at the foot of upper wrapper. $150 159. Ion L. IDRIESS. The Nor'-westers. First edition, Sydney, Edition limited to 100 numbered copies (No. 44) initialled by the Angus & Robertson, 1954. Octavo, illustrated and with endpaper publisher, printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. maps, cloth gilt with price-clipped dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $50 Random scraps - squatters, prospectors, police, diggers, nursing 173. (King) Marsden HORDERN. King of the Australian sisters, divers, and pearl-shellers - from the Kimberley to the Coast; The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Coral Sea. Bathurst, 1817-1822. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 1997 . Octavo, pp. xxii + 442, plates and maps, folding maps in end- 160. Immigration, New South Wales ... Report from the Select pocket, boards with dust-wrapper, as new. $65 Committee on Immigration, with Appendix and Minutes of This first edition comprises 1500 copies. Evidence. Sydney, William Row, Government Printer, 1843. Foolscap folio, pp. [2] 10, [2] 48, see F. 3675 (no. 49), recent half 174. J. J. KNIGHT. In The Early Days; History and Incident of calf, gilt. $180 Pioneer Queensland; with Dictionary of Dates in Chronological Order. Brisbane, Sapsford & Co., 1895 . Octavo, frontispiece 161. Geoffrey INGLETON. True Patriots All; or News from portrait and illustrations, pp. 390, original gilt and decorated cloth, Early Australia, - Told in A Collection of Broadsides. Sydney, fore-edges with a few pale spots of foxing, fontispiece verso Angus & Robertson, 1952 . Quarto, pp. viii +280, papered boards darkened from upper board, Ferguson 11222. Scarce. $660 with cloth backstrip, dust-wrapper lightly foxed. $100 175. Robert KNOPWOOD. Knopwood's Hobart Town Diary, 162. Geoffrey INGLETON. True Patriots All. Rutland, 15 February 1804 - 28 February 1805. Melbourne, The Banks Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle, 1988 . Octavo, cloth cover, gilt title Society, 2005 . Octavo, 2 folding plans, 4 plates, 92 pages, on leather spine, gilt decoration on front cover, slip-case, fine publisher's stiffened pictorial wrappers, new. $35 copy. $250 Limited edition reprint of the 1951 original, signed and numbered. 176. Egon & Elsie KUNZ. A Continent Takes Shape. Sydney & London, Collins, 1971 . Quarto, pp. 176, illustrated throughout, 163. Noris IOANNOU. Ceramics; In South Australia 1836-1986 decorated cloth, with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $75 From Folk to Studio Pottery. Adelaide,Wakefield Press,1986 . Quarto, illustrated throughout, publisher's vinyl cloth, dust- 177. John Dunmore LANG. Cooksland in North-Eastern wrapper, as new. $100 Australia; The Future Cotton-Field of Great Britain; Its characteristics and capabilities for European colonization, with a 164. Henshaw JACKSON. Broken Fleece. Sydney, William disquisition on the origin, manners, and customs of the aborigines. Brooks & Co.,1910 . Octavo, pp.156, black and white London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Octavo, frontispiece, original boards, inscribed by author, fine copy. $85 seven lithographic plates (some tinted), folding map neatly A series of short articles dealing with the Sheep and Wool strengthened along one face, later Riviere tree calf, marbled industry of NSW. endpapers and edges, contrasting labels, fine, see Ferguson 4558 (this copy, and others we have handled, ends at p. 496). $800 165. Edward JENKS. A History of the Australasian Colonies Lang's activities in the late 1840s were concentrated on promoting (from their Foundation to the Year 1893) ... Stereotyped Edition. assisted migration. As a result of investigating Moreton Bay as a Cambridge, University Press, 1912, (third edition) . Octavo, pp. field for emigration, he had concluded that cotton growing could 352, folding map in colour, a bright copy, occasional pale foxing. become a major Australian industry and proceeded to spend $60 several years touring throughout Britain persuading Protestant audiences to migrate. This scarce work on southern Queensland 166. Frederick J. JOBSON. Australia; With Notes By the Way, includes a long transcript of Leichhardt's account of his Port on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land. London, Essington expedition. Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1862. Recent binder's cloth, frontispiece in colour, stamp at head of first page of text, a good 178. John Dunmore LANG. Reminiscences of my Life and copy, Ferguson 10945. $195 Times; Both in Church and State in Australia for upwards of Fifty The impressions of a Wesleyan minister who visited the principal Years. Melbourne, Heinemann, 1972 . Octavo, pp. ix + 240, cities and towns and mingled with all classes of colonial society. with dust-wrapper, good copy. $30

167. Frederic Wood JONES. The Mammals of South Australia. 179. Rev. Dr. J. D. LANG. Freedom And Independence For The Adelaide, R.E.E. Rodgers, 1925 . Three volumes, illustrated, Golden Lands Of Australia; The Right of the Colonies and the wrappers, some underlining and notes. $70 Interest of Britain and of the World. Sydney, F. Cunninghame, 1852 . Octavo, map, original cloth faded, Ferguson 11345. $150 168. Jorgen JORGENSON. A Shred of Autobiography, or the Progress of a Convict. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1981. Folio, 180. Frank and Judith LEARY. Colonial Heritage; Historic pp. 100, portrait in colour tipped to title-page, with dust-wrapper, Buildings of New South Wales. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, as new, limited to 375 numbered copies. $135 1972 . Octavo, pp. xii + 299, blue cloth, dust wrapper, fine. $60 First and only complete edition, from the Hobart Town Almanack First edition. A pictorial study of historic buildings by early texts of 1835 and 1838. convicts and other architects.

