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2026x-1032341076Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 180 pages. 6.14x0.40x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
ria9780367635909_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book presents the state-of-art-knowledge on corrosion of steel cast iron and ductile iron with a focus on corrosion-induced degradation of their mechanical properties. The information presented in the book is largely derived from paperback
109827Canberra, Australien Institute Aboriginal Studies 1977, 250x175mm, 167pages, paperback. Book in good condition.
8vo [23 x 16 cm]; xii, [ii], 257 pp, glossary, bibliog, endpaper maps. original quarter cloth, boards, dj, fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author observes that societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. "An artful blend of travel memoir and historical narrative", and a fascination of cannibals and their adaptation to modern times.
1989046481Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1989. xv 350pp index bibliography notes appendices tablesbw ills maps. Or green cloth in jacket. Some fading to spine light foxing and minor mark to top edge. The ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs of squatters selectors miners and developers in the mid-19th century. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Octavo in a peach color DJ ; 112 p. : illus (some color) Napier (N.Z.) -- Description and travel -- Government
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [x], 172 pp, frontis, illustrations from photos, map endpapers. original cloth, dj (bit worn at spine ends), else fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes his life in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s, where he tried to break down the isolation of the various peoples there. Much on the customs and society of the native peoples. The area was an Australian colony at the time.
ria9780415318952_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This is a controversial book about a critical theme in health and exercise studies. It provides much-needed thorough and reflective analysis of the current state of research and is set to contribute a great deal to the debate. hardcover
1988032864Brisbane: Archaeology Branch Department of Community Services 1988. vii 171pp bibliography tables bw ills maps. Or comb-bound card covers with plastic front protector. Traditional cultureof the Aborigines of the Leichhardt Gilbert region of Queensland. Includes organization and personal nomenclature; subsistence and material culture; inter-tribal contact and trade; social ceremonial and spiritual life; welfare crime and punishment; a an introduction to the history of Aboriginal occupation of the region. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Archaeology Branch, Department of Community Services Paperback
1985039911Brisbane: Boolarong Press 1985. xxvi 598pp indexglossaryendnotes appendicesmaps bw ills. Or bright blue cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket and light foxing to edges endpapers moderately foxed. The 9th Battalion was one of the 12 battalions of the 1st Australian Division the first to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. The battalion also served on the Somme and Western Front including 3rd Ypres Amiens Paschendaele Poziers etc. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. Boolarong Press Hardcover
1985032531Brisbane: Boolarong Press 1985. xxvi 598pp indexglossaryendnotes appendicesmaps bw ills. Or bright blue cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket and very light foxing to top edge. Presentation certificate for Most Improved Cadet from OCTU Training Group 1990 on front free endpaper. The 9th Battalion was one of the 12 battalions of the 1st Australian Division the first to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. The battalion also served on the Somme and Western Front including 3rd Ypres Amiens Paschendaele Poziers etc. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Boolarong Press Hardcover
1966024600Brisbane QLD Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty Ltd 1966. Small marks and stains to jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. 250 pages. . SIGNED. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty Ltd Hardcover
1880131626Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blind-decorated red cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and its Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little flecked with minimal loss to silverfish on the spine and rear cover; edges slightly marked; an excellent copy internally fine. Provenance: the contemporary surname signature 'Benny' is written in ink on the front flyleaf. Reverend James Benny 1824-1910 farmer lawyer then 'minister of the Free Presbyterian Church at Morphett Vale' from the early 1850s; an account of his jubilee celebrations appeared in 'The Advertiser' 16 September 1903. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
188010740Adelaide: George Robertson 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1880. Duodecimo xvi 96 pages. Blue cloth over flush-cut boards with the title 'A Guide to Adelaide and its Environs' in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly rubbed bumped and worn at the extremities; stitching just starting to loosen; a very good copy with the signature stamp of E. Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. Edward Angas Johnson 1873-1951 was an Adelaide medical practitioner prominent in public health circles; his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas. Ferguson 18881 not mentioning the binding. 'It has often been matter for remark that no guide or handbook to the city of Adelaide and places in its vicinity has yet been produced' from the preface by the author the Town Clerk of Adelaide. George Robertson hardcover
1862136982London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. Octavo xviii 404 pages with 32 illustrations plus 5 pages of plates and a map. Gilt- and blind-stamped green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine all edges uncut; cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities with trifling wear to a spot along the rear joint; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Ferguson 18805. This copy contains a series of interesting albeit relatively unimportant early marks of ownership from William Charles Rigby's early blindstamp with premises at 55 Hindley Street to the ink signature of a policeman 'Frank Karuth Kadina S.A. 13/8/64' ruled out on the title page and the pencilled signatures of vigneron and publican Francis Robert Hunt Hahndorf twice and subsequently his son Leonard who died in 1919. The first of many significant and original contributions to Australian geology palaeontology and zoology by Father Tenison-Woods 1832-1889. These days he is perhaps more widely known for the fact that with 'Mother Mary MacKillop he helped to found the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover
187898735Adelaide: George Robertson 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide George Robertson 1878. Small quarto iv 138 pages. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover and spine and ruled in blind front and rear; cloth moderately flecked; an excellent copy internally fine. Printed and bound in Melbourne with the binder's label of George Robertson on the rear pastedown. Mrs John Crawford Woods was the wife of the first minister 1855-1889 of the Unitarian Christian Church in South Australia. This book 'was published in Adelaide at a time when novels of primitive Christianity were in vogue in Britain' and according to Paul Depasquale in 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930' enabled Mrs Woods to more than satisfy George Eliot's dictum about female authors: 'The inability of a lady novelist to describe actual life and her fellow men is in inverse proportion to her confident eloquence about God and the other world and the means by which she usually chooses to conduct you to true ideas of the invisible is a totally false picture of the visible'. George Robertson hardcover
