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The Blue Mountains and Jenolan Caves. A Camera Study.

by Hurley, Frank.

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Angus & Robertson, Sydney [1952]. . Hard Cover. 116 p. including 71 full-page photos (7 color incl. front.), text & endpaper maps; paper-covered boards, navy cloth spine stamped in gold; covers spotted, stained, corners bumped; withal VG. First edition. A photographic exploration of limestone caves in the Great Dividing Range of New South Wales. Contents include Andrew Mayne, The Old Shale and Coal Mines; Paddy Pallin, Walking in the Blue Mountains; Muir Holburn, Jenolan Revisited. stock#101375
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Catalogue 1017. Australia, New Zealand, The Pacific.

Catalogue 1017. Australia, New Zealand, The Pacific.: Africa, Asia, Australia, South America & West Indies. Catalogue 51.

by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (firm). D&E Lake Ltd. (firm).

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Two bookseller catalogues. Quaritch 1017, 385 items, illus.; Lake 51, 158 items. Both in paper covers; both Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0318.
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The Fatal Shore

by Hughes, Robert

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Knopf, NY, 1987.. Hard Cover. Book club edition. xvi p., [10] p. of maps, 688 p., index, plates; 24 cm. 'The epic of Australia's founding.' Stock# 34,491. Vg, owner's blindstamp/ dj good+. English judicial history; Australian history, society, culture; penal colonies; exiles.
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The Fatal Shore.

by Hughes, Robert.

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Knopf, NY, 1987. ‘Sixth Printing, March 1987'. Hard Cover. xvi p., [10] p. of maps, 688 p., index, plates; 24 cm. ‘The missing element in most accounts of the System has been the voices of the convicts themselves. The System left a mountain of official paper behind it. We hear a great deal from the administrators, the witnesses in the select committees, the parsons, the jailers, the masters; from the convicts themselves, very little. Accordingly I have tried, as far as possible, to see the System from below, through convicts' testimony-- in letters, depositions, petitions and memoirs-- about their own experiences. Much of this material is hitherto unpublished, and much more awaits study. It turns out that one common assumption is quite wrong: far from being a mute mass, the convicts did have a voice, or rather many voices. This book is largely about what they tell us of their suffering and survival,… Read More
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Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Place of Enchantment for Nature-lovers

by Masterman, Mervinia

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Georgian House, Melbourne [1950]. Hard Cover. 62 p., monochrome marginal vignettes throughout, 2 color botanical plates, 22.5 cm. Written and Illustrated by Mervinia Masterman. Endpaper map. With two handmade bookmarks by the author, each with a small botanical color sketch. A profile of the Sanctuary for Fauna and Flora off the South Coast of Australia near Adelaide. Contents include The Apiary and Bees, Spiny Anteaters, Wallabies, Koala Bears, The Sooty Kangaroo, 'Possums, Goannas, Birds of the Chase, Wild Flowers and Trees, Cape du Couedic and the Remarkable Rocks. Stock# 39,333. Vg, pictorial paper-covered boards lightly soiled, spine edges chipped. Natural science, zoology, botany.
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A Letter from the South Seas by a Voyager on the Daedalus, 1792.

by Earnshaw, John, editor. [House, William, d. 1807?]

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Talkarra Press, Cremorne, N. S. W., 1957. Hard Cover. Signed. [18], [21] p.; title-page vignette stamped in blue; 21 cm. Introduced and Annotated by John Earnshaw. The manuscript letter is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. 'Unsigned and incomplete, half in verse and half in prose, covering four closely written pages…', it is a nice thumbnail sketch of early British trading presence in the South Pacific. Signed and numbered by the printer, Walter W. Stone, in the colophon; one of 250 copies. Vg, blue cloth; spine faded, ex-University of Melbourne Library with bookplate & modest stamp. Stock#39292.
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Malaya.

by Ginsburg, Norton, Chester F. Roberts, Jr. et al.

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1958, University of Washington Press, Seattle. The American Ethnological Society. Hard Cover. 'Singapore and the Federation have been considered together as an entity, and the two are discussed under the regional name, Malaya.' With the collaboration of Leonard Comber, Burton Stein, C. Lester Stermer, John E. Trotter. Includes Demographic Patterns; Patterns of Settlements; Systems of Transportation and Telecommunications; Communication in a Plural Society; The Malays in Malaya; The Chinese in Malaya; The Indians in Malaya; The Economic System; Political Organization and Development. A close environmental, social, economic, and political overview following independence on 31 August 1957. Lithographed typescript; xii, 533 p., index, tables, maps; green paper-covered boards, tan spine, stamped in white; bottom of front hinge torn, front cover stained, else good+. 100803
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New England and the South Seas

New England and the South Seas

by Dodge, Ernest S. (Stanley), 1913-1980

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Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 1965.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. xv, 216 p., illus., ports.; 23.5 cm. "In substance a series of eight lectures given before the Lowell Institute in Boston during February 1962." The second chapter, "Hunting the cachalot": p. 27-56, is on whaling. Bibliography: p. 199-204. Inscribed by Dodge to his friend Stuart Sherman. Stock#45218. Vg / dj good+.
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The Pacific Islands. Revised Edition. Illustrations by Sheila Mitchell Oliver.

by Oliver, Douglas L. Oliver, Sheila Mitchell, illustrator.

