Search Results: Authors starting with T from Muir Books

Antwerp: Plantiniana Balthasar Moretti. 1668. Folio, pp.(xii), 547, (xxxiv, Index). Bound with "Iusti Lipsi Dispunctio Notarum Mirandulani Codicis ad Corn. Tacitum. Antwerp, Officina Plantinian Balthasaris Moreti, 1667", pp.84, (xiii, Index etc), woodcut engraving to both title-pages, pages tanned, bound in half-leather with leather titled spine label, light cracking along centre of spine. Very good condition. 17th century edition of 'Tacitus', a Roman historian and politician. Edited by the Flemish humanist, philologist and philosopher, Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips). First published in Antwerp by Plantin-Moretus,1574. Half leather.

Canberra: Australian National University Press. 1970. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp . Worn and rubbed dustjacket, previous owner's signature ffep, occasional underlining, o/w good condn. Aborigines in Australian Society 2 Boards.

Perth: Rockingham District Historical Society. 1984. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, family trees, pp xii, 293. Ex-library. Text and illustrations clean. Good condition. 1st edition. Boards.

Perth: Rockingham District Historical Society. 1984. Octavo, wraps, b&w plates, family trees, pp xii, 293. Very good condition. 1st edition. Wraps.

New York: Hananya J. Steinberg. 1964. 8vo, pp. 65, endpapers yellowed and last text page, original boards, slightly rubbed with a few marks, extremities rubbed. Text in Yiddish. Boards.

Perth, W.A.: Government Printer. 1928. Original wraps, fifteen original large folding colour plates. Wraps very worn, with front cover detached The title page and the fifteen folding plates are all in very good condition. The first detailed geological survey of remote areas of Western Australia. H.W.B. Talbot wias a pioneering geologist and explorer during the early days of the Geological Survey of Western Australia, and a pioneer economic geologist in the State’s mining and petroleum industries. 1st Edition. Wraps.

Milton (QLD): Jacaranda. 1970. 8vo, cloth boards, dustwrapper, colour plates, b&w text illus, appendices and indexes, pp. (xii) 287. Minor edgewear to d.j., previous owner's small address label to ffep, o/w near-fine. Detailed geological guide to Australia's minerals, rocks and gems. 1st edition. Boards.

Sydney: Allen and Unwin. 2015. Quarto, original illustrated boards, colour plates, pp. 186. Bookshop sticker front endpaper. Near fine condition. In this beautifully presented volume, the essence of seventy-five fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm is wonderfully evoked by Shaun Tan's extraordinary sculptures. Introduced by Grimm Tales author Philip Pullman and leading fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes, The Singing Bones breathes new life into some of the world's most beloved fairy tales. 1st Edition. Boards.

Tokyo: Sangyo Shinbun Sha. 1979. Large 8vo, original blue boards, colour photographs, pp 90. Small mark top top corner, o/w fine. 1st edition. Boards.

London: G.T. Foulis. 1964. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 316. Previous owner's inscription ffep, traces of damage to endpapers, o/w v.g. in dustjacket rubbed to edges, protected. Revised Edition. Boards.

London: Impact Books. 1987. Trade ed., pp. (iv), (5) - 64, b/w ills., fine in or. dec. bds.

London: G.G. J. and J. Robinson. Original quarter leather boards, b&w frontis portrait plate, pp xxiv, 519; viii, 417 plus ads. First volume stated thirteenth edition, n.d., c. 1790. Second volume stated 'new' edition, "Containing Experimental Remarks upon Breeding, Stabling, Breaking, Exercise and Shoeing, Rowelling to which are added Particular Instructions for the General Management of Hunters and Road Horses", n.d., c. 1790, stamped 1 and 2 on spines. Boards and edges rubbed. Good condition. Detailed eighteenth century guide to the care of horses. The author was a veterinary surgeon.

Inglewood (WA): The Author. 1996. Large 8vo, wraps, pp 449. Very good condition. Includes loosely inserted handwritten letter from the author of the introduction (Roberts). Wraps.

Nedlands: Centrre for Migration and Development Studies, University of Western Australia. 1997. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp xv, 262. Presentation inscription by the author. Near-fine condition. The stories of 18 women who wre in colonial Malaya at some time during the period 1919 to 1945. A book about resourcefulness and courage. 1st Edition. Wraps.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Cartographers. (1726)1985. Limited edition, No.29 of 250, engraved map, 315mm x 470mm, with the blind-stamp of the Australian Institute of Cartographers. Near fine condition Chart reproduced from a copy in the Rare Map Collection, National Library of Autralia. Documenting Tasman's 1642-43 voyage in which Tasmania and New Zealand were discovered, and the 1644 voyage during which much of the northern coastline of Australia was documented. Shows Tasman's route from Mauritius to Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand to Java. 'Nova Hollandia' is included although the eastern and south eastern coasts are yet to be explored. Many rivers on eastern cape York and Gulf of Carpentaria have been named. Text in Dutch. The original was first issued in Francois Valentyn's eight volume work 'Oud En Nieuw Oost Indien,' published 1724-1726. Valentyn (1666-1727) was a Reformist Minister and served with the Dutch East India Company. He made numerous voyages to… Read More

London: George Routledge & Co. 1858. 8vo, pp. xlviii, 445, (ii adverts), b/w frontis, b/w plates, award plate, few minor foxing spots prelims., all edges gilt, original gilt decorated cloth bds., spine split at rear joint, head and tail spine frayed, rubbed, corners bumped otherwise very good condition Work of the sixteenth century Italian poet giving an account of the combat between Muslims and Christians during the siege of Jerusalem, First Crusade. Cloth Boards.

Nedlands: University Of Western Australia Press. 1978. Octavo, cloth boards, dutjacket, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xiv, 280. Previous owner's signature ffep. Very good condition in like d.j. Detailed biography of C.Y. O'Connor. Traces the development of Western Australia in the 1890s, including the Goldfields Water Supply. 1st edition. Boards.

Nedlands: University Of Western Australia Press. 1978. Octavo, cloth boards, dutjacket, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xiv, 280. Signed by the author. Previous owner's signature. Near-fine in like d.j. Detailed biography of C.Y. O'Connor. Traces the development of Western Australia in the 1890s, including the Goldfields Water Supply. 1st edition. Boards.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1886. Original pictorial cloth with gilt, pp 256, iv. Lacks map, and front free endpaper. Previous owner's signature. Reading copy. Travels in Australia: South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales. Boards.

Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia. 1979. pp xii, 176, b/w plates, pict eps, orig boards, rubbed at tail of spine, otherwise v.g., in like d.j., minor fraying at head of spine. The ill-fated R.A.F. attack on Nuremberg, 30 March 1944. Boards.