Australharmony - Bibliography to 1900

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A bibliography of Australian colonial music part 1 - to 1900

Dr GRAEME SKINNER (University of Sydney)

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To cite this:

Graeme Skinner (University of Sydney), "A bibliography of Australian colonial music part 1 - to 1900", Australharmony (an online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia): https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/bibliography-to-1900.php; accessed 9 June 2026

Bibliographic notes:

This resource has the dual purpose of listing materials of general relevance to Australian colonial music, and of serving as a bibliography for the other pages of this site.

Many of the earlier works cited, and some of the later ones, make only isolated references to music and musical practice. However, such scarce references are musically and historically important enough not merely to warrant, but to demand, their inclusion in any comprehensive bibliography of Australian music.

Because of the latter, some items make only occasional or no direct reference to Australian music, but are nevertheless of general relevance to the subject and the site.

Entries are arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by author (or where no clear author, other identifier).

Entries are formatted for ease of reuse in footnotes and endnotes.

Bibliographic data appears in black type; reviews are listed, and notes and comments given in lighter type; and occasionally key extracts from the texts themselves are given in yellow-ochre type.

Most entries also have live links to corresponding bibliographic record in TROVE or another relevant site (e.g. WorldCat).

Where a work is digitised and freely available online, live persistent links are given (where possible https).

Where a full-colour digitised version is available (e.g. at ) it is listed above black-and-white versions (e.g. at ).

Persistent links are also given to some digitised works with restricted or paid access (e.g. journal articles in JSTOR).

As a general rule, colonial music scores, modern editions of musical works, and recordings are not included here. Many of these, however, have been specially tagged as "Australian colonial music" within TROVE, and may be found by searching (for instance, by decade or year of publication) at

Curated websites are not generally listed; however, many resources currently available only in solid state digitised form are listed.

Not yet included here are many items of more particular interest (e.g. to individual musical works, individuals or institutions) listed elsewhere in the site's checklists and registers.

All major works of general Australian history have been, or will be, listed; for the colonial period (part 1), where possible every separate edition is given its own entry and the relationship between editions noted.

For the colonial period (part 1), most newspaper articles referred to elsewhere in the site are not also inculded here. However, key articles that are specifically historical, discursvive, or of wider and general relevance, will be progressively added. Many of these, meanwhile, may be found among specially tagged 19th-century items at

For the post-1900 period (part 2), newspaper articles of special or general relevance to colonial music will be progressively added. Many of these, meanwhile, may be found among specially tagged 20th- and 21st-century items at

In addition, any other books, journal articles, pictures, and musical works tagged by Australharmony inside TROVE may be viewed under the public tag

1770s

1773

Hawkesworth 1773

John Hawkesworth (ed.), An account of the voyages undertaken ... for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and sucessively ... performed by Commodore Byron ... in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks ... volume 3

(London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1773)

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Parkinson 1773

Sydney Parkinson

A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his majesty's ship, the Endeavour: faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughtsman to Joseph Banks, esq., on his late expedition with Dr. Solander, round the world

(London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, the editor, 1773)

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1776

Burney 1776 (AGHM 1)

Charles Burney

A general history of music: from the earliest ages to the present period: to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the music of the ancients ... volume the first

(London: Printed for the author, 1776)

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1780s

1787

Fowell 1787

Newton Fowell, MS letters, 1787-

Sydney, SL-NSW, Mitchell Library

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(modern edition online)

[4 March 1787] There is Music for [Shield's] Rosina set for the Guitar. Thank you to send it if the ship comes to Porstm[ou]th.

1788

Callam 1788

James Callam

Botany Bay: a Letter from Mr. James Callam, surgeon of His Majesty's Ship Supply, to his Brother Mr. Alexander Callam, of East-Smithfield, London; containing an account of a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay, Jackson's Bay, &c. in New Holland, with a short description of the inhabitants, and settlement of the colony

(London: Printed for A. Cleugh; C. Stalker; J. New; and M. Watson, 1788), volume 3

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Worgan 1788-

George Boucher Worgan

MS letters and journal, 1788-

Sydney, SL-NSW, Mitchell Library

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Online edition, from modern edition (Sydney: William Dixon Foundation, 1978)

1789

Authentic 1789

Anonymous

An authentic and interesting narrative of the late expedition to Botany Bay, as performed by Commodore Phillips and the fleet of seven transport ships ... containing an ... account of their ... voyage ... and safe arrival ... with ... descriptions of Jackson's Bay & Lord Howe's Island written by an officer

(London: Printed by W. Bailey, H. Lemoine, and J. Parsons, 1789)

(facsimile edition 1978)

Home 1789

Edward Home

"Some account of New Holland, and the discovery of a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean; in a letter from Edward Home, carpenter, to a gentleman in Edinburgh"

The Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany 10 (July 1789), 3-6

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Phillip 1789

Arthur Phillip et al.; John Stockdale

The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island compiled from authentic papers which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789)

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(modern edition online)

(Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, J. Moore, et al., 1790)

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[Review], The Analytical Review (January 1790), 1-10; (February 1790 ), 146-54; (March 1790), 284-90

[Review], The Critical Review (January 1790), 82-93

[Review], The Monthly Review (February 1790), 157-168

Tench 1789

Watkin Tench

A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay: with an account of New South Wales, its productions, inhabitants, &c.: to which is subjoined a list of the civil and military establishments at Port Jackson

(London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1789)

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Tench 1789 (3rd edn)

Watkin Tench

A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay: with an account of New South Wales, its productions, inhabitants, &c, to which is subjoined, a list of the civil and military establishments at Port Jackson, to which is now added, a postscript, dated Sydney Cove, October 1, 1788

(London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1789)

(1938 facsimile edition)

1790s

1790

Cook (Tench) 1790

[James Cook; Watkin Tench]

A new, authentic collection of Captain Cook's voyages round the world: undertaken by order of his present majesty for making new discoveries, &c. &c ...

(Birmingham: Printed by R. Martin, 1790)

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At end, an unattributed reprint from Tench 1789, "Description of Botany Bay and Port Jackson, with an account of New South Wales, its productions, inhabitants, &c"

And Postscript, "Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, New South Wales, October 1st, 1788", signed "WATKIN TENCH, Captain of Marines", 627-28

Phillip 1790 (2nd and 3rd editions)

Arthur Phillip et al.; John Stockdale

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1790)

... third edition

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1790)

First edition Phillip 1789

White 1790

John White

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions

(London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1790)

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(modern edition online)

1791

Dawes 1790-91

William Dawes

MS. 41645, Notebooks of William Dawes (1790-91), Sydney, NSW, 1790-91

London, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies

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Book B, 31: "A Song of New South Wales"

1792

Bradley 1786-92

William Bradley

MS journal, A voyage to New South Wales, December 1786-May 1792

Sydney, SL-NSW

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(modern edition online)

Hunter 1792

John Hunter

An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island: with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean since the publication of Phillip's voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that ship's company to England in 1792

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1792)

For digitised version, see the more common Hunter 1793

1793

Hunter 1793

John Hunter

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1 January 1793)

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(modern edition online)

Hunter 1893 (abridged)

John Hunter

An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island: including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, since the publication of Phillip's voyage: with an abridged account of the new discoveries in the South Seas ... To which is prefixed a life of the author and illustrated with a map of the country by Lieut. Dawes and other embellishments

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793)

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Tench 1793

Watkin Tench

A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson in New South Wales, including an accurate description of the situation of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions: taken on the spot

(London: Sold by G. Nicol and J. Sewell, 1793)

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1794

Johnson 1794

Richard Johnson

An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island

(London: Printed for the author and sold by Mathews, Deighton, Trap, and Goff and Amey, 1794)

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Thompson 1794

George Thompson

Slavery and Famine, punishments for sedition; or, an account of the miseries and starvation at Botany Bay ...

(London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1794)

... second edition (London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1794)

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"Extract for the journal of G. Thompson", 16 (second pagination)

(16): They are very quick in learning to speak English, and will repeat any sentence after you immediately, particularly any tune. When in their canoes, they keep constantly singing while they paddle along. They have the French tune of Malbrook very perfect; I have heard a dozen or twenty singing it together.

1795

"Barrington" 1795, 1796

George Barrington (attrib.)

A voyage to New South Wales; with a description of the country; the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the natives, in the vicinity of Botany Bay

(London: Printed by C. Lowndes, [1795])

(London: Printed and sold for the proprietor by H. D. Symonds, [1795 and/or 1796])

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(Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796)

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1796

1797

Southey 1797

Robert Southey ["W. T."; Wat Tyler]

"Botany Bay eclogues ... Oxford, 1794"

[Complete in] Poems by Robert Southey, second edition

(Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs, for Joseph Cottle, and sold in London by Messrs. Robinsons, 1797), 91-116

"Botany Bay eclogue" [Once more to daily toil]

Monthly Review (1797), 299

New York Magazine (September 1797), 498-99

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1798

Collins 1798

David Collins

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

(London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798)

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(modern edition online)

For second volume see Collins 1802; second edition, volumes 1 and 2 reprinted in one as Collins 1804

1799

Labillardière 1799

Jacques Labillardière

Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse fait par ordre de l'Assemblée constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ère. et la 2ce. année de la République françoise

(Paris: H. J. Jansen, 1799), 2 volumes, and atlas

Both volumes

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Atlas

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See also Labillardière 1800a, b, c, and 1802

1800s

1800

"Barrington" 1800, 1801

George Barrington (attrib.)

A sequel to Barrington's voyage to New South Wales, comprising an interesting narrative of the transactions and behaviour of the convicts; the progress of the colony

(London: Printed and published by C. Lowndes, 1800)

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(London: Printed and published by C. Lowndes, 1801)

(modern online edition after 1801)

(modern online edition)

[The original Voyage, as part 1, and Sequel, as part 2, published together]

A voyage to New South Wales, comprising an interesting narrative ...

(Dublin: P. Wogan ... and J. Stockdale, 1801)

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([London]: J. Sadler, M. Clements, &c., [1801])

Labillardière 1800a

Jacques Labillardière

Relation du voyage a La Recherche de La Pérouse fait par order du gouvernement françois, pendant les années 1791, 92, 93 et 94

(Paris: Chez H. J. Jansen, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1800)

(Londres [London]: Chez Deboffe, 1800), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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From Labillardière 1799

Labillardière 1800b

Jacques Labillardière

Voyage in search of La Pérouse: performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 ... translated from the French

(London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1800), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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(modern edition online)

Volume 2

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(modern edition online)

Labillardière 1800c

Jacques Labillardière

An account of a voyage in search of La Pérouse: undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly of France and performed in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793 in the Recherche and Espérance, ships of war, under the command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux translated from the French of M. Labillardière

(London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1800), 2 volumes and 1 volume of plates

1801

1802

"Barrington" 1802, 1810

George Barrington (attrib.)

The history of New South Wales including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its dependencies ...

(London: Printed for M. Jones, 1802)

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The history of New South Wales including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its dependencies ...

(London: Printed for M. Jones, & Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1810)

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Collins 1802

David Collins

An account of the English colony in New South Wales: from its first settlement in January 1788, to August 1801 ... and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass ... abstracted from the journal of Mr. Bass ... volume two

(London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802)

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(modern edition online)

Second volume to Collins 1789; volumes 1 and 2 reprinted in one as Collins 1804

Labillardière 1802

Jacques Labillardière

(London: Printed for B. Uphill, 1802), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Second edition of Labillardière 1800c

1803

1804

Collins 1804

David Collins

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788, to August 1801 ... to which are added, some particulars of New Zealand ... and an account of a voyage ... by which the existence of a strait separating Van Diemen's Land from the continent of New Holland was ascertained ... the second edition

(London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1804)

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1805

Turnbull 1805

John Turnbull

A voyage round the world, in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804: in which the author visited the principal islands in the Pacific Ocean, and the English settlements of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island

(London: Printed for Richard Phillips by T.Gillet, 1805), 3 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Volume 3

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Australian visits in volume 3

See also first US edition, in one volume (Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1810)

1806

1807

Péron 1807

François Péron

Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, exécuté par ordre de a majeste l'emprereur et roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 ... tome premier

(Paris: de L'imprimerie Impériale, 1807)

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1808

1809

Péron 1809 (Peron 1809)

François Péron (Peron)

A voyage of discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, performed by order of the emperor Napoleon, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804 ... translated from the French

(London: Richard Phillips, 1809)

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Translation of Péron 1807

See also "ACCOUNT OF PORT JACKSON AND SYDNEY TOWN, NEW SOUTH WALES [Translated from the Voyage of Discovery of M. Peron, between 1800 and 1804]", The literary panorama (December 1809), columns 497-502; and (February 1810), columns 913-24 (". . . the most particular, and the most interesting account of Port Jackson, and of Sydney town, that has yet appeared ...")

