Hunter Capt John (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Worn red covers illustrated with gold, black and orange. Corners are bumped and well rubbed, covers are lightly marked. Rear cover has the remains of six South African Christmas stamps (1957) stuck on. Spine ends are well worn, cloth over both front and rear joints is split. Contains all 12 listed colour plates including the fold out frontis 'Pacific Type Express Locomotive' and many more black and white illustrations. Binding is split at contents page, all pages are still bound in. Front cover is loose but still attached. Binding is otherwise sound. Pages are lightly foxed at edges and paper is a little darkened, pages otherwise clean, coloured plates are bright. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08120124029. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bright red covers illustrated with gold, black and orange. Corners are lightly bumped and worn. Spine is faded, slight wear to spine ends, hand written '1931' at base of spine. Split in cloth over rear external joint extends from bottom of spine to about half way up. Covers are still firmly attached, binding is sound. Contains all 12 listed colour plates including the fold out frontis 'Pacific Type Express Locomotive' and many more black and white illustrations. Pages are clean and crisp but paper is a little darkened, plates are clean and bright. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08121024050. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Abbey, S.; Peddie, Tom; Inns, Kenneth; Wigfull; Faulks, Jack M.; De Walton, John (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

Canberra 1989. 4to. Orig. illust. limp boards. (viii, 252pp.). With title-vign., 100 full-page col. plates, and text-illusts. (A Morris West Trust Fund Publication).

Octavo; hardcover, half-bound in calf with marbled boards, with gilt spine titles on red morocco labels between five raised bands decorated in gilt; 538pp. [2 Blank + xxivpp. + 17-525pp. + 1p. (advert) + 2 Blank], on laid paper with marbled edges, with a monochrome engraved portrait frontispiece, an illustrated title page ("Captain Hunter offering fish to an Aboriginal Woman"), a folding chart of New South Wales and a folding plate likewise. Moderate wear; boards and edges rubbed; joints scraped; crackling to the spine leather; spine head lightly pulled; light scattered foxing and mild offset throughout; some toning to the map edges; previous owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Originally published in a quarto format in 1793, a decision was made to release a smaller version of the Journal later in the same year, which was intended "sufficiently [to] gratify the curiosity of those who may not have leisure to peruse, or are not desirous of purchasing, the quarto edition". The second issue required some re-thinking of the original format and the engraved title page was printed slightly too large for the new layout and had to be trimmed before insertion, as is the case here. This condensed version of the original release is far scarcer than the quarto issue and, like the original, contains a plate depicting a group of aborigines - "A Family of New South Wales" - which was engraved by William Blake after a sketch by Governor King. Blake has idealised the features of the figures giving them a dignity absent from King's plain sketch, which is in the collection of the Sydney's Mitchell Library. (Ferguson 153; Wantrup 14a). This copy of the work was previously owned by Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, the distinguished Australian politician and solicitor.

Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1989. 4to. Orig. qtr. calf with raised bands and marbled boards. In protective slip-case. (x, 252 pp.). With title-vign., 100 full-page col. plates, and 12 text-illusts., 3 in col. Edition limited to 500 copies, this copy not numbered and therefore out-of-series. 1st ed. Fine. (A Morris West Trust Fund Publication).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1793 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 664 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 664.