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A Research on the Pines of Australia.
Baker, Richard T. & Smith, Henry G.
Book Number: 58934
ISBN: 
Publisher: Technological Museum, New South Wales., Sydney, 1910.
4tol blue cloth hardcover. 458pp. colour & b/w illus. Good- Very good, some insect damage to cover. Very good inside.
Price: $95.00


A Jubilee History of the Municipality of Botany 1888 - 1938
Jervis, James & Flack, Leo
Book Number: 68149
ISBN: 
Publisher: Botany Council 1938
4to. papered covered boards with green cloth spine and small colour illustrated pastedown on front board. 399pp. b/w illus. Good, cover edges repaired & re-inforced, owner's details on front pastedown, small hole on the edge of the first 19 pages. Scarce.
Price: $75.00


Francis Drake - Privateer : Contemporary Narratives and Documents
Hampden, John (editor & compiler)
Book Number: 68145
ISBN: 0413284301
Publisher: Eyre Methuen, London 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 286pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, foxing to top edge of text-block. / Very good d/w with some wear to corners.
Price: $25.00


Drake's Island of Thieves, Ethnological Sleuthing
Lessa, William A.
Book Number: 68146
ISBN: 0824803337
Publisher: The University Press of Hawaii Honolulu 1975.
8vo. hardcover. 289pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good. / Good+ d/w with small chips at top of spine and faded spine.
Price: $25.00


To the Desert with Sturt: A Diary of the 1844 Expedition
Brock, Daniel George
Book Number: 68151
ISBN: 0909112002
Publisher: The Royal Geographical Society Of Australasia South Australian Branch, Adelaide1975.
8vo. hardcover. 222pp. colour frontis. Very good+. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $30.00


The Search for The Inland Sea John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828
Johnson, Richard
Book Number: 68152
ISBN: 0522849598
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2001
8vo. hardcover. 305pp. index, b/w maps. Very good, owner's notes with corrections & further information tipped-in between pages 147-147. / Very good faded d/w.
Price: $50.00


The Lore of the Lyrebird
Pratt, Ambrose
Book Number: 68148
ISBN: 
Publisher: obertson & Mullens, Melbourne 1947.
8vo. hardcover. 80pp. b/w plates. Good, pages toned. Front hinge cracked (repaired). / Fair, torn & chipped d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Voyage of Magellan: The Journal of Antonio Pigafetta; A Translation by Paula Spurlin Paige from the edition in the William l. Clements Library.
Pigafetta, Antonio; Translated by Paula Spurlin Paige
Book Number: 68144
ISBN: 
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, USA 1969.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 153pp. + b/w maps at rear, b/w frontis. Very good, light foxing to edge of text-block. / Very good d/w. with some small tears at top of spine(repaired), small chip on rear top corner, rubbing to bottom front edge, creased rear top edge and faded spine.
Price: $95.00


Dig. A Drama of Central Australia
Clune, Frank
Book Number: 68150
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson Australia 1951. New edition.
8vo. hardcover. 240pp. b/w plates. Very good, light foxing to prelims. Fair, chipped d/w. Signed by author.
Price: $75.00


Norman Lindsay's Cats.
Lindsay, Norman.
Book Number: 68147
ISBN: 0333175611
Publisher: Melbourne: Macmillan, 1975. First edition.
4to. hardcover. b/w illus. very good / Fair d/w.
Price: $20.00


Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales Vol IX part I 1909
Harper, L. F.
Book Number: 65402
ISBN: 
Publisher: Department of Mines, Sydney 1909.
8vo. stiff boards with cloth spine. Good+, cover & last few pages toned, some maps/charts foxed. Some rubbing to cover. Contents: The geology of the Murrumbidgie District near Yass. 54pp.+ 12 b/w plates(1 folding). 4 folding maps/charts in pocket at rear.
Price: $150.00


BUILDING AND ORNAMENTAL STONES OF AUSTRALIA
Sydney Tech
Book Number: 68143
ISBN: 
Publisher: Gov. NSW 1915
Oblong 8vo. softcover. Technical Education Series No. 19. Technological Museum Sydney. Lots of B&W plates throughout, colour plates of examples and a map. Good, corners bumped, wear to cover corners, foxing to edges of text-block,
Price: $65.00


The Cornhill Magazine January 1860-June 1861
Thackeray, William Makepeace (ed.)
Book Number: 68142
ISBN: 
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co. 1860-1861, London, 1860
4 volumes 8vos. hardcovers, b/w illus. Good, some foxing.
Price: $200.00


Tablets of memory: The Bendigo Cohns and their descendants, 1853-1989
Cohn
Book Number: 32217
ISBN: 0731646290
Publisher: Doncaster, Australia Antelope Press 1990
Large 8vo hardcover 270pp index, b/w illus. fine / very good+ d/w.
Price: $25.00