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 1962. Hard Cover. xix, 456 p., index; 20.5 cm. Includes The Islands (Oceanic Eden; Coming of the Islanders; Australian Aborigines; Melanesians; Polynesians; Micronesians); Aliens (Explorers, 1520-1780; Whalers, Traders & Missionaries, 1780-1850; Planters, Blackbirders & Merchants, 1850-1914; Miners & Administrators, 1914-1939); Metamorphosis (Scope of Change; Dispossessed; Salvation; Coconut Civilization; Sugar Revolution; Sea Harvest; Bases; Profit & Loss); Cataclysm & Aftermath (World War II; After the Battles; Midcentury: Events & Prospects). Stock# 39,329. Vg/ dj clipped; near fine.
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The Pacific Dependencies of the United States.

by Coulter, John Wesley, 1893-1967.

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New York, Macmillan, 1957.. Hard Cover. xv, 388 p. illus. 21.5 cm. Detailed studies of Hawaii, Truk, Dsmos, Guam, the Marianas, Ponape, the Marshalls, and other United States Insular possessions in Micronesia. Stock# 39,945. Vg/ dg good+
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Pitcairn: Children of Mutiny.

by Ball, Ian M.

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Little, Brown [1973]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi, 380 p., index, photos, maps; 21.5 cm. 'A study of an extraordinary society with a new look at the Bounty mutiny and the roles of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian.' Stock# 38,522. Good+/ pictorial dj chipped, worn, bottom of spine torn, remains of owner's label on flyleaf;
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A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel.

A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel.: Including Voyages, Geographical Descriptions, Adventures, Shipwrecks and Expeditions.

by Cox, Edward Godfrey.

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series: University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature. Volume 9, November 1935. Reprinted 1964? by Maurice Martino in an edition of 350 copies. Chapter headings: (vol. 1) Collections, Circumnavigations, General Travels and Descriptions, Continental Europe, West Europe, North Europe, East Europe, Near East, Central Asia, East Indies, Far East, Siberia, Africa; (vol. 2) Northwest Passage, Northeast Passage, Arctic Regions, North Pacific, North America, West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America, South Seas, Australia; Directions for Travellers, Geography, Navigation, Maps and Atlases, Military Expeditions, Naval Expeditions; Adventures, Disasters, Shipwrecks; Fictitious Voyages and Travels, General Reference, Bibliographies; Volume Three is devoted entirely to Great Britain "Including Tours, Descriptions, Towns, Histories and Antiquities, Surveys, Ancient and Present State, Gardening, etc.". Three volumes (404; 591; 732 pages); maroon binder's cloth; as new. Stock#ofc0130.
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A Secret Country The Hidden Australia

by Pilger, John

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N.Y., Knopf, 1991. Hard Cover. xii, 305 p. illus., 24 cm. "A powerful critique of Australian society" and politics. Shows that the common image of an open society of free spirits ain't whots there mate. Stock# 30,482. Vg/ dj vg.
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This is Guadalcanal: The Original Combat Photography / L. Douglas Keeney, William S. Butler.

This is Guadalcanal: The Original Combat Photography / L. Douglas Keeney, William S. Butler.

by Keeney, L. Douglas. Butler, William S. [Soule, Karl Thayer, 1917-2004]

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The First Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal with a photographic unit of five men led by Lt. Karl Thayer Soule and attached to Division Intelligence. The unit took over 5000 black & white still shots, black & white film, and color film that was lost in transit to Washington. Soule's contribution is not acknowledged here, nor are the pictures well identified (the editors should be embarrassed), but there are remarkable photographs in this book, most of them sharply reproduced. Softcover. 128 pages, chiefly black & white illustrations, 27.5 cm. Fine/ new from publisher. Stock#40720x/h.
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Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914.

by Dixon, Robert William, 1954- .

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Cambridge UP [Melbourne, 1995]. Hard Cover. x, 228 p., index, illus. 'This book is an exciting exploration of popular late-nineteenth century texts which show Australia-- along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands-- to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. ...These books... offer insights into the construction of empire, masculinity, race and Australian nationhood and identity. ...From bushranging to lost worlds, espionage and invasion, these 'ripping yarns' captured many aspects of imperial ideology.' Dj; fine. stock#21285.
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scrapbook:  Philippines and the Pacific during World War II.
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scrapbook: Philippines and the Pacific during World War II.

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Three-ring binder holding approx. 32 printed pamphlets, newspapers, and other paper ephemera having to do with the Pacific during World War II. Includes Picture Book of Manila 1945; story The Bamboos by Francisco Arcellana; Del Valle News / Bergstrom Army Air Field, Austin, Texas, Monday, May 31, 1943 (entire paper); page 3 of The Sunday Tribune, April 25, 1943, "30 More Soviet Planes Downed"; mimeograph paper "Rimba Post", Sunday May 27, 1945; "New Republic Is Born in Philippines" from Life Magazine Oct. 9444; Guinea Gold Thurs. May 24, 1945 ("Super-Forts Now Based on Okinawa.."); The Kearns Post-Review; 7 Jan. 1945 issue of Daily Pacifican; paper currency (France, 5 francs; Japan, 5 pesos); U.S. Army map of Tokyo Sept. 1945; pamphlet "These Are the Philippines" printed after July 1945; Map of Greater Manila Area Prepared by VASAC Engr. Div. 24 July 1945; several mimeographed informational sheets; Christmas card from Unit One Camp John Hay, Baguio, Mountain Province, Philippine Islands; entire issue… Read More
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