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1810s

1810

Turnbull 1810

John Turnbull

(Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1810)

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From Turnbull 1805

1811

Jones 1811

Edward Jones

Musical curiosities: or a selection of the most characteristic national songs and airs ... consisting of Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Lapland, Malabar, New South Wales

(London: Printed for the author, 1811)

15, A song of the natives of New South Wales, transcribed from the singing of Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne in London in 1793

[Review], The Monthly Magazine (1 May 1811), 368

Mann 1811

David D. Mann

The present picture of New South Wales

(London: John Booth, 1811)

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(modern edition online)

Paterson 1811

[G. Paterson]

The history of New South Wales, from its first discovery to the present time; comprising an accurate and interesting description of that vast and remarkable country; and of the persons, manners, and customs, of the natives; with a succinct detail of the establishment and progress of the English colony; including every important particular relative to the situation and conduct of the convicts; to which is added, a description of Van Dieman's Land and Norfolk Island, with reflections on the importance of the Southern Continent. Compiled from the best and most recent authorities, by a literary gentleman

(Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent, 1811)

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1812

1813

Clark 1813

John Heaviside Clark

Field sports, &c. &c. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales; with ten plates, by the author

(London: Edward Orme, 1813)

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Especially "Dance" (text) and "The Dance" image

(text)

(image)

1814

Flinders 1814

Matthew Flinders

A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803 in His Majesty's ship The Investigator ...

(London: Printed by W. Bulmer and published by G. and W. Nicol, 1814), 2 volumes and atlas

Volume 1

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(modern edition online)

Volume 2

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(modern edition online)

1815

1816

Hassall 1816

Rowland Hassall

Hymns for the eighth anniversary of the Parramatta Sunday School

([Parramatta, NSW: Mission Press, 1816])

[MS note: "1816, Printed at Parramatta at house of Mr. R. Hassall at the Mission Press Parramatta"]

Includes words of four hymns: "Happy the child whose tender years"; "Father of Mercies! still to thee"; "Come let our voices join"; "From all that dwell below the skies"

1817

O'Hara 1817

James O'Hara

The history of New South Wales

(London: Printed for the author; and sold by J. F. Hamilton, 1817)

1818

O'Hara 1818

James O'Hara

The history of New South Wales. Second edition

(London: J. Hatchard, 1818)

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1819

Clark 1819

John Heaviside Clark et al.

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

(London: H. R. Young, 1819)

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After Clark 1813; Dance, 166, and plate

Field 1819

Barron Field

First fruits of Australian poetry

(Sydney: Printed by George Howe, 1819)

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See also second edition Field 1823a, and "third" edition in Field 1825

Wentworth 1819

William Charles Wentworth

A statistical, historical, and political description of the colony of New South Wales, and its dependent settlements in Van Diemen's Land ... by ... a native of the colony

(London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1819)

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(modern edition online)

Also second edition Wentworth 1820

1820s

1820

Jeffreys 1820

Charles Jeffreys

Van Diemen's Land: geographical and descriptive delineations of the lsland of Van Diemen's Land

(London: J. M. Richardson, 1820)

Based partly on MS account of George William Evans, later published as Evans 1822

"A PORT PHILLIP PIONEER", The Mercury (30 August 1876), 2

Oxley 1820

John Oxley

Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18

(London: John Murray, 1820)

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Wentworth 1820

William Charles Wentworth

A statistical, historical, and political description of the colony of New South Wales, and its dependent settlements in Van Diemen's Land ... the second edition ... by ... a native of the colony

(London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1820)

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From Wentworth 1819; see also expanded third edition Wentworth 1824

1821

Wallis 1821

James Wallis

An historical account of the colony of New South Wales and its dependent settlements: in illustration of twelve views engraved by W. Preston from drawings taken on the spot by Captain Wallis

(London: Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Moyes, 1821)

Wallis's own copy, bound with original drawings by him and Joseph Lycett, is at SL-NSW

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1822

Arago 1822

Jacques Arago

Promenade autour du monde, pendant les anées 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et La Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet ...

(Paris: Leblanc, 1822) 2 volumes and atlas

Tome Premier

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Tome Second

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Atlas historique et pittoresque

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See English translation Arago 1823

Evans 1822

George William Evans

A geographical, historical, and topographical description of Van Diemen's Land, with important hints to emigrants, and useful information respecting the application for grants of land; together with a list of the most necessary articles for persons to take out

(London: John Souter, 1822)

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Some of Evans's material was previously published in Jeffreys 1820

"A PORT PHILLIP PIONEER", The Mercury (30 August 1876), 2

Reid 1822

Thomas Reid

Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: with a description of the present condition of that interesting colony: including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes: also reflections on seduction and its general consequences

(London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822)

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1823

Arago 1823

Jacques Arago

Narrative of a voyage round the world, in the Uranie and Physicienne corvettes, commanded by Captain Freycinet, during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 ... in a series of letters to a friend ... to which is prefixed the report made to the Academy of Sciences

(London: Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, 1823), in 2 parts with separate paginations

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Part 1

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Part 2

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English translation of Arago 1822

Field 1823a

Barron Field

First fruits of Australian poetry

Second edition (Sydney: [s.n.], 1823)

See first edition Field 1819; also reproduced in Field 1825

Field 1823b

Barron Field

"Journal of an Excursion Across the Blue Mountains of New South Wales (October 1822)"

The London Magazine (November 1823), 461-75

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Especially 465-66, "I took down the following Australian National Melody Harry, who married Carang-arang, the sister of the celebrated Bennillong; and I believe it to be the first that was ever reduced to writing:-"

Praed 1823

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Australasia: a poem which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge commencement, July 1823

([S.l.: s.n., 1823?])

[Review], The Cambridge Quarterly Review and Academical Register 1/1 (March 1824), 78-86

First Australian printing:

"POETRY. AUSTRALASIA. A POEM WHICH OBTAINED THE CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL AT THE CAMBRIDGE COMMENCEMENT, 1823. By WINTHORP MACKWORTH PRAED, of Trinity College, Cambridge", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (18 March 1824), 4

Wentworth 1823

W. C. Wentworth

Australasia; a Poem, written for The Chancellor's Medal, at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823. By ... An Australasian; Fellow-commoner of Saint Peter's College

(London: G and W.B. Whittaker, 1823)

Modern edition online

[Review], The Monthly Review (April 1824), 439-42

[Review], The Cambridge Quarterly Review and Academical Register 1/1 (March 1824), 78-86

First Australian printing:

"POETRY. AUSTRALASIA. WRITTEN FOR THE CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL, AT THE CAMBRIDGE COMMENCEMENT, JULY 1823. BY W. C. WENTWORTH, AN AUSTRALASIAN", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (25 March 1824), 4

1824

Field 1824

[Barron Field]

"JOURNAL OF AN EXCURSION TO THE FIVE ISLANDS AND SHOAL HAVEN, ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES"

The London Magazine 10 (August 1824), 181-84

Reprinted in Field 1825, 460-69

Freycinet 1824-44

Louis Claude Freycinet et al.

Voyage autour du monde: entrepris par ordre du roi ... execute sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820

(Paris: Chez Pillet Ainé, 1824-1844)

Hervey 1824

Thomas Kibble Hervey

Australia, with other poems

(London: Hurst, Robinson, 1824)

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[Review], The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review (August 1824), 143-56

Lesueur and Petit 1824

Charles Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit

Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Historique, atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit, seconde édition

(Paris: Chez Arthus Bertrand, 1824)

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Companion volume to Péron and Freycinet 1824 below

PLANCHE 32: Musique des sauvages de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud (Lesueur et Bernier notaverunt)

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Péron and Freycinet 1824

François Péron and Louis Claude Freycinet

Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes les Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les anne麓es 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Historique . . . seconde edition ... tome second

(Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1824)

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François Péron and Louis Claude Freycinet

(Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1824)

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Sainsbury 1824

John Sainsbury

A dictionary of musicians from the earliest ages to the present time, comprising the most important biographical contents of the works of Gerber, Choron, and Fayolle, Count Orloff, Dr. Burney, Sir John Hawkins, &c . . .

(London: Sainsbury, 1824), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Wentworth 1824

William Charles Wentworth

A statistical account of the British settlements in Australasia; including the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ... third edition ... by ... a native of New South Wales

(London: Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1824), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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From Wentworth 1819 and Wentworth 1820

1825

Field 1825

Barron Field

Geographical memoirs on New South Wales; by various hands

(London: John Murray, 1825)

Includes reprints from Field 1824 ("the natives obsecrate the porpoises by songs", 467) and from Field 1823 (especially 433-34, "I took down the following Australian National Melody Harry, who married Carangarang, the sister of the celebrated Bennillong; and I believe it to be the first that was ever reduced to writing ...")

Freycinet (Arago and Pellion) 1825

Louis Claude Freycinet (Jacques Arago, Alphonse Pellion, et al.)

Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes de S. M. "l'Uranie" et "la Physicienne" pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Atlas historique ...

(Paris: Pillet Ainé, 1825)

Sainsbury 1825

John Sainsbury

(London: Printed for Sainsbury and Co., 1825), 2 volumes

2 volumes bound together

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From Sainsbury 1824

1826

Lang 1826

John Dunmore Lang

Aurora Australis, or, specimens of sacred poetry for the colonists of Australia

(Sydney: G. Eagar, 1826)

(modern edition online)

Tompson 1826

Charles Tompson

Wild notes: from the lyre of a native minstrel

(Sydney: Albion Press, 1826)

(modern edition online)

1827

Cunningham 1827a

Peter Cunningham

Two years in New South Wales: comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history ...

(London: Henry Colburn, 1827), 2 volumes

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Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Cunningham 1827b

Peter Cunningham

Two years in New South Wales: comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history ... second edition, revised and enlarged

(London: Henry Colburn, 1827), 2 volumes

(both volumes) (DIGITISED)

Volume 2

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King 1827

Phillip Parker King

Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia: performed between the years 1818 and 1822

(London: John Murray, 1827), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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(modern edition online)

Sainsbury 1827

John Sainsbury

A dictionary of musicians, from the earliest ages to the present time ... second edition

(London: Sainsbury, 1827), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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From Sainsbury 1824, Sainsbury 1825

Terra Incognita 1827

"W--- ---G", "Terra Incognita. No. 1", The Monthly Magazine (March 1827), 251-61

"W--- ---G", "Terra Incognita. No. 2", The Monthly Magazine (June 1827), 585-96 (first page wrongly numbered 577)

[高清福利片], The Australian (26 October 1827), 2

"TERRA INCONGITA. No. 1", The Australian (26 October 1827), 3

"TERRA INCOGNITA", The Australian (18 May 1828), 4

"TERRA INCOGNITA", The Australian (21 May 1828), 4

1828

Cunningham 1828

Peter Cunningham

Two years in New South Wales: comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history ... third edition

(London: Henry Colburn, 1828), 2 volumes

(both volumes) (DIGITISED)

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Psalms 1828

[Anonymous] (ed.)

