Oswald W Brierly (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Puiblished. 1st Edition. Dark red hardcover with gilt illustration and letting on the boards. Very good condition. Gilt page edges. Owners neatly hand written inscription on front fly page, dated 1881. Contains 12 woodblock illustrations , 6 full page 6 within the text (vignettes). Contains 12 chapters on the cruise. 487 pages.

Cloth Orig. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Pp. xii, 487. 6 b& w plates and illustrations as called for. 2nd edition, published in the same year as the first. Very good copy in bright blue original cloth.

Or.gilr decorated cloth (rebacked) xii,487pp. Illustrated by a photograph of the Duke of Edinburgh, and by chromo-lithographs and graphotypes fro sketches taken on the spot by O.W.Brierly. Some foxing & the lower edges of some page with slight moisture staining, else a fair copy. Record of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Australian Colonies.

xii+488pp. 8vo. Contemporary half-morocco gilt, a touch rubbed at extremities. Marbled edges. Black and white illustrations. A very good crisp copy. Second issue without frontispiece, map etc. (See Ferguson 12627).

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover edition. Nicely rebound, gilt titles to spine. 487pp+24pp of ads, 17 plates (12 of which are colored), folding map to rear, quarterbound octavo in black leather; boards clean, tight binding, foxing to endpapers, text and images clean, Very Good. Rebound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Demy 8vo; [2],xii,(488),[2]pp. Full calf, red, with green lettering piece and gilt decorations between raised bands on spine; gilt border on both boards and gilt centrepiece on upper board. Gilt tooled edges and blind inner-border. General wear and soiling with first signs of breaking at the bottom of the upper hinge. Some scuffs and discolouration. Binding square and tight. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Generally clean within. Gainford school-prize bookplate on front endpaper. B/w figures. A 'Good+' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine rubbed. 40mm tear to cloth at head of rear joint. Some loss of cloth at edges of corners of boards. Foxing and staining to the frontispiece. The folding map with large 140mm tear and creasing.; xii, 487, [1] pages + mounted oval albumen photographic portrait frontispiece + 8 chromolithograph plates + 4 tinted wood engraved plates. Black and white illustrations on the paginated leaves, some full page. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt floral illustrations at corners of front board. Variant binding, no title on front board and no nautical illustration to cloth. Page dimensions: 219 x 138mm. The plates are facing pages 9, 28, 61, 88, 100, 129, 172, 236, 323, 355, 404 and 481. [Reference: Ferguson 12627].

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition-first Printing. xii, 458pp, illustrations, list of officers. captained by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Galatea was a 317 ft. steam frigate, whose journey was to the Australian colonies via Tristan da Cunha and around the Cape of Good Hope, includes a murder attempt at Clontarf. The frontis photo is missing, the boards are rubbed, worn and faded/soiled, some minimal foxing, chart missing.1.3kg.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xii, 487, [1]. text illus. (some full-page). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, a.e.g. (rubbed). Second Edition. The first edition of this account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Australian colonies in 1867-68 was also published in 1869 with plates and a chart. cfFerguson 12627. cfNational Maritime Museum I 690.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. xii, 488pp plus large folding map to rear. Illustrated with a mounted real photo portrait of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and by coloured chromolithographs and graphotypes from sketches taken on the spot by O.W. Brierley. Bound in half brown morocco with marbled boards. Somewhat rubbed with minor edge wear but a good copy. The Duke visited Australia to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Colony of New South Wales. An eventful and interesting narrative of this royal voyage.

W H Allen & Co London 1869. First edition. Gilt decorated blue cloth, portrait frontis, coloured lithograph plates, illustrated, 488pp, fold out map, publishers adverts. Front cloth panel & spine dulled, edgeworn, light foxing, previous owner's inscription, tear folding map o/w just good. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

Large tinted lithograph further captioned " To Admiral the Right Honble. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, G.C.B. G.C.H. Commander in Chief at Plymouth / This Print of Her Majesty's Ship Royal Adelaide, Guard Ship at that Port, is with his Lordship's permission respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's most obliged and very humble Servant, / Oswald Walters Brierly". Printed by Edmund Fry, London, & Edmund Fry Jnr. Plymouth. Image size 366 x 294 mm, with ample margins. Margins with some very light dusting. Overall a very nice copy.