History
Bestsellers
Our 50 bestselling History books of the week
History Books Everyone Should Read
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it...
Rare History Books
Signed, collectable & one of a kind editions
$220.00
John Butler Cooper
The History of Malvern: From its First Settlement to a City (First Edition)
Described by Malvern's own historical society as "a pioneering local history". Compiled directly at the...
$150.00
John Butler Cooper
The History of Prahran 1836-1924: From its Settlement to a City (Revised Edition)
A companion civic history to Cooper's better-known History of St Kilda, and still a directly...
$200.00
John Butler Cooper
The History of St Kilda: From its First Settlement to a City and After, 1840–1930 (First Edition)
The official, council-commissioned civic history of one of Melbourne's most storied bay side suburbs, still...
$300.00
William Kelly
Life in Victoria, 2 volumes (First Edition, Fine Binding)
A first-hand account of the Victorian gold rush by one of the rare few observers...
$1,200.00
Garryowen [Edmund Finn]
The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852: Historical, Anecdotal and Personal (First "Centennial" Edition)
An eyewitness chronicle of colonial Melbourne's earliest years, urged into being by one of nineteenth-century...
$500.00
Alexander Sutherland, et al.
Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present (First Edition)
A monumental and richly illustrated Victorian-era survey of colonial Victoria at the peak of its...
$1,500.00
Andrew Garran
The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 3 volumes (First Edition)
One of the most ambitious and historically significant illustrated publishing projects ever undertaken on Australian...
$500.00
William Herschel
A Treatise on Astronomy (New Edition)
A foundational nineteenth-century work of popular science, by the man later hailed as the founder...
