Beeld van Nieuw Guinea. New Guinea Today
Hilversum, C. De Boer Jr., 1961. Text in English and Dutch. 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
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
Melbourne, Australian National Travel Association, 1936 and 1937. The cover title of 'Walkabout' changed several times, however these 14 issues represent the complete subset when it bore the title 'Walkabout Geographic Magazine. Australia and the South Seas'. There is much Indigenous Australian, North Australian and New Guinea content, and the..... 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
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
Beijing, China Three Gorges Publishing House, [c.1992]. More
London, Travel Book Club, [c.1930s]. More
London, Constable, 1972 (first edition). More
Singapore, Edition Didier Millet/ Wijaya Words, 2010 (first paperback edition)/ 2002. Signed by the author on the title page. More
London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1884. A rare and spirited travel book by Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde (circa 1821-1896), influential Irish poet, translator and feminist, and the mother of Oscar Wilde. 'From 1846 she began to contribute prose (as "John Fanshawe Ellis") and verse (as "Speranza") to the "Nation", where..... More
London, Virtue & Co., City Road and Ivy Lane, [circa 1855]/ 1840. The early inkstamp of 'J.R. Hamilton | Book Importer | Sydney' is on the front pastedown. More
Portland, Timber Press, 2002 (first English language edition)/ 1994. More
Piscataway, Winchester Press, 1981/ 1981. More
London, printed for W. Mears, 1717 (first English edition). German by birth, Ziegenbalg founded the Danish Lutheran mission at Tranquebar (Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu) in 1706. He was the first translator of the New Testament into Tamil, and an early printer in that language. The correspondence reprinted here, between Ziegenbalg and..... More