The Brisbane Water Story Part One : Gosford; Part Two Woy Woy & Hawkesbury River; Part Three Enchanted Waters; Part Four The Rest of the Story
Swancott, C.
Book Number: 68140
ISBN: 
Publisher: Brisbane Water Historical Society, Woy Woy, 1953, 1954, 1961, 1955.
8vo. Part One softcover. 112pp; Part Two 144pp. stiff boards with cloth spine; Part Three stiff boards with cloth spine in d/w.; Part Four stiff boards with cloth spine. Very good some toning to endpapers, spine damaged on Part four.
Price: $95.00


Blue Gum Flat to Budewoi: The Story of Wyong Shire's Wonderful Valleys, Lakes and Beaches.
Swancott, Charles.
Book Number: 68141
ISBN: 
Publisher: Brisbane Water Historical Society, 1963.
8vo. Stiff boards with cloth spine. 269pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Fair d/w with some tears(repaired).
Price: $35.00


Eureka: Victorian Parliamentary Papers, Votes and Proceedings 1854-1867
Anderson, Hugh (collected by)
Book Number: 68139
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1969
4to. hardcover. Very good. / Very good d/w. includes colour poster of Eureka Stockade Riot 1854
Price: $18.00


Pacific 360°: Australia''s Battle for Survival in World War II
Perry, Roland
Book Number: 68117
ISBN: 9780733627040
Publisher: Hachette Australia, Sydney, 2012.
8vo. hardcover. 500pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. Very good d/w with tiny tear on top corner
Price: $18.00


Tales of old Mosman
McLaren, Don.
Book Number: 68120
ISBN: 0959995625
Publisher: Dungog, N.S.W. Mosman Historical Society 1978
8vo softcover 104pp b/w illus. good, some wear and marking to cover, owners name on fep.
Price: $11.00


Port of pearls : a history of Broome
Edwards, Hugh
Book Number: 58739
ISBN: 0646193090
Publisher: Tangee Publishing 2009
8vo. softcover. 198pp. b/w & colour illus. very good+.
Price: $9.00


Secrets behind My Smile
Dally-Watkins, June
Book Number: 68116
ISBN: 0670041726
Publisher: Camberwell, Vic. Penguin 2002.
8vo softcover 280pp index, b/w illus. good, pages toned, owner's name on fep.
Price: $15.00


People Of The River: Lost Worlds Of Early Australia
Karskens, Grace
Book Number: 68124
ISBN: 9781760292232
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2020.
8vo. softcover. 678pp. index, b/w illus., colour plates. Very good, small mark on fep.
Price: $25.00


Eymozia: Ceramic & Iconographic Studies In Honour Of Alexander Cambitoglou
Descoeudres, Jean-Paul (editor)
Book Number: 58706
ISBN: 090979717X
Publisher: Meditarch (The University of Sydney), Sydney, 1990.
4to. purple laminated boards, hardcover. 256pp. + 51 b/w plates at rear. Very good, tear on spine(repaired).
Price: $25.00


Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Sydney - Hobart Race
Mundle, Rob
Book Number: 6589
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sydney. Harper Collins. 1999
Large 8vo softcover. Inscription by Author on title page. 315pp. + colour plates. very good condition, light toning to page edges.
Price: $12.00


Driftwood: Escape and survival through art
De Jong-Duldig, Eva
Book Number: 68125
ISBN: 9781925588040
Publisher: Arcadia, North Melbourne, 2022.
8vo. softcover. 417pp. Index, b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $30.00


They Passed This Way. A Coverage of the History of the First 100 Years of Progress in the Parish of St. Mary's Concord N. S. W. 1870-1970.
Delaney W. J. and Dawes J.
Book Number: 68119
ISBN: 
Publisher: Devonshire Press, Surry Hills, 1970
8vo. hardcover. 166pp. b/w plates. Good+, tape mark on rear endpaper, light marks on top edge of text-block. / Poor torn d/w.
Price: $12.00


The war of the running dogs: How Malaya defeated the communist guerrillas, 1948-60
Barber, Noel
Book Number: 58140
ISBN: 
Publisher: London Collins 1971
8vo hardcover 284pp index, b/w illus. very good / good d/w with a few tiny tears(repaired) & slightly faded spine.
Price: $15.00


Just for the Love of It. The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest from Both Sides
O'Dowd, Cathy
Book Number: 68118
ISBN: 0620247827
Publisher: Free to Decide Publishing 1999.
8vo. hardcover. 320pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


Hubert Who? War Hero. Explorer. Spy: The Incredible Life of Unsung Adventurer Hubert Wilkins.
Andrews, Malcolm
Book Number: 68122
ISBN: 9780733323003
Publisher: ABC Books 2011
8vo. softcover. 289pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $15.00


Fatal storm : the 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Mundle, Rob.
Book Number: 68123
ISBN: 0732269237
Publisher: Pymble, N.S.W. HarperCollinsPublishers 12001
8vo softcover 337pp colour illus. very good, toning to page edges, ramainder mark on top edge of text-block.
Price: $8.00



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