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Contrary Modes: Proceedings of the World Science Fiction Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1985
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJenny Blackford; Russell Blackford; Lucy Sussex; Norman Talbot
Melbourne: Ebony Books, 1985.Academic papers on science fiction from the 1985 Melbourne Worldcon, including essays on Gene Wolfe, Robert Heinlein and ‘Mad Max’, and several feminist papers.
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Images 37
Read MoreRobert Ikin; Tim Waller; Wal Sutherland; George Richardson; Blair Gamble
Launceston: Launceston City Centre Studio Gallery, 2004.Signed on the front cover by all five original members of the Launceston artists’ group Images.
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48 Spider’s: Writings on Nature from the Circular Head Chronicle, 1980-82
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mesibov
Smithton: Circular Head Chronicle, 1982.Nature columns from Tasmania’s far north-west, written under the pen name Spider for the Circular Head Chronicle. 48 short essays selected from the 100 Mesibov contributed to the paper between May 1980 and June 1982, several partly rewritten and many of the illustrations redrawn for this edition.
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Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs: The Bishops of the Diocese of Newcastle, 1847-2013
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartStanley Robson Willey; Marion June Willey
[Lake Macquarie]: SR & MJ Willey, 2013.Privately published history of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle.
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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: The Storybook
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAnn Matthews
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1985.Storybook of the film, illustrated throughout with frames from the cult Australian post-apocalyptic action movie. With cover illustration by Richard Amsel.
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The Heart of Rum Jungle: The History of Rum Jungle and Batchelor in the Northern Territory of Australia
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDouglas R. Barrie
Batchelor: S. & D. Barrie, 1982.This copy with the original autograph purchase receipt signed by the author laid in.
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Freshwater Tortoises of Australia and New Guinea (in the Family Chelidae)
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Goode
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1967.The side-necked freshwater turtles of Australia and New Guinea.
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Alyawarra: An Aboriginal Language of Central Australia
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Yallop
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1977.Grammar and word lists of the Arandic language spoken around Utopia, MacDonald Downs and Hatches Creek in Central Australia. Research and Regional Studies No. 10.
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Homestead & Habitat: Central and Northern Australia
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2016-2020.A privately published survey of the historic heritage of central and northern Australia, structured by the river systems and landforms of the regions in which Howard Pearce worked for over forty years as a heritage adviser to federal, state and territory governments. The work combines photography, architectural drawing, historical archaeology and regional history. Volume I covers Lake Eyre, the Centre and the Top End, and Volume II the Channel Country, Carpentaria and Cape York; this set includes the supplement published four years later, ‘A Folio of Measured Architectural Drawings’. Over 600 places are described across thirty chapters, with some 2000 colour photographs, site histories, archaeological notes and architectural descriptions, most based on primary research. Historical photographs from the author’s own collection are included, together with his measured drawings of significant places. A single physical holding recorded in Trove, at the National Library of Australia, which does not include the folio of drawings; the University of Queensland holds a digital copy in its eSpace repository.
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Killalpaninna Mission & Habitat: A Photographic Record of Bethesda Aboriginal Mission Station on Cooper Creek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2022.Glass-plate photographs of the last decade of the Bethesda Lutheran mission at Lake Killalpaninna, taken by the mission teacher August Hermann Vogelsang between 1907 and 1917, privately published by the author in a very limited number, based on his 1980 report submitted to the South Australian Aboriginal and Historic Relics Unit.. “In the summer of 1866-67 the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, in conjunction with the synods of the South Australian Lutheran Church, attempted to establish a mission for the Aborigines on Cooper Creek in return for their kindness to John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. During the same period, the German Moravian Brethren Mission Society in Victoria also undertook to begin mission work in the district. Both orders were pursuing a policy of segregating newly-contacted groups of Aborigines on church-run missions where their conversion to Christianity could be achieved away from the influence of ‘bush blacks’ and white settlers. However, through ignorance, drought and religious dissent, the missions failed to flourish and were abandoned. The Moravian Brethren departed for good, but the Lutherans regrouped and returned to the district to continue their struggle. This book contains a unique collection of dry-plate glass negative images, taken by August Hermann Vogelsang while employed as the school teacher at Bethesda Lutheran mission on Cooper Creek between the years 1907 and 1917. The images have been carefully researched and described by the author with the advice and guidance of former mission residents. This is a record of the last years of Bethesda mission station at Lake Killalpaninna in the far-north salt lake country of South Australia.” (from jacket blurb)
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Pintupi: Riitarinytjaku 1, 2, 3, 4 (4 Volumes)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartK. C. Hansen; L. E. Hansen; W. Stephan
[Darwin]: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, 1973.Complete set of four Pintupi reading primers, illustrated throughout.