187. (Leichhardt) Dan SPROD. Proud Intrepid Heart; Leichhardt's First Attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847. Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1989 . Quarto, pp. xx + 336, frontispiece in colour, plates and maps, calf, gilt, in cloth slip case, mint. $350 181. T. W. H. LEAVITT. The Jubilee History of Tasmania, The de-luxe issue of 25 numbered and signed copies in full leather llustrated. With which is incorporated the Early History of (No. 18). Victoria, Biographical Sketches, & "Australian Representative Men", Copious Papers by James Fenton, Esq., Author of the 188. (Leichhardt) Dan SPROD. Proud Intrepid Heart; "History of Tasmania". Melbourne, Wells and Leavitt, c. 1886 . Leichhardt's First Attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847. Hobart, Two volumes quarto, tinted lithographed portraits, and Blubber Head Press, 1989 . Octavo, pp. xx + 336, illustrations lithographed plates, publisher's half roan, inked unrelated notes on and maps (some plates in colour), edges rippled at one corner. endpapers, two text leaves and one portrait, clippings pasted to One of 600 numbered and signed copies. $75 endpaper, an attractive and clean set. $750 The fine views include as many, or more, Victorian as Tasmanian 189. Thomas James LEMPRIERE. The Penal Settlements Of scenes. Early Van Diemen's Land. Royal Society of Tasmania, 1954. Octavo, folding view, pp. 112, wrappers, inked name on title. $30 182. Ludwig LEICHHARDT. Journal of an Overland Lempriere’s account of life in the colony though written in 1839 is Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a not previously published . distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. London, T. & W. Boone, 1847 . Octavo, engraved plates (one 190. Jack LINDSAY. Life Rarely Tells; An Autobiographical folding), title-page laid down and with stamp erased, later half Account Ending in the Year 1921 and Situated Mostly in navy morocco, top edges gilt, outer and lower untrimmed, a good Brisbane, Queensland. London,Bodley Head, 1958 . Octavo, pp. copy, Ferguson 4571. $2000 224, plates, endpapers slightly offset, with dust-wrapper. $60 Failing to receive the support of Governor Gipps for an official expedition, Leichhardt mounted this one with the aid of private 191. Reginald LONGDEN. An Antiques Saga. Adelaide, subscription. He sailed from Sydney with five companions in Published by author, 1991. Octavo, illustrations, with dust- August, 1844, and in the Moreton Bay district was joined by four wrapper. Edition of 400 copies. $60 others. Seven of the ten reached Port Essington in December, 1845, completed an overland journey of 3000 miles. On the return 192. Carl LUMHOLTZ. Among Cannibals; An Account of to Sydney in March, 1846, the party was rewarded, and greeted Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the with great rejoicing, as it had been regarded as lost. The Journal of Aborigines of Queensland. London, John Murray, 1889 . the expedition, on which many major streams were discovered, Octavo, full-page plates including four chromolithographs, was probably prepared with the help of Dr. William Nicholson. illustrated in-text, two folding maps, frontispiece mounted to a stub as usual, a very good copy in original cloth gilt, upper board 183. (Leichhardt) Alec H. CHISHOLM. Strange Journey; The with kangaroo motif in brown ink (not gilt), boards slightly Adventures of Ludwig Leichhardt and John Gilbert. Adelaide, darkened from handling, Ferguson 11770. $650 Rigby, 1973. Octavo, plates, a couple of leaves marked, boards with dust-wrapper. $50 prints. Four separate prints, each in original hand-coloured aquatint, 184. (Leichhardt) Gordon CONNELL. The Mystery Of London, Souter, 1824, in double mount with inner gilt rule, in fine Ludwig Leichhardt. Melbourne University Press, 1980. Octavo, condition. pp. x + 96, illustrated, cloth with dust-wrapper, a good copy. $60 193. Residence of McArthur. $1800 194. View of the Wilberforce. $850 185. (Leichhardt) L. L. POLITZER Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt's 195. Liverpool, New South Wales. $1800 Letters From Australia During The Years March 23, 1842, To 196. View of the Heads at the entrance to Port Jackson. $2200 April 3, 1848, with an appendix: Dr Ludwig Leichhardt as Naturalist and Explorer by Dr. G. Neumayer. Melbourne, Pan 197. Bertha MAC SMITH and Brian LLOYD. Letters of John Publishers, (1944) . Octavo, plates and map, a good copy in Maxwell; Superintendent of Government Stock 1823-31. original pictorial wrappers. $45 Wangaratta, Shoestring Press, 1982 . Octavo, pp xii + 225, cloth, with dust-wrapper, number 65 of 1000 copies. $80 186. (Leichhardt) Colin RODERICK. Leichhardt The Dauntless Explorer. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1988 . Octavo, 198. R. M. MACDONALD. Opals And Gold; Wanderings and pp.526, illustrations, original cloth in dustwrapper, previous Work on the Mining and Gem Fields. London, Fisher Unwin, owner's book-plate, mint copy. First edition. $50 1928 . Octavo, illustrations, pp. 256, cloth, a fine copy. $200 Stories of prospecting for opals & gold in North Queensland, White Cliffs in New South Wales, Western Australia & New Guinea.

