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1. Flora Australasica, or, A selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands : containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species most proper for the conservatory or greenhouse, and many of which will endure the cold of our climate, in the open air, with a very little protection; with magnified dissections of their most essential parts, their names, descriptions, & a full account of the best method of cultivation and propagation : the greater part are handsome evergreen shrubs, and may produce sweet-scented flowers; and as they are generally of free growth, and easily managed, they may be considered as the most desirable plants for cultivation : in one volume / by Robert Sweet, F.L.S. author of Hortus Suburbanus Londoniensis, Hortus Britannicus, Botanical cultivator, The British flower garden, Geraniaceæ, Cistineæ, The florist's guide, The British warblers, &c. ; the drawings by E.D. Smith, F.L.S. botanical artist.

Flora Australasica, or, A selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands : containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species most proper for the conservatory or greenhouse, and many of which will endure the cold of our climate, in the open air, with a very little protection; with magnified dissections of their most essential parts, their names, descriptions, & a full account of the best method of cultivation and propagation : the greater part are handsome evergreen shrubs, and may produce sweet-scented flowers; and as they are generally of free growth, and easily managed, they may be considered as the most desirable plants for cultivation : in one volume / by Robert Sweet, F.L.S. author of Hortus Suburbanus Londoniensis, Hortus Britannicus, Botanical cultivator, The British flower garden, Geraniaceæ, Cistineæ, The florist's guide, The British warblers, &c. ; the drawings by E.D. Smith, F.L.S. botanical artist.
Creator:
Sweet, Robert, 1783–1835
Date:
1827-28
Physical Description:
[114] pages, 56 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

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Date:
1937
Physical Description:
149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Narrative of a voyage from Sydney to Torres' Straits, in search of the survivors of the Charles Eaton : in His Majesty's colonial schooner, Isabella, C.M. Lewis, commander / by William Edward Brockett.

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Creator:
Brockett, William Edward
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
54 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Lauren Berkowitz, installations, 1991-1993.

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Creator:
Berkowitz, Lauren
Date:
[1993]
Physical Description:
[62] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A sense of spaces / Sophie Elson ; text by Australian writer David Malouf.

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Creator:
Elson, Sophie
Date:
1998
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([6] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 20 x 74 cm. folded to 20 x 19 cm. attached to boards 21 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Australian invitation card].

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Date:
[approximately 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 card : etching ; 5 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson ; with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

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Creator:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774–1814
Date:
1946
Physical Description:
100, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Turf and heath : Australian racing reminiscences.

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Creator:
Griffiths, Samuel
Date:
1906
Physical Description:
262 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... during the years 1844-1845. By Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt ...

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Creator:
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813–1848
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xx, 544 p. front., plates, 3 fold. maps. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Australia : a popular account of its physical features, inhabitants, natural history and productions : with the history of its colonization ...

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Creator:
Angas, George French, 1822–1886
Date:
[1865]
Physical Description:
viii, 365, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Kanga Creek : an Australian idyll / by Havelock Ellis.

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Creator:
Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:
MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:
[7], 10-68, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. New South Wales : supplement to the work of Foreign field sports.

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Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[18] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, performed between the years 1818 and 1822. By Captain Phillip P. King ... With an appendix, containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history ...

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Creator:
King, Philip Parker, 1793–1856
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold.) 2 fold. maps. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. What I heard, saw and did at the Australian gold fields / by C. Rudston Read.

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Creator:
Read, C. Rudston
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
viii, 327 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Savage life and scenes in Australia and New Zealand : being an artist's impressions of countries and people at the Antipodes ... / by George French Angas.

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Creator:
Angas, George French, 1822–1886
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Australia as it really is, in its life, scenery, & adventure: with the character, habits, and customs of its aboriginal inhabitants, and the prospects and extent of its gold fields. By F. Eldershaw ...

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Creator:
Eldershaw, F
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
270 p. front. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Rambles at the Antipodes : a series of sketches of Moreton Bay, New Zealand, the Murray River and South Australia, and the Overland route / with two maps, and twelve tinted lithographs illustrative of Australian life by S.T. Gill.

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Creator:
Wilson, Edward, 1813–1878
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
iv, 219, 16 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. South Australia and its mines : with an historical sketch of the colony, under its several administrations, to the period of Captain Grey's departure / by Francis Dutton.

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Creator:
Dutton, Francis, 1816–1877
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
x, 361 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Australia.

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Creator:
Russell, Georgia, 1974–
Date:
2003
Physical Description:
1 altered map : hand-cut paper, mounted in Perspex box ; 59 x 69 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of her mother, Gertrude Maud Bersch Bestebreurtje, born in Sydney, Australia, July 30, 1915

20. The picture of Sydney and strangers' guide in New South Wales for 1838 : embellished with forty-three engravings of the public buildings and picturesque land and water views in and near Sydney

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Creator:
Maclehose, James
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
viii, 188 p., [22] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Tate Adams : tropical wood-engravings.

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Creator:
Adams, Tate, 1922–
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
1 booklet (15 p.) + 1 portfolio (5 loose leaves of plates) : ill. ; 37 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Journal de la navigation autour du globe, de la frégate La Thétis et de la corvette L'Espérance, pendant les années 1824, 1825, et 1826 : publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du Département de la marine / par M. le baron de Bougainville ... chef de l'expédition.

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Creator:
Bougainville, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, baron de, 1781–1846
Date:
MDCCCXXXVII [1837]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, tables, 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's land. Accompanied by a geological map, sections, and diagrams, and figures of the organic remains. By P. E. de Strzelecki ...

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Creator:
Strzelecki, Paul Edmund de, Sir, 1796–1873
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
xix, 462 p. front., ill., plates, (1 fold.) maps (part fold. and col.) tables. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Walga Rock.

