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Gold Escort Robbery Trails – Noel Thurgood.

Hard to find published by the special Kangaroo Press in 1988. The author passed away before the press.

Octavo, 192 pages, simple map of the region of the criminal goings on re the gold escort. Interesting group of illustrations including images of the main players

The Eugowra gold escort robbery likely the most sensational event in Australian bushranging history. In the year 1862, Frank Gardiner and his band od trusted bushrangers shot it out with the police escort and made off with a King’s ransom of gold and notes. The Forward and Prologue set the scene – the event and the capture. The main game “the trial” makes riveting reading for the colonial historian, gold buff or curious legal mind – theatre

The Biggest gold heist and subsequent trial …

$30.00

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Solitaire Spirit – Three times around the world single-handed – Les Powles

Scarce narrowly circulated account.

Les Powles did what Dampier did (3X) but on his own. He had eight hours sailing experience before he set off the first time. The many adventures and hardships along the way – landing in the wrong continent, storms nobody should experience, given up for dead. A sometimes funny account filled with detail … makes you want to get off your ars..!

Paperback, only form published, by Adlard Nautical, London 2012. Typed up by his friends. Images from personal photographs. Very good condition.

Les Powles would be a man to know for sure …

$25.00

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Biggles in Australia – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles and his Air police foil a communist plot in OZ. Where is he now when we need him? A little foxed but not Biggles!

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, second impression 1956 a year after the first. Octavo, 188 pages, a few marks and a pretty good dust jacket.

Scarce and our favourite Biggles

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$50.00

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Clinometer – WWI – 1918 – E.R. Watts and Son with original leather carrying case.

British Military Clinometer dated 1918 Numbered 1729 Mark IV. Fully functional with a super vernier mechanism with miniature armed magnifier for ease of reading.

Rare to find it in its original leather case also dated 1918. The case is in particularly good condition and has a patina to die for – such a lovely item.

The maker was established by Edwin Watts in 1856. The history of the company is remarkable and can be found online. Edwin was 23 years of age and set up his workshop in a small room over Bermondsey stable in London. His first order was from Negretti and Zambra for a mining dial. By 1873 he had twenty men working for him but still worked out of stables and a hay loft. The big break was a commission to supply theodolites to the Canadian Pacific Railway. Various family members joined the firm. In 1904 George Watts designed an ingenious dividing engine.

By WWI, the firm was a major enterprise, and it was called on to design new and innovative instruments including the Watts Vertical Force Variometer and the Light Mountain Theodolite – which was later used on Everest.

As the 20th century progressed the firm participated in the “roll up” of a number of like enterprises including Adam Hilger [see our spectroscope] and Swift microscopes. It eventually became part of Rank Precision Industries and like a lot of British industrial companies went bust in the late 1960’s.

Quality Clinometer by Watts with a delightful original leather case.

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$260.00

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Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner

One of the great Modern Library Editions. Pretty good condition in slightly chipped dust jacket with slight age marks to back.

Nobel Prize winning author whose incredible narratives centred on the American South … Superb work and includes the longest grammatically correct sentence in literature at page 181 (1292 words … phew)

Unsurpassed Faulkner

$30.00

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Abel Tasman Medal – 350th Anniversary of the Discovering of the West Coast of Tasmania 1642-1992 [Large Version]

An interesting medallion for historians and the cartographically inspired. Produced for the Trust Bank of Tasmania.

48 mm diameter, 42 gm, intricately engraved on one side with gum leaf design on reverse.

The intricate design has a map of the central west coast of Tasmania noting Zeehan, Queenstown and Strahan; a nice image of Tasman’s vessel and a compass rose. Narrative details of the sighting 24th November 1642 and the landing at Tasman Bay on the East side on the 3rd of December 1642.

Tasman – first European sighting commemorated

$70.00

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Gold Escort Robbery Trails – Noel Thurgood.

Solitaire Spirit – Three times around the world single-handed – Les Powles

Biggles in Australia – Captain W.E. Johns

Clinometer – WWI – 1918 – E.R. Watts and Son with original leather carrying case.

Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner

Abel Tasman Medal – 350th Anniversary of the Discovering of the West Coast of Tasmania 1642-1992 [Large Version]

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