Titles starting with K from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Hardcover. Garden City NY 1943. 339pp, b&w plates. Black pic. cloth rubbed, dj spine slt. discolored & chipped o/w good copy in good dj. A white man in the Canadian Arctic among the Eskimos of King William area. ... more information

Chicago:: The Reilly & Lee Company,. 1922.. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 297pp, color frontis, color and b&w illus throughout, pictorial end papers, b&w illlus of Princess Dorothy (p299). Founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum. The illustrator is John R. Neill. Pictorial dark green cloth cover with color illus tipped on. Title in yellow orange and green above illustration of four characters riding on an elephant's trunk. Title in black on decorative clo... more information

Theal, Geo. McCall. Kaffir Folk-Lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current Among the People Living on the Eastern Border of the Cape Colony. With copious explanatory notes. Swan Sonnenschien, London 1886, 2nd edition. 8vo, 225 pages. Orig. dark green gilt cloth, very crisp and tight. Theal, Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to South Africa, page 296,'The tales in this volume are some of those collected by me during a residence of many years on the Kafir border, when I was in close inte... more information

Spain:. 1890.. Orig. colored print from "El Mundo Cientifico", priced at 20 centimos. 7 3/4 x 10", very good condition. ... more information

New York:. 1967.. Paperback. Very good. x + 102pp, b&w photos in text. Pictorial pp wrps, vg. ... more information

Aus. Med. Publ. Sydney 1955. Reprint from Oceania, September-December, 1954. B&w ills and fold-out chart in text. Cream wrps, vg. Scarce. ... more information

New South Wales:: Thomas Richards, Government Printer,. 1875.. Second edition. Hardcover. Information on the Kamilaroi, Dippil, and Turrubul aboriginal languages and traditions collected by the missionary author. 4to, frontis, 172 pp. Slt. tidemark on inside corner of frontis & back ep, but nowhere else. Orig. dark green pebbled cloth, gilt title, covers rubbed at spine tips with some sml. splits in cloth at hinge, but still a tight copy. A nice copy overall. ... more information

Damm, Hans. Kanaka Menschen der Sudsee. F.A. Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1957. 372pp, col. photos, b&w ills in text. Yellow cloth & dj water damaged. Reading copy of unusual work on Kanaka people in S. Pacific, Easter Island content. ... more information

Berkshire:: Golden Cockerel Press,. 1922.. Limited edition. Hardcover. Extremely scarce in the glassine dust jacket. Limited edition of 1,375 copies. The story of Ellis working in Australia as a teacher. Small 8vo, 68 pp. Yellow cloth backed gray green boards, with title in black at white spine label. Boards lightly sunned at top and bottom edges. Original yellow dj with glassine wrapper. Dj is dusty and ruffled at edges. Glassine slightly chipped at top and bottom edges of front cover. Internally, bookpla... more information

ca. 1890.. A large tinted lithograph by the artist who is best known for his part in fashioning the 'legend of the nineties' with his original illustrations for "While the Billy Boils" by Henry Lawson, and "Dot and the Kangaroo" by Edith Pedley. He also contributed to the Sydney Mail, the Bulletin and the Australian Town and Country Journal. The scene shows a hunting party in which 3 greyhounds have cornered a large kangaroo, with a gentleman rushing in to club him. Others app... more information

New York:: Maxton Publishers,. 1945.. 4to, 16pp, ills. on each page by Charles E. Bracker. Very large- 11 3/4 x 9". Cover illustration by Paul Kaloda. Front & back covers are color illustrations of the front & back of the kangaroo in a crouch, complete with a cut-out joey that slides out of her pouch. Very good condition. Not recorded in Muir. ... more information

Reading, PA:: W. C. Kantner,. 1881.. Thousands of black and white engravings of animals, people and objects, with the name of each below, and beginning with single syllable words and progressing to multi syllabic ones. With illustrations of Australian flora and fauna, including: Kangaroo, Lyre bird, cassowary, sheep shearing, and whale fishing. With American interest, including: Indian, Negro, washer woman, Esquimau, and velocipede. With 'Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children' articles... more information

Pospisil, Leopold. The Kapauku Papuans of West New Guinea. NY 1963, pbk. 102pp, ills, g+ cond. Case Studies in Cultural Anthro. Series. Meggitt copy. ... more information

Hardcover. Bokforlaget Bra Bocker, Oslo 1975. W d/j, vg+. ... more information

Bulmer, R.N.H. Karam Colour Categories. Reprinted from: Kivung, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1968. pp120-133, b&w tables in text. ... more information

New Haven:: Yale University Press,. 1991.. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dj. 4to, 218pp, b&w and color illus throughout. Dark blue cloth covers. Original pictorial dj with title in white at top of front cover and in black on a white ground on the spine. Schinkel was a nineteenth century German architect and designer whose works still dominate Berlin and elsewhere. The volume serves as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Dj like new, with library label on spine; inte... more information

Petermann, A. Karte der Colonie Queensland in Australien. Map published for the German geographical journal, "Geographische Mittheilungen", 1861. Lithograph, outline colour, 25x21 cm. Queensland border at 141st parallel. Shows southern Queensland with an inset of the whole state. ... more information

McKinlay, J. Karte der Reiserouten von W. Landsborough, J. McKinlay u.A. in Nord Australien, (s.w. vom Carpentaria - golf). Lithographic map by Petermann for the Geographische Mittelheilungen, 1864. 19x25 cm, contemporary folds, period colour on the explorer's routes. The map shows the country from the mouth of the Albert River inland, marking the routes of Leichhardt, A.C. Gregory, Landsborough, F. Walker & McKinlay. Covers 137.5-140.5 degrees long. and 19.5-17 degrees lat. ... more information

Vienna:. 1787.. Large map of the Straits of Magellan, with soundings and detailed observations. 26 1/2 x 20" with large margins, copper engraving with period outline color. Inset of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands. Wonderfully detailed map marking the direction of water flow, soundings, mountains & wooded areas on shore, notable landmarks, with names in German, English & sometimes French. Some marginal waterstaining at the far right edge o/w very good condition with a few period folds. ... more information

Nurnberg:: bey Homanns Erben,. 1807.. 17 12 x 22" plus margins, original outline color, some faint watermarks. Two repaired pin holes, paper toned otherwise Good+ condition. ... more information