OUR ISLAND HOME. A Tasmanian Sketchbook. By Louisa A. Meredith. The Plates Printed in Autotype, from the Author's Pencil Drawings. Hobart Town. Walch & Sons. 1879. Folio. Original decorated cloth (sl rubbed) 44 leaves. a.e.g. Illustrated title page and 12 full-page autotype plates from pencil drawings by the author. Each text page with a decorated border. Slight foxing else a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce.

CABINET TIMBERS OF AUSTRALIA. By R.T.Baker. Syd. W.A.Gullick, Govt. Printer. 1913. Oblong 4to. Or.cl. 186pp. Numerous Col.plates of timbers and b/w plates of uses of timber in furniture and building. A very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. An important reference for the Australian furniture collector.

THE AEROPLANE SPOTTER. Incorporating The Hearkers’ Club Bulletin. A complete unbound set of 217 issues. From Vol.1. No.1. Jan 2, 1941 to Vol.IX. No. 217, July 10, 1946. Each issue 8-12pp. Many photographic and diagrammatic illustrations. Very Scarce.

BIBLIOMANIA or BOOK-MADNESS. By Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Lond. Henry G.Bohn. 1842 (New edition) In spectacularly fine condi¬tion in a splendid full Cape Morocco binding by Riviere with an elaborately gilt spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated with woodcuts.

NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA. By Robert Logan Jack. Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, with a study of the narratives of all the explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents... 2 vols. Melb. George Robertson & Co. 1922. Or.green cloth boards. xvi,366;xiv,403pp. A little foxing. 39 b/w plates. 17 folding maps loose in back pockets as issued. 1st Aust.ed. A very good set of a particularly scarce work on Queensland exploration.

LINDSAY, Norman. HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO HUGH McCRAE. Two leaves written in ink on both sides. n.d. but c.1919. To “Dear Hugh” and signed “Norman.” Norman speaks of his “personal affection” for Hugh and says that the longer he lives with his work the more he considers him a “great poet”. And “a greater poet than Burns because you have a rare spirit.” And much else in this regard. He says the he is doing some etchings for a work by Leon Gellert (Isle of San) but says he would be much happier doing a rare edition by “a truly great poet whose name is Hugh McCrae. Well why not?”

SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. ACROSS AUSTRALIA. 2 vols. Lond. Macmillan & Co. September, 1912. Or.cl. with gilt pictorial decorations on front boards and spines. xiv,254,2;xvii,261,2pp. 7 Colour plates, 365 b/w plates and two folding maps. A very good set. The second edition published three months after the first. The narrative of Spencer & Gillen's expeditions through Central Australia with much on the aborigines, their customs and their way of life. The expeditions were the beginning of modern Australian anthropological fieldwork.

BOLDERWOOD (sic), Rolf. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. A story of life and adventure in the bush and in the goldfields of Australia. Three volumes. Lond. Remington & Co. 1888. Rebound in half calf with cloth sides. 300,300,291pp. The cloth sides sl.discoloured and a little foxing else a very good set of the Extremely Rare first edition of this classic of Australian literature.