Colonel Batty (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/unclipped price; decorative end papers; 208 clean, unmarked pages. 6 Etchings from Original Drawings of Lieutenant-Colonel Batty (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The Family Library No. XXV. Book cover shows significant wear due to age. Some visible water damage. Binding is tight. One page appears to have name of a previous owner written within, otherwise pages appear free of any annotating. Lieut-Colonel Batty (illustrator).

392 pp, tinted end-papers, b&w engraved plates, gilt edges, inner hinges cracked, intermittent foxing, newspaper clippings pasted to rear end-papers, board corners worn, spine discoloured, else good copy in gold-blocked, blue, cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus, The Family Library, 1831. Lower corner of rear endpaper torn away. Some foxing mostly to plates. Contemporary writing in ink to the margin of one plate, interesting note. Front endpapers foxed. Publishers printed brown cloth foxed, hinges cracked, both boards still firmly attached. Cloth and spine darkened. Not a bad copy. Illustrated by six engravings from original drawings by Lieut-Colonel Batty. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Third Edition. 24 mo. 15 cm x 10 cm. 356pp. Rebound in brown boards.Gilt lettering to spine. Six etchings by Batty. Lieut-Colonel Batty (illustrator).

Full-Leather. Condition: Poor. 3rd. 3rd edition, (1st published 8 years earlier in 1831), in contemporary full leather binding with 6 black and white plates. Classed as poor because the boards are adrift, there are loose preliminaries (at one point one was attached with sellotape) and there is browning, particularly where the plates have offset to tissue guards and text. There is a signature for John ?Slater Harrison, dated 1839 to a preliminary.Remaining contents nice and clean. There is light brown toning to paper. Colonel Batty (illustrator).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ist. The Preface is written by an anonymous author. There is one loose page and the final page is torn and missing. The binding is scuffed in places but complete but the back has detached from the spine. The 6 plates are 1.View near Mataval Bay 2.View of a creek in Mataval Bay 3.View of the boat, with Bligh and his companions 4.The Pandora, at the moment of going down 5.Residence of John Adams 6.George Young and his wife-Frontispiece. Lieutenant Colonel Batty (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: William Tegg N.D. Size 19cm x 13cm, viii, 392pp, five etched plates by Lieut. Col. Batty. Full calf binding by Bickers, school prize book, with ex libris plate Solid square book with marbled endpapers. A very attractive copy.

Bound in leather spine and leather tips. Some hipping to the spine label and at the top of the spine ends. Scuffing to the edges. of the leather tips. With marbled-paper-covered boards. A charming small 8vo. Some transfer from the frontispiece to the title page. First Edition: 1831 and no subsequent printings. Illustrated with six etchings from original drawings by Lieut.-Colonel Batty. Engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates all present. (illustrator).…

London, John Murry, 1831, in-12°, 16 x 10 cm, 295 pp with a folding map and 10 steel engravings, publisher's cased binding with a new cloth back. Interesting travel book with a large chapter on Antwerp, Amsterdam, Liège, Brussels, Ghent and Bruges. In an epilogue the author bemoans the destiny of the Southern Netherlands which have fallen under the worst of all tyrannies; the tyranny of the mob (epilogue written in 1831, the voyage was made in 1828).…