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  1. AIRD  W.V.  Compiled by. The Water  Supply,  Sewerage  And Drainage  Of  Sydney. illus. with frontis. & 40  full-page plates t/out. 42 maps & dgms. some folding pub. Syd.  1961 or. red cl. 4to. pp.XVIII.348.     Price:$50.00
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  2. ALBURY  NSW  Brochure promoting Albury  illus.  with  photo plates  t/out.  some two-tone col.  pub.  Albury  Municipal Tourist  Bureau  nd.  1938 or.col.  (yell.  lt.blu.  white) illus. wps. cr.4to. pp.32. fine.     Price: $25.00
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  3. ALLEN DUNDAS Early Georgian. Extracts from the Journal of George  Allen  (1800-1877)  First  Colonial  Attorney   and Solicitor  to  be professionally educated  in  N.S.W.  with illus.  e/papers  & frontis. Syd. Angus  &  Robertson  1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. a fine copy.     Price:$35.00
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  4. ALLANSON A.G.   Kurnell The Birthplace Of Australia. Story of Cook's Landing at Kurnell Botany Bay. illus. with 14 full page plates t/out. & map pub. Syd. George B. Philip & Son 1933 or. illus. orange wrappers 12mo. pp.96.fine copy.    Price: $45.00    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  5. AUSTRALIA The Official Book of the New  South  Wales Celebrations Commemorating the Bi-Centenary of the  Landing of Lieutenant  James  Cook, R.N., at Botany  Bay  on  29th April, 1770. with illus. e/papers, plates dwgs. maps  pub. Syd.  Oswald  Ziegler  Enterprises  P/L  1970  or.cl.  4to. pp.424.    Price: $30.00
     
  6. AUSTRALIAN  Iron  & Steel Ltd.  text  by  Clive  Turnbull. Commemorating the Official Opening by the Prime Minister of Australia  the  Rt. Hon. R.G. Menzies CH., QC. of  the  hot strip mill  and  other  major  plant  extensions  at   the Australian  Iron  &  Steel Ltd. Kembla  Works,  N.S.W.,  on Tuesday,  Aug.30,  1955. pub. Melb.  Specialty  Press  1955 1st.ed. or.illus.bds. 4to.obl. pp.100.    Price: $35.00
     
  7. BALINT EMERY TREVOR HOWELLS & VICTORIA SMYTH Warehouses  & Woolstores  Of  Victorian Sydney. illus. with many  plates t/out.  pub.  Melbourne Oxford Uni. Press 1982  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.162.    Price: $55.00
     
  8. BARELLAN P.A. & I. SOCIETY (Eds.)    Early Days In Barellan And District. A souvenir of the Barellan Golden Jubilee Show 1975. illus. with many text plates t/out. pub. NSW Barellan P.A. & I. Society 1975 or. brown pictorial card wrappers 4to. pp.284. Printed in triple column; A look at life in the Barellan district of New South Wales through the reproduction of the full series of Gow & Gow quarterly gazettes from the 1920’s. Starting at No.1 January 1924. Reproduces 23 issues of the publication started in 1924 by Gow and Gow Auctioneers, Stock, Land and General Agents of Barellan. Very good copy.    Price: $35.00
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  9. BARKER  TONY Armidale. A Cathedral City of  Education  and the Arts. with e/paper maps & many plates t/out. some  col. pub. Syd. 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.74.    Price: $30.00
     
  10. BAROOGA DISTRICTS Yesterday And Today.  pub.  Barooga Lioness Club 1984 illus. wrappers. cr.4to. pp.48.    Price: $15.00
     
  11. BARTON GEORGE & Alexander Britton. Edited by F M Bladen    History Of New South Wales; from the Records. Two Vols. Vol 1 - Governor Phillip 1783-1789. Vol.II. Phillip and Grose 1789- 1794; illus. with 6 maps and charts (5 folding), 5 plates, 3 portraits, Vol.II. 10 black and white portraits and 6 other plans, numerous folding maps and facsimiles of historical documents, pub. Sydney: Chas Potter, 1889 & 1894 1st ed.'s original dark green decorative cl. glt. crest to spine and front boards, 8vo. Vol.I. pp.LXXXV.III.626 Vol.II. 354; Barton was responsible for only the first volume, the second (Phillip and Grose) being written by Alexander Britton, who died before its publication (1894). Minor shelf wear, flecking, a very good set.    Price: $550.00
     
  12. BATE FRANK     Samuel Bate: Singular Character (1776 -1849) The Life Of A Turbulent Pioneer illus. with illus. e/papers & 16 pages of plates t/out. some full page; pub. Sydney Brookdale Press 1987 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200 This biography of an almost successful government official and his immediate family based on British and NSW records, including many of Bate's own letters'. It traces his fortunes in early Hobart and Sydney.    Price: $35.00
     
  13. BAYLEY WILLIAM A. Lilac Town. The Story of Goulburn N.S.W. illus. with frontis. & 36 full page plates t/out.pub. N.S.W. Goulburn City Council 1954 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.130.   Price: $40.00
     