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Modern Mental Treatment: A Handbook for Nurses
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartE. Cunningham Dax
London: Faber & Faber, 1947.The first book by the English psychiatrist who went on to overhaul Victoria’s mental health system. A pocket guide for psychiatric nurses to electroconvulsive therapy, insulin coma, prolonged narcosis, leucotomy and malaria therapy. Includes illustrations of electroshock equipment and a brief outline of the drugs then used in psychiatry. This copy with stamps of the Ballarat Mental Hospital. A single copy recorded in Trove, at Monash.
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Ye-Gide: Useful Everydai Hentes for ye Hom
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartWilkinson & Co.
Adelaide: Wilkinson & Co., 1907.Cooking and domestic manual distributed by the Adelaide wholesalers. The verso of each leaf with advertisements for products. Beyond home and cooking there are also sections on coffee, tea, and the wine industry. HOYLE 1375.
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Glamour For You: Diets, Personality, Make-Up, Clothes: Learn to be Lovely
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartToni Goya
Sydney: The Elmsdale Publications, No date.Mid-century Australian beauty, diet and deportment manual, from figure faults and diet charts to ugly mannerisms. Featuring colour advertisements from brands including Berlei, Lustreol, Goldsheen, Swan of Avon, Veet, Radox, Tek, Norco, and Biomite. This copy with the fragile illustrated dust wrapper.
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Only a Woman (Waine Tuga)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Riddel
: Patricia Riddel, 2009.Memories of Childhood, Growing Up and Living in the Papuan Islands, November, 1957 to December, 1969. The author also recalls her childhood in Beechmont, Currumbin, and Brookfield, Queensland.
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S(A)X Leather Catalogue
Read MoreS(A)X Leather
Sydney: SAX Investments, No date.Catalogue of the Australian leather fetishwear manufacturer and store founded by Steve Saxton. Unrecorded in Trove.
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Shoecraft
Read MoreShoecraft
Melbourne: Shoecraft, 1992.Catalogue for Melbourne fetish footwear manufacturer Shoecraft. Offered together with 9 page September 1992 pricelist, 2 page customer bulletin, 1 page cover letter, and 2 page custom boot/shoe order form.
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Gold & Silversmithing in Western Australia: A History
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartDorothy Erickson
Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2010.Detailed history of Western Australian gold and silversmithing from European settlement to 2000.
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Lavender Youth: A History of Melbourne Young Gays Sep 79 – Jan 81
Read MoreBill Calder
[Melbourne]: Bill Calder, 1985.First-hand history of one of the first gay and lesbian youth groups in Australia, founded in Melbourne in 1979 after the 5th National Homosexual Conference.
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Darren Sylvester: Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartDarren Sylvester
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2019.Catalogue of the largest solo exhibition of Sylvester’s works in a public institution.
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Oxford Weekender News Issue 25
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRoss Crich
Sydney: Sloane Street Publishing Co., 1982.The 1982 Sydney Gay Mardi Gras issue of the Oxford Street bar rag, with a map of the parade route. This issue is from the newspaper’s brief run as a weekly tabloid in early 1982, combining news, politics and lifestyle with event and venue advertising.
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The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia (U.E.L.C.A.): Its History, Activities and Characteristics, 1838-1938
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartTh. Hebart; Johs. H. Stolz
Adelaide: Lutheran Book Depot, 1938.Centenary history of Australia’s largest Lutheran synod, from the first German settlers in South Australia to across Australia. The first edition in English, translated and abridged from the German of Th. Hebart by Johs. H. Stolz.
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The Socceroos and Their Opponents
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLaurie Schwab
Melbourne: Newspress, [1979].Illustrated history of the Australian national soccer team and the sides it faced in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, by the long-serving football writer of The Age newspaper. Looking back while looking forward in the lead-up to the 1982 World Cup. A Soccer Action Publication.
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Plan Your Family: Practical Birth Control
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis D. Cilento
Brisbane: Jacaranda, 1965.1960s Queensland birth control manual by Lady Cilento, the state’s leading health writer and an early family planning advocate. One of the early Australian books to discuss the contraceptive pill, which had been released here only in 1961.
