THOS WELSBY (9 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 135pp, bw ills, bw ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Some damp rippling to last several pages with a little blue colour bleed to margins but remaining an attractive copy. Bribie- the convict fisherman and basket maker of early Bribie Island, and some local history of Bribie Island. Size: 8vo.

1st ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white photos includes frontispiece, pages lightly toned & foxed, reverse side jacket little marked (lightly toned & foxed, edges little rubbed, minor edgewear, flap corners trimmed). 135 pp. Thomas (Thos) Welsby has wriitten an important local history of Bribie Island, plus a brief mention of Myora Mission on North Stradbroke Island. There is a chapter about Bongaree, the Aboriginal guide who accompanied Matthew Flinders. The author has identified Bribie as a Moreton Bay fish-hawking convict but it is uncertain if Bribie was a firstname or surname, but he definitely was a convict who made baskets to earn money. This history turns up some interesting details about the island. The last chapter is about native nomenclature. Welsby was a Queensland politician. A great addition to a collection about Queensland. (The yellow colour of the jacket is lighter than shown in the photo.).

ORIGINAL BLUE HARD BOARD COVERS WITH TITLE - AUTHOR - BRISBANE - AND HALF MADE BASKET ON SPINE IN GOLD. 135 PAGES WITH TWO PAGE INDEX. THERE IS NO JACKET. FRONTISPIECE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO OF S.S. ' KOOPA ' IN BRISBANE RIVER, 1912. S.S. KOOPA WAS THE MEANS OF TRANSPORT FROM THE MAINLAND TO THE ISLAND. THERE ARE 9 OTHER BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF SCENES ON BRIBIE ISLAND, 21.5x13.5cm, COVERS SHOW SHELF WEAR - CORNERS BUMPED - COVERS SHOW SMALL MARKS FRONT AND REAR WITH 1 " inch ( 2.5CM ) ROUND MARK ON FRONT COVER. THIS MAY BE ABLE TO BE REMOVED - HAVE NOT ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE IT 9ND LEFT IT AS FOUND. FRONT AND REAR COVERS SHOW WRINKLES AND EVIDENCE OF WATER MARKS. ON INSIDE FRONT COVER IS A DEDICATION STATING To Ena with best wishes from Glad Xmas 1939. ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE THERE IS A SMALL WHITE PIECE OF PAPER ADHERED TO PAGE WITH INSCRIPTION STATING My Mother's family Andersons had a house on Bribie Island for may years. Ena Anderson was my Mother's Sister - Phem HARRIS. SPINE SOLID AND FIRM - NO PAGES MISSING - NO LOOSE PAGES - NO PAGES TORN OR RIPPED - NO NOTATIONS OR WRITING IN BOOK - THERE IS SOME LIGHT FOXING AND AGE MARKS ON SOME PAGES IN BOOK. THE LAST 6 PAGES ON THE VERY BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER SHOW A SMALL WATER MARK. THERE IS NO WATER MARKING ON ANY OF THE TEXT PAGES OR PHOTOGRAPHS. ALL TEXT AND PHOTOS CLEAR AND BRIGHT. THE AUTHOR, A RESIDENT OF BRIBIE ISLAND - IN THIS BOOK OUTLINES THE NAMING OF BRIBIE ISLAND TO BE AFTER A CONVICT. AGED IN HIS 40's WHO WAS RESIDENT ON THE ISLAND IN THE 1840's. BRIBIE THE CONVICT WAS ABLE TO CONSTRUCT BASKETS, THEN FISH NETS AND LOBSTER NETS. HE BECAME A POPULAR AND WELL KNOWN FIGURE AND MADE A REASONABLE TRADE OUT OF THE SALE OF THE SEAFOOD HE CAUGHT. HE APPARENTLY LEFT BRIBIE ISLAND WITH AN ABORIGINAL WOMAN. THERE IS MUCH WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EUROPEANS AND THE ABORIGINALS. MENTIONED ARE ATROCITIES BY THE ABORIGINALS ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND THE EUROPEANS, AND THE SAME BY THE EUROPEANS ON THE NATIVE POPULATION. MENTIONED ALSO IS THE UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EUROPEANS AND THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION. AT THE REAR OF THE BOOK IS AN EIGHT PAGE NATIVE NOMENCLATURE WITH FOUR PAGES AS A LEXICON OF ENGLISH WORDS WITH ABORIGINAL MEANINGS. TRANSLATIONS FOR BIRDS - TREES - FISH - GENERAL WORDS. BRIBE ISLAND WAS THE FIRST ISLAND IN THE MORETON BAY WATERS TO SEE THE MARK OF A WHITE MAN'S FOOT. MATTHEW FLINDERS WAS THAT PERSON. HE NAVIGATED THE WHOLE EXTENT OF THE BAY, AND CHARTED THE SIX ISLANDS FROM BRIBIE TO RUSSELL NEAR KARRA GARRA. A FASCINATING COMPILATION OF EVENTS SURROUNDING THE HISTORY OF BRIBIE ISLAND - FROM ITS DISCOVERY, THEN ITS SETTLEMENT BY EUROPEANS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NATIVE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES. Despite the worn boards, A NICE COPY OF A HARD TO FIND RARE PIECE OF QUEENSLAND LOCAL HISTORY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. The DJ has some dampstaining at the spine tips areas. The DJ is in a clear protective sleeve.Wear at the lower edge of the boards. Inside the lower edge of the front board has some of the paper removed. The hinges are good. Light paragraph in pencil at the top part of the page listing the illustrations. The inside pages themselves look unmarked. 138 pages with the index. A small history of Bribie Island in the Queensland area of Australia. Scarce.

8.5" x 5.25", bright blue cloth, pp. (1-10) 11-135, plus 2 pp. index, book very good, with minor fishing to top and bottom of covers, dw (now protected) is price-clipped and with corners lightly worn, o/w v.g. 1937 first edition, inscribed on front pastedown: "Mr. Cran with compliments from the author Thos. Welsby Xmas 1937", Mr. Cran was one of the characters mentioned on pp. 32 & 82 of the book in relation to the author's inspection of the original charts of Queensland.

Boards. 1st edition. Octavo, original embossed cloth boards, pp 239. The top four lines of p. 14 have been removed and replaced in typescript. Boards mottled. Lacks front free endpaper. Otherwise complete. A fair copy of an uncommon title. Queensland history.

First edition. First edition. With folding map of the River Brisbane and 9 plates. [viii], 221 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on front pastedown, "With Compliments from Tho Welsby Author, Oct 6, 1913" Original cloth, stamped in gilt on upper cover. Binding worn, spine defective (top 2 inches perished) With folding map of the River Brisbane and 9 plates. [viii], 221 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

9" x 6", navy grained cloth, blindstamped borders to both boards, gilt title to upper board, gilt bands and titles to spine, lower corners rubbed, light foxing to early & late leaves, fine condition, collector's name & address on both pastedowns. No. 224 of a limited edition of 300 copies, signed by Welsby, scarce.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Signed Limited Edition. xiv, 294, 2 plates. Prev owner's signature on the ffep and at the centre of the title page. Prelims, endpages and page edges heavily foxed. Occasional foxing in margins. Or blue cloth, edge-worn with three tears in the cloth at the spine, frayed at the spine head. Gilt titles on the spine (faded) and on the front board (not faded). Number 119 of an edition of 300 copies signed by Thos Welsby. Scarce. Size: 8vo.