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1. ACKERMANN JESSIE Australia From A Woman's Point Of View. illus. with portrait frontis. and 63 full-page plates pub. London Cassell 1913 1st. ed. or. light brown cl.. cr.8vo. pp.XIV.318. American woman journalist writes about Australia both city and country. Very slight foxing else near fine.   Price: $75.00
2. ADAM-SMITH  PATSY Heart Of Exile. Ireland, 1848,  and  the seven   patriots  banished;  their  adventures,  in   three continents  as  they search for refuge. illus. with numerous b/w illustrations, sources, index; pub.  Melb.  Nelson 1987 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XIV.370. In 1848, at the height of the Great Famine, 7 Irish gentlemen led a nationalist uprising for self-rule. They were sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land as gentlemen exiles rather than convicts. In one of the great escape stories of all time. Fine.   Price: $50.00

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3. ADAM-SMITH  PATSY Goodbye Girlie. A Much Loved  Australian Tells Her Own Story. illus. with 32 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Viking 1994 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.266. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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4. ADAM-SMITH  PATSY Outback Heroes. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Syd. Lansdowne Press 1981 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.256. Bushwomen and children, drovers, missionaries, rogues, miners, navvies, stockmen, trackers, mailmen, postmistresses, teachers and seamen all heroes of Australia's outback. They come in all guises from all parts of the continent and from the past and the present. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00   Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
5. ADAMS  NANCY  Family Fresco. Autobiography.  with  e/paper illus. & 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206. Nancy Adams insists that her life has been relatively undistinguished as the world counts distinction - and perhaps as she was taught to count it. She writes, she says, to record before it's too late something of the distinguished men and women she has known. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
6. ADAMS   WILLIAM  The  Bell-Wether.  William  Adams  -   An Australian  Company  from foundation to  takeover  1884  to 1984. This history used the words of its employees to tell how the company grew to maturity during its 100 years. Many text  plates  throughout. pub. Melb.  Nelson  1984  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.210.     Price: $35.00

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7. ALARD  JACK  He Who Shoots Last. A  graphic  account  of police brutality and criminal violence, which also tells of the underworld's unique humour. pub. Melb 1968 or.cl.  8vo. pp.262.     Price: $30.00
8. ANDERSON  HUGH  Out Of The Shadow. The  career  of  John Pascoe  Fawkner.  illus. e/papers frontis.  6  plates  and maps.  pub. Melb. Cheshire. 1962 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.238.     Price: $35.00
9. ANDREWS ALAN E. J. (editor) Hume And Hovell 1824 illus. with col. frontis. 28 black and white photographic illustrations. 4 facsimiles. 2 folding maps (printed double sided on one sheet). 14 maps in the text. End paper maps. pub. Hobart, Blubber Head Press 1981 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.390. The exploration of the area between Yass Plains and Bass Strait in 1824-5. Limited to 750 numbered copies this being No. 701 signed by the editor. Very fine.    Price: $150.00
10. ANGAS GEORGE FRENCH Savage Life and Scenes in  Australia and   New  Zealand.  Being  an  artist's  impressions   of countries  and people at the antipodes. Facsimile ed. in  1 vol. Note - the original was pub. in two vols. 1847. illus. throughout pub. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp. nd.  or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.620.     Price: $75.00
11. ARCHER WILLIAM HENRY.  Facts And Figures: Or, Notes Of Progress, Statistical And General. Reproduces, in facsimile, the issues of a short-lived journal (1857-1858) pub. Melbourne Queensberry Hill Press, 1977 or. cream and beige cl. cr.4to. pp.96 This volume is No 87 from an edition limited to 500 copies, in card slip-case. Containing much material relative to early Victoria.     Price: $75.00
12. ASPRO    The Aspro Year Book 1935.  illus. with b/w. illustrations, advertisements pub. : Aspro The Planet Publicity Co., Melbourne, 1935 staple binding, limp wrappers, 8vo. pp. 64. contains some general hints and farming news, back pages, has tennis, cricket and horse racing results for the year, testimonials for "Aspro" the cure-all tablet and general predictions by the stars, setting eggs by the stars, how to plant by the stars, health and healing in your stars and much more. Fine copy.     Price: $25.00

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13. ATLAS  Of  The Discovery, Settlement,  And  Exploration  Of Australia-Gregory's.  with  22 maps in two-tone  col.  text illus. pub. Syd. the Gregory Pub. co. nd.194-? or. ornge. & grey wps. 12mo.obl. pp.64.     Price:  $30.00

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14. AUSTIN A.G." Australian Education 1788 - 1900 "Church, State and  Public  Education in Colonial Australia.  pub.  Melb. Pitman   1961  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.282.     Price: $35.00
15. AUSTIN A.G. Select Documents In Australian Education  1788-1900.  pub.  Melb.  Pitman 1963 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.XXII.278. very fine copy.      Price: $40.00
16. AUSTIN  K.A.  The Lights Of Cobb & Co. The story  of  the frontier  coaches,  1854 - 1924. illus. with  51  plates  4 maps, index  bibliography. pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.228. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, duststorms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the plains - they were all in the day's work to Cobb and Co.'s drivers as they forged the communications of a continent. Seventy years of the history of the Australian stage-coach network. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
17. AUSTIN  K.A. A Pictorial History of "Cobb & Co." The Coaching Age  in  Australia, 1854  -  1924. Profusely illus. with col.  and  b/w.  text illus. plates throughout. pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.220. Fine.   Price: $45.00
18. AUSTRALIA in Trust -   A Selection of the Best Writings from Heritage Australia. Foreword By Gough Whitlam Introduction by Rodney Davidson. Essays by Judith Wright, Kevin Fahy, James Broadbent, Peter Spearitt, Clive Lucas, Joan Kerr, Frank Bolt, Josephine Flood and many others. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Australian Council of National Trusts, in association with William Collins Pty Ltd Sydney 1985 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.272 Fine copy.     Price: $35.00

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19. AUSTRALIA The Year-Book Of Australia for 1892. Edward Greville (ed.) illus. with advts. 2 folding maps, (one torn, but complete) pub. Melbourne, The Year-Book of Australia & Pub. Co. 1892, or.red cl. cream and black illus. (map & advt.) paper adhered to bds. 8vo. pp.XVI. good advts., 904,XL. advts. Flecked to spine otherwise very good copy.   Price: $150.00 Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
20. AUSTRALIA THE YEAR-BOOK OF for 1900.   illus. with advts. 3 folding maps, pub. Melbourne, The Year-Book of Australia & Pub. Co. 1900, or.red cl. cream and black illus. (map & advt.) paper adhered to bds. 8vo. pp.LXVI. 860,XVI. advts. spine small closed tear at top, otherwise very good copy.      Price: $150.00
21. AUSTRALIA IN PHOTOGRAPHS - EARLY A Pictorial survey of  the progress  of a young nation. b/w photo plates  t/out.  many full  page  pub.  Syd. Savvas Pub. 1984  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.256.     Price: $30.00

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22. AUSTRALIAN  DICTIONARY  OF BIOGRAPHY ed. by  Douglas  Pike. Vol.1  1788-1850  A-H. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1977  or.cl.  d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XX.584.     Price: $50.00
23. AUSTRALIAN  DICTIONARY  OF BIOGRAPHY ed. by  Douglas  Pike. Vol.3  1851-1890  A-C. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1978  or.cl.  d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XX.516.    Price:  $50.00
24. AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY ed. by Bede Nairn Vol.6 1851-1890  R-Z  pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1976 1st.ed.  or.red  cl. roy.8vo. pp.XXII.464.  Fine.    Price: $45.00
25. AUSTRALIAN  DICTIONARY  OF BIOGRAPHY ed. by  BEDE  NAIRN  & GEOFFREY SEARL. Vol. 8 1891-1939 Cl-Gib. pub. Melb.  M.U.P. 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXIV.660. sl. silverfished d/w. otherwise fine.      Price: $50.00
26. AUSTRALIAN  DICTIONARY  OF BIOGRAPHY ed. by  Bede  Nairn  & Geoffrey Serle Vol.9 1891-1939 Gil.-Las. pub. Melb.  M.U.P. 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXIV.678.    Price: $50.00
27. AUSTRALIAN  ENCYCLOPAEDIA-The. Ed. by Alec H.  Chisholm  10 vols.  illus.  with plates, maps t/out. some full  page  & col.  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1958 1st.ed. or. red  cl. pp.  approx  500 per vol. fine set. (Also ex.lib  set  1965 with supliment for 1965 11 vols. same price.)   Price: $450.00
28. AUSTRALIA  Glimpses Of Australia  Photographic Gems From N.S. Wales, Victoria,, Queensland, S. Australia, W. Australia and Tasmania. illus. with full page plates t/out. one page blank and facing full page photograph with description. pub. np. Gordon & Gotch nd. 1890's six parts re-bound into dark contemporary blue cloth, gilt to front board and spine, 4to.oblong pp.98. Sold by subscription only in 24 parts. This being the first six. Early photos of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth before cars, countryside farming etc. Fine.   Price: $200.00
29. AUSTRALIA Glimpses Of Australia  An Album of Photographic Gems. Depicting Scenes, Cities, Industries, and Interesting Phases of Australian Life, with Concise Literary Descriptions. 2 volumes profusely illus. with b/w. plates t/out. mostly full page. Over 350 period photographs. pub. Melbourne Gordon & Gotch, 1987 facsimile of the 1897 edition. or.cl. d/w. 4to. Oblong Vol.I pp.388; Vol.II 388. Fine set in card slip-case.   Price: $75.00

