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1964ref. 120447Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1964. Quarto xviii 533 pages with a map and 100 plates plus 5 colour plates. Cloth slightly mottled; endpapers lightly offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly foxed marked sunned chipped and torn. The last volume in the series published between 1956 and 1964. Melbourne University Press hardcover
1964ref. 109084Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1964. Quarto xviii 533 pages with a map and 100 plates plus 5 colour plates. Cloth lightly flecked; top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper very lightly chipped and sunned on the spine. The last volume in the series published between 1956 and 1964. Melbourne University Press hardcover
1995ref. 146579Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1995 deluxe facsimile edition/ 1897. Octavo two volumes iv 86 pages with a frontispiece plus 23 plates many reproduced from original negatives or prints and three of them are here reproduced the correct way round for the first time plus a folding chart 2 folding maps and a very large folding map 1210 × 1210 mm loosely housed in a matching portfolio. Half calf and marbled papered boards; spines lightly sunned; a near-fine set. Number 15 of only 30 sets of the deluxe issue from a total edition of 300 out of print soon after publication. Winnecke was the leader of the expedition and in 'the natural order of things these journals and maps should have been published in connection with the scientific and other records of the Horn Expedition as both supplementary and complementary to them'; after a financial disagreement with W.A. Horn the organiser and backer of the venture this did not occur. The first edition appeared as South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 19 of 1896; it was reissued in this octavo format the following year. 2 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1994ref. 116302Bundaberg: Corkwood Press 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Bundaberg Corkwood Press 1994 facsimile edition/ 1896. Quarto four volumes ii xviii 220; ii iv 432; vi 204; and vi 200 pages with numerous illustrations plus 66 pages of plates several folding 13 in colour and a large folding map. Cloth; a fine set. The purpose of this scientific expedition sponsored by mining magnate and philanthropist William Austin Horn and with Charles Winnecke as commander and surveyor was to examine the MacDonnell Ranges on the not unreasonable premise that 'when the rest of the Continent was submerged the elevated portions of the McDonnell sic Range existed as an island and that consequently older forms of life might be found in the more inaccessible parts'. This in fact proved not to be the case but the expedition of some fourteen weeks and 2000 miles by camel was an outstanding success. 'It was not the intention . to explore a new region . But in the pursuit of natural history the expedition split into independent groups and explored undiscovered areas thus filling in more of the blank spaces in this vast region' Feeken Feeken and Spate. 'These volumes constitute one of the most substantial contributions in nineteenth-century Australian exploration but perhaps more importantly the expedition is a landmark in anthropological history because it resulted in Baldwin Spencer meeting Frank Gillen' Mulvaney. Limited to only 500 sets and sold out on publication. 4 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1875ref. 124110Portsea: F.Johnson 1875. Photograph. very good. Origninal vintage albumen photograph 6.5 X 10.3 CM on original printed mount. Minor soiling and small tape stain on rear. Small old crease just effecting the image but not very visible. A very nice example. very good This wonderful CDV comprises an image of each crew member and the mascot. The central image is of the ship. Souvenir photographs of both the Alert and the Discovery were taken by rival photographers before the departure of the expedition. Both produced CDV copes as well as much larger examples. Although quite small each potrait is very clear and the name of the individual is usually readable with a magnifing glass. Very Scarce. 1875 F.Johnson unknown
1794ref. BB0447London: printed for T. N. Longman Pater-Noster-Row from 1771 1794. Early Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Fine. 8vo: xxxvi380 numbered columns381-394pp with double-page copper-engraved map as frontispiece; 4216pp. ESTC Citation No. T93564 and T93553. Finely bound to style by Fitterer in stiff beige wraps printed paper spine label. Binding and text block clean bright and unmarked save for offsetting from engraved map. A superlative copy. Fordham Road-Books pp. 27 and 29. Roscoe John Newbery A399/6. Not in Hodson. The tenth edition: with the addition of near ninety pages including considerable improvements in the direct roads many new cross roads and a great number of noblemens and gentlemens seats. Tenth Edition of the first work 1794; originally published 1771 "With the Addition of near Ninety Pages including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads many new Cross Roads and a great Number of Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats"; Sixth Edition 1792 improved and corrected of the second work with separate title page. Although Paterson contributed no significant innovations to the compilation of road books relying on the advances of Norden Ogilby and others he "made improvements in style and presentation and added factual detailso much so that his name was for many years an indicator of reliability in road books and was attached to them long after he had stopped compiling them." ODNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. printed for T. N. Longman, Pater-Noster-Row [from 1771] unknown
1860ref. H3779London: W. J. Adams 1860. 114 pages. 12mo. Decorated binding. First edition. A description of various locales in France with an eye to the curative effects of the climate on invalids and patients. Binding is embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front and some gilt decoration on front as well. The book is in very good condition: clean and tight with some minor rubbing to edges of cover and edges of spine. Original bookseller's stamp on front pastedown endpaper. Pages are lightly toned; page 105 has a 1" closed tear in bottom margin. Still an attractive copy in new mylar jacket!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. W. J. Adams Hardcover
