London: Macmillan, 1924. Octavo, 90 photographic plates, folding map. Publisher's gilt cloth, a fine copy. Gilt-pictorial cloth lightly marked and rubbed, with the rear cover lightly scuffed; top edge lightly foxed; stitching slightly cracked at one opening, with a few adjacent gatherings now slightly proud of the edges; essentially a...... More
Tantanoola: Neville Bonney, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. It is highly unlikely that any other edible Australian native plant has created as much interest as the Native peach/Quandong, Santalum acuminatum. This plant is now embedded in Australian folklore and holds nostalgic memories for many people. This fully illustrated book..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2021. illustrations, maps, photographs. Describes the ecological history of food production systems in Australia, showing how Aboriginal food systems collapsed when European farming methods were imposed on bushlands. The industrialised agricultural systems that are now prevalent across the world require constant input of finite resources, and continue..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage..... More
Nedlands: UWA Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map. This excellent guide provides for the first time a comprehensive information on the the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the south-west of Western Australia before European settlement. The authors have recorded information on over 90 of the..... More
Frenchs Forest: New Holland, 2002. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. An exploration of traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines. More
Broome: Magabla Books, 1990. Quarto, colour photographs, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: John Murray, 1889. Octavo, two folding coloured maps, 29 plates, four chromolithographs of Tree Kangaroos, and text illustrations. Publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth, very slight rubbing, otherwise a near fine crisp copy. The first English edition. Lumholtz spent a lot of time in Queensland where he shot a pair of Paradise..... More
Richmond: Explore Australia, 2014. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this gorgeous and compact book, Samantha Martin - the 'Bush Tukka Woman' - shares her knowledge and love of bush tukka as taught to her by her mother and other Aboriginal elders. Her Bush Tukka Guide offers rich and wonderful..... More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This book puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviours inconsistent with the..... More
Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1983. Quarto, colour plates, maps, sunned spine, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Macmillan, 1927. Octavo, two volumes, photographs, fine set in dustwrappers, scarce in this condition. More
London: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, 16 coloured plates, four folding maps, fine set in fine dustwrappers, very scarce in this condition. A condensed account of the four volume 'Horn Expedition'. More
Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this book Annamaria Weldon offers an intimate portrait of the chain of lakes that includes Lake Yalgorup, between Mandurah and Bunbury on Australia's south-west coast. This book contains a suite of poems, with celebrated essays, and photographs and nature notes cognisant..... More