Australiana

Sun Books South Melbourne 1985. 8vo. Illust.  86p.  Soft Cover  A collection of recipes from the kitchens of famous international chefs for soups, appetisers  pastry wraps, smoked trout, sauces and stuffings together with stories and cartoons by this well known radio and TV chef. –Fine

Launceston 1973, 8vo Illust 300p including adverts, soft cover.  Foreword by Sir Peter Crisp.  The story of the creation of one of the best trout fisheries of the world.  Produced by the Northern Tasmanian Fisheries Association to commemorate 75 years of service to angling.  - Very Good   

G Robertson Sydney, 1900, Folio oblong, 58pp, Dark Green hide grain cloth cover with gilt edges and titles.  Includes seventeen colour plates by the author. As well as his interest in his art Murray has been able to incorporate his other love, for fishing, into several  sections of the publication.  He refers to bream and trout fishing in the Derwent, the Huon and the Great Lake.   Several pages separating from the spine but overall this is  Good condition.   

Angus and Robertson Sydney,  1972, 1^stEdn., 8vo, Illust, 241pp. D/J. The autobiography of an outstanding Australion who was responsible for the establishment of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC)  which led the development of the Australian aviation industry from World War 1 through World War 2 .  During WW2 the CAC employed over 10,000 workers  and provided the Boomerang, the Wirraway and Wackett bomber to the RAAF. He was responsible for selecting and building the American designed Mustang used in the Korean War.  -Fine  

Rigby Ltd   Adelaide, 1968 1^stEdn., 8vo, Illust, 206pp, Card cover, The journalist author tells how she penetrated many remote parts of Tasmania often the first woman to do so. She met scallopers, miners, timbermen, light house keepers, fishermen, trappers and sea farers.  Includes a chapter on fishing "The  Rise” with a summary of the introduction of salmonids into Tasmania and fishing the famous Shannon Rise. – Fine.  

Rigby Ltd Adelaide, 1968, 8vo, Illust, 206pp, Pictorial Boards, The journalist author tells how she penetrated many remote parts of Tasmania often the first woman to do so. She met scallopers, piners, miners, timbermen, light house keepers, fishermen, trappers and sea farers. Includes a chapter on fishing 'The Rise' with a summary of the introduction of salmonids into Tasmania and fishing the famous Shannon Rise. Ex lib. - Good.

McMillan & Co. London, 1896 Colonial Library edn, Australian and Indian edition, 12mo, Illust, 307pp. (see Ferguson 5764). Blue cloth, Illust by F Seth. Includes angling methods and descriptions of popular angling species and marsupials, placentals, monotremes, waterfowl, wading birds, perching birds, scratchers, birds of prey, reptilesand invertebrates. - Very Good.

Tabletop Press O’Connor ACT,  1991 1^St Edn,  8vo, Illust, 222pp, D/J,  Kosciusko's early history was developed by the exploits of nineteenth-century pathfinders like Strzelecki, the man who named the mount and surveyor Townsend and many that followed them.  These  visitors from a wide range of occupations and interests left an indelible mark on the area. This is their story. Twelve page bibliography. With eighty illustrations and eleven maps. -Fine.   

Sun Nature Book series Melbourne,  4to, Illust, 43pp, soft cover. Author collaborated with Tom Iredale (Conchologist) & Gilbert Whitley (Ichthyologist). An account of fishes, shells, crustaceans, corals, and other aquatic invertebrates, but also touches on mammals and birds which live by the water. 3 colour plates and many b/w photographs. - Very Good.

Dagraja Press Hackett ACT.  1985 4to Illust. 61p. Pictorial card cover. Based on Gales newspaper articles in the Queanbeyan Times on his journeys into the area around Canberra and the Monaro area. Includes a reprint of Gales rarely seen books "Trout Fishing on the Goodradigbee.” and Yarrongabilly Caves. -Very Good