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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


Dr. John Lhotsky - The Turbulent Australian Writer, Naturalist and Explorer
KRUTA, VLADISLAV., WHITLEY, GILBERT P., VALLANCE, THOMAS G., WILLS, JAMES H., WAKEFIELD, NORMAN A., ANDREWS, ALAN E.J., PASZKOWSKI, LECH.
Book Number: 67287
ISBN: 
Publisher: Melbourne, (Australian Felix Literary Club), 1977. Documentary and Historical Series No. 2
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 176; 7 maps, 25 illustrations, index of persons, index of geographical names, original illustrated stiff wrappers, Near fine.
Price: $15.00


Norfolk Island 1846 : The Accounts Of Robert Pringle Stuart And Thomas Beagley Naylor
Stuart Robert Pringle And Thomas Beagley Naylor
Book Number: 68239
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sullivans Cove, 1979
4to. hardcover. 84pp. Limited edition of 500 copies, this copy number 206. Fine. / Near fine d/w.
Price: $95.00


Major Mitchell's Map 1834
Andrews, ALAN A. E. J. ed
Book Number: 39292
ISBN: 090852823x
Publisher: Hobart 1992
8vo. hardcover. 402pp. index, b/w illus. maps. The story of the making of the map of NSW from 1827-34 by the Surveyor General of NSW Thomas Livingston Mitchell. Limited to 1000 copies. fine. / fine d/w.
Price: $65.00


Squatter, Selector, and Storekeeper. A History of the Darling Downs, 1859-93
Waterson, D.B.
Book Number: 6049
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sydney University Press, 1968 First Edition
8vo. hardcover. 310pp. index. + b/w plates. very good. / good, lightly chipped d/w.
Price: $12.00


Banjo Paterson: A Life In Pictures & Words From The Banjo Paterson Family Archive
Campbell, Alistair
Book Number: 68230
ISBN: 9781761260803
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Sydney 2022.
Large Oblong 4to. hardcover. 280pp. colour illus. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $35.00


The Convicted Gunsmiths of New South Wales A Definitive History 1788-1850
Solomon, R. C.
Book Number: 68227
ISBN: 0646003429
Publisher: Ronald C.Solomon, Tockdale 1990.
8vo. laminated boards, hardcover. index, b/w illus. Very good ex-lib., a little wear to bottom edge of front board. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy #174 signed by author.
Price: $30.00


Australians Volume 3. Flappers to Vietnam.
Keneally, Thomas
Book Number: 68231
ISBN: 9781742374536
Publisher: Sydney; Allen & Unwin; 2014
Large 8vo. hardcover. 628pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine light rubbing to bottom edge of spine. / Fine d/w.
Price: $30.00


The Devil's Wilderness
Andrews, ALAN E.J. (ed.)
Book Number: 66205
ISBN: 0908528124
Publisher: Blubber Head Press, Hobart 1984.
8vo. hardcover. 150pp. index, b/w illus. maps. George Caley's Journey to Mount Banks in 1804. Limited to 375 copies. New Unread. / Fine d/w.
Price: $50.00


Lawson: The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon
Kieza, Grantlee
Book Number: 68217
ISBN: 9780733340536
Publisher: ABC Books, New South Wales, 2022.
8vo. softcover. 506pp. index, colour & b/w plates. Very good+.
Price: $15.00


The Trials of Isabella Mary Kelly
Garland, Maurie
Book Number: 68181
ISBN: 1920785698
Publisher: Brolga Publishing, Australia, 2005
8vo. softcover. 434pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00


Madman's Island
Idriess, Ion L.
Book Number: 68179
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941
8vo. hardcover. 253pp. b/w illus. good+, spine slanted, price mark on fep., endpapers foxed. fep torn (repaired). / good+ d/w. The works of Ion L. Idriess National Edition Vol. XII.
Price: $25.00


Cooma Country
Neal, Lauri
Book Number: 68174
ISBN: 0950090328
Publisher: Cooma - Monaro Historical Society, 1976.
8vo. hardcover. 315pp. b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w with wear on front panel corner.
Price: $25.00


Story of the Snowy Mountains: Its history and people
Larkins, John
Book Number: 68175
ISBN: 0589502018
Publisher: A H & A W Reed, Sydney 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 80pp. colour & b/w plates. very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


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: $28.00


A History Of The Berrima District 1798-1961
JERVIS,JAMES
Book Number: 68164
ISBN: 0959971165
Publisher: Genealogical Publications of Australia / Berrima County Council, 1973.
8vo. hardcover., b/w ills. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Good, foxed d/w with small tear. A local history of the NSW town of Berrima and district over 163 years of European settlement.
Price: $15.00


In Step with Sturt.
SWAN, Keith. and, Margaret Carnegie.
Book Number: 68157
ISBN: 0959636552
Publisher: Graphic Books, Armadale, Victoria, 1979.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 115pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good.
Price: $20.00


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


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


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


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


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


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


A monograph of the carboniferous and permo-carboniferous invertebvrata of New South Wales. Vol. II. - Pelecypoda. Part II. Eurydesma
R Etheridge and W. S. Dun
Book Number: 68114
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printers 1910.
4to. Or.printed boards. 75. With plates xvii to xxvi full-page, and accompanying leaves of descriptive text. (Dept. Mines. Mem. Geol. Surv. N.S.W. Paleontology No. 5). Good, covers foxed, label on spine, tape marks on endpapers.
Price: $20.00


Skiing the Western Faces - Kosciusko
Andrews, Alan
Book Number: 33825
ISBN: 0959084134
Publisher: O'Connor, A.C.T. Tabletop Press 1993
4to hardcover 155pp index, b/w illus, maps. New
Price: $25.00


The Cape To Cape Track Guidebook, Incorporating The Meelup Trail
Scott, Jane & Forma, Ray (Illustrated by Patricia Negus)
Book Number: 68087
ISBN: 9780980333718
Publisher: Cape to Cape Publishing, Fremantle 2008.
8vo. softcover. 108pp. index, colour illus., maps. Near Fine.
Price: $15.00


Eyes To The Future: Sketches Of Australia And Her Neighbours In The 1870s
Carter, Jennifer M.T
Book Number: 68070
ISBN: 0642107238
Publisher: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT, 2000.
8vo. softcover. 252pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $10.00


The Far-Famed Blue Mountains of Harry Phillips
Kay, Phillip
Book Number: 68068
ISBN: 0909325456
Publisher: Second Back Row Press Leura 1985
Square 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. Very good, cover faded.
Price: $15.00


The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
Karskens, Grace
Book Number: 68064
ISBN: 9781741756371
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2009. First edition.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 678pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Good+ faded d/w, creased on front edge.
Price: $50.00



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