New Additions
Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia & Deco
Brown, Kendall & Minichiello, Sharon (essays by)
Book Number: 65949
ISBN: 0937426520
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu 2004. Square 4to. softcover. 176pp. index, colour illus. Near fine.
Price: $30.00
World of Origami
Honda, Isao
Book Number: 65948
ISBN:
Japan Publications Trading Company 1971. 4to. hardcover. 264pp., index, colour & b/w illus. Very good, foxing to outer page edges. / Good+ d/w slightly wrinkled on front panel with a small tear.
Price: $35.00
A Practical Guide to Japanese Gardening
Chesshire, Charles
Book Number: 65947
ISBN: 0754834956
Alto Books, Melbourne 2009. 4to. hardcover. 236pp., index, colour illus. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $30.00
Mosman Impressions - the moon rises and transforms the harbour .... sheltered familiar bays become mysterious.
Nancy Phelan (Text by)
Book Number: 65945
ISBN: 0646127721
Mosman City Council 1993 4to. hardcover, Red boards, 163pp. Very good. / Very good d/w. Illustrated throughout with aerial photographs, period photographs, paintings, facsimilies, descriptions, poetry. Contents includes Mosman Bay, Curlew Camp, Athol Bay, Taylors Bay, Chowder Head, Clifton Gardens, Middle Head, Middle Harbour, Balmoral Beach, Chinamans Beach, The Spit, Beauty Point, Urban Life, People in the Arts and Media
Price: $18.00
Japanese Prints
Fahr-Becker, Gabriele
Book Number: 65944
ISBN: 9783822835098
Taschen Benedikt, Koln 2007. 4to. hardcover. 200pp. colour illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00
Bush food : Aboriginal food and herbal medicine
Isaacs, Jennifer
Book Number: 65942
ISBN: 0725408340
Ure Smith Sydney 1992 4to hardcover 256pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w. Contents includes, Naturalists, Hunters and Gatherers, Seasons and the Australian Environment, People, Plants and Animals, Cooking Techniques, Fruit, Nuts, Roots, Tubers, Corms and Bulbs, Seeds and Damper, Green Vegetables, Honey, Gum and Nectar, Land Animals, Marine Animals and Fish, Shellfish, Billabong and Swamp animals, Insects and Grubs, Herbal Medicine, Table of Plant Foods, Table of Herbal Medicines, Index.
Price: $25.00
Eucalypts. 2 Volumes. (Revised Edition)
Kelly, Stan
Book Number: 65941
ISBN: 017006257
Nelson 1983 4to hardcovers indexes, Vol1. 368pp. including 280 full page colour plates. Vol2. 388pp. including 255 full page colour plates. Very Good, some foxing on edges & endpapers, light tape marks on Vol2 endpapers. Vol2 d/w very good with faded spine, Vol2 d/w Good+, with faded spine and some rubbing to spine ends.
Price: $150.00
Wild Food Plants of Australia
Low, Tim
Book Number: 65939
ISBN: 0207143838
Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1988. 8vo. hardcover. 236pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers. / Very good d/w.
Price: $30.00
Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding
Buehler, George
Book Number: 65938
ISBN: 9780071583800
International Marine, USA, 1991. 8vo. softcover. 371pp. index, b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $35.00
Martin Burke, father of Pittwater
Macken, James Joseph
Book Number: 65936
ISBN: 0646176048
[New South Wales, Australia] J.J. Macken 1994 4to softcover 96pp index, b/w illus. Good, top edge of pages wavy. Signed by author.
Price: $15.00
Matthew Flinders & His Scientific Gentlemen
Wege, George;Juliet, Alex; Gathe, Jan; Lemson, Kris; Napier, Kath
Book Number: 65935
ISBN: 1920843205
Western Australian Museum, 2005. 4to. laminated boards, hardcover. 1845pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine.
Price: $55.00
The Hawkesbury River Traders
Purtell, Jean
Book Number: 65933
ISBN:
River Boat Project Committee,, Sydney, NSW., 1988. 4to. softcover. 55pp., b/w illus. Very good, some marks on cover.
Price: $55.00
The Blue Planet : A Natural History of the Oceans
Byatt, Andrew; Fothergill, Alastair; Holmes, Martha
Book Number: 65928
ISBN: 0563384980
BBC. 2001 Lage Square 4to. hardcover. 384pp. index, colour illus. very good, top edge wavy. / very good d/w with faded spine & curled top front edge.
Price: $25.00
A History of Australia 6 Volumes
Clark, C.M.H.
Book Number: 65927
ISBN:
Melbourne University Press, 1979 - 1987. 8vo. softcovers. 866pp. index. Very Good, page edges toned on V.1&2. V2 has a small tear to top of spine, minor rubbing to spine edges. Some wrinkles on spines. Some toning to covers.
Price: $80.00
HMAS Sydney
Frame, Tom
Book Number: 65925
ISBN: 9780733623639
Hachette Australia, Sydney, 2008. 8vo softcover 411pp index, b/w illus. very good, light foxing to edges, small crease on cover.
