Captain John Hunter (16 results)

Hard Cover. 452 pgs. some b&w illustrations (tables & charts, drawings, two large fold-out maps), appendices, notes, selected bibliography, index. Good+ hardcover copy in good dj (jacket nicked and worn; cover has a bit of spotting at top). (935).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red covers illustrated with gold, black and orange. Spine is slightly sun faded. Corners are lightly bumped and worn, wear to edges and spine ends. Contains all 12 listed colour plates including the fold out frontis 'Marvels of the Microphone' and many more black and white illustrations. Light foxing to end-papers, front end-papers have repeated purple ink stamp with previous owners name and address. Pages are clean, paper is a little darkened, plates are clean and bright. Binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08120124031. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.…

HARDCOVER GREEN. Condition: GOOD+. JACKET: GOOD DJ. illustrated with B & W photographs, text is clean and bright, general wear, slightly age toned pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1952 EDITION: 263.

252pp. 4to. Original stiffened wrappers. Colour plates and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy.

Birds and Flowers of New South Wales Drawn on the Spot in 1788,89 &90 11.75" x 8.75", quarter leather / marbled boards, glassine dustcover, 260pp, numerous full-coloured plates, in open-ended slipcase covered in black buckram, with scarlet silk ribbon. No 138 of a limited edition of 500, as-new condition, the Rodney Davidson copy, with his bookplate.…

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy large octavo 251pp., colour plates, glossary, references, index, A reproduction of his original sketchbook pages in facsimile. Well researched commentary on each sketch, covering its subject's discovery & identification.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine copper engraving showing great detail. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an attractive portrait of this eminent personage. Attractive and decorative.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1989 (first softcover edition)/ 1989. Quarto, [viii], 251 pages with 13 illustrations (4 in colour) and 100 colour plates. Colour-pictorial card covers; a fine copy. An extensively annotated facsimile edition of John Hunter's original sketchbook compiled between 1788 and 1790, containing 100 watercolour drawings of 'many of the birds, flowers, fishes and people found in and around Sydney and on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. The facing page for each sketch carries a thoroughly researched commentary by one of six distinguished scientists covering the historical background to the discovery and identification of the new species' (from the original prospectus).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red covers illustrated with gold, black and orange. Covers and spine are faded, worn and lightly marked. Corners are bumped and rubbed, wear to spine ends. Contains all 12 listed colour plates including the frontis 'Splitting the Herd' and many more black and white illustrations. Occasional smudges and light foxing, paper is a little darkened. Binding at index page has been reinforced with tape, tape remains and has caused some brown marks to paper edge. Binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08120124038. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.…

Hardback. Hunter, Captain John, The Royal Australian Historical Society with Angus and Robertson . Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Fold-out maps intact. Boards with minor marks and specks. Binding remains tight. Clean and sound copy. "An Historical Journal of Events at Sydney and at Sea 1787-1792" presents a firsthand account of the founding of the Australian colony, as Captain John Hunter chronicles the landmark voyage of HMS Sirius and details the dramatic early struggles of European settlement at Sydney through the authoritative eyes of one of its most senior naval commanders. Hardback.…

pp.251 with 100 col. & b/w. plates 4to. Fine softback with gently sunned spine. Captain Hunter's drawings, made between 1788 and 1790 are among the earliest made of the birds, flowers, fish and people found in and around Sydney, Norfolk and Lord Howe islands.

hardcover in good condition, lightly foxed, dustwrapper worn and torn; 452 pages, b/w illusts and maps, fold-out map has a small tear on edge, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

Facsimile ed. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, good condition, marbled boards, half-bound light brown cloth (spine & both corners), maps, rear pages little foxed, limited edition label at rear little creased & foxed (faint glue mark reverse side of page), string bookmark, small bookshop sticker. In cloth slipcase (minimal flecking). 134 pp. A facsimile of the very first book published in Australia, 1802, by the Government Printer, Sydney (only 3 copies are known to exist). This facsimile edition starts with selected standing orders issued by Governors Arthur Phillip and John Hunter (12 pages), followed by general orders and proclamations by Governor Philip Gidley King (122 pages, separately numbered). Some examples [edited]: John Simmonds has been sentenced to hard labour for 12 months. There being only 12 weeks salt meat remaining in the stores, [none for] all women, children and those men not actively employed until further notice. The days for grain being received into the stores from individuals at Sydney, Parramatta and Hawkesbury are Fridays. (No. 65 of a limited edition of 150 copies, by History Books Australia, 1983. ISBN not printed in book. 12 + 122 pages.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good hardcover copy of this scarce title in a very good dustcover which is in a protective jacket. There is some top page end spotting and a little light shelfwear under the protective jacket. The spine is straight, the binding is very tight and the text is very bright and clean. The fold-out maps are in very crisp condition. Price clipped. Please see photos.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator). …

8vo. Bound in modern qt.calf with marbled sides. xxii,583pp. uncut. Frontispiece portrait of Hunter. Vignette on title page. Large folding map. Lacks the plate "Family of NSW". The abridged octavo edition of Hunter's Journal published the same year as the quarto first edition.