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Author:  Walker, William, 1828-1908
Title:  Reminiscences (personal, social and political) of a fifty year' residence at Windsor, on the Hawkesbury: a lecture delivered at the Windsor School of Arts, 22nd August, 1890, together with some personal recollections of the late Sir James Martin, C.J.
Publisher:  North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1977
Dates of Coverage:  1837-c.1890  
Notes:  facsimile reprint of: Sydney: Turner and Henderson, 1890  
Shelfmark:  H2.79.1105

Author:  Watling, Thomas, b.1762
Title:  Letters from an exile at Botany Bay to his aunt in Dumfries
Publisher:  Sydney: Privately Printed, 1945
Dates of Coverage:  1791-c.1793  
Notes:  With three illustrations and an introduction by George Mackaness. This book is number 20 of an edidtion of 100 copies and is signed by George Mackaness.  
Shelfmark:  6.434

Author:  Watling, Thomas, b.1762
Title:  'A land of romantic enchantment' in Documents on art and taste in Australia 1779-1914, ed. Bernard Smith, pp.8-15
Publisher:  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975
Dates of Coverage:  c.1792-c.1793  
Notes:  Watling was exlied to New South Wales in 1792, he gained an absolute pardon in April 1797 afterwhich he appears to have travelled to India. 'A Land of Romantic Enchantment' is an extract from his letters to his aunt Marion Kirkpatrick.  
Shelfmark:  1977.20

Author:  Watling, Thomas, b.1762
Title:  'A land of romantic enchantment' in Documents on art and taste in Australia 1779-1914, ed. Bernard Smith, pp.8-15
Publisher:  Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, 1990
Dates of Coverage:  c.1792-c.1793  
Notes:  Reprint of 1975 edition. Watling was exlied to New South Wales in 1792, he gained an absolute pardon in April 1797 afterwhich he appears to have travelled to India. 'A Land of Romantic Enchantment' is an extract from his letters to his aunt Marion Kirkpatrick.  
Shelfmark:  HP2.91.4795

Author:  Westgarth, William
Title:  Victoria; late Austrlia Felix; or Port Phillip district of New South Wales; being an historical and descriptive account of the colony and its gold mines ...
Publisher:  Edinburgh, 1853
Dates of Coverage:  1852  
Notes:  Contains a description of a visit to the gold fields in 1852  
Shelfmark:  E.146.a

Author:  Westgarth, William
Title:  Victoria and the Australian gold mines in 1857 ...
Publisher:  London, 1857
Dates of Coverage:  1856-1857  
Notes:  Contains a description of a tour of the gold fields of Victoria in 1856 and an account of the voyage home from Melbourne in 1857  
Shelfmark:  E.138.d

Author:  Westgarth, William
Title:  Half a century of Australasian progress: a personal retrospect, etc.
Publisher:  London, 1889
Dates of Coverage:  1888  
Notes:  Mostly consists of an account of the visit of the author (previously resident in Australia) to Australia and New Zealand in 1888  
Shelfmark:  E.138/3.a.16

Author:  Williams, A. H.
Title:  'Early Recollections of Auckland and New Plymouth', in Tales of Pioneer Women collected by the Women's Institutes of New Zealand, pp. 96-100
Publisher:  Whitcomb and Tombs Limited, [1940]
Dates of Coverage:  1863-c.1878  
Notes:  Second Revised edition with forewords by A. E. Jerome Spencer, O.B.E. and Amy G. Kane. With illustrations.  
Shelfmark:  S.44.h