  14. BAYLEY  WILLIAM  A. History Of  Cambelltown  N.S.W. e/paper   maps   frontis.  &  text   plates   t/out.   pub. Campbelltown City Council 1974 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.232.    Price: $40.00
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  15. BAYLEY  WILLIAM  A. Border City. History of  Albury.  with e/paper  maps  & profusely illus. with plates  t/out.  many full page pub. N.S.W. Albury City Council 1976 or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.240. Price: $35.00    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  16. BENNETT  GEORGE Wanderings In New South  Wales. Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China. Being the Journal  of a Naturalist in those Countries, During 1832, 1833, and 1834. 2 Vols. illus. with frontis. pub. Adel. Libraries Board  of South Aust. 1967 (Australiana Facsimile Editions No.115  of original pub. in Lond. 1834). or.bds. 8vo. pp.VIl.I.XV.440. Vol.II. VII.428.    Price: $150.00
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  17. BERTIE CHARLES H.  Stories Of Old Sydney with frontis. 44 & b/w. illustrations by S.U. Smith. pub. Sydney Angus and Robertson nd. c. 1912 or. beige cl. with decoration in colour to front board 12mo. pp.112. Discolouration to boards, browned, esp. to spine; a good copy.   Price: $65.00 
     
  18. BERTIE C.H.     The Story of Vaucluse House and Sir Henry Browne Hayes. illus. with frontis. and 4 full-page plates, 2 half page. pub. Sydney 1938 7th ed. . or. illus. wrapper. 8vo. pp.32.     Price: $35.00
     
  19. BERTIE C.H.    150 Years Of Sydney.  illus. with frontis. and 9 photo plates, some full page; pub. Sydney The Shakespeare Head Press Limited, 1933, Second Edition, or. white/grey illus. wrappers, 12mo. pp.118. Fine copy.     Price: $30.00
     
  20. BERTIE CHARLES H.   Old Colonial By-Ways  illus. with frontis. & 7 coloured plates, 51 b/w plates (water colours, etchings and pencil drawings). pub. Sydney, Ure Smith in association with The National Trust of Australia, Sydney, 1974 facsimile or. card covers cr.4to. (pp. unpaginated approx.80). Fine.   Price: $20.00
     
  21. BIRCH ALAN DAVID S. MACMILLAN The Sydney Scene 1788-1960  with  e/paper  maps frontis. & 32  full  page  plates t/out.  pub.  Melb. M.U.P. 1962 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.XV.388.   Price: $50.00
     
  22. BLACKHEATH  Historic Blackheath illus. with b/w. plates, maps; pub. NSW Rotary Club of Blackheath 1977 A community service project of the Rotary Club of Blackheath, 1975-1976. or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. oblong pp.374. Fine.    Price: $150.00
     
  23. BLAINEY  GEOFFREY The Rise Of Broken Hill.  with  e/paper maps col. frontis. & 52 full page plates t/out. pub.  Melb. Macmillan 1968 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.184.    Price: $45.00
     
  24. BLUE  MOUNTAINS Views  Of The Far  Famed  Blue Mountains N.S.W. illus. with one panoramic col. photo-plate tipped-in to  inside of front wrapper, & 24 full page  plates  t/out. pub.  N.S.W.  191-? or. light aqua blu. dec.  wps.  cr.4to. long pp.24.    Price: $65.00
     
  25. BLUE  MOUNTAINS Comic Cuts.  H. Phillips Blue Mountains Holiday. Original 22 drop-down cartoon cuts, 16mo. cartoons are double sided; various artists not noted, cartoons are: "I’m having a ripping time," We are having Giddy time," Doing the falls" etc. np. Sydney ? nd. c.1920’s lacks rear folding cover else fine. Price: $45.00   (See picture-press   )
     
  26. BOWD D.G.  Macquarie Country. A History of the Hawkesbury. illus. with frontis. & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. S.A. Netley Griffin Press 1973, Revised Edition; or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.242. The Hawkesbury River district was vital historically in the story of the successful colonisation of Australia. There are fascinating chapters on local bushrangers; the aborigines; on ships and shipping; and well known families and buildings. Fine.    Price: $45.00
     
  27. BOYCE DEAN  Clarke Of The Kindur.  Convict,  Bushranger, Explorer.  published Melbourne, M.U.P. 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.100. fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  28. BRADSHAW JACK  Highway Robbery Under Arms Without Shedding Of Blood. And Twenty Years of Prison Life in the Gaols of N.S.W. Sticking Up Of The Quirindi Bank illus. with portrait frontis. and several plates th/out. pub. Sydney. The Worker Trustees. n.d. circa 1930. or. orange and black illus. wrappers cr.8vo. pp.176 Author's account of his life of crime on the road, and his subsequent capture for robbing the bank at Quirindi. He then gives an account of the bushranger Thunderbolt. Author describes himself as the Last of the Bushrangers. Very good copy, repaired back wrapper.    Price: $75.00
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  29. BRODSKY ISADORE Sydney's Little World Of Woolloomooloo. with e/paper maps &  plates  t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Old Sydney Free Press 1966 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr..4to. pp. pp.144.    Price: $40.00
     
