IDRIESS ION L

My Mate Dick

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. book clean, price clipped DW minor handling, lightly rubbed, 244pp + plates, Australian Northern Territory. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009166

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Outback History Northern Territory Cape York Peninsula Coral Sea First Edition

IDRIESS ION L

One Wet Season

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1950, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. map endpapers, 272pp + plates. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012020

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Aborigines West Kimberleys Leopolds Idriess

IDRIESS ION L

Over the range, sunshine and shadows in the Kimberleys

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1948, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. tenth edition very clean and tightly bound. 316pp + plates, maps to paste downs. DW complete but with edge wear, splits to parts of the folds, some chipping to spine ends and tear to lower corner of rear panel, little if any actual loss though. The author accompanies a Nor-west Mounted police patrol in the Kimberleys. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012547

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Aborigines Bonaparte Archipelago Kimberleys Idriess

IDRIESS ION L

The Tin Scratchers

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1959, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first edition, small pen name to fep, map end papers, light age toning to some page edges particularly the plates, xii 260pp clipped dust jacket some edge chipping especially to corners, sunned spine, 'tin-scratching' in the Cape York Peninsula made "Cyclone Jack" (Idriess) wealth enough to give up work and travel Australia writing about his experiences. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005904

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Cape York Peninsula Australia Gold Fields Tin Mining

IDRIESS ION L

The Tin Scratchers

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1959, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first edition, small pen name to fep, map end papers, slight bump to lower edge of rear board, xii 260pp clipped dust jacket with some edge chipping especially to corners, sunned spine, 'tin-scratching' in the Cape York Peninsula made "Cyclone Jack" (Idriess) wealth enough to give up work and travel Australia writing about his experiences. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009236

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Cape York Peninsula Australia Gold Fields Tin Mining

IDRIESS ION L

The Vanished People

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1955, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. apart from heavily sunned spine VG, some sunning to top edges of boards, map endpapers, 210pp + plates. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010225

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Aborigines Northern Territories Idriess

BECKE LOUIS

Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of Australian Bush Life

London, Religious Tract Society. First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: J. Finnemore. assumed first, undated, fep has award plate dated 1926 to Allan Miller of Pukerau School (New Zealand). red cloth blind decorated and titled cover, gilt to spine, Colour frontis + 2 b&w plates signed JF. 'Settlers of Karossa Creek', 'Bella of Barina' and 'Sonny'. VG copy. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001610

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Louis Becke Illustrated Australia Fiction Colonial Bush Outback Adventure Religious Tract J. Finnemore

BOWDEN K. M.

Captain James Kelly of Hobart Town

Melbourne, Melbourne University Press. 1964, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library, (500 gram rate) ex-library with stamps etc, dust jacket under plastic sleeveprleims + 126pp + plates. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 008403

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Australian Colonial History Tasmania Hobart Captian James Kelly Biography

TAYLOR NANCY M.

The Journal of Ensign Best 1837-1843

Wellington, Government Printer. 1966, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW handling wear with surface rubbing, minor chipping to spine ends and lightly faded spine, name to fep 'J M Sinclair', tidy copy, 465pp + plates. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 010160

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: New Zealand Colonial History British Settlement Exploration Oceania Maori Australia Norfolk Island Memoir Journal Biography Abel Dottin William Best

MOON MARGARET AND BRUCE

Ni-Vanuatu Memories of World War Two 2 II

Diamond Harbour, Margaret and Bruce Moon. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0473056089) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. perfect bound, 137pp, tipped onto front inside cover is a letter from the author to the reviewer of The Press, Christchurch, includes photographs in the text, "During World War II, the New Hebrides was a vital staging post for operations against the Japanese. More than half a million servicemen: Americans, New Zealandersa and Australians passed through on their way to theatres of action.". Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008825

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Pacific New Hebrides Second World War Allied Occupation American New Zealand Australian Troops Staging Post Vanuatu History 0473056089

DIAMOND MARION

Creative Meddler, The Life and Fantasies of Charles St. Julian

Victoria, Melbourne University Press. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0522844235) Hard Cover. unclipped dust jacket slightly sun faded to spine and rear panel, closed top edge dust soiled otherwise very clean copy, ix 179pp + plates. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007759

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: St. Julian Charles Australia Australian Biography Colonial History Colonization Nineteenth Century 0522844235

GARTRELL MARJORIE

Dear Primitive, a Nurse Among the Aborigines

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped dust jacket with a few minor holes to front fold from insect damage, one small hole to lower joint also, short edege tear head of front panel, gift inscription to fep, otherwise tidy copy, 122pp+ plates, nurse amongst aborigines in the 1950s. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 012561

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Aborigines Outback Medical Treatment Nurse Nursing Memoir Biography

CASH MARTIN

Martin Cash the Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land in 1843-4

Hobart, J Walch & Sons. 1972, reprint. Printer Wrapper, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) 'A Personal narrative of his exploits in the bush and his experiences at Port Arthur and Norfolk Island' 38th thousand with illustrations, sewn sheets in pictorial paper wrapper, small chip from tail of spine, small pen price top corner, spine lean, 174pp + plates, bushranger's memoir reprinted from 1870 first impression. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003217

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Tasmania Australia Bush Ranger Bushranger Outlaw Highwayman Robber True Crime Memoir Biography Martin Cash Van Diemens Land

PATE & MCCOMB

The Biology of Australian Plants

Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0855641940) Soft Cover, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. lacks fep, stamp to half title, sunned spine, sewn sheets in paper wrapper, xvi 412pp illustrated. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005355

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australia Austrralian Flora Botany Plants Reference Science Australian Plants 0855641940

STUART JOHN MCDOUALL

Fourth Expedition Journal March to September 1860

Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove. 1983, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. limited edition, this copy unfortunately has the top corner of both boards and all the pages trimmed, losing about 2cm from the corner, this does not affect the text in any way, this is a numbered limited edition being #96 of 220 copies, 92pp on nice laid paper, I have no idea why the corner was cut as the book seems to be in order and very tidy, first unabridged publication of Stuart's journal, direct from the manuscripts of Douall Stuarts' expedition to the Australian interior. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008653

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australian Exploration Australia History Limited Edition Rare Reprint Whitcoulls John Mcdouall Stuart Australian Interior Expedition