Lieut Chas (51 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this w…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Cracked hinges, front board loosely attached, red boards with gilt decoration and rubbed corners, age-toned spine strip with gilt lettering, yellow end papers, tissue protected frontispiece, 464 unmarked pages with 34 color pages illustrating "types" at rear. 34 coloured plates with portrai…

Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. First printing. Red buckram binding. All page edges gilt. Boards have damp staining to outer edges and a few marks. Good solid binding. Foxing to page edges, verso of front free endpaper and frontis tissue guard. Clean text throughout. Frontis photograph of the author. Recent owner's bookplate…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J.S. Virtue & Co Ltd London nd VG- (navy blue cloth w title in gilt on spine and front board, all front boards have col flag, spines sl dull and vol 3 has marks, head and foot of spines bumped and chipped, edges gilt, boards are sl shaky, some foxing, most illus are tissue protected though some t…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the 1st edition of Horses (Mammalia Vol XII) from Jardine's Naturalist's Library in the original publisher's cloth binding. With volume listing; black and white frontispiece of Gesner; black and white vignette title page; 2 further title pages; Publisher's advert (not…

Condition: Good. 2 vols. Not dated C. 1894 Complete in library rebinds (red cloth). Text and illustrations clean. An odd finger mark to margins. Library marks are inobtrusive (front pate-down and verso of title only) Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and we…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pp.267 .Engraved frontispiece plate of Pallas, 33 plates, hand coloured from nature, Memoir of Pallas. Bound in original plum cloth, remains of paper label to spine. Contents good and tight, , original green endpapers unmarked, small plate from the Williamson Librar…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of insightful memories from a British officer serving in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of Roncesvalles, and insights into Napoleonic combat decision-making. Reminiscences of My Military Life: From 1795-1818, the first edition of an insightful account of a…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 1: 348pp, aeg, illustrations, navy blue boards; Volume 2: 352pp, aeg, illustrations, navy blue boards; Volume 3: 352pp, aeg, illustrations, navy blue boards. The contents are in very good condition, with a little foxing noted throughout. The frontispiece of Volume 1 has come away from the…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Two plates missing in Volume I. Gutters broken at endpapers on all volumes. Spines faded. A few marks to boards. Several small 1/4" tears and chips to cloth at ends of spine and edges of boards. 1/2" chips to cloth at corners of Volume II. Larger 2/3" circular chip to sp…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24 chromo lithographs, 24 ship portraits and coloured vignettes to titles. 3 vols. in original 6 parts with no stamps or labels. Blue cloth embossed and mostly very good, but for some wear at top of div I and div III. Gilt edges bright. Some tannig to edges of plates. Pages slightly toned but bri…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Blue cloth with red title to fronts and gilt title to spines, AEG, ND. Edges chipped, corners lightly bumped, some light dampspotting, endpapers lightly foxed, spine of vol 5 heavily sunned. Vol 1 cocked with cracked front gutter causing first plate to be partially detached. vol 2 front hinge lightly crac…

W. H. Lizars. 1839, 1840. In Two Volumes. First edition. Small 8vo. Uniformly bound in half tan calf gilt. Marbled boards. Vol. I: Frontis., engraved vignette title page displaying two St. Bernards saving a man in the snow. General series title page and specific title page - Dogs. 267 pages. 33 hand-coloured plates. Vol II: Fron…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG condition in early (first?) binding of 1/2 calf with tan & black marbled boards, textured leather spine in 4 compartments with gilt stamped raised bands, black title patch spine with gilt lettering, brown coated EPs, all edges trimmed and speckled in brown. rubbing edges & corne…