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Field Notes in connection with Explorations in British New Guinea. May to October 1891. A. Gibb Maitland. ISBN 978-1-875778-40-9, (New, 2024), A4, 56 pages, illustrated, grams, $
Sam Hazlett. An Explorer/prospector in the News. Ed by Gary Arcus from the collections of Mark Chambers and Peter J. Bridge. ISBN 978-1-875778-35-5, (New, 2024), 240 x 160, illustrated, indexed, French flaps, pages, grams, $
History of Mineral Discoveries [in Western Australia] Revised by A. Gibb Maitland.
ISBN 978-1-875778-26-3, (1904 R 2024), A4, indexed, 27 pages, grams, $22.00*
A valuable but little known early record.
Killers of the Kimberley. Peter J. Bridge.
ISBN 978-1-875778-57-7, (New, 2025), A4, Indexed, pages, grams, $
Full details of all the pioneers, prospectors, pastoralists, murdered by the local savages up to the 1930s.
The Daybooks and Journals of Yngve Laurell and Rudolf Soderberg of the Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910-1911. Kim Akerman, Margareta Luotsinen, Gun & Gunnar Syren. ISBN 978-1-875778-46-1, (New, 2024), A4, illustrated, indexed, pages, grams, $
The last of Kim Akerman’s translations of the Swedish journals and another important volume on Kimberley anthropology.
Tommy Stock & Micky Ryan. Aboriginal life, and death, on the fringes.
Collated by Peter J. Bridge. ISBN 978-1-875778-43-0, (New, 2024), A4, pages, grams, $22.00*
This collection of descriptions of camp life among the ‘fringe dwellers’ is interesting in the coverage of lives otherwise unrecorded. While some items are repetitious, each entry by a different reporter reveals new information, such as the descriptions of the Chinese boy Jack Hay and new names and the history of the antagonists.
‘Arizona Bill’ Adams, General W.T. Bennett, and John Howell. Americans on the Westralian goldfields. Peter J. Bridge & Geoffrey V. Blackburn.
ISBN 978-1-875778-55-3, (New, 2024), A4, illustrated, pages, grams, $22.00*
“Matt”. A documentary biography of H.A. Ellis, Government Geologist in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Peter J. Bridge. ISBN 978-1-875778-54-6, (New, 2025), A4, pages, illustrated, grams, $
The Battle of Wyndham. Robert Pierce. With a Foreword by Bruno Jordanoff. ISBN 978-1-875778-49-2, (New, 2024), A4, 10 pages, illustrated, grams, $22.00*
The Prospector’s Companion. FCB Vosper. ISBN 978-1-875778- (18**, R 2024), A4