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2 CATALOGUE TWENTY-FOUR SUMMER 2009 Books are offered subject to prior sale at the nett prices in Australian dollars. All prices include Australian Federal Government Goods and Services Tax. Freight and insurance are extra and will be added to your invoice. Overseas customers will be invoiced in Australian dollars and are requested to remit payment in Australian dollars only. Books will be sent by airmail. Orders may be left at any time on our 24-hour answer phone (03) (International ) or by or or by mail to PO Box 325 KEW VICTORIA 3101 AUSTRALIA We accept Mastercard and Visa. Please advise card number, ccv number, expiry date, and name as it appears on your card. Payment is due on receipt of books. Customers not known to us may be sent a pro forma invoice. Any item may be returned within five days of receipt if we are notified immediately. Normal trade courtesies are observed where a reciprocal arrangement exists. Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers Printed, typeset and bound in Australia for New Century Antiquarian Books. Copyright Jonathan Wantrup All rights reserved. No part of this publication my be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of New Century Antiquarian Books.

3 [1] ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. An interesting early Australian advertising archive, from the foundation of the Victorian branch of the Association in 1914 up to about Melbourne, A substantial quantity, including letters, flyers, manuscripts, etc. in the original owner s ribbon-tied portfolio. $550 The early archive of prominent foundation member George Anderson, a man of future great distinction (see ADB 13, 48). Founded in 1914 by a few gentlemen interested in advertising, the Ad-Club of Victoria quickly became what we would now call a professional development association devoted to the discussion and promotion of advertising practice and ethics. The core of the archive is an excellent group relating to the foundation of the Association, beginning in 1913 with a typed draft proposal, the final printed proposal, the Constitution, Anderson s membership receipts, two original manuscripts of speeches he made to the members in August and December 1914 (one commenting on the outbreak of war in Europe), and a fine photogravure composite portrait group of the foundation members (including Anderson). The archive further comprises a long sequence of newsletters, mainly from the mid-1920s mid-1930s; very good small groups relating to the Third and Fifth Conventions of the Advertising Association of Australia and New Zealand held in Melbourne 1923 and 1925 the souvenir of the Third Convention includes a superb tipped-in miniature facsimile of John Pascoe Fawkner s first hand-written Melbourne newspaper); material relating to education and diplomas for ad-men ; a small quantity of ephemeral material 1920s 1930s, in the main advertising(!) the merits of the Ad-Club; and three printed Annual Reports from the late 1920s and early 1930s. A fine and attractive group from the earliest years of the Australian advertising industry.

4 [2] ALSTON & Sons, James. Alstons Patent Steel Windmills, Patent Steel-Framed Galvanized Stock Troughs, Pump Valves and Fittings [wrapper title]. Melbourne, James Alston & Sons, n.d. circa 1920s. Octavo, pp (front wrapper verso numbered 1), [2] (order leaf), with very numerous, mainly photographic, illustrations throughout; small defect in the top gutter of the back wrapper and order leaf without significant loss, an excellent copy in original colour pictorial titling-wrappers. $385 Rare and attractive trade catalogue for the small farmer: Manufacturers of all Requisites for watering stock, house, or garden. [3] [ANZAC] RETURNED SOLDIERS ASSOCIATION. STEPHENS, A.G. (edited by). Anzac Memorial. Sydney, Returned Soldiers Association, Anzac Day, 25th April, Octavo, pp. 304, with numerous photographic illustrations; a few marks and signs of use but very good in original padded red morocco, all edges gilt. $330 The special issue of the first edition of the first issue of the Memorial to mark the Glorious Anniversary of the first Anzac Day. The volume includes a very well illustrated account of the Gallipoli Campaign, with the extensive text of General Hamilton s despatch as well as accounts by individual participants. Of special interest is the substantial part of the book (close enough to half) given over to verses, stories and sketches by the men of Anzac. In addition, there are verses by a roll-call of noted Australian writers of the period. Among them may be mentioned Christopher Brennan, Dorothea Mackellar, John Le Gay Brereton, John Sandes, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Ruth Bedford, Hugh McCrae,

5 Dowell O Reilly, Roderic Quinn, J.B. O Hara, Mary Gilmore, Louisa Lawson, D.H. Souter, Lala Fisher, and C.H. Souter. This copy is one of the special issue in padded red morocco of unspecified limitation (but probably less than 200 copies). It is numbered on the verso of the front endpaper and signed with initials by A.G. Stephens, the number and his initials are written in the characteristic purple ink he affected. Stephens was an official of the Returned Soldiers Association then a very infant association indeed and was a member of the committee. Although he was named last of the list (it is in order of military rank and Stephens was a civilian), he was responsible for the editing, design and production of this remarkable work. Dornbusch, 205; Fielding and O Neill, p [4] BAKER, Richard T. Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia. Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, Oblong octavo, pp. [ii], 170, with very numerous black & white and coloured plates, some use but very good in original cloth-backed stiff colour decorated wrappers. $220 A finely-produced and important work advocating the use of Australian ornamental stone in the construction of buildings and in the applied arts. It is in works such as this that one can see the influence of immediate post-federation nationalism and pride impacting on everyday life and the immediate environment of the Australian people. [5] BANKS, Mary Macleod. Memories of Pioneer Days in Queensland. London, Heath Cranton Ltd, Octavo, pp eight leaves of plates; foxing here and there but very good in bright original cloth with the scarce, little edge-worn, dustwrapper. $330 First edition: an account of childhood and youth spent on the Brisbane River during the 1870s and 1880s; with a foreword by Lord Lamington, the former Governor of Queensland. The author s father, David Cannon McConnel, was a pastoralist who settled on the Brisbane River in Her mother, Mary McConnel, also (privately) published her reminiscences in 1905 and that is a very rare book indeed. ANB, 3669; Greenway, 596; Johnston-Zerner, A618. [6] BARRON, William. Report on North-West Trigonometrical Survey [drop title]. [Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878]. Foolscap folio, pp. 4 (last blank); disbound. $220 Rare: a detailed narrative of the trigonometric survey of 10, 000 square miles in the arid north-west of South Australia by the Surveyor General. The narrative records in considerable detail the privations and great difficulties Barron and his party suffered in the course of their 17-month expedition. In the end he can only report that the land is sandy, densely covered with scrub, without surface water, without indications of gold (but some traces of copper). Barron was aware that his party was being tracked by a group of Aborigines and that they had even visited his camp during his absence but, despite his best efforts, was unable to make contact with them; the explorers were almost certainly the first white men and horses these Aborigines would have seen. An official printing, although not published in the parliamentary papers, this was probably prepared for departmental use only. McLaren, 407. [7] BARTLEY, Nehemiah. Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences (Illustrated) together with portraits of some of the Founders of Australia... Edited by J.J. Knight. Brisbane, Gordon and Gotch, Octavo, with folding frontispiece and 22 leaves of plates; a very good copy, expertly recased in the lightly used original cloth. $330 The copy of the work s editor, J.J. Knight, signed by him on the title-page. First edition: a well-regarded volume of reminiscences and biographical sketches of fellow pioneers, with particular attention to Queensland. Bartley, a commercial traveller associated with Tooth s Brewery and Colonial Sugar Co., died before the book was ready for publication and it was arranged and edited by the prominent Brisbane journalist and editor, J.J. Knight. The present copy was acquired from the descendants of J.J. Knight in Ferguson, 6761.

6 [8] BARTLEY, Nehemiah. Opals and Agates; or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans: being Memories of Fifty Years of Australia and Polynesia... Brisbane, Gordon and Gotch, Octavo, plates throughout; some spotting but a very good copy, expertly recased in lightly used original cloth. $440 First edition: the copy of Brisbane journalist and editor J.J. Knight, signed by him on the front endpaper and with, loosely inserted, Knight s receipt for the subscriber s edition and a leaf of ink notes on the book in his hand; further neat ink or pencil annotations scattered in the text. Bartley s personal reminiscences of life in Queensland, Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, and Polynesia throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. He was a commercial traveller associated with Tooth s Brewery and Colonial Sugar Co. later in life. Knight subsequently edited Bartley s second book, published posthumously in The present copy was acquired from the descendants of J.J. Knight in Ferguson, [9] BASE, Graeme. The Sign of the Seahorse Calendar. Melbourne, Viking, Large oblong quarto, coloured illustrations throughout; light bump but fine in original wrappers, shrink-wrapped as issued. $220 Rare and highly ephemeral. [10] BASE, Graeme. Animalia Coloring Book. New York, Abrams, Large folio, pp. 32, line-drawn illustrations throughout for colouring; fine in original wrappers, shrink-wrapped as issued. $165 Uncommon: colouring book based on the highly successful Animalia that brought Base an international audience. An Australian edition of the colouring book was subsequently published in [11] BASEDOW, Herbert. Journal of the Government North-West Expedition. Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Octavo, pp. [ii], [57] leaves of plates, and a large folding map; an excellent copy in original grey-green wrappers, the spine a little sunned and rubbed at the extremities. $990 An author s presentation copy of the first edition of the official account of this important scientific and anthropological expedition under the leadership of L.A. Wells that linked together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front wrapper. Basedow s narrative comprises the diary journal of this 1903 expedition, which was primarily a search for minerals to the Musgrave, Petermann, Tomkinson and Mann Ranges. It includes his detailed observations of the land explored, the Aborigines, and the natural history of the country traversed. Not in ANB; Greenway, 729 (periodical printing only); Mills, Q1A.

