Captain Sutherland (51 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Slight fading to spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Family history of the author's family, from Stromness, Orkney, based on papers compiled by his brother. Despite the title, mostly covers the first half of the twentieth century. 164pp, b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ashman, Iain (illustrator). First Edition. Some fading to spine of unclipped dustwrapper, also slight creasing to edges of same. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Memoirs of the author, originally from Orkney, including his service in the Merchant Navy during WW2 and afterwards, his struggle with alcoholism, and his return to Orkney, eventually becoming head of the Stromness Nautical School. Signed and inscribed by the author on title page. 460pp, b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. (SL#253).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Tour Up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople' offers a fascinating glimpse into the late 18th century, amidst the tumultuous backdrop of the Russo-Turkish War. Authored by David Sutherland, this historical account meticulously details the leading events of the conflict between the Austrian Empire, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire leading up to 1789.

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1922. First edition. xi, 180pp., double-page frontispiece showing officers commanding the 5th Seaforth Highlanders while mobilized, and a folding map at the end of the book. The 5th Seaforth Highlanders, whose war record is given in this book, is the Territorial Battalion of Caithness and Sutherland, the two most northerly counties in Scotland. The battalion was first formed in 1859, early in the Volunteer movement, by the Duke of Sutherland. This account of the the paert played by the Battalion in the First World War also contains lists of decorations and those mentioned in despatches. The book is bound in the original blue boards with gold titling on the spine and battalion badge on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with light shelf wear and some light soiling. The corners and spine ends are bumped and the spine is slightly faded with wear to the titling and a small bit of damage just below the titling. The contents are tight and clean with offsetting/browning to the endpapers. No inscriptions.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xii,180pp, 9 portraits on double-page frontispiece, folding map. Endpapers evenly browned. Gift inscription opposite half title: "To Colonel D Mason- MacFarlane CMG, as a token of respect from his second in command, Princes Street, Thurso ,24/9/20. The boards are clean and gilt titling on spine reasonably bright. Minimal foxing. See Scans and email for more.

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Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | A Tour Up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople With the Leading Events in the Present War Between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James. RENNELL J Major. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Complete, 2 tours in 2 volumes, 48 leaves with 52 plates, maps & illustrations along with 47 wood engravings within text, first editions of both works (1812 & 1818), large-paper issues, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1812, 1st ed, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 23 pls on19 leaves (includes folding, 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps), 47 wood engravings within text, t.e.g., some light offsetting, spotting and toning, more so in Vol 1, tidemark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p136 more heavily spotted & browned, red marbled endpapers. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). Signatures [3], b-b4, [c2]only, B-3K4. [7], (viii-xix), [1], B1-3K2. (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. WHITCOMBE T. SUTHERLAND T. (illustrator). 1st Edition. The uncommon, 1814, 1st edition, 110 coloured plates, including the Supplement on NSW. In 20th century maroon straight grain crushed morocco, decorative gilt & blind tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, worn slightly along joints & edges. Internally, frontis, [180] pp, 110 coloured plates (including the supplement), half title discarded, all edges gilt, some very light offsetting from some plates to text, some spotting to blank eps, red marbled endpapers, decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins. The all important supplement, by the author, has its own title page, 1813, and is dedicated to Rear Admiral Bligh. The fep is watermarked Abbey Mills Green field, plates are dated 1813, & watermarked J Whatman 1811, the paper is watermarked 1810. (286*223 mm). (Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577. Schwerdt 1, p177-9. Prideaux 283, 357. Bobins 337). OCLC locates very few 1st editions, 3 in the US, 1 in Australia & 3 in the UK. Superb plates depicting hunting, fishing, whaling, bull-fighting, bear trapping etc. around the world, and including the 10 supplementary scenes of aboriginal hunting and customs. First edition of "the most beautiful book on Indian sporting in existence" (Schwerdt). The text is taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served in Bengal for twenty years. Bound from the 20 original parts and containing 'the finest impressions of the plates' (Tooley) by H. Merke, J. Hamble, and Viveres after Howitt's drawings after Williamson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First editions of both works (1812 & 1818); large-paper issue of the first, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1st ed, large paper, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 19 pls (includes 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps 1 folding), 47 wood engravings within text. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). T.e.g., some light offsetting to a few text leaves, variable spotting and toning to some plates (generally light), tide-mark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p. 136 more heavily spotted and browned, red marbled endpapers. Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy, and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. 'In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818), both met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5).

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