Latest Catalogue:

German Australiana & Pacifica 1702 - 1970.

120 rare and unusual German books, maps, manuscripts and photographs on Australia and the Pacific.

The collection includes:

• the first German edition of Dampier's account of his visit to Western Australia (1702) (image)
• a natural history journal with hand-coloured plates and descriptions of shells collected on Cook's voyages (1776-1778), (image)
• an unrecorded map of Bass Strait based on a drawing by Joseph Banks (1802)(image)
• the first children's book entirely devoted to Australia (1804) (image)
• German translations of the the journals of Phillip, Tench, Wilson and Oxley
• an unpublished manuscript account by a German visitor to the International Exhibition in Melbourne in 1888
• fine copies of travel books on Australia, Hawaii, Samoa and German New Guinea
• an album of photographs of the WWI internment camp on Rottnest Island) (image)
• a group of pamphlets on Australia issued by the German Nazi government in the early 1940s
• a collection of material relating to the Frobenius Institut rock art expeditions to the Kimberleys and Arnhem Land) (image)
• and much more.

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