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Australian Wood Chopping World Championship -1938

An original press photo of the 1938 World Wood Chopping Championship held at Sydney.

The caption on the back reads … “Mighty Axemen – Brawny men of the Australian lumber lands stage the world championship tree-felling contest at the Royal Agricultural Show, Sydney. It’s tough going to chop through an Australian tree, because most of the lumber produced is hardwood” … mmmh

A sizeable image 27cm x 20cm taken 28th August 1938

Iconic Aussie Image away from the beach

$20.00

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Discovery – The Quest for the Great South Land – Estensen

Miriam Estensen’s very readable book about the hunt for land in the Southern Hemisphere.

Published by Allen & Unwin in 1998. Octavo, 286 pages including and index and extensive bibliography. Nicely illustrated very good condition.

Estensen employs a much wider and very much earlier time frame for this work. Despite this we have the Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese activities before the French and the English … and a good balance is achieved regarding the relevance of all.

The Quest well researched nicely written

$20.00

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Sea of Dangers – Captain Cook and His Rivals- Geoffrey Blainey

A modern book by our choices but a special one by academic author Geoffrey Blainey.

Published by Viking, Melbourne in 2008 a first edition. Large octavo, 420 pages, nicely illustrated and in fine near new condition. A substantial book.

Blainey interestingly writes a co-mingled account of the first voyage of James Cook where he discovers the eastern coastline of Australia when at the same time Frenchman Jean de Surville was in the Pacific looking for a supposed Pacific based Jewish colony.

It is suggested that de Surville was in and around Sydney in the months before Cook arrived.

Nice work – Cook not alone the French were around!

$22.00

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Willem de Vlamingh’s Explorations of Australia, 1696-1697 – Willem C.H. Robert

Published by Philo Press, Amsterdam a first edition 1972.

Large octavo, 206 pages with fold-out map at rear and nautical charts, illustrated. Very good near fine condition.

A special and hard to get account of Vlamingh’s explorations of the coastline of Western Australia.

They left a pewter dish on Dirk Hartog Island and the journals and maps in the Dutch archive which form the basis of this scholarly work.

In Old Dutch and English translated with care of the then meaning.

Four excellent fold out charts assist the reader.

A special reference hard to find and fine condition

$80.00

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Voyage to the Great South Land – Willem de Vlamingh 1696-1697 – Ed Gunter Schilder

First published in Dutch then this version in English 1985 by the Royal Australian Historical Society. Translated by C De Heer and edited by Gunter Schilder. Fine condition. Nicely illustrated with fold out map at front.

The last voyage of exploration of the Dutch East India Company which included the West Coast of Australia. Incredible research and here published extracts from letters and journals pertinent to their discoveries.

Astounding detail and a superb reference of early Australian Coastal Exploration.

$60.00

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Sir Joseph Banks – H. C. Cameron

Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Octavo, 341 pages nicely illustrated. A good condition.

A second issue 1966 of Dr Hector Cameron’s important wide ranging book on Banks. Of course his Endeavour Voyage and all that came with that … his earlier years in Newfoundland .. then later in Iceland. His role in founding Kew Gardens; The Royal Society and his Presidential years; his extraordinary Natural History Collections; Merino sheep to Australia; the Board of Longitude etc etc.

Joseph Banks a lifetime of achievements

$20.00

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