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30. THE AUSTRALIAN HANDBOOK -  Incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea. Shippers, Importers and Professional Directory & Business Guide for 1904. 35th Year of Issue. illus. with col. & b/w maps & plans, some folding, b/w. photo plates, tables, ad verts. pub. Melbourne, Gordon & Gotch, 1904. pp.XX.672.208 Gilt titled spine and front bds. Colonial Buyers' Guide. Sl. water marks to rear e/paper. else fine.     Price: $175.00    Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
31. AUSTRALIAN Heritage Commission;  The Heritage Of Australia, The Illustrated Register of the National Estate, Author: Elizabeth Bilney, Anne Chisholm, and Judith Thorne (editorial staff). profusely illus. with text plates t/out. Published Sydney Macmillan Co of Australia in assoc. with Australian Heritage Commission. 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.1148 Foreword by Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia. As the officially-prepared, illustrated register of Australia's National Estate A total of 6,600 places are presented with expert description and accompanying black and white photo. Historic, environmental, and cultural - this book includes historic areas, buildings and structures, national parks and other natural features, and Aboriginal cultural sites. Unclipped dust jacket. Almost fine copy.   Price: $75.00
32. AUSTRALIAN  NATIONAL  DICTIONARY-The. Ed. by  W.S.  Ramson. Australian Words and their Origins. pub. Melb. Oxford  Uni. Press 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVI.814.  Near fine copy.   Price: $85.00
33. AUSTRALIAN  SKETCHER-The. With Pen And Pencil 1880. Ed.  by M.  Cannon.  profusely illus. with b/w. dwgs.  t/out.  many full  page,  pub. Melb. this facsimile Heritage  Pub.  1970 or.cl.  folio, boxed in illus. yell. & blk.  card,  pp.226. fine.      Price: $225.00
34. AUSTRALIAN The Australian   Portrait   Gallery   And   Memoirs  Of Representative  Colonial Men. Appendices: Constitution Act, History of the Soudan Expedition. illus. with 24  beige  litho. plates taken from phonographs. Men featured are: Sir  John Robertson, William Bede Dalley, Sir Alexander Stuart,  Sir Henry  Parks, Sir James Martin, William Charles  Wentworth, John Macarthur, Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings, Sir John  Hay and others. pub. Syd. Southern Cross Pub. Co. 1885 re-bound in  brown cl.  glt.  ltg. to spine, new  e/papers,  cr.4to. pp.196.  little  spotting to title pages otherwise  v/good copy.   Price: $300.00
35. AUSTRALIAN    PROHIBITION    COUNCIL-The. All-Australia Prohibition  Congress Report 1928. ed. by  Arthur  Toombes. pp.102.  with Australian Prohibition Year Book 1928.  No.11 pp.64,   No-License Handbook 1930 Campaign (issued  by  the Victorian Prohibition League) with text portraits pp.40,  & National  Welfare 1930 No-License Campaign, Women's  Section pp.40. pub. Melb. & Brisb. or. grey & crm. wps. 12mo. fine, 4 items.     Price: $85.00

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36. BAGLIN DOUGLASS & Barbara Mullins. Islands Of Australia. profusely illus. with map on end-papers, plates t/out. some full page & all col. with brief informative captions and text, maps, index, pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1972 or. pictorial, laminated boards. 4to. pp.144. photographs of the islands surrounding Australia. Islands of Bass Strait, and Tasmania. Islands off Western Australia and the Southern seaboard. Australia's Island Territories. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
37. BANKS  NORMAN  The  World In My Diary.  From  Melbourne  to Helsinki  for  the Olympic Games. illus.  with  36  plates illus. e/papers. pub. Melb. Heinemann 1953 1st.ed.  or.cl. Dark blue colour illustrated dustwrapper showing at the root of the Qantas Empire service flights from Australia to Helsinki across the globe with athletes circling it. 8vo. pp.258. Including index. The author was one of Australia's best known and most popular radio broadcasters. Dustwrapper couple of short closed tears, slight shelf wear, a very good to near fine copy. Price: $45.00
38. BARNARD MARJORIE Macquarie's World. illus. with frontis and 12 full page col. dwgs. by Frank Medworth. pub. Syd. The Australian Limited Editions Society, 1941 1st ed. or. quarter morocco, with linen sides, glt.ltg. to spine pp.216. fine copy signed by author and illustrator, this being no.21 of three hundred and fifty copies.   Price: $250.00
39. BARRETT  CHARLES Central Australia. Sun Travel Book No.1 profusely illus. with plates advts. t/out. some full page pub. Melb. Sun Pictorial Newspapers nd. 193? or. pict. wps. 4to. pp.48. fine copy.    Price:  $25.00
40. BARRETT  CHARLES Australia Outback.  profusely illus. with photo plates t/out. some full page pub. Melb. Sun News Pictorial nd. 193-? .or. b/w. illus. wps. cr.4to. pp.46. lacks rear cover (wrapper) otherwise fine.      Price: $25.00
41. BARRETT  CHARLES Australia My Country.  illus.  e/papers frontis  12  plates.  pub. Melb.  Oxford  Uni.  Press  1941 1st.ed. or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.136. little soiled fair copy.      Price: $20.00
42. BARRETT CHARLES. Pacific Wonderland. A Book Of Australia. With a foreword by Lieutenant-General George H. Brett. illus. with. Colour frontis., (kookaburra) numerous b/w. plates, colour plates. pub. London:, Cassell & Co., Ltd, 1942 1st. ed. or. blue/grey boards, cr.4to. pp.200. History & Australia in 53 pics of animals, plant species and what were then faraway places, Pacific Wonderland was a best seller. Foreword was written by US Army Lt-General George Brett stationed in Australia with US forces Slight shelf wear, otherwise else very good copy.   Price: $30.00
43. BARRETT  CHARLES  From A Bush Hut.  with  illus.  e/papers title  page vign. & 5 illus. by J. Pewnderves M.A. White  & H.R.  Ham pub. Melb. Cassell 1942 or.cl.d/w. 16mo.  pp.132. fine in the chipped d/w.      Price: $30.00

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44. BARRETT  CHARLES Around Australia. profusely illus.  with b/w.  photos  throughout,  pub. Melb  Cassell  1942 1st. ed.  or.cl. d/w. sm.4to.  pp.164.   Australia's land and life in the early 40's. Capital cities, industry and countryside. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, dustwrapper chipped with several small tears otherwise very good copy.  Price: $30.00
45. BARRETT CHARLES Wanderer's Rest. illus. e/papers frontis. & text illus. pub. Cassell Aust. 1946 1st. Aust. ed. or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.120. After drifting around the world, with hobbies in book collecting, delights in wild nature and gardens, realises that his wandering years are over and settles down at "wanderer's rest" a remote little Australian township. small tear f/free e/paper otherwise  v/good copy.    Price: $30.00
46. BARRETT CHARLES Ed. by. Discovering Australia. The Story of Exploration  in  the  Explorers'  Own  Words.  illus.  with frontis.  &  6  plates t/out. some  full  page  pub.  Melb. Robertson  & Mullens 1944 or. stiff grey, blk. & buff  wps. 12mo. pp.220      Price:  $25.00

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47. BASSETT   MARNIE   The  Hentys.  An   Australian   Colonial Tapestry.  with e/paper maps, 44 full page plates t/out.  & folding  chart.  pub. Lond. Oxford Uni. Press  1955  or.cl. 8vo. pp.XVII.578. v/good copy.     Price:  $100.00
48. BARTLEY NEHEMIAH Australian Pioneers And Reminiscences. Illustrated. Together with portraits of some of the founders of Australia. Edited by J.J. Knight. Preface by J.J. Knight. illus. with foldout frontis of portraits of the Members of the First Legislative Assembly of New South Wales; 23 b/w. photographic plates, mostly portraits, and chapter illustrations, leaf decorated endpapers, index; pub. Brisbane Gordon and Gotch no date (c.1895) Preface 1896 or.cl. gold-lettered maroon boards, 8vo. pp.VIII.424. lettering to spine slightly faded to edges, a very good bright copy portraying vividly through first hand accounts scenes and difficulties through which pioneers lived and worked and characteristics of early Australian life.    Price: $250.00
49. BEADELL LEN Too Long In The Bush. illus. with 14 full page plates t/out. maps, as well as double page end page maps showing the Gunbarrel highway; pub. Adel. Rigby 1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.202. Fine. $40.00
50. BEADELL  LEN  Blast The Bush with e/paper maps &  12  full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212. An account of the Maralinga atomic bomb tests; the author selected and helped prepare the location. Fine.   Price: $45.00
51. BEADELL  LEN  Still In The Bush. with e/paper maps &  12  full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.176. Beadell's exploits set in central South Australia in the Woomera to Coober Pedy area. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00

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52. BEADELL LEN Outback Highways (The Gunbarrel highway story - and many more). illus. with b/w sketches, b/w photos, sepia (brown-tinted) endpaper map text-photos, pub. Adelaide, Rigby, 1983 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.238 Selected anecdotes (often humorous) from five previous books, about the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, which between 1955 and 1963 built roads in the outback in support of the Woomera rocket range.  Very good copy.   Price: $45.00
53. BEATTY BILL Australia The Amazing. Strange Facts, Oddities. Un-Natural  Nature, Personalities, Rum History,  Sports, Native  Legend, Radio, Ships, Places, Pictures Etc.  illus. with  text dwgs. t/out. pub. Syd. The Harbour  Newspaper  & Pub.  Co.  1944 or. war-time austerity binding wps.  red  & crm. d/w. cr.8vo.obl. pp.112. sl. spotted else fine.     Price:  $30.00
54. BEATTY B.     Amazing Australia. Strange unique and astounding facts. illus. with title-vign. and text-illusts. by Harry Wann. pub. Sydney n.d. ab.195? or. red and white illus. wrapper. pp.64. fine.      Price: $20.00
55. BEATTY  BILL Beyond Australia's Cities.  illus.  e/papers. numerous plates throughout, pub. Melb. Cassell 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. People and places in isolated parts of Australia. Very good copy.   Price: $25.00

