Results: Prahran Mechanics Institute

1.

West, John, 1808-1873;

Year: 1966.

Collation: 2 v. ; hbk, 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	994.6 WES	Available
Non-Fiction	Main Library	994.6 WES	Available

2.

The foundation and settlement of South Australia, 1829-1845 : a study of the colonization movement, based on the records of the South Australian government and on other authoritative documents / by A. Grenfell Price.

Price, A. Grenfell (Archibald Grenfell), 1892-1977;

Edition: facsimile ed., 1973.

Year: 1973.

Collation: xii,260 p. : facsims., maps (part fold.) ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	994.23 PRI	Available

3.

The red centre : man and beast in the heart of Australia / by H.H. Finlayson ; with a foreword by Frederick Wood Jones.

Finlayson, H. H. (Hedley Herbert), 1895-; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Edition: Facsim. ed., 1979.

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1979.

Collation: 146 p., 53 p. of plates (1 folded) ; 24 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	910.4 NT FIN	Available

4.

Twelve views in Adelaide and its vicinity South Australia. / Drawn, etched, and printed by F. R. Nixon. [Adelaide?] 1845.

Nixon, F. R. (Frederick Richard); Libraries Board of South Australia;

Edition: Facsim. ed., 1968]

Imprint: [Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968]

Collation: 12 p. : 12 plates, hbk ; 22 x 29 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	994.231 ADEL PIC	Available

5.

The history of Broken Hill : its rise and progress / compiled and edited by Leonard Samuel Curtis.

Libraries Board of South Australia; Curtis, Leonard Samuel.;

Imprint: Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968.

Collation: 199 p. : illustrated, portraits, facsimiles, hardback ; 32 cm

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	994.49 BROK CUR	Available

6.

The pioneers of the north-west of South Australia, 1856 to 1914 / by Norman A. Richardson.

Richardson, Norman A. (Norman Alexander), 1856-1941.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Edition: Facsimile ed., 1969]

Imprint: [Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969]

Collation: 155 p. : ill., folded map, portraits, hbk ; 23 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	994.23 RIC	Available

7.

Reminiscences of an adventurous and chequered career at home and at the antipodes / by Alexander Tolmer.

Tolmer, Alexander, 1815-1890.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1972.

Collation: 2 vols, 323 p, 306 p., : port., hbk ; 20 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	920 TOL	Available	Vol.1
Non-Fiction	Stacks	920 TOL	Available	Vol. 2

8.

Reminiscences of an old squatter / by Robert Bruce.

Bruce, Robert.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1973].

Collation: 252 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., hbk, ; 19 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	333.3 SA BRU	Available

9.

Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822 / by Philip P. King ; with an appendix containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history.

King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969.

Collation: 2 v. : ill., maps, hbk, ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	910.9 KIN	Available	Volume 2.
Non-Fiction	Stacks	910.9 KIN	Available	Volume 1.

10.

Our inheritance in the hills : being a series of articles / by a special correspondent, [George Sutherland].

Sutherland, George, 1855-1905;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1978.

Collation: iv, [4] p. advertisements, 65 p., [1] leaf of folded plate : ill., map, hbk ; 24 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	910.9 SA SUT	Available

11.

South Australia, in 1842 / by one who lived there nearly four years ; illustrated by drawings.

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971]

Collation: 32 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., 1 fold. map, port., hbk, ; 21 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	919.42 SA SOU	Available

12.

Extracts of letters from Arthur Phillip, Esq. Governor of New South Wales, to Lord Sydney : to which is annexed A Description of Norfolk Island, by Philip Gidley King ... and An Account of expenses incurred in transporting convicts to New South Wales.

Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.; Sydney, Thomas Townshend Viscount, 1733-1800.; King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808;

Imprint: Public Library of South Australia, 1963.

Collation: 26 p. ; hbk, 32 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	351 PHI LET	Available

13.

An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean since the publication of Phillip's voyage / compiled from the official papers, including the journals of Governors Phillip and King and of Lieut. Ball ; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787 to the return of that ship's company in 1792 by John Hunter.

Hunter, John, 1737-1821; Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.; King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808; Ball, Henry Lidgbird, d. 1818; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968.

Collation: 583 p., [16] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps, 1 port., hbk, ; 30 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Electronic Resources	Library Computers	Folder: Description and Travel	Available
Non-Fiction	Main Library	994.402 HUN	Available

14.

An autobiography / [by] Catherine Helen Spence ; [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young].

Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910; Young, Jeanne F. (Jeanne Forster), 1876-1955; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1975.

Collation: 101p. : ill., portraits, hbk ; 22cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	823.1 SPE.CAT	Available

15.

Journal of an experimental trip by the "Lady Augusta', on the River Murray / by James Allen.

Allen, James.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Edition: Facsimile reprint.

Publisher: Libraries Board of South Australia,

Collation: xiii, 86 p. ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	919.4 MUR ALE	Available

16.

Journey of discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales by Messrs W.H. Hovell and Hamilton Hume in 1824 and 1825 / William Hovell and Hamilton Hume, edited by William Bland.

Bland, William, 1789-1868.; Hovell, W. H. (William Hilton), 1786-1875; Hume, Hamilton, 1797-1873.;

Edition: Facsimile ed., 1965 (1831)

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965 (1831)

Collation: 87 p. : hbk ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	919.4 HUM	Available

17.

Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18 / by John Oxley.

Libraries Board of South Australia; Oxley, John, 1783-1828.;

Imprint: [Adelaide, SA : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964.]

Collation: xv, 408 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), 3 fold. maps, folded temperature chart, table, index, hbk ; 28 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	919.4 OXL	Available	Not for loan

18.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 : sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government : including an account of the manners and customs of the aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans / by Edward John Eyre.

Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901.;

Edition: Facsim. ed.

Publisher: Libraries Board of South Australia,

Collation: 2 v. (xviii, 448 ; v, 512 p., [23] leaves of plates) : ill., portraits, hardback ; 22 cm. + 2 maps.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	919.4 EYR	Available	Vol.1
Non-Fiction	Stacks	919.4 EYR	Available	Vol.2

19.

The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay : with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island / compiled from authentic papers which have been obtained from several departments to which have been added the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall with an account of the new discoveries.

Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.;

Edition: Facsimile ed., 1982.

Imprint: Richmond, Vic. ;Hutchinson, 1982.

Collation: x, 298, lxxiv p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps. hardback ; 31 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	910.9 PHI	Available

20.

The last of the Tasmanians or, The black war of Van Diemen's Land. / by James Bonwick.

Bonwick, James, 1817-1906; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: [Adelaide, : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969]

Collation: [viii], 400 p., [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	305.801 TAS MAS BLA	Available

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