199. George MACKANESS (Editor). Fourteen Journeys over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales 1813-1841. Sydney,, 1965 . Octavo, original cloth with dust-wrapper, fine. $55

200. Angus MACKAY. The Semi-Tropical Agriculturist and Colonists' Guide : Plain Words upon Station, Farm, and Garden Work ... With Directions for Treating Wounds, Fevers, Snake Bite. Brisbane, Watson & Co., 1875. A very good copy in the unevenly faded original boards, the imprint pasted on a slip cancelling the original Slater imprint, vignette on title and illustrations in text, see Ferguson 12017. $450

201. Alexander MACONOCHIE. On Colonel Arthur's General Character and Government. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1989 . Small octavo, pp. 28, stiffened wrappers, one of 155 numbered copies hand-printed (No. 122). $50

202. Thomas MAJOR. Leaves from a Squatter's Note Book. London, Sands & Company, 1900 . Octavo, original pictorial cloth, minor wear, Ferguson 12205. $325

203. (Map) A. K. JOHNSTON. Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania. Edinburgh and Glasgow, n.d. [1844] . Engraved map with outline colour, dissected into twenty-four sections and set down on linen, two small marks on linen not affecting map surface, folding into original cloth container (backstrip lost) 210. Hans MINCHAM. The Story of the Flinders Ranges. lettered Johnston's Travelling Map of Van Diemen's Land , Adelaide, 1964 . Octavo, pp. 306, cloth with dust-wrapper. $40 dimensions within border about 24 by 20 inches, front board laid to linen of map verso. $850 211. Lt. Col. Sir T.L. MITCHELL. Journal of an Expedition A separate issue of Map No. 32 from Johnston's National Atlas, into the Interior of Tropical Australia, In Search of a Route from Tooley 315. Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848. Octavo, 7 maps (4 folding), 12 204. (Map) J. BARTHOLOMEW. New South Wales, Victoria, plates, one plate with the shadow of a stain at lower inner corner, Queensland, and South Australia. London and Liverpool, the first issue with advertisements dated October 1847, in Bayntun George Philip, n.d. Lithographed map in colour, dissected into crimson crushed morocco over cloth boards, top edges gilt, a fine twenty sections and set down on linen, folding into a worn but still copy, Ferguson 4828. $3000 sound case lettered Philips' Series of Travelling Maps; New South Mitchell's last expedition covered enormous areas of unknown Wales . $350 Queensland.

205. (Map) John TALLIS. Western Australia, Swan River. 212. Ernest G. MOLL. Below These Hills; The story of a London & New York, n.d. (c. 1850) Engraved map with outline Riverina farm. Melbourne University Press, 1957. Octavo, colouring, including six vignettes. $400 pp.123, slight tears in dust-wrapper, a good copy. $30 With drawings by Alison Forbes. 206. Louisa A. MEREDITH. Our Island Home : A Tasmanian Sketch Book. Hobart Town, J. Walch & Sons, 1879 . Folio, 213. T. H. MONGER. King Island, Tasmania. King Island, original cloth over bevelled boards, lithographed title, illustrated Currie, 1931 (fourth edition) . Tall slim octavo, pp.28, wrappers. with twelve autotype plates, text printed in brown ink, Ferguson, Scarce. $120 12513. $1000 214. E. J. R. MORGAN and S. H. GILBERT. Early Adelaide 207. Louisa Anne MEREDITH. Over the Straits; A Visit to Architecture 1836 to 1886. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, Victoria. London, Chapman and Hall, 1861. Octavo, pp. xii, 1969 . Octavo, pp. xi + 169, with dust-wrapper, fine. $100 284, recased in the original blue embossed cloth (a little stained), new endpapers, a good copy. $350 215. E. MORRIS MILLER. Pressmen and Governors; Australian Editors and Writers in Early Tasmania. A Contribution 208. Archibald MESTON. Geographic History of Queensland. to the History of the Australia Press and Literature with Notes Brisbane, Edmund Gregory, 1895 . Octavo, original embossed Biographical and Bibliographical. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, cloth, sunning to spine, with signed inscription from author, fine, 1952 . Octavo, pp. x +| 308, cloth, with slightly marked dust- Ferguson 12532. $450 wrapper. $195 Natural history, exploration, and Aboriginal life. Edition limited to 250 signed & numbered copies.

209. (Military) Anzac Memorial , published by the Returned 216. Mount Morgan Limited. The Mine and Works of Mount Soldiers Association. Sydney, The Returned Soldiers Morgan Limited, Mount Morgan, Queensland. Brisbane, The Association, second edition 1917 . Thick octavo, illustrations and Company, 1956 . Octavo, pp. 12, wrappers. $20 maps, pp. ii + 512 + 2, original padded morocco, gilt and decorated, all edges gilt, a fine copy. $650 217. Charles P. MOUNTFORD. Ayers Rock Its People, The superior edition, numbered and initialled by the editor A. G. Their Beliefs and Their Art. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1965. Stephens. The first edition which was published on Anzac Day in Octavo, pp. xiv + 208, plates including five in colour, figures in- 1916 was vitrually a book for New South Wales, where the RSL text, two folding diagrams, a fine copy in original cloth, dust- was founded in September 1915. 12,000 copies were sold. This wrapper with a couple of short tears in rear panel. $150 edition includes a 250-pp. list of the Officers and Men who are missing or deceased as at 25 Aptil 1917, chapters of soldiers' 218. Marcie MUIR. Harry Muir - Bookman: A Memoir. stories, accounts of fighting in France, the Dardanelles and the Melbourne, Croft Press, 1993. Octavo, pp. 45, card with evacuation of Gallipoli, and a short chapter on general wrapper, new. $60 Australasian reference designed to inform the large overseas Limited to 220 numbered and signed copies (No. 164). audience. 219. [National Trust of Australia] Priceless Heritage; Historic Buildings of Tasmania. Hobart, Platypus, first edition, 1964 . Quarto, plates, pp. 136, cloth with dust-wrapper, faint foxing to preliminaries, very good. $75

220. (Newspaper) The Mercury Centenary Magazine, 1854- 1954. Hobart, July 5, 1954 . Folio, stapled in coloured pictorial wrappers, a little chipping, illustrated throughout. $45

221. [Norfolk Island] . Norfolk Island Report for the Year Ended 30th June, 1926. New South Wales Government Printer, 1927. Foolscap folio, pp. 16, stapled. $50

222. G. M. O'BRIEN. The Australian Police Forces. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1960. Octavo, illustrated, cloth with dust-wrapper. $35 Comprehensive account of the origin and development of the police forces in Australia.

