Edward Duyker (134 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very light wear along top and bottom edge of cover at corners but otherwise very sharp copy with clean, bright, unmarked pages throughout. Binding is solid. Original dust jacket has light scratches, very light rubbing, and light wear along top and bottom edges but otherwise in great shape. Now with protective archival cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Melbourne University Press, 1995. Hardcover (16 x 24 cm), 129 pages, b&w illustrations. ISBN: 0522846521. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Very Good condition. Full bound brown boards with gold lettering along spine. Bumped, rubbed. Slanted spine. Inscription and blacked-out marking on front free paper. The dj is scuffed, scratched. Creased, chipped with a very small closed tear at rear bottom edg. Weight (before packaging): 450g. …

8vo, 383pp. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 129pp, notes, few bw ills. Dark green cloth in jacket. Very light foxing to top edge. Emily Skinner not only kept a shipboard journal on her voyage to Australia in 1854, but later recorded her reminiscences of a colourful life as a gold miner's wife. Her impressions of a young Melbourne are follwoed by her recollections of what is now Beechworth and the surrounding goldfields of the Ovens Valley. Size: 8vo.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (frontis) 671p D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards With maps and illustrations, a detailed life of this French 'explorer', including his explorations in Australian and New Zealand waters. This is a heavy book which will require extra postal charges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. The cover has a little wear, with light foxing on the cover. 106 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Article pulled out from the January 2000 issue. Pages 15 to 17 with 5 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. The legacy of Bonnie Prince Charlie, as recorded in the Library's collection.

Includes article P. 7 to 10 with 6 b/w and 2 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 20.7. The role of French books in Australian history.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Personalised gift inscription by author on title page.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr. Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Ex school library with neat stamps. Dustwrapper is protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Ribbon marker. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 380 pages. This book is the first full biography of an important eighteenth-century naturalist who not only circled the globe under sail but ranged as far north as the Arctic and as far south as Tierra del Fuego.…

hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 439 pages, b/w illusts, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with only light wear along the edges and at corners, spine is solid with minor bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. Dust Jacket: intact with only light scuffing on surface and wear along edges, no significant tears or tape repairs. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks. …

Condition: New.

8vo, 229pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket with slightly faded spine.

Condition: New. pp. 664 Maps.

Ex library, imperial octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps, xvi + 229pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, tape staining to boards & eps, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (library markings, light creasing & rubbing).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xvi, 229pp., b/w and colour illus., maps, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. Lightly dusted top edge else clean and bright internally. Dustjacket has sunned spine and edges.(BH) 1/2026.

8vo, 466pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Article pulled out from the July 1994 issue. Pages 12 to 15 with 3 b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. On the first French contacts in Australia.

Volume X, No. 1, October 1999. Includes article P. 7 to 10 with 2 colour and 3 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 20.7. Between 1852 and 1861 many women accompanied their husbands to the Australian goldfields.

xiv+106pp. 8vo. Original illustrated boards. (No dustwrapper issued). B/w illustrations, charts. A near fine copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book condition is Very good. Hard cover. Dust jacket near fine with protective sleeve, no tears. 1st edition. Book block clean. Book boards clean front and back. Spine intact. Overall an great and neat copy for your book collection. A Dictionary of Sea Quotations surveys nearly for millennia of literature, including novels, poems. Songs and religious texts, to show the extraordinary diversity of the human experience of the sea, the passions that it awakens and hold it has on our Imagination. Historian Edward Duyler draws upon the annuals of Sea exploration, the carnage of naval war and excerpts from the memoirs of Admirals, yachtsmen, castaways, naturalist, pirates, privateers, U-boat commanders, surfers and statesmen. With Quotations from ancient Grer and Romans; the Old and Ne Testaments and Qur'an; the plays of Shakespeare; Dickinson. Goethe, Dickens, Hugo, Melville, Verne and a multitude of other writers; voices from mutiny on the Bounty, the sinking of the Titanic and the voyages of Kon-Tiki, A Dictionary of Sea Quotations is an anthology of extraordinary breadth. This book for browsing to be enjoyed by all who love the Sea. Extra charges for oversea postage as the book weight is over 500grams.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Very Good With Light Handling Wear Gift Inscription From The Author On The Title Page Pp 40 Illustrations, Fold Out Genealogical Chart At The Rear. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Paperback Edition. Subtitle: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834). 2004 NSW Premier's History Awards Winner. B & W Illustrations and Maps.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Explorer Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and the diverse languages of the world. As a young ensign he was decorated for his pivotal part in France's acquisition of the famous Venus de Milo. D'Urville's voyages and writings meshed with an emergent French colonial impulse in the Pacific. In this magnificent biography Edward Duyker reveals that D'Urville had secret orders to search for the site for a potential French penal colony in Australia. He also effectively helped to precipitate pre-emptive British settlement on several parts of the Australian coast. D'Urville visited New Zealand in 1824, 1827 and 1840. This wide-ranging survey examines his scientific contribution, including the plants and animals he collected, and his conceptualisation of the peoples of the Pacific: it was he who first coined the terms Melanesia and Micronesia. D'Urville helped to confirm the fate of the missing French explorer Laperouse, took Charles X into exile after the Revolution of 1830, and crowned his navigational achievements with two pioneering Antarctic descents. Edward Duyker has used primary documents that have long been overlooked by other historians. He dispels many myths and errors about this daring explorer of the age of sail and offers his readers grand adventure and surprising drama and pathos. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

8vo, 349pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.