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Spinning Tops and Gumdrops: A Portrait of Colonial Childhood
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin Barnard
Canberra: NLA Publishing, 2018. -
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRosalie Gilbert
Coral Gables: Mango Publishing Group, 2020.“An inside look at sexual practices in medieval England. Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated. Romance, courtship, and behind closed doors. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern woman. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so.” (publisher’s blurb)
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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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The Folio History of Ancient Greece (4 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. R. Burns; Simon Hornblower; F. W. Walbank
London: The Folio Society, 2002.Being: The Lyric Age: The Greek World, c.750-510 BC by A. R. Burn, The Persian Wars: The Greeks and the Defence of the West, c. 546-478 BC by A. R. Burns, The Classical Age: The Greek World, 479-323 BC by Simon Hornblower, and The Hellenistic Age: The Greek World, 336-146 BC by F. W. Walbank. Maps by Reginald Piggottt. FORD-SMITH 1097.
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An Eyewitness History of the Crusades (4 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristopher Tyerman
London: The Folio Society, 2001-3.The First, Second, Third, Fourth Crusade. Edited and introduced by Christopher Tyerman. Maps by Reginald Piggott. FORD-SMITH 1193
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The Barbarian Invasions of The Roman Empire (8 Volumes)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Hodgkin
London: The Folio Society, 2001-3.Complete set. Introductions by Peter Heather. Maps by Reginald Piggott. FORD-SMITH 1019, 1020, 1062, 1063, 1095, 1096, 1136 1137. Volumes 1-4 are second printings, 5-8 are first printings.
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Hannibal
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnle Bradford
London: The Folio Society, 2001.Introduced by Kenneth McLeish. Maps by Reginald Piggott. First published by Macmillan in 1981, this work was issued in Folio’s series of classical biographies. The plates reproduce antiquities and photographs of the AlpsFORD-SMITH 933.
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia (Volume One)
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhillip Parker King
Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2012.Facsimile copy of Captain Philip Parker King’s survey performed between 1818-1822 and originally published in 1827.Introduction by Marsden Hordern. Bibliographical note by Paul Brunton. Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set.
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The Australian Constitution: A Documentary History
AU$600.00 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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The Pioneers of the North-West of South Australia, 1856 to 1914
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman A. Richardson
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1980. -
The Kalkadoons: A Study of an Aboriginal Tribe on the Queensland Frontier
AU$250.00 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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The Collected Works of Thomas Welsby
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. K. Thomson; Thomas Welsby
Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1967. -
The Boxer Rebellion
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdriano Madaro
Quinto di Treviso: Europrint Editore, 2001.A new historical review on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Boxer Rebellion, copiously illustrated throughout. Originally published in Italian as ‘La Rivolta dei Boxer Pechino 1900’ and here translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Tomlin.
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Allies, Enemies and Trading Partners: Records on Australia and the Japanese
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPam Oliver
Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2006. -
Outback Medicine: Some Vignettes of Pioneering Medicine
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pearn
Brisbane: Department of Child Health, University of Queensland, 1994. -
The Killing Times: The Coniston Massacre 1928
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Cribbin
Sydney: Fontana, 1984. -
Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen’s Land
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. C. Wentworth
Adelaide: Griffin Press, Doubleday Australia, 1978. -
An Account of the Settlement at Sullivan Bay, Port Phillip, 1803
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Pascoe Crook
London: The Colony Press, 1983.Limited to 185 numbered copies.
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The Inaugural Celebrations of the Commonwealth of Australia
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. J. Keenan
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, 1904.Compiled under the Authority of the Prime Minister of New South Wales by J. J. Keenan. The rarely seen wrappers issue.