Search Results: Authors starting with D from Muir Books

Dubbo: Pocket Books. 1990. Royal octavo, pictorial boards, b&w illus, pp 96. Very good condition. 3rd edition. Boards.

McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1974. Five volumes, full leather boards with gilt decoration , spines gilt with raised bands, facsimile text and illustrations (first two volumes) in original decorated stillted slipcase. Fine condition in very good slipcase. Facsimile edition of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, with transcription and commentary. The manuscripts were written between 1490 and 1505, and not discovered until they were found in Madrid in 1965. Topics discussed include mechanics, statics, geometry and construction of fortifications. They are among the major engineering treatises of the time. Leather.

Wellington: Government Printer. 1896. 8vo, pp. viii, 563, Index, colour diagrams, b/w plates, folded tables rear, decorated endpapers, previous owner's signature, small mark pp.1-2, original gilt decorated cloth bds., light silverfishing, edges rubbed. Covers industry, demographic statistics, law, agriculture, and climate. Cloth Boards.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1929. 4to, original pictorial boards, b&w plates, pp 47. Backstrip shabby and missing its paper covering, corners rubbed, rear board darkened. School prize plate front fixed endpaper. The sea lion is slightly foxed, o/w illustrations clean. Internally good. Animals in Black and White, Volume 1: The Larger Beasts. 20 full page woodcut illustrations of animals, with accompanying text. Boards.

Nijmegen. 1978. 8vo, wraps, b&w text illus, pp 231. Wraps worn, occasional pencilled note in text, fair condn. Thesis, based on a study of Caranarvon. Wraps.

London: Folio Society. 2004. Large octavo, original decorated boards, colour plates, pp 768. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Nearly fifty of Roald Dahl's short stories, often macabre. Originally published in four separate Dahl short story collections, with eight additional stories. 3rd Printing. Boards in slip-case.

Sunderland: Thomas Reed. 1946. 8vo, boards, dustjacket, diagrams, pp iv, 1180, D.j. heavily worn. Previous owner's signature ffep and to edge of text block, previous owner has inserted small tab divisions, o/w good condn. 7th edition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1934. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xx, 263. No dustjacket, but description from dustjacket tipped in to front endpaper. Light foxing. Previous owner's bookplate. Good condition. 1st edition. Boards.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2009. Octavo, wraps, b&w plates, pp xii, 339. Very good condition. The 'last great cavalry charge', October 1917. Wraps.

Sydney University Union. 1925. 4to, paper cloth-backed boards, b&w illus, pp 60. Boards rubbed and flecked, good condn. 2nd Edition. Boards.

New Haven: Yale University Press. 1955. 1st ed., octavo, pp. xiv, 558, Index, orig cloth bds., cnrs bumped, edges rubbed, in d.j creased and rubbed, chipped along edges, in protected sleeve Soviet Intelligence in Europe and America, utilising first hand sources 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1955. Royal octavo, original pictorial cloth boards, dustjacket, two-tones illustrations, photograps, illus endpapers, pp 80. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition in very good d.j., protected. Originally written as a series of letters to the author's children. Describes for young people the life of Australian explorers during their expedition to Antarctica in 1953. Ken Dalziel spent that year as Radio Supervisor at Heard Island. 1st edition. Boards.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 2002. 1st ed., quarto, pp.xix, 300, col. fronts., col. and b&w illus., prev. owner's inscr ffep, orig cloth bds., cnrs ligthly bumped, d.j. Near fine condn. This first volume in a planned series covers the period from 330 B.C. to 1832 A.D with biographies of ninety early copepodologists including naturalists on board Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia (Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent and Charles Alexandre Lesueur wrote a paper on copepods) 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

1970. Quarto, boards, folding maps, pp xxxviii, 376. Near-fine condition. Dampier's voyages 1679-1691. A facsimile of the Argonaut Press edition, published in 1927.

Nijmegen: Isaac van Campen. 1771. Original copperplate engraving 'Plate XXXIV' by Jan Lamsvel showing 10 coastal profiles including Shark Bay, lightly tanned. Very good condition Early original map from a Dutch translation of William Dampier's 'A New Voyage Round the World' (Nieuwe Reistogt rondom de Wereld) translated by Willem Sewel and published in Amsterdam, 1771. The engraving with coastal profiles of the Western Australian coast including Shark Bay recorded on William Dampier's visit to Australia in 1699 during his comand of the Roebuck. 1st thus.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1981. Square Royal 8vo, pp. xxii, 168, col frontis., col plates, col and b/w photos, prev owner's inscr., wraps, light wear front cnrs, otherwise very good The cultural, social and political history of the island Wraps.

London: Bunny & Gold. 1801. 1st ed., 3 volumes, the first issue with the dedication to W. Holden Strutt; Vol. I: pp.535, (i, coursing calendar); Vol. II (Part I), pp.378, contemporary ink inscr opp. p.256 noting mispagination but complete in second part; Vol. II (Part II): 356 with pp.257-264 inserted here but intended for first part, incl. Index, the three vols all with b&w copper engravings, some folding, 'Tench' plate unnumbered in list of illus and absent in Part II, plates clean but with some scattered foxing, the three vols bound in full mottled leather, professionally restored with gilt decoration to spine, a beautiful set in very good condition of the first edition complete in three volumes. Photographs available on request. First edition in two volumes. Rev. William Barker Daniel (1754-1833) was an English cleric and writer on field sports and game laws. 'Rural Sports' with much information on hunting and shooting, sporting dogs and predominately dealing with angling… Read More

St Leonards: Allen and Unwin. 1998. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xi, 276. Near-fine condition. The history of women transported to Australia. Wraps.

London: Philip Wilson. 2016. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, ppx, 76, colour and b&w illus. Fine in fine d.j., protected. New Edition. Boards.

NSW: Surrey Beatty and Sons. 1995. Octavo, pictorial boards, colour frontis, colour plates, pp xvii, 475. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition. From the Second International Penguin Coference held at Phllip Island. Covers: breeding biology, feeding ecology, energetics, beviour and management. 1st Edition.