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The Dust of the Empire
de Meyer, Karl E.
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition First Printing
- Published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9781586480486
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- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition.
Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Old Pioneers' Memorial History of Melbourne, From the Discovery of Port Phillip down to the World War
de Selby, Isaac. J.
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- FIRST EDITION
- Published
- [1924]
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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… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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A List of London Bookbinders 1648 - 1815
de Howe, Ellic
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- Usado - Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1950
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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. Precio
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Amie: Memories of an Australian Childhood
de Amie Livingstone Stirling
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Published
- 2002-01-01
- ISBN
- 9781863952675
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- 1
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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 Precio
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Cook's Voyages of Discovery 1768-1780
de Barrow, J
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- 1899 edition
- Published
- 1899
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- 1
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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. Precio
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Travels of a Victorian photographer : the photographs of Francis Frith / with texts by various writers, selected by Roger Hudson
de Frith, Francis (photographs) & Hudson, Roger (selected)
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edición
- First Folio Society
- Published
- 2001
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- 1
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First Folio Society edition. Hardback binding in publisher's original British racing green buckram covered boards, printed archive sepia photographs to the front side, gilt back, photographic end sheets. Near Fine condition in slip case. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects:
Frith, Francis, 1822-1898 Travel Great BritainGreat Britain History 19th century
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th centuryLiterary journeys Great Britain
Photography, Artistic
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Literary Houses Ten Famous Houses in Fiction
de Ashe, Rosalind
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First edition
- Published
- 1983
- ISBN
- 9780871964229
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- 1
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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 castle
Buddenbrooks, The leopard, Wide Sargasso Sea, Le grand Meaulnes
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Doors to Madame Marie (McLellan Book)
de Meyers, Odette
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition First Impression
- Published
- 1997
- ISBN
- 9780295975764
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- 1
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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.
This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Blanche: an Australian Diary 1858-1861
de Blanche Mitchell
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
- ISBN
- 9780909134211
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- 1
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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.
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Hope Farm: Cradle of McLaren Vale Wine Industry.
de Geoffrey Haydon Manning
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
- ISBN
- 9780959439403
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- 1
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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… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Bush bred and bold: 100th anniversary of the death of Ned Kelly and his gang : an illustrated record of their life and times
de Harding, Frank, Smith, James
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition First Impression
- Published
- 1980
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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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. Precio
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The Exploration of Australia
de Calvert, Albert F.
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1895
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- 1
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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 Precio
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Melbourne, John Batman's Village
de Paton Bell, (Agnes)
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- First edition
- Published
- 1965
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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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 Precio
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A History of Australia
de Manning Clark
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First edition
- Published
- 1993
- ISBN
- 9780522845235
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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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. Precio
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Fanny and the Regent of Siam
de Minney, R.J.
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good+
- Published
- 1962
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- 1
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EUR 15.50
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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… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Historical Sketch of Victoria
de Smith, James
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Published
- 1974
- ISBN
- 9780701813468
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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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. Precio
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THE LAND THAT WAITED
de HARRIS, MAX & FORBES, ALISON
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- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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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. Precio
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Australian Explorers [from 1818 to 1876] in Rhyme
de Berry, Eliza 1842-1909
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- FIRST EDITION
- Published
- 1892
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- 1
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EUR 37.21
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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. Precio
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Dreaming of East
de Hodgson, Barbara
- Estado
- As New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As New
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- ISBN
- 9781553651185
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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EUR 31.01
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No inscriptions and not price clipped.
The DJ is bright and clean with no shelf wear.
The book itself is very smart with marbled navy blue boards and red letters to the spine. The book is fine - all tight, bright and clean. Decorative endpapers. 184 pages. Copious sepia and bl/wh photography . This book explores the enduring fascination that… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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In Pursuit of Plants:
de Short, Philip
- Estado
- As New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As New
- Edición
- FIRST EDITION
- Published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9781876268985
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Port Fairy, Victoria, AUS
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,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… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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