7 [12] BASEDOW, Herbert. Knights of the Boomerang: Episodes from a Life Spent Among the Native Tribes of Australia. Sydney, The Endeavour Press, Octavo, pp nine leaves of plates; some edge-spotting and original cloth with a trace of flecking but an excellent copy with the very scarce, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. $660 The extremely scarce first edition decidedly uncommon with the dustwrapper, as here. This is a good association copy with the ownership signature of historian Mabel Hookey on the half-title. Not in ANB (but see for the second and third impressions); Greenway, 730. [13] BEILBY, Peter, et al. (edited by). Cinema Papers. Volume 1 2. Melbourne, January, 1974 March-April, Eight parts in two volumes, tabloid folio, pp. 4, 384 and pp. 384; fine, bound with all wrappers and the volume indices in lightly used original gilt-lettered publisher s cloth. $275 The earliest issues of this seminal quarterly, both heralding and recording the renaissance of Australian cinema. [14] [BENDIGO] AUSTRAL SOCIETY. Austral Society s Fourth Grand Annual Competitions, 1900, in Music, Elocution. Literature, Speeches, Debates, etc [wrapper title]. Bendigo, J.G. Edwards, Printer, Independent Office, Octavo, pp. 16 (including several pages of advertisements); chipped and detached original titling-wrappers. $110 Rare and ephemeral. The textbook for this competition, part of a very active turn-of-the-century self-improvement movement. Not in Ferguson. [15] BONWICK, James. Index and Digest. Record Office Documents relative to Moreton Bay, for the years from 1822 to 1849 inclusive [wrapper title]. [London, 1884]. Octavo, pp. 24 (last blank); a little foxing but a good copy in original blue titling-wrappers. $165 Rare: only edition of this significant historical document, the fruit of Bonwick s examination of three hundred volumes of documents in the Public Record Office. Featherstone, p. 66; Ferguson, (but see Featherstone); not in Pescott. [16] BOWMAN, Anne. The Kangaroo Hunters; or, Adventures in the Bush. London, G. Routledge and Co., Octavo, pp. iv, eight engraved plates; an excellent copy, about fine in original cloth, the spine and front board elaborately decorated in gilt. $880 Very scarce, especially in such attractive condition. This is the first edition of many (including US and French editions). A characteristic emigrant tale of adventure, Bowman s novel concerns the Mayburn family who are wrecked on the Australian coast. After many adventures with bushrangers, convicts and Aborigines, they are rescued and eventually settle in Adelaide.

8 [17] BRAHMS, Vivian. The Spirit of the Forty-Second. Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, Brisbane, Octavo, pp twelve leaves of plates; original cloth with dustwrapper (spine defective). $1650 First edition: very scarce battalion history (rare with dustwrapper). Dornbusch, 300; Fielding and O Neill, p. 229; Trigellis-Smith, 240. [18] BRIGGS, Francis Stewart and Samuel H. HARRIS. Joysticks and Fiddlesticks. (The Unofficial History of a Flying Kangaroo). London, Hutchinson, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [x], , [2] (blank), 8 (inserted advertisements on thinner paper) + 12 leaves of plates; a very good, clean copy in original cloth, spine lettered in white. $385 First edition: personal narrative of a young Australian in the Royal Flying Corps and his subsequent experiences in the pioneer civil aviation industry in Australia, based on his flying diaries. Among his more notable flights was the first flight to Alice Springs in 1921 with Francis Birtles, who had proposed a flight to Central Australia to prepare a motion picture documentary. ANB, 06652; not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O Neill, p. 241; McLaren Aviation, 36; McLaren Air Power, 2205; McLaren Civil Aviation, 344. [19] BULLETIN, The. A Golden Shanty Australian Stories & Sketches in Prose and Verse by Bulletin Writers. Sydney, The Bulletin Newspaper Company, n.d., circa Octavo, pp. [viii], 172, [12] (advertisements); some scattered spots but very good in little marked and worn original cloth, cover illustration on the front board. $660 First edition: A Golden Shanty, or Bulletin Series Number One was the first anthology of pieces from the journal; it constituted the first appearance in book form of several noted Bulletin writers, including Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Among others represented here were Henry Kendall, Victor Daley, Edward Dyson, James Edmond, John Farrell, and Thomas Bracken. More than any other journal, the Bulletin had a profound influence on Australian life. Founded in 1880, it established in its first decade under J.F. Archibald a clear and aggressively Australian cultural and political programme. It was Archibald who fostered the highly influential school of literary Nationalism, of which Lawson, Furphy and Paterson were the most notable exponents. This is one of few copies issued in pictorial cloth. Mackaness and Stone, III; Miller, p [20] CAPPER AND CO. Messrs Capper and Co. s Manufactures. [Melbourne, Capper & Co., 1890s. Broadside foolscap folio handbill, on green newsprint paper stock; a good example of this ephemeral piece, extreme corners chipped, old folds, some clean tears at the folds archivally sealed. $275 Extremely rare: a friable and ephemeral advertising piece, reprinting an article from the Australasian Trade Review, including a very good history of this firm of Melbourne condiment manufacturers and promoting their award-winning culinary products.

9 [21] CAVILL, H.W. Imperishable Anzacs: A Story of the Famous First Brigade from the Diary of Private H.W. Cavill. Sydney, William Brooks, Quarto, pp three leaves of coloured plates, tipped-in advertisement slip following the text, many other illustrations in the text; very good in the original wrappers. $660 First edition: very scarce. Dornbusch, 355; Fielding and O Neill, p. 242; Trigellis-Smith, 190. [22] CHEWINGS, Charles. Back in the Stone Age: The Natives of Central Australia. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, Large square octavo, pp. xxii (last blank), leaves of plates; edges a little spotted but very good in original cloth, map front endpaper, with the uncommon unclipped dustwrapper, the corners of the front panel bit defective, other generally light edge wear. $385 First edition: experiences on the upper Finke River area of Central Australia from the 1890s, where Chewings lived and worked as pioneer and contractor from the beginning of the 1890s. His account is popularly descriptive of his life and travels among the Aboriginal tribes in that period and, while not an anthropological work, is of substantial ethnographic interest. Most of the photographs that illustrate the book were taken by Francis James Gillen. Chewings was a scientist and anthropologist of some distinction in his time, a Ph.D., an F.G.S, an F.R.G.S. and an A.M.I.M.E. Further details will be found in the entry on him in ADB 7, and the substantial record of his publications will be found in ANB, Greenway, McLaren, and Ferguson. ANB, 9081; Greenway, [23] CHIDLEY, William James. The Answer or The World as Joy: An Essay in Philosophy... Complete Edition, with an Introduction by Francis Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Sydney University. Sydney, Sydney D. Smith, 200 Castlereagh Street, Octavo, pp. 206 (last blank), [2] ( Extracts from Letters to the Author ; verso blank) + folding plate and two other leaves of plates; the cheap paper somewhat tanned, some patchy foxing, a good, sound copy in original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. $440 The rare final edition of this famous work pleading for radical reform of the highly taboo subject of human sexuality, expanded as Chidley had desiderated from the beginning, to encompass his entire theory. Chidley so sincerely believed that his theory of natural coition, natural dress and natural diet was mankind s only hope for salvation that he submitted himself to all the indignities and persecution that late Victorian intolerance could bring to bear. His book condemned and destroyed, himself arrested, fined, incarcerated and eventually committed to an asylum where he died within a few years, Chidley remained to the last obsessively defiant. The courteous introduction by Francis Anderson, the great Australian philosopher so-called Father of Australian Philosophy is a plea for tolerance at a time when Chidley was most subject to unrelenting official persecution. ANB, 9124.

10 [24] [CLARKE, Marcus]. Rare portrait photograph of Marcus Clarke in riding gear, at about 20 years of age. [Victoria, circa ]. Albumen paper print, carte-de-visite size, mounted on contemporary plain thin card. $770 A rare portrait of this major Australian literary figure taken before he became well known as a writer. This is the image used as frontispiece to Brian Elliott s standard critical study of Marcus Clarke. [25] COX, Erle. Out of the Silence: A Romance. Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, Octavo, pp. 318, [2] (colophon, verso blank); neat owner s name on title dated in the month of publication, endpapers little spotted, bottom edge uncut, an excellent copy in lightly used original light blue cloth, lettered and ruled in darker blue. $550 First edition limited to 2000 copies but rare beyond that limitation. One of the classic early science fiction novels, it deals with the discovery of a highly advanced civilisation underground. This was the first Australian science fiction novel to achieve an international following, and the only one to be ranked as a classic until George Turner s science fiction works of the late 1970s and 1980s. [26] CRAIG, William. My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields. London, Cassell and Company, Octavo, pp. [ii] (integral blank), x, , 16 (inserted advertisements); very good in original green pictorial cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, patterned C & Co. Ld endpapers. $440 First edition: an important and interesting narrative of the Victorian gold rushes and the Eureka rebellion, one of very few eye-witness accounts by a digger. William Craig was a twenty-year-old Dubliner when he emigrated to Victoria with Peter Lalor, the most notable of the leaders at Eureka. [27] CURTIS, Leonard Samuel. The History of Broken Hill: Its Rise and Progress. Adelaide, Frearson, Quarto, illustrations throughout; free front endpaper excised but a very good copy in original cloth. $880 First edition: very scarce. [28] DAVISON, Frank Dalby. Man-Shy. Sydney, Australian Authors Publishing Co., Octavo, pp. 150 (front pastedown counts as pp. 1/2), [10] (colophon and advertisements; free back endpaper and back pastedown count as [pp. 9/10]); a little pale foxing as always owing to the absorbent paper but a very good copy in lightly sunned original red cloth blocked in black. $880 Rare first issue of the first edition: a highly uncommon inscribed presentation copy. The rare antique paper issue printed on thick paper (unlike the newsprint used for the ordinary edition) and bound in red cloth for public sale, presentation, and legal deposit. Only 200 copies of this antique paper issue were produced within the total edition of 1000 copies and they were the first issued, the wallpaper issue being bound by hand and offered subsequently for sale door-to-door.

