New South Wales. by AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES) - nd. [ 1896].

Sydney & Auckland: Ure Smith in association with The National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 1975 10 pages of text and then 50 plates of illustrations. The pages are a little tanned. Multiple copies are available. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good. Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

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Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv+334(last blank), 32 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations and maps, appendix, notes, glossary, list of references, index; Volume II: 1939-1945. Pp. x+454, 32 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations and maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; both volumes demy 4to; dust wrappers; Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 2001; 2002. First editions.

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1876. Good + overall. Map in original printed wrappers, the map printed with 8 different colors indicating the minerals found in New South Wales and a table at the top "Proclaimed Gold Fields". Printed facts on New South Wales for an American market (possibly issued for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia), and printed on the verso of each fold of the map are statistics on NSW starting with "advantages of NSW as a home for the emigrant". Folding map in original wrappers, engraved by G. W. Sharp, compiled and drawn by J. Tayler. The map in very good condition, with a very small chip at lower left corner. On the inside cover printed information concerning rail ways, telegraphs, banks, live stock, coal, diamonds, lead & silver, kerosene shale, iron ore, tin, gold fields, copper, land, crops, and wages. The wrappers only a bit water marked; front wrapper chipped at spine. The map, unfolded, 18 1/2 x 15 3/4". F13171a. OCLC: 221603221. Trove 3586681.

Bungonia: Official Post Office Receipt book. , 1852. Hardcover. Poor. Large folio (43 x 28 cm.) Printed New South Wales official Post Office mail receipt book. Each page divided into 7 main columns. 1. Date and hour received. 2. Date of letter bill received. 3. Whence 4. Description of letter. 5. No. of free mails. 6. No. of paid mails and amount. 7. No. of Unpaid mails and amount. 200 pages, each completed in manuscript, covering the dates from January 2nd 1848 to March 24th 1852. Places of origin of mails include Sydney, Liverpool, Campbelltown, Camden, Picton, Berrima, Marulan, Goulburn and Queanbeyan. Bungonia, a small township just north of Goulburn settled in 1832 near the Shoalhaven River.Gold was discovered there in 1851. Condition is very poor. The half leather binding is very worn, the spine missing, marbled paper covered boards and leather corners very defective and partly missing. Bottom corner of top board missing. The bottom right hand corner of the contents is brown stained where… Read More

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1901. Quarto, [x], 64 pages with an illustration plus 8 plates (but lacking the colour frontispiece called for by Dornbusch). Modern binder's cloth, with the front panel of the original green wrapper (printed in red) mounted on the front board; text block tide-marked near the head of the spine (with the plates a little stained); some discolouration and foxing (heavy in places); minor signs of age and use; a decent copy of an absolute rarity. This history of these two cavalry units, from their foundation through to the end of the Boer War, is 'undoubtedly a regimental record, but it is something more - it is an attempt to explain, and to some extent combat, the unreasoning prejudice which has grown up as a result of the South African campaign against the cavalry arm of the service. On this point Mr. Wilkinson says:- "It is my purpose to show not only that cavalry regiments like the New South Wales Lancers… Read More