1. [English History Collection] – Stokes, Edward.

Innocents Abroad. The Story of British child evacuees in Australia, 1940-45.

First Edition. London, BCA, 1994. 18 x 24 cm. XIII, 230 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Ewers, John K.

The Western Gateway – A History of Fremantle.

Second, Revised Edition. Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1971. Large Octavo. XXIII, 262 pages with many plates / illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation – copy, inscribed by the Mayor and City Manager of Fremantle as well as a former Grand Master of Western Australia and Grand Sire of Australasia.

3. Fitzpatrick, David.

Oceans of Consolation. Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia.

Ithaca, Cornell University, 1994. 23,5 cm x 15,5 cm. XIV, 649 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed.

4. Maddock, Shirley.

Islands Of The Gulf.

First edition. Auckland, Collins, 1966. 15.5 x 22 cm. 286 pages with 80 black and white and 20 coloured photographs by Don Whyte. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Maps on pastedows and endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Mead, Margaret.

The Maoris and their Arts.

New York, The American Museum of Natural History, 1928. 8°. Frontispiece-Map of New Zealand, 37 pages with several illustrations. Original, illustrated Softcover. Rare First Edition from 1928. Very good+ condition. Inventorynumber on frontcover. The publication precedes Margaret Mead’s first book. [Guide Leaflet Series No.71]

6. Moorhead, Alan.

Cooper’s Creek.

London, The Reprint Society, 1965. 14 x 21 cm. x, 223 pages. Maps and 38 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing.

7. [New Zealand POW] Gerrard, J. D. / POW: John Money / Jimmy Taylor / Evadne Price / Ken Attiwell [Empire Productions]

Unwilling Guests. [Book with three loosely inserted, signed POW Theatre-Programmes from german POW-Camp Weinsberg / Germany in August 1944 / The Theatre Plays were put on by four Prisoners of War from New Zealand listing the cast with signatures by nearly all POW who took part in the Plays].

First Edition. Wellington, New Zealand, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1945. 12 x 19cm. 180 pages with 5 illustrations. Map of Italy on pastedowns. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes loosely inserted three programmes for Empire Theatre Productions 1944, Oflag V-A music for Christmas Day and hand written list of German rations for the Prisoners of War per week per man at OFLAG Weinsberg 1945. The programmes all signed by the cast. Very rare documents of POW (New Zealand Prisoners of War in Germany) with Plays reenacted from Playwrights Evadne Price and Ken Attiwell [sic / meaning Australian journalist and playwright Ken Attiwill] (Play called “Once a Crook” / Play by John Money – “Nephew in Waiting” / Play by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman – “You can’t take it with you” – Produced and signed by Jimmy Taylor / Including “A Choral and Orchestral Concert on 31 Oct. 44” //

8. Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

New South Wales with Vignettes and beautiful, engraved illustrations of Sydney (Sydney Cove), The Murray and a Xanthorraea as well as the Seal of New South Wales. Borders between districts beautifully handcoloured: Stanley, Churchill, Cavendish, Ward, Buller, Rouse, Richmond, Larence, Leigh, Gresham, Vernon, Sandon, Macquarie, Brisbane, Durham, Hawes, Parry, Loucester, Inglis, Buckland, Pottinger, Bligh, Phillip, Wellington, Roxburgh, Bathurst, Georgiana, Westmorland, Camden St.Vincent, King, Cowley, BuccleuchWellesley, Auckland, Dampier, Beresford, MonderooLower Darling, Lachlan, MurrumbidgeeBligh, Liverpool Plains, Gwyder, Darling Downs, Canning etc.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Beautifully framed. Size of Frame with map: 40.5 cm x 50.5 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Very good condition.

9. Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Part of South Australia with Vignettes and illustrations of Adelaide, Dingo or Australian Dog, Image of a Nymphicus, Natives on a Catamaran, the Seal of Australia. The map shows Flinders, the York Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, Stanley, Eyre, Gawler, Adelaide, Russell, Hindmarsh the Spencer Gulf and Lake Torrens.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Beautifully framed. Size of Frame with map: 40.5 cm x 50.5 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Very good condition.

10. Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Van Diemen’s Land or Tasmania with beautiful Vignettes and illustrations of Hobart Town, Residence of the Company’s Agent, Circular Head / Thylacinus Cynocephalus. The map shows the old districts of Tasmania: Dorset, Cornwall, Glamorgan, Pembroke, Cumberland, Buckingham, Kent, Devon, Westmorland etc.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with map: 39.5 cm x 46.5 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Very good condition.