Chippendale George (11 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Mild age-toning to covers. Illustrated with black & white distribution maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages.

blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Jacket has moderate general wear, chipping at head of spine and a 5cm tear to rear top edge. Internally clean. Binding tight. 218pp Size: 185mm x 255mm. Book.

Broad 8vo, vi + 192pp. Original pictorial wrappers, slightly bent toward bottom corner. Copious d/w distribution maps detailing each eucalyptus species's distribution on the Australian continent, in addition to a list of extant eucalytus species according to locale. A very good copy. First edition.

Stiff Wraps. Royal 8vo, pp. (vi) 192, Index, b/w maps, previous owner's label, few marks bottom edge, stiff wraps, spine slightly yellowed, minor mark front, good. Distribution of eucalyptus species with multiple maps. Computing programmes by Ludek Wolf (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good +. AUSTRALIAN FAUNA & FLORA - 192 p. : maps ; 25 cm. #311026 Eucalypts. Distribution. Australia Eucalyptus -- Australia -- Geographical distribution Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

4to (25x17.5cm), paperback, prelims + 179pp. Good condition. Light wear and scuff marks, sunned spine, tiny chip to head of spine, owner's name penned at title page. Pictures available on request.

Hardback. 1984, Revised edition. A 2 volume set in very good condition. Both volumes are only marked by very light rubbing on the base of the spine and a few spots on the top edges. Otherwise these are fine copies. The d/w's are near fine with only very minor edge wear. Scans available if required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardback in very good plus condition with fine dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. Small stains on front and rear end pages and one small spot on pages 18 & 19, otherwise fine condition. New Revised Edition. Volume 1.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 108. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1968 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 108.…

orig.cloth. 96 pp, 25x18cm, Name inked on flyleaf. Contains 605 drawing illustrations. Some rubbing. Two marks to cover. Spine bump. Good. Textual drawings (illustrator).