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Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese (2 Volumes)
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First Folio Printing.
41cm x 31.5cm. xvii, [xii], 398 pages, 2 volumes (continuous pagination), 80 colour plates, colour illustrations in the text. Black and red decorative cloth, slipcases.
Written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars, edited by Captain F. Brinkley of Tokyo, Japan, with essays on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura, Director of the Imperial School at Tokyo, Japan, and a new essay for the Folio Society edition by David Perkins. First published by J.B. Millet Company in a range of editions between 1897 and 1898, Folio followed the text of the ten-volume de luxe edition, limited to 750 sets, from originals held by The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, and a set acquired at auction. Neil Gower based his binding designs on those of the Emperor edition. One of 980 numbered copies (total edition of 1,000). FORD-SMITH 1778.
Small previous owner’s label to front free endpaper. Very minor shelf wear to slipcases. Near Fine Condition. -
Rues et Visages de New-York
$2,200.00 Add to cartChas Laborde; Paul Morand
Paris: Lacouriere, 1950.
Streets and Faces of New York. The final, and posthumous, of Charles Laborde’s series of works on famous world cities, having previously produced similar volumes on Paris (1926), London (1928), Berlin (1930), and Moscow (1935). The New York volume produced from sketchbooks he made on his trip in 1932, containing 15 accompanied by text by Paul Morand. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 230. -
The Temples of Karnak
$120.00 Add to cartR. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
London: Thames & Hudson, 1999.
Translated from the French Les Temples de Karmak by Andre Vanden Broeck. A complete photographic record of monuments, ruins, statues and the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak. Includes the land of the Nile, mythology, and royal cartouches from the 18th to the 30th dynasties. -
Untold Miles: Three Gold-Hunting Expeditions Amongst the Picturesque Borderland Ranges of Central Australia
$600.00 Add to cartMichael Terry
London: Selwyn & Blount, [1932].
Scarce account by explorer and author Michael Terry of one of his many journeys through Central Australia. Includes prospecting reports and encounters with aboriginals. Photographic illustrations throughout. -
Bushwalking in the Budawangs
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First Edition.
21cm x 13cm. 120 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Guide to walks in the Budawang Range, New South Wales.
Minor tanning. Very Good Condition. -
Dutch Hashcoffeeshop Tour
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Breda: Ja Ja Exports, 1995.
1990s guide to the coffee shops (marijuana cafes) of Amsterdam (and other Netherlands cities). Very detailed including the author’s review of each shop, as well as information about other cannabis culture. Also touches on the sex culture of the city. -
My Fourth Tour in Western Australia
$300.00 Add to cartAlbert F. Calvert
London: William Heinemann, 1897.
The first edition of Calvert’s fourth tour of Western Australia. An early travelogue with hundreds of illustrations by Walker Hodgson, from photographs, and with a folding colour map showing the gold field regions. FERGUSON 7823. -
Seaman’s Log Book of 8 Voyages from England and Scotland to Australia, India, the United States, Canada, and the Mediterranean on Merchant Ships, 1868-1872
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20.5cm x 16cm. [340] pages, original manuscript. Half leather, marbled papered boards, marbled endpapers.
