Search Results: Authors starting with J from Muir Books

London. (1863). Map of Australia (with New Zealand inset, and the edges of New Guinea top of map), engraved by J. Archer. N.d. 1863). 280 mm x 240 mm. Colour borders to Australia (including Tasmania) and New Zealand. Colour borders to West Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and North Australia and Queensland (no border at the time). For each state the counties are listed. A note at the top lists the comparative lengths and areas of Europe and Australia. Small stains at the lower corners, outside the plate area. Some light foxing mainly along borders. Good condition. Map.

1863. Map of the world: Western and Eastern Hemispheres, 1863. Each hemisphere approx 145 mm x 140 mm. Borders of each continent outlined in colour. Principal cities, rivers, etc. of each country shown.. Estimated world population shown (815 million). Very good condition. Map.

London: London Opinion Curio Club. 1908. Octavo, original pictorial cloth boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 135, iv. Edges rubbed. Very good condition. Collection of essays about various aspects of collecting: books, art, china. etc. 1st Edition.

Georg Peter Monath. 1756. 1st German edition, quarto, pp.(xiv), (x), 963, (10), incl. Index, tables, light scattered foxing mainly to earlier pages with some staining, lacking eps, remains of quarter leather binding and boards, marbled eps, contents generally clean. Good condition. John Jackson's "Chronological Antiquities" was first published in London in 1752 1st Edition in German. Quarter leather.

London: Hakluyt. 2003-2008-2009. 3 Volumes, Vol. I: The voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813; Vol. II: The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816; Vol. III: The Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820. apart from small mark to volume one d.j., all in original cl bds, gilt dec to front covers, near fine in like dust-jackets. Rev Dr William Scoresby (1789-1857) was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. His journals cover the period from 1812 to 1820 and contain detailed descriptions of his voyages in the Arctic 1st edition thus. Boards.

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press. 1935. Repr., 8vo, pp.(90) unpag., col frontis, b/w plates, eps browned, small hole f.f.ep., minor foxing edges, orig cl bds., edges rubbed. History of flight and development of ballooning craft and airships. Reprint. Cloth Boards.

Perth: Patersons Press. nd c(1950). 8vo, pp. 160, prev. owner's singature, stamp to f.f.e.p., eps slightly yellowed, orig cl bds., v.g. Cloth Boards.

Bayswater: The Author. 1996. 8vo, pictorial boards, b&w photographs, family tree, pp 118. Signed by the author. Fine condition. Boards.

East Perth: Ministry of Education. 1987. Roy 8vo, pictorial boards, colour illus, pp x, 164. Previous owner's inscription, o/w fine. Boards.

Perth: Ministry of Education. 1991. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, pp vi, 378. Previous owner's stamp front free endpaper, fading to rear of d.j. and spine. Includes signed letter from the author to the previous owner (Western Australian anthropologist). Near-fine condition in like d.j. Describes some of the knowledge, skills and beliefs developed and shared among Aboriginal societies before 1788. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

Paris: Michel Lévy Frères. 1861. 1st ed., text in French octavo, pp.(iv), ix, 330, ex-lib with some stamps, blind-stamp to t.p., half calf, marbled bds., rubbed, cnrs bumped, spine faded, o/w very good condn. Includes chapters on Australia, New Zealand, Aboriginal Australians, the Chinese in the Pacific and California, Buddhism. Of Australian interest is British colonization in Cambridge Gulf and introduction of convicts to Western Australia. F.10867a 1st edition. Half calf.

NY: Random House. 1970. 1st ed., 8vo., pp (iv) 155, uncut edges, or. cloth backed bds., nr fine in sl. frayed, worn, v.g d.j.

Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1990. 1st ed., octavo, stiff wraps, b&w illus, pp 357. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition Biography of Auber Octavius Neville who arrived in Western Australia in 1897 as a clerk in the Colonial Civil Services. He was appointed 'Chief Protector' of Aborigines 1915-1940. 1st Edition. Stiff Wraps.

Perth: St George Books. 1982. 8vo, pp. 103, b/w photos and ills., wraps, v.g. Entertaining account of pharmacy. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Jacobson was an Australian pioneer woman pharmacist. 1st Edition. Wraps.

London: Nicholas Kaye. n.d.. pp 233, b/w plates, prev. owner's inscr., off-setting to e.ps., or. cl. bds., sl. rubbed, in clipped, rubbed, sl. torn d.j. Cloth Boards.

London: Adam and Charles Black. 1965. pp 124, Index, b/w plates, colour frontis, orig boards, v.g., in good d.j., creases to front edges. The life cycle of the Grannom or Green-tail fly, and how to breed them for fly fishing. Chapters on dry-flys as well. Boards.

London: The Book Club. 1959. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 372. Dustjacket foxed, small chip top of spine and top rear corner. Foxing outside edge of text block and early and last pages: text fairly clean, original green boards clean. Very good condition in good d.j., protected. An uncommon early edition of a novel now regarded as a classic. The stories of young working women in New York in the 1950s. 1st thus. Boards in d.j..

Cottesloe: Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club. 1984. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xiv, 181. Fine, very clean, in near-fine dustjacket. The history of the Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Many stories of Cottesloe Beach, including the shark attack of 1925. 1st edition. Boards.

London: Macdonald. 1966. 2nd impr., 8vo, pp. 291, Index, b/w frontis, b/w plates, endpaper maps, original cloth bds., mottled marks rear edges and spine, in d.j. head and tail spine chipped, small stain bottom portion spine. History of the gurkhas, from formation in 1815 to the post-WWII period. 2nd impression. Cloth Boards.

London: Spottiswoode. 1896. Quarto, original half-leather boards, pp 136. Small library stamps to endpapers only, no other markings. Edges lightly rubbed. Very good condition. Uncommon. 1st edition. Boards.