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  • Airborne (A Voyage West to East Across the Atlantic) – William Buckley – First edition 1976

    Airborne (A Voyage West to East Across the Atlantic) – William Buckley – First edition 1976

    A first edition of a sentimental journey, published by Macmillan, New York in 1976.

    Octavo, 252 pages, end paper maps and heavily illustrated from photographs taken on the voyage.

    Buckley was a media celebrity being a multi published author, editor of the National Review and host of Firing Line.

    His west east crossing of the Atlantic was a dream of many years. A charming, detailed account from Miami, to Bermuda across to the Azores an on to Marbella. An honest account of emotions and behaviour along the way.

    First edition west – east across the Atlantic

    $25.00

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  • Matthew Flinders Medal – Australian Academy of Science

    Matthew Flinders Medal – Australian Academy of Science

    The Australian Academy of Science was formed in 1954 along the lines of the Royal Society, London.

    The twenty four founding members included Sir Douglas Mawson, the inaugural President was Sir Mark Oliphant. It is based out of the spectacular Shire Dome, Canberra.

    The Matthew Flinders Medal is presented every other year in recognition of scientific research of the highest standard in the physical sciences. To date there have been 31 recipients, the first being J.L. Powsey.

    A very interesting medal, 70 mm in diameter weighing 124 gm, copper bronze finish. High relief bust of Flinders with “Australian Academy of Science” and “Matthew Flinders” inside rim. On the reverse a complex high relief image of observers using a telescope and a microscope with a background of planets (including Saturn) and other natural objects with suitable Latin expressions scattered. A little wear to the finish but a very scarce item.

    Unusual Flinders Item – Distinguished Awarding Body

    $425.00

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  • Opals and Agates – or Scenes under the Southern Cross and The Magelhans – N. Bartley

    Opals and Agates – or Scenes under the Southern Cross and The Magelhans – N. Bartley

    A first edition of this unusual reminiscence by Nehemiah Bartley, Queensland identity of the later 1800’s.

    Published by Gordan and Gotch, Melbourne etc in 1892.

    Octavo, 311 pages, with nine illustration. Original embossed red cloth covered boards with gilt titling to front and spine. Re-cased professionally with spine laid down. A couple of marks to boards, a little age internally, still a good to better copy. Priced accordingly.

    Well, Bartley got about and knew many people of consequence in the day. The style of writing is very usual, with a seemingly obsessive attention to detail and a rather meandering structure.

    He opens with much time in Tasmania, with an interesting image from Beattie of snow on Mount Wellington and three masters in the dock. Time in the Pacific Islands with good references to Tonga and Samoa. Back to Swann Hill in Victoria and then up to Queensland. Mount Morgan and the gold rush, many identities and locations. Bullock driving a list of the largest nuggets then found (including Scotland!) and some rather strange lightly connected content … poetry, the Brisbane Cup and the Melbourne Cup.

    Bartley’s reminiscences from 1840-1890 – Australia and Beyond

    $90.00

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  • Roman Ehnasya (Herakleopoli Magna) Plates and Text Supplementary to Ehnasya – Flinders Petrie – 1904

    Roman Ehnasya (Herakleopoli Magna) Plates and Text Supplementary to Ehnasya – Flinders Petrie – 1904

    Roman Ehnasya (Herakleopoli Magna) Plates and Text Supplementary to Ehnasya – Flinders Petrie – 1904

    A Special Extra Publication of The Egypt Exploration Fund … published by order of the Committee, London 1905.

    Quarto, hardbound in original cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. Title, list of plates, narrative to page 15, 28 full page plates of multiple items followed by 3 full pages of Potters Marks. Previous owners stamp to front free end paper. Very good condition and a very rare item

    A large quantity of figures were found in houses and could be dated by coins found along with them. Consequently, serving as a scale by which to date late examples of classical work. Here we have literally hundreds of photographic images of the items found carefully classified … such as … Classical figures (Roman); Serapis, Iris, Horus (Roman); Harpocrates (Roman); Egyptian Gods (Roman); Roman Heads; Roma Lamps … and Potters Marks (many of them). Narrative chapters on the Terracotta Figures; The Lamps (extensive) an the Architecture

    Together Price $270.00

    Flinders Petrie at Ehnasya with the scarce illustrated Supplement

    INCOMPLETE LISTING … PLEASE WAIT

    $270.00

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  • More About Cairns : Echoes of the Past – J.W. Collinson – First Limited Numbered Signed Edition

    More About Cairns : Echoes of the Past – J.W. Collinson – First Limited Numbered Signed Edition

    The second of Collinson’s books about Cairns and the Far North .. an a little bit of New Guinea.

    Signed limited edition number 337 0f 500. Printed in Brisbane by Smith and Paterson, 1943.

    Small octavo, 134 pages with six illustrations. Original brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to, rubbed somewhat. Internally very clean and tight a pretty good copy.

    Charming first person narrative of goings on in early Cairns from the Jungle to the Business Centre. Kuranda and the Falls; early Pioneers; the Wreck of the Ranelaigh etc. Interesting section of gold in New Guinea … quite a few ounces taken in some unusual locations.

    Collinson, regarded as a classic of the Far North ….

    $80.00

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  • Down Denmark Strait (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroes, Svalbard, Jan Mayen) – E Newbold Smith

    Down Denmark Strait (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroes, Svalbard, Jan Mayen) – E Newbold Smith

    Denmark Strait is the rather chilly waters between northern Iceland and the Greenland coast near the Scoresby Sound.

    First printing by Little, Brown etc Boston, 1980. Slightly larger octavo, 212 pages, well illustrated with some smashing images from photographs taken, end paper maps and other full page maps of the island groups. A super book in very good condition.

    The author owner of the beautiful 43-foot sloop Reindeer sailed from New York up to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1974. He was hooked for more, and two years later carried of this adventurous voyage taking in Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, the Lofoten islands off northern Norway and on to Svalbard (Spitsbergen) and back. Some adventures and sights along the way.

    Adventurous cold weather sailing

    SO SORRY SOLD

    $30.00

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