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8vo [22 x 15 cm]; [viii], 240 pp, frontis, illustrations from photos. original cloth, dj (spine bit faded), fine in vg dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes his years on the Solomon Islands where he was a district commissioner.
184p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo [24 x 16cm]; [xii] 192 pp, maps, plates, bibliog., index. original cloth-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, dj (bit rubbed at edge, not price clipped), clean, fine and unused in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, with poet James Fenton, wrote an interesting and hilarious account of their exploration of jungles and mountains, following the trails of previous naturalists. This is the author's first travel book, which launched his career as a travel writer.
288p. Mordecai MacCobber was one of many pseudonyms used by the author who was also know as Abraham Samuel Gordon. Hardcover Good condition
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.
bumps to the ends of the cover and spine,.
Mm 160x215 Collana "Collezioni di studi religiosi etnologici e psicologici" - Brossura editoriale di xxvii-359 pagine, 15 illustrazioni fuori testo, sovraccoperta con leggeri segni del tempo e d'uso, peraltro buono stato. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Firenze, Tipografia Commerciale, 1897, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. XIV, 102. Interessante resoconto, denso di dati, sui rapporti commerciali fra l'Italia e l'Australia. Lieve difetto alla copertina anteriore. Invio manoscritto dell'autore al deputato Adolfo Cavalieri.
pp. 135-207, 20 lettterpress tables on 10 fold. leaves (counted as pp. 159-178), 1 large fold. table. 8vo. Plain new wrappers. Very scarce.
Milano, "Silvana" Editoriale d'arte, 1954, in-folio, mz. tela edit. con sovraccoperta (difettosa), pp. 14, (6). Con 5 illustrazioni in b.n. e 32 tavv. a col. da foto di W. Brindle. Volume 3° della Collezione Unesco d'Arte Mondiale pubblicata in collaborazione con la New York Graphic Society.
Perth, Day Dawn Press, 1977, in-4, cartone editoriale con sovraccoperta, pp. 226. Con belle illustrazioni a colori.
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xiii, 263 pp, colored frontispiece plate, numerous plates from photos, map, index`. original brown cloth, title lettering on spine and cover, pictorial endpaper, spine edges rubbed, interior quite clean and fine in good cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. It has been claimed that nowhere else in the world does so much wild beauty exist in such a small area, as Tasmania, and the author's travels and descriptions through this land filled with mountains, rivers, lakes and fine coastal scenery tends to prove it. With descriptions of settlements, people, nature.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xi, [iii], 150 pp, illustrations mostly from photos on plates, endpaper maps. original cloth, spine title lettering, spine repair, dj (tear, light wear, not price clipped), interior quite good and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A narrative of the popular author's travels on the island with his comments on earlier travels there, anthropological detective work, adventures.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 10 3/4"w x 8 1/2"h. 140 pages.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 124 pages.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked black leatherette boards and no bumping to corners. 143pp. The story of the Charles Parsons Group of Companies from Sydney, Australia, established in 1915 as a textiles, woollens and trimmings firm and of Charles Parsons and family. A scarce volume.
Book in brand new condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor traces of storage such as slight creasing to edges. 333pp. The meaning of the oldest figurative paintings in the bush in North Western Australia revealed by four old lawmen. They show a distinct society with elaborate dress and ceremony and dance. The words of the 'translators' accompany the photographs of the paintings.
First hand accounts in letters and diaries of the conditions experienced by the women who settled the Australian Bush in the 19th century. "From Annie Baxter, writing to sustain herself through a miserable marriage to a military man and failed farmer, to Ellen Moger, whose letter to her parents told of the death of three of her four young children from starvation on the journey out, women wrote to keep in touch with their old lives and to make some kind of private sense of the new. Yet all would have agreed with Annie Baxter when, after being bled with a penkife, she wrote to a friend, "Oh! ye nervous ladies, never come to the bush!"" 284p. illus bibliography. Donor inscription. else fine. Book
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xii, 315 pp, frontis and plates from the author's photos, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, very good clean copy in dj (chipped at edges, price clipped). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. One of Australia's most popular naturalists describes his travels throughout the continent, describing nature, animals, plants, aboriginals, etc, with many illustrations and anecdotes.
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.
8vo., First Edition thus; pictorial cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. Generally considered the first work of general literature printed [by Andrew Bent] in Australia. The text is reproduced from the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ref. ARCH.A.A.e.126.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, page-edges tanning lightly as usual; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a map as frontispiece, 11 plates on 4 and tables in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
Similpelle in-4 con fregi e tit. oro, 2 fettucce segnalibro, quasi 400 pp. complessive. La prima parte è costituita dall'agenda e corredata con dis. in n. di piante e animali, segue una parte descrittiva del paese con natura, animali, piante e storia della conquista. Praticamente allo stato di nuovo.
Photography in color , very beautiful book . - 248 p. , 1 kg 800 gr.