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56. BEATTY BILL The White Roof Of Australia. Australian snowfields. illus. with frontis. & 16 full page b/w. plates t/out. pub. Lond. Cassell & Co. 1958 1st ed. or. beige cl. 4to. pp.80. The beauty and skiing activity of Australia's alpine country in the Snowy Mountains. Little flecking on rear board else very good.   Price: $30.00
57. BEATTY  BILL Here In Australia. illus. with 22  full  page plates  t/out. pub. Melb. Cassell 1959 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.8vo. pp.200. Colourful material about famous, infamous and preposterous personalities in Australia's folklore. Migratory bee farmers; Buccaneers of Bass Strait; Australian Aborigines; Gem buyers; Missionaries; folklore and interesting facts about Australia. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise very good copy.   Price: $35.00
58. BEATTY BILL Next Door To Paradise. Australia's  Countless Islands. e/paper maps, 28 plates. pub. Melb. Cassell  1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212. A fascinating mixture of dramatic history and present day facts about the truly countless islands that surround Australia's vast coastline. Light edgewear, else fine.   Price: $30.00
59. BEATTY  BILL Tales Of Old Australia. illus. with  several text drawings. pub. Sydney, Ure Smith 1966 1st.ed. or.  cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.272. a very good copy.    Price: $35.00
60. BEATTY  BILL  Along  The  Great  Divide.  e/paper  maps, numerous  plates  throughout,  col.  and  b/w. bibliography, index, pub.  Melb. Cassell  1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. sl.  chipped d/w. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, very good copy.   Price: $30.00

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61. BECKETT  W.J. Ed. By. The Australian Blue Book. A  National Reference Book containing information on matters Australian from   authoritative  sources  for  all  members   of   the community.  illus. with plates t/out. some full  page  pub. Syd. Vicrete Investments Ltd. The Second (1946-48)  Edition or.  lt.blu.cl. 4to. pp.808. Supplement to the Second Edition' is loosely inserted. slightly flecked to boards otherwise very good condition.     Price: $100.00
62. BECKLER HERMANN  A Journey To Cooper's Creek. illus. with 9 drawings & 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 2 b/w. and 2 colour illustrations and 1 large folded map tipped in on rear endpaper. pub. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press in association with The State Library of Victoria, 1993 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.  XLV.206. Fine copy.   Price: $85.00
63. BENNETT SAMUEL Australian Discovery & Colonisation. Vol.I. to  1880 restricted to 2,000 copies.  Vol.II. 1800 to 1831. illus. with frontis.  &  9 full  page plates t/out. pub. N.S.W. Currawong  Press  1981 & 1982 or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.246. facsimile of ed. pub.  in  1865; Very fine. 2 vols.   Price: $80.00
64. BERTIE  C.H.  Days  Of Moment In Australia  1788 - 1938.  illus.  with  frontis. 7 plates. pub.  Sydney  1937  or.cl. sm.4to. pp.64. published by Saunders Jewellers Sydney to mark the 150th Anniversary of Australia.  Price: $30.00 
65. BLAIKIE GEORGE Remember Smith's Weekly? A biography of an uninhibited National Australian Newspaper, born 1st.  March 1919 died 28th. October 1950. Many text illus. throughout,pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.258. very fine copy.       Price: $30.00
66. BLAINEY GEOFFREY The Blainey View. profusely illus.  with text plates throughout, pub. Melb. Macmillan & A.B.C.  1982 1st.ed. or.cl. 4to. pp.156.   Price:  $35.00

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67. BLAINEY GEOFFREY A Land Half Won. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.VI.388. fine copy Signed by Geoffrey Blainey.    Price:  $50.00

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68. BLAINEY GEOFFREY A Land Half Won. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.VI.388. Covers the second half of Australia's history from the coming of the first fleets to the long drought & depression which ushered in the new Commonwealth in 1901. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00     Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
69. BLAINEY  GEOFFREY  A  Vision Of  Australian  History.  The Tyranny  Of Distance - Triumph Of The Nomads - A Land  Half Won.  3  vols. illus. with many plates, maps,  t/out.  pub. Melb.  Macmillan  1982 All revised editions or.cl.  d/w.'s  8vo.  pp.Vol.I.366. Vol.II.286.  Vol.III.388.  Spines  of  d/w.'s  slightly  sunned otherwise v/fine set in the slip case.   Price: $95.00
70. BLAINEY  GEOFFREY  The Tyranny Of Distance.   How  distance shaped  Australia's  history.  illus.  with  plates,  maps, t/out. pub. Melb.  Macmillan 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.365.XIV. fine in the sl. chipped d/w.   Price: $40.00
71. BLAINEY  GEOFFREY  The Tyranny Of Distance.   How  distance shaped  Australia's  history.  profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melb. Macmillan Company of Australia 1975 First Illustrated Edition. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.222.XIV. Light edgewear, else fine.   Price: $45.00
72. BLAINEY  GEOFFREY   The  Great Seesaw. A New  View  of  the Western World, 1750-2000. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.366.     Price: $35.00
73. BLAIR DAVID History Of Australasia From the First Dawn of Discovery in the Southern Ocean to the Establishment of Self-Government in the Various Colonies. illus. with portrait frontispiece of William Dampier, second illustrated title page (The History of Australasia with illustration of two emus and a kangaroo flanked by four natives), 8 maps, 14 full page litho illustrations; pub. Glasgow, Melbourne and Dunedin McGready, Thomson and Niven 1879 or. embossed black leather binding with gilt and embossed decoration, which includes the Australian Coat-Of-Arms, gilt page edges, 4to. pp.XXVI.712. Has a New Zealand section. A politician and controversialist, Blair was an active journalist in Melbourne for decades after his arrival in 1852. He advocated fully representative responsible government, totally free selection and the complete separation of church and state especially in education, while attacking inequality, the squattocracy and corrupt politicians. As a supporter of the diggers he also attacked illegal and unjust actions of government at public meetings as well as in print, and became associated with the radical Land Reform League of 1855. Spine repaired (re-backed in leather), new e/papers. Lower corner of title page & lower Preface page had been torn, now restored, with pieces partly copied, otherwise a very good copy.  Price: $400.00

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74. BLAIR DAVID     Cyclopaedia Of Australasia or dictionary of facts, events, dates, persons, and places connected with the discovery, exploration, and progress of the dominions in the south, from the earliest dawn of discovery in the southern ocean to the year 1881 in one volume. pub. Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore, or. green cl. gold lettering to spine and front board, 4to. pp.780.XVI. Chipped at top of spine, short tear, shelf wear otherwise good copy.     Price: $225.00
75. BODELL  JAMES Ed. by Keith Sinclair. A Soldier's  View  Of Empire.  The reminiscences of James Bodell 1831-92.  illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Bodley Head 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.216. An English soldier/settler in Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s to 1880s. Army service in Ireland, then Hong Kong; keeping a hotel in Tasmania; Victoria, including the gold rushes; New Zealand, serving in the Maori Wars; pioneering farmer at Tauranga. Fine copy. Price: $30.00
76. BOURKE  D.F.   The History Of The  Vincentian  Fathers  In Australasia. illus. with many plates t/out. some full  page pub. Melb. Congregation of the Mission nd.197-? or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.244.    $35.00

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77. BOWEN JILL  Kidman: The Forgotten King. The True Story of the Greatest Pastoral Landholder in Modern History. illus. with b/w. photos, map, bibliog., index, brown endpapers, pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1991 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.476. At 13 Kidman ran away from home to find work, eventually becoming Australia's greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. Fine.    Price: $40.00
78. BOXALL GEO. E. -  The Story of the Australian Bushrangers. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb George Robertson 1902. 2nd ed. or. blue cl., cr.8vo. pp.392. Previous owners inscription to f/free e/paper which reads 'To Frank from George wishing him a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. Heathcote Dec 1904' From author? Fore-edge lightly foxed, very short tear cloth at lower spine. o/w. an excellent copy. spine gilt.   Price: $90.00

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79. BRADDON  RUSSELL   Thomas Baines And The  North  Australian Expedition  1855-56.  with  e/paper illus.  &  col.  plates t/out.  of T. Baines w/colours, sketches &  oil  paintings. pub. Syd. Collins (in association with the Royal Geographical Society), 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.160. The North Australian Expedition of 1855-56, led by Augustus Gregory, though not lacking courage and endurance, was remarkable above all the magnificent sketches, water- colours and oil paintings which Baines executed and brought back as a permanent record. Fine.   Price: $55.00

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80. BRADY E.J. The Kings Caravan. Across Australia in a  wagon. illus. with frontis. 15 full page plates t/out. and 1  map, index, followed by publisher's catalogue, pub.   Lond.   Edward   Arnold   1911 or.illus. moss green cloth  8vo. all edges rough-cut pp.X.340.XXIV. Slight silverfish mark to spine otherwise near fine.  Price: $250.00
81. BRADY E.J. Australia Unlimited. profusely illus. with numerous plates and photographic illustrations, t/out. over 800, some full page pub. Melb. George Robertson & Co. 1918 or. red cl. gilt stamped lettering with insignia on front board (faded) roy.4to. pp.1084,56. sl. marked to front bd. otherwise very good.   Price: $150.00  Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
82. BRENTNALL THOMAS My Memories. Being the Reminiscences of a Nonagenarian illus. with frontis. Index. pub. Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens: 1938 1st.ed. or. green cloth 8vo. pp.320. Brentnall emigrated to Australia in 1878 as a young man. Of particular interest are his chapters 'Early Memories of Golf in Britain and Australia'; notes to title page, slight foxing, else very good copy.  Price: $40.00
83. BRITON  J.N. Atomic Energy. A Handbook for Every  Man.  An Account  of  the  Development of  Nuclear  Energy  and  its Application to the Production of Atomic Bombs. illus.  with frontis.  5 plates & 12 dgms. pub. Syd. Frank  Johnston  (A Magpie Special) 1946 or.illus.crm. wps. pp.48. fine.     Price: $25.00

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84. BROOKES MABEL Broken Idols illus. with 16 full-page plates pub. Melbourne, Melville & Mullen n.d. 1917 or. dark blue cl. darker blue titles, cr.8vo. pp.X.272. Drawn from the author's experience in Cairo, it is the story of a young wife who travels to Egypt to be reunited with her ANZAC husband. Includes period photographs of Egypt. Titles faded to spine, boards bright, minor rubbing to extremities top and bottom of spine. Good copy.   Price: $35.00
85. BROOKES  DAME  MABEL Riders Of Time. 36 illus.  by  Harold Freedman. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. lge.8vo. pp.217. Dame Mabel Brookes' memories encompass nearly the whole of European/Australian history. Her grandmother, whom she remembers vividly, landed in Sydney in the early part of the nineteenth century. In Riders of Time the author looks back over events large and small which have gone to make up the Australian nation as it is today. Slight foxing else fine.   Price: $35.00
86. BROOKES  DAME MABEL Memoirs. 55 text  plates  throughout, published Melb. Macmillan 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. sm.4to. pp.216. Memoirs of Melbourne society lady. Wife of tennis player Norman Brooks. Fine.   Price:  $30.00

