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The Cambridge Ancient History
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCambridge University Press
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Complete set of the second series. “Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies.” (publisher’s blurb) Vol. I Part 1 printed in 2006, all other volumes in 2007. Volume I Part I: Prolegomena and Prehistory; Part II: Early History of the Middle East; Vol. II Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380; Part II: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000; Vol. III Part I: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.; Part II: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C; Part III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C; Vol. IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.; Vol. V: The Fifth Century B.C.; Vol. VI The Fourth Century B.C.; Vol. VII, Part I: The Hellenistic World; Part II: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.; Vol. VIII: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.; Vol. IX: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.; Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69; Vol XI: The High Empire, A.D. 70-192; Vol. XII The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193-337; Vol. XIII: The Late Empire, A.D. 337-425; Vol. XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425-600.
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A Farewell to Morse
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Lovelock
[Yeppoon]: [Max Lovelock], No date.Unpublished history of Morse telegraphy in Australia, in particular at the Sydney General Post Office.
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Samuel Grau Hubbe and the South Australia to Western Australia Stock Route Expedition, 1895 – 1896
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Grau Hubbe
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains the official and private journals of Hubbe and John Mahar. Biographical notes on the men of the expedition.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited and with an introduction by Andrew Guy Peake.
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Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891 – 1892
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Lindsay
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “With appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott, reported by the expedition. Also the full Anthropology report by Richard Helms which has not been available for over a century, which contains 6 colour plates and many b&w photos. Biographies of all the men.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited by Peter J. Bridge, Calliope Bridge, and Celene Bridge.
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To the Golden Land: Exploration to the Eastwards, 1869 – 1896
AU$160.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “An important contribution to the history of WA covering all that periods 65 expeditions, including many that were previously unknown. Includes for the first time all the colour plates of Forrest in the 1870s. More than 150 illustrations and maps.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Exploration Eastwards, 1860 – 1869
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge; Kim Epton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.The Western Australian Explorers’ Diaries Project, Incorporating the Historical Records of Western Australia. “Contains some 30 expeditions including Lefroy and CC Hunt with appendices on the plants by Alex George and animals by Ian Abbott. Biographical notes on all known expedition members. Resolves the problems of the ‘convicts gold’ and Hunt’s unknown convict helpers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Australind Journals of Marshall Waller Clifton, 1840-1861
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Barnes; J. M. R. Cameron; H. A. Willis; Marshall Waller Clifton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2010.“Marshall Waller Clifton, Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society, and former Secretary of the Royal NavyÂ’s Victualling Board, was Chief Commissioner for the small agricultural colony of Australind. This settlement, on Leschenault Inlet on AustraliaÂ’s south-western coast, was formed in 1840 by a group of systematic coloniser supporters of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. To keep them informed of his activities, Clifton maintained a detailed daily account that he commenced on 1 December 1840, the day he left England. Unlike its sister colonies in South Australia and New Zealand, the Wakefield-inspired venture in Western Australia did not succeed. Australind failed within three years. Clifton, although freed from having to report to London-based shareholders, maintained his practice of daily journal writing and did so until six days before his death on 10 April 1. The result is a vivid and detailed portrait of life in a small and remote agricultural settlement on the edge of the British Empire. Clifton is an intelligent and insightful, if somewhat haughty, observer of people, events and places. His observations and reflections will appeal to a wide audience because he was heavily involved in colonial life through the activities of his large family and as local magistrate, Legislative Councillor and leading land-holder and horticulturalist. His garden at Australind was much admired, he was a pioneer of Western AustraliaÂ’s wine industry, one of the first to export local produce through the port of Bunbury, and a major employer of convict labour. CliftonÂ’s Australind Journals are published here for the first time, annotated and comprehensively indexed to make them more accessible and useful for modern readers.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Australind Letters of Marshall Waller Clifton, Chief Commissioner for the Western Australian Company
AU$95.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. R. Cameron; P. A. Barnes; Marshall Waller Clifton
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017. -
Woodlines of Western Australia: A Comprehensive History of the Goldfields Woodlines
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhil Bianchi
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“Without a source of cheap energy to fuel steam boilers and for ore treatment, only the Western Australian mines with rich ore would have been productive. Firewood companies established privately owned train lines up to 120 miles out from major centres such as Kalgoorlie to bring in firewood. Although the Kurrawang and Lakewood woodlines are the main feature of this book; other woodlines included Lakeside south of Boulder, Kurramia/Kanowna, Cue, Laverton, Gwalia and Westonia. Firewood cutters, carters and loaders from war torn Europe, came to Australia seeking a better life; they lived in hessian walled basic camps with earthen floors and a tin roof. The book features 22 first-hand accounts of the hardships faced by woodliners working, living and growing up on the woodlines. Many a wife and family joining the husband after a few years were shocked at the conditions; suffering flies, heat, cold, loneliness, maggots in meat and poor quality drinking water. Between 1900 and 1964 a total of 21.6 million tons of firewood had been cut; during 1912-16 average production was 650,000 tons per year. By the time the firewood companies ceased operations they had clear-felled a staggering 3.04 million hectares of goldfields woodlands; almost half the area of Tasmania. Other woodline topics discussed include: racism, riots, internment, exploitation and bribery, shanties, sports days, strikes and deaths and accidents.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: 2. Collections in Pakistan
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah; Asko Parpola
Helsinki: Soumalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991. -
The Yar-Lun Dynasty
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErik Haarh
Kobenhavn: G. E. C. Gad’s Forlag, 1969.A study with particular regard to the contribution by myths and legends to the history of Ancient Tibet and the origin and nature of its kings.
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China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. F. P. Hulsewe
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979.An Annotated Translation of Chapters 61 and 96 of The History of the Former Han Dynasty. With an introduction by M. A. N. Lowe.
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Golden Gateway: Lae & the Province of Morobe
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Sinclair
Bathurst: Crawford House Publishing, 1998.One 300 signed and numbered copies of the deluxe edition bound in leather.
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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 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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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.