State Library of Victoria Books
Queen City Of The South: Gay And Lesbian Melbourne
$35.00 – Paperback book /
Latrobe Journal 87
Queen City of the South: Gay and Lesbian Melbourne presents a history that will be new to many readers. Using archives, remembrance, experience and reflection, the various contributors bring new insigh... Buy or find out more →
The Matrix
$99.00 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
Bruno Leti's matrices reveal themselves in the play of light and shadow, illuminating his practice as artist and printmaker.
While the matrix is essential for the production of a print, it is often discarded upon use. Ye... Buy or find out more →
The Garden Of Ideas: Four Centuries of Australian Style
$64.99 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
The Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design.
The Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design. From the imaginings of emigrant garden-makers ... Buy or find out more →
Beyond Reasonable Drought: Photographs of a Changing Land and Its People
$24.95 – Paperback book / The Five Mile Press
Foreward by Don Watson.
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. It is beyond reasonable drought. Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrosse... Buy or find out more →
Australia Through Women's Eyes
$39.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
When Louisa Meredith arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1841 after a year living in New South Wales, she was struck by how much the colony resembled her homeland.
Finding signs of ‘home’ in both the landscape and social l... Buy or find out more →
The West And The Map Of The World
$70.00$69.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Inspired by antique mapmakers and their global vision, The West and the Map of the World presents the past as a single narrative in which European history is an offshoot of Asian history.
Matthew Richardson explains that... Buy or find out more →
When We Think About Melbourne: The Imagination Of A City
$34.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
What exactly makes Melbourne unique? And why do we always struggle to describe the city’s differences? Journalist Jenny Sinclair went in search of the answers and discovered that it’s actually all in our head – or, more ... Buy or find out more →
Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe: Papers of a Conference Held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 28 March-15 June 2008
$99.95 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
With extensive illustrated essays by Jeffrey Hamburger and Margaret Manion, accompanied by papers presented by sixteen further scholars in the field, this 256 page publication presents a rich range of studies on the subj... Buy or find out more →
La Trobe Journal Indigenous Victorians
$35.00 – Paperback book /
Jointly edited by Professor Lynette Russell and John Arnold, Deputy Head of JAS, “Indigenous Victorians: Repressed, Resourceful and Respected” was launched at the State Library of Victoria as a special issue of the La Tr... Buy or find out more →
Sunday's Kitchen
$49.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Sunday's Kitchen explores life behind-the-scenes at Heide, the celebrated haven for progressive modernist artists and writers. Heide was the home and personal Eden of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most signifi... Buy or find out more →
A Future In Flames
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
What is it about Australia that makes it so prone to fires?
What is it about Australia that makes it so prone to fires? Have humans made things worse, or better? Is it possible to live in the Australian bush but be safe ... Buy or find out more →
Capital: Melbourne at the Centre of the World 1901-1927
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
In 1901 the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next twenty-six years, was governed from Melbourne. It was a small city, a place where people knew each other—not just the people who matt... Buy or find out more →
The World of the Book
$39.99$14.95 – Paperback book / Miegunyah Press
French poet Stephane Mallarme understood that books hold the world's stories. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers o... Buy or find out more →
Beyond Reasonable Drought: Photographs Of A Changing Land And its People
$39.95 – Hardcover book / The Five Mile Press
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. It is beyond reasonable drought.
Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrossed the nation, and captur... Buy or find out more →
Botanical Riches: Stories Of Botanical Exploration
$49.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Century after century, intrepid plant hunters and botanists travelled to exotic climes, collecting seeds and specimens. Searching for plants with economic value, medicinal benefits, or purely for lavish display, these bo... Buy or find out more →
Voyages To The South Seas: In Search Of Terres Australes
$26.95 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Voyages to the South Seas recounts the epic journeys of French explorers to Australia and encompasses a remarkable period of French and Australian history--when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens.... Buy or find out more →
Cyril Hopkins' Marcus Clarke
$44.00 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
Cyril Hopkins, brother of Gerard Manley Hopkins, was a close friend of Clarke and draws on memories of their schooldays together in Highgate and Clarke's letters from Australia, for this biography.
Hopkins gives a fascin... Buy or find out more →
The Cowen Gallery
$14.95 – Paperback book / State Library Of Vic
This beautifully illustrated catalogue provides a comprehensive guide to the State Library of Victoria's Cowen Gallery. This space, built as the Stawell Gallery in 1892 for the National Gallery of Victoria, and subsequen... Buy or find out more →
Literary Melbourne
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Created to mark the celebration of Melbourne becoming a UNESCO City of Literature, this anthology draws together a selection of the best Melbourne and Victorian writing. Extracts from eighty writers across different genr... Buy or find out more →
Miss D and Miss N: An Extraordinary Partnership The Diary of Anne Drysdale
$39.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
In 1839 Miss Anne Drysdale sailed from Scotland to Port Philip. She was 47 years old, had a small inheritance, and was determined to be a sheep farmer. Soon after arriving in melbourne she took up land near Geelong and f... Buy or find out more →
Bottersnikes And Other Lost Things: A Celebration of Australian Illustrated Children’s Books
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Lazy Bottersnikes in outback rubbish tips, Sir Pronoun's dilemma about standing in Miss Noun's place and the story of how Jack built a house, a hut or a shack are all to be found in this treasury of Australian children's... Buy or find out more →
Running The Show: Selected B.A. Santamaria Documents: 1939-1996
$29.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
B.A. (Bob) Santamaria was perhaps the most controversial figure in recent Australian politics. An anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was also one of the most prolific writers in Australia’s history and a strong campa... Buy or find out more →
Making Modern Melbourne
$17.95 – Paperback book / Arcade
From illegal village to modern metropolis, Melbourne is a city of many layers. Jenny Lee observes them with a sharp eye, sampling the city's marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconven... Buy or find out more →
The Chinawoman
$34.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
The police-hunt for the murderers of an English prostitute fanned anti-Chinese hysteria in colonial Melbourne. The horrific crime was enveloped in mystery for months, until political pressure broke the silence and two Ch... Buy or find out more →
Your Most Obedient Servant: B.A. Santamaria Selected Letters 1938-1996
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Bob Santamaria was involved in Australian public life from before World War II until his death in 1998. His letters reveal facets of his personality and activities that the public was not fully aware of in his lifetime. Buy or find out more →
Perils Of The Studio: Inside The Artistic Affairs Of Bohemian Melbourne
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Aust Scholarly Pub
Bohemians or businessmen? Moral behaviour or misbehaving with the models? In the early 20th century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. With its heady mixture of cheerful p... Buy or find out more →
Treasures Of The State Library
$49.95 – Hardcover book / State Library Of Vic
The State Library of Victoria, established as the Melbourne Public Library in 1854, is the custodian of material that records and reflects Victoria's history and culture. From manuscripts and maps to comics and computer ... Buy or find out more →
Mark Strizic: Melbourne, Marvellous To Modern
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
This magnificent collection of photographs arose from the creativity of a young photographer and his adoption of his new home town, Melbourne. His pictures were taken at a time when the Victorian elegance of the city onc... Buy or find out more →
E.W. Cole: Chasing The Rainbow
$14.95 – Paperback book / Arcade
'The reign of knowledge and humanity is coming.'
Lisa Lang introduces us to Melbourne's most eccentric entrepreneur, taking us on the journey from E. W. Cole's humble beginnings on the Victorian goldfields, to his bold e... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of The Collection: State Library Of Victoria Picture Collection
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
The Art of the Collection is a celebration of the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection – the oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. Acting on its mandate to collect and preserve Victoria's documenta... Buy or find out more →