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Care of Mother and Child: A Guide During the First Five Years
Read MoreDepartment of Health and Home Affairs, Maternal and Child Welfare, Queensland
Brisbane: Thomas Gilbert Hope, Acting Government Printer, 1939.The Queensland government’s official guide to mothercraft, infant feeding, and early childhood. Designed as a handbook for mothers, with space for recording a child’s growth over the first two years and from two to five (this copy unmarked). The first edition under the title ‘Care of Mother and Child’, issued under the direction of Ned Hanlon as Secretary for Health and Home Affairs and replacing the earlier government advice book ‘The Queensland Mother’s Book’. Issued in the year Queensland’s infant welfare service became the Maternal and Child Welfare Department, when the state was served by some 26 baby clinics and 78 sub-centres, shown on a map at rear. This edition unrecorded in Trove.
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Are You (Really) Fun To Live With
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJim Vickers-Willis
Melbourne: Neway Book Publications, 1973.The condensed results of a seven-year survey into sexual relationships. The book appeared alongside the Australian censoring of the Swedish sex education film ‘Language of Love’ (Ur karlekens sprak), and the author also discusses Australian prudishness. The author and the Quality of Life Association led the campaign that saw the film’s ban overturned. The jacket shows stills from the film, and the verso carries sex education details and a list of venereal disease clinics in the Australian capital cities.
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Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition
AU$75 Read MoreAdd to cartLudwig Becker; Marjorie Tipping
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press for the Library Council of Victoria, 1979.The sketches, watercolours, and letters of the German artist and naturalist who died on the Burke and Wills expedition.
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Tea with the Devil and Other Diversions
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartH. E. Boote
Sydney: The Worker Trustees, 1928.Interwar Australian labour satire from the editor of the Australian Workers’ Union paper, Henry Ernest Boote. Cover and frontispiece illustration by Will Donald.
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In the Shadow of Murchison: Rosebery, 1893 – 1993
Read MoreW. Geof Jay
Smithton: W Geof Jay for Pasminco Mining, 1993.History of a west coast Tasmanian mining town.
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The Workers Handbook
Read MoreSWOP
Sydney: Sex Workers Outreach Project, 1994.Peer-written health and safety working guide for New South Wales sex workers. Single copy recorded in Trove, at Flinders.
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Blueboy: The National Magazine About Men (December 1979) with Australian Supplement
Read MoreDonald N. Embinder; R. Crich
Miami: Blueboy, 1979.Single issue of American gay magazine Blueboy: this issue contains the first Australian Editorial supplement edited by R. Crich bound at the centre. Also laid in is a TLS from Tony Davidson of Platterpuss pitching the issue to a Hobart newsagency, pinned to this is a carbon copy of the autograph reply from the newsagency proprietor on classification and the Australian sex publication trade.
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Twisted Clay
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Walford
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1966.Banned 1930s Australian lesbian gothic horror, set in the Blue Mountains and Sydney.
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Girls Can Do Anything
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJen Harper; Isabel Wicca
Melbourne: Women’s Movement Children’s Literature Co-Operative, 1975.1970s Australian feminist picture book about three girls who want to play Aussie rules football.
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Rub Down
Read MorePeer Books
Sydney: Peer Books, 1972.Australian erotica. Sensual massage sequences. Includes list of Kanon Publications, Peer Books, and Close Publications titles at rear.
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Sex Life of a Photographer
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartFred Schuessler
Sydney: Peer Books, 1972.Australian erotica. Photoshoots in the bush turn to the photographer exploring the models’ bush.
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Sadgurunath Maharaj ki Jay: The Story of Swami Muktananda’s Visit to Australia in March and April 1974
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSwami Muktananda; Baba’s Devotees in Australia
[Melbourne]: Baba’s Devotees in Australia, 1975.The Siddha Yoga guru’s Australian tour, documented by his local followers, with a small original photograph of the soles of his feet laid in, objects of devotion in the guru tradition.
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Village People Australian Tour, 1980
Read MoreVillage People
Sydney: Playbill, 1979.Souvenir programme for the Village People’s 1980 Australian ‘Can’t Stop the Music’ tour, with support from The Ritchie Family.
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Uw Oykangand Oy berr: Traditional Bush Medicine from the Kunjen of Kowanyama
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartAlma Luke; Myrtle Luke; Bernadette Boscacci
Townsville: CCDEU / Black Ink Press, 2011.Documentation of the bush medicine of the Oykangand-speaking Kunjen people.
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The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartP. A. Yeomans
Sydney: P. A. Yeomans, 1971.Manifesto for replacing the Machine City with a tree-planted Human City, from the farm engineer whose Keyline system helped inspire permaculture.
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96 Years of Progress: The History of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales, 1860 to 1956
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Howard Cromack
Sydney: Utility Press, 1956.This copy includes the illustrations booklet.