223. Nettie PALMER. Shadowy Paths. The Euston Press, (1915) . Duodecimo, pp. vi + 56, outer and lower edges uncut, endpapers with pale foxing, a good copy in the original lettered artifical vellum. $150 Scarce : the author's second work of verse.

224. Arvi PARBO. Down Under; Mineral Heritage in Australasia. An illustrated history of Mining and Metallurgy in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Parkville, 231. (Adelaide). Phoenix, 1938. Adelaide University Union, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1992 . Small 1938 . Octavo, pp. 80, original decorated black wrappers. $55 quarto, pp. x + 310, illustrated throughout, a very good copy, Attractive annual literary journal which was a forerunner to Angry boards with dust-wrapper. $70 Penguins . Illustrated with photos and lino blocks.

225. Sydney PARTRIGE. Rocky Section; An Australian 232. PORT ARTHUR . The Port Arthur Guide. Hobart, W. Romance. Brisbane, Steele Rudd & Co, 1907. Octavo, pp. 186, Radcliffe, ND 1930s. Small octavo, illustrations, pictorial original decorated buckram. $90 wrappers, pp.47, a fine copy. $20

226. J. J. PASCOE (Editor). History of Adelaide and Vicinity, 233. James PORTER. The Capture of the Frederick, Macquarie with a general sketch of the province of South Australia and Harbour, Van Diemen's Land, 1834. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, biographies of representative men. Adelaide, Hussey & 1981 . Folio, pp. 80, frontispiece in colour, limited to 375 Gillingham, 1901 . Quarto, portraits and illustrations throughout, numbered copies (No. 42), as new. $75 patterned cloth over bevelled boards, a fine copy. $500 The first-hand narrative, from the manuscript, of the seizing and voyage to South America. 227. [Tom PETRIE]. Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Dating from 1837), Recorded by his daughter. First 234. George PRESHAW. Banking under Difficulties, or Life on edition, Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1904 . Octavo, the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand. portrait and illustrations, folding map, errata slip, publisher's Melbourne, Edwards Dunlop & Co, 1888 . Octavo, a very good pictorial cloth with a little external wear, small stain to two early copy in original pebbled cloth, a few small smudges and text leaves, otherwise a good copy. $400 fingerings in text, Ferguson 14379. $375

228. Governor . The Voyage of Governor 235. Dennis PRYOR. Focus On Milton Moon. Brisbane, Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of University Queensland Press, 1967 . Octavo, pp.64, original the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Adelaide, orange cloth, end-papers slight browning, dust-wrapper with faint Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968. Quarto, plates and markings, in the Artists in Queensland series. $40 maps, pp. 298 + 74 (appendices), previous owner's name and bookplate, publisher's quarter morocco, fine. $200 236. Basil W. RAIT. The Official History of the Hutchins School. Hobart, J. Walch, [1935] . Octavo, illustrated, one plate 229. Arthur PHILLIP. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to folding, pp. 152, original black cloth. $70 Botany Bay, Compiled from authentic papers, edited from the 1789 edition by John Currey. Melbourne, The Banks Society, 237. J. O. RANDELL. Yaldwyn of the Golden Spurs: The Life 2004 . Octavo, plates and folding chart, 84 pages, publisher's of William Henry Yaldwyn 1801-1866; Sussex Squire - stiffened pictorial wrappers, new. $35 Australian Squatter - Member of Legislative Council of Queensland. Melbourne, Mast Gully Press, 1980 . Octavo, 230. (Phillip) Alan FROST. Arthur Phillip 1738-1814; His plates, pp. xiii + 161, with dust-wrapper. $50 Voyaging. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1987 . Large Edition limited to 350 copies. octavo, pp. xi + 320, plates in colour, maps, boards with dust- wrapper, a very good copy. $70 238. Lloyd REES. The Small Treasures of a Lifetime; Some Recounts Phillip's voyages to the Arctic, the coasts of Europe, the Early Memories of Australian Art and Artists. Sydney, Collins, West Indies, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope and India, and 1984 . Octavo, pp. 162, boards, dust-wrapper, illustrated. $60 Australia. Rees describes his boyhood and youth, and art and artists, in Brisbane as well as his time in Sydney during the 1920s.

