A Journey to Cooper's Creek
Author: Hermann Beckler
Beckler, a young Bavarian doctor and botanist wrote this first hand account of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. Translated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jeffries.$60.00
A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest
Author: Eric Rolls
The story of the Pilliga scrub of northern NSW, a contentious story of men and their passion for land; of occupation and settlement; of destruction and growth.
$45.00
A Nest of Hornets
Author: Gordon Reid; The massacre of the Fraser family at Hornet Bank Station, Central Queensland, 1857, and related events.
$45.00
A Son of Australia
Author: Harry C Perry; Memories of W.E. Parry-Okeden I.S.O. 1840-1926
$95.00
Australia : Images of a Timeless Land
Photographer: Peter Lik
Lush images of the Australian landscape - limited edition in box.
$60.00
Australia in Maps
Author: Keith M Clarke; Great maps in Australia's history from the National Library's collection.
$45.00
Australia Unveiled: The Share of the Dutch Navigators in the Discovery of Australia
Author: Gunter Schilder
A survey of Dutch discoveries of Australia 1606-44 including the two voyages of Abel Tasman. Many maps. Translated from the German by Olaf Richter.
$50.00
Australian Dictionary of Biography
12 volumes plus index published between 1979 and 1991. Various editors
$100.00
Challenge of the North
Author: Ion L Idriess
Ion Idriess's last book, a first edition.
$150.00
Convicts of the Port Phillip District
Author: Keith M Clarke; An extensive history of the part played by convicts in the colony of Victoria, together with appendixes listing details of individual convicts of various classifications.
$40.00
Endangered Characters of Australia Volume 1
Author: Mick Joffe
Endangered characters of Australia, their yarns and caricatures. A limited number edition 566/5000 signed by the author.
$35.00
From Dusk Till Dawn: A History of Australian Lighthouses
Author: Various
Commissioned by the Federal Department of Transport and Communications as its major contribution to the Australian Bicentenary, and produced in conjunction with Macmillan. Many photographs. First Edition.
$60.00
Guide to Australian Battlefields of the Western Front, 1916-1918
Author: John Laffin
A complete guide to the 1916-1918 Western Front of France and Belgium.
$150.00
Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia
Authors: Jenny Gregory & Jan Gothard
An authoritative and comprehensive guide to significant events, institutions and places, themes and topics in Western Australian history.
$70.00
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington
Author: Dr Ludwig Leichhardt; Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of upwards of 3000 Miles, during the years 1844-1845
$110.00
Journals of the Land Commissioners for Van Dieman's Land 1826-28
Editor: Anne McKay
Journals are part of an official report to Lieut-Governor Arthur by the Land Commissioners. Fold out map at back.
$40.00
Kangaroo Ground : The Highland Taken
Author: Mick Woiwod
This history of Kangaroo Ground, (Yarra Valley, Vic) details the district’s story between 1841 and 1996.
$55.00
Leask's Australian Genealogies
Editor: B Chalmers Leask
Leask's Genealogical guide to some Australian families, their antecedents and genealogies.
$50.00
Matthew Everingham: A First Fleeter and his Times
Author: Valerie Ross
Much more than a biography of Matthew Everingham, this is a valuable reference - on the First Fleet and the conditions in England responsible for a convict settlement in NSW, and on the early period of settlement.
$45.00
On Austral Shores
Author: Trevor Lipscombe
A Modern Traveller's Guide to the European Exporation of the Coasts of Victoria and New South Wales
$20.00