Select portions of the Psalms of David according to the version of Dr. Brady and Mr. Tate, to which are added hymns for the celebration of church holy-days, and festivals

(Sydney: Government Printer, 1828)

The preface (iii, iv) explains that "the compiler of this little volume has long wished to remove some difficulties which have been experienced in the church psalmody in this part of the world"; see also the essentially identical 1830 Hobart ("for the congregation of St. David's Church, Hobart-Town") and 1844 Launceston editions, especially BL copy of the latter

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1829

Burford 1829

Robert Burford

Description of a view of the town of Sydney, New South Wales ... now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester-square, painted by R. Burford

(London: Printed for J. and C. Adlard, 1829)

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Based on images by Augustus Earle; No. 58 Kangaroo and Dog Dance, 12; description evidently taken originally from "Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang" plates 1 and 3 in Collins 1798; Burford rightly places the ceremony, reportedly long since discontinued, on the beach at Farm Cove

[Review], The New Monthly Magazine 27 (1 January 1829), 21-22

Nathan 1829

Isaac Nathan

Fugitive pieces and reminiscences of Lord Byron: containing an entire new edition of the Hebrew melodies, with the addition of several never before published; the whole illustrated with critical, historical, theatrical, political, and theological remarks, notes, anecdotes, interesting conversations, and observations, made by that illustrious poet: together with His Lordship's autograph; also some original poetry, letters and recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb

(London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1829)

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Oldfield 1829

[? Roger Oldfield]

"A walk through Sydney in 1828"

The South-Asian Register 4 (January 1829), 319-31

Extracts reprinted in

"A WALK THROUGH SYDNEY IN 1828", The Australian (24 February 1829), 3

"Review of the fourth number of the South Asian Register", The Sydney Monitor (3 March 1829), 3

"A WALK THROUGH SYDNEY (Continued from ... page 1516)", The Sydney Monitor (9 March 1829), 2

Savery 1829

Henry Savery ["Simon Stukeley"]

The hermit in Van Diemen's Land: from the Colonial Times

(Hobart Town: Printed by Andrew Bent, 1829)

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Original articles ran in 30 instalments in the Colonial Times (5 June - 25 December 1829)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?l-publictag=The+hermit+in+Van+Diemen's+Land

1830s

1830

Dawson 1830

Robert Dawson

The present state of Australia a description of the country, its advantages and prospects, with reference to emigration: and a particular account of the manners, customs, and condition of its Aboriginal inhabitants

(London: Smith, Elder, 1830)

(DIGITISED)

Second edition = Dawson 1831

Maslen 1830

[Thomas J. Maslen] "By a retired officer of the Hon. East India Company's Service"

The friend of Australia; or, a plan for exploring the interior and for carrying on a survey of the whole continent of Australia

(London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830)

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1831

Bland 1831

William Bland

Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales by Messrs. W. H. Hovell and Hamilton Hume in 1824 and 1825

(Sydney: A. Hill, 1831)

(Sydney: James Tegg, 1837)

(modern edition online)

Dawson 1831

Robert Dawson

The present state of Australia: The present state of Australia a description of the country, its advantages and prospects, with reference to emigration: and a particular account of the manners, customs, and condition of its Aboriginal inhabitants ... second edition

(London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1831)

(DIGITISED)

From Dawson 1830

Montgomery 1831

James Montgomery

Journal of the voyages and travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq. deputed from the London Missionary Society, to visit their various stations in the South sea islands, China, India, &c. between the years 1821 and 1829

(London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, 1831), 2 volumes

Volume 2

On their visit to New South Wales, 19 August 1824 to 9 June 1825, 140-84

Moncrieff 1831

William Thomas Moncrieff

Van Diemen's Land: an operatic drama in three acts ... printed from the acting copy, with remarks, biographical and critical

(London: John Cumberland, [1831])

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Nind 1831

Isaac Scott Nind

"Description of the natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and adjoining country" (read 14th Feb., 1831)

The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 1 (1830-31), 21-51

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1832

Goodridge 1832a

[Charles Medyett Goodridge]

Statistical view of Van Diemen's Land: comprising its geography, geology, climate, health and duration of life, divisions of the Island, number of the houses, expences of the people, manufactures, habits, literature, amusements, roads, and public works ... up to the year 1831, forming a complete emigrant's guide

([London: Hamilton and Adams], 1832)

(DIGITISD)

Music (191, 192), John Philip Deane (192)

= Goodridge 1832b

Charles Medyett Goodridge

Narrative of a voyage to the South Seas: with the shipwreck of the Princess of Wales cutter on one of the Crozets, uninhabited islands; with an account of a two years' residence on them by the crew, and their delivery by an American schooner: to which is added, a further narrative of near eight years' residence in Van Diemen's Land

(London: Hamilton Adams, 1832)

(DIGITISD)

Music (191, 192), John Philip Deane (192)

1833

Breton 1833

William Henry Breton

Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land, during the years 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833

(London: Richard Bentley, 1833)

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Second edition revised with additions Breton 1834

Cross 1833

Joseph Cross (? ed.)

Journals of several expeditions made in Western Australia during the years 1829, 1830, 1831 and 1832; under the sanction of the governor, Sir James Stirling

(London: J. Cross, 1833)

(DIGITISED)

Earliest source of G. F. Moore's Western Australia for me

Melville 1833

Henry Melville (ed.)

The Hobart Town Magazine, volume 1

(Hobart Town: H. Melville, 1833)

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Sturt 1833

Charles Sturt

Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1832: with observations on the soil, climate, and general resources of the colony of New South Wales

(London: Smith, Elder, 1833), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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War song, I, 126-27; Corrobories, II, 55; see also second edition Sturt 1834

1834

Backhouse 1834

James Backhouse

Extracts from the Letters of James Backhouse: now engaged in a religious visit to Van Dieman's Land, and New South Wales, accompanied by George Washington Walker

(London: Printed by W. Eade, 1834)

(DIGITISED)

1835

Irwin 1835

Frederick Chidley Irwin

The state and position of Western Australia, commonly called the Swan-River settlement

(London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1835)

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Aboriginal dance, 24; European music, 81, 82

Lhotsky 1835

John Lhotsky

A journey from Sydney to the Australian Alps, undertaken in the months of January, February, and March, 1834; being an account of the geographical & natural relation of the country traversed, its Aborigines, & together with some general information respecting the colony of New South Wales ...

(Sydney: Sold by J. Innes, Bookseller, Pitt-Street, 1835)

See also modern edition edited by Alan E. Andrews 1979

Wellington Valley 1835 (1834)

Report of the Mission to the Aborigines of New Holland. Station - Wellington Valley, 1834

"REPORT OF THE MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND. STATION WELLINGTON VALLEY", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (25 June 1835), 3

Wilson 1835

Thomas Braidwood Wilson

Narrative of a voyage round the world: comprehending an account of the wreck of the ship "Governor Ready" in Torres Straits, a description of the British settlements on the coasts of New Holland . . . also, the manners and customs of the Aboriginal tribes

(London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835)

(DIGITISED)

The lamplighter song [Dibdin]

several mentions of Indigenous and European, songs, contact songs, music, dancing, fiddling (by the ship's fiddler), a musical snuff-box, and most notably the earliest European account of an ebero (dijeridu, didgeridoo) (104)

We learned that Wooloogary, the King, was absent, with a number of his people, catching turtle. His brother, Wadiea, a placid-looking old man, dressed in a shirt, (which I recognised as having formerly belonged to me,) received us very politely, and was presented by Captain Barker with a hatchet, - an article which is held in the highest estimation. The women were at some distance, and we were promised a sight of them, if we remained until next morning; but although desirous of obtaining a glimpse of the sable beauties, we did not take advantage of their offer, which in all probability was not sincere. To amuse us, as well as themselves, they turned to, and danced away with much mirth and glee round a large fire, to their own musical instrument, the ebero.

1836

Domeny de Rienzi 1836

Grégoire Louis Domeny de Rienzi

Oceanie; ou cinquième partie du monde ... Tome premier

(Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1836)

(DIGITISED)

Air australien des sauvages de la terre d'Arnheim, 81

Govett 1836

[William Govett]

"Sketches of New South Wales. No. IV: Manners and customs of the natives continued - The corroboree, or national dance"

The Saturday Magazine 255 (25 June 1836), 241-43

(DIGITISED)

See MS originals at the State Library of New South Wales

Maslen 1836

[Thomas J. Maslen] "By a retired officer of the Hon. East India Company's Service"

The friend of Australia: or, a plan for exploring the interior and for carrying on a survey of the whole continent of Australia ... second edition

(London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1836)

(DIGITISED)

From Maslen 1830

289, "On the utility of introducing simple musical instruments among the Indians"

Martin 1836

Robert Montgomery Martin

History of Austral-Asia: comprising New South Wales, Van Diemen's Island, Swan River, South Australia, &c.

(London: Whittaker & Co.; John Mortimer, 1836)

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1837

Chambers 1837

"MUSIC AT SYDNEY", Chambers Edinburgh Journal (6 May 1837), 117

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Fox 1837

Mary Fox

Account of an expedition to the interior of New Holland edited by Lady Mary Fox

(London: R. Bentley, 1837)

(DIGITISED)

A fictional work purporting to record an expedition into the interior of New South Wales, begun in August 1835 and led by Hopkins Sibthorpe; see account of "corrobories", 83-87; see also third edition revised Fox 1860, The southlanders: an account of an expedition to the interior of New Holland

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Lang 1837

John Dunmore Lang

An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony ... second edition, with numerous additions, bringing down the history of this colony to the close of 1836

(London: A. J. Valpy, 1837), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Mudie 1837

James Mudie

The felonry of New South Wales: being a faithful picture of the real romance of life in Botany Bay with anecdotes of Botany Bay society, and a plan of Sydney

(London: Printed for the author by Whaley and Co., 1837)

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A critic of the convict system under Bourke, Mudie dicusses the invidious role of regimental bands in serving as convict guards aboard incoming transport ships, 216-17

1838

Backhouse 1838

James Backhouse

Extracts from the Letters of James Backhouse: now engaged in a religious visit to Van Dieman's Land, and New South Wales, accompanied by George Washington Walker, parts 1-4 ... third edition

(London: Harvey and Darton, 1838)

(DIGITISED) [also has parts 5-10, 1839-41]

From Backhouse 1834

Holt (Crofton Croker) 1838

T. Crofton Croker (ed.)

Memoirs of Joseph Holt, general of the Irish Rebels, in 1798; edited from his original manuscript in the possession of Sir William Betham

(London: Henry Colburn, 1838), 2 volumes

Volume 2

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Maclehose 1838

James Maclehose

Picture of Sydney and strangers' guide in New South Wales for 1838

(Sydney: Published by J. Maclehose, 1838)

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Mitchell 1838

Thomas Livingstone Mitchell

Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and the present colony of New South Wales ... volume 1

(London: T. & W. Boone, 1838)

NO DIGITISED COPY OF VOLUME 1 IDENTIFIED

... volume 2

(London: T. & W. Boone, 1838)

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First edition; see "carefully revised" second edition Mitchell 1839 below

1839

Butler 1839

Samuel Butler

The hand-book for Australian emigrants: being a descriptive history of Australia, and containing an account of the climate, soil and natural productions of New South Wales, South Australia, and Swan River Settlement

(Glasgow: W. R. McPhun, 1839)

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Darwin 1839

Charles Darwin

Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 ... volume 3, journal and remarks 1832-1836

(London: Henry Colburn, 1839)

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1840s

1840

Darwin 1840

Charles Darwin

Journals of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world: under the command of Capt. Fitzroy

(London: Henry Coulburn, 1840)

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From Darwin 1839

Lang 1840

John Dunmore Lang

Specimens of an improved metrical translation of the Psalms of David: intended for the use of the Presbyterian Church in Australia and New Zealand, with a preliminary dissertation

(Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1840)

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Russell 1840

A. Russell

A tour through the Australian Colonies in 1839, with notes and incidents of a voyage round the globe calling at New Zealand and South America

(Glasgow: David Robertson, Duncan Campbell, 1840)

Second edition (Glasgow: David Robertson, Duncan Campbell, 1840)

(DIGITISED)

No digitised copy of first edition identified

Teichelmann and Schürmann 1840

C. G. Teichelmann and C. W. Schürmann

Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia: spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide

(Adelaide: Published by the authors at the native location, 1840)

(DIGITISED)

Notice of forthcoming publication: [Advertisement], South Australian Register (13 June 1840), 3

Notice of publication: [Advertisement], South Australian Register (21 November 1840), 3

1841

Grey 1841

George Grey

Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty's government: describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c.

(London: T. and W. Boone, 1841), 2 volumes

Volume 1:

(DIGITISED)

(modern transcription online)

Volume 2:

(DIGITISED)

(modern transcription online)

Especially "Songs and poetry", 2, 300-16

1842

Cruikshank and Marryat 1842

George Cruikshank and Frederick Marryat

"First discovery of Van Demon's Land by Captain Marryat"

in George Cruikshank's omnibus ... edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.

(London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842)

(DIGITISED)

Cruikshank's illustrations "Kangaroo dance", 109, "kangaroo and fiddler", 111

"FIRST DISCOVERY OF VAN DEMON'S LAND", The Mercury (8 May 1861), 3

Grey 1842

[George Grey]

"SONGS OF THE AUSTRALIANS"

The London Saturday Journal (29 January 1842), 54-55

(DIGITISED)

"SONGS OF THE AUSTRALIANS [conclusion]"

The London Saturday Journal (12 February 1842), 78-79

(DIGITISED)

From Grey 1841

Jameson 1842

R. G. Jameson

New Zealand, South Australia, and New South Wales: a record of recent travels in these colonies with especial reference to emigration and the advantageous employment of labour and capital

(London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1842)

(DIGITISED)

[Review], The Athenaeum 736 (4 December 1841), 927

Moore 1842

George Fletcher Moore

A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia with copious meaning embodying much interesting information regarding the habits, manners, and customs and the natives and the natural history of the country

(London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1842)

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Nagel 1842

Charles Nagel

Farewell address to the 28th regiment on their departure to India: spoken at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales on the evening of the 14th June 1842

([Sydney]: [author ?], [1842])

(DIGITISED)

Broadside; opens: "To-night Mock Catalani re-appears, To greet his friends - an office that endears ..."

