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1974041160London: The Travel Book CLub 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Travel book club edition. Very good copy with minor shelfwear and mild page yellowing. Dust jacket with minor shelfwear mild chipping to two corners and marking to inside back flap. The Travel Book CLub hardcover
Hardcover in dust jacket. Very good condition. Jacket is a little creased at front upper corner. Pages are sound and clear. TA Used
Hardcover. Jacket is a little shelfworn, with two or three nicks at edges and extremities; original price label under plastic on rear. Marks on page block head. Text is clear throughout. Preface by Shari Benstock. TS Used
x + 451 pages, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. eng
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; x, 451, [i] pp, maps, glossary, bibliog, index. original pictorial cloth backed boards, dj (not price clipped), fine in fine dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author travelled extensively through jungles, towns and back roads, to barely accessible old ruins, to describe life and spirit among the Mayans, both current and ancient, in an enjoyable mix of journalism, archaeology, history and ethnology. One of the best modern works on the subject.
Octavo in brown-black DJ, 358 pages, b&w illustrations 22 cm. Ghana -- Description and travel. || A chronicle of the African American author's trip to Africa's Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana. It speaks eloquently of empowerment and responsibility, and remains a key commentary on the question of race. || Contents: Part One. Approaching Africa -- Part Two. The Nervous Colony -- Part Three. The Brooding Ashanti. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
Octavo in white DJ, deckled edges, 241 pages, 22 cm. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Travel -- Spain. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
Octavo in red DJ, 191 pages ; 22 cm. Traces the life of the Latin American revolutionary and guerrilla fighter who joined Castro's movement to overthrow Cuba's government, served as minister of industry, and was killed while leading a Communist guerrilla force in Bolivia. Guerrillas -- American Latina -- Biography. Spain -- Description and travel. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
460 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
18994734aPhiladelphia: George Barrie & Sons 1899. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. Heavy Folio. 445 pgs.Multiple b/w photos & plates. All book edges gilt. Blind-stamped grey clothlightly scuffed.Light wear to corners & spine ends. Gilt lettering and spine decorations.Binding slightly cocked. Almost 3 kg weight.Extra shipping charges required. <br/> <br/> George Barrie & Sons hardcover
19014732aPhiladelphia: George Barrie & Sons 1901. First Edition . Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. Heavy Folio. 450 pgs.Multiple b/w photos & plates. All book edges gilt. Blind-stamped grey clothlightly scuffed with several small stainswith gilt lettering and spine decorations.Light wear to corners and spine ends.Text clean.Hinges starting but secure.A handsome copy over-all of this addition to Wright's series on South American Republics.3 kg weight.Extra shipping charges required. <br/> <br/> George Barrie & Sons hardcover
29 p. Limited to only 1,000 copies. Printed at The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. Thin 8vo. Original paper covered boards, lettered in blue. Binding somewhat soiled. Hardbound. Friends of the Huntington Library Occasional Publications. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! VOYAGES BOX 1
London, The Hakluyt Society, 1953. 8vo. In the original publisher's blue cloth. Uncut and unopened. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt stamped ship to front board. A very fine and clean copy. XXXII, 221 pp. + 1 plate and 3 maps.
London, Hakluyt Society, 1951. 8vo. In the original publisher's blue cloth. Uncut. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt stamped ship to front board. A very fine and clean copy. XCIII, (1), 314 pp. + 4 maps.
8vo [22.5 x 14.5 cm]; lxiv, 348 pp, frontis (portrait) with tissue guard, 2 folding maps (one colored), bibliog, index. original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt vignette on covers, gilt lettering on spine, spine a bit rubbed & lightly faded, but fine and clean condition, gilt bright. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This fascinating set of documents on the various expeditions of the period is presented with a good 50 page introduction that provides the historical background. Voyages include those of Oxenham, Drake, Hawkins, Barker, and others, based on both Spanish and English documents.
8vo [22.5 x 14.5 cm]; x, 167, xlvii [ads] pp, frontis (facsimile letter of Miguel de Castellanos, 1568), 2 maps, including folding, bibliog, index. original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt vignette on covers, gilt title lettering on spine, spine slightly faded, lettering clear, fine, clean copy, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This fascinating set of 29 documents on the various expeditions of the period is presented with a good introduction that provides the historical background, of this important era in the Caribbean, Spanish Main, Gulf of Mexico, where Spain and England were struggling for world supremacy.
8vo [22.5 x 14.5 cm]; x, 167, xlvii [ads] pp, frontis (facsimile letter of Miguel de Castellanos, 1568), 2 maps, including folding, bibliog, index. original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt vignette on covers, gilt lettering on spine, dj (chipped, about third of spine lacking), a fine and bright copy, rarely found in a dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This fascinating set of 29 documents on the various expeditions of the period is presented with a good introduction that provides the historical background, of this important era in the Caribbean, Spanish Main, Gulf of Mexico, where Spain and England were struggling for world supremacy.
Con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo e X tavole a colori fuori testo . 8vo. pp. XVI-916. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . .
1896050803-P322New York NY: D. Appleton and Company 1896. Very Good Hardcover 1896 Three-Quarter Leather; 385 pp.; w/ 2 fold-out maps and several b&w plates. Binding and hinges expertly reinforced by bookbinder. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. D. Appleton and Company Hardcover
195133984Hakluyt Society 1951. 8vo. First Edition with illustration and 2 folding maps; original Society binding of blue cloth upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt gilt back uncut a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. VERY SCARCE. Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 99. Bridges & Hair p.282-3. Hakluyt Society, hardcover
1940042426Sydney: Thomas Henry Tennant Government Printer 1940. pp455-534 17 text figures 58 tables. Or wraps. Chipped at spine minor corner bumps damp stained at fore-edge margin a couple of tiny edge tears stamp of Royal Society Qld and cancelled stamp on front cover. Scientific report from the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Thomas Henry Tennant, Government Printer Paperback
xv, 86 p. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition Contents:Introduction. -- Arguments which are adduced in support of woman’s suffrage. -- Arguments against the concession of the parliamentary suffrage to woman. -- Is there, if the suffrage is barred, any palliative or corrective for the discontents of woman? -- Appendix: Letter in militant hysteria, reprinted ... from the Times, March 28, 1912.
18234230Alnwick: W. Davison. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Respined with original backstrip laid-on and with new endpapers. Boards rubbed and with minor wear and marking. Sporadic spotting throughout. 1823. First Edition. Green cloth spine with paper covered boards. 220mm x 160mm 9" x 6". xi 246pp. Folding plate engraving to dedication page by J. Kerr and wood engraving to page 111 as well as a full page engraving. . W. Davison hardcover
in 4° piccolo leg. ed. sovrac. fig. a col. (con piccoli strappi) pp.914, numm. ill.ni fot. e dis. n.testo, ben tenuto
First edition, 8vo, 44pp., disbound. JISC locating a single copy at the University of Leeds.