London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907 (second edition)/ 1892. With the Nareeb Ladies' College, Hawksburn prize plate (dated 1909) mounted on the front pastedown, inscribed in ink to Miss Nancy Godley, Christmas 1909. John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), English essayist, poet, and biographer best known for his cultural history of the..... More
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927. Signed and dated (12 December 1928) by the author on the title page, with a contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown (T.W. Adams, 4 January 1929). The 'Heart of Northern Australia' in the title is misleading. Terry and his companions drove two 'one-ton model Guy-Roadless..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. Not least, there is a lengthy well-illustrated account (88 pages) of their travels through the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia; Michael Terry figures prominently. More
Claremont, Murray Thomas Big Game Publications, 1987. More
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [No date]. With the ink ownership signature of Jeannie Stirling, daughter of Sir Edward Charles Stirling, later wife of Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson. More
London, Cassell, 1925 (second printing)/ 1924. More
London, The Folio Society, 1986 (first thus). Introduction by Joanna Richardson; translated by Charles de Salis. More
London, The Folio Society, 1986 (first thus). Introduction by Joanna Richardson; translated by Charles de Salis. More
Ha Noi, Nha Xuat Ban Van Hoa - Thong Tin, 1994. Text in Vietnamese and English. More
London, The Folio Society, 2006 (first thus). With an introduction by Ron Powers. 'This edition follows that of the 1984 Viking Penguin edition, including the previously suppressed passages, with minor emendations'. More
Hilversum, C. De Boer Jr., 1961. Text in English and Dutch. More
Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1975 and 1977. Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series, Numbers 6 and 7. Offered with another eleven uniformly-presented volumes in the same series: Volumes 3, 4, and 8-16, published between 1972 and 1985. Further details on request. The Van Riebeeck Society (now called Historical Publications Southern..... More
London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1940. In 1938 Melbourne-born Villiers 'began an examination of sailing culture in the Middle East and spent 18 months on board the Arab dhow "The Triumph of Righteousness", sailing from Kuwait to Zanzibar and back. He recorded his experience in "Sons of Sinbad" [sic]. The..... More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 (first edition). Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), the South Australian historian and bibliographer; later, the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. The John Goodchild-designed bookplate on the pastedown records these facts; there is a cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title page. Loosely inserted..... More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 [first edition]. The book went through four editions in five years, with a limited edition facsimile appearing in 1979; copies of the first edition (where, on page 184, the author admits - in error, I hasten to add - to breaking the Seventh Commandment)..... More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 [first edition]. The book went through four editions in five years, with a limited edition facsimile appearing in 1979; copies of the first edition (where, on page 184, the author admits - in error, I hasten to add - to breaking the Seventh Commandment)..... More
Long Beach, Safari Press, 1999/ 1999. More
London, John Murray, 1913. 'With Mr Murray's compliments' is blindstamped at the head of the title leaf. More
Portland, Timber Press, 2004. More
Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 2001 [first updated edition]/ 1926. With over 250 colour illustrations from photographs (with detailed captions). More
Long Beach, Safari Press, 2000 (first edition). Number 426 of 1000 copies signed by the author. The seventeenth book in the publisher's Classics in Big Game Hunting series. More
Long Beach, Safari Press, 1997 (second edition). More
Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1909. With the armorial bookplate of Ismay Lucretia Mary Ramsay. More
London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1925 (first UK edition)/ 1924. The author, an engineer sent to the Malay Jungle 'in 1913 to survey a route for a railway' was kept there for six years by the fortunes of war. More