Norfolk Island 1842

"Norfolk Island - Reform in Convict Treatment"

The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany 15 (Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1842), 22-32

(DIGITISED)

Alexander Maconochie, James Aquinas Reid

Twenty-Eighth Regiment 1842

Colonel French and the officers of H. M. Twenty-eighth Regiment having signified their intention of visiting this theatre for the last time this evening, the performance will commence with ... The Mountaineers ... to conclude with, by particular desire, the popular burletta, entitled The Mock Catalani in Little Puddleton

([Sydney]: J. Simmons, T. Simes, [1842])

(DIGITISED)

Broadside advertisement; see also Nagel 1842

1843

Anonymous 1843

"On the study of music"

The South Briton, or Tasmanian Literary Journal 1/2 (May 1843), 121-128

(DIGITISED)

Backhouse 1843

James Backhouse

A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies

(London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1843)

(DIGITISED)

Malcolm 1843

E. H. Malcolm

"Theatres in the British colonies"

Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal 3 (1843), (194-203), 201-03

(DIGITISED)

Picton 1843

Thomas Picton

The perilous adventures of Quintin Harewood and his brother Brian in Asia, Africa and America

(New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1843)

(DIGITISED)

Corroboree, kangaroo dance, emu dance, 238-41; this title was advertised for sale in London as early as 1838; it is likely that Govett 1836 was Picton's source for the description of the corroboree

Pridden 1843

William Pridden

Australia, its history and present condition: an account of both the bush and the colonies with their respective inhabitants

(London: James Burns, 1843)

(DIGITISED)

1844

Meredith 1844

Louisa Anne Meredith (Mrs Charles Meredith)

Notes and sketches of New South Wales during a residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844

(London: John Murray, 1844)

(DIGITISED)

Corrobbory, kangaroo dance 91-94, song-birds 138

Psalms 1844

[Anonymous] (ed.)

Select portions of the Psalms of David according to the version of Dr. Brady and Mr. Tate, to which are added hymns for the celebration of church holy-days, and festivals

(Launceston: Printed at the Launceston Examiner Office, 1844)

(BL) (DIGITISED)

See other editions, Sydney (Psalms 1828) and Hobart (Psalms 1830)

Prout 1844

John Skinner Prout

Journal of a voyage from Plymouth to Sydney, in Australia: on board the emigrant ship Royal Sovereign, with a short description of Sydney ... to which is added a brief account of Port Phillip

(London: Smith, Elder, 1844)

(DIGITISED)

Maria Heathilla Prout (Marsh)

1845

Dredge 1845

James Dredge

Brief notices of the aborigines of New South Wales, including Port Phillip, in reference to their past history and present condition

(Geelong: Printed by James Harrison, 1845)

(DIGITISED)

Eyre 1845

Edward John Eyre

Journals of expeditions and discovery into central Australia and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1: sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the government: including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans

(London: T. And W. Boone, 1845), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Hodgkinson 1845

Clement Hodgkinson

Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, with descriptions of the natives, their manners and customs, the geology, natural productions, fertility, and resources of that region, first explored and surveyed by order of the colonial government

(London: T. and W. Boone, 1845)

(DIGITISED)

Several detailed accounts of corroberrees [sic]

Mackenzie 1845

David Mackenzie

The emigrant's guide, or, Ten years' practical experience in Australia

(London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1845)

(DIGITISED)

And later editions, 1850, 1851

Pridden 1845

William Pridden

Australia, its history and present condition: an account of both the bush and the colonies with their respective inhabitants ... second edition

(London: James Burns, 1845)

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Wilkes 1845

Charles Wilkes

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

(Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, 1844-45; Lee and Blanchard; London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), 5 volumes

Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Lee and Blanchard, 1845) [A]

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Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Lee and Blanchard, 1845) [B]

(DIGITISED)

Volume 2, 199-200 [A]; 189-90 [B] gives four chants with music (two also with words), transcribed by Joseph Drayton

[A]

[B]

Chants also appear in later reprintings

(Philadelpha: 1849)

(New York: Putnam, 1856)

1846

Angas 1846

George French Angas

South Australia illustrated

(London: Thomas M'Lean, 1846)

(London: Thomas M'Lean, 1847)

Braim 1846

Thomas Henry Braim

A history of New South Wales, from its settlement to the close of the year 1844

(London: Richard Bentley, 1846), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Cobbold 1846

Richard Cobbold

Mary Anne Wellington: the soldier's daughter, wife and widow

(London: H. Colburn, 1846), 3 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

(DIGITISED)

Volumes 3

(DIGITISED)

Davies 1846

R. H. Davies

"On the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land"

Tasmanian Journal 2 (1846), 409-20

[Reprinted] "ON THE ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. BY R. H. DAVIES, Esq.", The Courier (7 March 1846), 4

411 has transcription of Popilla (= Poppyla, Pappela, Popeller)

Earl 1846

George Windsor Earl

Enterprise, discoveries, and adventures in Australia

(London: Madden and Malcolm, 1846)

(DIGITISED)

Hale 1846

Horatio Hale

United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 ... Ethnography and philology

(Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, 1846)

(DIGITISED)

Esp. 110, from Threlkeld, Wellington valley mission

(110): When the missionaries first came to Wellington, the natives used to assemble once a year, in the month of February, to dance and sing a song in honour of Baiamai. This song was brought there from a distance by strange natives, who went about teaching it. Those who refused to join in the ceremony were supposed to incur the displeasure of the god. For the last three years the custom has been discontinued. In the tribe on Hunter's River, there was a native famous for the composition of these songs or hymns; which, according to Mr. Threlkeld, were passed from tribe to tribe, to a great distance, till many of the words became at last unintelligible to those who sang them.

Maconochie 1846

Alexander Maconochie

Crime and punishment: the mark system, framed to mix persuasion with punishment, and make their effect improving, yet their operation severe

(London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1846)

(DIGITISED)

Moorhouse 1846

Matthew Moorhouse

Vocabulary and outline of the grammatical structure of the Murray River language spoken by the natives of South Australia from Wellington on the Murray, as far as the Rufus

([Adelaide: Andrew Murray], 1846)

(DIGITISED)

Nathan 1846

Isaac Nathan

The first, second, and third of a series of lectures, on the theory and practice of music delivered at the Sydney College, New South Wales

(Sydney: W. Ford, 1846)

(DIGITISED)

Schürmann 1846

Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann

The Aboriginal tribes of Port Lincoln in South Australia: their mode of life, manners, customs, etc.

(Adelaide: George Dehane, 1846)

(DIGITISED)

Also later edition, in Woods 1879, 207-52

(DIGITISED)

Stokes 1846

John Lort Stokes

Discoveries in Australia: with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43 ...

(London: T. and W. Boone, 1846), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Therry 1846

John Joseph Therry

Hymns, for children, &c, &c.

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1847

Angas 1847

George French Angas

Savage life and scenes in Australia and New Zealand: being an artist's impressions of countries and people at the Antipodes

(London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Second edition (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847), 2 volumes

(DIGITISED)

Many mentions of music, dance, song, corrobbory, corrobbories, koorinda braia

Cobbold 1847

Richard Cobbold

Mary Anne Wellington: the soldier's daughter, wife and widow ... second edition, revised

(London: Henry Colburn, 1847)

(DIGITISED)

From Cobbold 1846, abridged to one volume

Lang 1847

John Dunmore Lang

Cooksland in north-eastern Australia: the future cottonfields of Great Britain, its characteristics and capabilities for European colonization. With a disquisition on the origin manners, and customs of the Aborigines

(London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847)

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Melville 1847

Herman Melville

Omoo: a narrative of adventures in the South Seas

(London: John Murray, 1847)

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Page 35, Thomas Stubbs; recollections of the author's experiences aboard the Australian whaler Lucy Ann, sailing from the Marquesas Islands to Tahiti late (July-November) 1842

1848

Byrne 1848

J. C. Byrne

Twelve years' wanderings in the British Colonies, from 1835 to 1847

(London: Richard Bentley, 1848), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Fowles 1848

Joseph Fowles

Sydney in 1848: illustrated by copper-plate engravings of the principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc. from drawings by Joseph Fowles

(Sydney: For the author, 1848)

(modern edition online)

Lang 1848

John Dunmore Lang

Cooksland, or, The Moreton Bay district of New South Wales, a highly eligible field for immediate and extensive colonization: being principally a series of extracts from a work entitled "Cooksland, in north-eastern Australia: the future cottonfields of Great Britain"

(London: John Wheldon, 1848)

(DIGITISED)

From Lang 1847

Nathan 1848

Isaac Nathan

The southern Euphrosyne, and Australian miscellany: containing oriental moral tales, original anecdote, poetry and music

(Sydney: I. Nathan, [1848])

(DIGITISED)

[Advertisement]: "IN THE PRESS, AND WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THE 1ST JANUARY, 1848", The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1847), 1

Sidney 1848

"A bushman" [John and Samuel Sidney]

Sidney's Australian hand-book: how to settle and succeed in Australia, comprising every information for intending emigrants by a bushman

See Sidney 1849 (DIGITISED)

1849

Clutterbuck 1849

James Bennett Clutterbuck

Port Phillip in 1849

(London: John W. Parker, 1850)

(DIGITISED)

Sidney 1849a

"A bushman" [John and Samuel Sidney]

Sidney's Australian hand-book: how to settle and succeed in Australia, comprising every information for intending emigrants by a bushman ... ninth edition

(London: Pelham Richardson, 1849)

(DIGITISED)

Sidney and Sidney 1849b

Samuel and John Sidney

Sidney's emigrant's journal: information, advice, and amusement for emigrants and colonizers

(London: W. S. Orr and Co., 1849)

(DIGITISED)

Sturt 1849

Charles Sturt

Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia, performed under the authority of Her Majesty's government during the years 1844, 5, and 6: together with a notice of the province of South Australia in 1847

(London: T. and W. Boone, 1849), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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Corrobori, I, 83-85

Townsend 1849

Joseph Phipps Townsend

Rambles and observations in New South Wales with sketches of men and manners, notices of the Aborigines, glimpses of scenery, and some hints to emigrants

(London: Chapman and Hall, 1849)

(DIGITISED)

[Review], The Athenaeum 1122 (28 April 1849), 433-34

1850s

1850

Dickson 1850

"W. D." [Walter Dickson]

"The Antarctic voyage of Her Majesty's Hired Barque Pagoda"

The United Service Magazine (June 1850), 201-08, (July 1850), 402-08

Kangaroo dance at Albany, 1845, 406-07

Duncan 1850

[William Augustine Duncan]

"Notes of a ten years' residence in New South Wales"

Hogg's Instructor 5 (1850), 129-33

(DIGITISED)

[conclusion] 147-50

(DIGITISED)

by W. A. Duncan for his friend Robert Porter

Peck 1850

B. C. Peck

Recollections of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales

(London: John Mortimer, 1850)

(DIGITISED)

Threlkeld 1850

Lancelot E. Threlkeld

A key to the structure of the Aboriginal language: being an analysis of the particles used as affixes, to form the various modifications of the verbs; shewing the essential powers, abstract roots, and other peculiarities of the language spoken by theaborigines in the vicinity of Hunter River, Lake Macquarie, etc , New South Wales: together with comparisons of Polynesian and other dialects

(Sydney: Kemp and Fairfax, 1850)

(DIGITISED)

Includes portrait (frontispiece) and reminiscences of Biraban, 5-7

1851

Bedford 1851

William Bedford (compiled, edited)

Selection of psalms and hymns, adapted to the services of the Church of England ...

(Hobart Town, Tasmania: William Pratt & Son, 1851)

(DIGITISED)

Salvado 1851

Rudesindo Salvado [Rosendo Salvado]

Memorie storiche dell' Australia, particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia: e degli usi e costumi degli Australiani

(Roma: S. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1851)

(DIGITISED)

See also Salvado 1852, Spanish edition Salvado 1853, French edition Salvado 1854

1852

Bishop 1852

Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico: 1849

(Philadelphia: Charles Deal, 1852)

(DIGITISED)

Lang 1852

John Dunmore Lang

An historical and statistical account of New South Wales: including a visit to the gold regions, and a description of the mines: with an estimate of the probable results of the great discovery ... third edition, bringing down the history of the colony to the first of July, 1852

(London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), 2 volumes

Volume 1

NO DIGITISED COPY IDENTIFIED

Volume 2

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Meredith 1852

Louisa Meredith [Mrs. Charles Meredith]

My home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years

(London: John Murray, 1852), 2 volumes

Volume 1

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Volume 2

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1853

Earp 1853

George Butler Earp (ed.)

What we did in Australia: being the practical experience of three clerks in the stock-yard and at the gold fields

(London: George Routledge and Co., 1853)

(DIGITISED)

Gerstaecker 1853

Friedrich Gerstaecker

Narrative of a journey round the world: comprising a winter-passage across the Andes to Chili; with a visit to the gold regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &c.

(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1853)

(DIGITISED)

Meredith 1853

[Louise Anne Meredith], Mrs. Charles Meredith

My home in Tasmania: or, nine years in Australia

(New York: Bunce and Brother, 1853)

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Salvado 1853

Rosendo Salvado

Memorias historicas sobre la Australia: y particularmente acerca la mision Benedictina de Nueva Nursia y los usos y costumbres de los salvajes

(Barcelona: Impr. de los Herederos de la V. Pla, 1853)

(DIGITISED)

From Salvado 1851

Sidney 1853

Samuel Sidney

The three colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia ... second edition, revised by the author

(London: Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853)

(DIGITISED)

From Sidney 1852

1854

Berlioz 1854

Hector Berlioz

Les soirées de l'orchestre

(Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

413-14, on William Vincent Wallace

Cazalet 1854

William W. Cazalet

The history of the Royal Academy of Music, compiled from authentic sources

(London: T. Bosworth, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

Bishop, Bochsa, Charles Packer, Frederick Alexander Packer, Spagnoletti

Leakey 1854

Caroline W. Leakey

Lyra Australis: or, attempts to sing in a strange land

(London: Bickers and Bush, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

Malone 1854

R. Edmond Malone

Three years' cruise in the Australasian colonies

(London: Richard Bentley, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

Includes words of two gold-Digger's songs, 193-96

Peck 1854

George Washington Peck

Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands: with sketches of Lima, and a voyage round the world

(New York: Scribner, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

Incuding author's account of meeting George Henry Peck [not to be confused with author]

Salvado 1854

Rudesindo Salvado [Rosendo Salvado]

Mémoires historiques sur l'Australie, et particulièrement sur la mission de la Nouvelle-Nursie . . . traduits de l'italien en français par l'abbé Falcimagne; avec des notes et une histoire de la découverte de l'or, rédigées par le traducteur

(Paris: Alphonse Pringuet, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

From Salvado 1851, Salvado 1852, Salvado 1853

Stoney 1854

[Henry Butler Stoney]

A year in Tasmania: including some months' residence in the capital: with a descriptive tour through the island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head; and a short notice of the colony in 1853

(Hobart Town: W. Fletcher, 1854)

(DIGITISED)

1855

Bishop and Bochsa 1855

Biography of Madame Anna Bishop: containing the details of her professional tour containing the details of her professional tour in England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Tartary, Moldavia, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Havana, Mexico, America, and California; also a sketch of Bochsa's life

(Sydney: Paisey and Fryer, 1855)

See [Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney (29 December 1855), 3

Mundy 1855

Godfrey Charles Mundy

Our Antipodes, or residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies, with a glimpse of the goldfields ... third edition, complete in one volume

(London: Richard Bentley, 1855)

(DIGITISED)

Scheurmann 1855

Supplement to the catalogue of the Universal Circulating Musical Library

(London: G. Scheurmann & Co., 1855)

(DIGITISED)

Cobley, Hauser, Lavenu, Nelson, Winterbottom

Soulé, Gihon, and Nisbet 1855

Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, and Jim Nisbet

The annals of San Francisco: containing a summary of the history of ... California, and a complete history of ... its great city: to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens

(New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1855)

(DIGITISED)

1856

Browne 1856

James Browne

"The Aborigines of Australia (read before the Canadian Institute, February 16th, 1856)"

Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art new series 3 (May 1856), 251-71

Corroberry, song (Yunger a bia, mati, mati), and kangaroo dance, 253-54, corroberry, 268

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle 25 (September 1856), 485-93, (October 1856), 534-43

Corroboree, song (Yunger a bia, mati, mati), and kangaroo dance, 487, corroberry, 540

Dolman 1856

Catholic hymns

(Sydney: W. Dolman, 1856)

[Review] "CATHOLIC HYMNS", Freeman's Journal (28 June 1856), 4

NO COPY OF 1856 EDN. IDENTIFIED; but see Dolman 1857 and 1859 below

Hauser 1856

Miska Hauser

"THE ROVING FIDDLER"

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature (5 January 1856), 14

(DIGITISED)

"Eine Theaterscene in Melbourne (Aus Chambers's Journal)"

Das Ausland 12 (21 March 1856), 272

(DIGITISED)

Simmonds 1856

P. L. Simmonds

"On the growth and progress of the two Pacific States of California and Australia"

Report of the twenty-fifth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [1855]

(London: J. Murray, 1856), 188-91

(DIGITISED)

Stoney 1856a

Henry Butler Stoney

A residence in Tasmania, with a descriptive tour through the island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head

(London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1856)

(DIGITISED)

From Stoney 1854

Stoney 1856b

Henry Butler Stoney

Victoria: with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong

(London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1856)

(DIGITISED)

1857

Askew 1857a

John Askew

A voyage to Australia and New Zealand, including a visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter's River, Newcastle, Maitland, and Auckland: with a summary of the progress and discoveries made in each colony from its founding to the present time

(London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1857)

(DIGITISED)

Bishop 1857

"BIOGRAPHY OF ANNA BISHOP. THE CELEBRATED CANTATRICE"

The Courier (14 January 1857), 3

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D'Ewes 1857

J. D'Ewes

China, Australia, and the Pacific islands, in the years 1855-56

(London: Richard Bentley, 1857)

(DIGITISED)

Dolman 1857

Catholic hymns, litanies, &c., arranged with an easy accompaniment for the use of country missions and schools

(Sydney: W. Dolman, 1857)

"REVIEW", Freeman's Journal (12 December 1857), 4

NO COPY IDENTIFIED; see also Dolman 1856 above and Dolman 1859 below

Hoelzel 1857

Herman Hoelzel

The lecture on the history and use of music: delivered in the hall of the School of Arts, on the 25th August, 1857

(Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1857)

(DIGITISED)

Includes at end music for voice and pianoforte of Hoelzel's arrangements of Hosannah hymn and The hymn of the dead

1858

Bleek 1858

Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

The library of his excellency Sir George Grey, philology, vol. 2, pt. 1. Australia

(London: Trübner and Co., 1858)

(DIGITISED)

Donizetti-Fitzball 1858

An English version of The favourite composed by Donizetti: written and adapted by E. Fitzball, Esq., performed for the first time, at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne . . .

(Melbourne: R. M. Abbott & Company, 1858)

Dumas 1858

Alexandre Dumas

Journal de Madame Giovanni en Australie, aux Iles Marquises, a Taïti, a la Nouvelle-Calédonie, en Califonie et au Mexico

(Paris: Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger, 1858)

(DIGITISED)

Lang 1858

[John Lang]

"Music terror: a recollection of Botany Bay"

The Musical World 20/14 (2 October 1858), 630

(DIGITISED)

Also included in Lang 1859 as "Music a terror"

Loder 1858

[George Loder], "Recollections of California & Australia (By a Musician)" [parts 1-20]

The Musical World 36 (1858)

(largely DIGITISED)

(partly DIGITISED)

[Part 1] (27 March 1858), 199

[missing from Harvard Google exemplar; PAYWALL availability)

[2] (10 April 1858), 236

(DIGITISED)

[3] (24 April 1858), 259-61

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[4] (1 May 1858), 276-78

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[5] (8 May 1858), 293-94

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[6] (22 May 1858), 332-33

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[7] (29 May 1858), 347-48

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[8] (5 June 1858), 365-66

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[9] (12 June 1858), 380-81

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[10] (26 June 1858), 404-05

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[11] (3 July 1858), 419-20

(DIGITISED)

[12] (10 July 1858), 436-38

(DIGITISED)

[13] (17 July 1858), 454-55

[Google not digitised; PAYWALL]

[14] (24 July 1858), 468-69

[Google not digitised; PAYWALL]

[15] (31 July 1858), 486-87

(DIGITISED)

[16] (7 August 1858), 499-500

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[17] (14 August 1858), 515-516

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[18] (21 August 1858), 531-32

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[19] (28 August 1858), 547-48

(page following) (DIGITISED)

[20] (4 September 1858), 563-64

[Google not digitised; PAYWALL]

Parts 15-20, dealing with his last days in California (15-16), voyage to Australia and arrival in Sydney, July 1856 (17), Melbourne and Ballarat (18), Ballarat, Adelaide, Portland, Warnambool (19), and Launceston, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney; parts 15-20 transcribed in full here

George Loder main page

Threlkeld 1858

[Lancelot E. Threlkeld]

"Language of the Australian Aborigines", and "Aborigines - the muses - poetry"

in Waugh's Australian almanac, for the year 1858, 21 and 22 Victoriae

(Sydney: James. W. Waugh, 1858), 60-70, 70-72

(DIGITISED)

1859

Coxon 1859

[John Coxon]

Coxon's comic songster, full of pungent parodies, quaint quizzicalities, odd oddities, local hits, colonial sayings and doings, &c., &c.

(Ballarat: W. M. Brown, 1859)

(DIGITISED)

[Advertisement], The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (19 July 1859), 3

JUST PUBLISHED - Coxon's Comic Songster. One shilling. W. M. BROWN, Lydiard street, and all booksellers.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Coxon (singer, songwriter); William Maxwell Brown (publisher, printer); note that Brown published the songster after Coxon departed for England

Dolman 1859

Catholic hymns: a manual for the afternoon services

(Sydney: W. Dolman, 1859)

1860s

1860

Hauser 1860

Miska Hauser

Aus dem Wanderbuche eines österreichischen Virtuosen: Briefe aus Californien, Südamerika und Australien ... Zweite Ausgabe

(Leipzig: Fr. Wilh. Grunow, 1860), 2 volumes

Volume 1

(DIGITISED)

Volume 2

(DIGITISED)

Keese (Leakey) 1860

Oliné Keese [pseud. of Caroline W. Leakey]

Broad arrow: being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a lifer

(Hobart: J. Walch, 1860)

(modern online edition)

From Keese (Leakey) 1859, 2 volumes in 1

Lau 1860

Hermann Lau

Vier Jahre in Australien. Selbsterlebnisse und Reisebilder aus der Colonie New-South-Wales

(Hamburg: [Selbstverlag], 1860)

1861

Augener 1861

Catalogue of Augener & Co.'s Universal Circulating Musical Library, with supplements, 1861

(London: Augener & Co., 1861)

(DIGITISED)

Cobley, Hauser, Lavenu, Nelson, Winterbottom

Hill 1861

Matthew Davenport Hill (ed.)

Our exemplars, poor and rich; or, biographical sketches of men and women who have, by an extraordinary use of their opportunities, benefited their fellow-creatures ... with a Preface by Lord Brougham

(London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1861)

(DIGITISED)

Alexander Maconochie

Meredith 1861

[Louise Anne Meredith] Mrs. Charles Meredith

Over the straits: a visit to Victoria

(London: Chapman and Hall, 1861)

(DIGITISED)

Ramsey-Laye 1861

"A resident" [Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye]

Social life and manners in Australia: being the notes of eight years' experience

(London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861)

(DIGITISED)

1862

Backhouse and Tyler 1862

James Backhouse and Charles Tylor

The life and labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania

(London: A. W. Bennett; York: Thomas Brady, 1862)

(DIGITISED)

"REVIEW", Launceston Examiner (19 February 1863), 4

Flanagan 1862

Roderick Flanagan

The history of New South Wales, with an account of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), New Zealand, Port Phillip (Victoria), Moreton Bay, and other Australian settlements: comprising a complete view of the progress and prospects of gold mining in Australia: the whole compiled from official and other authentic and original sources

(London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1862), 2 volumes

(DIGITISED)

Volume 2

(DIGITISED)

Lloyd 1862

George Thomas Lloyd

Thirty-three years in Tasmania and Victoria; being the actual experience of the author, interspersed with historic jottings, narratives, and counsel to emigrants

(London: Houlston and Wright, 1862)

(DIGITISED)

John Philip Deane, David Stanhope (Black-eyed Zitella)

Püttmann 1862

Hermann Püttmann (ed.)

Deutsches Liederbuch für Australien . . .

