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Illustrated text with diagrams and includes table of contents and index. An original copy in excellent condition with a tight and square binding and green boards with gold lettering green marbled endpapers and page edges.

Red Cloth with gilt lettering and in illustrated dust jacket protected in mylar. An examination of the stereotypes of the Arabs as they are seen in the West.

Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they reacted in equally desperate ways. Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she depicts with equal colour and authenticity. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pilgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities. Throughout, however, she never… Read More

Includes two hundred and eighty photos, engravings from original pictures and maps. Frontispiece : First map of Melbourne, 2 fold-out maps at rear, (22" x 16" folding plan of the old Melbourne Cemetery and a 18" x 15" folding map of Melbourne, showing every Crown Grant and Original Sale of Land in the Business Centre of the City from the First Sale, June 1st 1837, down to the present time.), 7 maps, 83 illustrations, index to memorial graves and to the map of the old cemetery, general index.
Original cloth boards, with some bumping to spine and corners overall a very good copy with tight binding and no markings.
Includes Buckley [illustrated], the Henty family, Latrobe, an illustration of the first Melbourne Cup, the origin of the Children's Hospital, the Gallery, Library, Aborigines, local names and traditions explained.

1st Edition Hardback As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
In his most recent collections of cartoons, Semp turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, from mobile phones to designer water. Each volume in the collection contains about 100 illustrations

,llustrated with a selection of nineteenth-century botanical art and modern photographs. In Pursuit of Plants is a compilation of fascinating first-hand accounts of the experiences of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century collectors in their pursuit of plants from around the world. In Surinam, plant hunter F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in west Africa William Grant Milne was forced to sell his clothes and travel naked for 200 miles; Thomas Drummond was attacked by a bear in the North American woods; George Forrest narrowly escaped rampaging lamas in western China; and, in Fiji, Berthold Seemann recorded which plants cannibals used as an accompaniment to human flesh.
Extracted from journals and letters, some previously unpublished, the accounts are a mix of adventure, of sometimes grim but always captivating and occasionally humorous images of a lost world, and of stories of the practical problems associated with plant collecting.

Hardcover. VG+ Condition: Dust Jacket VG+ Condition in Mylar protective covering: Good. Photographic and Illustrations (illustrator). 9-400 pages, foreword by authors and list of coloured plates. Bright yellow coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations and full-page, full-colour photographs (some double page) throughout. Light blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Pink coloured tint to the top text block edge. Colour photographic dustwrapper with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper top edge. No markings or rubbings. A book about cooking and all things gastronomical listed alphabetically.

Original green decorative cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. Contains twelve black & white illustrations. Book plate with original name plate and previous author's inscription. Very slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a very clean, tight copy. The journal of a sixteen year-old boy who went to sea from Yorkshire to Australia because of an "inflammation of the lungs". Tells of his time in Victoria and his return via American continent.

Stated First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with uncut pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria. Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman's journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight.

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1914. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition to which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of recently discovered flowering plants by John W Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses by John E Sowerby. Described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders By C. Pierpoint Johnson.Weight 1.6

First edition.Second Printing Octavo. Decorative green cloth stamped in light blue and gilt, illustrated paper label mounted on front board. On laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece and 15 mounted coloured plates, free endpapers mildly browned; green cloth upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration, a very good, bright copy.Book plate...Prize from St Hilda's School for Girls From the "British Artists" series

Condition: V. Good+. Very attractive Green cloth cover with Gilt, Black and Red Birds (including Barn Owl Decoration and Lettering to Front & Spine. Binding & pages clean and tight and Illustrations in very good, clean condition. Very slight edge wear. Overall a very good copy now with protective removable sleeve. Frontispiece Illustration shows nests of Song Thrush and Goldfinch.[see photo] Birds covered include Kestrel, Shrike, Goldfinch, House Martin, Barn Owl, Sparrow Hawk and many more.

John Murray 1953: Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and to front: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: dust jacket: 286 handcut pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The third volume of Freya Starks autobiography based on her letters of the 1928 33 period, describing her travels in Arabia, and in Greece and Syria immediately before the Second World War. Contents are arranged under the following headings : 1) First Journey to the South, 1933 1935. 2) Iraq Revisited, 1935 1937. 3) The Winter In Huraidha, 1937 1938. 4) Greece and Syria: the Year of Munich, 1938 1939. 5) The War, 1939. Condition: Hard cover and contents firm, clean and good. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket but which is not price-clipped. [xvi], map on green paper, B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages.

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper in protective mylar. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 263pp Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to front gilt and to spine black, top edge blue, others untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates throughout and in-text drawings by the author. Title-page wood-cut vignette by Reynolds Stone, double page black and red map by E. G. Morton.Stark recounts her travels through what is now western Turkey, all the while reflecting on the great works of the classical authors, particularly Herodotus the historian and Pausanias the geographer.

Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, owners signature to front: yellow dust jacket: approximately 5.75 x 9 inches tall: 297 handcut pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Includes the original newspaper article from The Times Saturday January 10 1981 news article, " Letters from Libya" by Freya Stark as a separate item.Synopsis : Freya Starks autobiographical account of her service with the Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office during the Second World War from 1939 to 1946. She recounts details of a mainly persuasive role during her assignment in Aden, where she assisted with the Arab News Service; the Yemen, where she combated fascist influence by operating the only cinema projector in the country; in Egypt where she formed and expanded the Brotherhood of Freedom during the North Africa Campaign ; in Iraq where she extended the Brotherhood Committees in opposition to German influence ( here she was caught up in the German instigated siege of the… Read More

London, John Murray, 1950. First edition, xii, 346pp, with double-paged map, 24 illustrations, wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, index, original cloth with slightly damaged dust jacket in mylar. Uneven bottom edges from when the uncut edges were separated.Very good condition.

Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in relation to other arts such as embroidery, cookery, history and politics. He takes the reader to Italy, France and Spain as well as to Berkshire, Wales and Scotland.