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Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. xii, 204pp, 204 bw ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Jacket laminate peeling, some foxing to page edges and endpapers. Size: 4to.
Edité par Sydney, John Ferguson 1977., 1977
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Ajouter au paniernp. c. 206pp. 4to. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. A very good copy. First edition.
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. This is Copy #112 of a limited print run of 600. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with only light wear along the edges and at corners, spine is solid with slight bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained,…no markings, clean throughout, author's signature on opening page. Dust Jacket: intact with only light scuffing on surface and wear along edges, no significant tears or tape repairs. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing more than 1 kg with packaging, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) may be more than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks. Signed by Author(s).
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Cloth. With Jacket. First Limited Edition 750 Copies. Near fine in a like jacket PP 138, index, illustrations , Folded route map in envelope at rear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Very Good In A Typical Delaminating Jacket , 204 Black And White Illustrations, Pp 118.
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Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Near Fine Owers Name To The Fep Pp 228, Index, Illustrations . 3 Maps In A Pocket At The Rear Limited Run Of 750 Copies.
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Large 8vo, 718pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Stains to edges.
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Vendeur : Ripponlea Books, Melbourne, VIC, AustralieRipponlea Books
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. xiii+718pp., Limited to 1000 copies. Pictorial full colour illustrated dustjacket covered in removable protective clear plastic, orig. blue textured boards with gilt text to spine & decoration to front panel, grey eps., col. frontis., preface & ack. by author, col.… & b/w plts. & text illust., maps, tables, appends., notes and ref. & abbrev., bibliog., index. Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841. Size: Large Thick Octavo. Book.
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Book in a good condition. D.J. shows wear from reading and storage. This edition for sale is limited to 600 copies, plus 25 copies bound in full leather. All books are numbered and signed by the author. This is Copy Number: 172 Outer extremities of leaves show mild tanning. Old… bookshop sticker on front cover.
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Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Limited Edition 600 Copies. Near Fine In A Like Jacket Pp 334, Index, Frontis, Illustrations, No 550 Of 600 Copies. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Blubber Head Press 2001, 2001
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Vendeur : Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nouvelle-ZélandeHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Ajouter au panierImperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt initials to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, xiii + 718pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & light wrinkling, light to moderate creasing to edges, minor chafing).
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Vendeur : Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustralieLawrence Jones Books
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Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. xiii, 718pp, index, bibliography, appendix, notes, bw ills, few col ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket, prev owner name writ small on front free endpaper. SIGNED by author on half-title page. Edition limitted to 1000 copi…es. An exhaustive biography of the man known as the Uncrowned King of Iceland and The Convict King, produced to the usual high standars of the Blubber Head Press. Size: 4to. Signed by Author.
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Edité par Blubber Head Press., Hobart, Tasmania., 1989
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Vendeur : Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, Royaume-UniPeter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA)
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Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. pp.xx+335. 24.5cm. Colour frontispiece. 71 black and white illustrations. 8 maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Limited to 600 copies numbered and signed by the author. Hard cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Dust jacket. A fine clean copy. ISBN. 0-908528-19-1. Wei…ghs c.1.25kg. Includes Leichhardt's journal and that of one of his protagonists Hovenden Hely in full. A finely produced volume, typical of Blubber Head Press.
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Relating the adventurous life of Capt. Edward Primrose Tregurtha - The Napoleonic Wars - The East India Company's China Run - Whaling in the South Seas - Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District. 12.5" x 7.5", royal blue cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, gilt title to spine, map eps, pp. (1-8) 9-166 incl. index, illustrated…by colour and b&w prints (some tipped-in), book and dw (now protected) both new. 1980 first edition, No. 557 of a limited edition of 600 numbered and signed copies (plus 25 in full leather). Signed by Dan Sprod on the limitation page.
Edité par Blubber Head Press, Hobart. 1989., 1989
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Ajouter au panierLarge 8vo, 335pp. With black and white illustrations (one in colour) and maps. A very good hardback copy in slightly sunned dust jacket. Edition of 600, signed and numbered by the author. No. 33.