(Melbourne: H. Püttmann, 1862)

(DIGITISED)

1863

Massett 1863

Stephen C. Massett

Drifting about, or, what "Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville" saw-and-did: an autobiography ... with many comic illustrations by Mullen

(New York, Carelton, 1863)

(DIGITISED)

Therry 1863

Roger Therry

Reminiscences of thirty years' residence in New South Wales and Victoria: with a supplementary chapter on transportation and the ticket-of-leave system

(London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1863)

(DIGITISED)

Second edition (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1863)

(DIGITISED)

Devenish [i.e. William Joseph Cavendish], John Bushell (Bushelle)

[Review] [from the Athenaeum], Empire (23 April 1863), 2

[Review], "MR. THERRY'S BOOK", Empire (27 April 1863), 8

[Review], "NEWS AND NOTES BY A SYDNEY MAN", The Courier (1 May 1863), 3

John Bushelle and sons

Waugh 1863

[Waugh's]

The Australian almanac, for the year 1863, 26 and 27 Victoriae

(Sydney: Sherriff and Downing, 1863)

(DIGITISED)

1864

Rogers 1864

J. Rogers

The new rush, and other poems and songs (Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1864)

(DIGITISED)

[Review], "GOLD-FIELDS POETRY", The Age (21 March 1864), 5

Moore 1864

J. Sheridan Moore

Spring-life: lyrics

(Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, 1864)

(DIGITISED)

(modern edition online)

"REVIEW", The Sydney Morning Herald (5 August 1864), 8

"REVIEW", Freeman's Journal (6 August 1864), 3

Thatcher 1864

Charles Thatcher

Thatcher's Invercargill minstrel. First number: containing several of the popular local songs as written and sung by him at the Theatre Royal, Invercargill

(Invercargill [N.Z.]: Printed at the "Invercargill Times" Office, [1864])

See also: "Correspondence. LOCAL HITS. TO THE EDITOR", Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle (14 January 1864), 2

Waugh 1864

[Waugh's]

The Australian almanac, for the year 1864, 27 and 28 Victoriae

(Sydney: Sherriff and Downing, 1864)

(DIGITISED)

1865

Lang 1865

Gideon S. Lang

The Aborigines of Australia: in their original condition and in their relations with the white men

(Melbourne: Wilson & Mackinnon, 1865)

"A lecture delivered ... at St. George's Hall, Melbourne, July 12, 1865, in aid of the Leichardt Search Fund"

Revised and enlarged (Melbourne: Wilson & Mackinnon, 1865)

(DIGITISED)

Loyau 1865

[George Loyau]

The Sydney songster, No. 1: a collection of new original, local, and comic songs by George Chanson, as sung at the Sydney concert rooms

(Sydney: D. Roberts, [1865])

(DIGITISED)

See modern diplomatic facsimile edition Anderson 1991

Oldfield 1865

Augustus Oldfield

"On the Aborigines of Australia ... (Read February 9th 1864)"

Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London volume 3 new series (London: John Murray, 1865), 215-298

(DIGITISED)

Queenslanders 1865

The Queenslanders' new colonial camp fire song book, containing popular songs of the day, and new songs "never before printed" by an old explorer (or any other person)

(Sydney: F. Cunninghame, General Printer, 1865) ["First Number November 25th, 1865"]

(DIGITISED)

See modern diplomatic facsimile edition Anderson 1991; Anderson proposed that Loyau (above) was the contributor, "REMOS", but did not offer conclusive evidence

Windsor 1865

Chope's hymnal, correspondence relative to the introduction of the above hymnal into St. Matthew's protestant episcopal church, Windsor, between the minister thereof, certain of the congregation thereof and the Bishop of Sydney

(Windsor: Printed by Benjamin Isaacs, 1865)

1866

Barton 1866a

George Burnett Barton

Literature in New South Wales

(Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1866)

(DIGITISED)

Barton 1866b

George Burnett Barton (ed.)

The poets and prose writers of New South Wales

(Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., 1866)

(DIGITISED)

Engel 1866

Carl Engel

An introduction to the study of national music: comprising researches into popular songs, traditions, and customs

(London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866)

(DIGITISED)

Includes Kangaroo dance from Freycinet 1839, and melody and words of A song of the natives of New South Wales, from Jones 1811

London 1866

The loss of the "London", on her passage from London to Melbourne: containing a full account of the events and incidents which occurred on board, from her leaving Gravesend to her foundering in the Bay of Biscay, on January 11th, 1866 ... with portraits and biographical sketches of G. V. Brooke, Rev. D. J. Draper, etc.

(Melbourne: Charles Muskett, 1866)

(DIGITISED)

G. V. Brooke, Juliana King

Pougin 1866

Arthur Pougin

William-Vincent Wallace: étude biographique et critique

(Paris: Alfred Ikelmer & Compagnie, 1866)

(DIGITISED)

Stubbs 1866

Catalogue of a theatrical library of a gentleman retiring from the profession, consisting of 700 volumes of choice, rare and valuable works, the whole forming a collectible which is perfectly unique; which will be sold by public auction by Mr. Stubbs, July 21, 1866

([Melbourne]: Wilson and Mackinnon, printers, [1866])

Thomas Stubbs

1867

Sherriff 1867

The Australian almanac, for the year 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae

(Sydney: John L. Sherriff, 1867)

(DIGITISED)

1868

Beckler 1868

Hermann Beckler

"Corroberri: Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Musik bei den australischen Ureinwohnern"

Globus: illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde 13 (1868), 82-84

(DIGITISED)

Includes (83) musical transcriptions of 3 corroboree songs from Darling Downs (textless), Upper Darling River (with words), and Gayndah (textless) and a funeral chant from Darling Downs (textless)

See also "Ein weisser Prinz und die schwarzen Leute in Australien", 122-23

For modern English translation by David Dodd (2012) see Clark and Cahir 2013, Appendix 5.2

Inglis 1868

"Burn, David"

in Ralston Inglis, The dramatic writers of Scotland

(Glasgow: G. D. Mackellar, 1868), 25-26

(DIGITISED)

Knight 1868

J. G. Knight

Narrative of the visit of his royal highness the duke of Edinburgh to the colony of Victoria, Australia

(Melbourne: Mason, Firth, 1868)

(DIGITISED)

Melbourne 1868

"The Melbourne stage in its infancy"

The colonial monthly: an Australian magazine (September 1868), 45-53

See also: "THE INFANCY OF THE MELBOURNE STAGE", The Argus (10 May 1879), 9

"THE INFANCY OF THE MELBOURNE STAGE. TO THE EDITOR", The Argus (16 May 1879), 7

Marcus Clarke, "THE INFANCY OF THE MELBOURNE STAGE, TO THE EDITOR", The Argus (17 May 1879), 8

Potter 1868

Robert Potter

Choral worship scriptural, being the substance of a paper read to the Church Literature Society

(Melbourne: Charles N. Beere, 1868)

1869

Perron d'Arc 1869

Henri Perron d'Arc

Aventures d'un voyageur en Australie: neufmois de sejour chez les Nagarnooks

(Paris, L. Hachette et Cie., 1869)

(DIGITISED)

Transcribes words of many song, in CHAP. XIX, 242-54 (on music and dance) and elsewhere

Thatcher 1869

Charles Thatcher

Thatcher's local songs, as written and sung by him at Auckland and the Thames

(Auckland: William Atkin, 1869)

1870s

1870

Bonwick 1870a

James Bonwick

Daily life and origins of the Tasmanians

(London: Samson, Low, Son, and Marston: 1870)

(DIGITISED)

Bonwick 1870b

James Bonwick

The last of the Tasmanians; or, the black war of Van Diemen's Land

(London: Samson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1870)

(DIGITISED)

Denison 1870

William Denison

Varieties of vice-regal life

(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), 2 volumes

Volume 1

(DIGITISED)

Volume 2

(DIGITISED)

1871

1872

Lunn 1872

Henry C. Lunn

"Distant music", The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 15/350 (1 April 1872), 431-433

(DIGITISED)

Henry Lunn, "Distant music ( ... From the London Musical Times)", Dwight's Journal of Music (4 May 1872), 226-27

(DIGITISED)

1873

Barlow 1873

Harriet Barlow

"Vocabulary of Aboriginal dialects of Queensland"

The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 2 (1873), 165-75

(DIGITISED)

Dawbin 1873

Dawbin, Annie Maria (Mrs Andrew Baxter)

Memories of the past by a lady in Australia

(Melbourne: W. H. Williams, 1873)

(DIGITISED)

Hobart 1873

"A CORRESPONDENT writing to us from Hobart Town ...", The Musical Times (1 January 1873), 724

1874

Gason 1874

Samuel Gason (ed. George Isaacs)

The Dieyerie tribe of Australian Aborigines

(Adelaide: W. C. Cox, Government Printer, 1874)

Also later edition in Woods 1879, 253-307

(DIGITISED)

Inglis et al. 1874-76

R. Inglis, "THE AUSTRALIAN DRAMA"

Notes and queries 5/1 (30 May 1874), 423

(DIGITISED)

E. A. P., "THE AUSTRALIAN DRAMA" [add. 1]

Notes and queries 5/2 (19 December 1874), 497

(DIGITISED)

Marcus Clarke, "THE AUSTRALIAN DRAMA [add. 2]"

Notes and queries 5/3 (20 February 1875), 158

(DIGITISED)

J. B., "THE AUSTRALIAN DRAMA [add. 3]"

Notes and queries 5/5 (1 April 1876), 277

(DIGITISED)

1875

Calder 1875

James Erskine Calder

Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits, &c., of the native tribes of Tasmania

(Hobart Town: Henn and Co., printers, 1875)

(DIGITISED)

Hill 1875

Rosamond and Florence Hill

What we saw in Australia

(London: Macmillan and Co., 1875)

(DIGITISED)

Ridley 1875

William Ridley

Kámilarói, and other Australian languages, second edition, revised and enlarged by the author, with comparative tables of words from twenty Australian languages, and songs, traditions, laws and customs of the Australian race

(Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1875)

(DIGITISED)

Roberts 1875

Henry Roberts

Roberts' manual of fashionable dancing and vade mecum for the ball-room: containing a review and full description of all the modern dances, &c.

(Melbourne: G. Robertson, 1875)

[second edition] (Melbourne: G. Robertson, 1876)

[thrid edition] (Melbourne: G. Robertson, 1876)

1876

Kennedy 1876

David Kennedy junior

Kennedy's colonial travel: a narrative of a four years' tour through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, &c. . . .

(Edinburgh: Edinburgh Publishing Company, [1876])

Merland 1876

Constant Merland

Dix-sept ans chez les sauvages: Narcisse Pelletier avec portrait, fac-simile, musique et dessin d'armes

(Paris: E. Dentu, 1876)

(DIGITISED)

Appendice: Édouard Garnier, "Observations musicales sur les chants de Narcisse Pelletier", 127-35

Recounts author's 17 years living with an Aboriginal tribe in Cape York after being shipwrecked when the vessel he was travelling on struck a reef near Rossel Island. Appendix includes a facsimile of letters Pelletier wrote to his parents soon after his rediscovery and four pages of music with lyrics phonetically noted

1878

Chauncy 1878

Philip Chauncy

"Notes and anecdotes of the Aborigines of Australia"

in Smyth 1878, volume 2, 221-82

(DIGITISED)

Reproduces art work by Indigenous artists, including images of dance and corroboree; and, from south-west Western Australia, "a line of one of their chants" [MUSIC EXAMPLE], 266

Loyau 1878

George Loyau

"COLONIAL SKETCHES AND REMINISCENCES", Bunyip (19 July 1878), 4

(DIGITISED)

Series in Bunyip, running weekly from 8 July 1878 to 21 November 1879, basis of Loyau 1885

Lyster 1878

"MR. W. S. LYSTER AND OPERA IN VICTORIA. No. I"

The Argus (29 June 1878), 5

(DIGITISED)

"MR. W. S. LYSTER AND OPERA IN VICTORIA. No. II"

The Argus (1 July 1878), 6

(DIGITISED)

Meilham 1878

Jules Meilham

"On Music"

Royal Society of New South Wales Journal and Proceedings 12 (1878), 281-292

"NEWS OF THE DAY", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 December 1878), 5

Smyth 1878

R. Brough Smyth

The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania

(Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1878), 2 volumes

Volume 1

(DIGITISED)

Volume 2

(DIGITISED)

Walker 1878

R. C. Walker (compiled)

Works on New South Wales, compiled at the Free Public Library, Sydney

(Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1878)

(DIGITISED)

1879

Bérengier 1879

Théophile Bérengier

La Nouvelle-Nursie: histoire d'une colonie bénédictine dans l'Australie Occidentale (1846-1878)

(Paris: Lecoffre fils et cie., 1879)

(DIGITISED)

Part 1 discusses Salvado's musical activities and music at the abbey, Part 2 Indigenous song and music, reproduces from Salvado 1853 chant populaire de Machielo, 194

Heaton 1879

John Henniker Heaton

The Australian dictionary of dates and men of the time: containing the history of Australasia from 1542 to May 1879

(Sydney: George Robertson, 1879)

(DIGITISED)

Pascoe 1879

Charles Eyre Pascoe (ed.)

