Australasia
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Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson was born in Queensland, Australia, and is the author of Tracks, the extraordinary account of her 1,700-mile journey across Australia with four camels, which won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and became a film in 2013. She has written extensively for National Geographic and other magazines, and is also the author of Desert Places, the novel Ancestors, and the essay collection Travelling Light. Ms. Davidson lives in London, India, and Australia.
Australasia Books & Ephemera
Jottings and Sketches at Home and Abroad. By The Australian Silverpen
by [Glenny, Henry] Silverpen
Belfast: Printed by Hugh Adair, 1889. Third Series. Hardcover. Very good condition. Signed by the author, with presentation inscription at title page which reads, "J. Bryant Esq with Silverpen's Compts". Essay topics include outings to the Buffalo Mts, Old Times on Ballarat (multiple essays), A Blackfellow's Corrobboree, An Hour in the Darlinghurst Gaol, Bushrangers of Victoria Kellyite Scraps, an Episode of the Kelly Gang, An Hour in the Sydney Observatory, the Scientific Institutions of Sydney, the...
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£101.19
North of the 26th A Collection of writings, paintings, drawings and photographs from the Kimberley, Pilbara and Gascoyne Regions
by Weller, Helen [Editor] with assistance from Roy Hamilton andJohn Harper-Nelson
East Perth: The Nine Club. 1979. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 366 pages. Contributions of over 120 people which is both a history and celebration of the region and the pioneers who made it. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all...
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£7.94
Trial of the Tichborne Claimant - Witnesses of the Defence
by The Graphic
1873. Wood-engraving. 400mm by 295mm (sheet). Key to portraits under the image. From 'The Graphic' of August 30, 1873. Related text around the image. Unrelated text on the reverse.
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£87.30
A vintage photograph of the 'Adelaide Junior Football Club. Season 1887 & 8'
by [Adelaide Junior Football Club, 1887-1888]
Adelaide: Stump & Co, 1888. Adelaide, Stump & Co., [1888]. A gelatin silver photograph (210 × 278 mm, with a glossy surface topcoat of hardened gelatin), on the original mount (with a border and the photographer's details printed in red, edges roughly trimmed to approximately 313 × 382 mm), reinserted in the original mat with an ornate calligraphic title in black, gilt and colours (external dimensions 344 × 455 mm). The photograph has a small section of the surface along the bottom margin reattached,...
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£211.64
James Cook
by HB Hall's Sons (after Nathaniel Dance (1735-1811))
1886. Steel engraving. 250mm by 175mm (image) 355mm by 250mm (sheet). After the portrait by Nathaniel Dance which is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Facsimile signature below the image. From ' The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia'. CONDITION : Very faint toning upper right corner of image and sheet.
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£74.07
Arthur Streeton Memorial Exhibition
by [Australia] Streeton, Arthur
National Gallery of Victoria, 1944. Paperback. Very good overall. Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) was an important Australian landscape painter whose works have appeared in galleries and museums including the Australian War Memorial, National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia. Color plates include "Twilight Pastoral", Vancouver Oak (1923)", "Cauliflowers", and "Domes of St. Mark (Viewed from the Palace Yard)" which is tipped inside the rear cover....
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£36.43
The Kiss
by OLSEN, John
Townsville: Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne, Zimmer Editions, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Townsville, Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne, Zimmer Editions, 2009. Large quarto, [40] pages (one being the title poem by Olsen) with 17 colour plates (one double page) plus an original etching. Quarter morocco and linen by Paul Schubert; spine lettered in gilt; front cover lettered in brown in facsimile manuscript; faint offsetting of the manuscript title on the double-page plate; faint odour of camphor; a...
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£1,322.75
A large photograph album of Japanese origin and Korean War vintage, with the lacquered front cover extensively hand-decorated in colour
by [Japan and Korea]
Maps of the four main islands of Japan and the Korean Peninsula are surrounded by borders of cherry blossom and bamboo, with scenes of Mt Fuji, a pagoda, and birds on the wing. Major cities are shown on the maps; Korea has Pyongyang, Seoul and Pusan, with '38° LINE' in a much larger font across the centre. The album (275 × 390 mm) contains three series of commercially produced small photographic views loosely inserted behind photo-corners (40 hand-coloured views of Japan; 56 black and white views of...
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£396.82
My Side of the Bridge; The Life Story of Veronica Brodie
by Veronica Brodie
Updated edition marking the death of Veronica Brodie. The author's story as told to Mary-Anne Gale - a recounting of the struggles of Aboriginal life told with humour and passion. 192 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good+ condition with booksellers stickers on back.
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£6.35
THE GOLD HUNTER'S ADVENTURES; OR, LIFE IN AUSTRALIA
by William H. Thomes
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Green cloth boards. Frontis with tissue. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped and worn, covers have some stains and are rubbed. Binding tight and text unmarked, paper toned. Travel. Stax.
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£20.24
GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN GEMSTONES
Sydney: Reader's Digest. Very Good. 1985. Softcover. 0949819387 . Stapled booklet, glossary, maps and colour photos to assist with identification and location. 100gms weight; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 52 pages .
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£7.41
Ornithorhyncus hystrix (Echidna)
by James Basire (1730-1802) after William Clift (1775-1849)
1823. Copper-line engraving. 250mm by 200mm (platemark). From 'Lectures On Comparitive Anatomy In Which Are Explained The Preparations In The Hunterian Collection' by Sir Everard Home, 1823. William Clift was the first conservator of the Hunterian Museum.Faint waterstain to right of sheet outside printed area but partially within platemark.