Edité par Syd. John Ferguson., 1977
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Vendeur : The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, AustralieThe Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB)
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Ajouter au panierOr.bds. Dustjacket. 122pp. (sl foxing) b/w ills. Dustjacket a little worn. Good copy. 1st ed. At the beginning of the Victorian era, Hobart was second only to Sydney in importance as an Australian city and a centre for culture and art. A collection of city scapes and views from Hobart in 1839.
Edité par Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 2006., 2006
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Ajouter au panierx+138pp. Small 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Decorated endpapers. Folded map in envelope at rear. Black and white illustrations and portrait frontis. A fine copy. First edition. 750 copies.
Edité par Blubber Head Press, Hobart. 1989. Edition of 600, signed and numbered by the author. No. 110., 1989
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Ajouter au panierLarge 8vo, 335pp. With black and white illustrations (one in colour) and maps. A very good hardback copy in slightly sunned dust jacket.
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Hardback small thick quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), red brown cloth cover (gilt lettering & vignette), black & white drawings, colour frontispiece drawing, maps, spine little faded jacket as common. Heavy (1.3 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 335 pp. T…he previously unpublished journal of Leichhardt's second expedition, an unsuccessful attempt to cross the continent from the East coast to the Swan River on the West coast. The party travelled only a few hundred miles through the Darling Downs and to the peak Range in Central Queensland. Edited with extensive commentary by Dan Sprod. Includes the critical journal of expedition member Hovenden Hely, and 42 contemporary drawings by Conrad Martens, George Fairholme and expedition member John Mann. (Out of series copy in a limited edition of 600 autographed copies. Autographed (written dedication): "Presentation for Pat & Vern Whittenburg, for old times sake! Dan Sprod.").
Langue : anglais
Edité par Cat & Fiddle Press Hobart (1977) first edition, 1977
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Vendeur : Books On Dean, Albury, NSW, AustralieBooks On Dean
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Covict-bushranger-cannibal 9" x 5.5", scarlet cloth hardcover, black broadarrow to upper board, black decoration and titles to spine, map eps, frontis death study of Pearce, pp [i - viii] ix - xv, 1 - 173 incl. index, plus limitation page. No. 299 of a limited edition of 750 copies, signed by Dan Sprod on the limitation apge, an…d a gift inscription from Sprod to Brian McDonald (whose bookplate is attached to the half-title) on the front flyleaf. Book and protected dw both in fine condition - dw backstrip lightly sunned.
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 718 pp. Illust. with 61 b&w & colour plates & 5 maps; Preface, acknowledgements, appendix, bibliography & index. "The extraordinary story of a man born in Denmark in 1780; went to sea at the age of 14 and subsequently became a whaler in the South Seas and involved…in the foundation of Hobart.".
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Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Etat : Good. This edition is limited to 600 copies, numbered and signed. This is Copy No: 31 Relating the adventurous life of Cornishman Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha….
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Edité par Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart, Tasmania., 1977
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Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. pp.xvi+173. +colophon. 21.5cm. Frontispiece. 8 black and white illustrations. End paper maps. Notes and References. Bibliography. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Fading to spine of jacket. Very good clean copy. Limited to 750 copies signed by the author and…'Review Copy' stated.
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Landscape painter in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District 1844-1848 12.5" x 11", mid-blue cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, gilt bands, titles and decoration to spine, crimson eps, Pierre Gorman bookplate on front pastedown, pp. (1-7) 8-191 incl. index, illustrated by 61 colour plates incl. foldout, light foxing…to outer and upper edge, o/w book and dw (now protected) as new 1984 first edition, No. 404 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Large, heavy volume, for which a postage quote is recommended.
