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8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; red cloth, upper board ruled in blind, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, wanting front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served with 2nd A.I.F. before being commissioned in the 1st Australian Parachute Battalion. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; maroon cloth, giltback, brown endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Original Prospectus Piece for the Second Edition of 'The World-Wide Atlas of Modern Geography', published by W. & A.K. Johnston in Edinburgh, 1894. With a sample colour map of New Zealand from the Atlas, list of maps and plans, and an order form. Single leaf, double sided, measuring approximately 9.5 x 12 inches (24 x 30cm). Near Fine Condition. The Atlas contained 112 coloured plates, maps, and plans of cities, and an introduction, giving an account of geographical discovery and political territorial changes in the nineteenth century, by J. Scott Keltie, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
8vo. 6 pages, plus 2 large folding diagrams. A rare separate offprint printed for the Royal Geographical Society. Publisher's blue titled wrappers, string-tied and bearing the society's crest. Some light foxing, otherwise in very good and original condition. The author, a respected astronomer and well-known authority on comets, renders praise to the primary research and calculations of Major S.C.N. Grant in 1896, which forms the basis for his dissertation. With meticulous and detailed instruction Crommelin presents a simplified method to predict and decipher the instantaneous and momentary occultation of stars which greatly simplifies the detremination of Longitude at Sea. He further introduces the application to the Solar Eclipse phenomenon. Exceedingly rare dissertation by an important nineteenth century astronomer. Six years prior to Crommelin's study, Grant published a six page report and illustration, titled "Diagram for Determining the Parallaxes in Declination and Right Ascension of a Heavenly Body, and its Application to the Prediction of Occultations." Crommelin was famed for his computations of cometary orbits. He took part in expeditions to observe total solar eclipses in 1896, 1900, 1905, 1912, and 1927. In 1919 he participated in the solar eclipse expedition to Brazil which aimed to determine the amount of the deflection of light caused by the gravitational field of the Sun. The results from these observations were crucial in providing confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity, which Albert Einstein had proposed in 1916.
DJ shows wear and small open tears; In German. Lots of color photos ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 171 pages
Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; 8vo; 293 pages
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; [x], 280 pp, frontis of authors in their rustic home, map endpapers. original pictorial cloth, spine title lettering, dj (worn, large piece lacking from spine), very good clean copy in fair to good jacket. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The authors spent five years on the Galapagos Islands with inadequate supplies. The description provides a useful picture of life on the islands at the time, which are now being preserved for its natural treasures, but despite this, has undergone environmental degradation since the 1940s.
Minor rubbing and a bit of fraying to DJ; Book club edition. ; 8vo; 499 pages
Book block detached from cover wraps. ; A study of fossils and bones to ascertain the derivation of the American Indian. Volume 94, number 11 in the Miscellaneous Collections series.; Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections; 8vo; 58 pages
DJ with light rubbing to extremities and a bit darkened. ; Four months exploration resulted in this report from the noted author. Maps in endpaper. Much info about the fauna of Australia.; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 432 pages
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 188 pp, color frontis, illustrations from photos, glossary, map, map endpapers. original cloth, dj (price clipped, very slight wear at spine end), fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of Portuguese Timor, based on two visits, and of the people and their customs, culture, religion, etc.
459p. Numerous illustrations, photographs and maps many in color. Large folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Very nice copy. A valuable encyclopedia of wine-making regions and ove r 6500 wines. WHISKEY 1
Banned in 1916, "The Straights Impregnable" . the 'best book on Gallipoli' now returns to print. As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first hand. His journal of what he saw became a book on his return to Australia. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Sydney's book a novel: 'The Straits Impregnable'. But as the war ground on and numbers of casualties grew, the publisher inserted a note saying the book was in fact true. 'The Straits Impregnable', which had enjoyed huge literary acclaim, was immediately withdrawn from sale by the censors. Sydney Loch's experiences in the war, shaped his life afterwards. With his wife, Joice Loch, he would go on to work in refugee camps in Poland and Palestine, at the Amerian Farm School in Thessaloniki and finally at Ouranopolis near Mt.Atho. In 'To Hell and Back', historians Susanna and Jake de Vries have recovered and edited Sydney's book for a new generation of readers - and written a biography of his remarkable life. 248p. illus. index Book
Author Moorehead turns his immense talents to the Cook expeditions and the other Europeans "invading" the South Pacific. Maps and B&W illustrations. Stated first edition. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 230 pages
Former owner's inscription to fep and with some underlining to first couple of pages. ; A detailed account on the life of the Aborigines. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Includes collection of poems; 8vo; 97 pages
Yota Krili was born in Kerastari of Arcadia, Greece in 1937 and migrated to Australia in 1959 and became a teacher and writer . This bi-lingual collection has an introduction by Helen Nickas.161p. [Worldcat copies in Australian libraries] Book
Madrid-Zaragoza, 2009. 4to.; XLIX pp., 393 pp. Cubiertas originales.
Mm 170x240 Collana: "Grandi opere". Volume cartonato rigido di pagine VIII-486, sovraccoperta figurata, astuccio editoriale in cartonicino. Nuovo. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
SYDNEY, F.H. Johnston Publishing Co, 1960 - In-8 - Reliure éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs - .Illustrations NB ou couleurs, certaines PP HT - 554 pages - bon exemplaire Envoi
PARIS : Sté d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales 1936 - Broché, 249 pages, 20 planches, Carte dépliante, photographie de Mde de CROIZET - Très bon état - Envoi rapide et soigné
français Petit in-12 de VII-168 pp.; broché. Collection Voyages et découvertes géographiques. Petits manques de papier au dos.
PARIS, Payot - 1938 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture illustrée - 1 carte, 25 dessins et 25 photographies noir et blanc - 295 pages - Très bon exemplaire
Large 8vo, 25cm. Pp. 41-228, 1 fold. map, 4 fold. tabs., bibl. of 228 references. Orig. wrappers, uncut.
ill., ril. Verdi foreste intrise di pioggia, deserti di sabbie rosse, monoliti di grès, roventi aridità nel cuore di un continente costellato d'oasi, lagune color turchese e nevi eterne... l'Australia offre un'infinita varietà di paesaggi e una straordinaria biodiversità che fanno del più vecchio continente del pianeta una specie di laboratorio dell'evoluzione. "Sarebbe possibile -ci siamo chiesti - far vedere con la fotografia l'universo poetico contenuto nella cosmogonia aborigena e mostrare in qual modo la bellezza e la magia dei paesaggi si siano imposti ai nativi come il fondamento stesso della loro mitologia e degli intensi rapporti che li legano alla loro terra?". Il fotografo Olivier Grunewald firma questo album in collaborazione con la geomorfologa Bernadette Gilbertas, dopo una peregrinazione durata otto mesi attraverso le terre selvagge dell'Australia.
