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Verona, Edizioni Futuro, 1988, in-8, br., pp. 272. Con cartine ed ill. a col.
Milano, Regia Stamperia 1830 circa. Incisione in rame all'acquaforte, cm 31,5 x 42 (alla lastra) più margini, confini in colore d'epoca. Un minuscolo forellino nell'inciso e alcuni ai margini, leggere ondulazioni della carta, peraltro ottimo esemplare in margini. .
In – 4to, legatura editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata, pp. 223 ( 1 ). Prima edizione. Completamente illustrato con foto a colori. Ottimo esemplare, timbretto e leggero alone al frontespizio, niente strappi, macchie, mancanze, sottolineature o altro difetto degno di nota.
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1966, in-4, tela editoriale sovraccoperta illustrata a colori, pp. 224. Con centinaia di illustrazioni fotografiche in nero e a colori.
In folio, cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 14, con 32 tavole a colori fuori testo. In buono stato (good copy).
(Codice CW/3829) In 8° 217 pp. Resoconto di viaggio, con 33 foto originali fuori testo e una cartina. Indice analitico. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Lievi ingialliture, ottimo volume. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
(Codice VI/0154) In 8° 217 pp. Prima edizione. Resoconto di viaggio, illustrato con 33 foto originali fuori testo e una cartina. Indice analitico. Tutta tela editoriale, completo di sovraccoperta. Ottimo volume. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
In 8°, pp. 181. Brossura editoriale. Una cartina ripiegata nel testo. Collana di monografie per gli italiani all'estero.
Madrid, 1964. 4to.; 44 pp. Con reproducciones de portadas y un mapa. Cubiertas originales.
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.
Mijdrecht, 1968, in-4, tela editoriale. Opera riccamente illustrata.
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.
14, [6] p. con 32 tav. a colori f. t.; 48 x 34 cm. Mezza tela editoriale con sovracoperta. Ottimo
(Codice VI/0245) Fascicolo monografico. Edizione su bella carta patinata, con moltissime foto e una grande carta a colori ripiegata. Legatura editoriale. dorso in tela. Ottimo: come nuovo. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
Madrid, 1963. 4to.; 14 pp. + 3 hs. y un mapa. Cubiertas originales.
br. In questo suo quinto libro-racconto l'autore ci porta con lui lungo i sei mesi pedalati in Australia, tra maggio e ottobre 2018. Non una guida turistica, non un elenco di tappe con le relative prestazioni atletiche. I chilometri percorsi si susseguono in una avventura continua. Nulla è scontato; nemmeno l'itinerario. La Natura rigogliosa e prepotente, la vita degli Aborigeni, la quotidianità dei tanti personaggi incontrati lungo la via, le storie di altri viaggiatori incrociati per strada, vengono descritti con essenzialità e sensibilità. Toccanti le parole con cui dipinge i tramonti e le notti stellate trascorse accampandosi nella sconfinata solitudine del bush australiano. La fatica incontrata nei lunghi e difficili percorsi, scelti alla ricerca della vera Australia, lontano dai soliti cliché turistici, è la protagonista principale di questo racconto e ben descrive lo spirito con cui l'autore affronta le sue avventure. Gli spunti autoironici e le considerazioni genuine fanno da contraltare e rendono avvincente e piacevole la lettura.