Manuscript logbook recording the daily observations of a merchant seaman, E. Acton, on eight voyages aboard the merchant ships Duke of Edinburgh, S.S. St. David, and S.S. Fern Tower for the White Star Company, Montreal Ocean Steam Ship Company, and others. While at sea the log largely records details about the weather and sailing conditions, as well as latitude and longitude, and distanced travelled, “October 7, 1868. Lat 33.08.S. Long. 154.53.E. Dist 167 miles. Course EbyN. Fresh breeze and clear.” While in port the observations also pertain to the comings and goings of people and goods, including deserters as at Newcastle, N.S.W. “September 3, 1868 Commenced at noon to put out ballast. Captain Aberdeen of the Ship “Glouerra” came on board, with the Police, and took 3 of our crew to gaol viz Curran, Hislop and Lawley, who had deserted from his ship in Melbourne where we had shipped them, the former men got 2 months, and the latter 3 months imprisonment.”. Lengthy descriptions are often given when a pilot is on board arriving and departing harbours. Each voyage is given its own title page, listing the ship, a drawing of the flag sailed under, locations visited, and a crew and passenger manifest (crew names are given, passengers are given as a count of the types of passengers). The voyages taken are: 1st Voyage: Duke of Edinburgh, White Star Company, from Liverpool to Melbourne, Vict., thence to Newcastle, N.S.W., thence to San Francisco, Cal., [thence to Cork], thence to Liverpool (April 22nd, 1868 to June 8, 1869); 2nd Voyage: Duke of Edinburgh, Thames & Mersey Line, from Liverpool to Melbourne, Vict, thence to Geelong, Victoria, thence to London (August 7, 1869 to May 13, 1870); 3rd Voyage: Duke of Edinburgh, T. H. Holderness, Esq., from London to Bombay, thence to Liverpool (August 17, 1870 to August 6, 1871); 4th Voyage: St. David, Montreal Ocean Steam Ship Company, from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal, and back to Glasgow (August 22, 1871 to September 30, 1871); 5th Voyage: St. David, M.O.S.S. Co., from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal and back to Glasgow (October 4, 1871 to November 11, 1871); 6th Voyage: St, David, The Anchor Line, from Glasgow to The Mediterranean calling at the following places, Talmouth, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Marseilles, Valentia, Malaga and Gibraltar, thence to New York and Liverpool (November 17, 1871 to February 11, 1872); 7th Voyage: St. David, M.O.S.S. Co., from Liverpool to Portland, Maine, W.S., and back to Liverpool (February 15, 1872 to May 3rd, 1872); 8th Voyage: S. S. Fern Tower, from Cardiff to St. Nazaire, thence to L’Orient and back to Cardiff (September 24, 1872 to October 8, 1872).
Spineback worn off, the upper board and first gathering nearly detached, the first few sheets inside that gathering loose. The rest of the binding is sound. Some foxing to verso of endpapers and first page, else interior is very clean and bright. The manuscript is clean, neat, and easy to read. Good Condition. -
Kings Cross Sydney: A Personal Look at the Cross
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First Edition.
29cm x 21cm. 80 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial glossy papered boards, pictorial jacket.
Documentation of Sydney’s Kings Cross in the early 1970s. Showgirls, servicemen, freaks, hippies, sex, drugs, music art, and more. Features a spread on The Witch of Kings Cross, Rosaleen Norton.
Minor shelf wear. Minor foxing to first leaf. 2cm closed tear to jacket at upper joint. Very Good Condition. -
Paris
$50.00 Add to cartKishin Shinoyama
Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 1977.
Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama (1940-2024) documents a trip to Paris in the 1970s. -
Hashi o wataru to / Beyond the Bridge
$60.00 Add to cartKishin Shinoyama
Tokyo: Qantas, 1976.
Collection of photographs of Australia by leading Japanese photographer Kishin, published and distributed by Qantas in the 1970s. The first half devoted to beach shots. -
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
30.5cm x 21.5cm. [192] pages, colour illustrations. Grey papered boards, white lettering, pictorial jacket. Text is in Japanese.
Photo book of Venice by Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama (1940-2024) This copy with the poster and folded sheet of text and map laid in, and inscribed by Kishin.
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Best Unique Hotels & Retreats: Eighty Four Rooms
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First Edition.
32.5cm x 25cm. 272 pages, colour illustrations. Blue velvet, bronze lettering, pictorial onlay. Text is bilingual, English and German.
Very minor shelf wear, with a very small rub to the lower board onlay. Near Fine Condition. -
The London Anthology
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Second Printing.
22cm x 14cm. xiv, 514 pages, frontispiece, 12 leaves of black and white illustrations, black and white illustrations in the text. Full red leather, gilt lettering, all edges gilt, dentelle, marbled endpapers.
