Search Results: Authors starting with O from Muir Books

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. c.1936. Large format photograph album in card covers, ribbon tied, 25.5cm x 31cm, issued for passengers on P&O cruises to record their voyage in a scrapbook style, printed gilt logo of the company on front cover and titled also in gilt, "With the compliments of the Chairman and Managing Directors of the P.&O. S. N. Co.". The album includes the original large print photograph, 15.5cm x 20cm, of the cruise ship "Strathnaver" as supplied by the P & O Company, very good condition. Rare This album was presented with the compliments of the P&O S N Co. to enable passengers to record events during their travel on the ship. The ship 'Strathnaver', launched in 1931, was one of the fleet known as the 'White Sisters', being the first P&O liners to be painted white with buff funnels 1st edition. Ribbon tied wraps.

Devenport: The Author. 1910. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, folding map, pp 280. Ex-library, one plate loose, good codition. Detailed guide to Brazil (intended for potential immigrants).

Da Capo. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 311. Near-fine condition. "Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African Americans" (publisher). Revised edition based on the second edition, with a new afterword by the author. Revised Edition.

Tasmania: Blubber Head Press. 1981. Limited edition, number 124 of 300 copies, signed by the author. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp vii, 76. Near-fine in like d.j. Boards.

London: Folio Society. 2016. Original quarter-cloth with illustrated upper board, colour plates, notes, bibliography, index, pp xxvi, 409. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Patrick O'Brian's comprehensive biography of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the naturalist and botanist, who sailed with Cook on the Endeavour to the South Pacific. "That Patrick O'Brian would write a good book about the early life of Josph Banks was to be expected. Banks combined the enthusiasm and practical competence of one of O'Brian's fictional heroes, Jack Aubrey, with the passion for natural history of another, Stephen Maturin." (Peter Campbell, Introduction, p. xv) 1st thus. Boards in slip-case.

Perth: The Western Australian Heritage Trails Network. 1984. 4to, pp. 100, Index, col and b/w photos, col maps, wraps, good. Historical and natural heritage of the major districts of the state. Wraps.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1937. 4th edition, 8vo, pp. 319, endpapers lightly tanned, original cloth boards, few scattered marks, edges rubbed. Authors record of travel in Tahiti and Moorea. The Hodder & Stoughton Books Series. 4th Edition. Cloth Boards.

Sydney: ABC Books. 2006. 8vo, paper wraps, b&w illus, pp. (xii) 225. Very good condn. Companion book to the ABC television series. The families include the Archers of Tasmania, the Forrests of Western Australia, the Kidmans (descendants of the Cattle King), and Australia's artistic first family the Boyds. 1st edition. Paper Wraps.

South Australia: Flinders University. 1980. 4to, wraps, pp 250. Light spotting to wraps, very good condn. Wraps.

WA: The Authors. 2012. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 272. Presentation copy, signed by both authors. Previous owner's address label ffep, near-fine condition, Pre-Gold Rush Perth, Western Australia, through the eyes of pioneer photographer and lawyer Alfred Hawes Stone. Profusely illustrated with photographs taken between 1859 to 1869. 1st edition. Boards in d.j..

WA: The Authors. 2012. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, illus endpapers, pp 272. Small closed tear rear top corner of dustjacket. Fine condition in near-fine d.j. Pre-Gold Rush Perth, Western Australia, through the eyes of pioneer photographer and lawyer Alfred Hawes Stone. Profusely illustrated with photographs taken between 1859 to 1869. 1st edition. Boards in d.j..

London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1936. 1st UK edition, 8vo, pp. 224, colour frontis, colour plates, b/w ills., pictorial endpapers, award plate front pastedown, faint tanning endpapers, original blue cloth boards, spine slightly yellowed, edges a little rubbed, gilt school emblem front board (Wesley College, Perth). Adventures of the sheep dog in the American west. 1st UK Edition. Cloth Boards.

Perth (?): Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 1991. 4to, wraps (inc.uding plastic protective wrap, reinforced spine), b&w illus, pp 25 (text on recto only), near-fine condn. "A companion volume to the storybook Wunambi the Water Snake for teachers and parents. Reproducible for study purposes." Wraps.

Strathfield, NSW: St Pauls Publications. 2014. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w and colour illus, bibliography, pp xxxvi, 284. Fine condition in fine d.j. Biography of an early Catholic bishop, from his early life in Catalonia to arriving in Western Australia in 1849, with much detail on colonial history and many illustrations. 1st edition. Boards.

Ellenbrook (W.A.): Ellenbrook Cultural Foundation. 2022. 1st ed., square quarto, pp.xii, 456, profusely illustrated with colour and b&w plates, text illus., large folding panorama (Lt. Robert Dale 'Panoramic View of King Georges Sound, Part of the Colony of Swan River' 1834), original stiff pictorial wraps. Fine condition. The author tells the story of the founding of the early 'Swan River' in Western Australia with beautiful and largely unknown Colonial artworks accompanied by cultural commentary, historical anecdotes and contemporary excerpts. Includes chapters on early settlers, Aboriginal life, scientific expeditions, early exploration by the Dutch, French and English, ownership, perspectives, weaponry, cartography etc. The work of many early women settlers is also featured in this book, including Jane Roberts, Mary Ann Friend, Jane Eliza Currie, Hannah Maria Hudson, Francis Louisa Bussell, Georgiana Molloy, Amelia Cleobulina Reveley, Jane King, Louisa Clifton and Elizabeth… Read More

Fremantle: Fremantle Press. 2009. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps with French flaps, colour illus, b&w illus, pp 144. Signed by artist. Near fine condition. Biography of the Scottish-born, WA-based artist and sculptor, with many illustrations. Stiff Wraps.

Collingwood: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 1995. Large octavo, wraps, pp x, 181. Signed presentation copy. The book is inscribed to the writer of the introduction, by the author. Some pencilled underlining in text, faint tape residue to base of spine, good condition. 1st edition. Wraps.

Fremantle: Fremantle Press. 2009. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps with French flaps, colour illus, b&w illus, pp 144. Fine condition. Biography of the Scottish-born, WA-based artist and sculptor, with many illustrations. Stiff Wraps.

Bunbury: South West Printing and Publishing Comp.. 1981. 1st ed., octavo, original gilt titled cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 186. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Dustjacket worn and creased along lower edge. Near-fine condition in good d.j. History of Norseman, Western Australia 1st edition. Boards.

Washington: Government Printing Office. 1916. Reprint, 4to, pp. (iv) 100, b/w frontis, b/w plates, ex-lib with stamps to front and rear pastedown and top of pp. 10, ink note to front pastedown, bottom cnr pp-9-10 lost and both top and bottom cnr pp. 11-12, errata pasted to front free endpaper, stitching weak, original cloth boards, minor fishing edges, few small marks front, cnrs worn, small paer label spine. Reprint of publications of the United States Naval Observatory, Second Series, Volume IX - Appendix. Reprint. Cloth Boards.