Stampa antica ed originale con testo al retro
185428199London: The Religious Tract Society n.d. ca 1854. 1854. First edition. 24mo. Original decorated boards front cover decoration and spine titles stamped in gold cream-colored endpapers 192 pp. Chapters on geographical descriptions of Australia natural productions agriculture and husbandry along with segments on the Aborigines sheep and cattle farms New South Wales Victoria South and Western Australia and with an extensive description of the gold fields of Australia. Covers lightly soiled light water stain to bottom corner edges else very good copy. The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (ca 1854). hardcover
25015'Royal Mint Melbourne Australia / 21 May 1875'. Barton who was born in London joined the Royal Mint’s Melbourne branch as one of two assayers on its opening in 1869; in 1887 he was promoted to Superintendent and in 1895 to Deputy Master holding that position until his reitrement in 1904. See his entry in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Science and Innovation. In case Barton has misspelled the name the recipient may be William Dawson Grubb 1817-1879 or his son Frederick William Grubb 1844-1923 who have a joint-entry in the Australian Dictionary of National Biography. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. Signed ‘Robert Barton’. In very good condition lightly aged and folded twice for postage. Begins: ‘Dear Grubbe / I met the writer of the enclosed letter not present after you left & he told me that between us we could not have advised you to go to a worse place for the sport you want than Echuca I feel therefore that I have been instrumental although far from my intention in leading you a wild duck chase.’ He has been informed by ‘Singleton’ that ‘there are very few Kangaroo if any near Echuca & the duck are impossible to get near’. He suggests that Grubbe takes the steamer to Albury and proceeds as Singleton directs ‘& you are in a country abounding with Kangaroo & splendid duck shooting’. Barton is enclosing a note from his friend ‘to his brother who is managing the “Walla Walla†station’ and whom Grubbe will find ‘a very decent fellow. He is a batchelor sic I believe living in a large house. Ask at Albury if you are anywhere near Tumbarumba Caves because if so they are one of the finest sights of the Colonies.’ Barton wishes he had known this information before Grubbe left ‘as then you might have gone to Albury via the new line but if you elect to go from Echuca you will at all events see the river Murray’. 'Royal Mint [Melbourne, Australia] / 21 May 1875'. unknown
192760008Sydney NSW; Hobart Tasmania & New York: Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service ca. 1927-1934. Two vols. Thick oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 x 2 in. 200; 170 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 197 silver gelatin photographs all tipped-in nearly all w/ typescript mimeograph captions mounted below or alongside sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. most sized 8 x 10 in. all printed on glossy photo stock some on thicker heavier weight most w/ pencil annotations typescript or imprints on verso a few w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge others w/ embossed armorial photo studio stamp of kangaroo on shield. Uniformly bound in contemporary black pebbled flexible shagreen nested steel backed post-binders black brass screw-posts at gutter margin chipping edgewear to covers some scuffing spine leather covering perished occasional closed tears & chipping to some leaves light faint previous mounting offsetting occasional soiling or slight dampstaining to a few leaves still a VG- set of albums with nearly all of the photographs in excellent condition and with strong bright contrast. These substantial land promotion albums appear to have been designed to tout the advantages for potential homesteaders investors and visitors to Australia from the end of the Roaring 20’s into the Great Depression. Nearly 200 photos depicting bustling cities & shipping ports mines manufacturing burgeoning housing sports flora & fauna and some of the indigenous Australian Aborigine peoples extol the possibilities in Oceania’s economic engine. Following World War I Australia had seen massive changes in population and increasing economic and social changes following the devastation of World War I and the worldwide influenza pandemic with over 215000 killed and wounded between both catastrophes. With the onset of the Great Depression economic activity slowed and unemployment soared to nearly 20%. These albums include several photos of the newly constructed Canberra Provisional Parliament House completed in 1927 with bare land and little infrastructure nearby except for the Hotel Canberra. Designed originally to hold politicians and visitors when the parliament was in session the Hotel was built by contractor John Howie and designed by John Smith Murdoch. Several photos of Sydney Australia the streets a flapper driving her sporty 1927 Chevrolet Capitol AA Roadster and the famed beaches of Sydney. Several photos depict the Australian Lifesaving Clubs which began in 1907 as surf life saving with the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club but which denied full membership to women until 1980. One particular photo depicts a young comely Australian woman surfer leaning against her wooden longboard only about 15 years after Isabel Letham’s famed ride with Duke Kahanamoku in 1915. Many of the Sydney images reveal