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The Invincible Krises 2
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVanna Ghiringhelli
Vercelli: Saviolo Publisher, 2007. -
A Doctor in the Garden: Nomen Medici in Botanicis: Australian Flora and the World of Medicine
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pearn
Brisbane: Amphion Press, 2001. -
Out There: A Potted History of a Revolution Called Nimbin
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGoffin Marion; Quentin Merlaud
Nimbin: Out There Publishing, 2024.39 Spoken Stories Told by Locals: An Antidote to Conventional Thinking.
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Perou Solidaire: Chamanique, Cosmique, Symbolique
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis Devigne
Nice: Imprimerie Crouzet, 2012.A revised and expanded version of Prodigioso Peru Profundo. A study of pre-Columbian Peruvian religion, art, cosmology, shamanism, and antiquities.
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Journey Through Landscape in Seventeenth-Century Holland: The Haarlem Print Series and Dutch Identity
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Levesque
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. -
Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[George] Essex Evans; Alek Sass [Alexander Phillip Sass]
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1909.Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work.
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Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[George] Essex Evans; Alek Sass [Alexander Phillip Sass]
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1909.Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work. This copy in the superior leather binding with a photographic portrait of Evans which is not present in the standard edition.
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Men of Queensland: Representative of the Public, Professional, Ecclesiastical and Business Life of Queensland as Existant in the Year 1928 A.D.
AU$850.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWill. H. Millar
Brisbane: The Read Press, 1929.Printed and Published by The Read Press, Engravings by S. A. Best, Photographs by Poulsen Studios, Caricatures by Will. H. Millar. Chiefly caricatures by Will. H. Millar with accompanying biographical text of 211 notable men of early 20th century Queensland. This copy with the preliminary plate of John Oxley looking down over Brisbane printed in colour and with the armorial bookplate of Brian Leask to the front pastedown.
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The History of Queensland: Its People and Industries (3 Volumes)
AU$3,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMatt. J. Fox; Phillip Champion de Crespigny; Ernest Sando Emerson; Andrew Grant; G. G. Swann
Brisbane: States Publishing Company, 1919-23.A full set of the monumental Fox’s History of Queensland: An Historical and Commercial Review, Descriptive and Biographical Facts, Figures and Illustrations: An Epitome of Progress. Published in 3 volumes in 1919, 1921, and 1923, it is the largest historical work on Queensland and its colonial settler families ever produced. Despite known colloquially as Fox’s History of Queensland, and with the second and third volumes crediting him as the compiler, the first volume was edited by Phillip Champion de Crespigny and Ernest Sando Emerson, the second by Andrew Grant, and the third by G. G. Swann, together with countless unnamed writers and with contributions from various photographers. Rare as a complete set and with the original leather almost always worn and cracked, this set rebacked preserving the original boards and spinebacks.
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The Aldine Centennial History of New South Wales (2 Volumes)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Frederic Morrison
Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888.Illustrated, embracing sketches and portraits of her noted people; the rise and progress of her varied enterprises; and illustrations of her boundless wealth, together with maps of latest survey. FERGUSON 12863
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Aboriginal Bark Canoes of the Murray Valley
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Edwards
Adelaide: Rigby, 1975. -
Early Shipping in Moreton Bay, 1846 – 1863 (2 Volumes)
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWinifred Davenport; Betty Mottram
Brisbane: Winifred Davenport and Betty Mottram, 1998-2002.Volume 1: June 1846 – December 1859. Volume 2: January 1860 – December 1863 (Second Edition). A history of the ships that came and went from Moreton Bay taken from The Moreton Bay Courier and includes all named passengers and many other interesting details.
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Studies in Indonesian Music
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret J. Kartomi
Melbourne: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1978.Monash Papers on Southeast Asia – Number Seven. 3 papers by David Goldsworthy, Catherine Falk, and Bronia Kornhauser, edited by Margaret J. Kartomi.
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The Tragedy of Paotingfu
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIsaac C. Ketler
New York, Chicago, and Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902.An Authentic Story of the Lives, Services and Sacrifices of the Presbyterian, Congregation and China Inland Missionaries who Suffered Martyrdom at Paotingfu, China, June 30th and July 1, 1900.
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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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The Edible Fishes of New South Wales: Their Present Important and Their Potentialities
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid G. Stead
Sydney: Government of the State of New South Wales, 1908.Listing of edible fish species of New South Wales with descriptions of each, together with photographic plates and a large folding colour map of New South Wales.
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Round the World
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. P. Thomson
Brisbane: Outridge Printing Co., 1904.Account of the round the world voyage of James Park Thomson (1854-1941), decorated Scottish born-Queensland geographer and public servant. Includes descriptions of New Zealand, Samao, Fanning Island, Hawaii, North America from California to New York including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and the Mormons, the Rockies, Canada, Niagara, the United Kingdom including London, Westminster Abbey, Scotland, Aberdeen, The Crofters, Edinburgh, Belgium, Cologne, Switzerland, Paris, Rouen, Naples, Pompeii, The Suez Canal, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, home to Brisbane, and more in between. Thomson recounts much of Australia and in particular Queensland to those he meets as well as participating in numerous Geographical Society meetings and the twenty-fourth National Congress of the French Geographical Societies at Rouen. The telling of his meeting with Prince Roland Bonaparte was responsible for putting in motion a series of events leading to the State Library of New South Wales’ eventual acquisition of the prized Tasman Map of Abel Tasman’s 1642 and 1644 voyages.
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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred R. Wallace
London: Reeve and Co., 1853.With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. The rare first edition written from Wallace’s notes of his first fieldwork expedition to the Amazon, 1848-1852, his specimens and most of his work having been lost in a cargo fire on the return voyage.
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The Alligator Rivers: Prehistory and Ecology in Western Arnhem Land
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarmel Schrire
Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1982. -
The Discovery of Australia
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Collingridge
Sydney: Hayes Brothers, 1895.A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discover in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the “Endeavour,” in the year 1770. With illustrations, charts, maps diagrams, &c. copious notes, references, geographical index and index to names. FERGUSON 8465.