Captain Elphinstone (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: V. Good. The Master of Elphinstone (illustrator). 160 pp. Strong green cloth boards, worn but sound., w. label title to spine. Label worn & faded. Spine slightly bumped top & btm. Illustrated endpapers. Lt foxing on front & rear pages. Inscribed by the author on half title page. No.158 of 500 numbered copies. Coloured frontispiece. Title page w. b&w line drg. Dedication. Foreword, (written from Oflag VII C, Germany. 1 September 1941). Contents. List of illustrations. List of tailpieces. Illus. w. attractive b&w drgs. Coloured illus. opp. p.80. General notes at rear. Shooting, (vermin, pheasant, partridge, duck, etc.).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The Master of Elphinstone (illustrator). Reprint. Hardback. Rought Shoot. Previous owners name to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Foreword. Shooting Ground. Vermin. The Partridge. The Pheasant. Duck, Woodcock and Snipe. Moorland Shooting. Shooting Plans. General Notes. Illustrations. 160 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket and illustrations by John Elphinstone, Master of Elphinstone (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small loss to top and bottom of spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some overall browning and time staining to largely cream jacket. Not price clipped (12/6), gift inscription to half title page, some slight foxing to prelims, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 160pp, illustrated, decorated endpapers. A useful little book on country sports.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Master of Elphinstone (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1942 first edition, first issue, from the library of the one-time author and editor of The Field, Eric Parker, who has signed the book on the front of the dust jacket. 160 pages. Illustrated end papers. Text in very good, tight, clean condition. Light foxing of title page and half-title page. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket good, retaining price, with minor edge wear and a few small neat repairs and crease to spine. See photographs attached. (GA).

Condition: Good. Siege of Sebastopol 1854-5 (Ex. Military Command Library), 1859.Journal of the operations conducted by the Corps of Royal Engineers. Part 1 by Captain H. C. Elphinstone, R.E.Publisher: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London.Binding: hardback cloth.Description / Condition: Ex.library copy of the Military Command Library, London with stamps/marks apparent in places. Edge wear/tears to boards & spine with some scuffing and marks in places. Inner hinges a little loose. Light foxing/wear to pages.Please see pictures for further information.

4° (ca. 29,8 x 22 cm). 2, VI, 299, 1 S. mit 6 lithograf. Tafeln. Original-Leinenband mit starkem Feuchtigkeitsschaden. Gestempelt u. nummeriert, beide Innengelenke fast gelöst, Titelblatt u. Seite I/II lose. Innen meist sauber, Blätter teils an der Bindung fleckig. Schnitt gebräunt, abgegriffen u. angestaubt. Vorsätze fleckig, Einband stark fleckig u. bestossen mit Beschädigungen. Versandkosten wegen des hohen Gewichts innerhalb Deutschlands EUR 5,00 (versicherter Versand).

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; vi, [i, errata sheet inserted loose], 488, 32 [publisher's ads dated January 1853] pp, 7 plates including 4 colored lithographed plates, frontis, other engraved illus, large folding engraved map, tables. later cloth, gilt title lettering on red leather spine label, minor foxing or light stain on few leaves, mostly marginal, short presentation inscription to the Survey of the North Pacific & China Seas, from 'the Observatory', 1853, very good+ copy, sound. Abbey Travel 602. Ferguson 9436. Snow 633. Taylor 80. Hill p. 98. Good descriptions of customs, society, conditions, bit on cannibalism, etc, Savage Island, Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, Samoa, Vavau, Lifuka, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Port Jackson, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.

With notes of a visit to the Gold District. London; T. & W. Boone; 1851. First Edition. Octavo, contemporary calf-backed cloth boards, armorially stamped; pp. [ii], 102 (last blank); folding map (partially hand-coloured, a little toned) showing the location of the goldfields; (first four leaves slightly foxed; otherwise fine and clean); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy. Rare. The first eyewitness account of the goldfields. Erskine, better known for his Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, visited Australia in 1851 and wrote this account of the discovery of gold in New South Wales on his passage back to England. He made a personal excursion to the new discoveries, or diggings, as he refers to them at Summer-hill Creek and the Turon River. His dated notes of this journey form the appendix to this volume which commences with a brief account of the earliest discoveries of the 1820s and earlier, and continues with a detailed account of the discoveries from the late 1840s onwards. The map is adapted from Mitchell's map and information from H.M.S. Acheron and drawn up by Captain John Lort Stokes for the Author. This was the first eyewitness account of the goldfields and is particularly rare in this first edition. A second edition was published in 1852; this is also of considerable rarity. Ferguson 9461 (collation inaccurate). Provenance : Sir William Stirling, noted historian, politician and collector, his bookplate to front pastedown, and with a typewritten summary of his life loosely inserted. Australian Book Auctions, 2005.