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87. BUNCE  DANIEL   Travels With Dr. Leichhardt  In  Australia. Daniel  Bunce was botanist on Leichhardt's 1846 attempt  to cross  the Australian Continent. illus. with frontis.  pub. Melbourne  Oxford Uni. Press first pub. in 1859 this  facsimile ed. pub. 1979 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.216.     Price: $45.00
88. BURCHETT WILFRED At The Barricades. The Memoirs of Wilfred Burchett.  pub.  Melb. Macmillan 1981 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. lge.8vo. pp.340.XXXII.     Price: $35.00
89. BYRON  KENNETH  W.  Lost  Treasures  In  Australia  &  New Zealand.  illus. with title page vign. & 16 maps appendix, bibliography, notes and references, index, pub.  Syd. Ure Smith 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.232. Includes stories of Dutch treasure ships of the 17th century; lost gold reefs; bushrangers cache's; 2 famous NZ treasure ships. Treasures that have been found and those waiting discovery.   Price: $40.00

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90. CARR  REV THOMAS JOSEPH Archbishop of Melbourne.   Lectures And Replies. The Church and the Bible, Primacy of the Roman Pontiff,  Primacy Further Considered, Origin of the  Church of  England,  Church of England and  the  Church  Catholic. illus. with  frontis.  pub.  Melb.  Aust.  Catholic  Truth Society 1907 or.cl. 8vo. pp.XXXI.796. hinges weak otherwise fine.      Price: $50.00
91. CARTER PAUL The Road To Botany Bay. An Exploration of Landscape and History. pub. New York Knopf 1988 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXV.384. The author shows how the first colonists and explorers gave Australia 'a local habitation and a name.' He re-evaluates Australia's past, based on the reports and diaries, not for the usual historical or geographical data, but for 'a local habitation and a name'. A controversial re-creation of early Australian history. Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $45.00

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92. CATTS ALFRED Printed & pub. by. Aussie. The Wife's Number May 15 1928. The Cheerful Monthly. illus. with drawings, plates, cartoons t/out. illustrators inc. Jack Waring, Hugh McClean, Tom Walker, Colin Robinson, Dorothy Elsmore-Paul, Jukes, Emile Mercer & others. Contents inc.: The Philosophy of Marriage, Bookish, Mixed Grill, The Australian Stage small articles etc. original stapled wrappers 4to. pp.66. Cover loose, chip to front cover else v/good.   Price: $75.00    (See picture-press   )
93. CENTURY  OF  BANKING-A The Commercial Banking  Company  of Sydney  Ltd  1834-1934. illus. with frontis. 26  full  page plates  t/out.  of  which  3 are  col.  pub.  Syd.  Art  in Australia  1934  or.bds. 4to. pp.XII.89. top edge  of  rear board chipped.     Price: $40.00
94. CHAPMAN  C. KNOX Travel Talks. Talks about travel for  the traveller  mainly around Europe. illus. with 38  full  page plates  t/out. pub. Vic. Swan Hill Knox Chapman & Co.  1929 or. brn.illus. stiff card wps. 8vo. pp.104. fine.    Price: $30.00
95. CHISHOLM ALEC H. Strange New World. The Adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt. illus. with 16 pages b/w plates, bibliography, index, map endpapers; pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1955 revised and re-illustrated edition or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXII.306. 1938 Alec Chisholm discovered a treasure trove of Australian historical interest in an English village, including the diary of John Gilbert, naturalist on Ludwig Leichhardt's remarkable exploration of outback, including the diary of John Gilbert, naturalist on Ludwig Leichhardt's remarkable exploration of outback Australia. (Gilbert was killed in an attack by Aborigines). Three years later Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-ab1848). Would disappear on another expedition. Very good in the slightly worn d/w.   Price: $40.00
96. CHISHOLM  ALEC  H.  Strange Journey.  The  Adventures  of Ludwig Leichhardt and John Gilbert. illus. e/papers. b/w plates, 3 b/w illus., bibliography, list of major dates of Leichhardt expedition 1844-5, index, pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1973 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.306. A day-to-day account written by Gilbert under incredibly difficult conditions of Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition of 1844-45 from Brisbane to Port Essington, this revised edition includes the results of further inquiries and much new material has been added. Chisholm's reconstruction (using Gilbert's diaries) of the 1844 expedition and a near circumnavigation of Australia, culminating in Gilbert's death "at the hands of wild natives". First published in 1941 as "Strange New World" Very good copy.    Price: $40.00
97. CLARK MANNING     A Discovery Of Australia. 1976 Boyer Lectures. pub. Australian Broadcasting Commission 1976 or. stiff red & white card wrappers, 8vo. pp.56.  Some annotating else very good.    Price: $20.00
98. CLARK MANNING A Discovery Of Australia. 1976 Boyer Lectures. pub. Australian Broadcasting Commission 1976 or. stiff red & white card wrappers, 8vo. pp.56. Signed by Manning Clark.      Price: $45.00
99. CLARK  C.M.H.  A History Of  Australia.  Vol.I.  From  the Earliest  Times  to  the  Age  of  Macquarie.  illus.  with frontis.  &  16 full page plates t/out. pub.  Melb.  M.U.P. 1981 or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. pp.422. v/fine.      Price: $35.00
100. CLARK  C.M.H. A History Of Australia. Vol.II.  New  South Wales  and  Van  Deimen's Land 1822  -  1838.  illus.  with frontis.  16 plates 3 maps pub. Melb. M.U.P.  1968  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. lge. 8vo. pp.364.      Price: $35.00
101. CLARK C.M.H. A History Of Australia. Vol.III The beginning of  an  Australian  Civilization  1824-1851.  illus.   with frontis.  16  full page plates t/out. & 8 maps  pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1987 p/b. 8vo. pp.492.      Price: $25.00
102. CLARK   C.M.H.   A  History  Of  Australia. Vol.III   The Beginning  of an Australian Civilization 1824-1851.  illus. with  frontis.  &  16 full page plates  t/out.  pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1980 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.491.      Price: $35.00
103. CLARK  C.M.H. A History Of Australia.  Vol.IV  The Earth Abideth  Forever  1851-1888. illus. with frontis.  16  full page  plates t/out. & 3 maps pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1987  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. 8vo. pp.XV.328.      Price: $35.00
104. CLARK  C.M.H.  A History Of Australia.   Vol.V  The People Make Laws.  1888-1915. illus. with frontis.  16  full page  plates t/out. & 3 maps pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1987  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.  8vo. pp.XV.448.   Price: $35.00

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105. CLARK  C.M.H. Manning), and L.J. Pryor. (Compilers)  Select  Documents  In  Australian  History. Vol.I.  1788  - 1850. Vol.II. 1851 -  1900.  pub.  Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1962 & 1971 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.450, 866. two Vols. Very good set.   Price: $45.00
106. CLARK  MAVIS THORPE No Mean Destiny. The story of the  War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85. with illus. e/papers  & 34  full  page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hyland  House  Pub. 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. pp.XII.288.    Price: $35.00
107. CLARK  LT.  RALPH  The Journal And Letters  Of  Lt.  Ralph Clarke  1787-1792.  ed. by Paul G. Fidlon  and  R.J.  Ryan. illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Australian Documents Library 1981 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XVIII.344. $65.00
108. CLARKE  F.G. The Land Of Contrarieties. British  attitudes to  the  Australian  Colonies 1828-1855.  pub.  Melb.  1977 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223.IX. Popular and official views of Australia in 19th Century Britain. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
109. CLARKE  HENRY LOWTHER Studies In The English  Reformation. The  Morehouse  Lectures  l912. Henry  Lowther  Clarke  was formerly the Archbishop of Melbourne. illus. with  frontis. &  5  full  page  plates  t/out.  pub.  Lond.  Society  for Promoting  Christian  Knowledge 1912 or.cl. glt.  to  spine 8vo. pp.XI.250.-VI.advts. fine.     Price: $45.00
110. CLARKE  MICHAEL ‘Big' Clarke  illus. with portrait frontispiece, 34 b/w. illustrations, 5 maps, appendices, bibliography, index, pub.  Carlton  Queensbury Hill Press; 1980 1st. ed.  or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVI.284. Written by a great-grandson, of a man who rose from being orphaned young and earning his living to become one of the richest and influential nineteenth century pastoralists in Australia. Fine copy.   Price: $65.00
111. CLERGYMAN  A.  Australia  As It Is.  Or  Facts,  Features, Sketches  and  Incidents of Australia and  Australian  Life with Notices  of New Zealand. illus.  with  frontis.  pub. Melb. Flesch & Co. (first pub. in 1867) this facsimile 1967 8vo. pp.258. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, sl. chipped d/w. else fine.   Price: $40.00
112. CLUNE  FRANK The Red Heart. Stories Of Central  Australia. illus.  with title page vign. text decorations  pub.  Melb. Hawthorn  Press 1944 or. illus.wps 8vo. pp.86. sl. tear  to spine otherwise fine.     Price: $25.00
113. CLUNE  FRANK The Forlorn Hope. A Sea Saga of the  Sixties. with  title  page vign. & text illus. pub.  Melb.  Hawthorn Press  1945 illus. wrappers 8vo. pp.32.  v/good copy.     Price: $30.00

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114. CLUNE FRANK The Greatest Liar On Earth. with title page vign. & text illus. pub. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press 1945 illus. wrappers 8vo. pp.24.     Price: $30.00...
115. CLUNE FRANK Dig. The story of Burke and Wills. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1940 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.XVI.280. Chipped wrapper, and closed tear else very good copy.  Price: $30.00

