A Buddhist Paradise. The Murals of Alchi, Western Himalayas
Hong Kong, Ravi Kumar for Visual Dharma Publications Ltd., 1982. Number 552 of 3000 copies. More
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Pedlar Palmer of Tobruk. An Autobiography. [Pedlar Palmer, alias "Stooge" or "Pirate" (half-title)]
Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1981. Number 29 in the Roebuck Series. More
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas
London, Caliban Books, 1984 (smaller-format facsimile edition)/ 1784. An unauthorised account of Cook's first voyage by Sydney Parkinson, the young natural history draughtsman engaged by Joseph Banks. More
A Visit to India
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., 'The Advertiser' Office, 1894. The author was 'Professor of Laws at the University of Adelaide'; perhaps not surprisingly this copy has the small circular rubber-stamp of then-Chief Justice [Sir Samuel] Way on the front cover and the title-page. More
The Discovery of Australia. The Charts and Maps of the Navigators and Explorers
Melbourne, Nelson, 1982. More
Australian Artist in South East Asia
Melbourne, Grayflower, 1962. With an introduction by Ronald Searle. More
A Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from Authentic Papers ... to which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall ...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. Peade A185: 1,144 copies. More
A Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from Authentic Papers ... to which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall ...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1789. Peade A185: 1,144 copies. More
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The Canadas, as they at present commend themselves to the Enterprize [sic] of Emigrants, Colonists and Capitalists ... Compiled and condensed from Original Documents furnished by John Galt ...
London, Effingham Wilson, 1832. An important and early emigrants' guide. More
Observations and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany. Edited by Herbert BARROWS
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1967. With the ownership signature of [Sir] Walter Crocker. More
The Englishwoman in Egypt. Letters from Cairo written during a Residence there in 1942-1846. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Azza Kararah
Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2003. Poole lived in Cairo from 1842 until 1849 with her brother, the well-known Orientalist Edward Lane, and her two children. During her residence, Poole learned Arabic and adopted Egyptian clothing that enabled her to not only to observe day-to-day life in the streets..... More
Wanderings in a Wild Country; or, Three Years amongst the Cannibals of New Britain
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. Tipped in on the title page is a slip from the publishers, who 'have much pleasure in announcing that Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept a copy' of the book. More
English Journey
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Subtitle: Being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England during the Autumn of the year 1933. Introduction by Margaret Drabble; this edition follows that of the 1984 Jubilee edition..... More
A Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1966. With the ownership signature of noted Russian scholar [Associate Professor] Fredric S. Zuckerman, and his pencilled annotations and emphases. More
Bradshaw's Continental Guide for Travellers Through Europe ... May, 1913 [cover title]
Botley, Old House books & maps, 2012 [facsimile edition]/ 1913. 'A faithful facsimile of the 1913 edition, as used in the BBC TV series' (dustwrapper), referencing Michael Portillo's BBC series "Great Continental Railway Journeys". 'Divided into three sections: timetables for services covering the continent, short guides to each city and..... More
When Romance is Ended. The Diary of a Middle-aged Woman
Firenze [Florence], Francesco Pineider, 1930. 'A sea journey by steamer from England to Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and many points on a radius from these cities' (according to a bookseller's catalogue entry, quoted on Trove). In fact, the voyage is not the focus of the book; it is primarily an..... More
Travels in the Western Himalayas in Search of Paintings
Delhi, Thomson Press (India), 1974. More
Antlers Afield
Clinton, Amwell Press for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1993. Number 516 of 1000 copies signed by the author and Jim Rikhoff, president of the publishers, the National Sporting Fraternity Limited. More
The Artist and Amateur's Magazine. A Work devoted to the Interests of the Arts of Design and the Cultivation of Taste
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. This would appear to be all twelve unnumbered and undated issues of the cumulative edition of Volume 1 of the magazine. The editor's 'Farewell Address' (see pages 359-363) indicates there will be no more: 'as regards the success of my project, it is..... More
Confessions of a Dealer
London, Mills and Boon, 1927 (third edition). Rare with the dustwrapper. Plus 13 plates. More
In Search of the Antique
London, Mills and Boon, 1927. More
From Sea to Sea. The Canal du Midi
London, Allen Lane, 1973. More
Tales by Rufus [spine title]. Extracts from the 'Ibis Magazine'
London, The Author, 1909. 'Printed for Private Circulation'; 'the following pages contain extracts from the 'Ibis Magazine' (the monthly journal of the Prudential Clerk's Society) which were contributed by me under the pseudonym of 'Rufus' [and] have been reprinted [in] the present Volume in compliance with the wishes of my..... More
The Journals of Hipolito Ruiz. Spanish Botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1778
Portland, Timber Press, 1998. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria Jose Nemry von Thenen de Jaramillo-Arango. More
Polynesia, or, an Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, including New Zealand; the Introduction of Christianity; and the Actual Condition of the Inhabitants in regard to Civilisation, Commerce, and the Arts of Social Life
Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1843 (second edition)/ 1842. More