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  • Kennedy’s Expedition (with folding map) – Fine Facsimile Edition

    Kennedy’s Expedition (with folding map) – Fine Facsimile Edition

    Full title of original scarce account …. Narrative of An Expedition Undertaken under the Direction of the late Mr Assistant Surveyor E.B. Kennedy, for the Exploration of the Country lying between Rockingham Bay and cape York by Wm Carron one of the Survivors of the Expedition.

    A very good condition facsimile of Kennedy’s fateful expedition from Rockingham Bay and Cape York by William Carron with large folded map at rear. 97 pages faithfully reproduced … the original being published in Sydney in 1849. Kennedy was speared in an ambush by native tribes and died of his wounds.

    This is the superior issue by the Adelaide Libraries Board in 1965. Australian Facsimile Editions No 9.

    Far North Exploration

    $40.00

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  • The Royal Geographical Society Journal – May 1932 – Polar, Mountaineering and Franklin

    The Royal Geographical Society Journal – May 1932 – Polar, Mountaineering and Franklin

    A complete copy of the Journal in original blue wrappers.

    Lead articles include the British Arctic Air Expedition under Hubert Watkins (author of some interesting works on Northern Queensland); The expedition in the Tien-Shan by Schomberg and further evidence of John Franklin’s retreat by William Gibson. Good photographic images as often and two nice maps of the of Greenland up to the 68th parallel and localised map of the Base Fjord. Nice condition all round.

    Climbing in the Tien-Shan and Arctic Air Expedition keep exploration alive in 1932

    $90.00

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  • Some Early Records  of the Macarthurs of Camden – Edited by Sibella Macarthur Onslow – 1914

    Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden – Edited by Sibella Macarthur Onslow – 1914

    A first edition published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney in 1914. Royal octavo, 496 pages with illustrations and foldout facsimile documents. Some edge foxing but overall a very good copy in a nice firm binding with coloured frontispiece.

    This comprehensive record is based on papers by the authors father James Macarthur. She dedicated the book to her father and mother (Emily) and her uncle Sir William Macarthur.

    This is a family that stood up to its adopted motto “Fide et Opera” – “Faith and Work”

    $120.00

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  • Tasmania Island of Tranquillity – Owen Hughes

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

    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

    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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