11 [29] [DAWBIN, Annie Maria (formerly BAXTER)]. Memories of the Past: by a Lady in Australia. Melbourne, W.H. Williams, Octavo, pp. viii, 112; light occasional spotting but very good in soiled and edge-worn original printed boards, neatly rebacked with cloth. $660 Rare: first edition of these reminiscences of an outstanding pioneer woman. Annie Baxter came out to Australia with her dissolute first husband, Lieutenant Andrew Baxter, in 1834 when his regiment was posted to Van Diemen s Land. Between 1834 and 1851, their marriage steadily deteriorating, they moved through the other eastern colonies: Sydney and Port Macquarie as an officer s wife; the Macleay River District in New South Wales and then Port Fairy in Western Victoria as an unsuccessful pastoralist s wife. After Baxter s suicide in 1855, Annie married Robert Dawbin with what seems to be characteristic misjudgement and led an unhappy life with him as they moved from one failure to another in Victoria, New Zealand and England. These reminiscences, based on her diaries over that thirty-two year period, give a revealing picture of the society of the colony in the years, , as well as a remarkable self-portrait. Ferguson, 6809 (also 9016 and 11281). [30] DE FREYCINET, Louis. Translation by Thomas Cullity. Reflections on New South Wales Sydney, Hordern House, Quarto, pp. [xxii] (last blank), 670; eight colour plates and 20 black and white illustrations, original pale green cloth with paper titling panel laid down on front board, no dustwrapper as issued. $495 Out-of-print and extremely scarce on the market. Limited edition of 300 copies; this is the first translation into English of Frecinet s account of the colonisation of Australia and his experiences in early Sydney and New South Wales. [31] de SATGÉ, Oscar. Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter. London, Hurst and Blackett Limited, Octavo, pp. [xii], 416, [4] (advertisements) + two folding coloured maps, many illustrations in the text (some full-page); very good in original cloth, gilt. $1100 First edition in very good condition and scarce thus of this highlyregarded account of early squatting life in Queensland s central and western districts by a pioneer settler and explorer. ANB, 12498; Johnston-Zerner, A638.

12 [32] DENNIS, C.J. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, Square octavo, pp. 126, [2], with Hal Gye illustrations throughout; an excellent copy in original green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green, with the rare dustwrapper (little tanned and a little edge-worn). $1760 Extremely scarce (rare with dustwrapper): first edition of Dennis s robust and highly popular classic and his greatest publishing success. Originally printed in sections in the Bulletin, its popularity lies in the appealing nature of its central characters and the universality of their experiences of love, jealousy and regret. The poem was frequently recited in public and was also made into silent and sound films, plays, musicals, radio and later television programmes. His work has become an integral part of the country s folk literature, one of the last and most memorable expressions of the intense nationalism of the 1890s that continued to the end of the First World War. Miller, p. 308; Richards, 332. [33] DONALD, Will. Kids Cannon. Written and Illustrated by Will Donald for the War Chest Fund [cover title]. [Sydney, W.C. Penfold], circa Quarto, pp. [28], illustrated throughout; some soiling of the fore-margins but a very good copy in original khaki titling-wrappers printed in red, blue and black; with a Passed by Censor stamp. $440 Rare: an appealing and elaborate adult ABC or alphabet book, with each letter of the alphabet illustrated by jingoistic wartime image and text: R for Rabaul. How the Kaiser did sigh! When we cut the first slice From his Colonised Pie. Not in Dornbusch. [34] DREYER, Anne. Aboriginal Songs for You and Me. Music by Robin Wood. Melbourne, etc., D. Davis & Co., 1960s. Quarto, pp. 20, musical score, full-page illustrations by Marjorie Howden; signs of use but very good in original colour-illustrated wrappers. $285 A most uncommon and ephemeral piece of Aboriginal child interest. [35] [EAKIN, Robin]. Aunts up the Cross. London, Anthony Blond, Octavo, pp. 104 (last blank), line-drawn illustrations throughout; very good in original proof wrappers. $85 Uncorrected proof of the first edition unlike the published edition, resolutely anonymous. The published edition was banned in Australia owing to a mild sexual reference on p. 38. Fictionalised reminiscence of life in midcentury Kings Cross Together with a copy of the published first edition: EAKIN, Robin. Aunts up the Cross. London, Anthony Blond, Octavo, pp. 104 (last blank), line-drawn illustrations by Dinah Dryhurst throughout; very good in original boards with like price-clipped dustwrapper.

13 [36] [EUREKA] Victoria: Parliament. Gold Regulations... Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 26 September, Foolscap folio, pp. 2, single leaf printed on blue paper; fine, loose as issued. $275 Scarce: the official regulations that published the new higher scales of fees for the issue of the already hated digger s license. It was this innocent-looking sheet of paper that was the prime cause of the Eureka Stockade rebellion. An evocative and desirable piece, presaging one of the seminal events in Australia s history. [37] EVERILL, Captain H.C. Meeting to receive the Official Report of Captain H.C. Everill, Leader of the Society s New Guinea Exploring Expedition [drop title]. Sydney, Thomas Richards, Octavo, pp. 20; a little early spotting but an excellent copy, bound in more recent quarter dark green morocco. $1200 Rare: the first edition of Everill s journal of this early and important exploration of New Guinea. Everill was captain of the Bonito as part of the 1885 New Guinea Exploring Expedition. The expedition explored the Fly and Strickland Rivers. It was on this expedition that J.W. Lindt captured the outstanding photographs that he published in his celebrated Picturesque New Guinea. The first leaf, with drop title as above, comprises a brief one-page report of the meeting of the Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch) the closely-printed Exploration of New Guinea Capt. Everill s Report follows on pp A slightly revised and evidently more public edition of Everill s report was published in the following year with the imprint of Charles Potter. The present printing, with the Richards colophon, is to some extent a preliminary edition intended mainly for the interest of members. This copy is inscribed Presented by G.F. Mann on the first leaf: Mann was a prominent proponent of the exploration of Papua New Guinea. Ferguson, 9492; McLaren, 8032 (but erroneously transposing the colophons and dates of his 8032 and 8033). [38] [EXHIBITION] LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA. Loan Exhibition Catalogue. Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Octavo, pp. 114 (last blank); an excellent copy in more recent binder s cloth. $220 Very scarce: an interesting record of many highly important books and manuscripts nearly 1000 items, with names of lenders, including many rare items of Australian interest. Ferguson, [39] FACEY, Albert B. A Fortunate Life. Fremantle (Western Australia), Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Octavo, pp. [xii], 326, [2] (blank), illustrations by Robert Juniper throughout; a few signs of use but essentially a very good clean copy in original stiff wrappers with a design by Robert Juniper. $125 First edition: very scarce. This exceptional autobiography vividly depicts the rough end of the frontier experience, the rigours of Gallipoli, and the author s remarkable survival of a series of severe misfortunes. Published a year before the author s death, in a comparatively small edition, it has been described as a microcosm of the earlier life of Australia. The book won immediate recognition, winning the NSW Premier s Literary Award in 1981, and has become one of the most widely read and most highly praised books written by an Australian, with well over half-a-million copies of subsequent editions sold. [40] FARRELL, John. Australia to England. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, Octavo, pp. [ii] (blank), 12, [2] (blank); some foxing and with news cuttings laid down with offset onto blanks, a very good copy of a fugitive piece, in original dark plum wrappers, the front wrapper repeating the title in white lettering. $550 First edition and rare: an excellent presentation copy, inscribed on the initial blank to Fred J. Broomfield. Written for Queen Victoria s 1897 jubilee, the poem reflects Farrell s concern with the ties between the two countries, exploring their mutual bond while stressing the vast differences between them. A minor literary success, the poem was widely esteemed and was publicly praised by Rudyard Kipling, then at the height of his cultural influence.

14 [41] FAVENC, Ernest. Secret of the Australian Desert. London, Blackie and Son, 1896 [but December, 1895]. Octavo, pp. 224 (last blank), 32 (advertisements) + four plates, and a double-page coloured map; small mark on the spine but an excellent copy in original coloured pictorial cloth, with a striking image of an Aboriginal. $220 First edition: Drawn from the author s own experience as an explorer, it relates to the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the lost explorer. Although dated 1896 on the title-page the book was published late in the previous year and the title-page was post-dated: a common British practice that aimed to keep a book published late in the calendar year fresh on the shelves for longer. The present copy has a neat 1895 Christmas gift inscription on the front endpaper. McLaren, 11415; Muir, 2438; O Neill, 72. [42] FAVENC, Ernest. Marooned in Australia: Being the narration of Diedrich Buys of his discoveries and exploits in Terra Australis Incognita about the year London, Blackie and Son, 1897 [but November December, 1896]. Octavo, pp. 224, 32 (advertisements) + four plates; spine gilt a little dulled, a very good copy in original pictorial cloth, mildly used at extremities. $275 First edition. Drawn from Favenc s own experience as an explorer, it relates to the wreck of the Dutch vessel Batavia under Francois Pelsaert off the Western Australian coast and the subsequent terrible mutiny against the survivors, and the marooning there of two of the mutineers. Miller dates this 1896 and it was indeed issued late in that year but, as with The Secret of the Australian Desert of the previous year, the title-page was post-dated. The present copy (the Sir Thomas Ramsay copy with blindstamp) has a neat 1896 Christmas gift inscription on the front endpaper. Not in Muir (who is unaware of this first edition); not in O Neill.