A finely bound presentation copy presented to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman R. G. Groom from Sir Denys Lowson, Barrister and former Lord Mayor London, on the occasion of his visit to Brisbane, February, 1957.
Minor shelf wear to leather. Slight discolouration to spine. Very minor foxing to interior. Very Good Condition. -
Some of My Experiences during a Voyage to the Gulf of Carpentaria and three years’ residence at Normanton in the Early Seventies
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First Edition.
21cm x 13.5cm. [ii], 37 pages, 2 plates. Wrappers.
Two lectures given by Emily Cowl depicting her exciting life on the North Queensland frontier in the 1870s after her husband was appointed manager of the Normanton telegraph station. Maintaining her middle-class values Cowl shares entertaining tales of the difficult journey, harsh environment, the Native Police, and Aborigines. Published in 1912, shortly after the Cowls’ Golden Anniversary.
Minor creasing to wrappers, minor chipping to lower panel. Some foxing. Very Good Condition. -
Lost – But Not For Ever. My Personal Narrative of Starvation and Providence in the Australian Mountain Regions
$100.00 Add to cartR. W. Vanderkiste
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1863.
The account of a reverend lost in the Dungog and Maitland districts while on a missionary tour. -
Batavia in Nineteenth Century Photographs
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First Edition.
27cm x 28.5cm. 282 pages, duotone illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial french fold jacket, papered slipcase.
Book and jacket are in Fine Condition. Minor shelf wear to slipcase.. Near Fine Condition. -
A Photographical Sketch on Lost Istanbul
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Fourth Printing.
33.5cm x 24cm. [xviii], [13] pages, 189 plates. Blue cloth, blind lettering, pictorial jacket.
Minor shelf wear, soiling, and foxing. Previous owner’s inscription. Very Good Condition. -
Istanbul City of Seven Hills: A Photographic Journey Through Byzantine and Ottoman Monuments
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First Edition.
30.5cm x 41cm. 179 pages, colour illustrations. Purple silk, illustrated onlay, gilt lettering, pictorial slipcase.
Foxing to inside of slipcase, minor to silk, edges, and interior. Small tear to silk at lower joint, aesthetic only. Presentation plate. Good Condition. -
Cosulich Line Saturnia (Souvenir and Menu)
$400.00 Add to cartArgio Orell
Trieste: D. Modiano, 1927-1928.
Portuguese edition of the pre-maiden voyage introductory souvenir book for the Italian ocean liner MS Saturnia WITH a menu and program in French for the night’s dinner and entertainment for 21st of March, 1928. Both with cover illustrations by Argio Orell. -
Round the World
$500.00 Add to cartJ. P. Thomson
Brisbane: Outridge Printing Co., 1904.
Account of the round the world voyage of James Park Thomson (1854-1941), decorated Scottish born-Queensland geographer and public servant. Includes descriptions of New Zealand, Samao, Fanning Island, Hawaii, North America from California to New York including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and the Mormons, the Rockies, Canada, Niagara, the United Kingdom including London, Westminster Abbey, Scotland, Aberdeen, The Crofters, Edinburgh, Belgium, Cologne, Switzerland, Paris, Rouen, Naples, Pompeii, The Suez Canal, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, home to Brisbane, and more in between. Thomson recounts much of Australia and in particular Queensland to those he meets as well as participating in numerous Geographical Society meetings and the twenty-fourth National Congress of the French Geographical Societies at Rouen. The telling of his meeting with Prince Roland Bonaparte was responsible for putting in motion a series of events leading to the State Library of New South Wales’ eventual acquisition of the prized Tasman Map of Abel Tasman’s 1642 and 1644 voyages. -
Explore Wild Australia with the Bush Tucker Man
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Second Printing.
29cm x 22cm. [xii], 244 pages, colour illustrations, maps. Pictorial cloth, pictorial jacket.
Minor foxing to top edge. Near Fine Condition. -
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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First Folio Printing.
