Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota, [1944]. First edition. With review by Ashley Montagu. With 2 page holograph review by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More about A People of Alor. A Social-Psychological Study of an East Indian Island ...with Analyses by Abram...

New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth..... Read More about A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of...

London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. [ ca 1854]. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields, a segment on the Aborigines, a section for each on New South Wales, Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Read More about Australia; its Scenery, Natural History and Resources, and Settlements. With a Glance at its Gold...

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1833. First Edition. Founder of the “New Colonization System”. Following imprisonment, Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered..... Read More about England and America. A Comparison of the Social and Politcal State of Both Nations

Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1833. Early response to the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent plans for its annexation to France. While the initial hopes of “men of various parties in England” had been that the 1830 expedition would see a favorable outcome from the French administration..... Read More about Appel en Faveur d'Alger, et de l'Afrique du Nord, par un Anglais

[Sydney]: AH & AW Reed Pty. Ltd, 1980. #11 of 150 copies signed and numbered by the artist. with a lithograph with same number, signed by the artist, laid in. WITH LITHOGRAPH. Charles Blackman was born in Sydney in 1928, though spent much of his childhood in Queensland. He's best..... Read More about The Last Domains

New York: Robert Craighead, 1855. Read More about The Convict Ship; A Narrative Of The Results Of Scriptural Instruction And Moral Discipline As...

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1936. First edition. With note from Publisher "For Review/ 'Isis':/ from Angus & Robertson Ltd." Read More about Back in the Stone Age. The Native of Central Australia

Wellington: John Mackay, GPO, 1906. Inscribed on upper cover, "Dr. --Pranseau with L. Cockayne's Compliments." The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography sums up Cockayne's achievements: He "was one of the most influential of New Zealand's scientists. Although lacking formal training, he made important and original contributions to botany, stimulating research..... Read More about On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri

New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1985-1988. First American Edition. "Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. The Art..... Read More about The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; Volume II:...

v.p., Pittsburgh, et al: November 17, 1898 - October 22, 1900. Oscar travels with his family from Fremantle, Australia to England, where they remain for some months, before departing from Southampton for America. The diary begins abroard the German mail ship P.R. Lutpold, bound for England, with stops at Aden..... Read More about Manuscript diary of an eleven year old boy, about half of which concerns life in Pittsburgh, Pa

London: Arrowsmith, nd. An account of the cruise of the schooner Chance, 1928-1929 from New London through the South Seas to Sydney. Read More about The Great Dipper to the Southern Cross