239. Rev. George REID. The History Of Ebenezer; Australia's Oldest [Presbyterian] Church, Portland Head, Hawkesbury River Near Windsor, New South Wales. Windsor, No publication details, 1959 . Octavo, illustrated, wrappers. $20 251, Michael SHARLAND. Stones of a Century. Hobart, 240. E. Graeme ROBERTSON. Adelaide Lace. Adelaide, Oldham, Beddome & Meredith, 1957 . Large octavo, pp. xii + 74, Rigby, 1973 . Quarto, pp. 207, with dust wrapper, one of 1001 cloth with torn dust-wrapper. $50 copies signed by the author. $120 Photographs by the author of historic buildings and relics of settlement in Tasmania. 241. E. Graeme ROBERTSON. Early Buildings of Southern Tasmania. Adelaide, Georgian House, 1970 . Two volumes 252, Thomas SKOTTOWE. The Skottowe Manuscript ... Select quarto, cloth with dust-wrappers, very good. $350 Specimens from Nature of the Birds, Animals &c. &c. of New The set covers the full range of buildings from cottages to South Wales. Edited, with an introductory essay, by Tim Government House. Bonyhady, Natural history consultant, John Calaby, Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. Sydney, David Ell Press & Hordern 242. E. Graeme ROBERTSON. Sydney Lace; Ornamental Cast House, 1988. Two volumes quarto, full-page plates in colour, Iron in Architecture in Sydney. Melbourne, Georgian House, black cloth gilt, in matching slipcase, mint. $250 1962 . Quarto, pp. 198, illustrated throughout, as new with dust- Edition limited to 550 numbered copies: the first publication of wrapper. $300 this 1813 manuscript in which the illustrations are by the convict artist Richard Browne. 243. E. Graeme ROBERTSON and Edith CRAIG. Early Houses of Northern Tasmania; An Historical and Architectural 253. B. J. SMART. The Log of a Silvertail Swagman; A Tramp Survey. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1964. Two volumes through Tasmania, the Garden of Australia. Not published, quarto, canvas, leather titling-labels, unrelated inscription, one February 1918 . Quarto, manuscript map in ink, pp. vi + 33 endpaper with minor flecking, inscribed : limited to 1000 typescript printed on rectos only, 12 leaves of mounted numbered(#454) and signed sets. $650 photographs, modern cloth with calf titling label. $350 Generally a plain account of several days tramp, but with some detail of the Briseis mine at Derby , and with photographs (but not 244. James ROSS. The Settler in Van Diemen's Land. text) for Port Arthur. Melbourne, Marsh Walsh Publishing, 1975 . Octavo, pp. viii + 127, tipped-in plates, papered boards and quarter calf, with dust- 254, Bernard SMITH and Alwyne WHEELER. The Art of the wrapper : one of 350 numbered copies. $150 First Fleet & other early Australian drawings. Melbourne, Oxford The text is taken from Ross's 1836 Hobart Town Almanack , and University Press, 1988 . Small folio, pp. 256, illustrated the illustrations from Backhouse's Narrative . throughout in colour and black-and-white, as new, with dust- wrapper. $180 245. Herbert J. RUMSEY. Pioneers of Sydney Cove with A comprehensive visual supplement to the history and scientific decorations by James Emery. Sydney, Sunnybrook Press, 1937 . discoveries of early settlement. Quarto, later three-quarter morocco by Gordon Hughes of 255. The Society of Artists. Annual Exhibition held at the Melbourne. $850 Education Department's Art Gallery ... Sydney, Sept. 10th to An example of the fairly uncommon private press phenomena in October 1st, 1921. Sydney, 1921 . Octavo, pp. [20], stapled in Australia, this is one of 150 copies issued by the Sunnybrook decorated wrappers, a couple of leaves with pale foxing. $80 Press in 1937. 256, Vice-Admiral Boyle SOMERVILLE. The Chart-Makers. 246. H. M. R. RUPP. The Orchids of New South Wales. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1928 . Octavo, pp. Sydney, National Herbarium, 1943 . Octavo, pp. 152, printed 302, plates, frontispiece, blue cloth boards marked and spine wrappers unevenly faded, fine. $80 sunned. $85 Queensland and New Hebrides. 247. Henry Stuart RUSSELL. The Genesis Of Queensland: An Account Of The First Exploring Journeys To And Over Darling 257. (South Australia). Plan of a Company to be Established for Downs: The earliest days of their occupation; social life; station the Purpose of Founding a Colony in Southern Australia. seeking; the course of discovery northward and westward; and a London, Ridgway & Sons, 1831 . Octavo, three folding engraved resume of the causes which led to separation from New South maps with outline colouring, pp. 74 (the final leaf dusty), Wales, with portraits and facsimiles of maps, log. Sydney, endpapers with pale foxing, a very good and untrimmed copy in Turner & Henderson, 1888. Royal octavo, frontispiece portrait, hand some marbled boards and half calf, the Ingleton copy with three folding plates and a folding map, pale foxing of half-title and bookplate. $3000 several other leaves, original cloth gilt, upper edges uncut, with The first proposal to colonise South Australia, using share capital the label and pencilled signature of E. M. Christie, Ferguson for land development. Contains George Sutherland's report of an 15296. $480 1819 visit to Kangaroo Island.

248. Charles Schaefer RUTLIDGE. Guide to Queensland; 258. Ivan SOUTHALL. Woomera. Sydney, Angus & Compiled from Official and Private Records. London, Dean & Robertson, 1962 . Octavo, pp.264, blue cloth covered boards, Son, n.d. (1899) . Octavo, frontispiece folding map, plates, the boards slight flecking, previous owners name stamped on front issue in blue cloth, decorated and gilt,a very good copy with a endpaper. $30 handful of small external marks, Ferguson 15314. $450 Study of Australia's rocket range.

259. W. J. SOWDEN. The Northern Territory As It Is; A 249. David SCHOLES. Trout Days; Some Reflections and Narrative of the South Australian Parlimentary Party's Trip, and Conclusions After Many Years of Grand and Eventful Fly-fishing. full descriptions of the Northern Territory, Its Settlements and Sydney, Kangaroo Press, 1986. Octavo, illustrated, pp. 160, green Industries. Adelaide, W. K. Thomas, 1882 . Octavo, pp. iv + 192 boards with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $100 + vi (advertisements), original watered cloth, the foot of the Foreword by Malcolm Fraser backstrip with ink splashes, a very good copy. $350

