Search Results: QUEENSLAND from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Philadelphia: Joseph Kite, & Walton, 1848. Very good condition. Articles extracted from 'The Friend. A Religious and Literary Journal', Volume XXI, 1848. The four articles entitled "Australia", on explorations by George Grey, including Gov. George Grey Russell (51/2 columns), Henry Stuart (3 1/2 columns), and Edward John Eyre and Capt. Sturt. Not found in Trove.

Brisbane: Department of Mines, 1964. A long unbroken run of this Queensland mining periodical. This run includes annual issues for 1896 through 1959 complete & 1964. Foolscap folio, original printed wrappers that are chipped, detached and sometimes lacking. From the library of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, with infrequent stamps. Dates refer to publication dates, not year covered by the report. Trove: 4692938 (published 1892-1959); 1942 to 1945 was one single report; Trove: 1964 to 1981: 21880595.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1959. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 8vo, 59pp, tan stiff paper wraps, mostly b&w ills, one color ill laid in. Slt dusty at spine o/w very clean.

Paris: Henri Plon, 1874. Hardcover. Good +. Beauvoir travelled on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania & Victoria, including a section on Burke & Wills. 9th edition. Sml. 8vo, (2) + iv + 364pp, f + 10 wood engravings + 2 fold. color maps (some tape on verso) and many b&w ills in text. Old 1/2 calf + marble boards rubbed.

St. Lucia, 1967. Hardcover. Very good condition. Reprint of 1873 ed. Meggitt copy. 4to, 792pp with illustrations, leatherette binding in the original pictorial boards slip case.

Human Organization, 1965. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: Human Organization, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer 1965. pp152-158, b&w map in text.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, xxiv, 286pp. Original publishers green gilt cloth.

New York: Pickslay & Co., 1900. Pamphlet. Fine. A marketing 'story' describing the Black Opal gem - its origins, cutting, mining, marketing and a poem, with beautiful color illustrations tipped in of extraordinary opal colors and shapes. Unusual, and not recorded on Trove. Pickslay & Co. was a jeweler based on Fifth Avenue of New York City. Charles Pickslay was born in England and moved to work with Theodore B. Starr, a company of silversmiths, where he got his start. Pickslay & Co. is described as 'an important but overlooked early 20th-century New York jeweler' by starcojewelers.com. Charles Pickslay is listed in Brooklyn City directories and U. S. Federal Census as a jeweler from 1870 to 1900. His obituary asks papers in Sheffield, England to copy the obituary. 6 1/4 x 3 3/8", 16pp, card covers, stapled and tied spine. Blue title and logo decoration on front, 2 color illustrations tipped in.

London, 1770. The first printed map to concentrate on a section of Australia's east coast, from the 1st edition of Cook's Voyages. Shows the Queensland coast from Cape Tribulation to the Endeavour Straits, with the ship's track. Copper engraved map, 34x30 cm. Original folds, very lt. browning on the center fold from the tab, a very nice copy.

London, 1770. Copper engraved map, original folds, lt. browning on the center fold from the tab, 34x30 cm. The first printed map to concentrate on a section of Australia's east coast, from the lst edition of Cook's Voyages.

1862. Map from the Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 1862. 31 x 44 cm, period outline wash colour. 2 Queensland borders marked, the original boundary between NSW & Qld. 1850 and the 1861 revision. Map cleaned w/ some loss of colour.

1862. Map from the Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 1862. 31 x 44 cm, period outline wash colour. 2 Queensland borders marked, the original boundary between NSW & Qld. 1850 and the 1861 revision. Good+ condition.

1862. Map from the Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 1862. 31 x 44 cm, period outline wash colour. 2 Queensland borders marked, the original boundary between NSW & Qld. 1850 and the 1861 revision. Good+ condition.

1911. Postcard. Good + overall. Color illustrated postcard showing the map of Australia with inset at lower right of Tasmania and at upper left of Great Britain, and with a table showing population (1910), and annual production for pastoral, agricultural, mineral and manufacturing areas. With oval portraits on verso of the king and queen, with banner beneath them reading "Coronation Souvenir 22nd June 1911. With the compliments of the Brisbane City Council. H. J. Diddams Mayor". Slight tan mark across bottom of card. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Gotha: A. Petermann, 1867. A detailed map focused on the area of the South Australian & Queensland border including the tracks of Charles Sturt (1845), Wills (1860, McKinlay (1861-2) and Hewitt (1862). Color lithographed map for Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen, 1867. Period outline colour marks the explorers tracks. 25x43 cm. Covers 138.5-141.5 degrees long. and 29-almost 25 degrees lat. Very interesting map with extensive annotations about the conditions found in the countryside. The Burke and Wills expedition established a Depot Camp on Cooper Creek at Camp LXV, (their sixty-fifth camp since leaving Melbourne), at a place now called The Dig Tree. There was a depot at the Dig Tree from 6 December 1860 to 21 April 1861. The Victorian Contingent Party under Alfred Howitt was sent by the Victorian government to establish the fate of the expedition. Howitt found the remains of both leaders, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills and buried them close to where the town is located today. He… Read More

Linnean Society of NSW, 1896. Paperback. Good +. Reprinted from: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW, 1896, Part 1, March 25th. pp14-22, 4 b&w plts at end, paper wrps.

This black & white street scene shows Douglas Street as a long dirt road, with the church steeple in the far distance. The card is published by W. R. Moseley of Thursday Island. Addressed to someone in San Francisco, the message is written in German and dated 1926. Stamped, the cancellation for Townsville, with the date indistinct. This image not amongst the 40 postcards held in the most interesting postcard album held by the NLA (reference available on request). Corners a trifle rubbed but overall in very good condition.

Ethnology, 1967. Paperback. Very good. Presentation copy to Mervyn Meggitt. Reprinted: Ethnology, vol. VI, no.3, July 1967. 332-344pp, b&w table in text.

Murray Views, 1930. Real photo postcard, hand colored, showing the busy tree lined street with clock tower at the left, sign for the Ferry, the Alexandra Hotel, W. H. Hawton and the Union Bank of Australia. Titled in white at lower edge, with the number 79. Not posted, slt. toned o/w very good.

London: Royal Geographic Society, 1941. Paperback. Very good overall. Articles in this issue include: North Tyne Valley by Capt. Peel, Fluctuations of Lake Nyasa, Site and Growth of Paris. 8vo, 64 pp, original blue printed wrappers, minor ex-lib stamp front wrapper, some pencil marks front cover, slt. dusty, interior very clean.