15 [43] FEINT, Adrian and Jean CURLEWIS. Christmas in Australia. By Jean Curlewis. Decorations by Adrian Feint. Sydney, Art in Australia, Small quarto, pp. [16] (first leaf and last page blank), with tipped-in illustration after an etching by Lionel Lindsay as frontispiece; an excellent copy in original linen-grain wrappers with flaps. $45 Scarce: an appealing Christmas gift booklet, with attractive woodcut vignettes by Adrian Feint and quite evocative text by Curlewis, implicitly contrasting the Australian with the European experience of the season. [44] [FEDERATION] CRAW, Leslie W. The Duke and the Duchess: A Photographic Memento. The Visit of T.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Melbourne May, And of the Opening of the First Federal Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Melbourne, D.W. Paterson, n.d. but circa Oblong quarto, pp. 80, illustrations throughout; worn original wrappers. $245 A highly uncommon, substantial and well-illustrated souvenir of the ceremonial inauguration of the Commonwealth. [45] GEE, Lionel Carley Egremont. Bush Tracks and Gold Fields: Reminiscences of Australia s Back of Beyond. Adelaide, F.W. Preece and Sons, Octavo, pp. viii (last blank), 110 (last blank), [2] (blank) + two leaves of plates (frontispiece and following p. 8); near fine in original dark blue cloth with the quite uncommon dustwrapper that has a few small defects at the edges and three short tears (no loss) with old tape repairs. $660 First edition: presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and further signed by him on the titlepage. It has been suggested that only 300 copies of this edition were printed: it is certainly very scarce in dustwrapper. ANB, 17015; Greenway, 3829; Mills, M230. [46] GIBBS, May. Gum-Blossom Babies. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, n.d. but Octavo, pp. 56, coloured frontispiece and sepia illustrations throughout; a very good copy in original stiff wrappers, the back wrapper a little stained at the bottom edge, the large overlapping edges little frayed and neatly enough mended, coloured pictorial onlay on the front wrapper with a small defect to the top left corner. $550 The highly uncommon true first edition of the first book in May Gibbs s famous Gumnut series. [47] GIBBS, May. Gum-Nut Babies. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, n.d. but Octavo, pp. 56, coloured frontispiece and sepia illustrations throughout; a touch of spotting here and there but very good in original stiff wrappers, the large overlapping edges creased and frayed as usual, coloured pictorial onlay on the front wrapper. $660 The highly uncommon true first edition. Only the first two booklets in May Gibbs s famous Gumnut series were issued in this larger format.

16 [48] GIBBS, May. Further Adventures of Bib and Bub Sydney, Cornstalk, n.d. but Oblong quarto, pp. [104], panelled illustrations throughout; a little soiling, rebacked in little worn original illustrated cloth. $1200 First edition: rare. The second of the Bib and Bub series, collecting May Gibbs s contributions to the Sydney Sunday News. Gibbs was one of the few classic Australian children s authors and illustrators to have published in this format, being quick to learn from the success of her contemporaries Jim Bancks and Syd Nicholls and to see the commercial potential of her own unique Gumnut creations in the newspaper medium. [49] GORMAN, Eugene. With The Twenty-Second : A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, A.I.F With an Introduction by General Sir W.R. Birdwood Frontispiece by Lieut. Will Dyson. Melbourne, H.H. Champion, Australian Authors Agency, Large square octavo, plates; an excellent copy in the original colourprinted boards with cloth spine, double contrasting printed paper labels on the spine. $660 First edition: scarce battalion history. Dornbusch, 313; Fielding and O Neill, p. 34 and 227; Trigellis-Smith, 223. [50] GREER, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. London, Macgibbon & Kee, Octavo, pp. 354, [2] (blank); an excellent copy with like priceclipped dustwrapper. $330 Rare: the first edition of a fundamental work. Greer s radical exposure of the plight of women in Western society is surely one of the most influential books published in the second half of the twentieth century. Although well produced and printed in substantial enough numbers, the first edition of this ground-breaking and liberating book was rapidly read to tatters and is now difficult to find, especially in good condition with dustwrapper.

17 [51] GREGORY, John Walter. The Dead Heart of Australia: A Journey around Lake Eyre in the summer of , with some account of the Lake Eyre Basin and the Flowing Wells of Central Australia. London, John Murray, Octavo, pp. xvi, leaves of plates, six folding coloured maps, and one full-page map ( Map of Lake Torrens according to Eyre and Sturt, facing page 252 but not included in the list of maps and plates); very good in the little soiled original tan cloth, the spine and front board lettered in gilt, heart-shaped photographic illustration of desert stones inset on the front board surrounded by a plain-line heartshaped frame in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut. $1650 First edition, the primary issue. This important book records Gregory s expedition to the Central Australian deserts of the Lake Eyre Basin with students and colleagues from the University of Melbourne. Gregory s Dead Heart Expedition was the first major scientific exploration of the new century and made important contributions to the understanding of the inhospitable region. He was the first to use the phrase Dead Heart to describe Australia s arid heartland, an expression which has since entered the language. The first issue of the first edition is extremely scarce. Printed in limited numbers (typically as few as 800 copies would have been printed), a substantial number perhaps as many as copies were issued with a later cancel title-page in 1909 as part of Murray s Imperial Library. ANB, 18412; Greenway, 4128; Mills, R74. [52] HARWOOD, Gwen. Poems [together with] Poems Volume Two. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, Two volumes octavo, pp. xii, 100; about fine in original decorated white boards with dustwrapper (generally light use) + pp. [xii], 72; original blue cloth a little spotted as usual, otherwise fine with dustwrapper (some general light use). $550 First editions: a set of appealing association copies of Harwood s difficult first two collections (the first volume is especially scarce). From the collection of fellow-poet and close associate, A.D. Hope, with certificates of authentication, and Hope s signature twice in the Poems.

18 [53] [HARWOOD, Gwen] LEHMANN, Walter. Eloisa to Abelard and Abelard to Eloisa [contributed to] The Bulletin August 5, Sydney, The Bulletin, 5 August Quarto; original wrappers used, the front wrapper with a few short tears and the back wrapper with a defect to the leading edge but a good copy withal. $385 Harwood s two notorious obscene poems published unwittingly in the Bulletin. After Sir Frank Packer took over the Bulletin at the end of July 1961, there was some concern that its editorial independence would be in jeopardy. Much to the distress of the editorial staff, the two infamous acrostic poems by Gwen Harwood, writing under her pseudonym Walter Lehmann, were printed innocently on page 33. The acrostics read: So Long Bulletin and Fuck all Editors. Spotted within a few hours of the journal being distributed, the issue of 5 August was recalled by the publisher and pulped, although copies had, of course, already been sold and could not be retrieved. Harwood was subsequently banned by the Bulletin, a circumstance which became something of a badge of honour among Australian literary élites of her generation. This suppressed issue is unexpectedly rare given the contemporary notoriety of the incident, which might have led one to expect those few issued copies to be quite prized. [54] HODGKINSON, William Oswald and E.A. KAYSER North-West Explorations [together with] E.A. Kayser s Report on the Country Traversed between the Gilbert River and Taldora Brisbane, Government Printer, Two pieces, foolscap folio, pp. 24 (Hodgkinson s report), with a folding map + pp. 8 (Kayser s report, last blank); some mainly light spotting but fine disbound copies. $660 Extremely scarce: only editions of the official accounts of the first north-west expedition and second-in-command Kayser s equally rare 1876 report. This was the last officially sponsored exploring expedition undertaken in Queensland. Led by William Hodgkinson, who had accompanied the Burke and Wills exploring expedition, with E.A. Kayser as second-in-command, the expedition was the first to explore much of the country in western Queensland, opening up the last of the vast unexplored areas of the colony. These papers are the official narratives of the leader and of the second-in-command, describing their last excursion from Cloncurry in Queensland to Lake Coongi in South Australia, then to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Normanton. McLaren, 9960 (misdated); the Kayser paper not in McLaren but see [55] HUGHES, Robert. The Art of Australia: A Critical Survey. Harmondsworth, Baltimore and Melbourne, Penguin Books, Octavo, illustrated throughout; text with the usual light embrowning, a very good copy in slightly used original wrappers. $550 Rare: the suppressed first edition pulped before publication. A stumbling start to a brilliant career. A full official account of the suppression is given in Dutton s history of Penguin in Australia. Although the main reason Penguin claimed for the suppression was the poor state of the binding, this copy has held up rather well in the intervening thirty years. Perhaps more helpful is Brian Stonier s version of events quoted by Dutton (p. 70): the reason, of course, was that Bob had meanwhile changed his views on many of the people whom he d referred to in the book. It was not until 1970 that a revised edition was published. Whatever the reason, this suppressed first edition has always been a rare book.