250. David SCHOLES. The Way of an Angler; An appreciation 260. (Baldwin SPENCER) Philip BATTY et al (Editors). The of fly-fishing in many waters. Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1963. Photographs of Baldwin Spencer. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press Octavo, plates, frontispiece, pp. 184, boards, dust-wrapper slightly and Museum Victoria, 2005 . Quarto, black and white plates, rubbed, a couple of inked notes, a good copy. $150 maps, pp. 223, boards with dust-wrapper, new. $70 New and expanded edition of the 1982 Currey/O'Neil publication, with essays by John Mulvaney, Nicolas Peterson, Howard Morphy and Philip Jones. (271 cont.) An account of Sturt's journey, commissioned by 261. Dan SPROD. Victorian and Edwardian Hobart from old Governor Darling, in search of the source of the Macquarie River : photographs. Sydney, John Ferguson, 1977 . Octavo, the first and only edition of his first expedition. illustrations, pp.204, boards with dust-wrapper. $55 272. Charles STURT. Four Letters on a Proposed Exploration 262. Sophia STANGER. A Journey From Sydney To Bathurst; of the Australian Continent, addressed to Lord Stanley during Over The Blue Mountains in 1841. Pearl Beach, The Escutcheon 1843 & 1844; Transcribed from the originals, with Additions. Press, 1988 . Octavo, original boards. $50 Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1988 . Octavo, pp. 72, papered boards, A letter from the author to her mother. Printed by Nick Summers with dust-wrapper, limited to 135 numbered copies (No. 45). $75 and bound by Herve Goarin, in an edition limited to 210 copies. 273. Charles STURT. Narrative of an Expedition into Central 263. Tom STANNAGE. Local History in Western Australia: A Australia ... during the years 1844, 5, and 6; Together with a Guide to Research. University of Western Australia, 1975 . Notice of the Province of South Australia. London, T. and W. Octavo, pp.76, stiffened pictorial wrappers. $20 Boone, 1849 . Two volumes octavo, outer margin of one title- page strengthened, pale stain to the head of one plate, occasional 264. Margaret STEVEN. Merchant Campbell 1769-1846: A marking : a good uncut set in recent marbled boards and half calf, Study of Colonial Trade. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, Ferguson 5202. $2500 1965. Octavo, black & white plates, pp.360, original cloth in In 1844 Sturt set out from Adelaide, with a view to penetrating the dust-wrapper, good copy. $35 centre of the continent and establishing the existence of a His contemporaries accorded Campbell the title Father of mountain range. He followed the Murray River to the Darling, and Australian Commerce . proceeded up the Darling to the area of Lake Cowandilla. For the first half of 1845 the expedition was confined to the permanent 265. Alfred STIRLING. Joseph Bosisto. Melbourne, The water of Preservation Creek. Later Sturt made several excursions Hawthorn Press, 1970 . Octavo, portrait frontispiece, pp. 44, with towards the centre of the continent, but was turned back by the dust-wrapper, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 500. $30 sand dunes of the Simpson Desert, and abandoned his conviction that there existed an inland sea. On his return to Adelaide, he found that he had been appointed Colonial Treasurer.

274. Charles STURT. Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia, Performed ... during the years 1844, 5, and 6 ... Together with a Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965 . Facsimile edition, two volumes octavo text, plus folder of maps, publisher's cloth, a very good set. $300

275. Charles STURT. Proceedings of an Expedition into the Interior of New Holland in 1829 and 1830. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, n.d. Octavo, title decorated and within rule border, pp. 62, original cloth with dust-wrapper, fine, edition limited to 135 numbered copies (No. 71). $150 The despatches, journal, and summary taken from manuscripts in the Archives Office of New South Wales.

266. Richard STONE. Fragments of the Everyday: A Book of 276. Charles STURT. Two Expeditions into the Interior of Australian Ephemera. National Library of Australia, 2005 . Southern Australia, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831; Octavo, coloured illustrations throughout, pp. 222, paperback, With Observations on the Soil, Climate and General Resources of new. $30 the Colony of New South Wales ... Second edition. Adelaide, A compendium of popular memories. Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 . Facsimile edition, two volumes octavo, plates and maps, one or two small marks on half- 267. (Strzelecki) Lt. Colonel Hugh Powell CLEWS. Strzelecki's titles, but a very good set in publisher's cloth. $220 Ascent of Mount Kosciusko 1840. Melbourne, Australia Felix On his first expedition, in which he was assisted by Hamilton Literary Club, 1973. Octavo, pp. 44, stapled in wrappers. $45 Hume, Sturt discovered and named the Darling River. It was during the second that after descending the Murrumbidgee in a 268. (Strzelecki). Lech PASZKOWSKI. Social Background Of whale boat, he discovered and named the Murray River, which he Sir Paul Strzelecki And Joseph Conrad. Melbourne, Australia followed to Lake Alexandrina. Felix Literary Club, 1980. Octavo, illustrations, stapled in original stiffened wrappers. $45 277. Mrs Napier George STURT. Life Of Charles Sturt, Sometime Capt. 39th Regt and Australian Explorer. London, 269. John McDouall STUART. Fourth Expedition Journal Smith, Elder, 1899 . Octavo, frontispiece portrait, plate and five March to September 1860. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1983 . maps (four folding), outer edges uncut, a little pale foxing, a very Small quarto, pp. 92, cloth with dust-wrapper, as new. $150 good copy, Ferguson 16394. $250 Edition limited to 220 numbered copies. 278. (Sturt) Daniel George BROCK. To the Desert with Sturt; 270. Robert Pringle STUART & Thomas Beagley NAYLOR. A Diary of the 1844 Expedition. Adelaide, R.G.S.A. South Norfolk Island, 1846 ... The Accounts of Robert Pringle Stuart and Australian Branch, 1975 . Octavo, pp. 222, frontispiece in colour, Thomas Beagley Naylor. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1979 . Folio, as new, with dust-wrapper. $70 pp. 84, with dust-wrapper, one of 500 numbered copies. $75 One thousand copies were issued: scarce. The first full printing of Pringle Stuart's investigation of the convict prison of Norfolk Island. 279. (Sturt) J. H. L. CUMPSTON. Charles Sturt; His Life and Journeys of Exploration. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1951 . 271. Charles STURT. An Expedition into the Northwestern Octavo, plates and maps, pp.xviii + 195, small pieces missing Interior of New South Wales, 1828. Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, from dustwrapper, pale spotted foxing on endpapers and 1983 . Quarto, pp. 116, endpaper map, one of 250 numbered frontispiece, a good copy. $65 copies, fine, original cloth with dust-wrapper. $100 280. H. M. SUTTOR. Australian Milestones and Stories of the Past, 1770-1914. Sydney, John Andrew & Co., 1925. Two volumes, a handful of pencilled markings, some pale foxing. $130

281. Richard TANGYE. Reminiscences Of Travel In Australia, America, And Egypt, With illustrations by E. G. Mountfort. London, second edition 1884 . Octavo, frontispiece portrait, illustrated in text, with author's unsigned presentation, original cloth gilt, minor marks, Ferguson 16693. $150 A good-humoured travelogue, and more perceptive and informative than many.