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2012ref. 18050120Atlantic Books London 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. 548 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Atlantic Books London 2012. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal circumnavigated Africa crossed the Indian Ocean and discovered the sea route to the Indies opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits their crews were racked by storms and devastated by disease. However the greatest enemy was neither nature nor the fear of venturing into unknown worlds. With blood-red Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity and Islam had intensified. In two voyages that spanned six years Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents. The Last Crusade is an epic tale of spies intrigue and treachery; of bravado brinkmanship and confused - often comical collisions - between cultures encountering one another for the first time. With the world once again tipping back East The Last Crusade offers a key to understanding age-old religious and cultural rivalries resurgent today. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; History. ISBN/EAN: 9781848870178. Inventory No: 18050120. 9781848870178 Atlantic Books hardcover
1968ref. 0054841968 Original pictorial postcard with two postmarked Chilean stamps 70 & 20 CTs and rsm 'Joint British Patagonian Expedition 1967-68'. Signed by the team Derek Walker Dave Nicol Gordon Hibberd Ian Clough Chris Jackson John Gregory and Niki Clough as 'Niki' one corner tip lost presumbably through removal from mounting. A scarce expedition fund raising postcard with the rare signature of Ian Clough who died on Annapurna in 1970. A very good copy. Signed by the Team Members. unknown
1854ref. 218512Japan. Circa1854. Black and white wood block print kawaraban 17.8 x 14cm This kawaraban is dated February 1854 and shows the retreat of the defending lords after the departure of American ships. The caption states that about 1000 people took part in the parade which was led by commanding samurai on horseback with a large cannon drawn at the rear. As it was a peaceful retreat the atmosphere appears relaxed and cheerful. . unknown
1967ref. 8240Israel / Da Capo 1967. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Original Glassene Wrapper. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Exploration; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 8240. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Israel / Da Capo hardcover
ref. BN92096DuMont Reiseverlag. Mit der Endurance in die Antarktis: Die Bilder der dramatischen Expedition 1914-1917 Hurley Frank and Hurley Frank Mit der Endurance in die Antarktis: Die Bilder der dramatischen Expedition 1914-1917 Hurley Frank and Hurley Frank Mit der Endurance in die Antarktis: Die Bilder der dramatischen Expedition 1914-1917 Hurley Frank and Hurley Frank DuMont Reiseverlag unknown
1818ref. E0061323 pages with a portrait frontispiece and five colored aquatints. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in attractive half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Hill 1168 Second and best edition The Alceste brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador and specifically to negotiate the China trade at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain. M'Leod who was surgeon on the ship describes the voyage out the various calls in the East Indies including touching at Batavia surveying off Korea the visit to Okinawa another to Manila and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. A brief but interesting interview with Napoleon at St. Helena is also included in the narrative. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts. The idyllic descriptions of Lewchew undoubtedly appealed to the romantic sensibilities of the era. Indeed buoyed by its success M'Leod published another work recounting his time as a slaver A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People. Condition: Attractive half rebind some foxing through out with no spotting to plates else a very good copy. John Murray hardcover
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1853ref. 218506Japan. Circa1853. Black and white woodblock kawaraban 17.7 x 24cm In this kawaraban the American crew are assembled ready to board their rowing boats in anticipation of being transferred to their sailing ships. A group of American crew with pointed hats are in the middle while Japanese guards with black hats in an area surrounded by screens guard them at fore and rear. Numerous boats are ready on the beach with flags fluttering. . unknown
1985ref. 004553Brazil: EdITora Universidade De Brasilia 1985. These are the two volumes published by the university of Brazil in Portugese by the world's leading authority on the birds of Brazil. VERY RARE! Very Nice. Sighed Neatly By a Previous Owner. This is the SECOND Brazilian Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Not Price Clipped. Illus. by Numerous Illustrations By Paul Barruel . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Near Folio. Hard Back. EdITora Universidade De Brasilia hardcover
1967ref. 013821LondonAmsterdamNew York : Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press 1967. Facsimile of 1803 Edition.Bibliotheca Australiana # 3 4 5 6 & 7.Original mottled fawn buckram with blue title labels to upper boards and spines. .This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details NOT "Signed by the Author". Not Signed or Inscribed. Mottled Fawn Buckram . NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW/Plastic Jacket AS NEW. Illus. by numerous Illustrations Maps Views & Charts Including Several Folding . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press hardcover