Price: $15.00
Interior Design. Second Edition.
Pile, John F.
Book Number: 65923
ISBN: 0810934639
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1994, 4to. hardcover. 584pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep., small wrinkle to top corner of last 40 pages.
Price: $25.00
The Ashley Book of Knots
Ashley, Clifford W.
Book Number: 65922
ISBN: 057109659x
Faber & Faber, London, 1983. 4to. hardcover 610pp. index. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $75.00
Derrick V.C.
Farquhar, Murray
Book Number: 65919
ISBN: 072701708x
Rigby Publishers Adelaide 1982. 8vo. hardcover. 205pp. b/w illus., maps. Very good, some foxing, rubbing to cover corners. / Very good d/w. Inscribed & signed by author.
Price: $35.00
Preserved
Sandler, Nick & Acton, Johnny
Book Number: 65917
ISBN: 1856265323
Kyle Cathie, UK, 2004. 4to. hardcover. 224pp. index, colour illus. Very good, page edges wavy. / Very good d/w. Full of practical information, it covers all the main techniques of food preservation with accessible instructions and a light-hearted manner. Johnny and Nick show you how to dry meat and herbs, salt fish and cure ham. They teach you how to build a smokehouse and then smoke your own salmon, how to make sausages, pickle eggs and infuse oils, preserve with sugar, bottle fruit in alcohol and can your own produce.
Price: $35.00
Made at Home: Curing & Smoking
Strawbridge, Dick & James
Book Number: 65916
ISBN: 9781845336578
Mitchell Beazley. London 2012. 8vo. hardcover, illustrated boards, 176pp.index, colour illus. Very good. some rubbing to cover in 2 spots.
Price: $15.00
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps: Counterinsurgency Field Manual
General David H. Petraeus & Lt. General James F. Amos & by Lt. Colonel John A. Nagl. (forewards by); Introduction by Sarah Sewall.
Book Number: 65915
ISBN: 9780226841519
University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2007. 8vo. softcover. 419pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine, owner's embossed stamp on fep.
Price: $18.00
Catherine Certitude
Modiano, Patrick
Book Number: 65913
ISBN: 087923959x
David R. Godine, Publisher, USA 2015. 4to. hardcover. 59pp. colour illus. Near Fine./ Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00
THE WORLD OF OLEGAS TRUCHANAS
ANGUS, Max
Book Number: 65912
ISBN: 0959821201
Hobart Olegas Truchanas Publication Committee 1975. 5th ed. Sq. 4to. 144pp, 44 colour plates, 13 other illus, including 2 maps. Canvas cloth with d/w. Very good, page edges slightly toned,foxing to endpapers, owner's inscription on half-title page. Very good+ d/w. Truchanas, the leading wilderness photographer of his day, lost his life in January 1972 in the Gordon River Gorge during the unsuccessful battle to save Lake Pedder from inundation
Price: $18.00
Toys, Dolls, Automata: Marks And Labels
White, Gwen
Book Number: 65910
ISBN: 0713429569
Batsford, London 1985. Large 8vo. hardcover. 240pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00
Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon
Lindemann, Klaus
Book Number: 65909
ISBN: 9622201164
Maruzen Asia, Singapore 1982. 8vo. softcover. 370pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers & covers.
Price: $40.00
Historic homesteads of Australia 2 volumes.
Trusts, Australian Council of National
Book Number: 65905
ISBN: 0726900044
Cassell, 1972, 1976. 4to.hardcovers laminated boards, 300pp, 320pp. colour & b/w illus. very good - near fine, light foxing to endpaers on volume one. / Very good d/ws.
Price: $45.00
The curly pyjama letters
Leunig, Michael
Book Number: 65904
ISBN: 0670040231
Ringwood, Vic. Viking 2001 8vo hardcover 73pp, b/w illus. near fine / near fine d/w.
Price: $12.00
The New Illustrated Bible: The Holy Bible With Concise Introductions to the Several Books.+ Bible Dictionary or Compendium of Information Regarding the Names, Places, Natural History, and General Subjects Mentioned in Scriptures.
Macleod, Donald, Reverend (Editor)
Book Number: 65901
ISBN:
J. S. Virtue & Co., Limited, London, n.d. circa 1880 Folio. hardcovers. rebound in leather with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.Complete 3 volumes + Dictionary, (volumes 2,3 & dictionary bound together). pp.994, 558, 46,16. 47 full page b/w engravings on steel with tissue guards, in text illus. Very good condition with some foxing, mainly on prelims & page edges. Some rubbing to cover edges. Very heavy set, extra post will apply if being sent outside of Australia.
Price: $2600.00
The Head-Hunters of Borneo
Bock, Carl
Book Number: 65900
ISBN: 705415120
Time-Life Books, Belgium, 1986 8vo. Padded leather covered boards, hardcover, gilt edges. 342pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good+. Time life Classics of Exploration slip taped to verso fep.
Price: $25.00
