Item 134295THE SERPENT COILED IN NAPLES.
Armchair Traveller, 2022. 8vo, 498pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Bump to bottom corner. Signed by the author. Includes errata.
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Item 133782OLD CALABRIA.
Secker & Warburg, 1955. Fourth edition. 8vo, 355pp. A good hardback copy with age-toned edges. In an edgeworn dust jacket with tears to corners of spine. Spine age-toned. Previous owner's bookplate.
Item 133715THE HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA. Paddling the Pacific.
G. P. Putnam Sons, 1992. 8vo, 528pp. A very good hardback copy with yellowed edges. In a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Item 133708THE FACE OF THE WORLD. An international scrapbook of people and places.
The John Day Company, nd. 4to, 240pp. Black & white illustrations. A good, foxed hardback copy in like dust jacket. Spine age-toned.
Item 133566RISE & SHINE. Diary of John George Humter: Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 - 1913.
Hunter House Publications, 2011. 4to, 219pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy.
Item 133356OLD CALABRIA.
Martin Secker, London, 1915. First edition. 8vo, 352pp plus 16pp publisher's catalogue. Black & white photgraphic plates. A very good hardback copy in olive green cloth with gilt titles and insignia. Some light wear to extremities. Scarce first printing of Douglas's travelougue of the Calabria region in southern Italy...
Item 133328HOW ABOUT EUROPE? Some notes on East and West.
Privately Printed, 1929. 8vo, 216pp. A good, foxed hardback copy with an age-toned spine. Pages uncut. First edition. This edition limited to five hundred and fifty copies numbered and signed by the Author of which this is No 505.
Item 133318FROM VENUS TO ANTARCTICA. The Life of Dumont d'Urville.
Exisle Publishing, 2007. 8vo, 252pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.
Item 131889THE KING AND PEOPLE OF FIJI. Containing a Life of Thakombau; with Notices of the Fijias, Their Manners, Customs and Superstitions, Previous to the Great Religious Reformation in 1854.
Wesleyan Conference Office, London, 1866. First edition. 8vo, 435pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy which has been neatly rebound with new boards in half-leather and new endpapers. Previous owner's stamp. Joseph Waterhouse was a British-born, Australian missionary to Fiji who reportedly converted the King of Fiji.....
Item 131888WANDERING AMONG SOUTH SEA SAVAGES. And in Borneo and the Philippines.
Witherby & Co., London, 1909. 8vo, 254pp. Black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in red cloth boards. Spine darkened with wear to top and base. Endleaves foxed with offsetting. Early 20th century travelogue chronicling Walker's journeys through the South Seas namely Fiji, Borneo, and the Philippines. The narrative.....
Item 131887FROM THE MIDDLE TEMPLE TO THE SOUTH SEAS.
John Murray, 1927. First edtion. 8vo, 287pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy bound in blue coth. Spine a little faded. Foxed. An English barrister's experience in Fiji with shipwreck and piracy on Apemana, experience in the New Hebrides with blackbirding cases, then Solomon Islands after WWI.....
Item 131884A WINTER HOLIDAY IN FIJI.
Sifton, Praed & Co., 1921. 8vo, 256pp. Black & white illustrations with folding map frontispiece. A good hardback copy. Boards lightly flecked and spine rubbed. Edges foxed and endpapers offset. An account of Dr. Brummitt and his daughter's missionary visit to Fiji.
Item 131883ISLANDS FAR AWAY. Fijian Pictures with Pen and Brush.
Sifton, Praed & Co., 1921. 8vo, 256pp. Black & white illustrations with folding maps. A good hardback copy in illustrated boards with gilt titles. Boards flecked. Endpapers offset. Previous owner's bookplate. Includes letter from the author dated October 1921.
Item 131882TEN MONTHS IN THE FIJIAN ISLANDS.
John Henry and James Parker, 1864. 8vo, 282pp. Black & white illustrations and maps. A very good hardback copy bound in full green leather. Endpages offset. Very light wear to extremities. Collection of letters to friends at home by S. M. Smythe telling of her experiences in Fiji in 1860.....
Item 117703ANTARCTICA. An Absent Presence.
Thames & Hudson, 2016. Landscape 8vo, 191pp. Colour illustrations. A very good hardback copy. Contains 2 CDs.
Item 132625WAIRAKA POINT. An African - New Zealand Journal.
Product Research Pty Ltd, 2018. 8vo, 216pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.
Item 131857THE TRAVELLER'S TREE. A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.
John Murray, London, 1950. First edition. 8vo, 403pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy bound in original green cloth with gilt decorations. Dust jacket is that of a later printing (5th) and is price-clipped and edgeworn. Foxed, though largely confined to edges and endleaves. First edition of.....
Item 132350CITIES OF THE WORLD. A History in Maps.
The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2005. 4to, 208pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket with faded edges.
Item 131837BARE FACTS. A Guide to Australia's Nude and Dress Optional Clubs, Resorts, and Beaches.
Les and Jan Hotchkin, 1989. Second edition. 8vo, 112pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good paperback copy.
Item 131764COME WIND OR WEATHER. ADC Accutrac Races Around the World.
Pelham Books, 1978. Large 8vo, 224pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Foxed. Signed by Francis, the first woman to skipper a successful boat on the Whitbread Around the World race.
Item 131176THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Volume IV of The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery.
Hakluyt Society, 1974. 8vo. 760pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dustjacket.
Item 130696SEVEN WALKS. Cape Leeuwin to Bundeena.
Roc-Hin, 2014. 4to, 124pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Over their weekly conversation in an inner-city cafe, photographer Michael Wee persuaded his friend, painter and writer Tom Carment, to embark on some walks into 'wild' Australia. Inexperienced long-distance bushwalkers, Michael.....
Item 123668THE PARKLANDS. Trails and Secrets from the National Parks of the United States.
Gestalten, 2022. 4to, 256pp. A near fine hardback copy.
Item 130349THE GREAT DIVIDE. Walking the Continental Divide Trail.
Gestalten, 2024. 8vo, 240pp. Colour illustrations. A new hardback copy.
Item 129965THE JOURNAL OF ROCHFORT MAGUIRE: 1852 - 1854. Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard H. M. S. Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin.
Hakluyt Society, 1988. 8vo, 318pp. A very good hardback copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.