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116. CLUNE  FRANK  Roaming Around Australia. illus.  with  many plates  throughout  by author. pub. Melb.  Hawthorn  Press. 1947  1st.ed.  or.cl.  8vo. pp.299. sl.  foxing  to   edges otherwise v/good copy.   Price: $25.00
117. CLUNE FRANK   Try Anything Once 'The Autobiography of a Wanderer' pub. Sydney Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1947 or. cloth spine with papered boards 12mo. pp.VIII.244. has an inscription on the front free e/paper, Signed by the author. A true record of vagabonding in Australia. Little spotted to first few pages, all pages browned with wartime paper use.   Price: $35.00

118. CLUNE  FRANK Ashes Of Hiroshima. A Post-War trip to  Japan and  China.  illus.  with frontis. & 14  full  page  plates t/out. endpaper maps. Bibliography pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1950 1st.ed. or.  beige cl.  8vo. pp.XVIII.300. Pacific travel with history recalling a visit in the immediate post-war period; includes interviews with servicemen from New Zealand and Australia, and General Macarthur. Signed by Author on half title page.  Fine.   Price: $65.00

119. CLUNE  FRANK Ashes Of Hiroshima. A Post-War trip to  Japan and  China.  illus.  with frontis. & 14  full  page  plates t/out. endpaper maps. Bibliography pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1950 1st.ed. or.  beige cl.  8vo. pp.XVIII.300. Pacific travel with history recalling a visit in the immediate post-war period; includes interviews with servicemen from New Zealand and Australia, and General Macarthur. Fine.   Price: $40.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
120. CLUNE  FRANK  Hands  Across  The  Pacific.  A  Voyage  of Discovery  from  Australia  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands  and Canada, April to June 1950. illus. with frontis. & 14  full page  plates t/out. text maps, pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson 1951  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.304. Signed by Author on half title page. sl. chipped d/w. otherwise v/good.   Price: $40.00
121. CLUNE  FRANK    All Roads Lead To Rome. A Pilgrimage to the Eternal City, and a Look Around War-torn Europe. illus. with map endpapers, & 14 half-tone plates pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson reprint 1951 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.309. The primary reason for Mr Clune's European journey was to learn something about the work of International Refugee Organisation, to visit the migrant camps and to see 'displaced persons' go through the initial stages that prepared them to become new Australians. His shrewd appraisal of the people and the camps are informative and discerning. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.    Price: $30.00
122. CLUNE  FRANK Flying Dutchmen. Narrative of an Expedition of Discovery from Australia to the Netherlands with the "Flying Dutchmen" illus. with maps of Netherlands Kingdom to endpapers Illustrated by Bert Zimmerman. pub. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1953 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. XVI.272. Partly on the airlines K.L.M. and K.N.I.lM. to and in the Dutch East Indies / Indonesia. Near fine copy.  Price: $35.00

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123. CLUNE  FRANK  Land Of Australia. "Roaming  in  a  Holden" illus. with e/paper maps & numerous text illus. pub. Sydney, Angus  &  Robertson 1953 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.272. Clune drove a Holden off the production line and went off on a 16,800 mile trip around Australia. Includes a detour to Alice Springs to meet Albert Namatjira. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, sl. chipped d/w. else near fine.   Price: $35.00

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124. CLUNE  FRANK  Roaming Round Europe. Random Rambles in Paris, Eire, Iceland, Vienna, and Belgium. illus. with frontis. many plates throughout, map on end-papers, pub.  Sydney,  Angus & Robertson 1954 1st.ed.  or.cl.  8vo. pp.248. Personal experiences, impressions, and prejudices, with reminders of historical backgrounds where these may be necessary. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, dustwrapper slightly chipped top of spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $30.00     Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
125. CLUNE  FRANK  Overland  Telegraph. The story  of  a  great Australian  achievement and the link between  Adelaide  and Port  Darwin. illus. with e/paper maps frontis. &  14  full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.238. Fine in the chipped d/w.   Price: $45.00
126. CLUNE  FRANK  Roaming Round New Zealand. The  story  of  a holiday trip. illus. with frontis. many plates throughout, pub.  Sydney,  Angus & Robertson 1961 Revised Edition or.cl.   d/w. 8vo. pp.322. Light edgewear, very good copy.   Price: $30.00
127. CLUNE  FRANK  Flight To Formosa. A holiday and fact-finding tour of Nationalist China's fortress of freedom and the ports of Hong Kong and Macao. illus. e/paper maps, frontis. & 33 plates throughout, pub.  Sydney,  Angus & Robertson 1959 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.272. the dustwrapper has small insect bites to fore-edge, has an inscription on half title page, signed by the author ..'For my Kiwi pal from fly no-more Clune' Very good copy.   Price: $55.00
128. CLUNE  FRANK  The Fortune Hunters. An Atomic  Odyssey  in Australia's Wild West, and Things Seen and Heard by the Way in  a Jeep Jaunt. illus. with e/paper maps & 16  full  page plates  t/out.  pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson  1957  1st.ed. or.ornge.cl. 8vo. pp.VIV.250.   Price: $40.00

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129. COGHLAN T.A. A Statistical Account of The Seven Colonies Of Australasia, 1899-1900. illus. with folding map at front, tables, pub. Sydney, William Applegate Gullick Govt. Printer 1900 eighth issue, or. cream bds. 8vo. pp.836. sunned to spine else good.     Price:  $85.00
130. COLE E. W.    Selected Works Of E. W. Cole - Part III  Containing The Following Subjects: A White Australia; Miss Cole's Aerial flight at Elsternwick; Types of airplanes; Religions, tobacco etc. illus. with b/w. photographic frontispiece, engraved illustrations, gilt stamped lettering and design on front board, very good bright copy in red boards. pub. Melbourne, E. W. Cole, Book Arcade, c.1916. pp.208 Frontispiece is b/w. photographic plate of E. W. Cole.   Price: $85.00

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131. COLEMAN MARGARET and HONOR DARLING    From A Flicker To A Flame: the Story of the Girl Guides in Australia illus. with black and white drawings and photographs, illustrated endpapers, appendices, index; pub. Sydney, Australia: Girl Guides Association of Australia Inc, 1989 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.VI.230 History of Austalian Girl Guides covering the 80 years since the first meeting in 1909. Fine copy.    Price: $30.00
132. COLLAS  P.  Australian Postage Stamps. with  text  illus. t/out. published Brisbane Jacaranda Press 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. a very good copy.      Price: $40.00
133. COLLINGRIDGE GEORGE The Discovery Of Australia. A critical documentary  and  historical investigation  concerning  the priority  of discovery in Australasia by Europeans  before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the "Endeavour" in the year 1770. illus. with charts, maps, diagrams etc.  copious notes,  references, geographical index and index to  names. pub.  Syd.  Golden Press 1983 (facsimile of the  1895  ed.) folio pp.XV.376. added: with folding chart loosely inserted inside, v/fine.    Price: $75.00

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134. COLWELL MAX & FINCH PETER The Big Rivers. Murray, Darling, Murrumbidgee with b/w and colour illustrations, e/paper maps, pub. Adelaide: Rigby, 1978 First Edition. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.198. Gives a comprehensive picture of all aspects of the river system. Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $35.00    Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
135. CONGRESS-Proceedings Of The Second Australasian Catholic Congress:   Held in the Cathedral Hall, Melbourne, October 24th to 31st, 1904. Melbourne. St. Patrick's Cathedral. illus. with Two-tone frontis. and seventeen two-tone plates. pub. The Advocate Office 1905 1st ed. or. decorated boards, glt. spine pp.XV.698. Some fifty contributors inc. Archbishop Carr and num. visitors from Maynooth, inc. Michael Sheehan and James McCaffrey and Canon Sheehan of Doneraile. A record of the state of the Church in Australia at the turn of the Century. Little flecked to spine else very good copy.    Price: $85.00
136. CONNELL  GORDON  The Mystery Of Ludwig  Leichhardt.  illus. with frontis. & 14 full page plates, maps t/out. pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.96. Small expedition of the German explorer, Ludwig Leichhardt in 1848, left south eastern Queensland to cross Australia westward to Perth. He, his 5 white and 2 Aboriginal companions vanished and were not heard of again Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $65.00

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137. COPLAND DOUGLAS (Ed).    Giblin. The Scholar and the Man. Papers in Memory of Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin. illus. with a b/w. plate; pub. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.228. closed tear to d/w. otherwise a very good copy.     Price: $35.00
138. COOK  DAVID   Picture  Postcards  In  Australia  1898-1920. Pioneer Collecting Series. with illus. e/papers & profusely illus. t/out. pub. Melb. Pioneer Design Studio 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.215.     Price:  $45.00
139. COOK  JAMES   Captain Cook. His Artists. His  Voyages.  The Daily Telegraph portfolio of original works by Artists  who sailed with Captain Cook. profusely illus. with full  page col.  plates  t/out. pub. Syd. 1970  or.cl.  d/w.  4to.obl. pp.64.      Price: $30.00
140. COOK JAMES by George Finkel. Captain James Cook Portfolio James Cook, The First Voyage, 1768-1771 illus. with decorated folder containing booklet of pp.32 with b/w. & colour illustrations, folded ship's plan with 2 inserts, folded map of Tahiti with 2 inserts and one folded French map of the world with 3 inserts or. folding card, booklet folio pp.32, 4 items 3 folding. pub. Sydney. 1970 The Age & Shoalhaven Paper Mill / The Wiggins Teape Australia Group. Published for the bicentennial of Australia discovery by Captain Cook. Near fine.   Price: $40.00
141. CROLL ROBERT HENDERSON Wide  Horizons.  Wanderings  in Central  Australia. illus. e/papers. frontis.  37  plates. pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1937 or.cl. lg.8vo. pp.158.     Price:  $40.00
142. CROUCH WALLACE - Written and comp. By. Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee Celebrations 1901-1951 An Official Record. profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page. pub. Adelaide 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.104. fine copy.     Price: $50.00

