Queensland

# 18380

WAWN, William T.

South Sea Islanders and the Queensland labour trade.

A record of voyages and experiences in the Western Pacific, from 1875 to 1891. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth pp. xvi; colour map, 440, illustrations. A very good copy. The author’s account of nearly twenty years transporting labourers from the Pacific Islands to Queensland in a system of near …

# 17069

STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)

Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Two volumes, thick octavo, original blind blocked green cloth boards, spines (a little faded) with gilt lettering and gilt kangaroo and emu vignettes; hinges expertly strengthened; pp xv, 521 ; x, 543; with 8 folding engraved maps (6 in endpockets) and 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting …

# 18165

Short tours round and about Brisbane

Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, circa 1960. Tourist brochure, single sheet, four panels, printed in colour. Day tours from Brisbane.

# 17896

KING, Henry (1855-1923)

Aboriginal man with throwing club, parrying shield and boomerangs, 1890s

Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm, contemporary handwritten captions to the mount: ‘Australian Aborigine’ and ‘H. King, Sydney’; the slide is in perfect condition. A photograph taken in the studio of the major Sydney photographer Henry King, probably in the early 1890s. The painted backdrop and studio props are reminiscent of the …

# 17042

MERII, Wulla (pseud.)

The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer’s strike : a tale of Australian bush life

[s.l.] : [s.n.], [1893]. Octavo, illustrated boards (minor rubbing), recent bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 223; a very good copy. A novel set against the 1891 Queensland Shearer’s Strike. This dispute between unionised and non-unionised shearers is regarded as a direct precursor to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The novel is written from …

# 17101

BANKS, Mary Macleod (1861-1951)

Memories of pioneer days in Queensland

London : Heath Cranton Limited, 1931. Octavo, cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket (chipped and rubbed), illustrated with 8 black-and-white plates, pp. 80; introduction by Lord Lamington; a good copy. Mary Macleod Banks (1861-1951), folklorist, was the daughter of D.C. McConnel, an early colonist of Queensland, where she spent her formative years.

# 17498

BERNDT, R.M. & BERNDT, C.H. (eds.)

Aboriginal man in Australia : essays in honour of Emeritus Professor A.P. Elkin.

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1965. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (a little rubbed along spine), pp xiv, 452, photographic plates, maps, music notation; a fine copy. Includes essays on archaeology (Frederick McCarthy); language (A. Capell); totemsim (W.E.H. Stanner); women and the “secret life” (Catherine H. Berndt); law and order …

# 17231

A. BROWN & SONS

[QUEENSLAND] Little people in other lands alphabet.

London : A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 5, Farringdon Avenue, E.C. and at Hull and York, [between 1890 and 1900]. Complete set of 26 large format alphabet cards, each 225 x 190 mm, chromolithograph printed on thin board, each with an upper and lower case version of a letter and an illustration of a young …