Search Results: Titles starting with A from Muir Books

London: William Mullan and Son. 1879. 1st Edition. thick octavo., pp viii, 488, colour fronts. map, b&w plates, one other map folding, new eps, gilt and silver decorations to original cloth boards, cnrs bumped, bookbinder's ticket (Smith's Bros., Ivy Lane, EC) to rear paste-down, professionally recased (old on new), very good condition. Presentation copy from author to English bookseller, Bernard Quaritch, signed and dated on half-title "To Bernard Quaritch with sincere regards from Isabel Burton, 21 Feby. 1879". Published in February 1879, A.E.I. was Isabel Burton's second book. This copy presented to Bernard Quaritch, signed and dated by the author, 21 February 1879, was most likely to have been acquired by Quaritch at the launch of the book with many authors present including Bram Stoker and his close friend and actor, Henry Irving. Isabel Burton, later known as Lady Burton, was the wife of the explorer and writer, Richard Francis Burton. 1st edition. Boards.

O'Connor: Austed Publishing Co. Three volumes (complete), wraps, frontis map each volume, pp 538, ii; 364; 445. Vol.1 : first reprint (1989, Marlin Publ.); Vol. 2 : first edition (1990); Vol. 3 : first edition (1991). All three volumes signed. Some wear to wraps. Very good condition. Historical novels following the founding of the Swan River Colony in 1829.

Stockholm: Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. 1939. 1st ed., 4to, wraps, pp 70 with additional 24 full page b&w plates, missing 4cm lower spine, upper spine starting, light creasing to cnrs, some water marking to front, from the library of Western Australian Anthropologist, D'Arcy Ryan, with his blind-stamp to upper front and pencil annotations, tanning to wraps and some pencil annotations throughout, good condn. Scarce. Presentation inscription signed by the Author. Andreas Sparrman (1748-1820) was a Swedish naturalist. He was a pupil of Linneaus and travelled on Captain James Cook's second voyage as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. Text in Swedish. Rare. This well illustrated publication is a description of Sparrman's ethnographical collection assembled during Cook's voyage and now in the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. The detailed descriptions of the objects are preceded by a biographical sketch and a resume of Sparrman's narrative of the expedition. The… Read More

Sydney: James Hardie Industries Limited. 1987. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus throughout, pp 256. Near-fine in near-fine d.j. History of one of Australia's largest manufacturing companies - also a history of fibro-cement in Australia. 1st edition. Boards.

London: London Opinion Curio Club. 1908. Octavo, original pictorial cloth boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 135, iv. Edges rubbed. Very good condition. Collection of essays about various aspects of collecting: books, art, china. etc. 1st Edition.

London: James Parker and Co. 1892. 12mo, original cloth boards with gilt title upper boards and spine, b&w plates, pp 265, iv. Gift inscription blank endpaper, dated 1893. Some marking to boards, ink marks to the outside edge of the text block not affecting text. Good condition. Copiously illustrated guide to Gothic architecture. John Henry Parker was an English archaeologist and writer on architecture. 7th edition. Boards.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press. 1966. 1st ed., 8vo., pp xviii 382 incl. index, map to e.ps., or. cl. bds., v.g in d.j with sunned spine and stain to rear.

Minneapolis: Voyageur Press. 2010. Quarto, origonal boards, colour and b&w illus, pp 224. Inset spinning wheel on front cover with spinning guitarist. Fine condition. 1st Edition. Boards.

Moscow. 1954. 8vo, pp. 176, Index, colour spectrum rear and folded chart, b/w ills., ex-library stamp ffep and title page, light foxing endpapers, page edges tanned, original cloth backed papered boards, scuffed and rubbed, library call number spine. Text in Russian. Cloth Backed Boards.

London: Heinemann. 1935. Repr., 8vo., pp (xvi) 326 incll index, b/w fronts. port., b/w plates, scattered foxing, prev. owner's inscr., or. cl. bds., split to top of spine, sunned, no d.j.

London: Osprey. 1987. Large 8vo, paper wraps, b&w and colour photographs, diagrams, pp. 48. Previous owner's name stamp inside wraps, good condn. Combat Aircraft series Paper Wraps.

Canterbury (Vic): Scope Publishing. 1974. 1st ed., 8vo., pp (x), (ii) - 112, b/w ills., or. cl. bds., in rubbed d.j.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, maps, pp viii, 219. Previous owner's stamp front free endpaper, near-fine condition. Examines the uses and varying fortunes of kava on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. 1st Edition. Boards.

New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press. 1988. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 153. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Previous owner's ex-libris stamp, very good condition in like d.j. Boards.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. 8vo, wraps, pp xvi, 318. Previous owner's ex-libris stamp, o/w fine. Wraps.

Darwin: Australian National University. 1991. 1st ed., pp.104, orig stiff wraps, near fine condn. Comprehensive study of violence against Aboriginal women including documentation of cases 1st edition. Stiff Wraps.

Sydney: Craftsman House. 2001. Quarto, wraps, flaps, colour illus, pp 126. Very slightly sunned to the top edge, otherwise fine. Chapters on the Aboriginal art collections in every state, with accompanying photographs. Profusely illustrated. Wraps.

Sydney: AH & AW Reed. 1992. Small octavo, wraps, pp 144, previous owner's signature, very good condn. Reprint. Stiff Wraps.

St Lucia (QLD): University of Queensland Press. 1977. 8vo, original cloth boards, dutstjacket, map, endpaper maps, pp 185. Boards lightly rubbed, very good in like d.j., protected. A study of Aboriginal medicine men. 2nd Edition. Boards.

Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia. 1985. 4to, wraps, b&w illus, pp 66. Sticker to spine, ink stamps title and first page, llight marking to wraps, o/w good. Wraps.