Search Results: WEST AUSTRALIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Norton, Frank. Aboriginal Art. Western Australian Art Gallery, n.p., n.d. 66pp. B&w ills and map in text. Brown cloth w/ gold stamping on spine. vg dj g+ chipped somewhat.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965. Hardcover. Very good condition. A collection of essays in honor of Prof. A.P. Elkin. Thick 8vo. 491 pp, b&w ills, tables & music in text. Black boards, dj, vgc. Title in light brown on darker brown dj spine. Meggitt copy. Meggitt was a noted Australian anthropologist, recognized for his research on Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.

London: SPCK, 1889. Hardcover. Hale was archbishop of Adelaide & founder of Hale School in Western Australia. Small 8vo, ii, 102 pp, 6 pp ads, frontis. Green pic. stamped cloth, very slt. rubbed o/w vg. Slight speckle on back cover; small mark goes through hinge of frontis at ffe, still vg. Ferguson 10159.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1894. Hardcover. Very good. 15th edition. iv + 55pp. Purple cloth covers w/ gold stamping on cover and spine, little marked at edges, hinge loose o/w vg. F7810.

Oceania, 1947. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: Oceania, March 1947, Vol XVII, No. 3. Sm. 4to, pp173-210, paper wrps.

Waterford: Munster Express, 1957. Hardcover. Good +. The story of an Irish newspaperman's journey to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Frontis - picture of piece of Waterford glass presented to Ronnie Delany on behalf of the workers at Waterford Glass. Damp-stained at edges of plates o/w G. Pic dj.

Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Important work. Great record of the mapping of Australia. This is the first edition, in the dust jacket, in mylar protective wrapper. Translated by Olaf Richter. Small 4to. 424pp, b&w illustrations, including 88 maps. Brown gilt cloth. Dust jacket spine slightly faded, creased. Text and illustrations bright and clean. Libraries Australia ID 783884.

Hardcover. Good + condition. Taunton, Henry. Australind. Wanderings in Western Australia and the Malay East. Edward Arnold, London 1903. (xii) 247pp. Blue cloth lightly discolored, gold bright o/w good+ copy. A very readable account of 11 years spent mostly in the NW of Western Australia. Taunton arrived at Fremantle immediately after the Bark Catalpa escaped (1876) (mentioned) then worked his way north as a jackaroo to Geraldton, was a pearler at Broome & explorer in the Kimberlys. Extensive discussion of his 7 years pearling. A very interesting account of early North West Western Australia. Absolon copy.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1978. Paperback. Very good. Signed by author, pp81-92, paper wrps.

Perth: UWA, 1980. Paperback. Very good. (iii), 24 pp, 9 col. ills & 18 b&w, col. pic. pp wrps, vg+.

Boston: Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., 1876. First edition. This scarce tinted lithograph was issued to commemorate the escape of Irish political prisoners from Fremantle, W.A. on April 17th 1876. The Fenians are shown rowing towards the bark, which is under full sail. The Catalpa is flying a flag with the initials "J T R" - for John T Richardson, the ship's agent. A pennant with the letter C, the Fenian flag, and the American flag are also flying. The police boat is in hot pursuit and the British steamship "Georgette" is steaming in from a distance. Among the Fenians freed in this effort was John Boyle O'Reilly, who became a leading citizen in Boston, and was later to edit the 'Boston Pilot'. Captain George Anthony, an American whaling captain out of New Bedford Massachusetts recruited a crew for this mission and set sail for Western Australia where two Fenian agents, John Breslin and Tom Desmond had already established themselves with aliases. With several delays, the day for the escape was set for the… Read More

London: George Baxter, 1853. Very good overall. Robert Peel was the Conservative Prime Minister of the UK from December 1834 to April 1835, and again for almost five years from 1841 to 1846. He created the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, and it is from his name that English police are called "bobbies" or "peelers" in Ireland. As Home Secretary, he deeded vast tracts of land in the new Swan River Colony to his cousin Thomas, now Perth in Western Australia. ALS addressed from Whitehall, Nov. 2 (no year), thanking G. Hayden for the note he wrote at the request of Dr. Williams re: the recent death of the old governess Madame Girardin. Written by a secretary, and signed boldly, Robert Peel. 5x8", with 2 old folds, very good condition. The Baxter print was issued in 1853, shortly after Peel's death. The original embossed Baxter title stamp on the mount. Slightly sunned with a couple of marks in the outer margins.

