43. Australia: Description And History

  • [Arthur Phillip]. Voyage du Gouverneur Phillip à Botany-Bay. Paris 1791.

  • James Backhouse, A Narrative or a Visit to the Australian Colonies. Hamilton, Adams, & Co. London 1843.

  • C W Dilke. Greater Britain. London 1869.

  • H M Franklyn. A Glance at Australia in 1880. Melbourne 1881.

  • Teodor Knos. Bilder ur Lefvet i Australien. Stockholm 1875.

  • Comte de Beauvoir.  Australie: Voyage Autour du Monde par le Comte de Beauvoir.  14th ed, E Plon, Paris 1883.

  • S W Silver & Co. Handbook for Australia and New Zealand. 4th ed, London 1884.

  • J A Froude. Oceana. New ed, London 1886.

  • D V Lucas. Australia and Homeward. Toronto 1888 .

  • (f) J E M Vincent. The Australian Irrigation Colonies on the River Murray, in Victoria and South Australia. London, no date [1887].

  • Federal Council of Australasia. Journals and Printed Papers of the Federal Council of Australasia. Vol III, Hobart 1889.

  • 'Max O'Rell' [Paul Blouet]. John Bull & Co. London 1894.

  • Edward Kinglake. The Australian at Home. London, no date [c 1895 - Burge-Lopez say 1892].

  • A C Bicknell.  Travel and Adventure in Northern Queensland.  Longmans Green, London 1895.

  • Michael Davitt. Life and Progress in Australia. London 1898.

  • Dugald Ferguson. Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand. 4th ed, Edinburgh 1908 [1901]. A fictitious narrative, but useful for for its description of slab construction.

  • E J Brady. Australia Unlimited. Melbourne, no date [c 1915].

  • S U Smith, &c [eds]. Art in Australia, no 5. Sydney 1918. Includes W H Wilson, 'On Richmond Bridge', with two watercolour sketches.

  • Norman McGeorge [ed]. The Arts in Australia. Melbourne1948. Includes Brian Lewis, 'Architecture in Australia'..

  • H G R Johns. Metropolitan Government in Western Australia. Crawley [Western Australia] 1950.

  • Bert Broadhead, 100 Years in Timber.  Abbey Publishing, Sydney 1965.

Emigrants' manuals

  • Henry Capper. Capper’s South Australia, &c. 3rd ed, author, London 1839 [1837].

  • H W Haygarth. Recollections of Bush Life in Australia. London 1848: bound with

  • J H D Hay. Western Barbary. London 1844.

  • Sidney Smith. Whether to Go, and Whither. London 1849. bound with The Settler's New Home: see sction 55.

  • F Lancelott. Australia as it is. 2 vols, London 1852.

  • J D Lang. The Australian Emigrant's Manual. London 1857.

  • Samuel Sidney. The Three Colonies of Australia. London 1853. Two copies.

  • (p) Chambers's Information for the People, new series no 19, 'Emigration to Australia'. Edinburgh, no date [?c1852: Burge-Lopez catalogue 242 item 296 dates this to 1841].

  • Australia, its Scenery, Natural History, and Resources. London, no date [1854): bound with:

  • Australia and its Settlements. London, no date [1854].

  • F Eldershaw. Australia as it really is, in its Life, Scenery, & Adventure, &c. London 1854.

  • Samuel Mossman. Our Australian Colonies. London, no date [1866].

  • T H Braim. New Homes. London 1870.

Social history &c.

  • C E W Bean [ed]. The Anzac Book. London 1916.

  • Herbert Basedow. The Australian Aboriginal. Adelaide 1929 [1925].

  • A Law. How the Church came to us in Australia. 6th ed [Melbourne] no date.

  • Adrian de Brune [ed]. Fifty Years of Progress in Australia 1878-1928. Sydney 1929.

  • The Australia Handbook, vol 15, no 2 [Spring 1939]. A periodical publication of the Australia Hotel, Sydney.

  • L M Pyke. Australian Etiquette. Melbourne 1940.

  • (p) F Oswald Barnett & A G Pearson. The Poverty of the People in Australia. Melbourne 1944.

  • (p) F O Barnett. I Hear the Tramp of Millions. Melbourne, no date [?1945: ref Russell, The Slum Abolition Movement]. Copy autographed 'F Oswald Barnett' and inscribed 'Theo from Os'. Poems on poverty &c. by the prominent housing reformer.

  • F O Barnett. How Lovely is this World and Other Poems. Melbourne 1961. Copy autographed by Barnett. Consists generally of more conventional religious poems, but includes 'I hear the tramp of millions' and four or five others from the earlier anthology.

Reference material

  • William Fairfax [ed]. Handbook to Australasia. Melbourne 1859.

  • F C Jarrett. The Mercantile and Professional Director and Desk Companion for 1865. Melbourne 1865

  • Charles Lyne, The Industries of New South Wales. Government Printer, Sydney 1882.The Australasian Farmer. Melbourne 1885.

  • Jonathan Periam [adapted R W E MacIvor]. The Pictorial Home and Farm Manual. Sydney 1885. An American text adapted for the Australian colonies by MacIvor.

  • The Australasian Federal Directory of Commerce, Trades and Professions, &c. Melbourne & Sydney, no date [c 1886].

  • David Blair. Cyclopaedia of Australia. Melbourne 1881.

  • 'Zetetic'. Descriptive Australia and General Guide. Adelaide 1889.

  • The Australasian Handbook. London 1906.

  • J N Whittet et al. The Farm and its Industries. Sydney 1921.

  • A W Jose & H J Carter [eds]. The Illustrated Australian Encyclopaedia. 2 vols, Sydney 1925.

  • (f) Ambrose Pratt [ed]. The National Handbook of Australia's Industries. Melbourne 1934.

  • (f) A E Jarman & H B Williamson. Australian Plant Drawings [8 folios of loose plates]. Melbourne, no date.

  • A Chisholm et al [eds]. The Australian Encyclopaedia. 10 vols, Sydney 1963.

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