Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by Oxford City Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1849023506ISBN 13: 9781849023504
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 8.81
Used offers from US$ 7.50
Also find Softcover
Published by Editions Transboréal, 2016
ISBN 10: 2361571986ISBN 13: 9782361571986
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Book
Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de ce livre à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 15.42
Used offers from US$ 4.91
Also find Softcover
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014
ISBN 10: 1498175805ISBN 13: 9781498175807
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1985
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Pp. 152, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (some full or double page), full page map, pictorial endpapers, index; demy 4to; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1985. Reprinted. *First published in 1971.
Published by Macmillan, N, 1977
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Pp. vi+180, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations (some full or double page), pictorial upper endpapers and lower endpaper map printed in brown, notes, index; tall cr. 4to; tan boards, spine lettered in white, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip lightly faded, the back panel slightly scratched; The Macmillan Company of Australia, Melbourne, 1977. Illustrated edition. *Originally published by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1963. The story of the Burke and Wills expedition.
Published by The Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, Sydney, 1966
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Signed
The Grand Moving Diorama of the Victorian Exploring Expedition. Pp. [20], frontispiece, plus 1 text illustration, 2 tinted facsimiles, appendices, printed pastedowns; demy 4to; printed papered boards, lightly soiled, edges a trifle bruised; original glassine wrapper, creased and slightly torn; The Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, Sydney, 1966. Edition limited to 275 copies, this being one of 250 signed by the author. *The second publication from The Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, reproducing newspaper advertisements for t he 1862 Burke & Willis 'moving panorama' or diorama [see Ferguson 7709]. The new illustrations are by Syd Miller and the introductory text is by Keast Burke. With loosely inserted related publisher's ephemera (Chairman's report for 1966).
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1971., 1971
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
8vo. hardcover. 36pp. fold-out map. Very good+, light foxing.
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1963
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Octavo, x, 36 pages plus a folding map. Synthetic cloth slightly marked; flyleaves a little discoloured; an excellent copy. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies.
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1963
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Octavo, x, 36 pages plus a folding map. Synthetic cloth; a trifle rubbed; an excellent copy. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies.
Published by Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed,. Henry Hansard, printer. 28 March, 1862., London,, 1862
Seller: Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Map
"the glorious race across the continent" (Sir Henry Barkly) One large folding and one full-page lithographed map, with contemporary hand-colour in outline (502 by 320; 280 by 170mm); bound into "Hansard" paper 'Australian Exploring Expedition. (Burke and Wills). Copy of all Despatches from Sir Henry Barkly and the other Colonial Governors on the subject of the Australian Exploring Expedition', folio; stabbed and sewn as issued, preserved in archival buckram-backed portfolio. The censorious official report, issued as part of the royal commission, into the disappearance of legendary Australian explorers Burke and Wills: a tragic tale of hubris and mischance of epic proportions emblazoned into the heart of every Australian. The signal intent of the expedition, commissioned by the state of Victoria's worthies on a whim, in the spirit of sporting endeavor rather than scientific exploration, was to compete with the ambitions of South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart, to be the first to traverse the Australian continent from South to North. The choice of local policeman, Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861), as totally inexperienced leader, was: "inexplicable if exploration were the real object, but excellent if it were exploit. Burke was a death or glory man and he achieved both" (Fitzpatrick). Burke and Wills did, technically, achieve their goal, but at a terrible cost: with an expenditure of more than £60,000, the lives of seven explorers, and an unknown number of indigenous people. Outfitted with "over two dozen [camels], both riding and pack animals, imported complete with cameleers. There were horses and wagons, abundant food for two years and lavish equipment, including 6 tons of firewood, 57 buckets and 45 yards of green gossamer for veils. The party consisted of three officers: Burke, Landells the camel-master, and William John Wills surveyor and meteorologist; two German scientific officers, Ludwig Becker naturalist and Herman Beckler medical officer and botanist; a foreman and nine assistants and the camel-drivers. The expedition left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 and made a stately progress through the settled districts to Swan Hill and Balranald and reached Menindee on the Darling at the beginning of October. The march to the gulf was made in extraordinarily favourable conditions, after a season of heavy rain. Charles Sturt's Stony Desert was like a garden, full of lily ponds, and Burke's expedition, in this also unique, was never short of water and was able to travel in an almost straight line to its objective, without losing time searching for water. Even so it took four months to do the 1500 miles. They walked from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. with only a single day of rest in the whole period, and were half-starving in the fourth month" (Kathleen Fitzpatrick). The real hero of the hour was John McKinlay, who led the relief mission. Unlike Burke and Wills, he mapped his route and made useful discoveries. His party was the second to cross the continent from south to north and, like Stuart, he never lost any of his men. Provenance: British Foreign Office Library Fitzpatrick, 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', online; Maria, 36; McLaren, 5558.