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Tasmanian Devil – Unique and Threatened Animal – Owen and Pemberton

A modern book by our standards .. we selected in for its pedigree .. published by the Natural History Museum, London … housed in a building that Voyager would like to make home .. and the subject the much misunderstood and threatened Tasmanian Devil.

Octavo, 225 pages, illustrated throughout, a fine copy.

The “Devil” a robust little marsupial now restricted to the island of Tasmania and for some time threatened by a mysterious cancer … and sadly humans in motor cars who just don’t take enough care … next time you see the sign slow down.

The only boo really on the Tasmanian Devil and a good one.

$30.00

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Early Image of the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre at Giza

An original magic lantern slide c1890 of the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) at Giza – the second largest pyramid.

Standard British magic Lantern slide by an unknown maker. Some age as can be seen but excuse it for the rarity of the image.

A striking image of Kharfe with the Sphinx in the foreground. Compare the image with a modern image taken from pretty much the same position. The Pyramid is in a remarkably similar state of condition retaining the same amount of polished coping stone near to top – Kharfe the only pyramid to retain any – they were raided to build later structures.

However, the Sphinx is quite different and the modern image by comparison shows just how much reconstruction has been carried out in the intervening 130 years.

Khafre ruled Egypt in the Fourth Dynasty between 2558 and 2553 years BC … unfortunately the tombs were robbed of anything valuable likely early on.

Khafre as it is and the Sphinx as it was.

$80.00

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Geology in Australia [Good Tasmanian Content] – Stillwell Anniversary Volume – The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy – 1958.

This special volume was dedicated to one of Australia’s greatest geologists Frank Leslie Stillwell on his 70th birthday.

Hardbound octavo, 302 pages. After a brief biography of Stillwell … 16 discrete geological reports of substance most illustrated with fold out charts and diagrams. Rubbed and worn on spine edges, very clean inside and firmly bound, a pretty good copy

Includes the mineralisation of the Gondwana Shield. Tellurides and Selenides at the Great Boulder Mine Kalgoorlie.

Various Tasmanian reports .. The Mineralised Rift Valleys of Tasmania; Diamond drill deflection at Rosebery; Nickel Mineralisation in Western Tasmania and A History of Geological Thought at Mount Lyell.

Elsewhere includes Uranium in the Northern Territory; Galena in Western Australia and a super report on the geology of Cockatoo Island at Yampi Sound WA.

Special Geological Edition – Wide ranging content with good contribution re Tasmania.

$70.00

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Of Rascals and Rusty Relics [Introduction to North East Tasmania] – G & S Miller – Limited Editon 1979

Effectively self-published by the authors, Hobart in 1979. Only edition limited to 1,000 copies.

A really super history so specific to the North-East of Tasmania an area rather neglected by historical writers and it shouldn’t be …

Quarto, vii and 106 pages, end paper maps, loads of interesting illustrations mainly from period photographs. A nice production in very good condition.

Starts with early European exploration and the sealers. Settlers and the hostilities and then the “gold” and the numerous rushes and mines and false alarms .. super stuff. The Chinese involvement and then eventually the decline of some townships as mining prospects became more realistic.

One of our favourite Tasmanian historical accounts … the neglected North East

$60.00

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Mrs Isabella Beeton’s – The Book of Household Management comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman … Published 1892 [First with Australian Recipes]

Published 1892, Ward Lock, London 1892 … with Several Hundred new recipes.

Importantly, this is the new edition introducing recipes from Australia including Soup from Kangaroo Tails, (Whole and sitting) Wallaby Roast and Parrot Pie (at least a dozen parrots required).

With 13 full coloured plates of which two folding and steel engravings in the text. A very sound copy that has been expertly re-backed by Roger Perry Quality Bookbinders with new headbands and original end papers.

Mrs Beeton with Australian Treats

$260.00

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom – a triumph – T.E. Lawrence (Of Arabia) – August 1935

Published by Jonathan Cape London 1935 – Seven Pillars of Wisdom a triumph – “The Sword also means Clean-ness + Death”. First trade edition second impression August after the July first.

The Trade Edition preceded by the incomplete “Oxford” edition of 1922 (8 copies only were printed) and the very rare privately printed “Subscribers Edition” of 1927 (170 copies).

Thick quarto, 672 pages, original brown cloth covered binding with gilt titles to spine and device to front. Carries the bookplate of Eric Ambrose on front paste down and his discrete personal label on the end papers. Eric Ambrose was a distinguished British architect and a Fellow of his Professional Body. Avery good copy

Frontispiece portrait of a bust of Lawrence, 4 folding maps as called for, 2 facsimiles and a total of 54 illustrations – 46 of which are dramatic portraits of men who appear in the book. Albeit without the rare dust jacket this is the cleanest we have seen of this edition. The boards clean and unmarked and only the slightest bit of foxing limited to the rough cut paper edges.

Lawrence “took pains to bring objects and artists together”. A classic book written by Lawrence after a very successful war leading

the Arabs against the Turks, considered one of the most important books on war especially political and guerrilla warfare.

Churchill called it “One of the greatest books ever written in the English language”

Lawrence of Arabia’s great book. First trade great condition – 1935

We simply have to give you some of Chapter 1 … “The everlasting battle stripped from us care of our own lives or of others’. We had ropes about our necks, on or heads prices which showed that the enemy intended hideous tortures for us if we were caught. Each day some of us passed; and the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God’s stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road. The weak envied those tired enough to die; for success looked so remote, and failure a near and certain, if sharp, release from toil. We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling ..

$290.00

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Tasmanian Devil – Unique and Threatened Animal – Owen and Pemberton

Early Image of the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre at Giza

Geology in Australia [Good Tasmanian Content] – Stillwell Anniversary Volume – The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy – 1958.

Of Rascals and Rusty Relics [Introduction to North East Tasmania] – G & S Miller – Limited Editon 1979

Mrs Isabella Beeton’s – The Book of Household Management comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman … Published 1892 [First with Australian Recipes]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom – a triumph – T.E. Lawrence (Of Arabia) – August 1935

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