19 [56] HUNTER, Post-Captain (later Governor) John. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip s Voyage including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship s Company to England in London, John Stockdale, Quarto, pp. [ii], [xvi], 584, with engraved title-page, vignette, frontispiece portrait and 15 other plates and maps; an excellent copy in contemporary mottled calf, extremities little worn, rebacked with new endpapers. $7700 The First Fleet journal of the second governor continues Phillip s 1789 volume as the official account of the first years of settlement at Sydney. Second captain of HMS Sirius under Phillip, Hunter became engaged in surveying and exploration in New South Wales, only leaving for England in late 1791 after the loss of the Sirius at Norfolk Island. Hunter gives an excellent account of many activities, particularly exploration and the settlement at Norfolk Island (based on Philip Gidley King s papers), which are treated more cursorily by the other First Fleet chroniclers. The engraved plates and maps, many of the latter from original cartography by Hunter, Dawes and Bradley, are very fine. The plates include the first published view of Sydney, and P.G. King s A Family of New South Wales, engraved by the poet and artist William Blake. Ferguson, 152; Wantrup, 13.

20 [57] JACK, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland with A study of the narratives of all explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents... London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1921]. Two volumes, octavo, pp. xvi (last blank), 366, [2] (blank) + eleven leaves of plates, and nine folding maps loose in a back endpocket; pp. xiv, nine leaves of plates, and eight folding maps loose in a back endpocket; occasional light spotting but an excellent copy in original dark green cloth, the spines lettered and ruled in gilt, with dustwrappers. $1850 WITH THE RARE DUSTWRAPPERS. First edition: essentially a history of the exploration of Cape York, this also includes the first-hand narrative of Logan Jack s own expeditions and many other accounts otherwise unpublished.

21 [58] HUME, Fergus. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London, Hansom Cab Publishing Coy., n.d. but circa Octavo, pp. [ii] (advertisement), 230, [2] (advertisement); the first section is repeated (i.e. bound in twice); stapled, staples rusting as usual, but a very good, sound copy in original pictorial wrappers. $1320 Rare: an early edition ( Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand ) of this key work in the history of the genre. The sensational success of Hume s Mystery of a Hansom Cab and the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle s first Sherlock Holmes mystery, A Study in Scarlet, in December of the same year make 1887 perhaps the most memorable in the whole history of detective fiction (Carter). Hume s book enjoyed continued popularity and, by the time he died in 1932 in abject poverty over half a million copies had been sold but, since he had sold his copyright after four Melbourne printings, he had derived little benefit from it. Apart from its importance in the history of the detective novel, Hume captures, as few others did, the flavour of Marvellous Melbourne, moving with ease between the sophisticated life of his protagonists and the seamy slum life and language that they encounter in their pursuit of the murderer. Although once criticised rather stupidly for not being distinctively Australian enough, Hume s unexotic description of Melbourne life and streetscapes is one of the most evocative we have of life in the 1880s in what was then the only Australian centre with any pretensions to be a great world city. Hubin, p. 210; Loder, pp (q.v.); Miller, p ; not in Wolff (but see 3388 for 1896 reprint). [59] KENDALL, Henry Clarence. Poems and Songs. Sydney, J.R. Clarke, Duodecimo, pp. [2] (integral blank), [iv] (half-title and titleleaf), ii (contents leaf), 144; an uncommonly fine, crisp, and clean copy, uncut in original morocco-grain sage blue cloth. $1850 First edition of the first volume of verse by one of the greatest of the Australian colonial poets: This volume represents the highest point to which the poetic genius of our country has yet attained (Barton, in 1866). Kendall s first volume is now extremely scarce: this copy has the contemporary ownership inscription of prominent Sydney attorney [Robert] Fitzgerald 2nd December, Springfield. Sydney on the binder s blank preceding the half-title and with his name neatly at the top of the title-page. Miller, p. 239; Serle, p [60] KENDALL, Henry Clarence. Leaves from Australian Forests. Melbourne, George Robertson, Octavo, pp. viii, 164; a fine, crisp, uncut copy in original pebble-grain green cloth of the primary issue, spine lettered in gilt. $385 First Edition. Kendall s important second volume, published at a time of great promise in his life only to be followed by the great crisis of the broken years of Robertson invested considerable effort in the promotion of this book but appears to have greatly over-estimated both the colonial and British market for Australian verse and it was a commercial but not a poetic failure. Miller, p. 239; Serle, p [61] KENDALL, Henry Clarence. Songs from the Mountains. Sydney and London, William Maddock; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Octavo, pp. iv, 230, [2] (colophon, verso blank); a trace of spotting, front endpaper splitting at the fold but sound, an excellent copy overall, uncut in original diagonal fine rib-grain green cloth, brown chalked endpapers, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and black, front board ruled in black, back board in blind. $1800 First edition: the rare first issue with The Song of Ninian Melville. This is a choice presentation and association copy, from the collection of the bibliographer of Australian literature, E. Morris Miller, with pencilled manuscript notes in his hand at front and back. It is furthermore an author s presentation copy, inscribed (upside down on the back endpaper verso) and signed in a clerical hand by the publisher With the author s compliments. A note by Miller suggests that this copy was probably sent to A. Inglis Clark, senr., Hobart. Purchased from his library. Miller (or Clark?) has tipped in a lithographed portrait of Kendall (from a contemporary edition of his collected poems) as frontispiece. Miller, p. 239; Serle, p. 109.

22 [62] KIRMESS, C.H. [Frank FOX?] The Australian Crisis. Melbourne, etc., George Robertson and Company, Octavo, pp. 335 (last George Robertson advertisements); some light, even paper tanning, small triangular chip at top of free front endpaper, a good copy in lightly flecked original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered in black against a white map of Australia. $385 Scarce: first edition of an early Australia sci-fi dystopia, one of the most important future war novels in Australian literature. A yellow peril novel inspired by the defeat of Russia by Japan. Kirmess s novel involves a war with Japan in 1912 commencing with the invasion of Australia, followed by the annexation of a large part of North America, and the subjugation of the white race by the 1920s. Recent scholarly speculation is that C.H. Kirmess was a pseudonym adopted by Frank Fox. There were quite a few Australian novels published in the 1890s and the first decade of the new century that were inspired either by the fear of Russian invasion in the 1890s and by the defeat of Russia by Japan in the Russo-Japanese war of Most are rare, the others are very scarce at best. A British edition marginally less scarce was published by Walter Scott in London in the same year. [63] LANGLEY, Eve. The Pea Pickers. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, Octavo, pp. [vi], 420, [2] (blank); very good in original cloth with the most uncommon dustwrapper, price-clipped and a little edge-creased. $385 First edition: rare on the market. One of the major Australian novels of the mid-century by one of the country s most intriguing writers, this first edition is of almost inexplicable scarcity. [64] [LASSETER] COOTE, Errol Hampton. Hell s Airport: The Key to Lasseter s Gold Reef. Sydney, Peterman Press, Octavo, pp leaves of plates, and a folding map; original red cloth of the first issue with red edges, the cloth faded and marked as always, a little spotting (as almost always); a very good, sound copy. $660 First edition. Coote s famous and rapidly reprinted account of the fatal 1930 Lasseter expedition, during the course of which he spent six months undertaking the aerial survey as pilot to the expedition. ANB, 10979; Greenway, 2307; Mills, Y48. [65] LAWSON, Henry. On the Track and Over the Sliprails [binder s title]. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, Two volumes in one, octavo, pp. viii, 158 (last colophon only), [2] ( blank) + pp. [viii], 168 (last advertisements), 16 (inserted advertisements, dated September 1900); original dark green cloth. $220 First edition, cloth issue, of Lawson s second collection of short stories. The book was issued in this form over several years, with advertisements in the various issues being differently dated. [66] LINDSAY, Norman. The Cause of the War: Recruiting Poster. Sydney, Director-General of Recruiting, [1918]. Elephant folio, folded to octavo dimensions for posting, with four Norman Lindsay illustrations, signs of generally light use. $2750 Rare: virulent anti-hun images: the monstrous Prussian with blood-soaked hands clutching at the world, trampling brave little Belgium, and almost overpowering British heroic but undermanned resistance. This copy has been sent, as was intended, through the post.