198020760Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia 1980. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1980s facsimile edition/ 1879. Octavo 8 pages. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains TATE Professor Ralph: The Natural History of the Country around the Head of the Great Australian Bight 35 pages plus a page of illustrations. It contains a three-page history of exploration in the area and there are numerous cross-references to previous explorers plus passing references to the local Aborigines. Royal Society of South Australia paperback
1879138110Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original green ribbed cloth; spine and front cover blocked in gilt with the cover design repeated in blind on the rear cover; covers lightly rubbed and flecked with some short splits at the head and foot of the spine; infrequent light foxing; a few minor signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An early compendium here in the preferred binding of elaborately gilt-blocked green cloth of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879123987Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Original publisher's half morocco and watered cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments; edges and endpapers marbled; leather moderately rubbed at the extremities; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. <p>Provenance: John Harris Browne 1817-1904 expeditioner and pastoralist with his contemporary ownership signature 'J.H. Browne 1879' on the front flyleaf. 'In 1844-45 he went as medical officer with Charles Sturt's expedition into Central Australia. Unusually observant and intensely practical he was probably the most useful member of the party and although he suffered like the others from scurvy his courage and professional skill certainly brought Sturt back alive' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant pastoralist and a grandson of George Fife Angas is mounted on the front pastedown. The marginal annotation in pencil on page 212 alongside text relating to body painting of the 'Port Lincoln Tribe' may be in his hand: 'The White paint is Gypsum the Black is the Black Oxide of Manganese the Red is Hematite viz Red Iron ore'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879144282Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages plus 8 tinted lithographs with tissue-guards. Full russet morocco extensively tooled in gilt; all edges gilt; spine lightly sunned; joints slightly cracked but firm; a few minor signs of age and handling internally; overall in excellent condition. The handsome colonial presentation binding has the ticket 'Bound at Government Printing Office Adelaide S.A.' on the rear pastedown; it was almost certainly executed by Emanuel Spiller the South Australian Government Printer at the time. An early binder's blank contains the inscription 'The South Australian Institute to Dr. Francis Reuleaux; Privy Councillor and Royal Professor; Chief Commissioner for the Empire of Germany at the Melbourne International Exhibition. Adelaide 1881'. Franz Reuleaux 1829-1905 was an influential German mechanical engineer who oversaw German machinery exhibits at the Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions 1879-81. He is best known as the father of modern kinematics. His armorial bookplate with manuscript inventory number is mounted opposite the inscription. <p>Spiller's name appears as exhibitor and jury-member of competitions and exhibitions of binding and printing throughout the 1880s. The 'Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 March 1880 carries a lengthy article by John Plummer on colonial bookbindings displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition noting that '. in the South Australian Court Mr. E. Spiller the Government printer of Adelaide occupies the foremost rank'. <p>The book itself is an important early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time; the lithographs and lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods were new to this edition. Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting blue sand-grain cloth and another binding in half leather but not an unillustrated edition we have identified. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1879106051Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages. Original dark green cloth decorated in black on the front and rear boards and decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth lightly flecked; a fine copy. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time of publication; the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods is new to this edition. This is a variant edition as issued we purchased several copies some years ago from the publisher's archive; it does not contain the eight tinted lithographs normally found in this collected reprint. These plates were new to the reprint. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting variant bindings but not noting this unillustrated edition. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
29 pages, including 2 in-text sketch maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating travel report recounting the history of the Polyesian immigration from Asia into the Pacific and the developing changes of this culture as it was influenced by invasions and growth. Mr. Woodford was recognized for his extensive study of the Polynesians and Malenesians. He provides intricate details on the tattooing procedure and nostril piercing for men, on the construction of canoes which were beginning to be replaced by European boats and half-decked cutters, and on the tools and weapons used.
26 pages, plus a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 8.25 x 8.25 inches (21 x 21cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Woodford describes the brutal tomahawk attacks overtaking ships on the coast of Malayta, head-hunting, captivity and cannibal practices. Imagine his shock as in his travels he came across piles of skulls and even recognized some of the heads proudly displayed in homes! He also describes his visits to various islands including the Hebrides, and on the so-called recruiting practices of the "South Sea Island Labour Trade". This is a fascinating expedition account which includes also descriptions of his 3 separate unsuccessful attempts to reach the island's interior, each time met by hostile mountain tribes! A vivid first-hand account saturated with violence and cultural wonder.
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 341 pp, maps, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine, clean, fresh and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Covering Samoa, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands and Fiji, the author took the trip as a basis for a television documentary series. Engrossing and well written, both personal and highly informative, combining the historical background of the area with present conditions.
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 341 pp, maps, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering, dj (price clipped, bit rubbed), near fine, clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Covering Samoa, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands and Fiji, the author took the trip as a basis for a television documentary series. Engrossing and well written, both personal and highly informative, combining the historical background of the area with present conditions.
