Durrell Oliver (16 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: USED Good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 157 pp. Beige boards decorated in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white plates and line drawings - drawings by William Oliver. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Launching; The Gilded Cage; The Complicated Commissariat; A Multitude of Matings; Fables, Facts and Files; Pills, Potions and Palliatives; and The Stationary Ark. Size: 8vo. William Oliver; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Offsetting to end pages. Minor wear and fading to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Hardback. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st UK edition. 335pp, illustrated throughout. Binding a little faded and inner hinges weak but a good reading copy. Culinary history.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1350grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Very Good. Durrell Publications 1967 blue cloth boards. text block crisp. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and white photographs. First edition. Near fine in a very good (a bit sun faded along the spine) dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Tennis, Sports) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. folio. 32.5cm, 256p., with 200 colour illustrations, index, original green cloth, a fine copy near fine jacket. (). A reprint of Goldsmith's 1774 "History of the Earth ands Animated Nature". The colour plates are primarily from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (1849).…

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pale green boards with gold lettering to spine. In original dust jacket unclipped which is now in a mylar protective covering. First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine, clean copy. Gerald Durrell helped establish a model zoo on the Isle of Jersey, an experience that caused him to reconsider the whole question of wild animals in human hands. On one level, the book is about zoos. More profoundly, however, THE STATIONARY ARK is about the misuse of wild animals in captivity. Gerald Durrell helped establish a model zoo on the Isle of Jersey, an experience that caused him to reconsider the whole question of wild animals in human hands. OLIVER, WILLIAM (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket has several old repairs, blue cloth covered text has attractive spine strip with bright titles, pages have lightly tanned at edges, otherwise without flaw 8 X 10" 335 pages Weight Over 1 Kg. published 1967. Raymond Oliver was the master of the great Paris restaurant, Le Grand Vefour, and owner of one of the world's finest libraries of rare gastronomic books and manuscripts. For this fascinating volume he has written a sociology of taste. It is not a cookbook, though it contains many recipes, but an illustrated social history of the French at Table, an outline of the centuries and civilizations. As well as being the historian of the classic kitchen, Oliver records for the first time what was eaten by the peasantry, the townsmen, and the 'poor clerks' and scholars like Alcuin and Abelard. Illustrated throughout by colour and b/w plates, classic paintings and food photography. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 215x140x22mm+380g . . Collins. London. 1976. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp156. Pale green hard boards. Gold Lettering to spine. In original dust jacket unclipped. Minor discoloration to very head of spine. Interior of dust jacket foxed. Jersey Zoological Park; Zoo animals. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60. OLIVER, WILLIAM (illustrator).…

Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 256pp. with many engraved illustrations. Very minor wear to the board edges. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Originally published in 1774 as 'History of the Earth and Animated Nature', Oliver Goldsmith's popular writings were described as being 'of a class that the world would not willingly let die'. This fascinating study of the wonderful creations of nature is combined here with fine natural history illustrations taken from M Charles d'Orbigny's 'Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle' as well as Oudart, Pretre, Blanchard, Travies and Baron. Goldsmith drew heavily on the work of earlier naturalists, using Buffon as his main guide, although in fact he had little regard for the elaborate classifications of other scientists. It was his aim ' to excite an interest in the science of natural history by displaying before the public eye its numberless treasures'. This, therefore, is not a scientific work but a highly entertaining account of the habits, subsistence, manners, friendships and hostilities of a wide array of animals, such as the scorpion, the sheep, the cassowary and the sea urchin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. y Very Good. y First Thus. London: Studio Editions Ltd, 1990. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Thus. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Modern abridged edition of a work first published in 1774, which incorporated Oliver Goldsmith's prose describing the wonderful creations of nature with illustrations from the Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle by Charles d'Orbigny. 256pp with index, illustrated throughout with drawings in colour and black and white. gilt lettering to spine, green endpapers. Minor bumping and rubbing to spine and slight foxing to top edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edge and surface wear, internal tape repair to top edge and remains of price label to flyleaf, otherwise very good. VERY HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required. Book.…