23 [67] LOVE, James Robert Beattie. Stone-Age Bushmen of To-day: Life and Adventures among a Tribe of Savages in North-Western Australia. London and Glasgow, Blackie and Son, Octavo, pp. xxvi (last blank), 220, [2] (blank) + 16 leaves of plates, full-page map in the text on p. [xxv]; very good in original cloth with the very scarce dustwrapper (slight edge-wear and mild soiling), the re-order corner of the front flap clipped as usual, contemporary gift inscription on endpaper. $550 First edition: Love worked as a Presbyterian missionary for forty years among the Worona tribe of the Kimberleys and was the author of numerous anthropological articles. This more personal narrative of his experiences also incorporates much of anthropological interest in his description of Aboriginal life and customs. ANB, 26752; Greenway, [68] MACDONALD, Alexander. The Pearl Seekers: A Tale of the Southern Seas. London and Glasgow, Blackie and Son, n.d. but circa Octavo, pp. xii, 364 (last blank) + seven plates (old tape mark in the gutter of the frontispiece); very good in original colour pictorial dark green cloth. $220 A rarely-seen author s presentation copy: inscribed on the front endpaper To Mrs Nichol. With the Author s Sincere Wishes. Glasgow, 21st Feb Three friends raise a wreck in Sydney Harbour and sail to the pearling grounds off German New Guinea. [69] [MACKAY, Donald] CLUNE, Frank. Last of the Explorers: The Story of Donald Mackay. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, Octavo, pp. xiv, 304 (last colophon only), [2] (blank) + 16 leaves of plates; very good in original cloth with Adrian Feint dustwrapper that has a small defect at the bottom fore-corner of the front panel but very much above average for this book. $990 Only edition: extremely scarce, if not now rare. From a wealthy pastoral family in New South Wales, Donald Mackay was able, unlike most other explorers, to finance his own expeditions from an early age. He rode around Australia by bicycle in record time in 1899; in 1908 he led an expedition to Papua to explore the headwaters of the Purari River; and in 1926 he financed and accompanied the first of his important Northern Territory Expeditions when he travelled with Herbert Basedow by camel to the Petermann Ranges. In 1928 he and Basedow again explored in Arnhem Land. In 1931, 1933, 1935, and 1937 Mackay financed and supervised a series of aerial surveys of Central Australia, producing a series of maps far in advance of any previously available. The first of these surveys discovered the vast inland lake that was named after him by the Commonwealth government. Apart from a pamphlet account of his Papuan expedition, Mackay wrote no narrative account of any of his travels and explorations, although there were a few ephemeral and pamphlet pieces published by Basedow relating to their expeditions. Clune s book is, accordingly, something of an official account, published with Mackay s co-operation some years before his death. ANB, 9889; McLaren,

24 [70] MALOUF, David, Don MAYNARD, Judith GREEN, and Rodney HALL. Four Poets. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, Tall duodecimo, pp. [88]; near fine in original decorated yellow boards, without dustwrapper as issued. $1320 First edition and now extremely scarce: this was Malouf s first book publication, issued when he was in his late twenties. It was also the first publication of the three other contributors. Published with the high school market in mind with predictable consequences this volume has become one of the most elusive Malouf pieces. [71] [MARTIN, J.B.] Reminiscences by J.B.M. Being a reprint from the Camden Times Camden, A.J. Doust, Octavo, pp. 42 (last advertisements), [2] (advertisements); small defect in top fore-corner of last leaf (clear of text), a few sealed edge tears in the last few leaves without loss, a sound copy in later plain wrappers. $220 Rare: personal and detailed reminiscences of a settler in Camden from The present copy, which has also a few interesting contemporary marginal ink annotations, has a neat 1885 ownership inscription on the title and a presentation inscription From A.M. Oxley, Wallera-wang N.S. Wales. Ferguson, [72] [McAULEY, James and Harold STEWART] MALLEY, Ern. The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley. Melbourne, Reed & Harris, Small quarto, pp. 46, [2] + Sydney Nolan frontispiece; first leaf with a paper-clip crease (no rust staining), neat contemporary ownership inscription on the first leaf, a very good copy in original first issue blue-grey wrappers, printed white, sunned at extremities as often. $550 Extremely scarce: the first separate edition, first issue, (and the first publication of both authors) of this celebrated series of hoax poems. [73] [MELBOURNE] METROPOLITAN TOWN PLANNING COMMISSION. Plan of General Development: Melbourne. Report of the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission. Melbourne, Government Printer, Thick foolscap folio, pp. xii, maps (18 folding), and 15 folding coloured plans in endpocket; an excellent copy in original printed card wrappers. $1200 Very scarce and important: the first substantial and comprehensive attempt at a complete survey and plan for the development of Melbourne since Hoddle s original foundation plan for Melbourne of the 1830s. The Commission was established in consequence of the quite dynamic town planning movement of the previous decade but the intervention of the Great Depression and then the Second World War put paid to any plans to implement the Commission s proposal. It was not until the 1950s that a further comprehensive plan for Melbourne was put forward.

25 [74] MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present Colony of New South Wales. London, T. & W. Boone, Two volumes, octavo, pp. [ii] (lithographed title-leaf), xxii, [ii], 352, 16 (advertisements) + handcoloured frontispiece, 20 lithographed plates, and a folding coloured map; pp. [ii] (lithographed title-leaf), viii, [ii], frontispiece, 26 plates (one hand-coloured, five highlighted with washes, one folding), a handcoloured map, two folding handcoloured geological sketch maps; with some expected foxing and with some external use, reset in original dark green cloth, with all required advertisements; a very good copy. $2200 First edition. Billot, 129; Ferguson, 2553; Richards, 94; Wantrup, 124a. [75] MILLER, E. Morris. Australian Literature from its Beginnings to A Descriptive and Bibliographical Survey of Books by Australian Authors in Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Criticism and Anthology with Subsidiary Entries to Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, Two volumes, tall octavo, with the uncommon fourpage corrigenda; an excellent, near fine copy in original cloth, with very good dustwrappers (little spinedarkened, slightly edge-worn). $440 First edition: signed and inscribed by the author. Very scarce: the first comprehensive bibliography of Australian literature, commenced by Sir John Quick assisted by Fred J. Broomfield, completed and brought to publication by Miller. It is a work of the first importance in Australian literary research (Dawes).

26 [76] MOBERLEY, Gertrude F. Experiences of a Dinki Di R.R.C. Nurse. Sydney, Australasian Medical Publishing Company, Octavo, pp. 122 (last blank) + 15 leaves of plates; a little diffuse early foxing, the spine evenly mellowed, a very good copy in original blue cloth. $250 First edition: scarce First World War reminiscences. ANB, 30274; not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O Neill, p [77] [NAMATJIRA] COMMONWEALTH OIL REFINERIES LIMITED. Original 1954 photograph of Rubina Namatjira, wife of Albert Namatjira, and his grandson, Albert. Original photographic print, 200 x 650 mm, attached to a typed caption and press release (single leaf, quarto). $200 The press release on the printed letterhead of the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Limited promotes the company s 1954 Road Safety Colouring Competition: Rubina Namatjira, wife of aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira, shows grandson Albert a C.O.R. Children s coloring book brought to their camp near Alice Springs by author Frank Clune. Coloring books have been distributed by Clune to aboriginal children over a wide area of Central Australia Clune is in Central Australia gathering material for a book on the Oveland Telegraph. He has a Geiger counter with him in case he happens to come across uranium country. Rubina Namatjira must be given considerable credit for maintaining a poker face while inspecting the colouring competition book, which depicts a very white suburban streetscape far removed from the Aboriginal camps of Central Australia (over a wide area of which Clune was spreading the thing). [78] NORMAN, William Henry. Exploration Expedition. Letter from Commander Norman, reporting the return of the Victoria from the Gulf of Carpentaria; together with Reports and Correspondence [together with] Exploration Expedition. Report of Commander Norman, of H.M.C.S. Victoria, together with Copy of his Journal on the Late Expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Melbourne, John Ferres, Two pieces, foolscap folio, pp. 32; pp. 52; an excellent set, uncut, sewn as issued. $660 The official report of the Northern Party of the Burke and Wills Relief Expeditions (i.e. the Walker and Landsborough expeditions). The Victoria under Commander Norman transported Landsborough and Walker s parties to the Gulf of Carpentaria where they set off south in search of the lost explorers. This complete set of the two Parliamentary Papers prints Norman s reports as well as those of Landsborough and Walker. Although Landsborough s reports were separately published in several books and pamphlets, this was the only publication of Walker s equally significant reports of his expedition. [79] O HARRIS, Pixie. Songs for Children Special Musical Arrangements by Dorothy R. Mathlin. Sydney, D. Davis & Co. Pty. Ltd., n.d. circa Quarto, pp. 24 (sheet music), with illustrations on the title-page and inside front cover, other decorations throughout, musical score ( p. 25 ) on inside back wrapper; very good in original colour-illustrated wrappers. $220 Rare early piece by Pixie O Harris. [80] PORTER, Dorothy Featherstone. What a piece of work. Sydney, Picador, Octavo, pp. [viii], 276, [4] (blank); edges slightly embrowned, about fine in original light card wrappers. $85 First edition: presentation copy, inscribed and signed on the first leaf and dated 8 February Porter s third verse novel following Akhenaton and The Monkey s Mask.

27 [81] [PORTLAND, VICTORIA]. A Trip to Portland: The Watering Place of the West. Presented by the Portland Borough Council [wrapper title]. Melbourne, Arnall & Jackson, Printers and Stationers, Octavo, pp. [16] printed on green paper, decorations and decorative borders throughout; a trace of pale, diffuse foxing but a fine copy in original white titling-wrappers, title printed in red and black within decorative red and black printed frame, attractive wood-engraved view Portland, Victoria on the back wrapper. $330 Extremely scarce and ephemeral: a delightful piece promoting the charms of seaside Portland. Ferguson, (noting pink wrappers and blue paper, possibly but not necessarily, describing a variant ). [82] RANKIN, Hannah. Principles of Practical Cookery for School Pupils. Sydney, William Brooks & Co., n.d. but circa Octavo, pp. 32; friable original wrappers, in excellent condition. $125 Rare and ephemeral: a very early cookery text. Hannah Rankin was Supervisor of Cookery in New South Wales. ANB, 36488; Austin, 103.