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A History of the Northern Territory Reserves Board (2 Volumes)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartW. T. Hare
Alice Springs: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, 1982.Unpublished report prepared for the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory.
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Memoirs of a Sky Goose
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Biggs
Hobart: John Biggs, 2004.Memoir of Tasmanian educational psychologist John Burville Biggs AM.
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Sexology
Read MoreRoss Wilson
Sydney: Puck Films, No date.Script for an unrealised Australian film on sexology, opening with a 24 year old Norman Haire on Bondi Beach. The film was awarded project development funding by the New South Wales Film and Television Office in 2001/2002, however it seems the project was never completely realised. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia holds some test scenes and montages under the title ‘Sexology: A True Story’ created in 2010. Unrecorded in Trove.
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Facing North: Cutler Footway
Read MoreCutler Footway [Bruce James]
Townsville: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 2022.This copy inscribed by the artist to arts writer Louise Martin-Chew.
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The Development of Omaha Kinship Terminologies in Three Australian Aboriginal Tribes of the Kimberley Division, Western Australia
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Lucich
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Winbaraku and the Myth of Jarapiri
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles P. Mountford
Adelaide: Rigby, 1968.Account of Mountford’s 1960 totemic route journey into the north-west of central Australia.
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Catalogue: Toledo Furniture, 62-64 Holbrook Street, Launceston
Read MoreToledo Furniture
Launceston: Toledo Furniture, No date.Catalogue of Tasmanian home furniture manufacturer Toledo Furniture, containing several Tasmanian blackwood pieces. The firm began in Launceston in 1974 and is still operating today, though its catalogues and ephemera remain unrecorded in Trove.
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The Naked Set: The Voice of Australasian Nudism No: 1-10
Read MoreThe Naked Set
Sydney: Coolibah Publishing Company, [1972].Debut issue of a Sydney nudist magazine billed as the voice of Australasian nudism. Intended as a monthly and calling for club news and classifieds, no other issue can be traced. The same year as this journal the publisher issued a photobook of Australian nudists by the same name. Unrecorded in Trove.
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Tribes and Boundaries in Australia
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartNicolas Peterson
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976. -
Sexual Discoveries in the Society of Jesus: A Study of Twelve Ex-Jesuits in Australia
Read MorePeter Gerard May
Melbourne: Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, 1997.“This thesis is about the sexuality of twelve young men. These men spent a part of their life, for some it was a significant part, in the Jesuits in Australia. When other young men in the 1970s and 80s may have been thinking about their lives in terms of studies, careers, relationships, and sport, these young men were thinking about priesthood in the Catholic Church. This contemplation is not exactly an Australian pastime. This group then constitutes an unusual group in Australian society…” (from introduction)
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The Killing Times: The Coniston Massacre 1928
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Cribbin
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The Kalkadoons: A Study of an Aboriginal Tribe on the Queensland Frontier
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert E. M. Armstrong
Brisbane: William Brooks, No date.A resource book for teachers, students and readers of Australian history. “The Kalkadoon (Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland. Their forefather tribe has been called the Elite of the Aboriginal warriors of Queensland. In 1884 they were massacred at Battle Mountain by settlers and police.” (from Kalkadoon PBC website) This book shows that the Kalkadoon did not submissively accept the takeover of their land.
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Notes on Some Queensland Languages
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartNils M. Holmer
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1988.Fieldwork notes on indigenous languages of Queensland, New Guinea, and Torres Strait: Mer, Saibai, Gugu-Bujun and related languages, Kantyu and Koko-Yalandji, Gangulida, Bundjil and Wandji, Garwa, Punthamara.
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A Guidebook to Field Geology in Southeast Queensland
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartN. C. Stevens
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1973. -
Touring Sydney with Parlorcars: Tourist Map and Day Tours
Read MoreParlorcars
Melbourne: Globe Press, No date.1960s quadfold brochure of day tours in and around Sydney. Photographs of destinations and an inset map of Sydney CBD.
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Queensland: Useful Maps
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Shell Company of Australia
[Brisbane]: The Shell Company of Australia, No date.1930s maps of Queensland: City of Brisbane; Main Touring Roads 150 Miles South & West of Brisbane; Main Touring Roads 150 Miles North & West of Brisbane; Southern and Central Queensland Main Touring Roads (double page); Northern and Central Queensland Main Touring Roads (double page); South Side Day Picnic Tours; North Side Day Picnic Tours; Motor Map of the Brisbane-Sydney All-Shell Route (double page).