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143. CUMPSTON  J.H.L. The Inland Sea And The Great River.  The story of Australian Exploration. With frontis. 17 illus. & maps,  1  folding.  pub. Sydney,  Angus  &  Robertson  1964 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.206.    Price:  $45.00
144. CUMPSTON J.H.L. Augustus Gregory And The Inland Sea. illus. with 12 maps & 28 full page plates t/out. 4 appendices, key to abbreviations, references, index; pub. Syd. Roebuck Soc. 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.VII.146. In 1829 the idea of an inland sea or river, was common to all Australian exploration. Gregory and his brother Frank investigated country between Kalgoorlie and Shark Bay in 1846-48 and later in 1854 country to the south of the Victoria river and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Fine.   Price: $45.00
145. CUMPSTON  J.H.L. Charles Sturt. His Life and  Journeys  of Exploration. illus. with frontis. 50 plates & 12 maps pub. Melb. Georgian House 1951 1st.ed. or. red cl. 8vo. pp.196. very good copy.   Price: $45.00
146. CUMPSTON   J.H.L.   Thomas  Mitchell.  Surveyor,   General, & Explorer. illus. with frontis. & 16 full page plates t/out. pub.  Lond. & Melb. Oxford Uni. Press. 1955 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.270. Biography of Thomas Mitchell- Surveyor General of the colony of New South Wales from 1827, and explorer of much of eastern Australia. He did well as a soldier under Wellington and excelled as draughtsman, artist, author. Very good copy.   Price: $75.00
147. CUSACK FRANK (Ed.) Australian Ghost Stories. illus. with 31  plates  1 text map. pub. Melb. Heinemann  1967  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.178. includes Fisher's Ghost. the Singing Spectre, The Glen Ghost, headless, Lucretia Dunkley, The Road that went Backwards, Brannigan's ghost, The Ashes of Fen Cheng Loo, Kiandra Ski Club ghost, Ghost of Garth and other Tasmanian Houses, King Hee, Strathbogie, Warrandyte ghost. Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
148. D'ALPUGET  BLANCHE  Mediator. A biography of  Sir  Richard Kirby.  illus.  with 15 plates  pub.  Melb.  M.U.P.  1977 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.278. 4 pages faded slightly, printer's error, still legible otherwise fine.   Price:  $30.00
149. DAVEY GWENDA BEED and GRAHAM SEAL The Oxford Companion  To Australian Folklore. illus. with 44 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. 1993 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XVIII.382.    Price: $50.00
150. DAVIDSON JIM and Peter Spearritt.   Holiday Business. Tourism in Australia Since 1870. illus. with map end/ps., b/w & col. plates t/out, notes, biblio., index pub. Melbourne Carlton South, Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press 2000, or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. pp.XXXI.416. Tourism is one of Australia's biggest, most important and most interesting industries. This is the very first telling of the story of its growth over the past 130 years. Very fine.    Price: $60.00     Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
151. DAVIDSON  ROBYN Tracks. A Young Australian's journey  from Alice Springs to the coast with camels. illus. with 16 full page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. Cape 1980   1st. ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.256. In April 1977, a young Australian woman set off from Alice Springs to cross 1,700 miles of desert and bush with four camels and a dog. Most locals who knew of her plan thought her at best imprudent and at worst out of her wilful mind. This is her story. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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152. DE  BRUNE  AIDAN   (EDITOR) Fifty  Years  Of  Progress  in Australia  1878-1928. Including fifty years of progress  of The Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co. Ltd. (includes plates of Directors past & present). illus. with 25 full page  plates t/out.  pub.  Syd. 1929 or.cl. 8vo.  pp.XII.310.VI.  v/good copy.   Price:  $35.00
153. DE  CASTELLA HUBERT Australian Squatters. Translation  with introduction  and  notes  by  C.B.  Thornton-Smith  Of  Les Squatters Australiens (1861) illus. with 8 full page plates t/out.  pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1987 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.XVIII.212. Insights into the the social and working world of a Victorian property after the gold rushes. It has chapters on stock-handling, hunting, indentured Chinese servants, Aborigines, a droving trip to NSW. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
154. DENHOLM DAVID The Colonial Australians with black & white illustrations and maps throughout, index. pub. Melbourne Allen Lane, 1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. XII.302. signed by author. Fine.  Price: $30.00
155. DIESENDORF  W. ED. The Snowy Mountains Scheme.  profusely illus. t/out. with photo plates, diagrams, maps, some  full page & col. pub. Sydney Horwitz 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVI.162  loosely inserted, pamphlet & typewritten  notes relevant to the scheme. a very good copy.   Price: $45.00

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156. DURACK MARY The Rock and The Sand. illus. with 14 full page plates t/out. map, references, index; pub. Lond. Constable 1969 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.334. A record of missionary work with the Aboriginals in north-western Australia and history of the district. fine copy.    Price: $55.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
157. DURACK MARY Kings In Grass Castles. History of the Durack Family  in  Queensland  & W.A. illus.  with  e/paper  maps, frontis. 45 plates. pub. London, Constable & Co. 1968 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.400. Story of a pioneering Australian family and the energetic, restless, far-sighted man who led them, Patsy Durack, Irish immigrant. He was 18 upon arrival in Sydney in 1853, one of a large and almost penniless family fleeing from famine stricken Ireland. Written by Mary Durack, Patsy's grand daughter. Near fine copy.    Price: $35.00
158. DURACK MARY Sons In The Saddle. A Sequel to Kings in Grass Castles illus.  with   frontis. & numerous text plates t/out. pub. London & Melb. Constable & Co. Hutchinson 1983 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.442. Slight fading to spine otherwise fine.   Price: $35.00
159. DUTTON  GEOFFREY The Hero As Murderer. The Life of  Edward John  Eyre  Australian  Explorer and  Governer  of  Jamaica 1815-1901. illus. with frontis. & 6 full page plates t/out. 3  maps, pub. Syd. Collins 1967 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.416. fine.   Price:  $55.00

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160. DUTTON GEOFFREY The Squatters. illus. with many text plates t/out. two col. pub. Melb. Curry O'Neil 1985 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.VIII.136     Price: $30.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs

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161. EDWARDS RON The Convict Maid. Early Broadsides Relating to Australia.  Australian Folklore - occasional paper  No.  16 illus.  t/out.  with examples pub. Qld. Rams'  Skull  Press 1985 wps. folio pp.132. fine.    Price: $30.00

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162. EISLER WILLIAM The Furthest Shore. Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melb. Cambridge Uni. Press 1995 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XII.180.     Price:$75.00.       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
163. ELDERSHAW F.S. Ed.by.    The Peaceful Army. A memorial to the pioneer women of Australia 1788-1938. illus. with frontis. and 9 full-page plates. pub. Sydney 1938 or. wrapper cr.4to. pp.138. Contributions by Mary Gilmore, M.B. Eldershaw, Dora Wilcox, Dymphna Cusack, Dorothea Mackeller, Eleanor Dark, Helen Simpson, Miles Franklin, Olive Hopegood, Winifred Birkett, Margaret Preston, Kathleen Monypenny and Kylie Tennant. Fine copy.    Price: $115.00
164. ELLIOTT S.U. Healthful Eating. With special chapter on The Feeding  of children. Constipation Its Causes,  Effect  and Cure. pub. Vic. 1932 or.lt. grey wps. 12mo. pp.96. browning to spine otherwise good.      Price: $20.00
165. ELLIS A.D.    Australia And The League Of Nations Foreword by the Rt. Hon. W.M. Hughes. pub. Melbourne Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1927 3^rd.ed. or. grey wrappers, 12mo. pp.88. Fine.   Price: $30.00
166. ELLIS M.H. Lachlan Macquarie. His Life, Adventures and Times.  illus. with e/paper maps col. frontis. 7 plates  1 map.  pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1958  or.cl. d/w.  roy.8vo. pp.614 Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise good copy.   Price: $50.00
167. ELLIS M.H.  Lachlan Macquarie.  His Life, Adventures and Times.  illus. with e/paper maps col. frontis. 7 plates  1 map notes on regiments in which Governor Macquarie served, bibliography, index.  pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1947 1st. ed.  or.cl.  4to. pp.698. d/w. little chipped at spine, closed tear else very good copy.   Price: $95.00  Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
168. ERICKSEN  RAY Ernest Giles. Explorer and  Traveler  1835-1897. with e/paper maps, 10 full page plates t/out. and one map;  pub. Melb. Heinemann 1978 1st.ed. or.cl.  yell.  d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.308. Giles led five expeditions into the Western interior of Australia. Dustwrapper sunned at spine else fine.   Price: $50.00
169. EVANS WILLIAM Abridged and notated by. Diary Of A Welsh Swagman 1869-1894. illus. with frontis. & several text dwgs (eng.) t/out. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1975 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 218.   Little silverfishing to front of dustwrapper, mylar sealed, else very good clean copy.     Price: $45.00
170. EVATT KC. MP. The Right Hon. H.V. Rum Rebellion. A  study of  the overthrow of Governor Bligh by John  Macarthur  and the  New South Wales Corps. illus. with col. frontis.  pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1947 or. brown cl. 8vo. d/w. pp.285. 17 years after the mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh arrived in New South Wales as the colony's new Governor. Among his specific instructions were to control the importation of spirits. Carrying out this requirement brought Bligh into direct conflict with pioneer sheep-man, John Macarthur, ex-member of The Corps, advocate for the developing social clique, & the the officers of the New South Wales Corps, led by Major George Johnston who profited from the illegal trade in rum. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00
171. FABIAN SUE & LOH MORAG Children In Australia. A outline in history.  with  bds.,  e/paper, and  numerous  text  illus. t/out.  pub.  Melb. Hyland House 1980 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. sm.4to. pp.248.    Price: $30.00
172. FAIRFAX  WILLIAM   Handbook To Australasia;  Being  a  Brief Historical  and Descriptive Account of Victoria,  Tasmania, South  Australia, New South Wales, and New Zealand.  illus. with  folding  map of the Australian Colonies.  pub.  Melb. William Fairfax & Co. 1859 re-bound in dk. red cl. glt.ltg. to spine 12mo. pp.CLX.244. Delicate old paper inside new binding, otherwise fine.   Price: $390.00

