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Blue buckram, gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket [original artwork in pastel by artist Jillian Willettnow ] now in protective mylar with slight damage at top of spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs: contemporary portraits and the author's own photographs of the places mentioned. Romance and thriller in one, all based on factual records. Set in diplomatic and royal circles. A sequel of the next generation to Anna and the King of Siam. (Biography, Thailand, Siam, Southeast Asia, History)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective Mylar. Ainslie Roberts (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2nd. Printing. Previous owners inscription.This was the third of the Roberts/Mountford trilogy of myths of the Aboriginal First Nation people. It began in 1963 with an exhbition of Ainslie Roberts' remarkable paintings of central Australia, its people and stories. Part of the co-authorship of The Dreamtime", next "The Dawn of Time", (1968) followed by this volume "The First Sunrise" with 32 new paintings by Roberts based on First Nations People explaining the creation of the world with texts and interpretation by anthropologist Charles Mountford. Both men for years were very close to the people. Cultural ownership has shifted since then but it is a trilogy the publisher then could claim had no parallel in Australian literature.

L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1909. Original Hardcover V. Good First Edition. Decorative endpapers, Rough cut pages on fore-edge and lower edge sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; In protective jacket.

Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy printed on yellow paper. Dust Jacket is in very good condition with mylar protective cover. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Delightfully illustrated throughout with images from the times. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Australia; Australian History; Biography & Autobiography.Title: A Girl at Government House:
Publisher: Currey O'Neil
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight.

London & Toronto, J. M. Dent; New York, E- P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First English language edition.Very well Illustrated throughout with 600 black-and-white illustrations, drawings and photographs. Dark Blue cloth covers with Gilt Peacock and Fountain Designs to fronts and spines. Top page edges Dark Green. Vol 1, 459 Pages and Vol 2, 486. 11" Tall. No inscriptions.The Fascinating History of Garden Design. Volume 1 starts with Ancient Egypt, includes Ancient Greece & Rome and goes up to the Renaissance Period. Volume 2 continues with the Renaissance, includes Louis XIV and the Masterpiece of Versailles, China and Japan, then the English Landscape Garden with Capability Brown, Kent etc, next the 19th C. and finally America and Canada. For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Textured Boards with pages clean and tight. Indexed Overall a very nice copy. A heavy item and may require additional postage. Collection is available.

Signed by the Author. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ Cloth boards with slight bumping to top and bottom edges with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. The life and times of its founder George Pitches Manning. Includes fold out family tree, decorative end pages, photos, previous owners bookplate. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.

,llustrated with a selection of nineteenth-century botanical art and modern photographs. In Pursuit of Plants is a compilation of fascinating first-hand accounts of the experiences of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century collectors in their pursuit of plants from around the world. In Surinam, plant hunter F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in west Africa William Grant Milne was forced to sell his clothes and travel naked for 200 miles; Thomas Drummond was attacked by a bear in the North American woods; George Forrest narrowly escaped rampaging lamas in western China; and, in Fiji, Berthold Seemann recorded which plants cannibals used as an accompaniment to human flesh.
Extracted from journals and letters, some previously unpublished, the accounts are a mix of adventure, of sometimes grim but always captivating and occasionally humorous images of a lost world, and of stories of the practical problems associated with plant collecting.

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper in protective mylar. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 263pp Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to front gilt and to spine black, top edge blue, others untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates throughout and in-text drawings by the author. Title-page wood-cut vignette by Reynolds Stone, double page black and red map by E. G. Morton.Stark recounts her travels through what is now western Turkey, all the while reflecting on the great works of the classical authors, particularly Herodotus the historian and Pausanias the geographer.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dust jacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White plates.Attempts to capture the changing historical mood of the Australian colonial experience illustrated by art and engravings of the time.

First Edition, orig. cloth-backed boards, rare unopened & uncut pages in the original title-blocked cloth-backed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Bibliographical Society. Subjects: Bookbinders, London ; Directories.
The introduction deals with the sources used in compilation and there is a seventeenth-century price list and a list of the directories consulted.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.
Contents: Gone with the wind, The portrait of a lady, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Blandings Castle, The castleBuddenbrooks, The leopard, Wide Sargasso Sea, Le grand Meaulnes

Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover with pages clean and tight. Unclipped DJ slight rubbing to top edge now protected in our mylar sleeve. Overall a very nice copy. This fascinating exploration accounts the development of the riverside village that John Batman founded in 1835, through to the present-day metropolis it has become. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including numerous coloured plates, and a view from Collins and Swanston Streets depicted in sepia on the back endpaper. Scottish born Agnes Paton Bell moved to Melbourne and was delighted by its scenery and history. She also wrote "Early Caulfield". In original cloth binding with coloured decorative unclipped dustwrapper.

Revised edition with Maps, Index, Contents and Preface. A comprehensive edition with extensive references.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With illustrations in colour, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This absorbing new publication provides a concise but complete description of the Arabian countries benefiting most from the affluence sweeping the Middle East in the 21st century. The New Gulf ? How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good focuses on the economic, social and political transformation sweeping the Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It provides a timely explanation of how the region was developed and the significant impact it will have in the world in the years to come.

Fine Hardcover with dust jacket with jacket protector.Part of Set - see listing for Vol 1
Garnet is an independent British publishing house that has presided over a wide-ranging and thought-provoking list for over two decades. They maintain a special focus on Middle Eastern and North African issues, expanding from that particular expertise to include distinguished books on an extensive array of subjectsPrinted in Beruit

Includes two hundred and eighty photos, engravings from original pictures and maps. Frontispiece : First map of Melbourne, 2 fold-out maps at rear, (22" x 16" folding plan of the old Melbourne Cemetery and a 18" x 15" folding map of Melbourne, showing every Crown Grant and Original Sale of Land in the Business Centre of the City from the First Sale, June 1st 1837, down to the present time.), 7 maps, 83 illustrations, index to memorial graves and to the map of the old cemetery, general index.
Original cloth boards, with some bumping to spine and corners overall a very good copy with tight binding and no markings.
Includes Buckley [illustrated], the Henty family, Latrobe, an illustration of the first Melbourne Cup, the origin of the Children's Hospital, the Gallery, Library, Aborigines, local names and traditions explained.

A Fine copy. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in protective mylar. No markings or rubbings. Printed on acid free paper with purple end-pages. This culinary milestone has been hailed as a masterpiece, a classic, and the first and last word on eastern Mediterranean cooking. A welcome blend of scholarship and entertaining reading, this revelatory work features a wide range of authentic, clearly written recipes, many personal reminiscences, impressive culinary history, valuable information on ingredients, meals, and traditions, stunning period illustrations, and much more.

Sheba's Daughters. being a record of travel in Southern Arabia.
Original green cloth, title gilt to spine together with Athena's owl.
Boards slightly mottled with slight damage to top and bottom of spine. Please see photos for condition.
Protected in Mylar.
Frontispiece and 46 other plates, folding map at the rear.
First edition with index and an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A. F. L. Beeston.