The dramatic list; a record of the principal performances of living actors and actresses of the British stage ...

(London: Hardwicke and Bogue, 1879)

(DIGITISED)

Howson family

Woods 1879

J. D. Woods (introd.)

The native tribes of South Australia: comprising the Narrinyeri by the Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide tribe by Dr. Wyatt, J.P.; The Encounter Bay tribe by the Rev. A. Meyer; The Port Lincoln tribe by the Rev. C. W. Schürmann; The Dieyerie tribe by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner district dialect (Northern Territory) by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett; with an introductory chapter by J. D. Woods

(Adelaide: E. S. Wigg & Son, 1879)

(DIGITISED)

The volume was complete and first reviewed in mid December 1878, notably well before Taplin's death (24 June 1879)

"REVIEW", The South Australian Advertiser (21 December 1878), 5

"REVIEWS", South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (28 December 1878), 20

1880s

1880

Pascoe 1880

Charles E. Pascoe (ed.)

The dramatic list; a record of the performances of living actors and actresses of the British stage ... second edition, revised and enlarged

(London: David Bogue, 1880)

(DIGITISED)

From Pascoe 1879; Howson family

Saldoni 1880

Baltasar Saldoni

Diccionario biográfico-bibliográfico de efemérides de músicos españoles ... tomo segundo

(Madrid: Antonio Perez Dubrull, 1880)

(DIGITISED)

Rosendo Salvado (61-63)

Smith 1880

Christina Smith (Mrs. James Smith)

The Booandik tribe of South Australian Aborigines: a sketch of their habits, customs, legends; also an account of the efforts made by Mr. and Mrs. James Smith to christianise and civilise them

(Adelaide: E. Spiller, 1880)

(DIGITISED)

1881

Bastard 1881

Thomas Bastard

The autobiography of Cockney Tom

(Adelaide: McClory & Masterman, 1881)

(modern edition online)

Blair 1881

David Blair

Cyclopaedia of Australasia, or, Dictionary of facts, events, dates, persons and places connected with the discovery, exploration and progress of the British dominions in the south from the earliest dawn of discovery in the southern ocean to the year 1881

(Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore, 1881)

(DIGITISED)

Dawson 1881

James Dawson

Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia

(Sydney: G. Robertson, 1881)

(DIGITISED)

Inglis 1881

R. Inglis

"Australian dramatic authors"

Notes and queries 6/4 (23 July 1881), 62-63

(DIGITISED)

See also Inglis et al. 1874-76 above

Victoria 1881

"List of persons qualified to impart instruction in singing"

Education: report of the Minister of Public Instruction for the year 1880-81

(Melbourne: Victorian Department of public Instruction, 1881), 181-82

1882

Fraser 1882

John Fraser

"The aborigines of New South Wales"

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 16 (1882), 193-233

(DIGITISED)

Manning 1882

James Manning

"Notes on the Aborigines of New Holland"

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 16 (1882), 155-73

(DIGITISED)

Represents notes made by Manning in 1844-45, and dated at end "Cumbamarro, Jan. 1845"; also reprinted as:

"NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND", The Protestant Standard (27 January 1883), 7-9

Power 1882

Harry Power

Harry Power's scrap book; or, Leaves from the life of an Australian comedian with introduction by J. B.

(Sydney: City of Sydney Printing Co., 1882)

1883

Bonwick 1883

James Bonwick

Port Phillip settlement

(London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivingston, 1883)

(DIGITISED)

Sadleir 1883

Richard Sadleir

The Aborigines of Australia

(Sydney: Thomas Richards, government printer, 1883)

(DIGITISED)

Bungaree, David Stanhope (Black-eyed Zitella)

Twopeny 1883

Richard E. N. Twopeny

Town life in Australia

(London: Elliot Stock, 1883)

(DIGITISED)

(modern edition online)

Ketten, Wilhelmij, Hersée, Goddard, W. V. Wallace

1884

Bonwick 1884

James Bonwick

The lost Tasmanian race

(London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884)

(DIGITISED)

Cox 1884

Alfred Cox

Recollections: Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand

(Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1884)

(modern edition online)

Chapters 4 and 5 have Cox's recollections of hearing William Vincent Wallace play, his music lessons with Spencer Wallace senior, and his reflections on the qualities of Wallace's music

Fenton 1884

James Fenton

A history of Tasmania from its discovery in 1642 to the present time ... with map of the island and portraits of aborigines in chromo-lithography

(Hobart: J. Walch and Sons, 1884)

(DIGITISED)

Moore 1884

George F. Moore,

Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia and also a descriptive vocabulary of the language of the Aborigines

(London: M. Walbrook, 1884)

1885

Duncan 1885

Catalogue of the rare and valuable library of the late William Augustine Duncan

([Sydney]: A. Lewis, [1885])

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 November 1885), 16

"SALE OF MR. DUNCAN'S LIBRARY", Freeman's Journal (26 September 1885), 8

Loyau 1885

George E. Loyau

Notable South Australians; or, colonists, past and present

(Adelaide: Carey, Page & Co., Printers, 1885)

(DIGITISED)

C. H. Compton, Joseph Elliott, George Hubert Hall, John Thomson Hall, Caranzani, Winterbottom, Knox, Chinner, &c.

Malaspina (Novo y Colson) 1885

Alejandro Malaspina, Pedro de Novo y Colson (ed.)

Viaje político-científico alrededor del mundo por las corbetas Descubierta y Atrevida al mando de los capitanes de naví o D. Alejandro Malaspina y Don José de Bustamante y Guerra desde 1789 á 1794

(Madrid: Imprenta de la viuda e hijos de Abienzo, 1885)

(DIGITISED)

... segunda edición

(Madrid: Imprenta de la viuda e hijos de Abienzo, 1885)

(DIGITISED)

1886

Cox 1886

Alfred Cox

Men of mark of New Zealand

(Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1886)

(DIGITISED)

Kenny 1886

John Kenny

A history of the commencement and progress of Catholicity in Australia, up to the year 1840

(Sydney: F. Cunninghame, 1886)

(DIGITISED)

Wallace, Bushelle, Rust, Corcoran, Spencer, Chester

Marsh 1886

J. B. T. Marsh

The story of the Jubilee Singers, with their songs

(Melbourne: Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, 1886)

(Sydney: J. L. Holmes &鈥� Co., 1886)

After The story of the Jubilee singers; with their songs ... revised edition

(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880)

(DIGITISED)

1887

Curr 1886-87

Edward Micklethwaite Curr

The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent

(Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886-87), 4 volumes

Volume 1 (1886)

(DIGITISED)

Volume 2 (1886)

(DIGITISED)

Volume 3 (1887)

(DIGITISED)

Volume 4

[NOT DIGITISED]

Hogan 1887

James Francis Hogan

The Irish in Australia

(London: Ward and Downey, 1887)

W. V. Wallace, B. H. Power

See Australian edition Hogan 1888 (DIGITISED)

Howitt 1887

A. W. Howitt

"Notes on songs and songmakers of some Australian tribes"

Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 16 (1887), 327-35

Offprint (London: Harrison and Sons, 1887)

(DIGITISED)

1888

Centennial 1888

"Centennial music in Australia"

The Musical Times (1 March 1888), 146

Fraser 1888

John Fraser

The Aborigines of Australia: their ethnic position and relations

(London: The Victoria (Philosophical) Institute; Australia: G. Robertson, [1888])

(DIGITISED)

"Garryowen" (Finn) 1888

"Garryowen" [Edmund Finn]

The chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852, historical, anecdotal and personal ... Centennial edition

(Melbourne: Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888), 2 volumes

(2 volumes) (DIGITISED)

Hogan 1888

James Francis Hogan

The Irish in Australia

(Melbourne: G. Robertson, [1888])

(DIGITISED)

(modern edition online)

W. V. Wallace, B. H. Power

From Hogan 1887

Roth 1888

Henry Ling Roth

"Australian tunes"

Journal of the Anthropological Institute 16/4 (1888), 425

With brief description, reproduces Harry's song from Field 1825

Sladen 1888a

Douglas B. W. Sladen (ed.)

Australian ballads and rhymes poems inspired by life and scenery in Australia and New Zealand

(London: W. Scott, 1888)

(DIGITISED)

Sladen 1888b

Douglas B. W. Sladen (ed.)

Australian poets 1788-1888, being a selection of poems upon all subjects written in Australia and New Zealand during the first century of the British colonization with brief notes on their authors and an introduction by Patchett Martin ...

(London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, 1888)

And New York edition, Sladen 1890, below (DIGITISED)

Sladen 1888c

Douglas B. W. Sladen

A century of Australian song, centenary edition

(London: Walter Scott, 1888)

(DIGITISED)

A century of Australian song, centenary edition

(New York and London: White and Allen, [1888])

(DIGITISED)

(Melbourne: E. W. Cole, [1888])

(Sydney: Macready, [1888])

London edition described as "... enlarged edition of Australian ballads and rhymes"

[Review], "OUR LONDON LETTER. June 29", Daily Telegraph (6 August 1888), 3

[Review], Melbourne Punch (6 September 1888), 1

[Review], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 October 1888), 7

More reviews

1889

Barnard 1889

James Barnard

"Notes on the last living Aboriginal of Tasmania"

[Reprint of a paper read before the Royal Society of Tasmania; read, September 9, 1889]

([Hobart: Royal Society of Tasmania, 1889])

(DIGITISED)

Reprinted: "ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA", The Mercury (10 September 1889), 4

Fanny Cochrane Smith

Digby 1889

Everard Digby (ed., compil.)

Australian men of mark

(Sydney: Charles Maxwell, 1889), 2 volumes

Volume 1

(DIGITISED)

W. H. Paling

Volume 2

(DIGITISED)

Charles MacCarthy, Louis Pogonowksi, Thomas Craven, Henry J. Ackland

Lumholtz 1889

Carl Lumholtz

Among cannibals: an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland

(London: J. Murray, 1889)

(DIGITISED)

Musical transcriptions on pages 156-58 [digitised faces 208-10]

Native companion songster 1889

Native companion songster

(Brisbane: R. S. Hews & Co., 1889)

[Review] "A New Song Book", The Telegraph (3 October 1889), 2

"OLD SONGS WITH QUEENSLAND FLAVORING", The Worker (18 January 1912), 21

Stephens 1889

Edward Stephens

"The Aborigines of Australia, being personal recollections of those tribes which once inhabited the Adelaide Plains of South Australia"

Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23 (1889), 476-502

(DIGITISED)

Wyndham 1889

William Trevelyan Wyndham

"The Aborigines of Australia"

Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23 (1889), 36-48

(DIGITISED)

Also partially reproduced

"Ethnology", The Queenslander (16 November 1895), 938

"Ethnology", The Queenslander (23 November 1895), 982

1890s

1890

Boswell 1890

Annabella Boswell

Recollections of some Australian Blacks, Bathurst district, 1835-40, Port Macquarie, 1844, Hunter's River, 1850

([s.p.: s.n.], 1890)

(DIGITISED)

Centennial 1890

Official record of the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888-1889

(Melbourne: Sands & McDougall, 1890)

(DIGITISED)

Etheridge 1890

See Etherdidge 1895

Roth 1890

H. Ling Roth

The aborigines of Tasmania

(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. 1890)

(DIGITISED)

Second edition Roth 1899; "Music", 147-50

Sladen 1890

Douglas B. W. Sladen (ed.)

