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Dieu et Devoir: The Story of All Hallows’ School, Brisbane, 1861-1981
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean-Marie Mahoney
Brisbane: Crusader Print for All Hallows School, 1998.History of the oldest secondary girls school in Queensland.
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Our Channel Country: Man and Nature in South-west Queensland
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. M. Duncan-Kemp
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962. -
Locker Room: Queensland Sports Magazine Issue No. 1
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGreg Conescu
Brisbane: theLocker Room, 1991.Early 1990s Queensland sports magazine edited by rugby league player William “Greg” Conescu (1960-). Covers a wide range of sports with a Queensland focus, from motor sports to squash, rugby league to basketball. Articles on State of Origin, the APOSA Festival of Sport, and float tanks. Seemingly a one-off, unrecorded in Australian public collections.
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The Peak Baggers Guide: Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Cobb
Sydney: Envirobook, 1996.How to get to the top of the mountains on the Coast.
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A Woman’s Place: 100 Years of Queensland Women Lawyers
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan Purdon; Aladin Rahemtula
Brisbane: Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2005.Published to coincide with the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which first enabled women to practise law in Queensland. Foreword by Mary Gaudron, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
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Northmost Australia (3 Volumes)
AU$220.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Logan Jack
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1998.Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, by Robert Logan Jack, Queensland Government Geologist. Facsimile Edition with maps in pocket in a third volume.
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. 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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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. 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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The Queensland Aborigines (3 Volumes)
AU$240.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1984.3 volumes collecting in facsimile various works of Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), 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. Volume 1 contains Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines, and includes the ethno-pornographical plate reproduced in colour. Volume 2 contains Bulletins 1-8 of North Queensland Ethnography from The Home Secretary’s Department, Brisbane, 1901-1908. Volume 3 contains Bulletins 9-18 of North Queensland Ethnography, Records of the Australian Museum Sydney, 1907-1910. In total, over 1,500 photographs, line drawings, and maps in three volumes.
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Brisbane: 150 Stories, 1859-2009
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank McBride; Helen Taylor; Carmel Black; Brian Rough; Heather Richards
Brisbane: Brisbane City Council, 2009.A history of Brisbane incorporating and expanding upon the 1997 publication, Brisbane: 100 Stories.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Redbank: Rodney Liddell, 2004.The first printing of the third edition of Liddell’s telling of the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, together with his expanded and controversial chapters on the Aboriginal invasion of Australia. This copy with the three government petitions at the rear.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Dubbo: Rodney Liddell, 1991.The self published first edition telling the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, without many of the controversial chapters of the later editions. This copy inscribed by the author to Margaret Lawrie, collector of stories and mythologies of the Torres Strait, also with a 1996 postcard from the author addressed to Lawrie laid in.
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St. George’s Bridge: A Sesquicentennial History
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarolyn Nolan
Saint George: Balonne Shire Council, 1996. -
Native Plants of Queensland (4 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKeith A. W. Williams
Ipswich: Keith A.W. Williams, 1979-1999.All first edition, first printings. Volume 2 inscribed, Volume 4 signed.
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Voices from Brisbane Rugby League
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGreg Mallory; Gail Cartwright
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2010.Oral histories from the 50s to the 70s.
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The Voyages to Queensland of the Glamorganshire
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPennie Manderson; Maryborough Family Heritage Institute Volunteers
Maryborough: Maryborough Family Heritage Institute, No date.A look at life on board an immigrant ship. Includes passenger lists for numerous voyages.
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From Mandarins to Mangoes: A History of Farming in Bowen, North Queensland
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJan Rees
Brisbane: Jan Rees, 2007. -
Pioneering: The Life of the Hon. R. M. Collins
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarry C. Perry
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1923.With a poetic epigraph by Queensland poet George Essex Evans.
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The Brisbane River Story: Meanders through Time
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHelen Gregory
Brisbane: Australian Marine Conservation Society, 1996.