Search Results: Authors starting with H from Muir Books

1946. Folio, original half-leather boards (suede spine and corners, leather title label with gilt, marbled page edges, alphabetical tabs, pp 406. Stationer's bookplate dated 1946. Handwritten formula on F.H. Faulding formula form loosely inserted. Very occasional handwritten notes: mainly clean. Lightly rubbed to spine, very good condition. From the collection of F.H. Faulding & Co in 1902, an Australian pharmaceutical company founded in Adelaide, South Australia in 1845, the first to utilise the medicinal and antiseptic properties of eucalyptus oil.

Dortmund: Harenberg. 1992. 8vo, pp. 92, (iv adverts), colour frontis, colour plates, wraps, tipped-in colour plate front, very good. Collection of erotic ivory miniatures of Asia. Text in German. Die bibliophilen Taschenbucher #394. Wraps.

Sydney: HarperCollins. 1999. 8vo, stiff paper wraps, pp x, 198. Near-fine condn. Wraps.

Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1988. Quarto, original cloth boards with gilt, b&w plates, b&w text illus, maps, pp xxiv, 427 plus plate section with additional 109 illustrations. Ex-library with usual treatment: fairly minimal markings although there are stamps on the outside edge of the textblock. Binding clean and sound. Good condition. Boards.

New York: Hodder & Stoughton. 1912. 1st edition, quarto, original illustrated paper over boards, with silk tassel, unpag. 26 leaves including all twelve colour plates, illus endpapers. In custom made cream-coloured buckram box with the illustration from the original box (illustration with water-stains and creases, chip to top corner) laid over the front of the box. The book itself is in near-fine condition, protected, in an excellent later custom box with original illustration. A children's story in verse, with text and 12 colour plates illustrating Susan's. Lilian Price Hacker (nee Edwards) (1879 - 1948) studied drawing and miniature painting at the Royal Academy schools between 1900 and 1905. A gifted student, she won two prizes and a silver medal for drawing. She married the portrait painter Arthur Hacker. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 1978. pp. 368, Index, b/w plates, maps, or. bds. in d.j., pp. 105-120 detached, o/w good.

Perth: E.S. Wigg & Son. 1916. 1st ed., Royal 8vo, professionally recased retaining original worn cloth front and back, b&w fronts port of author, plates, advertisements, pp xix, 1136. light cockling and water-staining to upper pages and edges, eps marked, repairs to edges of pp.xv-xvii and last page, complete, very good condn. Scarce " The Australian Household Guide ... purported to contain everything that an Australian housewife might want to know. Profits went to charities". (Australian Dictionary of Biography.) Includes advice on running a household, diet, child care, personal appearance, and many recipes. The author, Deborah Drake-Brockman, was the daughter of Grace Vernon, née Bussell (heroine of the shipwreck in 1876 near the mouth of the Margaret River). She was later knowns as Mrs. Hackett, then Dr Buller-Murphy. An artist and mining entrepreneur she was also interested in the rare Australian mineral tantalite found in the Northern Territory and at Wodgina in… Read More

Perth: E.S. Wigg & Son. 1916. 1st ed., Royal octavo, original cloth boards, b&w frontis portrait plate of author, b&w plates, advertisements, pp xix, 1136. Shaken, some rubbing to cloth, pencilled inscription last endpaper and light marks outside edge of textblock, otherwise clean, good condition.(heavy, please inquire regarding postage.) "The Australian Household Guide ... purported to contain everything that an Australian housewife might want to know. Profits went to charities". (Australian Dictionary of Biography.) Includes advice on running a household, diet, child care, personal appearance, and many recipes. The author, Deborah Drake-Brockman, was the daughter of Grace Vernon, née Bussell (heroine of the shipwreck in 1876 near the mouth of the Margaret River). She was later knowns as Mrs. Hackett, then Dr Buller-Murphy. An artist and mining entrepreneur she was also interested in the rare Australian mineral tantalite found in the Northern Territory and at… Read More

London: Hutchinson. 1952. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w plates,b&w and colour text illus, illus endpapers, pp 296. Very good in rubbed, edgeworn, price-clipped d.j. Boards.

London: Book Club Associates. 1980. 8vo., pp viii 342, b/w plates & ills., or. cl. bds., sl. bumped, some sm. marks, v.g in d.j. Reprint. Cloth Boards.

Sydney: New South Wales University Press. 1987. Octavo, wraps, line drawings and photographs, pp 126. Related clippings loosely inserted. Near-fine condition. Scientific study, with many illustration. Useful to pest controllers, landscapers, horticurists, builders, architects, and householders. 1st Edition.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1946. Octavo, original cloth-backed boards, b&w author frontis plate, b&w illus, diagrams, pp viii, 176. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Trace of water damage bottom edge of all pages. Good condition. Guidance on raising chickens by a poultry expert. 1st Edition. Boards.

Nedlands (WA): UWAP. 2018. 1st ed., octavo, pp.xx, 405, incl Index, orig wraps, near fine condn. Details performance, camp fire dances and corroborees held by the aboriginal Nyungar people of south-west Western Australia from settlement and colonial times to Coolbaroo dances (1946-1960) and present theatre performances 1st edition. Wraps.

Berkeley: University of California Press. 1954. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 195. Ex-library marks preliminary pages. Dustjacket chipped and marked. Good condition in poor d.j. Examines technique in Woolf's novels. 1st Edition.

Perth: St George Books. 1984. Royal 8vo, pp. (ii) 206, Index, b/w photos and ills., very good. Compilation of news, attitudes, and local perspectives. 1st Edition. Wraps.

London: Spring Books. nd )1960). 1st ed., 4to., pp.144, b/w fronts., profusely illustrated with full page b/w illus and colour plates, some folding, loosely inserted errata slip, decorated endpapers, pictorial wraps, publisher's stab-sewn binding in folding cloth portfolio with wooden button closure. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c.1750-1806) is one of the most famous and highly regarded of all Japanese artists of the 18th century Edo Period. His classic head and shoulders portraits of courtesans, geishas and tea house waitresses are among the most sought after of all prints. Utamaro's works are held in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the British Museum, London; the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; and the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo. 1st edition.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1913 &1926. 8 volumes, top edge gilt, gilt dec green cloth boards, silverfishing to volumes 3 & 4, spine volume 2 sunned, minor edge wear. Everyman's edition of Hakluyt's Voyages. Cloth Boards.

London: Cassell & Company. 1886. Duodecimo, original decorated boards, b&w adverrtisements, pp 192 plus ads. Binding separating, several pages loose. Fair condition. Richard Hakluyt (1553 - 1616) was known for collecting and publishing accounts of voyages and travels. The book consists of sixteenth-century accounts of attempting to find the North-West Passage. 1st thus.

London: Folio Society. 1970. 1st edn thus, cl bds, leather spine w/ gilt and blue lettering, pp. 310, b&w illus, slipcase. Slight rubbing to edges of spine and a small chip missing.Wear to front edges of slipcase. O/w a good copy. 310 Hakluyt's account of his Elizabethan voyages, edited and introduced by John Hampden. Selected from The principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics ad Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or Over Land. 1st edition. Hardbound.

London: The Folio Society. 1970. 8vo, pp.310, Index, b/w frontis port., b/w plates, ep maps, top edge tinted, original quarter leather bds., scraped at top of spine otherwise v.g. Quarter leather.