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Trout Fishing in the Snowy Mountains: Maps of Lake Jindabyne and Locality
Read MoreDon Gillies
Melbourne: Don Gillies, No date.Early 1960s map of the Snowy Mountains district, with a detail map of Lake Jindabyne, text, and advertisements on verso.
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Trout Fishing in the Snowy Mountains: Maps of Lake Eucumbene and Locality
Read MoreDon Gillies
Melbourne: Don Gillies, No date.Early 1960s map of the Snowy Mountains district, with a detail map of Lake Eucumbene, text, and advertisements on verso.
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Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartGerald F. Hill
Melbourne: Commonwealth of Australia, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1942.Including Australia, New Guinea, and Islands South of the Equator between 140.E Longitude and 170.W Longitude.
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Life’s a Beer
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Ross Books, 1984.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians enjoying beer, casually at the beach or in private settings, or wildly, at raucous parties in all of their 1980s glory.
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Life’s a Parade
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Lothian, 1986.Uninhibited 1980s Australian fashion culture captured by Rennie Ellis as part of his ‘Life’s a…’ series.
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Cottage and Garden in Australia
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartEdna Walling
Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947.Walling’s second book, on building the country cottage and making its garden as a single design.
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Angry: Scarred For Life
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartKaren Dewey
Sydney: Ironbark, 1994.Biography of Gary Stephen “Angry” Anderson AM (1947-2026), vocalist of Australian hard rock band Rose Tattoo.
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D*A*A*S BOOK
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Doug Anthony Allstars
Sydney: Susan Haynes, Allen & Unwin, 1989.Dark comic stories and illustrations from the comedy trio. This copy signed by Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler, and Paul McDermott, with an original sketch by Tim Ferguson.
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Queer Vertigo
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartHuyen Hac Helen Tran; Georgia Wilde
Sydney: UTS Students’ Association, 2018.Special issue of the University of Technology Sydney Students’ Association newspaper Vertigo. A previous queer special issue was published in 2014.
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No Standing, Only Dancing
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis; Susan Van Wyk
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2008.Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Australian photographer Rennie Ellis held at the NGV five years after his death.
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WWII-NQ
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: State Government of Queensland, Environmental Protection Agency, 2009.A cultural heritage overview of significant places in the defence of north Queensland during World War II.
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I Didn’t Know That: Cairns and Districts, Tully to Cape York, 1939-1946, Service Personnel and Civilians
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartVera Bradley
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2003.Far North Queensland during WWII.
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Torres Strait Force 1942 to 1945: The Defence of Cape York-Torres Strait and Merauke in Dutch New Guinea
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartReg. A. Ball
Sydney: Australian Military History Publications, 1996.History of Australia’s northern frontier during WWII.
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Beneath Cold Waves: A Pictorial Glossary of Vessels Sunk in Wartime Australian Waters
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKevin Gomm
Perth: Helvetica Publishing, 2011.Maps and details of vessels sunk around Australia during WWI & WWII.
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The Queensland House: A Roof Over Our Heads
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRod Fisher; Brian Crozier
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1994.A collection of eight essays on historical and practical aspects of the Queensland house.
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Wild Food Plants of Australia
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Low
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. -
Gay Sydney: A History
AU$15 Read MoreAdd to cartGarry Wotherspoon
Sydney: NewSouth, 2016.Updated version of ‘City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture’.
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The Inner Domain
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Collas
Sydney: Graham Stone, 1989.Possibly the first science fiction story written for the SF market by someone living in Australia. Originally published in Amazing Stories, October 1935, and here reprinted as it originally appeared, describing a subterranean high civilisation beneath the Australian desert.
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Traditional Aboriginal Plant Resources in the Kalumburu Area: Aspects in Ethno-economics
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartI. M. Crawford
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1982.Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 15.
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Speak to the Earth
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartElyne Mitchell
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1945.Non-fiction work by Australian writer, cattlewoman, and championship skier, Elyne Mitchell (1913-2002), on her farming days in the Australian alpine region.
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The Interface between Public and Private Territories in Residential Areas
Read MoreJan Gehl
Melbourne: Department of Architecture and Building, Melbourne University, 1977.Fieldwork study of Melbourne streetscapes and how the line between yard and footpath makes or breaks neighbourhood life.
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Portraits of our Elders
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aird
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1993.A selection of studio photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring Aborigines from southern Queensland.
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The Leichhardt Diaries: Early Travels in Australia during 1842-1844 & The Leichhardt Papers: Reflection on His Life and Legacy
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas A. Darragh; Roderick J. Fensham
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 2013.Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Culture Volume 7.