(New York: Cassell, 1890)

(DIGITISED)

New York edition of Sladen 1888b

Smith 1890

James Smith

"THE MELBOURNE STAGE IN THE FORTIES. BY J. S. No. I.", The Argus (17 May 1890), 4

"THE MELBOURNE STAGE IN THE FORTIES. BY J. S. No. II.", The Argus (24 May 1890), 13

"THE MELBOURNE STAGE IN THE FORTIES. By J. S. No. III.", The Argus (31 May 1890), 4

"THE MELBOURNE STAGE IN THE FORTIES. By J. S. No. IV.", The Argus (7 June 1890), 4

Walker 1890

James Backhouse Walker

"The discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642: notes on the localities mentioned in Tasman's journal of the voyage"

Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (1890), 269-84

Offprint (Hobart: William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1891)

(DIGITISED)

1891

Etheridge 1891

See Etherdidge 1895

Everard 1891

H. Everard

History of Thos. Farrington's regiment, subsequently designated the 29th (Worcestershire) Foot, 1694-1891

(Worcester: Littlebury and Company, The Worcester Press, 1891)

(DIGITISED)

William Vincent Wallace, Spencer Wallace senior, 347

Lauterer 1891

Joseph Lauterer

"An Aboriginal language"

The Queenslander (21 March 1891), 555

Mowle 1891

[S. M. Mowle]

Aboriginal songs: a few words of their language and mis-spelt names of places

([Sydney: Government Printer], 1891)

Pamphlet of 2 pages ? reproduced verbatim as Mowle 1896

"A native" 1891

"OLD-TIME MEMORIES. AMUSEMENTS No. I", South Australian Register (1 August 1891), 6

"OLD-TIME MEMORIES. AMUSEMENTS No. II", South Australian Register (10 August 1891), 6

"OLD-TIME MEMORIES. AMUSEMENTS No. III", South Australian Register (8 September 1891), 6

1892

Bartley 1892

Nehemiah Bartley

Opals and agates; or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans: being memories of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia

(Brisbane: Gordon and Gotch, 1892)

(DIGITISED)

Brewer 1892

F. C. Brewer

The drama and music in New South Wales

(Sydney: Charles Potter, Govt. Printer, Sydney, for the New South Wales Commission for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.), 1892)

(DIGITISED)

Calvert 1892

Albert F. Calvert

The Aborigines of Western Australia

(London: W. Milligan and Co., 1892)

(DIGITISED)

See also second edition 1894, which adds music for several songs

Hagen 1892

Karl Hagen

Über die Musik einiger Naturvölker (Australier, Melanesier, Polynesier)

(Inaugural Dissertation der philosophischen Fakultaät zu Jena zur Erlangung der Doktorwuürde)

(Hamburg: Ferdinand Schlotke, 1892)

Reproduces music of Indigenous songs from Field 1823, Lesueur and Petit 1824, Freycinet 1839, Wilkes 1845, Beckler 1868, and Chauncy 1878

HRNSW 1/2 1892

Historical records of New South Wales: Vol. 1, Part 2. Phillip, 1788-1792

(Sydney: Charles Potter, 1892)

(DIGITISED)

Lawrence 1892

W. J. Lawrence

The life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, tragedian

(Belfast: W. & G. Baird, 1892)

(DIGITISED)

Marsh 1892

J. B. T. Marsh

The story of the Jubilee Singers, with their songs

(Cleveland: Cleveland Printing and Pub. Co., 1892)

(PREVIEW)

From Marsh 1886; with brief account of Australian tour

Mennell 1892

Philip Mennell

The dictionary of Australasian biography comprising notices of eminent colonists from the inauguration of responsible government down to the present time

(London, Hutchinson & Co, 1892)

(DIGITISED)

(modern edition online)

Threlkeld (Fraser) 1892

Lancelot E. Threlkeld; John Fraser (ed.)

An Australian language, as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales); being an account of their language, traditions and customs by L. E. Threlkeld; re-arranged, condensed and edited with an appendix by John Fraser

(Sydney: Charles Potter, Govt. Printer, 1892)

(DIGITISED)

Young 1892

Robert Bentley Young

Seventy-eight Australian hymn tunes, compiled by R. Bentley Young

(London: Novello, Ewer and Co., n.d. [1891])

(TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

1893

Bladen 1893 (HRNSW 2)

Frank Bladen (ed.)

Historical records of New South Wales: Vol. 2, Grose and Paterson, 1793-1795

Clarke 1893

Death of an old citizen: Mr. Jacob Richard Clarke

([Sydney: ?, 1893])

Privately printed and distributed to friends. Consists of obituary notices from the Evening 高清福利片, Town & Country Journal, Illustrated Sydney 高清福利片, and The Freemans Journal.

"The Late J. R. Clarke", Evening 高清福利片 (14 July 1893), 4

"ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN GONE", Freeman's Journal (22 July 1893), 23

Cook (Wharton) 1893

W. J. L. Wharton (ed.)

Captain Cook's journal during his first voyage round the world made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71

(London: Elliot Stock, 1893)

(DIGITISED)

Haddon 1893

Alfred C. Haddon

"Secular and ceremonial dances of Torres Straits"

Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 6 (1893), 131-62

(DIGITISED)

HRNSW 1/1 1893

Historical records of New South Wales: Vol. 1, Part 2. Phillip, 1788-1792

(Sydney: Charles Potter, 1893)

(DIGITISED)

高清福利片paper press 1893

The newspaper press New South Wales [compiled for] World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 (Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, [1893])

In series with Brewer 1892 above

See also serial reprint, commencing "The 高清福利片paper Press Of New South Wales", Table Talk [Melbourne, VIC] (6 October 1893), 9

For all issues, see:

(TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Parry 1893

C. Hubert Parry

The art of music

(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1893)

First four bars of melody of Kangaroo dance from Freycinet 1839 (via Engel 1866) reproduced on page 54

Many later editions, as The evolution of the art of music, from Parry 1897

Wallaschek 1893

Richard Wallaschek

Primitive music: an inquiry into the origin and development of music, songs, instruments, dances, and pantomimes of savage races

(London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893)

(DIGITISED)

Australia, 37-40

and music example 5 (from Beckler, Wilkes, Freycinet)

Also German edition, Wallaschek 1903

1894

Baptie 1894

David Baptie

Musical Scotland, past and present: being a dictionary of Scottish musicians (Paisley: J. and R. Parlane, 1894) (also reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1972)

(PREVIEW)

Samuel McBurney, George Stewart, Gilbert Hunter, Matthew McGavin, James (Marquis) Chisholm, David Kennedy (Kennedy family)

Calvert 1894

Albert F. Calvert

The Aborigines of Western Australia

([Second edition] London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, 1894)

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32-38 words and word-and-music music for several songs

Etheridge 1894

Robert Etheridge (junior)

"An Australian Aboriginal musical instrument"

Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 23 (May 1894), 320-24

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Paper read London, 12 December 1893

Lauterer 1894

Joseph Lauterer

"Unpublished songs and corroborees"

"THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND", The Brisbane Courier (19 November 1894), 2

"Royal Society", The Telegraph (19 November 1894), 7

Report with transcript of short paper read before the Society on 17 November 1894; full text not printed in proceedings

Legge 1894

Robin Humphrey Legge

"Nathan, Isaac"

in Sidney Lee (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography ... vol. 40 Myllar - Nicholls

(New York: Macmillan and Co.; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1894), 121-23

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Lee 1894

"Nelson, Sydney" [sic]

in Sidney Lee (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography ... vol. 40 Myllar - Nicholls

(New York: Macmillan and Co.; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1894), 212-213

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White 1894

Harry J. White

Fireside and camp fire: song and story

(Adelaide: Webb and Son, Printers, 1894)

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Bladen 1895 (HRNSW 3)

Frank Bladen (ed.)

Historical records of New South Wales: Vol. 3. Hunter, 1796-1799

(Sydney: Charles Potter, 1895)

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Etheridge 1895

Robert Etheridge

Contributions to a catalogue of works, reports, and papers on the anthropology, ethnology, and geological history of the Australian and Tasmanian Aborigines

(Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Palaeontology; no.8)

(Sydney: Government Printer, 1890, 1891, 1895), 3 parts (Parts I-III) in 1

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A bibliography; lists most previous works dealing with Indigenous music and songs

Fitchett 1895

A. R. Fitchett

"Musicians and musical taste in Australasia; II. New Zealand"

Review of Reviews 7/7 (20 July 1895), 29-36

Carl Schmitt, Rafaal Squarise

Gates 1895

W. Francis Gates

Anecdotes of the great musicians

(Philadelphia: T. Presser, 1895)

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"An eventful career" [on William Vincent Wallace], 106-07

Quinn 1895

D. J. Quinn

"Musicians and musical taste in Australasia; I: Sydney"

Review of Reviews 7/4 (20 April 1895)

Henry Kowalski

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Bartley 1896

Nehemiah Bartley

Australian pioneers and reminiscences together with portraits of some of the founders of Australia ... edited by J. J. Knight

(Brisbane: Gordon and Gotch, 1896)

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Bladen 1896 (HRNSW 4)

Frank Bladen (ed.)

Historical records of New South Wales: Vol. 4. Hunter and King, 1800, 1801, 1802

(Sydney: Charles Potter, 1896)

Gates 1896

W. Francis Gates

Anecdotes of the great musicians

(London: Weekes & Co, 1896)

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From Gates 1895

"An eventful career" [on William Vincent Wallace], 106-07

Mathews 1896

R. H. Mathews

"The Bunan ceremony of New South Wales"

The American Anthropologist 9/10 (October 1896), 327

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Mowle 1896

S. M. Mowle

"Aboriginal songs and words"

Australian Town and Country Journal (16 May 1896), 24

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From Mowle 1891

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Brown and Stratton 1897

James Duff Brown and Stephen S. Stratton

British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors and composers, born in Britain and its colonies

(Birmingham: S. S. Stratton, 1897)

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Dougherty 1897

T. Heywood Dougherty

"Musicians and musical taste in Australasia, III, Queensland"

Review of Reviews 9/4 (20 April 1897), 429-35

Sydney 1897

"Sydney sixty years ago: PROGRESS OF THE CITY"

Australian Town and Country Journal (19 June 1897), 24-25

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Parry 1897

C. Hubert Parry

The evolution of the art of music

(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1897)

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Retitled from Parry 1893; many later editions

Extract from Kangaroo dance (Freycinet 1839 via Engel 1866) on page 49

Walker 1897

George Washington Walker (James B. Walker, ed.)

"Notes on the Aborigines of Tasmania, extracted from the manuscript journals of George Washington Walker, with an introduction by James B. Walker, F.R.G.S."

Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (1897), 145-175

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[Reprinted] (Hobart: William Grahame, Jun., Govt. Printer, 1898)

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Original dates from Backhouse and Walker's visit to Flinders Island in September-October 1832; includes 2 song texts

1898

Bladen 1898 (HRNSW 6)

Frank Bladen (ed.)

Historical records of New South Wales. Vol. 6. King and Bligh, 1808, 1807, 1808

(Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, 1898)

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Dahl 1898

Knut Dahl

Reiser i Nord-Vest-Australien . . . med illustrationer efter fotografier taget af forfatteren

(Kristiania [Oslo]: Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag, [1898])

English translation Dahl 1926

Mathews 1898

R. H. Mathews

"Bullroarers used by the Australian Aborigines"

The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 27 (1898), 52-60

1899

Becke and Jeffrey 1899

Louis Becke and Walter Jeffrey

The naval pioneers of Australia

(London: John Murray, 1899), 43

John Hunter

Bradshaw 1899

Jack Bradshaw

The Quirindi bank robbery: life and travels leading up to the robbery

([Maitland: Dimmock, c.1899])

Second edition

Jack Bradshaw

Highway robbery under arms: the Quirindi bank robbery; life and travels leading up to the robbery

([Orange, NSW: J. Bradshaw, ca. 1910?])

Early printed source of The Convict's Arrival (Moreton Bay), ? by Frank MacNamara

Enright 1899

W. J. Enright

"The initiation ceremonies of the aborigines of Port Stephens, N. S. Wales"

[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, July 5, 1899]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 33 (1899), 115-24

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Fawcett 1899

J. W. Fawcett

"some songs and chants of the Aborigines of Queensland"

Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia 2/2 (21 March 1899), 24-25

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Heeres 1899

Jan Ernst Heeres

Het aandeel der Nederlanders in de ontdekking van Australië 1606-1756

(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1899)

The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia, 1606-1756 ... published by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society in commemoration of the XXVth anniversary of its foundation

(London: Luzac & Co., 1899)

(modern edition online)

Legge 1899

Robin Humphrey Legge

"william-vincent"

Dictionary of National Biography, Wakeman-Watkins 59 (1899)

(modern online edition)

Roth 1899

H. Ling Roth

The aborigines of Tasmania . . . second edition, revised and enlarged

(Halifax: King & Sons, 1899)

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From Roth 1890, "Music", 134-37

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Kable 1900

C. G. Kable

"An Aboriginal song"

Science of Man and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia 3/2 (1900), 32-33

Kidson 1900

Frank Kidson

British music publishers, printers and engravers: London, provincial, Scottish, and Irish

(London: W. E. Hill, 1900)

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Lauterer 1900

Joseph Lauterer

Australien und Tasmanien: nach eigener Anschauung und Forschung

(Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1900)

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Texts of Aboriginal songs, from 288, reproduces music from Wilkes 1845 and Salvado 1853 (293), and Chauncy 1878 (297)

Orchard 1900

W. Arundel Orchard

"[LEADER]. MUSIC IN THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES"

Musical 高清福利片 [UK] 18 (1 June 1900), 517

Reprinted: "MUSIC IN THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES (Musical 高清福利片)", The Mercury (4 August 1900), 4

Sheaffe 1900

Captain Sheafe [Percy Sheaffe]

"Two native songs"

Science of Man and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia 2/12 (1900), 227

Go to 1901:

高清福利片

- Australharmony

A bibliography of Australian colonial music part 1 - to 1900

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