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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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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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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 Temples of Karnak
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
London: Thames & Hudson, 1999.Translated from the French Les Temples de Karmak by Andre Vanden Broeck. A complete photographic record of monuments, ruins, statues and the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak. Includes the land of the Nile, mythology, and royal cartouches from the 18th to the 30th dynasties.
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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.
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Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNehemiah Bartley
Brisbane: Gordon & Gotch, No date [1896]..(Illustrated), together with portraits of some of the Founders of Australia. By the late Nehemiah Bartley. Edited by J. J. Knight. FERGUSON 6761.
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War and Peace: Ottoman-Polish Relations in the 15th-19th Centuries
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSelmin Kangal
Istanbul: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Polish Ministry of Culture and Art, 1999.Catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul.
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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. -
The Strippers
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Holledge
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1965.The naked truth on the girls who strip for a living. The story of: Why They Strip, How They Strip, Birth of Burlesque, G-String Genius, Stripping Australian Style.
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Notorious Women
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Holledge
Sydney: Horwitz Publications, 1962.The sensational escapades of women whose colourful careers as brazen adventuresses, shameless courtesans, barefaced tricksters, cold-blood murderesses shock even the most broad-minded!
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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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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