24cm x 15cm. xv, [5], 375 pages, frontispiece, [16] pages of black and white illustrations. Brown decorative cloth in white, blue, and black, slipcase.
Introduced by Richard E. Grant, afterword by Hugh Carless. FORD-SMITH 1715.
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Palestine and Syria: The Country, The People, and the Landscape
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First Edition.
31cm x 23.5cm. xiv, 192 pages, 1 plate of maps. Orange cloth, black lettering, no jacket.
192 full page gravures of interwar Palestine and Syria.
Very slight discolouration to spine. Very minor bumping to fore-edge corners. Prize plate from Malvern Presbyterian 1936 and bookseller’s label of A. H. Spencer, Melbourne. Very Good Condition. -
Through the Lands of the Serb
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First Edition.
23cm x 14.5cm. xi, 346 pages, 15 plates, 1 folding map. Original red cloth, gilt lettering.
First published work of British artist, anthropologist, and writer Mary Edith Durham (1963-1944). A rare account of early 20th century Montenegro and Serbia by a woman traveller.
Some mottling to cloth. Upper hinge cracking, still holding but very tender. Foxing. Some dog-earred corners. Fair Condition. -
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier; or, Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter.
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First Edition.
23cm x 14cm. xiii, 361 pages, 39 advertisements, 6 plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Original green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.
Account of the author’s experiences after 12 years of living in India with particular attention to his hunting proclivities. Provenance: Lowther Collection, c/o J. T. Barnes (British Colombia).
Minor shelf wear. Lower hinge cracking but still intact. Foxing to endpapers. Pencil inscription to verso of front free endpaper and with occasional pencil annotations to margins. Good Condition. -
A Brief Account of the Colony of Port-Jackson,
$75.00 Add to cartGeorge Bond; Julien Renard
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2005.
in New South Wales; Its Native Inhabitants, Productions, &c. &c. By George Bond. First published by the Author at Southampton in 1803 and reprinted for Him at Oxford, London, Cork and Dublin in various Years to about 1810. Eighth Edition, faithfully reprinted from the first, incorporating the additions and corrections of the later editions. Edited, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard. Limited Edition of 100 copies within a total edition of 200 numbered copies, and now first published since about 1810. All the original editions are of great rarity. No copies of the 2nd or 3rd editions have been recorded and the first (Southampton, 1803) edition is extremely rare, while the 4th (Oxford, 1806), 5th (London, 1809), 5th (i.e. 6th, Cork, undated), and 6th (i.e. 7th, Dublin, also undated), editions are all very rare. The work is of considerable importance as one of the few accounts of Hunter’s period as Governor. Hunter was dissatisfied with Bond’s behaviour in the colony and complained of him in dispatches. Hunter was instructed to return him to England and Bond left the colony under a cloud in 1800, but his narrative was evidently very popular. He gives an account of the operation of the convict system and the economic corruption in the colony, and describes early efforts to encourage free settlers. He includes also comments on the Aborigines and on the natural history of the colony, including much from first-hand experience. See FERGUSON 480; WANTRUP, pp. 91-3. -
A Naturalist in North Celebes
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. xv, 392 pages, colour frontispiece, 2 colour folding maps, 6 plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Full leather, marbled edges.
A Narrative of Travels in Minahass, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with Notices of the Fauna, Flora and Ethnology of the Districts Visited.
Recently rebacked full tree calf Royal Medical College Prize Binding, with the original worn spine laid down. Some foxing. Very Good Condition. -
A Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields
$1,500.00 Add to cartChas. H. Allen
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.
A memoir of the Queensland goldfields by English painter and traveller Charles H. Allen (1824-1904) during his time in in Queensland in 1868. This copy inscribed by the author to his son, Charles Mansfield Allen, additionally autographed with his name and address to the front endpaper. -
Journey To An Antique Land
$20.00 Add to cartHenry Miller
London: Village Press, 1973.
A travel sketch of St. Remy, in the south of France, by Henry Miller and his impressions of the ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement, Glanum.