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Australia As it Is or Facts and Features, Sketches and Incidents of Australia and Australian Life

By: A Clergyman

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Paul Flesch & Company: 1967[1867]

Seller ID: ID206635

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spine a little sunned [common] & now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. 257 pages
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The Quiet Invasion: A History of Early Sydney

By: Ailwood, Tim

Price: $42.95

Publisher: North Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing: 2018

Seller ID: ID300086

ISBN: 1925588971

Binding: Trade Paperback

MINT - a NEW copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 383 pages. Quiet Invasion is the true history of Sydney's first four years. A story of first contact, disease and famine, misunderstandings and bloody mindedness, tragedy and resilience. This history explodes the myths about the first years of the convict settlement on the shores of Sydney Cove and should change the way you feel about Australian history. Week by week, month by month, a detailed story of invader and invaded unfolds as the town of Sydney is literally hacked out of the place once called Warr...
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What was it all for? The Reshaping of Australia.

By: Aitkin, Don

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin: 2005

Seller ID: ID312014

ISBN: 1741146674

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 276 pages. In this book, the author reflects on key factors - education, immigration and wealth- that have produced this change.
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Charles Davis 150 Years

By: Alexander, Alison

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Harris Scarfe Holdings: 1998

Seller ID: ID190463

ISBN: 0646361562

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Colour and black & white photographs & illustrations throughout. Copy number 999 of 2000. 253 pages The story of the hardware business, founded by Charles Davis [a convict transported to Australia in the mid 19th century], and how it grew from its Tasmanian beginnings into an Australia-wide chain of department stores.
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Museums Australia Journal Volumes 2-3 1991-1992

By: Anderson, Margaret [Edited by]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne Melbourne, Museums Association of Australia: 1993

Seller ID: ID224136

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. 247 pages Includes a variety of papers organised under the following headings: Cultural Policy; New Directions in Museums; History and Museums; Material Culture Research; Research Notes; Reviews.
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Australia's Resources and Their Utilisation

By: Andrews, John ; Edited by John Rorke

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney, The Department of Adult Education in the University of Sydney: 1972

Seller ID: ID310334

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Age-toning to covers and interior. Previous owner's details to title page and inside front cover. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Maps by Alan Brtlett. Postscript by D. S. Ironmonger. 168 pages. A wholy revised and reprinted edtiion with maps and illustrations and an Economist's Postscript. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Footnote People in Australian History

By: Atkinson, Ann (Editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, The Fairfax Library: 1987

Seller ID: ID242997

ISBN: 0949707120

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 240 pages 40 lesser known people in Australian history - noteworthy, notorious, eccentric personalities who were all famous in their day.
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The Lights of Cobb & Co The Story of the Frontier Coaches 1854-1924

By: Austin, K.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1967

Seller ID: ID204514

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. 228 pages An important narrative that covers the history of Cobb & Co over seventy turbulent years.
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The Ampol Book of Australiana with Sports Section

By: Baker, Sidney J. and Allen Geoff

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, Currawong Publishing Co.: 1963

Seller ID: ID307425

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition in Good dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Some wear and age-toning to dustjacket edges and corners. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 223 pages..
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An Illustrated Treasury of Australian Epic Journeys

By: Barker, Anthony

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Chippendale, Pan Macmillan Australia: 1991

Seller ID: ID273167

ISBN: 0725106719

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size [approx 18.5cm x 26cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. 288 pages A collection of many of Australia's epic journeys, each accompanied by a map showing the route and illustrated from contemporary sources.
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Orthopaedics in Australia The History of the Australian Orthopaedic Association

By: Barry, Hugh

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australian Orthopaedic Association: 1994

Seller ID: ID309176

ISBN: 0959198903

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 319 pages A history of the Association from its foundation in 1936.
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'A passion for exploring new countries'. Matthew Flinders & George Bass

By: Bastian, Josephine

Price: $48.00

Publisher: North Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing: 2016

Seller ID: ID292096

ISBN: 1925333728

Binding: Trade Paperback

MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Black and white maps.Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 301 pages. Flinders wanted to be an explorer 'second only to Cook', Bass a naturalist, another Sir Joseph Banks, and a rich Sydney trader. For eight years these two pursued their destiny. Their voyages changed the map of Australia, and Flinders gave it its name. They were ready for even greater ventures. Their incredible story is all true â€“ everything in it did happen. This book is historically rigorous, yet its protagonists' fascinating and con...
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Australia Year By Year

By: Bayne, Joycelyne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Self Published by the Author: 1988

Seller ID: ID309320

ISBN: 0731633431

Binding: Hardback

Oblong Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition - pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions and colour and black & white photographs. Spine very gently faded. 87 pages A year by year history from 1788 to 1987. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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The Mantle of Surgery. The First Seventy-five Years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

By: Beasley, A.W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons: 2002

Seller ID: ID263476

ISBN: 0473083639

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 310 pages This commemorative history traces the development of what is now the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and it tells of those who helped make the college what it is today.
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Early Australia With Shame Remembered

By: Beatty, Bill

Price: $9.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Company Ltd: 1962

Seller ID: ID299478

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 212 pages.
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The Coming of Strangers. Life in Australia 1788-1822

By: Berzins, Baiba

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, Collins: 1988

Seller ID: ID81347

ISBN: 0002178133

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Spine a little faded. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 144 pages.
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Nazi Dreamtime : Australian Enthusiasts for Hitler's Germany

By: Bird, David S.

Price: $47.00

Publisher: North Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: ID267891

ISBN: 1921875429

Binding: Trade Paperback

MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 448 pages. Nazi Dreamtime is the ground-breaking story of extreme-right, ultra-nationalist thought and practice in Australia in the period immediately before and during the Second World War. It focuses on those native-born Australians who were attracted to the ideology of Nazism in Germany from 1933. Their belief was that the achievements and tenets of the Nazi regime were applicable to Australian political and cultural life to some extent.
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The Country's Finest Hour Fifty Years of Rural Broadcasting in Australia

By: Black, Jenny

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, ABC Publishing House: 1995

Seller ID: ID259466

ISBN: 0733304842

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Spine a little faded. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. 184 pages An informal history of ABC Rural radio and television from 1945-1995.
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Landmarks. A History of Australia to the Present Day.

By: Blackmore, Elliot & Cotter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW, Macmillan: 1988

Seller ID: ID303445

ISBN: 0333450817

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Black & white illustrations and photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 294 pages.
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Our Side of the Country

By: Blainey, Geoffrey

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney, Methuen Haynes: 1984

Seller ID: ID91717

ISBN: 0454006551

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 250 pages. Traces the history of Victoria from the time the Aborigines could walk across Bass Strait.
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