  30. BROKEN  HILL The Silver City Festival 1883-1958.  Official Souvenir. profusely illus. with text plates t/out.  folding map  at rear  pub. N.S.W. Broken Hill  Junior  Chamber  of Commerce or.crm.  & dk.blu.  lettered  illus.wps.  cr.4to. pp.32 fine.    Price: $20.00
     
  31. BURTON  BRIAN Flow Gently Past. The Story  of  Corowa and District.  illus. with e/paper maps & 30 full  page  plates t/out.  text  maps, pub. N.S.W. Corowa Shire  Council  1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.228. fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  32. BUTLER LEO Symphony On A City. The story of the City of Newcastle, New South Wales; its birth, its development and its place in Australia. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page published Sydney, Council for the City of Newcastle nd.195-? or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.96. fine.     Price: $40.00
     
  33. CAMERON GWEN ed.   Canberra, A City of Flowers Official tourist guide to Australia's national capital with full descriptions of all its attributes. illustrated with b/w photos and period advertising; publisher: Federal Department of the Interior, Sydney, 1934. or. stiff wrappers with two colour modernist illustration of the Old Parliament House. cr.4to. pp.48; Several pages of advertisements in the front and back.     Price: $40.00
     
  34. CANBERRA Australian Capital Territory. Folder with 39 views in b/w. photo plates, pub. Syd. nd.194-? or.lt. orange grey wps. blk.ltg to front wrapper.  cr.4to.obl.  pp.unnumbered (14). fine.     Price: $25.00
     
  35. CARNEGIE MARGARET Friday Mount. First Settlement at Holbrook and the South-western Slopes of New South Wales. With e/paper maps & 4 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp..282.  fine.     Price: $55.00
     
  36. CARMODY JEAN Early Days Of The Upper Murray. illus. with map & e/paper maps, pub. Vic. Shoestring Press 1981 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.176.     Price: $45.00
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  37. CHAPMAN  DON 1788 The People Of The  First  Fleet. Illus. e/papers. & profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Syd. Cassell 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.208.   Price: $45.00
     
  38. CLUNE FRANK Roaming Round The Darling. with e/paper maps, frontis.  &  14 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd.  Angus  & Robertson 1952 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.212. fine in the sl. torn d/w.    Price: $35.00
     
  39. CLUNE FRANK    Scandals Of Sydney Town  illus. with b/w. line drawings by Virgil Reilly. Endpaper pictorial maps; Index. pub. Angus & Robertson, 1957 or. light brown cl. 4to. pp.228. A selection of cases from Sydney in the 1880s and 1890s. Includes "The Mount Rennie Case" a gang rape for which four men hanged; Mary Dean who said her husband tried to poison her; The Coningham Conspiracy - a Test Cricketer who tried to blackmail a Roman Catholic priest on false charges of immorality; The Case of Ernest Buttner - a man charged with assault of a girl, but he had been in her room for some time before she screamed for help. Very good copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  40. CLUNE FRANK - Across The Snowy Mountains. From Goulburn to Kosciusko illus. with frontis. & 22 full page plates t/out. e/paper maps pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.262. fine in sl. chipped d/w.    Price: $45.00
     
  41. COBLEY  JOHN Sydney  Cove 1788. The first  year  of  the Settlement    of   Australia.   compiled   entirely    from contemporary  sources-ship's  logs, diaries  and  journals. illus.  with col. frontis., 3 col. full page dwgs., 8  full page b/w., e/paper maps, pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.296.    Price: $55.00
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  42. COBLEY JOHN Sydney Cove 1789-90. Tells the story of the settlement as it happened, in day-by-day reports, journals and documents; illus. with col. frontis., pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.354.   Price: $65.00.    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
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  43. COBLEY  JOHN Compiled by. Sydney  Cove  1788.  In the Words of Australia's first Settlers: The true story of a Nation's Birth.  illus. with 20 full page plates t/out. mostly col. pub.  Syd.  Angus  & Robertson 1987 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.296.   Price: $50.00
     
  44. COHUNA  Historical Society. Unlock The Land. A History  of the Cohuna District 1875-1975. with illus. t/out. pub. Vic. Echuca Riverine Herald nd.1975 or.wps. 8vo. pp.172.    Price: $25.00
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  45. CONVICT  DISCIPLINE 1833. A facsimile of the rare  Colonial Circular  No.  33-48  and  other  related  documents.  This edition  pub.  by Richard Griffin for Gryphon Books  on  18 Oct.  1977 is limited 750 numbered copies. This copy  being unnumbered. a fine copy.    Price: $85.00
     
  46. CONWAY  JILL  KER The Road From Coorain.  An  Australian Memoir.  Australian social life in the outback and  Sydney. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238.    Price: $25.00
     
  47. COOTAMUNDRA Picturesque Views Of.   12 photographs in drop-down folder. Original orange/brown illus. covers. Photographs are: Panorama of Cootamundra, Sacred Heart Church, District Hospital, Olympic Swimming Pool, Albert Park, Town Hall, Jubilee Park, The Gap, The Golf House, The Albion Hotal, The Post Office, Wallendon Street; pub. Melbourne Armadale Rose Series, Rose Stereograph Co. nd. c. 1940’s Fine.     Price: $25.00    (See picture-press   )
     
