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8vo [20.5 x 13.5 cm]; x, 502 pp, 34 illustrations including 10 plates including frontis (mostly tinted lithographs, some wood engraved), other illustrations including full-page (complete). original cloth with gilt vignette and gilt spine title lettering (dull but visible), rear joint torn, ink name on front endpaper, overall very good with only light foxing on few leaves, else clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email The author, who mentions his meeting with Charles Waterton in England where he received his education, travelled widely in Venezuela, describing nature, the peoples, customs, etc. The plates include a jaguar, view of Caracas, scenes with horses, etc. Welch 257 (citing the 2nd edition). Sabin 58140. There were various later printings, some under different titles, but the later editions had fewer or no plates.
Hardcover. First printing. Unclipped jacket is faintly marked and shelfworn. Interior is very good: clean and sound throughout ('File Copy' slip laid in). Illustrated by the author. TS Used
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1875. Orig. full cloth. Back gilt, covers blindtooled decorations. Uncut. rebacked, preserving original spine. Covers a little bumped. Light spottings to frontcover. XIV,319 pp. + Publ.'s Advertisements. Frontispiece and 1 map, title with wood-engraved vignette.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington & London, 1990. In/4 reliure éditeur toile sous jaquette illustrée, illustrations en couleur, 222 p. Texte en langue anglaise. Avec une dédicace de deux des auteurs. Un magnifique album photographique sur la mer de Weddell (en anglais : Weddell Sea) en océan austral dont la majeure partie des eaux est glacée en permanence.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 152 pp, fine colored frontis by Ellis Rowan, 6 plates, map and other illustrations by Maie Casey, bibliography. original pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped), name on endpaper, fine, and clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The story of one of the best known wild-flower painters of her period. She was born in Australia but traveled in many parts of the world. The illustrations are by Rowan's niece, who also wrote a forward. The chapters relate to Australia, New Zealand, England, America, New Guinea and describes her association with Alice Lounsberry.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 152 pp, fine colored frontis by Ellis Rowan, 6 plates, map and other illustrations by Maie Casey, bibliog. original pictorial cloth, dj (not price clipped, rubbed, spine worn, chip), fine, and clean copy in good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The story of one of the best known wild-flower painters of her period. She was born in Australia but traveled in many parts of the world. The illustrations are by Rowan's niece, who also wrote a forward. The chapters included here relate to Australia, New Zealand, England, America, New Guinea and describes her association with Alice Lounsberry.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 152 pp, fine colorfrontis by Ellis Rowan, 6 plates, map and other illustrations by Maie Casey, bibliog. original pictorial cloth, dj (bit of edgewear, short tear), else near fine, signed by illustrator on the title page. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The story of one of the best known wild-flower painters of her period. She was born in Australia but traveled in many parts of the world. The illustrations are by Rowan's niece, who also wrote a forward. The chapters included here relate to Australia, New Zealand, England, America, New Guinea and describes her association with Alice Lounsberry.
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 152 pp, fine colored frontis by Ellis Rowan, 6 plates, map and other illustrations by Maie Casey, bibliog. original pictorial cloth, dj (not price clipped), fine, and clean copy signed and inscribed by illustrator on the endpaper, dated 1961. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The story of one of the best known wild-flower painters of her period. She was born in Australia but traveled in many parts of the world. The illustrations are by Rowan's niece, who also wrote a forward. The chapters included here relate to Australia, New Zealand, England, America, New Guinea and describes her association with Alice Lounsberry.
455p., illus. Hardcover Fine condition, leather boards
354 pages. Contains 14 selections for people who love the wilderness and readers who love great writing. Very light wear. Unmarked. Minor damage to half-title page. Excellent copy. Book
183 pages. A compilation of great stories and illustrations from the pages of "Wide World Magazine" over the decades. "A thrilling testament to an age when men kept their upper lips stiff for a reason and the truth was more dangerous than fiction." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
Octavo in blue and white illus. paper wraps; illus., ports. (some color); 72p., 23 cm. Very scarce. Includes dialect glossary.
In-8, 222p. Exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé de l'auteure. Récit d'un voyage solitaire en voiture au centre des Etats-Unis.
26 pages, illustrated, light wear to the covers. eng
8vo [26 x 18 cm]; xiii, 311, [ii, list of AGS publications] pp, 88 illus, mostly photos, many maps, tables, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, bookplate of James S. Blackmer, spine a little darkened but lettering clear, very good, clean and tight copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Covering regions including Florida, Queensland, West Indies, tropical Australia, Cost Rica, South America, Africa, Americans in Panama, the work covers racial problems, environment, acclimatization, health, diet, clothing, administrative problems, economics, with appendices.
Blue cloth octavo in blue dust jacket (light, sunned spine) and archival mylar wrap; xii, 64 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm "If there were one key to the Southwest history and culture, it might well be the river systems of the region," writes Lawrence Clark Powell in his prologue. Concentrating on seven major waterways in Arizona, Powell illustrates the truth of his statement with a multitude of significant facts and ideas about the geography, history, and literature surrounding these rivers. Along with photographer Michael Collier and pilot Christopher Condit, Powell made aerial surveys in a Cesna 170 to gain a better perspective of the contours of Arizona's river valleys. The twenty-four color photographs provide an unusual map-like overview of dams, canyons, reservoirs, and the rivers themselves. As Powell says, "From the air, history looks far different than from the library." Exploration of rivers was done on the ground, too; and along the way, persons such as sculptor John Waddell, solar architect Reynold Radoccia, and writer-rancher Eulalia Bourne were encountered. Many dusty roads and trails were traveled in the search for headwaters, and some interesting and humorous tales result from encounters with various uniformed individuals. Towns and cities are seen in terms of the impact that rivers had on their inception and growth, and an understanding of how water-flow shapes human destiny becomes more apparent as each river is carefully observed. It is an ancient truth that man goes where water flows, and the early people who settle the Southwest were no exception. For the Hohokam, the Spaniards, and for contemporary populations in every part of Arizona, water has been and continues to be a crucial fact of life. How man has used water has been even more critical. Those with historical knowledge of the world's deserts that ultimately it is fatal for man to urbanize a fragile environment. Today, urban and agricultural Arizona as drawing on their water supply faster than it is being replaced, and the state's years as an artificially verdant desert are numbered. Where Water Flows offers no ready-made salvation formulas; it is in the end, a "lament and a farewell, as well as a thanksgiving for those fruitful years when the rains fell and the rivers ran and the desert bloomed."
490 pages, light creases to covers. eng
Fotografias a color.
128 pages. "From the vantage of the eagle, Russ Heinl has captured undiscovered secrets, masterpieces of pattern and light. Join him on a flight of discovery." - from dust jacket. Clean with light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket. Discard stamp atop front free endpaper. Nice copy. Book
238pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Paperback white octavo. 75 pages, b/w illustrations ; 20 cm. "A Mountain, A sanctuary, A monastery, A spiritual community"-front cover || Series: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat; || text by Maur M. Boix ; translation Kenneth Lyons
Paperback in good condition. Text in English and Latvian. Creases to covers; pages are very good. TA Used
8vo., First American Edition; boards, cloth back gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with one closed tear at upper fold-in.
367 p. Hardcover Very good condition; bookplate on front pastedown. very good d.j. good
Hardcover (no jacket as published; printed boards), very good condition. Slight fading to the spine and top cover edges. Internally very good throughout. Dispatched from Churchward, Didcot. D.P. Used
