Australia Settlements, First Edition (14 results)

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 128 pp. 343 items. The catalogue contents comprise: Part I. General Works - tens 1-59; Part II. Africa and the Middle East 60-140; Part. III. Asia, the Far East, Australia, Oceania and the Philippines 141-343; Author Index. Pencilnnotes on front wrapper, otherwise Near Very Good.

Tall 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 119pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Located in the Mount Lofty Ranges east of the city of Adelaide, The Adelaide Hills were first settled by European settlers in 1836. The German settlements of Hahndorf & Lobethal among the first.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. xiv, 225pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, maps, tables. Or brown cloth in jacket. Ex-college library with numerous stamps etc. Jacket price clipped, rubbed and slightly faded at spine.Covers Aboriginal communities in remote and settled areas of Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Communities include Woodenbong, Tabulam, Purfleet, Boggabilla, Walgett, Brewarrina, Cowra, Murrin Bridge, Cherbourg, Taroom, Woorabinda, Palm Island, Yarrabah, Aurakun, Doomadgee, weipa and more. Both mission and government settlements are covered as well as removal/resettlement of Aborigines. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Aborigines in Australian Society 3. With endpaper maps and 45 tables and another 7 maps, a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 225 x 145mm; xiv, 225 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Adelaide, SA College of Advanced Education, 1986. Folio, 120 pages with numerous illustrations (including many from drawings by Peter Perkins). Papered boards; a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper (slightly chipped and torn along the rear top edge). 'Biographical information on early pioneers of the Adelaide Hills and surrounds, including historical buildings of interest' (Trove).

4to. Or.bds. 119pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Located in the Mount Lofty Ranges east of the city of Adelaide, The Adelaide Hills were first settled by European settlers in 1836. The German settlements of Hahndorf & Lobethal among the first.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies, 1986. Folio, 120 pages with numerous plans and illustrations (including many from drawings by Peter Perkins). Papered boards lightly bumped at the foot of the spine; endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (slightly rubbed and lightly scored). The title page is inscribed and signed by Gordon Young. 'Biographical information on early pioneers of the Adelaide Hills and surrounds, including historical buildings of interest' (Trove). Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Sticky tape stains to front and back endpages. Marks on half-title page Foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket is discoloured from sticky tape stains. Small tears to edges. Dust jacket is enclosed in protective cover. Body text and binding are still very good.

cloth boards in d.j. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp. xii, 404, Index, b/w frontis map, b/w plates. Dustjacket chipped to head and foot of spine with some loss. Head and foot of spine just starting to fray at fore-edge. Small bookshop label front free endpaper, otherwise clean. Very good condition in good d.j., protected. Comprehensive chronological history of Western Australia. Chapters on: foundation, pioneering, adjustment, watershed, boom, consolidation, prosperity, war and reconstruction, and mid-century. Has become scarce.

FIRST EDITION, duodecimo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, xv + 95pp + unpaginated diary pgs to rear- no entries made/pgs clean, illus, VG- (heavy discolouration to spine & front board, moderate chafing to rear board, moderate tanning to page edges, previous owners' names in ink to eps).

First Edition. Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). Volume I (British North America [Canada / USA]): Frontispice illustrated titlepage, XXIV, 360 pages with pages 1 - 9 missing / Volume II (Australia): pages 361 - 744 pages / Volume III (New Zealand / Tasmania): II, 384 pages. / Volume IV (Africa and the West Indies): II, 188 pages / Volume V (British India): II, 564 pages with pages 455 - 456 missing / Volume VI (Ceylon, East India and Mediterranean Settlements): II, 172 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative publisher's halfleather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines. Bindings rubbed but overall in firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All maps and illustrations besides one illustration removed by a previous owner. In the course of removal of maps and illustrations, one page slightly torn and 11 pages of text missing. This is still one of the most important text-sources of British Colonial History, itsevaluation in Britain and a plethora of data on economical and political impact the Colonies had for the former Empire. No other contemporary 19th century publication includes details on colonial produce, movement of population and local History from Tasmania to Quebec, from Hong Kong to Heligoland (Helgoland), and in general on the depition of "England, the 'Nursing Mother' of Nations" (Introductory page XXIV by Montgomery Martin). Sprache: english.

Second Edition, Revised. Two Volumes, 8vo. xii, 317pp. v, 304pp. Engraved frontispiece View South Adelaide, and frontispiece plan. Original blind stamped purple cloth, gilt titles. [sunned spines] Super Copy Original Cloth.

First edition of this guide for incoming British immigrants joining the gold rush, with chapters on farming techniques, the quality of the soil, the lives of the aboriginal people and mainly where and how to mine for gold. Francis Lancelott (1816-1899) published this guide a year after the first confirmed discovery of gold in Australia to help assist the thousands of migrants joining the gold rush. He worked as a mineralogical surveyor in Australia and therefore could provide the flocking thousands information on the range of gold fields, the yield and various methods on how to work for gold. He also took advice and knowledge from local farmers, the proprietor of the Adelaide Times and many more individuals "I have not permission to mention" (preface) to create a comprehensive handbook on how to live in a vastly different climate from Britain. He even went as far as analysing the health of five British migrants to conclude that moving to Australia in the "heyday of life" (p. 170) will remove a decade from your life expectancy, but moving once you have "passed the median of life" (p. 170) will have the inverse effect. Two vols, octavo. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard to Vol I., frontispiece plan of Summer Hills to Vol II., 16 pp. of advertisements to the rear of both vols. Original brown beaded cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, front covers panelled and decorated in blind, pale yellow coated endpapers, top edge untrimmed, other trimmed. Cloth with minor marks, spines sunned, spine ends and tips bumped. A very good copy.

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 317 + 16(ads); v, 304. 2 frontis. modern half calf (dampstaining to inner portion of frontis. & 2 preliminary leaves in Vol. I, some foxing). First Edition. Chapters on aborigines, zoology, viticulture, sheep farms, gold discoveries, advice to emigrants, the discoveries of Sturt and Barker, &c. Ferguson 11299.