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Myths and Legends of Torres Strait
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret Lawrie
New York: Taplinger, 1971.More than 160 stories of the people of the Torres Strait, from 17 islands including Mua, Badu, Mabuiag, Saibai, Boigu, Masig, Ugar, Erub and Mer. They were collected by Margaret Lawrie as an act of preservation at the request of the Islanders themselves, and are here illustrated with photographs and artworks by the islanders. The name of each story-teller is recorded and the book is rich with explanatory notes. Included is a recording of 11 of the islands songs.
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Kill the Prisoners!
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Wall
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Rockin’ with the Devil in Tasmania: A Documentation of Rock and Pop Bands which Originated in Tasmania
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Spencer
Bendigo: Moonlight Publications, 2000. -
The Australian Constitution: A Documentary History
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn M. Williams
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005.“This book brings together all the critical documents which formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901. Constitutions are the basic documents of a society. The drafting of the Australian constitution was the product of intense negotiation and debate. Line by line it represents the work of dozens of delegates and the considerations of millions of Australians. This authoritative and unique book brings together, for the first time, all the critical documents that formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901, tracing the Constitution from its most embryonic stages to its enactment. From the time that the colonies obtained self-government in the 1850s the issue of a large federation was being considered. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the colonies, through their delegates, came together in a series of conventions to draft a constitution that was to be put to the people. The documents included in this book tell the story of that painstaking process. This easily accessible collection of primary source material includes drafts of the Constitution, memoranda, personal letters relating to the drafting, and comments by the drafters themselves. It contains Hansard extracts, speeches, resolutions from Australasian Federal Conventions and comments on the drafts. It also reproduces newspaper cartoons reflecting popular feeling at the time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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From Shadow into Light: South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartShirley Cameron Wilson; Alison M. Dolling
Adelaide: Pagel / Delmont, 1988.Bicentennial survey of South Australian women artists from colonisation to 1988. This copy signed by Wilson to the title page.
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Davis Cup Champions: Harry Hopman, Neale Fraser, Tony Roche, and John Newcombe
AU$750 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcel Niederle
Prague: Marcel Niederle, 1957-1969.Six original caricatures by the Czech artist and caricaturist Marcel Niederle (1898-1990) of Harry Hopman and three of the players who won the Davis Cup under his captaincy. Hopman, in ink, dated 1969, the year he moved to the United States, had captained Australia to 16 Davis Cup wins between 1939 and 1967. Neale Fraser, Wimbledon champion in 1960, in two drawings: one in ink, captioned “Wimbledon 1957”, the other in pencil, undated and captioned “No. 1”, probably from 1959 or 1960, when he was ranked the world’s leading amateur. Tony Roche, French champion in 1966, in two undated drawings, one in pencil, the other in ink with ink wash and pencil. John Newcombe, seven-time major singles champion and Roche’s partner in 12 major doubles titles, in ink, undated. Niederle specialised in sporting subjects, particularly tennis and ice hockey. After working in New York as an illustrator for Sports Illustrated he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he drew the leading tennis players of the 1950s to the 1970s, a period dominated by Australian champions. No holdings of Niederle’s work can be traced in any Australian public collection.
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Fred Stolle
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcel Niederle
Prague: Marcel Niederle, 1967-1969.Original portrait of Fred Stolle in pencil and watercolour by the Czech artist and caricaturist Marcel Niederle (1898-1990), made in 1967, Stolle’s first year as a professional after winning the French Championships in 1965 and the US Championships in 1966. Offered with a smaller caricature of Stolle by Niederle in ink and pencil, dated 1969, depicting Stolle with a racket in one hand and a large sack of money over his shoulder, likely a comment on the advent of the Open Era. Niederle specialised in sporting subjects, particularly tennis and ice hockey. After working in New York as an illustrator for Sports Illustrated he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he drew the leading tennis players of the 1950s to the 1970s, a period dominated by Australian champions. No holdings of Niederle’s work can be traced in any Australian public collection.
