Westgarth W (7 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Dustwrapper. 1st. pp 65. The binding is purple cloth gilt which is faded to spine and adjacent boards. There are several rubber stamps on end papers and in text but not EX Library copy.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date, circa 1900. Pp 65 [1]. With a full page engraving of the extensive works, which covers several acres, and one folding plate. Lilac cloth gilt. A reprint of two articles that first appeared in the Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers and the Colliery Guardian. The firm was based in Sunderland and was a major manufacturer of wire rope for colliery and shipping purposes. The company also manufactured hemp, manila and sisal rope. Nice copy.…

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, pp., [ii] 142, plus fold-out lithographic map from the survey by Wedge. Publisher's original blue cloth; titled in gilt to upper board white end-papers. Inscribed to front free end-paper 'Mr Mather // With the author's kind regards.' Inscribed to the same leaf in contemporary hand 'Park Hill Stew[?] // John Byby'. Cloth rubbed and heavily soiled; shelf-wear to edges. Map misfolded with associated creasing and soiling. Inner hinges weak, lower hinge partially cracked; sporadic foxing and finger-marks, mainly to end-papers; front paste-down partially detached. A good working copy. One of the most voluminous writers on Australia in his lifetime, James Bonwick (1817-1906) was a nonconformist, schoolteacher, gold prospector, geographer, and historian. This volume is a detailed history of the first European explorers and settlers in Port Philip, which would become the site of the city of Melbourne. Ferguson, 'Bibliography of Australia', 5.7198.…

8vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.…

London 1889. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (xxxii, 424, 32 pp.). With 3 fold. col. maps. Name on title-page, otherwise fine copy.