Showing 5625 results

Archival description
Text With digital objects
Print preview View:

Land grant map of Lauderdale

Land grant map including Robert Mather's free grant of 1,500 acres, eventually to be increased to 2,500 acres. He called the property 'Lauderdale'. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 16

Joseph Benson

Labouz, Marie-Francoise "Antarctique et enjeux strategiques: l'evaluation des politiques juridiques" Conference on the Antarctic and the Environment: Future Prospects, Brussels

Academic paper relevant to operation of the Antarctic Treaty System, environment protection, minerals and mining, Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, CRAMRA. Provides document and source information.

Bill Bush

La villa : Dialogo

Bartolomeo Taegio, La Villa. Dialogo.
Pr. Francesco Moscheni, Milan, 30 May 1559.
Bound in its original limp vellum wrappers; remains of two ties of the same. Fine title page; on the verso the author’s portrait; woodcuts showing surveying at pp. 162 and 164.
Inside the front cover is written ‘1560 Francoforti I. A. à S’. On the verso of the last leaf of text (Cciii) and the following flyleaf are herbal remedies in German, signed ‘Frater Mercurius ordinis S. Basilii in Monte Sinai uel S. Catharina co(mmun)icabat Praga Anno 1570.’ The same hand has annotated the text. On the verso of the first flyleaf is ‘Duplum Bibliothecae regiae Monacensis’, 18th-cent. From the Library of Christ College; given by Rev. R.R. Davies in 1852.

Morris Miller-Christ College Rare-Book SB 471 .T34 1559

Knopwood Diary

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS12
  • Collection
  • 1805-1808

Diary of Rev. Robert Knopwood dated 1 January 1805 to 17 July 1808. The diary is headed 'Revd. Robert Knopwood, Chaplain, Hobart Town, Derwent River, Van Diemens Land'. It begins on Tuesday 1 January 1805, noting 'a general muster of all the prisoners in the colony it being New Years Day'. It is written in a neat hand, some words being abbreviated. Knopwood notes, for example, dining with the Governor and others , visiting the Government Farm, kangaroo shooting, fishing, the shortage of provisions in the colony, the weather, the arrival and departure of ships, occasionally christenings, etc. etc.
Some pages have been cut out leaving only the date (probably by R.K.)

Robert Knopwood

Keesing's Contemporary Archives report on Argentina and Chile and mediation by the Vatican over the Beagle Channel dispute

Inter-governmental agreement relevant to territorial claims, sovereignty, boundary delimitation, maritime boundaries, disputes, mediation, Tierra del Fuego, Beagle Channel, Southern Argentina and Chile, Pope, Vatican. Provides documents or extracts and source information.

Bill Bush

Journal : 1860 - 1862

Journal of William Archer for the period October 1860 to November 1862. Entries for most days, sometimes including much detail, referring to his daily work (both farm work on his property and later his architectural work), also his travels, visits to and from neighbours, elections and political activities etc.

William Archer

Journal : 1859 - 1860

Journal of William Archer for the period May 1859 - October 1860. Entries for most days, sometimes including much detail, referring to his daily work (both farm work on his property and later his architectural work), also his travels, visits to and from neighbours, elections and political activities etc.

William Archer

Journal : 1858-1859

Journal of William Archer for the period June 1858 to May1859 . Entries for most days, sometimes including much detail, referring to his daily work (both farm work on his property and later his architectural work), also his travels, visits to and from neighbours, elections and political activities etc.

William Archer

Journal : 1848 - 1856

Journal of William Archer for the period January 1848 - January 1856 . Entries for most days, sometimes including much detail, referring to his daily work (both farm work on his property and later his architectural work), also his travels, visits to and from neighbours, elections and political activities etc.

William Archer

Journal : 1847

Journal of William Archer for the period March to December 1847. Entries for most days, sometimes including much detail, referring to his daily work (both farm work on his property and later his architectural work), also his travels, visits to and from neighbours, elections and political activities etc.

William Archer

Joint declaration of Argentina and Chile concerning among other things the effect of the proposed Beagle Channel arbitration on maritime zones and territories situated south of 60° S. (extract)

Inter-governmental document relevant to territorial claims, sovereignty, Argentina, maritime boundaries. Provides document or extract, with source information and Bill Bush notes. [Published by Bush as AR22071971]

Bill Bush

John Walker's gravestone and biography

Image of the grave of John Walker in the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise, Paris. Biographical information about John Walker, the father of George Washington Walker - the youngest of 22 children from John's two marriages. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 5

John Walker

James Backhouse Walker's resignation from the Hobart Savings Bank

Letter to James Backhouse Walker from his great friend Charles Walch on his decision to resign as accountant of the Hobart Savings Bank and to take up law. Also draft letter written by James Backhouse Walker. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection. Page 37

Charles Walch

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, World National Parks Congress "The Bali Action Plan". Includes related documents 1982-10-22 Congress Recommendations and 1982-11-01 extract of IUCN Council minutes.

Inter-governmental organisations documents relevant to environment protection, protected areas management. Provides documents or extracts and source information.

Bill Bush

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 16th Session of the General Assembly of IUCN Madrid, Spain, 5-14 November 1984, Resolution 16/8: Antarctica; Resolution 16/9: Antarctica (II); Resolution 16/38: Airstrip at Pointe Geologie, Antarctica

Inter-governmental document re;levant to marine living resources, mining, minerals, French airstrip, Dumont d'Urville. Provides document or extract only.

Bill Bush

Results 2601 to 2700 of 5625