28 [83] [SARGENT, George Etell]. Frank Layton: An Australian Story... With an Introduction by Samuel Mossman. London, Leisure Hour Office, [1865]. Octavo, pp. 286, [2] (publisher s advertisement), frontispiece and five other full-page plates in the text; very good in original green cloth, gilt. $550 First edition of this classic goldfields novel, which first appeared in the pages of the Leisure Hour shortly after the discovery of gold in Australia, and was designed by the writer to describe faithfully the lights and shadows of emigrant life in that country at the most eventful period of its history... (Introduction). Ferguson calls correctly for a frontispiece and five plates. Wolff and Muir incorrectly call for frontispiece and four plates only. Ferguson, 15452; see Muir, 6581 (first imprint); see Wolff, [84] SCHULER, Phillip F.E. The Battlefields of Anzac. A deeply interesting and historical series of views depicting the heroism of our gallant Anzac boys on the field of battle. By The War Correspondent of the Age Melbourne, Osboldstone & Co., [1916]. Oblong octavo, pp. [32], with captioned photographic illustrations throughout; signs of light use but an excellent copy in original colour-illustrated green wrappers. $330 Extremely scarce: a very good photo-essay of the Gallipoli campaign, comprising title-page, a map of Gallipoli, and two pages of closely printed text by Schuler, followed by 28 pages of photographs. Schuler notes in his acknowledgement that he was permitted to visit the Anzac Front and the scene of operations on Gallipoli. Realising that the narratives and descriptions of trench life would be brought more vividly before the public mind, I set about collecting views. Many soldiers gladly gave me what assistance they could. The present piece was published in March April 1916, on the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. [85] SEARCY, Alfred. In Northern Seas. Being Mr. Alfred Searcy s Experiences on the North Coast of Australia Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Octavo, pp. 64 (last blank) + 28 leaves of plates, and a large folding map, text printed in double-column; an excellent copy bound with the wrappers (neatly laid down) in imitation morocco, Mackaness copy with bookplate. $440 First edition. Written originally for Adelaide newspaper publication in the Register this series of articles was reprinted to promote investment in the Northern Territory, then still under the administration of South Australia. Searcy went on to write two popular accounts of the Northern Territory and of his experiences there as an explorer, policeman and sub-collector of customs at Darwin. Searcy was later for a time Acting-Clerk of the South Australian House of Assembly. The volume includes a new edition of Thomas Gill s Bibliography of the Northern Territory of South Australia at pp

29 [86] SEARL AND SONS. Searl s Key to Australian Gardening. Sydney, Searl and Sons The Garden Specialists, Octavo, pp. 264, [4] (Index), with illustrations and advertisements throughout; occasional spotting and with some expected use but a good copy in original cut-flush colour-pictorial boards with cloth spine. $180 The cover title is more expansive: Searl s Key to Australian Gardening Opening the Gateway to Brighter Homes. A Complete Authentic Garden Reference. Advice on laying out and working a garden, larded with moral advice and the value of gardening to the family, to the value of property and so on. This is followed by descriptions of plants and shrubs bulbs, rockeries, etc.; includes a section of vegetables and fruit and a monthly calendar. There are miscellaneous notes on cut flowers, pergolas, and a chapter on native flora with hints concerning their cultivation (Crittenden). Crittenden, 104. [87] SIMPSON, Helen de Guerry. The Happy Housewife: A Book for the House that Is or Is To Be. London, Hodder and Stoughton, Octavo, pp. 344, with many plates; an excellent copy in bright original cloth with used and a little defective but unclipped dustwrapper. $110 First edition and very scarce: a most uncommon off-subject book by the noted Australian novelist. A comprehensive guide to the modern home. [88] SLESSOR, Kenneth. SEMMLER, Clement (editor). The War Diaries [and] The War Despatches. St Lucia, UQP, Two volumes, large octavo; about fine in original boards with dustwrappers. $145 First edition: presentation copies, inscribed by the editor on the front pastedowns. [89] SMILES, Samuel (editor). A Boy s Voyage Round the World; including a Residence in Victoria, and Journey by Rail across North America. London, John Murray, Octavo, pp. xvi, 304; front hinge a little weak but sound, a very good copy in lightly used original cloth, extensively decorated in gilt and black. $880 The first edition of this classic, highly successful, very frequently reprinted, and now very scarce. Smiles states in his preface that the narrative was edited from the journals of his youngest son and that he published it because it contains the results of a good deal of experience of life under novel aspects, as seen by young, fresh, and observant eyes. The young Smiles, a sixteen-year-old lad, was sent to Victoria for his health in He spent oneand-a-half years there, working at Majorca, an up-country township situated in the gold-mining district of Victoria. His health restored, he returned to Britain by the Pacific route, through Honolulu, San Fransisco, and thence by rail across the US to New York. The lad s detailed log was kept for his relatives but its interest was such that Smiles senior, an established popular writer arranged the journals for publication leaving the writer to tell his own story as much as possible in his own way, and in his own words. This, it would appear, is the only account of Australian travel by a juvenile published in the colonial era. See Ferguson, (noting only the National Library copy of the tenth impression).

30 [90] SMITH, Sir Ross Macpherson. My Own Story of the Flight [drop title on page 1]. Sydney, Jas. Evans & Son [for Union Theatres], n.d. but circa Quarto, pp. [8], printed in sepia throughout; excellent in original pictorial wrappers (staples detaching). $660 A rare ephemeron relating to the first flight from Britain to Australia achieved under the command of Sir Ross Smith in The present piece is the souvenir of the film The Sir Ross Smith Flight that was released in Australia in The contents comprise Sir Ross Smith s closely-printed account of the flight (pp. 1-3), photographs of Sir Ross Smith and his brother, Keith Smith (pp. 4-5), brief biographies of the crew Sir Ross Smith, Keith Smith, J.M. Bennett, and W.H. Shiers (all apart from Bennett were South Australians) and photographs of the plane and of Bennett and Shiers (pp. 6-7), photographic Scenes from the Great Flight (p. 8); inside the back wrapper is a Time Table of the Fight from England to Australia and an account of the machine, a Vickers-Vimy bi-plane. Not traced in McLaren. [91] SMITH, William Ramsay. Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. London, George C. Harrap & Company, Octavo, pp with plates (some coloured) and numerous illustrations; some diffuse foxing but a very good copy in original decorated cloth with the rare dustwrapper that is a little worn at the spine-ends. $550 First edition: now known to have been written entirely by David Unaipon, who sold the copyright to Angus and Robertson. Angus and Robertson then sold the copyright on to Smith who appears to have taken that to mean that he could appropriate the work and publish it under his name. Unaipon had himself published a few pamphlets in Adelaide in the 1920s recounting Aboriginal myths and it is certainly due to the success of those publications that Angus and Robertson took up his larger manuscript. Why Ramsay Smith chose to ignore Unaipon s authorship is unknown and, while arguably typical of the times, it is not typical of what we know of the man otherwise.

31 [92] SPENCER, W. Baldwin. The Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia. London, Macmillan and Co., Octavo, pp. xx, 516, [2] (advertisements) + a folding map and 82 leaves of plates (seven coloured), illustrations and diagrams in the text; a fine, bright copy in original gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. $1650 First edition of this important and much-sought work: an uncommonly fine, bright copy of a book rarely found in such condition. ANB, 41369; Greenway, [93] SPENCER, Walter Baldwin. Wanderings in Wild Australia. London, Macmillan and Co., Two volumes, octavo, pp. xxviii, 456 (last colophon only) leaves of plates (eight coloured), two printed tissue guide plates (facing coloured plates VII and VIII), and three folding maps, other maps and illustrations in the text; pp. [ii] (integral blank), xiv, , [2] (integral advertisements) + 99 leaves of plates (eight coloured), and two folding maps, other maps and illustrations in the text; contemporary ownership inscription, light general use but very good in original olive green cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. $1650 First edition of Spencer s most literary work, the narrative of his travels with Gillen to 1912 and, after Gillen s death, alone in Central Australia as late as 1923 and As with Spencer and Gillen s earlier joint work of 1912, Across Australia, this book is a general narrative enlivened by anecdote, good-humour, and the personal reflections of a great explorer. Spencer died in 1929 during an expedition to Tierra del Fuego. ANB, 41644; Greenway, 8686.

