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Tasmania Island of Tranquillity – Owen Hughes

Self published by the photographer in 2004. Lanscape format in very good condition bar some ageing marks to half title all other pages very clean. Solid binding and very good dust jacket. Carries bookplate of legal eagle Naughton.

Photographer Owen Hughes was born in St Mary’s Tasmania. This is his best work on the island. Many striking images some covering both landscape pages to dramatic effect.

Sought after Tasmania sought after images

$40.00

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Tasmanian Journey – Geoffrey Horner

Published by Cat & Fiddle Press in Hobart a very good copy in a nice dust jacket.

First printing 1974 albeit that the journey recorded was made in 1936 so has an interesting perspective. Covers Maria Island, Woolnorth Point, Macquarie Harbour, West Tamar, Pontville and the North West Coast.

Interesting and nicely written

$30.00

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Early Tasmania – James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S.

Published in Tasmania by the Government Printer 1973.

A reprint of paper published in the late 19th century by Tasmanian historian supreme James Backhouse Walker. The French, the “founding”, Collins expedition, Port Dalrymple, then back to Tasman, Norfolk Islanders, aborigines and the cartography of Australia as a whole.

James Backhouse Walker new his stuff

$30.00

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Secret Servant – My Life with the KGB and the Soviet Elite – Ilya Dzhirkvelov

Published by Collins, London in 1987. 397 pages all in very good condition … a substantial book and a very good read.

Illya Dzhirkvelvov joined the Soviet intelligence services in 1943 as a teenager. He was a guard to Stalin at the Yalta conference. A distinguished career in the KGB followed and then he became a journalist of disinformation , or “fake news” as the “Donald” would say. In 1980 he defected and lived in Britain.

Detailed KJB and fake news

$40.00

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Memoirs of a Coxcomb – John Cleland – Numbered Limited Hand-Made Paper – 1926

A fine edition by Fortune Press, London 1926. Original quarter mottled calf over marbled papers, gilt titles. Number 389 of a limited 575 copies printed on Verge Montgolfier hand-made paper by Maurice Darantier. Very light rubbing a very good if not fine copy.

John Cleland the author of Fanny Hill, which he wrote in debtors prison. Memoirs of a Coxcomb was first published in 1751 and contains a parody of Mary Wortley Montagu who is famous for her Turkish letters (her description of nudes inspired Ingres in his famous painting of same), spurning Alexander Pope and other “love affairs”.

A witty and complex portrait of aristocratic life in the 18th century through the memoirs of our vain dandy our coxcomb, Sir William Delamore. A sophisticated examination of masculine identity in direct contrast to Fanny Hill.

Coxcomb Memoirs Proudly Presented – beautifully written.

$90.00

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Map of Franciae Insula – Ortelius/ Vrients – 1601 (The Parisian Region of France)

A lovely original copper engraved miniature map from 1601 of the Franciae Insula with Paris in the lower middle on a snaking river Seine. The map spans from Chantilly in the North West to Crecy in the South East and is in fine condition. Map 12cm by 9cm to the printed border. Strong plate impression nice colouring.

Abraham Ortelius one of the earliest cartographers was born in Antwerp and considered the creator of the first modern atlas. J.B. Vrients purchased the rights and plates for Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Epitome at the very beginning of the 17th Century and this beautiful map comes from his Epitomi Theatre Orteliani published in Antwerp in 1601 (Refer to King Page 65).

Price $190.00 framed in Voyager miniature map style … enquire if you wish this item unframed.

Lovely early map for those that love France and Paris

$190.00

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Tasmania Island of Tranquillity – Owen Hughes

Tasmanian Journey – Geoffrey Horner

Early Tasmania – James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S.

Secret Servant – My Life with the KGB and the Soviet Elite – Ilya Dzhirkvelov

Memoirs of a Coxcomb – John Cleland – Numbered Limited Hand-Made Paper – 1926

Map of Franciae Insula – Ortelius/ Vrients – 1601 (The Parisian Region of France)

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