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No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with the faintest traces of storage. 112pp. Sydney in Australia from the 1930s to the 1950s from the camera of Max Dupain as this era is brought to life again in his superb photographs.
Large octavo in maroon cloth and color illus DJ; maps to endpapers; x, 214 p. illus *b/w and some color photoplates throughout) ; 23 cm Signed by Victor Carell. Some worthwhile photos of Aboriginal rituals. || Australian Aborigines; Indigenous people of Australia (rites, ceremonies, dance and customs) ; Ethnology -- Australia. Australia -- Description and travel.
128 pages. Features: Learning From Down Under; Site Unseen - two Aussies buy an acre of land in Noosa, site unseen; Architect Brian Zulaikha's open-plan home; Nature Nurtured - Kiwi couple tucks trapezoidal live-work space into spectacular surroundings; Seven great homes. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 6 large folding charts (one coloured in outline; several marginal tears neatly repaired); original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. Very scarce.
8vo [22 x 14 cm; xxx, [ii], 594 pp, 5 maps (as called for) including folding, glossary of plants and birds, bibliography, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, library withdrawal stamp on title page, but no other library markings, interior clean and unmarked, cover unmarked with minor wear, overall very good, sound copy. A picture of this book is available upon request A detailed and scholarly work covering each explorer/traveller with separate chapters, including Colenso, Selwyn, Charles Abraham, John Johnson, Heaphy, Brunner, Thomson, Percy Smith, A. J. Barrington, Herbert Meade, and others.
Author: Sir Harry Luke Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads! Notes & Condition: Recounting his visit to Easter Island in April and May 1952, the widely travelled author presents a lively account of the lesser-known history of slavery and slave-driven industries which nearly devastated the famous volcanic island, including the especially ruinous guano industry raid of 1862. [In 1862, Peruvian slavers made a ruthless raid on Rapa Nui and took about a thousand islanders - including the king - to work the guano deposits on Peru's Chincha Islands. The hardships and oppressions endured by the Chinese laborers who were employed in digging guano have been descrbed as a system of the worst kind of slavery.] In contrast, he also discusses the political and economic situation at the time of his visit, including the merino sheep industry, artisans retaining one ancient tradition, and British-led efforts to support the social well-being of the inhabitants which had been terminated for political reasons by the Chilean government in 1953. Following a firsthand description of the moai monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people, and remarks on the Bird-man cult, Luke concludes by revealing that the Commonwealth was considering establishing an air route from Australia to Chile, including the construction of an air strip on Easter Island. [The most remote airport in the world, Mataveri International Airport, began its service in 1967.] Excerpts from the text: "Easter Island was a no-man's land from the time that Spain was compelled to relinquish her South American possession until 1888... for more than two generations at the mercy of the 'blackbirders,' those scourges of the Pacific who roamed from island to island, seizing by force defenceless natives to work out their plantations, mines and the like. Easter Island was one of the many islands all but ruined by these depredations." "The breach of continuity to which I have referred was brought about by the development of the guano industry on the rocky islands off the Peruvian coast, which began at the end of the 1850s. From 1859, and especially in the organized raid of December 1862, most of Easter Island's able-bodied men and its leaders, including King Kaimakoi, his son and many of the learned elders (maori), were crimped by Peruvian blackbirding expeditions and transported to those sun-scorched, glary, waterless pieces of rock whose only covering consists of deposits of stinking guano." "The fifteen who lived to see their island again introduced the smallpox to a community that had no immunity... most of those who had escaped the clutches of 'blackbirders' lost their lives in the consequent epidemic." "Adorned with clumps of eucalyptus, Persian lilac, cypress and bamboo, it is a place that leaves a lasting impression and many questions with all visitors past and present. The isolation of Easter Island, its numerous and bizarre works of art, combined with the rarety of its visitors some 50 years ago contributed to a great deal of speculation and attempted explanations of the unknown phenomena." "... I am the 'ex-Governor of the British Colonies in the Pacific' referred to in Chapter 3 of Thor Heyerdahl's fascinating book as having been present on 27 April 1947 at the launching of his most famous of rafts... I was therefore anxious... to see how far the works of Easter Island culture support his theory..." End excerpts. 8vo. 10 pages including an in-text sketch map, plus photographic plates for illustration. 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. Sir Harry Charles Luke KCMG GCStJ (born Harry Charles Lukach) (1884-1969) was an official in the British Colonial Office. He served in Barbados, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Malta, the British Western Pacific Territories and Fiji. He wrote books on several of these countries. The Chincha Islands, or Islas Chincha, are a group of three small islands 21 km (13 mi) off the southwest coast of Peru, to which they belong, near the town of Pisco. They were of interest for their extensive guano deposits, but the supplies were mostly exhausted by 1874. Peru began the export of guano (droppings of seabirds, bats, and seals) in 1840, using slave labour. Spain, not having recognized Peru's independence (until 1879), and desiring the guano profits, occupied the islands in April 1864, setting off the Chincha Islands War (1864-1866).
