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John Denver : Mother Nature's Son
Condition: Near Fine |
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Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited, 1999. 190 pages with 4 pages of colour photos.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $23.00
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Longman Dictionary of 20th Century Biography
Condition: Very Good |
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Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Longman Group, Limited, 1985. 548 pages, Covers the life, major works and achievements of over 1700 figures from this century. Includes politicians, sportsmen and women, artists, scientists, philosophers, writers, military figures, doctors, and personalities from all main areas of human activity.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $25.00
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William Morris: His Life and Work
Condition: Good+ |
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Thrupp,Stroud,Gloucestershire,UK: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996. Usual library marks. 224 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. The author brings together the diverse elements of this extraordinary man's life into a single biography. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $25.00
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The Man Who Created Narnia : The Story of C. S. Lewis
Condition: Very Good |
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Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996. 140 pages with b/w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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Bonaparte
Condition: Very Good |
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1978. 224 pages with colour and b/w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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Mercator : The Man Who Mapped the Planet
Condition: Very Good |
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London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Usual library marks. 348 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. A vivid biography of the man who created the first modern map of the world. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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Memoirs of a Sword-Swallower
Condition: Good+ |
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London, United Kingdom: Hamish Hamilton, 1951. Jacket has general wear and a small chip at rear. 230 pages. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $25.00
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| 8) |
Teller of Tales : The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
Condition: Very Good |
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London, United Kingdom: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2000. Scrape to front of jacket. 472 pages with b/w photos. This fresh and compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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Under the Southern Cross: The Autobiography of David Boon
Condition: Near Fine |
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Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperSports, 1996. 272 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $24.00
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| 10) |
Sarich : The Man and His Engines
Condition: Very Good |
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Sydney, Australia: Marque Publishing Co, 1989. Usual library marks. 223 pages with b/w illustrations. Details the story of how the former fitter-and-turner from Perth managed to sell his radical two-cycle deign to major international engine makers. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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Dawn : One Hell of a Life
Condition: Good+ |
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Sydney, Australia: Hodder Headline Australia Pty Ltd, 2001. 420 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Inscription and signature on minor title page.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $55.00
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Bean There Done That : The Life and Times of Rowan Atkinson
Condition: Very Good |
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London: Orion Media, 1997. 112 pages with colour photo's. Rowan Atkinson first came to prominence in the classic comedy series Not the Nine O'clock News and moved on to one of the all time great TV comedy series, Blackadder. His creation Mr Bean is now one of the world's most recongnised and adored characters. . Hard Back. Very Good/Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $16.00
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J. C. W.: A Short Biography of James Cassius Williamson
Condition: Good |
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Sydney, NSW, Australia: Elizabeth Tudor Press, 1974. Fading to jacket. Usual library marks. 212 pages with colour frontispiece and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $18.00
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Magdalen
Condition: Good |
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Neptune Press, 1983. 317 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $35.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 2 : 1788-1850 , I - Z
Condition: Good |
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1967. Usual library marks and wear. 634 pages. Includes corrigenda. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $28.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 3 : 1851-1890 , A - C
Condition: Very Good |
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1974. Usual library marks. 516 pages with loose corrigenda.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $33.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 1 : 1788-1850 , A - H
Condition: Good+ |
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Carlton, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1966. .Usual library marks and wear. 578 pages. Includes corrigenda.. Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $35.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 4 : 1851-1890 , D - J
Condition: Good+ |
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1972. Usual library marks. 494 pages.. Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $35.00
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Full Bloom : The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
Condition: Very Good |
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004. Usual library marks. 630 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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| 20) |
Nature's Argonaut : Daniel Solander 1733-1782 , Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks
Condition: Very Good |
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Carlton South Vic, Austria: The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press, 1998. Usual library marks. 380 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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| 21) |
Robert Leslie Usinger : Autobiography of an Entomologist
Condition: Good+ |
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San Francisco , CA, U.S.A.: The Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 1972. Jacket has general wear plus fading to spine. Slight lean to spine. Previous owners name to top of front free endpaper. 330 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good+/Fair+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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Geoffrey Keyes V.C. Of the Rommel Raid
Condition: Good |
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London: George Newnes Ltd, 1956. Some soiling to endpaper maps.Previous owners signature on minor title page which is becoming loose.278 pages with b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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Faith in Australia : Charles Ulm and Australian Aviation
Condition: Good+ |
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Sydney, Australia: Book Production Services, 1987. Usual library marks. 128 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $16.00
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Kookynie to Keysbrook
Condition: Good |
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Perth, W.A., Australia: Access Press, 1988. Usual library marks. 153 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $25.00
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Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man
Condition: Very Good |
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1978. Jacket has fading to spine. 202 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $15.00
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Florence Nightingale
Condition: Very Good |
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London, United Kingdom: Chancellor Press, 1975. 254 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Concentrates on the contradictory personality of this extaordinary woman, by turns a bullying martinet, a loyal and emotional friend, a compassionate nurse, a witty companion, a writer of sermons and a masterly manipulator of men.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $18.00
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Schliemann : The Story of a Gold-Seeker
Condition: Poor |
