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The Mardi Gras Murders – Bristow Manning – First edition 1931

The society decicated to Dis – the Greek God of the Inferno are at the heart of murder at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Best costumes.

1932 First – Mardi Gras

$50.00

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In Cold Blood – Armstrong Livingston – First edition 1931

1931 First Edition and the “Clue of the Hairpin”. Jimmy Traynor assisted by female impersonator Tommy – blackmail leads to murder(s) in this fast moving plot.

Collectable First

$40.00

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Shipwrecks & Sea Tragedies – Hugh Edwards

Australian and New Zealand Shipwrecks & Sea Tragedies.
A nicely illustrated book on Australian and New Zealand shipwrecks. Cyclones, cannibals and convicts – what a mix

Wreck in perspective

$30.00

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Original Anthropological Work – Some Aspects of Time Reckoning Among Selected African Tribes – James PhD Oxford 1956

Original Anthropological Work – Some Aspects of Time Reckoning Among Selected African Tribes – Greta James – PhD Thesis Oxford 1956

This is a superb PhD thesis the author gaining a Oxford doctorate 1956. A near unique work (one copy only in the Bodlean Library). Contains 245 typed pages (one side) with tables, maps, bibliography etc.

A major work on the significance of the sense of time, the calendar, cosmology, western influences, lunar zodiacs of various African tribes including those from the West, East and Southern Bantu. From the time of day measured and described by reference to cattle activity, the lunar cycle and the best and worst times for initiation or making spears, the zodiac and the bearing of the Pleiades in planting and harvesting crops to the naming of years gone such as “Blades of Herbs” (1867), “Year of the Ostrich” (1888) and sadly “Smallpox” (1894) and “Venereal Disease” (1903)

A most interesting and valuable work on African tribes

$170.00

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Technique and History of the Swiss Watch – Jaquet & Chapius

Published by Spring Books London. 1970 updated second edition of the great 1953 publication. Jaquet was the Principal of the Geneva School of Watchmaking and an experienced historiographer and both he and Chapius authored a number of standard works in the field of horology. They were assisted in this great work by Berner the Principal of the Watchmaking School of Bienne. Updated by Guye a Director of the Swiss School of Horology.

Classic Text on the Swiss Watch

$80.00

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My Tropic Isle – Banfield – First Edition

My Tropic Isle E.J. Banfield – 1911. A good only copy of the extremely rare first edition of “My Tropic Isle” with its rich front cover impression. Published in London in 1911 this is Banfield’s follow up to “Confessions of a Beachcomber” and a most interesting book on the natural history of Dunk along with the authors usual anecdotes and observations that make his writing something special.

Very rare E.J. Banfield

$190.00

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