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Lew Hoad Australia Player No 1. in Prague, 1956
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcel Niederle
Prague: Marcel Niederle, 1956.Original portrait of Lew Hoad by the Czech artist and caricaturist Marcel Niederle (1898-1990), drawn in Prague two days after Hoad’s victory at the French Championships, and signed by Hoad the following day. Hoad appeared on the Prague courts on 28 and 29 May at the invitation of the Czechoslovak tennis authorities, then flew to Barcelona for the Trofeo Conde de Godo, and went on to win Wimbledon, the third of his three major singles titles that year. Signed by Niederle and captioned “Lew Hoad. Australia Player No 1. Sketched in Praha 28 V 1956”, and inscribed by Hoad “Very Best Wishes Lewis Hoad Praha 29/5/56”. Prepared for a cover of the Czech sports magazine ‘Stadion’ that was never published, and mounted on a large sheet of paper with the magazine’s worksheet tipped to the mount, clear of the drawing. Niederle specialised in sporting subjects, particularly tennis and ice hockey. After working in New York as an illustrator for Sports Illustrated he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he drew the leading tennis players of the 1950s to the 1970s, a period dominated by Australian champions. No holdings of Niederle’s work can be traced in any Australian public collection.
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Oz Magazine (Australia) Complete Set with Newsletters
AU$15,000 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Neville; Richard Walsh; Martin Sharp
Sydney: Oz Publications Ink, 1963-1970.A high point of underground publishing. The foundational Australian edition of Oz, edited by Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, and Martin Sharp and published in Sydney between 1963 and 1969, with the reduced-format fortnightly newsletters continuing into 1970 under Walsh and Dean Letcher. Preceding and inspiring the better-known London Oz (1967-1973), the Australian edition tackled censorship, homosexuality, police corruption, the White Australia policy, and the Vietnam War, provoking a series of obscenity prosecutions, culminating in a 1964 conviction that was later overturned on appeal. Sharp’s covers and illustrations, ranging from early satirical cartooning to full psychedelic intensity, chart his emergence as one of Australia’s most significant pop artists. Complete in 41 issues of the magazine proper, together with a complete set of the rarely seen newsletters (Nos. 42-82) including the election special (No. 56).
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The Clyster: For the Connoisseur of Enema Delights (July 1989)
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartTrish Turner Labs
Sydney: Trish Turner Labs, 1989.Single issue of The Enema Fanciers Society quarterly newsletter, a Sydney klismaphile club run by Trish Turner Labs from a PO Box at Hurstville. The issue contains two pages of personals, two pages of letters, two further articles, and a one-page second instalment of a serialisation, stated to be by permission, of ‘Klismaphilia: Amplification of the Erotic Enema Deviance’ by Dr Joanne D. Denko (printed as Denco). Denko, a psychiatrist, coined the term klismaphilia in 1973, and this paper first appeared in the ‘American Journal of Psychotherapy’ in 1976. The back page states that the society was launched with a newspaper advertisement about eight months earlier, boasts that their file now includes 5000 names and addresses of interested persons, and announces the next issue for October 1989. The cover story continues from a May issue, so presumably at least one earlier number of the newsletter was published. Despite these markers, no other issues of the newsletter, or any record of the society or of Trish Turner have been traced by this cataloguer, the only record that can be traced is that of their registered company name being dissolved in a 1995 Government Gazette notice. Offered together with the newsletter is a membership application form. Membership offered the newsletter every three months, a three litre enema set, a half-hour VHS ‘Introduction to the Enema’, a 64 page book ‘The Enema a Teaching Manual’, and an outcall enema service for members when in Sydney.
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Male Erotica: 100 Uncensored Pictures
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartVenus Publications
Sydney: Venus Publications, No date.With a short introduction credited to Dr. D. B. Thomas explaining that the work is attempting to show the male body in various forms, that male beauty is not limited to the ancient ideal of Adonis. Australian erotica, unrecorded in Trove or OCLC.
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A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side
Read MoreNelson P. Whitelocke
Sydney: Nelson P. Whitelocke, 1885.20 Sketches. Drawn, Lithographed and Published by Nelson P. Whitelocke. A series of lithographed studies of Sydney street life in the 1880s focusing on the working and marginal figures of the city, including sex workers, the drunk, the infirm, street performers, a Chinese vegetable seller, and others. Comprising 20 lithographed plates with cream backgrounds, each accompanied by a page of descriptive text on the facing leaf, together with 2 preliminary lithographed plates (dedication and title), a Finis plate, and 2 leaves of text (advertisement and list of plates). FERGUSON 18490.
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Kings Cross Whisper’s Dear Caroline No. 10
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKings Cross Whisper
Sydney: Group Publications, [1969].Single issue of the Dear Caroline spinoff of the Australian sexpaper Kings Cross Whisper. First published in Kings Cross, Sydney in 1964, the Whisper was a joke newspaper filled with light stories, gag features, dirty jokes, and nude women. The Dear Caroline feature was the agony aunt advice column, here given more pages amongst the pinups and cartoons.
