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Rutland, Vt: Charles E Tuttle Co, 1971. title continues: and customs of several of the Indian Nations of North and South America.HEAVY. xxiv, 602pp, Algonquin vocabulary, folding plates, folding map. Red cloth in jacket. Generally light edge wear to jacket BUT there is a 14cm strip holed along the rear flap fold by silverfish with a couple of tiny depredations… Read more about this item

Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1967. 2 volumes-complete. 397, 427pp; bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Both volumes with light even toning to page edges and minor foxing to endpapers. Volume I with 2cm tear at top of front jacket panel and rubbing to folds, crease to front jacket panel. Volume II 1cm tear to top of front jacket panel,… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1988. x, 262pp, index, references, bibliography, glossary, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or card covers with integral flaps. Near new. The stories of the men and the ships-well known and obscure- tracing the discovery and exploration of the Queensland coast from the growth of the Spanish and Portuguese sea power in the 15th century to the mid-19th century… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry / Japanese Government Railways, 1935. 105pp, bw ills, map, col frontis. Cream card with laid on image, yapped (overhanging) edges. Slight edge ear, even toning to covers. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985. xxvii, 331pp, index, bw ills. Pictorial card. Small tear at top of spine, light occasional foxing. Account of expeditions of a naturalist in Borneo/Sarawak originally published in 1913.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society., 1968. HEAVY. 3 VOLUME SET (complete). xvi, 423pp, appendices; v, pp425-819, appendices, folding map; v, pp821-1175, index ,supplement, family tree, appendices, bibliography, annotated calendar, table of events. Blue cloth in jackets. All jackets are price clipped with some foxing. The pages have minor foxing to page edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item

Nyassaland: Nyassaland Publicity Committee, 1948. 88pp, map, bw ills. Attractive wraps with Protectorate arms. Light foxing to cover, prev owner details to title page. A very nice copy of this vintage African travel guide.. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Cape Town: Cape Time Ltd., 1948. 122pp, folding map, bw ills. Pictorial wraps. Cover detached from text block but intact and complete. A few very short tears to cover edges, light edge wear. A nice copy of this vintage African travel guide.. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo.

Sydney: Building Publishing, 1935. 396pp, num bw ills. Gray cloth, no jacket. Endpapers toned, moderate foxing to edges and margins. A personalised SIGNED inscription by the author to front free endpaper. An Australian woman's impressions of east Asia (including New Guinea, Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Japan) with some interesting pre-war material building warships in Australia and naval parity etc..… Read more about this item

Balgavies, Scotland: The Pinkfoot Press, 2001. viii, 159pp, gazetteer, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. Near new. The hills and glens of Angus are a little known part of Scotland. This book covers many aspects of the area, from archaeology, history, wildlife, flora and land ownership- mostly through the medium of place-names. The final section of the book comprises a gazetteer… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian National University, 1972. xiv, 232pp, index, appendix, bw ills, endpaper maps. Green cloth in jacket. Approx 8mm tear on rear of jacket otherwise near new. An absorbing account of early days of Australian settlement, and importantly life on Ponape in the Caroline Islands.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder, 1943. 131pp, bw ills, endpaper maps. Black boards in jacket. Jacket price clipped, tear at front flap fold and several short tears/small chips, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Humphrey Payne's travels in and love of Greece.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Methuen Australia, 1987. 491pp, index, chronology, endpaper maps. Red cloth in jacket. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. Slight fading to edges of jacket. The author's 10000km journey from Inner China, through India, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Iran and other lands of the Middle East, and on to the Soviet Union and the Mediterranean.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co., 1858. 486pp. Brown cloth. Approx 3cm split at top front of spine, 9cm split from top of rear spine edge, bottom rear corner bumped, corners rounded, hinges cracking and prelims heavily toned. Posthumous first publication of these works by noted 19th century geologist relating to fossil areas in Scotland and the Hebrides. Binding a bit… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1977. xxiv, 511pp, index, appendix, folding map, bw ills. Brown boards, no jacket as issued. Some foxing to page edges extending to margins on some pages. Facsimile edition taken from the Second Edition of 1865.. Facsimile Edition, Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Bathurst: Robert Brown & Associates, 1984. HEAVY. vi, 193pp, bibliography, 100 bw plates, map. Or black cloth in jacket. Some toning to endpapers, light foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims. Presents 100 of Hurley's photographic plates from his 1920-23 expeditions along the Papuan coast and hinterland. In the Western Division he was the first to record on glass… Read more about this item

Sydney: Australian Documents Library, 1979. xix, 196pp, index, appendices, bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. Near new. The first-fleeter Lady Penrhyn carried more than 100 female convicts from England to Sydney. All except one survived the 8 month journey. The high survival rate was due to ship's surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth whose journal is published here for the first… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1940. 199pp, col frontis, 21 bw ills in text. Or pictorial papered boards with blue cloth spine. Pages toned/browned as usual with this edition, small gift note dated 1942 on front blank, Boards rubbed/worn at edges. Blue cloth spine replaced and it a bit wider than the original. Also the endpapers appear to have been replaced.… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1899. ix, 328pp, 7 (of 8) folding maps, bw ills. Recased with original cloth laid on to front and rear (front with embossed image of man), new endpapers. Some pages quite brittle with some loss to half-title page. Toning/foxing. Ex-college library with faint stamp to first page of text. Includes Grey, Kennedy, Leichhardt,… Read more about this item

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1884. 288pp + publishers catalogue at rear; bw engravings, map. Or pictorial brown cloth. Cloth chipped at top of spine, cloth flecked, new endpapers, some toning and foxing, prev owner name at start of introduction, a bit shaken. States Special Presentation Volume on title page and London Missionary Society Presentation Copy at top of front… Read more about this item