32 [94] STEWART, Douglas. Shipwreck. Sydney, The Shepherd Press, Octavo, pp. [x] (last blank), 96, [2] (recto blank, verso colophon only), with tipped-in coloured illustration by Norman Lindsay to face the title (bottom edge little creased); fine, bright copy in original grey cloth, spine and front board lettered in red, own ends, without the very friable dustwrapper as usual. $165 First edition of one of the outstanding poetical dramas written in Australia. The play, which was based closely on the account of the famous wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia off the West Australian coast in 1629 and the subsequent mutiny and massacre, went through several productions in Australia. This first edition is very scarce in such bright, sharp condition. [95] TERRY, Michael. Across Unknown Australia. London, Herbert Jenkins, Octavo, pp. 312 (last blank), [8] (advertisements) + frontispiece portrait and 23 plates; a very good copy in original decorated cloth. $440 First edition of Terry s first book. A British-born car salesman, explorer and adventurer, Terry travelled extensively in North and North-West Australia in the 1920s and 1930s. He made several discoveries in the then still unexplored desert regions and to many he is the last Australian explorer. This volume describes his trip across Northern Australia from Longreach to Broome undertaken in 1923 with one companion, Richard Yockney, in a Ford motor car. ANB, 43851; Greenway, [96] TERRY, Michael. Sand and Sun: Two Gold-hunting Expeditions with Camels in the Dry Lands of Central Australia. London, Michael Joseph Ltd., Octavo, pp leaves of plates; very good in original cloth, map of the 1932 expedition on the front endpapers and of the 1933 expedition on the back endpapers, with edge-worn but entire dustwrapper. $880 First edition: SIGNED by the author on the title-page, dated 1 October Signed copies of Terry s books are rare on the market, while dustwrappered copies are very scarce indeed. Terry s account of important explorations in Central Australia undertaken in 1932 and 1933 with Stanley J. O Grady and Benjamin E. Nicker in the country around Lake Amadeus and Lake Mackay, recently discovered by the Mackay Aerial Survey Expedition. ANB, 43855; Greenway, [97] THOMAS, Josiah. Northern Territory of Australia. Report on Operations since the transfer to the Commonwealth. Published under the Authority of the Hon. Josiah Thomas, M.P. Minister for External Affairs. Melbourne, McCarron Bird & Co., Octavo, pp. 48, with illustrations, original wrappers, spine little worn. $330 Uncommon: a very early account of the management and development of the Northern Territory since its transfer to the Commonwealth by the state of South Australia on 1 January [98] THOMSON, Donald Ferguson. Wartime Exploration in Dutch New Guinea [drop title]. [London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1953]. Octavo, pp three leaves of plates; a fine copy bound in modern half morocco. $220 First separate edition. Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, Volume CXIX, Part 1, March 1953.

33 [99] TURNER, Henry Gyles. The First Decade of the Australian Commonwealth. A Chronicle of contemporary politics Melbourne, Mason, Firth & M Cutcheon, Octavo, pp. xvi, 320; very good in original cloth, fore- and bottom edges uncut. $165 First edition. [100] UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Annual Commencement, Saturday, 20th March, Students Programme [dropt title]. Carlton, D.S. Ford [Printers to the University of Melbourne], One leaf, large foolscap folio, printed in double column; old folds with some associated soiling but very good. $85 Rare and highly ephemeral. The programme consists mainly of the text of student songs for the commencement, as required by tradition. Following a Melburnian version of Gaudeaumus igitur are the words of seven songs, including the (masculine) University anthem ( We re Varsity students all We throng the Wilson Hall, And Love the Ladies RATHER!! ). While most of the songs, including Gaudeamus, have some special Melbourne allusions, there is one in particular, Solomon Levi, directed at a hapless trader in Russell Street who appears to have sold everything from clothing to watches and microscopes and who is the butt of some jolly (i.e. crudely anti-semitic) fun. There is also, interestingly, a very topical section of the programme, Promulgation of the Constitution of Federated Australia with application of the Referendum. [101] WARBURTON, Peter Egerton. Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia. London, Sampson Low, Octavo, with plates and folding map (coloured in outline), neat old paper reinforcement at the map folds, occasional light spotting, small relevant newsclipping tipped onto half-title; a very good copy in original gilt pictorial cloth over bevelled boards. $2200 First edition. Warburton s narrative of his expedition from the Telegraph Line to the west coast which won the race to cross the continent from east to west at a high cost. The scientific portions of the work were arranged by Professor Owen, Dr. Hooker, John Gould and Dr Henry Trimen; owing to his ill-health, the text of Warburton s own journals was edited by H.W. Bates of the Royal Geographical Society; and an historical account of exploration in the western third of the Australian continent was added by Charles Eden. This is an apt association copy, with the ownership inscription of explorer and anthropologist Herbert Basedow on the half-title. Ferguson, 18187; Wantrup, 201. [102] WAYTE, George Hodgson. Prospecting; or, Eighteen Months in Australia and New Zealand. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Octavo, pp. viii, 178 (last blank); original dark blue cloth over bevelled boards, the cloth with quite light use and some quite pale spotting on the first few leaves but an excellent copy. $495 First edition: presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title-page. A visit to Australia in the 1860s, with much description of the frontier settlements in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and North Queensland. Bagnall, 5878; Ferguson, [103] WARUNG, Price [William ASTLEY]. Tales of the Early Days. Melbourne, George Robertson, Octavo, pp. viii (first leaf integral blank), 294 (last blank), [2] (integral blank); original ungrained red cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, early and late spotting, cloth soiled but a decent copy. $285 First edition of Astley s second collection of Price Warung stories, first published in the Bulletin. Miller, p. 652; not in Wolff.

34 [104] WARUNG, Price [William ASTLEY]. Tales of the Old Regime and the Bullet of the Fated Ten. Melbourne, George Robertson, Octavo, pp. viii, 248; original pictorial yellowback boards with some expected use but a very good copy. $285 Very scarce yellowback issue of the first edition of Astley s third book, by some considered his best collection of convict stories. Issued, as with Robertson s editions of Astley s other books, in cloth as well as this quite uncommon variant binding of yellowback boards. This copy has tipped onto the title-page a printed slip: These Stories originally appeared in the columns of the Sydney Bulletin. We have not seen this slip before. Miller, p. 652; Wolff, 191 (Routledge issue). [105] WARUNG, Price [William ASTLEY]. Tales of the Isle of Death (Norfolk Island). Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., Octavo, pp. [ii] (integral blank), x (last blank), 272; a very good copy, uncut in original Robertson s Colonial Library series red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the front board lettered in black and decorated in blind. $385 First edition: Warung s very scarce fourth collection of convict stories, published in Robertson s Colonial Library. Miller, p. 652; not in Wolff.

35 [106] WESTGARTH, William. Australia Felix; or, A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Settlement of Port Phillip, New South Wales Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, Octavo, pp. 48 (Preface to the German translation), xliv, a folding handcoloured map and two plates; a touch of the usual spotting of the plates but an excellent copy, uncut in original decorated green cloth. $1750 First edition: an attractive copy of this extremely scarce, classic account of the Port Phillip District. One of the earliest and the best and most comprehensive account of Port Phillip before Separation and the gold rushes. Westgarth was one of the most active commercial pioneers of the Port Phillip District and one of the most prolific promoters of the colony, publishing several books over the next three decades. Unlike his later works, this 1848 account is extremely scarce, indeed rare on the market in such attractive condition. The book is notoriously hard to find complete. The large handcoloured map is based on Thomas Ham s rare Melbourneprinted map of 1847 and is in effect the first British edition of the map. It is decorative and seems to have been removed from most copies over the years. Furthermore, the plates were printed in coloured ink by some early photolithographic process and the paper has, in many cases, been rendered highly acidic. In some cases the paper on which the plates are printed has turned dark chocolate brown, and in some cases the paper has become so friable that the plates have literally crumbled away. The plates in the present copy are a little spotted and this is usual but are otherwise in excellent state. These plates of Port Phillip Aborigines are drawn from daguerreotypes taken in Port Phillip by Douglas Kilburn in This is the scarce issue of the book with Westgarth s (English-language) preface to the German translation bound in. Ferguson, 4954 (q.v. on this issue).

36 [107] WILLMER, George. The Draper in Australia: being a narrative of three years adventure and experience at the goldfields, in the bush, and in the chief cities of Victoria and New South Wales; with information and advice adapted for the intending emigrant and others. Dedicated to the Drapers of England. London, William Freeman, Octavo, pp. viii, 240; an excellent copy in original plum cloth, decorated in blind. $330 Very scarce: first edition of a useful emigrants guide that gives a good description of the voyage to Australia and colonial life and conditions. The author s experiences included life on the goldfields of New South Wales and Victoria and an overland journey with horses from New South Wales to Melbourne. Ferguson, [108] WILMOT, Frank. Some Verses. Melbourne, Microbe Press, Octavo, pp. [iv], 20 [2] (blank); first and last leaves slightly spotted but a fine copy in original silk-tied wrappers, overlapping edges slightly creased. $880 Rare. The first edition of Wilmot s first volume of verses, printed and published in a highly limited number of copies by the author himself at his private press. Frank Wilmot was an extraordinary bookman poet, bookseller, printer - he wrote and often selfpublished a significant body of verse. He also printed the work of other poets, Vance Palmer s The Camp, for instance. Born in Collingwood in 1881, he worked for 35 years, from errand-boy to manager, at E.W. Cole s famous Book Arcade. The high point of his career came in 1932 when he was appointed manager of Melbourne University Press, the first academic press in Australia. He published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, composed from his two favourite haunts adjoining Melbourne, Ferntree Gully and Beaumaris. Farmer, p. 67; Miller, p. 290; Serle, p [109] WINNECKE, Charles. Mr. Winnecke s Explorations during Diary of Northern Exploration Party [drop title]. Adelaide, Government Printer, Foolscap folio, pp a very large folding map; a fine copy in a handsome binding of quarter red morocco and cloth sides. $2200 Rare: the report of Winnecke s first private expedition. In 1882, Winnecke resigned from the Survey Department, Adelaide, to practise his profession privately. A year later he assembled a party, equipped with camels, and set out to discover pastoral country on the Queensland border between the parallels 24 and 27 south. Immense tracts of waterless country were crossed, and in one instance water was found only after the camels had travelled 278 miles over high sandhills in the north-eastern portion of the Simpson Desert. (Feeken, et al.). At the end of the paper is a report from the indefatigable Ferdinand von Mueller s on plants collected. McLaren,

37 See item 43: illustrations by Adrian Feint, text by Jean Curlewis