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  • Autobiography of Australia’s Great Aviator – Sir Gordon Taylor – First Edition

    Autobiography of Australia’s Great Aviator – Sir Gordon Taylor – First Edition

    A particularly good copy of the first edition of this desirable autobiography published by Cassell in 1963.

    Subtitled – “A famous aviator’s personal story of pioneering aviation: 1916 to 1951”.

    Octavo, 366 pages, illustrated from period photographs.

    Gordan Taylor (1896-1966) was one of those adventurous Aussies, one of the few that flew in WWI – he won the Military Cross [the Air Force was part of the Army in those days]. So, his story starts in 1916 at the age of twenty. On return to Australia, he pursued his passion for flying with vigour – teaming up with Charles Kingsford-Smith there are many adventures. One of which saw him out of the aircraft [Southern Cross] over the Tasman Sea shifting oil from one engine to the other, in a thermos flask, in order to make terra firma.

    Lots more.

    Gordon Taylor – one of the great pioneering aviation heroes

    $95.00

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  • The Prehistory of Australia – D.J. Mulvaney

    The Prehistory of Australia – D.J. Mulvaney

    John Mulvaney (1925-2016) was born and educated in Victoria and went on to study archaeology at Cambridge. On return to Australia, he devoted hid academic career to understanding and recording Aboriginal pre-history.

    This is a first edition of his most popular work on the subject published by Thames & Hudson, London in 1969.

    Squat quarto, 276 pages, a super near fine copy in a nice dust jacket, top edge stained blue as required of the first printing. Profusely illustrated with maps, technical drawing, and photographic images.

    Mulvaney, a wealth of understanding and information

    $50.00

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  • Geological Reconnaissance between Roma, Springsure, Tambo and Taroom [The Carnarvon Range and Buckland Tablelands] – H.I. Jensen

    Geological Reconnaissance between Roma, Springsure, Tambo and Taroom [The Carnarvon Range and Buckland Tablelands] – H.I. Jensen

    A substantial report issued by the Queensland Department of Mines, Brisbane in 1926.

    Standard size, 215 pages, folding coloured map near front and a further 12 maps and sections within the text. Staple bound and as often has lost its front paper cover which is a mirror of the title that now form the front. Other than that, a pretty good copy.

    Content covered includes after general notes on geography of the region … The coals of Walloon, Yingerbay, Cornwall-Alcurah and Injune and the prospects for Oil. The geology of the Upper, Middle and Lower Bowen = Mineral Resources and Palaeontoology. The Taroon geology ditto Tambi-Barcaldine and again the possibility of Oil.

    A scarce one on the Roma to Springsure [South of Emerald] area – and what an area it has been.

    $60.00

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  • The Fossil Fishes of the Hawkesbury Series at Gosford – Robert Etheridge Jnr – 1890

    The Fossil Fishes of the Hawkesbury Series at Gosford – Robert Etheridge Jnr – 1890

    A very good copy of this rare report issued by the New South Wales Department of Mines – Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales – Palaeontology No 4.

    Thick hard cover, cloth crimped spine, as issued. Large format 30 cm x 25 cm.

    Begins proper with a letter from Wilkinson Geological Surveyor in Charge to the Minister setting out the background and content. A railway was being built in the Hawkesbury region, and a superb group of fish fossil remains were found … they were examined by non-other than T. W.  Edgeworth David who provides a “Stratigraphical Note” as an introduction along with a geological section of the “find”.

    55 pages of scientific narrative are followed by ten full page plates on very thick paper / card with interwoven explanatory notes. An impressive set of engravings lithographed by Berjeau & Highley printed by Mintern Bros.

    Philibert Charles Berjeau [1845-1927] was a leading London based natural history lithographer who worked hand in hand with Percy Highley [1856-1929]; the printers Mintern Bros were also London based and produced work of a high technical standard including John Gould’s Birds of New Guinea.

    Rare work edited by Etheridge introduced by Edgeworth David and lithographed by a top London outfit.

    $140.00

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  • TRUMP – Strategies for Real Estate [Billionaire Lessons for the Small Investor] George H Ross

    TRUMP – Strategies for Real Estate [Billionaire Lessons for the Small Investor] George H Ross

    Topical. And an alternative or companion to the Art of The Deal. Published by John Wiley in 2005 a first edition. Octavo, 232 pages with the odd image of the TRUMP successes in New York real estate.

    Forward by TRUMP … who much admires George Ross who in turn much admires TRUMP … we think that is rule number one.

    We could be critical and make more corny remarks but in reality [no attempted pun] the book is very informative, and the TRUMP tactics and ploys make a lot of sense … suggestions of a very through approach even if masked as casual. Enough said.

    Can we learn from TRUMP … swallow hold breath – we think so!

    $30.00

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  • Antarctica – a Traveller’s Tale – Jean Bailey

    Antarctica – a Traveller’s Tale – Jean Bailey

    First edition published in 1980 by Angus & Robertson. Tall octavo, 182 pages, well illustrated from the author’s couloured photographs and charcoal drawings by Lorraine Hannay. Good condition.

    Jean Bailey is neither and adventurer or a scientist, which makes this book a bit different for the subject matter as easy going informative travel books on the Antarctic don’t come along very often.

    She did the Argentinian route … around the Falklands [Islas Malvinos] then down through the Scotia Sea south of the South Shetlands and into true Antarctic waters, Anvers Island and Palmer Station through the Lemaire Channel and beyond the “Circle” proper to Adelaide Island. Deception Island with all its history follows … before making north across Drake Passage to Ushuaia.

    Like we say written in a familiar story telling style with some gritty elements such as the tussle for the Falklands … not sure whose side she is on?

    Antarctica a more relaxed, still informative approach.

    $30.00

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