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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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Antique Medical Instruments – Wilbur

Published in 2008 by Schiffer, the pen people, of Atglen, USA. Revised edition with updates by the distinguished Keith Wilbur MD who can trace back his descendants to Rhode Island 1636.

We mention the “pen people” as the book is produced in an unusual cursive font with matching line drawings of instruments.

Quarto, softcover 149 pages, very good condition.

Great content we really rate this as an introduction to the subject and for serious collectors. We also like that it has a very good section on the development of the microscope often omitted. A useful price guide provides some perspective on value.

A list of medical museums in the USA good prove a valuable starting point for a holiday focused on such matters. Plan your next trip.

Wilbur’s Medical Instruments a great place to start … and more

$60.00

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A Sort of Life – Graham Greene – First Edition 1971

Published by The Bodley Head, London a first edition 1971 in very good condition.

Autobiography of Greene’s earlier years.

He was almost permanently drunk during his final year at Oxford and seems quite proud of it … and he touches on a bit of spying and some writing success and failure and borrowing money from his mother. Amusing, informative and the shape of things to come … we like it ….

A Sort of Life – which we could all aspire to….

$30.00

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Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia – P Chetwode – First Edition 1963

A very good copy of the first edition of this unusual travel book published by Voyager’s favourite publisher John Murray in 1963.

Octavo, 153 pages, nice images form the author’s photographs, maps etc. Good dust jacket.

The unusual title refers to the author and her mode of transport – a mule with a few years. They trek around this interesting part of southern Spain, Andalusia. A different sort of narrative with a strong, honest in the moment style of writing. You could be there, not only the place but the time.

Most interesting element – Don Diego – Valley of the Cave Dwellers. Wonder what it is like today?

Andalusia – a place to experience …. Take care of the mule.

$30.00

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Bush Tram-Ways & Private Railways of Tasmania – J.G. Branagan.

Self-published by Branagan in 1992.

A fine copy, softcover, perfect bound, 174 pages, profusely illustrated from period images, and lots of maps of tracks etc.

Cover the period 1850 to 1960 and we doubt there has been much missed by an author thoroughly immersed in his task.

Cover every region of Tasmania and the number of lines referenced too many to count … and the mining industry, of course, features heavily.

Bush-Tramways – love it

$30.00

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The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567-1838 – Colin Jack-Hinton.

A first edition of this substantial book [size and depth of content] published by the Clarendon [Oxford University] Press, Oxford in 1969.

Large scale royal octavo, 411 pages, illustrated very nicely with maps and charts. Good condition, some marks to page edges and title otherwise clean . A heavy book not really suitable for Overseas postage.

Starting with the Spaniard Mendana’a expedition and taking in several later voyages of discovery the Solomon Islands were finally understood from a geographical form point of view in the first half of the 19^th Century.

The author not only undertook painstaking research of manuscripts, early volumes and charts but also set out himself to understand this elusive group first hand.

The Solomon Islands probably the best in depth book on the early adventurous explorations that put the islands on the map.

$80.00

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Antarctica – a Traveller’s Tale – Jean Bailey

Antique Medical Instruments – Wilbur

A Sort of Life – Graham Greene – First Edition 1971

Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia – P Chetwode – First Edition 1963

Bush Tram-Ways & Private Railways of Tasmania – J.G. Branagan.

The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567-1838 – Colin Jack-Hinton.

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