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Melb. Georgian House., 1962.. Sm.4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 16pp. plus 39 plates in colour and black & white. Bookplate on half title. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by Clifton Pugh on the ffe.

Lond. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1913 - 1914.. Or.gilt lettered.cloth. 2086pp. Top edge gilt. Ex-library set with stamps & barcodes to cloth. (sl foxing) to foredge & endpapers. Light wear to cloth at corners & spine ends. b/w plates. Good set. Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay's was a British historian & Whig politician whose History of England covers a 17 year period from 1685 to 1702 & encompases the reign of James II, to William III's death.

Melb. OUP., 1995. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 268pp. Fine. 1st ed. Kerry O'Brien said that MacCallum "..turned out a book every two or three years. Each one has laugh-aloud moments as well as distilled political wisdom. He wrote three of them on election campaigns from the back bar of his then local, the Billinudgel Hotel," Inscribed by MacCallum on the title page.

Lond. HMSO., 1996.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 210pp. Dustjacket covered in plastic. col & b/w maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. The Directorate of Overseas Surveys was founded by the Colonial Office in 1946 & its brief was to fulfil two key purposes. To provide a national geodetic framework of the Colonial Empire & aerial maps.

Melb. Thomas Nelson Limited., 1967.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 118pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The history of Kings Cross is a microcosm of the history of the Sydney Cove Colony. From Paddy Walsh's vegetable garden, to the windmills of 1850 for grinding grain, to the skyscrapers & traffic snarls

Lond. Constable Publishers., 1952.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 261pp. (a little foxing & lacks f.f.e.) Dj torn & chipped and covered in plastic. Good copy. 1st ed. James Macdonnell served as a gunnery-officer in the permanent Royal Australian Navy until 1947 & wrote this fictional account of engagements in WWII with the help of naval records & personal experience

South Melb. Oxford University Press, 2012.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 258pp. Col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. This controversial book re-examines the story of the Kelly Gang revealing an organised crime network of stock theft of which the Kelly Gang was a major part with Ned's extended family being violent men

Bonnells Bay. Sun Bird Publications, 1992.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 172pp. b/w ills & architectural diagrams. Very good copy. 1st ed. John Cliffe Watts was an architect, Army officer, Aide-de-camp to Governor Macquarie & later Postmaster General of South Australia. His works include St John's Church & the Lancer Barracks in Parramatta

Richomnd (Vic) Heinemann., 1983.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 210pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author.

Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2020.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 332pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. An anthological cornucopia of essays by some of the world's most loved novelists on their love of reading. Features Pico Iyer, Roddy Doyle, Jan Morris, Philip Pullman, & many more.

N.Y. Penguin Books., 2012.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 320pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Shakespeare lived in tumultuous & exhilaratingly uncertain age, when long cherished certainties were crumbling & science, politics, geography & religion were all turned on their heads.

N.Y. Alfred Knopf., 2018.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. xxiii,488pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. The author was director of the National Galley, London, from 1987 to 2002, and director of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015. The book interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or nation.

Melb. MUP., 2003.. Dec.wrapps. 274pp. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by both authors on the title page. "The History Wars have split academic departments, dominated the opinion pages of the nation's broadsheets and fuelled a national exerckise in self-criticism."

Melb. MUP., 2003.. Dec.wrapps. 274pp. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by both authors on the title page. "The History Wars have split academic departments, dominated the opinion pages of the nation's broadsheets and fuelled a national exerckise in self-criticism."

Syd. Angus & Robertson Limited., 1935.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 248pp. (sl foxing) Dj sl.torn ealse a good copy. 1st ed. These twenty delighful stories by Amy Mack, an enthusiastic nature lover & journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald were written for younger readers to introduce them to the wonders of the bush.

Syd. Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1909.. Or.pictorial.cltoh. 110pp. (sl foxing) Spine sl.faded & worn. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Amy Mack wrote a page for women in the Sydney Morning Herald with the idea of sharing with others her pleasure in the flaura & fauna in the bushland around Sydney.

Syd. Angus & Robertson., 1951.. (New & revised ed) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 573pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. A biography of William Bligh, the central figure in two rebellions against constituted authority - the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Rum Rebellion.

Dubbo. Review Publ., 1976.. (Reprint ed.) wrapps. 45pp. b/w ills. Very Good copy. Australian Historical Monographs Vol.III (New series).

Syd. Historic Houses Trust of NSW., 2006.Scarce.. Oblong 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Bridging Sydney commemorates the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge & celebrates its place in our national identity.

Lond. Witherby & Co., 1909.. Or.cl. xvi,192pp. uncut. b/w plates & a folding map at the rear of the volume. Sl. foxing & the front hinge sl.worn at the head and tail of spine, else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Mackay was Chairman of the 1906 Royal Commission on British New Guinea, and travelled in that capacity.