WEST AUSTRALIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Le Mans: Monnoyer, 12 Place des Jacobins, 1912. Paperback. Good + overall. Not recorded on Trove. 8vo, 4pp, illustrations of three spear heads, based on the author's examination of pieces exhibited at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1889, from the collection of M. A.-C. Bonnet. The author states that two were made of glass and the third… Read more about this item

Italy, (184-?). Print. The images of two Western Australian aboriginals, Patet and a woman, natives of King George's Sound (Albany). These were patterned after the engravings that appeared in Prichard's "Natural History of Man", by J. Bull, and the format is larger than issued in Prichard. Copper engraving, period hand color. Printed area 6 1/4 x 8 3/4"… Read more about this item

Perth: Goverment Printer, 1883. Robert Fairbairn, the prominent 19th century Western Australian magistrate, is the appointee to whom this "Minute" is aimed. He would soon be in charge of the Kimberley district, and Wrenfordsley was at the time of this writing the Acting Governor of Western Australia. Unusually, this is not recorded on either Trove or the State Library… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1829. Paperback. Very good condition. Important early report on the Swan River Colony based on Captain Stirling's findings during his 1827 expedition and intended as a guide for prospective emigrants. The 29 page article is titled "Regulations for the Guidance of those who may Propose to embark as settlers for the New Settlement on the… Read more about this item

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Papers read before the RGS for the whole year of 1857. 8vo, 1 - 153 pp, with large folding hand color outline map, with tear in fold of map. 1855 expedition, North Australia exploration. Old half cloth & marbled boards, gilt title stamped on spine. Book plate… Read more about this item

Belgum: Van Houtte, 1876. First printing. Print. Very good condition. Lindley worked with botanist William Jackson Hooker who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks, who offered him employment as an assistant in his herbarium. He became assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society in 1822, and in1829 Lindley was appointed to the chair of botany at University College, London,… Read more about this item

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1953. The Kimberley article pp 306-314. (+) Bonython, C. and B. Mason. The Filling and Drying of Lake Eyre. pp 321-330. Ills in text. Orig. blue wrps, a bit ruffled and marked o/w G+.

Amsterdam, 1730. Map publ by Jean Covens et Mortier. 18" x 18". Antarctic hemisphere projection within ruled borders. Illustrates the World to the equator with land masses outlined in period color. The only Antarctic land mass noted is a vague outline of the "Cape des Terres Australes" south and west of the Cape of Good Hope. It shows no… Read more about this item

London: R. H. Porter, 1909. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Four issues of this journal of ornithology. The October issue has an article by W.R. Ogilvie- Grant with field notes by G.C. Shortridge on "On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia" Pages 650 to 689 ( to be continued) includes a fine hand colored lithograph of… Read more about this item

London: The Wesleyan Mission House, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. The illustrated edition, with much on the missionary interactions with the aboriginals of New Zealand and Australia. Page 256 has an engraved view of "Swan River female and child". 8vo, vi,418pp, frontispiece, engraved title page, 14pp b&w illustrations. Publishers purple cloth, gilt title on front and… Read more about this item

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1974. Cameron, J. Western Australia, 1616-1829: An Antipodean Paradise. pp 373-385. RGS Journal for Oct. 1974, London. Ills in text. Orig. blue wrps, a bit ruffled and marked o/w g+.

Adelaide: RGSSA, 1919. Paperback. Very good. This pamphlet complete with separately issued sleeve of "Maps of Australia- Reprints" which include Coastline by Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. - 1814; Southern Coast of Terre Australis...Baudin Expedition - 1808; S.W. Coast, Murat Bay - 1803; Small "Notasia or New Holland" - 1816; Do. From "The Friend of Australia" - 1927. Articles… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1835. First edition. Hardcover. The first important published account of the settlement of Western Australia by the man who would serve as acting governor of the state in 1847 - 1848. With Chapter II on Aborigines. Appendix VIII tells the extraordinary account of the two native trackers who found the 5 year old son… Read more about this item

Australia: Australasian Sketcher, 1876. Very good condition. An engraving published in the newspaper on January 22, 1876, after the fourth of Ernest Giles' expeditions into Western Australia. Giles [1835 -- 1897] was an explorer who led 5 major expeditions into Southern and Western Australia. The expedition began in May 1875 and lasted until November starting from Beltana and… Read more about this item

Brussels: P. Vandermaelen, 1827. Maps. Very good condition. An early map of the Broome & the Kimberly, Western Australia area, from P. Cantheaume to Cambridge Gulf, including the Lacepede Islands. Broome is at the bottom of the Dampier Peninsula, called "C. Boileau." Lithograph with original outline color, 25 x 21.5". Plate no. 35 (Partie de La Nlle. Hollande)… Read more about this item

Brussels: P. Vandermaelen, 1827. An early map of the Exmouth, Western Australia area, from the North West Cape to Roebuck Bay. Lithograph with original outline color, 15 3/4 x 21". Scale [ca. 1:1 650 000]. Plate no. 44 (Partie de La Nlle. Hollande) in vol. 6 (Oceanique) of Atlas Universal de Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique" by P.… Read more about this item

1909. Very good overall. Three large album pages and one scrap, of pressed Australian wildflowers, likely made by a Perth resident in the early 1900s. The album pages is entitled in manuscript, "Wild Flowers of Western Australia", and signed in ink in the lower corner, F. Cliff. The flowers, loosely arranged in a heart shape, are… Read more about this item

London: London Geographical Institute, Amalgamated Press Ltd., 1906. Very good condition. Page #205-206 from Harnsworth Universal Atlas. Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Broad Arrow, Carnegie's expeditions of 1896-7 are marked. 20 1/4 x 15 1/2". Libraries Australia ID 53758207 cites a 1906 edition at the SLWA. Scale 69.15 statute miles =? 1°. At bottom right hand corner: The London… Read more about this item

Paris, 1721. From the Australian point of view, most interesting for the illustrations drawn from Dampier's explorations on the West Australian coast, particularly the images of fish, birds, squid & plants, the first images of Australian fauna & flora to be seen by the Western world. It includes extensive text describing the natural history found there, in French. His… Read more about this item