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1982118172Roseworthy: Roseworthy Agricultural College 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Roseworthy Roseworthy Agricultural College 1982. Folio 317 × 202 mm liv 378 pages with illustrations some line illustrations some from photographs and 6 pages of facsimile manuscript. Full morocco lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine; a fine copy. Number 24 of an unspecified limited edition. Copies in the standard binding - papered boards with a dustwrapper - state that the edition is 1000 copies which presumably includes a modest quantity with this deluxe binding which we have not seen before. Roseworthy Agricultural College hardcover
1983BIB175202Roseworthy: Roseworthy Agricultural College. 1983. Folio size 31.5x19.5cm approx. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Translated edited and with an introduction by Jeff Daniels. Limited edition - this being copy no 830 of 1000 copies. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 378 pages. The letters in this volume provide a fascinating insight into part of the life and times of one of Australia's most energetic and skilled educators and senior public servants. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Roseworthy Agricultural College hardcover
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 180 pp, 15 plates from photos including frontis, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, cover lightly soiled, interior is clean, else a fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The first half of the book describes the author's journey in 1901 to Baghdad, Basra, Bahirin, Muscat, Sherpore, etc around the Persian Gulf where he visits some areas off the beaten track. The second half of the book describes his stay on several Pacific islands including Tonga, Haapai, Fiji, etc and is remarkable for its explicit illustrations of cannibals, including one entitled 'Cannibals dragging prisoners to the ovens', two others showing cannibals slaughtering their victims. The author didn't seem too concerned about becoming a victim. There have been only two copies at auction in the last 25 years, the last at Sotheby's in 1997 selling at US$782, although it wasn't in as good a condition as this copy.
19823707New Zealand: Reed 1982. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Reed NZ Non Fiction - 1st Ed 1982 0589013920 Book Cloth NonFiction green cloth with silver lettering - <br/><br/> Reed hardcover
2002020478Self Published 2002. Jacket has light general wear plus small marks to front. Signed by the author on the title page. 216 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Includes the pottery of Brownie Downing Casey Ware Diana Martin Boyd Pates and many others. . SIGNED. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Self Published Hardcover
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Drawing on current scientific research, Kim Fletcher offers a comparison of traditional and up-to-the-minute uses for herbs in medicines, food, pesticides and crafts. Detailed botanical descriptions and line sketches aid identification, and there are instructions for propagation and cultivation. 271 pages.
8vo., Second Australian Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates on 11 and a double map in red on blue stock; handsomely bound in red full morocco, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. Daisy Bates's classic work was first published by Murray in 1938; with a first Australian edition following in 1944.
1953114019The Australian Artist Editions - Legend Press, Sydney, 1953. 36 x 27 cm ; Leder
large 8vo [25 x 18 cm]; lxxvii, 322 pp, plates, maps including endpaper maps showing route, bibliog, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine and clean, unused. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Bougainville sailed through the Pacific, stopping at Tahiti, through the Samoan Islands, to Vanuatu, to the Australian Great Barrier Reef, north to New Guinea, Solomon Islands, making a number of discoveries including the island named after him, continuing home via the Dutch East Indies and Indian Ocean. His voyage lead to many other French expeditions. He discovered the bougainvillea flower. His journal was first published in 1977 in French and this is the first edition in English. A 70 page introduction provides an excellent historical perspective.
VG/VG. dj is fully covered in plastic sleeve which has been taped to boards previously - but now free and leaving brown marks from tape. not price-clipped. no inscriptions, but there is a "lancashire education committee" stamp to ffep - but no other sign of ex-libris history. foxing to edges of textblock. internally a lovely clean copy. First Edition. Accounts of the explorers of Australia: Blaxland, Giles, Kennedy, Eyre, Sturt, Stuart, Grey from original sources. faint musty smell from poor prior storage - now resolving.
