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Royal 8vo. XLVIII, IV, 1478 pp. + (2), 8 pp. of publisher's catalogue. With 11 folded maps and charts. Publisher's original full cloth, blindstamped and with gilt lettering. Third edition of Findlay's monumental navigational directory of Eastern Asia, including the Straits of Malacca, Sunda, and Singapore, the east coast of Sumatra, the Gulf of Siam (now Thailand), the coasts of Cochin China, Tonkin, Borneo, the Philippines, the China Sea, Java and the Java Sea, the islands, the coast of China, Hong Kong, Formosa (Taiwan), Shanghai, and Korea. - Inner front hinge reinforced, but clean and fine. Stamps of the Royal Danish Navy Library and the Royal Danish Maps and Charts Archive on title-page. Rare: OCLC lists a single copy (in the National Library of Sweden). OCLC 940735103.
144 pages. "Chronicles the author's 20 year odyssey amongst the Gulf Islands in Georgia Strait off the British Columbia coast." - from back board. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reading copy. Book
228pp. , illus. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Fascinating account of travelling around Turkey and describing the social and conditions & behaviour of the people, with observations on the rise and abolition of the Fez serving as a paradigm for all the changes that their traditions have endured through the modernization and Westernization of their culture. 294p. bibliography Book
Fascinating account of travelling around Turkey and describing the social and conditions & behaviour of the people, with observations on the rise and abolition of the Fez serving as a paradigm for all the changes that their traditions have has endured thorugh the modernization and westernization of their culture.294p. bibliography.map Book
8vo [24 x 17.5 cm]; x, 194 pp, 4 fine color lithographed (chromolithograph) bird plates by J. G. Keulemans, numerous illustrations from photos, 6 maps including one folding colored map of Columbia, & one double-page colored map of Curacao, bibliog. original green pictorial cloth with picture of flying bird in silver and black, spine and front cover title lettering, signature of Frank Braskhill-Fieles on title, spine slightly spotted, a clean near fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon r Wood 540 (noting only one colored map). Ripley 244. Smith R48: 'This is the account of a trip to the tropics to collect ornithological specimens in 1892. It is interestingly told, with many photographs and illustrations and with observations of the people as well. A good bibliography is given on Columbia and Cuacao'. There are various lists of birds, with comments, both observed by the author and from others including the 38 species of hummingbirds of Columbia. The author was a lifelong soldier and educator, at Harvard and the U. S. Military Academy. Not in Bennett (American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books).
large 8vo [26 x 18 cm]; 542 pp, color photos, black & white photos, over 250 drawings, hieroglyphs, maps, plans, bibliog, index. original cloth-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine and clean, no marks or ownerships. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A scholarly and well-illustrated history of the Maya based on the their hieroglyphs by the premier authorities on the subject. Very well-illustrated.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xii, 299 pp, frontis (port), 2 maps, including one foldout, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering in gilt border, endpaper signature, endpaper lightly toned, interior is clean and near fine, in very good+ cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on three month's travel on the Huallage River, an Amazon tributary, from its source at 14,000 feet in the Andes to Yurimaguas at 500 feet sea level and the return to the Pacific by the ancient trade route through northern Peru. The author, a distinguished gardener, discovered a new genus of plants and several new species. There is much on the scenery, native people, camp life, etc. Good illustrations including the orchid Sobralia gloriosa growing beside the Yana-yacu River.
viii, 92 pages, illustrated, appendices, page edges dusty, revised by R.R. May. eng
Duodecimo in b/w and blue pictorial wraps (white spine); b/w illus.; 79 p., 19 cm. In English. || Series: Fortnight holiday series. Scarce.
Text and photographs from his life and work. Introduzione di Robert Redford. Numerosefotografie a colori e illustrazioni in nero. Testo in inglese . 4to. pp. 146. . Molto buono (Very Good). Sovracoperta riparata al retro con nastro adesivo (Small tear to dust jacket, tape repaired on verso). . .
249pp. xii, 249 p. 24 cm. Hardcover Good condition, spine ends worn
409p., illus. Hardcover Fine condition, leather boards
First Penguin paperback edition in very good condition. Features advertisement for Jif Shaving Stick on rear cover. Spine is creased and sunned. Staples visable on half-title page and light scuffs along upper edge. Page block is foxed and tanned. AD Used
Five Volumes. Age stained and foxed. Volume five has an old tape repair. Mildly XLib. 8vo. Original leather bindings, worn. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/7
soiling to cover; previous owner's name on FEP; slightly dogeared pages; text and illustrations tight and bright Used
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Staple bound. Pencil marking on cover. 42 pages. A series of informal interviews with early residents.
4to. [2 blank], [2], VIII, 297, [1] blank pp. Contemporary red half roan. Second edition of a handbook that was essential for English speaking persons who wished to obtain competence in Mandarin with the required knowledge of vocabulary and functional grammar and an awareness of the main types of verbal interaction. - The author Joseph Edkins was a prominent English Sinologue who lived in China for 57 years and published fourteen books on the language and culture of the country, amongst others a catalogue of the Chinese collection of the Bodleian Library (1876). His first publication was a Grammar of the Shanghai dialect (1853), making this Mandarin Grammar his second dictionary. It was his only book that had a second edition. He was forward thinking with the idea that the European and Asian languages have common roots, and thus shared ancestors. - With the bookplate of John Lawson on paste-down. In good condition.
Paperback black octavo. 183 pages, illustrations (some color), 21 cm. Cave churches -- Ethiopia -- Lalibela. Buildings. Guidebooks.
Undated, illustrated, maps. eng
Foxing to textblock. Endpapers browned. DJ has a few small tears and chipping. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; A Project of Dimension Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages
Octavo in yellow DJ; 254 p, [16] p of b&w plates, b&w illus, 1 b&w map ; 23 cm Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel -- Guide-books.
London, John Murray, 1907. Orig. full red cloth. Spine and edges worn, exterior somewhat soiled. X,570,(1) pp. + Advertisement. With 30 maps and plans. The general map of Japan loose. One map with tape-repairs, some with smaller tears. Internally acceptable.
Paperback in good condition. Part two only; 'Sicily'. Ninth edition, with fold out maps and plans throughout. With index and directory for 1905. General age related exterior wear and fading, with some residue on the rear side. Spine foot is slightly frayed. Previous owner's details (in fountain pen), plus a signature in crayon, on the opening blank page. The binding is a little weak on the closing few pages, with one or two small tears on the gutters. Very good for age; all content is clear. CM Used
Hardcover in acceptable condition. No jacket. Seventh edition, with clue map and plans. Stains on boards. Leading corners, edges and spine are bumped and worn. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. One centimetre tear on rear pastedown. Leading corners of early and closing pages are creased. Pastedown hinges are split, but binding remains intact. Contents remain legible throughout. HCW Used
