Rideing William (508 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good. 1985 Thames and Hudson. Softcover, with stapled binding. Oversized. Brown on sepia illustrations. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Covers lightly curled at corners. Soft crease on the back cover. Pages clean and unmarked. 32 pages. Selected and edited by Stuart D. Ludlum. Series: "Exploring Britain 100 Years Ago". Facsimile of an article by William H. Rideing, originally published in Harper's new monthly magazine: New York, 1881. Printed in Great Britain.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 19 characteristic Harper's engravings, including a full-page map, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIX, No. 292, September, 1874. From the opening paragraph, "Few more absorbing pages will be found in the annals of travel and discovery than those which relate to the distant archipelagoes of the South Pacific." Illustrations include a view at Banks Islands, Fingasa or Massacre Bay, a native teacher at Upolu, a stone monument at Tongatabu, the Queen of Tonga, King George of Tonga, King George's house at Tongatabu, pools at the water-fall of Waitoba, Levuka, King Thakumbau and son, a native house at Vate, Hat Island at the entrance to Havannah Harbor, Tinakoro, Mota or Sugar-Loaf Island, Two Tree Island, Ass's Ears Florida Island, Port de France from Signal Hill, and a sea-going war canoe. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. R. Sayre, W. Paris, R. Blum, C. A. Vanderhoof, H. Muhrman, G. C. Bell, and Others (illustrator). 16pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 22 characteristic Scribner's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume XVIII, No. 3, July, 1879. Trinity Parish, New York City. Illustrations include the interior of the Trinity Church, an exterior view, the chimes, the interior of St. Augustine's, front and rear views of St. Augustine's Chapel, the illuminated cross atop St. Augustine's, the poor - box and letter elevator at St. Augustine's, the interior of St. Paul's Chapel, an exterior view of St. Paul's, at Broadway and Vesey Street, the Chapel Trinity Infirmary, the Apothecary Shop at Trinity, a scene of Sisters of St. Mary entering St. John's Church, the Memorial Chapel at Trinity Church, a view of Trinity School at New Church Street, exterior views of St. John's Chapel, St. Cornelius' Chapel at Governor's Island, Trinity Chapel, and St. Chrysostom's Chapel, and a portrait of Dr. Morgan Dix. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 22pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 23 drawings in the characteristic Harper's engravings style, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXIII, #378, November, 1881. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 10pp extract, printed in double columns, 8 illustrations by H. Muhrman and F. H. Lungren, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume XXI, #6, April, 1881. Illustrations include a children's playground on the roof, a tenement house top in Summer, Chimneys and Dormers in Old New York, a rigging loft, ship chandler's loft, sail loft and entrance, and a boat builder's loft. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. Very scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 16 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume LV, No. 327, August, 1877. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 13 characteristic Harper's engravings, including a small map, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXVII, No. 398, July, 1883. Illustrations include Gibbet Elm, the Old Gate, a scene at the pond, the Vale of Health, a scene on the Heath, Gordon rioters at The Spaniards, Hogarth's Mulberry, a girl of the north end, Tea Gardens, the court near Church Row, and in Jack Straw's Castle. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 8 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from damaged copies of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXI, No. 364, September, 1880. Illustrations include scenes of general interest. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged copy of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXI, No. 361, June, 1880. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 13 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LVI, No. 332, January, 1878. Broadway, New York City. Illustrations include scenes at upper and lower Broadway, a bench in Union Square, a scene in Union Square, a view of Madison Square, and others of general interest. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LVI, No. 335, April, 1878. Illustrations include the procession into the chapel, the main entrance, a view of the college, a ground plan, a scene in the dressing room, scenes in drawing class and geometry class, the interior of the chapel, calisthenic exercises, a collage of Normal College types, the lunch counter, the kindergarten training class, and a portrait of William Wood, President of the Board of Education for New York City. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. E. A. Abbey (illustrator). 17pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 16 characteristic Harper's engravings, final page-only in photocopy, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLVIII, No. 283, December, 1873. Illustrations include Captain Jack, making up a tow, at the shipping agent's, the captain, the cabin, in the forecastle, wash-day on the canal-boats, the entrance to the Erie Canal at Troy, canal smithy, a tramp, the raft, a view of Schenectady, a canal grocery store, scow-yard, boats laid-up for the winter at Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume XIV, No. 5, September, 1877. Immigration. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 20 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume L, No. 298, March, 1875. Illustrations include Castle Rushen, the Manx arms, Ballaglas water-fall, Ballure Bridge, the entrance to Douglas Harbor, a view of the city of Douglas, a Manx oysterman, Kirk Braddan, a Manx cottage, Runic stones at Kirk Braddan, St. Trinion's Church, Tinwald Hill and St. John's Church, Peel Castle and town, another view of Peel Castle, Bradda Head at Port Erin, the Glen Maye water - fall, Sugar - Loaf Rock near the Calf of Man, and a Manx cat. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 15pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 drawings, including a full page portrait with facsimile signature, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Magazine, Volume XXVI, No. 6, October, 1883. English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. Illustrations include a scene in the Chapel of the Charter-House, the dining room, the cloister leading into the chapel, the memorial tablet to Thackeray, the Old Chapel with the Founder's Tomb, Russell Square, the doorway of 37 Fitzroy Square where Colonel Newcome lived, and Becky Sharp's house at 22 Curzon Street. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 10pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 8 characteristic Harper's engravings, including a full-page plate, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVII, No. 278, July, 1873. The plight of sailors ashore in New York. Illustrations include a slum-looking sailor boarding-house, the Seamen's Exchange and the Cherry Street Home, an interior scene of the Exchange, and others of general interest. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 14 engravings, including 6 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LI, #303, August, 1875. William F. Harnden and the beginning of the express forwarding business. Illustrations include a scene of the morning run leaving general office, New Church Street, New York City, an army express office, a view of the loading dock in the general office, a scene of collection and delivery, the pursuit of an express mail-carrier, Indians attacking an overland express coach, an auction scene for unclaimed parcels, and portraits of Harnden, James W. Hale, Alvin Adams, Henry Wells, John Butterfield, and William G. Fargo. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 8pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with 5 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume LXXV, No. 445, June, 1887. The Wild Irishman train that carried mail and passengers from London to Holyhead, then on to Dublin and Queenstown. Illustrations include Penmaenmawr, Conway Castle, market-day on the North Welsh coast, South Stack Light as seen from Holyhead, and the arrival of the mail steamer at Holyhead. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. pp668 - 679, numerous illus and portraits, printed in double columns, final page only in photocopy, salvaged from a damaged copyy of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXV, #389, October, 1882. Illus include an interrupted dissection, a Clinique at the University, a lecture in the Women's Medical College, and portraits of William A. Hammond, Austin Flint, J.C. Draper, Alonzo Clark, Mrs. C.S. Lozier, Alexander B. Mott, Stephen Smith, William Van Buren, Alfred L. Loomis, and Willard Parker. Very scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. pp1 - 19, numerous illus, printed in double columns, final page only in photocopy, salvaged from a damaged copy of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXV, #385, June, 1882. Yarmouth, England, and the herring industry. Illus include salt marshes, shrimp and shrimper, mending herring nets, seat made from whale's vertebra, an ingenious reading desk, tower on the wall, the toll house, coffee room in an old Yarmouth inn, a Yarmouth row, fish wharf in herring season, cabin of smack, Yarmouth wherries, bringing home the cutter, hauling in herring nets, and the fisherman's hospital. Very scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 6pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XIV, #1, November, 1892. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. Very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition (#152 of 650) red hardcover (without DJ) in excellent, unmarked, next-to-pristine condition (slightest handling). 72 pages, with numerous illustrations. [15oz]. Book.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 69, June, 1884, pp. 67-82, Nicely Illus, Extracted from orig vol, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Red boards with gilt printing on cover and spine. Limited edition (#345 of 650). Plain paper dust jacket wrapped in mylar. A historically significant account of an express transportation firm. Jacket is toned and has a few tears at top edge. Book is in fine condition with no notable flaws.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.