  48. CORBYN  CHARLES  ADAM (presented by Cyril  Pearl) Sydney Revels (The Eighteen-fifties) Of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus. being choice and humorous selections from scenes  at The Sydney  Police Office, and other public places, during  the last  three  years. with e/paper illus. title page  dec.  & col.  facsimile plates of eng. t/out. published Sydney  Ure  Smith 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.104. fine copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  49. COUP SHEENA & ROBERT Speed The Plough. Ashfield 1788-1988. illus. with many plates t/out. some col. pub. N.S.W. Ashfield Municipal Council 1988 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp. 266.    Price: $45.00
     
  50. CRAWFORD  EUGENIE A Bunyip Close Behind Me. Recollections of  the Nineties by Eugenie McNeil. Life in  early Sydney. Retold  by her daughter. pub. Melb. Hawthorn  Press or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.100.    Price: $25.00
     
  51. CUNNINGHAM D. (Surgeon R.N.) Two Years In New South Wales. A Series of Letters Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of  Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar  advantages  to Emigrants;  of its Topography, Natural History, &c. &c.  Two Vols. pub.  Adel.  Library  Board  of  South  Aust.   1966 (Australiana facsimile editions No.31. of original pub.  in Lond. 1827).   or.grn.bds.    12mo.    pp.Vol.I.XII.352. Vol.II.VIII.346.    Price: $150.00
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  52. CURTIS L.S. Compl. and ed. by.   The History of Broken Hill. Its Rise and Progress. illus. 2 plates plus double page plan, with numerous photographs throughout, adverts. & index; pub. Adelaide, Frearson's Printing House, 1908 Second edition; or. dark grey textured cloth, upper board lettered in white, roy.4to pp.200. sl. insect marks to f/free e/paper else very good copy.     Price: $195.00
     
  53. DALE GEORGE The Industrial History Of Broken Hill.  illus. with  28  full page plates, advts. t/out. pub.  Melb.  1918 or.grn.wps.   cr.12mo.  pp.270.  front   wrapper   repaired (patched) spine sl. sunned otherwise v/good clean copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  54. DALEY L.T.  Men And A River. A history of the Richmond River District, 1824-1895. illus. with 8 full-page plates, 2 full-page maps, and end-paper maps. pub. Melbourne M.U.P. 1968 with corrections, or stiff col illus, wrappers 8vo. pp.XVI.204 Fine copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  55. DEAMER DULCIE   The Queen Of Bohemia. The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer. Edited with an introduction by Peter Kirkpatrick. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. University of Queensland Press Brisbane 1998 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.XI.240. Her own account of her career as a novelist, journalist, thespian and 1920s Kings Cross bohemian. She was Australia's first female boxing reporter!    Price: $30.00
     
  56. DENNING WARRENHighway. pub. Syd. Australasian Publishing Co. 1947 1st.ed. or. beige cl. The Road To Canberra. The Story of a 8vo. pp.244.   Price: $35.00
     
  57. DIESENDORF W. Ed. By. The Snowy Mountains Scheme. Phase 1: The Upper Tumut Projects. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & 4 col. pub. Syd. Horwitz Pub. 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVI.162.     Price: $50.00
     
  58. ELDER JOHN RAWSON Ed. by The Letters And Journals Of Samuel Marsden 1765-1838 Senior Chaplain in the Colony of New South Wales and Superintendent of the Mission of the Church Missionary Society of New Zealand. illus. with frontis. & 23 full page plates t/out. some coloured, 6 maps pub. N.Z & London Otago University 1960 or.cl. pink/grey d/w. roy.8vo. pp.580. slightly sunned to d/w. otherwise a fine copy.     Price: $150.00
     
  59. ELDERSHAW  M. BARNARD Phillip Of Australia. An Account of the Settlement at Sydney Cove 1788-92. illus. with frontis. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1972 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.368.    Price: $45.00    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  60. ELLIS M.H. Francis Greenway. His Life and Times. illus. with 8 maps, 1 b/w. and 2 col. mounted plates, 4 b/w. & 19 col. plates, 22 drawings throughout text. pub. Syd. The Shepherd Press 1949 1st ed. or. light brown buckram cloth, cr.4to. pp. X.292. Limited to 1500 copies.A fine copy.     Price: $200.00
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  61. ELLIS M.H. John Macarthur. with e/paper maps frontis. & 13 plates Syd. Angus & Robertson 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  roy.8vo. pp.602.  fine in the sl. torn d/w.    Price: $65.00
     
  62. EMANUEL CEDRIC   Cedric Emanuel’s Canberra Sketchbook illus. with b/w. drawings, pub. Adel. Rigby, 1976 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. oblong pp.76 Fine copy.     Price: $20.00
     
  63. EVANS  SUSANNA  Historic Sydney. As seen  by  its early artists. with e/paper illus. and plates t/out.  many in  col.  some full page. Endpaper maps show Cove and Part of Sydney in 1818. pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson  1987 or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.160. paintings, drawings and sketches; chart the growth of Sydney from the mid - 18th. to mid - 19th. Century. Fine.   Price: $70.00
     
  64. FAIRFAX JOHN - Historic Roads Round Sydney. illus. with maps, pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1951 or. cream, red, brown and green illus. wrappers; 8vo. pp.194. fine copy.     Price: $30.00
     
