Royal Geographical Society Journals and Similar Journals

Queensland Geographical Journal – Diamond Jubilee Issue 1885-1945. Also has important Papua New Guinea content.

The journal as published by the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland). Octavo, soft wrappers, 113 pages after preliminaries. A very good copy bar the obvious marks to the covers … pretty clean and bright inside.

After various historic introductions articles re “Queensland Pastures – Their Development and Improvement; Across Papua’s Mighty Delta by A.L. Ethell; Irrigation (Queensland); The Interior of Eastern Papua by Captain Vernon.

Nicely illustrated and with a fold out sketch map from Bootless Bay (near Port Moresby) to Buna showing a vertical cross section of the Kokoda track … the article stimulated by the incredible conflict that had just come to an end in the region.

A special issue of the RGSA (Qld) Journal with particular interest to New Guinea collectors and readers.

$50.00

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Deshasheh – Flinders Petrie – 1889

The Fifteenth Memoir of The Egypt Exploration Fund.

Hardback published by order of the Committee and sold by them at Great Russell Street and Kegan Paul and Quaritch.

Large quarto, 51 pages plus 37 pages of plates a few of which are folding. Very good condition. A heavy item that may require an Overseas postage supplement.

The great Flinders Petrie by this time has spent many years in Egypt, accomplished many great find and produced numerous memoirs in this form. The work here he describes as more varied than usual, and has fulfilled more the character of exploration than in previous years. One of the least known parts of Egypt, the western side form Faynum to Minieh, was completely traversed and examined; and two site within that area excavated.

We explore the Cemetery of Deshasheh and the Tomb of Anta, the Tomb of Shedu, the Tombs of Nenkheftka and Son.

The drawings and photographs of the findings are simply superb as usual.

Flinders Petrie – Egyptology – Highest Standard

$170.00

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Lawrence of Arabia – The Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society – Long Unbroken Run of 46 Issues – Bound and in Fine Condition.

Published at Oxford by the Society a continuous run from 1991 to 2014.

Octavo, 46 issues (Over 4,000 pages) plus the index volume. Bound in eight volumes, blue cloth covered boards. Volume 1, Number 1 Spring 1991 to Volume XXIII, Number 2 2013/14. Retaining the original card covers on every issue. Not a mark on them, fine condition. A heavy set which may require an Overseas postage supplement

We will be adding a listing of the journal contents. This is the first bound volume only ..

Vol 1/1
1. A.W. Lawrence 1990-1901 (T.E. younger brother had just died)
2. Eleven Hundred Miles on the Lawrence Trail
3. Lawrence as an Archaeologist
4. T.E. Lawrence and the Bodleian
5. Mecca’s Revolt against the Turk
6. Interview with Colonel Lawrence
7. An Appeal from Damascus: the Mohammed Abdulla Bassam Affair
8. Notes on the Introduction to the Royal Air Force of High-Speed Craft
9. A Lawrence Diary, “Oriental Assembly”
10. An Introduction to the BBC 1962 Documentary: T.E. Lawrence 1888-1935
11. Documentary Proof of Wishful Thinking
Vol 1/2
11. Off and On The Tracks to Atwi
12. T.E. Lawrence and Frederick Manning
13. Lawrence and his Brough Superiors
Vol2/1
14. Arabian Nights and Days: Part I
15. Ramping
16. T.E. Lawrence and Rupert de la Bere
17. T.E. Shaw and the British Power Boat Company
18. Tale of an “Arabian Knight”: The T.E. Lawrence Effigy
Vol 2/2
19. More Travels on the Lawrence Trail
20. Arabian Nights and Days: Part II
21. The Mint Illustrated
22. Amendments to the Authorised Biography
23. T.E. Lawrence Materials at Oxford.
Vol 3/1
24. Seven Essays
25. Summary of the Hejaz Revolt
26. T.E. Lawrence at Clouds Hill
27. T.E. Lawrence and the Visual Arts
28. Notes on the American Issues of Revolt in the Desert
29. Notes on Editing the Oxford Seven Pillars
Vol 3/2
30. Sherif Feisal
31. Great Britain and the Arabs up to the Armistice of 30 October 1918
32. Two views of T.E. Lawrence
33. Lawrence of Arabia in a New Disguise
34. T.E. Lawrence and the translating of the Odyssey
35. Motor-Boats for the R.A.F.
36. Voyage of an R.A.F. Motor-Boat

T.E. Lawrence – The Journal of the Society – The man would have been impressed.

$490.00

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Douglas Mawson – Report from the British Antarctic Expedition – Transactions and Proceedings of The Royal Society of South Australia

Published by the Society, Adelaide 1916, Being Volume XL.

Thick octavo, 631 pages with 54 plates and 21 figures in the text, Mawson map and folding diagram. Fine condition, barely opened, clean as a whistle inside. Unusually still in its original mailing envelope albeit chipped here and there. A super copy.

Numerous papers, many on entomology, marine species, flora, mineralogy etc.

Douglas Mawson features twice. First, his report on the Aurora Australis … “Aural Observations at the Cape Royds Station, Antarctica”. Pages 151-213 with plates xxi and xxii. The observations were taken during the British Antarctic Expedition in 1908. Mawson states that they were intended for publication in 1911. The delay was due to Shackleton wishing to publish the Scientific Reports as a series. However, for lack of funds this could not happen, and the series ides was abandoned, allowing this work to be published here. Special thanks are given to Edgeworth David for his contribution to the work.

Second, “Mineral Notes” is based on Mawson’s analysis of minerals exhibited at the Society in 1910 and 1911. Publication, gain, had been delayed … this time because Mawson mislaid his notes before departing for his own Antarctic Expedition of 1911. Minerals described include … Octahedrite, Twinned Gypsum Crystals, Beryl, Loadstone, Monazite, Cordierite, Sillimanite, Spinel, Sphene, Davidite, named after the great man, and much here about the radioactive properties. An addendum page by W.T. Cooke on the constituency of Davidite with reference to the spectroscopic work of the great Sir William Crookes identifying Scandium as a component.

Another standout report is by Walter Howchin on “The Geology of Mount Remarkable” pages 545- 584 with large coloured Geological Sketch Map.

Nicely illustrated journal with interesting reports by Douglas Mawson in very good condition.

$140.00

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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition (1929 -1931) The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London – August 1932

The Journal of the RGS in the familiar blue wrapper, 97-192 pages, after preliminaries, large folding coloured map of the relevant Antarctic region, plus another regarding a new track through the Rockies. Period advertisements etc. Complete and in good condition. A scarce journal.

Sir Douglas Mawson’s report is the main vent in this journal of the RGS read at the meeting by Professor Debenham on Mawson’s behalf. The report is followed by appendices of Scientific Results and Sightings of Land. After the great Hugh Robert Mill thanking Debenham expressed regret that Mawson could not be there and provided some interesting further information gleamed from his personal contact with the great Australian.

Other reports of interest include the changing climate of Southern Turkistan, the fate of Colonel Fawcett (which has given rise to a number of books and should be made into a movie) and, a very good report on the aforementioned new track through the northern Rockies.

Mawson’s BANZ Antarctic report to the RGS with special map.

$150.00

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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

$120.00

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Queensland Geographical Journal – Diamond Jubilee Issue 1885-1945. Also has important Papua New Guinea content.

Deshasheh – Flinders Petrie – 1889

Lawrence of Arabia – The Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society – Long Unbroken Run of 46 Issues – Bound and in Fine Condition.

Douglas Mawson – Report from the British Antarctic Expedition – Transactions and Proceedings of The Royal Society of South Australia

The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition (1929 -1931) The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London – August 1932

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

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