Rare Books - Non-Fiction

Delve into ideas that shaped the world with our Rare Books: Non-Fiction collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller. From signed editions and academic milestones to vintage philosophy, history, and science texts, these collectible volumes offer intellectual and historical value. Shop online or in-store for non-fiction books that truly stand the test of time.

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The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N (First Edition)
$150.00
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N (First Edition)
Ernest Scott
The standard biography of the navigator who first circumnavigated Australia, published in 1914, the centenary...
Port Phillip Settlement (First Edition)
$550.00
Port Phillip Settlement (First Edition)
James Bonwick
James Bonwick’s documentary history of the first settlement of Port Phillip, illustrated with sketches by...
Across Australia (Second Edition)
$400.00
Across Australia (Second Edition)
Baldwin Spencer & F. J. Gillen
The popular condensed edition of Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen’s Central Australian work, with...
Researches in the Southern Gold Fields of New South Wales (Second Edition, Fine Binding)
$1,000.00
Researches in the Southern Gold Fields of New South Wales (Second Edition, Fine Binding)
W. B. Clarke
The Rev. W. B. Clarke’s account of the gold fields of southern New South Wales...
The Settlement at Port Phillip, 1835 (Limited Edition)
$125.00
The Settlement at Port Phillip, 1835 (Limited Edition)
John Batman
A numbered, limited reprint of an early account of John Batman’s 1835 expedition to Port...
Travels in Southern Africa. In the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 (Van Riebeeck Society Edition)
$175.00
Travels in Southern Africa. In the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 (Van Riebeeck Society Edition)
Henry Lichtenstein
The Van Riebeeck Society’s reprint of the English translation of Lichtenstein’s account of the Cape...
Plutarch Lives: The Dryden Translation (First Folio Society Edition)
$320.00
Plutarch Lives: The Dryden Translation (First Folio Society Edition)
PLUTARCH & Arthur Hugh Clough (ed)
The Folio Society’s first edition of Plutarch’s Lives in four volumes, in the Dryden translation...
$200.00
Among the Selkirk Glaciers (First Edition, Fine Binding)
William Spotswood Green
An early English-language account of the exploration and survey of the Selkirk Range, by a...
$150.00
The Dolomites. King Laurin's Garden. Painted by E. Harrison Compton (First Edition)
Reginald Farrer
A colour-plate portrait of the Dolomites on the eve of the First World War, in...
Hall & Ball: From Mount Cook to Everest (Deluxe Limited Edition, Signed)
$220.00
Hall & Ball: From Mount Cook to Everest (Deluxe Limited Edition, Signed)
Colin Monteath
A numbered, slipcased deluxe issue of the photographic life of two New Zealand mountain guides,...
here, there and everywhere... The autobiography of Jim Curran (First Edition, Signed)
$120.00
here, there and everywhere... The autobiography of Jim Curran (First Edition, Signed)
Ed Curran
The autobiography of the climber, filmmaker and painter Jim Curran, his last book, signed by...
Pushing the Limits. The Story of Canadian Mountaineering (First Edition, Signed)
$250.00
Pushing the Limits. The Story of Canadian Mountaineering (First Edition, Signed)
Chic Scott
The standard history of Canadian mountaineering, a prize-winning survey from the first pioneers to modern...
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs (First Edition, Signed)
$500.00
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs (First Edition, Signed)
Fred Beckey
Fred Beckey’s own selection of the hundred climbs that meant most to him across North...
... and one for the crow: Words and Images of Ascent (First Edition, Signed)
$180.00
... and one for the crow: Words and Images of Ascent (First Edition, Signed)
John Redhead
A privately published, signed collection of the North Wales climber John Redhead’s writings, sketches and...
Orte, die ich lebte, bevor ich starb (First Edition, Signed)
$150.00
Orte, die ich lebte, bevor ich starb (First Edition, Signed)
Oswald Oelz
A signed picture-memoir by the Swiss physician and mountaineer Oswald Oelz, with the signature of...
Everest: The West Ridge (50th Anniversary Edition, Signed)
$120.00
Everest: The West Ridge (50th Anniversary Edition, Signed)
Thomas F. Hornbein
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Thomas Hornbein’s account of the first American ascent of Everest by...
Mountain Midsummer: Climbing in Four Continents (First Edition)
$100.00
Mountain Midsummer: Climbing in Four Continents (First Edition)
Michael Gill
The mountaineering autobiography of the New Zealand doctor who became one of Sir Edmund Hillary’s...
Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (First UK Edition, Signed)
$100.00
Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (First UK Edition, Signed)
Greg Child
Greg Child’s first book, a collection of Himalayan and Karakoram encounters, in its UK first...
Mountains in Bolivia (First Edition, Inscribed by Author)
$120.00
Mountains in Bolivia (First Edition, Inscribed by Author)
Fred Hendel
The privately published memoir of the Austrian émigré physicist who brought skiing to Bolivia and...
Summits and Secrets (First Edition, Signed)
$300.00
Summits and Secrets (First Edition, Signed)
Kurt Diemberger
The first English edition of Kurt Diemberger’s climbing autobiography, in Hugh Merrick’s translation, signed by...
The Ice Experience (First Edition, Signed)
$100.00
The Ice Experience (First Edition, Signed)
Jeff Lowe
Jeff Lowe’s first book, a 1979 work on ice climbing by the American alpinist who...
Big Wall Climbing: Development, Techniques and Aids (First UK Edition, Signed)
$100.00
Big Wall Climbing: Development, Techniques and Aids (First UK Edition, Signed)
Doug Scott
The first edition of Doug Scott’s history of big-wall climbing, signed by the author and...
Bradford on Mt. Washington (First Edition, Inscribed by Author)
$350.00
Bradford on Mt. Washington (First Edition, Inscribed by Author)
Bradford Washburn Jr.
A teenage Washburn’s account of climbing Mount Washington, inscribed by him at eighty with a...
Statement: The Ben Moon Story (First Edition, Signed)
$120.00
Statement: The Ben Moon Story (First Edition, Signed)
Ed Douglas
The authorised biography of Ben Moon, the British climber who made the first ascent of...
The Magicians Glass (Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed)
$120.00
The Magicians Glass (Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed)
Ed Douglas
A signed, numbered copy of the hardback issue of Ed Douglas’s essays on climbing’s great...
Hitler's War (First Edition, Third Printing)
$300.00
Hitler's War (First Edition, Third Printing)
David Irving
The first British edition of David Irving’s biography of Hitler as war leader, a best-seller...
Letters to Vicky (First Folio Society Edition, Signed)
$120.00
Letters to Vicky (First Folio Society Edition, Signed)
Andrew Roberts
Queen Victoria’s letters to her eldest daughter, from the Princess Royal’s marriage into the Prussian...
The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell (Second Edition, Signed by Campbell)
$1,750.00
The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell (Second Edition, Signed by Campbell)
Peter Crayford
The first full survey of Cressida Campbell’s woodblock paintings, in the signed second edition. With...