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Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Constance Campbell Petrie]
Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1904.Reminiscences of early Queensland dating from 1837 recorded by Tom Petrie’s daughter. Prefatory note by Walter E. Roth. The first edition rebound in plain green cloth.
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Walking with Dingoes
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOwen Davies
Dimbulah: Owen Davies, 2014.The story of Pungalina Station in the Northern Territory, from abandonment to glorious wilderness. Unrecorded in Trove.
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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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Bjelke Blues: Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland, 1968-1987
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwina Shaw
[Brisbane]: AndAlso Books, 2019. -
The Queensland House: A Roof Over Our Heads
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRod Fisher; Brian Crozier
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1994.A collection of eight essays on historical and practical aspects of the Queensland house.
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Mangroves to Mountains: A Field Guide to the Native Plants of South-east Queensland
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGlenn Leiper; Jan Glazebrook; Denis Cox; Kerry Rathie
[Logan Village]: Society for Growing Plants (Queensland Region Inc.) Logan River Branch, 2017. -
Tiger Territory: The History of Oberon Rugby League
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWendy Casey
Mudgee: Landers Publishing, 2009. -
From River Banks to Shearing Shed: 30 Years with Flying Arts
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarilyn England
Brisbane: Suzanne Wickenden, 2009. -
The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Kemp
Carlton: The Miegunyah Press, 2018.“The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860 tells the story of how Australians gained the liberties they desired to take control of their lives, the right to govern themselves and the capacity to address their own political problems through democratic institutions. As the first book in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, The Land of Dreams describes how Australians laid the foundations for one of the world’s most successful countries, with unprecedented levels of personal liberty and social equality.” (from publisher’s blurb)
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If The Walls Could Speak: A Social History of the Mechanics Institutes of Victoria
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPam Baragwanath
Melbourne: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000. -
Chiang Kai-shek
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland.
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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. -
The Building of the Queensland House, 1880-1920: A Carpenter’s Handbook and Owner’s Manual
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew L. Jenner
Brisbane: Andrew L. Jenner, 2015. -
Painting Collection of Mrs. S. K. Ling
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. K. Ling
Kowloon: C. S. Ling, 1935.Foreword and epilogue is in English and Chinese, primarily illustrations. 32 colour plates and one colour photograph of Mrs. S. K. Ling.
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Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): His Life, His Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Jackson Kerr
: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2022.“This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts. The contents cover Shoults’s early years at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, his work in some of the poorer ritualistic parishes of London, his association with the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837-1908), the controversial, enthusiastic, revivalist known as ‘Father Ignatius’, his work on Latin hymns, his marriage, and his travel overseas, which included visiting the Vatican Library. After Shoults’s death at 48, his collection was gifted to Selwyn College, Dunedin, arriving in New Zealand in 1893. The survival of this collection is remarkable and it exists as a fine example of what a nineteenth-century curate could collect.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Rues et Visages de New-York
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230.
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Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux de la France et des pays Circonvoisins
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Richon; Ernest Roze
Paris: Octave Doin, 1888.Atlas of edible and poisonous mushrooms of France and surrounding countries containing 72 color plates or figures of 229 types of the main species of mushrooms sought for food, and similar suspect or dangerous species with which they are confused drawn from nature with their reproductive organs amplified by Charles Richon… Accompanied by a monograph of these 229 species and a general history of edible and poisonous mushrooms by Ernest Roze… Text illustrated with 62 photoengravings of primitive drawings by old authors and organographic figures by recent authors after reproductions made by Charles Rolet. Key late 19th century work of French mycology. VOLBRACHT 1753. BITTING pg. 398. This copy with the bookplate of French mycologist Raymond Bertault.
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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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Early Japanese Sword Guards: Sukashi Tsuba
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasayuki Sasano
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, 1972. -
On Demonology and Witchcraft in Ceylon
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDandris De Silva Gooneratne
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1998.First published in 1865 this is the first facsimile edition of Gooneratne’s study of demon worship in what is now Sri Lanka.