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173. FARWELL  GEORGE  Ghost Towns Of  Australia.  illus.  with e/paper  maps many plates throughout, pub. Adelaide,  Rigby 1966 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.248. Description of some of Australia's most 'colourful' ghost towns - their past glories, reasons for their decline. Port Essington, Port Arthur, Halls Creek, Burketown, Cooktown, Innamincka, Tibooburra, Silverton, etc. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
174. FARWELL  GEORGE  Ghost Towns Of  Australia.  illus.  with e/paper  maps many plates throughout, pub. Adelaide,  Rigby 1976 revised and enlarged ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.246. Description of some of Australia's most 'colourful' ghost towns - their past glories, reasons for their decline. Port Essington, Port Arthur, Halls Creek, Burketown, Cooktown, Innamincka, Tibooburra, Silverton, etc. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
175. FARWELL  GEORGE   Land Of Mirage. The Story of  Men,  Cattle and Camels on the Birdsville Track. illus. with frontis.  & 18  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Cassell &  Co.  1950 1st.ed. or. beige cl. 8vo. pp.230. Account of the difficulties and dangers of travelling the Birdsville Track, an old pack route, deep into inland Australia. Fine.    Price: $35.00
176. FAULKNER  THOMAS   The Book Of Nature.  Full  and  explicit explanation  of all that can or ought not be known  of  the structure and uses of the organs of life and generation  in man and woman intended especially for the married or  those intending  to  marry. illus. with frontis. & 50  text  eng. t/out.  pub. Melb. Will Andrade 1921 wrappers 8vo.  pp.256. spine little worn some small stains to f/cover, good copy.    Price:  $45.00
177. FAVENC  ERNEST The Explorers Of Australia. and Their  Life-Work. illus. with frontis. & plates t/out. some full  page, 9 maps & plans pub. Christchurch & Melb. Whitcombe &  Tombs 1908  or.  brn.cl.  glt.  ltg to spine  &  front  bd.  8vo. pp.XIV.300. Brief historical and biographical accounts of early explorers in Eastern Australia, Central Australia and Western Australia. Illustrated, with an introduction by John Forrest. Near fine copy.   Price: $60.00
178. FAVENC ERNEST The History of Australian Exploration From 1788 to 1888. Compiled from State documents, private papers, and the most authentic sources of information. illus. with 4 advertisements, 8 illustrations, 3 from facsimile letters etc. , 5 from copies of cave drawings, 4 maps pub. Sydney, Golden Press 1987 [first published by Turner & Henderson 1888]. Facsimile Edition; or. maroon cl. d/w. 8vo . pp.xv.474. fine.    Price:  $50.00
179. FEEKEN  ERWIN  H.J.  and E.E. FEEKIN  The  Discovery  And Exploration Of Australia. with illus. e/papers 23 full page col.  maps  &  many plates t/out. pub.  Melb.  Nelson  1970 1st.ed.  or.dec.cl.d/w.  4to.  pp.218. An important reference work detailing the routes of more than 120 explorers. v/fine  in  the  sl. chipped d/w.   Price: $85.00
180. FEELY  FRED   Petticoat Parade. Recollections  of  some  of Australia's  ancestors.  Stories of  celebrated  Australian women.illus.  with  16 full page plates t/out.  pub.  Adel. Rigby 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.252.     Price: $35.00

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181. FINLAYSON H.H. The Red Centre. Man and beast in the heart of  Australia. illus. with 57 photographs by the author  & folding  e/paper map. pub. Sydney, Angus &  Robertson  1945 fifth ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.154. First published 1935. Discusses the aborigines, geographical features, descriptive guide to the wildlife and animals of south-western Central Australia. Dustwrapper chipped else very good copy.   Price: $45.00

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182. FITCHETT W.H. The New World Of The South. The Romance of Australian History. illus. with frontis. pub. Lond. G. Bell & Sons Bell"s Indian and Colonial Library series. 1913 or. red cl. cr.8vo. pp.428,16 advts. An early history of Australia presented in four sections, covering discovery, convict days, exploration and bushrangers. small w/mark to title page and frontis. hinge little weak, else very good copy.   Price: $45.00          Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
183. FLETCHER  C. BRUNSDON The Murray Valley. A three  thousand mile run - by car along the Murray Valley. with 4 illus.  & map of Murray River pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1926 or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.130. good copy.      Price: $45.00
184. FOLKARD  FREDERICK The Remarkable Australians. A study  of the social forces that created the Australian. illus.  with 32 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Murray nd.196-? or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208. chipped d/w.    Price: $25.00
185. FOX FRANK Australia illus. with coloured illustrations by F. S. Spence; (75 & folding map, tissue guards) pub. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1910 1st ed. original blue-grey decorated cloth of and green leaf and blossom design blocked in colour & gilt, top edges gilt roy.8vo. pp.XII,219, adverts. two very small holes in spine, small tear to cloth top of spine else very good bright copy.   Price: $100.00
186. FOY'S SAGA - An Account of the genesis and progress of the House of Foy & Gibson (W.A.) Limited. Written and complied in commemoration of their jubilee 1895-1945. illus. with portraits pub. Perth The Company 1945. or. light blue wrappers cr.4to. pp.120. very good copy. Added: A copy of "Service" company magazine, two items.      Price: $65.00
187. FRANKLYN H . MORTIMER A Glance At Australia In 1880 or Food from the South: showing the present condition and production of some of its leading industries, namely, Wool, Wine, Grain, Dressed Meat, etc. etc. illus. with many pages of directory & 32 pages of ads for companies including Swallow & Ariell manufacturers of Ship and Cabin bread, Allan & Company Importers of musical instruments, Apollo Stearine Candle Company, Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Company,. pub. Melbourne, The Victorian Review Publishing Company Limited, 1881 Octavo, gilt lettered & decorated to spine, pp.414. Information includes First Settlement, Salubrity, Why there is Poverty in this Country, Nine Hundred Thousand people spend 3,700,000 pounds on drink and smoke, mining and Railways. pink free e/papers. Rebacked in tan cloth, new e/papers, a very nice copy.   Price: $300.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
188. FRANZMANN  GAIL  By  Appointment. The  History  of  Hardy Brothers  1780-1980.  History of Hardy  Bros.  Jewellers  in Australia.  profusely illus. with plates t/out.  some  full page  & col. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1980 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.118. Company History of Jewellers. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise fine.   Price: $40.00
189. FREEMAN  HILDA M. An Australian Girl In  Germany.  Through Peace to War Jan-Oct. 1914. illus. with frontis. one  plate & one doc. in facsimile pub. Melb. Specialty Press  nd.1916 light, brown cloth boards 12mo. pp.374. The author was travelling through Germany and fell ill so she could not return. This diary covers her experiences in the lead up to, and post declaration of war. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise fine, bright copy in very good condition.   Price: $45.00
190. FROST ALAN Convicts & Empire. A Naval Question  1776-1811. illus.  with e/paper maps, plates/maps. pub.  Melb.  Oxford Uni Press 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240.    Price: $45.00
191. FURFS  (Periodical) Centenary Number. Australia's Best Humour. illus. with b/w. cartoons, advts. humour articles; pub. Melbourne Elsternwick 'Furfs' October 1934 or. red/black yellow wrappers 4to. pp.48. Very good copy.   Price: $60.00     (See picture-press   )
192. GIBB  D. The Making Of `White Australia. illus.  with  2 dwgs.  t/out. pub. Melb. Victorian Historical  Assoc.  1975 or.lt.blu.wps. 8vo. pp.136. fine.     Price:  $20.00

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193. GILES ERNEST Diary Of Explorations Of Mr Ernest Giles  In Central  Australia  1872. pub. Adel. Sullivan's  Cove  1986 or. brown .cl. 8vo. pp.118. Edition limited to 150 copies, this being No.44. A new edition of the rare 1875 first printings (South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 215 of 1874 and Number 21 of 1875), here incorporating about fifty author's corrections. An account of Giles' first expedition from August to November 1872; although unsuccessful in his attempt 'to penetrate to the sources of the Murchison River', he named Palm Valley (Glen of Palms), Mt Olga and Lake Amadeus. Fine copy.   Price: $145.00
194. GODDARD  ROY  H.  The  Life And  Times  Of  James  Milson. e/paper  maps  frontis.  49  plates  text  decorations   by Geoffrey  C.  Ingleton.  pub.  Melb.  Georgian  House  1955 or.cl.  sm.4to.  pp.206.  boards  sl.  spotted  otherwise v/good.      Price: $45.00
195. GOLLAN  ROBIN The Commonwealth Bank Of Australia.  Origins and Early History. pub. Canberra A.N.U. Press 1968  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.180.   Price: $35.00
196. GOVERNMENT PRINTER Sydney. The Beginnings Of Government In Australia. Preface by Fredk. Watson with 17 documents in facsimile many being multi pages and some folding; pub. By Authority Government Printer 1913 or. beige cl. folio pp.VIII.24,128 Copies of Government documents dated from 1788 to 1817. Fine copy.     Price: $300.00
197. GRAVES  RICHARD The 10 Bushcraft Books. illus. with  dwgs. plates  t/out. by the author,  pub.  Syd. Dymock's  Book  Arcade  nd.195-? or.lt. orange cl. blk.ltg. to front bd. & spine 8vo. pp.306. 10 bushcraft books in one volume. Covers topics such as: ropes and cords, huts and thatching; campcraft; food and water; firemaking; knots and lashings; tracks and lures; snares and traps; travel and gear; time and direction. Very good copy.   Price: $75.00
198. GREGORY'S  Atlas  Of  The  Discovery,   Settlement,   And Exploration  Of  Australia.  Introduction  by  Dr.   George Mackaness  illus.  with  20 maps mostly  in  col.  (orange) portraits. pub. Syd. The Gregory Pub. Co. nd.1938? or.beige & ornge. wps. 12mo.obl. pp.64. fine.    Price:  $30.00
199. GROOM  ARTHUR I Saw A Strange Land. Journeys  in Central Australia.  illus. with e/paper maps, frontis.  maps  many plates  throughout,  pub. Sydney, Angus  &  Robertson  1959 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.216. The author, using Hermannsburg as a base, made numerous expeditions into wilder and more inaccessible regions in the 1940's. "on foot through the Macdonnell and Krichauff ranges, and with a native guide and camels traversed desert country past Lake Amadeus..., Ayers Rock..., Mount Olga" inc. a photo of Albert Namatjira. Slightly chipped d/w. else fine.   Price: $35.00
200. GROOM  ARTHUR Wealth In The Wilderness. with  map,  illus. e/papers  frontis. & 22 full page plates t/out.  pub.  Syd. Angus & Robertson 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.198. cl.  sl. spotty otherwise good.    Price:  $30.00
201. GUTHRIDGE  N. LTD.   Advertisement for The "Lily White" Washer. A small cut-out map of Australia on cream card. illus. with a picture of the washing machine, Advt reads: "Demonstrations Daily Stand 41 (From an 1908 exhibition?) The Heaviest Quilts and the Finest Fabrics or Lace Curtains washed perfectly, Trial Before Purchase. N. Guthridge Ltd. 486 Collins Street Melbourne, The "Favourite" No.2 £6 /10s." On reverse is a calendar for 1908 and the words.." Australian Manufacture." pub. Melbourne 1908 16mo. rare example of early advertising. Fine.     Price: $55.00   (See picture-press   )