1904ref. 142868Buenos Aires: Local Del Instituto: Arenales 687 1904. 166 2328 pp. Octavo. Half cloth and paper covered boards binding. Worn on the edges. Numerous rubber stamps having been erased on the margins with repairs on the backs. One page with a large amount of the corner renewed with slight loss. Numerous black and white illustration. 5 folding maps. An index has been cut out from somewhere else and pasted onto the title pages. A good only copy of a rare and fragile item. This volume consists of two issues of the Argentine Geographical Institute journal bound together. The first issue appears to be complete but the second issue just has 3 extracted articles that relate to the Antarctic. The first issue appears to be totally devoted to the Antarctic and many of the articles relate to the recently rescued Swedish Antarctic Expedition. Authors include Skottsberg Nordenskjold Anderson Charcot and Jalour. The second issue includes articles by Scott Harvey and Rudmore Brown. This very scarce Argentine Journal is printed on poor quality paper which probably contributed to its scarcity. The front endpaper is inscribed in Spanish with the following: To His Excellence the President of the delegation of the Republic of Peru at the VIII Pan American Conference at Montevideo in my personal affections and signed perhaps by Francisco Segui who was the editor of the Journal. Not a prime copy but very very scarce. 1904 Local Del Instituto: Arenales 687 hardcover
1905ref. 17219Portland Oregon: Published by Fisher Music Co. Lithographed by Anderson & Duniway Co. 1905 First edition of this sheet music as printed for the Lewis and Clark Exposition second edition overall. The sheet music was originally printed in 1902 but is here printed to promote the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The song honors the Bailey Gatzert the most famous Columbia River steamship. Benjamin A. Gifford 1859 – 1936 is considered perhaps Oregon's most famous photographer and his images include the cover photo of the steamship and Multnomah Falls. Original color-printed paper wrappers illustrated with an elaborate border around a color-tinted photo reproduction of the Bailey Gatzert steamship heading up the Columbia River by Benjamin A. Gifford. 10 x 14 in. . . With six text photo reproductions. Some chipping to edges. With the ink ownership stamp of the Portland area piano teacher Lillian R. Bickner 1884 – 1962. A very good copy. "Portland staged its first and only world's fair from June 1 through October 15 1905. During those four and a half months 1588000 paying visitors passed through the gates to the 400-acre fairgrounds on the northwest edge of town…The Lewis and Clark Exposition was conceived so Portland could demonstrate that it could mount a major civic enterprise. The city had had a solid record of economic growth since its founding in 1845 but at the turn of the twentieth century it was competing for investment and immigration with dozens of other cities throughout the American West" Carl Abbott on the Oregon Encyclopedia website. Published by Fisher Music Co., Lithographed by Anderson & Duniway Co.,
1938ref. MAIN028134INY: American Museum of Natural. VG EX LIB with library label down end paper pocket rear e. p. 1938. 1st EX LIB. hardcover. 4to . 1350p in 2 vol . Ex Smith College Library properly stamped withdrawn. The Roy Chapman Andrews expedition. Part 2 is 1940. Nice tho EX LIB. Scans on request. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. . American Museum of Natural hardcover
ref. 71876Washington DC: J. F. Jarvis. Photograph. Very Good. Albumen stereoview 11 cm x 15 cm on a yellow mount 11 cm x 17.5 cm with a printed paper label on the reverse No. 181. U. S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West. Corner wear and a bit of edge wear as well. J. F. Jarvis label on the reverse. Jack Hillers 1840-1882 was working as a teamster when he made the acquaintance of John Wesley Powell. The following year 1871 Powell hired him as a boatman for his second expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Over time he replaced Clements Powell John's cousin as the assistant to the photographer first succeeding E. O. Beaman then James Fennemore. Hillers was a hard worker highly regarded by his peers and a fast learner when it came to the art of photography. After serving as the main photographer on Powell's trips Hillers would go on to work for the Bureau of American Ethnology for many years. J. F. Jarvis unknown
1876ref. 895260551Excellent condition but missing the original map that was originally included. 11 fine chromolithographic and 11 lithographic plates. Publication of this report was originally intended for 1861 but the Civil War intervened and prevented publication for another fifteen years. The expedition under Macomb went west from Santa Fe across northern New Mexico and Arizona to the Colorado. The whole drainage of the San Juan had been traced and the relationship of that river with the Colorado clearly established. More important they had also established that the Green River united with the Grand to form the Colorado. The entire maze of intricate canyon country had been threaded and its geography revealed for the first time. In addition Newberry was able to establish numerous stratigraphic columns and to trace the Triassic Jurassic and Carboniferous strata far out across the Colorado River. Newberry.introduced a new level of sophistication into the study of western geology. Government printing office hardcover
2010ref. 147489Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum 2010 first edition. Folio xxvi pages with maps and illustrations plus a facsimile reproduction of the original typescript of the five issues in all 216 pages with a few illustrations plus a colour plate for each issue and an introductory title page new to this edition. Gilt-lettered and silver-decorated half calf and gilt-pictorial blue cloth; a fine copy. Number 76 of only 199 copies of the deluxe issue in a total edition of 999 copies: 450 copies in cloth 300 in card covers and 50 sets of unbound sheets. One copy only of each of the five issues of 'The Adelie Blizzard' was produced during Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 in April May June August and October 1913. The original - and hitherto unpublished - typescript is reproduced here complete with numerous contemporary editorial annotations. This edition has a preface by Emma McEwin great-granddaughter of Sir Douglas Mawson and an 11-page introduction by Elizabeth Leane and Mark Pharaoh. Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum hardcover
