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Lond. Mouth & Foot Painting Artists, 2000.. Sm.Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 164pp. Fine. 1st ed. Stegman lost the use of his arms through Polio and having taught himself to paint using mouth-held brushes, became a professional artist. He was imprisoned in Germany in the thirties for his political views, but though banned, continued painting after his release and formed a co-operative of disabled artists.

Syd. The Australian Museum., 1982.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 74pp. Name on contents page. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Abelam people live on the East Sepik river in Papua New Guinea, & are a farming society who perform an elaborate harvest ceremony with spirit masks when harvesting the giant yam.

Lond. T & H., 1993.. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 216pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Corners sl.rubbed else a very good copy. A concise survey of the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent.

Lond. T & H., 2003.. (New ed) Col.Ill.wrapps. 239pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. A concise survey of the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent.

Adel. LBSA., 1973.. Or.cl.476pp. Folding map. Fine.

Melb. Sotheby's., 2000.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 244pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed.

Melb. Sotheby's., 2007.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 126pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed.

Melb. Sotheby's., 2003. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 292pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. Auction catalogue. Beautifully illustrated.

Syd. Craftsman House., 1994.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 237pp. Colour plates. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce.

Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2003.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 360pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st Eng.ed. The history of the Stones, by themselves.

Melb. MUP., 1987.. 2 vols. Or.cl. liii,312;xii,322pp. col & b/w plates & maps. A Fine set in the slip-case. Volume 1 inscribed by the editor Helen Rosenman.

Brisbane. W. R. Smith & Paterson., 1969.. 4to. Or.cl. 179pp. Light tanning to pages. Bookplate on front pastedown. 3 fold-out maps & 2 fold-out plates. Very good copy. Upon James Cook's return from circumnavigating the world on the 13th of July 1771, the public & press were hungry for news of his travels & so Cook's journals were published in 1773.

Lond. Printed for M.Jones., 1803.. Half calf (rubbed & Rebacked) 472pp. Frontispiece portrait, colour vignette on title, folding map & 10 hand-coloured plates of which 7 are views of Sydney. These views dated 1802-03 and engraved by V.Woodthorpe are the first colour plate views of Sydney.

Bris. W.R.Smith & Paterson., 1969.. 4to. Or.dec.bds. pp.481-661pp. Folding maps & plates. A Fine copy in the slip-case. Scarce.

Lond. Fontana., 1974.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 191pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. They were forbidden to carry parachutes, they lived in dread of being shot down in flames, & their life expectancy was measured in days, but these WWI flyers became legends in their own lifetime.2

Lond. Macmillan., 1996.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 343pp. Half-title page missing. Very good copy. 1st ed. Alta Acqua is the 5th book in the Commisario Guido Brunetti series by American Crime Author, Donna Leon. Inspired by a brutal period of mafia crime in Italy, Leon's Brunetti is a stickler for the law.

Lond. Cassell., 1961.. Or.bds. Dustjacket (price-clipped) 204pp. Sl.browning to endpapers else fine. 1st Eng. ed.

Glenbrook. Birrong Books., 2013.. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 313pp. b/w ills. Creasing to bottom corner & curling to top corners of wrappers. else a good copy. 1st ed. "All communication with family & friends now cut off, we are leaving the world behind us, to enter a state unknown..." wrote David Collins from one of the eleven ships bound for Australia.

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.

Lond. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., n.d. (1928?). Or.cl. 402pp. B/w ills & fold-out colour maps. Sl. foxing else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Swedish geographer & explorer Sven Hedin took four expeditions to Central Asia between the late 1880s & the early 1900s. Between 1927 & 1935 he travelled through Mongolia, the Gobi Desert & Xinjiang.