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Published by Lee and Shepard, Publishers, Boston
Seller: Maiden Voyage Booksellers, Kennebunk, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Australia; Exploration; Travel (illustrator). 512 pp; fascinating account taken from the journal of an early settler to Australia; in his own language and detailing the day by day progress of establishing of a colonist's farm; tissue guard is missing; in decorative boards.
Published by Sotheby's, London, 1971
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. With 161pp and illustrations - very good - 366 fine antiquarian books well described. SOFTCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, SPLENDID CONDITION, EXCELLENT VALUE.
Published by Black Sea Shipping Co., Russia, 1950
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Non-Book. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This menu dates to ca1950's and is in good conditio, with a central fold and with internal menu intact. ; 11" x 8.5"; 4 pages.
Published by ca1830, London, 1830
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Engraving. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original engraving showing a wrapped dead body in a sedan style chair being transported by tow persons. Later graceful color, fine detail. Images available.; 7" x 5".
Published by Cassell, London, 1900
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
First Edition
Non-Book. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bound in gree decorated cloth, black titles, edges a little rubbed, a very good, clean tight copy.; 11.5" x 8.5".
Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1976
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American edition. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 240 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Stated first American edition. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper.
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges, shows a winding path throuh a meadow. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges, shows a cliff with a row oh houses at its peak. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by England, 1880
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Photograph
Photograph. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This original photograph is in very good condition, mounted on original card, sepia-tone, a little faded at edges. Images available. ; 10.5" x 7.5".
Published by Switzerland, 1879
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Non-Book. This original photograph is in very good condition, unfaded, mounted on paper of the time, images available. ; 7" x 5".
Published by Switzerland, 1879
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Non-Book. Three original sepia-toned photograph, 2 - 4" x 3", 1- 7" x 5", very good condition, unfaded, mounted on paper of the time, images available. ; 7" x 5".
Published by Switzerland, 1879
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Non-Book. Three original sepia-toned photograph, 3 - 3" x 2.5", 6" x 4" , very good condition, unfaded, mounted on paper of the time, images available. ; 7" x 5".
Published by Benjamin Blom, Inc., New York, NY, 1972
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reissue. 240 pages; useful index. First published London 1924, this is the 1972 reissue. Including chapter contents on Burton's travels to Sind, Mecca, Harar; Notes on Scalping, a Day Amongst the Fans; Notes on the Dahoman; Chapters from Travels; Notes on Rome; Spiritualism in Eastern Lands and on Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/8" size; bound light gray linen cloth covered boards, black spine titles. A little edge, tips wear to the binding, spine a little soiled. Contents clean and in very good condition.
Published by unknown Unknown, unknown
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ledger. Approx. 13.5" x 9". Rebound at a later time. Marbled paper front cover board re-laid onto black hardcover. White paper title label on the front cover. Back cover is black. White end sheets front and back. 22 pages of hand written list of authors and titles related to exploration in the far regions. Places named include Alaska, Iceland, Hawaii, Cuba, Jamaica, Hyatt, Mexico, Amazon, South America, and dozens more. A single volume of a previous unknown owner(s) reference for a book collection. No ownership or provenance found for this reference.
Published by British Hydromechanics Assn, 2005
ISBN 10: 0714116564ISBN 13: 9780714116563
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1893
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. xi + 282 pages. Illustrated with two loosely laid-in folding maps, 28" x 41 ¾" & 18" x 31 ¾" as well as 3 color chromolithographic plates and numerous black and white illustrations & charts throughout. District statistics, population and resources of Alaska, ethnographic, geographic & cultural details, with Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the report. Approx. 9 1/2" x 12" size; bound in gray marbled-paper covered boards, black cloth spine, with old small typed title-sticker 'Alaska' as spine title. Tips, edge-wear and rubbing to the covers; small old rubber stamps rubbed away on endpaper and title page; binding loosening at front, a heavy volume; plates and maps in good condition.
Published by ca1950, Scotland, 1950
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Engraving. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This beautuful original block print is in very good condition, full borders as published, shows a lake, trees and mountainous background, plate marks defined, a fine dramatic printing. Images available. ; 9.5" x 14".
Published by Cassell Publishing Company, New York, New York, 1892
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. xiii + 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front, approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that ".Starting from the frontiers of Siberia, and coming out at the other end of Asia, on the coast of the new French colony of Tonquin, M. Bonvalot and his companions traversed not only that portion of Thibet which several English travelers, such as Dalgleish and Carey, and the great Russian Prjevalsky, had explored, but going beyond the limits which their predecessors had reached, forced their way over the table-lands and came out on the other side, this journey being one which no European had ever accomplished." Title page with the small somewhat faint previous owner name stamp of collector George R. Brush, M.D. U.S. Navy; he served as a surgeon & medical inspector, from 1861-1894. Approx. 7" x 10" size; bound in the original light lavender-purple color illustrated and decoratively gilt-stamped & titled cloth, gilt spine titles, top edge gilt. A little edge, tips wear and rubbing to the binding, contents and map clean and in very good condition.
Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1855
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 127 pages. The illustration listing page 'Note' states that "The above named views, portraits, and inscriptions, are careful representations of the originals. They were drawn by H.B. Mollhausen, artist to the expedition." These 42 numbered illustrations are collated complete and include small maps and tinted view plates, portraits of Native peoples and artifact remains. Civilian author Thomas Ewbank (1792 - 1870) was a commissioner of patents, inventor, and historian of technology; whose ".concern with the arts of the earliest occupants of the New World was an attempt to demonstrate through historical investigation the laws of progress that governed the "miracles of the workshop, uniting the past, present and future." The writings and public career of Ewbank are important for an understanding of how an important segment of mid-nineteenth-century public intellectuals viewed technology and its place in an expanding industrial society." (William A. Bate in the ANB) The third-named author and friend of Ewbank in this work, Prof. William Wadden Turner (1810 - 1859) a philologist and librarian ".was "pre-eminently distinguished at Washington as the highest authority in all matters appertaining to the knowledge of the languages of the aborigines of America." He "mastered easily and rapidly the principles of comparative philology which have become in the present period the surest guides in tracing the histories and affinities of different races." When Turner died prematurely in Washington, D.C., Joseph Henry, then secretary of the Smithsonian, mourned "a ripe scholar, a profound philosopher, and an honest man." (Martin J. Manning, also in the ANB) The report was part of the explorations and surveys for a railroad route across the U.S., which had been conducted during the years 1853 and 1854. Contents include chapter material on the ".localities, numbers, modes of subsistence, &c. of various tribes upon the route"; Indian residences, portraits and dress; traditions, superstitions, pictographs; Indian antiquities and arts; vocabularies of North American languages; condition of the aborigines of New Mexico upon its discovery by Spaniards; history of the Apache nation and other tribes. Approx. 9" x 11 3/4" size, bound in full heavily-textured sober dark brown cloth; small spine title-label gilt, rubbed. Covers with a little edge, tips wear; front and back endpapers scraped, chewed some; boards very good; title page with a few small holes & spotty; contents darkened some; in good condition.
Published by Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Shanghai, 1936
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good binding. Soochow [Suzhou] was much more accessible at the building of a railroad connecting it to Shanhai in 1911 and thus brought within the range of day-trips and making it a more desirable location for wealthy Chinese. "By 1936 it was possible.for F. R. Nance .to write a detailed guidebook to Suzhou, naming it for the first time as 'the garden city', an appellation it retains in travel literature down to the present day" [Craig Clunas; "Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China", p. 202]. With attractive colored maps on the endsheets of The Waterways; plates from photographs by C. H. Wong, and 5 folding maps. An important guidebook. Very Good binding.