  65. FALKINER SUZANNE Haddon Rig. The First Hundred Years. illus. with e/paper maps & many plates t'out. some full page and col. pub. South Aust. Valadon pub 1981 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to.obl. pp. 168.     Price: $35.00
     
  66. FARO CLIVE & Garry Wotherspoon.  Street Seen. A History of Sydney's Oxford Street profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. bibliographical references and index; pub. Melbourne University Press, 2000 or. card wrappers, (paperback), roy.4to. pp.324. Built in 1811 as a route to the South Head signal station, its Darlinghurst section evolved into a gay enclave and its Paddington section into a consumer's haven. Fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  67. FARWELL  GEORGE Requiem For Woolloomooloo.  with e/paper illus.  &  many dwgs. by Jean Johnson pub.  Syd.  Hodder & Stoughton 1971 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.164.      Price: $35.00
     
  68. FARWELL GEORGE Squatter's Castle. The story of a  Pastoral Dynasty.  Life  and times of Edward David  Stewart  Ogilvie 1814-96.  illus. with photo plates t/out. some col.  or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.340.      Price: $45.00
     
  69. FARWELL  GEORGE Down Argent Street. The story  of  Broken Hill. with dwgs. by Roy Dalgarne pub. Syd.  F.H.  Johnston 1948  or.blu.cl. 4to. pp.124. Tells of the growth and development of Broken Hill, with the help of many coloured illustrations and drawings. Lettering to spine  faded  as usual otherwise good copy.      Price: $65.00
     
  70. FITZGERALD SHIRLEY & Christopher Keating Millers Point The Urban Village. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page pub. Southwood Press 1991 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.128.      Price: $30.00
     
  71. FITZGERALD ALAN   Canberra And The New Parliament House profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. New South Wales Lansdowne, 1983 1st. ed. or.bds. d/w. 4to. pp.112. Fine copy.     Price: $25.00
     
  72. FLETCHER  BRIAN  H. Ralph Darling.  A  Governor  Maligned. Governor  of N.S.W. from 1825 to 1831. with e/paper maps  2 full  page  plates t/out. & 2 maps pub. Melb.  Oxford  Uni. Press 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.474.      Price: $45.00
     
  73. FORBES GEORGE History Of Sydney. From the Foundation of the City in 1788 up to the present time 1926. Compiled from Authentic Sources. illus. with frontis & many b/w. plates t/out. pub. Sydney William Brooks 1926 or. maroon cloth cr.4to. pp.294. some pages sl. spotty otherwise very good copy.     Price: $200.00
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  74. FOWLES JOSEPH Sydney In 1848. A facsimile of the Original Text and Copper-Plate Engravings of its Principal  Streets, Public buildings, Churches, Chapels, etc., from Drawings by Joseph Fowles. Reproduced by the Letterpress Process  from Line Engravings made in Sydney by Colour Engravings,  Surry Hills With a Foreword by Morton Herman, Esquire and with an Index and Annotations to the Plates gathered  from  Sundry Sources  by the Publishers. illus. t/out. with line  drawinwgs, published Sydney Ure Smith 1962 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.104. fine copy.      Price: $100.00
     
  75. FROST ALAN   Dreams Of A Pacific Empire - Sir George Young's Proposal For Colonization of NSW 1784-5. illus. with frontis. col. portrait tipped-in, map on f/e/paper; one folded map loosely inserted, 4 facsimiles of documents in text; pub. Sydney. Resolution Press. 1980 1st. ed. or. beige cl. cr.4to. oblong pp.48. Two hundred and fifty copies of this book were printed, this being un-numbered. Signed by author. Very fine.    Price: $125.00
     
  76. GALE JOHN Canberra. History of and Legends Relating to the Federal Capital Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. Together with Pen Pictures of some of its Beauty Spots; its Flora, Fauna, Mineral and Other Resources. Appendix Lake George Its Discovery and Phenomena and its Interesting Happenings. illus. with frontis. & 14 full-page plates t/out. maps, or. grey/green flecked cl. 12mo. pp.162. very good copy.      Price: $110.00
     
  77. GAMMAGE BILL  Narrandera Shire illus. with numerous  b/w. plates  t/out.  some full page, e/paper maps; pub. N.S.W. Narrandera Shire 1986 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.264. presentation copy signed  by Bill Gammage. Fine copy.     Price: $80.00
     
  78. GARRAN ANDREW ( Ed.) Historical Sketch Of New South Wales illus. with engravings t/out. pub. Sydney Lansdowne Press 1980 an extract in facsimile form from "Australia, the first Hundred Years", a reprint of the "Picturesque Atlas of Australasia" then published in 1886. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 160. Short closed tear to d/w. else fine.     Price: $35.00
     
  79. GEEVES’ PHILIP Philip Geeves' Sydney. illus. with drawings by Cedric Emanuel, b/w. drawings of historical buildings. statues and places of interest; pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson Publishers. 1981 1st. ed. or.cl. light green pictorial d/w. 4to. pp.158. A tour of the city, discussing the history of 78 public buildings, statues, bridges, arcades, parks, pubs, historic houses, churches and landmarks of Sydney. Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  80. GEORGE VANCE Fairfield. A History Of The District. illus. with many plates t/out. pub. N.S.W. The Council of the City of Fairfield 1982 or. pictorial bds. 4to. pp.XVI.264.     Price: $75.00
     
