Schweinfurth G (46 results)

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large quarto. In the original boards. Title on the front board. Pages are clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo a…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo, original brown cloth with text and illustration in gilt to front and spine. Moderate exterior wear, some light rubbing to edges, c…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Book is an ex-library and has all the expected spine markings etc. It has a shaken spine w large crack between the cover and cover page, barely holding on via the netting and a few of the end pages are loose but included. Minor wear at the edges and corners, resulting in the exposure of the boards. Mi…

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. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo. Red library cloth with leather spine. Secure binding. Pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and m…

Hardcover. 8°, Pappband der Zeit mit montiertem handschriftlichen Rückenschild, randbestoßen und berieben. IV Seiten Titel und Gesamtinhaltsverzeichnis, 836 Seiten Aufsätze, Briefliche Mittheilungen, Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft und Register. Komplett mit den 28 Tafeln, diese teils mehrfarbig und ausfaltbar. Einige sind gelbfl…

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. 23 (1)pp., 2 plates, one of them foldout. original tan paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Ruins and hieroglyphic inscriptions in the Wadi Gasus, an essay by G. Schweinfurth with notes by Adolf Erman, the director of the Egyptian Department at the Ro…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. With the two portraits and the map. The detailed colour map of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from coast to coast including the Congo Free State is complete but has a few closed tears. Frontispiece still has tissue paper intact. Very good indeed with bright gilt on s…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 223 pages (complete). In French throughout. An excellent copy of this memoir of Prince Nicolas' hunting and collecting trip through the Somali lands and Ethiopia, with his father Prince Dimitri. The Ghikas were part of the older Romanian nobility (a German, from the Hous…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Front and rear endpapers split at hinges, webbing holding well. Slight bumping to spine, small dent with loss of colour to front board. A Good tight book. ; The letters have been edited and annotated by the 4 named authors. Translated by Mrs R W Felkin. Pages partially uncut. Large folding map a…

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the scarce first edition, first issue, translated in to English by Mrs R. W. Felkin. Pasha (1840-1892) was an Ottoman-German Jewish physician and naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the Upper Nile. The Ottoman empire conf…

Condition: Very Good. xl, 52, 35 fine plain lithographic plates. . HB. 4to (350x270mm), buckram, gt title to spine, light spotting to edges; some foxing. Vg. Text German. This important botanical work is by the German botanist, ethnologist and African explorer Georg August Schweinfurth (1836 -1925). It describes and illustrates…

Condition: Very Good. xxviii, 547, 2 plates (portraits), folding col map. . HB. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, minor wear to extremities, gilt title to spine and gilt Arabic text to front board; orig. brown coated endpapers, paper split at head and foot of front hinge, but hinge still firm. Some occasional light spotting to text, minor…