Australasia
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Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson was born in Queensland, Australia, and is the author of Tracks, the extraordinary account of her 1,700-mile journey across Australia with four camels, which won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and became a film in 2013. She has written extensively for National Geographic and other magazines, and is also the author of Desert Places, the novel Ancestors, and the essay collection Travelling Light. Ms. Davidson lives in London, India, and Australia.
Australasia Books & Ephemera
Man Tracks: With the Mounted Police in Australian Wilds
by Ion L. Idriess
Angus and Robertson, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.
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€25.16
The Royal Presence in Australia 1867-1986
by Philip W Pike
Since 1867 (to 1986) there have been over fifty official royal visits to Australia, prior to 1954 there had been only six royal tours. 262 pages with illustrations on nearly every page and front endpaper fold out House of Windsor family tree. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor knocks. tears and wear. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.
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€15.43
PRESERVING THE SELF IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1680-1840
by Lamb, Jonathan
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 345 p. with 17 illustrations and a map. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket.
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€47.23
A Pictorial History Of The Blue Mountains
by Jo Booker
No publisher, 1111. Paperback. Good. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Flat signed by author to first page. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has moderate edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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€23.47
ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND GUIDE TO HONOLULU AND VICINITY
by Godfrey, Frank
Honolulu: Robert Grieve, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo: xx ads, [4], 100, [2], xxi-xxxv, [1] ad p. with 4 leaves of ads within text. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, and maps. Original printed boards, with expert restoration to the spine. The front flyleaf, a blank with a pasted errata, is detached and laid in place. Period ink signature ("Eugene C. Zahn, Co. A 1st Regt., N.Y.V., Honolulu H.I., Sept. 1898") to the front flyleaf, with a another Zahn signature to the...
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€1,416.90
HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORTS, 1893-1966
by [Hawaiiana]
A bound run of the Annual Reports of the Hawaiian Historical Society, together with a 20-year run (1967-86) of its successor, The Hawaiian Journal of History. Both publications include scholarly papers presented to the Society pertaining to the history of Hawaii, Polynesia, and the South Pacific. Based in Honolulu, the Hawaiian Historical Society was established in 1892 by a group of prominent citizens dedicated to preserving historical materials, presenting public lectures, and publishing scholarly...
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€1,133.52
Transport, An Australian History
by Robert Lee
With European settlement new technologies emerged for crossing Australia - the stories of heroic, groundbreaking and everyday enterprises in shipping, roads, rail and aviation - transport is the backbone of our nation. 372 pages with illustrations throughout, many in colour. Book in as new condition.
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€15.43
In Tasmania
by Shakespeare, Nicholas
The Harvill Press, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, bottom corners of boards gently bumped at tips o/w a very good tightly bound and clean copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket, maps to endpapers, b&w illustrations, 374pp.
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€9.93
History of Australasia
by D.M Blair
Settlement and history of NSW, Victoria, SA, Queensland, WA, Tasmania and NZ, with some account of Fiji and New Guinea. Leather embossed cover and spine in red, gilt title on edge and Advance Australia coat of arms on face. 711 pages complete with 24 illustrations, of which eight are coloured maps.Page edges lightly scuffed and rubbed with some small scratches to boards - otherwise good, plates bright but some foxing, bound well but beginning to work loose..Note: This book is heavy, 2.9kg, Arrangements...
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€197.57
The People's Forest, A Living History of the Australian Bush
by Gregg Borschmann
The first national oral history collection of Australian landscape memory and folklore recorded as a crucial cultural heritage. 279 pages with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition with previous owners name and a date on first page and very minor marks to top leading edge. Dust jacket/ slipcase in near fine condition with very minor ?mark on front. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.
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€18.52
A Walk Through Black Hill Reserve. Flora and Fauna of Central Victoria
by Proctor, Lois [Editor]
Ballarat, Vic: The Friends of Black Hill. 1987. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs & Drawings. 60 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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€12.35
A Bastard of a Place
by Peter Brune
Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2004. large size paperback. Used. '. . . Brune's book is a timely reminder that despite the warmest alliances, nations sometimes have to stand up and save themselves.' - The Weekend Australian Financial Review'. . . A Bastard of a Place undeniably ranks as the best book ever written about the Aussie battles in Papua . . . Very highly recommended, and certainly one of the best books of the year.' - Bill Stone, Stone + Stone Second World War Books websiteIn 1942 and...