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Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1931. Worn and soiled, a reading copy only. 297 pages, with B/W illustrations. Translated from the German by D. F. Tait. As a child, before I had even learned to read, I shook hands with him at my father's table. Ten years later, I stood before the long glass cases in the Berlin Museum and gazed on the gold of Troy. Thus my earliest ideas of greatness and glory, of legend, poetry and scholarship, were linked wiht his name.. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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Maverick Soldier : An Infantryman's Story
Condition: Good |
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1991. Usual library marks and wear. Lean to spine. 237 pages with b/w illustrations. From Private to Brigadier, Essex-Clark has fought in wars with the Australian, British, United States and Rhodesian armies.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $38.00
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| 29) |
Edward Eyre, Race And Colonial Governance
Condition: Good+ |
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Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2005. Usual library marks. 195 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Edward Eyre was a mid-nineteenth-century explorer, colonial administrator and later colonial governor. . Soft Cover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $45.00
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Home!: The Evonne Goolagong Story
Condition: Very Good |
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Sydney, NSW, Australia: Simon & Schuster Australia, 1993. 400 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Inscibed and signed by both authors on the minor title page. . Signed by Authors. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $35.00
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Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine
Condition: Very Good |
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Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. Inscription to front free endpaper. 310 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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The Life and Times of William Grant
Condition: Fine |
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Dufftown: William Grant & Sons Ltd, 1979. 102 pages with b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $45.00
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| 33) |
Big John Forrest 1847 - 1918 : A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia
Condition: Good+ |
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Perth, Western Australa: University of Western Australia Press, 2000. Usual library marks. 540 pages with b/w illustrations. His career included surveyer, inland explorer, public servant and first premier of Western Australia. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $25.00
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Gentle Heroes
Condition: Very Good |
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Bundaberg: Self Published, 1990. 137 pages illustrated with photos and drawings. Inscribed by author.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Tom Osborne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $35.00
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| 35) |
Charles Darwin's Letters : A Selection, 1825 - 1859
Condition: Very Good |
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Cambridge U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Usual library marks. 249 pages. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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Strong Mind, Gentle Heart : Joseph Benedict Marcellin Champagnat (1789 - 1840), Priest of the Society of Mary, Founder of the Marist Brothers of the Schools
Condition: Very Good |
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Drummoyne,NSW,Australia: Marist Brothers, 1988. 160 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $13.00
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Dougherty, A Great Man Among Men : A Biography of Major General Sir Ivan Dougherty
Condition: Good + |
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Sydney: Alpha Books, 1979. Jacket has general wear and chips at top and bottom of spine. Inscription on blank page opposite title page. 212 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good +/Good (minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
Bookseller: Terra Australis Books (Australia) |
Price: AUD $22.00
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| 38) |
The Mystic Life Of Alfred Deakin
Condition: Good+ |
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Cambridge U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Usual library marks. 208 pages. Alfred Deakin is recognized as an architect of Australian Federation and served three terms as Prime Minister between 1903 and 1910. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $22.00
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E.V. Keogh, DCM, MM, MBBS, FRACP--Soldier, Scientist, and Administrator
Condition: Very Good |
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hyland House, 1990. General wear to edges of jacket. Previous owners name at top of front free endpaper. 176 pages with b/w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $14.00
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Mary MacKillop : An Extraordinary Australian
Condition: Very Good |
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Sydney, NSW, Australia: E.J. Dwyer / David Ell Press , 1993. 497 pages with b/w illustrations. Biography of the foundress of the Australian Sisters of St Joseph.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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In Search of Edward John Eyre
Condition: Very Good |
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Melbourne: MacMillan Australia, 1982. 152 pages with b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 11, 1891 - 1939, Nes - Smi
Condition: Very Good |
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Carlton South Vic, Austria: Melbourne University Press, 1988. Jacxket has 6cm tear to front. 677 pages. Includes loose corrigenda. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $40.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 7 : 1891-1939 , A - Ch
Condition: Very Good |
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Carlton South Vic, Austria: Melbourne University Press, 1979. Usual library marks. 647 pages. Includes loose corrigenda. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $40.00
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On the Idle Hill of Summer
Condition: Good |
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1995. Marks to front board.Contents very good.216 pages.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $85.00
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| 45) |
Nightingales: The Story of Florence Nightingale and Her Remarkable Family
Condition: Very Good |
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London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2004. Usual library stamps. General wear to jacket. 536 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. The compelling history of an extraordinary, complex and prominent Victorian family whose fate it was to have a brilliant daughter - Florence - who wanted to change the world.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $20.00
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The Wildest Dream : Mallory, his Life and Conflicting Passions
Condition: Good+ |
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London, United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing Ltd, 2000. Usual library marks. Slight lean to spine. 306 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information
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Price: AUD $15.00
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Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds
Condition: Good+ |
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London, United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson, 1979. Light general wear to covers, contents very good. 96 pages with 124 b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $40.00
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| 48) |
To Be a Lady : Biography of Catherine Cookson
Condition: Very Good |
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London: Century, 1994. Previous owners name at top of front free endpaper. 326 pages with b/w illustrations. The first complete biography of one of Britain's best selling and best read writers.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
Bookseller: Terra Australis Books (Australia) |
Price: AUD $21.00
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Te Mera Tane - The Mail Man : A Biography of Thomas Heale 1792-1867, Cornishman, Royal Marine, Miner and Pioneer New Zealand Colonist
Condition: Near Fine |
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Herston, QLD, Australia: Amphion Press, 2003. 85 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information
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Price: AUD $45.00
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Yow-ay Bungee
Condition: Very Good |
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Copy Right Publishing, 2006. Illustrated laminated boards with some scratches to rear. 282 pages with b/w illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. The first 24 years of Roy Shelton's life from 1901 in the small depleted farm at Milora to a rich Merlwood farm in the Murgon district of South Burnett, and to Rewan Remount Station near the Carnarvon Gorge in the Central Queensland Highlands. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
Bookseller: Terra Australis Books (Australia) |
Price: AUD $55.00
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