Search Results: Authors starting with L from Muir Books

Perth: FORM. 2011. 1st ed., tall 8vo., wraps, colour plates, pp 80. Fine condition. Uncommon. A collaborative enterprise between FORM, the National Museum of Australia, and nine Aboriginal arts and cultural centres, leading to a major publication and exhibition in 2010. The Canning Stock Route Project is a collaboration which shares and explores the art, culture, histories and connections of the people, country and communities surrounding the Canning Stock Route 1st edition. Wraps.

London: A. Hamilton for G. G. and J. Robinson, J. Edwards and T. Payne,. 1799. Two text volumes, quarto, later half-leather binding with gilt title labels and raised bands spines, cloth sides, Vol. I: pp. (x), lvi, 539; Vol. II: pp. viii, 531 plus index and errata page pp xiii. Engraved frontis portrait plate of La Perouse by Heath in first volume, light water stain to upper plate and title page, all edges untrimmed, some unopened at top edge, very light scattered foxing mostly to title pages, minor scuffs to leather spine. The two text volumes (without the Atlas volume), complete and unabridged. Very good condition. The first quarto, unabridged and "best edition" in English. A translation of La Perouse's scientific voyage around the world, which departed France in 1785 and visited Chile and Hawaii, Alaska, California, Japan, Russia, the South Pacific and Australia (visiting Botany Bay in 1788), before sailing on and eventually discovered to have been wrecked in the Solomon Islands. A… Read More

Paris: La Renaissance du Livre. 1930. 1st ed., text in French, pp.272, (i), b&w fronts port of La Pérouse, b&w plates, large folding map at end, uncut, foxing throughout, orig col wraps, very good condn. Illustrated with a portrait of La Pérouse, plates showing the ships and voyage at sea including a folding map 1st edition. Wraps.

Melbourne: State Library of Victoria. 1999. Large quarto, original red leatherette boards with pictorial onlay and gilt, colour plates. Number 107 of a limited edition of 500. Near-fine condition in like slipcase. The artwork of the first Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria.

Syd.: Angus & Robertson. 1958. pp. (x), 193, b/w plates, or. bds., no d.j. Good condn.

Calcutta: General Printers. 1954. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, maps, errata slip, pp xii, 250. Ex-libray. Good condition. 1st edition. Boards.

Edinburgh. Privately printed, quarto cloth boards, title label, pp xxxi, 232 (text), plus 29 plates (complete). Privately printed for subscribers: 150 copies printed. Inscription of the Edinburgh Subscription Library front endpapper, and 'Edin. Sub. Library inscribed front board. Front board detached. Fair condition. Scottish cermonial seals from AD 1094 to the Commonwealth. First edition. Privately Printed. Cloth Boards.

Allerthorpe, York: K Books. (1815) c.1973. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 173. N.d. (1973). Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in like d.j. Facsimile edition of the 1815 edition. Account of the author's experiences on a whaling voyage to Spitzbergen. Facsimile Edition.

Newcastle (NSW): Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, The University of Newcastle. 2008. 1st ed., octavo, stiff illustrated wraps, colour illus, map, pp 46. Near fine condition. Descriptions of gathering, preparing and weaving gunga (pandanus leaves), and the culture of making baskets, mats, and dillybags. The weaving holds culture and knowledge. Includes photographs, glossary, and introduction to the Yolnu Matha language group. 1st Edition. Stiff Wraps.

England: The Author. 2022. Octavo, pictorial stiff wraps, colour illus, b&w illus, pp.186. Near fine condition. Thomas and Eliza Little emigrated first to India (where Thomas was with the army of the East India Company) and then to Western Australia. A history of their lives and times, written by Eliza Little's great great great nephew. Illustrated wraps with the image: "A View of Koombana Bay on Port Lesschenault, Australind, Western Australia" from an original sketch by Miss Louisa Clifton. Stiff Wraps.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. 1949. Octavo, original cloth boards, pp 150. Boards rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed, marks on contents page, shaken, fair condition. Uncommon. First serialised in the Australasian in 1934: first publication in book form. The author was a farmer and writer, known for "an unrivalled knowledge of the Queensland outback" (Australian Dictionary of Biography). 1st edition.

San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation. 1970. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, pp 45, vii, b&w line illustrations. Wraps very lightly rubbed. Near-fine condition. Collection of poetry by important American poet, associated with the Beats. 1st Edition.

London: Ward, Lock & Co.. Quarto, cloth-backed illustrated boards, dustjacket, colour plates, pp 128. 15 colour plates (including frontis) by A.E. Jackson. N.d., c. 1950s. 'Sunshine' series. Light rubbing to edges, dustjacket worn and lightly creased to edges, clean, very good condition. Re-tellings in prose of Shakespeare's plays, by brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb, first published in 1807 and very successful. Boards in d.j..

Perth: C.H Pitman. nd c(1930). 1st ed., octavo, pp. 200, b/w ill., marbled eps., orig leather, spine and cnrs. heavily worn, few scuff marks. Presentation inscription, signed by the author, "H.J. Lambert" Collection of writings originally published as columns in 'The Western Australian.' 1st edition. Leather.

Melbourne. c.1952. 13 folding leaves with text and illustrations in remains of paper portfolio, o/w contents in fine condition 1st edition.

Cervantes (WA): The Author. 1999. 8vo, wraps, pp 198. Signed by the author. Very good condn. Wraps.

London: Virtue & Co.. 1937. 2nd ed., quarto, pp. xv, 308, (51), incl. index, b&w photographic portrait of Lambeth, profusely illustrated with b&w plates and 20 full-page colour plates, original gilt decorated dark red boards with relief title to front board. An unusually clean copy of an early cookbook with the rare (often missing) original folded template for 'Gondola' cake loosely inserted. Also included is a letter from a Western Australian wedding cake specialist, 'Kentucky Kitchen' (Piccadilly Arcade, Perth, W.A.) requesting further cake books. Very good condition. (heavy book, please inquire regarding postage.) Joseph Lambeth was born in the United States. He visited London for many years and was a successful winner of 'Gold' and 'Silver' medals at the International Food and Confectionary Exposition in London. He eventually moved to London starting a pastry school, The Lambeth Decorating School where he popularized English 'Overpiping'… Read More

Melbourne: Inkata Press. 1976. Octavo, pp. 376, Index, colour frontis, colour photos, pictorial endpapers, original boards. Near fine condition in like d.j. Comprehensive identification manual. 1st edition. Boards.

London: Whitechapel Art Gallery. 1993. Quarto, stiff illustrated wraps with French flaps, 81 colour plates. Light marking rear wrap otherwise clean, very good condition. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition (London, New York, Madrid). 1st Edition. Stiff Wraps.

Whitechapel Art Gallery. 1993. Repr., quarto, pictorial wraps, colour and b&w plates, pp 192. Near fine condition. Lavishly illustrated catalogue of the work of one of the most important twentieth-century artists, with introductory essay. Reprint. Wraps.