  81. GERRITSEN JOHN   Tibooburra Corner Country  illus. with many text plates t/out. includes preface, introduction, & references. pub. Queensland, Gympie, Tibooburra Press, nd. 1981 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.150. Covers are by renown artist Pro Hart, a history of the outback New South Wales town of Tiboorurra. Price: $30.00
     
  82. GIBB  PHYLLIS Classrooms A World Apart. The Story  of  the Founding of the Broken Hill School of the Air. with e/paper maps  & numerous plates t/out. some full page  pub.  Melb. Spectrum Pub. 1986 1st.ed. illus.wps. 8vo. pp.222.     Price: $20.00
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  83. GIBBNEY JIM Canberra 1913-1953 illus. with photo plates t/out col. fold-out map indexed, pub. Government Publishing Service, 1988 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.316     Price: $40.00
     
  84. GIBBS,  SHALLARD, & Co.'s Illustrated Guide To  Sydney Its Suburbs, And To favourite Places Of Resort. illus. with folding  map,  &  many plates some full  page  of  eng.  in facsimile,  first pub. in 1881 this ed. pub. Syd.  Angus  & Robertson 1981 or.cl. d/w. cr.12mo. pp.136.      Price: $40.00
     
  85. GILBERT  LIONEL William Woolls, 1814-1893. `A Most  Useful Colonist.'  illus.  with  frontis. & 10  full  page  plates t/out.  text dwgs.  pub.  Canberra  Mulini   Press   1985 or.blu.cl. cr.4to. pp.VIII.138.    Price: $35.00
     
  86. GILLESPIE ROLLO - Viceregal Quarters. An Account of the Various Residencies of the Govoner of New South Wales from 1988 until the present Day. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1975 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.298.   Price: $65.00.    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  87. GODDARD  ROY H. The Life And Times Of James  Milson. e/paper  maps  frontis.  title page vign. &  20  full  page plates  t/out. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1955  or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.206.   Price: $65.00
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  88. GRAINGER ELENA Martin Of Martin Place. A biography of Sir James Martin  1820  -  1886.  illus.   e/papers   plates throughout, pub. Sydney, Alpha Books. 1970 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.166.    Price: $30.00
     
  89. GRANT ERNEST  J. Walking With Time. The story  of  Wakool Country. illus. with 15 full page plates t/out. pub.  Melb. Abacada Press 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.152.   Price: $35.00
     
  90. GREAVES BERNARD Ed. By. The Story Of Bathurst. with 6 full page plates t/out. e/paper illus pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1961 1st.ed. or. cl. d/w. d/w. 8vo. pp. 236.   Price: $40.00
     
  91. GRIFFITH JOHN -  A History Of Kangaroo Valley illus. with photo plates t/out, 7 maps, pub. N.S.W. Kangaroo Valley Historical Society, or stiff wrappers, 8vo. pp.104 History of the Kangaroo Valley south of Sydney.   Price: $15.00
     
  92. GRIFFITHS G. NESTA Some Southern Homes Of New South Wales. Facsimile of 1952 ed. with e/paper maps frontis. & 20  half tone  plates  pub. Syd. National Trust  of  Australia  1976 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.100.   Price: $35.00
     
  93. GRIFFITHS G. NESTA Some Nothern Homes Of New South Wales. illus. with e/paper maps frontis. & 20  half tone  plates  pub. Syd. National Trust  of  Australia  1954 or green cl. glt.ltg. to spine & front bd. cr.4to. pp.152. fine copy.    Price: $150.00    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  94. GRIFFITHS G. NESTA Point Piper. Past & Present. illus. with frontis. & 22 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1970 or. black cl. 8vo. ppXVI.120.    Price: $35.00
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  95. GUIDE TO SYDNEY Pleasure Resorts Of N.S. Wales. Including plans of city and suburbs, and useful information for visitors and tourists. illus. with plates s ome full page 5 folding maps, pub. Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall Co. nd. 1932? or. beige wrappers, 16mo. pp.250. very good copy.   Price: $65.00.   Convert Currency
     
  96. GUNDAGAI Souvenir of. 18 Favourite Views. In drop-down folder. Original cream/blue covers. Photographs are: Evening Murrumbidgee River, Shire Office, Twin Bridges, Murrumbidgee River and Bridge, Post Office, Murrumbidgee River, District Hospital, Church of England, Snake Gully, R.C. Church, Panorama North Gundagai, Sheridan Street, Anzac Park, Court House, Swimming Pool, Murrumbidgee River, Railway Bridge, Distant view Murrumbidgee River; pub. Qld. Murray Views, nd. c. early 1940’s Fine.    Price: $25.00   (See picture-press   )
     