a capitol city in transition including horse-drawn cars alongside 1920’s automobiles and electric trolleys and trams. Also featured are photographs of the New Castle Steel works the Lithgow Steel Works whose blast furnace site closed in 1928 and the Mt. Boppy gold mining process mill depicting the cyanid vats to extract the ore. Still others show the Burrinjack Dam construction which had begun before World War I but not finished until 1928; horse-drawn silver ore mining wagons in the Barrgorang Valley from the Yerranderle Mines along roads to Camden NSW; orchards long the McDonald River and raising rabbits for the New South Wales Wool & Fur Co. Ltd. at Castle HIll near Parramatta. Also featured are many aerial and street photos of Queensland Brisbane Docks Victoria Bridge Queen Street with streetcars horse breaking in outback stations grape & cotton harvesting children attending “Bush Schools†and more. Still more reveal the bustling wharves at the Freemantle sheep sheering railway yards boaters on Henley-on-Yarra Flinders Street Station wheat harvest and farming and even the one of the famed wheat windjammers “The Carnandale.†Several of the photos depict the indigenous Australian Aborigines with one of the captions noting that 60000 “Full-Blood and 19000 half-caste Aborigines with 40000 still nomadic and others working sheep and cattle stations.†Another photo is included of two young Maori girls as well.The second album also contains views of a traveling salesman or traveling “Bust Hawker†featuring a horse-drawn wagon with sides hinged up and shoppers as well as aerial photos of gardens banana plantations date farms logging Kerri Trees in Western Australia and an entire section devoted to photos of Australian fauna. These depict Wombats Kangaroos pink & white Cockatoos Cassowary birds Wallabys Barn Owls Koala Bears Black Swans Opossums a Platypus Lyre-birds Kokaburra birds Australian penguins and others. Identified photographs by John Beattie Jr. from Beatties Studio Hobart Tasmania include Mt. Rugby from Balmoral Beach Big Ben Gum Tree on the estate of W.L. Clennett Saw Mill Proprietor Port Esperance whose height was nearly 250 feet as well as Dobson’s Basin Geeveston depicting a remarkable group of fen tree bowers. Originally founded in the 1840’s by the Anson Brothers John Beattie d. 1930 son of a Scottish-Australian emigre photographer worked for them in the 1880’s and then purchased the business renaming it Beatties Studio. He operated the studio for decades was the photographer who first developed all of Amundsen’s original photos of his South Pole Expedition in a single day and was an active proponent of the indigenous Aborigine population often defying popular opinion and authority over their historical mistreatment. Sadly a 1933 fire destroyed the studio and most of the negatives but it was reconstituted and many negatives and images rediscovered afterwards. See: Elizabeth Heffernan Exciting New World: Australia in the 1920s Royal Australian Historical Society 2022; Georgie Burgess Photography Pioneer John Beattie Shared Tasmania’s Wild Places with the World ABC Radio Hobart March 9 2019. Beatties Studio; Photographers Photo Service, hardcover
200081London: The Religious Tract Society circa 1854. 12mo Very good. 192P / 192P half leather. Faint old library stamp. Two volumes in one. Ferguson 6295 & 6296. The Religious Tract Society Hardcover
Madrid, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, 1973. 4to. mayor; 266 pp., con facsímiles de portadas entre el texto. Cubiertas originales.
185420130London: The Religious Tract Society 1854. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. The two parts bound together fly title only on the second part. Original red stamped cloth by Davison Binder London with tag at back gilt decoration and edges. Minor discoloration to front lower edge of front cover front free endpaper and all preceding title removed remains of pasted paper on endpapers else a very good copy. Sold as is. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields a segment on the Aborigines a section for each on New South Wales Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Ferguson "Bibliography of Australia" 6298 The Religious Tract Society unknown
10741London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling and Son Limited London. 1915. Folio 50 pp. Stitched. In original blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. On aged and lightly-stained paper. In worn and chipped wraps. Front wrap carrying the stamp and withdrawal stamp of the University of Hull. Scarce. Only one "electronic resource" recorded. London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Darling and Son, Limited, London. 1915. paperback
185420130London: The Religious Tract Society 1854. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. The two parts bound together fly title only on the second part. Original red stamped cloth by Davison Binder London with tag at back gilt decoration and edges. Minor discoloration to front lower edge of front cover front free endpaper and all preceding title removed remains of pasted paper on endpapers else a very good copy. Sold as is. Lacking frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Contains an extensive description of the Australian gold fields a segment on the Aborigines a section for each on New South Wales Victoria and South and Western Australia as well as agricultural information. Ferguson "Bibliography of Australia" 6298 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
