Shell Motor Tours. [South Australia (cover subtitle)]
Adelaide, The Shell Company of Australia Ltd, [circa 1930s]. More
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Travel Guide of the 'Nederland' Royal Mail Line
[Amsterdam, Nederland Royal Mail Line Amsterdam, after 1932]. The maps include: Batavia, Singapore, Belawan, Sabang, Colombo, and Ceylon; the sky charts depict the constellations (Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and Equatorial). More
A New Slant on America. 'Un Oeil Neuf Sur L'Amerique'
Chicago, Rand McNally, 1931. Translation from the French by Margaret Gaffey Mel. With Drawings from the French Edition by D. Olere. More
Travels in the South of Europe and Brazil, with a Voyage up the Amazon and the Xingu' [sic]. Translated by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk and John Francis Taylor
London, David Bogue, 1849 [first edition in English]. Prince Adalbert (1811-1873) was a Prussian naval theorist and admiral; several journeys led him between 1826 and 1842 to the Netherlands, Britain, Russia, Turkey, Greece, and Brazil (Wikipedia). He spent the last four months on 1842 in Brazil. Alexander von Humboldt makes..... More
The Wide World Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative: Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport. Volume V: April, 1900 to September, 1900
London, George Newnes, Ltd., 1900. With the armorial bookplate of James Howard Johnson, great-grandson of George Fife Angas (and the local binder's ticket of F. Binns & Co., Charles Street, Adelaide). Not least, Western Australia (pages 63-66). More
Italian Journey, 1786-1788
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). Translated, and with an Introduction, by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer. More
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The National Geographic Magazine. Volume 53, January to June, 1928 [and] Volume 54, July to December 1928 [12 separate issues]
Washington, National Geographic Society, 1928. These twelve issues contain a number of important lengthy articles by (or about) famous early aviators: Lindbergh (two), Cobham, de Pinedo, and Kingsford-Smith and Ulm. The main article in the December issue, 'Renascent Germany' (pages 639-717), makes very interesting reading. More
Madeira. Kanarische Inseln. Azoren. Westküste von Marokko. Handbuch für Reisende [Madeira. Canary Islands. Azores. West Coast of Morocco. Guide for Travellers]
Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1934. The first edition of a scarce Baedeker, and the only edition in German (one in English appeared in 1939). More
Great Steamers White and Gold. A History of Royal Mail Ships and Services
Southampton, Ensign Publications, 1993. More
The Chinese At Home. Adapted from the French of Emile Bard by H. Twitchell
London, George Newnes, Limited, [1906]. More
The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant, 1647-1656
London, Hakluyt Society, 1999. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Volume 3. Edited by Michael G. Brennan. A notice from the publisher to members, concerning the new third series, is loosely inserted. More
The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Geographe' and 'Naturaliste'. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2004 [first thus]/ 1974. The prospectus is loosely inserted. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 222; one of only 201 copies thus (plus another 99 numbered and bound in quarter leather). The 1974 edition, essentially by the same publisher, was the first complete..... More
The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Géographe' and 'Naturaliste'. Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery
Netley, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. With the ink ownership details of Sir Walter Crocker on the front free endpaper, and a relevant newspaper clipping with a couple of Crocker's ink annotations. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. The first complete edition..... More
The Observation of Savage Peoples
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969 (first thus). Written in 1800 'to serve as guidance to some of the members of the Societe des Observateurs de l'Homme in an impending expedition to Australia (under the command of Captain Nicolas Baudin) ... Degerando's originality lies in his recognizing and stating that..... More
Nomads of Niger. Text by Marion Van Offelen
London, Harvill, 1991 [first thus]. More
National Geographic Photographs. The Milestones
Washington, National Geographic, 1999. In addition to the 250 illustrations from photographs (most in colour), there are essays by Bendavid-Val, Robert A. Sobieszek, Carole Naggar, Anne H. Hoy, Ferdinand Protzman and Fred Ritchin. More
From the Log of the Velsa
London, Chatto and Windus, 1920. More
Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France, with beautifully finished Engravings, from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. [Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1834 (spine title)]
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in..... More
Gurdjieff. Making a New World
London, Turnstone Books, 1973. Plus several plates from photographs. More
Journeys in Islamic Countries
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 2000 (first single volume)/ 1976 and 1977. "... a unique collection from his Central Asia travel notes of 1953..." (rear cover). More
Pearl Diver. Adventuring Over and Under Southern Seas
London, William Heinemann, 1930. Some Australian content. More
The Shell Poster Book
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1992. More
Toil, Travel and Discovery in British New Guinea. ['British New Guinea from the Protectorate to the Sovereignty, 1884-1888' is the spine title]
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1890. More
On and Off the Platform under the Southern Cross
Wellington, Hicks, Smith & Wright, 1949. With the contemporary ownership signature of Brian Lewis Jones (a relative of the author; see page 159) and his two pencilled annotations. Together with: Philp Beveridge Mair: 'Shared Enthusiasm. The Story of Lord and Lady Beveridge, by her Son' (Surrey, Ascent Books Ltd, 1982;..... More