1999000171Sydney: Macmillan 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This pristine book has been signed by author with a personal message to the previous owner. Macmillan Hardcover
1987131355Adelaide: G. Gramp and Sons 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide G. Gramp and Sons 1987. Quarto 79 pages with numerous illustrations most in colour and many full-page plus colour pictorial endpapers. Pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. Signed in ink by K.J. Swann S.W. Gramp Colin R. Gramp and one more Gramp on the half-title. From Johann Gramp's first wine in 1850 'Messrs. G. Gramp & Sons Ltd. was to grow into one of the giants of the Australian wine industry by the 1930s' 'Pioneer Vignerons' website; today 'the winery continues under the label Jacob's Creek' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. G. Gramp and Sons hardcover
Ex-library book witht he usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for several pages previous to page 58 that are heavily underlined in pencil. Nice condition. 364 pages, maps, charts, tables.
187017145Colchester England: Oldham & Angle Photographers 1870. Photography. Very good overall. Carte de visite showing the Australian General Tom Thumb aka John David Armstrong who made his debut in Melbourne in 1870 and performed world wide. An uncommon image with Tom Thumb standing next to an ornately carved chair and dresser dressed in coat and tails and holding a sheaf of papers. The visit of the American Charles Stratton "Tom Thumb" and his wife Lavinia to Australia in the late 1860s as part of the PT Barnum round the world tour resulted in a huge fascination with little people worldwide. With the title below the photograph. Text on the verso: "this photograph is from the studio of G. A. Graham 8 Mersea Road. With photographers imprint: Oldham & Angle Photographers 11 Queen St. & 8 Mersea Rd. Colchester". Below the stamp: "The higher class photographs only taken by Sydney B. Angle 11 Queen St.". 2 1/2 x 4". Slt faded. Oldham & Angle Photographers unknown
248791882. Printed. One page 33 x 25cm small chip off one corner fold marks discreet repair to edges and fold just noticeable shadow caused by exposure to sun good condition. See Image. On otherwise blank version there is the small stamp of the Webster Collection no. '1569'. Note: In "Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land" W.J. Loftie pubd 1890 i.e. a later edition the relevant plate only shows the outward journey not the homeward. I have found no other copy of the White/Hull edition 1882 on viaLibri. 1882. unknown
1932029047Sydney: Herald Press 1932. 224pp bw ills endpaper maps. Or blue cloth with title plane and mountains in white. Endpapers toned light to moderate foxing throughout some fading to spine. Much nicer than usual example of this volume that did not survive well. Kingsford_Smith writes of his pioneering flights in the Southern Cross. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Herald Press Hardcover
1964124456Adelaide: W.L. Hawes Government Printer 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.L. Hawes Government Printer 1964. Oblong quarto 24 pages with a map and numerous illustrations from photographs plus a large printed 'with compliments' slip from the Minister of Roads mounted on the front flyleaf. Full leather lettered in gilt now oxidised to green; boards a little bowed; endpapers a little discoloured around the edges; overall an excellent copy. An official presentation binding. Provenance: The Honourable David Brookman MP with his signature 24 April 1964 on the front flyleaf. David Norman Brookman 1917-2000 'was elected to the seat of Electoral district of Alexandra in the House of Assembly for the Liberal and Country League in 1948 filling the seat made vacant by the death of Sir Hubert Hudd and held that seat until 1973. He served as Minister for Agriculture 1958-1965 and Minister for Lands 1968-1970' Wikipedia. W.L. Hawes, Government Printer hardcover
1944145888Adelaide: K.M. Stevenson Government Printer 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide K.M. Stevenson Government Printer 1944. Oblong quarto 52 pages including numerous illustrations mainly full-page plates from photographs and diagrams some in colour. Cord-bound overlapping card covers a little marked rubbed and bumped; initials on the title page; a very good copy internally fine. This extensively-illustrated souvenir befits 'the most important public work undertaken in South Australia. It is the last and greatest of the many fine water schemes carried out by the State to overcome the disabilities arising from the lack of natural water supplies' introduction. K.M. Stevenson, Government Printer paperback
