Authors starting with M from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Glasgow:: John Smith.. Hardcover. c 1919. Scottish recollections & sketches of wartime (WWI) in France of the Glasgow Highlanders which appeared in The Glasgow Herald and The Glasgow Bailie; folksy narratives of the company's exploits. Lg 12mo, b&w frontis, 91pp. Stiff paper pictorial wraps, bound in library binding, with dark blue cloth covers & gilt title at spine. Spine slt sunned & with faded white library number. Internally, library sticker inside front cover & rear covers; pe... more information

Congress. House of Representatives, April 13, 1830. 8vo pamphlet, 32pp, 2 folding charts, clean. ... more information

New York:: Robert Carter & Bro,. 1849.. Hardcover. A Narrative of the Loss of the Brig Australia by fire on her Voyage from Leith to Sydney with an account of the Sufferings, Religious Exercises & Final Rescue of the Crew & Passengers. Sml 8vo, vii, 98 pp. Orig. brown cloth covers, dusty & bumped, o/w good. Covers embossed with ornamental shield, Carter's Cabinet Library, Fourth Series. Internally, damp marks at tops of early pages, publisher's agent label inside front cover, o/w ver... more information

London:: John Murray,. 1818.. Hardcover. Very good. Second, and best edition. 8vo, [8], 323pp, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait and 5 colored lithograph plates. Contemporary speckled calf boards, tastefully rebacked in brown calf with gilt decoration and red title label. Scant light foxing; overall a very good copy. Abbey Travel 559; Huntress 188c. The ship Alceste brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador and to ameliorate the relationship between China and Great Britain, which was strained b... more information

New York:: Doubleday,. 1950.. First edition. Hardcover. Signed presentation copy. 8vo, 279pp. Black cloth & dj, lightly browned on spine, sml. chip top back cover o/w vgc. Signed presentation copy dated 7/2/50. ... more information

MacCown, Eugene. The Siege Of Innocence. A Romantic Comedy Of Paris & Venice in the Twenties. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, NY 1950, 1st edition. 8vo, 279pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has a hint of fading to the spine and a small chip at the top of the rear panel. Signed and dated presentation copy. A diverting novel of a young American painter drawn unwittingly into the corrupt international set of prewar Paris and Venice. ... more information

MacDonald, Alexander. The Island Traders. A Tale of the South Seas. London 1908, 1st US edition. Pic. covers little bumped o/w g+ cond. Muir 4461 for UK edition. Adventure set in Fiji & New Caledonia, some implied military opposition between the British and Germans, interesting for 1908. ... more information

MacDonald, Malcolm. Angkor. Cape, London 1958. Large 8vo. 160pp, f, map, 111pp ills, pic dj, vgc. Account of the Khmers who built Angkor Wat a thousand years ago. Cambodia. ... more information

MacDonald, Alexander. The Island Traders. A Tale of the South Seas. Caldwell, NY 1908, 1st US edition. 8vo, 283pp, frontis & 5 ills.. Red pic. covers little bumped o/w g+ cond. Muir 4461 for UK edition. Adventure set in Fiji & New Caledonia, some implied military opposition between the British and Germans, interesting for 1908. ... more information

New York:: Putnams,. 1852.. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +. The author's account of Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration, in the last years of the Tokugawa Shogunate & just before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854. The Tokugawa shoguns ruled Japan during this period of western intrusion in the 1850's; Book V of the volume is devoted to Government, Legislation and Police, and describes political conditions of the time: "everything and everybody are under a system of ancient,... more information

MacGregor, Gordon. Notes on the Ethnology of Pakapuka. Bernice Bishop Museum Occassional Paper. Vol. xi No. 6 Honolulu Hawaii 1935. ... more information

MacGregor, Gordon. Notes On the Ethnology of Pukapuka. Bishop Museum, Honolulu 1935. 52pp, b&w ills & photos. White pp wrps. ... more information

New York:: The Bond Wheelwright Company,. 1950.. Limited edition. Near fine in good slipcase. Large 4to, 710pp, teg. This is a limited edition of 357 copies, of which this is volume number 48, signed by the author. This is a memorial edition, dedicated to Marion Morse MacKaye, with b&w photo tipped in. Bright blue cloth cover with gilt rules and gilt garland motif on front cover. Gilt title on spine. Spine is slightly faded and lightly rubbed at base. Internally immaculate. In blue cloth slipcase which ... more information

London:: Marshall Brothers,. 1897.. 8vo, 397pp, f & b&w ills in text, (3pp) ads. Blue cloth & gilt cloth, slt. marked o/w vg. F12105. MacNeil was a missionary who worked all over Australia, making 3 visits to West Australian goldfields (a state especially in need of guidance). ... more information

MacPherson, John. Ngarrabul and Other Aboriginal Tribes. Part II Distribution of the Tribes. Reprinted from: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1904, Part 4, Sept. 28th. pp677-684, folding map tipped-in at end, paper wrps. Complete in itself. ... more information

London:: Gollancz,. 1945.. 8vo, 142 pp, fold. map & 16 plts. Ex-lib copy in sturdy condition, good-. King Vouza of the Solomon Islands. ... more information

London:: Brain & Payne,. 1844-1847.. Very good overall. A view of a dramatic storm in Macao harbor, with small junk at the crest of a wave making its way through heavy seas to a large sailing ship, past the prow of a sinking vessel. Steel engraving, engraved by A. H. Payne, from “Payne's Universum or Pictorial World”, edited by Charles Edwards. 6 1/2 x 6 1/4" on sheet 10 1/2 x 8". Very faint scattered foxing to outer margins. ... more information

London:. 1744.. A copper engraved battle scene of Macao, from the water with the British ship 'Centurion' in the foreground firing cannon; return fire is seen from the castle. From Harris's Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca or a Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels consisting of above 600 of the Most Authentic Writers... 12 x 8 1/4", with wide margins. ... more information

Philadelphia:: P. S. Duval,. 1856.. Very good overall. Hand colored lithograph of Macao harbor after the artist Wilhelm Heine. With masted sailing vessels in the harbor, church spires, dwellings, and flag flying from a hilltop fortress. From Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry'. 6 x 8 3/4 inches on sheet 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. A few small marks at ... more information

New York:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,. 1967.. Hardcover. The story of a girl and boy, Tangle and Mossy, and their adventures and travels. With illustration by Maurice Sendak, and afterword by W. H. Auden. Small 8vo, 86 pp, b&w illus throughout. Medium blue highly decorative gilt front cover, with floral borders and birds and leaves intertwined in a large oval of branches. Gilt title at spine. Cloth covers are very good. Original pictorial dj with title in black above illustration of a cottage at front c... more information