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Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. pp.1-17 & 2 black and white line illustrations. Contained in a complete copy of The Records of the Australian Museum. Vol.III No.1. Printed wrappers. EX-College library with rubber stamp on front cover and title page with 'withdrawn' stamps. Hinges strengthened with archive tape. The text and plates clean. A fair copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Adelaide, Government Printer, 1907. Folio, 22 pages plus 12 pages of plates. Wrappers; a fine copy. A supplement to Parliamentary Paper 55 of 1906 ('Northern Territory of South Australia, north-western district. Reports, geological and general, resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905'). Incorporated in this supplement are details of 'the diamond drill boring operations in search of gold reefs at the Union and the Ironstone Blow, and in search of coal at Port Keats; bringing the history of the Northern Territory drill operations up to date'.

Sydney : Dept. of Mines, 1918. Series: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological series, no. 3. Large quarto (305 x 240 mm), publisher's cloth-backed printed papered boards (sunned and lightly marked); hinges cracked (as usual); frontispiece portrait of Edmund Milne, Chief Commissioner for Railways and Tramways, New South Wales, pp. vii, 104, plus 39 unnumbered leaves of b/w photographic plates (including 1 folding map); pale foxing to the outermost leaves, else internally excellent, a good copy. An important census of all known Aboriginal carved trees in New South Wales. 'Terminology, early accounts, classification, glossary of terms; taphoglyphs, use as grave markers, method of carving, how situated, numbers to an interment, position in relation to graves, comparison of designs, comparison with designs on weapons & implements, meaning, antiquity, distribution - 64 N.S.W. specimens; described (with locations noted on map at end), others Goulburn River district, Wide Bay, Diamantina River; teleteglyphs, uses, how carved, sizes, sites, number to a particular site, position on bora ground, designs, distribution - 32 sites in N.S.W. described (locations noted on map), others Queensland; burial posts - Melville & Bathurst Islands; comparison with other races as source of culture; Appendix III - stone structures, circles lower Murray River, Lake Macquarie, Mount Elephant plains, Coopers Creek, Rawlinson Range; mounds & heaps - between Glenelg River & Hanover Bay, Gordons Springs, north shore of Botany Bay; cairns - Cape York Island; plates show example of standing carved trees, illustrations of designs, plan of bora ground, Dumiendi Holding, showing location of trees.' (Trove).