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202. HADDON  FRANK  Haunts Of The Bushrangers. The  Lives  and Deaths  of Eight Australian Bushrangers.  profusely  illus. with  plates  t/out. many full page & col. pub.  Syd.  1990 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.192.    Price:  $45.00
203. HANCOCK  W.K. Country And Calling. Autobiography.  Growing up  in  Gippsland, study, Adelaide, War, &  Canberra.  pub. Lond. Faber 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. Autobiography of Australian born British professor. Includes reminiscences of childhood in Gippsland. Sir Keith Hancock's is much more than a chronicle of the things he has seen and people he has met. It is an unforgettable self-portrait. Hancock left Australia to attend Oxford and developed his deep sense of loyalty to his chosen profession of historian. From this point on two themes emerge, his country and his calling. He discusses the universities, peace and war, the problems of the Commonwealth, the disciplines of historical writing and research. Very good copy.    Price: $35.00
204. HARTNETT L.J. As told to John Veith. Big Wheels And Little Wheels. Autobiography  & the rise and development  of  the Holden  Motor Car. illus. with 16 full page  plates  t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. very good copy.    Price:  $45.00

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205. HARNEY  W.E.  Content  To Lie In The  Sun.    illus.  with frontis.  12  full page plates t/out. & 1  map  pub.  Lond. Robert Hale 1958 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208   Price:  $35.00
206. 'HARRIS  ALEXANDER' (By An Emigrant Mechanic).   Settlers  And Convicts  or Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in  the Australian  Backwoods.  with  a foreword  by  C.M.H.  Clark illus.  with 4 full page plates t/out. & 1 map  pub.  Melb. M.U.P.  1953 first published 1847, new foreword by Manning Clark. or. green cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXXII.246. Very good copy in the sunned to spine and chipped dustwrapper.   Price: $35.00

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207. HARRIS ALEXANDER' The Secrets of Alexander Harris. With an introduction by his grandson Grant Carr-Harris. illus. with frontis. & 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus 7 Robertson 1961 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. fine copy.    Price: $40.00.          Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
208. HATFIELD  WILLIAM   I Find Australia. illus.  with  e/paper maps  &  4 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond.  Oxford  Uni. Press 1937 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.344. Hatfield (1892-1969), English travel writer, original name was Ernest Chapman, starting in 1912 worked his passage to Australia as a penniless boy, worked in the interior of South Australia, Central Australia, became an excellent bushman, studied Aboriginal languages and customs, wrote several novels, recognized as a novelist and an authority on Australian land settlement, forestry, irrigation, and soil. Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise very good.   Price: $35.00
209. HATFIELD WILLIAM Australia Reclaimed. pub. Syd. Cumberland Newspapers 1944 or. blu. & white wps. 8vo. pp.122. fine.    Price: $20.00
210. HEARN WILLIAM EDWARD   Plutology. Or The Theory Of The Efforts To Satisfy Human Wants. pub. Melbourne George Robertson 1863 or. light blue cloth, brown e/papers, 8vo. pp.XII.476. Added: 1952 newspaper article on the life of the author. Presentation copy, reads in the author's own hand: "…Mr Lloyd with the author's affectionate regards Nov. 1- 1863.." Little wear to extremities, ink inscription upper title page dated 1907, else very good. Rare. NOTE: Dr. W.E. Hearn was the First Australian Economist.   Price: $550.00

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211. HILL  ERNESTINE The Great Australian  Loneliness.   illus. with  e/paper  maps  & 53  plates  throughout,  pub.  Melb. Robertson & Mullens 1943 or. grey cl. 8vo. pp.346. A journalist's journey around Australia in the 1930's. Very good copy.   Price: $25.00
212. HILL ERNESTINE - Water Into Gold . The romance of the River Murray. illus. with e/paper maps, frontis. & 32 plates throughout, pub. Melb. Robertson & Mullens 1946 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.328. chipped dw. else fine.   Price:  $30.00
213. HEATON J.H.   The Bedside Book Of Colonial Doings with num. line & half-tone illus. pub. Angus & Robertson, 1986 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.IV.272 Facsimile Edition. Australian miscellany of fascinating events, facts and figures. First published as part of Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, by George Robertson in 1879. This facsimile copy 1986. fine copy.     Price: $35.00
214. HIDDINS LES    Bush Tucker Man. Stories of Exploration illus. with 10 maps, 1 facsimile, 5 colour and 81 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 38 colour photos. pub. Sydney ABC Books, 1996 retraces the epic journeys of some of Australia's earliest bushmen, explorers, pioneers and convicts. Inland explorers of the Australian continent, Ludwig Leichhardt, Burke & Wills, or unknown Lieutenant Nixon, and the lost Dutch settlement in the Kimberleys. Fine. Price: $35.00
215.  HIDDINS LES Bush Tucker man Tarnished Heroes, Epic Stories of Bush Survival. illus. with maps, 5 colour and b/w illustrations, photo index, pub. Sydney ABC Books, 1998 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.192. Retraces the epic journeys of some of Australia's earliest bushmen, explorers, pioneers and convicts. Fine. Price: $35.00

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216. HILL T.   Report In Relation To Investigations And Inquiries Into Various Matters Associated With The Construction And Maintenance Of Roads, &c., In The United States Of America And Canada. with black and white illustrations, 3 fold out maps including red black and white map of the federal aid highway system o f the U.S. red white and black map of the U.S. system of highways, black and white map of the concrete roads of the US, pub. Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Works and Railways. fold out charts; or. maroon wrappers, 4to. pp.226. title page cut else fine copy.     Price: $60.00          Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
217. HINGSTON JAMES The Australian Abroad. On Branches from the Main Routes Round the World. illus. with seventy b/w illus. pub. Melbourne. William Inglis. 1886 with E. W. Cole or printed wrappers; cr.8vo. pp.XVI.492. A nineteenth-century Australian visits the exotic Near and Far East. The author was "J.H." of the Melbourne Argus. Cream wrappers browned with age else, very good copy.    Price: $75.00
218. HOBAN MARY Caroline Chisholm Fifty One Pieces of Wedding Cake. A  biography of Caroline Chisholm. pictorial end-papers, showing a scene from early Sydney, & 28 illus. pub. Melbourne The Polding Press 1984 first published 1973 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.436. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
219. HOLMES CHARLES H. We Find Australia. Tour round  Australia by  train,  aeroplane, boat and car. with e/paper  maps,  & many  plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1933 4^th imp. or. blue cl.  8vo.  pp.254,12 pp. of advts. Much on Western Australia, The Kimberleys, Arnhem Land etc. Little rubbed, otherwise very good copy.  Price: $50.00
220. HORNE  DONALD  Southern Exposure.  profusely  illus.  with 102 b/w photos  by  David Beal. pub. Sydney, Collins  1967  or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. Chipped d/w. else v/good. A social portrait with criticism. 102 photographs by Beale of various facets of Australian life - wit, poetic imagery, sophistication, slums and outback. A defining record of the 60s.   Price: $35.00

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221. HORNE DONALD The Lucky Country Revisited. profusely illus. with  b/w.  plates t/out. some full page pub.  Melb.  Dent 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.236.   Price:  $30.00
222. HUGHES   ROBERT  The  Fatal  Shore.  A  History  of   the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868.  illus. with 32 full page plates t/out. 9 maps, pub. Lond. Collins 1987 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXVI.688. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
223. HURLEY  P.J.  In  Search Of Australia. 2  full  page  col. plates, numerous b/w. throughout. pub. Sydney, Dymocks Book Arcade  1945 or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.140. P. J. Hurley, better known as "Waratah" of the 'Sydney Morning Herald'. This study of Australia as it was in the 1940s first appeared in 1943, reprinted two years later. It explores the nation's early history through to the Commonwealth and the first half of the 20th century. It looks at contemporary agriculture, industry, economic development, the aboriginal people, resources and the way of life. Closed tear to d/w. else near fine copy.   Price: $30.00
224. HURLEY  P.J.  In  Search Of Australia. 2  full  page  col. plates, numerous b/w. throughout. pub. Sydney, Dymocks Book Arcade  1953 revised ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.140. P. J. Hurley, better known as "Waratah" of the 'Sydney Morning Herald'. This study of Australia as it was in the 1940s first appeared in 1943, reprinted two years later. It explores the nation's early history through to the Commonwealth and the first half of the 20th century. It looks at contemporary agriculture, industry, economic development, the aboriginal people, resources and the way of life. Near fine in  the  torn d/w.   Price: $30.00

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225. HURLEY P.J. From Kosciusko To The Sea.  A journey along the River  Murray.  illus.  with 3 drawings col. frontis. (the pleasure boat "Avoca" on the Murray)  64 b/w photos, plus 6 colour plates, e/paper maps of the Murray River pub. Syd. Dymock's Book Arcade 1946 or.crm.bds. brown, cloth spine. 4to. pp.130. An exploration of the Murray, its history and the people of the area. Slight ageing of cloth on spine, v/good otherwise.   Price: $35.00
226. HUTTON  GEOFFREY   C.J. Dennis. The Sentimental  Bloke.  An appraisal  after  100  years  of  his  birth.  illus.  with frontis.  & several b/w. plates some full page  pub.  Melb. The  Premier's Dept. 1976 1st.ed. or.illus.  wrappers  8vo. pp.51.   Price:  $20.00