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APW Productions, Melbourne, 1986. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Acknowledgements, introduction by author, three appendices and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography, reproductions of advertisements and black-and-white illustrations. Photographic paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A small book on the only commercial wood distillation undertaking in Australian history  that of the Britannia Creek Wood Distillation Works, east of Melbourne in Warburton. It is also "... A study of this isolated rural industry and its people provides an intriguing and unique insight into just how little permanent impact and industry can have on the environment."  from page 1. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book panels. Size: Folio (over 12" tall ). [8], 130, [2] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator:…
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Britannia Creek: Wood Distilling in the Warburton District
by Winzenried, A. P
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Far as a Man May go: Captain Cook's New Zealand
by Maddock, Shirley
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Collins, Auckland, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Don Whyte -- Photography. Bookplate with Both Authors Signatures. XVI, 284 pp., endpaper maps, list of 114 illustrations with notation to indicate which are coloured, bibliography. Bookplate No 96, to mark the first publication of the book autographed by us (the authors) for Beaux Arts attached to half title page. Previous owner's gift inscription below the bookplate. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Don Whyte -- Photography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Local History; History; Signed; New Zealand; Exploration. Bookplate with Both Authors Signatures. Inventory No: 0201079. .
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The First Eden; The Mediterranean World and Man
by Attenborough, David
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Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 240 pages, bibliography, index, end page maps, original illustrated dustwrapper. The text is profusely illustrated with colour photography and maps. Published to coincide with the PBS television series, this book is David Attenborough's latest excursion into the field of natural history, where he explores the history and the current state of this fascinating region, which became the cradle of civilisation. There is a vertical cut in the middle of the rear panel that has been been repaired with a piece of tape on the otherside. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Archaeology; Local History; Anthropology; Natural History; ISBN: 0316057509. ISBN/EAN: 9780316057509. Inventory No: 0285820. . 9780316057509
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A Gentle Shipwreck
by Rodd, L. C
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Nelson, West Melbourne, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Cedric Emanuel. 155 pp., forward by Kylie Tennant, the wife of the author. Several of the pages have faint stains. Otherwise the book would be described as very good. A Gentle Shipwreck is social history of the era before and during the First World War. It deals with the minutiae of poverty as seen through the eyes of the child and terminates with the anti-conscription campaign and the death of the author's father in 1916. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Cedric Emanuel. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Local History; Biography; Maritime; ISBN: 0170050408. ISBN/EAN: 9780170050401. Inventory No: 0201352. . 9780170050401
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They Dreamt of a School; A Centenary History of Methodist Ladies College Kew 1882-1982
by Zainu'ddin, Ailsa G. Thomson
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Hyland House, South Yarra, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photographic. Signed by Author. photographic illustrated and pages, text illustrated with reproductions of drawings within the text, and black-and-white photographs. Chapter notes, bibliography, and index. Colour illustrated dustjacket, showing no damage. the edges of the textblock are very slightly darkened with age, and there are a couple of foxing spots on the front edge. The author has signed her name in full underneath the printed version on the title page, and there is an inscription on the half title page which appears to be in the author's handwriting. (I am not a graphologist, but the formation of the letters on both pages appears to me to be similar). This Centenary History of Methodist Ladies College Kew, has been written by an eminent old collegian, a senior lecturer in the education faculty at Monash University, whose subject is the history of education. Size: 8vo - over…
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