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Creator:
Elson, Sophie
Date:
[1999?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([10] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 32 x 270 cm. folded to 32 x 27 cm. attached to boards 34 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Australia / by Edwin Carton Booth, F.R.C.I. ; illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, N. Chevalier, etc.

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Creator:
Booth, Edwin Carton
Date:
[1873-1876]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Some of my bush friends in Tasmania; native flowers, berries, and insects, drawn from life, illustrated in verse, and briefly described by Louisa Anne Meredith ...

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Creator:
Meredith, Charles, Mrs., 1812–1895
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
2 p.., ii, 106 p. 12 col. plates. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Sketches at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition / by John Dinsdale.

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Creator:
Dinsdale, John, active 1884–1890
Date:
[1886]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 14 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes / exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'empereur et roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et La Goelette le Casuarina, pendent les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 : publié par dećret impérial, sous le ministère de M. de Champagny et rédigé par M. F. Péron ; Naturalise de l'Expédition, Correspondant de l'Insitut de France ; de la Société de l'École de médecine de Paris, des Société́́́́ philomatique et médicale de la même ville.

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Creator:
Péron, François, 1775–1810
Date:
1807-1816
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The Asiatic Islands and New Holland : being a description of the manners, customs, character, and state of society of the various tribes by which they are inhabited.

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Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The first map of Australia [cartographic material] : from Nicholas Vallard's atlas, 1547, in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. at Middle Hill, 1856.

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Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
1 map : col. ; 37.6 x 55.4 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. An account of the English colony in New South Wales : with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c., of the native inhabitants of that country : to which are added, some particulars of New Zealand / compiled, by permission from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King, by David Collins, Esquire, late judge advocate and secretary of the colony ; illustrated by engravings.

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Creator:
Collins, David, 1756–1810
Date:
1798-1802
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Sketches in Australia and the adjacent islands, selected from a number taken during the surveying voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" and "Bramble," under the command of Capt. F.P. Blackwood, R.N. during the years 1842-46. By Harden S. Melville, draftsman to the expedition.

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Creator:
Melville, Harden Sidney, active 1837–1882
Date:
[1849]
Physical Description:
4 p.., 25 col. plates. 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Views of Australian scenery / painted by W. Westall ; and engraved by Byrne.

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Creator:
Westall, William, 1781–1850
Date:
[Feb. 12, 1814]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, & c. &c. / from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. ; with a supplement of New South Wales ; containing one hundred and ten plates.

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Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, 1758 or 1759–1817
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], 170, [2] p., [110] leaves of plates : col ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Bark paintings : aboriginal art of Australia.

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Date:
1957
Physical Description:
6 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Dieman's Land during the years 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833 / by Lieut. Breton ...

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Creator:
Breton, William Henry, -1887
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 476 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. / from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. ; containing one hundred plates ; with a supplement of New South Wales.

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Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, Captain
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[180] p., [110] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales / by T.L. Mitchell ...

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Creator:
Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone), 1792–1855
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The friend of Australia, or, A plan for exploring the interior, and for carrying on a survey of the whole continent of Australia / by a Retired officer ; illustrated with a map of Australia, and five other plates.

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Creator:
Maslen, T. J. (Thomas J.)
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
xxiv, 428 p., [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Terza natura : Lauren Berkowitz, installations, 1989-1993.

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Creator:
Berkowitz, Lauren
Date:
[1994?]
Physical Description:
[20] p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Stepping out: three centuries of shoes / by Louise Mitchell with Lindie Ward ; foreword by June Swann.

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Creator:
Mitchell, Louise, 1961–
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
80 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

42. Comfort and judgement : nineteenth-century advice manuals and the scripting of Australian identity / Gene Bawden.

Comfort and judgement : nineteenth-century advice manuals and the scripting of Australian identity / Gene Bawden.
Creator:
Bawden, Gene
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
lviii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

43. The art movement in Australia : design, taste and society, 1875-1900 / Andrew Montana.

The art movement in Australia : design, taste and society, 1875-1900 / Andrew Montana.
Creator:
Montana, Andrew
Date:
c2000
Physical Description:
xvi, 271 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

44. An Australian artist in London : the untold story of Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957) and his friendship with Walter Sickert / by Roger Staton ; with additional research and analysis by Sheilagh Wilford.

An Australian artist in London : the untold story of Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957) and his friendship with Walter Sickert / by Roger Staton ; with additional research and analysis by Sheilagh Wilford.
Creator:
Staton, Roger
Date:
2013
Physical Description:
xiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

45. National Photographic Portrait Prize.

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Date:
[2019]-
Physical Description:
volume : chiefly portraits (some color) ; 19 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

46. Outlines of Australian art : the Joseph Brown Collection / [by] Daniel Thomas.

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Creator:
Thomas, Daniel, 1931–
Date:
[1974], c1973
Physical Description:
74 p. : chieflyplates (part col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

47. Modernism and feminism : Australian women artists, 1900-1940 / Helen Topliss.

Modernism and feminism : Australian women artists, 1900-1940 / Helen Topliss.
Creator:
Topliss, Helen, 1946–
Date:
c1996
Physical Description:
232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

48. Things visible and invisible : Annie Hogan, Christopher Howlett, Anne Wallace / Linda Michael.

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Creator:
Michael, Linda
Date:
1998
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

49. Radical revisionism : an anthology of writings on Australian art / edited by Rex Butler.

Radical revisionism : an anthology of writings on Australian art / edited by Rex Butler.
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
308 p. : ill. [16 p. col plates] ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

50. S.T. Gill and his audiences / Sasha Grishin.

S.T. Gill and his audiences / Sasha Grishin.
Creator:
Grishin, Sasha
Date:
2015
Physical Description:
255 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library