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  • Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    # 46399

    MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)

    Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    [=Old New Zealand]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1870. First Danish edition. Duodecimo, original cloth-backed papered boards (rubbed), upper board with nineteenth century Danish school library’s ownership inscription, mild foxing to paste-downs outer leaves, 66 pp, contents clean and sound, a good copy. Text in Danish. Rare. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad lived in …

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  • [PROSPECTUS] Outback in Australia; or three Australian overlanders

    # 46349

    HARRIS, Walter Kilroy

    [PROSPECTUS] Outback in Australia; or three Australian overlanders

    Being an account of the longest overlanding journey ever attempted in Australia with a single horse, and including chapters on various phases of outback life. Letchworth, U.K. : Garden City Press, 1913. Single sheet, folded into 4 pp octavo, three illustrations. Fine. Scarce prospectus for this account of an eccentric English traveller’s experiences droving in …

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  • Cricket walkabout : the Australian Aboriginal cricketers on tour, 1867-8

    # 46505

    MULVANEY, D. J.

    Cricket walkabout : the Australian Aboriginal cricketers on tour, 1867-8

    Melbourne : MUP, 1967. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s green cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned); pp xiv, 122; illustrated with b/w plates; with appendices, bibliographic references and index; a good, clean copy.

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  • [BOOKSELLING] Werden und Wirken : ein Festgruss Karl W. Hiersemann

    # 43232

    BRESLAUER, M. & KOEHLER, Kurt

    [BOOKSELLING] Werden und Wirken : ein Festgruss Karl W. Hiersemann

    zugesandt am 3. September 1924, zum siebzigsten Geburtstag und vierzigjährigen bestehen seiner Firma. Leipzig : Verlag von K.F. Koehler, 1924. Small quarto (270 x 200 mm), publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt (heavily sunned around head of spine); frontispiece etched portrait of Hiersemann by Gruner (with facsimile of Hiersemann’s signature), pp. [8], 421, [2], with …

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