Perth: UWA Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very good. Small 4to, 234pp + ills throughout, yellow buckram, vgc. Original dj, dusty, still good condition.

Amsterdam, 1747. Very good condition. One of the earliest depictions of Western Australia by a European, after Van Keulen's well-known view "Swartte Swaane drift opo het Eyland Rottenest" published in Francois Valentyn's "Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien" in 1724-6. This copper engraving is after a drawing by Jacobus van der Schley, published somewhat later in 1747 in "Historische beschrijvingen der Reizen" 1747. The print depicts two sailing ships & two long boats preparing to row up the Swan River, and the island discovered by the skipper de Vlamingh of the Dutch East India Company in 1696, and named Rat's Nest (Rottnest). With the S shaped river in the distance dotted with black swans. Copper engraving, 5 1/2 x 8" with large margins. See Landwehr, 266-7. Fine condition.

Perth: Imperial Printing Company, 1939. Paperback. Very good overall. 4to, 103pp, photographic illustrations throughout. Besides the photographs, so very interesting for the personal narratives of West Australian soldiers in WWI. Libraries Australia ID 45906949 states 192? as the date, another entry (2259685 states 1940?). Page 1 states "It is over 24 years since the vanguard of the Anzacs leaped ashore on their epic adventure.", so we presume the date to be 1939. Orange printed wrappers, spine ruffled with 1" loss, closed tear at foot of title page repaired archivally, sml. chip on back cover. In a protective acetate cover.

Perth: Imperial Printing Company, 1939. Paperback. Very good overall. 4to, 103pp, photographic illustrations throughout. Besides the photographs, so very interesting for the personal narratives of West Australian soldiers in WWI. Libraries Australia ID 45906949 states 192? as the date, another entry (2259685 states 1940?). Page 1 states "It is over 24 years since the vanguard of the Anzacs leaped ashore on their epic adventure.", so we presume the date to be 1939. Green printed wrappers, a little sunned on spine and edge o/w very good. In a protective acetate cover.

Canberra: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1935. First printing. Paperback. Good + overall. The Case for Union... contains much... as to the working of the Federal system in Australia... the relations between the Commonwealth and the States, the effects of the Financial Agreement, the operation of the Commonwealth tariff, the trend of judicial decisions, and the national importance of Commonwealth policy in relation to such matters as the sugar industry, the gold-mining industry, coastal shipping, and defence." 8vo,128pp, text block uniformly tanned, original stapled wrappers, dusty and chipped. Libraries Australia ID 51205106.

London: Oxford University Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Scarce in the original dust wrapper. The story of the first group settlement (Bussell family) in Western Australia 1829 to 1841, by a professor of history and economics at the University of Western Australia. 8vo, xi, 186pp, b&w frontispiece portrait, folding map. Orange cloth with titles in black at front board and spine. In the original dust wrapper, in mylar protective wrapper; slightly worn at spine ends. OCLC: 13182715. Trove 2057239.

London: Orr and Smith, 1836. Hardcover. Very good overall. Full yearly bound volume of 52 numbers, beginning with January 31, 1835, through January 23, 1836. Content includes the Mutiny of the Bounty, Halley's Comet, and Ross' s Expedition to the Arctic (p346 - 347). Folio, 416 pp, all edges marbled. Three quarter black gilt leather and marbled boards, with gilt raised bands and gilt spine decoration. Boards gently rubbed; title page, few early pages with light narrow damp stain at foredge, otherwise very good, bright and clean.

New York: Academy of Sciences, 1958. Paperback. Very good. Transactions of the NY Academy of Sciences, May 1958, Ser.II, Vol. 20, No. 7. pp649-656, stapled.