| A Woman in the Wilderness. The Story of Amalie Dietrich in Australia R Sumner New South Wales University Press, 1993 | 41 | 1993 |
| The Queensland Style R Sumner in Robert Irving "The History and Design of the Australian House", Oxford …, 1985 | 14 | 1985 |
| Settlers and habitat in tropical Queensland R Sumner James Cook University, Department of Geography Monograph Series 6, 62, 1974 | 13 | 1974 |
| Amalie Dietrich and the aborigines: Her contribution to Australian anthropology and ethnography R Sumner Australian Aboriginal Studies 2, 2-19, 1993 | 9 | 1993 |
| Photographs of Aborigines of North-East Australia: A Collection of Early Queensland Aboriginal Photographs, Made by Amalie Dietrich for the Museum Godeffroy R Sumner Aboriginal History 10, 157-170, 1986 | 7 | 1986 |
| Amalie Dietrich’s Australian botanical collections R Sumner Amalie Dietrich (1821–1881): German biologist in Australia, 1-50, 1988 | 6 | 1988 |
| Steiglitz: Memories of Gold R Sumner National Parks Service, Victoria, 1982 | 6 | 1982 |
| The Tropical Bungalow - The Search for an Indigenous Australian Architecture R Sumner Australian Journal of Art 1, 27-39, 1978 | 6 | 1978 |
| Amalie Dietrich's Zoological Collections for the Museum Godeffroy R Sumner Brisbane History Group Sources 4 (Brisbane Butterflies and Beetles), 6-74, 1989 | 5 | 1989 |
| The Brisbane House in Historical Context R Sumner Brisbane History Group Papers 3 (Brisbane Housing, Health, the River and the …, 1985 | 5 | 1985 |
| Early North Queensland Housing as Response to Environment R Sumner, J Oliver The Australian Geographer 14, 114-121, 1978 | 5 | 1978 |
| Pioneer homesteads of North Queensland R Sumner Lectures on North Queensland History, 47-62, 1974 | 5 | 1974 |
| The Demonisation of Amalie Dietrich R Sumner Federkiel 63 (April 2019), 1-6, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Geography Basics (Editor, 2 volumes) R Sumner Salem Press Inc, 2004 | 4* | 2004 |
| Amalie Dietrich and the Taipan R Sumner New Beginnings: The Germans in New South Wales and Queensland: A …, 1984 | 4 | 1984 |
| Combinatorial Creativity and the Australian Letters of Amalie Dietrich R Sumner Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 78, 192-215, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| A noisome business‐the trepang trade and Queensland R Sumner Journal of Australian Studies 5 (9), 61-70, 1981 | 3 | 1981 |
| ‘Among cannibals’‐Carl Lumholtz in North Queensland R Sumner Journal of Australian Studies 1 (1), 84-90, 1977 | 3 | 1977 |
| Environment and Architecture in Tropical Queensland R Sumner Architecture in Australia 64 (5), 82-87, 1975 | 3 | 1975 |
| Amalie Dietrich - a German Naturalist in Queensland R Sumner in The German Presence in Queensland (Eds: M. Jurgensen and A. Corkhill …, 1988 | 2 | 1988 |
