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The Life and Work of Sir William Bragg – Sir Kerr Grant Professor of Physics, Adelaide University

The John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Lecture for 1950 published by the University of Queensland in 1952. A First edition in decorated paper covers. Scarce 46 pages with frontispiece. Gift inscription to South Australian legal mind and bibliophile Duncan-Hughes who was finishing his Masters at Trinity College Cambridge in 1909 when William Lawrence Bragg arrived to commence his fruitful time there.

Rare Bragg item delivered by distinguished physicist

$60.00

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Australia’s Nobel Laureates – Adventures in Innovation 1915 – 1996

Published by Kenny Russell editions in 2004 a quarto sized book in dust jacket in very good condition.

A special book mini biography of each Nobel winner with an Australian background from the Bragg’s to 1996. Well balance and delightfully written and illustrated. Leaves one in awe of the individuals and their achievements

Become an expert of Australia’s Nobels

$30.00

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WG Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea – Joseph King – 1909 First Edition

Published by The Religious Tract Society London in 1909, a First Edition. Original binding with snag top of spine glued otherwise a pretty good complete copy. Gilt titles and image all bright.

388 pages with folding coloured map of PNG and 21 most interesting black and white photographs. Lawes (1839-1907) went to Niue in 1861 for 11 years before then serving in Papua New Guinea in and around Port Moresby for 32 years from 1874. A tough man who worked with Chalmers met Bully Hayes and built the first church and school in Port Moresby.

Pioneering Missionary in PNG – Cornerstone PNG

$120.00

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The Contented Botanist – Sophie Ducker

Published in 1988 by Melbourne University at the Miegunyah Press and produced to their usual exceptional standard. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Unusual and important work. William Harvey (1811-1886) was one of the great Victorian Botanist. He travelled the Pacific and produced and book on Australian flora Phycologia Australica. He knew Hooker and Professor Asa Gray and corresponded with them. His visits to Australia included meeting the convicts at Port Arthur. This work based on his letters and paper unearthed at the Harvard University herbarium is brilliantly put together by the exceptional Sophie Ducker.

Important records found and presented

$40.00

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Sir John French – The Little Field Marshall – Richard Holmes

Published by Jonathan cape, London. A fine copy in a like dust jacket. Almost as new.

This 1981 first edition was the first proper biography on French. Heavily criticised by many for his failures during WWI French has supporters including Churchill and Lloyd George.

This book written with access to his private papers reveals his despair at the mounting casualties and a rather ambitious private life full of mistress and a secret second marriage.

French in WWI and much more

$40.00

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Signed Letter – Elspeth Huxley -1982 (References Kenya)

Type written and signed clearly by author and African legend Elspeth Huxley. Embossed address.

To Crosby … returning a signed book … and responding to the recipient’s suggestion of starting a business selling signed book. Elspeth will oblige and is prepared to sign half a dozen but suggests that the postage may be prohibitive. She closes with reference to Kenya and a recent visit “It has changed of course, but where has not?” and mentions the TV serial “I think the producers did an excellent job in re-creating the atmosphere etc of 1913/14, insofar as they could”.

The TV serial of course is the Flam Trees of Thika along with Mottled Lizard her most lyrical work. She was five years old in 1912 when her parents arrived at Thika. Her husband was the grandson of the great Thomas Huxley. She published many works and fell out with Harold Macmillan who refused to publish her description of female mutilation of the worst type.

Elspeth Huxley highly respected and knew Africa. Boldly Signed.

We also have a nice copy of the “Flame Trees ….

$60.00

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