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.
Signed by one of the authors, with personal letter to previous owner laid in. Cover slightly faded; otherwise good condition, contents clean, sound, and bright. Used
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.
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 (now East Timor), based on two visits, and of the people and their customs, culture, religion, etc, a picture that is valuable now because of the destruction that has more recently taken place.
20x14. 544p. Pequeña falta en sobrecubierta. Trad. C. Puerto. Enc. cart. ed.
Barcelona, Joaquín Gil Editor, 1935. 4to.; 250 pp., 2 hs. y 12 mapas, dos de ellos plegados. Cubiertas originales.
Madrid, Imprenta del Cuerpo de Artillería, 1896. 4to.mayor; 64 pp. Cubiertas originales.
20x14. 291p. Col. Grandes Novelas de Hoy. Enc. Cart. Ed. La sobrecubierta algo deteriorada.
20x14. 237p. Col. Grandes Novelas de Hoy. Enc. Cart. Ed. Sobrecubierta.
On the Emigration of English single women to Canada and Australia 1862-1930. PhD.Thesis submittd to York University 2002. 318 leaves + bibliography Book
Catalog in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Art catalog published on the occasion of the exhbition "Emmanuel Watt: when I carve" for the exhibition of works by ni-Vanuatu artist Emmanuel Watt at the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, 26 Nov. 2003 - March 2004. curated by Ross Searle and Carl Warner. Contains an essay by Ralph Regenvanu; color photos throughout of Watt's sculptures; limited to 800 copies. 64 pages
Broch?. 96 pages. 23x31 cm. Couverture factice.
Madrid, 1992. 4to.; XVII pp., 188 pp. Cubiertas originales.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16,5 cm). In Turkish. [x], 373 p., 3 folding maps, 1 table, 15 b/w plates. First Edition. History of the Far East. En eski devirlerden zamanimiza kadar Uzak Dogu tarihi. Uzakdogu'da ilk insanlar ve prehistorik devirler, Japonya, Kora Hindiçini, Siyam, Burma, Malaya, Endonezya, Avustralya ve Adalar.
Barcelona, Plaza Janes S.A. Editores, 1982. 4to. menor, 252 pp., 2 hs. Cubiertas originales.
La petite maison, 2009, 187 pages , tirage limité à 200 exemplaires, couverture un peu empoussiérée, bon état.
Paris, BORDAS - 1961 - In-4, 31x22cm - 2 volumes Reliure éditeur - nombreuses photographies en NB ou couleurs - T. I :256 pages + 143 cartes couleurs HT + Indes alphabétique - T. II : Chemise de documents / Rodoïde avec plans, cartes, shémas ou photographies - Très bel Exemplaire
1st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. Fine/VG (spine sunned). Forewords by Sir Donald Bradman and Sir Leonard Hutton. ISBN 0718870123. 23155. eng
304 pages, illustrated. Forewords by Sir Donald Bradman and Sir Leonard Hutton. Slight fading to spine. eng