282. R[oger] THERRY. Reminiscences Of Thirty Years Residence In New South Wales And Victoria, with a Supplementary Chapter on Transportation and the Ticket -of- Leave System. London, Sampson Low, first edition 1863 . Octavo, outer edges untrimmed, a fine copy in original embossed wave cloth, spine unevenly sunned, Ferguson 16988. $400 Therry was New South Wales Attorney-General 1841-1843, resident judge of Port Phillip 1844-1846, and judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales 1846-1859. As well as recording his life in the law, he deals with the New South Wales 290. (United States Navy). Under the Southern Cross: Glimpses scene from 1830s to 1850s, the discovery of gold, emigration and of Australia. Souvenir for the United States Navy August- Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, squatting and free selection. Chapter September 1908. Sydney, 1908 . Octavo, black and white plates, XIII covers female convicts. Ferguson states that this first edition unpaginated, blue cloth, pictorial embossed cover, a very good was immediately withdrawn and replaced by a second edition of copy. $50 the same year, in which some errors were corrected and fuller justice was done to the work of Gipps, Fitzroy and La Trobe. 291. J. E. Matthew VINCENT. The Australian Irrigation Colonies on the River Murray, in Victoria and South Australia. 283. William THORNLEY. The Adventures Of An Emigrant In London, Chaffey Brothers, 1887 . Folio, pp. xviii (including Van Dieman's Land, Edited by J. S. Mills. Adelaide, Rigby, advertisements) + 124 + ii, small repairs to first couple of leaves, 1973 . Octavo, illustrated, original cloth in dust-wrapper. $25 lower margins throughout slightly fingered, a few scribblings, Edited version of Thornley's narrative of early Tasmanian original cloth rebacked, Ferguson 17976. $400 settlement first published in the 1840s. 292. K .R. VON STIEGLITZ (Editor). Sketches In Early 284. Bessie THREADGILL. South Australian Land Exploration Tasmania And Victoria By Emily Bowring. Hobart, Fuller's 1856 to 1880, in Two Parts: Part 1 Text, Part 2 Maps. Adelaide, Bookshop, 1965 . Oblong octavo, pp. 27, black & white plates, Hassell, 1922 . Octavo, maps, original wrappers. $120 pictorial stiffened wrappers, previous owners name on inner front wrapper. $30 285. (Tourist Souvenir). Tasmania is the Riviera of the Reproductions and descriptions of 1840s sketches of Tasmania Commonwealth ... Issued by North-Western Tourist Association. and Victoria. Devonport, North-western Advocate, [1909] . Octavo, illustrated, 293. Major WARBURTON. An Expedition North-East and pp. 64, stapled, original wrappers showing two maps. $50 North-West of Lake Eyre; The Diary and Despatches of Major Warburton Commissioner of Police 1866. Adelaide, Sullivan's 286. Robert TRAVERS. The Tasmanians; The Story of a Cove, 1988. Octavo, pp. 72, cloth, with dust-wrapper, mint. $100 Doomed Race. Melbourne, Cassell, 1968 . Octavo, plates, pp. x Edition limited to 175 numbered copies (B), initialled by the + 244, original cloth with dust-wrapper, a good copy. $60 publisher.

287. Clive TURNBULL. Black War; The Extermination of the 294. Jane WATTS. Family Life in South Australia fifty-yhree Tasmanian Aborigines. Melbourne, Cheshire-Lansdowne, years ago dating from October 1837. Adelaide, W.K.Thomas & reprinted 1965 . Octavo, pp. 274, a very good copy, boards with Co., 1890 . Octavo, pp.216, red boards, gilt, water stain to bottom dust-wrapper. $50 front cover, edges slight wear, tear to top of spine, bookplate, repair to page 5, small section at foot of page 4 excised. $100 288. C. J. TYERS. Report of an Expedition to Ascertain the Position of the 141st Degree of East Longitude being the 295. William T. WAWN. The South Sea Islanders and the Boundary between New South Wales & South Australia. Queensland Labour Trade; A Record of Voyages and Experiences Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press, 1976 . Octavo, marbled in the Western Pacific, from 1875 to 1891. London, Swan boards and quarter morocco, end-pocket map, one of 350 Sonnenschein, 1893 . Tall octavo, maps and plates, a very good numbered copies, fine. $150 copy in publisher's cloth gilt, backstrip snagged at one point, Ferguson 18256. $250 289. James TYRRELL. Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1952 . Octavo, plates, cloth marked 296. John WEBSTER. Reminiscences of an Old Settler in at head of both boards, with chipped dust-wrapper. $140 Australia and New Zealand. Christchurch &c., Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1908. Octavo, frontispiece portrait (darkened at gutter) and four plates, recent cloth. $250 Most of the book deals with two overland journeys from the Murrumbidgee to Adelaide, droving cattle, in 1839-1841. This part of his narrative is based closely on diaries kept during the trips, and includes details such as provisioning of the trip, for which Webster was storeman, observations of the countryside, vegetation and native animals, and accounts of open battles and skirmishes with Aborigines, who harassed them most of the way. Webster shows himself to be a keen and sensitive observer of nature and of the Aborigines. Walsh and Hooton 237.