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€18.42
Southern Exposure
by Donald Horne
Collins, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 143 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book...
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€23.22
Blast the Bush
by Len Beadell
Rigby, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. First Edition. 212 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth and gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has light edge-wear with closed tears and creasing.
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€13.46
RAAF BASE WILLIAMTOWN THE FIRST 50 YEARS..A short history of Australia's premier tactical fighter base
by MULLER, Peter & HUTCHINSON, John
NSW: Published by The Aviation Society & RAAF Williamstown, 1991. First Edition. Royal 8vo.pp.iii + 111 + 4p.with black & white and colour photographs and Illustrations. Very good copy in original quality stiff wrappers softcover.
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€17.90
Art and Land
by Philip Jones and Peter Sutton
The focus of the book is on those remarkable Aboriginal objects called toa - objects of art and information within the context of Diyari culture. Toa were used as directional markers or sign posts in traditional Aboriginal Australia - there shape, colour, design or appendages representing conspicuous topographic features which are linked to the mystic wanderings of the Dreaming beings. 144 pages including photographs of mainly objects on almost all pages. Book in very good+ condition ex library with...
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€27.78
Beyond the Furthest Fences
by Margaret Ford
Hodder and Stoughton, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1966. First Edition. 190 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Contains black and white illustrations. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tape marks to pastedowns and free endpapers. Front free endpaper is missing. Pen markings to back free endpaper and pastedown. Binding remains...
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€17.51
Major Mitchell's Map 1834 : the saga of the survey of the Nineteen Counties.
by ANDREWS, Alan E.J
Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1992. 1000 copies. 402pp, illustrations, maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090852823X .
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€21.61
A Short History of Australia
by Manning Clark
Mentor, 1980. Paperback. Acceptable. 1980. First Printing, Second Edition. 301 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to front hinge. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Boards are slightly bowed.
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€5.32
POHNPEI, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, LAST WILL & TESTAMENT
by [Oceania]
English-language manuscript document rendered in brown gall ink on a light blue sheet (15 1/8" x 12 5/8") with a period embossed stamp along the bottom edge. Folded variously in sixths or eighths. Minor oxidation, with a few ink smudges; otherwise very good. An unrecorded and historically important last will and testament of the Nahnken of Pohnpei to his son Henry Nanpei in 1863 granting him lands and islands in what is now the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). This document represents an...
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€23,615.00
Eastern Hemisphere, antique map with vignette views
by Rapkin, J. Tallis, John
London: John Tallis & Co., 1854. Maps. Steel engraved map from the famous Victorian publisher John Tallis, well-known for the attractive vignette views surrounding the maps, which illustrate the peoples & customs of that region. 10 x 13 1/2" plus margins. Attractive decorative border around edge, very good condition. HKD2710.
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€259.76
AN ENGLISH-HAWAIIAN DICTIONARY; With Various Useful Tables: Prepared for the Use of Hawaiian-English Schools
by Hitchcock, H.R
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1887. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to William De Witt Alexander (1833-1913), the noted educator, author, and linguist in the Kingdom of Hawaii, on a prefatory blank leaf, with Alexander's pencil notes opposite the chronological table at the rear. Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr. (1835-91) was the son of a Massachusetts missionary who arrived in Hawaii during the summer of 1832. The younger Hitchcock published this dictionary of the Hawaiian...
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€755.68
Mark of the Lion: The Story of Captain Charles Upham, V.C. and Bar (Popular M2057)
by Sandford, Kenneth
Popular Library, 1963. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€13.15
James Grassie: Poet and Aboriginal Story Teller of Victoria
by Peake, Andrew
Adelaide: Published by Author. 2013. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Mint Condition. A New copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 258 pages. James Grassie [1813-1904] was a Scottish poet and storyteller who moved to Australia in 1852 and claimed to have been at the Eureka Stockade in 1854. His first few poems published in Australia seem to have appeared in the Geelong...
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€23.46
Oceana: The Tempestuous Voyage of J.A.Froude, 1884-1885
by Blainey, Geoffrey (Editor)
Methuen Haynes. 1985. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. xix, 211 pages. Travellers' Tales of Early Australia and New Zealand, edited and abridged by Geoffrey Blainey and including a Foreword on Froude and his life with notes that illuminate his travels. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Abridged Edition....
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€10.19
