Results: Prahran Mechanics Institute

1.

Early experiences of life in South Australia and an extended colonial history / by John Wrathall Bull.

Bull, John Wrathall, 1804-1886.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Edition: Facsim. ed., 1972.

Imprint: Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1972.

Collation: xvi, 416 p., [1] leaf of plate : ill. ; 21 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	994.23 BUL	Available

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Experiences of a colonist forty years ago : a journey from Port Phillip to South Australia in 1839, and a voyage from Port Phillip to Adelaide in 1846 / by an old hand

Hamilton, George, 1812-1883.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Edition: [2nd ed.]., 1974.

Imprint: Adelaide, SA : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974.

Collation: 84,79,23p. : ill., hbk, ; 22cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	919.4 HAM	Available

8.

Early experiences in South Australia / by James C. Hawker.

Libraries Board of South Australia; Hawker, James C. (James Collins), 1821-1901.;

Collation: 83 p. : front., hbk, ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Main Library	994.23 HAW	Available

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

An Australian youth among desert Aborigines : journal of an expedition among the Aborigines of central Australia / by Lauri E. Sheard ; with an introd. by Charles P. Mountford.

Sheard, Lauri E.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

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

Collation: 122 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., map, hbk, ; 26 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	305.801 JOU SHE	Available

12.

The relations between the settlers and Aborigines in South Australia, 1836-1860 / Kathleen Hassell.

Hassell, Kathleen.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Year: 1966.

Collation: 222 p. ; hbk, 23 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	305.801 SA FRO	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.

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

17.

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

18.

A life given to the Antarctic : Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer / authorized translation by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner.

Suzyumov, E. M.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968.

Collation: 60 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., folded maps, ports., hbk, ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	919.89 MAW SUZ	Available

19.

A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world : Performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years, 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 ... In which is included Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the adventure during the separation of the ships ; Illustrated with maps and charts and a variety of portraits ... and views ... drawn ... by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by the most eminent masters / by James Cook.

Cook, James, Captain. 1728-1779; Furneaux, Tobias, 1735-1781.; Hodges, William, 1744-1797.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1970)

Collation: 2 v. : plates (part fold.) ports. (incl. front.) maps (part fold.) fold. plan., hbk, ; 30 x 24 cm.

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

20.

Journey across the western interior of Australia / by Peter Egerton Warburton ; with an introduction and additions by Charles H. Eden ; edited by H.W. Bates.

Warburton, Peter Egerton, 1813-1889.; Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892.; Eden, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1839-1900.; Libraries Board of South Australia;

Imprint: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968.

Collation: ix, 307 p., [9] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 1 col. map., port., hbk, ; 22 cm.

Collection	Location	Shelf No	Status	Notes
Non-Fiction	Stacks	910.4 WA WAR	Available

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