Australiana from Lansdowne Books

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale green board, illust. unclipped jacket; Numerous illustrations and photographs. Written by the author (1880-1945) Stirling writes about her childhood at Omeo, where James Stirling, her father, was a renowned miner and geologist and Elizabeth Stirling, her mother, was a botanist and botannical illustrator. This book outlines the progressive values a middle-class… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cloth boards with black lettering on spine and black lettering and image front cover with pages clean and tight. Light foxing due to age. Overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy. Blanche was the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, a wealthy middle class colonial official who garnered fame and admiration as an explorer, map-maker, artist, scholar, and eminent public figure.

Centenary Edition; profusely illustrated with b/w photographic illustrations throughout; A Representation of Every Sphere Showing Activities and Interests Social, Philanthropic, Historic, Scholastic, Sport and Travel. Original maroon cloth, title lettered on spine and front. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, 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. Signed limited edition of 1000 of which this is number 215. Illustrated with full-page sepia-toned plates by Frank Harding.

Original publisher's cream cloth hardback, dark-blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering spine and front cover, coat of arms in gilt to front cover. Top edge of pages gilt, others uncut, pages clean and tight, some wear to bottom spine, frontispiece portrait William Dampier, 16 black and white plate illustrations, table of contents, appendix, lacks the folding map. Text complete.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.

8 full page colour plates plus the paper covers, with a colour illustrations on boards. Other illustrations in text. Original papered hardcover boards with some wear, linen spine, pages are tight with some light markings. No tears. No dust jacket issued. Pepita & Pip the Mice and their family through an elegant Christmas Party.

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.

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.

Four stories with numerous coloured illustrations, bound in stiff illustrated boards. A very good copy printed on quality paper. Cover shows signs of wear but pages are very clean and tight. Illustrated by Hans Heysen and sixteen other Australian artists. First Edition First Impression

Pages clean and tight in original purple boards. First Edition First printing with both the book and jacket in flawless condition. Master storyteller Colleen McCullough rescues Mary from her dreary fate with "The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet," a page-turning sequel set twenty years after Austen's novel closes.

1st Edition. Near fine hardback purple cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Dust jacket in protective mylar. Physical description: . Subjects: Melba, Nellie Dame 1861-1931. Melba, Nellie Dame. Opera Singing Melba, Dame Nellie Biographies. Opera - Singers. Singers - Biography. Singers Australia; Biography. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, endpaper maps. Pages slightly yellow at margins else a fine and tight first printing.

Bound in dark blue paper covered boards, with a colour illustrated dust jacket. Original blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, endpaper maps. A superb first printing in like jacket. A novel of the bringing of medical care to the Sturt Stony Desert when the leading character becomes a pilot and nurse in the newly formed flying Doctor service . May require… Saber más sobre este artículo

Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. In very good condition for age with some yellowing of pages. Some bumping to spine but otherwise a tight copy. A very rare copy and delightful read for poetry recitation.

Green Boards with gilt lettering to spine. As New Dust Jacket unclipped and in Mylar protective covering. 198 pages : numerous illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 x 30 cm. A clean and tight copy. Gardens include: Beaufront' Ross, Tas. 'Woolmers' Longford, Tas. 'Lindsay Park' Angaston, S.A. 'Delatite' Mansfield, Vic. 'Springfield' Goulburn, N.S.W. 'Beleura' Mornington, Vic. 'Government House' Perth "Rippon… Saber más sobre este artículo

First Edition Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Ainsle Roberts (Artist). Illustrated brown boards/Fine. DJ/NF in protective mylar. previous owners inscription. 32 colour plates Full-color companion volume to The Dreamtime (1965) and predecessor to The First Sunrise (1971) Anthropologist and photographer Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890 - 1976) and artist and photographer Ainslie Roberts (1911 - 1993). Superb record of Aboriginal mythology with… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo