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2003052999Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 2003. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Kamholz Blain and Kamholz on the half-title page. A Pacific Northwest lumber operation placed within the context of the larger story of the US lumber industry. An illustrated history of the company from 1922 until it closure in 1957. 362 pages with logging and railroad operation photographs maps rosters mile posts research notes and index. Large foldout map fixed in the rear. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> Stanford University Press hardcover
194885Lahore: Ferozsons 1948. First. Orig. Printed soft Covers. VG. Geographical and economic atlas of West Pakistan today and tomorrow. 62 pp of maps and text on above mentioned subjects. Ferozsons unknown
1904005652London: Adam and Charles Black 1904. 436pp index pull-out map 100 full-page illustrations; the frontis. in colour and the remainder from photographs by the author. A serious travel book. "Perhaps the most accurate vivid and complete description of South African native life ever produced". - Mendelssohn . Apart from a little rubbing. Minimal markings bookplate. First Edition. Library Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Adam and Charles Black unknown
1972053010Silverton CO: Sundance Publications Limited 1972. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 25 signed by McCoy and Collman on the half-title page. The first detailed photographic record of the shortline railroads that once operated in the scenic Crystal River district of Colorado. 224 pages of photographs yard maps a few equipment diagrams and index. Fine in fine clear vinyl dust protector. Appears as new. Laid in is a typed full-page letter on Jackson C. Thode's stationery signed by him with a short hand written note by him at the bottom. Also laid in is a two page prospectus and order form for Colorado on Glass. And also laid in three copies of prospectus for this book The Crystal River Pictorial. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications Limited hardcover
19192968Cairo: Government Press 1919. First. Orig Printed Stiff Boards. VG to vg. Ministry of Public Works Zoological Service Cairo. 119 pp 31 colored plates on thick paper. Intended to be as complete a list as possible of the birds of Egypt. Also has in front a large colored folding map of Egypt and Sudan intended to illustrate this volume. VG to VG in orig. printed stiff boards. Little wear at corners but really well preserved and clean inside. Obviously not ever used. Government Press unknown
19290006200London: H. F. & G Witherby 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo 320 pages blue cloth engraved bookplate tender rear joint <br/><br/>"The terrain with which this book is concerned extends from the Sudan in the North to the Cape Colony in the South. It comprises the West Nile and Uganda Kenya Tanganyika . Nyasaland Mozambique the Rhodesias . Bechuanaland etc. - Foreword." Chapter II covers his service in the Boer War. He was a hunter especially of elephants. Photogravures. H. F. & G Witherby hardcover
191647323Washington DC: United States Geological Survey USGS 1916. First edition . Large folio. Very good plus. Printed wrappers. Fourteen pages with "Description of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Diestrict" plus four double page maps showing besides geologic features roads railroads and towns and two pages of photographs. List of published geologic folios on the rear cover. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey [USGS] unknown
188224237London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1882. Hardcover. Very good. New and cheaper edition thoroughly revised throughout with a memoir of Dr. Livingstone." 7" x 5" 552 pp with index illustrations and two folding maps. In a full-leather school prize binding with black spine label raised bands inner dentelles all edges marbled marbled endpapers. Some staining to leather on front board light scuffing but overall a handsome copy internally very clean. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "Sunningdale School A Prize awareded to Thomas Ashby for Diligence. W. Harding Girdlestone D.D. 1 August 1883. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington hardcover
1988056523Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark Company 1988. First editions first printings . Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. Candidates for inclusion in this compendium include people no longer living. who came to attention therough the significance of their deeds or simply were of interest in some connection the the evolving drama of the American west. Among them are explorers and discoverers fur men Indians and Indian agents a few early cattlemen travelers military officers and soldiers desperadoes and lawmen scouts buffalo hunters renegades early conservationists and wildlife specialists scientists writers painters photographers and illustrators expansionists missionaries and martyrs and those of many other callings - or none." A total of 2308 pages with index. All four volumes bound in original red cloth with lettering in gilt. Volumes I II and III are fine in the original fine and bright white dust jackets as issued. The spine panels of the dust jackets show the remains of adhesive from the removal of labels placed there by a previous owner. Volume IV is fine issued without the plain white dust jacket. A very handsome set and an essential reference for the library bookseller or collector specializing in Western American. <br/> <br/> Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover
185625870Boston MA;: Ticknor and Fields 1856. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A campaign biography of Fremont. Wagner-Camp 282:1. Graff 4447. Cowan pg 652. Smith: Northwest 10448. All plates present. 356 pages. Bound in original brown cloth lettering stamped in gilt on spine and design and borders stamped in blind on covers. Top of spine professionally repaired. Vey mild foxing on initial and final pages. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> Ticknor and Fields hardcover
1969273689Verlag für Heimatpflege Kempten 1969. Hardcover Leinen mit Schutzumschlag 5 Bände 1962-1984. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Verlag für Heimatpflege, Kempten, hardcover
1980009248Innsbrick Austria : Perlinger Verlag 1980. 276pp/illus/end-paper maps. Clean. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Perlinger Verlag hardcover
1983255940Verlag der Gemeinde Steingaden 1983. Hardcover Leinen mit Schutzumschlag 3 Bände 1983-1987. Drei Bände. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Verlag der Gemeinde Steingaden, hardcover
184030010London: Robert Tyas 1840. Gebunden. Robert Tyas unknown
SONG149854245XLexington Books 2017-10-11. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.30x0.94x9.31. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover
192352645London: Ernest Benn 1923. First edition 8vo pp. 276; 2 folding maps 80 illustrations on 64 plates; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine; generally a very good copy. Czech Africa p. 13: "Barns was joined by noted rifle maker Sir Charles Ross on an expedition leaving Mombasa in 1921. The party hunted lion and rhino near the Ngorongoro Crater then traveled to the Lake Kivu region of the eastern Belgian Congo . Included among the photos is a snapshot of a poacher named Bowen with an elephant he bagged sporting a pair of tusks at 173 and 176 lbs. Ernest Benn unknown
188952643New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1889. First American edition 8vo pp. xx 192; 5 chromolithographs 6 etchings 6 wood-engraved plates 2 maps printed in color 1 folding and with a short tear other wood-engravings in the text; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover beveled boards; 2 institutional bookplates pocket removed from rear pastedown accession numbers of spine eradicated; a good copy minimally marked. Dodd, Mead & Co unknown
189858025London: Chapman and Hall 1898. First English edition pp xvi 520; with illustrations index folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed mild wear to bottom edge very good. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government adding much to knowledge of the river and the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. Chapman and Hall unknown
188468266Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder 1884. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 236 2; folding map color frontispiece 12 plates 2 folding plus other illustrations in the text; original decorated pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; old institutional rubberstamp on half-title otherwise a very good clean sound copy. Friedrich Heinrich Emanuel Kayser 1845-1927 was a German geologist and palaeontologist. Herder unknown
189952559London: Chapman & Hall 1899. Second edition 8vo pp. xiv 365 1; frontispiece portrait and 28 plates 3 maps and plans; some rubbing of the binding but generally very good and sound in original green cloth stamped in gilt and with a red seal on the upper cover. Neufeld was imprisoned for 12 years in Omdurman after the fall of Khartoum. Chapman & Hall unknown
185768312New York: A. O. Moore agricultural book publisher late C. M. Saxton & Co. No. 140 Fulton Street 1857. First edition 8vo pp.xii 2 15-350 12 A. O. Moore ads; wood-engraved frontispiece 1 wood-engraved plate numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown cloth gilt-stamped spine; text moderately foxed top of spine chipped spine a little dull front free endpaper excised; a good sound copy. Several ownership signatures of Eddy Wilson on endpapers. Part 2 p. 191-228 has special title page: The Zulu-Kaffir imphee or "sweet reed" the Holcus Saccharatus of Linnaeus : comprising a description of its numerous varieties its mode of cultivation and the manufacture of sugar and other products from its rich saccharine juice / by Leonard Wray. A. O. Moore, agricultural book publisher, (late C. M. Saxton & Co.) No. 140 Fulton Street unknown
185459385New York: D. Appleton and Company 1854. First American edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. 350 10 ads; 355 1 4 ads; 12 wood-engraved plates one wood engraving in the text; original blindstamped green cloth pictorial gilt-stamped spine a little dull small cracks and chips at spine ends but on the whole a good sound copy. D. Appleton and Company unknown
189652558London & New York: Edward Arnold 1896. Fourth edition 8vo pp. xviii 2 636; 2 folding maps printed in color at the back one with a slightly ragged fore-edge gravure frontispiece portrait 21 plates by Talbot Kelly; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; some wear at the extremities small break in the cloth at the top of the spine; all else very good. Edward Arnold unknown
192732688Lagos: Gov't Printer. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages; AFRICAN / ARABIC HISTORY - 5 Volumes. 2 gov't stamps and a bit of numered masking tape on spine minimal markings. Purple cloth faded spine contents generally VG. . Gov't Printer hardcover
1979286320Deutscher Militärgeographischer Dienst Militärgeographisches Amt Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1979. Ringbuch Großformat Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen mit einer Namens- und sonstigen Eintragung. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Aus einer militärischen Bibliothek mit Kennungen Stempel. Deutscher Militärgeographischer Dienst Militärgeographisches Amt, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, unknown
