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Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Few chips from backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: Outlaw Stronghold - the hectic history of a rugged wilderness area in Oklahoma and Arkansas often used as a sanctuary by fugitives; Climbing the Sutherland Falls in New Zealand; Frensham's Bungalow - a strange story related by a former officer of the Indian Army; A Bid for Fortune - a young newcomer to Darwin, Australia joins a veteran skipper in a trip to a secret pearl-oyster bed; A Pygmy Net-Hunt - a graphic description of a most ingenious method of capturing wild animals, with photos; The Lost Mine (Part I) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reputed to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spanish; The New Cook; Diggers - Australian gold-hunters, with photos; Velnagel's Gold - while salvaging old machinery from an abandoned Australian gold mine the narrator (Robert Stevens) stumbled into an extrordinary experience; The Arrow Mystery - a curious affair from the early days of the Nigerian Tin-Field; and more. Covers taped in place. Above-average wear. Book
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a foreign 'tramp' to get home to Australia ends up in big problems because of the author's double; A Baptism of Fire - A young forest ranger of the British Columbia Forest Service fights a fire which puts over a hundred people in a logging camp at risk; The Trek - a minor pioneer adventure in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - happy days in Central America; The Golden Ingot - A West African Confidence Man; Down Mexico Way - Two Jacks ashore get in trouble as they explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - the celebrated Hindu shrine at Kataragama, Ceylon; Pioneer Pilot - Peter Strong; One Thing After Another - good luck finally falls on a hard luck fellow in depression-era Australia; The Burma Road - Nice photos; Strange South Sea Burial-Customs; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American Coal Fields; The Octopus - a young man's nightmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus; and more. Above-average wear. Coupon neatly clipped from atop page 121, articles unaffected. Binding intact. Book
Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
70 pages. Feature: Canada's Nuclear Trigger - deep in a North Bay Cavern - article with colour photos, including the Bomarc missile; Brigitte Bardot - 30 and Sexy and What's Next - article with two photos; Canadian woman Pat Gordon studies bull fighting in Spain - photo-illustrated article; Waves Britannia Doesn't Rule - Pirate radio stations off the coast of England - Radio Sutch and Radio Caroline - article with photos; Hop Rod - cartoon strip; Russ Jackson describes one of 1964's greatest CFL plays - with photos; Better than Bloodhounds - Aboriginal trackers in Australia; Catherine (Cay) Porter of Porter Shipping Ltd., of Toronto - photos and article; Art for Tourists - colour photos of native art with article by Bill Trent; Colour centerfold for Christie crackers; Warning Triangle - without batteries or bulbs this warning signal tells of danger on Canada's roads; Dr. Norman Bethune - Red China's Canadian Hero - he's a legend to millions, but few at home know his name; Doyle Klyn discusses a man with hair longer than hers; Suez Conspiracy and Crisis - last of 5 parts - Precarious Peace at Last - article with photos; Doug Wright's Family cartoon strip; Linda Campbell and her big Highland Fling in Scotland. Above-average wear. Fore-edge openings to last few pages. A worthy copy. Book
Features: Map of over 70 Mycenaean sites, and Nichoria, the most promising; The Snowy River Project in Australia; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xiv, 362 pp, 7 plates including frontis, vignette on title page of little dodo, title page printed in red and black in border. original red cloth with decorations in black, gilt spine title lettering and decorations, spine faded but lettering clear, light foxing on few leaves mainly at beginning and end, corners rubbed, very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon req Taylor 144. Three of the illustrations are of Hawaii (Hawaiians dancing the hula in authentic costume, Kealakeakua Bay, Rainbow Falls), with other illustrations including Pago Pago, Tutuila, Apia, Upolu, Apolimja, Fiji. The author travelled extensively in Hawaii and other Pacific islands and provides an interesting description of the peoples and nature on the islands visited.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; [ii], 76, [i, ads] pp, frontis, 12 illustrations from photos, all but one full-page. original cloth -backed boards, dj (with 5 x 10 cm piece lacking from front panel, bit soiled), very good, internally fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A list of Fiji word is included at end together with the names of the crew members, Endicott being the third mate, who describes the events of 1829. A good introduction by Jenkins. This the third book of the Marine Research Society. Not usually found in a dust jacket.
12mo [19 x 14,5 cm]; viii, 360 pp, frontis with tissue guard, plates and numerous illustrations from drwgs, double-page map, index. original pictorial cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, all edges gilted, internal hinge repaired, bookplates removed from endpaper, very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Taylor 397. The author, having travelled for decades in the area, describes conditions, customs, people, society, natural history, etc. The chapter on New Guinea was read before the Royal Geographical Society in 1873.
