New Zealand. Scenic Playground of the Pacific
(Wellington), NZ Government ... 1933. More
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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'. Translated by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk and John Francis Taylor
London, David Bogue, 1849 [first edition in English]. Prince Adalbert (1811-73) 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 Makers of British India
London, John Hogg, [1888, first edition]. Australian legal and medical provenance; gift inscription to Helen Mayo from 'Father and Mother, 1st October 1890', and further inscribed 'the scroll of History is the curtain that hides the future'; a later hand has added in pencil 'reveals' above 'hides'. Dr Helen Mayo. More
From the Middle Temple to the South Seas
London, John Murray, 1927. A 1930 Murray catalogue is loosely inserted. More
A Ramble in Malta and Sicily, in the Autumn of 1841 .. Illustrated with Sketches taken on the Spot, and drawn on Stone by the Author
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1842. Provenance: Sir Walter Crocker, with his ownership details ('W.R. Crocker, Sicily 1968 (Jan.)'). Sir Walter Russell Crocker (1902-2002) was Australian Ambassador to Italy at the time he acquired this copy. Tipped in on the front flyleaf is an autograph aerogramme from Susanne Toogood, a.... More
Tales of a Big Game Guide
Lyon, The Derrydale Press, 1992 (first thus). One of 2500 copies. More
The Amateur Settlers
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. With an 88-page well-illustrated account of their travels through the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia; Michael Terry figures prominently. More
Trans-African Highways. A route book of the main trunk roads in Africa
Cape Town, Peninsula Press (for the Automobile Association), 1956 (third edition)/ 1949. Included is a foldout 'Key Map of Trans-African Highways' (loosely inserted into a paper sleeve affixed to the front pastedown) along with two pages of handwritten notes by a previous owner. More
![The National Geographic Magazine. Volume 53, January to June, 1928 [and] Volume 54, July to December 1928 [12 separate issues]. Aviation.](/pictures/thumb/107548_01.jpg?v=1536813887)
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
A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies
London, Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1843. Provenance: Johannes Leigh-Jones, Sydney; later (1948) Frederick Walter ('Doc Robbie') Robinson (1888-1971), University of Queensland (the founder of the University's Fryer Library and one of the instigators of the John Oxley Library, now part of the State Library of Queensland). The occasional pencilled corrections... More
Madeira. Kanarische Inseln. Azoren. Westküste von Marokko. Handbuch für Reisende
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
Hidden Tribes of India
[London], Local Colour, [2001]. Text by Decland Quigley and Vinay Srivastava. More
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1925. More
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
London, Skeffington and Son, 1910. With the ownership signature of local businessman Arnold Edwin Davey, and a small article on the subject tipped-in to an early blank. 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, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974. The first complete translation into English. More
The Observation of Savage Peoples
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969/ (1800). 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 the... More
The 'Dreadnought' of the Darling
London, Alston Rivers Limited, 1911 [first edition]. 'In writing the articles which were afterwards republished in "On the Wool Track", the Author found that it was necessary to discard many of his most interesting memories of visits to the back country because they could not possibly be referred to the... More
Wild Life in Southern Seas
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. With the ownership signature of local businessman Arnold Edwin Davey, and his occasional emphases. Colonial Edition. More
Nomads of Niger. Text by Marion Van Offelen
London, Harvill, 1991 [first thus]. More
Jungle Days
New York, Putnam, 1925 (fourth impression)/ 1925. With a contemporary presentation inscription on an early blank: 'Hedley R. Marston / With regards & best wishes / from T. Brailsford Robertson 1926'. To Dr Hedley Ralph Marston FRS from his mentor Professor Robertson - both men were eminent Australian biochemists in their time. More
Karamojo Safari
Suffolk, Neville Spearman, 1984 (first edition thus)/ 1949. The Introduction by Negley Farson is unique to this edition. More
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China; being the Journal of a Naturalist in those Countries, during 1832, 1833, and 1834
London, Richard Bentley, 1834. Approximately 300 pages of the first volume are devoted to Bennett's journeyings in New South Wales in 1832-33. George Bennett (1804-1893), medical practitioner and naturalist, 'had first visited Australia in 1829. He did so again in 1832, arriving in spring and becoming immediately impressed by "the... More