  97. GURR T. STUART GWEN HARROWSMITH Blue Mountains Story. with   e/paper  maps  frontis.  &  16  plates   pub.   Syd. Shakespeare  Head  Press 1949 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  cr.4to. pp.120.    Price: $50.00
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  98. HACKETT  FRANCES Trailing Clouds Of Glory.  biography  and picture  of small country town (Senwillows district).  pub. Melb. Hyland House 1990 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.228.    Price: $30.00
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  99. HAINSWORTH  D.R. The Sydney Traders. Simon Lord  and  his contemporaries  1788-1821.  with  e/paper  maps  &  several plates,  maps t/out. pub. Syd. Cassell 1972 1st.ed.  or.cl. 8vo. pp.264. some introductory notes underlined  otherwise fine; limited to 1000 copies this being No.519.    Price: $95.00
     
  100. HALL GLEN   The Road To The River  (1839-1939) or Draylines To Deep Water illus. with map, 18 full page plates t/out. pub. Australia Bording's Publications 1977 Second Edition or. cream card wrappers, 8vo. pp.218 sl. sunned to spine else fine.     Price: $30.00
     
  101. HARDY BOBBIE   Water Carts To Pipe Lines. The history of the Broken Hill Water supply. with e/paper maps col. frontis. & 16  full  page plates t/out. pub. Syd.  Broken  Hill  Water Board 1968 1st.ed. or. maroon cl. 8vo. pp.146.    Price: $40.00
     
  102. HARMAR  ROSEMARY Growing  Up  At  Government  House. Governor's daughter looks back on her childhood experiences of vice-regal life in Sydney between the  wars.  profusely illus.  with b/w.  text plates t/out. pub.  Syd.  Angus  & Robertson 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.174. Fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  103. HAWDON Mr. JOSEPH The Journal Of A Journey From New South Wales To Adelaide Performed in 1838 by Mr Joseph Hawdon. illus. with frontis. and one plate, folding map at rear. This facsimile edition published by Georgian House 1952 or. cl.. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.66. lacks f/free e/paper, sl. silverfishing, else fine copy. fine copy.    Price: $75.00
     
  104. HAY DAVID The Life And Times Of William Hay Of Boomanoomana, 1816-1908 illus. with . Sepia photographs on eps, b/w plates, maps & diagrams throughout; pub. Melbourne, Victoria: Hyland House, 1990, or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIX.156 An entertaining biography on William Hay and his family, from his birth in Scotland to moving to Tasmania, Victoria, Tasmania, Victoria, and N.S.W  where he bought the Boomanoomana run. Written by his great-grandson. Signed   by author.    Price: $35.00
     
  105. HENEY HELEN   Dear Fanny. Women's Letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857. Foreword by Susan Margarey illus. with either illustrations or photographs in a sepia tone; list of illustrations, index. With preface by author, acknowledgements; pub. Canberra Australian National University Press, 1985 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XVI.196. Collection of letters representing a unique social history of the first female European settlers to Australia. Letters from convict and free settlers. Includes convict letters, 'the floating brothel', Elizabeth Macarthur, Samuel Muarsden's bride, Margaret Catchpole, William Bligh's daughter, and others.   Price: $40.00
     
  106. HOLT HENRY E. An Energetic Colonist. A biographical account of the activities of the late Hon. Thomas Holt, MLC. illus. with  several plates t/out. pub. Melbourne Hawthorn Press  1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.202.   Price: $35.00
     
  107. HORNADGE, B. Dubbo. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some col. and map. pub. Dubbo Macquarie Pub. 1982. or. illus. stiff wrappers d/w. cr.4to. pp.128.    Price: $25.00
     
  108. HOVELL W.H. and HAMILTON HUME. Journey Of Discovery To Port Phillip New South Wales by Messrs. W.H. Hovell and Hamilton Hume in 1824 and 1825. pub. S.A. Adelaide Libraries Board of S.A. 1965 Austral iana Facsimile Editions No.12. or. blue cl. 8vo. pp.VIII.94. fine copy.   Price: $100.00.   Convert Currency
     
  109. HUNT H.A. Report On Results Of Rain And River Observations Made In 1903-1908. illus. with maps, some folding, dgms and including  all available annual rainfall totals pub.  Melb. Commonwealth   Bureau   of  Meteorology  1908   wps.   4to. pp.LI.76,XLVIII. cnr. bumped otherwise fine.    Price: $65.00
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  110. HURLEY FRANK Sydney. A Camera Study. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. e/paper maps, pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1948 1st ed. or. light green boards, black cloth binding to spine, cr.4to. pp.240. very good copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  111. INTERNATIONAL Eucharistic Congress.    29th International Eucharistic Congress. Official Souvenir Book, September 1928 profusely illus. with plates t/out. and advts. t/out. pub. Sydney. D.F. Morand 1928 or. col illus. .wrappers cr.4to. pp.48 very good ads. Lux soap, Phoenix biscuits, Castrol oil, Henry Buck, General Electric, Fosters Lager and many others. fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  112. JERVIS  JAMES The Cradle City Of Australia. A  History  of Parramatta  1788-1961. with col. frontis. & 34  full  page plates  t/out. text illus. pub. N.S.W. Council of the  City of Parramatta 1961 or.illus.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XII.234. fine copy    Price: $50.00
     
  113. JOHNSON  LOUISE Gaslight Sydney. The City  Viewed Through Late  Victorian Eyes. illus. with many photo plates  t/out. pub.  Syd. Allen & Unwin 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo.obl. pp.112.   Price: $25.00
     