1986140355Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1986. Hardcover. Near fine. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint circa 1986 facsimile edition/ 1936. Oblong quarto 962 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Half calf and cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind; a near-fine copy. Number 313 of only 400 copies. Austaprint hardcover
1986144457Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint circa 1986 facsimile edition/ 1936. Oblong quarto 962 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Half calf decorated in blind and cloth both lettered in gilt; edges slightly marked; an excellent copy. Number 139 of only 400 copies. Austaprint hardcover
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 317 pp, frontis (port), plus 15 plates from photos, index, map of Philippine Islands on endpapers. original cloth, slightly rubbed at corner, small dent at cover edge, lightly foxed on few leaves, mainly marginal, but a very good, solid and tight copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Burdett was one of the first prospectors of the Kimberley goldrush, a pearl hunter, explorer and orchid collector who explored coral reefs and jungles for some forty years. In this work, the author travelled in the jungles of the Philippines and describes the jungle, the peoples, nature, his adventures and the finding of some orchids among other things, including ancient artifacts. He was also the author of The Odyssey of a Pearl Hunter.
Oxford, at The Clarendon Press, 1941. 4to. mayor; 3 hs., 208 pp. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
189029560Adelaide: RGSSA 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1890. Octavo 5 pages plus a very large and detailed folding map of the boundary line between South Australia and Western Australia 845 × 300 mm. Early half calf and cloth; leather rubbed at the extremities and a little worn at the head of the joints and three corners with slight loss to the surface of the spine; endpapers offset and a little discoloured at the corners by the leather; some foxing to the leaves at the front and rear and near the folding maps; the Tietkens map has two very short tears expertly sealed; a very good copy with the pencilled surname 'Cowlishaw' lightly erased from the title page possibly Leslie Cowlishaw 1877-1943 physician medical historian and bibliophile. Unquestionably rare and important with all but one of the numerous articles in this volume relating to North Australia or Australian Aborigines. They are WINNECKE Charles: Physical Features of Central Australia 8 pages; WORSNOP Thomas: The Pre-historic Arts of the Aborigines of Australia 25 pages plus 4 lithographs 7 chromolithographs and a small folding map; KRICHAUFF F.: The Customs Religious Ceremonies etc. of the Aldolinga Tribe of Aborigines in Krichauff Ranges Central Australia 5 pages plus 4 pages of further notes; CARRINGTON Captain: The Rivers of the Northern Territory of South Australia 22 pages plus a large folding map 405 × 515 mm; LINDSAY David: Explorations in the Northern Territory of South Australia 16 pages; SUTTON T.M.: The Adjahdurah Tribe of Aborigines on Yorke's Peninsula 3 pages; and NEWLAND S.: The Parkengees or Aboriginal Tribes of the Darling River 14 pages. The other article is ROBINSON Sir Wm.: The Physical Geography of the South-West of Western Australia 13 pages plus a large folding map 380 × 425 mm. RGSSA hardcover
21 pages, including sketch maps. Plus photographic plates. 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. An intimate first-hand perspective with fascinating anthropological and ethographic details of the unusual Sakau culture in the islands of Espiritu Santo and Gaua, particularily in the northeastern peninsula of the former island which is called Sakau. It examines the life of the cheerful and remarkably honest native people, the Melanesians, who lived almost precisely the life that their ancestors lived. With sketch maps, showing inhabited and uninhabited villages, as well as Hog Harbour, a village in northeast Santo so-named by explorers who were in awe of the abundance of pigs. A informative description of the Hebrides and a remarkably engaging travel account.
190420556Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide J.L. Bonython & Co. 1904. Tall octavo 248 × 165 mm 12 pages last blank. Salmon-coloured wrappers with the full title page details repeated within a decorative border on the front cover; a fine copy. J.L. Bonython & Co paperback