297. H. P. WELLINGS. Benjamin Boyd in Australia (1842- (308 cont.) Father, William Wills. London, Richard Bentley, 1849); Shipping Magnate : Merchant : Banker : Pastoralist and 1863 . Octavo, pale foxing affecting frontispiece, title and folding Station Owner : Member of the Legislative Council. Sydney, map, a good copy in early marbled boards and half morocco, top eighth edition, n.d. (1940s ?) Octavo, pp. 48, stapled in printed edges gilt, repair to map, Ferguson 18622. wrappers, illustrated in-text, waterstain on rear cover which has $1200 bled onto final 10 pages. $30 309. Gavin WILSON. The Artists of Hill End. Sydney, The 298. H. P. WELLINGS. Eden and Twofold Bay; Discovery, Beagle Press, 1995 . Large octavo, illustrated, pp.124, boards Early History and Points of Interest, 1797-1965. Sydney, n.d. with dust-wrapper, fine copy. $60 (1960s). Octavo, map and illustrations, pp. 40, stapled in lettered With some related material loosely inserted. wrappers. $30 310. Hardy WILSON. Old Colonial Architecture in New South 299. William Henry WELLS. A Geographical Dictionary; or Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Sydney, The Author, 1924 . Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies. Sydney, W. & F. Ford Folio, original batik boards and quarter parchment, decorated and (1848?) Octavo, 22 lithographed maps with outline colouring, gilt, illustrated with 50 fine tipped-in plates, a very good copy. full calf, backstrips ornately gilt, gilt rectangles on both boards, $1350 bound without advertisements, both frontispieces lightly foxed, One of 1000 numbered and signed copies. offset to title page, likewise from the other two plates to p. 69 and p. 404, Ferguson 4948. $1200 311. T. C. WOLLASTON. Opal: the Gem of the Never-Never. London, Thomas Murby & Co., 1924. Octavo, plates in colour 300. William Charles WENTWORTH. A Statistical, Historical and other illustrations, rear endpapers slightly darkened, a bright and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and copy in publisher’s cloth, gilt: scarce. $450 its dependent settlements in Van Diemen's Land. London, G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1819. Octavo, contemporary marbled boards 312. J. E. Tenison WOODS. A History of the Discovery and rebacked in mottled half calf, with half-title, blank corner of one Exploration of Australia, Or an account of the progress of leaf with small spot, a fine copy, Ferguson 771, Wantrup 53. geographical discovery in that continent, from the earliest period $1685 to the present day. London, Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, First edition: the first work published by an Australian-born 1865 . Two volumes octavo, with folding map in endpocket, author. original morocco-grained blind stamped cloth with minimal flecking, edges untrimmed, Ferguson 18813 (omitting folding 301. (S. De WESSELOW) Max ANGUS . Simpkinson De map). $750 Wesselow. Hobart, Blubber Head Press,1984 . Quarto, colour A handsome example of a work which is notoriously difficult to plates, pp. 191, bound in half leather, matching slipcase, sunning find in anything other than worn condition. to spine. $550 De-luxe issue of 25 numbered and signed copies (No. 25), 313. Dorothy A. A.WYLY. Irish Origins; A Family Settlement specially bound. in Australia. Launceston, 1976 . Octavo, illustrated, cloth with dust-wrapper, fine. $50 302. William WESTGARTH. Half A Century Of Australasian One of 750 numbered and signed copies (No. 539). Progress, A Personal Retrospect. Part 1. Itinerary of the Tour of a Revisit. Part 2. A Series of Articles on General Questions of 314. R. YOUNGER. Australia And The Australians: A new Australasia, the Colonies, and the Empire Generally. London, concise history. Melbourne, Hutchinson Group, 1970 . Octavo, Sampson Low, 1889 . Octavo, pp. 423, 3 coloured maps, a very pp. 986, original cloth in dust-wrapper. $55 good ex-library copy, Ferguson 18422. $175

303. Daniel WHEELER. Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and New Zealand, Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books Pty. Ltd. accompanied by his son, Charles Wheeler. Philadelphia, Joseph Barbara Hince - Manager Rakestraw &c., 1840 . Octavo, first blank excised, pale foxing, PO Box 3087 original embossed cloth, a little faded, Ferguson 3125. $120 Prahran VIC 3181

304. John WHITE. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. Australia New York, Arno Press, 1971 . Facsimile edition, quarto, pp. 336, Phone: (03) 9525 1649 Fax: (03) 9529 1298 illustrated, Physician Travelers series, original cloth, a fine copy. $140 Location: 604 High Street Prahran Victoria Email: [email protected] 305. R. H. WIGRAM. The Uncertain Trout. Melbourne, Web: www.hincebooks.com.au Georgian House, 1951. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, plates, pp. 72, original cloth gilt, dust-wrapper chipped and with defective A.B.N. 92 006 969 035 backstrip (now laid down). $250

306. W. B. WILDEY. Australasia And The Oceanic Region With Some Notice Of New Guinea, From Adelaide - via Torres Member of Australian and New Zealand Association of Straits - to Port Darwin thence Round West Australia. Antiquarian Booksellers Melbourne, 1876 . Octavo, original cloth, some pale foxing, Ferguson 18557. $80 Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association 307. Howard WILLOUGHBY. Australian Pictures Drawn with (International) Pen and Pencil. London,The Religious Tract Society, 1886. Member of the Syndicat de la Librairie Ancienne et Quarto, later cloth, some library stamps, Ferguson 18617. $200 Moderne (Paris) 308. William WILLS. A Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria from the Journals and Letters of William John Wills. Edited by his