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£253.97
No Bugles No Drums
by Snell, Peter & Garth Gilmour
Auckland: Minerva. Good in Good dust jacket. (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Edges of boards with heavy rubbing and abrasions. Dust-jacket has several 2" tears to margins. 1/2" missing at head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; [viii], 240 pages + frontispiece + plates. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216mm x 133mm. An account of the New Zealand runner Peter Snell. .
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£44.52
MINES IN THE SPINIFEX The Story of Mount Isa Mines
by Blainey, Geoffrey
Australia: Angus & Robertson. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1970. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. With 31 pages of b/w illustrations at rear of book, dustjacket chipped at spine ends, A very god copy in a good dustjacket. ; 220 x 140mm; [vi], 256 pages .
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£10.58
The 'Vine Curculio' (Orthorrhinus Kluggi, Sch.)
by Troedel & Co after Charles Clifton Brittlebank (1863-1945)
1895. Chromolithograph. 215mm by 135mm (sheet). Chromolithograph, with gum Arabic highlights, printed by Sands & McDougall, from Charles French's 'A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria', 1891-1900. Accompanied by original descriptive sheet. Charles Clifton Brittlebank was an Australian plant pathologist, mycologist, scientific illustrator, university lecturer and farmer. CONDITION : Small faint stain in title area.
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£23.81
India Orientalis, cum Adjacentibus Insulis Nova Delineatione ob oculos posita per Matthaeum Seutter, S.C. M. Geogr. August
by Seutter, Mattheus
Augsburg: Seutter, 1740. Map of the East Indies with Australia shown from west coast to Gulf of Carpentaria. Relief shown pictorially. 22 names are noted on the North coast of Australia, with a notation on the west coast of Australia "And. Silbereisen. sc. 30." Elaborate pictorial cartouche with Neptune, people, cherubs and animals. Attractive color. 49 x 57 cm. Tooley p. 143, no. 1136.
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£1,416.62
THE FLOWERS OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
by Blombery, Alec M
Kenthurst, N.S.W., Australia: Kangaroo Press, 1989. 64pp., intext, photographic colour plate illustrations [many of detail] throughout. Oblong [landscape format] booklet. Spine firm, and square. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper lightly edgeworn and bumped. With clearly and simply written text, "this book describes and illustrates the common plants and flowers of Central Australia. Using 155 colour plates, it is arranged in a way to enable you to recognise all the plants and flowers...
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£4.76
Danse des Femmes de Nouka-Hiva a bord de la Zelee
by Rigo Freres after Elie de Guillou (1806-1855)
1843. Lithograph. 145mm by 225mm (sheet). From Elie Le Guillou's 'Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zelee, sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont-d'Urville, pendant les annees 1837, 38, 39 et 40.' Published in Paris in 1843. Elie de Guillou (1806-1855) held the position of chief surgeon (chirurgien-major) aboard the Zelee.
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£95.24
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Sphenostoma cristatum [Crested Wedge-bill]
by GOULD, John and Elizabeth
[London]: Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1848. [London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1848]. An original hand-coloured lithograph, matted, framed and glazed (visible image size 500 × 340 mm; external dimensions 615 × 435 mm). Plain background unevenly discoloured, with a 40 mm sealed tear to the right-hand margin, and a few tiny surface bruises well clear of the subjects; common name lightly pencilled in beneath the printed scientific name; in good condition. Plate...
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£79.37
Fossil Remains
by After Major Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855)
1839. Lithograph. 220mm by 135mm (sheet). Description (not accompanying the lithograph) : Plate 51 :FIGURE 1: FOSSIL REMAINS OF THE RADIUS AND ULNA OF A KANGAROO.FIGURE 2: OF THE FOOT OF A DASYURUS.FIGURES 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, AND 11: VARIOUS TEETH OF ANIMALS UNKNOWN.ALL THESE DRAWINGS BEING OF THE NATURAL SIZE.FIGURES 12 AND 13, REPRESENT, ON A REDUCED SCALE, THE LARGE BONE WHICH M. CUVIER SUPPOSED TO HAVE BELONGED TO A YOUNG ELEPHANT.)From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern...
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£34.39
The Opal Book
by Leechman, Frank
Ure Smith, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£6.83
Gillray - Consequences of a Successful French Invasion
by James Gillray (1756-1815)
1851. Etching. 245mm by 365mm (image). Consequences of a Successful French Invasion - No1 Plate 1st. We Come to Recover your long lost Liberties. Scene. The House of Commons.' The back of the Speaker's Chair reads 'This House Adjourned to Botany Bay. Sine Die'.Originally published in 1804, this impression is from Henry Bohn's folio of Gillray's etchings - note the plate is numbered top right and the reverse also has another Gillray etching on it.Faint line across top of image from platemark of reverse...
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£291.00
![Adelaide Installations, incorporating the 1994 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Adelaide Festival, 1994. Volume 1 [and] Volume 2](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/089/235/293235089.0.b.jpg)
Adelaide Installations, incorporating the 1994 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Adelaide Festival, 1994. Volume 1 [and] Volume 2
by CURTIN, Penelope and Nat WILLIAMS (editors)
Adelaide: 1994 Adelaide Festival of Arts Inc./ Art Gallery of SA, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, 1994 Adelaide Festival of Arts Inc./ Art Gallery of SA, 1994. Oblong quarto, two volumes, [iii], 111 and [iii], 79 pages with numerous illustrations (many full-page, many in colour). Metal ring-bound stiffened card covers a little rubbed; extremities slightly worn; a very good set. Exhibition catalogues.
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£58.20
Vassileff and His Art
by Morre, Felicity St. John
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. illustrations, index, 188, (4)p. Original gray cloth. 26 cm. dj.
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£24.28