8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; lii, 292 pp, 6 plates including folding frontis view of HMS Dolphin in Matavai Bay, Tahiti, 4 maps including one folding, bibliog, index. original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt vignette on front, gilt lettering on spine, a bright, fine and clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wallis' travels in the Pacific followed Anson's and Byron's earlier voyages and included extensive exploration of the Magellan Straits and the Tuamotu Archipelago. Roberston's version of the voyage adds a different perspective and much additional information. This is the first printed version of Robertson's journal. Carrington's extensive introduction provides a useful historical point of view and gives much detail on the voyage. See Hill p. 555 for the 1955 edition. National Maritime Museum, I, 131: 'This journal, written by the master of the Dolphin under Wallis, covers the period when he joined her in the Thames in June 1766 until reaching Uea (Wallis Island) in the Western Pacific in 1767. Wallis' circumnavigation voyage in the Dolphin, 1766-8, included visits to Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago'.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xi, 218 pp, table of spelling, abbreviations. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded, note on endpaper, interior clean and fine in very good cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The Sea Dayaks are in Borneo, Sarawak. This edition has the supplement of additional words collected by G. Bruggeman.
8vo [25.5 x 18 cm]; x, 468 pp, mounted colored frontis plate, numerous illustrations from early sources including many title-pages reprinted, endpaper maps, index, special index of artists and engravers. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine, clean, unmarked, as new condition. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The standard reference book, includes an extensive bibliographic checklist detailing the 260 major printed sources discussed in the text together with a glossary of terms used in book collecting. Excellent chapters from the Founding Fathers to later explorations with an impressive chapter on the Wild Scenery of Australia: Fine Early Plate Books. The checklist includes a collation of each book with plate and map counts, plus good descriptive material.
The slightest of cover wear only, otherwise as-new with sharp corners, no marking of any kind, no creasing to covers or spine. Excellent condtion throughout. 182 pages.
465pp.with 435 illustrations in colour & bl/w + some maps in colour, cloth (with gilt imprinting) with original dustwrapper, in slipcase, VG, in the series "Universum der Kunst"
148 p. + Frontis portrait of Muir engraved by John Scoles. 8vo. 210 mm. Early Henry family autograph ownership. ExLib stamp of the Lancaster Mechanic's Society. Age stain, but still good. Thomas Muir [the Younger of Huntershill](1765-1799) was a Scottish political reformer. As a student he embraced controversy, and he soon developed a reputation as a lawyer who was willing to appear in court on behalf of poor clients who could not afford to pay a fee and was a fierce critic of a legal system that he believed was biased in favor of the rich. As a young Whig he helped form Friends of the People branches were formed throughout Scotland. Muir was arrested January, 1793, and charged with sedition. After being interrogated for several hours he was released on bail. Muir now traveled to London where he had talks with other leaders of the Friends of the People. The leaders of the movement were concerned about the violence taking place in France. Muir agreed to go to France and join Tom Paine in his attempts to persuade the leaders of the revolution to abandon the plan to execute Louis XVI. Muir was unsuccessful and after having talks with the Girondist leaders, he returned to Scotland, and was promptly arrested. Edinburgh he was tried for sedition before Lord Braxfield and a hand-picked jury of anti-reformers. Muir was found guilty and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. Afraid that Scottish reformers would attempt to rescue Muir, he was quickly removed to London. Radicals in the House of Commons immediately began a campaign to save the men now being described as the Scottish Martyrs. Attempts to stop the men being transported failed and in May 1794, the ship Surprise left Portsmouth and began its 13,000 mile journey to Botany Bay. The men arrived on 25th October to join the Colony of 1,908 convicts. As a political prisoner, Muir was given more freedom than most convicts and he was allowed to buy a small farm close to Sydney Cove. After two years at Port Jackson, New South Wales, Thomas Muir escaped with the help of Francis Peron, the chief mate of the American ship, the Otter of Boston. Muir reached Vancouver Island but after being offered help by a Spanish captain, he was arrested and taken on board the Ninfa. While on the way to Cadiz the Ninfa was attacked by the British warship Irresistible. During the battle Thomas Muir was hit by a glancing blow from a cannonball which smashed his left cheekbone and seriously injured both his eyes. For several days Muir's condition was so bad he was expected to die. When the French government heard about what had happened to Muir they tried to persuade the Spanish authorities to release him. The Spanish eventually agreed and Muir arrived in Bordeaux in November 1797. Muir joined up with Tom Paine in Paris where they continued the fight for parliamentary reform in Britain. However, Muir had never fully recovered from the wound he received on the Ninfa and his health began to deteriorate at the end of 1798. He was taken to Chantilly where he died on 26th January, 1799. First American Edition. Evans 27633. EVANS2
Original Australian parliamentary papers. No. 188. First Edition. Folio, 12 pages, string tied, measuring approximately 13.5 inches x 8.5 inches (34cm x 22cm). In very good and original condition. Original papers printed by the government of Australia, containing references to eleven tenders for the survey of 300,000 acres of land in the Northern Territory. Following is the of tenders: From South Australia: C. McCarthy and others; Wright, Woods & Hamilton; J. Fawsett; and B.T. Finniss. From Melbourne: G.A. Woods & Co. and H.L. Lindsay From New South Wales: S.P. Bransby and T. G. Kennon From Queensland: J. C. Thompson and Jones, Tilson & Co.
