Andrew Garran Ed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 112pp. (last blank). 28cm. Double column. Balck and white line illustrations throughout. Hard cover in defective dust jacket. A good clean copy A facsimile reprint of the Queensland part of the 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' published in 1886. [706g] (Reprint).…

HARDCOVER. 1986. Reprint. A very good copy in a very good d/w.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy quarto 530 + (26)pp., illusts., The text is illustrated with over 700 illustrations which were engraved on steel and wood by the best engravers procurable in America and Australia.

THIS VOL ONLY. New Zealand volume, loosely enclosed North Island and Middle Island railway, postal, and telegraph maps both present. Elephant folio, half bound leather boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling to spines & front boards, aeg, frontispiece with tissueguard, illus/maps (counted), viii+267pp (numbered 531 to 798 in this vol), VG (minor scuffing to spine & spine extrems, moderate fraying to lower spine, some surface loss to leather along hinges & board extrems, moderate soiling/scuffing to boards, minor soiling to page edges, 6cm closed tear to fep near lower gutter, moderate creasing to prelims, minor foxing sporadic throughout, minor 2-3cm tears near lower gutter sporadic throughout, 3cm closed tear on middle page edge on 751, 4cm closed tear to inner gutter on North Island map, 12cm closed tear to upper middle of middle island map, 2cm closed tear near gutter of Australia map, 3.5cm closed tear to lower middle of solar system map). …

BEAUTIFUL 3 VOLUME SET IN ORIGINAL BINDING. Lacks unbound maps; all bound maps present, folio, half bound leather boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling to spines & front boards, aeg, frontispieces with tissue guards, illus prelims to vol 1, viii-xii + 800pp total, illus, VG- (age appropriate scuffing to spines & boards/corners with some surface loss, light fading & soiling to boards, 11cm crack to front hinge of vol 2, moderate tanning & foxing to pages sporadically throughout). Weighing over 16kgs, this is a beautiful set despite the VG- rating. The South Island of NZ is still referred to in this atlas as the Middle Island.…

3 VOL SET WITH MAPS, elephant folio, half leather bound maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering/rule & raised bands to spines, gilt lettering to front boards, marbled page edges & eps, frontispieces- vol 1 with tissue guard, 801pp total, illus/maps- all present, 8x large folded maps loosely enclosed, VG (moderate rubbing & scuffing/surface loss to leatherwork, moderate fading & soiling to boards, moderate dampstaining & wrinkling to boards of vol 1 & 2, sl water damage to base of vol 3 front board, minor tanning/fading to page edges, bookbinder's sm label to front pastedowns, patches of moderate foxing sporadically throughout). …