Burdett fred d (5 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: AS NEW COPY. MINING Gold mining Kimberley WA - Originally published: London : Herbert Jenkins, 1936. iii, 166 p. : port. ; 22 cm. Burdett, F. D. (Fred D.) Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia Country life -- New South Wales Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia -- Kimberley #170826 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 22x14.5.cm. 320pp, 15 full page plates. Bound in original publishers green cloth, with black lines, lettering and crest. Cloth lightly rubbed, some light dust, dirt marking, slight lean on spine. Generally binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, one plate worn on edges. Pages and plates in good clean condition. A good clean copy. Size: 8vo.…

HARDCOVER. 1931. First edition. A very good copy bound in lightly edge rubbed green cloth boards with lettering in black on the spine and top board. The spine has a faint hint of sun fading. Light age tanning of the edges and endpapers. Apart from one page having come adrift and now loosely tipped in the contents are fine. Scans available if required.…

Thick 8vo. 320 pp. Photo frontisp., 15 photo plates. Green publisher's cloth, blue lettering & border ruling (very slight shelfwear, slight foxing to fore-edges), w/ d.j. photo cover art (minor chipping head of spine, dustsoiling, edgewear, 1 minor closed tear), still a NF/VG copy. First edition, 1st printing, stated, of this follow-up travelogue recording his adventures in the Kimberley Gold Rush, the pearl fisheries of the Indian Ocean, coping with the Pirates of Panay, hunting for sunken treasure, and shocking discoveries in a supposed Indigenous "cannibal" cooking pot. Burdett (b. 1864) was renowned for his pearling and natural history expeditions, sailing through the Indian Ocean, Indonesia, and extended expeditions into the Philippines, Indonesia, and across the South Pacific. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. …

Thick 8vo. 317, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 15 photo plates. Green publisher's cloth, blue lettering & border ruling, maps on endpapers (slightly cocked, slight occasional foxing, very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. photo cover art (minor chipping head & foot of spine, dustsoiling, edgewear, small chip on back cover), still a VG/VG- copy, from the library of Claude Bridgland. First edition, 1st printing, stated, of this rousing travelogue of the author's "thrilling record of forty years' adventures among the Igorote Head-hunters, the Negrito Pygmies (Aeta of Luzon) whose poisoned arrows are the terror of the forests of Luzon, the Dusun Python-hunters of the Borneo jungles, the Corsairs and Sultans of the Sulu Sea, and the Moro warriors of Mindanao." Burdett (b. 1864) was renowned for his pearling and smuggling expeditions, gold mining in the Kimberley mines, and extended expeditions into the Philippines, Indonesia, and across the South Pacific. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket.…