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Australasia. The British Empire Series Vol. IV
London Kegan Paul 1900 Hard Cover Good No Jacket
364 pp. Two foldout maps (each with a closed tear, otherwise bright, clean, undamaged). Considerable general and edgewear to cloth boards. Edges of text block stained and worn. A little foxing to first and last few pages. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "The papers comprised in these volumes were most of them given originally as lectures in the Sunday Afternoon Course at the South Place Institute, Finsbury, from 1895 to 1898, with the object of affording trustworthy information concerning the various colonies, settlements, and countries scattered over the world which go to form the whole known as 'The British Empire'."
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Report of the Inquiry into the 2002-2003 Victorian Bushfires
Victoria (Australia) State Government of Victoria 2003 0731114884 / 9780731114887 First Paperback Very Good + 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
334 pp. Light wear to illustrated wraps. Corners a little curled. Spine uncreased. Internally unmarked, unwrinkled and solidly bound. Illustrated with maps, charts, diagrams, colour photos.
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30.00 AUD
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Ackermann, Jessie. With a new introduction by Elizabeth Riddell Australia from a Woman's Point of View
North Ryde Cassell Australia 1981 072690029X / 9780726900297 First Australian Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 12mo
245 pp. First published (in London) 1913. This edition 1981. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. Spine lightly sunned. A little wear to ends of spine, otherwise blue boards and white lettering are bright and clean. Some foxing to upper edge of text block. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Black-and-white photos in plates. "A well-known publicist places the social, political and economic conditions of Australia under the searchlight and reveals frankly and fearlessly 'things as they are' in the Island Continent."
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35.00 AUD
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Anderson, Warwick The Cultivation of Whiteness
Carlton Melbourne University Press 2002 052284989X / 9780522849899 First Paperback Near Fine Octavo
xi, 352 pp. Extremely light edgewear to illustrated covers; a little scuffing to lower edge of text block. All else as new. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps and diagrams. "...examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates.... Anderson also provides the first full account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts."
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Arnold, V.H. Victorian Year-Book 1952-53 and 1953-54. No. 73
Melbourne Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Victorian Office Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
787 pp. Light general and edgewear to green cloth boards. Corners a little bumped; upper edge of text block a little foxed. Internally unmarked and solidly bound. Two fold-out maps tipped in (the production of each district and railway map of Victoria).
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55.00 AUD
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Barker, H. M. Droving Days
Melbourne and London Pitman 1966 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Octavo
ix, 147 pp. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dj. Black boards are clean and square. Foxing to upper edge of text block. Sticker residue to front and rear free eps. Internally unmarked, uncreased, bright, solidly bound. Illustrated with b/w photos and a fold-out map (in excellent condition) comparing the droving routes of Sutherland, Buchanan, and Hawdon.
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Barnard, Edwin Capturing Time: Panoramas of old Australia
Canberra National Library of Australia 2012 0642277508 / 9780642277503 First Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Landscape Quarto
180 pp. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. Corners of boards bumped. Tiny creases to upper page corners. All else as new. Colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout. "Centred around a collection of fascinating panoramas made between the 1820s and the 1930s, Capturing Time takes you on a journey back through the years to walk the streets of Sydney when it was the convicts' capital, to gold rush Melbourne and to lonely Perth struggling to establish a toehold on the continent's remote western frontier. All of the nation's capitals are included in a collection that offers a unique view of Australia's past."
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35.00 AUD
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