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Hardcover / Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First edition. Hardback. SIGNED NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. In this reasoned reconstruction, the exploits of the notorious cannibal-convict, Alexander Pearce, the Man-Eater of Macquarie Harbour and prototype for Marcus Clarke's Gabbett, are traced from his (partly unpu…blished) confessions to the penal authorities and by exhaustive reference to contemporary records of all kinds. Pearce's two escapes from the hated penal settlement in 1822 and 1823, the fate of his companions, his successful crossing of the mountains and adventures whilst ranging the bush are reconstructed. The author succeeds in separating the truth from sensational legend and examines the factors which motivated Pearce's cannibalism and the convict's contribution to the exploration of unknown regions of the colony. Illus. + Map eps of Van Diemen's Land, Appendices, Notes and References, Bibliog. and Index. 175pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Numbered Limited Edition, this being no. 422/750. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. F. in sl. sunned Nr. F. dw. signed by author.
Edité par Blubber Head Press. Sandy Bay, Tas. ., 1980
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Vendeur : Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, AustralieJean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books
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1st edition limited to 600 copies hand numbered (No. 142) and signed by the Editor. 165 PP with 3 maps (FEP, text, REP), 3 illustrations pasted down (frontispiece and 2 headpieces in colour), and 6 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 map of Port Phillip, 3 headpieces and 1 tailpiece). Fp: Portrait of Capt. Tregurtha. FE…P: Map of Australia & South Seas. REP: Map of Europe & the East. Cloth covers, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing on outside page edges and inside of dust jacket, o/wise a fine copy. 32 x 20.
Edité par Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 2009
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Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine in a like protected jacket PP 228, index, illustrations . 3 maps in a pocket at the rear limited run of 750 copies. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Blubber Head Press 1989., 1989
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Ajouter au panierFirst edition (limited to 600 copies, signed by the author, this copy being #104). Hardcover. Small quarto-size. Top edge rather foxed, fore-edge slightly so, otherwise very good in fine dustjacket. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings/reproductions of tables and charts, and maps and a colour frontispiece. This heavy bo…ok will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.
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Ajouter au panierBlubber Head Press Hobart 1989. Red cloth, illustrated, appendices, notes and references, bibliography, 334pp. #194 of 600 copies printed and signed by the author. A fine copy in like jacket. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.
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Vendeur : lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australielamdha books
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Ajouter au panierFirst edition: quarto; hardcover; 718pp. with colour and monochrome plates and maps. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Fine. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Jorgen Jorgenso…n was an extraordinarily talented man by any judgment. A Dane by birth, he went to sea at fourteen years of age, and, four years later in 1798, sailed on a whaler to the South Seas. After twenty months at the Cape colony in South Africa, he sailed for Sydney Cove, arriving around the end of 1800. Based in Sydney, he participated as a crew member of the surveying brig HMS "Lady Nelson" in the exploration of Bass Strait and in the establishment of the first white settlements at the Derwent River, Van Diemen's Land and at Port Phillip. After commanding a sealing voyage to New Zealand, he embarked for England on the "Alexander". Returning to his homeland, Jorgenson was obliged by war between Denmark and England to command a privateer "Admiral Juul" and, after a sea battle with HMS "Sappho", he was taken prisoner. Despite this, he joined two trading ventures to Iceland in 1809 during which the events of the Icelandic Revolution took place. His subsequent life was no less adventurous. An intelligent man with a strong literary bent, and despite periods in English gaols, he wrote plays, satires, and works on Tahiti and Denmark, travel, religion, plus voluminous letters to his friend the botanist William Jackson Hooker, who shared his Icelandic experience. In 1817, he travelled to France and Germany as an agent, or spy, for the British Foreign Office. However, compulsive gambling and drinking led to a steady decline and to imprisonment for debt and theft. He was transported to the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, thus returning him to the settlement he helped to establish 23 years earlier. He remained as a convict, then as a free man, land explorer, police constable, head of roving parties against the Tasmanian Aborigines, newspaper writer and editor, and died there in 1841. "The Usurper" is a documentary history: original documents are presented, linked by a detailed text, the whole being supported by notes, illustrations, maps, bibliographies and an index.