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Public Address given by Neil Williams, [Randwick Boy’s High Inter-state] Students strike Wednesday Sept 20. [1972]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartNeil Williams
Sydney: Neil Williams, 1972.Typescript address given by Neil Williams of Randwick Boys High School on 20 September 1972, the day of Australia’s first national secondary student strike, in which an estimated 80,000 students took part. Two pages with minor autograph amendments, signed by Williams at the end, together with an earlier draft leaf heavily revised in red ink, built around two passages cut from a printed strike leaflet and pasted in. From the archive of Perry Clugston, editor of the 1970 Randwick Boys High underground paper ‘The Voice of Young Australia’.
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The Voice of Young Australia Nos. 2, 4, 5
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartPerry Clugston; Jonathon Coleman [Jonathan ‘Jono’ Coleman]
Sydney: The Voice of Young Australia, 1970.Three issues of a 1970 underground paper produced by students at Randwick Boys High School in Sydney, edited by Perry Clugston with illustrations by Jonathon Coleman, later the radio and television presenter Jonathan ‘Jono’ Coleman. Anti-war and openly critical of school administration. Offered together with two loose sheets being drafts of the editorial in No. 5 regarding the unelected Junior Students’ Council at RBHS, and two pinned sheets of comments by seven teachers on the “personality and general attitudes” of Clugston. Unrecorded in Trove.
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Health and Physical Culture, July 1st, 1937 (Vol. 9, No. 7) [New Drug to Force Confessions]
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred J. Briton
Sydney: Health and Physical Culture, 1937.Single issue of the Australian physique journal, combining physical culture with recurring nudist and naturist themes and undercurrents of eugenics. Founded by gym owner Alfred J. Briton, ‘Health and Physical Culture’ was issued monthly from May 1929 to January 1943. This issue with the cover story ‘New Drug to Force Confessions’, on truth serums used to extract confessions from prisoners. Also articles on diabetes and vegetarianism, and a racist feature, ‘Would You Welcome Marriage with a Half-Caste?’, which argues that Australia faces a “rapidly growing half-caste problem” on top of its “colour problem”.
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Health and Physical Culture, May 1st, 1933 (Vol. 5, No. 5) [A Week End With The Near Nudes]
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred J. Briton
Sydney: Health and Physical Culture, 1933.Single issue of the Australian physique journal, combining physical culture with recurring nudist and naturist themes and undercurrents of eugenics. Founded by gym owner Alfred J. Briton, ‘Health and Physical Culture’ was issued monthly from May 1929 to January 1943. This issue with the cover story ‘A Week End With The Near Nudes’, W. F. Glover’s account of the Sun Bake Cult near Sydney. Also an article, ‘The Yellow Peril’, on Japan in Manchuria.
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Health and Physical Culture, November 1st, 1931 (Vol. 3, No. 11) [The Inside Story of Sydney’s Nude Cult]
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred J. Briton
Sydney: Health and Physical Culture, 1931.Single issue of the Australian physique journal, combining physical culture with recurring nudist and naturist themes and undercurrents of eugenics. Founded by gym owner Alfred J. Briton, ‘Health and Physical Culture’ was issued monthly from May 1929 to January 1943. This issue with the cover story ‘The Inside Story of Sydney’s Nude Cult’, an interview with J. A. Balfour, founder of the Australian Institute of Gymnosophy. Also articles on opium and sexual freedom.
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The Northern Tribes of Central Australia
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartBaldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904.Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs, which are well represented throughout. An important association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Spencer on behalf of both authors to Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933). The year of publication was the year Roth became Queensland’s Chief Protector of Aboriginals, and the same year his Western Australian royal commission report documented abuses of Aboriginal people in the North-West. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of Aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Annual Report of the Northern Protector / Chief Protector of Aboriginals, 1903-1909
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth; Richard B. Howard
Brisbane: George Arthur Vaughan and Anthony James Cumming, Government Printers, 1904-1910.Seven consecutive annual reports of the Queensland Protector of Aborigines, running from Walter Roth’s last year as Northern Protector of Aboriginals through his term as Chief Protector and into the first years of his successor, Richard Baron Howard. The 1903 report is the last of the divided system, under which Roth administered the north and Archibald Meston the south; the protectorate of Queensland was reorganised under a single Chief Protector in 1904, with Roth appointed. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of Aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Qui Mal Y Pense Song Book 1955
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Ringstad; Brian Hennessy
Sydney: Publicity Press for the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, 1955.Collection of poetry and humorous illustration published on the occasion of the University of Sydney Commemoration Day, 10th May 1955.