Numbers 325, 326, 327, 328 In order to conserve space, where practicable, the reference (325:40 ) has been placed after the subject rather than under. N.B. Booksellers, Libraries, Presses and Universities are listed under these headings and not separately. Argonauts Return, 325:31 Armour, Robert Coutts, 328:124-139 Australia in the Antartic, 325:31 Australian Agricultural Company, 326:56 … Continue reading 'BIBLIONEWS' – INDEX FOR 2000
Category: 2001-06
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2001. xiii, 283pp. ISBN 0 642 10730 0. $A59.95. Sydney, Focus Publishing, 2001. 175pp. ISBN 187 535 966. $A59.95. Two commemorative volumes from the National Library of Australia (NLA hereafter) and the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW hereafter) provide fascinating approaches to the recording and marketing of the … Continue reading 'Remarkable Occurrences: The National Library Of Australia. First Hundred Years 1901-2001.' (Edited by Peter Cochrane): and 'Celebrating 100 Years Of The Mitchell Library.'
In Australia and many other countries the holding of lotteries is now taken for granted. But Australia’s first lottery, in 1849, was founded on disaster, was surrounded by controversy, and was probably illegal. The disaster was the virtual collapse of the economy of the Colony of New South Wales in the early 1840s. This crisis … Continue reading Historic Ephemera: Tickets in Australia's First Lottery
Looking at what there was up to the 1940s, our best known early work is Out of the Silence by Erle Cox. If there was a Great Australian Science Fiction Novel outside the regular field, we would have thought of this one. It appeared first as a serial in the Melbourne Argus in 1919, was … Continue reading Australian Science Fiction (Part II)