  114. KELLY B.M. From Wilderness To Eden. A History of the City of Griffith. Its region and its people. illus. with portr., num. b/w plates and map. pub. N.S.W. Griffith 1988. roy.8vo. or. printed boards. pp.304. Signed by Mayor 1994.    Price: $40.00
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  115. KELLY VINCE A Man Of The People.  From  Boilermaker  to Governor-General.  A  biography of Sir Wm.  Mc.Kell  illus. with 14  full page plates t/out. pub.  Sydney  1971  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.236. chipped d/w.    Price: $30.00
     
  116. KENNEDY  BRIAN Silver, Sin, And Sixpenny  Ale.  A Social History of Broken Hill, 1888-1921. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1978 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.202.    Price: $40.00
     
  117. KENNEDY  PRICILLA Portrait Of Winifred West.  Founder  of Frensham  School/ illus. with frontis. & many  text  plates t/out. pub. Syd. 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.226.    Price: $25.00
     
  118. KERR JOAN & Hugh Falkus.   From Sydney Cove To Duntroon. A Family Album of Early Life in Australia. illus. with colour plates; pub. Melbourne, Hutchinson, 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.128 The story of 2 Australian pioneer women who married into the Campbell family of merchants. (Includes full colour prints of sketches and paintings of Sophia Palmer Campbell, Australia's earliest known woman artist and those of her daughter in law Maria. Fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  119. KINGS CROSS 1936-1946 Memories. illus. with  maps,  dwgs. plates  t/out.  some  full  page  pub.  Syd.  Kings   Cross Community  Aid  Information Service 1981 typed  and  copied manuscript or. maroon wps. roy.4to. pp.162.    Price: $35.00
     
  120. KIRKBY DAVID R. From Sails To Atoms. First fifty years of Sutherland Shire 1906 to 1956. illus. with & 12 full page plates t/out. text illus., e/paper maps pub. Syd. Sutherland Shire Council 1970 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.155.    Price: $40.00
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  121. LANE COVE A History Of The Municipality of Lane Cove. 1895-1938. 43 Years of Civic Pride! illus. with b/w. plates t/out some full page, pub. Syd. /printed by W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd 1938 or. light brown papered boards, green ltg. cr.4to. pp.100. fine copy.    Price: $100.00
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  122. LANG JOHN - Botany Bay. Or True Tales Of Early Australia. illus. with advertisements; pub. Hobart, J. Walch & Sons, n.d. circa 1932 original stiff wrappers cr.8vo. pp.181.III. chipped top of spine else good copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  123. LARCOMBE  FREDERICK  A. - The History Of  Botany  1788-1970. Captain Cook Bi-Centenary 1788-1970 illus. with frontis. 44 full page plates t/out. & several text pub. The Council  of the Municipality of Botany 1970 or.cl. cr.4to. pp.238.    Price: $50.00
     
  124. LEA-SCARLETT ERROL Gundaroo. illus. with pictorial e/papers 18 map, line illustrations, b/w photos; sketches by W. Bresser, biblio. & index pub. Roebuck Canberra, 1972 Roebuck Society Publication No. 10. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.X.224 Local history of the Gundaroo District north of the Australian Capital Territory. sl. chipped d/w. else fine. Price: $50.00.    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  125. LENEHAN  M.F. Footprints On The Sands Of Time.  Lane Cove 1788-1988.  illus. with 3 plates & 2 maps pub. N.S.W.  Lane Cove Historical Society 1987 illus.wps. 8vo. pp.76.   Price: $15.00
     
  126. LEYLAND MIKE & MAL Great Ugly River. A Modern Adventure in Australia's  Outback.  illus. with e/paper maps &  24 full page  plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1967  or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.226.    Price: $30.00
     
  127. LHOTSKY Dr JOHN A Journey From Sydney to  The Australian Alps. Undertaken  in the months of January,  February  and March, 1834. Ed. by Alan E.J. Andrews. illus. with  folding map at rear, pub. Hobart this facsimile: Blubber Head Press 1979  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.280. Limited to 500  copies  and signed by Alan E.J. Andrews, this being No.202.    Price: $100.00
     
  128. LLOYD STUART The Lightning Ridge Book. illus. with 5  full page plates t/out. & one map, published N.S.W. by author nd.197-? 8vo. pp.250. fine.    Price: $25.00
     
  129. McDONALD D.I.   They Came To A Valley;  Wellington 1817-1967 illus. with 20 full page b/w. plates t/out. Appendices, bibliography and index. pub. Wellington Times Commercial Printing, 1968 or. maroon cl. 8vo. pp.226. Lacks f/free e/paper, crack in front board, otherwise good copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  130. McHUGH  SIOBHAN The Snowy. The People Behind  the Power. Story of  the  Snowy Mountains Scheme.  illus.  with  many plates t/out. some full page pub. Melb. Macmillan 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.272.    Price: $45.00
     
  131. McNALLY WARD To Broken Hill And Back. illus. with numerous text  plates t/out. pub. Melb. Widescope Pub. 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. obl. pp.100.   Price: $30.00
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